Well... Like I said... this is an experimental storyline. Don't worry I haven't forgetting everything else ^^. This is just really experimental, and the first 3 chapters are definitely going to be confusing
because I can The prologue and Chapter 1 is posted in my oneshots thread.
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Subtle as it is – Chapter 02 [07/04/12 – Update]
What you see is not always real… when the hardest thing is to tell apart dreams from reality.=**=**=
“I wanted to do my beauty sleep.” Someone with long pristine white hair said as it played with the tips of its fluffy tresses. “This has been quite often lately.”
“Mmhyeah, it’s as if they suddenly had willpower to like, simultaneously rob banks everyday or something.” The other with long jet black hair said. Its golden eyes looking straight at the road, it was sitting at front passenger seat, beside another with flame colored hair and blue eyes.
“Well, let’s just be glad they’re still asking for our help,” The driver answered with a sigh. It made the car swerve to one corner where a bank with sealed front was presented upon them. It was deserted even the police aren’t there.
It was part of their contract that if they were to do the job, no one see must them, not one of them. However apparently, among the leader of their pack and a medium, a representative of the leader of humans have been trying to talk it out if it was possible for the humans to cooperate with them.
Though the leader had firmly answered, “It would affect their normal human lives.” The human leader representative was brought into distraught.
“The deities who have been helping us are humans?” The humans asked.
Way over at the other side, the leader smirked, its companions sending over funny glances, and left the communication.
In another direction a female was being chased by a couple of men armed with guns. One of them groaned, the rest just shrugged.
“Not again.” The one with golden eyes shrugged, its companions just sending it a lazy go.
“Just don’t make a mess.” The one with white hair shrugged and gave her another lazy go.
It kicked off the ground as pristine white wings appeared from its back again and in a split second’s notice, it was already standing in between the chased female and her chasers.
Its wings still out and abound, long jet black hair scattered in the air as if it was slow motion. The familiar set of men recognized the ball of shadow and immediately broke into a run to the other direction.
It shrugged and turned around to leave.
“Wait!” The female called, it stopped on its tracks, silent. “Wh- Who are you?”
It hesitated for a moment, but then left to disappear again.
“Takahashi!” The voice of a male teacher called to the attention of the school’s student council president who had dropped her pen on the floor. “Are you listening?”
“Yes sir! I’m sorry.” Takahashi Ai apologized as her pen was handed to her by the person sitting in front of her. “Thanks.”
“Are you alright, Ai-chan?” Vice President Niigaki Risa asked as Ai took the pen from her. The female just nodded and smiled. Risa sighed.
=**=**=
“Yuuchan, are you sure you don’t want to make a contact with the human world?” Short with blonde hair, it talked to the one sitting behind a table legs up atop it with a smug look.
“I’m thinking of the young ones.” Yuuchan answered. “I mean, I’m sure we’ll all be fine, you, Kei-chan, Rika, W and everyone else since we’re all living here in heaven because we don’t have human duties to do. But the youngsters have some things to attend to as humans. We don’t know how the people would react if they were to react. ‘Ah they’re just humans too but with supernatural power’ or something.”
“Well, that’s true.” Another voice added in. The female with short brown hair appeared her arms crossed in front of her. “Well, I do have a candidate for the job if you guys want to test it out. Tsuji-chan’s been really bored lately.”
“Hmm…” Yuuchan put a finger on its chin and smiled. “Call.”
In an empty high way a truck was speeding up the counter flow swerving left and right. From the opposite side was a white sports car running at over 190mph it has four passengers, five including the driver and a non-working breaks. Two vehicles are destined to crash and injure seven people that may lead to six deaths.
The truck skidded, tires boring into the gray cement of the high as it tried to swerve in a drift, the sleepy driver who seemed to be driving since yesterday’s 9am trying to avoid the clash. However the sports car was chasing after it as if it has magnet on it.
In a second fracture before hitting each other, a fast shadow of light exploded right in between the two cars before they crashed. Hands stretched on both sides, stopping both from moving forward as the car wheels immediately break.
