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Hikaru,
The 7 Dragons And 7 Angels
Chapter 3: Ethereal?
By Hikaru the Tenyo
'Where am I?' "Hello. Is anyone here?" Hikaru
shouted. She didn't know where she was. Everywhere was black. Above her,
beneath her, and to each side of her. Hikaru couldn't tell if she was floating
or not. She held her hands out in front of her and examined them. Yes, she
could see them clearly, as if it was day. But, why then was it so black? So
dark. Hikaru was frightened. "I don't
understand. Don't understand…"
"Do be frightened." Said a young, child-like, feminine voice.
Hikaru whirled around. Looking franticly into the
darkness. Scanning in search of the source of the speakers voice. "Where are
you?!" She shouted.
A burst of bright light appeared before Hikaru. She
shielded her eyes with her arms. The particles expanded, then, condensed into a
small orb of light. The orb was only about 10 inches in diameter. The light of
the orb started to diminish. Hikaru started to pull her arms down, away from
her face, no longer needing to shield her eyes. Hikaru could see something was
coming into view.
'A person! Someone
inside the orb? How?'
"This isn't real.
That is how it's possible, why you are
hear." The orb no longer was a light of energy. It was now a glass ball with a
small girl inside. The girl looked
about the age of ten, but not. Her eyes were closed. She had incredibly long, wavy, silver-white hair. Her hair was so
long that it could easily be ten feet in length, if not more and had white
pearls weaved in the various strands . She was very pale, almost white. Jewels
adorned her forehead. A large circular jewel was in the middle, on her
forehead. She was wearing a long, flowing white dress with puffy white
short-sleeves. The sleeves reminded Hikaru of clouds. The neck of the dress cut
across the top of the girls chest, with gold trimming. The little girl was
beautiful.
"You are…" Hikaru
began.
"I am…" she opened
her eyes. Her eyes were sapphire, but Hikaru couldn't see the retinas in them.
She was blind!
'Blind?!' Hikaru
thought.
"That was not what
I was going to say, but… yes, I am blind." The girl paused. Then continued. "I
am Sapphera-hime."
"Sapphera-hime."
Hikaru mouthed. Hikaru was amazed the little girl was so beautiful. 'But wait.'
Hikaru thought. 'How did she know that I knew she was blind?'
"That is because I
can read minds. I have various many psychokinetic powers. I have telepathic powers, can travel through
dreams and manipulate time.'
"So I'm in a
dream?"
"Yes."
Sapphera-hime clasped her hands together. And closed her eyes tightly shut.
"Please, legendary Tenyo… we need your help. You must chose your destiny and
help chose the destiny of your planet as well!"
"Tenyo? Heavenly-maiden?"
Hikaru said confused. "Is that what you mean? But I'm not a heavenly-maiden! I
don't even know what that is!" She cried franticly. "What are you talking about? I don't understand!"
"You are a Tenyo.
One of the very few left." The Hime started. "Your pure flames will burn out
evil. You have to help save your planet!" She cried desperately.
"Like by doing
what? I can't do anything! At least nothing to save the planet, besides
recycling. But, I don't think that myself alone can save the planet by doin'
that…"
"No, you must come to my world. The world of
Terra. There you will meet new allies…"
'New allies?!'
"Yes. There will
people to help you. Friends."
"But I have friends
here! I don't want to leave them!" She shouted. Hikaru backed away from the small orb with the princess in
it in front of her.
Sapphera-hime eyes
flashed open. "But you have to! It's your destiny!!" She cried and threw her
arms up against the orb's wall, pushing her hands against the rounded, glass
surface. "You can't run away from it! Everyone's future depends upon it!
PLEASE!!"
Suddenly, a rip
formed in the blackness, above Hikaru.
"Kyaaa!" Hikaru
screamed and shielded her eyes. As the tear in the darkness grew, light
engulfed everything. Hikaru opened her eyes, once the brightness subsided. She
was no longer in complete darkness, but floating above the Tokyo city, by the
Tokyo Tower. ''Tokyo Tower?!' Hikaru scanned the tower. Then, towards the top,
she noticed something. 'People! There are people up there!! Seven of them,
robed…'
Seven robed figures were up on the tower. One
was holding something long and lustrous. The figure holding the object was in
the middle. Then, something odd happen. The figures hunched over and started
writhing, as if in pain. Through their cloaks, something was pushing out of
their backs.
'Nani?!' Then an
amazing thing happened. Wings came out of their backs. 'Angels!!' As the wings expanded, what the figure in
the middle was holding came into view. Hikaru was shocked to see what it was.
'A sword?!' But, still she couldn't identify the people. Shadows of the night
hid their features well. The angels started to glow red. The red light
increasing and enveloping everything. Hikaru again shielded her eyes. "What's
happening?" She yelled, half hoping
that the figures would acknowledge her, half frightened of just that. The light
became too great. Hikaru shut her eyes. Even with her eyes shut, all she could
see was red. The light subsided, but not completely. Hikaru cracked her eyes
open, just enough to squint and see where she was, her surroundings, what was
happening. What she saw shocked her. Fear washed over her.
