Chapter Two: Arrow To The Knee (Prologue)
Frost's POV
I sighed, letting out a warm, transparent white could of carbon to haze out of my mouth like fire before disappearing a split second later to the bitter, chilly, thin air that surrounded us like spirits. The slightly starry night shined down at us with bitter smiles to how bright the world now was, finally creating a barrier in between Earth and the universe, unable to see their soul-warming beauty and heart racing ambience. I let out another sigh, staring dead ahead as we walked in an orderly fashion beside one another, her being to the right of me. The pleasant breeze of the gloomy night enlightened my soul as bright as day, making me smile slightly to how nice it actually felt. The only melody of the night was our tapping footsteps on the concrete pedestrian walkway to the right of the dark, empty street that had residential houses left and right, all costing over millions of dollars. How greedy can some people get? Luckily for me, I was able to afford one of these houses since Nexus and April had their treasures on them like they knew what was going to happen... Damn...
Only a good five minutes then we'll be at my house. My empty, silent, lifeless house... My emotions are strange and alien to me sometimes. Like I can't even understand why I cry or smile in the most odd times... Gah! I'm drifting away from boredom! The silence is choking me and making me think weird! Suddenly, from out of the blue, White let out a quiet, adorable sigh from my right, making me turn my head to her. She looked straight down at the floor with what looked like a frown across her face, indicating that something was bothering her... Did my absence make her feel like this?... Argh... I'm starting to feel guilty again!
"White, are you angry at me?", I asked curiously, making her spark up slightly in shock, blinking twice before quickly turning to me with an innocent face as her white, beautiful, long hair that reached mid thigh danced around her like the red ribbon of a ballet.
"No. It's just strange to see you as a guy... And how we're more than just friends... We've had each other's back in the Colour Plane. But at the same time, we fought one another", She replied in a sweet, lovable tone that soothed my heart as a spark of Mindy shone from her eyes. Only it wasn't Mindy... Damn... What part of HER makes her similar to Mindy?
"Don't worry, it'll make you feel uneasy and anxious. Just try to imagine that I've been like this the entire time", I simply said, smiling at her warmly as she turn a slight red as her eyes widened a little, revealing her amazing, glowing light red eyes that looked somewhat more attractive and persuasive than even Mindy's...
"Sure", She stuttered, blinking before giving me a warm smile that really suited her amazingly. My heart skipped a beat as my blood began to boil to how cute it was... Like the first time we met.. Suddenly, her eyes widened tremendously as her pupils contracted, making the both of us stop simultaneously as she began to tremble, looking like she was choking. She clenched her fists, gritting her teeth and growled silently, inviting the stiff silence to take it's toll on us.
"Eh? What's the matter? Did you forget to bring a pair of underwear?", I joked, wanting to soften her up as she looked really damn tensed. I wonder what had gotten into her?
"I left my uniform at home...", She said, trailing off... What?
White's POV
"Why didn't you remind me?", I asked him, walking to his right back towards my place to grab my uniform as I REALLY wanted to stay at Frost's place for the night.
"Why are you pushing the blame onto me?", He asked immediately, looking dead ahead as I stared at his... well... cute face whilst we walked down the empty, quiet street that held nothing but silence. Silence that could make your skin prickle and force chills down your spine like someone dropped an ice cube down your collar.
"Because you're Black Heart. I should be putting all of my anger onto you", I sneered back at him, making him sigh in annoyance.
"Me? Why? If you say that then maybe I should go home", He stated, making me freeze in position at the exact same time he stopped and took in a deep breath of the cold, fresh, summer air. I felt scared for some reason. Like if he left me, then I'd never be able to see him again... My blood cooled as my mind felt like it was being corroded by some sort of sorcery... No... Literally... I felt something. Like I was going to die right here, right now. "Hold on, do you feel that?", Frost asked me all of a sudden, causing me to blink blankly, taking a step back and immediately dig my right hand into right pocket, grasping onto the white, rubbery handle of my revolver.
Frost's POV
I looked to my right, gritting my teeth to search for whoever was watching over us like an eagle spiralling around it's prey. The streets were bare of any existence except for the scorched skid marks forged by rubber tires and small cracks that had some vegetation growing in it like a parasite. The streetlights from the other side of the street mildly blocked my vision with their intense bright, yellow light that illuminated the place in a gloomy manner. But something seemed off about them... There was a second, shimmering vividly to the right of one of the metallic streetlights, resembling a star. But only was this one shimmering more than enough to make you wonder if it really was a star and not something else... Wait a second... My eyes widened as my pupils contracted to a tiny dot. My heart began to beat as fast as steam pistons, pumping my highway-like veins with twice the amount of blood and oxygen.
