Falling into Paradise
A/N: quick key, > > > > > can mean either change in perspective or change in scene, it should be pretty obvious which is which. >FLASH> indicates flashbacks and >END FLASH> is for the end of a flash back, though that should be fairly obvious as well, I just thought I'd mention it, even though there aren't any flash backs in this particular chapter.
Chapter 1
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The first thing Nagi noticed as he came out of a hazy sleep was the oddly comforting feeling of the warm sunshine caressing his pale cheeks, the second was a strange sound, a sort of clicking, like nothing he'd ever heard before, and the third was a strange weight on his chest, and a tickling feeling under his chin. Unwilling to fully awake from the peaceful haze of sleep just yet, he kept his eyes closed and tried to figure out where he was and how he'd gotten there. He didn't think to hard at the moment though, still feeling to peaceful, it had been the best sleep he'd had in years. Wherever he was, he was incredibly comfortable, and he wasn't willing to give it up, but eventually the strange clicking got annoyingly loud and the sleepy haze left his brain. So finally, he opened his eyes.
He was shocked at what he saw, he was in what appeared to be a forest of some kind, and he was leaning against some kind of strange tree, but the colors were all wrong for a forest. The leaves of the trees were varying shades of pinks, and purples, not the expected green, and the trunks were gray. He was suddenly very awake. Where was he? What had happened? The clicking he'd heard earlier changed in pitch and caught his attention, distracting him form the millions of questions raging in his mind. He looked into the gray and pink branches above his head and spotted and strange looking bird, it's beak and feet where a deep green, the color the plants should've been, and it's feathers looked to almost match Schu's red hair. This strange bird appeared to be the source of the strange clicking. He watched it in awe for a moment, having never seen such a strange creature before. It was odd, the tale feathers of the bird looked to big for it's tiny body, like the tale of a hawk on the body of a robin. The bird turned its head sideways and looked down at him, it's eyes were the same color as its beak and feet. The bird turned it's head again and looked down at him with the other eye, boy and bird studied one another for a moment, before the bird took flight, apparently it's tale was not to big, for it flew with perfect grace and speed, unhindered by the large tale feathers.
Once the bird was out of sight, Nagi returned to surveying his surroundings. He began to stand up to get a better look around when something moved on his chest, the something made a soft groan as it moved and the tickling thing under his chin tickled him even more. In his sudden surprise at his surroundings, Nagi had completely forgotten about the strange weight on his chest and the tickling feeling. He looked down to see what was on him and his eyes met another pair of lighter blue ones. He blinked and the lighter eyes mirrored his action. Suddenly it registered what exactly he was looking at and apparently it registered for the being with the lighter eyes as well because at the same moment they both screamed and jumped away from each other.
Nagi stumbled as he jumped back and ended up sitting on the ground legs spread slightly apart and arms supporting him in a rather undignified position. The blue eyed being was in a similar position except his weight was resting on his hands rather than his forearms and one leg was bent and tucked underneath him. They both stared at each other as Nagi realized what had just happened. The strange weight had been the Weiss boy's head and the tickling had been his soft blond hair. They had been all cuddled up like lovers under the strange looking tree.
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Omi stared in utter horror at the Schwarz boy who sat in front of him. What on earth had happened? How had they gotten into such a strange position? He then noticed their surroundings and the questions changed to ones more along the lines of: where the hell were they? And how did they get there? His thoughts were shortly interrupted as the Schwarz boy spoke.
"Weiss, what are you doing here? For that matter, where is here?" He asked with a glare.
"I could ask you the same questions," Omi replied, glaring right back. "This certainly seems like one of YOUR tricks Schwarz."
"Don't you blame this on me Weiss!" the Schwarz boy fumed as he got to his feet.
"Why shouldn't I Schwarz! You're the one who chased me to that damned weird ally." Omi huffed as he too got to his feet.
"I was following YOU Weiss! You're the one who lead me there!" the Schwarz boy countered pointing his finger at Omi accusingly.
"I was trying to get away from you! You didn't have to follow me!" Omi snapped back arms spread out to his sides.
"Of course I did! Its my job!" The Schwarz hissed, looking at Omi like he was a total moron. Omi just threw his hands up in the air in exasperation, turning away form the dark haired boy. He did have one other reason to blame it on the shorter boy, but not wanting to bring up that particular subject, still being unsure if it was real or a dream, he decided he'd rather not mention the kiss.
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Nagi too decided that the kiss could be left with out comment for the time being, figuring that blaming the situation on each other was doing nothing to get them out of it any way he changed the subject.
"Look, we need to figure out where we are, and this isn't helping, so lets just drop it." He suggested calmly.
"Fine by me." the Weiss boy replied as he looked around, taking in more of the surrounding scenery. After a moment he turned back to Nagi again, "Do you recognize anything here at all?"
"No," Nagi replied, his voice once again monotonous, as it should be. "I've never seen anything remotely like any of it."
The Weiss boy sighed as he looked around again. "So neither of us have a clue where we could possible be…" it was more of a statement then a question. Nagi nodded in response as the Weiss boy looked back at him again. "What do you say we call a temporary truce until we figure out more of what's going on? Or even till we figure out how to get home again?" the blond asked him.
