Welcome – Ch.51 Send Me Down A Miracle
In another world, there was nothing but darkness filling in the air as the sky was blackish-brownish by the pollution from the big factories surrounding everywhere. All of the houses were burned to grounds into ashes and rubble, many plants were all wilted and dead as they were all turning nothing but black, and there were many swarms of the creatures from Subspace, wandering around for any case of intruders.
Not only that, there were also people; innocent human beings suffering as their whole bodies were thin to the bone and had several scars and bruises as if they were being beaten up or punished and wear nothing but old clothes and rags as they were working to death by either carrying big heavy rocks, working inside the very heated factories, or were forced to dig big trenches while some of them were dying of thirst or hunger or illness.
But, there were also people who're not suffering like them. These people are one of the top ranks of the peasants as their strength, power, and wisdom are better than them and are also known as the bounty hunters who work for the Lord of Subspace. Whatever he commands, they always follow them, even if it's murdering someone, they will do it as well and their rewards are more food, wearing nice clean clothes, and fine shelter for them.
Many of the peasants tried to prove they're just like the bounty hunters, but most of them failed while few of them tried to escape the living hell they're in, but both the bounty hunters and the Subspace minions killed them and put their dead bodies in many piles. They were hoping and praying for a miracle to happen and free them from living in this nightmare, but it didn't came for their need and they started losing faith.
As the slaves were working as usual, there was a girl who looked about 18-years-old with long shaggy black hair that looked like it has never been washed, a pair of cloudy brown eyes, and all she wore was nothing but old looking clothes and rags as her whole body was thin and all pale which almost makes her look like a ghost.
In her arms, she was carrying a couple of clean sheets which she stole from one of the bounty hunters' home and was running for her life as some of the hunters were chasing her. Just then, as the girl was cornered, her whole body was shaking with fear as the hunters were coming closer with their guns ready to fire.
"I believe you have stolen something from us!" one of the hunters shouted at the girl.
"No! Please…! I didn't mean too! I just want to live…!" the girl cried as tears began to flow down on her dirty cheeks.
"That's what they always say." Another bounty hunter said and that's when all of the bounty hunters pull the trigger of their guns and then…
BANG! BANG! BANG!
"What the-?" the hunters questioned as they were all shocked to see a 18-year-old boy with spiky black and blue eyes and all he wore was a gray T-shirt underneath a blue jacket, a pair of black pants, a pair of white shoes, and wearing a white pendant around his neck.
What shocked the bounty hunters the most, the boy had a pair of white angel wings on his back and that he shielded the peasant girl with his black shield which blocked the bullets.
"An angel? That's impossible!" one of the bounty hunters shouted and that's when the angel boy took out his white sword and cut through one of the other hunters armors.
Confused, the girl started in awe and shock to see a real angel in front of her, until a hand popped out of nowhere and reached in front of the girl's face. As she looked up, she saw a girl about the same age as her and she had long black hair with bangs that cover her left eye, a pair of green eyes, a black T-shirt underneath a blue jacket, a pair of blue jeans, a pair of white shoes, and a glowing ruby red pendant tied around her neck.
"We came from the heavens to come and help you to escape this nightmare." She said and the peasant's girl's eyes shot wide open as she saw the girl in front of her had also a pair of white wings on her back; another angel.
For the male angel, he pulled out his small dagger and slices the rest of the bounty hunters' arms, legs, or any type of body part to be wounded. Then, after the angel finished them off, there was a loud alarm echoing through the dead town and that's when he put away his weapon and carried the peasant girl in his arms as he and the female angel flew into the air right before more of the bounty hunters and the Subspace minions could attack them.
"Where are you guys taking me?" the peasant girl asked the two angels right when they were in the colorless sky.
"Where my boyfriend and his brother are at." The female angel was one of them to answer.
"SNOWBALL FIGHT!" Aria yelled with joy as she and the smashers started throwing snowballs at each other.
Since it was still snowing from yesterday and today, 24 out of the 32 smashers put on some jackets, gloves, scarves and any type of warm clothing and ran outside and split into two teams.
On the first team, the players were Rebecca, Diana, Alyssa, Huru, Richard, Ike, Terra, R.O.B., Kuro, Aria, Lucas, Red, and Fear (who came to visit).
On the second team, the players were Eddie, Jake, Carrie, Mr. Game & Watch, Mewtwo, Wolf, Link, Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, Aquamarine, and Ruby.
