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Chapter
1 - Enfer de cimetièr
(7
Years later)
His home was the one place he didn't have to act like everyone expected him to. It was where he could be himself, where he was safe from vengeful gang members and from the outside world's troubles.
You would be correct if you called Tala's home his sanctuary and he wouldn't doubt it. Once before, Tala had a home - he used to live on the streets and fit in with the best of them. He could pick anyone's pockets and con anyone to do anything he wanted.
He was an important member of a deadly gang. He would take someone's life and not care. Steal things from anyone at any time. But if you told him all this he would deny it. He would say he always had a loving home, and that your information was wrong. But if you brought up the fact that he was saved by a faceless figure one night, he would fall to pieces.
He would sit there like a zombie replaying that scene over and over in his head. Something told him that the one who saved him was dead, but he denied it. He would claim he never heard the agonized screaming. Never heard the sickening sound of silenced gunshots. Never met that old man.
Eventually, Tala blocked from his mind the details of that night. He cursed the gods and the fates that had hurt his savior. And in a weird act of blessings the gods let him forget the gruesome events of that night.
But then the gods seemed to ignore Tala after that blessing. Tala prayed to them day after day and went to church regularly. Yet he always felt a vacant feeling where there should be warmth.
Tala slowly shuffled along. Putting one foot in front of the other seemed like a heart stopping feat. For the condition Tala was in it was a wonder that the tears weren?t streaming down his face.
With each step Tala fought to keep going and fought to keep his tears in.
"Why me? What have I done? Why? Why am I like this? Why won't you help me god! Are you even listening?!"
Tala strongly doubted that a single soul would listen to something as pathetic as him.
Even his friends would reject him if they found out what he did. The whole entire school would look at him like he was the scum of the earth, barely fit to lick a poor man's shoe. It was tough, the whole school looked to him for almost everything, to see what was cool, what was stupid and to see how they should act.
It could get nauseating at times that people could be so dependant on one person. Tala constantly had to keep looking over his shoulder to make sure he didn't mess up, didn't slip up. To be sure no one knew of his disgusting past.
Now his 'disgusting past' was coming back from the dead, it just wouldn't stay down. It was like an annoying fly, always hovering around him. His past coming back to get him was a big part of Tala's current worries. The people from his past beat him, almost once a week. For two months now.
Tala shivered as he walked past the old cemetery and the wind howling like a caged animal. He stopped briefly and looked in.
'The name of my rescuer could be written on anyone of these stones, yet I will never know.'
A feeling of pain stabbed his heart and he squeezed his eyes shut as he trembled slightly.
When Tala opened his eyes the first thing he looked at was the huge statue of an angel. It drew him in, he was like a moth to a light, he just couldn't stop looking. He started walking towards the cemetery in short cautious steps. He grabbed the rusted handle on the huge metal gates and yanked it. It let out a groan and didn't budge. He should have know better - no one had been in this cemetery for decades, the door was most likely rusted shut.
Tala shrugged and turned around. He walked almost halfway down the block trying to ignore the nagging feeling in his gut. With each step it got worse, until finally he threw his hands up in disgust.
"Fine! Fine! I understand, all mighty and powerful God, you want me to go in there. Well, I hate to tell you this, but the door is rusted shut! How do you expect me to open it now, God? For God's sake, look at me! I was just beaten to a pulp and now you want to annoy me? Jesus Christ." Tala's words dripped sarcasm as he walked back down the street towards the cemetery.
When he got to the door again it was rusted shut and he couldn't open it. He sighed in frustration and rolled his eyes.
'I hate you, God; I despise you with all my being. God forbid you give me one day of rest.' Tala rolled the sleeves of his sweatshirt up to his elbows and turned towards the large brick wall of the cemetery. He shook his head to clear it up a little; the cold was getting to him. His nose and ears felt frozen and already the wind was working at freezing his exposed forearms.
Tala groaned as he looked at the wall before him: it was taller than him, but if he jumped high enough he might be able to grab the top. Tala made up his mind, crouched down, and with a burst of speed he sprung up and made a wild reach for the top of the wall. Luckily, he managed to grab it and he tried to pull himself up. His arms strained from the stress they were being put under, and vaguely Tala was sure that one of the cuts on his arms had reopened.
