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Melanthios Floros

"Don't think for a second that I'm helping you cause I feel like it... It's only cause you need it, miss..."

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a character in “On Broken Wings and Wilted Petals”, as played by Child of the Winged

Description

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I'm a pretty plain person, you see... There's not much to me. Brown hair with darker eyes, a slim frame and a pale skin tone. I should be darker, for a Grecian, but it's only because I've lived here most of my life. Anyways, as you can see, I have a lot of cats but only the black one with the bow is mine. He's Agrios, my only link to my snowflake...

I work some jobs so I guess I'll describe all my uniforms.

When I work with my father at the shop, I wear a black shirt and jeans with an green apron over it. The apron has a small pawprint on it. It's Agrios'.

Sometimes I'll work at the Ramen shop, as a delivery boy. I don't really have a uniform but I have this hat, saying "Ikku Ramen Shop" on it.

And when I work in the local Greenhouse, I wear my white pants but not a shirt because working in that thing is way too hot.

School uniform's pretty plain too. Just a white shirt, yellow vest, blue jacket and plaid pants.

Personality

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I'm pretty shy. Yeah, shy... I don't like talking to people as much as I should but people just use my kindness to their advantage. So whenever I help someone, I deny it. So that no one else can use me like she did...

I like animals though. They like me for me. I also enjoy snow, kinda because of my little snowflake but also it's so soft. Rain is good too... So are sweets and walking outside. Swimming's fun too.

I don't like mean people or anyone who hurts my snowflake, but there are a lot of those people. I don't like eels or rats, because they remind me of my late mother, who I hate more than anything. Bitter foods are also a no no.

History

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Now, I'm from a poorer part of town and been betrayed before, by my mother's constant cheating behind my father's back. There have been many times that I've seen my mother's horrid behavior and told my father, who was extremely loyal to his wife. I saw that loyalty and adopts it as my own, promising to do anything in my power to help others, no matter what.

When I met my snowflake, all those years ago, I openly let her in and showed her that not all people were bad and horrid, as she thought. I gifted her with a kitten, whose twin I keep, and I promised her that I'd protect her from everything.

During the month that she was gone, I concluded that she wanted nothing to do with a poor boy from the streets. I began hiding his good deeds and distancing myself from the other kids at school, in fear that they too would abandon me. At the end of the month, my mother and her newest boy toy were found out by my father and the two moved away to another house.

At my new house, my father opened the pet shop he wanted and we began to work there. We started over. And then I found her again. My snowflake, well, I hope so...

So begins...

Melanthios Floros's Story

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I awoke to the usual. A tongue licking my face, a paw at my hair and a bony finger poking my cheek. I shoved the tongue, held the paw and glared at the finger. All three stopped and I sat up from my nice bed, glaring at my cat, dog and father. "Really?"

"You wouldn't get up." the man reasoned before chuckling at his son and leaving. "Breakfast in 10, school in 30." Mel grunted and got out of his warm bed. Kosetsu had my skates all ready at the door for me as I hurriedly pulled clothing on. I snapped her leash on her neck, slid my feet into my skates and grabbed my toast that my father held out.

"See you later, dad!" I called as I was pulled out the door by my dog. I skated across town and made it through the school gates. I stopped and took Kosetsu's leash off before stuffing it in my bag. "Alright, you know what to do, girl." I told her and she ran off to the back of the school, where the greenhouses were. I shook my head, readjusted my bag and slid my headphones over my neck, just as my two friends, Akito and Remus ran up.

"Yo! What's up?" Remus asked, slinging an arm around my shoulders, his boyfriend just stood there, watching.

"Not much really." I answered, munching on my food before shoving my hand in Remus' face to keep him from eating it. "Bad dog."

"Bro! There's some snooty rich girl coming to our school! I heard she's hot!" Akito coughed and his eye twitched. "N-not that you aren't hot too, love..." But Akito had already grabbed him by the ear and was dragging him off to the school. Laughing, I followed my gay friends. They were so funny together, Akito being a yandere and Remus, a loveable loser.

"You're in trouble now, Rem!" I told him. He flicked me off, making me laugh harder. Akito only smacked him on the back of the head and smiled creepily.

"I'd agree with Mel, here..." The yandere led us to the classroom we all shared and we sat in the back, right by the windows. No one sat anywhere near them so the seats were all open. That worried me a bit.

"Hey, think that teach will put the snoot by us?" Remus asked, now sitting in Akito's lap. I shrugged as the last of my toast disappeared.

"I hope not. We'd mental scar her." I grinned at the thought and turned back to the window. "But we'll just see. It's all in fate's hands."

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I was awe struck. Not because the girl was breathtakingly beautiful. No, she had an aura that I had only seen once but never forgot. It couldn't be. Right..? Of course not... But he had to know.

"Hey, Mel, you alright?" Akito asked, looking at me. He sat diagonal from me so it was kinda hard for him. I only nodded and listened as a guy asked a question. Sensei looked almost proud that everyone was well behaved. If only it would last... I thought, shaking my head.

