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This is a pretty boring profile. but i don't know how to make it any better. if you know how i can PLEASE TELL ME!!! Addygotto.

Hey peeps im writing this story. i am about halfway done with it. im giving you all a sneak peek and am putting it on my profile page!! it is the story below. i hope youi like it!!

ANGEL By, me

Heaven is going crazy. Weird huh? No one knew it was going to happen. But here we are. But I'm getting ahead of my self. Ill start at the beginning. Just for you.

“Angel! What do you think you are doing?!?!?!?!” Pause button. That was Barom Toba. He is the 3 seat of my squad. I'm sure you are probably confused. So I will give you some background before I continue my story. Meaning I will tell you the beginning of my life. I live in heaven. Yep heaven. But I am not dead. You know what that means right? Yep. I'm an angel. And my birthers thought it was pretty funny to name me Angel. I look like I am a 12 year old girl. And to human to angel standards I am. But really I am 6,000,000,467,372 years old. You see angels age WAY differently than humans. Humans age from year to year. Angels age from 100,000 years to 100,000 years. So it is a little bit different. So everyone thinks that heaven is a perfect place were you can be with god and live happily right? Well that is a dream. It is what god wanted too. But then he realized just how many humans there were. He even had to enlarge heaven to fit them all. Then he came up with this plan to send humans back to Earth. So those religions that say there is reincarnation is accurate. Just not as sever. You die then come to heaven. God welcomes you in to heaven. Then he takes you to this angel (it changes depending the year) and that angel takes you to the Human Living Area or HLA. You live there for 30 years. But luckily you are given a 20 year old faux body in case you died of old age or body disorder. Once you live there for 30 years you are then transported to 2nd Earth. Witch is a smaller version of Earth. It changes with Earth too. Remember the tsunami in Japan? Well it happened in 2nd Earth too. Just the people didn't re-die. But once you live in 2nd Earth for 3 years you go to place of youth or POY. There you get a baby body and is put into a woman down on Earth were you live again. You don't remember anything from your past life or heaven. But one guy did. Don't know why he remembered his first moms face. But he did. And I think that is were all the reincarnation thing came from. So that is heaven. NOT. That is heaven for humans. Angels have way harder lives. Sometimes in 2nd Earth a male and female get together and have a baby. But since they are dead they don't really have a baby. They gave birth to an angel. People who do that are called “birthers” witch I said earlier. My birthers were two Asian people. They were really nice. But they didn't get the fact that they didn't get to keep me. They did not know they were going to go back to Earth. So they thought they were able to raise this pretty baby in heaven. Wrong-o. I was taken away. My male birther put up a fight. He accidentally scratched me. I do not know why but it scarred me. So I have a line on my leg were he scratched me. But like I said angels grow different. So the first 3 years of angel life you grow like a human. But once you hit that 3 year mark you really become an angel. My birthers were told I was an angel. They thought they were special for giving birth to an angel. They named me Angel. I have long black silky hair that flows down to my knees like my female birther. But I am strong and very athletic like my male birther. But it stops there. I have a pale skin like all angels. And I also have my wings. There have been many different thoughts on what an angel looks like. We do in fact have wings. But each set looks different. Some have insect like wings. Some have feathered. Some have no wings at all and just flout. Then there are the crazies who have jet packs and rocket boots. Luckily, I have feathered wings. They are long and strong. White with brown flecks. Really pretty wings. So that is my appearance. Once you hit 3 years things change for you. A lot. You are trained. Yep trained. In all different things. Then they monitor you so they know what you are good at. Once you turn four they put you into a squad. There are a bunch of squads. I don't even think I know them all. But it is a variety of different things. I was put into squad 7. the protecting squad. Yeah I know what you are thinking, why does heaven have to be protected? Well it does. There are the demons for one. Then there are mad souls. Then there are the creatures who live in the endless (land around heaven that isn't occupied). Then there is random things from hell. So I was put in the protection squad. I was a really good fighter. Thought I was the best actually. Nope. Not at all. I walked into squad 7 headquarters and every looked at me. One girl walked up to me. She looked different than the others. Seemed older and wiser but she wasn't the oldest. She had light brown hair that was really thin and pulled back into a french braid. She was tall and skinny. She had on the squad 7 uniform witch was a pair of knee high boots, skinny jeans, a white tank top with the possible black jacket. But that was tied around her waist. But she also had something else, she wore a necklace. A necklace with a symbol that meant “captain”. This was the captain of squad 7. “hello.” she said. “you must be Angel correct?” I nodded. “my name is Captain Youshino (pronounced yo-shine-oh).” the girl said. She turned to the rest of the squad. “this is the new recruit Angel.” one guy snorted. He had short black hair. He was very muscular. He, of course, wore the uniform. “Angel huh? What a sweet name.” he said this sarcastically. “i know we are all angels here but who really is angelic like the humans say? What a stupid name for a fighter. If you even are one.” I grit my teeth. “Tikko if she is here she is obviously a fighter.” Captain Youshino said. “well lets see.” Tikko got up. “fight me Angel.” “OK.” I said. I was confident. But I still went all out. I wanted to show this dude I was a fighter. I hardly touched him. He dodged almost every swing. I contacted his face once. Gave him a nasty bruise. But other than that I was being beat up. He stepped back. “OK I guess you can work on it. But you aren't there yet.” I sat there. Stunned. I was the best out of my training group. But here I was, fighting someone in my new squad and I lost. “I'll train you personally.” Tikko said. He stuck out his hand. “Tikko Tishino. 7th seat.” I shook it. We became good friends. He trained me really hard. Soon I was going up in rank. He did too. He became 5th seat (seat is you have captain, lieutenant, 3rd seat, 4th seat, etc. It is how strong you are.), I became 9th seat. That is when I had my first attack. First job. I was pretty excited. I had been part of the 7th squad for 3 weeks. I thought I would be able to get rid of this monster. But everyone else was worried. It was a creature from the endless. It was a big one too. It was so big that they didn't assign it to everyone. It was a 10 seaters and up. Luckily I was in there. So I got to go. “remember what I taught you.” Tikko said before we left. “got it.” I said. We went out to the place were the monster was seen earlier. We tracked it by all of damage it caused. “I can sense it!” a girl said. She was 5th seater named Isabella. She is one of the rare people in squad 7 that does not have a Japanese name. Apparently they are good fighters. But it is fun to learn all of the cool sounding names. “i can too.” Captain Youshino said. I could too. I felt the pressure rising. Witch is a sign that danger is near. I twitched with excitement. Then I heard a roar. It was huge and loud and I could see a dark shape come in to view. It was running towards us. Everyone pulled out there specified