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Chapter 39: Date Ikki took me for lunch at a lavishly decorated restaurant downtown. Over lunch, I provided an explanation of the rest of my group's jobs. After that, he brought me home in time to catch Alexis leaving for her job. "Let's tag along." he nudged me. We walked up to her. "Tag along? Sure." she muttered and we followed her into a large building right beside the restaurant we ate in earlier. She took us through a long corridor and through a door. I blinked. We had just entered a dazzling room with a long stage up the middle of it and rows of seats surrounding the stage in a U-shaped formation. "Miss Alexis, you're right on schedule. Go get yourself dressed up." a short, stocky man in a black coat made note of our entry and Alexis hurried off into a door labeled "Changing Room". "Are you two her guests?" the man asked Ikki and me. We nodded and he pointed at a few seats in the rear of the room. People continued to enter the room until all the seats were full. After that, the lights dimmed and bright spotlights were pointed at the stage. "Welcome to......" an emcee got up onto the stage. We ignored the rest of his speech, it was too boring. Ikki brought out a Playstation Portable and started thumbing away on it. A few minutes later, the emcee left the stage after announcing that the show was about to begin. Ikki put his PSP back in his Blue Arzuna and sat back to watch. First, a red-headed girl wearing a flowery overall swimsuit walked out onto the stage and took a few poses for the cameras. Next, another girl walked out in a swimsuit that I recognized as the one in the picture Alexis had showed me. I wondered why she wasn't wearing it. A few members of the audience leaned in for a closer look, not including Ikki. He was just leaning back. More girls walked out one by one, in swimsuits of varying types, colours and thickness. Several people got nosebleeds after seeing a girl wearing a half-transparent one. Finally, Alexis walked out, the last of them all. She was wearing a smile that I could clearly see, wasn't sincere. She was wearing a bikini and a bra that was the same colour as her skin, only they seemed metallic. She took a few poses, then walked back in. Apparently, she was the last one, for people were already standing up to leave. Alexis wasn't happy when she joined us outside. "They made me wear that other one." she murmured. The sky was already darkening. "Let's get you two home." Ikki smiled and grabbed our hands. For a moment, I saw Alexis's cheeks turn red. What the heck? He hailed a taxi and insisted on Alexis going in first. She hesitated for a split second, then climbed in. Ikki told the driver where to go to, and whispered something I couldn't hear in his ear. The driver nodded and Ikki suddenly slammed the passenger door shut. "Huh?" I looked at him curiously. "I'll walk you home again." he winked at me as the taxi drove off with Alexis banging on the windows. The route Ikki took me lead to our house all right, but he took a wrong turn. "You're going the wrong way." I pointed out. He just hushed me and brought me into a small house. I followed without complaint, wondering what was going on. The house was rather shabby. I wondered why Ikki, who I always thought to be rich, lived in a place like this. He pushed me upstairs into a bedroom, closed and locked the door. "What?" I stared at him. He forced me onto the bed and pinned my arms. "Isn't it a little too early for......" I was cut off by the glint in his eyes. Something was not right. He grabbed a dagger and started to hack away at the Blue Armis he bought me. "What are you doing!? Help!" I screamed. "No one can hear you. This room is completely soundproof." Ikki breathed. The only shred of clothing left on me was the wing-shaped leather shoulder part of the Blue Armis, which I just realized, had a jewel on it that was glinting strangely. Suddenly, it hit me. "This is......" I tried to reach a hand to it, but my arms wouldn't move! "Akasha Charms work wonders eh?" Ikki smiled dangerously. "You're not Ikki!" I shouted. "Damn right you are. I killed the real Ikki days ago." he laughed. "Now, for the final stage of the plan." he started to lower his body...... onto mine. He plunged an ethereal hand into my chest. "Thats..." my eyes widened in horror. His hand touched my heart, and I felt something being slipped into it. The next thing I knew, I was screaming at the top of my lungs, screaming in a voice that wasn't mine. Pain blazed through my entire body. My skin started to turn black. Blood burst out of my back as a pair of new, black, demonlike wings erupted out of my back. My fingernails sharpened and became claws. My eyes became red. "Arise, Queen of demons, Dark Angel." the fake Ikki breathed as I got to my feet, a completely different person. I took one look at myself and gave a terrific roar that echoed throughout the night sky and brought the house tumbling down. A single mental thought of Shield created a magical barrier that caused rubble to disintegrate on impact. A single flap of my wings allowed me to soar into the air. I was...... The Dark Angel. |
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