Author's Comment: Hey there people it's DriftignCloudsOfSolitude here for another chapter of H E A V EN. The updates may get slower now because of school (gomen D;), I'll try and write the chapters ASAP, atleast less than a week of wait ... Haha and if your tired of cliffhangers..THAN TOO BAD 'CAUSE MORE ARE COMING AHAHA~ D...well, like always, hope you enjoy the chapter!
WARNING/DISCLAIMERS: Warning to all homophobes out there, there will be minor Boy X Boy romance of some sort, soifyour scared/disturbed/horrified by non-straight relations than this story is not for you. All copyright goes to DriftingCloudsOfSolitude / cardcaptor67 .
H E A V E N
Chapter 3: Aurora
As I turned around, a face of a girl came out. She had long brown hair that were covered with twigs and leaves.
"A-ah.. Hello.." She said smiling at me. She had a bucket in her hands.
"Eh.. Hello..." I replied, I wasn't sure what to do.
"... Well, I have to go now. Bye!" I said running downstream.
"A-ah! W-wait!.." She said trying to stop me but I was already far away.
A few minutes later, I made it to where I was before I went up the river and sat on a rock to catch my breath.
Keen suddenly came out of the bushes.
"Ah! There you are, it's getting late. Let's eat." He said.
"Sure.." I replied, and we walked back to the where the other 2 were.
There were triangular things that ressembled rooftops near Eli.
"Hey, what are those?" I asked pointing at the things I haven't seen before.
"Tentes. You can say it's like a transportable house." Keen said.
"Oh." I replied. "Where's Za- I mean Kaz." I asked noticing a missing head.
"He's out to find some extra food. We aren't just going to eat some frozen stuff, it's bad for your health." Eli said. "Just wait t'ill we cook something up and that Kaz returns."
"Okay." I said sitting on a rock.
Eli brought twigs and dried leaves together.
"What are you doing...?" I asked curious.
"Making a campfire." He replied.
"Oh... " I said watching him. He took out a small packet and took out a little twig with a red end on it and he struck it against the packet and lit a little fire. He threw the burning twig onto the piles of twigs and dried leaves that were surrounded by rocks forming a circle, it immediately burned and the fire started getting bigger.
"Can you go get more twigs, dried leaves and dried grass?" Eli asked.
"Sure.." I said, I got up and went to look for some dead leaves.
I wandered around a while picking up some dead leaves and some twigs. I came back a few minutes later.
" 'Kay, I'm back with what you needed." I said.
"Good, give them to me." Eli said, I did as said and I gave it to them.
He started 'feeding' the fire as I watched the sparks flew out wildly from a distance.
I stared at the fire for a long period of time, then suddenly.. I had a weird feeling, I closed my eyes as another piece of my memory came back to me;
"Hey! It became warm all of a sudden, what happened?.."I herd my voice say.
"Haha, don't worry. I just made a fire, it'le warm us up." A familiar voice said.
"Keep a nice distance from it so that you don't get burned by the sparks, but close enough so that you can stay warm."
"And where might that be?..." I said.
"Right where you are silly!" The voice laughed.
I could only remember voices.. I wonder why?.. even now, I have a hard time identifying objects, I can't read nor write. It's a real handicap... it might be linked to when I was still alive...
I sat there wondering about all the confusing questions I had until Zack came up to me bringing me back from my thoughts.
"Hey, dinner's ready." He said. "Do you plan to space out any longer?"
"Ahaha..." I laughed slightly. "C'mon let's eat." I said.
I walked up near the fire and started to eat. Keen prepared some stew with what he found in the forest and what we had.
After a while we we're done.
"So how was it?" Keen asked.
"Not bad. Better than my cooking." Eli said.
Zack didn't reply.
"It wasn't bad." I said.
"Good, I was afraid it would taste bad. What is it Kaz~?.. Mezmerized by my cooking?" Keen teased.
"No, it tastes horrible I can't feel my tongue anymore." Zack said.
"That's so mean!..." Keen sobbed.
"Well, it's getting late now. Let's go sleep." Eli suggested.
