Chapter 7 Chapter 7… Didn't take all that long now did it? Well actually if you were my friend you'd know it did take a while… because well I had finished chapter 6 ages ago and only just put it up… I'm sorry! hides from scary people that hate bats… and deadly weapons Anyway I made it up to you all by writing a nice long chapter 7. Chapter 8 may be a while I have 2 assignments due in the next 2 weeks so I don't know if I will have time to write or not. I'd also like to again thank my friend for editing this, although it didn't really need much. Oh well I hope you enjoy!
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Chapter 7 – Angel of Death
Monday 3rdof January 2011
"I had no will to live" I could feel the trail as the tears made there way down my face. Damien, no it was Leigh, brought his hand up to my face and wiped away my tears. I could see his soft brown eyes under the veil of black. "You have always known that the crash was no accident. I never lost control of the car. I wanted to die and I wanted you beside me when I did. I knew that you would survive. I knew you had something to finish, and that the timing was right for me to die. I'm sorry that you have been put through all this. I can't hold back the power of Damien much longer. He is me, just as you are Angel. He has always been apart of me and in that way; he desires you but desires to kill Angel. He loves you just as much as I do, while he harms you he doesn't mean to. I love you Sa-." Leigh was cut off as the black veil comes back over his eyes. The stance was different, his essence was different. This was Damien.
Once again I was close to my real name, closer to the truth of who I was. Damien had me pushed up to the wall tightly. The grip he held on my wrists tightened. "The tattoos are you could say a score board." His voice was cold and dripping in a tone that told me I should already know all about it. I looked up into his eyes searching their depths for Leigh. I could see nothing, but I did see Damien's black eyes anger slightly. I had a confused look on my face as he moved forward his breath whispering over my ear. "Bring out Angel, bring her out!" Damien's voice was in gasps, as if he was about to break down and cry.
My eyes slowly closed, a light breeze picked up around me, my own breath was shaky as I started to cry all over again. I felt the movement of the white dove as it flew into my heart. A white glow started to form itself around my body. It grew in it's intensity before my eyes snapped open. Everything was seen in a white glow, like I was under a white veil. "You Called?" my voice had changed, what I said wasn't what I was thinking; I had lost control over my body. My head turned away from Damien, my hair falling forward and covering my eyes from the world. I could feel the tears stop as I composed myself. My head again turned back and looked at Damien. "What is it you want, Death?"
Damien looked at me, hurt. The pain was evident on his face. "I want you." It was such a simple statement that it made me look at Damien in a different light. As I was trying to study him, my head was turned away from him again. "You can't deny it Angel, the reason we are in this position is because of you. The only reason that you must call me Death and not what you are longing to." My head turned back to Damien, I was now considerably confused as to what to call him. Death? Damien?
"You have no right to call me Angel. That is a name that only friends of mine may know. I am an Angel of Life. You are a lowlife demon slave. An Angel of Death kicked out of the school of God."
"You know damn well that I'm not a lowlife demon slave. I was a better student than you Angel; I was destined to be the next Angel of Life. Although I took the blame for that dark spell that you conjured up. I was sent to hell. All because of you, it's all because of you that I am the Angel of Death."
"Damien…" tears started to well up in my eyes. "Is it really you? Are you really alive? I thought the elders had killed you. I'm so sorry. For so long I have blamed myself for your death. I became an Angel of Life in hopes that one day I could bring you back to life."
Damien brought my body into his grasp, my arms wrapped around his body as I cried upon his shoulder. "There is nothing that you can do for me, other than killing me. Angel, I want you to be the one to take my life. I have waited so long to find you so that you could kill me. The 'Wolves', the group of demons that watch my movements, allowed me to come back to Australia for my funeral unwatched, this is the only time that I can ask you this. This is the only time that I can beg you to take my life, although you can not kill me now. For if you do the 'Wolves' will know something is up and hunt down my killer. I don't want you to die. You must wait until we are back in Japan and are fighting. That is the only time that you can take my life, without unwanted suspicion from the 'Wolves'. Do you understand Angel? You must take my life. I must go now; I have already been here to long." Slowly he cupped my face in his hands and kissed me. His body slowly became transparent, transforming itself into a raven. Then even the bird was gone.
I fell to my knees, my breath gasping as if I was lacking air. I found the dove sitting on one of the roof supports. I rose and looked around the chapel. The coffin was still resting at the front. There was no way that I could go anywhere near it. I had seen Leigh. I had kissed him. I looked over the crowd of people, some crying, most with sad facial expressions. I caught the eye of my younger sister. She looked at me smiling and then patted the seat next to her. I moved towards her, seating myself down beside her. "Are you dead sissy?" My heart broke and cried. My sister could see me.
"No Sarah, I'm not dead I'm just doing a bit of work as an angel. I'll be back by the end of January so don't let them turn off my life support, ok?"
"Ok I won't." I pulled out one of my feathers and handed it to her.
"Be
brave" everything around me started to fade. I could hear my
brother and sister talking in whispers, as the chapel faded into
white then grey and lastly black.
"Who were you talking to Sarah
there's no one there?"
"Sissy was here. Look she gave me this. She's going to be back by the end of January."
"Of course she is Sarah. Can I have a look at this feather? Wow it's so white. I have never seen one like it. Make sure you don't loose it."
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I rolled over and hugged the soft pillow. My eyes slowly opened as I stretched. My room was slightly illuminated by the lamp that I had left on. Over the back of the chair were my clothes. I rose and looked at them. I then moved over to the wardrobe. There was nothing here that I wanted to wear either. I sat back down on my bed. I didn't really even feel like getting up but I needed to restore my strength after what I had lost in completing Daichi's wish. I returned to the wardrobe and took out a black and white Kimono that Hilary had given me on New Years. It was very elegant on, with a very low cut front. I walked out into the quite house. I was the only one up. I could hear Tyson and Daichi, snoring, each trying to be louder than the last. I could hear Rei's almost cat like purr. Max murmured under his breath in English. Lastly was Kai, he made no sound at all it didn't even sound like he was breathing. I continued past the boys and made my way outside.
