Chapter 12: "We didn't crash?"

I woke up to see Vash sitting on the floor laying against the wall, asleep. I sighed and stood up, shaking the blanket off of me and I sat next to him. He woke up and looked at me then smiled.

/Sorry about the kitchen./ I said realizing what I did.

"Don't worry about it," he replied and stood up. "Let's go find out where Matt is. I'm sure you could sense her."

She was kind of close but I wanted to try something. I grabbed Vash by the back of his cloak.

"What are you--"

I gave a soft, muffled roar and walked outside then tossed Vash on my back. I flared my wings and took a running start.

"What the hell are you doing!" Vash cried.

/Taking you flying/

He hesitated then wrapped his arms around my throat as we took to the air. "Just don't pull and aerial stunts or crap like that!"

/Okay. I'm sure we would crash anyways./

"I'm flying with a demon… who just became a dragon… and doesn't even know how to fly… Greeeeeaaat…"

/I know how to fly. It's landing that I can't do/

"You can't land? You do realize we're probably are going to die, right!"

/Hell yeah/ I smirked mentally.

"Just try not to crash!"

The flight itself was fun but I was sure after Vash calmed down he enjoyed it more.

Now came the hard part. Landing. I tried running to slow myself but almost tripped over my front legs and ending up in a break-neck roll. I took back up to the air.

"Try flapping your wings and pushing the wind forward to slowly lower yourself to the ground." I flew lower, threw my back legs out and tilted my wings forward slightly so it would push the wind forward. I closed my eyes and hoped it would work then felt my back legs touch the ground.

I folded my wings, my back legs supporting all my weight for a second while I lowered my front legs to the ground.

"We didn't crash?" Vash asked.

I grinned. /Nope. We landed and we're alive… unless we think we're alive and we're actually ghost or the living dead./

"Funny." Vash got off, testing his legs for a second. "Nope, my legs hurt too much for us to be dead."

I sniffed the air, ignoring the people staring. /She's in there./

"Okay." Vash saw Zollen and Zollen let him in but I was stuck… outside… because I couldn't fit through the damned door.