Thank you for being honest about the last chapter. I'm kind of losing my interest in this story. I have a lot of ideas for this, but then I think it's going over the line from my last story, and I don't want that to happen. I'll continue with my story if you really like it.
Must Read: To be honest this chapter was originally going to be about them going to San Francisco, but then I couldn't think of it at the moment. So I skipped that one and made up another one. There's still going to be a San Francisco trip, but then that's going to be later on in the story. Alright then, I'll continue.
Chapter 8: The Third Bird
Kazuko was walking down a gravel path with a line of trees to the right and a grass area going downwards on the left. She looked at her surroundings. On the branch, she saw a crow and it was looking around.
"It begins soon enough," said a voice. Kazuko looked around but she couldn't find who said that, "They will meet once again and the fire will win over…"
The voice was fading and Kazuko couldn't hear the last few words it was saying. She saw a dove fly by and the voice kept on talking. Kazuko tried to find the source, but to no avail. Se ran across the path, and it didn't look like that path had an end. When she stopped, the voice said,
" You cannot change this…Kazuko…" the rest of the sentence was too faint to hear.
"Who are you!" Kazuko yelled out.
"One event will trigger, and another event will come one after another," said the voice, as it wasn't listening to Kazuko.
Kazuko couldn't find the voice, but she saw another bird, the third bird that she's been trying to remember. It was a cardinal, and when it was flying, it looked at Kazuko and then looked forward again.
Kazuko woke up to see that the sun just raised from the mountains. She looked at the clock and it said it just became 6:25.
"I need to tell Satoshi about this," Kazuko thought.
She got up from her bed and got her cell phone from her bag (Genjo got it for her before she went on the trip.) and called Satoshi's cell phone.
"Hello?" Satoshi said in his sleepy voice.
"Satoshi, can I talk to you outside?"
"Why not tell me right now?"
"Because, I don't want Riku to wake up and listen to what I'm saying."
"…Fine, I'll meet you in the lobby in ten minutes."
"Alright, see you then."
Kazuko hung up and started changing, she went down to the lobby and Satoshi came down a couple minutes later. She stood up and looked at him.
"Hey, let's take a walk outside."
"It's 6:30."
"I know it's morning, but it's peaceful outside."
Satoshi shrugged his shoulders and they walked outside and down the street.
"So what is it that you want to talk about?"
"I've finally found out that third bird…but there's something else that's puzzling me. It sucks because every time I have that dream, there's always something new in it."
"Well then, what is the third bird and what was that 'new' something?"
"The last bird was a…a…cardinal…and there was a voice…saying something is going to happen soon."
"Hm…"
"Well, did you ever figure it out?"
"I might soon, but I don't know when."
"Um…didn't you say that you almost had it before?"
"Well, yeah I did, but that one thing changes everything."
"How so?"
"At first, I thought that the dream had to do something about the weather meaning that we were going to have bad weather soon…but then I changed my mind to something else…which I'm not telling you yet."
"Yeah, but remember one thing…I'm not a forecaster."
Satoshi laughed and looked at Kazuko, "I guess that's right. I need to think about it again."
"Well then, that's all I wanted to tell you. I should better go now before Riku wakes up and wonders where I am."
"We should both go back…I'll see you later."
They went back to their rooms and Riku and Daisuke were still asleep. Kazuko went back to sleep and woke up again when Riku pulled off Kazuko's blanket from her reach.
"Hey sleepy head, we have a class meeting in ten minutes."
Kazuko looked sleepily at Riku and pulled back the covers and over her head, "I don't want to go. I still wanna sleep."
"C'mon, this is mandatory!" Riku yelled again pulling the sheets, but this time, off the bed so Kazuko couldn't get a hold of it again, "I can tell that you were out earlier this morning. You're not wearing your pajamas! So come on!"
"Well just because I was up earlier doesn't mean that I wasn't tired then."
"Just hurry up or else I'll just tell the teacher that you weren't here because you were out walking the streets and going over your old friends' houses at 2 in the morning."
"You know that that's not true."
"Yeah, but the teacher doesn't."
Kazuko sighed and slowly got up, "…Fine, blackmailer."
They went downstairs and while they were in the elevator, Kazuko was about to go to sleep again leaning on the wall. Riku slapped Kazuko in the back of the head, and Kazuko hastily woke up.
"What the hell was that for!" Kazuko yelled.
"You went back to sleep. I didn't want you to sleep in an elevator."
Kazuko glared at Riku, "No…you just felt like hitting me."
Riku sighed as if she wasn't going to listen to Kazuko any more. The elevator door opened and most of their classmates were already there, including Satoshi and Daisuke.
"Class, we will be in the hotel for one more night. After that, we'll move to a cabin that is close to the mountain paths. So, do whatever you were doing yesterday and finish it today, then we were leave at 12 'o' clock tomorrow."
"Yes, sir," the class said.
"Class dismissed."
Some of the class went outside and Kazuko was yawning and she slouched down in one of the lobby's couches.
"Still sleepy?" asked Satoshi who sat next to her.
"Yeah…I want to sleep all day," she said leaning against his side, "Well have you figured it out yet?"
"…No, not yet, but then we'll find out soon enough if I can't figure it out then."
They hardly did anything that day and on the next day, they took the bus to the bottom of the mountain. There were a few cabins and each cabin could fit eight people. The teacher told them to pick the seven that they wanted to share the cabin with. Naturally, one of the cabins included: Daisuke, Satoshi, Takeshi, Masahiro, Riku, Kazuko, Risa, and Ritsuko. They boys had one side while the girls had the other.
"Well, let's take a hike," Riku said.
"I don't feel like taking a hike right now. Maybe tomorrow," Kazuko said.
