My Other Half

Chapter 7

He was standing in the river and it was beautiful. The pegasus was blue with majestic white wings and corn. His head was silver and purple and its tail was white with pink tips. 

When he saw me, his sea blue eyes bored into mine and his front stoves leaved the ground to shoot in the air without breaking gaze with me. 

( Italic+underline=Sky   ;   Italic=Sakura )

Nice to meet you. Something talked in my mind and startled me. I nearly fell. I looked frantically around me and my eyes landed on the pegasus before me. It was him.

N-nice to meet you too.

I'm so glad I finally found you. What's your name ? What does he mean by finally ?

Sa-suke.

Don't lie to me, I can see right through you and I know you are a girl even if you want to hide it.

Sorry, I'm Sakura.

What a beautiful name. I'm Sky. It's a pleasure to be in your service. He bowed to me with his right front leg under his belly and his head low.

Humm, thanks but what do you mean by my service and are you a male just to be sure ? I asked hesitantly.

*chuckles* I'm your Familiar and I'm a male. But it seems like I will not be your only one.

What do you mean by that ?

You'll see at the right time. Now, I think your people are looking for you. Shall we go ?

Ah yes, let's go. I got up and began to walk back when Sky nuzzled my side. I looked up to him.

I want to fly with you. He said.

Ya, okay, I guess. I always wanted to fly. Especially on a Pegasus.

Sky chuckled and lowered his body to let me climb on him cause he was as tall as Dominik. When I was settled on his back with my legs on either side of him before his wings, he took off.

The ground disappeared from beneath me at lightening speed and at the place, there were a sea of clouds. We played hide-and-seek with some startled birds and contemplated puffy white marshmallows float in the sky. The sensation was amazing. To feel the wind in you hair and feel safe with Sky was breathtaking. It was a feeling of freedom and it tasted like candies. Sweet.

When we played enough, we decided to go back cause they were surely worrying about me. We landed in the round clearing where I fought but there was no one.

Strange.

I examined the ground and found faint traces of a red substance. Blood.

My heart beats picked up and I could hear it thundering in my ears. My blood ran cold and my face paled. I didn't know I could care about them that quickly. They were like the family I've never had.

I got up and walked slowly toward the road where the carriages were. 

It was empty with also dots of red on the ground. Judging from the size of the dots, there were only small injuries. I hope.

I followed the traces of blood and carriages silently from branches to branches, not wanting to be seen. Sky was flying above me to warn me if something was coming. 

Suddenly, the blood traces entered the forest on the other side of where I was. I plopped down from the branch I was on as silently as I could and ninja-ran toward the trees. I jumped and landed on another branch with just a small shuffle from it. 

I waited to see if their defence were high and when no sound came back, I got up and jumped down from the tree as quiet as possible. 

Their defence were arrogant and didn't think that somebody would come to save their hostages. They should have known that the carriages were of the Prince and would surely demand a ransom. I would not let that happen. 

Even if I just met Night, Sacha and Dominik, it was the first time someone was kind to me. They looked at me as the real me, not a weakling you could just kick and punch. I felt safe for the first time with them and that meant a lot for me who was beaten for everything from breathing to walking.

I felt at home with them.

And I would not let some random bandits take that away from me.

I snapped out of my thoughts when a snap was heard on my left. Damn it ! They sneaked on me when I was careless. I narrowed my eyes toward the provenance of the sound and listened. I heard their footsteps and the beating of their hearts. Some were quicker than others so I assumed that they were some amateurs. My hood and hat were still on my head so they didn't see when I transformed.

A sound on my right informed me that I was surrounded. I unsheathed my katanas from my back and closed my eyes. I couldn't see them with all the trees around but I could still sense them. 

I sensed one on a branch above me and threw a dagger in a swift motion in the tree to scare him. Collective gasps were heard from all around. They didn't even see me take my dagger, less throw it without aiming.

They were not very smart, they just gave out their positions to an adversary, even though I didn't need that.

I smirked and picked up 11 small rocks on the ground cause there are 11 of them. Wait, one is missing. I shrugged it off. I didn't sense him near me so he must have fled. I dropped one and with 5 in each hand, I threw them toward the bandits and touched their forehead making them fall to the ground. At least, I didn't throw daggers and it wasn't very strong so they weren't dead.

I heard some scream and smirked even more. It was fun but I needed to save my friends. It was strange to think of someone as friend but I liked that.

Suddenly, a hand hit me on the neck, on my vein, and I sensed my body falling. A pair of arms caught me around my chest before I touch the ground and my consciousness slowly drifted into darkness.

I heard Sky screaming in my mind and I told him to stay away. I didn't want him to be captured as well.

Just before I drifted off, I heard someone say something in a seductive voice.

" Go to sleep, small tiger. "

My last thought was Why the hell is everyone calling me small tiger ?!

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Pic of Sacha wearing casual clothes. ( formal clothes :the yukatas, are the official uniform for the guards of the Prince. )

I didn't have a lot of ideas so I wrote this very slowly and it's very short.

Oh, and, THIS STORY AS ALMOST 100 READS !!! I'M SO GLAD !!! OMG !!!

Hope you like the story and if you want to know more about somebody, just write in comment.

See you in the next chapter !

-LX