Authors Pre-Drabble:
Ok so I know this is a bit rushed but I suck at drawing things out - and I've only just started writing and you all know dreams are always rushed and It's sort of hard editing them and I'm also on a deadline so I don't forget all the little details. Oh and just so you know this dream was like two days long - I had a really high fever and slept for almost two days straight with like five minute breaks of conciseness when I hate a bit of soup before laying back down. Well anyway on with the story/dream.
Oh an props for a lot of this dream goes to Blueblood- I had finished reading the series(are there anymore actually coming out?) right before I got sick.
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After a long silence I couldn't take it any longer.
"What the fuck! 'Welcome to the ranks of Angels' - how in the world would no could you expect us to be alright after having giant wings sprout from our backs! And if we are the angels from the story are we even sisters? What do you expect us to do? Say 'oh it's nice to finally be a part, thank you!' are you people all insane?" I shouted promptly freaking out.
Everyone seemed shocked by my outburst including my sisters.
"Hiromi… don't you remember?" Harumi asked slowly and then began to freak out, "Why doesn't she remember? Is something wrong with her?" She ran up to the old man, her eyes were begging him to fix something. No not something, someone. And that someone who was broken just happened to be me. Greeeaaaat.
"What? Harumi… you remember? Hitomi do you -" I whirled around to face my favorite sister but she looked like she was afraid of me. The person standing there wasn't my Hitomi. No. Her eyes had changed - they were still the same color and all but her eyes were swimming with the past. I could almost remember something when I looked into her eyes.
A flash of memory overtook me and I cried out in shock.
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For a split second I saw paradise, a willow garden and beneath the closest garden sat Hitomi, crying. I heard a ghost like cry - like hearing someone through water but still being able to make out what they were saying, "Hiromi, we'll never find them! It's hopeless what if Bacchus found someone else?"
I walked over to her - wearing the same dress I was wearing right now and bent down. I faintly heard my voice - the same voice I had today, it wasn't quiet like in my other memories but rather confident and bold, "We'll find them Hitomi, after all Angels always find their way home."
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Suddenly I was yanked back to the present, "What's happening to me?" I cried out in terrible pain and promptly collapsed. "Hiromi!" "Romi!" "Hiromi-sama!" I faintly heard people call my name and the last thing I saw was Hitomi's tear stained face, then my world went black. At least the pain stopped.
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I walked swiftly down a forest path, my dark cloak wrapped around me making me look like a shadow. Oh NO! I mentally groaned, this was another dream/memory thingy. As if I didn't have enough to think about. I sighed mentally and waited patiently to see where the woman/me was running off to now.
My body stopped in front of a crystal clear pond and she slowly took my hood down. What I saw shocked me. There in front of me was… me. I stood looking like I was about sixteen and I looked just like I did now, only I was wearing a skirt and a thick jacket. My hair was up in its usual pigtails and my eyes flashed with determination. Suddenly I stooped down and grabbed a pebble and threw it in the center of the pond disturbing it's mirror-like image with ripples.
"Well that wasn't nice," a voice drawled from behind me. I spun around and I swear I growled - like a dog or something!
"What aren't you telling me?" I asked in a harsh biting tone - the tone I usually used with Masashi today.
"What do you mean hime? I hide nothing from you," the voice countered but he stepped out from shadows to reveal himself. I have to say, I was expecting Masashi but no. It was that boy with white hair and violet eyes. He looked like he was a year older then me.
"Tamotsu!" I cried. Tamotsu, that was his name… where had I seen him - other then my stupid dreams - OH MY GOSH HE WAS THE GUY FROM THE HALL! "What do you know? What's happening to me and who are these girls that look like me that I miss - I don't even know who they are! I keep having dreams and they are always about two girls who look like me who are searching… Why do I know them, Harumi and Hitomi and who is Masashi and why am I missing him so much? And why… why. I feel like… I should hate you, when I see you in the dreams I always try to kill you… and you try to kill me…. Is there something wrong with me?"
"Hime, do you trust me?" the man, Tamotsu, asked. I nodded with tears running down my cheeks. "Hiromi, you are an Angel and your one mission in life is… is to kill me."
"NO! I love you - I don't care about some mission! It has nothing to do with me, I'm not the Hiromi in my dreams - they've got the wrong girl! I don't care!" I cried out in denial and sobbed brokenly.
"I have a story to tell you hime, about long ago. A very very long time ago three male angels fell from Heaven, leaving behind the ones they loved the most. Eventually those they loved followed them from Heaven. And the three male angels names were," I sighed mentally I knew this story like the back of my hand, except one thing was off they didn't fall they descended, "Yoichi, Orochi, Tamotsu."
