Kimni, who had been trying to sort everything out, stopped. "Oh my god. Dante exists." They all stopped and sighed. Arith walked a bit farther speaking," This is bad is it?" Ayame looked at her confused. " Why would it be bad, this could be a virtual video game." Arith shook her head. "Don't you see, if one demon exists, there can be more…" A chill went up the 4 girl's spines. Kimni quickly broke in. "Look we'll talk about this tomorrow. We really need to get to class. Or at least try." Aranell finally spoke having had the worst chill. "But how? We can't just waltz in there and expect to not be asked where we were." There was a little argument until Arith shut them up. "Okay I got another plan. We can go to the nurse and say we had an "accident" that we felt ashamed so we called home so we could get a change."
"Wait what accident?" Ayame broke in.
"You know…. an accident" Arith hinted.
"Wait" Aranell said, pondering the thought. " It happens every month?"
Arith nodded smiling proudly. A groan came from them again. Then Kimni slapped Arith on her shoulder. "Haha, very funny Arith." She said sarcastically. Arith looked at her hurt. "What do you mean funny, it's our plan! It works!" Ayame pointed again all nerdily at Arith. "And what a coincidence four girls got it at the same time." Arith stopped and thought. "Okay…we needed a phone so err…Aranell take my phone. I had an accident and Kimni forgot to bring "one". Ayame you lent us your sweater and so you waited. Wait a minute you're from Sci-Tech."
Ayame laughed. "So what? Okay let's go with your plan, we should go to the Med-High nurse then." All the girls nodded and walked. They were barely passing the benches on Liberty Park (A small piece of island where they are actually dumb enough to call it a park) when the sky got dark in a small amount of time. They all stopped. A noise of flapping clothes was heard so they turned. Dante was walking towards them. His white hair was bellowing crazily behind him. His eyes were fiery and then he glowed all red going into devil trigger. Ayame and Aranell stared in amazement but Kimni and Arith knew better.
"Wait" Kimni whispered. "Why is he triggering at us?"
"Maybe he…" Dante starts running his demonic wings propelling him faster. He takes out his sword, growling. "HE WANTS TO KILL US!"
It was a mad dash as they all ran towards the Med-high doors. They could hear the electricity from his body getting closer. All of a sudden Mrs. Heater walked out and squinted her eyes at the running girls.
"MRS. HEATER! MRS. HEATER!" The chant echoed until they reached her. Arith felt a hot breath on her neck and had like a chill spasm, tripping. She bumped into Kimni then at Ayame. They went dragging through the payment all the way to Mrs. Heater's feet. Aranell was the only one saved, for she had jumped before she was thrown over.
"My goodness girls, are you all right?" Mrs. Heater spoke helping Ayame who was on top of the dog pile. "Yes ma'am." Ayame responded. Mrs. Heater looked behind them to see Dante. He was back to his form, his cute form, and lifted Kimni from Arith. Arith was twitching on the floor. Mrs. Heater went to Dante. "Why, I was about to go look for you."
"Well, I'm here ma'am."
"What's the meaning of these girls?"
"You know, I don't know." He turned angrily and serious. "Med- High and Sci- Tech are one of the best schools in Texas and tell me, what is the punishments for students that skip class in their own library?" Aranell interrupted. "We weren't skipping. We…" Kimni was starring at Dante unblinkily. "We had an accident." Dante turned to her warning her with his eyes. "And what was that?" Another groan was heard and finally Dante lifted Arith up, her face had long scratches on one side. The book had saved her face. Arith closed her right eye and covered the blood strips. "We had an accident which we can only tell Mrs. Heater."
"Why?" Dante protested.
"It's a girl thing." At this even Dante backed up a bit. He knew she had done it, the perfect plan for a girl. Mrs. Heater shook her head in understanding. "I see. So why in the library?"
