Chapter 1 – Angel

A messenger of god; an image of a human figure with wings and a halo; a very beautiful or kind person.

Monday 27th of December 2010

Looking out the window I watch the sunrise though the tress. The road was flying by as my boy friend sped his way down the eastern Australian road. The engine of the V8 was my background sound as I contemplated the day to come. Today is my 17th birthday. I can't believe it. I have finished all my schooling and am going to start studying at university next year. I'm going to become a successful accountant. I look up at the road ahead, as my boyfriend drifts around another corner. As we head down the straight he turns to me, I smile, as he turns back to the wheel. I had gotten use to his reckless driving. We turn another corner; both of us quiet as the loud music blasts though the speakers. At the apex of the turn, I hear the screeching of brakes as Leigh slams his foot to the floor.

I let out a voiceless scream as Leigh drives the car over the edge of the coastal cliff. I feel his hand grip my already white hand. "I love you, babe" he whispers to me, just as the car hits the rocks below. I watch as the steering wheel comes forward crushing his body, my head slams into the dash bored, just as the air bags make their appearance. My head is thrown around as the car rolls time and time again as I'm sure I plummet to my death. Finally everything goes black, I can no longer hear Leigh's screams, and I can't hear my own raged breath. The car has stopped moving and everything seems to happen either very slowly or amazingly fast. There was no concept of time as I waited in the lingo.

Finally I am no longer in the black abyss. I can hear my father's voice and my little sister crying. Why was she crying? Why wasn't someone comforting her? Finally I can see my family. My father bowed over his chair, my little brother was hugging my little sister, comforting her as much as he could. "What has happened?" I ask them. No one looked at me, no one answered my question. "Dad?" he continued to look pained. Finally I took in my other surroundings, around me was the hospital. My family was sitting outside a room. Who was in there? As I turn to walk into the room, a doctor comes out and walks straight though me. What in the world? I turn around to stare at the doctor as my father stands up.

"Will she be ok?" my father asked, concern written all over his face. Who was he talking about?

"It's not looking to good Mr Blight. She has suffered …" the doctor continued on about terms that I didn't understand. Although I did understand one part, who ever it was, was in a coma, after suffering multiple blows to the skull, she is on life support, but at the end of January, it was advised to take her off the life support. Some one in my Family was going to die by the end of January!

"I understand. At the end of January, we will take her off the life support. Is it ok if we go in and see her now?" the doctor nodded and my father ushered up my younger siblings and entered the room. As I was about to enter I heard the doctor murmur.

"Shame all because of reckless driving and on her 17th birthday too."

With those words I knew who was lying in the room, I knew who was about to lose her life... ME!

I rush into the room, my head was bandaged and my body lay in an eerie stillness. I look at my lifeless body, my sister was holding onto my hand tightly, as she laid her head on the bed and cried. There were numerous machines around my bed all making annoying beeping sounds. My brother had his back to my lifeless body. I could see that he like my father was trying to be strong, but my little brother was crying on the inside. I sat with my family as they talked to me, telling me just how much they loved me, finally my little brother broke down and ran out of the room, my father and little sister followed him out.

I was left looking at the body in front of me. I tried to put my hand on myself, but just slipped thought my skin, muscle and blood, all the way though to the bed below. "I wouldn't do that again if I was you." I jumped at the deep male voice and turned around to look at the speaker. Standing was a man basking in a golden light.

"W…who are you? What are you?" my voice quivered, what was happening?

"I am the resident angel of this hospital, so that when beings, like yourself get stuck in between the two worlds I help you on your path to god." What he said seemed to make sense to him, but to me it was only half sense. I look back at my body. Maybe if I go with him I will be able to return to my body, hopefully.

The being of light held out his hand to me, as soon as I touched it I lost myself in the golden light. I look around… I am in a room…I think. I could see no corners, no floor, no doors, not even a roof. Everything was just white with a golden glow. "Hello?" I ventured, my voice seemed to echo for an endless time finally I got the reply that I had been waiting for.

"Do not fear me; I am here to help you. Your death has been pre-ordained and now is not your true time. You body has been put in a state of death so that you may fulfil your life's purpose. You have until January 23rd to complete this part of your purpose. On the 23rd you will return to your body and your life will continue. You are to spend the next 4 weeks as one of my guardian angels. You must protect these individuals and help to grant their wishes. You will appear to them as an angel and too all else as a normal 17 year old, I wish you luck."

I scream in pain as I feel a burning sensation on my back. I can feel the white feather wings spread from my back. I knew my raven hair was soaked and was hanging in rat tails around my face. My brown eyes go out of focus as the wings finally reach their full size. I can hear my ragged breath as I lay face first in the ground. Where was I now? I slowly lift myself up into a seating position as I look around at all the white feathers surrounding me. I slowly pick up one of the feathers and play with it. I look around at the surrounding world. A cherry blossom tree was near me. Was I in Japan? I look up at a house before me… Yeah Japan. I was in some ones backyard. A small fountain was to my left and a bowl sort of thing was to my right.

I stood up slowly, I felt badly unbalanced with the wings that adorned my back. I almost feel like I'm being pulled backwards. Just as I lose my balance I go to move my arms and tense up my back muscles. I feel the powerful white wings start to work. I throw myself more off balance and my face looks like it's about to ram back into the ground, but again my wings work to my advantage. This time it wasn't as sudden as the first and I stand balanced. I take a slow deep breath. This time I move my wings in an attempt to get air. I feel the gusts of the winds as the leaves around me start to blow and the grass bend. I lift myself a foot off the ground, and slow the beating of the wings. Now that I was up here I seemed to become weight less and my wings didn't have to move anymore. I spread them out to either side of me. They were at least 4 metres in diameter. I feel a light breeze pick up and play with my raven locks, I look down at the white dress I was wearing. I really did look like an angel. I raise one of my hands to feel for a halo. No luck there, I wasn't the traditional angel anyway.