Wait what?
"I think.. I think I know this story… What were the lovers names?"
"Emily, Lucille and Hiromi."
And at this point my world went black. Well my dream thingy did and I sort of began to float between being awake and asleep.
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"You see Harumi-sama, there was one life that Hiromi had somehow been born outside the protective care of our family. She was born into an average family where they knew nothing of angels. She found out she was an Angel the painful way in that life and we're afraid it may be effecting her now… it was her life before this one. As you know it wasn't uncommon for only one of you to born per life but never have you nor Hitomi-sama ever been born outside the family. You have always accepted your stones but poor Hiromi-sama… we have no doubt that she will remember her past but it will take her a bit longer then you, her mind must heal from her memories ripping her apart in her life before last." a small female voice whispered.
"I understand, as long as she will regain her memories, I cant loose my oldest friend." Harumi's voice replied, "How long will she sleep… is she remembering?"
"It's been two days now, she should be up soon," the first voice replied. Two days that means I missed Emily's and Emma's birthday… EMILY! Emily, my best friend who was also descended from angels was she ok? Was she one of the lovers from Tamotsu's story. I had to find her.
"Emily?" I asked groggily as I began to sit up. "What happened to Emily?"
"Seems like she regained some of her memory - she's asking about that heinous wench who escaped our grasp," Harumi bite out before turning back to me, "Hey Romi, do you remember yet? Emily got away but we'll get her I promise. Do you remember fighting beside me? All those sleepless nights in heaven? Everything we told each other? Hiromi do you remember anything?"
"My head… it hurts… I remember that I'm really an Angel. I remember bits of our first life… Hitomi was.. crying for Kioshi… Masashi.. He keeps showing up in my memories," I mumbled as I held my head trying to remember more.
"That's good progress! She's remembering bits by bits… Hmm it seems to happen when she's in familiar situations, earlier she saw Hitomi crying and she got that ring from Masashi…" the other voice - a nurse - replied thoughtfully.
"Tam…Tamotsu…" I muttered, I was about to tell them that I had a meeting with him in my past life but I stopped when I saw the cold look in Harumi's eyes.
"She must have been remembering past battles while she slept - that would make sense," Harumi said to the nurse and both promptly started to ignore me.
"Alright got it, there now lets go update her charts. Oh Hiromi-sama you may get up and move around if you want. You have a calendar over there filled with to-do's and we'll be back later to check in on you. Now Harumi-sama this way and we can analyze her progress," the nurse replied as she motioned to the door of my bedroom - I had figured out where I was five seconds after I opened my eyes that and I was wearing jean shorts and a tank-top, idly I wondered who had changed my clothes while I slept.
Harumi squeezed my hand before getting up and nodding to the nurse. Both left me there blinking, startled and confused.
After about two seconds I jumped to my feet and I noticed three things. One being the giant bouquet of white roses next to my bed and second was an odd charm necklace around my neck and three my wings were gone. I touched the stone around my neck and gasped remembering. It was a charm to hide my wings on normal basis, if I held it to my heart and said my name my wings would reappear. Handy little thing.
Walking around my bed to my side table I leaned and smelt the roses, oh there was a card.
"One for every time I worried about you, get better my hime and come see me. Masashi," I read it aloud frowning the whole time. How many freakin people were gonna call me hime today? Ok well technically Tamotsu hadn't said it today - but I remembered it today so it counted! Masashi, wasn't I suppose to be in love with him? Why didn't I feel that giddy relief I had in my memory… what was wrong with me?
I remembered loving him, I remember searching endlessly for the man I love and at times giving up hope I would ever find them… and yet… and yet something felt off, something didn't make sense - I wish I could just remember my past lives already! Tossing the card angrily to the ground I looked at the roses and noticed something, there was something sitting behind the huge vase of flowers. I reached gently for the vase that took up almost my whole side table and set it gently on the ground. I was right something was behind it, a small black box sat behind wedged up against the wall and where the vase used to be.
Gently I picked up the box and bite my lip, should I tell someone about this? I noticed a small piece of paper where the box had been sitting. I picked it up and unfolded it," Hiromi, your security sucks. Forget me not, Your Guardian Angel." the note had a Forget-me-not in the background and smelled faintly like them, how cheesy. I smiled to my self though and blushed slightly - wait what was that? I was blushing over a note? A cheesy one at that! I stuffed the note under my pillow and turned my attention back to the box in my hand. I shut my eyes tightly and popped the lip open. After a moment I peaked through one eye and gasped as a memory took me - seriously I needed to be able to control these stupid things!
