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Star of Absolution- Chapter 2- Stars and Samurai

Later that day, I waited outside in the parking lot of the bank, watching the twilight descend upon the horizon, wondering how long it would take to do whatever mom was doing. I pulled up my brother page on my transer (registered to the Green Dragon satellite, since I was forbidden to upgrade to a star carrier) and looked woefully at the empty list of brothers that any normal person would have at least half full. I pulled up my agenda, looking at what plans that mom and dad had in store for me for the week. I sighed to nobody in particular, closing the transer as soon as I saw everything scheduled for me, wishing that for once, I could have at least a shred of a real life. Mom soon came outside again, telling me that she was done, and we headed home.

After returning home, my father told me that he would like that I walk to and from school due to the tutorials and occasional charity work that I was now scheduled to attend after school. Later still, as soon as my parents were both convinced that I was in bed, I grabbed my i-dream (the famous mp3-pillow combo), and opened my window that led to the flat roof, quickly clambering up, landing softly on the padded roof. I plugged my wireless headphones in, turned on some music, and posed once, one leg up in the air, dancing around quietly, spinning and twirling, laughing softly to myself. This was one thing that nobody could ever take from me, and I was more than glad about that, for it was whenever I was dancing under the stars, nothing to hinder me, nobody to hold me back, when I felt truly free…

I hadn't been dancing long before I heard a bit of a whistling sound over my music, as if something was falling out of the sky, and as I turned my head skywards, a massive beam of soft blue light enveloped me within it…

The next thing I knew, I was lying down in this swirling, echoing, multicolored void, and after a moment's panic, I discovered that I could float around, noticing something floating nearby. I came closer, and when I did, I discovered it was… an alien. Just like the one that the Geo Stelar kid has with him all the time, it's body was made of glowing denpa, this one colored a deep blue, and her armor designed to look like samurai clothes, only sky-blue and slightly more flexible-looking than the armor of Geo's alien. She was laying sprawled out on the 'ground', on her back, a slim, clawed hand clutching her other arm, her face gentle and almost… childlike, soft, graceful, and feminine-looking. Her head had no armor on it, actually, she had nothing on her head at all, besides a thin black headband that was knotted at the side of her head, two long ends coming down past her shoulders, as if the headband itself was too big for her, and her denpa came down out the back of it, splaying outwards like odd hair. Her closed eyes seemed tense, and by the expression on her face, she was in pain. I was afraid, but seeing that she was hurt made me get up the courage to take a closer look, so I came over, kneeling beside her and asking,

"Hey… are you alright?" She opened her eyes tentatively, long black lashes framing her almost glowing emerald eyes, gripping her arm tighter, her jaw set, turning her head away from me, seemingly trying not to show her pain now that she knew someone else was here. I knew the act all too well, and I knew just how I could convince her to let me help…"Alright, if you don't want any help, I guess I'll just be…"

"…wait."

I grinned inwardly; coming closer, and surprisingly, I discovered that I could touch her, though she didn't seem to notice. Carefully lifting her hand off of her arm, I noticed a deep slash in her armor, something like pixels, or glowing bits of data broken off the edges like blood. I winced slightly at the sight, before taking out my black bandanna, asking,"How did this happen?" She only turned her emerald eyes to me, sighing before answering,

"…Let's just say… I ran into a little trouble getting here, and I found myself on the business end of a giant lightning bolt. Good thing it just grazed me a bit, if it were any worse, I wouldn't have been able to defend myself, much less get away." She looked at me preparing to wrap her arm up with my bandanna, and told me, "Uhhh, thanks, but if you don't know, I'm kind of a denpa creature, I can't even touch you, let alone…" her face became one of silent shock and confusion as she watched me; smiling, take her arm in my hand, and wrap up the wound in my bandanna. She looked me in the eyes, amazement gracing her features, before she switched frequencies, disappearing in a flash of light once again, and I blacked out…

When I awoke, things weren't very clear, I was in bed, in my room, my transer was still on my arm, and I was alone. After making sure that my crystal was still around my neck, I turned around, facing the wall next to my bed, looking out my open window as the silver moonlight made my pale skin almost shimmer, as it always did, musing silently to myself about what had just happened.