For the rest of the other 6 fighters, who are Nick, Zoey, Charles, Krystal, Michael, Zorark, and Peach, both Krystal and Peach were making hot chocolate for everyone, Michael has to stay inside since he's now a blue snake and snakes die when they go outside in the cold, Charles has to stay inside as well since after getting a deadly wound from last night battling werehog Sonic (and Eddie can't heal serious wounds), and since Nick can't stand the coldness because of his fire ability he has to stay inside but he didn't mind because Zoey was sleeping on his shoulder.
For the snowball fight, the smashers had rules to try not to go rough on each other, whoever gets hit the other team gets 10 points, and they can't use any of their powers or weapons…until Sonic broke the third rule when he was dodging getting hit using his sonic speed.
"Sonic! Quit cheating!" Fear shouted at the blue hedgehog.
"Yeah, Sonic! It'd be easier if you stop running so fast!" Diana shouted at him as well.
"Hey, Diana." Sonic said back to her. "It isn't my fault that you're too slow!"
Suddenly, Diana's eyes glowed all red as both her fangs and claws grew longer than before as she let out a loud growl.
"WHAT THE WHAT, SONIC? LOOK WHAT YOU'VE DONE NOW! YOU SHOULDN'T SAY THAT TO, DIANA! EVER!" Alyssa yelled and that's when the wolf-girl began to take out a bazooka which made the other team members in a panic, especially Sonic.
"What…did you just say to me?" Diana growled in a deep voice as she aimed at the blue hedgehog and that's when she fired a big ball of snow at him which is impossible for him to dodge and got hit as the snow buried him to the ground.
"WHOOO! 10 POINTS!" Diana cheered and made the others fighters sweatdrop. "AND AT THE FASTEST PLAYER!"
"Nice one, Diana!" Alyssa shouted and gave a high five to her best friend as the rest of the player on her team were acknowledging as well.
"What? Was that supposed to be a trick?" Knuckles stood up and shouted at the wolf-girl. "You just did it to win for your team, isn't it?"
"I don't know. Maybe or maybe not, Knucklehead." Diana smirked which made the red echidna snap.
"WHAT DID YOU CALL ME?" he yelled. "THAT'S I'M GONNA-!"
"You'll what? Give me a, Knuckle sandwich?" the wolf-girl laughed and that's when Knuckles growled and charged at her, until Diana fired another snowball at him with the bazooka and send him flying and crash to Sonic, burying themselves in the snow.
"Hey, Knuckles." The blue hedgehog said to his teammate. "Doesn't she remind you of-?"
"Don't even dare say that name!" the red echidna snapped after remembering the bat-girl he hates who always tries to steal the Master Emerald; Rouge.
"ANOTHER 10 POINTS!" Diana cheered again and blew across the bazooka. "Man! I love these things!"
"You got that from Charles, huh?" Carrie asked her which she returned it with a nod.
"Hey! Got any room for two more?" a new voice called out and when the smashers turned, they saw the two angels.
Then, both Eddie's and Jake's eyes shot wide open and smiled as they were happy to see it was their friends.
"Lucy!" Jake called out to the female angel as he sprouted his black wings and flew to her.
"Jake!" the female angel named Lucy exclaimed as she also flew towards him and the two of them embraced and kissed and let go.
For the other white-winged angel, he and Jake gave each other a glare until Jake noticed the peasant girl in his arms, who began coughing all of a sudden.
"What's wrong with her?" he asked.
"There's no time. Eddie, Lucy, we're going to need you two now." The white-winged angel said.
"Right, Alex." The female angel named Lucy said back to her brother and that's when she and Eddie went inside the house along with both the angel named Alex and Jake.
"Do you think the girl is going to be alright?" Aria asked about the peasant girl.
"I hope so." Huru said until she got hit on the head by a snowball thrown by Link. "Oh, it's on elf-boy!"
Back inside the house, right after both Eddie and Jake explained what's going on, Alex set down the peasant girl on a couch and both Lucy and Eddie began to use their healing powers oat her to stop her from coughing.
Then, the girl's eyes began to flutter open and breathed in and out as tears began streaming down on her face which made the others confuse yet shocked.
"Hey, why are you crying?" Eddie came up and asked her. Is something wrong?"
"No, I'm just…so happy…! I can't believe I'm free! Free at last…!" the girl cried with a smile on her face and turned to both Lucy and Alex. "Thank you! Thank you so much!"
