Love of an Angel

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ChapterFour: Celestial Maiden

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A beautiful young woman, who was the epitome of elegance, with hair the color of onyx that fell on her shoulders and eyes that shone a deep blue was running frantically through her home in search of someone. "Yuhi! YUHI! Oh where is he?!" she cried exasperatedly. She'd had a vision and was greatly disturbed. A young woman with blood similar to hers was in danger of being murdered...by her own family!

A door opened and in walked another woman but was the complete opposite of the elegant lady. She looked rather like a fish actually. "Anything wrong, my lady?" She worked there as a driver and live-in maid.

"Yes," the woman answered. "Where is Yuhi?"

The fish lady answered, "Oh Yuhi? He's preparing dinner."

They immediately walked toward the kitchen. The home was a reflect of the family's money. They were obviously wanting for nothing at the mere size of it. Of course the home was also the family dance school. As they entered the kitchen a young man with black hair that hung over his amber eyes was indeed preparing dinner. And in an extremely marvelous manner. He had the stature of a world-renowned chef, of course at a mere seventeen years old this was no less than impossible. "Yuhi!"

He spun around to see the woman searching for him and rolled his eyes. "What? What?"

"It's no wonder you couldn't hear me calling for you with that awful racket." she commented, referring to the music he was listening to.

"Racket? Haven't you ever heard of Phish sis?" he asked.

As soon as he'd said it she pointed to the lady with the face much like that of a minnow and Yuhi answered, "No. No relation to Mrs. Flounder there."

"Oh! My lady! Yuhi! How could you call me that horrid name?" she wailed. Of course it probably would've been more effective if she weren't such a melodramatic bad actress.

"Geez! We were just kidding!" Yuhi exclaimed.

"Oh nevermind that!" Yuhi's elegant sister suddenly remembered. "Something's come up! You have to go get someone for me!"

He raised his eyebrow, "Dance student?"

"No one like that. There's a young lady in trouble and you need to go and find her for me!" she yelled almost frantically.

"I'm thinking...no" he answered. Afterall, dinner needed to be finished.

"Really now? Did I mention she was sixteen and unusually beautiful?" she asked.

"I'm off!" he called nearly sprinting to the door.

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Serena's scream rang over the manor and it's land surrounding it. The mysterious man, who Serena suddenly realized she had no idea what his name was, had just kissed her. "Oh my God!" she thought. "MY FIRST KISS!!!!"

"UP THERE!" voices rang from below. Serena looked down to see men with rifles pointed at her. "Come down now or we'll shoot!"

"What the-? Is he serious?!" she gasped, terrified.

The blue-eyed man looked at her and back down at the ground again. "They have rifles. We may have to do what he says." he paused and looked her. "Serena. Run!" He said as he prepared to jump from the tree with her but...he never had to.

A young man had attacked the men threatening Serena and had taken their guns. He promptly threw them a considerable distance. He looked up at Serena, his amber eyes glistening. "Hey you! Girl! I'm here to rescue you!"

"Rescue me? Who says I need rescuing?" her attitude was back or perhaps it had never left.

"Look I don't know why, just that I was sent to rescue you. We have to leave before anymore of these guys show up." he told her. It seemed he had a bit of an attitude himself. "C'mon jump! I'll catch you!"

"Um hello?! It is way too high up to jump from and-" she didn't have to finish. The man who'd just kissed her pushed her from the tree. As she approached the ground she noticed she was floating again, making it easy for that guy to catch her.

"Hey nice form! Light as a freakin' feather!" he exclaimed. Serena guessed he around her age. He still had that teenage smart-ass thing about him.

The man from the tree called down at her. "See ya later Serena. And I'd stay away from anymore high places if I were you."

The man whose arms she was in began to run with her still in his arms. "Let's go!"

"Hey...WAIT!" she screamed. "Put me down! Lemme go! Excuse me, I believe I said WAIT!" They were already very far from her family and in the city.

"What is your problem? Don't you want to be rescued?" he demanded, still not putting her down.

"I have to get back to my Grandpa's! Andrew, my twin brother, is hurt and...and...Just who the hell are you coming out of the blue?!" she yelled in his ears.

"Don't worry Serena. We're on your side." the soft voice of a woman came from her side. She looked to see one of the most beautiful and elegant women she'd ever laid eyes on. "They do this because you are a heavenly maiden. Introductions must be put off until later. Your relatives, the Tsukinos are after you and will not stop until you are dead."

"I'm a WHAT?!"

"Serena have you ever heard the legend of 'The Angel's Cloak'? Of course it has many other names such as the 'Hagoromo Legend' and the 'Snow-Maiden Legend.'" the elegant woman asked.

"Yes..." Serena asked uncertainly, not sure what that tale had to do with her and this situation. "Isn't that the one where the goddess Demeter was bathing with other goddesses and a man stole her cloak?"

"Yes it is. She was in a hot spring and she and the other angels or goddess, whichever you prefer, had draped their celestial robes upon a tree. A fisherman walked by and never seeing anything so beautiful as the robes took one home. When Demeter later saw him she grew suspicious of him and asked if he'd seen her robes. He answered no and since she had no robes she had no way to return home and he forced her to become his wife." she answered going into much more detail than Serena.

Serena looked at her for a while, not understanding. "Okay...why are we talking about mythology/"

The woman looked at Serena and answered solemnly, "You are a descendant of that maiden."

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