A/N: Wow, it has been almost a year I haven't updated this story! I have no good excuse on why I didn't. I forgot about it and until last month I started working on it. I hope you all forgive me. Please read and review!
Disclaimer: I don't own Digimon or any characters related to it!
03.05.12
Story has been revised!
Chapter Three: Shopping
A coat of murkiness surrounded the dark lands.
The clinking and clashing bangs of silver, sharp metals beating against each other with such a strong force rang against the sensitive ears of the warriors. The cold night had spread quickly onto the sky, giving the atmosphere a death gory scene containing an army of rag bleeding bodies that spread across the dark crimson grass; intestines emerged out like red snakes from their dead master's stomach giving out a repulsing odor of rotten flesh.
The battle continued with cries of men and even women, the shrieking yells of the enemy rose into the black heavens causing panic near the small little village. The Fairy Warriors tried their best to stop their foes, the vampires or as they called themselves, The Cloaked, from getting near the gates of the castle. They were even in power and it seemed that this war had no end.
"We have to send our best Warriors to fight!" The fairy king anxiously demanded from the balcony of the main Council building where he had a clear view of the dreadful clashing. He turned forwards to the people he was speaking too, the fairies worryingly looked at him.
"Your Majesty, if we do that, we would be sending our best fighters to their deaths," one fairy spoke, standing firmly towards the king, "It will cause a dilemma."
"What do you mean it will cause a dilemma?" The Majesty sharply asked, his tone of voice sounding harsh.
The fairy who had spoken, backed a foot away, timidly shrinking away, "I-I mean, what about their families? Wouldn't they be worried?"
The fairy king looked away, gazing down into the battle from above, "The Fairy Warrior's duty is to protect their kingdom with all they have, to save the lives of their people. They know exactly what they are fighting for and they know that Death is upon their shoulders; awaiting those who suffer the ultimate misfortune. That is what a Fairy Warrior's Pride is. And their Pride will be to die for their home and their people they cherish the most."
"Your Majesty-"
There was a brief silence surrounding the room, until finally the king spoke rising with inner power, "Now! We have to send our Warriors to battle; we must end this now and stop the blood of innocence to fall upon our Kingdom."
"Yes, your Majesty," The fairies bowed before leaving, abandoning the king by himself in his chamber.
The king massaged his eyes gently, yet with severe frustration. The inescapable curse of aging had finally caught up with him, gripping its icy hand upon the king, as he sat there reminiscing the ages. He removed his crown and placed it inside a jeweled, decorated wooden box with a red soft cushion. He removed his cloak and descended onto his chair meditating about his acrid decision.
"Papa, mama, why do you have to leave?"
"The Majesty needs of our assistance."
The little girl curiously looked up at both her parents as they changed into their heavy looking suited armors. The appearance of the glistering protection may have fooled anyone to believe it was a heavy object. However, as weighty as it may seem, the insubstantial material was as solid as an indestructible diamond. They were very comfortable, easy to flex and move more freely.
She carefully watched as her father left the room with a small-bronzed key, making his way into another hallway and lastly to another door. It had a great big lock that matched the same color as the key. The lock did not appear to be in the greatest condition; it looked tattered and on some parts of the lock, the tint was demising away.
She peeked from the corner of the hall as she attentively watched, not to miss anything, how her father inserted the key and twisted it open. For long she had waited to see what was behind that mysterious door, she wasn't allowed to be close to it, nor was she ever allowed to open it. This was her chance to see what it was.
More metal appeared before her eyes, to her disappointment, it was nothing special. The cupboard was full of different kind of weapons; long swords, small axes and big ones, bows and arrows were neatly placed in rows. It was nothing she would ever be interested. It made her wonder why was she not allowed being there if it was nothing important. She frowned at her dissatisfaction and went after her dad. His hand reached into the cupboard taking out two fancy looking swords that were twice the size of the little girl's height.
She tightly hugged her ragged, doll she carried that had small spreading wings behind its back and asked in her most charming voice, "But papa, why would the king want your assistance with those heavy costumes and that big knife? Why are you going to do this?"
