JJ: Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey!
Me: What?
JJ: Hey-
Me: I SAID, WHAT?!
JJ: ... Hey! :D
Me: I hate you.
JJ: Aww, I love you too, Cuz! :)
Me: ... Hey, oh wonderful cousin of mine-
JJ: Ah, dammit. What is it, and is it illegal?
Me: It's something, and I'm not authorized to tell you that.
JJ: ... ?? OK...
Me: Can you help me with a story?? (gives puppy dog eyes)
JJ: ... You just made me hate puppies now. (leaves)
Me: Damn. Ahh, well. (shrugs) I was thinking about a title for this when (trumpets start sounding) JJ, my idiotic but lovable cousin, had given me a title for this! :D
JJ: (walks in) Five bucks for it, too!
Me: . . . No.
JJ: Damn. (leaves)
Me: ... OK, so now ya'll know who helped me with the title! THERE!!
JJ: (walks back in with a soda can) Hey Vince, don't forgot that you came up with the story!
Me: No shit.
JJ: ... X) Oh, and I'm reading this script-like thing, and it says 'All done in Shizuka's (OC) POV'.
Me: Mmm-hmm! X3
On our island, there are only two kinds of people. Good or bad. There isn't a third person.
Angels and devils have been fighting for some time now. I wish to know why there is fighting going on. And also why there is many devils trying to invade our island.
I am Shizuka, one of the angels on our island, the City of Angels.
"Shizuka, are you awake, Big Sis?" I look near the middle of the small room. It was my little sister, Chika.
"Shh, Chika. You must get some sleep in," I tell her, walking over to the small bed I must share with Chika and my two little twin half-brothers, Kenshin and Yazu. They musn't stir, or we may be found.
"Nnn..." Yazu turns his small body and he now faces us.
"Nghh..." Chika's eyes slowly close and I can finally hear the soft sighs, telling me she's asleep. (sigh) I walk over to the window and look outside. Nothing special. Just the same black fog that surrounds this area.
Before the war, it was never this dark. And it never reeked of blood and the devils' scent.
"Sister?" I turn around and see Yazu, who is half devil. That's why we cannot be found. Devils and angels are to never mate with each other.
Oh sure, there are male angels. That's how we reproduce. But angels are to mate with only angels. My mother had broke the rules and mated with a devil, while there was war.
Chika and my own father had passed away long ago. Mother was in a depression and, after a devil by the name of Katashi had met her, she began to fall in love with him.
With the enemy.
Mother and Katashi had mated. A fatal mistake. Because soon after that, Mother was carrying his children. And when the Angels' leader, Takehiko, had found out, he was furious.
But he found out when Yazu and Kenshin were three, long after they were born. So, he had hung Mother. In front of the city and my family. And now, he was after them and Chika.
Me? Of course me also. But I don't care if I live through this ordeal. Only if my siblings make it, I'll be fine.
"Shizuka?" I blink and sit next to him.
"Yes, Yazu?" I whisper softly, making sure not to wake the other two up.
"When will the war be over?" he asks me. I wince. He was born five years ago, and yet, he is so smart.
"Soon, I hope," I tell him, rubbing his head. His ocean blue eyes slowly close and finally, I hear the soft snores. I go back to the window and I jump.
Angels. Nearly an army of them. With weapons.
They found us!
I run over to my little siblings and hold them all so close to me.
"Chika, Yazu, Kenshin! Wake up!" I whisper loudly, shaking them lightly. They all open their eyes.
"We're leaving?" Kenshin asks in a scared voice. I nod. Chika whimpers.
"I wish they would leave us alone," Kenshin says in his grumpy tone. I ruffle his dark brown hair.
"We must leave," I tell them. They nod and stand up, not bothering to grab any of their things.
"C'mon!" I kneel down and take off a small rug from the dirt floor. A hole Chika and Kenshin had made three nights ago was there.
"Sis- No, no talking! We must move, Chika!" I grab Chika and put her inside the hole. She immediately starts to crawl.
"Me! Me next!" Kenshin says, jumping down and he falls to his knees. He quickly starts to crawl away.
