A young man with dark brown wavy hair and black colour eyes, standing in a middle of a dessert. He finds himself wonder in confusion but his face show no sign of facial expression. He turns his head around to see if there's anyone else around him. But he found nothing, it was a flat surface dessert with nothing but a sky, clouds and sand. Not even a bird, or even a cactus. It takes a moment before he finally wakes from his sleep, it was a dream after all. He founds himself sleeping in his class while everyone else was minding their business.
"..What an odd dream. Strange, I felt like I've been there before. A dessert with nothing. It feels unreal yet reminds me of something.. something I may forgotten long ago."
"Well, It could be something unimportant. It doesn't matter. I don't want to think about it too much."
Larry mumbles to himself in his head while looking at the window expressionlessly. The sunlight hits his face for a moment and he close both of his eyes before open his eyes again when the sunlight hit somewhere else. It was quite. It's not unusual for Larry, since his entire life has always been quite.
Suddenly, the front door of the class slide open, everyone rush over into their own seat as a teacher came in with a bunch of books in his arm as he walks slowly to his desk. It takes a moment before he place the books on the desk and walk over the middle of the class. He clap both of his hand to get everyone attention.
"Class, I have an announcement to make. It appears that there will be a new student coming in this school today. And the school has arranged that the girl will be place in this class. I hope everyone will treat her well and befriend with her for the least."
The teacher says in calmly before he turns his head over the front door and gestures his hand to someone outside. It takes a moment before a girl with dark blue hair enter the class. Her expression is filled with excitement as a small smile visible all over her face. She walk over the middle of the class as the teacher moved aside to his desk to give her a space. It takes a moment before the girl speaks.
"..U-umm.."
She looks down on the floor shyly before taking a deep breath and turn his face back to the whole class in front of her.
"My name's Haru Michael!"
She speaks loudly with a wide smile over her face. It was visible that her ear turns pink out of embarrassment. She turns her head to the teacher. The teacher looks at the girl with a smirk. Amused by her introduction. He turns his head over the whole class, looking for an empty seats.
"There,that's your seat"
He pointed to an empty seats next to Larry. The girl takes a moment before starts walking over her seats excitedly, as she arrived in her seat, she placed her bag next to her table and sat down. She glances over her side before looking at Larry. She stare at her curiously and tilt her head to the side. She then looks back at the front as the teacher begins to teach his maths class.
The bell has rang as a sign that class has ended, as everyone pack their books and walks their way to home. Larry usually waits for his entire class to go home first and become the last person to leave the class. He packs his bag and walks outside of the school. It has been a several minutes after he leaves the school and he takes a moment to enter a supermarket. He walks over to the drinks site and pick a can of his favourite soda. He occasionally repeat this routine whenever he had enough money. he continue to walks over the town of George, a town which he was born in with a can of soda in his hand, he stops for a while to open the can of soda before placing it into his mouth and drinks it.
It appears Infront of him, the dark blue hair girl was getting harassed by two guys. A senior from the same school. He shrugged his own shoulder before continue walking. Unintended to be involved. Before he heard a scream coming from one of the guys. Larry turn around and saw that one of the guys nose is bleeding as tears goes out from his eyes. It appears that the blood was caused by the girl. The two of them retreat and runs away from the girl. She looks at the guys with an apologetic expression before she glances around and our eyes met. She looks at me curiously as a smile slowly appearing from her face. Just as he turn around, she already starts running towards him. She grab the hem of my clothes before I could walk away. He turn his face over the girl as she looks up at him with a smile.
"..Do you need something?"
Larry speaks to her emotionlessly
"I..I saw you."
Larry looks at her with confusion although his face remains emotionless
She couldn't figure out a words to say anymore. The girl with dark blue hair then grab his hand and starts walking in a rush. She's strongly grip on his hand as she continues to walk over a forest. She dragged him all around the bushes and trees. I wonder where she's dragging me into but I couldn't speak a word. She then stop in front of a what appears to be a cave. Strange. Weird. I never knew there's a cave before. It begins to darken as she continues to pulls him inside the cave further, but eventually a pair of torches appears as she continues to walk further. There is a tent, with a black curtain at the entrance, she pulled the curtain to the side as a figure appears from the dark within the tent. She wears a Black clothes with a black cover over her face. She was sitting in a chair with a table Infront of her, and on top of it is a big round crystal ball that usually used by most fortune teller.