He moaned in pain when he knocked his knee on the wall. Stars appeared before his eyes and in his pain he let go of the wall. Tala landed flat on his behind and felt the air rush out of his lungs. He lay there for almost five minutes trying to regain his breathe, he could hear his heart pounding manically against his ribcage. Tala turned slightly and gasped when he felt a sharp stick jab his thigh. Tala moved to get the stick, but he froze. In the moonlight he could see a dark liquid coating his arm. Reluctantly, he touched two fingers to it and brought them up to his face. Carefully he sniffed it and his nose scrunched up in recognition to the metallic smell.
This was his own blood. Tala just calmly took a roll of medical bandages and a few tissues from his pockets.
'You never know when you will need these things. I think I would have been dead long before now if I hadn't kept these around.'
Carefully he wiped up the already freezing blood, being careful so that he wouldn't infect his reopened cut. Tala turned his arm slightly and felt some of the blood rush from his face, the huge gaping wound slowly oozed blood dripping it down his pale arms.
Tala swallowed back down his lunch and wrapped the cut up tightly in the white bandages. Slowly, a little red dot appeared on the dressings.
'It will have to do for now, the house isn't that far away but, I need to get into this cemetery. It's the most retarded feeling! Jeez, I must be going nuts.' Tala sighed and slowly stood up. He felt the muscles in his leg spasm where the stick had jabbed him.
Tala walked around the whole outside of the cemetery counter-clock wise and was almost convinced there was no other way in. That was until he spotted a couple of trashcans on the far wall.
'Well I'll be damned. Guess I am getting into this place after all.'
Tala picked his way through broken beer bottles and large sticks that were threatening to tear at his body. Tala jumped over a particularly nasty looking branch and almost tripped. He regained his footing and carefully climbed up onto the garbage cans.
The metal can groaned as Tala stood on it, but it seemed sturdy enough. Quickly he pulled himself up and over the wall, landing carefully on his tiptoes. Tala sighed; he hadn't even realized he had been holding his breath in. A wave of pain assaulted his temples and Tala placed his index fingers on them, rubbing gentle circles. Eventually the throbbing died down but by that point the moon had risen high in the sky. Tala checked his watch and let out a moan of displeasure. It was 12:56, and a little late to be searching around a cemetery on a school night.
Tala turned and looked at the statue of an angel that had captivated him earlier. Looking closer at it, the statue didn't look so interesting as it did before. In fact it would have looked like a normal angel statue had it not had an extra pair of wings.
Tala did a double take and stared long and hard at the extra set of wings the angel had and, ever so gently, the wings twitched. Tala quickly backed up, scrambling to get away from the statue. He backed into a gravestone and stood there for a few seconds, taking in the scene around the statue. He was almost sure that the statue had never had two pairs of wings. So what made today any different?
Tala couldn't tear his eyes away, and gathering what was left of his courage and interest, Tala moved forward towards the statue. Carefully, he reached a hand up to caress the extra pair of wings. They were soft and made of black feathers, and certainly didn't belong to the statue. He continued to pet the wings until he heard a low growl. He froze and slowly he started moving again.
'If this is what I think it is I'll shit myself.' Tala mumbled to himself grimly.
He moved around the side of the statue and stared up in pure horror. The blood. The blood was caked onto the statue in dried clumps. It was frozen in a way that made it look as if the statue was regurgitating blood instead of singing praises and it seemed to cry blood. Tala shook uncontrollably as he finally looked at what he had been avoiding, the body lying in the angel's arms.
The blood was everywhere on the figure, but it seemed to be heaviest on the chest and stomach. In fact, the stomach wound looked like it was a gunshot and Tala could see clean through it. Unable to control himself any longer Tala turned to the side and heaved his guts up.
He wiped the back of his hand across his mouth and looked back up to see large gleaming red eyes. Tala stared open mouthed at the beautiful eyes that had captivated him so.
(Earlier
That Day)
Kai sighed and moved his finger in little circles, stirring the conjured puddle. It was just another boring day as it had been for almost the last ten years. And just like every day Kai couldn't help but feel sorry for himself, he almost wanted to beg for forgiveness.
