Ineluctable: looming, inevitable
Chapter 4
"Get off me!"
Yui shrieked as she kicked the snake, a part of it's long body nudged back. She was surprised by its heavy weight. Perhaps this was not the best way of addressing this.
It seemed unfazed by her actions, merely looking at her with it's strange coloured deep eyes. A small hiss sound escaped its lips.
She questioned the quiet stare, as it seemed merely amused by her.
With a swift movement the snake darted towards her again.
She screamed shrilly as she shielded herself in preparation for the feeling of fangs.
She opened her eyes to see that the snake had been thrown across from her, and was now seated against the tree across from her, rather limp.
She squirmed back, pressed to the tree she had been sitting against.
Did she do that?
She blinked and looked up again.
The snake was now a man. His forest green hair was pulled back into a small ponytail, and his hair was messily falling over his face, which was facing down from the blow.
His buttoned shirt was falling off a bit, and he wore an unbuttoned black vest over top.
His eyes looked up and met her with the same stare the snake had. Snide. Half lidded. Confident and even perhaps...playful?
"Ah, a Founder girl too...I forgot. I like a girl with a bit of spunk..." He smiled cockily, with a small wince.
"Get away!" Yui pressed herself knees to her chest, trying to retain the space between them.
"Fine, for now... but I won't promise to stay away. We can do it my way, or their way." He rose to the ground with a slight shrug.
She blinked. What did he mean? Who was he? Why was he so passive? Why wasn't he kidnapping her as the others had?
He stood up and jumped up moving up into the branches nimbly in one bound before disappearing into the night.
"Yui!" Ayato came over. "What happened?"
She stumbled. "I don't know..."
"Pancake what do you mean you don't know? Was it that snake? Where'd it go?"
"Oh dear don't tell me you've off and screwed up your good record? Out here? I suppose I should be thankful that you're not fighting another one of Yui's admirers or taking advantage of the vacant-" Reiji paced
"Reiji shut up." Ayato demanded.
Reiji assessed Yui's demeanor and adjusted his glasses. It was clear that truancy was not the only sin committed here. "What happened?"
"A snake demon. He just came here...and left." Yui stared at the tree.
"Well, what did he do?" Ayato asked. His hands were in fists, angry at himself. He left for food. Negligent? He longed to be care free as he had once been but knew he was being naïve. Care free he would never remain.
"Nothing...well...I threw him off me...kind of..." Yui wondered exactly what happened.
Ayato's brows rose, and Reiji's wide eyed gaze adjusted into a keen smile.
"Founders powers. Yui you do realize you have the heart of a women who by chance never quite enticed the capacity of her power as Founder don't you? In fact, I suspect she may not have known her mother well as she had died while Cordelia was young. Cordelia perhaps never had the knowledge of true power of that could have awakened in her. I suspect our father neglected to teach her as well, perhaps knowing she was fiery enough as it was. What exactly happened?"
"I kicked it away...and then I screamed when it came at me again and-"
"Scream? Did you perhaps cause any windows to break as you did before..."
"No...it just pushed him back against the tree...but-"
"Hmm...we'll have to see where this goes."
"What the hell did he say?" Ayato asked, his eyes wide with determination.
"He'd be back..." Yui wondered why. Besides the obvious he seemed more to be interested in flirting then taking her away like Osamu or the Neko-vampires had. "But-he didn't take me..."
"Then I'm going to be ready. That being said...I'm thinking we call off school until-"
"Now is that a truly tactical choice?" Reiji asked.
"Well Pancake?"
"Well...I thought I felt something slither over my foot near the girls bathroom..."
Reiji sighed. "Perverted snake demons? Well I must admit this is a different task from highly oversized Neko-vampire buffoons but ... I don't suppose one might agree to a temporary leave."
"On the other hand, we're going home." Ayato took her hand.
"Wait...one question...what did he appear to want?"
"My...attention...but he didn't kidnap me or anything...he said I could do this his way or their way..."
"Hmm...a rogue perhaps?" Reiji muttered.
Ayato pulled her along until they reached the limousine which appeared as if it had been waiting already.
"So we're leaving?" Laito asked.
"Truant as well?" Reiji raised a brow appearing behind Ayato and Yui.
"Does it matter?" Laito gave his sly smirk and sat in the limosine. It seemed the others were already present.
"Don't expect an excuse from me. The day is basically over anyway." Shu muttered with his earphones in.
"I won't. I suppose I can't complain that we are all the same page for once." Reiji gave up. "However I think we ought to discuss our options here..."
"What options?" Yui asked.
"You have some Snake Demon DNA in you, some founder and some human. And while founders are quite the empitome of all demon-hood, I don't doubt Burai gifted the damned Cordellia with a bit of him. If we are going to confront this head on we ought to consider our plan. I don't doubt being continuously taken off guard is something we want to uphold?"
"Was that a dig to your's truly?"
"No. But considering we have a rogue demon and we have not considered what his affinity is in terms of toxicity we ought to consider ourselves targets..."
"In English please?" Subaru scoffed.
"Venom. Not to mention their ability to sweet talk and entrance...or perhaps you forgot, we cannot kill them with our bite to run the risk of consuming their poison."
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