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Chapter 6 - The Arrival of Flight

When I awake I see a new person in the room, a boy about the age of 19, he has ruffled white hair, and red eyes the color of dried blood. He is standing on the opposite side of the room, leaning against the wall watching me. I sit up and look over at him, and he stands up straight and steps toward me.

"Hey, Kieraieda, can I call you Kiera? I will call you Kiera," He starts speaking, not letting me answer, "So, um, Sayuna kinda told me to tell you that you cannot not... cannot not not? Cannot not not not? Cannot not not not not..." He starts drifting off into his own world of cannots and nots, completely oblivious to the fact that I am sitting right in front of him.

Slightly annoyed with his robot-like personality I start to head towards the door, but I feel a hand grab my left wrist, and with a sharp intake of breath, I snap my gaze to the one holding my wrist.

"Sayuna told me to tell you that you can't not not go outside this room. If you do that then you will dye, die, dye... umm... die! Yes, die, what a lovely word..." And within seconds he is back in his own little world of nonsensical phrases and words.

I slowly turn and head back to the chair and lie down, thinking of everything that happened to me before I pass out. It seems to me that I met my brother. But I don't remember ever having a brother. Slowly my mind starts to wander and within seconds I fall into a deep and peaceful sleep.

When I wake up I see three figures huddled together on the other side of the room discussing what seems like important matters. I get up and, rubbing the sleep out of my eyes, walk over to the three figures. Suddenly they stop speaking and they turn to face me. They are Omnisce, Sayuna, and the one boy.

"How was your rest, Kieraieda?" Omnisce asks me, her eye a dark purple, "You have been asleep for a couple of hours." The three of them look at me each with a look as if they know something I don't, and I were to guess it might have something to do with what technology really is.

"I mean I guess it was good?" I say question, not myself as much, but more of where this conversation is going. Suddenly, a brain-shattering pain overwhelms me, and within seconds pain is gone, and darkness overtakes me, and then I instantly regain consciousness. Unsure what just happened I look at Omnisce, but I see her shaking her head, her left eye light green.

"It is like we thought, you really have no idea," Her voice is full of pity, and she notions towards Sayuna. With that Sayuna starts to speak, but for some reason, I can't hear her, and I feel a slight tingling sensation in my back. The sensation starts off gentle and slowly intensifies into a furious itch, and then into excruciating pain. Within seconds I am on the ground screaming, unable to hide my pain. The pain feels like a rat borrowing inside me, ripping its way through me from the inside out, and then the pain resides. Slowly I get up and I see the three of them staring down at me.

"Are you alright? This doesn't seem normal," Sayuna inquires, her voice full of worry, But I am unable to speak, still weak from the eruption of pain, "Hey, Kamito, go get some water, Kieraieda doesn't look well." And the white-haired boy, Kamito, heads towards a doorway on the other side of the room.

After Sayuna and Omnisce carry me back to the chair, I lie down and close my eyes, and after a few minutes Kamito returns with a glass of water, he hands it to me and I attempt to take a sip, but before I get it to my mouth I lose feeling in my hand and I drop the glass, and it shatters on the hard-wood floor into millions of fragmented pieces.

Suddenly I can feel the gradual sensation return, and like before it starts off calm and erupts into excruciating pain, and I start to scream, all my energy draining from my body, and the pain in my back reaps me of my senses. And I feel something start to erupt from my back, it is very slow and painful, and I am unable to hide my horror. All of a sudden the pain fades away and I lie motionless, my vision unfocused, staring at the ceiling.

Very faintly I can hear the three talking but my mind is too secluded for me to understand what it is they are talking about. My consciousness slowly starts to fade, and my senses start to dissipate. Suddenly the pain returns, thousands of times worse than before, ripping through every fiber of my being, and instantly two large wings erupt from my back. One is demonic and is as black as the midnight sky, while the other is angelic and white like heaven's embrace. Pain gone, my vision fades into nothingness, and within mere moments everything is gone.

When I awake I see darkness, when I look around I see, well, more darkness. It is so dark I am unable to see if there is anyone in the room, I stand up and stretch my arms and legs and then I hear a crash, and a jolt of pain flares from my wings to my back. I make an attempt to move my wings, and with a single flap, I hear a lot more crashes.

Suddenly I hear the door open and light flows into the room, and I see Omnisce, her left eye blue. Within moments she bursts out laughing, and her eye flashes to a brilliant orange.

"Y-you destroyed everything of value in this room, faster than... Oh my god." She is unable to stop laughing, and I look at my wings curious as to why they wrought so much destruction. "You really need to learn how to control those wings and hide them too. By the way, Sayuna and Kamito are going to be out a little while longer, so we better sit down and talk." She grabs my hand and drags me to the chair, and we sit down.

"So I am not sure if you heard Sayuna tell you this, because of your sudden outburst, but you have a unique ability," She starts her voice suddenly grave, "You see, you can't die. I mean you can die, but you don't stay dead, you have died a total of 3 times from what I have seen so far, yet here you are. I knew of this ability the day I met you in the forest, I accidentally killed you, I meant to knock you out but I broke your neck. But that is history, please don't hate me." She gives me a weak smile her eye is a teal-ish color. As I listen to her I think to myself, how many times have I died? And then it happens, or at least 'something' happens, Sayuna bursts into the room with Kamito shortly behind her.

"We need to go!" She shouts frantically, "The forty-third reality has just been attacked by Dreith Maze. We need to rush to their assistance, we can't let another reality fall into his demonic clutches." And then with a bang, everything flashes white and then goes black, and then I lose consciousness.