Angel Wings
Amy: Look! Here I am!
Devlin: Look! No one cares!
Amy: Look! *flips Devlin the bird*
Devlin: Look! *brings out the hellhounds*
Amy: Look! *runs for life*
Carter: I'm tired of this. Amy47101 does not own pokémon.
Devlin: Go, my hellhounds!
Amy: SHIT!
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Carter P.O.V
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"Hey there, little buddy."
"Hey, Barlow." I answered. I felt really terrible about what I said to Eleanor. I don't even know why I said that. The only reasonable explanation I can think of is that I went momentarily dark, and lost control. Which would make a lot of sense, I guess.
"They just got a huge lead on the disappearance of your friends."
"Yeah?"
"And they plan on having area rangers follow up the lead."
"Oh really?" I asked, interested.
"Yep. I was assigned for the first investigation. And I have to choose a partner. And I really do think that, even though you are the most inexperienced, this mission will mean the most to you."
"Really, Barlow?!" I cried as I jumped up.
"Yeah. I think you would be the most into it, out of all of us." Barlow smiled. "Will you do it?"
"Hell yeah, I'll do it!" I cried out determinedly. Barlow smiled.
"Somehow, I figured you would say that." Barlow said. "We're going undercover as new recruits. We're going to be sneaking aboard the suspected ship tonight."
"Alright!" I exclaimed excitedly. This is almost to perfect! If I could find the rest of the gang, along with Henry, Eleanor would have to forgive me!
...
Right?
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Eleanor P.O.V
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After what Carter said, I had to dig deep and think. Was I really ruining the family? I know that your family is always supposed to love you, no matter what, but now I was doubting myself. I mean, Carter was one of my closest friends. One of the few people that would accept me. The real me. The Angel part of me.
But did he really have a choice? He was an Angel, too. And, in response to accepting me, was I accepting him out of the kindness of my heart or pity? How would I know that this wasn't true between all of us? How am I supposed to know if we would've even paid each other any mind if we met by coincidence?
I chuckled, although it was brief. Of course we would've known something was up. The Empathy Link ties us together, alerts us of each other and when we are using our powers. Sorta like how we know that someone we never met is important in some way, or we meet a long lost family member. It's always there.
Now that I think about it, sometimes I feel like we're all some big happy family. Dash is the athletic prodigy, Aqua is the bubbly glue that holds us together, Flare is the fire in our hearts, Surge is the electronically gifted kid, Dawn is the academic over-achiever, Dusk is the silent one that will set us strait, Forrest is the peacemaker, Wynter is the quiet, sometimes unnoticed bookworm, and Carter is the teasing and protective big brother. And I guess that leaves me as the leader. Like a family, we have our good days and our bad days, but in the end we're all connected. Wether it by relief, pity, friendship, or that damn Empathy Link. Either way, we'd be connected in a way no one else could be.
As I thought of my friends, I remembered their faces, when we would be smiling and laughing. Not caring that we all had wings, not caring that we had issues in our pasts, not caring about anything but getting through Ranger School.
What was happening to them now?
"Hey, Prince." I said as I sat up from my laying position on the bed. The Eevee popped up.
"(Hey, Hermione and Tyson arrived not to long ago.)" he said.
"Why do you all show up here, anyways?"
"(Well, since their Angel is locked away somewhere, they need to go someplace, right?)"
"Huh," I said.
"(You have another question, don't you?)"
"Yeah. Is there any way for me to get stronger?"
"(Stronger?)"
"Yeah. I figured that where they're holding everyone has to be crawling with demons, and I don't think that I'm strong enough right now in order to fight off all of them. I'll just get myself captured myself, and then we can all kiss freedom goodbye." Prince looked thoughtful for a moment, before looking up at me.
"(It might be a long shot, but I think that there was once this great form of Angels so powerful that demons wouldn't even attempt to fight. They'd just crawl back to Hell.)"
"Wow," I whistled.
"(Yeah, I'm pretty sure they were used by the original Angels to fight the Demon King.)"
"Devlin, right?"
"(Well, no. See, the Demon King is a spirit. Devlin is more like the 'Demon Prince' to put it bluntly.)"
"Oh,"
"(This form is called the 'Warrior Form'. And through extensive training, it can be acquired. It could take months, depending on wether or not you are willing to put yourself through the training. Eleanor, are you up for it?)"
"Do I really need to answer that?" I asked with a smirk. Looking me in the eyes, a beam of light flashed from the moon mark on it's forehead. It shined, and landed smack onto my own forehead, catching me be surprise. Once the light died down, I glanced at my reflection in the glass, and saw a moon-shaped mark, exactly identical to Princes', was one my forehead, my bangs just barely missing it. I brushed my fingers against it, as if I was imagining it.
"Welcome Eleanor," I turned, and did a double take when I saw that Prince wasn't an Eevee, but an actual boy, who couldn't have been any older Cynthia,with golden hair, silver eyes, and a moon-shaped mark on his forehead. He was dressed in a sliver kimono with a moon over his heart. A katana was tucked safely into his sash. I saw that the only thing that made him out as not being normal was the fact that he had Eevee ears the same shade as his hair on top his head. He caught me staring, and rubbed the back of his head bashfully. "Ah, it's the ears, isn't it? I can't exactly help that."
"Yeah, and the fact that you went from pokémon to human!" I exclaimed.
"I know! Isn't it great?!" he asked happily.
"You're still Prince right?"
"Yep!"
"Then how...?"
"Am I human? Simple. I was the trainer and adviser of every single Angel Gene holder before you."
"But you look to be no older than Cynthia!"
"Strange how immortality works, huh?" Prince shrugged. "When you accepted the test to become a Warrior, you unlocked my ability to turn back to human when the sun sets."
"So when the sun rises...?" I asked as I glanced out the window. The sun had set, and stars were beginning to twinkle in the sky.
"Yep. I'll go back to human. It's an old curse set by the Demon King. The same thing applies for all of us. Once our Angel accepts the responsibility of being a Warrior, then we get our ability to be able to help them through and train them during night hours."
"This makes no sense. I thought the Angel Gene died out?"
"It did, and we were hidden away for years. But that didn't stop us from visiting your ancestors with the tiny bit of Angel Gene they had in their dreams."
I looked at him in silence.
"So Eleanor, are you ready?"
"Ready for what?"
"Why, your training for becoming an Angel Warrior." he pulled out his katana, and looked at it admirably. "Are you ready?"
I looked at the human form of Prince, taking in the information.
"Hell freaking yeah."
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Amy: So how many of you expected that?
Devlin: *yawns* How boring. Seriously? Their partners have a curse on them. Yeah. Like that hasn't happened before. *coughFruitsBasketscough*
Amy: Get your facts right! In Fruits Baskets, they were cursed to be turned into animals under high stress or hugged by the opposite gender!
Devlin: So? It's the same.
Amy: No it's not!
Devlin: Yes, it is.
Amy: No it's not!
Devlin: Yes.
Amy: No.
Devlin: Yes
Amy: No.
Devlin: No
Amy: Yes.
Devlin: Told you. You just admitted it.
Amy: *temple throbbing* I'm signing off now so I don't potentially scar the reviewers for life!
Amy47101 signing off! ^.^