Fan Fiction ❯ Hybrid Genesis -God Legacy Saga- ❯ Monster ( Chapter 2 )

Monster

Is this really strange or what? I think I'm actually uploading two chapters at once... Don't get used to it. I personally think I update and upload more chapters, faster than most other authors. I write a lot. It just goes to show you, I have no life *hangs head*

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Chaos: I have no life.

Croix: So?

Axis: *yawn* Nothing new.

Chaos: ... Right... *walks away dejectedly*

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Seks yawned, fighting to keep his eyes open. The girl stirred and he became instantly awake. Garreth was asleep in the chair, his mouth hanging open as he snored. Seks crawled across the floor to the couch. The girl blinked her eyes open and stretched. She then froze as if noticing she wasn't where she thought she was. She sat up slowly and looked around. When she saw Seks, she let out a squeak of fear.

"I'm not going to hurt you!" Seks said quickly. "Don't be afraid! Are you okay? You're not hurt are you?"

The girl shook her head no. She then looked at her clothes and inspected herself. "W-Where am I?" she finally asked.

"You're at Garreth's house..." Seks pointed to the sleeping Garreth. "Him."

"Oh." The girl said, straightening her dirty dress and coughing slightly. She rubbed her throat, staring at Seks' blanket clothing. "I'm a little thirsty..."

"Oh, oh! Um, I don't know where anything is around here..." Seks stood up dutifully and looked around the kitchen for a glass or something to drink.

His tail wagged slightly before it paused. Seks' ears twitched, and he turned swiftly. The girl was inching towards the door. She froze when she saw Seks looking at her. Seks set the cup he had found down on the counter. She stayed right where she was, as if she was afraid to move just an inch...

Garreth snorted and rolled over, falling off the chair. He remained asleep. Seks' arm twitched and he looked away. "You can leave if you want. I just thought you might want to rest or something..."

The girl opened the door and looked out at the night sky. "I... Who are you?"

Seks sighed, his wings folded behind him so they were as small as possible in the tiny kitchen. Even so, he managed to bump into the wall across the room from him. It was a very small kitchen and he had large wings. He poured her a glass of soda, and walked to her. He handed it to her and she took it warily.

"I don't know who I am... I'm Croix's pet." he said finally.

"Who's Croix?"

"He's not here right now..." Seks said with a sigh. "I haven't seen him in a while actually. It seems like whenever I see him..."

"What do you mean by pet?" the girl asked, sniffing the glass.

"I'm a hybrid!" Seks said proudly.

"Hybrid? What is that?"

Seks gave a brief explanation on what he was sure a hybrid was. He wasn't really all that clear on it himself. Garreth blinked his eyes open and pulled himself off the floor. "Is she...? Oh look..."

"What's your name?" Seks asked, ignoring the groggy Garreth.

"D... Dorothy." the girl said finally. "Call me Dotty."

"Dotty?" Seks asked, cocking his head to the side. "That's a little weird."

"Well, it's better than having no name." the girl said harshly. She set the cup down and Garreth took it sleepily.

"Whazzis?" he mumbled taking a sip.

Dorothy backed a little away from Garreth and a little closer to Seks. "So you're from the real world."

"Yes. Aren't you?"

"Well, I was... A long time ago. Just when the game was released."

"Oh wow. That's a long time ago!"

"I said it was." Dorothy said snottily, shaking her long dark hair behind her.

Seks looked at Garreth who seemed to be writhing around on the floor. He walked over and helped Garreth up. Garreth ran his fingers through his hair a few times and shook his head. Seks watched him curiously.

"I'm okay..." Garreth said finally, looking at Seks a moment and then to Dorothy. "Who is she?"

"She's Dorothy. But she says to call her Dotty."

Garreth raised an eyebrow. "Really, Dotty. So why were you at the Orien Mansion last night?"

The girl blushed darkly. "That's none of your business."

"Were you stealing?"

"No!" The girl shouted angrily. She turned away and crossed her arms over her chest. "I am not a thief... Like you are!"

Garreth growled. "Excuse me?!"

Dorothy walked to Seks and latched herself to his arm. "You're a thief. I saw you trying to steal from the mansion. I could have you arrested."

"Arrested?!" Garreth shouted, climbing over the couch clumsily. "How dare you. I could have you arrested!"

"You could not!" Dorothy snarled, a bit of panic rising in her voice. "I am not a thief."

"You have no proof that I am either." Garreth stated coldly.

"I saw you."

"That's no proof."

Seks felt a headache swiftly approaching. He tried to sneak away, but Dorothy had an iron grip no his arm and wasn't about to let go. Finally he snapped his wings back full length and cringed as he heard the tinkle of breaking glass. Garreth stopped his rage for a moment to look at what happened.

"There's proof!" Dorothy crowed triumphantly, pointing to a broken glass angel with rubies and sapphires within the broken glass. "That's from the Orien Mansion!"

"How do you know?" Garreth growled defensively.

"Shut up please..." Seks said in a tense voice.

"I saw it there, and I know the police and the Orien's will recognize it!"

"You could have stolen it and placed it there!" Garreth insisted.

"No way! I'm just a lady!"

"Lady?!"

"SHUT UP!" Seks shouted, his voice rumbling throughout the house. Garreth and Dorothy were quiet immediately. Seks silently rejoiced. He pulled himself from Dorothy's grasp and stalked away, holding his aching head.