"..I have been waiting for the two of you. Your presence here now will be read. Your future will be reveal piece by piece. From here on will be the start of the story."
The figures speaks quietly as she pull off the black cover from her face.
"I am your Fortune Teller.."
She speaks quietly yet her voice could possibly be heard a miles away.
Haru turns her head and look at him excitedly as she begin to speak
"I-i had a dream.. I saw you, and we both goes to meet with the fortune teller right at this place."
"Well, that's surprising."
Larry mutter to himself in his head again.
"That appears to be true.. I am Alyeshia Korsavnoss. But you can call me Alye."
"And I am from that dream of yours."
She speaks softly before placing both of her hand above the crystals ball. She slowly close her eyes as she begins to speak a word. A word that appears to be a spell as the crystals ball slowly starts glowing. She then turns her face to look at the two of them
"..Would you mind to listen a story?"
She asked softly
Haru turns her head over Larry and Alye at the same time. Before slamming her hand on the table excitedly. She lean her face close to the fortune teller with a excitement all over her face as Larry stand next to her indifferently.
Alye then push the dark blue hair girl face away from her as she begins to speak again.
"There's once a girl. A girl who dreamt to become an angel. A girl who suffers through hardship of the world. Yet. The girl still treated others kindly. Yet others despise her. She once killed a snake. It is for the sake of others. She was bitten and venom starts moving within her. She's dying. As she died. She became beautiful. Pure. She had became and angel. She wonders to herself if she can goes back to the human world. She begins to gather courage. And begins to flip her wings as she drop herself from the clouds. As she slowly reaches the human world. Each feather from her wings slowly starts falling. As she continues to keep going. One and another feather continues to fall from there wings. Before she realised it, she no longer has a wing on her back. As she fall into the human world. Her life as an angel. Her dream was wasted meaninglessly. Her body on the ground is lifeless and only be waiting for someone to pick her up again. Even if she's no longer exist."
Haru begins to cry. Tears starts dropping from her eyes as she continues to cry
"W.. why would she do that..??!"
She speaks as tears continue to fall down over her cheeks
Larry begins to think to himself about the story.
"What exactly is the story trying to tell? What's the point of her becoming an angel if it was only for her to fly back into the human world?"
"..."
Larry continues to think to himself. He was deeply in his own thoughts.
"There is another story... Would you be interested to listen?"
She asks as Haru begins to nods her head repeatedly while wiping a tears from her face
"There once was a bird, proud and high in the trees.
He believed himself immortal—above death, above change.
One day, a feather fell.
Then another.
But the bird said nothing.
He watched himself fall apart, one plume at a time.
Until no wings remained.
And yet he sat.
He waited for the wind to lift him.
But the wind never came.
As he slowly dies alone."
Haru then starts crying again over the story that was told. Her eyes starts puffing and her cheeks goes red as she repeatedly wiping off the tears coming out from her eyes.
".."
Larry wonder to himself. He realises that the story is not simply just to the told. It could be a hint. A riddle. It could also be a foreshadow. For both himself and the girl with dark blue hair.
He didn't want to think too much of it.
Alye then slowly rises one of her hand towards the two of them. Before speaking in a soft yet demanding tone.
"Pay."
As the girl looks over Larry. He then turns his face away from her, avoiding her gaze.
Surprisingly, Haru lends out her pocket money. And dropped all of her savings on the table. It wasn't much. Only three sheets of money while she continue to wipe off tears from her face.
Larry looks at her expressionlessly and baffled by her actions.
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In the other part of a town, a group of man wearing a black clothing with a hoodie that cover their faces. With one of them wearing a red clothing, leading them over the tall grass. Reaching to an old house.
A sound of door was open as the group of man walks over to the owner of the house.
They circled the old man who is sleeping on the rocking chair
It tooks a moment as the group stares at him before the red clothing men begins to read a spell from a book. The moment he stop reading the spell. The group all together pull out a knife at the same time.
And slowly, the red clothing men pulls out his own knife as the group then stab the old man together, all over his body at the same time. The old man open his eyes in shocked and desperately tried to escape but couldn't do anything as the each knives pierced through his skin. Then, a bunch of blood begins to drop beneath the rocking chair.
As the sky starts darken and the day is coming to an end for the night to arrive.