.::Chapter 3::.
We land in a huge garden, and I smile. It's beautiful, and so colorful as well. I realize I am in different clothes though. "What's with the clothes?" I ask Aoi, peering down at the shoes. It's something like what a gymnast might wear, like in my picture books my father used to read to me when I was younger. "And where are we?" I continue, looking around. "Welcome to the Animal Angel Kingdom! This is where all Animal Angels are found. Obviously, every angel has one animal fused with them, but only the real legendary angel can have two." Aoi replies, smiling. I grin, and twirl a little. We pass through small houses shaped like clouds and flowers. "All the angels are waiting for you in the Animal Castle. The Queen, Goddess Jupiter, is waiting as well. So are your helpers." Aoi continues. He picks up a small flower from the grass, and I notice I have never seen them before. "These are the flowers that grow in the Kingdom. There called Pearl Roses, named after the first goddess who found them. Of course, the legendary Angel has the exact same pearl teardrop." Aoi tells me and I touch the choker on me. A smooth texture is on me, and I notice it's the pearl teardrop. It really is pretty, and the flower Aoi picked is gorgeous as well. It's a rose, like normal roses, but with a marble of blue, purple, and white. "As well as the flowers, the Angels here grow special foods here. Trust me; would you rather be a human or an Animal Angel?" Aoi asks, and points over to a field. "We grow Marshmallow Cookies, Rose Milk, Candy Tea, Rain Cascade Mints and Honey Snaps." I gasp at the extraordinary names of them. This is a really strange and bizarre place, but in a good way. "Could I try some?" I ask kindly. Aoi just shakes his head. "No, because we are having a celebration for the Legendary Angel. You can eat when it's time." Aoi says. I nod, but I feel slightly sad. I really am pleased for being legendary and special, but this is too much. I don't like having too many good things, but I don't like bad things either. "Are you alright?" Aoi asks. "I'm fine!" I say startled. He smiles, and points over to a huge castle. "That's the Animal Castle. Come on!" he tells me and I laugh as we run and chase each other towards the castle. A bridge made of clouds crosses over a huge lake, with a waterfall to my right. A bunch of the Pearl Roses are spread around the grass, and some balloons are hanging from the castle walls. I gasp, and take a deep breath. "Are you ready?" Aoi asks me gently. I nod, and he takes my hand. "Welcome to the Animal Angel Kingdom Princess Kazumi" Aoi tells me and leads me in.
Everyone cheers, giving me hugs, kisses and welcomes like they already know me. I don't know any of them by the way, so I don't know why they keep giving me presents. "Welcome to the Kingdom Angel Kazumi! We are grateful you're here!"
"You look beautiful today! Welcome!"
"I can't believe you're here! I've been counting the days until you arrive!"
I smile until my face hurts, and suddenly a warm glow fills the room, and the most beautiful woman I have ever seen appears. Golden brown hair, the wings of the dove and a pretty long dress studded with jewels of every colour of the rainbow. Behind her are six young girls, maybe ranging from 12 to 18 years old. "Welcome my dear! Princess, legendary, you are Animal Angel Kazumi. I welcome you to my kingdom! My name is Goddess Jupiter!" the woman smiles warmly. I smile back, and Jupiter turns around. "My girls, your leader is here. You better introduce yourselves." Jupiter says, and the girls nod and come up to me. They are each in one colour of the rainbow, and with me in, I'm guessing I'm the pink one. "My name is Rose. I'm fused with a Squirrel, and my colour is all the shades of purple to violet. I'm pleased to meet you!" the first one says. She has manners, and that's good. I like her a lot. "My name is Sakura! I'm fused with a Butterfly! I love my wings, and I'm in blue. Glad to see you!" the next one says, spinning around me, and I laugh. She looks like my age, but with a playful personality. "I'm Coral. I fused with the Dolphin, because I love swimming. My colour is green, but I'm please to meet you!" the next one says shyly. She might be shy, but I'm guessing she is kind and playful inside. The next one steps up. "I'm Peach! I'm a Fox, and my colour is the cheery yellow! Everyone says it matches me perfectly! Glad to see you!" she says brightly. "Hi. The name's Makoto, got it? I didn't want this anyway, but nice to meet you. My colour is orange, and I'm fused with the Tiger." the next one says without any interest at all. She may be the oldest, but she has some attitude. "And my name is Twinkle! The cute, awesome and crazy one! My colour is red, and I'm with