Gently Kai started preening his feathers; if they were left dirty he wouldn't be able to fly. Suddenly in front of Kai there was movement. Rei slowly moved up to the cloud Kai was floating on, stalking his prey with the utmost stealth. Rei giggled to himself and jumped up onto Kai, imagining the look on the teens face.
Suddenly Kai was slammed backwards by an unidentified fly object. (Arty - Tee Hee, I always wanted to say that!) Kai groaned, as the thing he now presumed was a person, dug their elbow into his stomach. Kai pushed them off and tried to stand up. But to his horror he was pinned down.
He saw golden eyes staring back him and Kai let out a groan.
"Rei?" Kai spoke in a soft voice that seemed like a whisper.
Rei had a cocky grin on his face, proud of himself because he had finally managed to sneak up on the stoical teen.
"Yes, dearest Kai?" Rei bounced a little, earning more groaning noises.
"Get off me." With that Kai threw Rei off of himself and stood up, wiping off his pants. Rei smirked in a way that showed off his unnaturally large canines. "I sometimes wonder how you even walk around in those pants, they look so heavy. Or maybe your pants are that baggy to hide your fat." Rei teased, he wanted to see Kai angry, he looked sexy when he was angry. But than again Rei, thought Kai looked sexy no matter what.
"Why do you always seem to ask me that same question, the only thing that makes my pants heavy is the locks hanging off the back, hanging over my ass. Oh no, Rei dearest! Were you looking at my ass?? Kai asked with dripping sarcasm, but held a smirk that rivaled Rei's own. It was about time Kai did this experiment; he had always suspected that Rei seemed to be into his own gender. What better time than now?
Rei held a hand to his mouth and did a fake gasp like the kind you would see on a soap opera. "Why Kai! Why would I stare at your behind? Is there something special about it that I don't know?? Rei laughed. He clearly was having fun teasing Kai.
"Only that I have three butt cheeks."
Rei laughed, "No you don't."
"Oh, so you have looked?" Kai grinned like a laughing hyena; he had caught his prey and was defiantly holding on tightly to it. Kai rolled his hips suggestively and saw Rei's eyes being drawn to them.
Rei licked his lips suddenly looking fearful. "You can't tell anyone. I will never get a second chance if you do! They think it is against their religion! Kai please don't say anything!" He almost looked like he was about to cry and for the first time in his life Kai felt his heart wretch. He decided to play stupid.
"What can't I tell anyone?" Kai looked Rei right in the eye and walked off the cloud jumping towards the gates of heaven.
If Kai had turned around and looked he would have seen Rei collapse to his knees in happiness. And notice tears of relief drip from his cat-like eyes. Kai sighed contently and jumped from cloud to cloud. Softly, his feet touched the ice crystals that formed the cloud, some of the cloud rolled over his feet giving the impression that he was floating.
To angels and demons it was common knowledge that the demon's sin would weigh them down so they couldn't walk on the clouds. The angels would ether float an inch or two above the cloud or could walk directly on top depending on how holy they were. Yet the creatures in between those worlds like fallen angels who couldn't fit into one category, could float in the middle of the clouds.
Kai went over those thoughts in his head. He challenged everything the demons and angels thought. "The god they believe in is an ass. He is no better than someone like me. To them someone like me should never be allowed to exist; I am the scum of the earth, placed here to make them look good. They are no more or less holy than me or anything else. Angels are disgusting."
An old man came around the side of the gate pushing his half-moon glasses up the bridge of his nose. The man did a double take when he noticed that the clouds were almost up to Kai's knees. Carefully, the old man relaxed his face so that he wouldn't show how disturbed the young boy made him. 'Things like him shouldn't be fit to walk the clouds.' The old man thought, then he felt nauseous, this thing was one of god's creatures and to him all creatures were equal. Why did God make creatures like this, everyone knows they are forever damned. Forever fallen.
The old man took a book that magically appeared in front of him and opened it to Kai's page. Inside the man's mind was an index of everything that had ever died or was living. He suffered with this knowledge every waking moment, knowing what disgusting things people did. He knew when someone lied to or defied God. He knew the pain someone felt when he or she was dying. Almost every day he wished for the pain to end, and almost every day he never felt happier. He was at home in all the misery and woe, because somewhere there was always a glimmer of happiness, and it was things like that which kept him going. Things like Kai made him feel like the world was going to hell.
