Am I Human?

Chapter 18

Seline hurried off as someone from afar called her name. I shook my head.

"Ryder! The king once to see you!" the messenger hurrying down the crystal stairs, panting. He looked like he found someone who has been missing for years.

"Aw, I was hoping to bring Hatter on a tour." he looked towards me, dissapointed. "Jay! You're free for the whole day, right?" the young prince floated up as he ordered his friend to give me a tour. As a friend and as a soldier of the king's army, how can Jay say no to an order?

"Of course!" he chuckled as he shooed the prince away. "You can go take care your royal problems while I show this lovely lady around, your highness." Ryder shook his head and flew up to the meeting room, causing the poor messenger to run up the stairs again. I looked down, the stairs were somehow transparent, I can see through it

"Well, just as he ordered, I'll bring you on a tour." he said as he walked up a different flight of stairs, leading to the west side of the castle. As we walked down halls and stopped at a room with giant wooden door. Pressed against the handle and pushed the heavy door opened with his strength, revealing a big hall. a crystal chandelier dangling from the ceiling, chairs and tables were stacked above each other at the side of the hall. "Woah.." I gasped, it echoed through the hall as I took a step in it.

"This is where the banquets are held." Jay said. He then slowly pulled the doors back, closing it.

He showed me many other rooms in the castle, no matter how many times I walked through it, all the hallways looked alike. As we arrived on the last and the highest floor of the castle, we were greeted by a giant crow seated know the balcony of the castle. This has been the second bird today. I could see my reflection in it's round black eyes. Ugh. Creepy. I shooed the crow away as I walked towards the balcony. I stared at the view.

Wow. The view was breathtaking, small houses were all in neat rows, as the town was crowded with busy people. Never ending mountains were stack beside each other and the endless blue ocean separated the earth and the sky.

Suddenly, I felt a hard thug, pushing me forwards as I hit the balcony, tripping over it. My body flipping over it, causing me to fall off. What the hell Jay?! As I fell, managed to get a glimpse of the balcony, but noticed that Jay wasn't there.

I looked down, hard rocks were now I'm the bottom of me, waiting for me to land on them. My hair flying up, air rushed past my ear, I squeezed my eyes shut. Even though I know I wasn't going to die, it was going to be a painful landing. I was a few metres from ground and I felt the rushing stopped. I was now sitting on something, not the rocks. I opened my eyes, a was sitting on a pink creature which had feather wings like a pegasus, but it was smaller.It soared through the sky as its feathery wing flapped up and down. I looked down on what I was sitting on,and realized, the thing I was sitting on, is a pig.

Oh. When pigs do fly. Well now they do. I saw Jay rode a flying pig past me. "What do you think?" he asked loudly, the distance between us was quite far. "Are you crazy? I could've died!" Actually, K wouldn't but just saying. You don't push a person of an eight story building you just met a few hours ago and expect them to be alright. This is why I have trust issues.

"But you didn't!" he said as his pig flew closer to mine. I looked down as the pigs soared over the busy town. I spotted a small sandy arena not far away from the castle.
"Hey, is that an arena?" I asked Jay, I leaned closer signalling the pig to move nearer to him. He nodded. "And that's where you'll be training."

The pig closed his wings and dropped down like a rock. "You wanna know what's the funnest riding a pig?" he asked as he tossed out two apples in front of my pig and his. The apple started falling and the pig noticed. His closed it's wings and dropped like a rock, chasing after falling apple. Jay's enthusiastic shouts reached my ear even though he was far below mine. I looked at my pig, he closed his wings.

No, no, no, no

It did the exactly the same as Jay's. I started screaming at the free fall, the pig stopped immediately as it got it's apple, sending me flying through the air. Jay caught me by my wrist and swung me back up. He jumped off his pig, giving me space to land on his as he fall towards mine.

"Fun right?" he shouted from below. I shook my head as the pig took another dive. I lost my grasp on pig, I flew through the air, again. How many times have I've been fell or tossed up in the air since I came to this world? I sighed, I knew someone or something was gonna stop me from falling and it did, so I didn't bothered screaming. Two hands grabbed me by the waist, ah, without looking back, I already knew it was him.

"Let's say, about the six times?" he replied my thoughts, I could imagine a smirk forming on his face. I looked around, Jay was still enjoying his free fall and I'm never doing that again. Ryder slowly placed me down on the ground. My legs faltered a little but Ryder's arms reached out and steadied me.

As the pig lowered, Jay jumped off his pig and did a flip in the air and landed on his two legs perfectly.

"I leave for an important meeting for just am hour and you send her flying through the air with flying pigs." Ryder said, he walked towards the blue haired boy, tried to slap his head but he missed and Jay teased him. "Aw, but it was fun, right?" he looked towards me. All I could do was give him a thumbs up. A smile spread across his face but slowly disappeared a simple turned my hand downwards, facing my thumb towards the ground.

Ryder looked around, noticing where we had landed. "Hey, why don't we start training? Since the arena as just right there." he pointed at the small arena not far away from us. "We can even find a weapon suitable for you."

I shrugged as the two boys walked happily in front of me. Training, huh, I can't even protect myself properly. This is gonna be a long day.