Episode 2: The new star.
It was early morning when Ken woke up Isaith for breakfast.
"Hey, princess... wake up..." He said when she held his shirt still dreaming. "It's new day... you need to look for a work."
She just moaned softly still not waking up.
"Poor of her, she wasn't able to sleep till late." He then muttered.
"Not poor of her." Hikari said rubbing his sweated hair after having came back from running. "Poor of us that have to stand her fury strikes. Hey, you hag! Wake up before you make us late for university!!"
Then something hit his head.
"I'm not a hag, you moron." She said sitting and rubbing her eyes. "And you are rude for shouting so early in the morning..."
"Ok, get wear and we can leave." Ken said. "We will get something for breakfast on the way there, out of here."
"I've got nothing to wear but for my princess robes." Isaith said.
"Well, it's a luck then that your mother left some clothes behind." Ken said passing her a bag with some dresses. "Wear the one in there and then we will look for the rest other time."
"Hum... didn't knew mum had such preferences..." Isaith said as she took out a pink and black costume with platform laced shoes and black extra sleeves. "Ok, just allow me to get wear and I'm ready for a new day in this... you said city?" She asked walking into the bathroom.
"Now I know why she was exhiled from her hometown." Hikari wishpered at Ken when she locked the bathroom door to change in there.
"Try to be a bit nice to her." Ken said. "She is the daughter of Ai."
"How do you feel about it?" Hikari asked him sad as he remembered Ken was in love with Ai and suddenly she had to leave for her contry leaving him and all her friends on Earth back. "She got married to that Nora guy..."
"I thought she said she loved me..." Ken recognised. "She said she would not forget me... Anyway, that Isa-girl is her daughter and so I should be also friend of her. I have to help here cause I once loved her mum."
"I can't believe Ai is now 28 years elder." Hikari said. "Will she have wrinkles?"
"She is not human, remember?" Ken said. "Time should not go as fast for her."
"Ready!!" Isaith said going out of the bathroom. "I will have to fix this at the breast, it's a bit tight for me. I wonder what kind of breast mum had if she wore this..."
"Yaw!!" Hikari said with his mouth open. "You look cutte on that!!"
That made Isaith smile mildly.
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"So, you said you met my mum, didn't you??" Isaith asked Ken while they walked towards the university. "How is such?"
"She came here running from your place." Ken began saying. "She wasn't able to remember anything and so she began looking for answers with just her heart box as clue for guiding her. She reached high with her voice, Fa'an trap helped her to find that way. I was really friend of her, I always trusted her and gave her a hand even when she didn't asked for it. Then there was Jen, Hikari... and that Ayabusa's man that was the one taking her high as singer."
"Singer... mum was a singer?!" She asked.
"Yes, the best of all." Ken said smiling. "Everyone thought she was beautiful as an angel with heavenly voice that made everyone listening to her to cheer up and find calm."
Isaith then looked at him as he spoke, he was smiling. He looked as giving off some kind of heat, but he was just a human. How could humans like him give off such thing? Then she laid her hand at her pendant and felt bad when she realised what she was touching.
"Is that pendant important for you?" He asked her as he realised she was fidgetting it.
"Yes, it's... part of my mother's." She said. "Humans must not touch it or they will die."
He then remembered about that red christals and felt a bit bad remember how Ai lost Jen when she tried to take it from the man trying to steal it form Ai, and how he nearly died when a tenkai arrow hit the pendant Ai gave him to protect him.
"Is it... tenkai?" He then asked.
"Yes." Isaith said looking at him confused. "How do you know of it?"
"Your mum brought some when she came." He admited. "Jen died due to touching it."
"I... I didn't knew." Isaith said. "Was she human then?"
"Yes." Ken said while they reached the university library. "If nobody has told you yet, in Earth there are just humans. There are not Dogenus or angels."
"Oh, there are angels." Isaith said. "My parents would not have sent me here if there were no angels at least."
"Hey, no unknown girls in here." The other keeper said.
"C'mon, Rui." Ken said. "She is comming with me. She will begin giving a hand until she can find another work."
"Ok... she can go in, but if she gives me a kiss in exchange." He said smiling.
"What if I kick your ass until it goes black?" She said holding him by the lapel and raising him from ground.
"Isa!!" Ken said hanging from her arm forcing her to lower them. "Oh, damn... you can't do that to normal people."
"He was expecting to take advantage from me." She said while the guy rubbed his neck.
"Hey! What are you thinking about?!" He told her.
"Hey, Rui." Ken said stopping Isaith with his hand. "I must advise you not to speak like that to her, she is the kind that bites."
"I don't bite!!" She said.
"It's a way of speaking here." Ken said. "C'mon, this way." He said pulling from her.
