Angel
Essence
Episode 1: Guardian Angel
"so much for being a goddess of hope, she doesn't even have an angel yet", "How hopeless can she get?", 2 girls giggle and taunt as a tall, slim girl with long black hair walks past and into a large room filled with robotic chairs set around the room, "want to try again today Lyla? I'm sure there's a chosen one out there for you somewhere", "……", Lyla climbs into a seat like chamber and closes her eyes as the chamber lid closes and a group of soft blue lights radiate around her.
A vision of a boy with a large white and
dark blue cloak wrapped around him and what looks like the ghost of a
kitten sat on his right shoulder is looking at the passing clouds
whilst sat on a bench in the middle of town below the academy,
there's plenty of people around doing their daily routines, Lyla
appears to be sitting on top of a lamp post and the boy blinks oddly
to see this apparition staring straight at him and then disappear,
"hey Seek, did you see tha!!… she's gone", the ghost kitten
looks up to the lamp then back at the boy, "you need to start
wearing your goggles more", "that's cold seek, you know what
the deal is with my eyes", he pulls some white tinted goggles from
under his shroud and puts them on as a little girl runs past panting
out of breath. "whoa, look out", Seek pulls the boy down on the
bench as a bladed boomerang flies over them and narrowly misses the
little girls head, "Renegad'z", seek says standing on top of
the bench and the boy jumps up. "Quick the potential is down we
cant let her power get away", in front of the boy and seek is three
men wearing purple and orange uniforms equipped with lots of
mechanical devices and a large dragonfly deity infused with cyber
technology restraining its movements and a large bladed boomerang on
the tip of its tail. "that's as far as you go!! Leave the girl
alone", he looks behind him and sees the girl has tripped up and is
rubbing her left ankle, the 3 men pull out small rods from a
concealed pocket and they extend into poles. "you shouldn't have
gotten in our way kid", one of the men runs at the boy thrusting
the pole right at him. The boy deflects the pole away with his
cloaked left arm making a metal on metal clank then turns round
kicking the man in the side and to the ground. That man motions for
the other 2 to attack and they start to run at him, the boy jumps
back unravelling the cloak from his body to show a 14 year old 5'2''
tall boy with blue hair wearing black boots, black denim trousers and
a plain long sleeved white t-shirt underneath a dark blue t-shirt and
wearing a pair of strange bracelets on each wrist with a set of 5
blade like plates positioned on each arm but connected to the
bracelets and with a concentrated thought from the boy the plates
position themselves into blades rising up over the backs of his hands
and crosses them above him to block the 2 poles.
He buckles
slightly as the 2 men push down harder on the poles, he looks behind
him and sees the girl praying for his win and also sees Lyla's
apparition behind her staring straight at him again, he nods then
faces the 2 men head on and pushes them backwards and then rushes at
them and swipes at the 2 men slicing the poles clean in half, the 2
men look at their poles then drop them and run away. The other man
has gotten up and is now punching at a few buttons on a small console
he has pulled out of a pocket behind the giant deity, the dragonfly
screams out in pain, "NOW GO AND DESTROY HIM SO WE CAN CLAIM OUR
PRIZE", the deity flies skyward then rolls forwards flicking the
bladed boomerang off the tip of it's tail straight down at the
boy.
The boy dives out of the way just in time and as the dust
clears the boomerang is standing in the ground right where he once
stood, "you know there's a goddess watching you right", "it's
a bit late for stating the obvious seek", the boy says while
getting up, "this is your chance to proove you could be an angel",
"she's already chosen me", "what!?!", "I can feel her
presence, I feel stronger like I can accomplish anything",
The
deity swoops down out of the sky at a phenomenal speed, the boy
swings his arm up and with a flick of his wrist the sword breaks into
its plates and wire and stretches out wrapping around the deities
neck and picks the boy up he swings round and onto its back pulling
the sword back making it slash at the neck brace devices and then
extends his other arm to outstretch the other blade and slash the
mechanical bindings around the deities frame then jumps off the back
of the deity, "NOOOOOOOOOOOOO", the man screams out in fury, "you
wont get away with this kid", the boy lands down on one knee and
smiles looking up at the deity as it breaks free from his bindings in
a flash of light while the man runs away.
"thank you for freeing
me, is there anything you wish for in return", "your very welcome
sir deity, I only ask that you lend your protection to the young girl
over there you were used to capture", "your contract is
accepted", the giant dragonfly deity shrinks down into a small gem
and them floats over to the girl.
The boy helps the girl up and
she thanks him for all he's done and then rushes away. He picks up
his cloak then walks to the apparition of Lyla, "you gave me
strength, you believed in me", " I am Lyla the Goddess of Hope,
Will you be my angel?", the boy and the ghost kitten both smile,
"my name is Skye and her name is Seek, I accept your offer to be
the angel of hope".
To be continued…