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I stood at the same crystal clear mirror lake as my last memory - so this was my last life, ok. I was writing in a book, an old journal…
Today I had another memory and I was shocked, as always, to find that one I lived one I could remember so much more. I remember heaven - it was so beautiful! I remember the window to Earth that I basically lived at, and his face - oh how I love his face. I also remember something awful… Tamotsu he-
"Hey there," a deep voice that I was starting to recognize - me not my body. Suddenly there was someone next to me but I had already shut the book and turned to smile at him. Tamotsu…
"Hey there yourself," I joked lightly smiling, when I looked at him my stomach started doing flips. Wait was it her stomach or mine?
"I got you something," He replied as he sat down next to me and pulled me onto his lap before taking the journal and setting it to the side. "Do you want to see it?"
"Well duh!" Oh so I said duh in my last life as well, for some reason this made me smile - mental me not oh you know what I mean!
He chuckled and kissed my forehead lightly before pulling out the little black box from my room, "Woah you're not gonna propose are you! I'm only sixteen!" My past self joked.
He chuckled and then an evil looking smirk took over his features, "if I said I was would you say yes?"
I blanched both mentally and physically, "Tamotsu I love you - I really do - but I'm only sixteen and have so much to figure out…"
"You didn't answer my question," He teased me - somehow I was sure he was getting some kind of sick pleasure from this.
"Well if you must know I'd say yes, but not for a few more years," I replied while not looking him in the eyes and mentally I was yelling at myself. Am I confusing you as much as I'm confusing myself?
"Well then you can consider this an engagement gift," he replied happily as he tilted my chin up and passionately kissed me and made me and my body blush. Great there went my SECOND kiss! After a moment we broke apart panting for breath and he held out the little box. Smiling i flipped it open and left the memory as it faded to black.
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In the little inoffensive box sat a white angel wing - only one, and in the center of the wing sat a black stone. Tamotsu would have the other half. A black wing with a clear gem in the center.
"I thought they did a good job of representing us, you're my light in all this chaos and always know that no matter where you are or when it is, I will find you again. This necklace shows that we belong together."
I shuttered at the memory, they hunted me while I was awake as well. I also remembered the last time I saw this necklace.
"Tamotsu, please keep it safe until we meet - until we meet again…"
"I love you, no matter what they do, I'll always love you."
That had been the day I died…again for like the seventh million time. I picked up my necklace and put it on. Looking in the mirror I muttered, "I remember so much but still so much is missing…" Silently I slipped the charm down my shirt and put the flowers back up.
Apparently the little black book on my other bedside table was my 'to-do' list. Sighing I walked over to it.
"Lets see, Call friends and tell them I'm ok… I'll do that later. Next, call Masashi and invite him over - skip! Then we have homework to catch up on, ugh I hate homework! Call Masashi - wait didn't I just read that? Um ok.. Next is remember past, really they wrote that down. Wow. And then I have to call Masashi - wait. Does this book have like every other thing as call Masashi?" I read aloud and began to flip through the pages. Masashi's name was in the book more then mine or any of my family members.
"My family has a Masashi complex," I sighed to myself and tossed the book on my bed before walking over to my door. I began to open it when it was suddenly stopped, someone was standing in the way.
"Hiromi-sama?" a masculine voice asked.
"May we serve you?" a second voice questioned.
"We are sorry mi-lady but we were asked to keep you in your room for now," voice one continued not letting me get a word in edge wise.
"Ok, roger. I'll just… call people I guess," muttered as I began to shut my door again.
My family had officially lost their mind! Harumi wasn't being locked up like some prisoner and something told me that Hitomi wasn't either so why was I? Stupid Angels and their stupid rules - I mean they had no right to try and act like they owned me! I snatched up my cell phone and began to dial Emily's number.
Hello?
"Emma?" I asked stupidly - somehow I had always been able to tell their voices apart.
Hiromi-sama? Why are you trying to contact Emily?
"Uh, well my planner say call friends and she's at the top of the list… Um, where is she?"
Oh… Harumi-sama didn't tell you? She escaped - I'm really sorry Hiromi-sama! I tried to stop her but I've always been weak… if it had been you with her you could have stopped her! I didn't know she was bad - I mean I didn't realize it until we transformed… please forgive me.
Emily bad? Wait what? This was giving me a headache!
"It's no biggy Em-"
Angela. Hiromi-sama my true name is Angela, please do not address me with that filthy name my mother gave me trying to save evil scum.
"Uh sure thing… Well listen I have like a million things to do so I have to get going. Um talk to you later Em - Angela…" I muttered a bit freaked out with how Emma/Angela was acting.