weapon. I got a cool one. It is a really long sword. It starts skinny and widens as it gets longer. It is about four feet long. It is black with a silver edge. Its end was wide and was cut off jaggedly like a saw, and in a diagonal so it had a point, flat, blade, hilt thing. Its hilt was black and leather bound. Coming out of it hilt was a chain. On the end of the chain a crescent moon thing was attached. It was black and silver too and was really sharp. So I got a cool kind blade. But not everyone were lucky. Tikko had a crossbow. He was very skilled with it. He also had a yard long sword in case of emergencies. There was one dude who only had a knife. But that is because he doesn't like weapons. Prefers his fists. As the monster came into view I realized it was not black but gray. It was around 20 feet tall. It looked like a ginormous bear. Except it had tentacles instead of legs. It didn't have fur either. It opened its mouth to give off another roar and I saw foot long teeth. Three rows of foot long teeth. I wasn't feeling as confident as I had back at base. “it is a squib.” Captain Youshino said. “great.” I heard someone mutter. “Tikko try to shoot him down before he gets to close.” Captain Youshino said. “aim for the eyes, and if it does come close don't touch its legs! It is poisonous.” Tikko shot. And shot. And shot. And shot. He hit the squib every time but it didn't do anything. If anything at all it made the beast more mad. “dangitt!” Tikko said. “not gonna work.” “OK then Angel you are up.” Youshino said. I jerked up. What? What could I do to that thing? “Use your crescent.” Tikko said. “i told her how good you were at slinging it.” O right. I had practiced slinging it so I could use it as a throwing sword. I had good aim. And if I wanted to I could sling my sword. “Goatseeyou heh!” I cried. It was special enchantment to make my chain expand and shorten when I wanted to. I started spinning my crescent in a huge circle over my head. I waited a bit to make sure I had the right speed and let it fly toward the beast. It grew longer as it sped toward the monster. The squib was running head into it. I heard a whistle from someone behind me. I thought it was going to hit it for sure. But at the last second the squib went to the left and the crescent went straight past its head. “Crap.” a person behind me said. But I wasn't done. I flicked my wrist and the chain stopped getting longer. Instead it curved and started coming back towards me. In the process rapping up the monster. “Wow.” another whistle. The chain wrapped around the monster over and over until the beast couldn't move. “yeah go Angel!” Tikko said. He ran over to the squib. He pulled out his sword. He went to slice off the beasts head when a tentacle whipped out and grabbed Tikkos foot. He fell to the ground. “Tikko!!” I cried. I rushed over there as fast as I could. But by the time I did a tentacle was already pressed against his face. The goo running off the thing was like acid. Burning into Tikkos face. “die monster.” Tikko picked up his crossbow and shot the beast in the face. Don't know how he could still see though. It was a really good shot and the arrow went straight through the beasts face and lodged there. The beast moaned a couple of times then died. “Tikko!” I cried again. I had finally reached him. I grabbed him by the shoulders and pulled him away from the beast. I knelt next to him. “Get help!!” I cried towards the group. “No.” Tikko said. He smiled at me. “this stuff is permanent. I will die. No matter what treatment they give me.” “no that isn't true. We are gonna get you to squad 4 (medicine squad) and you are going to be fine.” “No. I'm am sorry Angel. But there is nothing that can be done for me.” “nonononononononononononononono.” I said. “you can't die. We haven't finished training. I have only known you for three weeks!” then I added in a whisper, “what will I do without you?” I had only known him for three weeks that is true. But I trusted him immediately. Right after our fight he was my best friend. I was happy. He was fun to be with. Funny. Stupid jokes. Good battle techniques. He used up all my time so I was never bored. I was always with him. “it will be fine Angel.” He said. It was hard to understand because his mouth was being burned up. “you can learn. . . without me. . . “ he trailed off. At first I thought he had already died. Then I realized he was just gasping in pain. “Angel. . . you have to do this. Though I know you wont like it.” “what? What do I have to do?” I said. “do your chores? Make sure I take your 5th seat?” he chuckled. “i wish it was only that.” he paused. “Angel I wouldn't ask if you couldn't do it but. . . . put me out of my pain. Kill me Angel. I don't want to burn away. It is already agony to just sit here. Please. Kill me.” I gasped. How could I kill Tikko? He was my best friend. My only friend at that. “Do it Angel.” I jumped. I looked up to see everyone in the battle party standing around Tikko and me. It was captain that spoke. “kill him. Before he gets in any more pain.” I started crying. I'm not afraid to admit it. The tears were streaming down my face. I grabbed my sword. I lifted him up into a seated position. I aimed the sword at his heart. “goodbye Angel. Maybe you can see me someday.” Tikko said. “goodbye Tikko.” I whispered. “you were the best friend I ever had.” and I ran the sword through his chest.

I said nothing for the next three days. I did what I was told. But i never spoke a word. I just did my job then sat on my bunk. I felt like I had to do something. To avenge his death. But how could I? I was the one who killed him. Maybe I should kill myself then I can go to angel heaven were ever that is and be with him. But I knew that if I did that it would only make him sad. Killing myself. What a disgrace. I heard a knock on my door. I was sitting on my bed again. thinking/sulking/grieving I didn't know. “Angel?” the door opened and Captain Youshino stepped in. “You have been mourning for a while Angel.” she sat down on the bed next to me. I curled into a ball and hugged my knees. “I killed him. My best- my ONLY- friend. And I killed him.” “No you didn't.” “what?” “you did not kill him. You were doing his wishes. You were putting him out of a lot of pain.” I was quiet. Why had I never looked at it that way? I felt so stupid. This whole time I was worrying over the fact that I had put a blade through him to realize what I had actually done. “Do you see now?” Youshino asked. “yes I do. Thank you Captain.” I said. I released my legs and dangled them over the side of the bed. “thank you.” “You are welcome.” she stood up. “you should go out there. You need to regain your 9th seat. You are currently at 11.” I gasped. dangitt! I rushed out of the room. “Who challenged my post?” I demanded. “Um, that was Satan.” a guy named Troy said. He was 17 seat. “who is Satan?” I asked. I had never heard of him. Must be a new guy. “that is me.” I turned to see this gorgeous guy. He had blonde curly hair. His eyes were an electric blue. He wore the uniform of course, but he also had a wristband. It was black and 2 inches wide. On it was a silver medal looking thing. It was an oval that went across the wristband and had a bear spitting out fire on it. It was very pretty. I realized I was staring with my mouth wide open. I quickly closed it. “no one challenges my post.” “Sorry. I didn't know that. Only started yesterday. How would I know?” he said. So this was a new guy. But why hadn't I seen him? Yeah I was usually in my room but I still would have seen him during chores. I pulled my sword out of my scabbard. “i challenge you to get my position back.” “Do we have to fight?” he asked innocently. “just fight 8. I wouldn't want to ruin your perfect skin.” was he mocking me? Or flirting with me? I couldn't tell. Whatever the case I still wasn't giving up easily. “Yes we do. I challenge you.” I said. “Fine fine.” he sighed. We went out to the