"Frost?", White asked me in wonder and worry, tapping my left shoulder once with something cold and metallic.
"Get down...", I whispered in awe and shock, gaping my mouth slightly as I took a step back in horror, knowing EXACTLY what it was.
"Eh?".
"GET DOWN!", I screamed out at the top of my lungs, gritting my teeth JUST as an intimidating, terrifying, ear-splitting whiz of a bullet passed my head from my right in what seemed like slow motion. A dark, small, excruciatingly thin trail was all that marked it's split second travel. The grey, concrete pathway suddenly sprouted up and exploded tiny particles of dust and debris due to the hight velocity and impact of the bullet, causing White to gasp in pure shock and horror to what had just happened... The crashing noise of it filled the air painfully, causing my ears to scream at me in utter pain and agony. W... What kind of bullet it THAT!?
"Frost, get ready!", White exclaimed, gritting her teeth as I took another step back, watching the light suddenly disappear into nothing but the cold, still air of the empty night sky, drowned by the hideous light of the city. I clenched my fists into powerful balls of pain, quickly turning around to see two pairs of glowing, purple eyes that had an eerie, light purple trail following them around like a trapped spirit.
"Duck!", I yelled at White and at once, she did so. She dropped down to her knees, letting her white, amazing hair slap the cold, dark grey ground quietly as a huge, silver scythe JUST missed her head. I grunted, quickly opening and channelling power into my right hand with tremendous power unmatched by even Charcoal himself. "White! Get away from there!", I commanded her with one hell of a loud voice. In an instant, she quickly lunged forwards, scraping the earth with her palms before skidding on her white shoes, kicking up some of the rubble and dust into the air like a miniature haze.
She immediately erected herself up from my right, gritting her teeth as hard as grinders as those two eyes suddenly lunged right at us, dropping the silver, wooden poled scythe to the ground, rattling like chimes which played like a dreadful melody. It came for us with lightning speed, making one hell of a long trail follow it gracefully.
"White, stay back!", I yelled, quickly sending my right hand forwards with tremendous force, scrunching my hand into a ball of hurt as a darkened flame consumed it almost entirely. "Eat this!"... Boom... My punch connected greatly, completely shattering into millions of tiny fragments of black cloth that exploded and scattered out all over the place, looking like confetti... Eh? What!?
I grit my teeth, pulling back my right arm as the blackened flames of the damned left my right arm. With haste, I spun around as fast as I could to see the sparkle from before shimmer brightly from high above where White stood... Oh shit...
"AAAAHHHH!", She screamed as a gust of wind blew by us from the right, instantly making me look at White's pain-infused face, twisted in agony as tears fled from her closed eyes... W...What? She passed out in the blink of an eye due to an unknown reason, falling forwards towards me rather quickly. As fast as possible and with a mind and heart filled with despair and sadness, I placed my hands in front of me just in time to catch her from her arms, gripping onto them as tightly as possible whilst crystal clear tears fled from her shut eyes... White? White!?
"White!", I exclaimed in horror, sinking my short nails into her skin softly, feeling how smooth and delicate it truly was in anger, unable to comprehend how or why she passed out all of a sudden... The light! I clenched my teeth like grinders, looking back up to see nothing but the empty, jet black sky that revealed nothing but a few REAL stars... Argh... I knew for a fact that whoever was sparkling or glinting their sniper scope at us, wanted to shoot White, not me...
"Frost Richtofen, why do you care about that filthy being?", A feminine voice from behind said, making my eyes widen in shock to what the voice had just said, forcing me to quickly slide my left hand down under White's knees and place my right, opened palm on her upper back as her adorable face rested cosily on my right chest. Her tears still streamed down her face endlessly, resembling the calm streams of sorrow that damped her white shirt to a dark grey. She was surprisingly light and very, very delicate from the looks of her body... Argh...
"Who are you...", I asked with edge, looking down at the poor, innocent, white haired girl in my arms with widened eyes that stung from the sweet scent of her blood that dripped from her right knee, oozing down to my left hand and finally, collapsing down to the cracked, dark grey concrete from the back of my wrist... In her right knee, was an arrow... The tip was completely jammed inside of her knee cap whilst the shaft of the arrow seemed to throb with what looked like life, inflicting some sort of fear into my very body.
"Melody. I have come to end White Crimson before she can end you", The voice stated, infuriating my mind and soul but for White's sake, I kept myself under the radar, not wanting to make her go through anything else... Dammit, on the first night we meet, something like this already happens... What is this Deja Vu I'm feeling?
