DATE, PART 2

Their face were close with their shoulders almost brush with each other.

Kris frozen on the spot, the tingly feelings on her fingertips were not there anymore when her heartbeats overpowered her sense.

Suddenly, he grinned.

"So you are okay staying close with someone else ?"

Her eyes widened.

"N-No !" She pulled away immediately and fixed her posture, looking another way with a tint of pink started to show on her cheekbones.

She was moving in a trance and resulting their body to be so close to each other.

"A-anyways, let's go somewhere else." Kris said, standing up from the bench and walked away from there, while the other one watching her every moves with an amusing smile.

"Yeah yeah."

They walked through the pedestrian walk, not talking with each other with their hoods are still over their head.

Kris had her hands in her hoodie pockets, whilst the man had his hands behind his head, whistling a tune.

Suddenly, he saw an ice cream shop.

"Let's go there !" He hooked her arm and pulled her towards the store, which she angrily rolled her eyes at his unexpected, annoying action.

They both entered the ice cream shop, full with pink and white atmosphere, along with their uniform and happy smiles.

"What flavor do you want ?" a big grin on the employee's face.

Kris groaned at the flashy view.

"Can I have one chocolate and one mint ice cream please ?" Her 'date' ordered and pulled her towards one of the table, while she was shocked.

He ordered for two ? Including.. her favorite ?

She sat across him with a suspicious look, watching him smiling and humming, who was watching outside of the window; people passing by with their partner, laughing and cuddling close to each other.

That moment, she noticed a bit of change in his face, as if it reminds him of something, or rather someone.

It was for sure when his eyes trails them until they were out of sight.

"So.. I have another question for you." Kris started to talk, grabbing his attention who immediately turned to smile at her, as if he did not just trail out of his conscious mind earlier.

"What is it ?"

"How did that gargoyle come here from u-u-Utopia, and where is this Utopia anyway ? Why does it tried to kill me ?"

"Slow down, Kris ! You're using three questions at a same time ? Just so you know, you only have one left." He teasingly reminded her and she groaned again at her carelessness.

What with the capacity anyway.

"Whatever, answer my questions."

"Right, right." He said, eyes picked up the employee that coming towards their way with their ice cream, taking it with a thanks and placed the ice cream on the table.

Chocolate for her, mint for him. She pouted silently.

Well, it seems like he did not know her entirely, and tiny part of her heart, she felt a little sad for no reason.

He eats the ice cream, "So.. your first question ? Right.. any creatures from Utopia cannot come and go on their own, so most probably someone sent it here."

He eats another ice cream, Kris kept watching it closely, slightly jealous for not getting to eat it.

"Where is Utopia huh.." he stopped talking for a moment as a huge smile formed on his lips thinking of his home.

"Well, it a place far, far away from here that you can never find, but lucky for you, I can bring you there in a blink of an eye."

"Is this one of your magic trick, again ?"

"It's not magic trick, it's called nature that blessed within you, and in this case, we're going to use what nature gave us to make it easier for us to move from a place to another." He explained, a tint of irritation appeared on his face for a split second before he smiles again.

Kris noticed how he did not like it when she downgraded his ability. She ate the chocolate ice cream, feeling a little guilty.

"As for the last question.. I don't know how to answer you that, but I will be here to protect you." Her eyes widened at his words, and the world around her became slow when their eyes met.

There were no doubt or playfulness in those pair of onyx eyes he had, and once again, the same uncontrollable rhythm happened again to her heart like it was in front of the lake.

Why did he has that affect on her ?

The way he captured her eyes, they were pulling her deeper and deeper into them, into something that she might cannot get out if she surrender into them.

As they were staring, the man noticed something was coming to his left from the window, a flaring red fire was shot towards them.

His face screamed emergency, and instinctively, he pulled Kris into him and covered her from the shattering glass and rubble that exploded by the shot.

Only then, the world started to move like normal.

Kris groaned in pain, and her eyes opened to only see the face of the employee were frozen in horror, eyes widened with blood all over his face.

There were a huge glass punctured through his abdomen.

The silver-haired man turned around to look at the culprit, dust and tiny rubble fell from his back.

He glared through the cloud of dust as its slowly dissipates, and as it clears, a male around late 20s standing in the middle of the road, looking down at the both of them with sinister smile.

"So, you also knew about it, huh.." the scary man said, walking a step closer after another.

"Why don't you just stay grounding yourself in your Palace and let me turn it into reality !"

Another fireball was sent by the man, and it was reflected in Kris' frightening eyes.