Mello ran his hands over the rough walls of the tunnel. The stone felt cool under his fingers and he felt a chill. Mello crossed his arms, wishing he hadn't lost his jacket in the fall.
"Hey, we there yet?" Mello moved his legs faster, he looked at L. That kid could move fast!
"No, be patient." L continued to walk on unperturbed by the darkness ahead. He held his candle in front of him and continued walking, his bare feet padding softly on the cold stone.
"Hey kid, you don't tell me to be patient. I'm older than you, so show some respect." Mello pouted and looked back at the darkness they had left behind.
Suddenly, he looked behind and thought he saw eyes. Red eyes staring out from the darkness, straight at him. "Hey L, what sort of people live here?"
"There is me. There is my parents. I don't know anyone else." L's young voice was strangely robotics as he said those words
"That's screw up. I don't even have parents, and I know some people." Mello smiled triumphantly. He knew more, and he was older. Take that L imitator.
"We're here." L stopped abruptly, turning to the right wall.
"What's here, it's just a wall." Mello walked to the door and knocked on it suspiciously.
The knock echoed around the tunnel and Mello was turning to L to tell him off when he heard a voice.
"Who are you?"
"L and Mello."
The child stared into the rocky wall, and Mello turned back to look as well. When he looked closely there was a portion of the wall that was shaped like the face of an old man. Mello jumped back when he saw it open it's eyes and talk to them.
"What do you want?" The face had a deep voice, old and aged like high mountain crags.
L bowed respectively "We're looking for my parents."
"Your parents?" He drew out the word, as if he had never heard of it.
"What the hell are you!" Mello pointed at the face in the wall. "You're not really a face in a wall. You're computer generated, or a puppet!"
"I'm not going to let you through." The face yawned loudly and looked at Mello accusingly.
"Why the hell not?" Mello moved so he was nose to nose with the wall. L sat down against the opposite wall, putting his candle down carefully next to him.
"I don't like your attitude." The wall stared back even harder. Mello inwardly fumed. A wall, he was supposed to say sorry to a wall? He wouldn't do it. Mello continued staring, but felt his stomach rumble. He had to keep moving and find food. He sighed.
"Fine. I'm sorry." Mello back up a step.
"For what." The face seemed to smile at Mello.
"For being rude and second guessing your actually being a wall." Mello looked over to the side, not meeting the wall's gaze.
"Thank you." The wall swung open and Mello had to close his eyes from the glare of the sun.
L got up, and after picking up his candle, he moved to walk into the light. Mello followed, and was blinded by the sun. Once his eyes adjusted he looked around.
The were standing in a grove of trees. The trees were base and blackened, mere sticks poking from the ground. The ground was rocky and brown with bright red mushrooms nestling in the basses of some of the trees. The sky was grey and cloudy, like the sky was about to open and let loose the rain. Mello couldn't see any animals or green plant life, all was dead.
Mello's bare feel crunched down on the rocks and he realised, they weren't rocks. They were clumps of ash sitting on the earth. Mello and L wandered through the eerily silent grove until they reached a sign.
It was a burn't sign and all that Mello could read of it was "Choose."
"It's a hard choice, isn't it." Mello looked around to see a crane walk from behind a tree. It stepped delicately from behind the tree, deliberately stepping on the path that was clear of ash. It's red head bobbed gently as it's long legs carried it to them.
"Who are you?"
"My name is..." The crane paused for a moment. "Kira." It turned it's head and smiled at them. "And who are you?" It turned to L and lowered it's head so they were looking each other in the eye.
"My name is L." The little buy straightened so that he was slightly taller. They remained like that for a minute, staring at each other, sizing each other up? Mello walked over, tapping the crane on the wing.
"My name's Mello, you know where to find this kid's parents?" Mello jerked his thumb towards L. Kira looked confused for a moment.
"You lost your parents? How terrible, let me help you find them. Where did they live?" Kira looked down in concern.
"We lived by the crossroads, in a red brick house. Next door was a stream and you can see the mountain from there." L looked at the crane, peering at him carefully.
"I have no idea where that is?" The crane dipped it's head smoothly. "Could you show me?"
"That's where I'm going too." Mello started walking again. "So come on L, lets get a move on."
Author's Note- Yay! Second chapter is up. I actually got a review for my first chapter and so I was very happy. I'll try updating once a week, my goal for this is to be done, by at the most, by December. ^.^v