Mike and Kimone Find Love
This is my first publicly posted story, it features two of my novel in progress's characters....whose names may be changed later...but I was bored and made this. I know that the chars "secrets" need better explaining, nut I really didn't want to deal with that mess in the story as it would drag far too long....all in all, my first posted story...what does the public think?
And please, constructive criticism only. Please read and enjoy!
Hopeless Incubus.
Mike and Kimone find love.
Mike walks out of the shower clothed in a towel and a wall of steam follows in his wake. He ruffles his hair as he presses the blinking button on his phone and listens to the messages as he pours a cup of coffee into a handles mason jar. He's not a very notable man, his looks would put him somewhere around 24, 6'1'' and 190lbs. he has a crooked nose, brown/black close cut hair, and hazel eyes. A casual glance would skip over the scars ranging from minute scratches, to a long ropey scar down the inside of his left arm which he keeps covered by a leather bracer given to him by his childhood friend kimono, to avoid unwanted attention, he has a slight limp that he barely notices anymore, and doesn't stop his tri-weekly run.
"I really need to get some decent cups." He mumbles as he sips the caffeinated liquid and scratches his back. "I wonder what's new." he flips on the T.V. and sets his coffee down before sifting through his closet finding a long sleeve black shirt and a pair of faded O.D. green cargo pants and swapping them for the towel. The drone of the T.V in his apartment tells of the war going on in the Middle East that the media skews as "unessicary and unethical"
"They killed hundreds of our people on our home soil, don't you dare talk about unethical" mike growls and switches it to the discovery channel as he checks his E-mail.
"Viagra....Viagra.....cialis....cheap.....free.......hmmm?" mike looks up as the door bell rings.
"Who would knock at..." mike checks his watch. "4 pm....I really need to stop sleeping so late." Mike mumbles as he opens the door yawning and scratching his head only to go flying back as an excited "MIKE!" nearly deafens him.
"OOF!!!....what the hell!" mike yells muffled into the shoulder of his assailant. "_wait....that smell.....kimone?!) _ Suddenly he remembers kimone, the little girl with blond hair and a beautiful smile, he met in first grade, challenging boys to king of the hill, taking down Connor in third grade, after he pushed mike off the monkey bars and broke mikes leg, then in fifth grade helping mike in math class, her warm hands on the bus. Then when they where 16 when they where mugged at an empty bus stop. The mugger lunged when kimono wouldn't hand over her grandmother's ring and mike dove getting cut from elbow to wrist, but kimone wasn't hurt, and that's all that mattered, he didn't remember anything after that except waking up at home with his mom and kimono talking. Apparently he had fallen on a fence and scraped his arm....he knew she was lying, but he didn't want his mom to freak so he followed along. Then know he remembered he a few months ago, luscious red hair, bright green eyes, that same sweet smile and to be honest, a great body and 5'10''. Mike blushed at that thought reminding himself they broke up due to distance and she was with James now.
Kimone seeing mike couldn't help but pounce on him crying in joy. After everything she needed to see him, remember what his arms felt like. She inhaled sobbing. "He still smells the same....so warm, safe....caring"
"Kimone....it's great to see you, but why are you here....and why are we on the floor" mike looks down at her and suddenly his chest freezes. "Kimone.....what happened"
Kimone moves his hand away as he touches her bruised cheek gingerly.
"It's nothing to worry about" she says as he silently sits up and guides her into a chair.
"Yes it is" mike says calmly but intently. "Who did that, was it James?" kimono flinches at the name and mikes blood boils. "That goddamn asshole dumbass bastard!"Mike yells as he grabs the phone, kimono jumps up and grabs mikes arm.
"Don't he didn't mean it!" she cries
Mike seething puts the phone down and tries to breathe in peace. "he'll only do it again...I should have picked up on it sooner, you never come over anymore, you don't call, I never see you around unless he's over your shoulder, let me take care of it"
"No, it's not your problem mike, I can take care of myself" kimono says softly as mike locks the door and grabs her a coffee, 2 sugars, no cream, just the way she likes it.
"Fine, but answer me two things, if you can handle it, why are you here, but before that, why do you stay with a man....that would hit you?"mike waits examining her more carefully, he notices the the faded bruises now, the old clothes, the sadness and fear deep in her eyes, his heart yearns to hold her, to protect her, even as his blood boils to find James, and make him feel every ounce of pain he inflicted on kimone tenfold.