I slowly land and walk my way over to the dish that was in the ground. Looking down at it I know exactly what it is. A Bey-Blade Dish. I lower myself down and let my feet hang in the bowl. I settle the wings comfortably on my back and lean back. What was the man talking about? I was to be a guardian angel for a group of people, and I was to help them with one wish, and I had a month to do this. I had been given a bit of a run down by another angel. The people that I was to guard and help would be able to see me as me as an angel. In this form no one but them could see me, but I had another form a human like form where I would look normal to everyone but them. I sigh this is going to be hard.

I hear noise behind me and I turn to see an elderly man walking out of the house…sort of thing… in his hand he held bird seed which he put in the bird feeder. I watched as numerous birds fly down and eat the offered seed. I could hear their thankyous and their gratitude towards the man. Stumbling out of the house another arrived. This boy was about my age, or lightly younger, he had blue hair and looked a lot like the older man. He wore jeans a yellow shirt and a red jacket. He also wore a hat backwards. I couldn't help but giggle at the boy. It had to be in between my age and my younger brother, but he acted like a 12 year old.

He opened his mouth to talk to his grandfather but he had heard me giggle and froze in mid run. "I can see an angel, are you here to take me to the other side. Oh My God I'm Going To Die!" with this the young individual fainted. I rose from where I had been seated, and walked over to the boy, just as his grandfather approached. I look down at the boy. Shit! This is Tyson Granger… the Bey-Blade World Champion. I was going to be his guardian angel… might as well fail me now. I watched his grand father closely as he looked at Tyson then directly to where I was sitting.

"Come now, angel show yourself, I wont hurt you. I just want to know what you want with my grandson." I could hear the concern in the old mans voice, and I figure it should be alright. So I transform myself into my human form. Standing in front of him, I bowed as a sign of respect. I looked down at what I wore, black pants and a white shirt. Inked on the back of the white shirt I knew would be a black outline of wings, although I could feel my wings and could still move them, no one other than those I was sworn to protect could see them.

"Grandfather, I am not here to harm your grandson, in fact I am here for the opposite I am a guardian angel. I am here to protect him and a few others for the next month. Then I shall return to my normal life." I hoped that explained a bit for Gramps. I had no idea how else to explain it. Gramps just nodded to me.

"That's alright why don't we wake this one up and met the rest of the gang." I smiled maybe this was going to be easier than I thought. Tyson slowly woke up looked at me.

"You mean I wasn't seeing things you're really an angel" I couldn't help but smile at him. He seemed to take joy in the fact that he could see an angel. I explained to my situation to him as well. Then he practically dragged me into the Dojo. It was amazing that I knew most… no all of the people in the room. I was a big fan of Bey-bladeing sure I had never attempted it but I loved to watch the world tournaments. In the room before me were Hiro, Daichi, Rei, Max, Kenny, Hilary and Kai. The whole gang was here. Tyson attempted to introduce me… "Hey everyone, meet my guardian angel. I bet you can't see her wings" his attempt to tease the other bladers wasn't going to work, I knew as each one looked at me that they saw the angel. These were the individuals that I was going to protect. Finally Daichi broke the silence.

"I can see her wings too Tyson, sucked in!" I smiled at Daichi as he attempted to walk around me and have a look at the set of feather wings that adorned my back.

"So what's your name?" I jumped and looked up at the cool, calm, collected, blue haired teenager leaning against the wall. I felt a hatred for him well up inside me. I never liked him. I spit my response back at him realising only half way though that I couldn't remember my name.

"My name is… shit! My name I can't remember. I can't remember anything before the car crash, and even then I only remember crashing and smashing my head. I remember the hospital where I looked at my own damaged body and learnt that I would be left on life support for only a month. I also remember everything that I experienced of the after life, then waking up here. I have no memory of my name. Yet I know each of you. I remember watching you guys on the TV. I remember watching Tyson beat you, and I remember taking satisfaction in your loss. So for now, my name is Angel" I stare back at Kai, trying to match the cold glare that he sent me.

"Whatever."

"Oh I almost forgot." I announced to the group. "All that can see me are allowed to have one wish granted. I am told that I must give out this" I said holding out a piece of paper. "So that I am not liable for any damagers" I handed out 8 slips of the paper. I also decided now would be the best time for me to read the paper as well.

Your Guardian Angel Shall Grant Any Wish You Desire!

Some restrictions may apply

Limit of one wish per customer. Customer may not wish for anything that violates natural laws (e.g., I wish I was young again), anything that increases customers net worth (e.g., I wish I had a million dollars), anything that affects another human being (e.g., I wish my boss would be hit by a comet), anything unusually silly (e.g., I wish I had x-ray vision), or anything just plain sneaky (e.g., I wish I had ten more wishes). Other than that, the sky's the limit. All wishes are non-exchangeable and non-refundable. Time of wish fulfilment varies per customer. A $75 penalty applies to all cancelled wishes. Additional restrictions may apply.

I couldn't help but chuckle over some of the conditions of course it wasn't like I was going to stick to them.