I will be focusing a little more on this story, since it has a limit of 5 chapters for the contest I entered. Meanwhile, I'll try writing updates for the stories like Deadline, Chains, Clouded Vision, Eden's Garden and I still haven't finished Far Away and Destined Love yet. (Though I kind of lost interest in them. They were my first stories, and looking back at them, it feels like I was so bad at writing.)
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I'm sorry for the inactivity and must say that I've been a little busy these days.
"Mikuo!" Kaito looked up at the taller boy. "Why did you come?"
"Kaito-kun, it's imperative that you lead me to where you found the corpse now. I will explain while we're walking." Mikuo calmly explained.
Kaito nodded and began walking towards the academy building. Mikuo followed him and Teto tagged after them after earning a look of disapproval from Gakupo. They walked into the building and quickly found their way to the library.
Gumi was leaning over something, crying loudly. Mikuo's face hardened and he quickly walked towards her, squatting down to see what she was crying over. He was instantly met by a pair of teal eyes, completely missing life, not shining like they should be. His eyes narrowed as he looked at the corpse's petite body and long teal hair. He couldn't see the cause of death, but it seemed like it was caused by magic.
"Mikuo…" Teto raised her voice and looked over his shoulder. "I-is she dead?"
"It seems like it." Mikuo replied slowly. His eyes followed the teal hair up to the head where the hair was tied into two pigtails. "But…"
"This can't be Miku." he declared, standing up.
"What?" Both Teto and Gumi almost shouted.
"I-it's her! The note I gave her yesterday is still in her pocket!" Gumi cried.
They all took another look at the corpse and then glared at Mikuo in disbelief. Both of them clearly saw that it was Miku – the signature hairstyle, the uniform, the face – Gumi could even confirm that the breast size was the same! (Which made Teto frown, since she had bigger breasts and no one ever gave her credit for that.)
"How can this be, Mikuo?" Teto asked, poking the corpse a little with disrespect.
"The ribbons." Mikuo simply explained, his face softened again. "Those aren't the ribbons I gave her."
"Well, she could simply change them? I mean, having the same ribbons every day must look really boring!" Teto said, pointing to her newest golden ribbons.
"No." Gumi whispered. She couldn't find her voice, but she was relieved that this wasn't Miku. "She always has those ribbons… because Mikuo gave them to her"
Miku slowly opened her eyes and yawned. It was quite dark around her – only a little light reached her. She wondered if she had fallen asleep at the dining table and if breakfast had been served. That's when the recent events suddenly came back to her in a rush and she immediately felt anxious.
"The angel!" she said in panic. "Oh no, they are going to take Teto! I have to warn the principal… oh damn you Kagamine, we should get out of here now!"
After letting out the sudden feelings of panic, she calmed down a little and tried to look around her. This place was certainly not the library, but she couldn't see anything other than darkness and a light in the distance. She tried to move, but her body felt limp.
"H-hey! KAGAMINE! Get the hell out of your hiding place! This isn't funny anymore!" Miku yelled. "Not that it was funny in the first place…"
She tried to recall exactly what had happened. Len had said something about an angel, his strange twin had said something about a master and she had been hit by a spell. And then she heard Gumi whimper, Len chuckle and after that she felt something grab her. Her head kind of hurt.
"You idiotic imbecile!" Miku cursed, trying to lift her leg. She gritted her teeth in anger and began chanting a fire spell.
However, much to her surprise, the fire spell suddenly was cancelled by something. She couldn't finish her chanting before some kind of… force made her stop immediately. The light in the distance grew bigger until, she could hear footsteps. Before she could curse Kagamine again, he had appeared before her, with a torch in his hand. And before she could say anything, the whole room had been lit up.
"Dear Miku…" he said, lighting the last torch in the room faster than she could see. "Will you marry me?"
"Did you get hit on the head? Do you have some kind of disease that makes it really hard for you to understand simple things? Okay, then I'll repeat that I'll never do that, you… son of a demon!" Miku ranted, glaring daggers at the blonde.
"Son of a demon? Why thank you, not a lot of people understand that I actually am one." Len said, amused by the angry Miku in front of him.
"Why can't I hold a normal conversation with you?!" Miku raged, wanting to clutch her head. However, her body wouldn't move. Her legs and arms were sore.
Looking down on herself, she found that she was sitting on the floor. Her legs had some smaller bruises that were marks of damaging magic.
"What is the meaning of this Kagamine?" she asked, a little more gentle, but still with hate in her voice.
"Even though you can't hurt me, you can be a little troublesome to deal with while you are free to go where you want." he shrugged. "I mean, you kicked me a while ago."
"Where am I?" she asked as she thought about punching his grinning face. But oh no, she couldn't do that, because someone who was a demon had done something with her that made her feel really tired.
"I call this place, home and also my realm. I think that you'd call it hell though."
"I wish I could say that I wanted you to burn in hell, but that wouldn't be so appropriate when I'm here too…" Miku gritted her teeth and glared at the blonde boy.
"But where is the real Miku if she isn't here?!" Gumi grabbed Mikuo's shirt and looked into his eyes desperately.
"I don't know Gumi. If I would have known, I would be there to find her already." Mikuo tried to smile at her. "But I do have some clues."
"W-what clues?" Gumi asked, her voice bearing a glimpse of hope.
"You wondered why I suddenly came to visit the academy, right? The ribbons I gave to Miku are infused with magic that can let me sense any danger that might approach her. I gave her those ribbons to protect her." Mikuo explained calmly.
"Why didn't you infuse them with mind magic that could tell her where she is now?" Teto asked. She thought it was obvious. Gakupo always did that on her, so he would know where she was the whole time.
Mikuo didn't reply to Teto's question and instead began chanting. From his hands, a long sword formed of light magic appeared. He quickly stabbed the corpse with it, much to Gumi's surprise. She screamed and covered her eyes, while Kaito watched Mikuo perform his high-level magic. The corpse suddenly diffused into the darkness, leaving a small flower behind on the floor. The flower was shaped like a rose, but without any thorns at all. The petals were shining brightly, all in different shades of red.
"This…" Mikuo picked up the flower. "… Is the work of a demon."
"A demon?" Kaito repeated with a scared look.
"We must speak to Gakupo at once."
"Go to heaven, Kagamine!" Miku yelled at him. They had been arguing for about ten minutes and Miku had learned the right way to turn that grin of his to a frown.
"My dear Miku, that was really rude of you. You know that I can't go to heaven." Len's frown deepened and he took a step nearer the tealette.
"God bless you!" Miku hid a smirk and her words immediately struck Len like thunder.
"Let there be light!" Miku said.
Suddenly, the whole room lit up and Len's torch was extinguished. He gasped and Miku felt a warm feeling inside of her. Moments after that, she was standing up, pointing a finger at Len.
"How did you break the seal?" Len fidgeted with his hands and began chanting, without losing focus on Miku.
"I… don't know…" Miku replied with a smile. "But this pure feeling… suddenly welled up inside of me."
"SEAL!" Len finished his spell and soon, the light in the room seemed to shrink.
Miku frowned as she suddenly felt Len push her onto something soft. The same feeling of helplessness from before returned. Len smirked and then walked away from her.
"I had to use up a lot of my aura to use that seal." he stated. "I underestimated you."
"What do you mean?" Miku shouted. "Hey, don't leave me here in the dark!"
"Stay here for a while and I'll be back. Not like you can escape this seal though." Len teased her as he opened a door, letting in some light.
"H-hey!"
"No wonder you're so strong… you're an angel after all." Len softly said as he closed the door.
"What…?"
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