Kimono sobs and answers with a feeble smile. "Because...he loves me...at least he says he does...."
Mike frowns as he points at the door. "If he loved you, he wouldn't think of hitting you! and better yet, why does he, what possible reason could he have, what could he gain from hurting someone he loves?"
Kimone sobs and curls up on the couch crying as mike clumsily rubs her back. "I'm sorry kimono, I am...but you deserve someone better....now I'll be back in a minuet..."
A moment later mike comes back with his paramedic kit, kicking himself for not helping her first. "Let me see your face, I need to make sure you're all right" kimono gets up, her eyes still red from crying.
"I'm telling you I'm fine mike, I'm not a flower, and I'm not glass." She meekly snaps
"I beg to differ, now, follow the light.......good good, how many fingers am I holding up?" mike mutters going through the motions.
"Three..." kimono answers.
"Correct...does this hurt?" mike presses slightly on her cheek eliciting a yelp from kimone. "I'm sorry, but I need to find out if it's broke." Mike insists.
A few moments later mike takes out some gauze and anesthetic. "While I'm doing this, you should take a warm shower, it will help you relax"
"I don't have any clothes....wait, are you saying I stink?" she tiredly quips as she walks into the bathroom sliding the door shut,
"who me, never!" mike smirks glad to see some of her attitude back, that's what he liked about her, she always had this fiery attitude that he admired, but seeing her like this made him want to rip James heart out. Mike silently made the dressing before taking a deep breath, took off his bracer, and letting the glamour on him go, the mike everyone but kimono knew as the real mike fell away.
8 years ago mike was knelt down on the sidewalk holding his arm as his vision blurred. Kimono yells something to him, but he couldn't quite hear it, it was like he was under water.
"are...are you okay kimone" he asks slowly, speaking was hard now...he looks at the young woman and smiles sadly as she grabs his arm, and right before his vision fails, he sees her for what she really is.
Kimono in the shower relives the same moment, witching mike bleed out into the sidewalk, frantic she looks around for help but finds no one. She tries to stop the bleeding as mike stupidly smiles at her asking if she's okay, oblivious or not worried that he's dying. Finally in desperation she gives up to the change...
Mike stares amazed as golden fur flows from kimones body and nine several tails, four in all emerge from behind her, tuft ears jut from her hair and her arms and legs seem to snap and dislocate into anthroid limbs ending in clawed pads resembling hands and feet, last was the fangs and short muzzle of her face...she looked oddly beautiful and mike was transfixed as she sang and moved her hands in complex movements as she cried over him, time seemed to stop as he slowly gained strength...but then something stirred deep inside him.
Kimono cried as she franticly traced and sang as the symbols of light wove into a net over his wound, she could feel his pulse slowing, his consciousness slipping until she almost gave up. Her sobs grew louder until she felt a strange new energy from mike, she gasped and almost stopped as she noticed the grey and black fur growing from mikes skin, patchy at first, then quickly spreading head to toe, his ears shifting and moving up his head, the arms and legs stretching, bending, and at points breaking. Fangs lengthened and eyes changed from his old brown, to a bright color shifting hazel. Kinome breathed a sigh of relief and wonder as mikes pulse grew stronger and the blood slowed to a trickle and then stopped. Mike groaned and writhed as a pair of charcoal feathered wings suddenly surged from his back and finally dropped from consciousness to oblivion.
Mike woke up the following morning to his mom grilling kimono as to why she came in last night in a cop car with me unconscious, covered in blood, where the bracer came from, and why she couldn't get it off. Later when they were alone she told him what happened and explained that she and mike where both mythics, or to be more exact, she was a kyuubi, and he was an incubus. And mythics where pretty much outnumbered by normal humans by millions to one and that he would have to learn to control things on his own. Several years went by and Kinome found James, then she just....disappeared.
Snapping back to the present, Mike sighed and looked down at the gauze he had prepared, it was glowing slightly with the healing spell he had implanted, but that would fade when Kinome put it on. "Kimone, are you okay?" mike half yelled over his shoulder as he refastened the bracer only to flinch when kimono caught his hand.
