Misguided Angel Chapter 1
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Light and Darkness.
One to fight for.
One to fight against.
Sides are willingly chosen.
People take their stands.
Simply black and white.
However
What about the ones without the luxury of choice?
Those shades of gray make home to the
Misguided.
Falling. The girl was falling through the sky without a care in the world. She didn't think about how she got there, why she was there, or where she was going. All that mattered was nothing. It didn't matter that she was falling, it was a reasonable fact. It was something simple that wasn't worth worrying over.
She let out a contempt sigh and noticed that bubbles came out of her mouth. Fear. That feeling encompassed the girl's body. She wasn't falling anymore, she was sinking into the ocean. That realization seemed to weigh her down and she sunk further and faster into the deep abyss.
Suddenly a blinding white light appeared, causing the girl to raise her arms over her face in order to protect her eyes. The effort proved meaningless, for the second she blinked the world around her changed.
The girl was standing on the beach of a small island with the ocean water washing over the exposed toes in her sandals. She looked around until she noticed a familiar face with silver hair and aquamarine eyes standing in the ocean. She sprinted towards him and embraced him in a tight hug when she reached her destination.
The silver haired boy lifted the girl up and spun her around in a circle before setting her down. The two looked at each other with mile wide smiles on their faces until the boy seemed to hear something, causing him to turn around and reach out his hand toward the island.
The girl had a confused look on her face as the boy turned away from her. She had thought the boy was happy to see her, instead he seemed more interested in staring off at the island. Her confusion was short lived as she picked up on the sound of someone running through the water.
Another smile spread across the girl's face as she thought of who it could possibly be that was going to meet them. Maybe the girl would make a new friend.
Her thoughts were interrupted as the sound of the person running grew wild and frantic, as if they were urgently trying to reach them. She peered around the silver haired boy blocking her view to see what all the fuss was about.
Running towards them was another boy, only this one had spiky brown hair and blue eyes. The brunette had looks of worry and urgency on his face as he raced forward and his eyes kept traveling to something over their heads.
The girl turned around to see what had caused the new boy's concern. She saw that a huge wave had formed right behind the two standing in the ocean. Quickly she grabbed onto the relaxed hand of the boy next to her, hoping that would help her when the wave inevitably crashed down upon them.
The second boy had almost reached them and stretched out his arm, but was unsuccessful as the wave crashed down on the three youths. The girl held her breath as water surrounded her and was thankful that she had managed to grab onto the hand of the boy with the aquamarine eyes. She looked up towards said boy and noticed that he was still able to stand, while she was in a horizontal position due to the current, as was the brunette boy who was struggling to swim towards them.
The current became increasingly violent and the girl lost her grip on the first boy's hand as she was sent away with the brown haired boy. As the two neared each other they managed to grab hands and make eye contact for a short period of time before being separated by the current.
The girl kicked her way to the surface in a desperate attempt to get some oxygen into her lungs. She broke the surface to hear a dog barking and someone calling her. A grin appeared on her face as she swam towards the two figures with the person helping her out of the water and onto the beach as she neared. The person was a boy with dark brown spiky hair, although it was much shorter than the hair belonging to the previous two boys she had been with before. The new boy laughed at the girl for having been thrown around in the water and gave her a playful shove before flashing a toothy grin that showed off a set of pointy canines.
The boy's dog started to bark due to the girl being there for so long and not even bothering to pet him. The girl reached down to pet the dog but lost her balance and fell backwards. The boy who owned said dog desperately reached out trying to grab her, but he seemed to ripple as if he were a reflection in a pool and someone threw in a stone.
The girl was back to where she started, falling through the sky-or was it the ocean? She thought it was the sky, but there were the bubbles again as she breathed out. Somehow she was turned upright as her feet reached solid ground.
Hesitantly, she took a step forward and the same blinding white light from before appeared. The light took on the form of birds as they flew away from where-ever-the-heck-she-was.
So much to do, so little time...
The girl looked around for the source of the voice but couldn't find it.
Take your time. Don't be afraid.
She looked down to notice that she was standing on what appeared to be a pillar made of stained glass. Even more unnerving was the fact that it was a picture of herself asleep. Besides herself there were 15 smaller circles on the pillar that each contained the face of a person. Six of the circles had dark silhouettes in them so the faces were unable to be seen; however, nine of them were distinguishable.
The first circle was the girl's friend with the silver hair and aquamarine eyes.
The second circle contained the brown haired boy from the ocean earlier, okay she didn't know him personally but she had been acquainted...well kind of.
The third circle was even stranger, it was home to a girl with short red hair that she knew she had never met in her life.
The next two circles were the strangest by far. Inside one of them was a duck wearing a blue hat and inside another was a dog with bucked teeth.
