“Why…” She said softly, and then since the world was so empty, heard her own voice call back to her.
“I have to do something…I have to bring the world back no matter what, I don’t care if I die in the process, I just have to bring everyone back. My wings only bring misfortune, I want to make something good out of them…That’s why im going to sacrifice myself to bring back the world…” It was then that she realised that she WAS the girl in the prophecy that ended up destroying the world.
Hikari flapped her wings and with a cloud of dust flew into the sky. She stopped and waited high above where the city used to be. “This is it. The bitter end to me.” Hikari thought. She paused. And put her hands together and prayed; “I wish that I could be free of the Earth’s tires…” And then she started glowing, everything turned white as feathers fell to the ground.
Year 2001
It was supposed to be a warm august night in which the sky should be lit up with stars. The only thing wrong was that it was raining really heavily. This rain hadn’t been predicted so this was generally highly unusual.
In a house in the heart of London, the lights were off and it was pitch black inside with the rain dripping in through the shattered windows, a little girl aged 5 sat crying in the middle of the room, her silver hair shining in the light from the moon. Two bodies lay beside her, lifeless, and the carpet was dyed red with blood. The girl looked up, with tear stains on her face, she looked around at the bodies on the floor and screamed, not knowing what she had done she ran out of the door and into the dark street.
10 Years later.
“HAPPY BIRTHDAY HIKARI!!!” Hikari woke from her bed, it was her 15th birthday and the whole foster home was gathered around her bed. Hikari was happy; she wasn’t sure of the feeling “love” but was happy that she was experiencing it now. Everybody gathered around her. To celebrate the fact that she was alive. It brought tears to her eyes”
“Why are you crying now Hikari? You always cry for no reason.” Said a girl named Rosette. She was a tall girl with brown hair and brown eyes. She was always a cheerful person who loved life, but never knew of Hikari’s potential. She found Hikari on a street when she was 8 and decided to bring her back to her foster home where she befriended her since then.
Rosette was like a sister to Hikari, she was the one that found her in the rain and sat by her side as she was recovering from and illness. As much as Rosette though Hikari was annoying due to the fact she cried all the time, she still loved her like a sister.
Hikari was mostly a quiet girl herself. She never talked that much unless she was around other people; it was in her nature to do that. She never liked getting close to anyone; her trust was a hard thing to get, no matter how hard people tried to be nice to her. Other than that people mainly thought she was weird anyways. She had silver hair; some people though she dyed it, but in truth it was her real hair colour. The social workers that had looked after her had brought her to countless doctors and specialists, but they never managed to find out how or why she had silver hair, they always just came to the conclusion that it was her real hair, and that was that. Hikari’s name meant light in Japanese; Rosette looked it up in a dictionary. When Hikari found out about this, it sort of meant something to her even though she didn’t know what. People even thought that it had something to do with the fact that Hikari healed insanely fast. The social workers even took her to a doctor for that, but they just pushed it away. Rosette came to the conclusion of that one as humans don’t always like what they see. But the carers and children at the foster home accepted her either ways and took her as being “special”. Rosette was really the only one to notice this, but the fact that every time Hikari cried it always rained and also whenever she got really mad or screamed something seemed to break or objects seemed to move. The others never took notice of this though and thought of these things as “coincidences”. There was one thing that bothered Hikari, even though it might sound normal for some people, was that she couldn’t remember any of her childhood from the time when she turned 4.
Hikari brushed her hair and as it shone against the sun it shimmered like a diamond would.
“Come on! Were going to be late Hikari!” Rosette called.
“Oh okay, coming.” She quickly put on her school clothes and ran outside to meet Rosette.
“Aren’t you going to eat breakfast?!” The foster mother called.
“No I’ll eat something at school”
And with that Hikari ran to catch up with Rosette. As Hikari was walking a pain in her shoulders started, this wasn’t a new pain; it had been going on for awhile but she had normally just ignored it and kept walking even though everyday it kept on getting worse. And even though she didn’t realise, she was actually walking with her shoulders hunched and this was starting to worry Rosette so she said something.
“Why are you walking like that Hikari?”
“Walking like what...?”
“With your shoulders hunched like that”
“I’m walking with a hunch?”
“Yes you are...”
“Oh I didn’t really...Realise, I have a pain in my shoulders that must be why, and it’s painful if I try to stand up straight”
“Then you should see a doctor then”
“You KNOW the doctor is scared of me”
“Yes... but still”
“It doesn’t matter I’ll deal with it.”
As they walked into school, they saw all the usual people they knew, like the popular people that they hated and they annoying boys. The list went on...
“Hmm we have history first, I’ll meet you there Hikari!”
