(Hello everyone!!! This is Lady Sekhmet coming to you again.... takes a bow I'm taking a stab at a Chrono Crusade Fanfics... Since I love the series so much! However I have found... sadly... that I am loosing my writer's touch... sadness dude However please try to review... It will make me happy!:) And with that said I proudly present to you the very first chapter of....)
Time Angel
By SekhmetFaris (a.k.a SekhmetMariku)
"Angel! What have I told you about going outside!?"
"Angel! Quit poking your nose around where it doesn't belong!"
"Girl, you'd betta gid on outta here before dem sistas come round."
"Angel Christoper! How many times have I told you to stay out of my office when I'm in the middle of a meeting?!"
"Sorry Angie... You can't come this time, maybe next time?"
"Dear child, you act so much like your parents it's scary..."
"You did it again?! Honestly! Why can't you act a little more like your father?!"
"Are you giving up already?! That's not like a Christoper!"
"Hey! Don't sneak you on me like that!"
Angel whimpered and rolled over in her bed wishing the voices would stop. The voices of her friends, and family.
She wished they would go away, the voices.
Along with all of the unanswered question's that normally followed.
Why wouldn't they just let her sleep?
Finally she sighed and her crystal blue eyes opened.
She gazed up at the ceiling for a moment, before she sat up, her waist-length violet hair falling around her.
Normally she would have braided it before she went to bed, but Sister Claire was in such a bad mood after she had knocked over and broke Sister Kate's favorite vase on accident that she had been sent straight to bed without supper, and the light had to go out immedately. She barely had time to slip out of her clothes and into her night gown before she was plunged into darkness.
Blowing her bangs out of her eye with a short breath she slipped out of bed and over to the window seat in her small and quaint little bedroom.
She opened the window a little letting the cool spring breeze brush against her face.
The window overlooked the whole convent, and it's beautiful garden... The window-seat was her favorite place, besides the top of the church steeple, in the whole convent.
They where good thinking spots.
She frowned and wondered for perhaps the billionth time what it would be like to go beyond the gates.
She wasn't allowed to leave.
She let out a deep breath and closed her eyes, her hand reaching up to clasp the pocket watch hanging around her neck by a silver chain.
It had been her mother and father's.
It was the only thing she had left of her parents, who had been two of the most famous exorsists of all time.
Chrono and Rosette Christoper.
Angel Rizelle Christoper, fourteen years old, with a power she truly didn't understand, yet so powerful that she had been locked up in the Magdalan Order for most of her young life.
She was half demon, half human, and only a handful of people knew she even existed.
Of them she had her Uncle Joshua and Aunt Azmaria, along with Lady Satella and Aunt Rizelle.
Angel smiled.
Aunt Rizelle had to be her favorite aunt. She wasn't really related to her in anyway, but Rizelle was one of her father's friends that still took the time to visit her.
She was a demon of course and wasn't really liked much within the order, but Angel knew that Rizelle had made peace with the Order a long time ago, like most of the Sinners.
Angel frowned.
She didn't really know who the Sinners where, she wasn't allowed to know.
But she knew her father had been part of them before he joined the Magdalan Order.
Angel smiled has she thought about the time when she was really little and her uncle Joshua had snuck her out of the convent and took her fishing.
That was the most fun she'd ever had with her uncle.
It was like she was actually normal, and had a normal uncle, just going out fishing.
She snickered.
Uncle Joshua had gotten yelled at by both Sister Kate and Aunty Azmaria for doing it. Goodness, Angel thought they were going to hurt him the way they where yelling.
Then they threatened to tell Aunt Rizelle.
After that Angel remembered crying her heart out that it was her fault and not Joshua's so he shouldn't get in trouble, after all, she had only wanted to see the outside.
Kate and Azmaria settled down a bit afterwards, but they seemed sadder for the next couple of days.
A few days later Aunt Rizelle came and stayed for a whole week to keep Angel company.
Angel couldn't have been happier.
But her moments of happiness where always spoiled when everyone had to go on missions.
