Feathers Part 3 –

I cough, it feels like my insides are being ripped out, the coughing gets worse and it becomes hard to breath. "Taking some weird drugs?" Kira says, when did he get here? I lean forward, couching something fills my mouth. Coils? Cords? I push them back down, I'm probably imagining it.

"You probably took some bad stuff," he says, sitting up I stand and take a step towards him, an arm outstretched.

"K-kira…" I feel sick and tired, my head's spinning when I fall into him.

'This is such an annoyance, his body is so weak… Kira…' I can hear a voice saying, but it's not me speaking. What? Suddenly pain explodes all around me, immense pain, like something is coming out of me.

I open my eyes, long striking blonde hair is fluttering before me, that's when I realize I'm on the ground. My eyes flick down, the pain was centered in my gut, that's where the pool of coils and cords were coming from, blood and broke flesh surrounding it.

Coughing, blood fills my mouth and spurts out of the corner.

They're talking, Kira and this guy, Rosiel. Wings protrude from Rosiel's back, it's weird, but it seems like it would be weird if he didn't have wings.

Suddenly Rosiel strikes Kira, blood flying into the air as he falls back, his chest cut open. How? Rosiel has no weapon!

"Kira!" someone shouts what I can't, Setsuna's running and stops at Kira's side. The wind picks up, and a flash of light comes from where Setsuna stands, wings now protrude from his own back. They look so incredibly similar. Setsuna and Rosiel. Weird.

A long blade sits in Setsuna's hand, he turns it over and lunges for Rosiel, who takes off in the air, leaving Setsuna below. I must be going crazy. Angels, Setsuna and Kira… am I going to die? "I…don't want…to die…" I whisper. He hears it and Setsuna comes over and kneels beside me, he's speaking, saying something that sounds like a chant, maybe something religious.

A warmth starts to spread around me, so I'm going to die huh? I guess…that's all right…Setsuna stops talking then, and I'm weightless. Other than Kira, I really had no attachment to this world. But he's gone, so I guess it's ok. It's ok to leave here. I shut my eyes and a peace settles over me. And then I'm gone.