Arith was still starring at Dante, behind her hand she was grinning proudly seeing his reaction. "It was the only place we could stay away and our parents to bring us clothes." Kimni, Ayame and Aranell were blushing like mad. Dante turned away, Kimni looked at him and saw he was blushing like mad and mouthing, " God damn that girl!" Mrs. Heater spoke "Well still, you should have asked for permission to stay or ran to the nurses office to get help when the bell rang so now follow me."
Kimni protested. "Wait, where are we going, Mrs.?"
Mrs. Heater spoke without turning around. "To the counselors office." Ayame started protesting that she was from Sci-Tech but Arith and Kimni stopped, looking at Dante. He threw the bad finger at Arith, Arith accidentally shouted. "Up yours half demon!" Mrs. Heater turned. "Arith, what did you say?" Arith turned and walked. "Nothing ma'am."
They were sent with Mrs. Heater protesting at them for making ridicule out of the school in front of a school director. All the girls there were pissed off. Ayame was trying to find a way to get away. She wanted to smash the book on top of her head and make rude gestures. Kimni was thinking like mad. Why is Dante after us? He was going to kill us, but why? Man, thank god Arith didn't say anything about man bras . . . Arith had tears in her eyes. Kimni whispered to her. "You okay?" Arith turned and nodded whispering back. "Yes…all that happened was getting scrapped by rock, nothing more." She said sarcastically. Kimni frowned. "I was trying to help!"
They reached the counselors and were asked to sit down at wait, for the principal was out for lunch. They sat, with the receptionist only. She was chewing her gum very annoyingly and had the radio on smacking the bubbles to the beat. All four girls starred at her in disgust. Aranell took out her headphones again and leaned back waiting. Kimni sat there trying to think of a lie. Maybe Arith's idea will work. It worked with Mrs. Heater, But why…why Dante. She hugged the book she held and it slowly glowed green. Arith gasped and threw her sweater on it. Aranell, Ayame, and Arith stared at Kimni.
"Are you mad? How did you do that?" Arith whispered. Kimni was confused as much as she was. Then, the phone rang. The receptionist answered. "Hello, Med-high, how can I help you…Oh hello Mr.…Oh yes…Dante, I'm sorry. " She fiddled with her hair and her voice town raised a bit, Kimni growled with rage. " How may I help you? … Oh yes, the four "brats" as you call them are here…Hmm…Now? Well, well…fine…yes be there in a minute." She hung up and made a little cheer in the air; opened a drawer and got a mirror. "I owe you all one, I am so going to date that most sexy looking man!" Kimni was actually hissing now as the lady left. Once the door was closed behind her.
"OH MY GOD, HOW COULD HE LIKE HER! SHE IS UGLY AS HELL!" Kimni was pacing around throwing her hands here and there. Arith was also mad. She was cursing under her breath. Ayame and Aranell, on the other hand, were the only ones with true sense. "He tried to kill us, even you said it Kimni!" Ayame shouted. " He's old. He's cute, but old!" Aranell echoed. A few minutes of arguing came until Aranell hushed everyone. "Wait look what's that outside the window?" They all turned to where she pointed.
"A bunny?"
"Dante…"
" A stray dog?"
"Dante!"
Arith ran towards the door but before she could do anything the window was shattered into billions of pieces. What was odd was that the shattering was never heard. You could see where he jumped into the air, the electric thing shattering the window. You could see the glass hitting everything, Arith had lifted her hands to cover her face and Dante had grabbed her face, covering her mouth. The other hand he pointed a gun at Kimni, Ayame and Aranell. There was a long silence where the only thing heard was the birds outside and the whimpering of Arith. Ayame broke the silence.
"I'm guessing the gun symbolizes for us not to speak? Or not to scream?" Dante pointed the gun at Ayame, which wiped the smile off. "Take your pick." He stated coldly. Aranell stepped forward. "Wait. Do you want the books? That's what you want?" Dante moved the gun to Aranell. Kimni finally got her wits and spoke. "Yeah, you want the books? We don't have anything you want and we haven't done anything to you!" Dante pointed the gun at Kimni. He raised it a bit, pointing it to her heart. "I want you."