"Yeah." We all said at the same time and went into our tentes. I was stuck with Eli as Zack and Keen were paired up together in the tente. I had a bad feeling about that. I suddenly got lost in thoughts as I slowly fell asleep.
I was asleep until I was wildy shook a few times. I quickly opened my eyes and it was Keen.
"Hey. 'Morning sleepy head." He said.
"Heck, you people really don't know how to wake up people properly?.." I said annoyed and sat up.
I yawned as I looked around.
"What time is it?" I asked.
"10 am." Keen replied.
"Ugh.. and I still feel oddly sleepy.." I said rubbing my eyes.
"That's because Heaven's time period is slower than on Earth. 2 times slower to be exact." Keen said.
"Ah.. geez.. I slept 2 times less than usual than.." I whined.
"Pretty much." Keen said.
I got up half asleep and went out of the tente, I sat on a rock near Zack and Eli who were already awake.
"About time you woke up." Eli said.
"Yeah... I'm not used to this." I said.
"You'll get used to it in 2 days. Also known as 4 days in earth time." Eli said.
"Ah.. perfect.." I mumbled sarcastically.
"So where are we going today?" I asked.
"The village. We're going to start our mission." Eli said.
"Which is?..." I asked.
Keen walked in the conversation after putting away the tentes.
"Saving a young lady from demons." Keen said.
"Saving?..." I asked.
"It's more like, killing the demons who are trying to assasinate her." Eli said.
"Oh.. Who's she?" I asked.
"Aurora Delrium. A random target it seems." Eli said.
"Oh..." I let out remembering the name.
Eli got up and picked up his bag.
"Let's go now." He said, I nodded and got up.
Eli started walking on a path, I picked up my bag and placed it over my shoulders and followed him, Keen and Zack did same.
The path was rocky and seemed unused. We walked along the path for about 10 to 15 long minutes and we ended up near a small village.
"Here we are.. Let's just act like we're travelers." Eli said.
"Alright." Keen replied.
We walked into the village, I looked everywhere seeing a lot of different stuff. There weren't many people around, we didn't get many stares but I still felt some painful stares somehow.
"Okay, I'll go buy some supplies. You 3 can go check out some stuff." Eli said.
"Okay." Keen said locking arms with Zack who seems to not be enjoying it.
"Let's go Kaz! I saw a nice tree up on the hill!" Keen said and already left with Zack.
"I kind of feel sorry for him.." I mumbled.
"I'm pretty sure Kaz'll be fine. I'm more worried about Wane." Eli said.
"Yeah... " I said.
"You can go exploring, since you don't get to see much everyday." Eli said patting my head.
"Sure." I replied.
Eli went to the small market place as I went to the open plains and sat on a log.
I looked around and no one was there. I closed my eyes as I felt the cool breeze blowing threw my hair. It was pretty hot with the old coat on, but I had to keep it on. At least, I didn't need to wear the hood all the time.
When I opened my eyes a girl was in front of me. It was the same girl from yesterday. I was a bit surprised to have another person in frotn of my face when I open my eyes.
"Hiya." She said.
"Eh... Hi..?" I said.
"Your the guy from yesterday yes?" She asked.
I nodded, I wasn't sure what to do..
"So your a traveler hmm?" She asked.
"Yeah." I replied.
"Well my name is Aurora. Aurora Delrium. Call me Aurora." She said smiling.
"Aurora?.. So she's the girl that's been targetted.." I thought.
"Names Andrew..." I replied.
"Nice to meet you, Andrew... So.. it's your first time in Utoria Village?" Aurora asked.
"Yeah.. I'm here with my.. eh.. older brother and 2 friends." I said thinking of some background story for myself.
"Oh.. I can show you around if you want." She asked smiling.
"Alright.." I said.
"Yay! It's been a while since we had any travelers. I guess it's because this village is pretty small, no one actually pays much attention." She said.
"So where are you guys headed?" She asked.
"Ah.. em... My brother said it was a surprise.. he told me that we'd stay in this village for a while.. I don't know howlong though." I replied.
"I see.. say Andrew. Do you 4 have anywhere to stay?" Aurora asked tying her hair hair up.