Hunting demons and destroying evil.
Rizelle had to go on mission with uncle Joshua.
She was never allowed to go.
Angel opened her eyes and stared at the night sky for a moment before her face formed into a determined smirk.
She was going to do it.
She would run away today!
She turned and quickly dashed off to the bathroom to take a quick shower, brush and braid her hair into two ponytails, and dress in her favorite outfit before grabbing an already packed bag by the door and dashing out into the hallway.
She carefully snuck down the stairs and past the sister's on nightwatch before coming to the main entry hall.
She grinned and was about to make a dash for the exit when she spotted two familiar figures near the doorway and froze.
"Are you sure Rizelle? But how could he have found out about her"
Angel blinked and hid among the shadows... That was her Uncle Joshua.
She heard Rizelle snort.
"You don't believe me? Why would I lie?!" She spat at him.
She saw Joshua wave his hands in front of him.
"Whoa, easy Rizelle, I was just asking a question"
Angel smiled. She could practically feel her favorite aunt giving Joshua her trademark glare.
"There is no time to waste, we must tell that woman that Rivolto is going to attack here. He wants Angel and he'll do anything in his power to get her. Even if it means killing everyone here." Rizelle said sharply.
Angel sucked her breath in. Who wanted to get her?
She heard her uncle sigh.
"She's that important huh"
"Are you still such and idiot has you where when you were a boy?! You saw what she did when she was a baby! Of course she's important! She has the power to make someone virtually imortal! Anyone who got there hands on her could use her to taken over both worlds!" Rizelle practically yelled.
Joshua shook his head.
"I know Rizelle, I know..." Angel covered her mouth with her hands has Joshua sighed.
"Not to mention she's beginning to show signs of being able to manipulate time"
Rizelle snorted again and Angel could hear the clicking of her high heels against the polished floor, followed by her Uncle's soft padding.
"You aren't ever going to see me has anything other then what you saw me has back then are you Rizelle?" She heard Joshua asked.
She heard her aunt stop.
"My view of you has changed over the past years... I do see you differently.... however"
Rizelle walked over to Joshua.
"I don't think I'll ever forget the first thing you said to me when we first met that immortalized you has a little boy in my mind"
With that Angel heard her aunt turn and walk off.
Joshua chuckled then followed her.
Angel stood there for a few minutes before shaking her head and dashing to the door.
Her aunt and uncle where odd like that.
Angel could never truly understand their relationship.
Angel dashed over the freshly cut grass.
She managed to get to the gate rather quickly.
Smiling at the gate and forgetting what she had heard moments before she scaled it and jumped over the edge and ran down the familliar path down the road.
If she kept up this pace, and if they didn't realize she was gone, and if no cars came down the road, she should be able to reach the city before sunrise.
Once she reached the city she was home free..
But who was Rivolto?...
Not slowing her pace down she grasped at her pocket watch.
"I wish.... I knew... more..." She gasped has she ran.
-
After a while, Angel thought she might finally get away.
Of course she had tried to run away before and was caught, in fact she'd done it many times, and she'd never made it to the city.
She smiled has she began to hope.
If she got to the city she could get on a train and go anywhere she wanted.
And start a new life....
Maybe she'd even be able to find out more about her parents...
Has the city came into view she grinned.
Home free!
Goodness, Angel had never seen so many people!
But she soaked up every little minute of it. She didn't even mind when people shoved into her at all.
She was just glad to be out of that convent!
Making her way to Grand Central Station she hummed a tune to herself.
Today was a good day!
Has she entered the building she got an odd sense of de javu.
She stood in the middle of the entryway and studied the crowd.
Her mind flashed to a picture of zombie-like people laughing crazily.
She winced and grabbed her forehead.
"Oww..." She muttered softly has the image faded. Pain lanced through her head for a moment before slowly ebbing down.
After a moment she stumbled over to a bench and sat down.
"What was that?" She said rubbing her forehead.
"What was what?"
Angel turned her head quickly and her eyes quickly met with a pair of cat-like icy emerald eyes.