arena were we practice fighting and other such. Most of the squad came out too. They wanted to see this fight between the new dude and mourner. Satan pulled out his weapon. It was a knife. It must have enchantments like my chain does. “you can attack first.” Satan called. I paused and thought. If this guy was new and was already in the top 10 then that meant he had crazy skillz. I should probably wrap him up so he can't attack. But then that means my main attack wont work later on. Ill just attack him from behind. I jumped high into the air and soared over him. He turned around calmly right as I darted toward him with my sword ready. I aimed for his shoulder. But he stepped aside. Whoa. Not expecting that. I had to much power! I fumbled and fell. Grr. I thought of another option. I want him to underestimate. So that I can easily tie him up. Suddenly Satan appeared right next to me. His knife was raised over his head. He slashed me and I barely dodged. He just kept slashing. Dang this guy was fast! I barely dodged each attack. But I didn't attack back. I put on a fake scared face. He was grinning like a maniac. But maybe he was. He suddenly pulled out a second knife and slashed my shoulder. I cried out in pain. But it didn't hurt that much. He flew backward like someone had pushed him. But he landed on his feet. “you had enough girl?” Satan said. He didn't sneer it. He merely asked a question. “No.” I said in barely a whisper. Satan sighed. “I don't want to hurt you.” “Who said you were?” I said an evil grin crossed my face. Time! “Goatseeyou heh!” everyone watching suddenly perked up. This is were it got interesting. I flung my crescent towards Satan. It was the fastest I had ever thrown it and it came as a blur. Satan didn't know what was happening. He couldn't get out of the way. It slashed him across the chest and cut his shirt open so it hung down. But I didn't stop there. I flicked my wrist and as the crescent was going past Satan it flipped and- just like the squib- wrapped around him. He just sat there, stunned. I yanked on the chain and he fell over. Dropping his knives. “Have you had enough?” I mimicked his voice. He merely smiled. “So I guess there is someone worth while in here.” everyone gasped in shock at this. Did he really just say that no one was good enough? I was but no one else was? That was a little to far buster. No one in this squad was gonna go disrespecting other angels. I yanked the chain again. This time it tightened up. “Goatseeyou heh.” the chain started to shrink, fast. Satan zipped across the ground towards me. When he was getting close I yanked him to a standing position. When he was finally in range I grabbed his shoulder and held him up. “No one in this squad disrespects others you got that?” I snarled in his face. “No one. Even some rookie who has some skills.” “I never said anything.” he said, still wearing his maniac grin. “i merely was saying the truth.” I growled. “let him go Angel.” Youshino had walked up next to me. “But he was disrespecting-” “yes I know what he was doing. Let him go.” I was still annoyed. “release.” the chain dropped away from Satan's body and he fell to the ground. The chain shrunk until I could walk around with it not dragging on the ground. I put it back in its scabbard. I walked past Satan to go back to my cabin. I kicked him on the way just for extra measure. “I won.” Youshino gave me a glare but didn't stop me so I just kept walking. I was almost to the building when an angel crashed into me. We both fell to the ground. “sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry.” the angel muttered over and over. It was a girl, she had long thick brown hair. It fell over her face to cover her right side of her face. She was wearing a black robe similar to what karate guys wear. She obviously wasn't in the 7th squad. “I'm sorry.” the girl repeated. “you said that.” I laughed. She looked at the ground. “why you in such a rush?” I asked her. “o!” she looked up. “I was running back to my building. I was giving a message to Captain Zeke of 6th squad. But then I was hurrying back.” “O.” I said. “So that means you are in squad 14. the messengers. Or the runners.” she nodded. “and you must be in squad 7 for your sword.” I nodded. I stuck out my hand. “Angel.” She shook it. “Maya. You look like you are pretty high in rank. You a lieutenant?” “o no. I am only rank 9. and I have only even been here for over 3 weeks.” I said. “really? Me too. I wonder why I never saw you in training?” Maya said. “you were probably that blur I saw. Always running never stopping.” I said. “o.” she said. “yeah that's me.” We both laughed. I guess life is still the same. Even without Tikko. I just have to make new friends. This girl is cool. “Well I have to get back to my base. It was nice meeting you Angel.” Maya said. “You too. Maybe we will see each other later.” I said. “Yeah maybe.” “Bye.” “Bye.” Maya waved and zipped off. “well it is time to find some new friends.” I said to myself. I walked toward the base. “Angel you are so lucky!” Matsumoto said. I had met her and we have become OK friends. But not as much as Tikko and I. “Why?” I asked her. “Cause you got to hang out with Tikko.” She said with dreamy eyes. Her eyes were giant and green. Witch made her look like an aneme character. “So?” I said. “Well Tikko was”- I cringed at 'was'-”so hot! And you got to hang out with him all day!” “Hmm. I never thought of him as 'hot'.” I said thoughtfully. “Really? Wow Angel. He was” -cringe again-” the hottest guy in squad 7. until Satan came of course. I am sure you noticed him right?” Matsumoto pushed. I sighed. “Yes I did. I even fought him to get my seat back.” “You did?!” huge stars filled Matsumotos eyes. “I wish I could get that close to him!” I rolled my eyes. How did she get into this squad? It seems all she thinks about is hot guys! She is in the 20th seat. And there are 30 members. So she isn't the weakest. But isn't the strongest by any means. “So? I'll try again later OK? Ill go for a higher seat.” a voice was coming up behind Matsumoto and I. I looked up. It was Satan's voice. “What who is it?” Matsumoto asked me in a whisper. “It is Satan. Can't you recognize his voice?” I whispered back. “It is him?!?!?” Matsumoto squealed. “I have never heard him before. Only seen him off at a distance.” I rolled my eyes. O geez. She thinks she is gonna get a guy she has never even heard before? “I'm telling you I'll try later!” Satan walked into the room. Two guys were flanking him. I noticed he was very tall because the two guys (Tyler and Notki) were way shorter than him. Matsumoto and I turned to look at them. “O.” Satan stopped. “Hi Angel.” “Hey.” I replied. “What you up to?” Satan asked. “Just hanging with Matsumoto.” I gestured to her. “O. Hi.” “Hi Satan. It is nice to meet you.” Matsumoto said batting her eyelashes. O so now your flirting with him? “Hey I wanted to ask you if you could give me some tips. I need to work on staying focused the whole time. Could you help me Angel? So far you are the only one who has beat me.” Satan said. Tyler was standing there all quiet, but Notki was starting to fiddle his thumbs impatiently. “Maybe. I have never trained someone before. And I myself have only been here over 3 weeks.” I told him. “That's fine. Any training is good training right?” I shrugged. “Well how 'bout tomorrow?” Satan asked. “I guess.” I said. “But you will have to wait till I finish my duties.” “Of course. I will just come find you when I'm done.” Satan said. “OK. Fine by me.” I said. I blew some hair out of my face. “bye then. See you tomorrow.” Satan said. “Bye.” Satan and his cronies walked away. As soon as they were out of ear shot Matsumoto squealed. “He TOTALLY digs you Angel! You are so lucky!!!” “O yeah right. I have only known him for a day.” “So? Ever heard of 'love at first sight'?”Matsumoto asked. “I read about it in a book I got from the human library. It was really romantic.” She folded her hands and looked at a cloud with the biggest stars I have ever seen from her- and with Matsumoto that is saying something. “well so what? It isn't like I like him back.” I said. “So what? He probably just thinks you are playing hard to get. So he is just gonna try harder. He is asking you to train him so he can, 1, show off his skills, and 2, so he can get closer to you.” Matsumoto said. “ugh I DON'T CARE!! IDC Matsumoto! Can we please NOT talk about romance and all that junk? I mean really, you would think we were in the cupid squad. . . “