"End White!? Over my dead body! She's not a bad person! The only bad one here is you and me!", I exclaimed with passion and anger, venting most of it out through those words before I spun around to see Her. Melody. Her attire seemed to flutter in the light breeze of the gloomy, now ruined night... She's just like I remember her. Light green, long hair, light green eyes and that one, light green long bow that had stolen me away into my very own hell of my creating... "If you even TRY to end her, then I'll be sure to slaughter you...", I said in a lower tone, not wanting to waste my breath on a person like her. Disgusting...
"Not a bad person? Don't make me laugh! Black and white don't mix! They are sworn enemies! Enemies that will never show one another mercy. I know that she'll back stab you while you're asleep then rob you from everything you love and own!", She snapped back at me.
"Don't act like you're my mom! I've been with her for a long time! And if you try anything funny, I'll make your entire being funny. Your organs will spill the king's bathtub!", I sneered, wanting to protect White at all costs all of a sudden as she was more than JUST a friend to me...
"Are you insane!?", She cried, grasping her bow twice as hard whilst we held a bloodied death stare to one another. Both my eyes glowed slightly with vivid colours of one's soul. Red and Blue...
"I've had enough! Leave me ALONE! If you try to pull this stunt again, then I'll tear out your vocal chords!", I sneered, holding White more tightly in my arms, causing Melody to turn a little red for... I see... She's... Envious... But it's not like I love White or have some sort of relationship with her... I blinked, letting out a depressed sigh due to the realisation that smashed against my face and mind like a bag of bricks thrown by a giant with all their might... Envy, green... It makes sense... I can't say that I can blame her for having an emotion take control of her... But that's what's wrong with me. I forgive people too easily... And I bluff too much.
"I'm sorry Melody", I said, blinking once again before slowly turning around, taking one, crunching step forward before I ceased suddenly, just knowing that she was going to say something to me.
"So am I... Please forgive me for my actions. I wasn't thinking properly today", She stated loudly from behind me, causing a warm smile to creep onto my face as my light blue and light red eyes stared down at White's happy, adorable face as her amazingly long, white hair tumbled down my right arm like a foamy waterfall... I have to admit, she is really beautiful and someone who people would kill for...
"Don't worry about it. Just make sure it doesn't happen again. If you want to settle something, don't use violence... We made the same mistake a while ago, didn't we?", I said, letting out a warm, quiet sigh before blinking and taking in a shallow breath of the cold, soft air that slapped my face gently.
"Yeah... Um... Good night", She said, sounding somewhat embarrassed.
"Good night", I replied back to her, taking a step forwards, stepping to the left of the small, black, scorched crater made by some sort of magical force. Tiny pebbles and such coated the ground like toppings of a cake, reminding me of my birthday... Damn... What happened to me that day was truly magical...
I knew very well that whatever that light was, wasn't Melody... By just looking at the form of it, it must've been dark energy with a mixture of electricity since the impact and the explosion was instantaneous... Whoever it was, must've been aiming for White, not for me. But why her? Is there something more to her than what meets the eye?... I began to walk back towards my house at a relatively fast pace, hearing distant sirens of the authorities due to the fact that the impact of the bullet was excruciatingly loud. Obviously, someone had rung them. I better break a leg then!
I can't take her to any doctors or hospitals for the obvious reason of us having COMPLETELY different immune responses, cell restructure time, blood, stomach acid and bizarre bone structure to humans... If one was to find out, then they'll call up the health department and just like that, the special forces and military will get themselves the gold stuck in the well... I won't let anything like that happen to White...
White's POV
He's holding me so tightly... My heart's pounding against my chest like gunshots, painfully and slowly breaking my ribs. He's so warm... And soft. I kept my eyes closed, not wanting to open them less I want Frost to bombard me with hundreds of questions about me... But wouldn't I enjoy that? Gah! There goes my heart again! I wonder if he'll take care of me. After all, my right knee is completely busted and there's no way that it'll move unless Serenity uses her magic.
"White, if you can somehow hear me, I promise to take care of you myself until the day you can walk", Frost said calmly. I flushed a deep shade of red...
I'm sorry if this chapter was very strange. I had tests, assignments and homework to finish. But as of now, I'm finally free from it's hindering. Just to let you guys know, spring break is coming up (two week holiday) very soon. I'll be writing a lot more during that phase and playing SG/HG on minecraft with my friends. I hope you enjoyed this chapter, leave a review on what you thought! PM me if you want to ask me about something or just talk, follow and favourite! Until next time!