There
are some words in the story that are Italian, but you can find what
they mean in the back of the actual book 'The Thief Lord'
Enjoy :P
An Unexpected Trip
When the sky went black and the stars came out, it was just about 10 pm and Sakura was just coming home from a party at her friends house, her long blond hair was in her face and her green eyes were partly closed because she was so tired. She staggered to her room, and right away flopped onto her bed and fell into a deep sleep without even changing out of her clothes, coat, or even taking off her boots. When ever she slept her face was so peaceful and for strange reasons, she never had many dreams, but when ever she did they were short and somehow had a small sight into the future.
She tossed and turned in her bed, she seemed to be weeping in her sleep, and her dream was becoming a nightmare. She saw a blurry black and white figure trying to attack her, it kept repeating something, but it wasn't clear enough to understand, all she new was that something bad was going to happen. She suddenly woke up and shot her head around to see where she was, she had rolled over out of her bed. When she got back up onto her bed, she had finally calmed down and tried to get back to sleep. She didn't have any luck, so she decided to read. 'The Thief Lord' was her favorite book so far, she wasn't too far into it, but even so, she wished she could vanish into it. Tonight was a special night she would never forget. She always had a hard time reading without talking, so she just read aloud. Each word she read sounded like music to your ears. Each sound was so beautiful that you could get lost into it by just sitting there and listening.
She continued to read on without noticing that an icy blue light was surrounding her like wings wrapping around a bird. Even though the light felt as cold as ice, but was over combed by a strange warm wind started to pickup and that's when Sakura lifted her head up, but before she could say anything, she disappeared without a trace; all that was left was her book covered in a golden dust.
She was spinning out of control; she couldn't stop no matter how hard she tried. She opened her eyes, but everything was blurry, she saw the colors of the rainbow rush past her; suddenly things started to become clear and the colors began to fade, she saw that she was falling head first into the ground. "Ahhh!" Sakura screamed, "Whoa!"
She fell out of the strange lights and landed in a big puddle right next to a church. Soaking wet Sakura lifted her head and looked around. "W-where am I?" she stammered, her coat looked as if it was dumped into a pool. Everything was drenched big time. She walked around a little bit trying to find a place to get out of the rain, every thing looked blurry for awhile. She found an orphanage that was not to far from the church. BANG! BANG! BANG! She hit the door of the orphanage to see if anyone would answer.
"Salve?" a Sister answered the door with a look on her face wondering why anyone would be at the door at this hour.
"Scuzi? Can I come in? Somehow I fell out of the sky and ended up here." Sakura replied while shivering in the cold.
"Oh cara! Of course you can stay here! Come in before you catch a cold." the Sister rushed her in so quick Sakura almost fell over.
'What the heck!! I just understood Italian!' Sakura thought.
In her confusion Sakura followed the Sister to the second floor into a room with two beds that where clean and made up. "I hope you like it, its all we have." the Sister explained.
"Grazie. It's great." Sakura thanked the Sister
Sakura looked around and tried to make herself at home even though she had nothing with her. She slipped her jacket off, and kicked her boots and fell on to the bed trying to fell asleep, but didn't have much trouble.
'Why must things take so long!?' a girl though impatiently, her skin was as pale as paper and was as cold as ice, and her hair was like black ink, so were her wings , but you couldn't see them against the night sky. Her evil jade green eyes filled with greed were glaring down into Sakura's window, 'I will have her soul!' she thought again. She used to be an angel that you usually see in movies, but because of her greed she was punished. Her punishment was that she was forced to live on earth with humans for all eternity, and she hated it so much, that's why her wings turned black and her heart turned to ice, so had a new name, The Dark Angel...
The next morning, the church bell rang and woke up every one in the orphanage except for Sakura; she was used to hearing a wake up call and ignoring it. "Scuzi?' the Sister that helped Sakura into the orphanage called, "Child, it's time for breakfast."
"Just 5 more minutes Mom." Sakura mumbled not realizing where she was.
"Uh? Child? It's Sister Suzann, not your mother."
"Huh?" Sakura shot up confused, "Where am I?"
"At the Orphanage of the Merciful Sisters." Sister Suzann answered, "In Venice, Italy." she continued
"But how is that possible? I was at home last night, then I woke up and started to read then somehow there where these blue lights and..." Sakura paused from shock, "Oh no! Last night did happen!"
"I'm not sure what you are talking about, but all you said was that you fell out of the sky. But how about you just come down for breakfast. Uh.. What is your name?"
"Sakura."
Sakura just sat there for awhile, she finally got up and went downstairs to get some breakfast. But one thing that never left her mind was 'How...'
Chapter 1: An Unexpected Trip
