Until We Break

Friend or Foe - prologue

Mai Pov

⚠️Mentions of transphobia, violence, and blood⚠️

If I were an animal, I'd probably be an otter. They are cautious yet always looking to help their own kind. I sometimes wish I had those people though. All I am to people is a dumb blonde that hangs around other popular kids. Even they don't recognize me: I'm that one friend. I thought coming here to be a part of the humans would be better than a life in heaven, with its white picket fences and prissy pink fairies. I was wrong. Everything is about reputation and appearance. It almost makes me want to go back up to the place I called home. With my parents, the rulers of heaven, my life was worse than hell. So, I entered the guardian angel program. Few are chosen out of the program, and I was one of the lucky ones.

"OI! Earth to Princess!?" I heard a panicked female call out, knocking me out from my trance. I looked over to see a girl with muted purple hair, tied in two ponytails fighting a tall man. The girl wore a similar outfit to me, that being a fluffy magical looking dress, that was blue with white accents and a blue bow tied around her neck. Mine was the same but pink. She had pale skin and bright purple eyes. Behind her were big white angel like wings, fallowing her movements, as well as a purple halo.

The man however, looked softer than her, yet we were fighting him. He had snow coloured hair the was side parted, covering his left eye as he fought. His pale skin shimmered in the streetlamp lights that kept us able to see and him at bay. His piercing sapphire blue eyes were smug yet angry and narrow. His hair was moderately long, tied into a small low ponytail as he controlled the shadows around him. He wore a dark blue suit with a black cape hiding his demon like tail that matched the red curved horns protruding from the top of his head. The most noteworthy thing about him was the necklace that had an emerald pendant on it.

"Yeah, yeah I know Em." I scoffed, my small wings shaking slightly. Me and Em never met outside of work, so I didn't know much about her. I didn't know her real name or why she was helping, and she didn't know my name. All she knew is that I was royalty. I looked over them, getting off the bench I was sitting on and straightening out the pink version of the uniform Em wore. My long blonde hair was in two low ponytails, my bangs falling slightly over my eyes. I didn't have a halo, as I was still working towards mastering my ability of mind controlling and dream walking. "Seriously? You need your friend to defeat a demon? I thought that demon slaying is angels' jobs." The man spoke, his voice higher than a normal high school aged boy.

That's the thing with this man. We knew nothing about him other than he was a demon. He never used his powers, and I could never get into his head with my Daydreaming powers. He always managed to get out of our grasps as we were about to complete the job.

"Try your power again, daydream!" Em yelled, jumping over one of his attacks with his silver hilted rapier. She summoned out a staff, that matched her dress and started blocking his attacks, just barely succeeding. "There isn't much I can do! My power doesn't work on him!" I yelled, running into the fight, behind our enemy. I wrapped my arms around his neck, my short height being a disadvantage as I tried to pull the man down. In response to this, he pulled me off him, scoffing.

I ignored the pain of the bruise that was surely going to form on my back from the impact of the fall, and got up, before scowling. He pushed Em onto the ground, before stretching slightly, causing me to hear a bone crack as he did so. "Well, I must take my leave. It was fun, but I would rather you don't come after me. I have a life too, darlings." The man smirked, before hitting his sword to the ground. Black, charcoal coloured smoke arose from the ground, enveloping him as I reached into the smoke and grabbed... nothing.

The white haired man was gone. Again. "Damn it!" I yelled, stomping hard on the ground before sitting on the hard pavement of the streets roads. Em only frowned as she caught her breath. I looked up at her violet eyes. "I'm sorry, Em... I could have done more.." I tried to reason with myself, explaining my thoughts.

"Princess, it's fine. It's only him we've failed to capture. You couldn't use your power against him so you should go to the monastery soon to check it out." Em explained, running her fingers through the now wrinkled ribbons she had over her dress. As the smoke soon cleared she looked into my hazel brown iris's and showed me a soft smile. "We'll get him eventually."

The next morning.

I skipped along the hallways of my school, passing by students who were opening and grabbing assortments of notes and papers from their lockers. This was an odd school to say the least. All of the strange people I knew here were somehow more normal than the popular people.

I stopped walking when I spotted a girl named Emira at her locker, pulling out some notes. She had long messy muted purple hair, with matching siren shaped eyes. Her fair skin sparkled in the lighting, letting me know that she had put body glitter on this morning. She wore a black cropped tee shirt with a black bagger sweater laying over her shoulders. To compliment the black clothing, she had worn baggy sage green jeans, held up with a brown belt. She wore gelled boots, making her way taller than I was.

Emira, was my girlfriend. And a good one at that. I smiled warmly before walking up to her and wrapping my arms around her waist, placing my chin on her shoulder and looking at the notes she was now examining.

"Whatcha doing?" I asked goofily, earning a slight chuckle from her. Unlike my other friends, Emira was much more sweet and compassionate. That's why I was confused when she suddenly jerked her head over to the direction I was going at the sound of laughter from a group of jocks.

I let go of Emira, turning to get a better look at what had grabbed her attention. Emira closed her locker as I saw someone. Someone they were hurting. People crowded around them as they howled with unexplained laughter. Without thinking, I ran into the crowd, pushing past tens of people, and soon making it to the outskirts of the fight. I saw a tall boy with short, curly, brown hair, fair skin, and blue eyes, pinching someone.

The boy who was getting hurt was definitely taller than me, but shorter than the man who was kicking him, causing him to curl up into a ball. From what I could see, the boy had semi long white hair with a sky blue streak in his bangs. His bangs had a cowlick on the right side of his face, so his hair favoured his left. His piercing sapphire blue eyes were shut tightly, as he winced in pain. His pale skin turned bruised as I noticed blood coming from his left eye. Right on his eyelid was a scar, reopened. The boy wore a white button up with a beige sweater overtop, with black jeans and blue converse on.

"What are you doing, bitch!?" I yelled, pushing over the first jock who was hurting him and stepping in front of the boy. My furrowed eyebrows made me look more creepy so I wasn't too confused when he looked shocked at me. "Putting the bitch  in her place!" He yelled back at me. Her? Was he misgendering him by mistake? Was the boy once a girl?

"Scram." I heard Emira mutter creepily. That caused everyone to get freaked out and break ways into their classrooms. She ran over to the boy with a handkerchief and placed it on his eyes as I watched the one jock run away with his buddies. I scoffed before turning and kneeling onto the ground. The boy sat up and took the handkerchief, keeping it on his eyes as he avoided eye contact.

"Thank you." His high voice spoke. It sounded semi familiar, but I pushed past it. I smiled softly and nodded as Emira stood up. "I'll go grab a teacher. Stay here with him, okay?" She asked, to which I nodded again. She nodded back before walking down the hallway to the nearest classroom.

"I'm Mai Yubisa... may I ask your name?" I asked him. He was shocked but nodded softly, looking at me, his gaze soft.

"Kiyoyama... Akira Kiyoyama."

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