The old man looked up from the book and nodded at Kai, than the golden gates to heaven opened. And for a second all Kai saw was black and than a blinding light shown through. Kai winced and stepped through the barrier entering the inner realms of heaven. He wandered the golden paved streets; heaven looked exactly like earth except everything seemed pure and untouchable. The angels all seemed have a holier-than-thou attitude and their pets acted exactly like them. It all sickened him, everything, the way they acted and dressed, the way they moved and god forbid the way they were so loved. Kai bumped into one of the angels and sneered at them while they glared, he could hear them whispering nasty things about him. They all thought he was dumb and stupid, gross and ugly. Truth is told that Kai was anything but ugly.
He had hair that spiked up at extreme angles and was duel-colored, dark blue and slate gray. His eyes could reflect what you were feeling and you could find a calm easy person inside of them. It could be because of the way they seemed that hypnotizing red color that changed shades slightly from day to day. He was tall and thin, it was something you didn't see that often, he was as skinny as a stick but you knew he could kill you three different ways before you could say 'hi.' He looked exactly has he had the day he died minus all the wounds.
Kai moved off into a dark alley away from the lights and perfect beings. He held his head in his hands as a spasm of sadness made his body tremble. Suddenly a trashcan was knocked over and startled Kai out of his sadness. He moved closer to see what made the noise and was surprised when a tiny being floated up out of the garbage. She had to be less than half a foot tall. Kai held out his hand to the creature and she landed onto it, delicately holding onto his thumb. Kai brought his hand close to his face and saw the tiny creature's mouth make a surprised 'o' shape. 'I bet she is frightened too. I am the one forever damned, only a handful have ever turned out like me.' Kai immediately saddened again. This beautiful creature was also frightened of him.
'Hiwitari, you are not to be forever damned. In fact the council of elders needs to talk to you.' She never moved her mouth but her soft voice filled Kai's mind and he felt warmth. 'Are you a telepath?' Kai had never met someone like her before, in fact most angels and demons didn't know things like her existed.
'In a way, my people can communicate mentally. But you are needed there is no time to waste, the elders need to see you now.' the little being responded in her soft, bell-like voice.
Nodding with understanding Kai was about to take off when he had another important thought.
'How do I know you are not fooling me?' Kai knew that no matter how innocent she looked that she could be evil.
'Trust your heart Kai. Listen to what it tells you.'
Kai knew she was right deep inside he knew she was innocent and different from the angels he had grown to mistrust. He took off into the air with the tiny faerie-like creature hanging on to his thumb. 'What are you?' Kai asked as he suddenly felt at ease with her near him.
'I was a special bred of pixie that until one hundred years ago was considered an extinct sub-species, now we are called Fae Pixel. There are less than a hundred or so of us, so it is rare that you see one and even more rare that one talks to you.'
Kai finally got a good look at the tiny creature and than he realized that she was one of the most beautiful things he had ever seen. She was a gothic fantasy, with pale sickly skin, dark eyes that looked like bottomless pits and a tiny mouth that looked a crimson color. She must have been petite even for her species; she looked so fragile that Kai was sure if he closed his hand on her that he could crush her like a clog of dirt. Her clothing looked to be like an eighteenth century gothic dress but more exotic, some of the ribbons had been replaced with chains and belts and Kai was sure he could see some bloodstains. 'What is your name or should I call you Fae Pixel from now on?'
The girl looked thoughtful, rubbing her temples, 'It has been a long time since I have told someone my name; in fact, I have almost forgotten it. You are the first person to ask me this in a while. I would tell you, but you have to go see the elders now.' She was right; Kai had just landed in front of the large building that held the Elders of Heaven. Kai looked up to try and see the top but it was hidden from view by clouds. 'I need to leave you now. Don't fear though, because I will tell you my name before you leave. I am most certain that you will get a second chance.' She blew Kai a kiss and large mechanical wings appeared on her back and she dropped out of his view down below the clouds.
Kai was almost certain he had seen odder things in his lifetime. He was also almost certain that he would see her again, if Fate gave him a chance. Kai walked into the large building that resembled something of a huge castle, the type of thing you would expect to see in a Disney movie. Kai sighed, he was glad it at least wasn't an ancient Victorian Mansion like the one he grew up in. Kai took a deep breath and tucked one of his longer side bangs behind his ear.
