"Amora, time to wake up, sweetest heart."
I wake up to see my friend leaning over me. "What time is it, V?"
"7:00 A.M. Exactly when you told me to wake you up from now on. Please wake up, it's time to start the day." She is always such a worried person. Well, I do need someone to keep me on schedule.
"Venita, if I answered you, and I didn't sound sleepy, I would think that would tell you that I'm up for the day."
"Oh, yes, of course, my lady." I hate that term. Whoever came up with it should be strangled.
"V, I told you to stop with all of the formality. It's just Amora." I get up out of bed and go to my closet. I pick a light pink dress. It comes to my knees and has black detailing all over it. I grab my favorite hair-clip, my black-lace, finger-tip-less gloves, and a pair of black flats. I put my floor-length, brown hair into a small bun and let the rest hang there. I secure the bun with my red-rose and black-chopsticks hair-clip.
"Excuse me, my lady, but you are Cupid after all. The world couldn't survive without you."
"*sigh* I know, I know." Yep, that's me, Amora C. Charity, THE Cupid. That is my friend, Venita Valentine. She is my second-in-command here at the Valentine Castle. "Is there anything I need to look at, as of this moment?"
"Yes, actually, one of the centaurs has broken her leg."
"Is it Dahlia, again?" She nods her head and we walk off towards the inner hospital. We work with, sirens, pixies, and centaurs. The sirens gather information for us. The pixies, like Venita, sprinkle the love magic over the people during the year and the flowers, cards, and sweets the night before Valentine's Day. The centaurs observe what happens on Valentine's Day to make sure absolutely everyone gets a card. Dahlia is in charge of the centaurs. She is often running around, trying to do everything by herself, which often gets her injured. "Hello, Dahlia. Haven't I told you to rely on the others some more?"
"Yes, Ms. Charity, but I can do it much faster than they can."
"Not if you're in the hospital." She looks down, ashamed of herself. "Aww, come on. Everyone knows you are the fastest, you don't have to try to prove it."
"But Valentine's Day is in 4 days! Everything has to get done quickly!"
"Dahlia, has Valentine's Day ever been canceled?" She shakes her head. "Okay, has it ever been messed up because something didn't get done in time?" Again, she shakes her head. "See, you don't need to worry so much. That's Venita's job."
"But, I wanted to give you a surprise this year. I wanted to get the people to believe in you."
"Dahlia, the only people that believe in me are the ones who study Greek Mythology. The rest of the world thinks I don't exist. It's called Myth-ology, Dahlia. I'm just written off as a fairy-tale. Besides, I'm not a Guardian, I don't need people to believe in me. I hardly ever leave the Valentine Castle as it is. I thank you for the effort, but it just won't work."
"Of course, Ms. Charity. I'm sorry."
"It's okay, just start to leave things up to the other centaurs from now on, okay?"
"Yes, ma`am, will do."
"Good, now let's see about getting your leg all fixed up." One good part about never leaving the Castle, is that I get to go wherever I want, whenever I want. I have two favorite places: the hospital, and the flower center. I have been in the hospital so long, I have become one of the doctors here. One of our hospital pixies brings me her x-ray. It is only a minor fracture, so I put her leg in a cast and tell her to stay off of it for about a week. She starts to say something about Valentine's Day, but I stop her and just tell her to rest up for now. "Venita, are there any other pressing matters to attend to?"
"No, you are free to go. I will alert you if there are any emergencies. Will you be going to the garden again today?"
"You know me too well. Yes, I'll be in section C, alright?" She nods her head. With that, I fly off towards the garden. It is more like a flower experimentation center than a garden. We experiment with different colors for known flowers and try to create new breeds of flowers. I'm trying to create a black lily with hot pink around the inside.
"Well, well, well. What do we have here? THE Cupid, I never thought I would meet you, face to face."
"Who's there?!" I look around, but I don't see anyone. The only thing I see is flowers. All of a sudden there is a shadow in the middle of a group of flowers.
"Oh, you don't know me? That's quite a pity. It's also a pity that all of these flowers in here are going to wither."
"What?!" All of a sudden I see the shadow spread dark sand all over a group of flowers, and they begin to wither extremely quickly. "No! Stop it! What do you want from me?" I fly after the shadow, and follow it outside. My entire castle is cliff-side, so I have to be extremely careful not to stop flying.
"I want to bring hate into the entire world on your little holiday. It's not often that I have the honor to meet such an important being. This will be my Valentine's Day gift to you. Fear and hatred, everywhere."
"Wait, you're Pitch Black!"
"Oh, so you do know me. How lovely." He puts his hands around my throat and begins to choke me. "I'm tired of all of this happiness everywhere I go. I'm sick and tired of children. If I can get rid of love, then I can get rid of children, plain and simple."
"Valentine's Day will never die. Deep down, you know that you can never get rid of it. Go ahead and try all you want. It won't work. You're just a little, old, bad dream." He begins to choke me even harder than before. I can't breathe, at all. It hurts. Somebody, anybody, please, help me.
"Let her go, Pitch!" All I see is a boy with white hair and bright blue eyes before everything becomes black, and I drift into unconsciousness.
"All right, Jack, I'll let her go, permanently." He drops my unconscious body over the edge of the cliff.