Her father bend down to her daughter with such a warm smile, his black eyes looked deeply into her ruby ones, it carried a heavy sadness tone of sacrifice, she looked confused towards his look. "Sora, we do this because we love you so much, your mother and I will give anything for you. We want you to live very happy with the person who loves you and cherish you the most. That's why we are doing this."
He placed a tender kiss on her little forehead, her mother had appeared into the room, she bent down and hugged her daughter tightly, even though her red armor got in the way, she managed to embrace her firmly as any mother would. Her mother's eyes carried the same gloom as her father. Sora felt this cold presence inside her and began to cry.
"Mama, Papa! Don't go! Please stay. You don't have to go!" Sora grabbed tightly into her mother's fingers wrapping them around her small little hands, Her mom looked away, concealing the shedding tears that had appeared upon her dark eyes, her fingers slipped away from her daughter's as she slowly rose up from the ground and headed towards the door, they waved goodbye to her. Sora dropped her doll and began to chase after them; they had opened the door leaving the house.
Sora managed to reach the door, opening it and coming out to a dark malice world, her parents were gone and all she could see from the black night was a big round full moon surrounded with gray diabolic clouds and, tainted with blood…
Sora moaned words from her lips. She stirred from her bed, the sheets of the mattress tangling onto her body trapping her as a spider baits her pray. Her garnet eyes opened widely as she gasped for air, droplets of sweat ran down her forehead. She took time to recover from breathing and to remember what she had dreamt that cause her to act in a weird behavior. This was the first time in years she had a nightmare.
She tried to lift herself from her bed but realize that she was trapped within the white sheets. She cursed softly, trying to struggle from the grasp of the sheet that had her in a bind.
She kicked and punched the obnoxious sheet that did not want to cooperate with her; it was annoying her and she was on her last nerve. Sora kicked the sheets until finally she managed to free a slim leg from the sheets. When she finally was freed from the sheets, she stretched her body, reaching up to the ceiling with the tips of her fingers. She blinked once or twice and looked around the room where she had slept. Last night she was too exhausted to even peek on where she was sleeping.
Beside her, there was another twin bed; the cover of the bed was a hot pink that made Sora's eyes direct towards it. It was bright and the only person who would ever choose a color like that would be no less than-
"Mimi," she whispered. She shook her head smiling. The room had a peachy color around, and the dressers were a white shade designs curled around the white wooden furniture. The only way Sora could describe the room was it was too girly. She frowned at the bad taste and left the room thinking that she needed to talk to that girl about adjusting her eyes and her brain.
Down the corridor, she went and stopped as she saw both girls already dressed and sitting on the couch. To her surprise, Jyou sat on the other side of the room alone facing Mimi and Hikari, while drinking to what look to Sora, herb tea.
"Good Morning Sora," he greeted her as soon as she came in. "Jyou? What are you doing here so early?" He led out a loud laugh, "Early? Sora, it's almost close to noon. How long have you been sleeping?"
"I don't know, I was so tired last night after we fought the creature that I fell asleep right away."
"Sora," Hikari said, "Jyou brings news from my brother."
Sora frowned as she heard Hikari mention her brother, "What does he want now?"
"Sit Sora," addressed Jyou, Sora followed and sat in between Hikari and Mimi, Jyou waited until he got all of the girls' attention and continued, "I was sent from The Leader about news of what's been going on."
"You mean why the border is weakening and all those creatures are getting out to the Human World?"
"Yes, we had a meeting with the Council. I can not clearly tell you how it went, but you can see it for yourselves."
Jyou got up; picking his suitcase and taking out some bottles from his bag, "Please bring me a 6 feet long mirror."
Hikari left the room as soon as possible; Jyou continued to remove the many bottles of potion from his suitcase and began to organize. "I ask for one last request."
Sora and Mimi looked at each other, "Okay, what do you need?"
Jyou's back was facing the two girls as he was testing each bottle with his own ability, "I need you to clear me this room. I need space."
Hikari returned a few minutes later with the mirror under her arm, "It's the biggest one we have." She safely landed it beside Jyou.
While Hikari brought the mirror to Jyou, Mimi and Sora began to use their levitation power to lift up the couches and tables. They rose on to the air hovering in one place; Mimi drifted the moving objects into one place and placed them neatly on top of the other.
