A/N: So Chapter 4 is up!!! Thanks to anyone that has reviewed! I appreciate the trouble you take to read my fics!!! Thank you!!!!
To: Seiko Chan- You got the Angel of Death a 100% RIGHT!!!!! Don't wanna give any spoilers but she might have just as well met you (you'll understand this better in the next chapter)!!! How can I not believe in a person like you after you understood the Angel of Death *winks* so well with just a few words?!!! Don't worry; the guys will feature in the next chapter!!!! I did not forget this IS a Saiyuki fic after all!!! And I can never be mad at you!!! So please say anything you like in your reviews!! The reason I email you after every review is that what you say triggers something and if I had to write all I had to say in my A/N…well, I would end up writing more then than I would write in the actual fic!!!
Genjo Sanzo 1- First of all thanks for the review!!!! And an even bigger thank you for giving me hope that one day you will update HTBM!!!!! Where there is hope, there is everything!!!!
Konzen- 10ks!!! Even though my Angel is NOT schizophrenic (spelled right) I promise I'll explain it to you in an email or something. It's too much to write in an A/N and it would spoil the effect of the last chapter!!! But thanks for the review and BTW loved Frozen!! How do you manage to write Hakkai that well? I can never understand him fully! But then again, there is that baka saru streak in me…which reminds me that I need a second helping of breakfast!(^*~)!
Any reviews to chapter 3 which have not been answered (mainly because I did not check my mail box before uploading this) will be answered in chapter 5 or by email (if it is available).
BaiBai
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She walked the deserted gardens of Tenkai, lost in her own anger, her hatred building up and eating away at her peaceless soul. The gods had got to know what she had done; the monstrosity of that senseless act of pure evil. Their fear of her turned into terror and none dared venture set foot in that part of Heaven she was known thread.
It was there that she saw him, hurrying alone among the Sakura trees: an intruder in her realm of darkness. An unfortunate soul: a young and powerful god – a respected field martial from the northern army of Tenkai. He walked, his pace quick, through the most dangerous part of a perfect world decaying with corruption and deceit. She could feel his heat beat accompanied by the pulse of his fear. What was his business there? His presence was not welcomed; he had to be dealt with.
The sound of her black wings fluttering through the trees startled him. At her sight his own fear immobilized him. He knew there was no escaping Death. Her golden eyes, shinning with an odd kind of darkness, locked upon him. He felt his knees turn weak and his hands shook as his heart beat faster and faster with his growing fear. Never in all his life had he experienced such a thing.
"What do you want from me?" he asked but the arrogance and pride that once dominated his voice were gone, giving way to his insecurities and terror, so much that his question was almost an unheard plea for mercy. "Don't you know who I am? I am a god! You have no business with me! I am immortal!"
Her expression contorted into one of evil pleasure. It amused her to see this pathetic worm in front of her clutching so desperately at his life when she would have given hers away so freely. She let out a laugh, "Fool! Only I can decide that. Immortal you are no longer."
Terror ceased him. He felt an icy cold creeping onto him, his life slowly slipping away from him, like sand slips away from fingers. He looked at the black figure in front of him with disbelief in his eyes and fear in his heart. His soul deserted him and the god fell to the ground- dead.
Word of what had happened spread like fire through the Heavens. The Angel of Death had not kept her end of the bargain. Panic and distress resided in every divinity's heart: Eternity was now at stake! They thought they had understood now, how badly they had been fooled. How they had been taken in by the perfection of her angelic features and by her pretence gentleness enhanced by that trace of melancholy in her being. There was a time when they thought her to be the most unfortunate of creatures and felt a certain sympathy towards her, but this time was now over. Their eyes had been reopened by recent events, the veil of deceit removed by this fallacious truth. They thought they understood why she had acted in such a way in front of their holy eyes: in order to gain the rights that only the purest of beings could hold theirs. They thought they knew everything but in fact they knew nothing of a wounded heart, a silent cry for help and the loss of all hope.
Rumors gave life to the voices that the Angel of Death was a messenger of Hell. The incarnation of pure evil. Her wings and delicate beauty being her greatest tool of deceit. And thus it was agreed to imprison Death and to strip her of her divine rights and powers. Her task was to be appointed to a true angel: The Angel of Life, whose white wings where proof of her goodness and purity. As the only goddess who had the power to give life and maintain it, only she should hold the right to claim it back. And as Tenkai's army was unleashed, Death fled to the world below, for though she did not care what fate awaited her, she could not face it until her revenge was complete.
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Well, if you ask me, I don't think this chapter really does anything for the story but besides wanting to kill another character, I needed such an episode to give Tenkai a good excuse to condemn Death, for gods are of a higher rank than angels and thus they are the only beings who can end their lives. Hmm…this fic is nearing its end, only one rather long Chapter left!!!