"You're very welcome." Lucy smiled until her brother came up and ruffled the peasant girl's messy hair.
"Hey, stop crying, okay?" he asked and that's when the girl smiled.
Even with a dirty face and messy hair, the girl looked beautiful the way she smiled which made both Alex's and Eddie's face turn into a shade of red.
Then, Krystal came by and gave the girl some clothes.
"Here. Put these on after you're done cleaning yourself in the showers." She said to her and again, the girl made a big smile and rushed to one of the bathrooms.
"She seems nice." Lucy remarked, until she noticed the look on her brother's blushing face before the girl left. "Hey, you okay, Alex?"
Not only that, when Jake glanced at Eddie's face, his face was blushing as well.
"Eddie?" he questioned when suddenly, Wolf slammed the door open as he was running for his life to the others were and hid behind one of the couches.
"Wolf? What's wrong?" Charles asked him, until Alyssa slammed the door open as well and believe me, she didn't look too happy as her whole body was covered in snow.
"WOLF!" she yelled and once he spotted the fighter she was looking for, she charged at him. "YOU'RE GOING TO PAY FOR THIS!"
Little did she know, the snow on her began to melt and that's when she slipped and was about to hit the floor, until Alex reacted and caught her just in time. Then, the angel's eyes shot wide open and felt his head throbbing right after the two of them let go.
"It's her! She's the one who caused all of this!"
Slowly, Alex's headache was wearing off until his sister came up and check him if he's alright.
"You idiot! Look what you did to me!" Alyssa shouted at Wolf as she grabbed his shoulders.
"H-Hey! It isn't my fault that you're not strong enough against me!" Wolf stammered and that's when the brunette punched at his head so hard, he was knocked unconscious.
"That idiot…Not strong enough, huh? I'll show him…" Alyssa grumbled to herself as she walked out through the door. "I'm going out for a walk! Be back later!"
"You might want to excuse, Alyssa. She can have quite a temper." Charles explained to the others while sweatdropping.
Just then, Zoey began to yawn and stretch from Alyssa's yelling, but as the black-haired girl saw Nick next to her, her face turned red as the male fighter's.
"S-Sorry." Nick said until the black-haired girl said nothing and just walked away to her room. "She probably hates me now…" he thought to himself feeling gloomy, until Aria came inside.
"What are you guys waiting for? Snowball fight!" she exclaimed and ran back outside along with, Jake, Eddie, Alex, and Lucy.
"Not strong enough? Me? That idiot!" Alyssa grumbled and that's when she flipped her golden coin which transformed into her golden sword and tried to slice a tree in half, but failed. "Ugh! I can't believe I'm not even strong enough to cut this stupid tree!"
"He, he. You're such a pathetic little girl." The brunette heard a voice and when turned towards it, she saw a boy who looked a few years older than her as he had a pair of red crimson colored eyes as one of them was being covered by his lavender colored bangs and hair that reach past his shoulders, skin that looks like a pale ivory color, and all he wore was a long dark violet cloak covering a long-sleeved tunic of a light shade, a gold belt is securely fasten around his waist, a scarlet semi-short pants cover half of his long legs matching sandals, and dark violet cap with a golden border surrounding a lovely ruby completes his outfit.
"LITTLE?" Alyssa snapped and that's when she swung her sword at the boy, but he blocked it with only one hand, leaving a small cut on the palm of it which didn't do anything to him. "How did you-?"
"It's like I said, you're such a pathetic girl." The lavender boy said. "You think you can cut a tree like that way?"
"Listen, pal! I don't know who the heck you are and I would shut my mouth if I were you before things get ugly!" Alyssa shouted at him.
"Oh? Is that a challenge you want to make?"
"If it is, I'll beat you!"
"We'll see." The boy smirked and suddenly, with the snap of his fingers, a huge gust of wind blew across the forest and the wind was so strong, Alyssa flew and crashed behind a different tree, gasping and choking at the same time. Lucky for her, the snow broke from getting a painful landing.
"Are you…like some kind of wind sorcerer…?" the brunette asked, followed by a couple more coughs.
"I see you're also a smart girl as well." The lavender boy remarked. "But, you're not pretty much of a worthy opponent."
"Not worthy, huh?" Alyssa smirked and with a quick flick, she pulled the chain she was holding onto and watched as the rest of her chains that were buried in the snow tied up the boy's feet and send him in the air, hanging upside down. "How about now?"
