Tetsu Hiou 'Lost Secrets'

By Gina-chan

~Chapter One~

"Sora...Sora!" a voice she recognized as her mother's called out. Sora didn't want to open her eyes...she just wanted to sleep forever...

"There's a young man here to see you...I'll leave you two alone," she heard the footsteps of her mother leaving and the sound of another entering.

"Sora?" a deep, gentle voice questioned. "It's Daichi..." Sora's eyes suddenly snapped open.

"Daichi?" Sora asked, sitting up and looking around, confused. Her eyes came to rest upon Daichi, sitting beside the bed she was lying in.

"Where am I?" whispered Sora.

"In your room. You fainted on the track, so Arashi and I brought you home," Daichi explained.

"Why? I'm only a second-year student...you didn't have to do this for me," Sora protested.

"I saw you looking at me before track practice, so I wanted to know who you were..." Daichi trailed off, noticing the pendent around her neck.

"Hey, that's a nice pendent," Daichi said, looking at the pendent. Sora blushed, taking the pendent from around her neck and handing it to Daichi.

"Yea...my mom just gave it to me this morning," Sora said. Daichi nodded, putting it back around Sora's neck.

"That's nice," Daichi repeated, looking into Sora's deep, green eyes. Sora blushed even harder, running her hand through her black, shoulder-length hair.

"Well," Daichi finally said. "I'd best be going." he stood up.

"Okay," Sora replied.

"I'll see you tomorrow, Sora," Daichi said, walking out of her room.

"Bye, Daichi," Sora said, lying back down and closing her eyes.

"It's you again," Sora greeted harshly. She was standing face-to-face, once again, with the black-winged boy. He glared back at her.

"I'm going to kill you. I'm going to kill you, and everyone you love," the boy threatened. "Including your father."

"My father?!" Sora exclaimed.

"Yea, your father. King of Fanelia. If I kill him, you won't be able to get the dragon. Zaibach will take the dragon, and take over all of Gaea!" the boy started laughing insanely.

"Gaea? Dragon? Okay, whatever...this is just some weird dream...whatever you're talking about...it's not real..." Sora trailed off. The boy shook his dark brown hair.

"That's what you think..."

Sunlight streamed through the windows into Sora's room, waking up the sleeping girl. Sora blinked her eyes open.

"Today's Saturday…why did Daichi say he would see me today?" Sora wondered, getting out of bed. She yawned, walking out of her room. The phone suddenly rang. Sora ran to the phone downstairs.

"Hello?" Sora questioned.

"Hi Sora," a male voice replied.

"Daichi!" Sora said, surprised.

"Yea. Hey, I was wondering if maybe you want to have a race or something at the track," Daichi suggested. Sora's heart beat faster at the thought of actually spending time with one of the most popular--and good-looking--guy in her school.

"T-that's be great," Sora replied.

"And maybe afterward we can go out for lunch or something," said Daichi. Lunch? Sora glanced at the clock. Geeze, it was already 12:00. How long had she been asleep? She had gone to sleep rather early...

"Okay! Sounds good!" Sora said.

"I'll meet you on the track at 12:45, kay?" said Daichi.

"Okay," Sora squeaked, overjoyed that she was actually going to hang out with Daichi.

"Bye," Daichi said.

"Bye," Sora replied, hanging up the phone. She sighed deeply. Today was going to be very interesting…

Sora breathed in deeply and gripped the strap on her duffle bag, full of her track gear and various other things. She walked down to the track where Daichi was already waiting.

"I hope you haven't been waiting long," Sora said, once she got down on the track.

"Only for five minutes. But you're here now, and that's what counts," Daichi replied.

"Yea…" Sora trailed off.

"So are you ready to race?" Daichi asked. Sora nodded. She was already in her usual track uniform, black shorts and a gray t-shirt. They moved into their separate lanes, and stood in set position.

"Ready…GO!" Daichi yelled. They started running, side-by-side. Sora was so caught up in running faster than Daichi that she didn't notice a bright blue pillar of light appear in front of them.

"Stop!" Daichi yelled, grapping Sora.

"Wh-what is that?" Sora asked as the pillar light disappeared.

"Maybe you should say who is that…" Daichi trailed off. Where the blue light just was, stood a boy. Sora gasped. It was the same boy from her dream.

"No…not you…" Sora said, twisting her way out of Daichi's arms and backing away from the boy.

"You'd better believe it," the boy said harshly.

"Who are you?" Daichi asked boldly.

"What do you care?" said the boy. "But what the hell. M'name's Hadrin. I work for Zaibach."

"Go…go away!" Sora screamed.

"Oh? You don't like me?" Hadrin taunted, walking towards Sora. Daichi moved between them.

"What do you think you're doing?" Hadrin said cold-bloodedly. Hadrin got a grip on Daichi's arm and twisted hard, throwing him to the ground.

"Don't get in my way," Hadrin warned. Sora ran up into the bleachers, where her duffle bag sat.

"You think you can escape?" Hadrin said skeptically, running quickly up to where Sora stood, frozen. He leaped up and grabbed Sora, knocking her duffle bag to the ground below them. Another pillar engulfed them, picking up Hadrin, Sora, and her duffle bag.

"Sora…" Daichi called weakly from the ground.