Angel Wings, Chapter 21
Amy47101: Hey peoples! Whats up? So, here we are, after a pretty decent Angelshipping moment, I'm glad to announce the official, graduation, AngelWings Style!
Disclaimer: Amy47101 does not own pokemon.
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(Carter P.O.V)
"I hate ties." I muttered as I pulled irritatingly the bronze colored garment around my neck. "Why do we have to wear these suits?"
"Because it's a formal event, stupid." muttered Dusk in his own black suite and gray tie.
"You guys are lucky," said Flare. "You got your suites preordered and everything. All you had to do was choose a colored tie. Unlike us girls, you each got a black suite, while I was forced to endure hours upon hours of torture choosing a dress. I repeat, a dress."
Flare was wearing a short mahogany colored dress with ties that crossed over her collar bones and tied neatly behind her neck. She had black, peep toe flats on her feet.
All the girls were wearing dresses.
Dawn looked like a princess. She had on a long lilac dress with long shimmery, see through sleeves and violet flats. She had her hair piled into a loose looking bun on the back of her head, with diamond studded bobby pins holding it together.
Wynter had on a loose dress with an uneven hem. The back of the hem of the dress was longer than the front, and the sleeves hung loosely off her shoulders. It was a very light sky blue. Her hair was out of it's usual braids, and the sides were pulled behind her head, held back with a crystal gracidea flower.
All of us boys were wearing different colored ties. Dash had brown, Surge had yellow, Dusk had grey, Forrest had green, and I got stuck with bronze.
"Looks like Eleanors late again." snickered Surge. We all chuckled at this, remembering how she was just a little bit later then the rest of us on Halloween.
"It's like history is repeating itself." said Forrest.
"What's taking them so long?" wondered Dash with an impatient huff. "I know that girls like to have everything perfect for things like this, but seriously-"
"I heard that!" Aqua yelled as she came into the room with Eleanor behind her. Her hair was still in her usual ponytail, except that it was curled into thick, wavy ringlets. She had on an turquoise colored halter dress with wedge sandals.
Eleanor, on the other hand, looked like a goddess. She had on a long, white Greek style dress with gold clasps on the shoulders and sandals that laced up her calf. Her hair was like it usually was, except for the braid that went across her hairline, creating a headband like look.
"Hey, Carters not staring at Eleanor! This isn't a complete repeat of Halloween!" declared Flare, smirking mischievously in my direction before laughing at both mine and Eleanors' beet red faces.
"Lets just go downstairs." murmured Eleanor as she pushed past me to get to the stairs
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(Eleanor P.O.V)
"Hey guys!" yelled Cynthia as she ran up to us. "You guys look amazing!"
"Thanks!" exclaimed Aqua. We all separated to go meet up with our families. I saw Dash head over to a couple with four kids, three males, one female, running around like crazy, trying to wrangle them all up into one spot. Aqua went over to a couple with an older girl who looked similar to her. Must be her sister. Flare went over and greeted her mother warmly, but scowled at her father. Surge boomed out a hello to his parents, only to be shushed by a nerdy-looking younger boy with glasses reading a huge book. Dawn went to a male who had light brown hair like her, but no other similarities. A butler looking dude greeted her warmly, calling her 'Lady Dawn' or 'Miss Dawn'. The other man, her father, merely turned his head to the side, and scoffed at his daughter. Dusk smiled as he went up to an older girl, obviously not his mother, for she looked to be around eighteen or so. He then continued to ruffle the hair of a girl around four, who clung to him with happiness. Forrest went over man who looked like he just came off a motorcycle and a women with long red hair bouncing a small baby boy on her hip. Finally, Wynter headed over to a couple who were obviously not her parents, because they shared zero resemblances. She, however, greeted them as warmly as if they were her real mother and father.
I was quickly introduced to everyone. Dashs' siblings were named Daisy, Damion, Dalton, and Daniel. Wonder what Mr. and Mrs. Smiths' deal was with 'D' names. Aquas older sister was named Kayla, and her parents were introduced as Mr. and Mrs. Martinez. Flare was an only child, and introduced her mother as 'Ms. O'Conner'.
"Ms.?" I asked politely as I shook her hand.
"Flare and I go by my maiden name." she said simply.
"May I ask why?"
"It's a touchy subject." said Ms. O'Conner, shooting a glare at her husband, who stood awkwardly in the corner, trying to talk to his daughter.
Surges little brother was introduced as Wesley, quickly shaking my hand before returning to his book. Mr. and Ms. Ping sighed with frustration at their sons antics. Dawn introduced her butler as Edward and her father, Mr. Ford, who looked down on me like I was some sort of street urchin. Dusk introduced his older sister as Clara and the younger one as Rose. Forrests dad freaked me out a bit.
"Brook. Remember the name." he said as he cracked his knuckles.
"Y-Yeah. Sure thing, Mr. Brook!" I said as I was introduced to his mother and baby Ashton.
Wynter came over to me, and pulled me to her parents. I learned that they were her foster parents, very good friends of her actual parents, who was asked to care for the small girl when she was a baby. I was about to walk away, when Mr. Rose pulled me aside.
"I'd liked to thank you for finding her a decent circle of friends." he said.
"O-Oh? It's really no big deal. She's really a fun person to be around." I answered.
"I know. She just needs to put herself out there. She was always so shy, and never really had any good friends. This is the most I'd ever seen her talk." he said as his eyes trailed to his foster daughter, laughing at something Surge said. "It's been a while since she laughed..."
