Chapter 1
It wasn’t often that Sayaka got drunk, but it had been quite some time since she, Midari, and Runa managed to get some time together like this. Midari had gotten rather pleasantly tipsy when she came down to see Sayaka and was now enjoying dancing around and giggling hysterically in the rain, most of the dreary little town, already shut for the day. Sayaka would probably wouldn’t be hearing the end of it when it came to Runa and Midari's loud obnoxious singing, not for some time at least. There weren’t many people under fifty in this town and complaining was practically an Olympic sport around here.
As Sayaka passed through the old park, one of them noticed the large old statue, partially hidden, just a little ways off the beaten track. No one in town quite new its origin, but it had been there as long as the town had been, and it was doing no harm where it was. Most chose to ignore the bizarre nameless statue.
Runa whistled appreciatively at the figure and they all laughed, dancing and stumbling their way into the tiny clearing. Her friends started joking around, eventually convincing Sayaka to climb up onto the statues base and give it a kiss. Drunk and enjoying being silly and carefree for once, she gave a dramatic bow and clumsily climbed up the slippery base, her friends hooting and whistling at her the whole way.
Reaching the statue, her friends cheered and teased Sayaka over the height differences, laughing as she only flipped them off. Wrapping her arms around the statues neck, she paused briefly, finally noticing how sad the statue looked up close, its face partially concealed from any other position. Something about it made her heart twinge painfully. Shaking the surprisingly sober thought off, Sayaka used her grip around its neck to stand on the tips of her toes, kissing the slightly bent over figure directly on their cold unyielding lips.
Instantaneously, lighting struck somewhere else in the park, disturbingly close by, the following boom of thunder loud enough to make her ears hurt. Her friends shouted and screeched in alarm, before running back onto the path loudly, headed the short distance back to Sayaka's place. Unfortunately, Midari and Runa were all too drunk and giggly to notice that Sayaka hadn’t followed.
Having been startled by the thunder as well, she lost her footing on the slippery base of the statue. She barely managed to fall an inch before a powerful arm was locking around her, lifting her just enough to keep her feet off of the slick ground.
Wide eyed, Sayaka snapped her gaze back up, shocked to find herself meeting the wonder filled gaze of what had previously been a statue. Now they were flesh and bone, their skin and hair soft against her hold, her arms still locked around their neck.They seemed in awe of Sayaka, and in full honesty, the feeling went both ways. There was no question that their beauty was beyond human, their now living form radiating with power and grace and their eyes tugging at something deep inside Sayaka.