"Not really.. we only camp out, I guess.." I replied.
"Hm.. I could find you 4 a place to stay." Aurora said thinking.
"You 4 can stay at my place until the lady in the inn is done with her repairs." She said.
"Are you sure it's a good idea inviting 4 strangers to your house?" I asked.
"Well you 4 don't seem so bad. I don't know, it's only a hunch though. Are you bad people?" She asked.
"No.. not that I know of.." I replied.
"Good!" She said smiling. "So, let me show you around." Aurora said grabbing my sleeve and pulling me up.
"!" I was a bit surprised but I didn't say anything.
She than dragged be threw the village and showed me around. Everything and everyone in this village seems so peaceful. I couldn't believe demons would be harming such place.
"It's pretty peaceful here, isn't it?" Aurora said, we were on top of a hill near the village.
"Yeah... It's nice." I said.
We then went to her house, Keen, Zack and Eli were there.
"Oh hey Andrew." Eli said.
"W-what are you guys doing here?.." I asked.
"The kind lady from this house told us we could stay here, sicne it seems that your friends with her granddaughter." Keen said.
"Eh..." I let out confused.
"Ah, don't worry young lad." An old women in from the hallway.
"You are friends with Aurora aren't you?.. Than you mustn't be a bad boy." She laughed.
I slightly laughed.
"Yep. He's my friend grandma' . Now don't tease him." Aurora said.
"Fine, fine. I'll hold myself with jokes." The old lady said. "I'm Everett Earsteen-Delrium. Aurora's grandmother." She introduced myself.
"Andrew Nicoll.." I said.
"So, which one is your older brother Andrew?" Aurora asked me.
"Eh... Adel." I said pointing out to Eli, I gave hima slight glare about playing along.
"You 2 don't look much alike." Aurora giggled. "No wonder I couldn't notice you 2 were brothers."
"I look more like mother.." I said sighing.
"Yeah. Your the ressemblance of our mother than our father." Eli smirked.
I glared at him.
"I see." She giggled. "Anyway, let's go on the hill! It has a nice sight of the village!"
Aurora cheered as she grabbed my arm and dragged me out of the house. We started running up a path and up on a hill. It was a bit far but we could see the whole village there.
Aurora whas grinning happily.
"Woah.." I let out as my eyes gazed out of the beautiful scenery.
Aurora giggled, but then her smile slowly disappeared.
"2 years ago.. there were people who came and caused chaos to this village. They took children and women and would slaughter them until they had what they wanted, money and all things that would worth a lot. They said that no one could speak about what happened or everyone gets killed.." She whispered.
"Than.. why tell me?.." I asked.
"I have a hunch that says to me to trust you." She smiled.
"They also said; '2 years later, we will come back. You better have prepaired 10 000 Yuins or we will repeat what has happened and everyone who survives will be enslaved." Aurora continued.
I stayed silent and shocked as I herd those words come out of her mouth. A tear slowly shed from her eyes.
"I-I'm sorry, crying so suddenly!" She said wipping her tears.
"It's fine.. you can cry if you want. It must of been horrible." I said.
She sobbed, she lifted her face up to me, I could clearly see her face. Her eyes full of tears, she could collaps any second...
"I said you can cry if you want." I said opening an arm.
She instantly hugged me and started shedding her tears. This young lady that was once seemed strong before me turned into a defenseless little girl.. a girl almost powerless to everything, all she can do it cry and hope for the best. She could cry for hours and I wouldn't know what to do, all I can do is be there and comfert those who have endured all this pain for years.
As I sat there Aurora in my arms crying, I came to realise something.
"Do you know how cruel this world is?.."
End of Chapter 3
Author's Comment: Anyway, there's chapter 3 xD! So yeah, I hope you enjoyed it. I wanted to tell people here that I have some kind of 'bonus' for H E A V E N. It's the Heaven's Q&A that will be at every end of chapter as a Bonus. This Q&A consists that you can ask a question to any character in the story, any question you want (PG13- PLEASE..) and I will make the character's reply in the next chapter ^^.. I hope I get many questions ;o..