Aspiring Dreams

A young woman heard a scream coming from a distance then it was all the sudden quiet. “Comet, did you hear that…scream?” she asked quietly while listening intently for any more sounds. Her companion turned her head in the direction it came from. “Ooo, somebody is dying! Let’s go watch, Aikou. I’ve been waiting for awhile to see something like this.” Aikou shook her head then pulled her night hair up while leaving the white streak down. “Well, let’s go then. I am rather bored myself.” Comet hopped down from her perch in a tree then ran.

Moments later they arrived in a grassy clearing and found what they thought was the source of the noise. “Awe… They’re already dead,” Comet said disappointedly. Aikou knelt down beside the lavender haired man and studied him closely. She was almost afraid to touch him because he seemed like a delicate porcelain doll that would break under her touch. She wouldn’t dare call him an angel. They were forbidden in her realm. Aikou placed a bronzed hand on his pale cheek and found it to be soft and smooth. She moved her hand to his hair and ran her fingers through it. It felt like the finest silk she had ever touched.

“Aikou… Hello!” Comet said while waving a hand in front of her face. “Hello… Earth to Aikou!” She pretended for a moment not to hear Comet. She looked over at his friend and was satisfied enough to see him breathing then looked back at the man. Aikou saw something sticking out of his back pocket and took it out. She flipped it open and found something that had his picture along with a bunch of other information about him. “Alex…” Comet snatched the wallet out of her hand. “Yay! Stuff!” Aikou looked at her hand then Comet then back at her hand again. “That is not yours,” Aikou said stiffly. Comet shrugged her shoulders. “So… It’s mine now. Plus why does he need it…he is already dead.” Aikou shook her head while wagging a finger. “Quite the contrary. Comet, they are still very much alive.” Comet groaned. “First, I thought they were dying then I am disappointed when I get here and they are dead. Now you’re telling me that they are not. Well, if you want the job done right then you are going to have to do it yourself.”

Aikou stood up and said, “Don’t you dare!” Comet backed away only slightly while Aikou sat back down beside Alexiel. “If you are in that kind of mood then just go kill a demon of no real importance,” she said in an off-hand manner. Comet plopped down beside Aikou while keeping her arms crossed. “That gets so old,” she said with a sigh then groaned again. “It is rare to kill something different and steal from them.” Aikou’s brow furrowed as she looked at Comet. “I don’t see why. You should know as well as I do that our world coexists with the human world quite often. A few are even misplaced here and end up in their deaths during that time. Very few ever make it back because of certain demons like you, but I’m surprise you want to kill them when you are a third yourself.”

Comet looked at Alexiel beside Aikou and became skeptical. “Well, I’m not too sure on purple boy. He almost looks like…” Comet didn’t get the chance to finish her sentence for Aikou had forcefully placed a hand on Comet’s mouth. She in turn bit Aikou’s hand till blood was drawn, but Aikou kept her hand there. “Don’t you dare speak that word. You know it is forbidden, that we would have to fend the demons that heard you to protect these two humans,” Aikou muttered in a harsh tone. Comet glowered at Aikou while she ripped Aikou’s hand from her mouth. “And yes, Alex is a human.”

“Alex is purple boy’s name?” Comet asked while her friend merely nodded. “Hmm… Strange name. ” Aikou looked at her bleeding hand then clenched it close. She pulled the ribbon out of her hair then wrapped it around her hand and tied it tightly. She glanced at Alexiel again. She couldn’t help it. She was captivated by his beauty. “Comet, I suggest we take them back to your home because… What are you humming?” Aikou said. Comet put her arms behind her back and tried to look innocent. “Nothing,” she answered. Aikou narrowed her eyes. They glinted with suspicion under the metallic red sheen they held momentarily. She had this feeling deep inside that Comet was testing her. “What are you humming?” she demanded while standing up. She had Alexiel half way off the ground when Comet answered in a shout. “Angel!” Aikou dropped Alexiel then jerked Comet by the arm. Comet may have been taller than her by a long shot, but to her size did not matter. She wanted to beat Comet senseless, but decided that may not be for the best.

