Aura

by ButterflyMiko

Artemis had been alone, uncertain, and afraid on that day, waiting for his father to awaken after Holly saved him from the ice. Sitting in the hospital, he had met a girl. The girl, though frail in health, had a magnetic and powerful spirit; so strong that she alone could awaken his sleeping father. But it was after that he saw her light shine everywhere he looked. His miko.

I was wheeling through the hospital. My procedure had finished thirty minutes ago, and I was just waiting for the discharge.

I paused as I noticed a boy around my age sitting in the waiting room looking, in a word, distraught.

I wheeled over and pushed my body into the seat next to him, carefully.

"May I help you?" The boy in the suit said politely, but sharply.

"I was hoping I could help you." I said gently. "You're crying."

I offered him a handkerchief, which he graciously accepted.

"I am not crying." The boy protested. "What happened to your leg?"

"I had a routine check up." I said. "What about you? Why are you here?"

I looked at the door. "Fowl, Artemis...this your dad?"

The boy nodded. "I am Artemis Fowl II. Yes...that is my father. He is not awake yet."

I pulled my body into the wheelchair and wheeled into the room. The mother was asleep in the chair.

"My name is Kurisuta. I'm a miko."

I leaned over the body of Artemis Sr, and placed my hands over him. My hands glowed silver and life flowed into the man.

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"Why did you do that?" Artemis asked. "You don't even know me."

The girl looked up at him, and he was struck again by her honest beauty. Long dark hair, pale skin, bright blue eyes, and sparkling freckles on her cheeks.

Was she a fairy?

She just smiled at him mysteriously, and kissed his cheek, wheeling out of the room.

He wondered if he would ever see this mysterious, magnetic woman again.

The miko.