We Fly To Our House, Literally
1562 Words
I was already dead even when the prophecy was not fulfilled. Yes, I could live again with Saiko and Nami, even though they’ve revealed that they’re not my real sister and aunt, but with the other three girls? Nope, no way.
We opened the door and got outside the room. An agent quickly met us and talked to Saiko.
“What’re they talking about?” I asked Nami.
“Arrangements. We’re heading outside and our identities can be revealed, right? So, I guess they’ll give us a ride home.”
“In a limo again? No way… I don’t wanna see those reporters and cameramen pointing at me again”
Saiko seemed to be listening. She and the agent seemed to argue as the tux dude got his phone and seemed to call someone. After a few nods and arguments, Saiko came to our direction.
“I’ve already explained the situation to him. We’re not riding the limousine,” she said and looked at me. “Instead, we’re flying. I’ve already had permission to use the rooftop.”
I pointed a finger above. “You mean we’ll go above the center?”
She nodded. “Yes.”
“But there’s no rooftop,” I argued.
“I know…”
If you’re thinking about a wide space with the letter H inside a yellow circle as the rooftop, you’re mistaken.
The moment that Saiko said it, I swallowed hard. I knew something dangerous was going on again, and I was right. We got out through the massive window on the second floor and climbed up the ladder. I looked down, which was a very bad idea, and looked at the main grounds. Besides my heartbeat pulsing louder than usual, there was no noise. There were also no paparazzis on the grounds, luckily, or else, I’d hate to see the newspaper headlines – Real Spidermen Caught Climbing.
We reached the rooftop after a minute. It was probably three or four in the afternoon as the sun was starting to lower now and the temperature wasn’t that high. The center’s roof, however, was the problem. It was not plain and was made of entire tiles, which was a very bad place to walk into. The center’s roof was in the form of a hyperbola or a reverse U and I cannot even walk to the top. I was barely standing on the ledge that I landed on. I had to lean on my back to gain balance and prevent myself from falling to pieces.
“So, how can we get into the helicopter?” I asked Nami who was easily standing on the ledge.
She looked at me. “There’s no helicopter.”
I raised a brow. “What? Then, what did Saiko mean when she said we were flying?” I asked and looked at Saiko.
She grinned mischievously. “I already told you, we’re flying,” she said – putting an emphasis on “flying”.
“Wait…you don’t mean we are literally flying, right?”
Nami held my hand. “Unfortunately, we are, Shiro. Now, get ready.”
All of us held our hands and I felt a tingle in my hands – mana flowing through me.
“Jump, Shiro!” Nami declared.
“WHAT?!”
I was too late. They jumped down the roof, pulling me along with them. I closed my eyes and prepared for excruciating pain. However, I didn’t feel hurt or even touching the ground. Instead, I felt weightless…like Earth suddenly lost its gravity.
I heard the girls giggle. “I didn’t know you were afraid of heights, Shiro,” Nami said from my left.
I opened my eyes and saw that we slowly floating upward, farther from the center. Nami was holding my wrist.
“Believe me, anyone who gets pulled down by four girls that suddenly jump a two-storey building like adrenaline junkies will have acrophobia for the rest of his life,” I commented as we floated higher.
Nami chuckled. “Don’t worry, you won’t fall down as long as you’re near me.”
“Reassuring, considering what you did a second ago.” I said. “So, how do you do this?”
She smiled. “It’s one of my Metaphor’s abilities.”
“What exactly is your Metaphor?”
Saiko rushed in to my direction and gripped my shoulders. “We really have a lot to talk about this dinner.”
She threw me up in the sky and Midorima caught me.
“Welcome,” she said in advance. “Feeling good?”
I shook my head – trying to shake the dizziness away from it. “Unless you’ll throw me a second time and I go to outer space, I’ll be okay.”
I looked around. The clouds were now within a hand’s reach. The sunlight shone on me as I felt the wind blow its cool breeze on me.
The other girls caught up, Saiko the first rushing in with a grin on her face. If she wasn’t my former aunt, I swear I’ll think she was a monster who broke out of an Anaphora and taking the form of a woman.
“Hey, Shiro. Love my throw?” she asked.
“I don’t know why you did that but if I went outside this planet because of you and die from lack of oxygen, I’ll be haunting you as a ghost,” I answered.
Saiko faced me and put her hands on her hips. “Now, that’s mean, Shiro-chan! I won’t, don’t worry. Besides, if you do, I’ll be doing mouth-to-mouth to give you some air.”
“Don’t forget me!” Thyme exclaimed.
“And me, too!” Fritz added.
My face felt suddenly warm. “Stop it! You’re all freaking me out. Can’t we just go home?”
“As if you know how to fly on your own…” Nami remarked.
“I do!” I said, though even I didn’t sound convincing.
Just to prove my point, I straightened my arms, put them on the front, and did a Superman-kind of pose. Of course, I didn’t move. I wriggled my feet, did a backstroke and kicked my legs as I moved my hands but nothing happened. I was still in the air, weightless and floating. I looked at the girls who were staring at me – their faces obviously showing the urge to laugh.
“Don’t resist it. You can laugh now…” I said and stopped moving.
They broke into laughter. They were all clapping their hands as they cracked up. Saiko was the one who was laughing the worst – slapping her leg loudly as she laughed.
Nami wiped a tear. “I said fly, not swim, you dolt.”
“Flying’s easy, Shiro,” Fritz said and did a floating backflip.
The others showed tricks just to show that flying was simple. Nami and Saiko seemed to jump in the air and did a high five, Midorima did a front flip and zoomed upward, and Thyme spread his hands and flied upward before diving down a cloud like it was a pool of water.
I rolled my eyes. “Yeah, mock me…”
Nami suddenly appeared on my left. “Flying is just simple, Shiro.”
“Can’t I just think happy thoughts and then fly freely?” I asked.
Nami cackled. “And now I’m Peter Pan? No, it does not work with happy thoughts...” She flew in my back and held my hands. “Feel the wind and the mana in your body at the same time. Just think that you can fly, the same as you did on the fireball.”
I closed my eyes and thought about Nami’s words. I am the wind, I reminded myself. I felt the familiar tingle in my body, this time, in my arms. I willed my body to move a few inches forward.
“Easy as that, Shiro,” Nami shouted.
I opened my eyes. I was now gliding forward, away from Nami. I tried to go up and my body flied upward. I thrust my feet up and swayed my body into a circle – making me do a floating backflip.
“Well, we better hurry, I still have to cook dinner for the six of us,” Saiko reminded.
All of them nodded in approval.
“Race to the house, the loser washes the dishes,” Nami said and raised her three fingers. “One…”
“Wait!”
“Three,” Saiko yelled suddenly.
They zoomed suddenly and I hardly saw them move. They were now five misshapen dots on the sky, flying away from me.
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