Rated 17 For: Violence,  strong language, blood, action, and an explosion scene w/ injuries 

1

You don't know me, and I don't know you: Keep it that way. 

Most of this, you're not going to believe, but it happened. 

I don't live like most people do, and neither do my three roommates. 

We're... 

well, the less said the better, right now. 

Let's just say this: when we soar, we do it literally.

We don't have easy lives: never have, never will. Life just sucks that way sometimes, y'know?

 

2

I rolled over, staring up at the ceilinge: another day... another mess.

I sat up, stretching a kink out of my back, then scratched my hair, the spikes all squashed to one side from tossing and turning all night.

I slowly lowered my feet to the floor, still rubbing the sleep from my eyes, then shuffled off to the bathroom: It might have been 6 am, but ,as oldest, it was my job to get everyone up at a fairly decent hour.

I turned on the shower full blast, gasping at the sudden cold before the heater kicked on; nothing better than a hot shower on a chilly morning.

Washing my hair, I gently arched my shoulders, allowing my glossy black wing to unfurl a bit, the heated water feeling good on it.

After drying off, I threw on my favorite STFU @ GTFO shirt and some semi-clean jeans, then headed down the hall to get Sora up.

Edited March 5, 201411 yr by TheTimidLight

Kairi banged out of her room, her white dove wings still damp from the shower. 

They way we prepared our clothes to admit our wings required skill... and a box cutter. 

As jointed and flexiable as bird wings, we simply slit long tears, nearly invisable to the eye at first glance, up the back, allowing free movement of our wings. 

It was a hassle, but worth the effort. 

Kairi was busy rocking out, huge earbuds covering her delicate ears, so I just ignored her. 

Sora began doing stupid arm bends, his bones flexing under the thin flesh in a very un-muscular way. 

After the bacon was done, I put in some eggs, glancing out the window at the sun, as it rose high over the trees outside the house to slowly bathe the forest in light, the rays slanting through the trees like a scene in a Currier and Ives painting: all in all, very epic. 

"... let me go gravitttttyyyyyyyy!!!!! " Kairi screeched: pretty she may be, fantastic writer she may be...

singer she ain't. 

" Holy crap, Kairi: My ears! " Sora yelled, playfully swiping at her headbuds. 

" Ahhh!!! Molester!!! " Kairi giggled, running around the table as Sora chased her. 

" Guys, what the the heck, are you both THREE? " I snapped, as Sora knocked into me, scattering egg white on the counter. 

Sora sucked his thumb. " Ga ga goo goo. " 

" Hardy har har, Carrot Top needs to watch his back with that astounding humour, Sora. " I said, rolling my eyes. 

Sora cheerfully shot the double bird, and Kairi smacked him. 

Yeah: fun times. 

5 

Later that afternoon, Sora hogged the TV and sofa to watch a HOUSE quadruple feature, so Kairi played TWEWY music at top volume, screeching along to further annoy him. 

Finally losing it, I decided to cut out for a while, be by my self, just me and the clouds. 

I went outside, and snapped open my wing. 

The way we took off was kinda  interesting: we didn't just go " Up and away! " like Superman, but rather hopped into the air kinda, using our wings to catch the breeze, using the wind as a balstrade to literally walk into the air. 

Once in the air, we flapped our wings more bird-like, soaring on air currents intill we were high in the sky. 

I flapped my one wing ( Which did a good as job as two, maybe even better due to it being stronger to compensate for there being no other ), and walked into the air currents, soon soaring high above puffy white clouds, sunlight slanting beautifully around me as I soared higher and higher. 

Edited October 2, 201312 yr by TheTimidLight

More tomorrow. 

Kairi was busy rocking out, huge earbuds covering her delicate ears, so I just ignored her. 

Sora began doing stupid arm bends, his bones flexing under the thin flesh in a very un-muscular way. 

After the bacon was done, I put in some eggs, glancing out the window at the sun, as it rose high over the trees outside the house to slowly bathe the forest in light, the rays slanting through the trees like a scene in a Currier and Ives painting: all in all, very epic. 