Amidst was a female with brown hair, and straight fringes, she wore casual clothing of what seemed to be black pants, white boots, a white top with a white jacket, and a stream of slightly imaginary wings made up of translucent light rose up in the air before disappearing like shards merging into the light.
She had large shades on her face that hid most of her features. Seven people, two from the truck and five from the car went down their respective vehicles, clutching their chests as if trying to comprehend what had happened.
They looked at the figure in front of them; she seemed human, save for what just happened that they cannot understand.
“Hey there, mortals.” The female greeted, propping her shades up to her head. “Name’s Nono. Nice to see you.”
In a few minutes, the police officers and media alike had arrived in the scene of the accident, as well as the medium who was believed to talk to the Gods.
“Who are you?” The Medium asked as he warily walked near Nono. “Why are you here? What are you?”
“I thought I already said my name is Nono.” The female greeted with a salute on the camera in front of her and the many microphones almost shoved to her face. “I’m here to save those people from that accident,” She pointed behind her with a thumb. “And I’m a goddess.”
The humans started whispering to each other as she spoke and waved at them. “Are you really?” Someone from the crowd of people not involved in the accident asked. “You must be a fraud!”
“Why don’t you ask these people I saved what I did then?” Nono stepped down from a pedestal of sorts and the newspaper writers started crowding towards the people as they attempted to answer everyone’s question.
“Are you sure this is gonna work, Rika-chan?” Nono asked telepathically as she stretched her arms and legs as she stood at the side of the highway.
“They don’t seem to entertain the idea well. Been long since I’ve been here in this form too.”“Oh god why.” Niigaki Risa muttered under her breathe as she looked at the running field, a hand over her face. “Yes?” She turned to look at her side upon seeing a kouhai, Ikuta Erina look at her.
“Are you alright, Niigaki-san?” The female asked and tilted her head to one side.
“Ah, yes, yes. Sorry about that.” Risa sighed. “Please tell Takahashi-san that I need to leave early, that I’m really sorry I have to go now.” She explained as she picked up her bags.
“I heard that, Gaki-san.” The voice came from behind Risa, who immediately clasped her hands in front of her and bowed. “It’s okay. Please take care” Ai smiled at her as she wiped her sweat away with a towel.
Risa immediately blushed and gave her a smile back, then left. She immediately sprinted into a run inside the school building and then quickly opened the door to the Literary Club.
“Say—oh my god.” The moment she opened the door, a frightening sight immediately clouded her vision as she covered her eyes with her free hand and closed the door. “FIX YOURSELVES, GET A ROOM! KAME HOW COULD YOU!”
“I’m sorry, Gaki-san! I wasn’t—“ Eri immediately cut herself off as she cried out in a muffled way in an attempt to cover her mouth. “Sayu!!”
“Thanks for the meal.” Sayu said loud enough for the beat red Niigaki Risa outside the door to hear. “Do you want me to clean up for—“
“JUST CLEAN UP, WASH YOUR HANDS, AND WIPE THAT… THAT TABLE AND OPEN THE FREAKING DOOR!” Gaki shouted at the door and banged her closed fist on it. “GOODNESS!”
“I wasn’t just gonna leave Eri unsatisfied you know.” Sayu explained by the door and opened it. “Wiped clean. Except Eri’s—“
“I don’t want to hear i—“
“—clothes, sadly.” Sayu crossed her arms and smirked. “So what is it?”
“We need to go—“
“—Eri already went—“
“—Sayusuke please quit your dirty jokes—“
“—Let’s go—“
“—You already went—“
“THEY’RE CALLING FOR US, LET’S JUST GO OKAY?” Gaki explained in a panic as she dropped her track stuff in the room. She immediately took Sayu and Eri by their collar and half-dragged them out the room. “Seriously… having sex on the table… I should’ve known better…”
“Learn how to knock, Gaki-san.” Sayu mumbled.
“Learn how to have decency, Sayusuke.” Gaki retorted back as they walked out.
“Ah, please, please don’t argue.” Eri half panicked.
“Why do you always think I always initiate it?” Sayu grumbled.
