Title: Wish Upon A Star - Part 1
Author: Akane "Bunny" Tendo
E-mail: Akane_Bunny_Tendo@yahoo.com
Rating: PG
~*Last time on Wish Upon A Star...*~
When we left off, Lila was just telling
Helga her current true identity....
"Helga, I'm your fairy God-Angel sent
from the heavens to take care of you."
"Yeah right. Like I'm supposed to
believe that!"
"Here, I'll prove it to you."
Where Lila once stood now stands the figure
of an angel. But before Helga could get a good glimpse of her, she was in the
state of unconsciousness (translation: she made contact with the floor).
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When Helga came to, she saw that she was
back in her own room, lying on her bed. "Gosh, that was some dream."
She said as she sat up, rubbing her head. "As if Lila could ever
be...." She was interrupted from her thoughts as her mother came in the
room.
Miriam approached Helga and stood next to
her. "Helga, dear." She said in her usual dreary, singsong voice.
"Yes, Miriam!" Helga answered
with a touch of sarcasm.
"How are you feeling now?" She
said, placing her palm over her daughter's forehead.
Helga just pushed her hand away from her
face. "Criminey! What's wrong with you? I'm fine. Why are you acting so motherly
all of a sudden?"
"Well, Helga." Started Miriam.
"Your teacher called and told us you fainted at school. So I had to come
pick you up. Don't you remember what happened, dear?" She asked with a
worried look on her face.
"Ummm...not really." Helga
admitted, holding her hands over her head. "I just remember having this
really weird dream." She said, still holding her head in her hands.
"You must be having a headache. Maybe
it was from when you collapsed a while ago. Just rest for now and I'm sure you'll
remember everything later on. Okay?"
Helga couldn't help but get this odd
feeling inside of her. "Miriam's acting all nice to me now." She
thought. "What in the heck's going on here? And that weird dream..."
"Did you hear me Helga?" Asked
her mother, while softly tapping on her shoulder to get her attention.
She looked up in surprise to her mother's
sincere look. "Umm....I..."
"Just get some rest now. Everything
will come to you later." With that said, she fixed the cloth on her
daughter's forehead before exiting the room.
To say Helga was shocked was an
understatement. "Okay, either I've gone crazy or this whole thing is still
one big dream. Heh, all I need now is Big Bob being nice to me for a
change."
At that thought, she heard a knock on her
room door. She quickly sat up, taking the cloth from her forehead, and walked
over to the door. When she opened it, she saw what she feared would be
true....Big Bob, with a glass of milk in his hands and a very worried
expression on his face.
"Ummm....dad?" She said a bit
surprised and ..... scared?
"Olga..." He started.
Helga looked at him and calmed down a bit.
"Hmp! Figures." She said. Just as she was about to close the door,
her father placed his hand on it, blocking it from performing any further
motion.
"I mean....Helga. Your mother told me
what happened to you today." He peeked inside the room and noticed the wet
cloth lying on her bed. Then the milk in his hand. "And why are you out of
bed, young lady? You should be in bed resting. You're not well enough to stand
in the condition you're in." He said, resting the glass of milk on the
dresser.
Helga looked at him like he said he just
admitted he was the first human-alien hybrid. "Umm...dad, are you feeling
okay?" She asked, turning pale from the sudden change in her family.
Bob, noticing the paleness in Helga's face,
decided to take immediate action. "Helga, you're going to lie down and
that's that." He said, leading her to her bead. "Now you lie down and
rest for a while."
"Okay, dad. Whatever." She said
as she lied down on her bed.
"Good, now have a nice rest. And if
you need anything, just call me or your mother, got that?" At Helga's nod,
he left, closing the door behind him.
After snapping out of her daze, she quickly
pinched herself to make sure she still wasn't dreaming. "Ow!" She
said, rubbing her arm. "Well, if it's not a dream, then what could it be?
Why the change all of a sudden? And what is it with that weird dream?" She
asked as she got up and walked to her dresser. She picked up the glass of milk
her father had left for her. She brought the glass to her face and was just
about to drink it when she saw something strange hover across her window. The
glass shattered on the floor as memories of a few hours ago went through her
mind. "It couldn't be..." She said as she walked up to the window and
opened it.
She stuck her head out the window, squinted
her eyes, and tried to catch whatever it was that had just flown across the
outside of her room. All of a sudden, a hurricane of, what looked like
feathers, started brushing across her face. She felt scratches cover her face
and kept her eyes shut. She brought her hands over her eyes and jumped back in
fear. When the fluttering stopped she opened her eyes. She looked, but all she
could see were some birds flying around the ledge of her windowsill.
"Stupid birds." She said as she once again poked her head out the
window. "Nothing. Hmm...probably just my mind playing tricks on me."
She said, sighing.
Just as she was about to sit back in bed ,
however, there was a knock coming from downstairs. "Miriam, Bob." She
said, calling after her parents. "Can you get that?" Two minutes
later, she heard her mother call out "it's for you dear."
