Crash
Chapter seven: Forgotten Truths
Crash! The water pressed against my body, chilling me to the bone, and making it impossible to breathe easily. I could faintly hear Shuichi and Jin yelling down at me about something of another that had to do with floating. I took it as, try to stay floating.
We had been walking for another week, and I soon started regretting my choice to come along. My feet hurt and I was hungry. Though I guess that was better then being at home with my father. At long last someone got a hint as to where the demons with Zaku and Riin were, so we were off to some castle that had been built in the side of a mountain, and all that stuff.
We had been on the trail for all of two days when we came to a large raging river in the middle of a very low and large valley, which was in the middle of two large Plateaus that were 11 feet above the river and the valley. Yeah, really confusing. It reminded me of one of those action movies where the hero was off to save a princess of something and he cuts down a tree and almost falls but in the end makes it across.
Well we did most of that, or at least the whole cutting down the tree part. Actually a couple of tree's and we put them all together to make a bridge. Yet halfway across I fell into the chilling waters, with my chest aching and a rock digging into my back. It was beautiful, the water. A stunning white that you could never seen at home. That was what I focused as, as I waited for what I hoped to be someone pulling me out of the water.
I drifted out of consciousness a couple of times. And at one point I could feel my knife digging into my foot painfully. It didn't take too long for someone to come to my rescue, though I don't think I was actually conscious to see it.
When I woke I was looking into the most beautiful blue eyes I had ever seen, and velvet soft hands were on my arm. I felt so dizzy, just looking into those eyes. After a while the guy stepped back, so I could actually see his whole body.
He was tall and had muscles padding his arms and legs, a soft face, with short black hair that fell into his eyes. I smiled a bit and tried to sit up, finding it extremely painful.
"Are you okay?" The guy asked in the dreamiest voice I had ever heard. I started to nod, then changed my mind and shook my head. He laughed cutely and leaned down next to me. "You're lucky; you don't have any broken bones, just a lot of bruises and blood. I think most of the blood is from your foot though." He said. I looked down at my legs and feet. My boots were beside me with the knife next to them, and there was a large cut right down my ankle. The pants had been ruined, and I was guessing that my shirt was too, but at that moment I was tired and dizzy.
"You're not a demon, are you?" He asked after a while of silence. I shook my head. He nodded, and I noticed that he had pointed brown ears and a big fluffy brown tail. It was quite cute, actually. No he was quite cute. Not that I was actually looking for someone. Or at least that's what I kept telling myself. It was weird because I knew that I wasn't dizzy from the fall, or the river, but by his touch and his eyes. I felt like I was melting right under the guy. And the whole feeling was broken when Shuichi and the others walked up, ready to kill the guy.
He put up his hands palms forward. "I'm not going to hurt her." I could tell Shuichi didn't trust the guy, and I didn't know why not, but he stood down anyway and leaned down next to him. "Are you Okay Cris?" he asked.
I nodded. "Yeah, I'm just . . . tired." I said, finding it easier to tell Shuichi that I was okay, even though I wasn't, then telling the guy that saved me that I was okay. "Um, thanks for saving me." I looked up at him. The man nodded. "Cris, I like the name." He smiled and I sighed inwardly.
"What's your name?" Touya asked, looking at the guy suspiciously.
"Alex." The guy said, looking at Touya. I smiled a bit, even his name was hot. "Um, as much as I like lying her doing nothing, it's really cold and hard." I said, breaking through the glare contest between Touya and Alex. Shuichi nodded and picked me up.
"I can take you all to my kingdom. It's just up a ways, not to far. And you can stay there for a couple of nights." Alex smiled. Shuichi shrugged and looked at the rest of the group.
"Sure. Lead the way." Shuichi smiled a smile that looked really fake to me. For the rest of the journey I slept.
When I woke up I was in a bed. It was large and fluffy, and I sunk into it like a rock in the middle of a pile of feathers. The blankets were large and rich jeweled colors. And the pillows were just as beautiful. It took me a while to actually get up, not because of my wounds, which were gone at that point, but because I was a rock in a pile of feathers. Once I did get up and see the room I was in I couldn't help but to fall back down again. Which just took me back to the struggle of getting up again. Again I got up and looked around the room. The Walled were painted a beautiful blue, with fluffy white clouds on them. The trim on the bottom was very gold, and the carpet was very light green. There Was an alcove by a giant window at the side, a wardrobe, and a huge mirror that was painted teal, (my favorite color) and in the alcove there was a bookcase. The fireplace that was on the other side of the room was the view place of a small little front room like thing, where there was a couch, a chair, a chaise, and a little coffee table.