"Sister, why must we move all the time?" Yazu asks me as I pick him up and put him in the hole.
"Because Takehiko wants us dead. Now crawl." He nods and starts crawling away. I was about to jump down when a loud crash was heard.
"There's one of 'em!" a deep voice hollers triumphantly. Oh no...
I cover the hole quickly and I whip around, to face the angels.
"Where are the young ones?!" the familiar angry voice screams.
"I refuse to tell you," I say, backing up to the wooden wall. I can sense more and more angry spirits coming nearer and nearer.
"Then, we know exactly what to do," Takehiko says in a harsh tone. "Men." Three tough-looking angels grab my arms and force me to stand.
"Let's go," one of them, with short green-ish hair, said in a dark voice. (gulp) They drag me outside the small hut.
"Now, you should be obligated to tell me where the younger ones are, Shizuka," Takehiko says, turning around to face me.
"Why are you an angel?" I snarl. He frowns.
"I'm only doing the right thing," he tells me, shrugging.
"By trying to kill my siblings? I wouldn't call that right." He smirks.
"Well, I think it's right. Now..." Takehiko points to a huge tree, where a noose was hanging. Everyone in the city must be around it, all of them silent and glaring at me. "Will you save the lives of your 'siblings', or will you oblige and tell us where they went?" I growl.
"How about... neither?" I quickly get out of the grip of the three angels and run away from the spot.
"Get her!" a female voice calls out. C'mon legs, don't fail me. A loud crack was heard and something clamped onto my leg, causing me to fall to the ground.
"Perfect!" a male voice says in a victorious voice. I whimper and force myself to stand.
"She walks!" Things seem to get slower and faster. I feel like I'm a slug, getting slower and slower, and the angels that were trying to get me seemed to get faster and faster.
"YAAAAAH!!" They're getting closer.
"Stop Shizuka! There's no point in running!" Takehiko yells. I knew he was smirking. I didn't have to turn to see it on his face.
"Shizuka." I look next to me. It can't be true, but it is...
Mother.
"Mother? Are you... alive?" Mother's long black bangs are swishing around her face. She gives me a sad smile.
"Baby, I'm sorry. I shouldn't have mated with him, but..." She stops off mid-sentence and I hide behind a tree. I can't sense any of the angels now.
"Mother- Shizuka, you have to do it." I blink in surprise.
"What?"
"The forbbiden ritual." I gasp from shock.
"M-Mother... You... You always said- I know. And I'm saying that you have to perform the forbbiden ritual now."
The forbbiden ritual is when we angels use our second chance at life. We can turn into a human or a demon. But it's illegal to do it now, with the war going on. And Mother wants me to do it?
This may not end well. Especially since I won't know if I end up a demon or human, or if I may even die during the ritual.
"Are y-you sure? Will- Shizuka, listen to me," Mother tells me in a firm voice. "This may be the only time you can use your second chance at life and to leave the city."
"But, Chika, Kenshin, and Yazu- They will be fine. Please Shizuka." Mother looks at me with her sad, hazel eyes. I need to think...
If I go, I won't know what'll happen to Chika, Kenshin, and Yazu. Or about the war. And I'll be a wanted angel and Takehiko's army will surely go after me.
If I don't go, I may not even live. And my little siblings won't...
"I'll do it..." I take out something from my pocket of the long light pink robe I always wear. It's a crystal.
This crystal is the only thing I'll need.
"Baby, I must go," Mother tells me softly. Now I'm scared. Then, she disappears in thin air.
"I love you..." I crush the small crystal in my hand and kneel on the ground. I can feel blood seeping onto the ground, but I don't care.
"Where is she?!"
"I think she's over there!" I vigorously rub the crushed crystal into the ground and use whatever power I have left to build up into my right hand.
Please, oh please, let this work...
"I think I found her!" one of my friend's mother, Usagi, said in a hesitant, but firm voice. Hurry, please!
And then, an electric blue light surrounds the area. So much for trying to be discreet...
"I found her!" Usagi yells in a confident voice. And... black out...