"... let me go gravitttttyyyyyyyy!!!!! " Kairi screeched: pretty she may be, fantastic writer she may be...

singer she ain't. 

" Holy crap, Kairi: My ears! " Sora yelled, playfully swiping at her headbuds. 

" Ahhh!!! Molester!!! " Kairi giggled, running around the table as Sora chased her. 

" Guys, what the the heck, are you both THREE? " I snapped, as Sora knocked into me, scattering egg white on the counter. 

Sora sucked his thumb. " Ga ga goo goo. " 

" Hardy har har, Carrot Top needs to watch his back with that astounding humour, Sora. " I said, rolling my eyes. 

Sora cheerfully shot the double bird, and Kairi smacked him. 

Yeah: fun times. 

5 

Later that afternoon, Sora hogged the TV and sofa to watch a HOUSE quadruple feature, so Kairi played TWEWY music at top volume, screeching along to further annoy him. 

Finally losing it, I decided to cut out for a while, be by my self, just me and the clouds. 

I went outside, and snapped open my wing. 

The way we took off was kinda  interesting: we didn't just go " Up and away! " like Superman, but rather hopped into the air kinda, using our wings to catch the breeze, using the wind as a balstrade to literally walk into the air. 

Once in the air, we flapped our wings more bird-like, soaring on air currents intill we were high in the sky. 

I flapped my one wing ( Which did a good as job as two, maybe even better due to it being stronger to compensate for there being no other ), and walked into the air currents, soon soaring high above puffy white clouds, sunlight slanting beautifully around me as I soared higher and higher. 

Birds flew with me, probably convinced I was somehow their brethren, the clouds shifting and waning in beautiful patterns around me. 

It was so strangely peaceful, flying: a thing man was never meant to do, yet we could fly as free as birds, my little family and I could.

It almost made being a mutant a good thing, sometimes. 

Edited October 2, 201312 yr by TheTimidLight

6

The hunter poised in mid move, catching a fleeting glimpse of black feathers through the sparse trees above, moving too quickly to be anything else.

Raising their bow, they took aim... and fired.

7

A sudden TWAAAANG made me look down, but I saw nothing.

Just as suddenly, an arrow shot through my wing, tearing ligamints and cartlige as it sailed out the other side.

I fell, and I fell FAST.

Edited October 14, 201312 yr by TheTimidLight

8

The hunter watched her prey fall, a satisfied smirk on her delicate face, her un-naturaly red bow lips curved upwards beneath a straight now, and piercing green eyes.

A silver badge was pinned to her chest, and her red hair flowed over the red cape she wore.

Pulling up her wrist, the small cross-bow attached to it slid harmlessly into her sleeve, perfectly concealed beneath the fabric.

Whistling a little tune, she took off into the trees, lost amid the greenery in a few short seconds.

9

Time meant nothing: all that exsisted was pain, the clouds falling past me, and the ground slowly getting closer.

Why did this happen? i'd be a good whatever-the-Hell I was, why was I gonna die?

Time slowed to a dismal crawl, and the lyrics to THRILLER crazily ran through my head:

great, I was gonna die AND hear crappy music at the same time.

" welp, this day can officially be called a crap fest." I muttered, as I fell towards the grass below, leaving a trail of red in the air behind me that sparkeled prettily in the sunlight breaking through the clouds.

STORY ON MINOR HIATUS DUE TO WRITER BLOCK: PLEASE DO NOT DELETE!!!!

STORY ON MINOR HIATUS DUE TO WRITER BLOCK: PLEASE DO NOT DELETE!!!!

It's all good man take your time your story's looking good no need to ruin it by rushing looking foreward to how it's gonna go!!!

It's all good man take your time your story's looking good no need to ruin it by rushing looking foreward to how it's gonna go!!!

Thanks: I know a couple of my fan fics got abandoned ( ), but this one just needs some thought gathering for the next devolpement.