"Not bad. Not bad at all." The lavender boy acknowledged as he can feel his blood rushing to his head from hanging upside down with his lavender colored hair in his face.
Then suddenly, the wind sorcerer twirled his fingers around and that's when a small sharp wind broke the chains into several pieces and as he landed on the ground at his feet, he charged at the brunette.
Alyssa tried to dodge him, but the boy was faster than she was and that's when the lavender sorcerer grabbed both of her shoulders and slammed her onto another tree. Just then, her eyes shot wide open when she saw the sorcerer raising his sharp-like nails aiming directly at her face as the boy showed an evil grin on his face.
Then she did the stupidest thing she can come up with, she hit her head against his which made the two of them yelp from the pain and let go. Well, it's better than being killed by sharp nails, Alyssa thought as she rubbed her aching head.
But that didn't stop the sorcerer as he grabbed the girl's face by his hands and made them look directly at each other from blue to red eyes. She tried to do something, but she froze in place when the sorcerer moved her hair away from her forehead and saw a scar on it which made the boy's eyes shot wide open.
"It can't be…" he trailed off, until he moved away from her and that's when he used his wind attacks again which made him disappear in midair.
"What was that all about?" Alyssa mumbled to herself as she began walking back to her friends' house.
"No way! Our team won!" Knuckles stood up and shouted as the smashers were arguing which team won the snowball fight as some of them were drinking a cup of hot chocolate Krystal made for them.
"You wish! I pwned you with Charles' bazooka!" Diana shouted back. "I even got the fastest player from your team too!"
Just before things get ugly between the two fighters, Alyssa opened the front door and walked to the kitchen to get herself a cup of hot chocolate. Little did the brunette know, Krystal noticed that she was limping from every step she took.
"Alyssa…Are you alright?" she asked the brunette girl.
"Well…I would be alright, if Wolf didn't gone so rough on me during the snowball fight!" Alyssa lied as she gave a glare at the fighter she called, hoping Krystal would buy it.
"I said I was sorry!" Wolf sputtered.
Then, the girl who was saved by both Lucy and Alex came to the living room and this time, her black hair was cleaned up and there weren't any mud and dirt on any of her body parts and she now wore a light-blue shirt underneath a blue jacket, a pair of blue pants, and a white beanie on top of her head.
Not only that, both Alex and Eddie were blushing again at the sight of how the girl became more beautiful at her new look, until both Lucy and Jake know what's wrong with their brothers; they were in love.
"Thanks for the clothes." The girl said to Krystal.
"You're very welcome. Help yourself with some food for you to eat." The woman said to her and that's when she gave the girl a bowl of fruit. "What's your name by the way?"
"It's, Ella." The girl finally said what was her name and that's when she sat down and picked up a mango from the bowl.
She hesitated at first because she couldn't remember when was the last time she held a piece of food in front of her when she was at the dead town before she was saved and when she peeled the skin away, she took a big bite at the fruit inside, letting the juice to run off her chin.
Then, she felt something small and wet slid down her cheek as this happened and that's when she managed to catch a tiny bit of it on her tongue. Salty…
Another small bead of wetness slid down her cheek, followed by another and another. She soon became aware that this strange salt water fell from the corners of her eyes, sliding down her cheeks and onto the ground. She was crying. Oh, how wonderful it felt to cry! She was free! Free at last by the help of the angels who saved her!
"Ack! Not again. Hey, don't cry!" Alex blurted out, until Ella hugged him and cried on his chest which made him blush even more and made Eddie glare at him.
"Thank you…! I knew God didn't abandon me! I'm free at last! Thank you!" Ella said as she was crying tears of happiness.
"Hey! Look what I found in the attic!" Nick came by and in his arms looked like some kind of music box which made Alyssa's eyes shot wide open as she nearly broke her cup of hot chocolate of embarrassment as her face was blushing red all over.
"My goodness! It's Alyssa's music box! I remember that she brought that with her when we met her for the first time!" Krystal chirped. "I think she was 12-years-old by that time? Maybe 13? Alyssa, how old are you right now?"
"18…" the brunette answered.
"Yup! Definitely 12-years-old by that time!"
"Wait…so you met Alyssa six years ago?" Richard questioned.
"Heh, ah memories." Diana said. "Alyssa and the rest of us have always fun together. Even Fear was with us even though she doesn't live here, right Fear?"
The female dark angel let out a chuckle as she smiled and returned the answer with a nod, until Nick began to open the music box and a happy lullaby started playing from it. (A/N: In case if you want to know what the song sounds like, type in "First Love music box version" in youtube.)
