Chapter 23-Eli Understands
Crystal was sitting on the roof of her stone house, dejectedly noting the stars.
*What are they worth? WHAT ARE THEY WORTH!*
A very gentle voice, like a refreshing breeze brushed her conscious mind.
*To count blessings, my children, my people...*
Crystal smiled, warming her cold heart.
*Hello, Master. It has been a while.*
*You have not allowed me in for a while.*
Crystal bowed her head in shame.
*Yes, Master. I believed I could stand alone. I cannot, Yeshua.*
*You know my original name?*
*Everyone knew you as Messiah, but I already know that. Your name could be considered Yeshua ben Yosef by your people, or Yeshua ben Yahweh.*
*You do realize that statement would be blasphemous among Jews?*
*I am here to do your will, not mine, Lord.*
And she sat praying, her plans for her mission being painfully changed as she moved into what she was told to do.
~*~*~
Eli Moon held a card in his hand. On it, a super large brain, purple veins bulging to keep it from exploding, and thin red ones, exhausted from trying to feed it. Eli turned it over, and thought carefully.
*Can Sakura handle this one? No, not without help...Crystal? She seems to get supernatural help-*
And Eli had a shocking realization.
*Yeshua ben Yosef! It's been staring me in the face all along!*
Eli quickly lifted Austin's cage, and silently walked the three blocks to a certain house he visited quite often: the home of guardians.
~*~*~
Sakura hugged her knees to her chest, and rocked on her bed. She'd just had a terrible vision...
Ms. Abijar had all the guardian beasts in small cages. She held Kero still, and using a device halfway between a needle and a pen, started to write a letter with purple ink...
Sakura had just woke up, and Kero was missing. She tried to shake the dream, but Kero had told her too many times that she should listen to them. But Crystal had told her that Ms. Abijar couldn't cause any trouble unless she made the wrong choice that reset time and set her at that timing.
God, I don't want this adventure to end...
Sakura shook herself. *Where did that come from?*
She ran outside, into the cold, piercing rain. Of course, she didn't have a coat on.
~*~*~
Anomalous was having a staring contest with Ruby Moon, over who would escort Aro to her room after Yue's tour, leaving the only male guardian alone.
Aro was Eli's newest creation, a guardian for Crystal, as he knew how difficult his cards would get. but she was a tiny little creature that could easily fit into Crystal's class!
The Arrow had sparked Clow Reed's interest, and he had made the card again, less dangerous, more protective. Still extremely powerful. So the card had become lost as a bow and arrow pendant, and Eli had recently rediscovered it.
~*~*~
Yue was starting to point out the Avalon house when he saw a familiar figure slip out a bedroom window, crawl down a tree, and take off running.
He turned to Aro, a stern look apparent. "You are to go home, and stay there with Ruby Moon and Anomalous until I return. They are to stay with you."
Aro nodded. Yes. The small girl took her bow, and shot an invisible arrow, that shot her across town to her home.
Yue silently followed Sakura.
*What does she think she's doing out here?*
And then it dawned on him.
*Kero's missing. I should have known they would notice...Eli should be warned...*
But Yue did not quickly abandon his mistress.
Yue landed in front of her, blocking her way. Tears blurred the girl's eyes, as water coursed down her face. "Move, Yue!"
Yue did not budge. He was determined no matter what she said or did, he would not move. Not even if she...
"I order you to move, Yue!"
Of their own accord, his wings flapped, and he was out of her way.
But he did not let her run off alone. Who knows which card she would run into?
~*~*~
Crystal watched Eli Moon approach. She'd learned a great many things, and also learned that she didn't need the answer in others. The rain had washed her tears away, so she looked fine when Eli managed to climb up the trellis(?) to the roof.
Eli was panting with exertion. He had ran from his home to Yue's, then to the Avalon home, and finally over here, where he'd had to climb a house to find his friend.
Eli's eyes were bright when he sat down next to her. "You believe in Yeshua, don't you?" Crystal smiled. "Yes, I do. He's the only explanation for why I survived life in the real world."
Eli's eyes smiled, as his mouth was too busy sucking in oxygen. "But-if this isn't the real world-what is?"
Crystal's smile faded, and her face fell.
"A horrible cruel place where pagans are applauded and Christians cursed. A place where children grow up mesmerized by TV and video games, because their parents are too busy to love them. Yes, not all real people are like that, but most are. Worshiping their own wants and desires, they all get exactly what they want. And Christians who just bicker over the minute the world was made, or the second he'll return, or hate each other because the Nazarene bassist took a job at a Baptist church! A VERY select few have risen above denomination, but usually their voices are overpowered by the many that are satisfied quoting off their Creation-millennium-denomination standpoints. Our Sunday School class was taught all the big words adults use, and one girl spent an hour describing how she was a Pretribulational premillenial millenialarist creationist Southern Los Angeles California Baptist, and all I could say was that I was attending a Baptist church in LA, and a Nazarene one in Portland, because my dad switched jobs for paper mills!"
Crystal gasped after her dialogue, counted to ten, which melted the scarlet rage out of her face, smiled and apologized. Eli smiled. "So the real world got to you. Tell me all you know about Yeshua ben Yosef."
Three hours later, Crystal was rejoicing that she had a brother in Christ, although things had not started out as she had intended they would.
