Return of the Angels
Okay, so she had called out saying she was the leader of, obviously, her herd.
Why else would everyone else surround her to protect her? One answer is reasonable for that. It was because she was the leader.
She admits she's scared with facing these people, but the reason behind it all was logical. She wasn't expecting to meet them here under these circumstances. But there was a little question nagging at her mind. What were they doing all the way out here?
"Our resources have told us of an unknown large group going around performing deeds against criminals that are rebellious against the new order of the world. We have come to confront you in order to see which side it is that you represent, in doing so we will finalize whether or not you need to be taken out of the equation." And her memory served her extremely well that she was able to recognize that unchanged voice to be Karl Schubaltz. The thoughts of fun to tease him again and to compare their major difference in strength for battle… it was hilarious and kind of outrageous for him if you are to keep going on and on about it.
What would it be like to tease him with her past self now?
"According to my resources, you are Karl L. Schubaltz and you have a differentiating battle power and strength with a female named Sapphire." She heard him growl. "Or I might have gotten the information a little… jumbled. But according to your reaction, which is also pained from hearing that name, I take it I hit more than a nerve." She would be surprised if they couldn't tell it was her through those words. If they didn't they really didn't know her past self well enough. They should most definitely know that she is so arrogant and love pissing people off; especially if it means that she gets something she likes out of it. So now it's probably very easy to see why she loves pushing people's buttons. It also means she's interested in them.
"Celine…" May whispered but obviously everyone heard it.
"It's okay May, these guys will be easy to handle." She used the controls to jump in front of her herd, instead of them defending her; she was going to defend them from any kind of assault now.
"Oh you really think so?"
Irvine… always thinks he can get the upper hand but trying to push the buttons on ones anger or pride. Testing them to see if they dared do what they threaten. Through the little time she's known the guy, she's got him down as if she has a list of all the things he does right in front of her.
"Ooh, I'm trembling Irvine, really think you can push me towards that edge?" She taunted with a smirk.
She knew that there was tension; so much of it, but what shocked her was that Van wasn't saying anything. She glanced over to the now seventeen year old male inside his zoid. Silence from him, could he have changed that much since she knew the loud mouth, or was it simply that something was affecting him? Her smirk had dropped, she wish he would say something to break that awkward silence between them. Why was he so damn quiet? He was always the one to be jumping into anything head first, could he seriously have changed that much just like she had?
Okay she hasn't changed that much.
"Wait a minute, guys!" Van suddenly spoke. Now she knew that he was onto something. "Who did you say you were again?"
"I didn't!"
"Could you tell me it…?" He seemed desperate but he didn't want to say the word please to some person he most likely doesn't even know.
So he's definitely onto something.
"It's Celine…" She replied, but she knew that it wouldn't stir up anything. That name was far from being similar to her old one. This time she represented nothing like a jewel, it was just her true, honest to the heavens, birth name. It took her so long to be able to find anything of her and her name was the last of all it be found. But she was entirely grateful that she found it. She couldn't walk around with a name that would hold all hint of Proven with it all. After all, he was the one to give her that name. A name that she had come to hate for being called it by a man she hated, but she loved it because it was that name that had been involved with everything she loved.
She couldn't escape from her haunting past no matter how much she ran from it.
But she wasn't running from it anymore. She was embracing it, just like she was embracing the truth of her birth, her home and her people. Yes, her people, not someone having her beneath them, but she was above everyone else. Her people… she needed to reunite with them, needed to bring them to this planet so they can live without demons tearing them apart. Well they come to try and succeed at that, but if she were with them and brought back the fight within her people, then the demons would not stand a single chance at succeeding anything with the angels.
They had grown weak over the centuries.
"Celine… you act so familiar it's strange. You constantly remind me of a friend who was important to me with the little time we got to know her." The sadness coated his voice. He was on the right track. Definitely! "But she sacrificed her life to protect all of us, she was willing to sacrifice and bring sadness to her friends in order to protect them. But she's dead now, so I'll ask you nicely to choose another style to show who you are."
No, no, no, no… this was all wrong.
Was she actually going to give up without even trying anything first?
Panic rose within her. Her heart thumped fearfully and she couldn't help but seek out help with her eyes.
Everything was slowly shattering around her. Well her plans… but she wasn't going to give up. If she knew the most definite thing that is part of being an angel, it is to never bow down to anything that resembles something evil. The darkness of her feelings… there was no darkness in her feelings at all. She found out that human emotions were not darkness, so why was she cloaked in the thought of reeling into the darkness of her emotions? She hadn't a clue but she knew never to back down, never to just lay down a white card to surrender. She was never the surrendering type, she would die fighting or trying; she would never been known as one to die without trying.
"I act like Sapphire, right?" She couldn't help the malice in her voice. She couldn't help the glare in her eyes. She was sick and tired of having known that they were giving up on her. Knowing it was different, but to see it before her. She mentally put her foot down and she was going in for the kill this time. She didn't care if they couldn't handle it, despite their depressed states, if they were willing to give up on her she would have to ignite that fighting spirit that they once held.
"Don't compare yourself to her. You'll never be her and you never will." The need to shout coursed through the air. She knew he wanted to shout but he didn't. Van was slowly breaking under pressure. The memory of losing someone still covered them, mainly Van, no wonder his distance.
"I thought your objective was finding out if we're on your side or not." She levelled back at him. If he didn't want to control his anger but wouldn't show it, she'd do the same, except she would do as she wanted to. "Do you plan to stop us doing what we, as our group, intend to?"
"Depending on your objective… Celine!" Karl struggled on her name, almost as if he didn't want to accept it.
"Our objective…? Thought you already knew that, Karl…" She smirked.
He growled. "To stop criminals from proceeding in their activities…?" She made no confirmation. "In a sense you are one our side."
"I beg to differ." She replied, pointing out the complete opposite.
"If you are not on our side, then why do you not leave it to the Guardian Force to reduce the amounts of criminal activity?"
"Because the lot of you are incompetent and unable to care for the entire planet…?"
"Why you little…" Okay she didn't know that voice.
"Easy Tomas don't let her get to you." Karl advised him.
Oh yeah, that was right, Karl had a little brother named Tomas. So now she knew how he sounded. She had always wanted to meet his little brother, but maybe that might have to come for another rally, some other time.
"I was questioning the reason of why I don't leave it you guys, I didn't imply it, I just asked something basic that should be easy enough for someone like you to answer." They wanted to say something but she didn't allow them. "The Guardian Force was created under a dream by Sapphire, a very close and personal friend to some of you, but just a close friend to most of you. I do not ask that as a question, I already know why you were created."
"You know so much about us, but we know little on you, just who are you?" Irvine questioned.
"Someone named Fiona Linette there?" She said changing the subject with an outstandingly friendly smile.
They didn't like that question, she gathered, but that didn't stop a female from replying.
"This is Fiona Linette…"
"Oh, yo…! It's been bugging me a while but I needed to talk to you." She had caught the blonde's interest. "Do you know me?"
"I don't believe I do…" Suddenly there was nearly an inaudible gasp. "Can you please step out of your zoid so that I may look at you?"
"Aw, since you asked so kindly, of course."
"Celine, what are you doing?" May frantically asked.
"Oh, is it okay if everyone comes out their zoids?" She suddenly asked Fiona before anyone made a move.
"Sure…I guess…"
She didn't know where everything turned a little pear shaped, but the moment she met Fiona in between all the midst of the zoids, what flung through those familiar red eyes tuned everything out and encased only the pair of them into something so deep that it was going to be so hard to break through.