Chapter 1: A special day

As she soared through the skies, loving the wind blowing against her skin, Valentina spotted a small town near a beautiful river. Knowing that today was her special day she swooped down from the skies and gently landed on top of the high building that could see for miles.

She loved the view of the town and the mountains in the background covered in snow, and to her it was the most beautiful scenery that she has seen in years.

While she admired the scenery before her she could hear muffled voices in side of the building. The volume of the voices seemed to rise, and the more they did the more irritated she became. The voices were so loud that you would think they were echoing through the building.

Being fed up with all the constant nagging coming from the building she made her way towards the edge of the building and hangs over the edge, her long, light brown hair falling from her shoulders to over the edge. She stared through the window where the voices seemed to come from. There were a man and woman, no doubt married, that was arguing with each other. Valentina frowned at this. 'How dare they fight on this special day,' she thought bitterly. She brought herself back up on the roof and searched for an opening to the inside of the building, but all she found was either a vent or a chimney, and she didn't feel like playing Santa Claus at the moment.
She went back over the edge and peeked through the window again. She could see the wife wearing a soft winter coat and she was heading for the front door. Once she was at her destination she took a glance back at her husband, who in return didn't bother to even look at her, and with that the woman opened the door and left with tears falling from her eyes.

Valentina was angered by the man and felt like slapping him until he was the colour of a blueberry, but since he did not believe in her he couldn't see, hear or touch her for that matter, and that just angered her more. And so realising that turning him into a human blueberry would be utterly useless she decided to use one of her special tricks to make him realise his mistake, even though she wishes not to.

She got up on her feet and took five steps back and brought both her hands together as if she were praying, she closed her eyes and spoke.

"Da virtutem ad ambulandum saepta secreta delicta quae".

In-between the words she spoke a small bright light started to shine from within her. And when her eyes started to flutter open the irises natural colour seemed to fade and was soon replaced with a light pink. She lifted her head to the sky and started to fall back and as she was about to hit the ground she disappears into thin air leaving only dust behind. And as the wind came blowing the dust through the air and into the vents which lead to the man's room, there she appeared.

She wasn't approving of the idea she had earlier since the results of her spell ended with getting her dress covered with rubble. 'Next time, I'm taking the stairs' she thought while trying to brush all the rubble from her dress.

When most of the rubble gone she stood up straight and went to stand next to the man who was leaning against the window she was peeking through earlier.

"It was her fault...it wasn't mine," said the man who seemed to cry, at least through Valentina's eyes. He looked like a nice young chap that would become friends with...well anyone and his wife didn't look that bad either. 'I guess the eye can be deceiving,' she thought.

She shifted closer to the man to get a better look at him until a light with many different colours shined from his chest and then when the light faded away a crystallised heart was floating through the air beside his chest but the colour of his heart wasn't healthy at least half of it wasn't. It looked like it had a bruise in the corner of the crimson red heart and somehow it seemed to expand making the heart turn a purple, bluish colour. Valentina reached for the bruising heart and grabbed it. She closed her eyes and squeezed the heart inside of her left palm and as she did so the man could feel a squeezing pain inside of him and placed his hand over his chest where his heart is.

When she let go of the bruised heart it started to shine a bright red, blinding her eyes, and when the light started to fade the heart was dissapearing into his chest.

Valentina, realising what was going to happen next made her way to the door and opened it. The man was still holding his chest and staring out the window but when he saw his wife coming out of the building something started to stir inside of him and before he even knew it he was running through the halls of the building desperately trying to get to his lover before it was too late.

Valentina shut the wide open door and made her way back to the window. She stared out the window, watching as the women calls for a taxi. 'You better hurry up before she leaves you behind' she thought with an anxious expression. The women called out for a taxi several times until one came and parked right next to her. And as she was about to hop into the vehicle, her lover came rushing out the doors and tackled her to the ground in a tight but gentle embrace.

Valentina watched as they talked their problems out and started hugging and kissing each other passionately.

Valentina was so happy, she started to make up one of her own little happy dances, jumping up and down, flailing her arms around, and just to top it off, she was breaking a lot of objects as she danced around the room. When she realised what she was doing while dancing her instincts kicked in and she fled the room, again using the vents, which was a big mistake in her case since she got dirty again. Once she was finished brushing off the dirt from her dress, again, she went back to doing her job on this special day, not that she wasn't doing it in the first place.

She went searching throughout the town to see if there were any problems that needed fixing, and there were a couple but they weren't as difficult as the first one, and when she was done checking the town the sun was already setting which meant that she had to move on to a different continent.

She travelled the world in one day, just to fix people's love problems but I guess that's normal for her, I mean she is a Cupid after all and as the day was ending and midnight was arriving she was making her way home from Canada.

She was passing through a very small town by foot, since she was too tired to fly. Everyone was asleep right about now, especially kids that were in their beds, and the parents, well let's say that their playing a little game of touch, but without the football.

As Valentina was passing a small but cosy looking house, she could feel something poking her in the back, and it hurt. She started waving her hands behind her back and was searching for where the source of the pain was and as she was about to move her right hand to the corner of her left shoulder-blade something poked her in the arm which caused her to jump and screech. She turned to see what poked her, but it wasn't a what, but a who. It was one of Tooth's fairies, Baby Tooth. Valentina reached out for Baby Tooth and held her in a soft embrace.

"What are you doing here Baby Tooth?" Baby Tooth gave her a funny look and shook her head. Baby Tooth reached behind her back and brought out a pearly white tooth that was connected to a piece of string to hold it, and presented it to Valentina who started giggling at her forgetfulness.

"I see...well it's been nice hanging out with you but I think I better get home now." she let Baby Tooth fly from her hands and was about to fly off home until Baby Tooth got in her way. Valentina wondered what was wrong with Baby Tooth until she realised the problem. Valentina smiled at Baby Tooth and asked her, "would you like an escort home Baby Tooth?" and Baby Tooth nodded excitedly at this. "Well then, off to Tooth palace we go." Baby Tooth went on top of Valentina's head and held on to her soft, silky hair very tightly. Valentina looked up to the sky, and just like a rocket, she flew up into the air, heading to Tooth Palace in full speed.
'Time to see an old friend.' she thought with an excited smile.