Risa immediately turned to look at Eri sharply who just looked at her hands and scuttled closer to Sayu.
“See?” Sayu smirked at Risa. “You know you should just confess to—“
“No.”
“—in her pants, that sexy ass and just—“
“No.”
“—you know, get laid.”
“I don’t need to, and you two needs decency, learn how to know what time, place and day okay?” Risa rubbed her temples. “Ah, Junjun there you are.”
“Yo, what happened?” The tall black haired female greeted them with a smile. “SayuEri strikes back?”
“Strikes every time, you mean.” Risa answered and sighed.
They had met up in an isolated park, after school.
==**=**=**=
“They requested for damages to be minimal. Remember, it seems that the enemies have developed bullets made of silver that can actually gradually damage you and your functions. Take care.” Ishikawa Rika’s voice echoed into the minds of three people.
“They actually have time to do that?” A different voice from an entity that could not be seen talked.
“Apparently. Just to rob a bank.” The one with golden eyes answered and cocked a glock-9 handgun and placed it on the holder on its right thigh.
“Well, it’s not just a bank. It’s a bank that produces gold, I guess I can kind of understand that.” Blue eyes scanned the surroundings.
“Well, let’s just get this over with, there are stuff I need to be busy about.” The white hair flipped with the air as it winked towards a direction.
“Ah… y- yeah…” The voice from an unknown entity stuttered.
An explosion suddenly emerged from behind trees as employees from the bank in front of them started rushing out not even paying attention to where they were standing and who they were.
“What Tsuji-chan did actually helped, now we can just stand here and be cool and no one cares.” The blue eyed one with red haired mentioned as the four of them slowly walked towards the location.
“The best wish I have is that no civilians would pass by as we execute this mission.” The golden eyed answered with a sigh.
“Seriously, you worry too much.” The white haired answered as they stood in front of the bank and police cars started flooding in.
A female with shoulder length blonde hair disembarked from the car and slowly walked towards them. “I’m Senior Inspector Yoshizawa Hitomi from First Investigations Division. You must be them.” She asked as she offered a hand to shake the three present beings.
“Yup. Nice to meet you.” The golden eyed one shook her hand. “Just so you know, we have a fourth companion, but you’re not allowed to see her.”
“Understood.” Yoshizawa answered and saluted before instructing her officers to scatter about the buildings. “What should we do?”
“Do you have the floor plan of the whole building?” A fourth voice spoke from the three person group and the SI nodded and handed a piece of paper to the direction the voice came from. “Thank you.”
After a few seconds of an invisible hand flipping over the floor map, it was then handed towards the one with white hair.
“I’ll go through the second floor vent and investigate there.” The fourth person spoke and seemingly left. “I’ll inform you of how many casualties are done, hopefully none, and hostages are left inside.”
“Un. Take care.” The white haired answered and flipped her tresses. “Let’s wait for an update, before heading in or making contact inside. I assume they already know the police are here.”
Everyone else nodded as they waited. Yoshizawa suddenly turned to them. “Do…”
“Yes?” The black haired one with gold eyes answered.
“Do you know someone named Ishikawa Rika?” Everyone’s eyes widened but nonetheless stayed silent. “Guess not huh?”
It was a rule that no one should know about your real name, your whole real name… as a God unless the other party was/is/will be your future spouse.
“I’ll explain later.” Rika’s voice suddenly echoed into the four’s minds telepathically. “You guys as well need to know about it I suppose.”
“There are twelve armed robbers, ten bank tellers and five civilians. Someone’s favorite is right here… arguing with one of the armed men, probably their leader. There are five casualties… all treatable and one grave. If we don’t make a move now, they will die.”=**=**=**=
“You didn’t have to shoot anybody!” Takahashi Ai argued, her hands tied behind her as she stood beside a woman with her left shoulder shot and a pool of blood beneath her. “We were all going obey you if we wanted our lives. You don’t have to shoot
anybody.”
“Then you do want me to shoot you instead, bitch!?” The man who seemed to be in his late forties shouted at Ai’s face. He had short messy black hair and facial hair that looks like it hasn’t been shaved for three months. “Stop being all so high and mighty when you can’t do anything towards me!”
