The Princess and The Angel

By Katsumi Tonicha

\\..Chapter Two: Nanashi..//



Catherine Bloom let out a sigh. "Honestly..." She unwrinkled the hem of her little brother's stiff garb. "You have got to be more careful Triton!" One of these days, your going to fall."

"Maybe I'm supposed to. This sky-high castle can be boring," Triton stretched out a wing, looking the feathers over. He ran his fingers through the longer tip ones, straightening them.

"How can you a golden floating kingdom boring? Why, we're the closest thing to heaven!" Catherine exclaimed.

"There's just not much to do. All the Guardiens have all the fun," he replied with a hint of resentment in his voice, glancing down through a Looking Pool.

Catherine tossed her hands in the eair. "You're just hopeless. Just try not to trip, okay?"

"All right," Triton replied, still looking at the lucius land of the Earth through the Looking Pool.

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Meanwhile...

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Princess Bethany slapped her face. "My father, I swear..."

Quatre laughed. "I'm really sorry abou this. It's just your father's goal is to set us up, even though I'm already courting Miss Dorothy."

Bethany sighed. "Still. Just because you are my closest friend, he thinks we are meant to be. And what's worse is that I have to be married by the time I turn eighteen. That's only two years away, Quatre. And Correnterra doesn't have much of a choice." She turned down the stone pathway into her palace courtyard, her long golden brown hair swishing wth her soft blue royal garb. "So frustating."

"Well, if all else fails, you could give up your throne," Quatre suggested.

Bethany laughed. "Yeah, sure, Mr. Winner. Just be quite and let me ponder this information. Try to think up new ways to amaze Miss Dorothy. Go serenade her with your violin."

"Already done it."

"Of course."

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Triton circled around the western tower of Kelfai Castle; the floating golden palace; the check-in station of all Guardien Angels.

Boring.

He flipped a few times and came in for a landing near the edge of the ledge. Of course, he stuck it.

He walked across slowly, trying not to trip and fall. Oh, what a disaster that would be. Not.

"Why does Catherine love it here so much? There's nothing to do!"

"Hey, Triton!! Guess what I just heard about, Triton!! You won't believe this in a million years!"

Without warning, Gabriela, a young angel, came running over, babbling about some nonsense that Triton did not care the least bit about.

And Triton jumped.

Off the edge.

In the initial shock of realized he had no ground under his feet, he did what any angel would do: flare his wings. But he flared them too fast, and the left one snapped with a loud, sickening *crack*. Triton yepled, then began to scream loudly. He didn't really want to fall!

But the ground didn't listen to his screams, and it continued to come closer to him very quickly. Too quickly.

And he hit.

The world around him went black.

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"What was that?" Beathany exclaimed, spinning around to the source of the frightening screaming, followed by a crash in the bushes.

"I don't know. Stay here, Bethany. I'll go look. The last thing we all need is something happening to you!" Quatre told her sharply, bounding into the colorful flowers of the well-groomed courtyard.

Beathany, never being one to listen, or one to be told what to do, bounded off into the flowers after him, eager to see what had happened. There never was any telling in Correnterra. Hell, it may even be a-

She raced to the kind noble's side, where he was knelt over the body of a teenager, crumpled on the ground in a heap of clothes and limbs. He looked about their age, and also looked pretty normal as well. The gold and white robes were kind of an exotic sight in Correnterra, but other than that, he looked pretty much normal.

Except for the wings.

They were a good foot longer than he was tall, and this young man was not short by a long shot. The wings were white, pure white, and gave off their own soft, heavenly glow.

"He's... he's," Bethany sputtered, backing up. "He's an angel!!"

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"Open your eyes, angel; wake up."

The whisper was soft, but ti was just enough to pull him out of his dark home. He pried his eyes opened and found himself gazing into bright pools of azure blue. He sat up, ignoring the pain in his head.

"He's awake," a deeper male voice stated. "Priase Jeses, Hail Mary." He watched as this man formed a sort of cross over his head, chest, and shoulders.

"Where am I?" he asked, still in shock.

"Correnterra," she softer voice said. The voice from a young girl with pale skin, knee-length and gorgeously colored hair, and those pretty blue eyes.

"Where is that?"

"Goodness, Angel, are you that lost?" she replied from where she was sitting by his bed.

"Angel?"

The woman sighed. "Do you know your name?"

He shook his head. "No."

The priest stood up. "All right then. So your a Nanashi, a No Name."

"Be nice, Father Maxwell," the young woman scolded. She turned her attention back to her "guest". "Do you mind if we call you Nanshi, Angel? Or would you rather something else?

"It's fine."

"Then I declare that hense forth, thee is to be known as Nanshi until further noticed by the Almighty Lord of Lords, or the princess, or the namer of thee, Princess Elizabethany Mofluer," the priest, Father Maxwell, stated, his head bowed. "Amen." He made that cross again, and this time the lady, whom he assumed the princess, followed suit. "Of course, this time, the namer and the princess are the same person, but whatever." Father Maxwell's face brightened. "So, Nanashi! Can I ask you-"

"Father, let him be. He's tired."

"Yes, ma'am." Father Maxwell bowed slightly, then left, his head low and rejected.

"Go back to sleep now, Nanashi. Rest. If you need anything, I'll come up personally." She stood and smiled. "You intrest me, Angel Nanshi." She left him alone with his confused thoughts.

He layed back down, trying to understand what just happened to him. His last thought before difting into the perfect land of dreams was, 'Nanashi...'

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To be continued...

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