Vampire Kisses

82: Shuichi

"Hey Hess," Kokichi said with a smile on his face...wait is this still Kokichi? "Hey," I said looking down at her...well I think it's Syn anyway.

"Where have you been all this time? I felt so alone without you," She said looking to the side. Her face was red and I felt my hand move without my permission. "I missed you...so can't you come back to the house? That place we made all those years ago?" She said again with a smile on her face. Her smile made me feel off...like I wasn't supposed to be here.

Wait a moment...this wasn't even Kokichi in the first place was it? This must be because we are in the mindscape and things here are different than they are out there. Making it hard to know if this is all real or not. I looked over Syn's shoulder and noticed there was a house a little ways in the distance.

"Syn?" I asked before I walked over to the house to check it out. The house was a very modest home. Almost like one taken out of one of those couples catalogues. 'So is this what Hess wants to have with Syn? Why can't they have this?' I thought to myself before I felt Syn's hand disappear from my arm.

I quickly looked over at her feeling panicked. She faded into the lilac skies as the clouds seemed to darken. Her body soon mixed in with the clouds as the fragments of her moved far away from my reach. I felt a painful feeling in my heart. I looked down at my hands and noticed that I was still in Hess's body...which means that this must be what her heart's desire must be? Maybe the mindscape works like dreams work in our subconscious minds. Sure I don't know much about them, but I know that they show us what's really on our minds even if we forgot, or even if we chose to forget about it. It always comes back out in our dreams.

Maybe the way this is changing into a dark red sky and the way the house seems to be crumbling in the distance...maybe it's also acting on my desire to want to know more about her. I want to know what Hess and Son's relationship was, and is now. I want to know what she is really thinking, and what must have happened to cause them to become elementals...because my theory is that they weren't always elementals...maybe they just had to take the place of the last one, and because they loved another they didn't want to have to live without the other--so they decided to become immortal so they wouldn't have to be apart.

I understand that if it's true. Maybe I can learn more about their past with this whole mindscape place. Because I'm in Hess's body it must be letting me use my own heart's desire to see more into her memories and more into her mind. I feel a little guilty about this...but maybe I can learn something that can help Kokichi.

I looked back up at the house that was crumbling in front of me. Now it was only a couple of yards in front of me and cracking and crumbling because very small glass panels tore away from it before I was moved inside the house. There was Syn in there and she was in tears.

"Syn what's wrong?" I was about to say before another Hess came into the room and walked through me like a ghost. It was an odd feeling but I just watched the situation. Hess moved so Syn was in her arms. This action revealed to me that Syn had a large symbol cut into her arm, it seemed to say the word sinner on it. Hess gently brushed her fingers over her cheeks.

"It's okay baby, it's okay" She whispered again and again as desperation filled her voice. The whole roof came off in one halting motion as a red light came in front of them. Hess moved so she was standing between the creature and Syn.

"Don't touch her! I know what you did!" She screamed at the creature before some unintelligible words were said between them as the scene faded. I was left alone in the dark contemplating the things I have just seen and heard from the two of them. The house scene faded away before my eyes...and I was left alone in a dark room.

Who did that to Syn? 

Was it that creature? 

\How was it able to do that...and why was Hess so worried about it? 

Has this happened to them before? 

Maybe this is how they both became the elementals they were today?

My head was full of so many questions I knew I wouldn't be able to get the answer to...but I did wonder about one thing. They were embracing each other...so how did that work? And how long ago was this?

Wait but then they were able to touch each other...and now they can't, right? 

So what happened to them?

-Sorry for the later update--I will make sure to get a recording done ready for tomorrow! Sorry again!-

-SK-