They belonged to a girl, who was her height, though she looked more developed. She had short dark hair that Angel thought was either black, dark blue, or an odd shade of purple.
She wore large oval shaped glasses, and had... cat-ears!
"What in the world?!" Angel exclaimed staring at the black pointed ears.
She smiled.
"You can see my cat ears can't you?" She asked.
Angel nodded.
"That means your either a human gifted in spiritual power, or a demon. I'm not sure which though.." She took a seat next to Angel.
"I'm Sura, by the way. You are"
Angel smiled.
"I'm Angel." She said.
Sura giggled.
"Cute name, anyway, what are you doing here at Grand Central station all alone?" Sura asked eyeing Angel suspicsioly.
Angel blinked and felt a bead of sweat trickle down the back of her neck.
"I'm uh, going to- uh..."
Sura smirked.
"Your running away aren't you? I can tell..."
Angel sighed and looked at the floor.
"Yeah... How could you tell?" Angel replied.
Sura winked.
"I am too! And besides, you don't look like you know your way around this place."
Angel chuckled and turned to Sura.
"Why are you running away?" She asked.
Sura grunted and pulled at her black cat tail.
"My dad's an insensitive jerk, and my mom's too wrapped up in her own experiments too notice me..." Sura swung her feet back and forth has she continued.
"I mean come on! I'm just has smart has my mom! I've proved that time and time again and she still ignores me! All I want to do is make a statement! I want them to notice me!!" Sura growled for a minute before turning towards Angel.
"What about you? Are your parents all up in a bunch too?"
Angel frowned.
"My parents... are dead..."
Sura gasped.
"I'm so sorry!"
"It's okay!" Angel said she pulled her pocket watch up to show Sura.
"This belonged to them, it's the only thing I have of theirs...."
Sura's eyes widened and she stared at the pocket watch before reaching out and taking it.
"May I?"
Angel nodded and slipped it off her neck to hand it to Sura.
Sura looked it over.
"This... This is the pocket watch my mom made for Chrono." She said. Her hand closed around the watch and she made a pained face.
"You shouldn't be out of your cage Christoper bird." She muttered softly.
Angel glared at her.
"Well there isn't anything you can do to make me go back! I've had to live there for has long has I can remember and I hate it!" Angel turned and clentched her fists into tight balls.
Sura snickered.
"I didn't say anythin about making you go back..."
Angel glanced at her and she winked.
"I wanna see your power in action!" Sura stood up and looked around. Spotting something she grinned and dragged Angel over to the woman's room. Shoving Angel in she checked to see if they where alone before shutting and locking the door. She smiled.
"Okay! First I'm going to have to see you use your power on something small!" She yanked an old glass bottle out of her bag. It was blue in color and had some ash at the bottom of it. Sura shook the bottle and winked at Angel.
Angel stared at it.
"What is that?" She asked.
Sura smiled.
"It's the present my dad gave to my mom when he told her he loved her. It was a beautiful, hybrid flower from the demon world. My mom preserved it in this bottle for a long time, but eventually it died and whither away..." Sura's face saddened and her whole body seemed to drupe with sadness.
"Just like their love for each other did..." Sura murmured, tears brimming in her eyes.
Angel didn't know what she was suppose to do to comfort her new friend, she didn't know what it was like to have parents, even ones who didn't love each other. She wanted to help.
She reached out and took the bottle from Sura gently and brought it close to her face.
Examining the dust critically she shook it a bit. Sura looked at her hopefully. Angel frowned.
"Sura I don't"
She was cut off has her mind flashed.
She saw it her mind, a blue flower, with silver lining and white patterns bursting from the bottle, it had many, many petals and glimmered with pollen.
She shook her head and looked at the bottle again wondered what had just happened.
She turned and uncorked the bottle, and poured the dust onto her hand.
It sat there innocently. She smiled at it hopefully and turned around to face her reflection.