The girl arrived at the last few circles and a grin spread across her face as she actually knew all of these circles. The first of the last four was a boy with dark blonde hair that was cut short and close to his head in comparrison to the other boys who had pretty long hair, but was not a buzz cut and had his bangs pushed up into the air so that when they were down they would reach halfway down his forehead. The next two circles had pictures of what at first glance appeared to be the same person, but closer examination revealed that the two boys were identical twins. One seemed to wear a smirk implying he knew something no one else did and the other seemed very calm as if he couldn't be bothered by trivial matters. These two boys bore identical haircuts to the blonde boy except their color was black and they had the exact same aquamarine eyes as the first boy with silver haired youth.
Inside the final circle was the boy with short and spiky dark brown hair with sharp canine teeth. Next to his face was the face of his trusty canine companion, the thigh-high dog with white fur and brown ears.
The only people she actually knew were the first boy, the second...well kind of, the boys with the similar haircuts, and the last boy and his dog. The other three people were complete strangers and the last six were undistinguishable. Who exactly were they?
The door is still shut.
A door? The girl looked around for a door but couldn't find one.
Power sleeps within you. If you give it form...It will give you strength.
She closed her eyes and reached deep within herself to find the power the voice was talking about. For a few moments nothing happened until a warm light appeared and covered the girl's right hand. She kept focusing until her hand grasped something solid and the light disappeared. Inside her grasp was a long sword with a jagged blade sporting an omega shaped guard with a metal cord wrapped around the handle.
It was the Dream Sword [1]. Something about the sword seemed eerily familiar to the girl, as if she had some connection to the blade. It didn't seem like the connection would be formed with her, but still some part of her in the future.
The girl contemplated her feelings about the sword, but her thoughts were interrupted by a cracking sound. She looked down just in time to see the pillar shatter and she was once again falling.
Expecting a hard landing, the girl was shocked to find that she landed softly on her feet on another platform. This platform contained the image of a beautiful woman with white hair just above her shoulders and deep gray eyes who was wearing a gorgeous white ball gown. There were two circles on this pillar in addition to the woman. The first circle on the woman's lgirls as of the girl's own face and the second was only a dark silhouette like the ones on the previois pillar.
A light from above shined down on the woman's face, enticing the girl to walk towards it.
The closer you get to the light, the greater your shadow becomes.
She looked behind herself to see that her shadow had grown the length of the pillar and was becoming 3-dimensional humaniod monster and stepping onto the platform.
The shadow kept trying to grab at her with its long black claws. The girl promptly ran away from the monster not wanting to be killed. The two ran about four laps around the pillar until the girl remembered she was holding a weapon she could use to destroy her pursuer.
On what was about to be the fifth lap, the girl turned towards her shadow monster and stood her ground. The shadow kept its arms low to the ground, so low infact that its wrists were brushing against the ground. This sparked an idea and before she knew it, she was slashing at the monster's hands.
This strategy seemed to work as the monster leaned over in defeat and started to sink back into the floor; however, the darkness it emitted spread all over the pillar and started to bubble and ooze. To top it all off the shadow monster grabbed the girl in its hand and started to drag her down into the darkness.
She struggled against it with all of her might and even tried slashing the fingers with the Dream Sword, but it proved meaningless as the sword disappeared in a flash of light.
My child, your adventure begins in the dead of night. The road won't be easy, but a rising sun awaits your journey's end.
The girl was neck-high in the darkness by this point.
But don't be afraid. You hold the mightiest weapon of all.
She struggled to take breaths as she was dragged further down.
So don't forget: You are the one who will connect us all.
"Woah!" A fourteen year old strawberry blonde girl shouted as a pillow was thrown onto her face by her older brother.
"Wake up Tenshi, we're only ten minutes away now." The girl who was named Tenshi glared at her brother for giving her such a rude awakening, she had been dreaming too! And what a weird dream it was...wasn't she drowning in darkness before waking up?
"Thanks for the wake up call...not." she said to her brother, the last part under her breath though so that he couldn't hear her.
"What a strange dream." Tenshi whispered to herself as she looked out the car window. In ten short minutes she was going to reach the house of her best friend Riku and they were going to spend the entire summer together.
WingOfHope: Okay everyone, so I published this story almost a year ago and haven't updated it. Due to recent reviewers who were showing interest in the story I decided to look back at the story and continue working on it. Oh gosh I noticed soooo many mistakes while rereading this. I've edited this chapter and the next one especially quite a bit. I plan on working on the story much more consistently this time around. Now here's Tenshi with a few comments.
Tenshi: Yay, you're back! Wow you also managed to fix the chapter, it sounds a lot better this time around. But still, it's on my Dive to the Heart, I want to get into some real action and not the tutorial.
WingOfHope: Well you know next chapter is Destiny Islands and that's closer to the real game. Finish up the notes and we can head on over there.
Tenshi: Okay let's get a move on! I'll explain [1] now. WingOfHope had a friend help her draw and design characters for the series and her friend created a sword called The Dream Sword, not knowing about the one in the game due to never playing it. So this Dream Sword simply shares the same name but is COMPLETELY different and will come back at a much later time. It will make more sense later.