Title: Wingless Flight
Author: silrayn silverwolf
Disclaimers: Weiß Kreuz is owned by Project Weiß Kreuz and other associated legal parties. Koori no Mamono no Monogatari is owned by Sugiura Shiho and associated legal parties. This fic has been done without permission and without intent to profit.
Teaser: A remake of "Rapunzel" except the damsel is not distressed, the prince's attention wanders all over the map and the 'witch' is in deep denial... KnMnM's "Rapunzel" done with Crawford, Schuldig and Aya...some silliness and unoriginality but since I haven't posted CxA for so long I decided to make this... 1/4
Rating: PG13 for shounen ai and buckets of sexual innuendo
Warnings: potential character bashing and clichés.
WEIß KREUZ-KOORI NO MAMONO NO MONOGATARI
FANFICTION STORY
Endless blue...as if it goes on forever...
Aya looked out the window into the sky, wondering how it would feel to fly free in that wide expanse. All he knew of life was in the four walls of the tower. For as long as he had known, there was the gray tower walls and Crawford-san. Stern Crawford-san...he had been with Aya since he had been a toddler. The man had rescued him in the forest from demons when he was a tiny child. He had been with the man ever since. His memories of Crawford-san seem to stretch on to forever...
I'm glad to help him even in this small way...Aya caressed his long gleaming braid in remembrance; he had been six when Crawford had come into the tower injured.
"Crawford-san, you're bleeding!" Aya said quietly, as the mage came in the tower room from the stairs slightly wounded. He normally didn't bother busy Crawford-san with chatter since his guardian didn't appreciate being badgered after a hard day's work but this was different.
"This is nothing, Aya."
"It's from the nasty demons at the base of the tower, isn't it?" Aya asked, concerned. He got Crawford to sit down near the small washbasin that had a pipe went down into the forest with a bit of gentle maneuvering. He got a roll of bandages from a chest, a basin of water from the washstand and some soap.
"It's only a scratch. I can take care of myself, I've been doing the same thing even before you came into my life." Crawford shook his head at the offered aid.
"Aa." Aya said but he continued to pull up Crawford's sleeve. He gently sluiced water over the shallow cut, slowly massaging the area of the cut so to produce some lather. Crawford didn't even wince at the treatment. When the last traces of dirt and blood were clear from the skin, Aya wrapped the bandage gently around the arm.
"I wish you didn't have to go through those demons at the base of the tower..." Aya broke off as one red lock got blown into his mouth. His hair was half way down his back and getting too long for comfort, he'd have to cut it soon.
Wait that's it!
"Crawford-san, could you enspell my hair so that it can grow strong and long for you to climb on?" Aya asked, suppressing the excitement in his voice knowing that Crawford-san wouldn't appreciate being shouted at.
"Aa, but watch the bandages." Crawford winced.
"Ahhhh, sumimasen." Aya blushed. In his excitement, he had pulled the bandage a little too tightly. He let it go slack before tucking the edge into place.
And so he did...that's why I can't ever leave this tower...
Aya caressed the braid that he wore. The silken ladder had grown fast and thick. It took him a seven-day to comb it and braid it into the coil that Crawford used to get up the tower.
I am quite happy with Crawford-san is only that...There were just days that he'd wondered...
Squawk! Squawk!
Aya looked over the windowsill, his thoughts forgotten. A couple of birds were squabbling over a piece of leftover bread he had left there.
"Oi, there's more where that came from..."
He went to get more scraps to feed the greedy things, the thought was completely forgotten and so it would remain for many a long year, lying fallow and dormant. Like a seed of disquiet in the deep darkness of his mind, it would grow to haunt him later...
What would it be like to fly free like a bird...?
Author's Notes:
I'm still doing my other stories. I never abandon stories unless I abandon the fandom entirely and the only fandom I have abandoned is FoR (Flame of Recca). The next story to be updated will be "Finders Keepers" and "Violets Fade Quickly" will get that revised prologue. The second chapter of this is getting done as I type.