'Okay, I don't really know what I'm doing, but I'm gonna try...' Angel closed her fist around the ash and brought it up to her chest, closing her eyes she consentrated on the flower she had seen in her mind flash.
After a few minute of nothing happening Angel sighed.
'Mom... Dad... I don't know if you can hear me... but I could use a little help...' She thought.
It was then that she felt it.
A warmth deep with in her soul. It seemed to be growing bigger has she stood there.
A warm, blue light...
She cradled it for a moment, not wanting to let it go then she remembered the ash in her hand and relucdantly released it.
She concentrated once more on the beautiful flower she had seen in her flash.
After a few seconds she she felt something push her hand open and looked down.
Her eyes widened has she watched a tiny green plant form and grow in her hand, a tiny blue light surrounded it has it budded then blossumed into the beautiful flower she had seen.
She smiled and turned around and held it out to Sura.
"How's this?" She asked smiling.
Sura gasped.
"That's it!! Oh Angel you did it! Thank you!" She cried taking the flower from Angel and placing it in another bottle, this one was larger and clear.
She place it back int her bag and glomped Angel.
"Your a miracle!"
Angel hugged her back slightly then sighed.
"I don't suppose you can explain what just happened, can you?" She asked.
Sura jumped up.
"Nope! But I can give you something cool to help you because you helped me!!!" She said before she sat down and placed the pocket watch in front of her.
Angel then watched wide eyed has she pulled tool after tool from her bag and took it apart and began to change it. The bag seemed to contain more then it looked like it could carry!
About an hour later, when Angel thought she was going to die of boredom, she was finished and presented the Pocket Watch to Angel.
"Done!"
The Pocket watch now had two faces. One was in plain sight, the other was hidden by a fake back that opened up to reveil various different numbers, along with symbols.
"This part is for regulating how much time you change when you use your power, which is oviously to turn back the clock on life. This dial here, if you point it at someone, will tell you how long there soul has left to live. It they are a demon, and immortal, this symbol will appear, kay? Now these numbers show you how many immortals are around you..." After that she flipped it close and pointed to the front face, which was white with gold numbers and tiny jems surrounding it.
"This, can still be used has it was with your parents, though I don't think you'll need it. It has the basic seal thingy..." She pointed to the bars that held it close.
"Those are a mouse trap when they close, so don't get your fingers caught if you ever have to open it"
Angel took the pocket watch and hung it around her neck.
It weighed a little more, but the added weight was a little bit of a comfort to her. She knew what her powers did some what...
Sura sighed.
"I bet you any amount of money my mom's discovered I was gone by now... She's probably come searching for me..." Sura smiled at Angel.
"I'll cover for you though, you can take my ticket, I was going to Chicago, but now that you fixed the flower I think I can face my parents again. Thanks a bunch Angel-face." She gave Angel a wink and a thumbs up before turning and peaking her head out of the bathroom.
She immedeatly pulled it back in with a squeak.
She gasped and stared at Angel with wide eyes.
"Golly gracious me! She sent the whole Magdalan Order after me! I'm doomed!"
"What?!" Angel exclaimed.
Sura nodded.
"To make matters worse, my mom and Rizelle are out there."
Angel's eyes widened.
"Rizelle!?"
Sura nodded.
"Yeah she's one of my mom's old war buddies you could say..."
"Wait your mom is one of the Sinner's?" Angel asked clutching her bag in a death grip.
"Yeah, your dad was one before he became one of the Magdalan Order. I never met him, but I heard he was a real looker!" Sura said eyes twinkling.
Angel rolled her eyes then sighed.
"I wish I knew more about him..." She said sadly.
Sura was about to say something when someone banged on the bathroom door.
"Hey! Is anyone in there?! If you are, come on out!" Sura sweatdropped.
"Great, okay here's the plan, I'll distracted him then we find a new place to hide!" She said motioning for Angel to stand beside her.
Sura opened the door.
"Yes, I am..." She said smiling up at him.
The young Magdalan Miltia blinked stupidly before Sura jumped and knocked him upside the head.
