Death Note
Chapter 36
A few hours later, Lexia woke up. The pain of her wings was reduced, but a small pinching feeling struck through the new bones. The black feathers were ruffled, messy and still tinted red from the stains of blood.
Lexia sat on her knees and moved closer to the edge.
Now I know how a princess feels being in a locked tower, she thought.
"How am I gonna get down? Let my hair loose and see if it touches the ground?" She said to herself, touching her short blue hair that stuck up on its own.
L.E.K swung her legs over the edge when something caught the corner of her eye.A long, thin string with, at the end, a crescent shaped tip. It also had a very sharp edge like it is meant to be a knife of some sort.
She picked it up and started to tug on the string and then she felt a sharp pain in her lower spinal cord. After a moment she realized that it was a tail.
Her tail.
This new discovery wasn't all that surprising, considering that she didn't know how many more changes she'll go through.
She casted her tail aside and started to admire the view of the lifeless, grey realm. All of the other shinigami walking on the ground looked like ants, standing on 2 or more legs, in a slouching, lanky position. Every one of them was different in every way. There wasn't a single pair of shinigami who looked identical.
After 10 minutes, Millie stood up and walked around on the small platform, to stretch her legs. But, little did she know, it wasn't such a good idea after hearing the sound of rock breaking and giving away.
Lexia froze. She looked behind her, without moving her feet, to see a large fissure splitting between the cliff wall and the rock. The sound of dirt falling beneath scared her.
After a moment, everything stopped. Lexia was relieved, at least on those minutes.
All of a sudden, it completely broke off the side and she was falling again, while gripping onto the edge of the boulder.
Millie hit the ground hard. The rock completely shattered into bits as the rest of her was thrown to the ground, tumbling, rolling and tripping over herself. Finally she came to a stop at black, shinigami feet.
She sat up onto her knees and looked up at the dark figure, standing over her.
"I see your first day isn't going so well, huh L.E.K?" He asked through a familiar voice.
"Ryuk?" She asked, getting back onto her feet and dusting herself off.
Ryuk chuckled. Millie knew the sound of his scratchy voice, anywhere. He still looked the same as always, but this time, he was wearing an old, raggedy, light brown cloak.
"Welcome to the shinigami realm," he said.
"Thanks...?"
He reached into his belt and handed her a bracelet.
"You left this in the human world. Keep it out of sight. That weapon is forbidden here."
He also handed her a Death Note book and a white pencil crayon to label and write the rules in it.
"Don't lose it. Now let me show you around," he said walking Lexia over to a shining whole in the ground.
"This is a portal to the human world. If you drop your note book here, obviously you know that it now belongs to the world of the living. You'll get it back after the person who picks it up, dies. Also, there's a law that you cannot go down there until you know how to fly properly. You'll start learning in a week, when they've healed," he explained and began walking in a new direction with her tailing behind.
Ryuk suddenly stopped. Lexia stared at the open waste land. In the far distance there was a sandstorm and the dry ground was cracked with small fissures and the shadows lurked between.
"This is the Nothingness. Also the boundary; an off-limits place. People like Light, who used the Death Note, get dumped there and get eaten by the monsters. Besides shinigami, other things live in this realm too, except they are lethal. Occasionally, you'll come across large bones and whole rib cages. Way to oversize, compared to an ordinary shinigami. Any type of monster who comes across here will be killed by us. If you ever come across and skull, those things are good for gambling with," Ryuk explained.
"Gambling? I don't gamble," she stated.
"Then give them to me," he said and turned around, continuing with the tour.
They came across a bunch of shinigami playing a card game.
"This is what we do every day, to ease our boredom," said Ryuk.
There was only one thing that Lexia could think. Wow.
He turned around and faced her.
"One last thing..." He took off his cloak and handed it to her.
"We have horrible sandstorms here."
Wings sprouted out of his back and he took off, leaving her without even saying good- bye.
What do I do now?She wondered and put the cloak on.
Lexia looked at her Death Note that she was holding. It still needed a title.
An hour later, Millie was sitting on the edge of a hole, leading to the Human World, with her legs dangling over.
She was writing the rules on the inside the cover and occasionally looked down to see what Near was doing.
Just as she finished writing her last sentence, Millie went down to the edge of the paper and scribbled her signature.
Then she closed the book.
A lot was running through her mind. Especially how Near was handling her death and facing the fact that everyone in his family was murdered in less than a year.
L.E.K wished that her wings would grow faster so she could go down and see him personally, but he wouldn't be able to see her.
After a moment of feeling hopeless, a devious idea sprung into her mind as she smiled sharply, exposing her new fangs, and shading her red eyes with her blue bangs.