So after I finally got Matsumoto to shut up about all that love stuff I went on a walk. I wanted to see more of heaven than just squad 7 base and the arena. First I walked towards squad building 14 to hopefully see Maya. But no one was outside. And I didn't want to knock and see. Unless you have an important message you should not knock on other squads doors. So I just kept walking. It was cool outside. Nice and sunny with a nice breeze running through my hair. I knew it was probably flowing out behind me like a black cape. I walked until I found a stream. It was shallow and not only 10 feet across. The water was clean and fresh. I drank a sip and splashed some on my face. “Who are you? And what are you doing?” I looked up startled. A guy was standing behind me. He had really short brown hair and was wearing Pair of jeans and a plaid short sleeved shirt. He held a big stick and it was pointed at me. “I am sitting here. Taking relaxing break. But what do you think you can do to me with that stick?” I pointed to my sword. “Crap.” he said. He dropped the stick. “so what are you doing way over here by squad 46?” he sat down next to me. “I want to see the whole of heaven. So im taking a walk. I sat here to take a break.” I told him. “Ah.” he stuck out his hand. “the name is Tisho, Tisho of the 46th squad.” I shook it. “Angel 9th seat of the 7th squad.” “it is a really nice day today.” Tisho remarked. “Yeah. Perfect for a walk. I thought of waiting till tomorrow, but the weather was to nice to turn down.” I said. “yeah. I looked out at the water and saw you sitting here. So I came to check it out.” Tisho said. I laughed “what did you think I was an enemy? An enemy that 7th squad didn't notice?” “Well no.” he admitted. “I noticed your long black hair. I saw it and thought 'who is she? She has a lot of hair. Is she an angel? O wait probably!'” I laughed again. “well I'm glad I ran into you instead of someone who actually knew how to fight.” Tishos face turned red. “Well I didn't know you could fight! No one around here does except the captains! And the lieutenants.” “Well were I am almost everyone can fight. The messengers, the protectors, my squad, we can all fight.” I said. “I guess that god organized us from fighting to no fighting.” “Maybe.” I said. “Have you ever seen god?” Tisho asked. “No. have you?” “no. but I want to. Everyone is always talking about how great he is. It is in a lot of human books too.” “I never really thought of it. I just think one think at a time. . . . not. I don't think about god. I only thought of him when my best friend was dying. I thought if I brought him to god he could heal him and he wouldn't have died.” I said. “Your friend died?” Tisho said in disbelief. I nodded solemnly. “four days ago. Died by the monster. Sorta.” “What do you mean 'sorta'?” “He got poisoned. His face was burning slowly. He was in terrible pain. He asked me to kill him before the pain was to unbearable.” I choked. A tear went down my face. “O. . . I apologize for asking.” Tisho said. “it is OK.” I wiped away the tear. “it had to be done. I just was the only best friend he had. So he wanted me to help him. As his last wishes.” “Wow. You 7th squad are stronger than I was told. Able to kill your best friend. I would never be able to do that. Even if the friend was in terrible pain.” Tisho said. “Well I don't consider myself strong. I have technique. But I am not strong. This is my first day out of the cabin and not mourning.” I admitted. “Well you are stronger than me. If I killed my best friend I don't think I would ever speak again. Or just kill myself.” Tisho added. “I thought about it. Then realized it was stupid.” I said. A horn blew in the distance. “O no!” I cried jumping up. “What what is it? Tisho said jumping up with me. “That is the attack horn! someone/something is attacking heaven! I must go now!” I started to run back toward my base. But Tishos arm stopped me. “Will you be able to come back tomorrow?” he asked. “Maybe. But not now. I have to go.” he let go and I started running. Until I felt the pressure. The pressure of danger. And it was coming from Tishos direction. “Tisho!” I gasped. I ran back to him. “What? Angel what are you doing?” Tisho asked. “Stay behind me.” I said. “ the danger is in the bushes across the stream.” “How can you tell?” “Special sense of the 7th squad.” “Cool.” I heard a growl. Endless monster. I was sure of it. I drew my sword and held it lightly. on my toes ready to spring in any direction. The monster stepped out of the bushes. It was humanoid. But obviously not human. It had a huge bump on its back like it had a bowl attached to it. It wore a torn up tank top and shorts. I think it was male. It was bone white. And had no hair. “What is that?” Tisho whispered. “don't know.” I replied. A hissing sound came out from the monster. A snake like tough slipped in and out of its mouth. Then it growled. “Goatseeyou heh.” I said. I held my crescent up, ready to throw. The monster suddenly vanished. It reappeared right in front of me. I could not block fast enough. It slashed me with claws on it hands that I did not see until then. I flew backward and crashed into Tisho. I landed on top of him with a whomph. “Ow.” Tisho said. “I apologize.” I said quickly and got up. I flicked my crescent toward the thing. The beast fell to the ground before it even got hit. Its hump got bigger and engulfed him. The crescent went into the thing and stuck fast. It was a guard! The beast unshelled itself and pulled the crescent out of its back. It threw it back to me. I barely had enough time to dodge. “So I can't do that. Guess I have to attack.” I lunged towards the monster with my sword poised. It went into the beasts shoulder. The monster didn't even flinch. It reached up and. . . . . ripped off its arm. Just plain ripped it off. Just like you do clothing. My sword fell to the ground with nothing to hold it in place. Then, the stub turned blue. A bright blue. It was like a light bulb had been switched on. The blue formed a shape. The shape became an arm. So it grows back body parts huh? That sucks. I swiped again. Maybe if I hit its torso or head it wont grow back. The creature just held up its hand and stopped the blade. When it was reforming (because I had cut it off) I attacked. I hit it plain in the head. Just cut it right down the middle. Blood seeped out of the wound. The beast fell to the ground. i stabbed it just to make sure it was dead. Luckily, it was. I fell to the ground. Fighting is hard work. I was beat. Tisho ran over to me. “ are you OK Angel?” “Yeah I croaked.” That is when squad 7 showed up. Captain Youshino in front. “Angel! What happened?!?!?!” she ran over to me. “She fought this weird creature. It is dead now and is over there.” Tisho said. “Why did you fight it? And why were you here in the first place?” “I was taking a walk. I heard the horn and started to run back. But I realized the danger was near Tisho. I couldn't let another friend die.” I said. Youshino nodded. “Tishri make sure it is dead.” “yes Captain.” the lieutenant ran over to the thing. “It is dead. You Angel fought a Boshenight. Very dangerous. You could have been killed.” “Well I apologize.” I repeated. “I just couldn't let a friend die when I could have saved him.” I heard a door slam and looked up. A guy wearing the same uniform as Tisho ran out of the building. He had long red hair pulled back into a