Hey everyone! Some of you may already be familiar with my work; I am also working on my 'Guiding the Fallen Angels.' It gets really good reviews and I hope this one does too.
I want to go ahead and say that I started this story when I was twelve. I'm eighteen now and done with high school. However, because I was so young when I wrote the first half of this monster it has to have a SERIOUS rewrite.
If this original story, which has been untouched on for a year, has any fans I recommend you reread the first few chapters as they get posted. They should be different and a lot better. But I don't have the ability to fix everything so if anyone can find a mistake or a plot gap or anything else please, nicely, point them out to me.
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That said, Ranma ½ is not mine and neither is all the glory Rumiko Takahashi receives from me for being absolutely brilliant.
Love to my review crew from GTFA! You know who you are:
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Prologue
Choices Not Given
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No human is immortal.
There isn't a way to overcome the facts of life. A body is nothing but a temporary vessel guided by the souls that reside within.
However a soul is forever, everlasting and eternal- it is a flame never to be extinguished by the harsh winds of time.
Every living creature makes a choice that defines itself from the gray. The decisions made will forever damn them into a war each and every bit as eternal as heaven and hell.
But the battle began somewhere...
Along time ago the forces of light and darkness existed together as one. It was a perfect blissful yin and yang. The sides were connected and spiritual with the bond shared between good and evil. There was no war and no hatred. There was simply a difference that did not matter.
So balanced were the two that one creature from both sides fell in love with the other. The land rejoiced with their union. A demon and an angel bound in the hands of matrimony.
However the times of peace were short lived. The child birthed by the demon bore the ultimate light within her soul.
The legions of good rejoiced in the birth even as the forces of darkness seethed with jealousy. The coexistence fell and shattered as the bitterness of the night destroyed millions of lives in revenge.
The light retaliated with as much fury. The battle spread like fire between other dimensions and an irreconcilable blood feud began.
Overtook with worry for their child, the parents of the ultimate light gave their lives to increase her power. A perfect bond of yin and yang solidified the daughter's place as the One.
The girl took the name of Cleyra- meaning life to un-life. Forces spawned of evil massed and congregated to destroy the light of Cleyra.
But instead of stopping the onslaught, Cleyra welcomed and rejoiced in their arrival. As the black swarmed around her feet she shattered all her power into countless brilliant pieces.
As her body was torn to shreds, all the demons could see was her smile.
The most breathtaking smile any had ever seen.
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"Mom that was so sad!" The youngest of three cooed from her place on her mother's lap. The fire crackled and sparked with earth's rhythm.
"Can we hear it again?" The girl with the pageboy haircut pleaded from in front of the campfire.
"Yes mother it would be quite nice. Would you like some more Cocoa?" The wind played with the long brown hair of the oldest daughter.
"No thank you. Now children it is way past your bedtime! What would your father say if he knew I was keeping you three up this late?" The mother picked up the youngest and settled her small body inside the tent.
"Please!!" The two remaining girls begged pathetically from inside of their sleeping bags. The brisk air of autumn was giving them more energy than normal.
"How about this, do any of you know what happened to those pieces of Cleyra that shattered apart?" She waited for their reply. "Well, Cleyra sacrificed herself to create the human race. She gave up her life to give us eternity with our souls."
The middle daughter eyes widened, "She killed herself so we could have souls? That nice lady..." Nabiki yawned and curled into her blankets.
"Wow mother, what a nice story." Kasumi's eyes closed with her submission to slumber.
The mother hesitated at the words. "Yeah, what a nice story..." Hitomi Tendo covered her oldest daughter with a blanket and settled herself down in front of the fire.
Odd colors harmonizing with rainbows crackled alongside the intense yellows and reds.
A slight buzzing noise droned in the background as a warm feeling spread from her fingers to her heart and to her legs. A light blue glow began pulsing from around her. She couldn't find the strength to tear her eyes away from the intensely burning fire.
The fire died quickly after that and the glow dissipated from the mother of three's body. Hitomi laid inside of her sleeping bag and soon a sleep over took her.
But now a thick cough racked her body from time to time. The sounds of sickness echoed around her favorite training spot.
The doctors were never able to determine where it had come from and why it was there.
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I only want to write if you are there to read. And you let me know you read by reviewing!
So, is it an improvement? Would any of you read this puppy?
Ja Ne
Lady Mokodane