It WILL continue, I swear.

10

The funny thing about staring death in the face is the crazy things that run through your head:

That time Kairi jumped off a cliff and broke her ankle crunching on the rocks after a slow take off

My first primary feather at 6

That dumb horror film we all watched last week

The fact I wondered about our past more than normal

clouds, pain, sorrow, loss....

Death.

I closed my eyes, feeling the Earth reach up to take me in a bone crunching embrace, preparing myself for the end, making my peace with what ever being ruled over bird-teens' lives...

All in all, it was an oddly peaceful feeling, dying:

really put everything in total perspective.

Memories floated past, tangling in a twisted chain that unfurled behind my eyes:

When Sora got the flu

When Kairi's kitten passed away

When I smashed my favorite DVD in a rage

Tears

Happiness

Joy

Loss.....

I smiled, as the air around me told me the ground was near: time to meet whatever governed the Earth.

11

" Where do you think he is?"

Sora looked up from his manga, slightly irritated: " Say whu now?"

Kairi rolled her eyes, staring out the window, cradling her thin arms close.

" Roxas. He's been gone for hours. "

She sighed, and a small tear ran down her delicate cheek, a sun beam illuminating it as it fell free of her chin to fall, crystalline, to the carpet.

" where are you...? "

 

 

 

 

 

 

( Special mention to whoever performed A VAMPIRE'S LULLABYE for musical inspiration for this chapter.)

Edited October 25, 201311 yr by TheTimidLight

12

I slammed into a tree, crashing through the branches hard and fast, tearing ligamints free of my wing as red splashed the feathery leaves around me.

God, why didn't I kiss Kairi that time... Wait.. what? I'm dying, and all I can think of is kissing. Roxas, you so sad...

I hit the earth hard with a " Ungh", all the air leaving me in a rush. I tried to flap my wings, but the pain was too great.

Suddenly, loudly, painfully, into my mind: ' ROXAS!!!"

13

Kairi fell to the floor, crying in joy, sadness, fear, and despair all at once.

" Roxas! He's.. I know where he is! "

 

 

 

 

( Sorry this was short. -_- More later on. Special mention to Emiko Shiratori, who's song Melodies Of life inspired this brief scene. )

14

"... A voice from the past, Joining.. join... goddamn, what comes next...?"

To pass the time intill my death or redemption, I sang all the songs I knew, from movies, books, video games... even, god save us, Baby by the Bieb, just to keep myself sane, as the hours crept by.

My wing soon began to feel faded, surely ruined forever by blood loss and ligament damage, but at least it didn't hurt anymore.

".. paths they did cross, though I can not say just... " I coughed, startling a passing bunny into running off into the bushes at top speed.

I laughed to myself, laying back to gaze up at the warm sun overhead, one my friend, now simply an annoying heat on my skin.

" Must... must be late for the queen's...Queen's croqet game." I wheezed; talking was becoming rather difficult lately...

".. see the birds as they fly by, gliding... gliding... gliding through whatever the Hell birds glide through!"

Indeed, two rather large birds were gliding through the clouds above me, flying high above like angels, soaring guardian angels...

I decided to show them I could sing, to prove I wasn't dead, not yet, anyways...

" Come circle 'round and grow deep..."

15

".. in our hearts.."

" Did you... did you hear that?"

Kairi's heart, fluttering in her chest since.... well, since whatever the Hell that weird CARRIE psycho-mess back there had been, skipped a beat, as the clear, high voice she knew so well floating through the trees, the green leaves seeming to sway in rhythm with the tune, strong and clear even without music to aid it.

".. adding up the layers, of harmony..."

" It's him! It's him! Sora... He's ALIVE! "

She quickly descended, her wings catching the light like an angel's, and guardian angel coming to save the one she finally allowed herself to admit she loved...

16

Wings... so graceful... white... like snowflakes in December....

Funny, cause it never snowed here.... wherever HERE was....

