Return of the Angels
The sun did more than blaze down at the world as three years had escaped by since the major incident of both the finishing war between Prozen and the two armies and the fight that decided the living of the world. The clouds were bright, fluffy white, and eventually made their way across the sky to the wind and the planet's rotation. The days of peace have been magnificent and prosperous. The Empire and the Republic have only seen the days of joyous happiness and the alliance of peace between the two differentiating origins that had once been separate from each other. However, there were some people who rebelled against it and were seen as the criminals that threatened the peace. Due to this, out of a girl named Sapphire, a force has been created to keep the stability of the world. Van Flyheight, Fiona Linette, Moonbay and Irvine, along with the organoid Zeke, have been part of this joined force, and remained as the primary soldiers that maintained the peace.
Within the military base for the Guardian Force, the defenders of the peace, the facilities were basking in the cool air conditionings that had been installed. Moonbay and Fiona were checking the clipboard as they watched the people work, obviously deep into work themselves. Van Flyheight and Irvine were directing the lower ranking soldiers, Doctor D was watching, nodding his head in confirmation as he watched everyone work without his disturbances. Zeke was obviously beside Van, comrade, friend and partner, there was no other description to explain their relationship. Although all of these faces were hard at work, deep within their eyes, all of them held a feeling of worry that was directed out to a person someplace that they didn't have any clue about.
A male came racing out of the main building, a worried expression upon his face. "Commander Flyheight!" Van turned to regard the male who shouted out to him. He rested his hands on his knees as he regained his breath. "We have two problems that I think you must know about, sir."
"Go on!"
"First of is about that zoid that you wanted us to keep an eye out for."
Van's eyes widened. "What happened?"
"I'm sorry sir, but we can no longer find it. There is a zoid energy similar to it, but it is not the one that you have requested to be looked at."
"What do you mean you can't find it?" Irvine nearly shouted as he came over. Everyone had stopped what they were doing to listen in, but the two girls had come over as well, wanting to hear the news better.
"It vanished on the monitors; we can no longer find it." His head looked to the ground in shame and sadness. This one zoid was the core point of their sadness; it was also their one hope as well. Only a few men of the Guardian Force knew the reason why they were constantly insisting on maintaining visual and information on this one particular zoid, the rest have no clue but they stuck to following their commanders requests. "But this similar zoid that we managed to pick up would you like us to keep an eye on it, sir?"
"No, that zoid is properly nothing to do with the zoid that we have in mind." Van informed. "What's this second problem you've found?"
"It's Raven, sir. He's returned!"
Everyone's eyes widened, unable to believe their ears…
…Raven has returned?
XxX
"What's the status?" A female asked. Her voice smooth and gentle, but held high authority, no matter how many may look at it. Her golden hair flocked over her shoulders with lovely ringlets at the ends that rested just below her breast line. The rest of her hair travelled down her back to rest at the back of her knees, just where her shorts ended. Her navel was exposed as the material of her one piece had that part cut out. From her breast line the material covered her breasts and formed a large V at her neck, exposing some cleavage. She wore a large gem necklace that rapidly changed colours with angelic wings folded against it. Her eyes were extremely dark in colour; sapphire blue encased all the mysteries in her eyes, her feelings outshining everything.
"The rascals think they can hide from us, Celine." A female complied. She had hot pink hair with glowing murderous red eyes, still holding a gentle look to them, until she looked down at the run down building where some people were hiding. Her red eyes turned to look at the sapphire eyes that were framed by lovely bellowing golden hair that flew with the wind. She stood tall, arms folded across her chest and her eyes wandering over the building, she had truly changed in numerous ways, but all for the better. "What do you want us to do?"
"We'll just wait, but send a message on an arrow, let them know we're watching." She smirked.
Yeah, she had definitely turned into a terribly good torturer, especially when it comes to the people that perform wicked actions.
Celine wasn't only beautiful; she was far more the supreme kind that it was certainly not impossible to notice that she had always been the same before she had changed. Increased beauty, especially since she had aged, and increased personality… she considers her friends more than ever, and she believes in more of the peace than ever too. She decided not to side but do things on her own scale. So if there was a certain amount of evil doing, she would personally deal with it herself, but if there was a small scale of things, then she'd leave it to the Guardian Force that they have heard so much about. The first time that new force had been mentioned, she had smiled in relief, especially when a few certain people had been spoken of.
"Celine~" A female sang as she came wandering over and stopped by the blonde's side. Her waist length hair has always been the same for three years. Silver in all reflecting light with blue eyes that formed most of her pretty appeal! She wore a two piece outfit that coexisted of shorts and a belly top. Whereas Celine's were white, black, gold and red, hers were black and purple. Of course the pair of them wore fingerless gloves that had their colours on them, but the pair of them had an organoid, beside Celine who had two and was able to control the third. The one with the silver beauty only was obedient to the two in her chains of command, no one else mattered. The other two obeyed only one, and that was Celine.
"Storm, ease your excitement, we're on a mission." Celine commanded with a gentle tone. Storm saluted with two fingers and obeyed. She turned back to the front and nodded at the hot pink haired female, whose hair had grown in the past three years to the waist length it was now.
The female stood, a bow in her hand, and an arrow already positioned. She pulled back the string and allowed the arrow to fly, striking through the glass, shattering in, and then it dug into the wall. Of course they knew that it had stuck in the wall, she was that good at aiming. Celine knew that the people would either panic or try to escape, or stay still, pretending that all of it was a facade, believing that they were safe in that building. But of course, she already knew their course of action and issued a command that got everyone running towards their zoids, mounting them and already ready for action. She remained out of her zoid, and watched as she stood at the edge of the cliff with her two right hand men by her side. The hot pink haired female stood on her left and the silver haired female stood on her right. The others stayed in their zoids, ready for their next issued command.
