A silver veil swept her into a scene. She walked down the aisle as people stared at her. Suddenly six men and two girls surrounded her. They seemed familiar to her, but yet so distant. She said words in a foreign tongue and placed a scroll into a fire. Silver light blazed, washing the scene out.
Celestial woke up panting. The sun was shining on her bed where her dog was sleeping soundly. 'What was that?' She thought. Celestial looked outside where snowflakes were drifting swiftly, and laying a blanket of white in Tokyo, Japan. She frowned, then jumped when the doorbell rang. Celestial looked at her watch. It was 12:34. "Shit!" she muttered. She descended down the stairs to get the door. Celestial opened the door. "Hey. It's been a while, Celestial."
"Yue? Is that really you?" Celestial said wide-eyed.
"Celestial, did you just wake up? You look like crap."
"Well thanks, and yes, I did just wake up."
"Can I come in, perhaps? It's really fucking cold out here."
"Oh, right. Sure."
The guy with the light blonde hair and sapphire eyes went in. "Um I need to take a shower and get dressed. You're going to wait down here."
"It's not like I want to actually see you butt naked. Or maybe..."
"Shut up. That was an order."
"Don't worry, I'm not going to peek on you." Yue said laughing. Celestial looked at him and then went upstairs. "Jeez, I can't believe him." She muttered, turning the shower water on. A few minutes later she came downstairs dressed, her short hair soaping wet. Yue looked her up and down and whistled. Celestial looked at him, telling him with her eyes to shut up.
"I wasn't speaking."
"Yeah, but now you are. Besides, what are you doing in Tokyo? I thought that you were in America."
"I was, but I had to come back." Yue said softly.
"You had to come back?"
"Yes." Yue was looking at her. Celestial thought she knew what this meant. She stood up and went to the bookshelf. Yue followed her with his eyes.
"Your fourteen, and I'm seventeen. I've known you for as long as I can remember." Yue said quietly. Celestial picked out a random book.
"What are you saying?" She asked him sincerely.
"I'm saying that I'm in love with you." Yue said standing up. Celestial looked at the cover. She remembered her father telling her to never open the book. He had brought it from someone's house. Was it the Yuki's? She didn't remember, but didn't really care.
" Celestial, this is a very dangerous book, will you promise me that you'll never lay hands on it?" Her father had said.
"Why Daddy?"
"It's just a very bad book, honey! Will you promise me to never touch it?" Her father had said. Celestial looked into his friendly but fierce eyes. She remembered herself agreeing, and her head nodding slowly.
Celestial thought about that moment, and about her promise. Celestial opened the book, not heeding her father's warning and breaking her promise from long ago. The first page said, " This is the story of a girl who gathered the seven seishi of Tenkyoku, and acquired the power to make every wish come true. The story itself is an incantation. Whoever finishes the book shall receive this power. As soon as the page is turned, the story will become truth and begin..." She was, then, enveloped in a blinding silver light. 'What the hell is happening to me? Celestial thought.
"Yue? Yue?" Celestial called out desperately.
"Celestial? Where are you?" Yue said. The room was empty except for a book lying on the floor. He picked it up. The cover was a shade of red. The binding was black. The title read The Universe of the Five Gods. He opened the book and read the first page. It said" This is the story of a girl who gathered the seven seishi of Tenkyoku, and acquired the power to make every wish come true. The story itself is an incantation. Whoever finishes the book shall receive this power. As soon as the page is turned, the story will become truth and begin..." 'Oh no... This couldn't actually be true.'
"Celestial, quit playing around, where the hell are you?" Yue called out. There was no answer. Yue looked at the first page. He slowly turned to the second page.
The girl stirred. Her short black hair laid about her shoulders. Her eyes flickered opened to reveal stunning amethyst eyes. But who the hell was this girl in the strange clothes?
"Who, who the fuck are you?" Celestial blurted out. "Where the hell am I?" She muttered.
"Ahem." Celestial turned her head swiftly when she heard the voice. She saw a girl about the same age as she was. Her hair was tied up into two loops on each side of her head. The shinning dark blue hair had red carnations on each side of the elegant loops. The rest of her long blue hair was hanging loosely about her shoulders.
"Who are you, may I inquire?"
"Who are you?"
"I'm Shu Lien. You can call me Koukyuu, though."
"Right. I'm Celestial Daikoku. Where am I?"
"You're in Peking. On Mt. Taikyoku."
"Where's that?"
"Why, in China, of course."
"Why the hell am I in China? Aren't I in Japan?"
"What is a Japan?" Koukyuu asked curiously.
"Am I really in China?"
"Of course. I have to let the emperor know that you're here."
"Emperor? And why?"
"Aren't you the Priestess of Tenkyoku?"
"What is that? Wait... I remember something about a Tenkyoku in the book. I'm...I'm not in the book am I?"
"Anyway, please follow me." Koukyuu said. Celestial stood up and followed her. 'I'm really in the book. How am I going to get out of here?'
After about twenty minutes they reached a palace that looked like one of those pictures in Celestial's Ancient Chinese textbook. They walked to the front gates. Koukyuu said that Celestial was the Priestess of Tenkyoku. Celestial didn't do anything about this, though, even if she did disagree with the whole priestess thing. The guards bowed to Celestial when she passed them after Koukyuu had said that she needed to see the Emperor, who ever that person was. Celestial just followed Koukyuu wherever she went. She suddenly stopped, making her run into her.
"What the hell was..." Koukyuu had curtseyed revealing Celestial. She just looked at the man who was sitting on his throne. He was obviously the emperor.
"Who might this be, Koukyuu?"
"This is the Priestess of Tenkyoku." Koukyuu said uncertainly.
"Is this, really? Priestess, we are delighted that you have come. What is your title?"
"What the hell are you saying, and who the fuck is we?"
"You are the Priestess, are you not?"
"I'm not the Priestess of anything."
"Koukyuu, you said that this is the Priestess. Is this really the Priestess?"
"Yes, Highness. I found her beside a tree. Look at her clothing. She must be the Priestess. She even said that she was from another world." Even though Koukyuu was nervous, she still seemed able to speak to the emperor.
"What's a Tenkyoku, anyway? And, what's with the Priestess business?"
"There is a legend in Peking, that the Priestess of Tenkyoku will one day deliver us from the endless attacks of Hokkan."
"What's a Hokkan?"
"Hokkan is the country of the north. They've been attacking ever since I became the emperor. We were hoping that you would grant us peace from the endless attacks. It's not just only Hokkan, though; Sairou, Konan and Kutou have also been attacking. That might just be because I'm the youngest ruler of the five."
"If I become the Priestess of Tenkyoku, will I be able to return to my world?"
