Bring me to life

Chapter 1

By Jodi-Lyne R.

When Chidori lay in Yuhi's arms dying, a million thoughts went through her head. 'What's happening to me? I'm too young to die. What I'll happen to Shota when he finds out?' Then everything went black. She woke up to see the most beautiful place she had ever seen, words couldn't even describe it. She had noticed that it looked a lot like the pictures she'd seen of Atlantis but it was even more glorious than those pictures.

'I must be in heaven' she thought. She looked around to see heavenly maidens flying all around her; they were the prettiest girls Chidori had ever seen. Chidori called out to one of them "Excuse me Miss but can you tell me where I am?" The maiden stared at her and answered "You must be new here! Well if your in this castle your obviously a celestial maiden, because mortals are not aloud in the castle of the celestial Dragons and if your here it must mean your life on earth has expired."

She continued "I am the celestial maiden Athena I am pleased to meet you...?" "Oh sorry my name's Chidori." "Well I am pleased to meet you Chidori, you must be one of the maidens born and raised on earth. I can tell by your name. I should tell you the rules before you decided to run off."

"First of All, right now you are in the castle Olympus, where all heavenly maidens reside. Since you are an earth-born celestial maiden you may wish to visit the human's heaven. It is outside Olympus, it surrounds our heaven. You can try to go back to earth if you would like but you shan't succeed. Plenty have tried trust me but you would have to get permission from the Celestial Dragon-King Draco and he has never aloud anyone to go back."

"Speaking of which! You need to report to him immediately! You need to be assigned a celestial dragon! Oh and since you were an earth maiden your human body died so get used to your celestial one!" Athena said quickly as she grabbed Chidori's had and flew quickly to the center of the castle where there stood a great black dragon surrounded by other dragons all of different colors than the great black one which Chidori knew right away as Draco.

"What are we going to do? I don't know what to say." Chidori told Athena. "Hush just be quiet and I will speak to the lord Draco!" Athena whispered. "Lord of all Celestial Dragons, King Draco I bring you an earth born celestial maiden Chidori who is waiting to be assigned with her celestial dragon." Athena then pulled Chidori in front of her and bowed down so Chidori did the same.

She focused her eyes on Draco, whose eyes were in shock and then he immediately began speaking in some language (that sounded like growls to Chidori) to the other dragons. They began to speak back to each other and the other dragons' eyes stared in shock again. "What are they saying Athena?" Chidori asked. "Can you understand them?" she had asked Athena when her eyes too had lit up in shock. But Athena had no time to answer that question for Draco began to speak "Hello Chidori!" He said in the softest but scariest voice she had ever heard.

"It seems you are not supposed to be here! Someone has made a mistake and taken your 'earth' life to early! Now my dear Chidori, so that we may understand the circumstances of your accidental death." "Of course Lord Draco, I guess the Mikages had captured me, they had done something to me, I-I can't remember..."

"Yes dear, that is okay it was supposed to happen. Continue child" "Okay then I woke up and I was with Yuhi, I was hugging him when I saw a shadow, a gun was pointed in front of him so I jumped and I was shot in the back, I fell in Yuhi's arms and then Yuhi shot Assamu in the knee and was about to shoot him in the head when I told him not too!"

Chidori had to stop she couldn't bear to relive her death again; all the people she missed from earth caused her so much pain. Draco then spoke "Daughter tell me the rest when your are ready. Tonight go and see the people you have missed who have come to this heaven around the castle. Athena led her to her deceased friends and family, I need to speak to the council." "Yes my lord" Chidori let a teardrop from her face touch the floor as Athena led out the main hallway.

"Your friends Shuro & Kei reside in the castle, though they are no longer earth bound as the group GeSang. They are the castle's choir. I will not take you to them because they are in song right now and it would be a sin to interrupt them and Draco has put a heavy penalty on anyone who does." Athena told her. "But we can visit your parents and your grandparents, afterwards Draco demands you come back and tell the rest of your death."

Chidori's tears stopped as soon as she heard Athena say she was going to get to see the rest of her family. Chidori & Athena then flew out to the beautiful navy blue Atlantis style home. Chidori landed on the step and knocked on the door. The door swung open and it was her mother, Chidori eyes filled with tears yet again as she ran and hugged her mother. Chidori's mother couldn't recognize the person who was hugging her (don't forget Chidori is in her celestial form). Then realized it was Chidori by the way she felt like she was her daughter. Her mother then called out Chidori's father and grandparents out to greet her. They all hugged her one by one, they were crying shocked to learn that their daughter/granddaughter had died so young. Chidori stayed for a while and chatted with them.

It only seemed like a couple of seconds that Chidori had talked to her family when Athena came to get her. They flew back to the main hall in Olympus. Chidori was once again in front of the Celestial Dragon-King Draco telling her death story again. "Yuhi was telling me that Shouta had been freed thanks to Toya and I told Yuhi that I told her not to cry anymore-Yuhi said I should tell her myself-but I knew it was to late." She smiled as she remembered Yuhi saying "Well all go to Karaoke again!" she was crying loudly as her tears rolled down her sad face and onto the warm ceramic blue floor.