Jyou took a small sack from his pocket. He unnoted the small string closing the bag, and took a small amount of purple powder. "Pixie Dust, it contains a lot of magical powers, depending of what color the pixie dust is. It's use for a lot of stuff, witchcraft, summoning and Medicine. But in this case, I'm using it for other circumstances."
He began to chant some words under his breath as he made a big circle around the empty room, leaving a trail of purple powder on the floor. After the purple circle formed, he made a crescent moon that connected to the circle inside. He made four smaller circles surrounding the big circle with the crescent moon. Each small circle was half filled with a black substance the shaded part facing right. It glowed for a minute and disappeared quickly, the girls gasped as they looked at the light that had vanished. Jyou entered the circle and sat facing a small carved, wooden bowl. The small bottles he took earlier were placed beside him, he grabbed the first one from his right and dropped a small amount of liquid on the bowl, and then he grabbed the second bottle from his left, and so on. When he finally finished, he brought the bowl into his lips and drank the substance that held on the bowl. He closed his eyes and began to concentrate, without opening them, he drew a diamond shape upon his forehead, and like the symbol on the floor, and it glowed for a while. Blue smoke began to emerge from the diamond shape on the Fairy-Med's forehead, shapes began to form, Jyou quickly captured them with his hands and threw them at the mirror.
"Look closely into the mirror,"
The girls did as they were told and stared closely into the mirror Hikari brought. For a while, there was nothing, but after the blue smoke began to form, a large room began to form inside the mirror; tall-carved chairs leaned against a wall, important fairies sat on each chair and in the middle of the room stood The Leader, Taichi Yagami. One look at him made Sora's heart sink and stomach sick. She had to put up with him all of these years and now that she finally had time to be away from him, he had to appear one last time.
"This is the meeting from yesterday after you three girls left to the Human World. The Leader gathered the Fairy Helping Center Council and important Heads from other Grounds; from the Luna Grounds to the Hidden Grounds."
"Hidden Grounds?" Hikari interrupted, "You mean the Head of the Hidden Grounds was there? But, how? I thought the Council was clear on not to meddle with them."
"Yes, I know. As the Treaty states that we have no tides with them, but this are very drastic times and any ground could be involved."
Sora stood quiet observing the Head of the Hidden Grounds with cold stabbing eyes. Just watching him, crept Sora out; his pale white skin was covered with a long red cloak, his blond hair creepily stood in different directions, while some fell down his face. What alarmed Sora the most about him was his sinister smile, His purple lips curved diabolically, making Sora raged with anger.
"Are you okay, Sora?" Mimi worriedly asked, she had seen the fast changes of expression Sora carried. She quickly grabbed her hands and soothed her down. "I'm fine, Mims. Thank you but I'm fine."
"What happened?" A concerned Jyou wondered. Hikari faced Sora, also concerned.
"It was nothing." She leaned closed to Mimi's ear and whispered, "Please don't say a word to them."
"Well if its nothing, then lets continue with this so we can get it over with," Jyou said, "The Head of the Lunar Grounds was there also, as you know, he is one of the most powerful King Fairies in the Fairy World. He was also called forth to the Council. I was there personally by orders of The Leader. Watch carefully."
Hikari, Mimi and Sora watched closely into the mirror, murmurs surrounded the room each one talking to the other, except the Head of the Hidden Grounds, who sat alone and ignoring every one around him.
"May I please have your attention please?" Taichi's voice deepened the room, the whispers ceased as they gave their full attention to the Leader of the F.H.C.C. "First of all I want to welcome you all to the meeting, it is a pleasure to have you all. I am sure that we can work things off."
Nods were granted to the Leader while others didn't bother to send any friendly gestures. He paused for a moment and continued, "As you well know, we have been receiving warnings that creatures from our world have escaped to the Human World and not only to that world, but to different grounds, grounds that have been already attacked. "
They looked at each other for a while and turned away towards the Leader, "Yes, yes I know what you are all thinking, and I can assure you that The Falling Grounds is not responsible for what's been going on."
"How do we know is not The Falling Grounds?" A Fairy spoke standing up from his chair and facing the Leader, "How do we know that old man Gennai is not getting too old or weak to handle his job carefully, or maybe he is the one responsible for opening the gates causing those creatures to get out!"