If what the Fae Pixel had been saying was true, then he might get a second chance. He might just be able to set foot back on Earth, he just might be forgiven. But than Kai had a thought. He couldn't leave him behind after almost the decade they had known each other and he could never forgive himself. Kai new it was wrong but he needed to be home, maybe this time he would get a chance to live life like it was meant to be. He might be able to make friends and not have them die. He might be able to love some one, maybe even have a family. It was almost too much for Kai to stop, and for once he didn't bother too. The huge smile broke out on his face and for once he was sure this smile wouldn't make people cringe in fear. But one though remained persistent all through his daydreaming.
'What about Rei?'
Kai opened the heavy gold and silver gilded doors and stared in awe at the beauty. Kai made up his mind, it was the only thing he could do as a friend. Kai hated to admit it but he almost wished he hadn't met Rei. Rei was holding him back, but Rei was also one of the main reasons he had made it this far. 'Why would they pick me to have a second chance when I have only been here for seven years? Rei has been here for centuries.' The answer seemed to be beyond Kai's grasp. He had no idea what he would have to do to get his freedom. Kai just had one hope.
'I wish Rei and I could be free together. Where he won't be hated for the sex he chooses to love. Where I won't be hated for the way I was made. Where we could be friends without boundaries. Where we could find true friends.'
Kai took a deep breath and walked into the ominous building before him. This building had never before been seen by human eyes and was hoped to remain that way. It had a special defense mechanism where it vibrated extremely fast and became naked to all of humanity's prying eyes. This building had been built so it would never be discovered and it was also built to be the safest place in all the worlds of Earth. The Elders of Life lived in this very building, the people who controlled who died and who lived. Who went to heaven and who went to hell. Kai had always harbored an extreme dislike for them; he would have to behave extremely well for them to consider anything of him.
Kai paused for a moment, 'What if that little Fae Pixel thing lied to me and they really are bringing me here to tell me I will be condemned to never rest. To tell me my soul will never fit into ether group. What if they condemn Rei? They couldn't, he is too pure for that. He should be an angel; it was what he was meant to be. Maybe these so-called Elders should look into the heart instead of just the history of the body.' Kai gritted his teeth and squared he shoulders, immediately annoyed at himself for thinking that way. They could read minds and he knew it. They would be able to tell if he were lying, they would be able to tell if he hated them. With one last look back he walked through the large hallway towards a lone marble statue.
There was a loud bang behind him and Kai whirled around. It was just the large front entrance doors closing. Kai mentally scolded himself for being so jumpy. He looked around, and it seemed that the only thing within his sight range was the disturbing marble statue ahead of him. Kai walked hesitantly towards it and stopped a few feet away from the base. Now that he actually looked closer the statue was not made of marble but something that shimmered brighter than gold, but was a purer white than angel's wings. Kai stared up in awe - the statue was of an angel with three pairs of wings, each one as large as he was. The angel was beautiful; she had eyes that were so intense, and yet so unseeing that she seemed more beautiful than she should have. The angel's skin was perfect and unmarred, unlike his own. Kai scowled: even angel statues had to be perfect.
'Damn them all to hell,' he thought.
Suddenly the statue blinked, "Kai Hiwitari," The voice boomed in a feminine but deadly way. "You were brought here by the Council of the Elders. Let us see if you are fit to raise your tainted eyes on their beautiful souls. Place your hand on the base of my statue."
Kai was in no rush to obey the perfect being, but as he thought his usual defying thoughts an unforeseen power moved his hand and placed it on the statue's base. The power seemed to be the same one he felt before he died, the one that made him climb into that angel's arms. It made Kai shiver and twitch, dying was something that even after all these years he didn't want to think about. Some people want to die in a way that will make them famous; others want to die so they don't have to live. Some just enjoy killing. With Kai's death there was just something wrong, like, 'How could something like that happen to him?' Something like that can happen to anyone. No one is immune to death.
Kai clenched his jaw tightly together, and a silver light began to shine through and around his hand. Kai stared in awe and the statue started chanting weird jumbles of words. He tried to listen and hear what she was saying, but it was like the words ran away from him, like they teased him. That was stupid words don't tease people, Kai shook his head to clear his senses. The statue kept up the chanting in a high-pitched inhuman voice. Suddenly a bright light emanated from where the angel's heart would have been. Then the singing stopped and Kai was thrown into blackness.