"Hey, Eleanor!" yelled Carter as came up to me. "C'mon, my grandparents want to meet you."
"Okay," I said as I excused myself from Mr. Rose, following Carter to an elderly couple.
"Okay, Grandma, Gramps, this is Eleanor." introduced Carter.
"So this is the girl you're always talking about whenever you call us," said his Grandfather as he looked me over, as if inspecting me. "You're right. She ispretty."
"So this is your friend. Your girl... friend." said his Grandmother.
"Grandma! Gramps!" exclaimed Carter, blushing. "She's just my friend. Nothing else!"
For some reason, those word hurt.
"You youngsters don't understand love," said his Grandmother with an eye roll.
"Would everyone please take your seats." said Lamont from his podium. "Or graduation ceremony is about to begin."
Families scrambled to their seats and the graduates stood tall and proud in the front row. Principal Lamont stood at the podium, smiling like many of the proud parents and guardians in the audience.
"I would like to call upon this years valedictorian, Dawn Ford, to give a speech." he said. The said girl stood up, and gracefully made her way to the stage, stopping at the podium, waiting for the clapping to die down.
"Our loving families, our closest friends, our wonderful teachers, and our beloved principal," she started. "You have dealt with our many antics, and helped withhold our dreams of becoming the next batch of Operators, Mechanics, and Rangers. It has been a year since we have seen our families, and as you can probably see, we have grown. But in more ways then a few inches. We have grown maturity wise, becoming accustomed to solving problems without the help of an adult. We have learned to seek out the answers without rushing, without being rash. When we left for this education, we were children, seeking out the need of our elders. It was your job to help us, to guide us in life, to solve problems that we couldn't. But after today, we will no longer be your little babies, but matured teenagers who will most likely be solving the problems that you can't solve." she paused for a moment, before continuing. "We have made rivalries that will last a lifetime, and friendships that will last even longer. We will work together, and defend those who can't defend themselves, with the help of our loyal Operators and Mechanics. We are now partners in a common cause, and that is to simply defend the innocent."
With a quick thank you, Dawn walked off the stage, and took her place next to Dusk. After the respectable applause died down, Principal Lamont came back to the podium.
"And now to announce this years class representative. This student has shown us courage, kindness, and love towards both humans and pokemon. Her record at school is almost clean, except for the few running in the hall detentions courtesy of Mr. Kincaid."
A few laughs and chuckles bubbled up from the crowd.
"This student has shown all that there is to being a Ranger, and, to put this simply, this is the 'Right Stuff' reward. So the class representative of this years graduating class is none other than Eleanor Moon!"
"Wow, Eleanor!" exclaimed Carter. "Class representative! That's a big deal!"
I was numb with shock, but was still able to make it to the stage without falling over. Once there, Mr. Lamont began to walk over with a certificate, but was interrupted by some growling. Loud growling.
A hush fell over everyone as the growling got louder, and the thud of heavy footsteps came up the basement stairs.
"What on earth...?" asked Kincaid as he moved closer to his domain, leaning over the block he put at the entrance to prevent students from going down there. I heard him curse as he impressively jumped over the obstacle, and continued down the stairs. There was a long silence before it was shattered by Kincaids scream. He ran upstairs, his left arm bloody from claw marks.
Not far behind him, was ten Ursaring total. Although, they were not normal colored. Every aspect of their bodies were a darker shade. Their eyes, though, were pitch black. From the pupils to the whites. There was also a faint, shimmering glow around them, Black, like a shadow that was radiating power from their bodies. Blood dripped from the leaders claws, forming a small puddle on the floor.
It took a minute to register that it was Kincaids blood. There was a collective gasp from the crowd. I think they all realized what I did. That's when all hell broke loose.
Mothers screamed, rushing to get their children to safety. Fathers hurried to get their family to the exit, while children cried from fear, never seeing their parents like this.
"Everyone stay calm!" yelled Lamont. "Professional Rangers are on the way!"
"Eleanor, move!" yelled Carter as he dragged me out of the way of one of the charging bears.
"What happened to them?" I asked as we merged into the crowd.
"I don't know, and I don't want to find out!"
"We can't just run!" I yelled.
"The professionals are on the way! They can handle it!"
"(No, they can't Carter.)" I heard Cala say.
"(I don't know what happened to them, but this isn't normal.)" said Prince from my shoulder.
"Gee, ya think?" said Carter sarcastically.
"(I think demons are controlling them.)" muttered Cala. I stopped, dead in my tracks.
"I'm faster than you. I'm stronger, wiser, stealthier. And in case you haven't figured it out," his hand clamped down on her shoulder, and the burning began, worse than before. "I'm a Demon."
"Demons..." I whispered. "Carter! Demons will tear them apart!"
"Well, what are we supposed to do? We're just kids!"
"Yeah, we're just kids, Carter, but you're forgetting one important detail," I said. "We're super powered, winged kids, who know how to kick ass."
He stopped dead in his tracks, and paused, before grinning, fiery determination evident in his eyes.
"Eleanor... Lets do this."
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Amy47101: Yeah, I am SO evil! Cliffhanger! MWAHAHAHA cough, hack, hack, cough!
*awkward silence*
Well, reviewers, nows the time for a vote! Which character should appear in the next chapter?
a)Dash
b)Dawn
c)Dusk
d)Aqua
Choose! And the winner will be revealed in chapter 22!
Amy47101 signing off! ^.^