Wings of True Love

Part One

BLEEP! BLEEP! BLEEP! BLEEP!

Yasmine groaned and pressed the 'sleep' button on the ancient alarm clock that sat next to her bed. Why did she even keep the annoying device around anymore?

Her question was answered when she rolled over to see the picture of a sweet young woman with a five-year old child {Yasmine} in her arms.

"Hey, mom," Yasmine whispered hoarsely as she smiled slightly.

Yasmine's alarm clock had indeed been a present from her mother. After all, her mother did love materials from other worlds, and they were awfully hard to come by anyway. The alarm clock had come from a place called Earth, somewhere in a universe called the "Milky Way".

But that was nowhere near Yasmine's world. Her world was the futuristic world of Sapphire, in the Gemini Universe. (Even though it had always been Yasmine's childhood dream to visit Earth)

Yasmine quickly rolled out of her bed and shot out of her bedroom, (one-half of the two-room apartment in which she resided all by herself) racing toward the holoscreen attached to the wall of the room that was supposed to be a kind of kitchen/living room. The holoscreen wasn't very big, so Yasmine always had to keep her face very close to it. No, Yasmine definitely wasn't anywhere close to rich, but she didn't give credits (Sapphran money) a second thought this morning. She had managed to program her holoscreen to broadcast the animated projections that the people of Earth called "cartoons", and her all-time favorite was broadcasting on Earth at that very moment. Yasmine excitedly slid in front of her holoscreen and fumbled with the buttons below it until the screen sprang to life, and the familiar theme song that Yasmine had all but memorized began to play.

"TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES! Turtles countin' off! 1, 2, 3, 4, Turtles! Mutant chain reaction! Turtles! Livin' underground! Turtles! Ninjitsu action! Turtles! It's a shell of a toooooown!"

Yasmine giggled as she sang along. It was mornings like this that made her love Saturdays.

Princess Cara Citrene sighed sadly, a tone of worry accompanying the sigh. Her world, Sapphire, was in grave danger. There was an awful enemy on the horizon, and there was very little she could do about it.

Princess Cara Citrene had only two special magics. 1) She could see into other peoples' hearts and 2) she could, with the proper circumstances, send a being to see a certain witch of whose powers were much greater than Cara Citrene's could ever be.

The enemy was closing in on the world of Sapphire, and the time where Princess Cara Citrene would need to use her second power was drawing very near. But Cara Citrene also knew that the one she sent would have to be very strong-willed and pure-hearted. That was where the first power came in. For months coming up to this date, Princess Cara Citrene had searched each and every heart that lived in Sapphire, finally yielding results. After months of constant prying and extreme energy loss, the princess of Sapphire had found an amazingly strong child, who would be able to take the dimension-spanning journey necessary to locate her worlds' salvation.

The princess was quickly jerked from her disturbed thoughts as a powerful earthquake shook her castle.

"PRINCESS CARA CITRENE! YOUR MAJESTY!"

The princess turned sharply to see the source of the voice, Krystal, her most loyal servant.

"What is wrong?" Cara Citrene demanded, though she was already well aware of what was happening.

"It's them, your highness! The enemy has begun to take hold of Sapphire, and the ensueing pressure on the Dimensional Barrie we set up is causing an earthquake that is shaking all of Sapphire!" Krystal shouted over the noise of the quake.

Princess Cara Citrene nodded.

"Then it is time to retrieve the one that I must send to the witch," the princess decreed as Krystal hurried away, "Find her quickly and bring her back here, Krystal, the fate of our world depends on it! Find and bring me Yasmine Tokogawa!"

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Hey everybody!!! Hope you're enjoying yourselves, 'cuz part two is coming within the next day or so!