pony tail. He had on the same necklace as Youshino. He was the Captain. “What happened?” he cried when he go to us. “Angel saved my life.” Tisho said. “What?” the captain asked. “There was a beast Carlyle. Angel was here with your squad member and fought it. Almost killing herself.” Captain Youshino said. “I did not almost die.” I whispered. “Well you could have.” Youshino said. “What were you doing out here Tisho?” Captain Carlyle asked him with a raised eyebrow. “I saw Angel and wondered what she was doing.” He said. Captain Carlyle sighed. “Always needs to see the pretty girls. Well go back inside. You are gonna miss dinner.” “Yes Captain.” Tisho said. He hurried away. “I am glad you saved him Angel. You have my thanks.” Captain Carlyle said to me. “I could not let another friend die.” I said a third time. Captain Carlyle raised an eyebrow. “This is her?” Youshino nodded. “yes.” “Huh? What am I?” I asked. “I told the court about your bravery of defeating your first monster. And having to go through Tikkos death.” Youshino explained. “o.” I said. So all the Captains and God know about me? Great. “You were very brave.” Captain Carlyle said. “First killing your first monster, then killing your friend as a last wish, then killing another monster on your own. You have a strong one here Youshino.” “I do in fact. She is going to be very helpful later.” Youshino said. I just sat there. I felt something wet going down my body. I looked down and noticed that when the boshenight pushed me it also scratched me. I had a huge scrape over my chest. I also realized my shoulder wound from Satan had reopened. Tishri looked down and noticed too. “I need to get you to 4th squad.” he picked me up like I was a baby. Youshino nodded and Tishri ran away with me in his arms. Tishri looked a lot like Tikko. Short black hair, muscular, tall. “You did good Angel.” he said. “What?” “You are one of the only people in 7th squad who has to go through this within there first month of being here. You are very strong and brave.” Tishri said never looking at me, always running. “O. . . . “ I said. I noticed that I was bleeding really badly. The blood was seeping into Tishri's shirt. “Were you good friends with Tikko?” “He was my brother.” O. that is why they looked so much alike. I didn't know that birthers gave birth to more than one angel. “We were twins.” Tishri explained. O. so that explains even more. I looked up and a building was coming into view. It was the 4th squad building. Tishri ran into the building, not even caring to knock. Inside were three girls and two men. They looked up and when they saw me they immediately sprang into action. Two girl ran out of the room one guy took me from Tishri and started to walk out of the room. The last girl started to check me. The remaining guy, knowing he was not needed just sat there. The two girls came back with a stretcher and the guy laid me on it. They started to push me out of the room and down a hallway. Tishri followed. They took me to a big room with about 45 cots spread out through the room. They laid me on one close to the entrance. Only one other person was in the room. It was a girl and she was sleeping. Her skin was green and coughed every once in awhile. She was just sick. “Go get the Captain.” the guy told the girls. They nodded and ran out of the room. He pulled a chair that was in the corner and set it next to my bed. Tishri sat down. He apparently wasn't going anywhere. “What happened?” the guy asked me. “I fought a boshenight.” I said. “it hit me.” “OK.” the guy said. “My name is Johny. I'm going to have to take you sword and jacket off.” I sighed. “OK.” Johny flipped me onto my stomach and undid the buckles the attached my scabbard to my back. He took the sword off and handed it to Tishri. Tishri laid it against the chair he was sitting on. Johny flipped me back onto my back and started to take my jacket off. “I can do it.” I said. I sat up and started to take it off. Johny looked like he was going to protest but I just glared at him and he shut his mouth. I took off the jacket and he took it from me. I laid back down again. The door to the room opened and two people walked in. one was a girl and had a captain necklace. The other was a dude and he had on a bracelet. I realized that Tishri had the exact same one. It must be a lieutenant thing. The two ran over to my cot. Johny stepped back to make room for the two arrivals. “What happened?” the captain asked. “I was fighting a boshenight.” I said again. “It scratched me.” “And could have killed you.” Tishri said. “So?” I protested. “I was doing my duty!” “Don't put strain on her Tishri. She needs to be calm if she is ever going to heal.” the guy said. “She is in 7th squad, she will heal fast.” Tishri said. “SO?” the captain said. “Stop your yacking or you are going to agitate Angel.” I was startled. “How do you know my name?” “I have a file with all names and faces of all the different squads.” the captain explained. “it is so I know them in case they are to hurt to say anything. My name is Captain Patrica. This is Lieutenant Avery.” I looked at them closely. Avery was short and has inch long black hair. He was Asian like me. He was skinny and not muscular at all. Captain Patrica was short also and has short golden hair that was sorta curly. Johny was tall but plump and seemed very clumsy. They all wore sky blue pants and long sleeved shirts that I was guessing was the uniform of squad 4. “Well Johny you can go.” The captain said. He nodded and left the room. “So you fought a boshenight huh? And I am guessing you did so alone since Tishri is scratched?” “yes.” I said. “i was right next to the danger but everyone else was at base on the other side of squad bases.” “OK. I am going to put you to sleep so I can heal you better.” Avery said. I nodded. Avery went over to a table in the far corner and came back with a needle. He stuck it into my arm. I instantly became drowsy. I couldn't keep my eyes open any longer. So I closed them.

I woke up still in the cot. Tishri was still in the chair off to the side. Avery and the Captain were not in the room. I looked down and saw that I was no longer bleeding and I was all sewn up. “You have to stay here for one more day.” Tishri said. “then you can come back to base.” “Dang.” I said. “i don't want to have to sit here doing nothing.” “Well most of the time you will be sleeping. They give this sleep medicine that heals you quicker and it makes you sleep.” Tishri said. “O.” I said. “so why didn't you go back to base?” “Cause you helped my brother.” Tishri said like it was the only answer. “So? You should be back at base helping with something.” I said. “Don't tell your lieutenant what to do Angel.” Tishri said. “But I feel like I owe you. So I'm staying.” “OK. It is your call.” The door opened and Avery walked in. “So you are awake.” he said. “Yep.” I said. “That was a nasty scratch. It was pretty deep too. Good thing Tishri got you here when he did or you would have passed out from blood loss.” Avery said. “O.” I said. “I didn't even know I was scratched until after Captain Carlyle showed up.” Avery shook his head. “7th squad. Never able to feel pain. She is a lot like you Tishri.” “Yeah right. I'm sure all 7th squad members cant feel pain until they are done fighting.” “Not true at all.” Avery said. “I watched Captain Youshino fighting an endless monster a long time ago. It was before she was captain. Every time she got hit she winced.” “o whatever.” Tishri said. “It is true Tishri.” Avery said. “i have heard a lot about you Angel. You have had to go through a lot.” “Yeah.” I said. “Tishri told me about his brother. You two seemed to be really close.” “We were.” I said sadly. “Well I'm going to put another dose into you. It is going to be larger so you should wake up and be able to go back to base.” Avery said. “OK.” I said. I laid my head down and closed my eyes. I think sleep came before he even put the needle into me.