//So tired...//

"Awake, finally." Nieni said boredly.

Croix waited a moment for the room to stop spinning. He looked over to Nieni. She was still standing by the windows, but it was night outside and the raining had stopped. "How long was I asleep?" Croix mumbled.

"Long enough."

"Where am I?"

Nieni sighed. "You don't remember? The game?"

"Oh... I remember..."

"Hoping it would just be a bad dream?" Nieni asked curiously.

"Perhaps." Croix said, pulling himself out from under the covers. He hadn't remembered being under them before he fell asleep.

"Time to go."

"... Where?!" Croix asked, wondering if Nieni was going crazy again.

"You'll see."

"I'm not going anywhere. It's night."

"Precisely. We need to buy some stuff. This city we're in is going to get us nowhere. We need some weapons and armor..."

"At night?! Are they even open now?"

"Probably not."

"Then how are we going to get in?" Croix asked. Nieni looked at him as if he were stupid. "... How are we going to pay?"

Nieni smiled secretively. "We're not. Come on idiot, let's go."

"I don't want to do that, we could go to jail!"

"Like they're going to catch us!" Nieni cackled. She grabbed his hand and dragged him out of the room and down the stairs.

"You know, I can't help but feel that this is still so wrong." Croix murmured as they walked away from the dark hotel.

"Are you going to do this or not?" Nieni hissed.

"I should just leave this to you. I don't want to be here."

"Oh shut up. We need to get out of this place. I'm not staying here. Don't you want to get out of this stupid game?"

"Yes..."

"Then we have to beat the stupid game."

"... I don't want to beat the stupid game, I just want to get out of the stupid game!" Croix growled.

"You have to beat the stupid game if you want to get out of this stupid game, and I'm not going to repeat the stupid instructions to you! So shut up, stupid!"

"..."

Nieni looked away as if she were going to laugh. A few minutes later, Croix saw someone walking up to them. He had spiky red hair and Nieni seemed to know him. Croix leaned against the cool brick of the building they were near, waiting for the guy to come closer. He walked right up to Nieni and she stared at him a moment before looking to Croix.

"Okay Croix, this is Nite, and Nite, this is Croix." she said.

Croix looked over at Nite. If he looked too hard to figure out what he looked like, Nite wasn't there. But, if he relaxed his eyes and looked at him sort of drunkenly, Nite was there. It was very odd, and Croix wished that he was somewhere else. He held out a hand to Nite, but couldn't really find where Nite's hand was. It was tricky with the relaxed eyes kind of sight thing.

Croix settled on a little bow. "Nice to meet you." he said awkwardly. Nite raised an eyebrow but said nothing.

//Do they know? Will they find out? What's going to happen to me?//

Dorothy looked at the clock, watching the second hand go around and around... "I wonder... I don't know them... Can I tell...?"

Seks was staring out the door looking at the sky. "I don't know. It really looks like the sky in the real world, but it's different somehow."

"How is it different?" Garreth was asking. He was sitting out on the lawn with a soda in one hand while he stared at the sky.

"It's just different." Seks murmured. He walked out onto the lawn, feeling the wetness of the grass against his bare feet. His tail twitched angrily from beneath the blanket.

Garreth kept looking at the stars, refusing to look at Seks' messy hair that still hadn't fully dried and the bare chest. The more he thought of it, the more he felt he had to explain. "We'll go shopping tomorrow for clothes."

"Hm?" Seks said absently.

Garreth chanced a look over at Seks. He stared at the silver-haired hybrid. He seemed to glow under the moon and stars. The sky was so clear from the rain, not a cloud in sight. He forgot everything he was about to say, and stuttered a moment. "N-Nothing..."

Seks smiled wryly. "I wonder where Croix is."

Garreth chuckled darkly. He looked away from Seks to the sky again and then to the grass by his hand. His fingers ripped the grass from the ground, letting the slight breeze whisk the mutilated strands from his palm and away.

"Right..." he murmured softly. "The real world..."

//I want to go to the real world too...//

Dorothy stood slowly and walked to the door where Seks had been just a few minutes before. She stared at the two figures out on the lawn. Her gaze drifted to the hybrid. "If he came back with me... I could... With him... Maybe it would be all okay again..."

She felt fingers tightening around her dress, and looked down. Her hands were clenched into fists around her chest. She almost ripped her dress. She looked back to the hybrid that stood gazing up at the stars. Her eyes narrowed dangerously for a moment before they softened and she sank to her knees on the cold wooden floor. Three tears dripped silently down her face and she cried softly.

//If only...//

Croix looked at Nieni. It was much easier to look at her than Nite. After looking at Nite for a while, his eyes started to hurt. Nieni skipped along the sidewalk. Nite followed, carrying various weapons. He didn't look very happy with it. Croix was carrying a sword that he hoped he wouldn't have to use. He really didn't want to have to defend himself. He was pretty sure that wouldn't go so good.

Nieni hung onto Nite's hand. They were approaching the city borders. "Do we have to do this at night?" Croix asked for the last time.

"Why not?" Nieni asked cheerfully.

"... Nevermind." Croix muttered.

After a few more minutes of walking, Croix heard Nieni let out a giggle. "Ooh, monster up ahead..."