That was fuzzy... everything was: I knew I WAS , but I only lay on the earth, a timid yet living creature, stripped of whatever I once ...

So white... like an angel, like angel wings...

Wings... did I have wings...

No... only one... wow, was it bloody...

Did I get hurt...?

So white... like an angel...

Blackness, as the world fell away beneath me into a deep, dark, dreamless place, where I and only I exsisted.

17

The rabbit was certainly mad at me: I'd missed the stupid hedgehog when I'd swung my flamingo at it, and the Queen demanded to know why I'd stolen the tarts.

some part of me knew this was a dream, as the scene shifted, over and over..

Dreams? Or memories...

I didn't know, all I could do was float along this chain, this chain of unending memories, waiting for my return to life..

Dim pain registered somewhere in my mind, but was quickly discarded as unimportant, trivial.

I kept seeing white wings, as snow fell from somewhere above, quickly covering the shifting landscape of lost dreams, memories, and fears in a layer of soft whiteness, losing all that once was to that white, blank, desolate softness...

who was I? did anyone know?

I tried asking several figures that passed me by, dancing in some strange limbo, graceful, but disturbing, but they just ignored me, smiling vacantly as they faded away into the whiteness, along with everything else.

 " Roxas.... Ro...xassssss....."

Who was Roxas? What was this now....

I faded, I ran, I seemed to dissolve....

But I did not wake.

18

"... too much blood."

" Hmm, what?"

Sora smirked at me, his face a mask that hid his crazy fear that Roxas might die.

" Take out those goddamn headphones, and maybe you'll hear me better, Angel."

I fluttered my wings, indeed as soft white as a Rembrandt angel's, irritatedly.

" I'm scared... I listen to music when I'm scared. "

Sora softened, and I was startled to see a single tear, trickling sluggishly through stray dust on his smooth cheek, falling off his chin in a crystalline drop.

" I'm scared too. He's lost a lot of blood.. "

What Sora did next scared me: he let out a sob, his masculine tough-guy crap exterior shattering away as he held me in a hug.

" Oh, god, Kairi... what if he dies? I can't... I can't loose him."

I hugged back, my own foolish, burning tears added to his, as Roxas gasped, lost in the drift of his own mind.

" Me either.... Me either..."

Edited October 29, 201311 yr by TheTimidLight

19

".... horses prance through a silver storm..."

I can see them: black manes fluttering through rain as silver as a rain cloud, the beauty overwhelming.

"...figures dancing, gracefully..."

They did indeed, waltzing to an interior melody, waltzing above me.

Where was I?

Who was singing....

Kairi?

" And a song, someone sings... Once...onc.."

Crying? No, Kairi: it's ok, I'm here.

Aren't I?

Oh, god...

Am I....

dead?

" once upon a December....."

Edited November 7, 201311 yr by TheTimidLight

I walked into this expecting Sephiroth

I walked into this expecting Sephiroth

Sorry bout that.

I don't do FF stuff, 'cause I don't know enough about the mytho's of it.

And Seph's the ONE winged angel.

21

Sora wasn't normally squeamish when it came to blood; God knows there'd been enough of it over the years.

Seeing Roxas bleeding onto the couch, while Kairi sang any and every song she could think of after running her ipod battery down...

THAT was new.

He stared out of the window, his wings fluttering lightly, as he felt a single tear track down his cheek.

He couldn't loose him; not after Riku...

Not after Riku had abandoned them.

These guys are my family, my lifeblood; without them, I have, and am...

nothing.

Edited March 5, 201411 yr by TheTimidLight

22

He awoke, the sun shining through the dusty windows of the cabin, illuminating dancing dustmites in the air like escaped fairies.

He groaned, opening aqua marine eyes unwillingly to another day.

Sitting up, a quick glance at the clock told him nothing: it blinked 12:OO over and over again uselessly.

Padding to the bathroom, he took a long, hot shower, closing his eyes to feel the heat warm his cold flesh.

The night had been bad; the dreams again.

Always the dreams....