Fairies nodded looking at each other, agreeing to the talking fairy.
"Please, calm down. I don't think our Portal-Keyer has anything to do with this, I think someone from the outside, stronger, is causing all this."
"Are you saying that any of us could have caused this?" Another Fairy outraged spoke also standing up from his place.
"No, no, I'm not blaming anyone in here, I'm warning you all that maybe out there, from what we don't know a dark force is forming."
"So what you are saying is that an unknown enemy is causing all this. But why?"
"I think that this is nothing. I think that this is just a distraction," all heads turned to the Head of the Falling Grounds, "the releasing of the creatures is just a small problem from what's to come. I mean, I may be old but I am not stupid not to know that this is not a big threat. The enemy wants us to loose our guard to become powerless so when we are down they can attack. I, for one, would not let my Kingdom fall once again."
"I agree with him," This time the Head of the Luna Ground spoke, "this is just a distraction. As we speak, our enemy may be plotting something with what they have stolen from us, I can say that what we contain is a very powerful weapon and on the wrong hangs it can be deadly. All I ask is for it to be brought back to its rightful place."
"If I may speak," eyes turned towards the Head of the Hidden Grounds, he stood walking towards the center of the room where Taichi stood in position, his cloak dragged onto the floor in such a diabolical form. For a second he didn't speak, his eyes laid on the floor, hands together as he clapped and spread them around, "My dear companions, we all share one thing in common; we have fought in wars before, maybe not hands with hands or arms with arms, but we fought.
"About One hundred and thirteen years ago, the Hidden Grounds and the Falling Grounds were in war between the Cloaked ones and Fairies. We shared equal power, but we wanted more, when the King of the Falling Grounds denied us, we grew furious and war broke. We would have won but the Falling Grounds had tides with the Luna Grounds making it impossible to call victory ours. We had to withdraw, but sooner than expected, we were captured and we had no choice but to surrender.
"I would not allow for history to repeat twice, and before anyone points fingers, let me clearly point out that the Hidden Grounds would not take action for anything in this council, we do not care of what happens since our power is no use for any of you."
No one made a sound nor moved. "Was this the reason why I was called in? Because you all thought, I was behind this. I don't think I should speak twice. I guess that's all I have to say." without saying anything, he released himself and left the room.
Conversations broke from every corner, the Head of the Luna Grounds stood quietly, thinking on his own thoughts…
The image in the mirror began to fade away, all they could see back was their own reflection.
"The meeting didn't last long," Jyou, explained, "The Head wanted to explain even more, but it was not possible, the other Grounds had their own problems to worry that they couldn't stay long."
"But what's this got to do with us?" Mimi asked
"Oh, well it's just an update for you girls, I mean, you don't want things to be hidden from you, am I right?"
"You got a point there, Jyou." Hikari said.
"But let me tell you something else," Jyou said, "The Leader has spies over the Hidden Grounds, he thinks the head of that ground is hiding something."
"My brother suspects of him?"
"Yes."
"But in the Treaty, it also said that the Cloaked had to give some of their power so the couldn't grow stronger, to avoid another bloody war." Sora added
"I know," Jyou answered, "either way, we have to take any cautious signs."
"Is there any news about the item that was stolen?"
Jyou shook his head, "I'm afraid not."
Mimi looked worryingly, "What exactly is this weapon? What does it do?"
"I don't quite know, only the Leader of the Council, Taichi, and the Head of the Lunar Grounds knows what powers it possess."
The group stayed on their feet, pondering about what they just viewed until Jyou broke the awkward silence.
"Well then, girls; that's all I can tell you, I can't stay long I must be going. The Leader wants some feedback, oh and Sora."
He turned around to Sora, who stood quietly by herself, "Yes? What is it?"
From the deep of his pocket, Jyou took out a golden bracelet. Strange symbols were engraved around the bracelet "Give me your right hand."
She slowly lifted her hand towards the Fairy-Med, "What's this?"
Jyou grabbed her wrist wrapping the golden bracelet around her hand; it made a small clicking sound to assure it was closed. It glowed releasing a flow of whispers, feeling hot around Sora's flesh.
"This is a Promise Bracelet, it was given to me from the Leader; he told me not to tell you what it was until it was properly put on your wrist. This way you can keep your word for when you come back about whatever reasons you promised him."