"You're up. Are all the wounds healed? I tried my best to get them all while you were asleep." Touya said standing up from the chair. I nodded and smiled at him, lying back down and patting the part of the bed next to me so he would sit there. Touya did so, and he looked at him. "Are you sure?"
"Yes, thank you. I feel a lot better." I laughed a bit and rolled over on my side, propping myself up with my elbow. "The room is so beautiful. Don't you think?" Touya laughed. "Yes, it is. We told him that you needed the best, and this is the best."
"Well then, I will thank you." I took Touya's hand and squeezed it. "Thank you from being my friend." Touya shook his head and gave me a look saying that I shouldn't be thanking him. "Where are all of you staying?"
"The two rooms across from this one." Touya was looking at me really intensely.
"Two rooms for all of you. Why not this room, I can't be here all alone." I sighed.
Touya shook his head. "No one would accept of that. We're okay. And you were perfectly fine last night."
"Last night!" I Sat up. "You mean I slept for a whole day!" Touya nodded. "But I wanted to talk to Alex."
"You can still talk to him. He's the prince, he's not going anywhere." Touya said with distaste that he didn't try to hide.
"He's a prince?" I asked, ignoring his hatred. "That's so cool!" Touya laughed. "You're too energetic, it's nice." He looked out the window. "It reminds me of someone I used to know."
"Thank you." I sat up cross legged and looked at him. "Did I really sleep for that long?" Touya nodded. "I was here the whole time."
"So I wasn't alone. Ha."
"Ha to what?"
"I don't know I just wanted to say ha." I laughed and stood up, then looked down at the beautiful purple nightgown I was wearing. It was slightly see-through, and I blushed, but still managed to twirl. "Who put this on me?"
"The maids, I hope." Touya said, also standing up. "It looks good." I curtsied.
"So now do they having a little more . . . modest." I said more to myself, looking through the wardrobe that held a million dresses and skirts.
"You know nothing of Makai do you? They don't know the word modest here." Touya walked to the door and opened it, about to stop out. "Wait! You don't really expect me to find my way around the castle do you?" I asked pathetically.
"I'll be waiting outside." Touya said, walking out and shutting the door. I stuck my tongue out after him and continued to look through the wardrobe until something on the bedside table caught my eye. Slowly I turned and picked it up. My knife. It had been cleaned and was even more alluring then before.
"Why do you always came back?" I asked it quietly, putting the shining blade on my arm and making a small cut there, the feeling of numb pleasure rushing through my body. I put the knife down again and then went back to the clothes, picking out a long cream dress that wasn't low cut, or strapless. I felt . . . simple, which was how I liked it.
"There. How do you like it?" I asked, walking out and twirling for Touya. "I feel like I'm back to normal, other then that fact that I would never wear a dress."
"And you seem more confident." He took my hand and started to walk me away from the room, his thumb rubbing up and down the new cut, and yet he didn't say anything about it. And I let him do it. Soon Touya had led me to a great crimson and red elegant bedroom. There Alex sat in front of a piano, looking like he had just finished playing a song. When he saw us he stood up and bowed. I curtsied, just because it seemed like the right thing to do.
"I'll let you two talk." Touya said the word talk like poison. Yet again I ignored it, and hugged him, then walked over to the piano while Touya walked out.
"May I hear you?" I asked, sitting on the side of the piano bench. Alex nodded and sat down, he started to play, a song I had never heard before, yet, as with everything about him, it was beautiful and made me feel so dizzy.
"I love the castle. It's beautiful." I said, once Alex was done playing.
"Thank you. I've lived here all my life, I grown so accustom to it I never really think of the place as being beautiful." He turned to look at me. "You dress so simply and yet you are so beautiful. That's how I could tell you weren't from Makai. Demon girls wear clothes that make their beauty flaunt."
"Thank you." I blushed and looked down. I knew that he was just flattering me, I wasn't beautiful, I was dull and simply, but it was nice to be flattered some times.
"Oh yes! Tonight my kingdom is having a Masquerade here. You and your friends must come! It will be so much fun." Alex's face lit up. I shrugged. "I've never been to a masquerade. But I've always wanted it."
"Then come, come and we'll dance, and I'll let you try all of the best foods! I can have my tailors come and fit you up for a costume if you like. You will be the belle of the ball, if you don't mind me using that human turn."
I sighed and closed my eyes, imagining myself in a big puffy yellow dress, like Belle wore in Beauty and Beast. It made me laugh, and when I opened my eyes Alex was looking at me as if I'd gone inside. "Okay, it will be fun."