"I got one! Are you single?" the class nodded, seeming to want to know the same thing. For some reason, even if that wasn't my little snowflake, it still pissed me off. Badly. I took a little marble from his pocket and flicked it at the back of the guy's head, making it slam into the desk in front of him. He was out cold.

"Yuu-tan! Are you alright?" one of the girls near him asked, making Remus snort from his seat in front of me and lean back to talk to me. Akito had leaned closer

"Oh no! Yuu-tan's poor poor singular brain cell!" he whispered in a very high falsetto, making us laugh quietly. Sensei raised his hand again. Everyone, us included shut up again.

"Yuu, that question was inappropriate." he turned to Yuki, who looked nervous, if you asked me. "I'm so sorry, Mashiro-san. Anyone else have a question?"

Everyone looked around, somewhat nervously. They knew asking something bad would mean slamming their faces into the desk like Yuu did. As a class, everyone shook their heads, allowing me to put the marble I had ready away, back into my pants pockets and I turned back to the window.

"If that's all, Mashiro-san can sit by Floros-san." I was smiling on the outside, looking blissfully unaware but inwardly I was panicking. "Floros-san, pay attention." I turned to Sensei and raised my hand.

"Sorry, DΓ‘skalos." I muttered, rubbing the back of my head sheepishly. Remus was murmuring about a lovesick dog and Akito looked slightly worried.

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"Are you that Mashiro Yuki?"

That had been the first, and expected question. She had asked for some clarification, and, when asked more specifically if she was heiress to the famed family in charge of MEE, she had demurely confirmed this, leading to an awed outburst from the classroom as a whole. Well, this was excusable, she supposed. It wasn't every day you met someone widely regarded as famous, although it was somewhat irritating regardless.

"Sensei said you transferred from the Kita AAI. That must mean you're a genius!"

"Not exactly a question, but yes, I did transfer here from there. I don't consider myself a genius, but thank you for the compliment," She said, a twinkle of sarcastic amusement flashing for a moment in her amber eyes, a slight smile playing upon her lips.

"Why transfer here? The AAI is a fast-track to an overseas scholarship at big-name colleges. Did you get expelled or something?"

"I have my reasons. Long story short, I got tired of it," She answered simply, leading to some confused murmurings amongst the class. There were quickly disrupted, however, by a loud exclamation, and before the boy had even finished talking, Yuki already knew what he was going to say. It was the question she had worried most about, and was most annoyed to see that her fears had not been baseless.

"Are you single?" The boy asked. Yuki sighed somewhat irritably, gritted her teeth, and tried to bite back the tirade of sarcastic jabs that sprang to her tongue. Fortunately for her, someone else dealt with the nuisance before she had to, and the boy fell flat on his face, much to the laughter and amusement of his classmates.

Fortunately, there were no more questions, which meant she could get to her desk in peace. Introductions were always the main nuisance about a transfer, and now that they were out of the way, she would at least get a brief respite before the interrogation started again.

"Thank you, Takahashi-sensei," Yuki said with a kindness that she couldn't help but feel didn't suit her, giving a bow and quickly striding across the room to her desk. Placing her book bag on the desk, she dusted off the seat and sat gently down, brushing her hair back out of her eyes.

"Alright. Now that that's through, there are a few other minor announcements. Firstly, since the year is now underway, the school would like to remind everyone that clubs are now open and accepting applications, and that they are holding an open house event after school on Friday. If you're interested, classes will be ending early that day, so you'll have plenty of time to investigate and hopefully find a club activity that suits you. Secondly..." Yuki lost her will to concentrate at this point, and lapsed briefly into her own thoughts, trying her best to ignore the furtive glances being shot at her from all around the room, and the quiet whispers that still continued unnoticed.

"...for cleaning duty, I'd like someone to walk Mashiro-san through the basics. Show her where everything is and help her get used to her after-school duties. Floros-san, it's your turn in the rotation, so please take care of this." Masao wrote up two names on the board as he spoke under a small section labeled "Cleaning Crew." Once "Mashiro Yuki" had been lined up alongside some unintelligible foreign name which, if she recalled correctly, meant "Black Flower," although she'd long since forgotten her Greek (if that was actually what it was) - probably that of the person sitting next to her, who she greatly pitied for his obvious lack of parental affection, made evident by his quite frankly absurd name - Masao concluded the announcements.

"That should be everything. Feel free to talk amongst yourselves now, but don't disrupt those who want to use this time to study. If you'll excuse me, I need a coffee." With that candid statement, Masao turned and bowed out of the room, heading off - probably toward the break room down the hall.

And, it seemed her period of respite had just about ended, since students were already getting up and heading toward her. Oh dear.

"Hey, hey, Yuki-san!" One of them exclaimed. She toned out the longwinded introduction that followed, but managed to pay enough attention - which wasn't hard, considering she knew they had come to bother her with more questions anyway - to realize they wanted to ask about various trivial facts.

"What sorts of things do you like?" One of them asked.

"Mystery novels, classical music, and cats," she answered curtly, although her concise method of speaking would probably be attributed to a desire to answer things quickly for the sake of time rather than annoyance.