Sora began to shake, she looked at the bracelet with such anger she didn't know what to do; instead she looked at Jyou with a killing glare as she let a loud scream, "WHAT? NO, NO! This can't be happening to me!" She tried to take it off but the bracelet wouldn't budge.
"I don't think that is going to work, Sora. It's a Promise Bracelet, whatever you do, you can't break it."
"Jyou," Sora said, her voice very low hardly a whisper. She shook, both fist clenched ready to punch.
"Um, Jyou, If I were you I would leave, NOW," Mimi warned.
He didn't need to be told twice, "Please just calm her down while I pick up my belongings, and then I'll leave."
"Come here Sora," Hikari said holding Sora's hands, "I'll make you some calming tea."
"We interrupt this program for an important bulletin of last night's mayhem in Downtown Tokyo."
Yamato had just switched the channel on when a middle age looking reporter from a very important news channel, popped on the screen with a microphone placed half an inch away from his lips. He had a serious expression on his face, giving away a professional profile of himself. He wore square looking glasses casting a reflecting light on them.
The reporter was standing outside a street were objects around him, such as light poles and windows of nearby stores were destroyed, evidence that a fight had occurred precisely on that same spot.
"Late last night," the reporter continued, "we were informed that a vicious battle was being fought between a strange monster and three young ladies with wings. Police and reporters are trying to find out this strange mystery. It is been said, from a witness, that these young ladies had use some sort of magic to fight the monster. Here is our witness, a young man that was saved by one of them, tell me son how did the girls looked like?"
The young man with the skateboard, who was saved by Sora, stood there dumbfounded looking at the camera.
"Son?"
"Hi mom! Look! I'm on TV! How sweet is that?"
"Son, can you please tell us how the girls look like?"
"Oh, they were hot! Especially the redhead one, she saved my life." he sighed like a fool in love.
"No, I mean how they looked like."
"Ah, well the Red head had long hair that reached down the floor, same with the other two, and they had wings spreading from their back thi-s bi-ig!" He stretched his hand around almost knocking the reporter's glasses off.
"And with their hands they made weapons appear from their palms. It was totally wicked!"
"Yes, yes. Thank you son, so-"
"Hey mom! I hope you are watching this!" The reporter began to get annoyed and pushed him away.
"This concludes with today's special Bulletin, I am Yukito Yamashina."
"This was your special bulletin we now show our regular program-"
Yamato turned the TV off.
"Hey! I was watching that, brother!"
Takeru rose from the couch to get the control back from Yamato's hand, "Give it here! I was watching TV."
"I don't care what they have to say, they canceled my show for that crap and now whoever is watching pays the consequences."
"Well, it wasn't my fault; it was those three hot girls the kid was talking about. They were out there fighting and saving the world."
"Fine, take it." He threw the control across the room; it landed on the couch with a muffled thud. Too busy from fighting the control, Takeru did not realize that Yamato was dressed up with a clean pair of blue jeans and a nice looking shirt.
"Where are you going dressed so nicely, Onee-chan?"
"Nowhere that you should know," Yamato responded giving away his blushed face.
"I bet you are going to see that girl from next door, maybe that's the reason why you got up so early and change and make some homemade muffins. Just any excuse to go over there, right?"
"And if that is the reason, why should it concern you? Welcoming our neighbors and giving them a welcome present is nothing bad."
"That's not what you said to our previous neighbors, they had to leave because of you, you and your loud and obnoxious music."
"I couldn't agree with you more, Takeru," The maroon hair kid named Koushiro appeared into the room, the newspaper under his hand and a card on his other.
"Koushiro, I think you should just go back to your Geeky world and stay there."
"Now, Yamato-san, I didn't come here to fight with you, I am just agreeing with Takeru and his reason. I think he is right; you have a thing for that girl next door. You never behaved this nicely to any of our old neighbors; in fact, you almost set their door on fire for that one prank you did on Halloween."
"Okay okay! Maybe I do find her attractive, but still, they are young attractive girls, our previous neighbors were old and wrinkly."
"That still isn't a good reason."
"You got me, now, please if you excuse me; I'm going over there and welcome them."
