Death Note
Chapter 38
"Put me down!" Lexia screamed.
She was clutched between the fists of a large shinigami who had a wolf head. He had seemed to ignore her cries as he opened up his mouth. Sharp jagged teeth in two rows. The only thing Millie could think of what would happen next is her blood running down from the sides of his mouth, staining his fur, as he chewed on her bones, piercing her flesh.
He shoved L.E.K into his mouth and the last bit of light she saw was between his sharp teeth.
Millie shot up from the ground, in cold sweat, with a racing pulse that she could feel beating up her neck and inside her chest.
She looked outside the cave. Like usual, a plain and boring grey day.
She slumped down against a large rock as her pulse slowly started to calm down.
Nightmares... Lexia thought. They've been happening frequently. Most of them were about the shinigami. It seemed like she was terrified of them, even though they wouldn't hurt anyone unless it was just for playfulness or if they were trying to get even with another.
Her wings felt a little tender from sleeping on them and the purple flames, on her head, were small from lack of energy. There wasn't really anything to eat in the realm. Everything that grew there, tasted like sand.
She got up and walked outside of the cave, into the dust-filled air. The amount of dust was a sign that a sandstorm had passed over night.
L.E.K rubbed her eyes and pulled over the hood of her cloak. Then she sat down and let her legs dangle over the edge.
In the distance, the only bright light she could see was the hole to the human world. Lexia thought that later that day, she would stop by there and see how Near was doing.
She raised her arms and stretched them out, above her head. Then she put them down and noticed how her dress's holes on the rim, got bigger. Out of all the things she needs to do, when she gets to the human world, it's getting a new dress.
She began to practice again by moving her wings slowly and they started to pick up the pace after a minute or two.
The wind blew through her short, blue hair as she closed her eyes and pictured flying. She leaned forward and the wind started to pick up while thrill jolted through her body. When Millie opened her eyes, she realized that she was falling 4 stories high.
Her wings spread open and caught the air without her realizing until she noticed that the fall was slowing down and she was soaring. She tried to flap her wings, which increased her height by a little. Lexia smiled and tilted her wings upward to begin inclining towards the grey sky. Her wing tips touched her arms as they grasped the air and pushed it down.
The clouds were right in front of her. She was so close, she could almost taste them.
L.E.K tore through. Half way in the middle of Millie's ascends, lightning struck through, almost hitting her. The water vapours struck to her skin and dampened her raggedy dress. Lightning quickly snaked through from the top to the bottom, between the clouds. Water collected onto her skin and it felt cold, the higher she went.
Finally, an opening. She gritted her teeth and squinted her eyes from the water and chill as she ripped out of the clouded danger zone and hovered above, panting while observing her surroundings. Dark clouds were lit up, beneath her feet but she was surrounded by warmth. Her dress was completely soaked and so was her hair. The amazement of where she was astonished her.
The Shinigami Realm wasn't supposed to be all grey, dull and boring. It had life. Ahead of her was an ocean filled with dark clouds, where lightning brightened up the sky, but the shinigami were too far to see or hear. The amazement was that the clouds were dark purple on top.
The air was warm and smelled sweet but what you think everything looked like is up to you.
Lexia grasped the last bit of warmth, and then she stopped flapping her wings and wrapped them around her arms as she began to plummet, back to the surface, in a nose dive. The air turned frigid again, but quickly returned to normal when she ripped out of the clouds.
The thrill of falling never gets old.
She opened her wings and caught the air again when Millie felt that she was close enough to the ground. Her wings curved inward, almost touching her body, but enough space was left for the air to be shredded. She noticed Ryuk on the corner of her eye. He was standing on the cliff where L.E.K was dropped on the first day in the realm. She wanted to say hi, but she was going too fast. The only thing Millie could do was stare him in the eyes as she shot by.
Lexia veered to the right, trying to stay away from the boundary (the Nothingness) ahead.
A jolt of pain sprung between her shoulder blades, which caused them to dip forward. The impact of the tender pain made her drop to the ground in a diagonal fall. There was one thing she had forgotten to think about... how to stick the landing.
As Millie closed in on the ground, she tried to put her feet down, but going at top speed nearly broke a foot.
Then the rest of her met the dirt flooring. She stumbled, nearly crushing her wings in a few somersaults. Then she came to a complete stop on her stomach.
Lexia, painfully, picked herself up off the ground, coughing from the dust that she piled into the air. She rubbed her shoulder while turning it in a small circle, to stretch the pain out.
She looked up at the sky and began to think.
Not bad for a first flight.