"Hmm...that's strange." She said
with a puzzled expression on her face. "It must be Phoebe coming to check
on me or something." With that said, she opened the door and shouted down
to her parents, "just tell her to come on up." With that said she got
out a comic book and sat back down on her bed.
After a minute or two, she heard a knock on
her bedroom door. Keeping her eyes on the comic she was reading, she called out
to her visitor. "Come on in Phoebes." She said keeping her eyes
hooked on the comic. She didn't even look up at the person in front of her
until she finally spoke.
"Now Helga. Can you honestly tell me
that you think I look like Phoebe?" She said with her hands at her sides.
Expecting Phoebe's voice, Helga quickly
looked up in shock. "Wha....Lila? What are you doing here?"
"Don't tell me you've forgotten our
previous discussion, Helga. Especially since this means so much to you."
She said sitting down at the end of the bed.
"Wha....who...you....the
dream....I...."
"Now, now, Helga. Just calm down.
Everything will be just fine." She said with a reassuring smile.
"You...you sound just like my parents
did a while ago. What's going on?" She said in fright.
"Did you like what I did with
them?" She said, while reaching into her sweater.
"You did that?" Helga asked in
shock. "But, how?"
"Don't you remember anything I told
you today, Helga?" At Helga's confused stare, she continued. "Helga,
I am your fairy God-Angel, sent from the heavens to protect you and show you
love and the joys of life, which you have been lacking in for the past few
years." She said as she took her hand away from her sweater, revealing a
soft, white, feather. She stood up and placed the feather close to her heart as
she mumbled something inaudible. A blinding light surrounded her, engulfing her
into a bright spherical ball.
When the light finally faded away, Helga
was greeted, not with the Lila she was so used to seeing, but with a beautiful,
pale angel. Her blond hair cascaded across her body. Helga was in awe as she
noticed that it didn't end just at the floor. It spread out into rivers of
yellow and pale gold on the surface of the carpet. She was wearing a white
dress with a pale, pink ribbon in the back. The bow which held the ribbons in
place, was hidden by her long, beautiful, wings. On her chest was a pink,
almost transparent, crystal covering her heart.
Helga was speechless. She could only stare
in awe at the angel standing before her. "Who...you...you're
a....how...why...?" Was all she could say as she began to feel dizziness
take over her mind.
"It's okay, Helga. Just calm
down." She said in a soft voice. "I'll explain everything." She
said as she walked over to Helga and placed her palm on her shoulder. Helga
looked up to her gentle touch and began to feel calmer.
"Do you recall making a wish one
night, Helga?" She asked the now timid girl with a knowing smile on her
face.
"I think so." She said as
memories of the previous night came to mind. "Yes, I wished for ... for
love." She said with a frown. "But no one answered me." Tears
began to run down her face. When she looked up, she realized that the angel,
too, was crying.
"I did Helga. I did." She said,
as she let her own tears fall gently over her face. "That is why I've come
to help you, my child. I see how much you love this boy of yours and how much
you wish things could be better in your life. I'm here to help you gain and
keep the love you so truly deserve."
Helga was in total shock. To see her
parents treating her nice for a change was one thing, but to have her greatest
rival turn into a beautiful, kind, angel was another. She looked at her enemy
not as her enemy but as her fairy godmother. "I don't know what to
say." She said with a sad look.
"Just say thank you and accept my
help. I'd be more than happy with that reply than anything else." She said
placing her palm over the girl's face. "Just think of me as your fairy
godmother." She said, preparing to get up.
"Wait...."
"Yes, Helga?"
"Ummm...so, were you always like
this?" At the angel's confused look, she went on. "Were you always
hidden inside of Lila?" She asked with...was that hope?
"No, Helga. I've been watching you
from the heavens for some time now. I figured the best place to...rest, would
be in the form of your rival." She said as she stood.
Helga lowered her gaze. "Oh." She
said with disappointment clear in her voice.
"Well, I must go now, my child."
She said as she took a feather from behind her. "We shall talk some more
tomorrow. Right now, it's best that you rest and think about plans for
tomorrow." That said she held up the feather over her head. Once again,
the bright light surrounded her. This time however, she was changed back into
the regular Lila we all know and.... *shudders* love. She placed the feather
back in her sweater and gently exited the room.
"Goodbye...fairy godmother." Said
Helga as she lowered herself into bed and allowed sleep to overtake her.
Outside of the Pataki household....
Lila stood in the dark streets, looking up
at the room which contained her newfound "friend." "I wish you
the best of luck, my child. I hope for you to find love, as I could never in my
own life." With that said, she vanished into the cold night air.
Whatever does she mean? Is she trying to
help Helga out because of the pain of loss that she experienced in her own past
life? And whatever will happen between Helga and Arnold? Will our angel's power
of love help them come together? Just stay right there and I'll show you....in
the next chapter of course. ;)