He crumpled to a heap on the ground and Sura grabbed Angel and pulled her down the hall away from the area where she had spotted her mother and Rizelle before. She turned a sharp corner and came to sudden halt.
Angel nearly crashed into her.
"What's wrong?" She asked quietly.
Sura gasped and pulled Angel behind a statue.
"My DAD is here! And he's got Father Remington with him! Crap we aren't gonna get outta here Angel-face..." Sura said.
After a moment Angel noticed that Sura seemed to be shaking has they crouched behind the statue.
"Sura? Are you okay"
Sura shook her head.
"I'm okay..." She gave Angel a half-hearted smile.
"It's just, I can lie to my mom no prob, but I feel really bad lying to my dad"
Angel slipped her hand in Sura's and gave it a slight squeeze.
"Thanks Angel..."
Angel glanced around and pointed toward an opening.
"There!"
"Right!"
They both, hand in hand made a dash for the doorway to the boarding area. However...
"Where do you think you ladies are going?" Someone said sliding into view.
"Uncle Joshua!" Angel exclaimed has the both of them slid to a stop in front of him.
He smiled in his all knowing way, his blue eyes glimmering...
Sura tugged Angel toward the main entrance.
"Come on!"
They both ran, but to no avail.
"Busted..." Sura said has her mother spotted her and frowned.
Angel gave Sura's hand a squeeze has Rizelle saw them.
"That was very clever of you Angel, to run away in the middle of the night, when no one was exspecting it." Joshua said has they all closed in on the two girls.
Sura's mom stomped over.
"Sura! What are you doing here!? And what are you doing with her?!" She yelled pointed at Angel.
Rizelle growled.
"Sheda..." She muttered sharply.
Sheda glared right back at Rizelle.
"I won't have my daughter assoicating with her Rizelle! I thought I made that clear before!"
"Ms. Sheda I met her here on accident!" Angel said not letting go of Sura's hand.
Sheda glared at her and grabbing her daughter's arm and pulled her away from Angel.
"Your the reason Chrono and Rosie are dead!" She yelled pointing an acusing finger at her.
"SHEDA!" Rizelle roared.
Angel blinked once.... then twice....
"I...I killed them?" She muttered softly her eyes traveling to the watch that hung around her neck.
"No!" Rizelle said.
Angel looked up and was surprised to find her normally cold, and collected aunt near hysterics.
"You are not the cause of their deaths Angel! Chrono didn't want you to think that! Angel you-"
All angel could think about was how much she didn't know, and how much she felt alone in the world.
She just exploded...
"KNOW NOTHING!!!" Angel screamed surprising everyone.
She stared at her aunt for a moment before it all came out...
"You never told me anything about them! I've longed to know them, longed to find them, to even have a simple dream about them, but you never let me!!! You kept me cooped up in the convent! I don't know what the world is like! I really wouldn't care if I could only know who those two people were... Chrono.... Rosette... Who? Why did they die? What did they die from? I want to know... I want to have a friends, I want to be normal, I want to know who I am!!!" Angel screamed before bursting into sobs.
It just wasn't fair. No one would let her know...
Why not?
What was so wrong about her knowing her parents?
After a few moments she felt a hand on her shoulder and looked up.
Sura was smiling down at her.
"When you get back... I want to get to know you better... I've never had a best friend before, and I think you would fit the bill..." She then reached foreward and touched the watch.
"Try not to screw things up too badly alright?" She said before giving the knob on the pocket watch a sharp pull.
It snapped open and a purple light burst from it.
Sura backed up.
Angel stared at the watch.
"Wha-?"
Suddenly she felt a sharp pull on her body and she toppled forward.
Just has she was about to slam into the ground a black void opened below her and she dissappeared...
(coughs)
(coughs again then looks at her audience nervously Sorry about that... If this chapter seemed to be missing key detail it was because I don't want you to know too much about Angel before she starts her adventure... And before you ask, yes, Angel does have the power to manipulate time... She's very naive but in the end... well... you'll see.... smiles Review and make me happy!!! Bye!!!)