He was falling.
It was an odd thing to sense but somehow he felt like he wasn't moving. Falling without moving, that wasn't possible. Than Kai heard a voice, "Kai Hiwitari, your quest has been proven true and your heart has proven fierce. I am Alexius, the Keeper of the Elder Gate. If you attempt to harm the Elders of Life in any way, may God help you, for I will thrust you into a world full of despair and pain like no other, where hatred and death reign supreme. Your very thoughts will never stray from the impossible task I will give you." The voice made Kai shiver; it was a child's voice and that just made Kai feel worse, a child was now threatening his very sanity. Why did it seem like everyone was out to get him? Maybe Kai was just being melodramatic - why would everyone in the world be against him? Suddenly, a bright light shone in Kai's eyes, blinding him for a moment.
Kai shut his eyes and moaned at the intense pain he was feeling. It was almost like the light was trying to purify him. But he knew for a fact that the light couldn't harm him, he was, after all, one of the Forever Fallen.
'I guess being forced into being damned for the rest of your life isn't so bad. It has its advantages. I wonder if I will get an item discount like the senior citizens?' Suddenly a deep and booming voice filled the room and the light died down enough for Kai to see.
'Hiwitari Kai, you are the youngest damned angel we have. To young to be truly damned.' Kai looked around but none of the Elders had moved their mouths. 'Telepathic', Kai guessed. Kai looked around and noticed twenty-one angels and demons, all of which seemed more beautiful than life, surrounded him. They all had long eyelashes, unblemished skin, amazing bodies and their hair shone more than the sun. Kai was disgusted; they were all so beautiful and wise, yet none were Fallen. How could you be some of the wisest people in the world, when you have an important group missing?
'I sense distress in your heart, little one,' a kind voice spoke out and Kai turned to face one of the older demons. His hair had grown white with age and Kai noticed that he was one of the oldest looking members there. Most of the members were beautiful and looked to be only thirty or so.
"Why- why are you all so beautiful and young? One would think that in order to grow wise one must grow old." Kai spoke in a cold, confused voice, his eyes never once leaving the old demons face.
'Some don't think it is important to find age with wisdom and wish to remain young forever.' The old demon spoke, choosing his words carefully as if to stay on every ones good side. Than another angel spoke up, 'Hiwitari you were brought here in order to have your soul judged. Some of the other council members seem to think it fit that we give you a second chance.' This angel spoke in a nasty, nasal voice and looked down his nose at Kai. 'Would you like a second chance Kai?' A motherly voice spoke and Kai thought the angel looked to young for her voice. The girl looked to be one of the youngest there and she seemed to be the slutty flirtatious type that Kai never liked. Kai nodded with a cold, indifferent look on his face like he had never seen the way she batted her eyes suggestively at him.
A tiny voice giggled, 'Yay! We decided that if you wanted another chance, you would have to watch someone and help them through their bad times!'
Kai looked a little bored; he really didn't want to listen to some forty-year-old woman bitch and moan about her terrible life. That Kai realized he had heard a giggle, he turned and saw a tiny demon girl that looked to be only six. Kai stared harder at her and felt drawn to her eyes, they were an amazing shade of silver and seemed to look like bottomless pits. An old soul, she was an old soul. "What do you mean by watching over?" Kai asked bluntly.
'Have you ever heard of a guardian angel? The old man who Kai spoke to before looked over his glasses at him. Kai nodded. 'You are to watch over your assigned person and to keep them out of trouble. Right now the person we will send you to is on the verge of becoming something like you. I am sure you don't want the same thing to happen to them.'
Kai thought for a moment, "And if I am successful with my task?"
'Than you may become an angel or a demon, it will be your pick.'
"What if I don't want that??
"If a situation like that arises we will try to work with your demands. Now, are you ready to take this responsibility?"
Kai thought for a minute, 'what about Rei? I just can't forget him. He has been here too long. He's like a younger brother or sister, you just can't leave them behind. If I can do this, I will give Rei the chance to have a second try. I'll let him live. I had too many chances and he had only one. It isn't even his fault that he's Fallen, if you are the child of a demon and angel that is the only place for you.' Kai nodded. He had thought this through, and he would take anything they threw at him.