“Calm down, bro.” Another guy who was moving money from the vault into a bag spoke. “We don’t need to do anymore casualties than that one you accidentally shot and the others who have tried to fight against us.”
“You know this chick’s kinda pretty.” The ‘leader’ spoke as he took a step forward. “Could make use of this one, as long as she keeps her mouth shut.” He slings his gun behind him and makes a few steps forward. He reached his hand forward and grabbed the female’s shoulder which she immediately shrugged away. “Oooohhh.” He sarcastically spat out at her aggressiveness. “You’ll definitely writhe once I get to take you down on that damn floor.”
She just looked at him sternly, gritting her teeth.
“Hey, hey, we have no time for any of those.” Another guy who emerged from a different vault with a few other men behind him as they drag sacks of what seem to be gold. “Stop that bro.”
“Just take her with us.” Another man shouted from behind him, dragging another sack.
“Yeah! Bro you’re a genius!”
“No one’s going to take anyone and none of you will be going out of here unscathed.” Another voice chipped in, it was a female’s voice, high pitched but not too high.
“Have our mortal enemies arrived?” The leader spoke as he put an arm over Ai’s shoulder again and held her in place. “I mean
immortal enemies?”
“That’s right, my dear friend. So stop touching her.” A low growl-like voice emerged from behind Ai as a burst of white feathers scattered around making the leader fly from in front of the female towards the bank counter, hitting his hip on the edge. The black haired female with golden eyes only looked at Ai and walked away to position in front of her. “Go away. Escape. Tell the others the front door is open and it’s safe to run away. Hurry.”
“O- Okay!” Ai agreed as she led the rest of the people who can still move. “Wh- what about her?”
“Leave her to us. She’ll be fine. Trust me.” She answered as a bullet grazed on her left cheek injuring her smooth face. It started bleeding instead of regenerating.
“So it was true. This is going to be troublesome.” Another pair of wings flew in front of the golden eyed female, and took the injured female to safety.
“We can’t use her powers to heal.” The white haired female rushed in as the front shutter was raised up and shots were exchanged between the robbers and the police officers. “They’ll know that we have healing ability and the media and the government might start taking advantage.”
“Just apply enough healing to stop her from dying.” The blue eyed female told the fourth existence who nodded and immediately performed her abilities. “I’ll take her to the ambulance.”
Soon enough the people inside were rescued and the robbers were apprehended, money and gold were returned. However it did not end without any casualties even for our deities.
“Ah geez, that hurt.” The golden eyed female muttered as she wiped away her left cheek that continued bleeding. “It stings.”
“Sorry, can’t do anything about that.” The fourth existence spoke. “You’ll regenerate anyway.”
“Yeah, I know.” The golden eyed turned around only to find a curious pair of brown orbs looking at her. “Why are you still here?” She frowned as she gritted her teeth.
“I… want to know…” Takahashi Ai spoke. “Who you are… What I am to you… and why you keep on appearing…?”
The golden eyed female just looked at her, with a glare. She closed her hands into a fist and tight enough to make her hands bleed, as she held Ai’s neck with her free and bloodless hand and immediately captured her lips into a fierce kiss.
It was wild. Accidentally one of her fangs sunk into Ai’s lower lip making it bleed, sending the other female moaning as blood dripped into the golden eyed females mouth. She immediately pushed Ai away, and turned around.
“…Take care of yourself.” She muttered before disappearing into thin air.
The rest looked at each other, bid Ai goodbye and left as well.
“I thought you wouldn’t do that again.” The white haired female asked. “I thought you wou—“
“It was an accident.” The golden eyed female gritted her teeth as her eyes blinked from gold to red, fangs showing. “It was an accident…”
“Gaki-san…” The three people said as they watched her stop herself from slightly transforming into a different entity.
Ai sat up from her bed, completely sweating as the birds chirped outside her window. She moved a finger over her lower lip and saw blood.
“It… it was real…”(Chapter 2/END)
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