"I told him I wanted to try his cooking again, Yuhi said he'd cook me anything I wanted him too, I told him anything he wanted and he said All right then! I'll let you eat my favorite food every day... you can come back and mooch off me again. I'll take care of everything for you, including Shouta. You should transfer to a school near where I live! It's settled!' I said I was cold and that he was warm he told me I should hold on to him tighter. I said he'd probably like it better if I was in my tennyo form and he said 'What the hell are you talking about? You're attractive enough just the way you are!' Then I told him that I'd been about him for a long, long time and then everything went black and I was here.

"Don't worry Chidori!" Draco spoke. "We will send you back to earth, but right now it'll only be in astral form to Aya only, tell her that you'll come back someday. We will send the Celestial Dragon of wind and flight to guide you to and back. The Celestial Dragon of Wind is called Therelis Heasirretyn, his name means sky breeze those above the heavens. You must go now!"

Chidori hopped on the white dragon and left down to earth. As soon as she reached earth and Aya she realised that Aya could not see Therelis, but she told Aya when she saw her crying "I saaaaw you! You were cryyying again, right? I just had to find my own hagoromo. If you find your hagoromo, you can return to the heavens. I'll come back someday...So don't cry, okay? Aya-chan." Aya asked Chidori "Wait, Chidori! Don't go!...Is Tooya there, too? Or is he... "

Chidori had no idea what had happened to Toya, but if he wasn't in heaven then where was he? She would ask Draco when she got back. Therelis zoomed across the sky-Chidori was grateful to see earth again but she wanted to see Yuhi and Shouta again. They had arrived at the castle and Therelis led her to the main hall with the rest of the dragons and Draco.

"It appears my mistress has a few question for you Draco?" Therelis spoke. Chidori looked in surprise to see she could understand him, because Draco told her he could only speak Draconian, though he understood English. "Don't look so surprised Chidori," Draco said. "Since you have been assigned a Celestial Dragon you now understand the language. Now what questions do you wish to ask?" Chidori who understood things a lot better answered "Um, when I was down in my astral form or whatever to talk to Aya, she asked me where Toya was and I'd like to know was he here before me?"

"Yes, Toya had died and he was here, but he is Ceres' hagoromo so he has returned to earth for a short while to see the birth of his and Aya's daughter Persephone [pur-sef'-uh-nee]. He was killed by a gunshot to the head and when he leaves Aya, you shall take his place upon earth." "You mean I'd be replacing Toya? But Lord Draco is there anyway Toya could stay on earth? I would be willing to stay here in exchange for Toya staying on earth with Aya and they could raise their child together." Chidori pleaded, true she did dearly want to go back to earth to see everyone again but not if Toya had to leave the family he had just started.

"I'm sorry Chidori but even if I didn't send you back to earth Toya would still have to come to Olympus anyway. He is the hagoromo, he belongs here and he has already died. I gave him as much time on earth as I could 2 years so he could live to see the birth and first year of his baby's life. That is all I could do Chidori."

"It is now time to get to business Chidori; I need you down on earth anyway. I have figured out how to bring you back to earth, instead of being reborn we will give your human body remains the celestial power to regenerate into your celestial maiden body. However you will no longer have the power to transform yourself into the normal human girl you once were, you will always have the celestial body you have now since your human body will be destroyed in the process of regenerating it with the celestial power but you will be alive. You will just be a pure celestial maiden like Ceres. You will also have to dig out of your grave since your friends chose to bury you."

"I will have missions for you since you are the only celestial being that will be able to travel through both worlds with the help of Therelis, who will come to you after things surrounding your death and resurrection are calmed down. I, besides you and Therelis, am also able to travel between worlds but I am always busy doing things for this world. You must come back to me after you visit Aki & Aya's father as well as Aki and I will make you sleep till you wake up in your coffin. Any questions?"

Chidori shook her head and joined Athena who led her to Aya's father and Aki's place it was baby blue trimmed with pure gold. Athena left her there for by now Chidori knew the way back. Chidori walked up to the door and knocked. Aki answered. "Hi, um, I'm one of Aya's friends and the Lord Draco wanted me to come see you both to tell you that I am the new messenger between the worlds and I am going back down to earth to see her so anything you both want me to tell her? Oh also! Draco told me to tell you that Aki is an uncle and Mr. Mikage you are a grandfather, your wife is doing okay. Aki you know Toya right? Well he's the father of Aya's baby (obviously!) and will be here as soon as I leave unfortunately. So do have anything to tell her?" Chidori said breathlessly as she gave them both a smile.

Mr. Mikage looked at her and said "Tell her that we love her very much and miss her and are both very proud of her!" "Tell her I'm sorry things had to be this way, I wish things were back to normal and none of this ever happened the way it did. Tell her I love her and she has a really cute friend ;)!" Chidori smiled, Aki was flirting with her! She hurried and said "Goodbye" to the Mikages and reported back to Draco.

Draco rested her on perhaps the only bed in heaven (nobody was ever tired and is always comfy in heaven) and then he took a flower from his garden and burned it. "Chidori," he said while she was still sleeping. "I will bestow another power on you! Whenever you ride Therelis you will be invisible to the human eye so you do not draw attention to yourself." and with that last sentence he blew the ashes of the sacred celestial flower over Chidori. Chidori had disappeared from heaven.