Good bye Hiromi-sama!
With a soft click the line went dead and I all but threw my cell phone across the room. Had everyone gone crazy?
Suddenly my room felt suffocating and I could have sworn that the walls were closing in. I backed toward my wall as if I was being stalked by lions.
"EEK!" I cried out as someone taped on my window - I was on the third floor and there are no trees, ledges, or ladders, near my window. Promptly my door was thrown open and three very large people rushed in. They wore black - like in the movies and had wires going from their shirts to their ears.
"Hiromi-sama!" voice one from earlier cried out.
"Is anything wrong?" Voice two cried while the last guy just scanned my room.
"Um… No I just - I tripped. I guess I'm really clumsy. Eheheh… Um ok well I'm going to take a shower sooo…." I muttered stupidly trying to cover up for my mistake.
"Oh uh excuse us Hiromi-sama," Voice one chirped nervously.
"Call if you need anything," Voice two added as he ushered the others out of my room.
The last guy was dead silent as he followed them out. As soon as they were gone I ran to my bathroom and started my shower before darting back into my room. Racing over to my window I threw it open and stuck my head out looking both ways. No one. Frowning I leaned back in and shut my window slowly.
"You know you really are too nice, Hiromi." A voice drawled out from behind me causing me to spin around in shock. Lets just say if I was shocked before I was lost now.
Before me stood Emily… only not Emily. Wow I say that a lot about people but how can you describe your best friend suddenly looking waaay older in no time at all. The Emily who stood before me was still Emily but she was different. And by different I mean an Angel or rather an anti-angel.
Emily still looked just like my best friend, same large green eyes, same pigtails with annoyingly bright tassels weaved in, same tall slim figure. You know same Emily, only difference was she had a huge pair of jet black wings, wore a short purple skirt with matching knee length boots with heels, and a very loose long sleeved turquoise shirt. You know the same old Emily who wears combat boots, ripped jeans, and baggy t-shirts when ever she could. NOT!
"Em?" I whispered uncertainly.
"Hey Romi, man you've been out for like a week oh and FYI, you're security SUCKS! So how much do you remember? And am I about to be attacked?" Emily responded like she was talking about the weather.
"Huh? Why would I attack you Em? You're my best friend… wait am I suppose to attack you? And why has everyone tipped off into psycho-ville?" I asked starting to feel uneasy and slowly began to bring my charm closer to my heart - ever so slowly so she wouldn't notice.
"Hmm… I cant tell if this is a trick or if you really cant remember… well either way my job here is done!" Emily exclaimed happily as she began to walk toward the window.
"Job? Em wait! Please," I begged nearly crying -stress is an evil evil thing!
She stared at me for a moment then a look of total comprehension dawned on her face, "You really don't remember do you? Man oh man is he going to have a cow - no he's going to have the whole fucking barn - plus a zebra!" Emily began to pace.
"Since when do zebra's live on farms?" I tried to joke weakly but the only response I got was a death glare, "Hey! Look it's not my fault I cant remember maybe if I had that stupid book-"
"Book what book?" Emily almost growled I could tell she was grasping for straws.
"Um well you see in my past life I began to write down memories and put them in like a time frame or something - I don't know the details are a bit sketchy, you know the whole 'cant remember crap' problem… Emily why do you look like you want to eat me?" I took a step back.
"Where is the book? Do you remember where you hid it? After all you wouldn't leave something that big for just anyone to find!" Emily asked/begged me and she grabbed my shoulders.
"I - I don't know Em," I began but she interrupted me, "Come on Romi THINK!" she shook me slightly and she was starting to scare me, "EM!"
Emily leaped away from me at this moment because my door flew open and my guards rushed in. well shit! There went my only way of getting out of my room now.
"Damn it - they sent in the drones, well I guess this is were my visit ends. Later!" Emily cackled as she jumped out my window and took flight. Guy number three took off into the sky after her while the other two copies took up positions around me. God I love stress - it makes you pass out at the worse times possible ah there I went. My world was black - seriously I never fainted in my life until this week and man it was like I was trying to break the world record!
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Authors Chitcat: I actually sort of like this chapter, especially her little sarcastic moments. This story sure is a lot of fun to write ^-^ So anyway I'm writing whenever I can but most of my chapters are about seven pages long - after editing and everything (which usually adds another page or two) sooo it takes time to write.I decided to go ahead and post my two fanfics but this has to be my favorite one because in all technicality it isn't a fic X.x It's a story - oh and sorry if I put it under the wrong freakin thing, I didn't know what to do heehawed sooooo review? I mean you took the time to read it after all you must have liked something about it ^_~