I smiled for what must have been the first time in years, then ruined it by frowning as a stray thought hit me. Was I actually happy?..... I looked around at the small town Zero and I had wondered into just the night before. Playing happy looking children littered the streets like rats, the old style houses made up of hardship and sweat stood tall and proud like soilders awaiting their oders and the sun shone bright in the clear blue sky making me smile a true smile once more. Is this what happiness was? This feeling inside? Warm? Glowing even! Much unlike the rain that could piece you with sadness and the hot scorching sun which I was pretty sure could drive any sane man to madness if it really wanted. 

A beautiful rainbow suddenly spread across the sky making it all the more breath taking of a day. Rainbows.... Made from sadness and maddness to make something not just one or the other but something even better, something truly unique. In fact, it reminded me of something?... Looking at the rainbow I couldn't help but laugh a little, I remembered when zero sew one for the first time a few days ago....

~Flash back!~

"So...what's it like being a demon?" Zero smirked "what's it like being a human?" I frown as he just keeps on walking with that stupid smirk upon his face "I don't know, it's.... Well it just is? Know if you had asked what it was to be me that would be different but human? How do I even answer that?" We come to a stop suddenly and he looks at me, his eyes now a bright sparkling blue. I can't help but remember our deal and how it was to be lost within them. "To be a demon is to be just that, we are genially harsh cold creatures who normally love nothing more to cause havoc where ever we go. You say that to be human just is? Now, correct me if I'm wrong but I'm sure there's more to it then just that. So tell me young Avira, what's it to really be human?..." I think over everything he just said, demons don't sound to different to the children back at the orphanage. 

I mull over my thoughts carefully before answering "humans are complex creatures... Or at least, from what I have seen... Like a flower none are alike yet all look roughly the same at first glance. As humans we often forget that simple fact, flowers vary from colour to size to specious but are they not, in the end, still but a flower? Something sweet and delicate, sometimes cruel, and often simple misunderstood and over looked." I watched the strange boy before me as he considered all that I had said. "And if one should pluck that flower? Destroy it? Or if it should grow apart from it's family? What would that flower be then? What separates the flower from the earth? The seed from the sprout, the bird from the nest or the colour from the sky? Tell me little human, what of demons? Are we but flowers too? Something more?...Something less?" I looked to the sky and smiled as I sew one beauty still to be found in this cold world, a rainbow stretched across the blue skies, a reminder that not all is gone and true beauty can still be found even in the darkest of places. Smiling, I gently touched Zeros shoulder and pointed at the rainbow, saying "look up there Zero, tell me what you see."

Zero looked up to the sky and he froze, at first I was shocked, was he ok? What was wrong? Then I looked at his face, a question on my lips stopped only by his expression. It was shock, it was wonder, it was the face of pure curiosity. I watched him then, the emotions flittering in his ever changing eyes as they see a rainbow for the first time. He was unable to look away but still asked me what he sought to know "what are these colours that I see? Why do they dance in the sky? Are they ghosts? Spirits from the other world? I see something that is new, it is neither bad nor good, mixing both light and dark... What is it Avira?" 

I half smile as I watch him, his white hair shining softly in the gentle light looking almost like a white halo upon his head, his small nearly covered grey horns the only thing to break the imagery and shatter the dream. 

"It's a Rainbow."

Zero smiled widely showing of all his sharp pointed. "....A Rainbow...."

We sat and watched the rainbow long after it disappeared, soon falling sound asleep under an old willow tree atop a small green hill under the dark nights sky and twinkling stars. The lush green grass gently brushed against them soothingly as the wind sang them a peaceful lullaby. 

~End Flash Back~

We wondered aimlessly, neither of us really sure where we were heading, simply exploring this world full of beauty and mysteries waiting to be discovered. The children had long abandoned the dirty streets opting to go back to the safety of their homes as the sky darkened with the fastly approaching fall of night. My stomach suddenly growled viciously, reminding me that I hadn't eaten since yesterday, and all I'd had was an ripe red apple picked from a tree, zeros stupid smirk burnt in my mind as he throw it to me with a smartarse comment like always. 

"I had wondered how long you'd last out." Zero chuckled charmingly, making me shiver a little. God I hated it when he laughed like that, the smug git. "Well excuse me your lordship, some of us actually have to eat more often then three months or so. I'm sorry we can't all be monsters, poor you." I give him back his trademark smirk thinking I was real smart and finally got him on the bench for a change, I'd already mastered a few of his quirks. Much to my annoyance, the git simply grinned back with a quick sharp retort as ever. "Monster ay? What's that make you then hm? My little human pet? Heel fluffy, Haha." I glare at him fiercely but all he dose is wink back cheekily, it irks me how immune he is to me, I'd love to see that knowing smile wiped from his ever smug face. "Just go make yourself useful and find us something to eat will you? Contrary to common belief, your charm and wit can't put food on the table." Climbing a small tree, I chill on a low branch watching as zero leaves in search of food, shouting back as he goes "well I don't know Avira! A face this good looking, you'd be surprised what I can get when I set my mind on it!" Shaking my head, I smile softly at his words. We sure were an odd couple weren't we, who know a demon and human would get on so well.... I close my eyes enjoying the silence, it was just so peaceful. It must have been an hour or so since zero left, when suddenly something didn't feel right.... I opened my eyes slowly, listening and trying to put my finger on what exactly was wrong, all I knew was something was off even though all looked well... I was well aware how simply harmless things could and would often be the most harmful. 

I listen closely.... But I didn't hear anything... Not one sound.... Hold on? Shouldn't I be able to hear the crickets? Where are the animals? Has the wind stopped?.... A shiver ran down my spine, and unlike with zero, this one was far from nice. Carefully, I started to climbed down from the tree... In my clumsy attempts to be quiet though, I lost my footing and fell to the ground with a thud. "Dammit.... Stupid tree..." Temporally focused on the slight awkward pain of the fall, I forgot my earlier concern and sighed as I watched the skies again, lost in its inky swirling colours.  I was only lost for a few seconds...... When suddenly, I felt a sharp sudden pain of a needle be roughly sunk into my neck and everything started to blur.... I try my best to stay conscious but my body fights me, wanting to give in and sleep. Ghostly chuckles mixed with a odd humans that sounds strangely familiar fill the air around me.... "There's no point struggling little bird.... No one can resist the pull of devils desire.... Give in.... That's it.... Just let go...." The strangers sickly sweet voice made me cringe but his words lulled me into a almost comatose state of mind.... I was trapped within myself, screaming and desperately trying to get out. My thoughts swirled over and over, round and round in never ending circles.... I was worried about zero, was he ok?... Who were these guys and what did they want?... What was I going to do?! I needed an out, I had to find an out somehow! Unfortunately, my mind rebelled. It was shutting down... Going numb.... And all I could do was curse myself for wanting the numbness, welcoming in the darkness that I was so at home with and longed for..... And curse zero to the fiery pits of hades! He lied to me! Promised me powers, that I'd never be weak or alone again! Not while he was around! But he wasn't around my tired brain said.... He wasn't here.... Surely, you knew he wouldn't be? I growled harshly in my head at my brain to shut it, it was irrelevant. 

The world slowly faded around me.... In the back of my mind, I shouted at myself to stay awake.... to fight or die trying.... Still, my world collapsed and darkness engulfed me entirely, I was powerless to deny the drug. 

Oddly enough.... My last stray thought before the drug like sleep took me was of the same person who had abandoned me.... I wonder what colour zeros eyes were right now?...... Was he even looking for me?.... Gods.... I sure hoped so.