Chapter Twenty: A Winged Savior 一个被飞过的救星
I woke in a twilight world, flying in misty wisps of clouds, looking down on the bustling world below. What happened? Am I dead? Is this heaven?
I felt a light pressure around my waist. When I craned my neck forward to see what it was that was holding me I found that it was someone's arms! I thought in heaven you had your own wings…Who's holding me up, anyways? I rotated in the air to come face-to-face with Dark Aid.
"AAAAHHHH! Woah! What happened? Where am I?" I demanded.
Dark Aid grinned. "Don't worry. You will have all the answers in good time. Let me find a place to land." He gripped me tighter and plunged into a nose-dive.
"WOAH!" I screamed. I'm not used to flying like this!
We alighted on the roof of a tall building that towered over all others. I had been clinging onto Dark Aid for dear life during the air dive, and was still clutching onto him when we had safely landed.
"Ow! Retract your claws! That hurts!" he yowled as he pried my fingernails out of his back.
"Well maybe you should've told me that we were going to do a full-on nosedive!" I snapped back.
"Would you care to know how you ended up here?" Dark Aid said, trying to change the subject.
"…Yeah." I sighed, lowering myself down as I realized how weary I was.
"By the time that I had gotten a distress signal, I came in to find you in the clutches of that tengu. It appeared that you had already lost consciousness. I snuck up behind the beast and managed to stab it until you were released, but the tengu escaped. I took you with me, with hopes that you would awaken. I am glad that you are okay." Dark Aid said.
"Well…thanks for saving me…" I thanked him awkwardly.
"No problem. This will mean severe damage control, of course. I strongly suggest that you get home before Ryou gets worried." He suggested. I tried to stand, but my jelly-legs just wouldn't allow me to. I sat back down and curled into a ball on the ground.
"I should have known. You're too weak to fly. I guess we'll have to take the 'Dark Aid Express', then." He winked as he picked me up. I would have objected, but the weariness piled up on me in massive heaps and I found myself drifting to sleep again.
I woke up staring at my bubblegum-colored ceiling with a slight headache. I was out for a while…A slight chilling breeze rippled through the room, sending the shivers down my spine. I pushed myself up to close the window, where I assumed the breeze was coming from. Where else would it be, really? A dark figure loomed in the sill of the window against the dark of the sky behind it. I let out a gasp of surprise, somehow thinking it was the tengu.
The figure stood and walked towards me.
"Get away!" I screamed, swatting the figure away.
"Calm down, it's just me." I heard Dark Aid say as he placed his hands on my shoulders.
"Oh." I breathed a sigh of relief. He seemed fairly amused.
"Lie back down. I was just about to go anyways." He said, ushering me back to bed. As I clambered into the sheets Dark Aid stood at the sill, ready to spring into the night.
"Um, Wait! Please!" I begged, seizing his attention.
"Yes?" he asked as he hopped down from the sill and approached closer, seeming not to fully trust me.
"Could you…stay? I have a lot of questions I want to ask you." I told him as I pulled myself up.
"Such as…?" he inquired.
"Well, for starters, you could tell me your real name and where you're from."
He snorted. "I thought I already told you all of that?"
"Yeah, but I want the actual truth." I said with a determined tone. I was going to weasel everything I could out of him. He took a seat at the foot of my cupcake-like bed, sighing.
"The…truth?" he asked, not seeming to know the definition of 'truth'
"Yes, the truth would be nice." I crossed my arms.
"Right, right…" he muttered, running his fingers through his hair. This was the first time I had really seen him so flustered. He scooted to my side, regaining confidence.
"You want to know the truth?" he asked with a mysterious glint in his coal-black eyes as he leaned towards me, getting into the 'invading personal space' zone. Okay…he's getting creepy… He reached towards my hair, fingering the blonde and purple streaks.
"You're so beautiful, Komori. Why do you insist on doing all this to yourself?" he asked, taking a pitying tone. What the--!
He tilted closer. "So…beautiful…" he eyed my face, which was wearing a look of utmost repulsion.
"Woah! I just wanted to know your name!" I tried to push him away, but he still kept leaning. His face wasn't even an inch away from mine.
"Um, please! I have a bo--!" I started as I felt myself being pushed down. Oh my God! What do I do? What if he's one of those creepy rapists who stalk innocent girls or something? His lips pressed themselves onto mine; my eyes widened. GET OFF! GET OFF! GET OFF!
His kiss turned into quite a…passionate one: he forced his lips down even harder as he tilted his head, wrapping his arms tightly around my waist to prevent me from wiggling away. Please…Please stop! I haven't even gotten this far with Kiyoshi yet! Gross, gross, gross, gross…
I felt his lips let go of mine with a soft smacking sound as he lifted himself up.
I wiped my mouth furiously. "What's wrong with you? I have a boyfriend, you repulsive--!" I froze in midsentence to gaze at the boy looking down at me.
He had shocking electric green eyes now…and shiny raven hair that fell over his face.
