At first, it started with a small voice. So small it felt like a whisper. A breath under a gust of wind. A tiny lullaby compared to an opera song.
Then it soon grew. It got louder and louder. Like tiny bits of a baby's heartbeat to a raising thumping sound of a runner's racing heart.
Before she knew it. It grew dark. So dark she could no longer see the light.
Like falling down on an abyss. Slowly. Slowly. Slowy...No matter how much she claws her way out of the abyss, her hands couldn't grab anything. Like everything around her is nothing but thin air. She can hear it. A monstrous voice calling out her name. It was dark. Evil. Full of malice. It wants her. It wants her to fall down to the bottom of the abyss. She doesn't know what it wants from her or why it wants her. She began to muster all of her strength trying to grab every little light she could see. Even if she could see it barely throughout the stretch of the abyss. But it was useless, the light kept slipping away further and further as well as how the darkness has begun to take a shape rapidly grabbing her tiny body sinking it further into the abyss.
'No... Someone...' Words won't come out mouth instead of what little she could see, tiny bubbles have begun to float up infront of her.
Is she... Drowning? Her eyes widen at the realization and instantly she could lungs began to hurt in need of air.
She's drowning. Drowning at the bottom of an endless body of water. She could feel the coldness of the water through her clothes, the deathly chill of darkness, and the feeling of helplessness as the darkness kept sinking her down. She tried to claw away whatever it's grabbing her but it was no use. She can barely do anything as she felt growing weaker and weaker. Her mind is on disarray. She doesn't wish to die and even if she struggles, its hopeless.
'Ahhh...I see' she was starting to give up. 'So this is how I'm going to die.' She painfully accepted reality.
"Fufu... You really give up easily do you?" A voice eerily sounds just like her's whispered into her ear. " How pitiful but of course it's quite a shame to see you like this after seeing you work so hard to keep yourself afloat. "
She didn't retort, not like she can anyway. She let 'her' slowly slip her arms around her body and embraced her. She cannot see the shadow but from the corner of her eye, a face eerily looked familiar to her's was there. A girl with a much paler complexion than hers and cold emerald eyes. Her freckles the same position on her face. The only thing that was different was the color of her hair. It was white. Snow white. Long wavy white strands danced along the waves of the dark and somehow illuminated everything it touches. She's somewhat jealous. Her white hair looked somewhat tamer than her's and they looked pretty too.
"Do you want to live?" She asked. The girl behind her said into her ears. Her lips so close, she could feel them grazing against the skin of her ear.
'Yes.'
She felt the girl behind her grinned. She fingers began tracing her arm until they have reached her fingers. They clasped and in an instant, the girl behind her had managed to switch places. The girl was in front of her- no. 'She' is infront of her now. A carbon copy of her body, face, and voice. 'She brought them together in her embrace and placed her forehead to hers.
'"Izumi... Look into my eyes. " she focused her sight to 'hers'. " I am you. You are me. We are connected. We are one. Everything I have belongs to you and because of that, everything that you have belongs to *Me*. "
'She' then captured her lips and kissed her. It felt weird to see 'you' kissing you but none of that mattered anymore as she felt something changed in her. This girl is doing something to her. She didn't like it so she tried to push her away but no matter what, the 'girl' won't budge at all.
'No! Stay away!!' She cried and gathered her remaining strength to try to push the girl for one final time. 'She' let go and smiled wickedly. She watcher 'herself' spread her arms around the darkness and watched 'herself' be dragged into the abyss by some... Long terrifying arms.
"Izumi... " 'she' called her name and said something inaudible.
She watched her get dragged by long strips of black ribbons and engulfed her into the abyss. She tried to claw her form as if she was trying to save her when she stopped all of a sudden as she felt her heart beat faster.
Something evil is in there. It was maniac and vile. Whatever was in there began to terrify her. She watched the darkness began to take a shape into something that will forever be etched into her mind.
Two glowing red eyes stared back at her. Watching her descend up from the dark into the world of light. It observed her and slowly smiled at her as it sat comfortably in its throne. Its mouth began to move and said something.
