She stood at 5'9 tall, a woman with shoulder length black hair over an oval face, brown kind eyes with tight thin lips. Hinata smiled she looked beautiful wearing her usual twilight gray long sleeved dress it's color fading almost worn out, she didn't have much in terms of possessions yet to Michael she always looked beautiful. A little child clung to the hem of her dress, light brown eyes like her mother jet black short hair on her small face; she wore a green dress with flower patterns he had gifted her.
Eva stood next to her mother crying her dress dirtied and torn; she bled on her right temple. She looked fear stricken big doe eyes teary just waiting to be rescued by him her friend and hero. Michael stared back at her filled with concern and rage, concerned for her, furious at whoever put her in such a sorry state.
Michael ran to her side instantly, they were in the middle of a village beside a large well which was the main source of water thus most of the homes were built around it, eerily though the place seemed deserted with no people as far as the eye can see. His hand glowed bright white light as it touched Eva's cheek Michael let his power flow through her young body, she glowed faintly. He could feel her body starting to heal; bones mending, wounds and cuts closing, the cut on her temple closed up.
He knelt wrapping Eva in a light hug to not cause her any discomfort her little hand still held on to her mom. "I am sorry child" he spoke softly his voice low Eva remained silent.
Yet Eva's right temple still bled as if she'd just been cut, fresh blood trickled down her face Michael felt the warm red fluid on him. The bones and wound all over her body didn't disappear Michael could feel them breaking as they were before, focusing he healed her again pouring all of his power into Eva. White brilliant light shrouded the both of them, the bones reformed; open wounds closed so did the cut on Eva's face close. He grabbed Hinata's hand the one still locked in a grip to Eva's and spread his healing light towards her so they all were covered in white light her wounds healed. Feeling a sense of relief "I saved you I saved you both." He repeated
"No you did not!" Hinata rebuked, her once sweet voice came out as a growl, looking up at Hinata her face was still bloodied all her wounds were still open now freshly bleeding. He let go of Eva only to find out that not only were her cuts and bruises back they were fresh and she bled in several areas as if she'd just been hurt.
"Wh…what's wrong!" Michael stuttered in disbelief noticing he's hands were covered in blood,
"They are dead!" a boyish voice spoke sweetly "Because of you!" Hinata's dead body lay limp on the ground her once radiant face now pale and lifeless next to where Eva's lifeless corpse lay eyes bulging out. "Hmm" the voice contended its tone that of amusement "Maybe if you were strong enough she would still be here, but alas you weren't" Michael stared blankly at the corpses despair and anguish ravaging his heart, then he raised his head towards the voice. "You!" he growled, rage rose within him, his chest tightened any other possible words choked in his throat.
The boy two feet tall sat on the well his cruel gaze regarded Michael, a mocking smirk spread across his lips "You know what you have to do." He said staring directly at Michael's eyes "Let it out, all of it!"
Michael understood what the boy was saying, he could feel it, a raging storm swirling immensely raging tugging against his chest struggling to come out and devour all. The anger within him threatened to come out and destroy.
He wanted to let go as well, it felt amazing power sizzled all around him as he let the rage go free rising to the surface they all deserved to suffer. "Hahahah" the boy laughed mockingly, he jumped off the well and walked towards Michael his cold lifeless eyes gliding over the dead bodies squatted directly in front of Michael staring into his now completely white eyes devoid of color
"Look at your pitiful state you couldn't save them" he waved over to Hinata and Eva "You couldn't save yourself, you were weak and pathetic before you died." Michael could feel power crackling all over him "Someday its going to be my turn, but not yet." The boy let out a sinister laugh and snapped Michael's forehead so hard his vision completely dissolved.
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Many seats in the school bus were empty; a large yellow beast lined in black on the outside its black seats moderately comfortable. Michael sat alone near the back children chattered farther as they came into the bus filling the other seats he doubted they noticed him much not many who studied at Seasons used the bus most were trust fund kids.
Celestial energy Michael gathered from his recent dreams was a power unlike any other available only to angels like him born from its incarnation, he remembered waking up drenched in sweat in the middle of the night, his latest memory/dream was more of a nightmare "who were those people Eva and Hinata."