When I woke up I was back in Tishris arms. He was walking this time instead of running. “What are you doing?” I asked him. Tishri looked down at me. “Avery said I could take you back. You would wake up as I went.” “O.” I said. Tishri set me on the ground. “Can you walk?” he asked. “I think I am fine. I am just sore.” I told him. We started walking again. It hurt. It hurt more than it should have. Shouldn't 4th squad get rid of pain? Was I really ready to go back? Did they not heal me right? “You are fine Angel.” Tishri said. I looked at him and saw he was watching me. “It always hurts when you first wake up. It only lasts for a few minutes, then it is gone.” I said nothing. How did he know what I was thinking? How did he know how it felt? “I cant read your mind Angel. I can only read you face. I too have fought a boshenight. Except I was more fatal then you were.” Tishri said. I don't care what he said. I'm saying he is a mind reader. I heard him laugh. I looked at him just in time to see him shake his head. I looked back in front of me and when I did I saw a thick branch was poking out of a tree and was right in front of my chest. I know this sounds stupid but I couldn't stop walking fast enough. I almost crashed into the branch. Until I felt Tishris hand on my chest stopping me. It was light and gentle. And dint hurt at all. “Watch were you are going not who is with you.” Tishri said. He reached out and broke the branch. Then moved his hand and kept walking. I hurried to catch up with him. Bad choice. I tripped. As I fell my back bent and my chest was thrown into pain. Tishri caught me before I hit the ground. “Be careful Angel. You are going to re hurt yourself.” Tishri said. It wasn't a command. Or even mean. It was gentle. He was a lot like Tikko. Tishri started to stand me up again, but hurt and I cried out in pain. Tishri stopped instantly and instead set me on the ground. I slowly got on my elbows and pulled my knees in so I was sitting on them. I then sat up. “Ow.” I said. Tishri sat down on the grass beside me. “Looks like we are going to be here for a bit.” I looked around. we were on a path in a forest. I couldn't see any buildings. I looked at the sun and noticed it was around 8 am. “How long have you been walking?” “About 15 minutes.” he said. “What? It takes that long just to get back to base? Isn't everything organized by number? We are squad 7 and the medicine squad is 4!” I exclaimed. “it is organized by number.” Tishri said. “But there is a forest that separates squads 1 to 4 and 5 to 10. on top of that if I walked to fast you would shake and gasp in pain. Even while you sleep you can feel pain.” “I guess.” I said. There was an uncomfortable silence. I needed to break this silence. But how? DO I ask him something? Do I remark something? What do I do? “What was Tikko to you?” Tishri asked me. Guess I didn't have to break the silence. “He was my best friend.” “Nothing more?” Tishri asked. “No.” I said. “Just a really fantastic friend. It pained me when he died.” “It pained me too. He told me that when he first saw you something clicked. He didn't know what it was. So he fought to see if that was it. Then he started hanging out with you. He said that you were an amazing friend. And that is what must have clicked.” Tishri said. “Really?” I thought about this. “Something clicked for me too. When he first said, “Angel huh? What a sweet name.” I felt anger towards him. But when I fought him it faded away. Then he started to teach me things. Everything I know he taught me. Everything fighting that is.” “He really liked you.” Tishri said. “Matsumoto was being a devil the other day. Saying I was stupid for not loving him. That I was lucky. I was lucky. Just not in the way she thought.” I said. “Yeah.” Tishri said. Suddenly he perked up. “hey do you think you can fly out of here? And not open your wound?” I paused. “I have never flown before. Tishri said he was going to teach me. But we never got to it.” “You have never flown before?” Tishri said amazed. “I learned in toddler training.” “Huh?” “Training before you are assigned to a squad.” Tishri explained. “They taught us how to fly. Tikko and I loved flying. It was a sign of freedom.” “Well I have never done it before.” I said. “Maybe I can fly you out of here.” Tishri said. He stood up. “let me try to walk first. If I can just get up I should be fine.” I told him. “Go ahead.” I slowly stood up. There was slight twinge of pain, but nothing major. “I think I am fine.” “OK. The pain should disappear any moment.” Tishri said. We walked side by side in silence for awhile. I started to think about flying. Maybe Tishri can teach me how to fly? Take his brothers place and train me just as Tikko did? Suddenly I gasped. A burning pain went though my whole body. I stopped. My lungs stopped working. I was gasping for air. What was happening to me? Tishri stopped and grabbed my shoulders, keeping me from falling over. “What? What is it Angel?” I couldn't reply. I couldn't breathe either. I was choking. My whole body was burning. Whatever Avery did it did not heal me. “Hold on Angel. I'm going to get you back to 4th squad.” he picked me up again and started to run back. He ran faster and faster until all I saw was his face and a blur. Trees and shrubs were whipping past us. He ran faster than I have ever seen someone run. Maybe even faster than Maya. “It isn't fast enough!” he said. “Hold on Angel. I'm going into flight. It is faster.” I gripped him as if my life depended on it. Which probably, it did. My body was still burning and I couldn't breathe. I was still gasping. I looked up and noticed Tishris wings appeared. They were insect like wings. They were a bright neon green. There was two on each side. He leaped into the air and his wings flapped for lift. They caught the air and we soared over the trees. I could see everything. The whole of heaven was underneath me. I would have said it was amazing if I wasn't in such terrible pain. “Hold on Angel. We are almost there.” Tishri said. I noticed we were going way faster than on the ground. It just didn't seem that way when looking down. I could only tell because the wind was whipping into my face. “I'm going to land.” Tishri told me. I gasped still trying to catch my breath, but I gripped even hard onto him. My fingers were white and most likely burning. But with my whole body burning I couldn't tell. We landed and it was lighter than I expected. As soon as Tishri touched the ground he ran into the building. He didn't stop. He ran past a bewildered Johny, through the hallway, past the cot room, and straight to the door at the end of the hall. He burst in. inside was a office. A bewildered Avery and Captain Patrica were inside. Captain Patrica behind a huge desk. “What did you do to Angel?!” Tishri demanded. He was looking straight at Avery. His face was pure rage. “What did I do?” Avery said shocked. “I did nothing!” “Then why is Angel in a worst state then she was?! She could have gone back to base and slept and been fine! But we came here! And now she is dying!!” Tishris face was bright red with rage and he just kept going off on Avery. I couldn't do it anymore. I hadn't taken a single breath since we had been walking in the forest. I gasped again trying to suck in air through my burning lungs. My grip on Tishri lightened. I was losing consciousness. “NO! Angel! Stay with me! Stay with me angel!” Tishri was shaking me. Not helping Tishri. I still couldn't breathe. My body was in pure pain. I wonder if this is how Tikko felt when the acid touched him? A burning? Maybe if I just slept it would go away. I saw that Tishri was shouting and shaking me. But I could no longer hear him. I could not feel the shaking either. Tikko. I'll see you soon.

