Notes
Guardian demons are best suited to the job.
Let us begin…
Ryou looked at the sky running a hand through his hair. He watched as the rain poured down on him and bright flashes of lights were peaking through the black sky. Loud claps echoed in the air following the harsh blowing winds as rain came down in sheets.
From the branch on the tree a demon watched her inky black wings spread as if in flight although she remained still her thick lashes shadowing brilliant green eyes. Her face (like the rest of her) was pale and narrow all of her features pointed seductively as she watched.
Her black halter dress made her look gorgeous the V reaching her navel as the sides slit open at the hip sown the back was just laced strings the train of fabric staring at the small of her back. Her dress was not disturbed in the least by the winds. Her body was shapely with wide bust and hips her waist was narrow and shapely and her stomach was tight not a once of fat on it. The demon's arms and legs were muscular but not manly. She tapped her black colored nails on the branch below her. She pulled her silver tresses back and smiled fear did not take place in reality…
Ryou used to hate the storms but he had grown to love them.
Guardian Angels were never allowed to be seen by their charges or interfere with their charges, or if they were, only in desperate times. Angels did not even appear to the ones gifted with the sight. Guardian demons how ever, got to watch their charges all the time, only to be seen on some occasions unless they were gifted with the sight.
Flash back
Ryou sat in his closet his knees pressed to his chest arms wrapped around them as he hung his head low and tried to block out the sounds of the storms. His father was not home and even if he were it wouldn't matter he's just be punished and sent to bed for interrupting his father's work.
Ryou closed his eyes as he tried to block out the sounds of the storm. He couldn't stand the flashes of lights and the loud noises, he feared the inky clouds as well fearing that they would swallow the sun for good. He sobbed into the dark wishing for some one to be with him.
His friends the ghost of the cemetery didn't visit on rainy days nor did they visit on cold days or days when their relatives visited. He wished he could talk to them anyone to pull his mind away from the fear.
Ryou listened intently to the swish of the wind as it neared his door and this wasn't the sound the dead made when they 'walked' but a different sound that he heard often before falling asleep.
Seven-year-old Ryou stiffened as the door opened, revealing a girl almost fourteen. Her curly silver hair reaching the middle of her neck, she had almond shaped bright green eyes. her body that was beginning to form was displayed by the dress that she wore (a more modest version on the one described above; less cleavage less split). "Wha-cha cryin' for?" Ryou said nothing as the feathery wings extended behind her. "If it's those damn bullies again I'll take care of them..."
"What… do you… Mean?" She reached into the closet and lifted the boy into her arms. "I thought you were dead how can you touch me if you are why are you solid?"
Smiling she smiled… "Well I'm your guardian demon… And I can be solid sometimes but it's really hard to do for a long time… Those bullies have they touched you again?"
"No when I go near them they say some thing about creep monsters beating them up…" Ryou large eyes widened at the thought. "You did that?"
The demon kissed the boys forehead and sat on the bed, "Here," She handed him a deck of cards, "Those cards have magic in them… if someone bothers you just call out the name of a monster and tell it what to do." She bit her thumb making it bleed. "open your mouth."
"Ewww. No that's blood!" Ryou moved away as the bloody thumb came closer. Getting tired of trying to make him drink the now quick flowing shadow magic she shoved her thumb in his mouth making him gulp four mouthfuls. Coughing once he was done he looked up at her frightened.
"Don't worry it wont kill you… Actually it will help you…" She stood Ryou in her arms once more.
"What is your name?"
"Amane…"
"So Amane… what is your family like?" Ryou questioned as he was carried through the halls.
"My mother is in purgatory waiting for someone… My father is away somewhere… and my little brother was hiding in the closet a few minutes ago…"
Ryou raised a delicate brow, "What do you mea... You're the Amane daddy keeps in his room right?" Amane nodded, "Why aren't you in heaven?"
"I did something very bad that I wasn't supposed to… But I didn't mind… I got to stay with you… and you get to see me that's not bad… …you don't hate me right? Right?" she asked looking down at the boy as they lifted off the ground and sat together on the roof, letting the rain wash over them.
"How can I hate you if I don't know what you did for anyone to hate you?"
Amane smiled she was so happy luck was on her side, to have her own brother as a charge was a blessing. His birth had been unexpected so when she was dragged down to hell she was paired with the newest born child as a charge, not having to even go through the proper two years of training. "Let me tell you a story…
Our mother was so happy she was going to have a baby… they said she wouldn't be able to have another baby after me because of her health problems… But she had you in her belly anyway.
Right after her baby shower she and I went to pick up some more things that you would need. When a drunk driver hit our car making it roll down the hill and catch on fire. Mom and I were in the ambulance just as she started to give birth to you, I blacked out and woke up every two minutes. Every thing in by body except for my right arm and hand was broken and mom was in pain she was bleeding badly burned and had a concussion.
We were at the hospital when you were born. The doctors took you away to clean you off and mom looked at me she didn't have to say anything I knew what she wanted… I looked at her again and she nodded and smiled. So I gave it to her I pulled the plugs out of the wall, all of them… they turned around with you in their arm going to show off the perfect baby to mother.
We looked at each other then you and we closed our eyes… That's when we died… mom and I went to purgatory I was sent to hell she decided to stay and wait for dad and you so that they could be together."
Tears streamed down Amane's face as she held the boy tighter. "Do you hate me for killing our mother?" She sobbed her shoulders shaking.
Expecting for the boy to kick and scream for his release she was surprised to feel his body twist in her grasp to face her and his small hands wipe the tears away from her cheeks, large green eyes that were filled with tears looked at her. "I don't hate you… I just wish you were both alive…"
Amane smiled and hugged her brother. Feeling her twenty minutes almost running dry she took off into the sky and flew high by the lightning as Ryou held tightly to her eyes squeezed shut as she held him by the hands.
"Open your eyes Ryou! Look!"
Slowly opening his eyes he saw the beautiful view of the city. "WOW!"
She smiled as she descended to the ground. Letting go of his hands when he was safely on the ground. She kissed each of his cheeks, placed his soaking wer hair behind his ears and smiled as she sent him inside with a smile and a playful shove he watched as she slowly disappeared from her solid form back to a sprit sinking into the shadows. As the storm clouds moved away taking the rain and lightning and thunder with it to reveal revealing the sun.
End flash…
Ryou looked over his shoulder on the tree branch and met eyes with the sprit emerald met jade as both began to smile at one another.
Rainy days were never the same for Ryou since that time. He no longer fears the storms but loves them… Fear does not take place in reality only in one's mind…