Roaring erupted from the six beams of light
in front of her. The angel with the sword remained visible, in the middle,
between the columns of light. The columns reached up to the heavens and down
through the ground, causing the earth that it touched to incinerate. The
columns started to move, to expand outward, obliterating everything they
touched.
Hikaru became even
more frightened, becoming desperate. "Can you hear me?!! HELP!! Please!!! I
don't want to die!! " She screamed to the robed angel with the sword. Hikaru
didn't get an answer. He, her, it didn't even acknowledge her. She began to
sob. 'I don't under stand!' She thought to herself. "WHAT'S HAPPENING?!!" She
shrieked at the angel and still the angel didn't heed to her call. Hikaru
looked down, at the streets and buildings.
Everyone, all the
people frozen. As if time had stopped, they were statues. People frozen like
statues, unable to run away from the beacons of red light, annihilating
everything in its path. Men, woman, and even children… all frozen. Trapped!
Hikaru became
frantic. 'All those people! Everyone! If the lights touch them they'll…'
The columns started
to expand even more. As the lights touched the people they crumble, broken into
many pieces, then incinerated in the column. Dust… that's all that remains.
Even the buildings weren't immune to the light. Everything would be destroyed,
wiped out of existence and still… the angel with the sword made no movement.
'The people!
They'll die!!' Her mind screamed. Hikaru looked back to the angel. "Please! Stop this!! The people, they…
they'll… they'll die!!! EVERYONE WILL DIE!!!!" She yelled at the angel, anger
was starting to overcome her and drive her fear away, making it non-existent.
The angel looked
right at Hikaru, shifting its weight as it focused on her. It was holding the
sword in one hand.
"Please! Help!"
Hikaru became excited. 'It can hear me!!' Joy started to form, but them it soon
diminished. 'Something is wrong…'
The angel leaped at
Hikaru before she could move, or scream. It brought it sword up, drawn as it
leaped towards her. Then it was over. Hikaru was looking right into the eyes of
the still shadowy figure.
'A man…?' And
looked down at her chest. The sword had gone right through her rib-cage and out
her back, still skewering her. "Blood…?" Hikaru said to herself, as it was a
foreign word that had no meaning to her. Pain shot through her. Her eyes became
heavy and they slowly closed. All she could see was blood. The pain ceased and
Hikaru re-opened her eyes. There was no more blood and again there was the
darkness like in the beginning of the dream.
"That is what will
happen if you do not help save your planet. Everyone will die. All life will
cease to exist. Human, animals, even nature life forms. Everything will be
annihilated and there will only be silence." Sapphera-hime appeared in her
little orb, in front of Hikaru. "Your world will be dead. Just a rock floating
in space.
Hikaru grabbed the orb in front of her,
holding it. "I don't want anyone to die. I want to help. I want to protect the
people I care about. Ohiba-chan, my friends, Kotori…"
The orb that Hikaru
was holding started to glow. What used to be the princess inside now was the
planet earth, a sphere of white, blue, and green. Just like it was now, how it
should be.
"Chikyu." Hikaru
whispered.
The orb started to
glow. The planet inside started to crack. It then exploded and a fragment of it
went into Hikaru's left hand, through the palm.
"Itta!" Hikaru
examined her palm. Nothing was there. No mark, no scratch, no blood nothing.
She then turned her hand over to inspect the other side.
"Nani kore?" On top
of her hand, centered, was a garnet, circular jewel, the rim of the stone encased by a golden rhombus shape.
(Kinda like a rhombus with a circle in
the middle of it). "Hmm. My birthstone." Hikaru then proceeded into trying to
take the jewel off. "It's stuck tightly on…"
"This is an ovum.
You will learn the use of it another time. I must go now." The princess's voice
said, but she was no where to be seen.
"Wait! I have to
ask you! I still don't know what I have to do!" Hikaru shouted.
"Get up!" An old
woman's voice hollered. "You'll be late for school.
Hikaru soon pushed
dream aside as soon as she heard her great-grandmother's yelling and became
perturbed. "Yeah, yeah! You dried-up, old hag, I'm getting ready!" Hikaru
quickly changed into her uniform and ran out her bedroom door.
Her great-grandmother,
waiting outside the door, stuck her cane out and tripped Hikaru. Once Hikaru
tripped, she ran into the wall.
"Itta!" Hikaru yelped.
"Who is dried up?!"
She squawked.
Well, it looks like Hikaru
has some problems or rather gaining a responsibility. What will happen next?
Does Hikaru really have an ornament (the ovum) permanently attached to her
hand? I guess you can keep reading, if you want to find out.