"That's the kind of response that I would hear from Risa, now hurry up you lazy person!" Riku glared.
"Hey Riku, I'm right here!" Risa said, "Besides, I feel like hiking today."
Riku looked at Risa, shrugged her shoulders and then glared back at Kazuko.
Kazuko glared right back at Riku, "Fine then…we'll go today, but not right now. If some of you want, you can go right now, but don't go alone, you don't know what's gonna happen if you go by yourself."
"Alright then, some of us will go ahead," Ritsuko said, "C'mon Risa, let's go!"
"Um…alright," Risa replied.
"Well if you're going Masahiro, then I'm staying here with Kazuko," Takeshi said.
"I think it's best if you two come with us," Ritsuko said pulling on Takeshi's arm, "We can go in a group of four since there are eight of us in the cabin."
"No! Wait, No!" Takeshi was screaming as Ritsuko and Masahiro were pulling on him. Risa was following them from behind.
"So Kazuko, why did you want to wait to go?" Daisuke asked.
"Well, I think it would be hard if we all went up at the same time. All of us couldn't see the view and things like that."
"I guess so."
After half an hour, they changed into hiking clothes and they started walking out of their cabin.
"Satoshi aren't you coming with us?" Kazuko asked as they opened the door.
"I don't feel like hiking."
"Oh come on…come with us. There's nothing to do if you stay in the cabin all day."
Satohi stood up and put on his shoes, "…Fine."
"Good, now let's go."
They went to the pathway a distance away from the cabin. While they were walking up, they saw the rest of their friends on another cliff next to them. As they started walking, they were looking at the forests below them and the cities far away.
"Wow, this is great," Riku said.
"I know…let's go on, there are more spots like these later on," Kazuko said.
Riku and Daisuke were walking ahead of Kazuko and Satoshi. Satoshi looked at Kazuko and it looked like she had trouble breathing.
"Kazuko, you don't look too good. Why don't we go back down and rest?"
Daisuke and Riku turned back.
"You've been sleeping more than us and you're tired already?" Riku asked.
"I'm…fine…the altitude is making it hard to breathe, but this always happens when I was hiking with Genjo…but not this bad."
"You're not fine then. Let's go back down, Kazuko."
"No really guys…this happens all-"
Kazuko fainted before she could finish her sentence. She fell to the ground and she started sliding off the cliff. Satoshi tried to grab her arms before she fell, but he failed to reach her. Riku grabbed her arms, but Kazuko was pulling Riku down. Riku fell off too and Daisuke jumped off the catch both of them. Riku's body hit a rock during the fall a little hard and she became unconscious.
Daisuke transformed into Dark and caught Kazuko and Riku and flew back to the path they were walking on. Unfortunately, when Dark went to the pathway, he didn't see Satoshi, Dark saw Krad standing there.
"Hello Dark," Krad said.
"Krad…why are you here."
"I just thought of seeing you again. After all, we are old friends."
"That's not true."
"Prepare yourself, Dark."
Kazuko started opening her eyes when she heard Dark's name. She looked up and saw that Dark and Krad were battling.
"…Dark," she said getting up.
"Stay away, Kazuko. You might get hurt."
"I'm already hurt…but that's my decision if I want to help you or not."
"No, you're going to stay there. This is between me and Krad!" he said turning towards her.
"Dark look out!"
Krad used his magic and was going to hit Dark, but then Kazuko went in front of Dark and was hit by the magic instead. She stumbled onto Dark and Dark caught her.
"Kazuko, are you alright?"
"I'm fine…I said that I wanted to help you."
The magic burned the back of Kazuko's shirt. Luckily, Kazuko had an undershirt on that was a little thicker than the shirt that burned. Krad was going to hit Dark again, but Kazuko got in his way again. She stumbled and knelt on the ground.
"Persistent woman. You'll regret for getting in the way. Now die," Krad said shooting his magic again
Dark went in the way and used his magic back at Krad, but Krad used some more of his magic and it hit Dark.
"Dark!" Kazuko yelled.
"I'm fine…you should worry about yourself, Kazuko."
Kazuko struggled to get up and she yelled,
"Satoshi! Satoshi why don't you transform back?"
"Hmph, Satoshi-sama can't hear you. This body will be mine soon. This has no concern for you woman."
"…Yes…yes this does concern me, Krad. Dark and Daisuke are my friends and I love Satoshi. You're trying to take them away from me…you're taking everything away!" Kazuko yelled clenching her fists.
She ran up to Krad and tried to punch him, but Krad evaded and punched Kazuko to the mountain.
"I remember you now. You were that woman from two years ago. I was wrong about you then, you don't have any magical properties."
"So what…I don't care about that, all I care about now is to get Satoshi back and you not killing Dark or Daisuke!"
"I told you, you're never going to see Satoshi-sama again…"
"…I will see him again!"
Kazuko started getting mad. The madder she got, the more she was hurting in the back of her left shoulder. Her marking was gone, but she could still feel the pain it brought her when she was mad.
"Kazuko!" Dark yelled.
Suddenly, a pair of red wings sprouted from her back, and the red wings wrapped around Kazuko. After a while, the wings reopened and there was a woman with Dark Red clothing. She had brown hair that went down to her knees. Her eyes were dark brown and she had a serious look on her face. She took out a feather from behind the shawl she was wearing around her waist.
"Who…is this…" Dark thought.
"It seems that you proved me wrong…who might you be, red angel?"
"My name is Neda. You…you hurt my tamer…and now you're going to pay for it."
End of Chapter: 8
I hope this makes up the previous dull chapter. If not, then I'll try to make it up with the next one. If this suits your interest, I've posted up a link to a picture of Neda that I drew on my bio page.