"Before you go, Yamato, can you give this card to the pink headed girl?" Koushiro gave him the envelope he was carrying to Yamato; Yamato smirked as he looked at it. "And here you are making fun of me because I'm the only one who has a "thing" for the girl next door."
"But my case is different, I'm just welcoming her, unlike you to your little girlfriend."
"That's not what you told me last night Koushiro and I quote: 'But I have my thoughts and eyes for that pink headed girl. She looks interesting to me…' or maybe I'm just going crazy."
Koushiro blushed looking away, "Just give it to her please."
Yamato accepted it with a smirk on his face, "And how about you Takeru. Don't you have anything to give to the other girl next door?"
"My way of welcoming her would be different, so at the moment I have nothing to give her, go on big bro,"
Yamato left the apartment and as he left, he saw a man with blue hair and glasses carrying a big bag coming out from the girls' apartment, he passed by Yamato as he waved as if nothing happened and left a Yamato thinking if he should worry.
He cleared his throat while standing in front of the door, he knocked three times and waited for a response, for a moment it was quiet until he heard whispers and Hikari opened the door.
"Oh hi! Hold just a minute," She slammed the door in his face leaving him looking like an idiot. The door opened again and this time Sora came out.
"Ah, err, umm…hi, you are Yamato."
Yamato smirked blushing while pushing the basket of fresh baked muffins to her, "Here these are for you, you are hot, err…I mean! They are hot, be careful I just made them right now."
He heard giggles from inside and saw that Sora was blushing as well, "Please forgive my roommates they are acting inappropriate."
"It's alright, oh, this is for you friend, the pink headed girl, it's from Koushiro." He handed the envelope to Sora, almost touching hands.
"Uhh…thanks, I'll be sure to give it to her."
Both of them stood in a small realm were there was silence around them, Yamato wanting to break this awkward moment spoke. "So have you seen the rest of the town?"
"No I haven't."
"Oh, well I can give you a tour around if you like."
"I'm sorry, I-"
"Of course she would love to!" Mimi interrupted pulling Sora from the inside, "Just give her a few minutes to change and she will be right with you!"
Once again, the door slammed into Yamato's face.
"What the heck are you doing Mimi!" demanded Sora.
"I am not going to let you waste this opportunity with this guy who likes you." Mimi fought back, pointing a tough finger at Sora
"What makes you think he likes me?"
"Because, it's a girl thing, I can feel it in me."
"Yeah whatever, here, this is for you." She handed the envelope to Mimi; Mimi ripped the envelope from Sora's hand and looked at it with gleaming eyes.
"It's from him?"
"Yes, the Koushiro guy."
She shrieked with happiness as she tore the envelope open and read it. She hugged the letter close to her chess and swirled around. She then grabbed Sora's hand leaving the basket of muffins to a nearby table and took her to their bedroom locking the door from inside.
"Mimi? What are you doing?"
She had a grinned on her face, as she got closer to Sora; Mimi began to ransack the closet for something to put on Sora.
"You are going and that's my final answer…"
Outside, the blonde stood waiting as he leaned against the wall; he checked his watch for the fifth time as he saw the hands move fast.
The door open and out came Sora wearing a blue jean skirt with a yellow strap blouse.
"Okay I'm ready," she said.
Yamato's attention was on her feet, she was barefooted with no shoes on.
"Are you going like that?"
"Yeah, why?"
"Well, um…" he blushed deeply rubbing the back of his head, "aren't you going to put some shoes on?"
"Shoes?" She puzzled, "what are shoes?"
For once, Yamato didn't know what to say, the words were stuck on his throat, surprised that this girl has never heard of the word shoes.
"You're joking, right? Everyone wears shoes."
"Where I come from, we never wear shoes, we are barefoot."
"Then how do you get through places without burning your feet on the hot summer days, or getting dirty."
Sora had to think about what to give him as an answer, she could not just reveal herself telling him that she was a fairy, and fairies usually flew around and when they walked, it wasn't very often, unless walking inside buildings for errands.
"Err…well, it's hard to explain, and I believe this is not the time to tell you of my past yet."
"I understand," he smiled charmingly; "I guess I will take you out shopping first for some shoes." Without thinking, she grabbed her hand and took her to the elevator.