As everyone was listening to the peaceful song, they felt relaxed by the sounds of the chimes and dings making for the song, until Alyssa stood up and closed the lid of the music box which stopped making the lullaby.
"Don't ever do that again, okay?" she hissed at Nick and went upstairs to her room, furiously.
"Looks like she's upset again." Carrie sighed.
"Upset of what? Nobody can be mad after a person's friend opened a music box in front of everyone." Lucas mentioned.
"It's not that." Krystal explained. "That music box was the last thing Alyssa could remember her parents. She was an orphan."
"What happened to her parents?" Huru asked.
Meanwhile, Alyssa opened the door to her room and lied down on her bed and began crying on her pillow as she can tell her friends are explaining the smashers of her life as an orphan.
"She said her parents died in a war." Eddie explained. "That was the only thing she can remember before she said goodbye to us and left."
"Wait, she didn't stay with you guys?" Tails questioned.
Fear shook her head. "No. She said it doesn't feel the same without her parents."
Then, Alyssa furiously wiped her tears away with her hands as she tried to stay strong and stopped crying, but she couldn't. She missed her family so much. Little did she know, when she looked up at the window, she saw a dark circle of clouds had parked itself right above the house, but the rest of the sky in every direction was perfectly clear. Alyssa had a bad feeling about that.
"Poor, Alyssa…" Aria began crying. "She doesn't deserve to be without a family. She's a good person."
"Actually, she still thinks there's only one family member of hers who is still alive." Nick mentioned which made everyone else's eyes shot wide open.
"Really? Who?" Peach questioned.
"Her older brother." Zoey answered as walked downstairs to the others and yawned.
Then, there was a loud ruckus coming from outside. At first, the friends who lived in the house were confuse what was the noise, until Carrie was one of them to stand up and just as she was about to turn the knob open, Alyssa ran down the stairs to the others in a rush.
"Don't open the door!" Alyssa shouted which made Carrie hesitated and stopped.
"What's wrong, Alyssa?" Jake asked.
"Look through the windows." That was all the brunette said and that's when few of the smashers began to look through the windows and they all saw a swarm of the townspeople surrounding the house, yelling and screaming with rage.
"Oh, shoot." Kuro said and turned at Alyssa. "Do you think they're after us because after what happened at the hospital?"
The female brunette felt a lump in her throat and gulped as she can feel her whole body shaking with fear. Not only that, when she glanced at Nick, he was feeling the same way and the male fighter turned to the others.
"They only want us; me, Alyssa, and Kuro." He explained and just before he reached to the door, Zoey reacted and grabbed both of his arms.
"No. There has to be another way." She said, trying not to sound that her voice is breaking as she can feel both of her gray eyes beginning to water as she doesn't want him to go.
All of a sudden, several rocks were thrown through the windows and breaking the glass which made the fighters shield their heads.
"Come on out and fight like man you demons!" one of the townspeople's voice was one of the loudest which got their attention.
"And this all happened because of me…" Alyssa thought to herself with guilt after she remembered what she did at the restaurant and the hospital.
Then, there were loud banging noises against all of the doors of the house and the fighters realized the townspeople were trying to break inside. As the fighters ready themselves as they took out their weapons or activating their powers, Alyssa gritted her teeth as tears flown down on her cheeks again and ran through the front door without any of the fighters behind her.
Ignoring their calls to her, the brunette flipped her golden coin which turned into her sword and just as she went to the door, she whispered, "God, please…send me down a miracle…to save the ones I have left."
Then, that's when she gripped her sword and sliced the door in half, where the angry townspeople were waiting for her.
"It's her! She's the one who caused all of this!" one of the townspeople shouted as he pointed at the brunette.
"Alyssa!" the brunette heard the smashers call her name and that's when she used her chains and trapped the fighters inside and watched as they struggled to free themselves to try to save her.
"Get her!" another one of the townspeople also shouted and that's when few of the citizens took her sword away and grabbed her arms, legs, and body and slammed her to the cold, hard ground.
Then, more tears flown down on the girl's cheeks and just as she looked up, she can see the dark clouds still swirling around above her and everyone else, until she watched in horror as one of the townspeople raised her sword in the air, aiming at her head.
All of a sudden, Alyssa began to smile as she can still hear the smashers, especially her friends crying of agony and then…*SLASH!*
"ALYSSA!"