“Oh okay, see you there...”
History was a favourite for Hikari. Since she didn’t know much about her past, she liked learning about other people’s past even if they were already dead before her.
As she walked up the stairs, the pain in her back worsened so much that she had to hunch over more. There was really no point in going home since nothing could really be done. “Maybe in a couple of days it might go away” Hikari thought.
Hikari went to go sit down in her normal seat next to Rosette and waited as the books were handed out.
“Right class! Turn to page 666; we are going to be looking at what could be called a...prophecy.” Hikari turned the page and saw immediately a girl with shining silver hair and angel wings that spread across the whole page. Hikari stared at her. Somehow, she felt immensely connected to her even though she had no idea who she even was. Maybe it could have been the fact that they both had silver hair, but there was no name of this girl on the page at all. “Okay class, please read the prophecy on the page and then answer the questions.”
Hikari looked at the prophecy. It read; “One day there will be an angel with powers that are great, and she will be the one of light. But however, wherever she goes, her wings will only bring misfortune to us and the world until she gives herself up to finally be free of the earths ties.”
There was a shuffle of chairs as everyone turned their faces to look at Hikari, she looked up.
“SHE would bring misfortune? Yeah right, she can’t even say an answer in class without trembling.” And everyone laughed at her.
“He has got a point though, I doubt they think its you but she does look a lot like you,” said Rosette.
“Looks like me...How?” Hikari thought and stared at the picture. She had the same silver hair as her but the only thing that looked somewhat different was that she had a pair of pure white wings behind her back.
“Well!” said the teacher, “We all know she looks similar to Hikari yet I doubt she is the same person. This so called Angel according to the text was given gifts to protect the world but according to the facts here she destroyed it and then sacrificed herself to bring it back. As you can plainly see... I don’t think Hikari is capable of destroying the world, do you see any wings on her? I don’t think so, if you could please leave her alone, thank you.”
“Hikari really, just didn’t know what to say. No one else said anything else to her for the rest of the day except for Rosette who was chatty as normal.
“Don’t let whatever happened in history get to you,” said Rosette to Hikari as they were walking out of the school. “We are going to that new historic museum for your birthday even though I will probably find it boring as anything, but since its for you I’m going to sacrifice my time to make you happy, will you just lighten up already please! Maybe you can find out about that necklace you always wear around your neck.”
Hikari looked at the necklace; she had worn this necklace around her neck for as long as she could remember. She had always had this moon shaped necklace and never took it off. Most of the time she wouldn’t realise it was actually on her. “Actually it would be nice if I found out what this means” Hikari thought to herself.
As they walked through the museum, they both saw amazing things like occult staffs, mirrors, necklaces and antiques. Hikari was so fascinated that she ended off trailing away from Rosette without realising. As she was walking down a corridor she wasn’t looking where she was going and ended up walking into a rug which fell down on top of her. Hikari looked up from under the rug and saw a corridor which the rug was evidently blocking away from the public. She stood up and as soon as she did that her necklace started glowing and started pulling her into the corridor. Hikari had no idea what exactly was happening so she decided to just follow under the lead of her necklace. The corridor started getting darker and darker as she walked down it, the only thing that was lighting the corridor up was her necklace that was still continually guiding her, and she couldn’t move her body any other way. Suddenly the necklace stopped glowing and fell off her neck... It was pitch black and she couldn’t see a thing. Hikari was just about to scream when a candle lit by itself. Hikari looked at the candle in fear... she had no idea what was happening or what was going to happen. Then more candles lit themselves, they seemed to go in a circle until the last candle was lit.
She was in a circular room now and on the floor there was a carpet of pure white feathers on the floor and in front of it there was a wide, tall mirror.
Hikari gingerly stepped onto the carpet hoping that she wouldn’t break any of the feathers but it was futile, every step she made on it broke a feather and as it did it made a crunching sound which sounded horrible. But she still walked over to the mirror and stood in front of it. The mirror had an intricate design with some type of ancient lettering on it which had some kind of ancient language written all around the edge. This made no sense to Hikari, she then looked into the mirror, and it showed no reflection of her, just the back of the room. “What is this?” Hikari thought to herself. She put her hand on the glass and just as she touched it her hand went right through the glass... “This can’t be possible!” she though, and took her hand back out...Then for some reason she put her other hand on the glass and the exact same thing happened again. Then suddenly a force pulled her body through the glass. She landed on the other side with a thud.
The ground was hard and dry, there was no grass, and the place was dark. There were no clouds and a tornado was going on far away in the distance. She stood up and looked around and said “Where is everyone...”
By Sian Davies
