Earthian Fan Fiction ❯ Artificial Lover ❯ Undercover ( Chapter 5 )

[ X - Adult: No readers under 18. Contains Graphic Adult Themes/Extreme violence. ]
Chapter Five: Undercover

The sun's rays preceded the sun itself through the clouds. The weak morning sunlight permeated the even weaker cloud layer, making it a little easier for Kagetsuya to see as he glided about as high as he could go without reaching the part of the atmosphere that didn't have much oxygen.

His wings were tired, the pure white now slightly tinted with gray from all of the pollutants in the air. He would add that to his list later. It wasn't for him to think about right now. With a strong gust of wind, he encountered a new jet stream and felt his already weakened wings buckle from their long trip. It didn't really matter though. There was no farther to go. The Family's facility(or, rather, what was left of it) was just below his now. Pulling up his dirtied wings, he felt himself fall out of the punishing jet stream. However, he had to straighten them again quickly, one cocked down further to the side than the other.

With eyes intent and shining, Kagetsuya circled down on the ruins where he, hopefully, would find his Chihaya.

-Just Below-

Messiah jittered and fretted in his seat. Chihaya and himself were still in the dilapidated building that held the supercomputer that had revived him. However, only he was awake. Chihaya was out cold, his chest tightly bandaged, though little dots of red still permeated the coverings to line out the places where the skin had been cut, punctured, and rendered unbleeding with a quick precision burn. Messiah held the small angel's hand and felt that eerie cold in the small fragile fingers.

He knew that Chihaya would be okay. There was a lot of blood, yes, but it wasn't as if Chihaya was being left to bleed to death. Looking up, Messiah saw the small plastic bag holding the blood that would slowly revive Chihaya back to what he was. His new wing, identical in every way to the one he had lost, lay folded around one small lax shoulder. The other, a little more ragged and much less sore, hung off the side of the table with the longest feather just nearly brushing the floor.

"Chihaya..." Messiah whispered, quietly kissing the young (or not so young, depending on your view of the whole thing) man's hand lightly and then holding it to his forehead as his mind ran off and fretted some more. It was a simple procedure, but everything could come with complications. Most things came with complications. Everything came with complications.

-Meanwhile-

Kagetsuya's wings shuddered as he reached the ground. He was really lucky that they had held out that long, but he was still disappointed in how quickly they had failed him. If they had given up just a mile or so before this point, he would be nearly dead and Chihaya would have been lost. It was simply unacceptable was what it was!

With quick sweeping glances, Kagetsuya took in the wreckage, already being eaten by the nearby forest. 'Good riddance,' Kagetsuya thought to himself after he established that no one was around. 'Now, to find Chihaya...'

Kagetsuya's long legs carried him quickly and efficiently through the left over facility. Not many buildings were intact enough that people could even get into them, so the search was already significantly slimmed down, but that didn't mean that Messiah might not catch wind of him and take off with Chihaya in his arms again. And with his wings in the condition they were? He wouldn't be able to go after them. Therefore, Kagetsuya's search was both scrupulous and low-key. Messiah mustn't see him coming.

Finally, just as Kagetsuya began to think that Messiah had already fled into the skies before he even showed up, or (worse yet) taken off into the impenetrable forest, the blond angel came to an almost fully intact laboratory in the center of the compound. Weak blue light emanated from within the dark recesses of the cubic building. However, within, nothing moved. Kagetsuya did not hear a single breath of life. And, then, there it was.

"Chihaya..."

He had heard it. He had heard it as clear as day from within this threatening falling down building. Messiah's voice. No point in holding back now...

"MESSIAH!" Kagetsuya screamed, slamming open the door. He had meant to go charging in and save Chihaya from whatever horrible act Messiah was performing to keep him so deathly quiet. Unfortunately, all he got was a foot in the face.

As soon as Kagetsuya had let loose his preemptive growl, Messiah had known he was there. He had unfolded his wings, propelled himself (feet first) towards the angel, and slammed a single foot into Kagetsuya's face, pinning him to the wall, all within a matter of seconds.

The clatter was phenomenal.

-Meanwhile, on the Gurney-

I was floating. I remember perfectly that I was floating at the bottom of the ocean. It was so very comfortable there underneath the world, hidden amongst the seaweed and the coral. However, I could feel the waters near the topped, warmed by the sun and the stars. So, thinking that I could back down if I got too close to the top, I let myself float higher. And higher. And higher. And then, I heard it.

"MESSIAH!"

Yep, that was Kagetsuya's voice alright, and I was five feet higher.

"You asshole! What are you doing here?" Messiah yells over some horrible clatter and nasty sounding skin-smacking sound. Ten feet higher now.

"What did you do to him, you Blasphemous Pratt?" I heard Kagetsuya cough around some strange obstruction of the throat. Fifteen feet higher.

"What you never could." It was said very quietly, but I heard it as if Messiah was whispering it into my ear. I was already at the surface. So much for the bottom of the ocean.

"YOU, YOU!" I heard Kagetsuya spat. No, I just didn't hear him spit it at Messiah, I saw him do it, with half his face pressed to the wall.

"Ah, Kagetsuya!" I yelled, bolting upright and yelling in a broken voice. They were fighting again, they were- Oh. Oh, that hurt. I fell back on the table just after I heard myself emit some sad little whimper. I was back in the ocean, but only an inch or so under this time.

"Chihaya! Chihaya, Chihaya, wake up!"

Now, I can't really tell you which one it was that was saying all of that. I kind of get the feeling it was kind of both of them. Kind of. I don't really know. When I opened my eyes, they were both staring down at me with worried expressions. It made me smile a little. They were worried about me. How cute.

"You two play nice, now..." I muttered, pinching one cheek each before nodding off. Not to the ocean this time, but to dreamland, where I could dance with mushroom, sing with sea cucumbers, and dance with potatoes.