I woke up to a blinding light. It this Angel heaven? In all the human books they would see a blinding light to show they were dead. Or in the hospital. I wonder which one I was? As my eyes began to focus I realized I was In fact, in the squad 4 building. I could breathe again. The burning was gone. I felt fine. Sleepy, but fine. Tishri was pacing next to my bed. He obviously was worried about me. I wonder why? Cause I was best friend with his brother? I had only known him personally for a day. O wait. More than a day. Cause I slept for one day. And who knows how long I slept this time? Tishri finally noticed I was awake and stopped pacing. He went over to me. “Angel are you OK?” “I guess.” I croaked. My voice was rusty. “I can breathe again. And my body isn't burning. So I guess I'm fine now.” “You have been sick for a long time. You have slept without waking for five days. I thought you were already dead many times.” Tishri said. “O! You are awake!” Avery rushed into the room. “You can't touch her.” Tishri said. He stood between me and Avery. “You still wont let me touch her? I didn't do anything!” Avery protested. “Just leave him be Avery.” Captain Patrica walked into the room. “How do you feel Angel?” “Better.” I said. “Being the way Tishri is acting I am guessing you are the one that healed me?” “Yes. Tishri has sat here for five days making sure Avery doesn't come near you.” Captain Patrica said. I gasped. “Tishri!” “What?” Tishri turned to look at me. “What did I do?” “You stayed here all five days!? What about squad 4? what did they do this whole week without their lieutenant?!” I yelled at him. “Well i couldn't let Avery touch you again! Squad 4 is fine! There have been no attacks! All of my duties have been taken by Barom, So it is all good! Captain Youshino even came here to visit you! Also Matsumoto and that new Satan guy came and visited too.” “Well you are lucky!” then I let that sink in. “Wait. . . .Satan was here? Why was he here?” “I don't know. He just showed up. He stood next to your bed for a few minutes. Just stood there, staring at you. It looked like he was even going to grab your hand. I started to come over to see what he wanted but he turned around and left the room.” Tishri said. “Weird. . . . “ I said. “Well what was wrong with me doc?” “Poison.” Captain Patrica said. “The boshenight some how had poison on its claws. So when it scratched you the poison was injected. I don't know what kind of poison it was, but it was deadly. It took me awhile to figure out a cure for it. But because A special someone,” looked at Tishri, “ wouldn't let Avery near you I had to do it myself. Johny tried to help to. But he just got in the way. I kept Tishri busy by having him coat you in ice for a long time. It cooled you down enough. In the end I had to extract the poison from you. Then Tishri generously gave some of his blood so you didn't have major blood loss.” “You know you could have just said that.” I said. Captain Patrica gave me a look. “ANGEL!!!!” Matsumoto ran into the room. She pushed- literally- Captain Patrica aside and grabbed my hand. “Are you OK? I hope you are. You have missed so much back at base! Satan is as cute as ever and is going up in rank! He is above you now! He is going to try to take Baroms seat today! And o my has he gotten cuter! His hair has grown surprisingly fast and he has it pulled back into a ponytail. But he didn't get the memo that you were in squad 4 so when he came searching for you for his training thing he obviously couldn't find you, so he came to me and was like 'he were is Angel?' and I was like 'hey don't you know? She is in squad 4!' and then he went nuts saying 'why wasn't I notified? I didn't know that! Why is she -'” “Matsumoto!” Tishri and Captain Patrica yelled at the same time. I am glad they did because I was sure that my hair was going back with the force of Matsumotos words. “I apologize.” Matsumoto folded her hands and looked at her feet. “Please don't do that again.” I said. My brain hurt from trying to register everything she was saying all at once. I'm not even sure she took a breath! “O I am sorry!” Matsumoto said. “now,” Captain Patrica turned to me. “Do you think you can walk? If you can you should be fine to go back to base.” “I'll try.” I said. I flipped the covers off. I sat up and dangled my legs over the side of the bed. Dang I'm short. My feet didn't even touch the floor! I inched off the bed inch by inch. When my toes finally touched the floor I got off intierly. My legs hurt at first from not being used for a few days. But besides that I was fine. As my legs woke up I started to walk around. “Yeah I'm fine.” I said. “Great.” Captain Patrica said. “Go ahead and take her back to base Tishri.” Tishri nodded. “Let's go.” we walked out of the room, Matsumoto on our heels. “Bye Captain Patrica! Thanks for healing me!” I called as we left the building.

When we got back to base everyone was excited to see me. Witch was awkward because I didn't know any of them personally. They all jumped when I entered the building and were like, “Angel OMG!” “Angel welcome back!” “Angel did it hurt?” “Angel it is good to see you again!” and “Five days wow!”. Tishri must have noticed I was feeling awkward because he said, “Calm down guys. Angel is still in the last healing stages.” That made everyone shut up. But I'm glad he did. “So,” I said. “Anything I miss?” then everyone started talking all at once again. I closed my eyes. “ONE AT A TIME!!!!” everyone got quiet again. Geeze people! One girl stepped forward. “Satan is going up in rank fast. There is 1 new girl, no attacks, someone did all your duties, and everyone has been worshiping you.” I nodded. Then I realized what she said. “Wait, why is everyone worshiping me? That isn't good.” Another dude stepped forward. “Cause you have had to go through so much. On top of that you have major skillz. We all want to be like you.” I closed my eyes and covered my face. This is not what I planned! I don't like attention yo!I mean it is cool that everyone likes me, but WORSHIPING me? WTH!what the heck! “You should not worship someone. Unless it is god of course. I am just a person in your squad. I may be your friend, but I am still just an Angel.” I said quietly. Everyone nodded. “Not everyone was. . . “ I heard a voice say. “Well then they are smart.” I said. “ I am glad that everyone likes me, but I'm not this good.” “OK.” everyone whispered. “Geeze.” I said. “I feel like a teacher scolding her class!” Everyone laughed. “Km on people!” Tishri said. “get back to whatever you have to do!” Everyone started to disperse. Either to go to their bunk or to finish their duties. “Well that was weird.” Tishri said. “Very.” I agreed. My stomach growled. I hadn't eaten in 7 days. I was starving!! “Let's get you to the lunchroom.” Tishri said. I nodded eagerly. We walked in silence to the lunchroom. I wonder if Tishri had eaten in that time? His stomach growled to tell me he had not. I flashed him another look. He just shrugged. When we got there an amazing aroma filled my noes. I looked at the counter and saw, O my gosh! They were serving pizza! I squealed like a little girl and ran over. “Welcome back Angel.” one of the serving girls said. “How many slices?” “Five please!” I said. “Looks like someone is hungry today.” the girl laughed. She got me a plate and dished me up five slices. I went on and got a fruit cup, salad, and holy- yes holy- water. I went and sat down at the table in the far corner were Tikko and I always sat. the benches were cold so I knew no one had sat here since I was gone. I'm glad too. I dug into my pizza. Eating 2 slices. Then gulping down half of my holy water. I had started on my fruit when Tishri came over. “Mind if I sit with you?” he asked. I scooted over to give him some room. He sat down. I didn't stop eating the whole time. I was gulping up food like I had never eaten in my life. Tishri was eating slowly and didn't have much. When I finished my food I leaned back in my chair.' “That. Was. Good.” said. I held back a burp. I looked over at Tishri, he had hardly touched his food. A little bite on a slice of pizza, half the fruit gone. Little salad gone. “You better eat.” I told him. “You need to keep your strength up.” “I'm just not hungry.” he said. “So? you still have to eat it. First rule of lunchroom, take as much as you want but eat what you take.” I said in a sing song voice. Tishri shrugged. “Well then you want it? Because I am not hungry.” “What is up with you all of the sudden?” I scolded. “Trying to protect me from Avery, trying to protect me in general actually. Then sitting with me when I hardly know you, now you aren't eating like you have something more important to do. What is up?” “Nothing.” Tishri said. “Nothing huh?” I said. “Well then nothing is very big. I'm going to see if I have any duties today.” Tishri looked like he was going to get up and go with me but I stopped him with a look. “You have to stay here and eat. I can take care of myself you know.” I walked out of the lunchroom.

