you were there (2)

After floating for several minutes, and located a good place for them to rest for the night, Jones put her down,

He was sweating, as if he was hot, but the air was quite chilly, Jones fall on his knees and began to coughed out blood, his face was in despair.

His amber eyes became dim, and sometimes shines just like his skin when the area got darker.

Jones patted his chest, "erghh!!" he grunted, his hair drenched in sweats.

"Are you all right" she tapped his shoulder.

Jones rejected her touch, "this is all your fault" Said Jones while trembling,

Lailita frowned, confused as well, she grabbed Jones on his shoulder to see his condition, it was full moon tonight, but she can't see anything because the light blocked by trees,

She worried all of a sudden that Noirs might came,

"they won't come here... We are safe here" Jones pulled Lailita's arm because she tried to walked away.

"Trust me" he coughed again, though he covers his mouth, the blood still coming out between his fingers.

He was pale. Like he was dying.

"Don't leave me," he pleaded, she pretended not to hear him, and decided to run away.

But she was speechless and sit back down next to lying Jones because he was crying.

"J?" his loses grip in her arm, his eyes were shut. He stopped moving or calling out for here,

His other palm still rested on his lips, Lailita pull her hand away from his body, staring anxiously toward the smeared blood on his cheeks.

"hmm?" she pressed her finger against his cheek.

"His blood -" everything about this guy is questionable, about his body that glows in the dark, the scales on his skin mimicking a reptile, and now the blood that was red, became golden just like his hair.

"guhh!!" Lailita shook her hand after a tiny thing landed at the back of her hand, however the little sparkly thing won't get away though she shake her hand countless times.

Soon, two more unknown sparkly thing came to her and it seemed to aim at the exact spot again, they kind of furry and their furry hair is what fluctuating those sparkling light.

Just like Jones Jones during the night,

"don't, Noirs will come if you crush them" Jones stopped her from slapping the furry sparkly thing,

He then made her arm that he grabbed as support to lift his body, he feared that Lailita will not listen to her and smashed the gurdian fairies.

"This is their place, their light will keep us alive, I can't, you protect you this time" Jones leaned his back on the tree.

"Noirs?" He was sweating too much, she searched something in his pouch, Jones follows her action since he has no strength to stop or to ask what is she doing.

Lailita pulled him closer to her after he flinched when she suddenly place a towel she got from the pouch to swept his sweats.

"mm?" Jones placed his hand on her arm,

"what is noirs?" Jones raised his brows feeling awkward. He do notice Lailita sometimes copied his doing.

"Noirs, they are black, so we call the thing that wanted to eat you that," He stopped talking, her face was distracting Jones,

He didn't realize her eyes were that black, and so do her hair, she wasn't pale as the first time he met her,

"But they're afraid of lights-" Jones let go of the hand he placed on his chest, the pain decreases,

"They won't come" he touched her lips,

"how come you eat so much when you mouth is this small?" She wasn't interested to what he was talking about,

Because of that too, she looked at his lips, she frowned. She poked his teeth that was pointing out of his mouth.

"I don't have this" She showed her front teeth, Jones find it funny, so he laughed.

"Of course you don't, I'm different"

"What are you?" She could not get her answer because something splashing in the water caught their attention.

Jones suddenly hug her along with a shocking expression. He gulped. The appearance of something in the water surprises him,

"It's you" he relax and let Lailita go, it was a nymph that dwell in the lake, only her eyes that were blinking ,

She felt a familiar aura when she was underwater, so she decided to take a look,

Both the girls seeing eyes to eyes, however the nymph seemed happy to see her that she's lurking out most all of her face to greet lailita,

but her face turned angry when she sees Jones, Especially the hands that is on Lailita's shoulder.

"flee, she's not your food" Jones hid the girl behind her,

The nymph hissed at him, "what is that?" she asked behind him.

"Stay, that thing is dangerous, she's like the thing in the cave"

"Li..na?" the nymph uttered out something and it causes a shiver to Jones, he was panicking.

Lailita fall down when Jones quickly stand up, picked up a stone and threw it to the nymph in the lake.

She avoided it, then hissed at the golden boy, she had the same teeth as Jones,

I am different? Because of their pointy teeth? What does it for?

"Hiss!" The nymph showed his pointy teeth at Jones because Jones hit her with his weird wind force,

Just as the nymph about to counter-attack, however she was reluctant and swim back underwater.

Tsk!

Lailita has no idea, but Jones seemed mad, "you are different, the air follows you" Jones sit back down and his face still red.

Soon after, his gaze softened when he looked at Lailita, 'how can they recognize her'

"Do you know how to swim?"

"Swim?" she repeated after him.

"If you go there" he pointed to the lake,

"Will you come out again?" Lailita caressed her arm because memories are flashing back into her head.

"No"

"Why?" She asked again,

"I think she will return," Jones eyes shines brighter than usual, just like he did back then, exactly to the hut he secluded Lailita from the dark creatures,

The woods follow his action and began to crawled to where they reside, roots, branches made a cycle secluding both from the lake separating them from the lake,

"Don't go too far, If you need something tell me, I can't protect you again" He coughed.

The place was quite dim, luckily the lights from the fairies enabling them to see each other faces,

Lailita look above, the woods is like a wall, just like the walls she looked upon in Marg, she misses her family.

The roots are strong, Jones knew what was she thinking, "I'm scared" She got teary eyes,

"Why?" It was now his turn asking question.

"I don't know,"

"Noirs won't come, trust me," the roots that was hiding them up the sky starts moving, creating a circle above their head.

"hmm?"

"Come" Jones spread his arms, telling her to sit next to him, so she won't be scared.

"it was like this when they came," it was a full moon tonight, but the clouds hid the light reaching them.

"hmm" Jones made a weird face because laid her head on to his shoulder, she closed her eyes. His long hair covers her face,

"I am scared, I won't be able to meet them again, I.. Thought It was her fault, and I tried to harm her... I hurt my sister... My family"

Sobs,

Jones patted her arm, leaned the back of his head on to the root wall and sighed.

"I had a brother, And I told him I will return, but I lied"

"If I go back home, I'm sure he will punch me, but I did that to keep him save, and I'm sure You did the same, they will be all right,

"Hmmm.." Jones pushed her hair, Lailita fell asleep on his shoulder,

"I'm sorry" wiped the tears on her cheek,

"I'm sorry too Alf," I have to get rid of her if I want to meet you, Or I will die.