“What the hell is wrong with you?” she inquired. Comet threw her arms up innocently and shrugged her shoulders. “Well, you know you told me to go find something else to kill since you forbid me from Alex and his little buddy so…I made it easy for myself with your help.” Comet chuckled as Aikou’s face turned a faint red color. “My…help…” Aikou said brokenly. Comet nodded. “Yeah, see I knew you would ask me what I was doing so I started humming and when you asked I made up that I was humming the word.” Aikou glared at Comet then shoved her away. “User,” she muttered. Comet laughed.

Aikou ran over to Alexiel while pulling out her sword. She knew she made it just in time when she heard a clang. She rested her head on the hilt of her sword and let a breath out slowly. “Aikou!” Comet ran over then narrowed her eyes at the new arrival. Aikou lifted her head and saw her ‘suitor’. “Hiroshi!” she breathed. He knelt on one knee then said, “My fair Lady, had I known it was you I wouldn’t have dared attack.” Comet glared at Hiroshi with a certain loathing feeling. Hiroshi held out a hand, but Aikou smacked it away. “I can get up by myself perfectly fine,” she muttered then stood up. She slipped the sword back in its sheath then looked at Comet. “We need to get Alex and his friend to safety before anymore unwanted company comes,” Aikou said while eying Hiroshi with disgust.

“My Lady, allow me to offer my services,” he said. Aikou had Alexiel on her back then turned toward Hiroshi and said, “I do not need your services, Hiro. Now leave me be.” Her voice was cold and stiff with the authority she held over him. He may be a prince of his clan, but he was weak when it came to his feelings for her. She walked away in the direction of Comet’s home. He rather disdained the use of his nickname. He found it to be disrespectful even through the very few times he heard it, but Aikou was the only one that spoke it. He never understood why she did. He figured she knew it bothered him.

He wanted to disregard her order, but at the same time he wanted to serve her. He bent down and picked up the other human then threw him over his shoulder. “What part of she doesn’t need you help, don’t you get?” Hiroshi left her standing there without an answer. “Hey! I am talking to you! Don’t you dare walk away from me! You come back here or I’ll gouge your eyeballs out!” Hiroshi didn’t stop for one moment. “Should I care?” he asked. “Without Aikou as my wife, my life is pointless.” His voice sounded defeated.

Comet couldn’t figure him out. She couldn’t understand why he persisted on pursuing Aikou after the many rejections she has given him over the past five hundred and twenty-eight years. “Hey, wait for me!” she called after him then ran after him. “Explain something to me.” Comet looked up at him. He did not avert his gaze in her direction. “What must I explain to you?” he asked gruffly. Comet’s brow furrowed while she grew frustrated. At one point in time she thought she had him figured out, but she just now discovered that she didn’t. She hated him and wanted to kill him, but couldn’t. There was a certain code that all clans had to follow. Once you were in a treaty then you had to remain in it and that meant you could not kill their leader. “Why do you continue to pursue Aikou? She has refused you at every corner yet you keep holding on, why?” She stopped while he took a few more steps then stopped as well. Hiroshi turned around and looked at her straight in the eyes.

He let out a breath slowly. “You want to know why I have persisted on never letting up on my proposals?” Comet nodded while he set Toku down. “My feelings for her are genuine. I wish for her not to fall into the wrong hands and what I mean by that is the one that does not love her, the one that would hurt her. I would protect her in anyway I could. I do respect her in the highest degree,” he said. “Her power amazes me so, impresses me. She is so…so beautiful. Her skill an art for many to envy. She is the only demoness I desire and I will never stop until I have her. The feelings I have for her I guess you could say that… I love her.” He whispered the last three words. “You know what?” she said. He gave her a puzzled look. “You’re gonna die.” She walked off while he merely shrugged his shoulders. “I don’t care. You could go ahead and try,” he muttered. He picked Toku back up and placed him on his shoulder again then continued on.