Nagi raised a brow at this. A truce? That was an interesting thought. So very Weiss like, to be sure, but he supposed there wasn't much else he could do for now, and not having to worry about the annoying little Weiss stabbing him in the back when he wasn't looking would be nice. Schwarz may act all big and tough in front of Weiss but they all knew not to underestimate the little brats. They had proved more challenging then originally thought and that alone was a reason to be cautious. He finally nodded his head and held his hand out to the Weiss boy to shake.
"Agreed." he said as they shook hands.
"All right then." the Weiss boy said as he began to look around again, his eyes stopped their roaming as they came to rest on the tree the two of them had been sleeping under earlier. "You wanna go up in that tree and see if you can get a better look of this place?"
Nagi blinked in surprise, "You mean you don't want to see for yourself?"
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Omi silently cursed the other boy; no he did not want to go up in that big old tall very, very high up tree! Didn't he realize how big that tree was? But there was no way in hell he was going to let the Schwarz boy know he was afraid of heights. Truce or no truce, revealing one's fears to the enemy was just plain stupid, not to mention embarrassing. He needed an excuse and quick. 'Think Tsukiyono, think.'
"Well, it's just that those branches are to tall for either of us to reach and since I'm bigger I figured it would be easier for me to give you a boost then it would be for you to give me one." 'Lame!' he thought to himself, 'that has got to be the crapiest excuse I've ever come up with.'
The Schwarz boy raised a skeptical eyebrow. "Or I could just float you up there with my TK…" he replied his tone practically screaming "idiot!" though his voice remained soft.
"Or you could float yourself up there." Omi countered. Nagi's eyebrow rose a little higher.
"I could…" he trailed off, his tone now leaning more towards incredulous.
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What was with this guy? What was the big deal? It was a stupid tree.
'Well, whatever.' Nagi thought. "Why don't I just float both of us up there?" he asked.
"Whatever." the Weiss boy shrugged, but he seemed to be more concerned about being up in that tree then he was letting on. He held his arms around himself tightly, as if insecure, as Nagi floated the two of them up to one of the higher branches. Once they were up there he clutched the branch with a vice like grip, his knuckles going white almost instantly. Nagi watched all of this, unsure of what to think.
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The tree looked even higher from this angle. Omi took several very deep breaths as he clutched the tree. He could handle this, and he could do it with out letting the Schwarz boy know he was scared. He could, he had too.
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After a few more moments of watching the Weiss boy Nagi finally decided to simply ask what the problem was.
"What's wrong with you Weiss?"
"Nothing." the other snapped. He took a couple more deep breaths before sitting up straighter and looking around. Nagi's eyebrow once again found itself in an upright position before he simply shrugged it off and began too look around himself.
The view was amazing! They were on some sort of mountain and the tree they were in happened to be quite a bit taller then the others near by, giving them a clear view of every thing both up the mountain and down it. The whole mountain was covered in what he could only assume was plant life, but it was all in colors as strange as the ones of the tree they were standing in. Some of the trees were like the one they were in now; with pink and purple leaves others were more blue and purple, or more pink and red. The plants and shrubs were teal and blue and brown or any combination of the three, and the leaves were like nothing he'd ever seen before, the shapes were so strange. And there was what looked like a field about half way down the mountain, but the grass was an orange-red like bricks.
And there we other colors too, colors he didn't know what to call, he'd never seen anything like them before, colors he couldn't even begin to describe, for how do you describe a color? They were in everything, the trees the grass the bushes, and try as he might he couldn't describe them.
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Omi's fear of heights was completely forgotten as he gazed at the world around him. He couldn't believe what he was seeing. Everything was so different. He was shocked and amazed by how fantastic the world around him was. The indescribable colors, the pure energy that seemed to flow from everything. He looked up the mountain and he could see a waterfall and a river and a ways down from them there was a lake. And the water looked like gold, it was a shiny golden yellow. He couldn't help the gasp that was torn from his throat. The whole world seemed to have an ethereal beauty to it.
His eyes trailed upward from the water and another gasp escaped his lips. The sky was yellow. And not the yellow like it sometimes gets as the sunsets, but a bright, all encompassing, golden yellow, like the water but lacking the metallic shine. It covered the whole sky, as far as he could see. The more he stared at the yellow sky the more something seemed out of place, other then the fact that the sky was the wrong color that is. Suddenly it dawned on him and he stood up on the branch holding another above him to keep his balance as he looked around. But search the sky as he might, he couldn't see any of them, no moon, no stars, and no sun. Releasing his hold on the branch above him he slowly sat back down.
The initial shock was starting to wear off, and with it, the blanket of amazement that had covered him previously. They didn't know where they were. They didn't know how to get home. They didn't even know if they could get home. It was starting to hit him, how lost they were, how alone they were. He'd never felt so scared in his life and as the true weight of the situation began to rest on his shoulders he felt the prick of tears in the corners of his eyes.
Slowly he turned his head to face the only person he knew in this world, the only other person he was even sure existed here. The other boy looked back at Omi and he looked as lost and scared as Omi felt. Tears dotting his eyes and the expression of a lost child gracing his features, he looked as though he too had just realized the severity of their situation. As they both turned their heads back to gaze out over this new and strange world they had fallen into, Omi quietly voiced the question he knew plagued both their minds.
"What are we going to do?"
TBC
End chapter one
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A/N: So what do you think minna? I may not get the next update out for a while, it depends on how much time I have in the next little while. Well, we shall see. Review please I live for reviews! (What author doesn't?)