He dressed in his favorite " If I wanted your opinion, I'd remove the duct tape " shirt, as well as a pair of tattered blue jeans with the knees torn out.

Barefoot, he went outside, gazing up at the blue and gold sky of early morning above him.

 

Riku snapped open his long, silvery wings, and soared off.

Edited November 12, 201311 yr by TheTimidLight

Flying riku= instant win! >

Flying riku= instant win! >

IKR? 

Saw it on the cover of KH FM, and had to include it. 

( Except THAT Riku's wings were black.... ... I changed it to the idea of each wing colour representing the characters personality. )

23

Day... sun hitting his eyes like knives. 

" Oh, god...." 

Hang overs... ugh...

 

He sat up into a crumpeled, be technically upright position, stretched, and bumped his way to the dirty bathroom. 

While shaving the fine fuzz on his cheeks, he sliced the skin, red welling up in small droplettes against his tan to run down his check, inching towards his chin in a gory red line. 

This was distasteful to him, so he wiped it away, shivering in nothing but pyjama pants in front of the chipped mirror.

In the mercifally hot shower, he combed and washed his hair, gelling it into neat, orderly spikes, 

like he saw the guys do all the time at the local high school. 

Rinsing off with a towel, he flipped his black wings open; the red was so pretty against his primaries, so unusual...

even for Avian~Americans. 

Dressing in a PuppetMaster tee and faded jeans, he quickly did some squats. 

Squinting, Zack opened his front door, 

balanced carefully on the rail of his tiny apartments balcony, 

and jumped into the air. 

Edited November 26, 201311 yr by TheTimidLight

23

He soared, free and easy, watching the guys down below playing tag~football on a high school lawn, cars, and other daily life occuring on the streets below, flying free as a cloud above it all.

His silver hair whipped into his face, as Riku headed towards the woods, where he was meeting Angelica. 

A student at GFSU, Angelica loved Riku for who he was....

wings included.

She'd found out by accident: he'd invited her over, and as he was showering, her sexy " shower attack " led to her discovery of the silver feathered wings sprouting from his muscular shoulders, folding along the ridge of his back to hang near his shins, shiny feathers bright with care and health. 

 

Riku smiled, a leusiurely North bound breeze allowing him to coast: no one mattered more to him than Angelica. 

24.

" The moon!" 

Kairi sobbed, staring at Roxas as he shuddered violently, crying out and arching his back. 

" Sora! Come quick, oh god....no no no nonononononono..."

Was he dying? 

She reached out to try to sooth him, ease whatever was running through his mind, and he slapped her backhand, sending her sprawling. 

" Jesus Christ... Kari... godamn Kairi, pull it together.."

" So..so...Sora...." She sobbed, holding her knees and staring at Roxas with shinning eyes. 

" Godamnit...ok...ok..."

Sora knlet down, looking at her. " Kairi.... he is going to die if you don't help me."

" Unnghh!!!!!" Roxas moaned, arching upwards, blood drizzling from his wing.

" No..nonononono..." Kairi moaned, holding her knees and rocking forth. 

Sora slapped her hard, leaving a welt. " Don't you get it? He..is...going...to die! Pull your self the firetruck together and get over here and help me!" 

Kairi stood, shakey, but calmer. " W..what can I..."

" Get me something for his mouth, before he bites his damn tongue off!" 

As she hurried off, Sora stroked Roxas's face, brushing his hair away from his face. 

He lookede up, eyes focusing. " S..Sora...it...hur..hurt...."

" Shhh...it's ok.,... you're going to be ok...we just...we just have to..."

But he wasn't going to be ok: the blood wasn't clotting. 

Roxas was going to die. 

Edited February 12, 201411 yr by TheTimidLight

I love it but if roxas dies I'm gonna be extremely disappointed

Definitely a lot more verbal use then previously.

Definitely a lot more verbal use then previously.

Should I tone it down? D: 

I love it but if roxas dies I'm gonna be extremely disappointed

No worries: I just like being an ass and make my characters suffer.