Hello folks. Arana here!
Go vote on the poll on my profile, to help me decide on a name for the story.
Anyways, so far no reviews (sigh) but that's OK. I guess not a lot of people who read Gumdrops have started reading this yet. (but I did post a tidbit to tell those who have read Gumdrops that this is out!)
And now, onto the story!
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Chapter 2- The Story is Real!
I quickly closed, and locked, my diary, hiding it under my pillow. Quickly bouncing off my bed, I grabbed a random dress, surprising myself because it was my special dress, purple with the insignia of the Four Angels from my story. Quickly, I put it on, muttering to myself that I should have gotten dressed earlier.
Suddenly, there was a knock at my bedroom door, startling me as I rushed to open it. Outside, in the hall, were three other teenage girls, each having qualities of animals. One had wolf ears and a wolf tail, one seemed to have feathers for hair, and the last had red wings sprouting from her back. Each had the Four Angels' insignia on their chest.
"Um," I said, inspecting them closely. "Who are you three?"
"We're the daughters of the first Three Angels," the wolf-girl snorted.
"Pfft, really?" I said. "You girls seriously believe that old fable?"
The looked at me like I was crazy.
"What?" I asked. "It's seriously a fable."
"You're basically telling us that your mother, Challenger, told you the Legend of the Four Angels as a fable?" The winged girl said.
"Um yeah?"
"No wonder why she invited us then," the feathered girl laughed. "To show her it's real!"
"Come on!" laughed all three of them, grabbing me and pulling me to the living room, where Mom was sitting with three women. All in purple, with red wings, and were all clearly albino. Like their daughters, each had special qualities. One was a wolf-woman, one had feathers for hair, and the last had red wings.
"What the heck?" I said. "Mom, what's going on?"
"Ariel, it's time you learned the truth about the old fable I've been telling you," Mom sighed. "Sans and I have been talking about it, and we believe you are old enough to understand."
"Wait, you told her about what happened back then as a fable?" the wolf-woman snorted. "Really, Challenger?"
"What! Not everyone here in Gumdrops knows about the Dark World! Only certain folk…" Mom said with a laugh.
"I trust your choice," the winged woman chuckled. "After all, we didn't tell our girls about it until they were older as well. But, then again, we didn't tell them about what happened in the Dark World back then."
"Woah, woah, wait," I said, panicking a little. "You're actually saying that the Legend of the Four Angels is not just a story?!"
"Yes, sweetie," Mom said. "But not only that, as I have one more surprise for you!"
And suddenly, she, and the other women, all had wings.
"We're the Four Angels!" Mom said with a big smile, tilting her head to the side.
I almost fainted. Why? Because the Fourth Angel, whom I wanted to be all my life, was my flipping mother. And I was also in the presence of the other three Angels!
"Oh dear," the owl woman laughed. "She looks like she is going to faint!"
Mom cleared her non-existent throat. "Ariel, this is Destiny, the Angel of Fate, Sam, the Wolf of Strength, and Sagesse, the Owl of Wisdom, and their daughters, Maya, Lily, and Lucia."
Each of the three girls bowed as their names were told.
"I… I can't believe this…" I said.
Dad walked in. "hello 'i can't believe this', i'm dad," he punned.
"Oh my gosh," groaned Lily, the wolf-girl. "Why the heck did he make a dad joke?"
I shrugged. "He does that often," I said.
"because i'm sans-sational," Dad punned. "heya frisk, hi destiny, sam, sagesse, ariel, and the other girls, just seeing what's going on."
"We didn't interrupt your midday nap, did we?" Mom asked.
"nah i woke up on my own. i'ma gonna go grab a bottle of ketchup to drink," Dad chuckled, leaving the room and going towards the kitchen.
"He drinks ketchup?" asked Lucia, the young angel.
"EW!" cried all three of them, sticking out their tongues in sync.
"I don't see anything wrong with it," I said, mildly confused with their reactions. "He does that all the time." I thought for a moment. "Although, I am quite happy I didn't inherit his love for condiments."
"Which I am kind of happy about you not inheriting it as well," Mom chuckled.
Dad walked out of the kitchen, a ketchup bottle in his hand. "i honestly do not know when i started to drink ketchup, but i know i like it a lot," he chuckled. "now i uh, gotta go check up on toby, see if he's ok."
Toby is our pet pomeranian, who has been with my family since I can remember.
"You go do that, Sans," Mom chuckled.
"Anyways," Destiny said. "We were wondering if you girls would like to visit the Omega Timeline for the first time?"
Maya, Lily, and Lucia all gasped. "Really?!" they cried, once again in sync.
"The what now?" I asked.
"The Omega Timeline is where all the survivors of destroyed AUs are placed," Lucia cried, as if shocked that I had no clue what the Omega Timeline was.
"And where the TPU's base is!" Lily cried.
"TPU?" I asked. It sounded like a shortened version of "Toilet Paper Universe" or something like that. At least it was better than the "I AM HUMANS" which is what I called the Anti-Monster Humans United (Ignorant Anti-Monster Humans United Makes Absolutely No Sense is the literal term for I AM HUMANS) but still kind of misleading.
"The Timeline Patrol Unit!" cried Maya. "The folk who keep the AUs from glitching!"
"I need sometime to think about this," I said.
"You have till tomorrow to answer," Mom said with a sigh. "You can go back to your room now."
I don't know how fast I walked back to my room, but it was pretty fast. I immediately jumped onto my bed, grabbed my diary, and started writing in a new entry.