A/N: I'm using an original character for this story.
Chapter 1: Angel
Newly formed snow falls from the heavens, gliding along the winter sky with fresh grace and tranquility. Their whiteness is pure and calming. There is neither sound nor movement; there is nothing except for the pearls making their path to Earth. They fall and finally reach the ground, covering earth with a white blanket, cool to the touch. A young boy reaches out and allows some to fall into his hands. His grasp is gentle and a smile forms on his face. "The snow is beautiful", he thinks to himself.
In another place, there is a girl who watches. She watches everything, from the fall of the first snow of the winter, to the movement of rabbits in the forests. The first moment she woke up, she found herself surrounded by pillars of white and a plane of endless white nothingness. She is confused and listens for sound, but hears nothing so she waits patiently. She looks at her body and hands, she finds herself to be a vague figure without a defined form; almost translucent, however still recognizably human. Finally a figure, clad in a vague form approaches and she raises her frail pale arm to the figure to ask," What am I?"
The figure does not respond for a moment and then points down. The girl looks down and she sees the Earth. She realizes that if she looks harder, she can see closer, the details of the land, the trees, the people, and the villages. "Why am I looking from above?"
"You are an angel."
An angel. She surmises that she used to be of the human world, died and all memory of her previous life has been lost.
"What am I supposed to do?" She asks tentatively.
"You are not an ordinary angel, young girl."
The figure walks down what seem to be staircases that descend closer and closer to the Earth below their feet. She follows uncertainly and stumbles a bit.
"You are a guardian angel."
"It's really all too much to absorb right now" she thinks to herself crossly.
"As a guardian, you are to watch over a selected human being and with them, you are to guide them through their lives, doing your best to keep them from harm."
"Does everyone have a guardian angel?"
"Yes."
"Then why… why do people still get hurt?"
"Some have been abandoned probably. Guardian angels get a certain amount of freedom and may leave their human if they wish."
"I see… So who is my human?"
The figure points downwards," That boy over there."
The girl casts her eyes downwards and sees a young boy with a rabbit in his arms.
"The boy… he is already grown. Shouldn't I have been assigned to him when he was born?" She frowns and turns back, but the figure has already disappeared.
The girl is confused but descends to the Earth and walks alongside the young boy. He has large eyes that shine and a smile that was almost as cute as the rabbit. He is running along a dirt path until he stops at a large man. The girl stops for a second, terrified of what she sees but follows anyway. The man is bound in bandages; he seems to be a man of war and killing with a large weapon attached to his back. His skin is a pale sickly color and his eyes are sharp with a sense of terror.
"Haku. Put that thing back."
The boy, Haku, saddens a bit and releases the small white animal.
"This is going to be… quite the challenge", the girl murmurs to herself.