"Angel..."
"Doctor," one of the busy nurses called looking back at the young man laying on the hospital bed. "You might want to take a look at this. Doctor Yamijiya!"
'What is it?" The Doctor asked walking in.
"Angel..."
"His pulse Doctor!" the nurse exclaimed. "It's increased to a normal rate! He's beginning to wake."
"I'll be..." the doctor mumbled looking over the charts. It was true the sleeping teen was waking from his long slumber.
Over two weeks ago this strange boy was found floating in space in what appeared to be a coffin. When they found him he look to be dead, but when they brought him to the colony E.C.-KO's hospital they were proven other- wise.
It seemed as though this boys body had shut itself off making it appear lifeless...there had never been any record of this before. It was a first. Through careful examination they found a very dull pulse and if the Doctor hadn't persisted in studying him longer...the young man might as well have been dead.
"Angel..."
"Doctor?" the nurses concerned voice seem to register through his thoughts.
"Hmmm?" He more mumbled than responded.
"What do you suppose we do now?" she asked.
"Wait," the doctor answer. "All we can do is wait. He'll wake up soon, and he'll probably be wondering where he is. So stay here and wait till he wakes so you can answer his questions. I mean he was floating in space after all. We don't want him freaking out when he wakes." The nurse nodded in understanding.
"Tell me when he does wake up all right?" the doctor said in a more commanding tone. The nurse only nodded in response as Doctor Yamijiya left the room to tend to other patients.
The nurse slowly pushed her long black hair out of her face. Her forest green eyes studying the young blonde.
After half an hour of waiting for him to awake she slowly fell asleep. Only to be woke up some time later by the sound of something thrashing about. Her eyes opened up lazily, but then grew wide. The patient was thrashing uncontrollably in his bed.
"Angel," he seem to be muttering.
"Calm down," the nurse said trying to keep him steady.
"Doctor!" she called out. The doctor soon came in. He didn't need her to tell him what was going on. Just by looking at the patient he could see that he was going through some type of shock.
"Doctor?!" the nurse questioned. "What we suppose to do now that he's awake and like this?"
"Angel..." he muttered once more.
Doctor Yamijiya turned to the nurse curious as to what he was talking about.
"I'm not for sure doctor..." she stated. "I think Angel might be the name of someone he knows..."
"Someone he knows..."the doctor thought, as an idea hit him. He quickly turned to the patient.
"Calm down," the doctor said. "If so...we'll be able to help you find this angel you call out for." That had defiantly done it, slowly the boy calmed down much to the doctors surprise. He didn't really think that idea would work.
"Can you wake up now and talk to us?" he asked the teenager.
Slowly the boy opened his eyes and took a moment to absorb his surroundings. His mine was racing, replaying the last minutes before he hit that state of unconsciousness. His blue eyes taking the time to scam over the nurse and doctor.
"Why are you?" the patient asked. "Where exactly am I?"
"Well to make a long story short," the doctor started. "You were found by a space-shuttle in a casket from what it seems. The spacecraft brought you here to the hospital. You are on the colony E.C.-KO. We took you in when others assumed you dead and you've been here for two weeks and..." From that point out the blue-eyed blonde blocked the doctor.
"Two weeks? Seemingly dead? No they couldn't have...did they think he was dead?" all these thoughts and more crossed through his head.
"What do you mean I was assumed dead?" he asked cutting off the doctor mid- word.
"Well you see..." the doctor stated. "When we found you your body had done something rather extraordinary. It managed to go into a mode in which it's senses seemed dead...but on closer examination we noticed after a while a slight increase in your system. You were regaining a noticeable pulse. On first look you seemed dead so it's not hard to believe you could have been claimed dead. Understand?"
"Yes...may I see the casket?" he asked so suddenly causing the doctor and nurse to look up curiously.
"Well of course," the doctor replied. "But your in no condition to go anywhere now and..." The doctors voice traveled as the blonde stood up out of his bed. Now they could see just how tall he was. A lengthy boy with hair that seem to spike off near the tips. One side seemingly longer than the other. His hair in general seemed rather long for a boy. His eyes were an interesting shade of blue. He slowly found his original clothing and left behind the curtains and such to change. As he came back and pulled his boots on the doctor couldn't help but wonder.
"Who are you?" he asked in awe as he and the nurse led him to the casket. The boy studied the coffin. It bared the symbol of a pilot...of G.O.A and G.I.S. He felt the material on the coffin as he closed his eyes. He understood now.
"My name," he said opening his eyes and turning to face them, "is Ernest Cuore."