4 - Ascension
/December, 2011, a Friday
Egbert Residence/
A few minutes and a climb up a ladder later, John stepped up onto the roof. Karkat had his back to John, studying the snowy streets. A gust of wind was blowing, not stopping. John looked up, and through the snow he saw a great swirl of clouds. The wind seemed to be coming from it.
"Karkat? ...I'm here."
Karkat turned around and walked towards him quickly, as if he was in a great hurry.
"Okay. Let me explain a couple things really fast. That-" -he pointed up to the swirling, wind-swept clouds above them- "is a wind tunnel, the roads of the Skyway. It's a small one, like all the ones that lead to Earth."
John nodded. "...And we're going to fly up there?"
Karkat smirked a little. "I'm going to fly up there. You're going to hold on."
And with that, he quickly wrapped his arms around a startled John and took off.
/Rouge Wind Tunnel/
There was a whoosh, wind suddenly smacking John in the face with a force he couldn't believe, and a second later, he was weightless.
He realized his eyes had been closed, and opened them to see nothing but sky, clouds, and Karkat around him.
With a startled yelp, he unconsciously buried his head into Karkat's shoulder, holding tightly onto him.
Karkat growled a bit. "What are you doing? Just hold on! You don't have to act like I'm going to drop you!"
John pulled his head away a little. "Aren't I heavy? This can't be easy, carrying me up this high..."
The grey-blonde rolled his eyes. "You're actually really light. Not as light as one of us, but no, you really aren't much of a burden. Just hold your arms around my neck, and your legs around my waist or something."
John nodded and did what he was told. Once they were both comfortable, and the awkwardness had mostly been ignored, John actually took the time to look around him. The wind tunnel was just that - a rather large tunnel of wind, roughly 25 feet across. The outer edge was veiled in thick, puffy-looking clouds, But as they moved and shifted, he could catch glimpses of sky here and there. At first, the passage had been straight up, but as they got higher, the tunnel slanted at an angle. To fit through this way, Karkat to slanted himself at an angle, and all John could do was to hold on as he hung like a koala bear and hope that Karkat's arms around him wouldn't give out.
But Karkat was stronger than he seemed, and the ride went without a hitch.
After a while of silently observing his surroundings, John heard Karkat saying, "Alright, we're about to connect to the larger tunnel at the gates of the Haven... I have some friends waiting for us there. They couldn't wait to meet the new Anima... Looks like they're in for a surprise."
John watched as the small tunnel they flew in opened up to an even larger cavern of clouds. And at the far end of the new tunnel was a magnificent city of gold, pearl, and white marble. In the center stood a hill, on top of which was a large round building with a glass dome for a top. Coming out from this dome was a large, knotted oak tree. Around the great city buildings were hills and cliffs of clouds, dotted sparsely with... trees, somehow.
All was surrounded by a tall gold-brick wall, set with giant gold gates.
"And there," said Karkat, sounding like a tour guide, "Are the gates of the Haven."
John looked past the shiny gates and saw small winged figures on the other side. They were waiting for him.
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Angels Who Fall
Fanfiction[Angels Who Fall - A Homestuck AU] Karkat is an Anima -a birdlike person- who was sent to find a 'lost angel' who had been born on Earth, of which there are very few. But when he finds his target -one John Egbert- he realizes a mistake had been made...