He felt their names engraved into his mind, their faces recurring in his vision "My heart clenches at the thought, that boy regardless when I awoke shaking sweaty in the night's darkness my palms glowed faintly like the light was receding back into me" he stared at his hand "no matter what I do it does not come back" he tried concentrating clenching his fists tightly even letting his mind wander back into the nightmare thinking of those people yet nothing happened.
The power was gone for now.
"My knowledge of celestial power is scant at best, but one thing is for sure it still resides within me." The bus stopped another kid came in, "I just need to get a hold of it."
The village was intricate but vague in his dream there were other people but he couldn't see them, only the dark round well was perfectly outlined just beside him as the two people a child and her mother Eva and Hinata standing just a few paces ahead of him heavily wounded. And the boy somehow he'd known their names yet the boy was a complete mystery, his voice lined with so much menace and anger it practically leaked out of him Michael shivered he could almost feel it around him and in him the dream felt like a memory and something else something sinister "I need to focus on what I felt back then." He closed his eyes letting himself settle back into that village summoning that exhilaration he felt that power the children's chattering in the background shielding him from interruption.
He could feel every part of his body where skin touched clothing, a steady heartbeat, pulsating blood imagining the pulsating energy resurfacing through him. He gulped a heavily, energy built up he was standing again near the well in his uniform a distance away stood mother and daughter weeping and hurt instinctively he absolutely had to help them he loved them, summon power to heal them and it was there just beneath his skin crawling through him making his body radiant a thin sheet of glow rising all over him 'Focus' he thought 'gather in my palm, please' and the light left his skin leaving the same dull soft brown skin the exhilaration the feel of energy pulsating gone instantly
'Is it gone!' he almost panicked until he noticed his palms glowing brighter than initially the power had obeyed! Seeing his hands only one word came to mind 'Beautif-..'
"They are glowing!!" a small soft voice startled him, the other kids were still on the bus Michael almost forgot he turned furiously at the child sitting beside him 'When did he sit?' in his meditative state he was not aware of anything or anyone else certainly not a small child. The glow on his palms disappeared "Ugh" Michael resigned himself back into the seat suddenly tired the bus stopped they had reached Seasons Elementary.
Rainer Shadowick was just as tall as Michael Bailon that is where their similarities ended cloud grey eyes lined black at their edges, deep black hair, and a moody kind of disposition that contrasted his dreary demeanor he wore a white t-shirt and dark brown shorts bearing the emblem of the school since he hadn't gotten his full uniform yet being new and all. His mom walked him to the curb where the giant bus waited to take him to his new school, he was eager to make friends but realized that he couldn't at least not on the bus as everyone was talking to each other barely taking notice of his presence. The bus rocked slightly he almost lost balance at the sudden movement "Hi!" he said brightly no one answered his words getting lost in the insistent babble of chatter Rainer breathed heavily he would have to wait for school until wait a minute near the back a boy sat isolated and he wasn't talking to anyone!
Excitedly he went heaving himself onto the seat next to him though the kid if anything else seemed not to have noticed Rainer
'it would be rude to disturb him' he thought he could see that he was asleep 'Maybe he watched too much TV last night' Rainer was about to wake him up when he saw the boy's palms glow, or he thought he saw 'do hands glow?' he asked himself none of the books said so he'd never seen anyone's hand glow "Hi! I am Rainer I am new here" he spoke hurriedly seeing the annoyance on the previously sleeping boy's face, he wanted to shake his hand but decided not to Rainer did not want to touch those hand fearing they would be too hot and burn him oh! And the noise and crying he would make
'No one would like that certainly not me!' he concluded,
the sleeping boy now awake barely glanced at him. He didn't say anything ignoring Rainer "Sorry to wake you, how did you do that" he asked pointing to the hands now lost any glow going back to their usual normal state as hands always look.
The boy kept silent 'A magic trick!' Rainer was about to ask where the boy had learned it when the bus stopped they had reached school everyone else was off-boarding he stood up and headed for the doors at the front glowing or not those hands wedged themselves in the back seat of young Rainer's mind the excitement of starting at a new school flooding the entirety of his conscious.