The Accident
The moment she decided to climb up on that cliff, was her bad decision. Peering down at the water below and looking down at her friend with an excited face, one so full of life. Taking her last deep breath before running off the cliff, falling down into the water below, only to be met with piercing pain coursing through her entire body. The feeling of suffocation as all of the air in her lungs left her body. All she could see was red as the water filled with her blood. Sky heard the yelling before she was being pulled out of the water. Being wrapped in comforting arms that she only knew too well, as her vision went black, and very slowly the darkness consume her as she bled out.
This was the last memory she experienced before her life ended. The cove had taken her life and engulfed it in a deadly embrace. The people she loved with all of her heart were left to feel the sting she left, while her pain ended. It was bitter sweet in every way.
Repent
The next time Sky opened her eyes she was met with blinding light. When her eyes adjusted and she was finally able to open them she looked around her only to find she was in what she could describe as a room, except it wasn`t. The ‘walls’ were blurry and if you walked close enough she could have sworn you could fall through them.
In this room there was two buttons, both gray. One read above it “Repent”, the other read “Sin”. Sky placed both her hands on the two buttons. If she was being honest she didn`t know which one was right or what she was even doing. So she closed her eyes and pressed them both. The result was an overwhelming pain as she fell to the ground curling into a ball pressing against her abdomen. It was no use though because as she opened her eyes all she was seeing was blood. The wounds from her death open, soaking her, her bathing suit, and painting the floor red. She panicked and crawled to the buttons immediately pressing ‘Repent’.
The next thing she knew she was met with a glow and she was standing in a very light hallway. An archangel appeared before her and looked down at her, he smiled warmly. “Are you in any pain?” He asked and Sky checked herself frantically looking for the wound but only found that she was wearing a white sundress that pooled at her feet. “Where am I?” She asked wide eyed. “Dear child, you`re in the light, or what you humans refer to as heaven. You chose to face the error of your ways, even though your death was very much an accident.”
“Wait so am I an angel? Is that what you`re telling me?!” Sky asked and he paused before nodding, it was at this moment that his wings unfurled behind him, white and glowing beautifully. “You must go through initiation but yes that is what I am telling you. Now come, we have a lot to do.”
The next while would be her wings being sewn into her back, which is as painless as it sounds. Once that was done the weeks began as an angel in training, learning the basics before she was given her placement as an angel of memory. This job entailed going to victims of memory loss on earth and giving them back they`re memory, whether the cause have been an accident or old age. All the while her memories from her life slowly faded away. The people that considered her their daughter, her parents, and most importantly her best friend, slowly disappeared. The loss leaving her with a clear and calm mind with no worries. The only memory she kept was the wisdom of how she died, but as to who was there and where she was, she doesn`t remember.
The Ball of Purgatory
Sky stood in the garden of the venue staring up at the moon, entranced by the beauty of the night. For this evening she wore a long white dress that flowed with long sleeves and that accented her Celtic looks. The back dipped down of course to make room for her wings if she needed them, for now a glowing white tattoo shaped like a ‘V’ down her back was in their place.
Balls have never been too much fun for her however. Every year they had a ball on earth where heaven and hell put their elites to celebrate the peace they shared. The two may be complete opposites but they co-existed under the laws of what souls deserved. This was the third year she`d been appointed to this event. Three years ago she became an archangel in training. The archangel that led her through heaven had seen something in her as time went on. He saw the power her soul radiated; it was too powerful to have her be a memory angel forever.
Therefore as an archangel in training here she was, at a ball filled with demons and angel alike. It was the only time the two kinds came together. The only time they were able to talk to some another without restrictions. It was expected because they were the higher ups that they`d have no problem resisting corruption or as some put it, contamination from each other. An angel wouldn`t go rouge and a demon wouldn`t start deciding to escape hell.
Turning around she looked into the ballroom and took a deep breath, she didn`t want to go back in there. While the two races coexisted and danced together, it was all a lot of acting, and she hated it. Acting in such a way didn`t suit her at all.