"Good. I'll have my tailors come and fit your and your friends for costumes; you can all choose what one's you'd like."
"Guess what?" I burst into the boys' room and looked at all of them with a smile. They were all gather, talking about something or another, and when I came in each one looked up, one at a time, and kept their eyes on me waiting. "We're going to a masquerade tonight!"
"I'll pass." Hiei said. I sighed and rolled my eyes. "Hiei you have to come, it will be so much fun, and I'll have no fun if any one of you stays here." I pouted. Hiei 'Hned, which to me meant yes.
"That will be fun." Shuichi said, standing up.
"YAY!" I hugged him. "Thank you Shuichi. I'm so happy, I've never ever never ever ever ever never have been to a party before, save lame birthday parties."
Shuichi laughed at this and hugged me back. "It will be a way for us all to take a break and get away from our mission for a while." He turned to look at the others and they nodded in agreement.
I felt so joyous, it was just everything building up upon itself; the adventure, the cutting, the Prince, the party. I was so happy, the happiest I'd ever been since my father died.
When the tailors came I was sitting in my room looking the mirror, pretending to be Cinderella, which was the only Disney princess I could think of that didn't have a dress that made me want to laugh. They knock on the door and without waiting for an answer walked in. I watched them for the beginning of it. Laying out their materials, and millions of beautiful cloths on my bed. They measured me, examined me, walking around me in circles like sharks, and then finally stopped and pointing to the bed, the leader said in a law disgruntled voice. "Pick two fabrics, three if you like, but no less then two."
I nodded and looked at all the materials, too happy to let the malicious knife take me over at that moment. The rest of those hours went by like a dream. I watching as they made a dress, fit me into it, made a mask, putting my hair up, put my make-up on, do my nails, give me shoes and Jewelry. I was a princess. And I loved it. My mind forgot all about Riin and Zaku and I concentrated on these moments of happiness.
When all of it was done, and I was standing in front of my mirror, all alone in my bed room my breath was taken away. It wasn't only like a dream, but a romance. I looked so elegant, like I had never looked before. I absolutely loved it.
The dress was a cascade of skirts, with a slit up the side, each on shorter and lighter then the one before. It started with a drag-on-the-floor length crimson, and went up until it was purely white. The top was a very tight fitting corset, which I could easily breathe in, and it stopped very low, with pink ruffles of lace covering what the top didn't. The Sleeves were off the shoulder and actually not at all attached to the dress, but they fell to about my knees, in a V-shape so my hands could actually get out and were made of velvet crimson. I wore glittered cream ballet slippers, and my hair had been crimped and put into a loose bun with stands falling out gracefully, framing my make-up-ed face. As a touch I had white crimson tipped wings, that would actually move as I wanted them too, and my mask was feathered the same way and it glittered, fitting perfectly to my face.
I had taken off the mask; since I was told the masquerade did not start for another two hours, and so I lay on my bed, staring at the ceiling think to myself.
"Are you sure you've never been to a masquerade?" Shuichi asked, standing at the door way watching me. I sat up, startled as I hadn't heard the door open. "You look beautiful." He added.
"Thank you, you look handsome." I said, curtsying. Shuichi was dressed as an Elvin warrior, or something of the likes. He wore black pants with three belts, one actually around the belt lopes and the other two just there. His shoes were completely covered by the pants, yet they weren't long enough that he would trip. His shirt was a button up collared white one, with the buttons only buttons a little less then half the way down his chest and a black cloak to cover it all. In his hand he held a half white, half black mask made of feathers.
He laughed and bowed. "I feel silly. But I can tell that you are happy, and this will be good for us."
"How do the other's look?" I asked with a child like curiosity.
"They look good I suppose." Suichi shrugged and laughed at me. "And I'm just here to make sure you're okay. So I'll see you at the party." He smiled and walked out, shutting the door behind him. I smiled and fell back into my bed.
"One night of freedom." I murmured with a smile.
An: That was dull. . . . um sorry. There was too much dialogue and description. Personally I love describing things especially clothes and rooms! (And I am insane, sorry) Okay, here's the deal. I'm not that type of person that likes writing slow romance. I love reading it, but I hate writing it, since my life has very very slow romance. What's up with the guys now a day, they're all like, "Oh I like that one girl but I'll never ask her out." Um, and out of my pointless rant, so I'm putting in a romance of a sort. Or course I have no clue who Cris is going to end up with. I think I've narrowed it down to Touya and Kurama, but by the next chapter I might change that again. This is annoying. But whatever. So Please review I love reviews, they make me happy.
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