I went to Captain Youshino and I did have one duties that someone did not take. I did it quickly then went to the arena. I needed to get my skills back. They were most likely rusty from not using them in seven days. I had taken my sword back from Tishri went I passed him to leave the lunchroom. He most likely didn't know that I had it. I pulled out my sword. I swung it around a bit. So it was OK. I still had a bit. I swung really hard and twisted out of it and spun and made a double cut. Great. I went over to a practice dummy and cut it up. Then I went to all the different dummies swinging my sword and practicing. Once I was satisfied I went to the moving dummies and worked on my slinging. It was bad at first but then I got it back. I worked on it until I could throw it as fast as I threw it at Satan 10 times in a row. I was doing good. I looked up at the sun. I had been out here for a little over an hour. I went to the moving/attacking dummies. I sheathed my sword and went in the middle of the circle of dummies. “start.” I said. The dummies started to kick and punch. I barely dodged each one. Then as I got used to it I interpreted the dummies movements. They came in a pattern. Once you get that pattern it is easy as pie from there. “Stop.” I said. It was to easy now. I went to another group of dummies. Each group had a different pattern. I started. I went to each circle of dummies until I had memorized everyone of them. I was satisfied. I decided to go back to my bunk. Clap. Clap. Clap. “Good job Angel.” I spun around drawing my sword prepared for an attacker. I shoved my sword up and it stopped. . . . right in front of Satans throat. “Whoa there. Don't go killing me off.” he held up his hands. “Well then don't startle me!” I said. I put my sword back in its scabbard. “I apologize.” Satan said. “You have some good technique.” “So? Tikko taught me lots of stuff.” “Tikko. . . does not ring a bell. Do I know him?” “No. he died before you came.” I said. “O.” Satan said. “What a pity.” “Don't make me mad Satan! I could kill you if I wanted to!” I said angerly. “Whoa girl.” Satan said with a teasing glint in his eye. “calm down.” I just glared at him. “So could you teach me?” Satan asked me. “Teach yourself.” I snarled. “it isn't hard. Just go to the dummies and dodge them.” I don't know why but I was really irritated. “OK then fine.” Satan raised his hands. “Don't get all irritated.” I growled. Satan went over to one circle of dummies. “ Start.” he said. He dodged them easily. Why did he even have to practice. I know what I'll do! I ran over to the circle. “Spa ten ye ho!” the dummies stopped for a moment. Registering its new command. “What did you do?” Satan said. “Did you break them?” Then one dummy hit him clean in the face. “Ow!” he cried. The dummies started hitting him mercilessly. He was just getting beat up. He would dodge one and land in another. I memorized the pattern. It wasn't easy. But it was still not impossible. “stop.” I said. The dummies stopped. Satan collapsed on the ground panting and holding his shoulder were he had a nasty bruise. He was covered in bruises. Matsumoto won't think he is as pretty. I grinned an evil grin. “You know if you don't want to get hurt then don't do it.” I said mockingly. Satan spit on the ground. “well id like to see you try.” he said. “OK.” I said. He got out of the circle and I entered. “Start.” I said. It was the easy one. “Hey! Do the hard one!” Satan said. “OK.” I said. “Spa ten ye ho!” The dummies came lightning fast. Barely dodged each one. But then I got the pattern and it was all good. I came out with not a single bruise. “Show off.” Satan said. I laughed. The horn blew. “op! Better get back to base!” I said and hurried off. Leaving Satan behind.

“This is a small one. I am just going to send 2 groups.” Captain Youshino said. First group is going to be seats 20 to 25. the second group is going to be 26 to 30. group two you are only there for back up. Don't fight unless needed.” “Got it.” they said. Well I wasn't going. El well. I can go rest from training all day. “And for leaders. . . . Barom you can lead group two. . . . and. . . Angel you can lea group one.” Captain Yo0ushino said. What? I was leading? O geeze! “Got it.” I said. But I didn't. I didn't even know everyones abilities! How could I lead if I didn't know anything?1 “Angel come here a moment.” Captain Youshino said. I walked over to her. “Calm down. it is only five people. Troy has a bow, Odeheme has a sword, Rachel had two knives, Youichy has an ax, and Akako has a sword.” Captain said. “OK.” I nodded. I went back to group one. “let's go.” I said. The monster was close. I could feel the pressure already. I ran towards it. We got to a clearing and there was the monster. It was a giant bunny rabbit. It looked harmless. Until it turned and looked at us. It was a eating a deer and blood was dripping off 2 inch teeth. “OK.” I said. “Akako and Odeheme I want you to distract the monster while Troy will be shooting it. Don't get to close and stay away from those teeth!” “Got it.” they said. Two girls left the group. They were Odeheme and Akako. One guy got his bow ready so he must be Troy. Youichy sat there with his ax over his shoulder and Rachel had her knives in her hands. Odeheme and Akako was doing a good job. They would circle the monster. Every one in awhile leap in and slash it and leap out again. Troy cocked his bow and aimed. He let one arrow fly and it hit the monster in the butt. The monster screamed and lunged at Akako. She slashed the monsters nose to stop it. The monsters whiskers twitched. Blood was coming from the beasts nose. Troy let fly another arrow and Odeheme slashed the beast across its flank. Blood came out of both wounds. “Youichy go ahead and kill it if you can.” I told him. He nodded. He walked over to the beast. He went to slice the monsters head off, but the monster. . . leaped into the blade. The monster just had his head cut off by his own doing. “That was weird.” Rachel said. “Yeah. . .” I said. The monster collapsed onto its side. It stopped breathing. I walked over and stabbed it into the chest to make sure it was dead. It was. “Good job guys.” I said. Everyone nodded. Barom stepped out of the bushes. “Good job group one. Lets get back to base. We all nodded and followed him back.

“Good job Angel. Your first leadership.” I jumped. I was sitting on my bunk resting. I looked at the doorway to see Tishri. “O. hi Tishri.” I said. “Barom told me and the Captain what you did. It was smart.” Tishri said. “Thanks.” I said laying my head back down on my pillow. “How often do you guys have meetings?” “Whenever one is called.” Tishri said. “Captain and I have meetings every week. Captains have one once a month. Same with Lieutenants. Then Captain Youshino calls meeting every once in awhile.” “Wow.” I said. “Didn't know that there was so many meetings.” “The monthly meetings suck.” Tishri said. “there is 50 squads, so there is 50 lieutenants.” “That does sound like it sucks.” I said. “Must be confusing too.” “It is.” Tishri agreed. “What are you doing?” I asked. “What do you mean?” “You walk in my room when I'm sleeping and just strike a conversation. You seem to be protective of me. But we had never talked until I was fighting the boshenight.” I said. My eyes were closed the whole time and I never looked at him.