The Black Angel
Chapter 1: Bloody Beginnings, The Angel of Darkness descends
Disclaimer: I do NOT, I repeat NOT, own Sailor Moon or The SoulTaker.
At a church at the edge of Tokyo, A young boy steps in with a slight smile on his face.
"Mom? Mom, I'm home!"
But then his expression shifts to horror as he glances at his mother, lying on the steps, bleeding to death. "Mom!?" He says, running over to his mother. "Wake up, Mom! MOM!!" The boy hangs over his mother's face feeling so helpless.
"What's happened?" "Kyou...suke?" said the boy's mother. "I'll get help!" Kyousuke says as he gets up and turns around to go find a phone to call 911.
"Stop, Kyousuke!" his mother calls out while lifting an object in her hand. Kyousuke stops and turns around to see why she had stopped him. Suddenly he feels a sharp pain in his chest. Kyousuke glances down to the source of the pain. He couldn't believe it; his own mother had stabbed him through the heart. "Mom, how could you? How could you do that?" he says as he begins to falls down the steps.
"Forgive me, please forgive me, Kyousuke." Staring at her son's confused and horrified face, she prays to god that she may be forgiven for this horrible act. Kyousuke falls to the floor forcing the dagger in his chest deeper into him. Kyousuke could feel his body begin to grow cold.
Days later, at the Hikawa shrine.
"So come on, Rei! Tell us about this dream you had!" begged Minako.
The girls originally stopped by for a study session. In the middle of the session, Rei mentioned a dream she had the other night. What really caught their attention was that Ami was involved
"Well, it goes like this. I'm in a big castle. I'm wandering around the halls when I come to this chamber with the door open. I look in and there's Ami in the arms of a guy!"
"No way, Ami? What were they doing?" asked Makoto, inching forward not wanting to miss a single juicy detail.
"Nothing, Ami was unconscious."
"Well then, what did the boy look like? Was he cute?"
"I couldn't see his face." Makoto sulked in disappointment. "But here is something interesting, the boy that had his arms around Ami, he had big, black, angel wings bound in chains."
"Ooh! That is interesting. Hey Ami, I wonder if it means heaven will send you a boyfriend?" said Usagi nudging Ami with her elbow. Ami didn't answer. Usagi looked at her friend more carefully. Ami's eyes looked as though her mind was somewhere far off. "Ami? Ami? Hello? Earth to Ami," said Usagi, shaking Ami a little. Ami snapped out of her trance after a few seconds.
"You okay? You seem a little out of it," Makoto said in a worried tone.
"I'm fine, really."
"You know Ami, you have been acting really weird, lately." "No really, I'm fine." Her friends were skeptical of her assurance. "Maybe you should go home." Ami was about to protest but instead complied to her friends' suggestion, as she was feeling a bit strange. Rei gave Ami an umbrella to keep her dry from the heavy rain. "You take care of yourself, okay?" Ami nodded. Luna felt concerned about Ami's well being and followed.
Around halfway home, Ami felt a little pain in her head. The sound of bells from the local church seemed to only make it worse. She then drops the umbrella and walks off in a completely different direction. Luna, who wasn't too far behind, felt something was wrong.
"Ami! Where are you going?"
Ami didn't answer and just kept on going. Luna called out again and still no answer. She catches up to Ami and noticed her eyes were glazed over like how she was back at the shrine. Luna follows Ami all the way to the cemetery. She walks into the caretaker's shed and comes out with a shovel in her hand. Ami starts walking around the tombstones as if she was looking for something. She then stops at grave, then starts digging
"Ami, What do you think you're doing?" Luna calls out but Ami ignores her and continues digging.
For several minutes, Ami kept digging as if she had no worries of getting caught grave robbing.
THUNK!
Ami drops the shovel as she clears the dirt off a casket and opens it slowly. A cat shrieks as it scratches Ami's hand, snapping her back to reality and throwing open the casket, showing it empty.
"Huh? What? How did… how did I get here?" she says as the cat purrs at her, "and why am I covered in mud?"
She glances at the empty casket the cat has taken refuge in. She holds her hand out to get the cat to come to her.
"Come on kitty, it's okay."
Luna stands puzzled at the casket. "Why would this thing be empty? Nobody puts an empty coffin in a graveyard," she wonders, "I don't like the feel of this."
Suddenly, a hand bursts from the bottom of the casket, scaring the cat away and grabs Ami's arm. Ami suddenly felt like a helpless victim in a bad zombie movie and tries to get away. The hand releases her and she falls to the ground, scared out of her mind. She gets up and looks in to see a barely conscious boy inside with a dagger deep in his chest. Luna hops down to check him.
"He's still alive but he needs help quickly!"
Ami pulls him out and moves his arm over her shoulder.
"The hospital is too far away and there's no phone close by to call an ambulance."
"No… no hospital." The boy groans before passing out.
Without many options, Ami carries him home with her.
The next day, Ami woke up to the sound of a knocking on her door. She got up and answered in a sleepy daze. The girls looked at her with surprise and worry in their eyes.
"Rough night?" Makoto finally spoke up.
"Something like that. come on in, you guys are in for quite a story." Ami answered.
She led them into the living they all sat down in a circle.
"So what's going on? You look terrible." Usagi asked.
"Before you tell us what happened, why don't you go get changed, first." Makoto suggested.
Ami's face turned crimson when she suddenly realized that all she was wearing was a T-shirt and panties. She made a mad dash to her room to put some clothes on.
In the bedroom, Ami was getting ready to put on some clean clothes. Then the boy started to mumble in his sleep. "No, mom. No, don't!" he mumbled as slowly began to open his eyes.
"Hey, you're awake,"
The boy turned his head slightly to Ami. The boy could only stare at her. This beautiful young woman with short blue hair and warm blue eyes.
"That was a pretty close call. You'd still be buried alive if hadn't found you. Of course, I'm still not sure how I knew you were there."
The boy sat up and said, "Where am I."
"You're in my house," Ami simply said, "Come to think to of it, I never asked what your name is."
"Its Kyousuke, Kyousuke Date."
"I'm Ami Mizuno, It's nice to meet you, Kyousuke Date."
The boy winced in pain and clutched his chest.
"Here, let me look at that."
Ami walked over and undid the bandages. At first, she was stunned at Kyousuke's well-developed body. After closer inspection, Ami noticed the wound Kyousuke had almost completely healed. There was barely a scar where the boy was stabbed.
'It's practically fully healed. No one can heal that fast.' Ami thought to herself.
"Hey Ami, you okay in there? You've been in there for…" Minako said, walking in. She was cut off when she saw Ami in a very compromising position.
"I seem to be interrupting something, I'll come by later." Minako dashed off down the hall to others. "Guys, you are not gonna believe this!"
Ami went after her in a panic, "Wait Minako, It's not what it looks like!"
Kyousuke just looked out the door and thought, "Okay, that was… odd."
I finally got the chapter finished. Sorry it took so long.