She watched as the criminals escaped the building and got into their zoids, panicking as they did so. With a raised hand, she signalled for them to go and they either jumped over her and down the cliff or ran down the cliff by going around her. As they went, she felt the breeze go by her, making all their hairs follow the wind in its direction. Shots fired and the people that had tried to escape screamed as they were hit directly. Watching as the justice was served and peace was to remain stable on Planet Zi, she felt that her actions were justified. She knew what she must do with her new found self, and performing the task would depend on her opponents. She knew there was going to be an event in the future that she would have to stay out of. That one wasn't her fight to interfere with.
"Celine…" Without turning towards her, she listened. "…after this what do you suppose to do?" She asked the question just as the last one was defeated.
"Travel…" She replied as she turned and walked towards her zoid. She half turned to face her. "…find out what else is in store for us since three years has passed since we've come back."
Hot pink haired female nodded. "Good idea, Celine."
"I'm all for it!" Storm inclined with a raise of her hand and waving it frantically.
Celine turned to Storm and smiled, nodding as well as she then turned towards the place where her other friends had defeated the evildoers. Her deep ocean depth eyes looked to the sky above, seeing how much brighter and cheerful it is, compared to hers. The sun was able to shine brightly in this type of sky, whereas the moon is only capable to glow in a darker sky, darkness like her own eyes. Celine smiled with eyes closed as the resemblance between the day and night came across once more. There was no denying that she just kept comparing herself, or others kept comparing her, to the day or night. She turned away from the scenery and once again she headed towards her zoid, this time without interruptions.
XxX
Van and the others stormed into the Intel room and gazed at Commander Karl L. Schubaltz who gazed back at him, obviously was into a deep conversation before the lot of them stormed in, interrupting the process of data analysis. Taking a seat, Karl waited before he continued, describing more than the destruction that Raven had havocked. He showed pictures of the places that he destroyed, the bases, the land, everything, including the captured images of the zoids he had occupied before switching over and then continuing his destruction. Van narrowed his eyes as he listened, his eyes focusing on the picture of Raven and the current path he's been destroying in.
"We need to do something about this, but are there any ideas to what must be done?" Karl asked, directing his question across the table to everyone.
"Well maybe there's nothing to be done until it's certain that it is Raven destroying the places."
"Doctor D, are you saying that Raven might not be the possibility that these bases are being destroyed? Every one of them he comes in contact with goes up in flames. He's the only one to come across the bases; there are no recordings of having any others. Even the amount of zoids adds up to the ones that have been reported missing. Raven can be and is the only one who has destroyed those bases."
"In some form of another I agree with you because the evidence all does add up, but do keep in mind Sapphire's enemies. Or do you intend to tell me that you have happened to have forgotten about her and her troublesome enemies?" Karl opened his mouth and closed it. "Remember back to three years ago to the man named Rafael. We were told he was a demon and when he was defeated he simply vanished, we were not able to determine the fact if he was a demon or not. However, according to the way Sapphire herself has gone on about herself and these entire other species that are known to be her natural adversary for all time, not only do we have to keep in mind Sapphire's enemies, but we need to consider if Sapphire is our enemy as well."
Van hit the table and glared at the Doctor. "Are you saying you don't trust her after all she's done for us?" He growled.
"Easy Van, you must think of the possibilities. Sapphire has disappeared since three years ago, we don't know where she is or if she's alive. So far, by Fiona's words, she doesn't exist anymore. But that doesn't mean that her enemies are gone. But Sapphire is an angel, as you have told me from the information you have gathered about her, but how do we know this isn't some sort of joke? So what I'm saying is that we need to be careful in case it is Sapphire, or her enemies, or Raven. Well it doesn't matter who it is, what matters is what we're going to do about it and how."
"Doctor D is right Van. We do need to consider these possibilities. I don't want them to be true either so please don't be angry." Karl stated, turning back to the screen with Raven's picture on it. "We'll keep an eye out, find out who is really destroying these bases. If it Sapphire or her enemies, then we'll need to find out a plan to proceed on how to deal with it. If it's Raven, quite simple really! We'll have to oppose him like before and settle matters through battling. There is no other way. But be sure to keep an eye out, and don't ever let your guard down when you leave this base."
"Yes, sir!" Everyone saluted at once and left the room, beside Van and his group.
"Karl, do you think that she's alive?" Van asked as he approached.
"To be truthful Van, I'm not quite sure. If she was alive, wouldn't she have come in contact with us? But I don't think she's dead. That girl can't die so easily and I've fought with her quite a few times to see how well trained she was."
Van gazed to the ground. "I see!"
"Van, do you believe she's alive?"
He looked up at Karl, a large amount of belief in his eyes. "Of course I do."
Karl smiled. "Then don't ask others if they think she's alive or not. Believe in what you believe in Van. Don't ever think something differently. You only should believe what you want to and not what others opinion is. Many people probably feel comfortable with Sapphire gone; some feel disheartened, some are very unsure. But you guys miss her terribly and you shouldn't have other's opinions change your own."
Van nodded with a smile. "Thanks Karl, you're right. Well we'll get going." Raising a hand in goodbye, Van and the others walked back out the door and Karl watched with a gentle smile on his face before he turned to look out the window.
There were many people so troubled about Sapphire still; she could either bring hope or discouragement. Karl knew that if she was alive, she would most probably be doing the things she believes to be right in performing. Maybe until he meets her again, he would have to wait to confirm his suspicions on her being alive or not. Until then, he would have to keep his beliefs to himself and not let others be clouded with it.