Angel or Demon?
I sighed, dropping onto my back, leaving my small suitcase unattended to at the doorway to my room. School had just started again, and after our journey in California this summer we all just hung out in small separate groups than just one. And Patty had gotten the phone number of a celebrity boy during that crazy night at the celeb party. As a Sophomore in a delinquent school, missions namer down at you like you were god answering all those prayers. At least as Soul as my partner the load was a bit more lighter when taking out evil humans or becoming kishins. Right now Soul and I had just gotten back from Italy and we both wanted to go home and sleep like lazy maids.
I took out my cellphone and turned it on. I wanted to see if Corona had written me. Those four still have not returned from their epic journey to discover Corona's magic, but I do know that they were somewhere in a village near the Amazon river in South America last I heard. Clutched my phone to my chest and thought about each one of them. I had an icky feeling that something bad will happen sooner or later.
Corona... Please be careful.
( Kim's POV three days ago )
The small bus was soon gone down the path again in a hustle once it disposed of us. Our bodies were wet with sweat of the heat as we looked around at the place we were stopes off at. There were huts, small booths and occasionally houses with tents this lush greenery and humid land. Children ran around enjoying themselves, people worked around the booths and came in and out from paths all around carrying boxes or crates of food.
'We must be in a village', I thought while eyeing a tall slender man hang up a giant pike on a tree limb.
In the corner of my eye, I saw Tezca talking to an elderly lady in a different language. Just what is this man trying to do? He has been annoying me since before the journey began. When Tezca returned to us he said, "This is Nana, she lives in one of the houses with her wealthy granddaughter and has offered us a place to sat for the night," Tezca explained.
"Humph, stupid Death Scythe, we don't even know this lady and you expect us to just spend the night in her domain?" I said befuddled.
The old lady began talking again and Tezca listened to every word she uttered. "She says that her daughter offers refuge to traveling Kishin hunters like us, so it's ok Kim chan," Tezca said wig a smile in his words, even though I could not see through his head piece.
I looked over at Corona whom had spotted a group of children with a mud covered guitar. I knew that look she gave, she wanted to do something, so I put a hand on her shoulder and nodded in understanding the desire she wanted to do. Soon Corona was over with the kids talking to them, I stood behind the group of kids to listen.
"Do you guys want to know what that does?" Corona asked the group of small children with the guitar and most of them replied with yeses and maybes.
"Let me see it please?" Corona asked putting out her hand to the dirty guitar and the small boy holding it handed it over to Corona.
Then Corona sat down in front of the toddlers and kids, dusting off the guitar and tuning it up. "This is called a guitar, when you strum its strings it lets out the most beautiful sound you will ever hear," Corona spoke as if she was a storyteller, as the kids gaped and stared at her in amazement. When Corona strummed a couple of strings letting out an uneven pattern the kids gasped and shivered at the sound.
"But like people you got o strum them the right way to be in contact with each other," Corona explained, placing her long fingers over the neck and the base of the guitar. Then she started a familiar tune.
"Then you add your voice in it to spice up the sound like so," Corona spoke clearing her throat as she still strummed at the guitar.
"This little light of mine, I'am gonna let it shine. This little light of mine, I'am gonna let it shine, let it shine let it shine let it shine," Corona sang to the little kids over and over and they joined into her lyrical riot singing there hearts contents out with Corona.
I smiled at Corona. If she was still in a band then she would be going places, instead of having to worry about being exiled by lord Death or having Ire interfere with her sanity. Because Corona was a walking inspiration herself, just in the way she is teaching these kids about music right now.
( Night )
Jacqueline and I shared a bed and Corona and Tezca got there own, was the arrangements when we were given a bed in Nana's granddaughters guest room. Nana had also explained about how every guest had diner time at eight pm every night together, so I was planning on interrogating on them all on witch areas to go to. But sense it was seven Jacqueline and I just laid on the bed together taking time to text all our friends back home in Death city. As I waited for m phone t turn on I heard Corona humming and saw her writing down something in her notebook.
'She must be writing a new song,' I thought, just when my phone turned on.
Let's see I got three messages, one from Maka and two from Ox. When I saw his name on the screen I blushed. It must be morning or midnight back home, so should I text him back? I'll just read the messages first before deciding. I clicked on the first one it read:
Morning Kim, unless its the afternoon or evening there, but it's morning over here. I hope your search is going great we all miss you and the others, plus since your not here to keep Kilik from talking out of line Stein has been getting some good target practice with his scalpels allot more often, well I gotta run now, I'll text you later bye!
That was the first one the second one was just: Hi, like the kind of text you send a friend to start a conversation. I decided to send one to him as well. Then my phone went off again shortly after.
Ox: Hi, how are you?
Me: Fine, were takin a break in this house for Kishin hunters
Ox: That's cool, wanna know what I heard what Maka and the gang did this summer?
Me: What did they do?
Ox: They went to California and went to a Hollywood party, Maka talked to Zac Efron there too
Me: Luckies! France sucked during my summer
Ox: How come?
Me: Because we kept on being bombarded by French guys and we couldn't understand them, they were like, Jolie Américains! Veux aller quelque part isolée? And, Veulent savoir comment le baiser Français? it was so confusing!
Ox: ...
Me: Hey didn't you take French last semester?
Ox: NO I DID NOT, DON'T BRING UP THE SUBJECT!
Me: ... Weirdo
Ox: Yeah, I need to go or else my mom will take away my phone
Me: Kay, txt you later four eyes!
And then our phone conversation was over and I turned off my cell phone in pure boredom. Later Nana poked her head in and said the only two American words, I believe, she knew: Dinner.
When we left our room, we didn't need directions, because our noses were like GPS's for finding food. We found ourselves in a dinning room, with a pond wooden table that had a feast by feast by feasts of feasts on it, ready to be devoured by our mindless mouths. Soon all the chairs were filled with all kinds of peep, including us, and all of our plates were piled with food. Right now I didn't care what kind of meat I was having, but the seasonings was like the gold plating for a diamond ring, it made at all much better. When I was at the breaking point of the feast I looked around at the faces at the table. A grizzly looking man caught my eye, he was having an interesting conversation with a bunch of other men around him.
"No! You got to be pulling my leg!" one of them hollered.
"No I wasn't, see there I was down in the deltas, when I saw it, the fish were slapping there fins up at the rocks crazily, they were slapping away at the birds, they even killed the birds, there was blood everywhere, like nature went crazy. I even saw a squirrel go head to head with a reptile. All hell was being raised down at the break of the river and ocean, but I did not dare go there, oh and there was this girls with blue hair," the grizzly guy exclaimed.
My eyes and brain snapped over at the mention of a blue haired girl.
"What she look like?"
"Eh, thin, pretty short, wore no shoes, a pastel dress and had yellow eyes, like a frog," he said.
Then all three of us glanced at each other and nodded. I slammed my hands on the table, earning the grizzly guy's attention.
"Hey, where did you find this girl?" I demanded hotly.
"At the Amazon River Delta, but you don't want to go there little miss," he grunted.
"Oh I will go there you can count on that," I spoke smoothly, chugging down the last of my water, before slamming it back on the table.
"Thanks for the directions, man I'm stuffed, I think I'll go to bed," I go up, pushed my chair in and was half way out the door when.
"Are you crazy?" he asked.
I smiled and replied, "No, but you might be."