Now I would have a few hours to my self. I made my way over to the bey dish where I could hear some kind of movement. As I got closer I could see a silhouette of a blader. "Hiro?" he looked over towards me. He called out to his blade and it returned to his hand, where he returned it to his pocket.
"Oh Angel, I didn't wake you up did I?"
"No I'm normally up at this time. How long have you been out here?"
"Me? Oh since about midnight. There was no way I could sleep." I moved towards the bey dish and sat down. My eyes looked towards the eastern horizon. It was still about an hour before the sun would be up.
"Would you sit with me Hiro, and keep me amused till sunrise? Or do you want to go to sleep?" I asked as I looked at the serious faced Hiro. He didn't lay eyes on me as he answered.
"Yeah, sure"
"Thank-you" slowly he sat down beside me. There were a few minutes of awkward silence. "I had the strangest dream last night. Did you know I'm Australian? In my dream I was back in Australia. I woke up in my hospital bed. I was still an angel though. My brother, sister and father had come into see how I was doing. My little sister could see me…." I ended up telling Hiro the whole dream, even everything about Damien and Leigh. I never told him though that I had actually seen this Damien. I didn't believe for one second that Damien was Leigh. Hiro sat patiently listening to my story. He was even quite as I tried to puzzle it out. Finally he spoke.
"Angel, I can't tell you if what you dreamt was real, or just a dream. But remember it always, just like we will remember you always even after you return to your normal life. You understand we are going to miss you. Hearing this I am reminded that you will be leaving in less than a month. You have changed everyone." I sat looking at him for a few minutes as the first rays of sun moved over the horizon. "Well I sat and talked with you until the sun rose, so I'm now going to get a few hours sleep. See you soon Angel." Hiro stood up and left me. That wasn't the normal Hiro.
The birds and other wildlife were slowly starting to come to life and so was I. I closed my eyes as I felt the sun warm up my entire body. My strength was returning to me. Just last week, this day last week, I found myself at the pearly gates of heaven. This time last week my family's life was thrown into turmoil. I thought again of the dream that I had had. I hadn't told Hiro of the conversation that my siblings had had. My sister could see me. Did that mean I had to grant a wish for her as well? I wonder what 5 year old Sarah would wish for? I couldn't wonder much longer. Time always seemed to fly when I was out here in the morning. Inside I could hear the movements as the group started to rise and prepare for the day.
I entered the house just as everyone was sitting down for their breakfast. I sat in the corner quietly. Two wishes down six to go. One week down three left. Each wish took around three days. So that would mean I needed to get another wish. Whose wish would I grant this time? It was then that Kenny entered the room, his trusty laptop under his arm. I would grant Kenny's wish. It wasn't like it was going to be too hard. Not only that, but Kenny had helped me in completing Tyson's wish. Kenny walked up to the front of the table. "Ok everyone, our next tournament is in about 6 months. July 1st. Our training secludes are to be increased. On the 22nd of this month we will hold a mini tournament. The winner will go against a surprise opponent. If you win against them you won't have to train for the rest of the 6 months. If you lose then you will be training day and night. That is all. We all start training tomorrow morning at dawn. Coaches orders."
"Ow! Man! The tournaments six months away why do we have to start now?" Tyson's whine expressed what everyone around him was thinking.
"Don't know I don't understand Hiro myself, he just said that now was the best time to start."
"Also" I stepped away from my corner "I'm running out of time to grant all your wishes so, Kenny your next. Come find me today and ill grant your wish." I smiled at everyone then walked down the hallway to my room. Once in my room I sat down at my chair. I flicked my wrist up and looked at the tear drop tattoo. A score board just how would that work? There was a light rap on my door. "Come in."
Kenny slowly slid my door open and entered. "Oh hello Kenny, have you decided on your wish?"
"Well yes I have been thinking about it for a long time now. I have always wanted to do something special for the bit beast in my laptop, Dizzy." Oh great… what can I do that a computer nerd can't.
"Wow that's very sweet of you Kenny, I will try my best, but I don't know a lot about computers or Bit beasts for that fact. But your wish has been accepted. Can you tell everyone that I'm going out for a while?"
"Thank you Angel. Sure ill tell everyone. Oh Hiro wanted me to give you this, because your always out and about." With this Kenny handed over a Mobile phone.
"Thank you Kenny, your wish will be granted soon."
Kenny left me to myself again. I rose and changed into my normal clothes and left the dojo. I arrived at my favourite café not long afterwards. I ordered my hot chocolate and sat in the exact spot where I had sat before. I looked around hoping to see Tala in here again, sadly though he wasn't. I sat back comfortably in the booth and took a long draft of the Chocolate. I watched the going ons of the people around me, before my eyes finally looked out side at the darkness that was covering the world. I had finished my hot chocolate hours before. Tala still hadn't showed. I rose and walked to the door, as I was exiting Tala was about to enter. "Tala! How are you?"
"Oh! Angel! It's good to see you, I'm fine yourself?" just as I was answering Tala an annoying tone started, I looked at the phone that was in my hand and answered it.
"Angel can you meet us at the Hospital!"
"Hiro!"
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Congratulations to all that found the little button in the corner last time. That's you Snowkitty and Kai Hiwatari Lover. Good work! Now id Love it if everybody could find that button and press it. Oh! I also left you with another cliff hanger. Who is at the hospital? Who is sick? Maybe someone's dieing! Hope you all enjoyed this chapter read and review please!