"Where are we going? Why are we going in here? What are these things?"
"Calm down, this is called an elevator, I'm guessing you never seen one either," Sora shook her head, giving him his answer, "I see, well it's a way of transportation. We live in the third floor and since it's really high, it is easier to take the elevator instead of the stairs. You just press one of these arrows. See them? To go down we press the down arrow."
With his index finger, he slowly pressed the button; they waited for a while until the doors opened. Sora gasped grabbing the sleeve of Yamato's shirt tightly; he smiled at the touch of her hand.
"Come on, before the doors closed," he still had her hand in his pulling her in, he pressed the number 1 button and the doors closed, for a moment there was nothing but then Sora felt a tinkle sensation over her body as the elevator descended. She grabbed Yamato's arm tightly and squeezed his hand.
"It's alright; the scary part is over," Yamato laughed softly, "You sure are a strange one."
The doors opened once more Yamato and Sora, still holding hands, stepped out from the elevator, they left the entrance and went to the parking lot to find Yamato's car.
"These are strange looking carriages." Sora said as she watched the many lines of parking cars on the driveway.
"Carriages? These are cars. You don't have cars where you come from?"Sora looked confused; she stayed quiet for a while looking at Yamato, lost.
"I'm taking that as a no. Well it's sort of like a carriage, but we call them cars…hey aren't your feet hot?"
Sora wiggled her toes looking at them, "Umm, not really. I am fine. The floor is warm; I'm just use to it."
The blond looked at her for a while, finally he let go of her hand and picked her up.
"What are you doing? Put me down!"
"Relax; I'm just helping you out."
"I said I'm fine!" Afraid of being dropped, she wrapped her hands around his neck.
"I don't want you to get your feet dirty, that's all." Sora didn't say anything; she let Yamato take her away, finally they found his convertible blue car.
With the beep of his car keys, the doors unlocked, he slowly descended Sora to the ground.
"Get in," he opened the passenger seat for Sora; she calmly got in and closed the door. Yamato went to the other side and opened the door for his side. He revived the engine and began to drive. Sora's hair began to blow from the fresh wind. She smiled as the air hit her face. Yamato looked at her and beamed; he got distracted from her barefoot feet that he did not notice how nice she looked with the skirt and blouse she was wearing, showing some of her tan skin.
"This is a nice, uh…car. "
"Thanks, my dad bought it for me…" As Yamato said those words, it seemed the atmosphere became tense; Sora got the idea and did not ask. She looked outside the window as she saw the many tall buildings; she was amazed by the big civilization
"This is amazing; I've never thought this place would be so big!"
"I'm glad you like it."
For the rest of the ride, Sora stared outside the busy streets and stores until Yamato parked his car onto one of the parking places from the nearby mall.
"What is this place?" Sora asked her curiosity growing even more for the place; the building was tall and big filled with many people.
"It's a mall, a store where you buy all necessary needs and wants."
He got off his car closing the door and opening the side other door for Sora.
"Thanks," she said, accepting his hand he held out for her to reach.
He put the alarm on and walked away; he stopped for a moment and searched his pockets, "Oh dang, I forgot my wallet in the car."
"I'll get it for you." Sora walked back Yamato behind her, and reached for the handle to open the door, suddenly a loud alarm went off startling her. She jumped, stunned at the siren, backing away and gripping into Yamato's arm.
"What did I do? I'm sorry! I didn't mean to!" She looked into his eyes and stared perplexed at them, she wasn't use to this and felt that he was a guardian. His arm felt so secure and safe she didn't want to let go.
She is so cute when she is scared. "It's alright, just the alarm going off, its gone." he beeped the car and got his wallet out closing the car. "I got it, let's go."
For some time, they walked around until finally they found a shoe store. She looked at the sign as she read the purple lettering Zapa2.
They went inside as a young woman greeted them she was in her mid 20s. She had short black hair, wearing blue jeans and a tight black shirt with a small cartoon of an animal on the front. "Welcome to Zapa2! If you need any help just call me!"
Yamato smiled at her as he looked at her tag, "Thank you…uh, Jessie. I will."
He dragged Sora into the girls' shoes; Sora looked at the many rows of different shoes. Mirrors were placed in a few corners of the store, she saw how people stood in front of them and observe how good the shoes looked on them. Chairs stood in a line for shoppers to sit and try on shoes.
