Lost Affinity

Chapter 3

Leo's POV

"Hey there" I call out to a stunning fairy, who in turn looks at me, "Are you ok?" I ask her. She lifts one of her beautiful trimmed eyebrows and answers "yes?", as if she already figured out what I was gonna say next. "Well it must've hurt a lot when you fell down from heaven." She rolls her eyes and looks at me unimpressed, and says "well I climbed my way out of hell.". I look at her, put on my sexy smirk and say "well, no wonder you're so fvcking hot", followed by my signature wink. She looks at me impressed, and walks towards me. Yes!  Seems like I've scored a good one today. She walks towards me, swaying her hips in the most seductive manner towards me. "Wanna hang out at my place? I bet we could have some fuun" I say, winking at her, and she leans over to my ear, but just before she opens her heavily painted red lips to say something, my phone rings. Dammit? Really phone? I pull out my phone while mouthing 'one sec' with my best smile while pulling out my phone to find Dupree calling me, which is rare.

"Hey honey" I answer, but immedietly realise my mistake and look back at the hot chick with pleading eyes. She stares at me surprised clicks her tongue, muttering swear words and walks away, very angrily.

"This better be worth it ma..." just then I realise that he didnt retort back like he usually does whenever I use his nickname...

"Dupree?.." All i hear is shallow breaths from the other side. Is he having a panic attack or something?

"Leo..." he whispers back his voice shaking with fear.

"Please....come here now"i hear a sense of desperation and urgency in his voice.

"Where are you right now?"

"The flower field "

"Stay put, I will be there"

I run to my car thinking of all worst possible situations but soon realise it will do me no help now so I try to push away those thoughts and drive as fast as i can to the garden near his workplace.

*45 minutes later*

I arrive at the garden to see Dupree pacing back and forth the pathway muttering something.

"Dupree" I call out to him, but he seems so immersed in his own thoughts and doesn't respond, so I grab him from behind and start shaking him to bring him out of his trance.

"Aaahhhh" he responds by spining around and showing his cadaverous face. I look at his eyes and see a thousand tiny colours sparkling through at once. He stares at me for a few seconds, and then as if regaining his purpose in life, suddenly drags me towards the flower field.

That was when I notice the flower field....?? What the hell is up with that fog? I make a mental note to NOT scream incase something jumps out at me.

As we move deeper into the fog I notice the ground scattered with what looks like metal scraps and glass fragments. Dupree suddenly grabs me and pushes me in front of him and guides me by squeezing my shoulders. The more we walk, the more thicker the fog grows, and I notice that he's leading me to the heart of this fog, which is getting eerier by the second. I start feeling very odd, queer, uncomfortable to be here. Maybe this fog is making feel like this? Cuz I certainly DON'T want to be here right now. Everything feels.... just wrong, I can't put my finger on it. The further we walk, the thicker the fog seems, the more weird I feel, and I find bigger chunks of something. Finally,  we reach the centre, and I'm surprised to find two almost identical HUGE arcs, almost 5 meters in length, but what suprised me the most was two girls lying unconsious in the middle of the debris.

Okaayy.... this is not what I expected to see. No wonder Dupree was all cranky....

Something about the girls seemed strange, and on closer inspection, I find their weirdly shaped ears, and no markings on their forehead and hands..... Ah, cosplayers, dressing up as...... umm.... humans I think?