Crystal was sitting on the roof of her stone house, dejectedly noting the stars.
*What are they worth? WHAT ARE THEY WORTH!*
A very gentle voice, like a refreshing breeze brushed her conscious mind.
*To count blessings, my children, my people...*
Crystal smiled, warming her cold heart.
*Hello, Master. It has been a while.*
*You have not allowed me in for a while.*
Crystal bowed her head in shame.
*Yes, Master. I believed I could stand alone. I cannot, Yeshua.*
*You know my original name?*
*Everyone knew you as Messiah, but I already know that. Your name could be considered Yeshua ben Yosef by your people, or Yeshua ben Yahweh.*
*You do realize that statement would be blasphemous among Jews?*
*I am here to do your will, not mine, Lord.*
And she sat praying, her plans for her mission being painfully changed as she moved into what she was told to do.
~*~*~
Eli Moon held a card in his hand. On it, a super large brain, purple veins bulging to keep it from exploding, and thin red ones, exhausted from trying to feed it. Eli turned it over, and thought carefully.
*Can Sakura handle this one? No, not without help...Crystal? She seems to get supernatural help-*
And Eli had a shocking realization.
*Yeshua ben Yosef! It's been staring me in the face all along!*
Eli quickly lifted Austin's cage, and silently walked the three blocks to a certain house he visited quite often: the home of guardians.
~*~*~
Sakura hugged her knees to her chest, and rocked on her bed. She'd just had a terrible vision...
Ms. Abijar had all the guardian beasts in small cages. She held Kero still, and using a device halfway between a needle and a pen, started to write a letter with purple ink...
Sakura had just woke up, and Kero was missing. She tried to shake the dream, but Kero had told her too many times that she should listen to them. But Crystal had told her that Ms. Abijar couldn't cause any trouble unless she made the wrong choice that reset time and set her at that timing.
God, I don't want this adventure to end...
Sakura shook herself. *Where did that come from?*
She ran outside, into the cold, piercing rain. Of course, she didn't have a coat on.
~*~*~
Anomalous was having a staring contest with Ruby Moon, over who would escort Aro to her room after Yue's tour, leaving the only male guardian alone.
Aro was Eli's newest creation, a guardian for Crystal, as he knew how difficult his cards would get. but she was a tiny little creature that could easily fit into Crystal's class!
The Arrow had sparked Clow Reed's interest, and he had made the card again, less dangerous, more protective. Still extremely powerful. So the card had become lost as a bow and arrow pendant, and Eli had recently rediscovered it.
~*~*~
Yue was starting to point out the Avalon house when he saw a familiar figure slip out a bedroom window, crawl down a tree, and take off running.
He turned to Aro, a stern look apparent. "You are to go home, and stay there with Ruby Moon and Anomalous until I return. They are to stay with you."
Aro nodded. Yes. The small girl took her bow, and shot an invisible arrow, that shot her across town to her home.
Yue silently followed Sakura.
*What does she think she's doing out here?*
And then it dawned on him.
*Kero's missing. I should have known they would notice...Eli should be warned...*
But Yue did not quickly abandon his mistress.
Yue landed in front of her, blocking her way. Tears blurred the girl's eyes, as water coursed down her face. "Move, Yue!"
Yue did not budge. He was determined no matter what she said or did, he would not move. Not even if she...
"I order you to move, Yue!"
Of their own accord, his wings flapped, and he was out of her way.
But he did not let her run off alone. Who knows which card she would run into?
~*~*~
Crystal watched Eli Moon approach. She'd learned a great many things, and also learned that she didn't need the answer in others. The rain had washed her tears away, so she looked fine when Eli managed to climb up the trellis(?) to the roof.
Eli was panting with exertion. He had ran from his home to Yue's, then to the Avalon home, and finally over here, where he'd had to climb a house to find his friend.
Eli's eyes were bright when he sat down next to her. "You believe in Yeshua, don't you?" Crystal smiled. "Yes, I do. He's the only explanation for why I survived life in the real world."
Eli's eyes smiled, as his mouth was too busy sucking in oxygen. "But-if this isn't the real world-what is?"
Crystal's smile faded, and her face fell.
"A horrible cruel place where pagans are applauded and Christians cursed. A place where children grow up mesmerized by TV and video games, because their parents are too busy to love them. Yes, not all real people are like that, but most are. Worshiping their own wants and desires, they all get exactly what they want. And Christians who just bicker over the minute the world was made, or the second he'll return, or hate each other because the Nazarene bassist took a job at a Baptist church! A VERY select few have risen above denomination, but usually their voices are overpowered by the many that are satisfied quoting off their Creation-millennium-denomination standpoints. Our Sunday School class was taught all the big words adults use, and one girl spent an hour describing how she was a Pretribulational premillenial millenialarist creationist Southern Los Angeles California Baptist, and all I could say was that I was attending a Baptist church in LA, and a Nazarene one in Portland, because my dad switched jobs for paper mills!"
Crystal gasped after her dialogue, counted to ten, which melted the scarlet rage out of her face, smiled and apologized. Eli smiled. "So the real world got to you. Tell me all you know about Yeshua ben Yosef."
Three hours later, Crystal was rejoicing that she had a brother in Christ, although things had not started out as she had intended they would.