天国 Paradise
Trinity Blood, Strawberry Panic
Ch.3 Crossing over
Abel's POV
"Esther?" I heard my lips whisper. I did not make them, but they called her in my daze. I remember falling, somewhere soft apparently, I did not feel any bones out of place. "Should I bother opening my eyes?" I argued with myself dreamily.
Wherever I am, I like it. It's not like Londinium at all, are those birds chirping? I hope I'm outside. Should I open my eyes?
I was tossing over the options of staying blind in my mystery world or opening my eyes when I heard a familiar screech.
"EEEAH!" Esther's voice violated my silence. Come to think of it, I should open them.
"Who-who are you?" I heard.
I sat up, feeling the soft cushions of a bed before opening my eyes to a beautiful room bright with noon sun. It was night when I fell, was I really unconscious? That's odd.
"Ah..." I choked. I had something in my throat.
*Cough*
"Esther gasped at the sound and I did too. For a second I doubted the origin of the puny little cough. I tested my voice once again, praying I was merely dizzy and not brain-damaged.
*cough*
I felt cold chills at my fingers and toes. Panic.
"YAHHH!" I yelled, shriller than even Esther's cries. She responded with a worthy one in return.
"Who are you?" she demanded again, this time impatient pulling out her gun from the halter on her thigh.
"Answer me!" she clicked back the hammer. Even now, as I panic, she still looks so adorable with her gun.
"Esther It's me!" I responded in the same strange voice. I sounded like a girl! I grasped my throat and felt it was so slender and short. Shooting my hands up in front of my face I gasped with horror at my hands. My gloves fit so loosly that it looked like my fingers were broken backwards. I felt my new face, sensitive and blushed. My eyelashes felt heavier.
"Who's me?" she asked again, this time suspicious. Was I still in my AX uniform?
I ran my hands down my thin shoulders and felt something soft, supple. Pulling away the extremely baggy jacket I saw two large bulges under my matching oversized shirt.
I shrieked in girly horror as I finally realized I was in some terrible trap. The Methuselah we were chasing has us in a trance.
"Esther quick, where are you right now?" I wondered if she was even the real Esther.
"What are you saying? I'm here across from you! Who the hell do you think you are, where did you get those clothes?"
"Listen It's me Nightroad, please just focus, breath, where are we? Do you know this place?" I tried to rack for this image in my memory, if it was my dream, this is all part of a trap. The real me was somewhere in Londinium and the real Esther is danger.
"Shut up, throw over your weapon!"
"Esther!" I reasoned. I hated the sound of this stupid voice.
" NO!" A third voice roared from a pile of tiles in the corner. A third person?
" Nightroad! What the FUCK did you get me into this time?" Another girl. A tan hand bloomed out of a ridiculous pile of tiles and what looked like rafters.
For the first time, I dared look straight up into the expected ceiling. Above me the sky opened up into blue. This isn't even my sky!
The girl pulled herself out of the pile or rubble and gasped. She was in the same baggy AX costume as me. Had the entire team been captured and zapped with some kind of tranny-ray?
The girl froze in her tantrum when she met my eyes. She looked down at her hands too, small and hairless. Speechless she dropped her shoulders.
"Father Nightroad, requesting status report." All three of us jumped the monotone we had come to depend on. It pitched a lot like mine now, were we all warped into females?
"I'm fine, Tres where are you?"
"I do not recognize this address. GPS malfunction, rewriting tactical program."
I squeezed my head between my hands in frustration.
"For Chrissake put the gun down Esther!" I yelled. I felt expertly emotional.
Esther's clothes were the only that fit. I remembered that I had breasts now, and they felt real, I started to wonder "what if..."
Tres emerged from the broken closet doors and who I guessed was the feminine Leon strutted towards me, very pissed.
She reached out and hooked a strand of my silver hair with his new fingers and felt it, saw the deep blue of my eyes and the shine of my lashes.
"You're a chick too? Ah hell!" she rasped. He- I mean she sounded just like herself or himself, I wasn't sure. No one would answer my question. This was important!
BAM! The door to the bedroom slammed open and panting was heard. Everyone inside flinched and reached for their guns, Leon and me having the most trouble with our baggy robes. Expecting fire I aimed it at the tallest girl's forehead and heard the smaller one gasp an clutch her.
I was twisted on the bed across the door directly in front of them, I was the first they saw. They looked so...surprised?