"Please....don't put it on.... I always thought the wings where beautiful" she said blushing as mikes wings flicked at her touch
"Wha....um sure...." Mike blushed as well as he looked at her blond fur around the towel covering her body and swallowed. "Y...you can barrow some of my clothes if you'd like." Kimone's blush deepened as she shyly ducked back into the bathroom/laundry room and put on a pair of his black cargos and his grey Henley. "Wow..."mike said as she walked back in.
"What?" kimono says looking at her/his clothes confused.
"Nothing, sit down, the bandage is ready." Mike says changing the subject as he picks it up and carefully sets it against her right cheek. "There...better?"
"Much....um thanks....for everything mike...I hate to ask but...can I stay here?" she asks timidly.
"Mike softly grabs her shoulders. "You are always welcome in my home, even if it's3 in the morning, you are always welcome here, okay?"
Kimone smiles and hugs mike tightly and smiles. "Thank you mike...thank you so much..."
Mike pauses, and then hugs her back smiling a bit before letting go. "Come on, its almost 2 AM, you've had a long day and you need your rest. You can sleep in my room; I'll stay out here and keep an eye on things."
Kimono leans over and gives mike a kiss before thanking him and walking into his room and shutting the door. Mike just smiles and picks up his current book reading and waiting for the inevitable.
Two hours later mikes door is rattled in its hinges and mike sighs, marking the page and setting the book down. "Here we go....." mike walks up to the door and looks through the peephole to see James, mike smiles darkly.
"KIMONE! I KNOW YOUR IN THERE!, OPEN THIS DAMN DOOR!, YOU BEST HOPE THIS IS A GIRLFRIENDS HOUSE!" James rants as he pounds incessantly on mikes apartment door as mike wrenches it open.
"Why hello James, just who I wanted to see, and no...you are not stepping a foot across my threshold, or you'll be leaving in a body bag" mike growls each word as he loosens the bracer.
"FUCK YOU, I KNEW YOU WHERE AFTER KIMONE, WHERE IS SHE?! WE'RE LEAVING, THAT BITCH RAN OFF ON ME TO SEE YOU, ILL TEACH HER A LESSON SHE WONT SOON FORGET!"
Mike grinds his teeth and steps forward, completely blocking the entrance as he pushes James.
"Don't you dare call kimone that, she deserves better than some belligerent asshole that beats on her! I should kick your ass!"
"THAT'S IT, GET OUT OF MY WAY!" James yells and pulls out a glock 17 and points it at mikes face. Mike just stares coldly at James.
"this is your final warning....leave now, and I won't have to hurt you" mike says and lets the bracer slide to his fingertips"
"GET OUT OF MY WAY BITCH!" James finger twitches on the trigger and in a split second mike goes from calm, to winged fury slamming James into the hallway wall, the gun in pieces on the carpeted floor.
"I'm through playing games here James...I have half a mind to kill you here, I wouldn't even leave a stain on the carpet for you to be remembered by." Mikes fangs snap shut with each word, his face contorted with rage.
"MIKE! NO DON'T!"
Mike looks back to see kimone running towards them.
"But lucky for you, kimone still finds something worth saving in you, hell if I know what it is!" mike yells at him as he drops him to the ground. "Get out of here....I want you to stay far away from kimone and you damn sure better stay away from me got it!"
James nods terrified as mike flexes his claws angrily an inch from mauling him.
"And if I ever....EVER hear about you hurting kimone, or anyone else....I WILL find you.....I WILL hurt you....and you'll beg me for your death.......now beat it!"
James leaps up and runs down the hall as mike picks up the gun and walks back into the apartment locking the door behind him.
"You alright?" mike asks as he tosses the gun in the trash.
"Yes....and thanks for not...." Kimone starts.
"Don't worry about it" mike says sitting down. "Get back to bed; you still need your rest."
"Um.....can I....sleep out here with you....I don't want to be alone" kimono says as she sits next to mike and leans on him.
".......if you want" mike says grabbing a blanket and pulling it over them as they lay down. Kinome curling up against his chest as mike puts his arms around her.
"You never did answer my question kimone..." mike says. "Why'd you come to me?"
Kimone shifts closer to mike and murmurs sleepily. "Because I love you, you big idiot"
Mike chuckles happily and hugs her tighter against him. "I love you to kimone, I always have, and I always will."
Kimone giggles as the two slowly drift to sleep, as mike drapes his wings over the two of them creating their own world of warmth and love.