'Than so be it,' a tall angel that had remained quiet through the whole meeting spoke. 'You will watch over Tala Valcov. Before we sent you down, you first need to know a few things.' Then the tall angel pressed a button in front of him and two people appeared. A couple. The woman was softly crying. Her long red hair fell into her face as she cried and her husband brushed it back behind her ear in a loving gesture.
"Around ten years ago my husband and I were in a fatal car crash leaving the one thing we cared most about behind and hurt. Our child, Tala, was crushed and ran away, our baby was sent to foster care but Tala still ran away. Tala joined a gang and murdered people, stole from them, and did other unpleasant things, but Tala is still our baby. A year or two after Tala was a member in the gang, our child was caught and their ways changed. Our child's savior died that night, a terrible death that he didn't deserve. Heartbroken, our child still searches for his savior and…' The wife broke off in a sob and Kai noticed that her beautiful marine eyes were bloodshot. Her husband continued gently, "And he blocked the period of time when they heard the gunshots go off from his or her head, so they don't know you are dead. Please don't tell our baby who you are when you go to help them. There is too much stress on Tala already." Kai nodded, he understood the parents wanted him to never tell Tala who he really was; it would only get worse. "Tell me one thing, is Tala a boy or a girl?" The wife looked sad for a moment and she buried her face in her hands. "God speed to you Kai, God speed."
Suddenly, time stood still for Kai and he was once again hurled into darkness.
Kai shivered as an unbearable cold washed over his body, followed by stinging hot pain all over his body. Something was being shoved through his stomach and back, and he felt a knife slice his chest. Kai groaned and held his head in his hands. He heard a loud crack and than felt his ankle hanging at a weird angle and he was afraid to look down at it. All over he felt cuts and scratches everywhere, bruises dotting his skin like freckles. Kai screamed in agony as the cold stop numbing his pain and he fell into nothingness.
Kai landed with a thump and felt the air whoosh out of his lungs. He looked up at what he presumed was the sky and saw snow falling. It fell all around him in drifts and blew into his wounds. Kai heard the sounds of a person climbing a fence and suddenly he knew where he was. Kai looked up and to the right, there was an angel statue. The statue he had died on. The blood dripped from her mouth, which was sculpted to make her look like she was singing now, she looked like she was vomiting blood. Kai felt a swelling of nausea in his chest, knowing he had damaged this statue with his blood and death made him fell truly damned. How could he ever be angel if he couldn't stop ruining the things God had set on the earth? In fact, Kai was surprised that the person he was supposed to be looking after wasn't dead already with his luck.
Kai sighed and noticed that the pain was receding - or maybe he was just used to the feeling of dying. Kai moved his hand down to his abdomen and felt a warm liquid that was quickly turning cold. Kai brought it up to his face and grimaced when a drop fell onto his cheek, rolling down and off his neck. He lay there and waited, waited for someone that would hopefully save his meager life. Kai felt something tenderly stroking his wing and then heard the gasp. The person moved around to the front of the statue and Kai heard violent vomiting. Kai gathered just enough strength to open his eyes and stare at a boy with bright red hair. Then Kai lost consciousness.
A figure observed them from up in a tree and they whipped a tear off their cheek. Seeing Kai almost die again could make someone want to go on a murderous rampage. Something so powerful should be defeated so easily just didn't seem right. It was utterly wrong. The figure whipped away more tears and settled himself in for a long cold night in the tree.
If the figure had stayed awake a few more moments they would have seen Tala carry Kai home and they would have seen the weird blinding light appear in front of the pair. A tiny creature appeared from the light and settled down on the nameless figure.
Arty - So! Kai and Rei are really good friends which is something you would expect but as you notice Kai is a little surprised that he felt to strongly about Rei! And who is the figure that Tala found in the cemetery? O.k. so we al know it was Kai. But neither one knows that it's the other! Wow I just can't make sense today! Um? I hope that if anything is unclear that you will tell me!
Yaumi - Tune in next time!
Akuma - Yes tune in for the ramblings of three deranged psychos.
Yaumi – Don't be so negative!
Arty - Who are you calling a psycho?