the Bear! See? See?" the last one says. She is the youngest for obvious reasons, but she is cute. Everyone is awesome in their own ways though, and I can't believe this is happening. "Well, time to start the party!" Goddess Jupiter smiles brightly, and everyone cheers to talk in small groups, eat and dance. Rose and Sakura come up to me. "You really are pretty in that outfit. I can't wait to work with you!" Sakura says, and that's when I realize I'm still in that gymnast outfit I randomly got. "Wait…this isn't my outfit! It was…" I start, but Rose interrupts me. "We know! We all have one, because the legendary angels work together in the gymnast room, because we Animal Angels love to do gymnastics and Rhythmic Gymnastics to work on our flexibility for battle. You better transform right now!" she says. I nod, taking out the small pearl teardrop. "Animal Angel Kazumi, DNA Fusion!" I call, and the warm white glow covers me until I'm in my Angel outfit. "That's better!" Peach says, coming up towards us. The other legendary angels follow, and lead me outside. "So…do you have any parents?" Coral asks me shyly. "Well..." I start, but I can't answer it. "My parents died when I was younger. A huge monster appeared when my house was on fire, and well…" I say, but a tear rolls down my cheek. "Don't worry. You don't have to answer it" Coral says softly. "My parents died when I was younger as well. My mother had a heart attack, and my father died in an explosion" she whispers. I wipe the tear away and nod. "Now, now. Let's not talk about this. Why don't we go to Jupiter now?" Makoto tells us and I look up. "For what?" I ask her. "Well, we all got sent and turned into these monsters by her, and we need to finish the mission so I can get out of it" Makoto says, her long black hair flying everywhere. Twinkle sighs. "She was always like this, even when we met her" she whispers sadly to me. I nod, thinking about her. "Well, Makoto is right. The Queen must be waiting" Coral said, nodding.
We are all standing in front of Goddess Jupiter a few minutes later. "Well, you are all ready right?" she smiles at us. She claps her hands and two guards nod, bringing out something inside a small case. "Animal Angel Kazumi, Rose, Sakura, Coral, Peach, Makoto and Twinkle, now that you are all ready, I will now explain why I sent you here and why you are Animal Angels now." She takes a deep breath. "The Scarlet Aliens are attacking the planet called Earth. You all used to live there, living in ordinary lives, but since last week, you were all sent here, and you will live here for the rest of your lives. Of course, the Queen opposite to me was my sister, until she ran away and invented herself to Queen Domino. She sent out the Scarlet Aliens, and her plan is to kill all Animal Angels and to steal the Mystic Sword." Jupiter tells us. She takes the case from the guard's hands, opening it up. She takes out a glowing sword, engraved with patterns on the blade. "This is the Mystic Sword. The young Legendary Animal Angel has been revived, and this is yours Kazumi. Kazumi was the newborn of my great, great, great grandmother, and of course, she held the Mystic Sword. Whoever has the Mystic Teardrop to transform can also hold the Mystic Bell and Mystic Sword. And that's you, Angel Kazumi" Jupiter tells me softly. I gasp, unable to speak, but I nod and take the sword from her hands. "The sword will allow the holder to give faith, hope and happiness to anybody she wants, though it can only be used once a week." Jupiter says. She looks at everyone else. "Though Scarlet Aliens are destroying the world, killing anybody in sight. You must all go and save everyone. That's why Animal Angels were born" We all nod, and I clutch the Mystic Sword tightly. "You can return it, just use the teardrop" Jupiter tells me. Following her instructions, I return the sword, and look at my new friends. "We're all in this together, right?" I ask them. "Yep!" everyone, including Makoto, cheers. I turn to Jupiter. "Thank you so much Goddess Jupiter. This means a lot to me, and hopefully this adventure may be linked with my parents, no maybe everyone's, death. I really hope it will be exciting" I tell her, bowing. She smiles at me and everyone else. "Have a safe adventure. Your location will be in Tokyo, Japan. You will have an ordinary life, with different names to hide your personality. Go to school, do whatever, but keep an eye out for Scarlet Aliens." She tells us all. She holds her hands together, and a whirlpool appears. "Animal Angels, go!" she calls, and we all jump in together.
Author's Notes: The action has started! Yay!~ Anyway, not much to say. Kaz will be using the Mystic Sword in Book 2, not in this book yet if you were wondering. ;3 Enjoy as usual!