3Michael a 17 years old student have visions of an angel's sufferings and passion in what you may call heaven. Living alone, with his parents out of the country, he is left with only an aunt and a mysterious neighbor named Yukuhiro Koros. Yukuhiro later on becomes his loving sempai and friend. What will become of Michael as he sees and witnesses the sorrowful past of the mysterious being?
1. An oblivious angel
At the back of my mind I can hear a voice telling me, asking me "Do you want to die?" as I watch blood spill from a quickly severed head.
I look at my hands and even as the sun bathes me with its ailing rays the words slowly come out from my mouth "This hands that have shed blood and always will, have caused millions of tears to won't ever come to my impure soul!" What is this that flows from my eyes?
"Agony was always in my heart until now that the rays of the sun bind me. My last battle was fought and I was defeated, I fall to the ground forever exiled. Defeated by that voice in my deep consciousness."
1. Serenity in Havoc
Michael
I've dreamt of an angel. His wings were white, smothered with black and tainted with red. He fell, falling towards eternal darkness. My dream ended, I was back in my room. Another vision startled me today. It was another sweet remembrance of blood. Sweet, bitter and sustained. It's like another being is inside of me; we are one yet different. His eyes are blank, cold and without happiness. Walking in silence I went up the rooftop when I saw something or is it someone? A guy was sitting on a chair. His wrist echoes the dripping of blood then I saw the most beautiful figure I have ever seen. "Immaculate" was all that I could say as she crawled on top of him. She placed her fingers on top of his bleeding hands and licked it, kissing the guy later on in a most gentle manner to stop his "chanting". A surge went over my body -they vanished.
Immaculate
There 's a new student in school and I have a feeling that I've known him before, in a time unknown to man. He is Yukihiro Kuros also as it turns out, my new neighbor. Playing in the same sports, same team but different ambitions, we became good friends. He became a sempai and a mentor but he is always gentle, yet scary when angered. He knows my visions, my secrets and he feels it. We share our differences with each other and grow further together in time. One day he told me: "I know a way to conquer your fear, that strange entity inside you!" he told me as if he had a found a secret treasure he wanted to share. I answered approvingly saying "Yes, how? My dreams and my visions are starting to become the reality for me. I haven't done anything but my guilt is eating me up. It's like I've killed thousands without fail, without fear!" He answered me, comforting me "I'll start the ritual tonight, full moon and then we'll see"
Surprisingly there was no guard to be seen. That night as I went up the stairs, again I hear cries, gush of blood and dripping. I'm succumbed in darkness, I woke up our lips were touching, Yukihiro sempai and I. The vision the other day of the guy in jacket was in fact my friend, and I was the "immaculate". In the stillness of the night my wings unfolds. The feathers, "feathers" as I utter the word is carried by the wind towards a distant faraway.
After that day, a night of true elsewhere, something changed in me. I think it was joy of self-recognition or is it having a friend.a friend? The touch, the lingering it was unexpected yet destined.
Riding home on the bus, sitting and turning around, it seems that everything is moving. I hurriedly sit down and later on the dreaded fact of my transformation began! The color of my hair is changing. As the sun touches every strand a glimmer of silver can be seen. "Stop!" I yell frantically. Down the bus I went straight to an ally. Ignorantly a group of guys were there. I know that they are intoxicated by some drug no matter how early it is. They mock me saying "What happened to your hair man?"
"Maybe we should call you grandpa or something but judging from your good looks, I guess you're not one ha!"
"Tsk tsk tsk, since you saw us we have no choice. How I hate to see such a pretty face go to waste"
A burst of laughter is heard but they do not know that they are ridiculing what is not . I do not know what is happening but I felt a dagger piercing my hands but it is not I who is in agony but them. Each one in havoc ran in panic and I was left alone. All alone and I heard a strange voice similar to the one I have heard many times.
1. His Story
I wasn't always like this, ready to kill and emotionless. I had a family; a father, a mother and a sibling when one morning or should I call it night for it was the darkest moment in my life, those murderers came! They slaughtered everyone, my family, my friends. what for me was my all. In an instant the once peaceful dream I shared was filled with red stinging emptiness. Lost in oblivion I didn't think of that sharp sword aiming to slash my head clear-cut. I guess He had other plans for me. A vague silhouette stopped the blade together with the one holding it. Swinging her sword to clean it she told me in a most reassuring voice "Don't be afraid little one, in the labyrinths of darkness will be a new light." For a split second I thought that I saw hope and light but in that second it also vanished. It was then that I realized she killed half of those cold-blooded intruders but they sill kept coming. That was not what diminished my faith, it was when from behind my savior the same sword that almost parted my flesh came. It made an enormous amount of blood spill. It rained, showered by a mixture of water and blood as it touched my once innocent face. My savior right then and there dismembers the guy and told me to come with her, then she told me " Boy, I am Zarhea guardian of the oasis just follow me. I know that I have failed and I'll die later on but you must live before the Tenkushi Empire falls". We escaped, from the smell of the ocean but still it hunted us. Even when we were hidden inside a cave they found us and restrained us. They tortured Zarhea sama and every night I hear laughter. They give me pieces of meat and force me to eat them blabbering about "it" being pure and delicious. I know they are just toying with me, hoping that the cries of their numerous victims won't hunt them on sleepless nights. They hide it through their boisterous laughter, loud music and with unholy acts unbecoming of angels. lusting over them (humans). Finally I escape this hell but what I saw next was more than hell. The sight of Zarhea sama! Her leg was mutilated and rotting, the only good thing was that she was not alive anymore to experience all of this.