"You are saved for this time!" Isaith told Rui-guy that crouched back the library counter he was standing back of. "Wait till next time! You are not going to be so lucky!!"
As soon as the left, Isaith calmed up a bit, or at least stopped shouting.
"Ok, this is the university caffetterie." Ken said when they arrived and he was called from in the serving area to join the barmen. "Sit around and try to spend time."
"Fine." Isaith said sitting on a tool at the bar to lay her face at the hand.
Ken, on the other hand began serving orders fast and accurately, and Isaith soon got bored soon so she held a paper and began drawing something on the paper.
"Hey!" A guy said holding her arm when she was drawing the sky and making her move a bit. "You're cutte. Wanna have a drink with me??"
"Let... my hand... go." Isaith said not even looking at him.
"What?" The guy said to then laugh.
"I said... let... my hand... go." She repeated looking at him by the corner of her eye.
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It was about 10 in the morning that Takeshi went next to the university.
"I wonder if that guy keeps on working there..." He muttered as she parked the car at the very door of the university.
Since Ai left, he had found some rest speaking to Ken-guy about that. It was just 3 years since then and it seemed ages. When he reached there, he found Ken soon.
There was a girl sitting over a couple of dudes obviously fainted and with clear signs of having been beatten up while he served some orders at the tables.
"Hey Ken." Takeshi said sitting at the bar "How is everything going?"
"Hum, fine." He said taking a beer jar to fill it. "So, what do you want?"
"Beer please." He said smiling. "By the way, who is our friendly lash over there? She rings me a bell."
"Isaith, from Ai." Ken said looking down. "Hey, Isa!! Stop that!!"
"He is bothering the lady over there." She said.
"So?" He said. "You can't just hit him for that."
"Why not?" She asked still holding the guy. "I want to punish him."
"Hey, she has guts." Takeshi said.
"What she has is a bit hate inside." Ken said not realising what he had said. "C'mon Isaith, stop it."
"Guy, ask the girl to forgive you." She said. "Say it!!"
"I don't want to." The guy said so she pressed more.
"Say it!" She hissed at him.
"Hey, if I were you I would say sorry to the girl." Takeshi said.
"I don't want to." He repeated when he could cause she loosened a bit the pressure.
"Hey, drop him." Takeshi said holding her arm when she pressed his neck again.
"Why should I?" She asked raising the guy up as she pressed his throat. "He is just a dung sack of tirany that thinks that can use people as he wishes."
"Cause if you keep on pressing him there he will have no chance of appologizing." Takeshi said still holding her arm. "Allow me."
She then looked at him and dropped the guy while Takeshi took another sip from his cig.
"Damn... you are crazy girl!" The guy from the ground said.
"I said let me deal with this." Takeshi said holding Isaith up to prevent her to jump over the guy again. "I'll show him, right?... But allow me..."
"I'm not going to allow a mere human guy to treat me like this!!" She said angry.
Then Ken ran to get her too and took her to the bar where he held her against it.
"I said you can't hit people around just cause they try to invite you to something." He told her.
"Let me go!" She said angry. "I can't stand him!!"
"Oh, it seems Takeshi either." Ken said loosening the grip on surprise as he saw how Takeshi had kicked the guy out and now the guy laid down at earth obviously unconscious.
"Ok, now that guy will not bother again." Takeshi said sitting next to her. "Let's begin again, my name is Takeshi. I was somehow friend of a girl from your country named Ai."
"Queen Ai." Isaith said. "I'm princess Isaith, Queen Ai's daughter. Nice to meet you."
"Ai's daughter?" Takeshi asked confused. "But it's just 3 years since she left."
"Well, not really." She said taking another coke from the fridge as if it was all hers. "It's 28 years since she left here in fact. And you said you were friend of mum, didn't you? How was her here?"
"She has never told you?" Takeshi asked her.
"Nop, dady forbade to speak about it." Isaith said. "She has never told me about this place. Yet she said she was really happy here, but never told me why or who with."
Then Ken looked down when he overheard that part of the conversation.
"Well, the truth is she sang for the company I served to." Takeshi said then. "She was really cutte and attracted a lot of atention. She would have became a top star if she had not..."
"I can't believe mum was able to sing here." Isaith said.
"Why not?" Takeshi said.
"I sing thousand times better than her." Isaith said smiling evilly. "And I can move thouseand times better than her too, and obviously, I think everyone sais I'm cutter than her."
That made Takeshi laugh after looking at her surprised for some seconds.
"Well, I'd love to see you singing then." He said rubbing his eyes to dry the tears he let out while laughing. "I am now myown boss and I take along a music company, maybe you would be interested on seeing what you can do."
"Will I earn that thing you call money?" She asked suspicious about the offering.
"If you are enough good... for sure, lots of it." He said.