With that, Kimni started blushing like mad. Ayame and Aranell gasped. Arith made a weird noise in her throat and started laughing under his glove. Dante turned from Kimni to the other girls, wondering why the reaction. "What's wrong? I want her, is that such a big deal?" Kimni made a weird noise like half giggle half cough. It was now quite noticeable Arith was laughing. Her bloody, scraped hands were shaking like mad. They had stopped trying to take Dante's hands off. Dante looked down at Arith. "What!"
"You want me?" Kimni spoke shyly.
"Yes. Wait, what do you mean. Not want you as in…." Dante went red, he knew his fault. Arith was now crying again, either in pain or laughter, it was hard to tell. "NO, I'm going to need all of you!" Ayame gasped. "Aren't you satisfied with just one?"
"I didn't mean that!"
" I am not interested in that stuff Dante." Aranell said laughing, so did Ayame. Kimni was blushing like mad. How could I be so stupid! Dante threw Arith disgusted. She fell on the broken shards of glass and screamed out in pain. Dante cursed grabbing her up covering her mouth. The sound of running heels was heard. Dante cursed and pointed his gun. "Move outside now! Take the books!" They did as he wanted and kept walking till they reached the expressway. Here he put away the gun and covered Arith's hands so as not to draw attention. "Move now!" Everyone moved, but it seemed Arith was having trouble. Every time she stepped with her right, the stain of blood on her jeans where her knees were supposed to be would grow. It wasn't a pretty sight and Arith was getting whiter then she all ready was. They were going through the side of the school, where the fields were. As time passed, they would turn back and see they were in the middle of nowhere. Aranell had stopped hearing her headphones and now starred angrily at Dante. After what seemed hours of walking and whimpers from Arith Aranell spoke. "So…. err…where are you taking us?"
"Somewhere safe."
"Safe from what?" Aranell protested. Dante growled but didn't turn. " Just shut it kids." Aranell fluttered angrily. "Were not kids!"
"Well, you sure act like one!" He said turning around and glaring at Aranell. Aranell just went red with anger and looked away. Dante straightened himself. "That's right. That's how I want to hear you, nice and quiet." He gave each a look, except Kimni. Kimni was actually waiting for him to look at her but he didn't! Kimni sighed sadly, which caught his attention. He turned to her and softened his expression. "You'll see in a while, when were away from prying eyes. I will explain why you must all be safe." Kimni blushed and nodded. Ayame saw this and smiled. "You're just happy Arith isn't normal." She laughed. Kimni glared. Aranell was the first one to gasp. "Where's Arith?"
Dante looked around, nothing but field and sky. Kimni gasped seeing this was true. Why, hadn't they heard her whimpering? "Wait, didn't we hear her whimper?" Ayame raised her hand regretfully. "That was I. I had a rock in my shoe." Dante grunted at this and smelled the air. His eyes widened. "One things for sure…she is not conscious." He started running behind them. "Stay here, got it!" They all nodded. Kimni was a bit ashamed. She knew her friend was probably dead but still, her mind stuck with the vision of Dante. How he looked at her, his eyes…those big dreamy eyes! Minutes later, Dante came back, he was carrying Arith in his arms, her head rolling back and forth from his chest to his arms.
The clothes in which her hands were covered was scarlet red; her jeans were too. He seemed worried and growled. "I think I went a little to hard on her." Ayame was petrified and shouted. "A little? She is suffering blood loss, dammit!" Dante didn't reply but kept walking faster. They had to run to keep up. Kimni could smell the blood; she didn't like it. She felt tears stream down her eyes. Behind her there were sniffs. She turned and saw Aranell and Ayame crying as well. Kimni looked down. They were walking in line behind Dante. She could see small specks of blood here and there. Isn't that blood a bit to exaggerated? She thought. She looked at Dante. He was looking down he seemed to be messing with something. She glared, better not be messing with Arith!
