Jewel
Prologue
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"Above the Tokyo Tower in Tokyo, Japan, the blue "star", as it is being called, appears to be, surprisingly, a young girl-"
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"Las Vegas, U.S.A.'s red light had been identified as-"
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"After much searching, the name of the young girl who holds London's light had been found-"
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"The name of Sydney's orange light is-"
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"- Cairo's yellow light had been identified as-"
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"- above the streets of Berlin, the blue light is-"
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In AD 2000, in the middle of the day, a foreign threat appeared in the skies above the major cities of the planet called Earth. No one knew where they had come from and it was quickly spread that this threat was from beyond the edges of the planet itself, from the reaches of the universe. Regardless of its origin, the threat had no qualms with destroying and quickly began to lay waste at the edges of Earth's major metropolises. And when there seemed to be no hope, the Earth itself sent her own answering lights. Above the cities in danger - Tokyo, Japan; Sydney, Australia; London, England; Cairo, Egypt; Berlin, Germany; and Las Vegas, Nevada, USA- lights as bright as the stars themselves appeared suddenly and without warning. All attacks that were in progress were deflected and all damage that had been done was undone. The attack ended and all seemed well… but the lights did not leave. They remained, beacons of hope and a reminder of what had happened.
Then, something became frighteningly apparent. The lights were more then just lights - they were humans, girls, in fact, but unreachable trapped in their light-shells. There were identified - all had families, more or less, that had been worried when their daughters had gone missing. Something had to be done… they had to be freed…
Five years passed. Trapped, the girls did age, as they would have in the world that continued around them. Nothing, it was decided, could be done for the trapped girls. All efforts failed and several had resulted in the loss of life and, after they had been declared non-threatening, they were left alone, though admired from a distance by all.
But they were not given up on…