She instantly felt chill and wanted no more than to disappear from where she is. Its voice kept continuing to call out her name. As if it was luring her to into the darkness.
'No! Don't call me by my name!! I don't know you!' She screamed through no voice came out from her mouth. She began to curl into a ball and clasped both of her ears as if she was attempting to stop the voice from reaching to her head.
'Stop! Stop! No more!!!!'Yet the voice kept continuing. 'I said stop!!!'
With one last final cry, Izumi was enveloped by a wave of light and before she knew it, everything began to hurt. Her body felt cold. Her stomach felt full though she knew full well she hadn't eaten for days. She began to cough out the water that entered her body. Her chest elevates every time it tries to take some air. Her eyes hurt from the exposure of the light coming from a light post not far away from where she was embraced by someone. When she finally came into her senses, it finally hit her. She was saved by a hero she never expected to see or be rescued by.
"Hey! You ok? Don't do that kid! Jumping from a bridge to end your life is not cool! Totally not cool at all!" The person vented out to her as if he was offended by what she did.
Izumi finally had a good look at her savior. Red wings. It was the first thing she saw. They spread around their figure shielding them from the cold air of the night. They circled around them protectively. She began to admire them and hope started to swell from the bottom of her dried out heart.
"Hmn?" Her savior raised his brow and looked curiously before suddenly started to panic as tears began to fall from the corners of her eyes and before she knew it, she sobbed and began wailing painfully along the night. She cried with full of fear and hopelessness. She felt grateful for the hero who saved her and felt ashamed for what she had done. She didn't deserve to be saved. Not at all.
The hero with wings watched her cry painfully in his arms. he internally began to panic as he is clueless as what he should do. It was by chance he saw her when she jumped down from a bridge into the river. He didn't think twice and immediately go in action to save her. It was a pain trying to find her petite form from the darkness of the night but Hawks was glad he was not too late to save her.
Slowly, he composed himself and brought his wings close to them. It was cold and their soaked forms are not helping at all to keep whatever warmth they have. Plus his clothes are not helping at all.
"Shhh... S'kay. I gotcha kid. I ain't going nowhere. " he told her trying to console the crying girl in his arms. He smiled as her reassuring her that she is safe. Slowly the girl began to reduce her wails to hiccups. She was still burying her face into her body trying to search for any warmth that his body could provide.
Hawks held her close. Trying to go make her feel comfortable at least before asking questions on why she did it. The kid probably ran away from home or something. The girl is probably not in good terms with her environment to push her into doing something suicidal. Unknowingly, his grip around her tightened a bit. If so, he should ask for the police for some help would be a good start.
When she finally stopped crying, Hawks immediately wanted to start asking her but decided to stop himself as the girl in his front has cried herself to sleep. She snuggled in his chest with tears streaked in her face with a peaceful face.
He was lost for words but let out a chuckle. He felt a little foolish but it was okay. After all, he'll take a cute girl crying in his arms to be comforted by him any day than fight boring villains doing normal crimes on the street.
Slowly, Hawks positioned the girl in his arms and carefully stands up. His wings carefully flapped the water on his feathers bringing out a gust of winds into their surrounding. He was ready to take off into the night and bring the girl to a nearby police station. But there was one thing that kept bugging his mind.
He is sure that the girl had dark-colored hair before she jumped off the bridge. If he was right, it looked almost dark green. Hawks looked down at the girl in his arms. He studied her characteristics and began to take notes for some changes he was able to remember and compared them to what is infront of him.
White silver long hair and deathly pale skin. He didn't know what color her eyes before but when he saw them the moment she opened her eyes, Hawks still felt awed on how pretty they looked. Beautiful emerald eyes shyly peaking into the night from her long white curls of eyelashes.
Cute. The same time strange. Hawks blinked and shrugged. They have to move or else both of them would catch a cold. His wings tilted downwards and with strong in-sync strong flaps, they were gone from the grassy side of the river heading straight into the night.