Her name is Crystal, Crystal Monistre, a junior high student, age 15.
That's basically all the known profil of her. If anyone ask her, who her
parents were, she would have answer with a no, and yet she can tell you
that they died peacefully, which is just the information she was given by
her guardians. She was raised in a small shrine, the Hurigashi Shrine, by
her grandmother, her great-grandpa, and her Uncle Sota. But that was before
the great war between China and Japan, during her infant years. During the
great war, all her guardians died except for her Uncle Sota, who was
wounded seriously and could not take care of her. During his last moments
with her, before she was sent to the orphanage, he told her...........
"I am sorry Crystal, please forgive me, but if I lived through this I will
come and find you someday, but for now, I can't take care of you, that's
cause I can't even take care of myself. Please forgive me, Crystal, but I
am sure later when you grow up you will understand." with tears in his
eyes, and then whispered again, "I am sorry my dear, dear, niece Crystal,
but here I will give you a letter, that I wrote and when you have grown, I
want you to read it yourself. I am sorry." The only response from Crystal
was a wide-eyed little girl that doesn't even understand what he was saying
but that the only thing she knew was that there is something going on,
because her brave Uncle Sota was crying and gently letting her go to
someone's arms. The only thing she could do was cry, cry for her Uncle
Sota, her brave Uncle Sota. Yet he was not there anymore, because the
mysterious arms had dragged her to some place else, a place that she knows
that she is going to hate forever.
And now at age 15, living in Canada, in Northern part of North America,
in a little surburb of Saskatchewan, with her adopted parents, she thought
of those memories of her at the orphanage. The nurses were nice but they
never treated her as an individual, but she can't blame them, there were
many orphans there as well, not just her. She just wished that she have a
brother or a sister, but that will never happen, because her parents were
dead, but unknown to her, she would find her parents soon in another time,
in another place far from her current home, and yet she could not truly
belong to them afterwards either. But in the meantime, her adopted parents
have two children, one named Jamiquk and the other Jezuki. Jamiquk is the
same age as Crystal, but they always have trouble getting along, so in the
end, Crystal have a nickname for him, Jay, a name which he hates so much.
And Jezuki, is his little brother, around 9 years of age, which everybody
calls him Zuk, a nice name huh? Anyway, Jay, Crystal and Zuk are always
tops in there classes, which earned them respect from the principal, and
one day the principal asked, "Jamiquk, Crystal, Jezuki, for your rewards,
we invited you to a multicultural conference held in Japan this year. You
want to go? You have two days to reply to me, cause the conference is
coming soon and I have to go get the tickets." "Okay, thank you Mrs
Korshi," they all resonded at once.
After school, that day as always, Crystal and her friends were discussing
about having a movie that night, and as always, Jay showed up and yelled at
her. "Cryst, can't you even stay away from your friends for at least one
minute. " "What for?" she asked. And automatically he responded, "Cause
mama wants you to be home in less than two minutes!" "Ya right, don't lie,
Jay, even Zuk is better than you are, but fine have it your way today, I
don't want to fight." She turned from him, and told her friends, "Jay
sometimes could be a pest, but hey guys, you want to meet at 7 o'clock
tonight, I'll meet you outside of Sidarway Movies, and I don't care what
movie as long as it's good, See ya later!" And with that she followed Jay
all the way back home.
That night at dinner, Jay told his parents what the principal offered as
a reward. Both of them agreed that the conference would be a very
educational thing for all their children, so they decided to visit Mrs
Korshi the next day. And at 7, Cryst quickly ran out the door, stopping
only to say bye to her step-parents, Zuk, and Jay. But for Jay, her byes is
always an invitation for him to join her parties, secretly. He doesm't know
why, but he always feel responsible for her, even when they were little, he
was always there for her, even when they fought.
But this particular day, when he tried to follow her, he felt weird, it's
like someone was possessing him, but nobody is, and then he realized that
he is changing, changing into a monster. He knew this would happen to him
someday, because his parents have told him that before, and he knew that
both his parents are youkais, another word for monster in Japanese, so this
is nothing strange, but he was scared. So in the end he raced back home,
and quickly hid in his room. His parents saw him go like crazy, so they
decided to investigate. And there in front of them in his room, is a
youkai. "Jay, you changed, as I know you would someday," said his dad. "Yes
Jay, welcome to adulthood," reply his ma. "Ma, Pa, is there going to be
anything wrong with me, can I change back?" "Of course son, by morning, you
will be yourself again, but becareful, everytime you want to change it
would occur suddenly, and there is no one who can help you then, especially
in school, and on that trip over the sea." "Yes pa, I will be." " And also,
Jay, don't let Cryst know or else she will freak out and run away. We
really don't know her backround much except that her parents died when she
was an infant, and so did her gandma, and great-grandpa." "Okay, pa."
On her way back from the movies, Cryst felt that something was wrong.
Usually, Jay would be there waiting for her, and start an argument about
having movies with her friends, yet he is not here today, which could mean
one of two things. One, he is not feeling good, in other words, very sick,
and two, he is mad that she did not fight back today, when he lashed at
her. Both of them seemed unlikely, so there is no other explanation for it,
well, that's too bad, she thought.