"Do you have any pets?"

"One cat, as well as a few others who live on the grounds of my house."

"What's your favorite saying?"

"Too many of us aren't living our dreams because we're busy living our nightmares." Yuki couldn't help but feel a sense of hilarious irony in that statement. Its original meaning was something cliche about perseverance and fearlessly hoping for the future, but little did the people around her know that when she said it, she meant just the opposite. She had no dreams that weren't veritable terrors, and in a world where she could not trust anyone or anything, one long nightmare was all life ever could be. She knew that to be true, and had willingly chosen not to pursue dreams. And yet, who, having seen the things she had seen, could interpret that saying the way it was originally meant to be understood? Give up your fears and follow your dreams? What sort of happy-go-lucky lie was that? Dreams were just that: unattainable fancies that could always be looked at, but never reached. To assume that you could "live your dreams" was nothing but self-delusion. Several loud exclamations of approval for her optimistic outlook were heard, but she didn't pay any attention to them. As the storm of questions continued, she answered as best she could, always remaining polite and cordial, but never once stepping out of her comfort zone. Let them bother her, she thought. It would end soon enough, and they would go away. They always did, once they realized that even amongst a crowd such as themselves, she was still distant and alone.

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I had tuned Sensei out after this. I didn't want to entertain the idea that the cold hearted girl sitting beside me could have been the calm, sweet girl I fell in love with. I continued to look out the window and barely caught the last bit of Sensei's speech.

"...for cleaning duty, I'd like someone to walk Mashiro-san through the basics. Show her where everything is and help her get used to her after-school duties. Floros-san, it's your turn in the rotation, so please take care of this."

I gave him a thumbs up without looking. As Sensei left, Akito and Remus moved closer to me, allowing the rest of the class to swarm the girl. I felt sorry for her. I hated most of the morons in our class.

"You think she'll snap and tell them to fuck off?" Remus asked, sneering at a girl that wandered to close to them. I snorted and laid my head on the desk, looking out my window.

"I'd laugh if she did, but her background won't let her." I watched as Kosetsu ran across the schoolyard, herding the last of the students into the school. The huge American Alsatian looked like a large wolf but she was harmless. I turned back to see Remus snarling at some guy, who touched him. This worked to my advantage.

"Get the hell away from here! All of you! I can't stand you people!" he bit out, making everyone clear out and run back to their seats. I nudged Remus with my foot, making him turn to me.

"Good dog..." I muttered, he snorted.

"Your compliments do you no good." He said before snuggling up against Akito, who was actually studying. I saluted the girl with two fingers in a greeting.

"Sorry about your little posse but we hate crowds of morons." I told her before I propped my feet up on the desk and turned back to my lovebird friends, eager to ignore everyone else, who seemed to be glaring at me for the moron comment. I just stuck my tongue out at them and rolled my eyes.

"So mature." Akito muttered, no even looking up from his book. I laughed and closed my eyes. This would be a nice time to sleep.

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As it turned out, I had fallen asleep before class. It was a bad habit I picked up from when I was younger, falling asleep in strange positions that is. I had to be woken up by Remus, who had moved back to his seat and knocking my feet off the desk in the process. I sat up quickly and turned to the door to see it open. I sighed and nodded at Remus, who gave a thumbs up back. Akito had closed his book, which was about some war and turned to Sensei, who was talking and writing things on the board. Most of it was about senseless things that I could research on my own time, which I normally did. Remus was already had his head on his desk, a gaming console in his lap. I rolled my eyes and shook my head. I stretched and tried to listen to what he was saying but the clouds were begging to be watched.

My thoughts kept going back to the day I met my snowflake. I could feel my mouth moving from the indifferent line to a smile. Yeah, I remember that day well. She was sitting at the playground across from my old house, on a swing. I merely walked over the street and stood in front of her. I asked her where her house was, the normal questions one lonely child asks another. She didn't answer. So I grabbed her hand, drug her back across that empty street and into my house. My father was making spanakopita tart with bacon and mushrooms, one of my favorites. I told my father that she was all alone and then she spoke. I can still remember her words. "I'm not alone. I've run away." It still made me laugh. My father ruffled her hair and we all ate together. After that, we went to the back, where we were keeping a cat and her kittens. Only two survived a attack from a dog. We gave her one, who we named Byakuya and I kept the other, Byakko. Then she had to go home. She promised to return the next day. Almost a month later and no return. We moved and I haven't seen her since. I shook my head to clear my thoughts.

Remus turned Yuki and gave her a devilish grin. "I heard you keep cats. Wanna tell me their breeds? My friend over there, the one daydreaming, has a pretty big pet shop, ya know. He even has a cat." I turned to him and my smile dropped. "Whoa, sorry bro... Just trying to help you out." He held his hands up, in a 'I-didn't-mean-any-harm' style. I only shook my head.

"I doubt she wants to hear about my exploits as a pet shop manager." I halfheartedly sneered. "Sorry about the dog. He can't keep his mouth shut somedays..." I tipped my head in apology at Yuki before turning back to the window.