One

Once upon a time, an angel fell from the sky, an angel with black wings sent by the God to steal away the treasures that can harm humans. Meanwhile the devil sent an angel of his, one disguised as a heavenly angel to fight the black winged angel. The settings they were placed in are very quiet; nothing happens as the black angel, Dark, steals the artifacts. Krad, the white angel, on the other hand works on behalf of higher rank trying to catch Dark. Without disturbing the world of humans the angels unleash their powers to do their tasks. But another sent another angel without their knowing. A feather handed down from generation to generation holds the angel's true from. The story of the original Dark and Krad begins now!

(Disclaimer: I only own the entire kingdom of Rutile, Yuki-hime (Princess Yuki), Kyo-oji (Prince Kyo), and Theodil-o (King Theodil).)

Rutile, a kingdom near the ocean embraced by a great vast forest. The people live quiet lives never involved in war almost untouched by the rest of the world. During the era that everything changed, there was, like all classical princess stories, a beautiful princess. But unlike the classics, you can describe Yuki-hime as a beautiful ice princess. Very little people know why she acts the way she does. Never smiling, never laughing, always a straight face, emotionless. Why she pays no attention to those around her. If the kingdom were to perish she wouldn't mind, she wouldn't mind dying as long as one person lives, the crown prince, and her younger brother, Kyo-oji. The young prince was everything that the princess wasn't. Always laughing, always smiling a stupid smile for his sister, but she would only smile for him.

Nobody knew when the change happened, but I know. So, let me tell you. It all started on a rather warm autumn day when a traveler carrying nothing but a sack of clothing and a tiny wallet of only a few coins walked through the wide gates of Rutile.

"Oh, this seems like a nice little kingdom," the traveler said looking around, "Ah, that's a nice ocean smell. I think I can get used to this place rather quickly. Now time to find a part-time job!"

Our traveler, in fact the angel, Dark, walked through the city looking from store to store. His strides were nice and even as if he's lived here for years. Even after many of the women and girls of the city started gazing at him as he crossed paths with them. Some of the younger girls even started to follow him around. He's become a celebrity already.

"Um," one of the braver girls came up to him blushing like mad and forced out the words, "Um… um… May I ask what you name is?"

"That's the question I should be asking," Dark said getting really close to her, only inches away, "Ohime-sama"

The girl blushed like mad as if she was to blow any minute. Instantly many of the other girls circled around Dark asking him questions, trying to get the same result.

"Haha," Dark laughed, calming down the mob of girls "you girls here are pretty cute, but if you continue like this I'm going to suffocate."

Suddenly in a blink of an eye every one backed away. Confused as to what the heck was happening, Dark looked around, "I said I would suffocate, but it wasn't that bad."

Then a carriage pulled up to almost in front of him. He watched as some of the people walked away, minding there own business occasionally glancing at the carriage as if it was something to be cautious about. The driver hopped off his seat and opened the door. Out stepped a fair maiden with silver hair with a tint of light purple. Dark's mouth dropped opened just a little. She was a gorgeous girl, about the same age as the other girls that were no longer in sight.

"Hime-sama," the driver said, "Please watch your step."

"Thank you," she said and stepped lightly on the ground, she looked over a Dark who was still staring at her. She narrowed her eyes, but not in a good way. She looked just a little angry. Dark was a little taken back by this expression, but suddenly a huge gust of wind flew through the sky. The princess's hair came loose and started to dance with the wind, but she still kept looking at Dark.

"Hime-sama, you coat," the driver offered her, "What about your hair? Do you wish for us to look for the hair pin?"

"Never mind it," the princess said in a sternly voice as she put on her coat turning away from Dark, "I just wish to walk around the park. Being stuck in that castle is making me cramped. Let's go."

"As you wish, Hime-sama," the driver said and they enter the park.

Dark watched them until they were out of sight. He took a step forward and stepped on something. He looked down to remove his foot. It was the princess' hairpin. He bent down and picked it up. It had many intricate designs on it along with a sapphire in the center. Dark blew on it and dusted it off.

"Young man!" an elderly woman called, "Would you mind coming here?"

Dark crossed the empty street to the woman, "Is there a problem?"

"Sorry for the trouble, but can you help me bring these bags of potatoes in?"

"No problem," Dark said and picked up a large sack of potatoes.

There were six large sacks and he was quiet warn out by the time he brought it all in the storage room.

"Thank you for all your help. It would have taken me forever to bring it all in."

"It's not a problem. A man should to all the work anyways."

"Anyways, come in," she said Dark followed.

He sat down and looked around. The old woman was the keeper of an inn, although she doesn't have many costumers she still makes a good income every week to keep the place.

"Here have some soup. It suddenly turned so cold," the old woman said handing him a little bowl full of chicken soup, "It must be the princess' coming here."

"That nonsense," Dark said taking the bowl, "It's turning cold because winter's coming."

"You must be new to here," the woman said sitting down across the table from Dark, "The person you met is Yuki-hime. She has an alias in this city, we call her the Snow Princess."

"Why 'snow princess?' Is it because of her white hair?"

"No, not really. Before the princess was born, it has never snowed for hundreds of years. And then on the very day that she was born it snowed. Thus, she was given the name Snow Princess."

"I see. So how's the princess like?"

"I haven't actually seen her up close with my two eyes, but I've heard that after her mother died, she's never smiled. Her skin is cold to the touch. Every body that hears the name for the first time will think that she fair and nice like Snow white from the fairytale, but that's only a fairytale after all."

"Is she really that bad?"

"It's not that she's bad, it she's just…cold. There's really not other way to describe her. The King's even tried many methods to change her."

"What kind of methods?"

"You know, there's therapy, palm reading, fortune telling, the king's even called some of the men in the city to try to warm her up. Nothing has ever worked."

"How was her mother killed?"

"Kidnappers and assassins. They were really targeting Yuki-hime, but her mother stood in their way, so they got rid of her."

"No wonder, she probably blames herself for her mother's death and locked away her emotions," Dark said looking through his bag for something, and then the hairpin fell out.

"Oh my, where did you get that?" the old woman asked.

"Ah, when I saw her, there was a gust of wind and it flew to my feet, so I picked it up."

"Oh, you should sell it. It would pay a lot."

"No, I think I'll return it."

"Return it? Why would you do that? How would you do that?"

"It belongs to her, I'm sure she misses it. I'm sure that I will meet her someday again."

"You're a nice person," the woman said, "I'll let you stay here until you can get on your feet."

"Really? That would help a lot!" Dark said standing up and taking the woman's hand, "Thank you so much Oba-san!"

"Don't call me Oba-san!" the old woman said hitting Dark on the head, "Call me Remu-san!"

"Yes, I got it!" Dark said rubbing his hand, "I'm Dark."

"Ok, Dark now you better find a job soon or you'll be draggin' those sacks of potatoes in and out every day! Got it?!"

"Yes!"