"Had it all just been a dream?" I've had some weird dreams, crazy-vivid, how-was-that-not-real nightmares, and something that was somewhere in between, but if it was… "That tops them all..."

"Who says it was just a dream?"

The calm voice that snapped me out of my musings was just to the side of me, and I slowly turned my head towards it, my own violet eyes locking with very familiar, large emerald ones, and I let out a small, short scream-yelp, falling out of my bed as I did.

"Hey! Cool it! Do you want to wake everyone up?!"

I looked over to her after hearing her sharp, clear, but still calm voice, which seemed to have a hint of something vaguely familiar about it, but I shook it off at the moment while I slowly stood, inspecting her. My bandanna was in my face, tied onto an arm, that had blue, samurai-style armor on it, confirming my suspicions, and I let my eyes follow up the arm it was tied to, all the way up to those kind, neon-emerald eyes that I knew I had seen what felt like a only a few moments ago. I was barely breathing, mere inches away from a denpa creature, staring in amazement and silence, until…

"Um… human? I think your kind sort of has to breathe to live; besides, I'll look the same no matter how long you stare at me." I snapped myself out of my reverie, but it still felt so… unreal, here she was, and I was able to see her and touch her and everything, even though she was a denpa creature... and just that defied all I had been taught about denpa.

"Well, I don't think we've properly introduced ourselves yet, I'm Aurora Beta Xaimei, but personally, I think it's a bit long, so just call me Aurora. I don't know how to explain this, but your frequency matches mine. We are... linked, in a way."

As my mind tried to register how all of this was happening, I decided she seemed harmless enough, so I hesitantly answered, "Aurora…well, mine's Nairi, Nairi Maye. How am I able to see you?" She took my now-brilliantly glowing crystal in her hand, eyeing it carefully before asking,

"Where did you get this?"

"My grandmother gave it to me a few years back. She says that everyone who wore it before her would see strange things while they did... and so do I."

Suddenly, this seemed to make something deep inside of Aurora's mind click, holding it up as she explained,

"Well no wonder! This crystal is from my home world; they help our doctors to see the very structures and frequencies of denpa beings. This one, however, seems to have lost quite a bit of it's energy, so it must have been away from FM for quite a while, so you can only see and touch beings such as myself." The crystal was now glowing even brighter in it's odd, otherworldly way as she held it and I realized,

"I've never seen it glow like that before..." Aurora allowed it to fall back in place on it's cord before asking,

"I guess my energy charged it a bit... it glows around denpa, doesn't it?" I only nodded, still a bit lost within the depths of my mind, until another question suddenly hit me.

"Aurora, how many other denpa creatures are here? I've only seen one other personally, but I doubt that he's the only one, so…"

"Wait. There's someone else here on Earth?! You've seen them?!" She was barely inches from my face, and after recovering from the sudden close-up, I began to describe Geo's alien. As I did, her face lit up, and she seemed to zone out, as if slipping into a daydream, or remembering something pleasant from long ago.

"…And that's what he looks like, if it helps, the kid he's always with is named Geo Stelar. Still, why do you want to know so badly? Do you know him or something?"

"For such an intelligent race, you sure ask a lot of questions."

"What's that supposed to mean?"

"Nothing harsh, just curious, this is the first time I've spoken to a human, and it's my first night on Earth."

"It's not just that. You want something else; I can tell… please, if what you want is to stay here with me, all I have to ask for is honesty. I don't like being kept in the dark about anything, alright?"

"…Alright hu-… Nairi, just remember one thing, though; sometimes, knowing things can get you hurt, in trouble, even killed, so I advise you to just be careful, alright? If you can do that, I'll tell you anything and everything about me, in due time."

"Please, tell me then… what is it about this alien of Geo's that has any link to you?" She looked up into the window, with almost the same spaced-out expression that I myself wore whenever thinking about something, and I think I even saw something like a blush creep across her face before closing her eyes, head lowered and answering,

"…Sorry, I'm really tired."

"Aurora…"

"I just hauled my denpa tail from the edge of this solar system all the way here in under 3 hours, I need to rest, I'll tell you in the morning or something."

With that, she vanished into my transer, I took it off, leaving it open, not being able to keep my eyes off the screen as I drifted off to sleep…

And that is it for today! Read, review, and remember one thing peoples, sleep deprivation is bad, okay?