I ran as fast as I could, away from everything not knowing my destination. I was tormented "God why are you doing this to me!" It is only then that I realized that the meat they gave me was that of Zarhea sama. "Tears that stain this young angel is not a pleasing sight. smile an eternal smile like that of His. There is always a reason behind this blows fate seemingly difficult to understand and to handle." Her voice echoes in my mind and right then I remembered all that she told me about angels and this war heaven is in engaged in. She told me that the Tenkushi empire was the whole of heavens civilization. It was the peaceful realm that we all lived upon, then it was secretly, slowly and painfully divided by two, scarred by hate, power, lust, envy for the other equally beautiful souls. The oasis was life and they knew that death would come, so the angels fought, divided for whomever they thought was right. Lower in stature and not thinking, they failed to see what was always there, blinded by emotions. This was the bitter fact about angels, the fact that I - no we had to suffer.
I lived in the mountains until I turned 17 years old. Still I do not understand. Why did He let all this happen to everyone. I stared at the sky, canopied by trees, caressed by the soft wind with only animals as company. Why can this endless beautiful blue stay as it is, why can't everything be like this. everlasting, sweet. The feeling I had for those past few years I can't describe and so I ask myself what are these wings for if I don't have anyone to go home to! Lonely as the night came and empty when day arrived but still I felt everyone's presence. I always reminisce over Zarhea sama, her smile that was warm like the sun, radiating all the while we were in that damp cold cave. I miss her and most especially my family.
The time came when after all my training and hardships I was definitely ready to fight! True I may be blinded by the miserable loneliness I felt inside but nothing was left to do but to accept what fate had in store for me. Out from my "den" I felt what life is with cold sheathes of blade coming out from my hands. My first kill was vengeance even if I felt the rupturing of flesh was like I myself was being butchered. After the month of blood shed not knowing whose side I was on I met Apollo, Lilith, Mathew and Sanctus. That time I don't know who is to trust anymore. They told me I was chosen by the one who is mighty to lead this war to an end. Therefore they protected me they sacrificed their lives for me. I wasn't ready to trust anyone but when I met them I did trust. Apollo as I found out was a friend of Zarhea sama and is a guardian of the oasis too. He fights together with the twins Mathew master of swords -swift as the wind, Lilith chain master and Sanctus who can control the four elements. We fought the ultimate fight with the demon that smiled a smile that was emotionless and cold. I knew that he suffered in the same way we did but the difference is - he is stripped of every feeling he got with no one to care for.
During our fight I lost a loved one and eventually all of them. In the end I defeated him with my own choice but there I was in the middle of the ocean surrounded by foams of blood. The rock that was left from the fight as waves hit it with force filled me with senselessness and I felt restless. All I have at that time was them. Apollo once told me that "Living in the past won't do, instead fight for what you have right now! I can not help you if you yourself do not help yourself" these were the words he uttered after Mathew threw himself in a fiery furnace in order to save me. It was then that I realized that they didn't do all this because I was the chosen one, instead because I was for them a family too.
"Agony was always in my heart until now that the rays of the sun bind me. My last battle was fought and I was defeated, I fall to the ground forever exiled. Defeated by that voice in my deep consciousness."
1. Back to Reality
I heard his story, the one inside me whom I will call Laphaer. I walk, walking without stop towards home? I smell the immense fragrance of the flowers, how beautiful they were. Why didn't I saw it before? Tears flow from my eyes; I sit down only to find my glasses wet and blurred. Someone removes them and I look in surprise. "Yu-chan" he wipes my tears and hugs me. He did not say anything and I sobbed thinking of what happened to Laphaer and all the blood I saw, and emotions I felt. Remembering all the sad things that happened in my life and how my parents died years ago. Back then I didn't show my tears but now I show them filled with only regret because I didn't see how life had been good to me. Now this voice is heard but should l listen to it?
"NEVER regret anything as nights might pass and days darken but there will always be light despite solitude. the skies will remain blue and stars will continue to shine. Just believe!" again a hug and embrace. I always want to be like this forever in the arms of my sun, together with sempai.
Suddenly I saw a light and I heard someone calling me into reality.
1. REALITY?
I woke up with all kinds of apparatus surrounding me, then I saw my aunt. I asked her "Where am I, where is Yukihiro sempai?" "Yukihiro? Michael chan you've been in a coma for years since you got in that horrible accident! This is a miracle sent by GOD!" tears formed from the woman who took care of me all this time; she was my aunt. I couldn't understand was it all just a dream, a vision maybe? What had happened? After a few days of recovery auntie gave me a letter saying:
God intended this to happen, for us to meet and for you to hear my story. Yes I am Laphaer and I come in different forms, now I came through Yukihiro. Like me he was born out of love and out of decisions made by your own self because he became your hope and reality.
She told me that the letter came from one of my friends who were with me in the accident.
The next day I walked through the corridor that leads towards the garden that was separated by glass. I heard a noise then as I looked up I saw a butterfly that was desperately trying to go outside but can not. I then saw him..
In this unlikely time I see you When you are near me Butterflies appear
Why did you leave me? You left without warning Without words But you left with a sign that says "I Love You"