"Sora, pick any shoes you want and I'll buy them for you."
"There are many to choose from, I don't know which to pick." She stared at some sandals and high heels, she then saw some flats that interested her; they were a bright crimson color with fancy stitching marks. "I like these, they look so cute." she picked them up to observed them closer, and saw flower designs around them.
"Do you want to try them on, see if they fit?"
She nodded sitting on one of the chairs, she slid her right foot inside the shoe and realized it felt uncomfortable. "It feels tight."
"That's because you are wearing it on the wrong foot, here, give me your foot." He kneeled down taking the shoe of her foot slowly, as he looked at them; he noticed that her feet didn't look dirty. He ignored and placed the flat shoe on the right foot. He grabbed her ankle softly and slipped the shoe on. Sora blushed at his touch, his soft hand holding onto her skin. "Okay, now tell me, how do they feel?" Sora tested it and nodded, "They feel better, but they feel big on me."
"Do you know what size you wear?"
"No."
At that moment, Jessie came up to them smiling, "Do you need any help?"
"In fact, we do. You came on the right time, my friend here doesn't know what her size is, can you please help her out?"
"Of course, I'll be back." she later came back with a tool, she held it onto Sora's foot and measured it, "You are a size 5."
"Give me these shoes in size 5 please."
After an hour of shoe shopping, Sora and Yamato left the store with six bags of footwear. Sora's feet felt more comfortable inside something soft.
"I can't believe you had to buy me all those shoes, I have to repay you for doing this. Thank you."
"Please, you don't have to. I'm glad I did it, I just feel bad that I didn't think of your friends or I would have bought shoes for them too."
"Don't worry about it, I think we have the same foot size. We'll share. Do you want me to help you with some bags? I feel bad just looking at you while you carry all of those."
"I'm okay. Hey, do you want some ice cream? My treat."
"Ice cream?
""You've never tasted ice cream?"
Sora shook her head not knowing what Yamato was talking about.
"Come on! Ice cream is the best dessert food ever been invented in the whole world! It's so delicious! I'll buy you one so you can try it."
They stopped by a small store called Carnival Cream. An enormous ice cream cone hanged from the top ceiling of the shop with a fake plastic scoop of vanilla ice cream, chocolate syrup, the bright colors of light green and cream sprang out, and different types of ice cream were on the glass window for display.
"Hi, sir. I would like one strawberry and vanilla ice cream cone."
"Anything else young man?"
"No," from the back of his pocket he took his wallet out and one of his many credit cards, handing it to the man. After he paid, he received both ice cream and the couple sat on a nearby bench.
Sora looked at the solid pink ball in a cone for a while she tasted and to her astonishment, it melted into her tongue releasing a sweet taste of strawberry flavor. Her taste buds tingled with the eagerness of wanting more.
"Wow, this is really good!" She took another lick, Yamato watched, smiling.
"You got something in your cheek, Sora." Sora took her hand and placed it on her left cheek, she felt nothing.
"No, the other side here let me…" He leaned closer to her and with his thumb; he wiped the ice cream of her cheek softly.
"Thank you," Sora responded, red in the face. She touched her cheek were Yamato had caressed.
"No problem. You want to try my ice cream?"
"Okay," The cold vanilla ice cream met Sora's lips. It was cold but the taste of the ice cream was so rich and sweet, she slowly closed her eyes to savor the taste of the simple dessert licking her lips very softly, "So Delicious."
She gasped, opening her eyes sharply. Chills ran over her body, trouble was lurking close by and she had to stop it. She looked around for any troublemakers, but nothing seemed to be off the abnormal. Yamato saw her strange behavior and asked worryingly, "What is Sora?"
Sora looked back at him and said, "Nothing. I thought I saw something." The feeling of trouble couldn't go away; it was still present around her.
She was right; All of the sudden she heard screeches, people were running from one place, Yamato and Sora stood up quickly trying to follow on what was going on.
"What's happening?" Yamato asked.
Sora had an idea. Another attack. She looked again and saw nothing, she had to transform, though she couldn't handle the risk of being caught. I have to think of a way to get rid of him for a while and fast!