"Oh you're finnaly here? It took you quite a while you know?"
"Well shall I summarize our story, since you're there?"
A being chuckled and started rolling on the ground.
It was not an human, neither an animal,
"What are you? What I am? What was all of that?"
A tired girl fell to her knees and started crying. Her adventure finnaly ended. Countless memories flashed before her eyes.
"Well aren't you a curious child? Let's summarize your story first, please. I waited for such a long time, so please give me a few days, okay?
The being stood up and poked the girl nose. It smiled, placed her on a bed and sat beside her small body.
***
It was morning of another beautiful day. Birds started singing, humans started waking up and preparing for another day of work.
Sun started rising and began it's journey through sky.
"Akira stay with me! The ambulance is coming. Don't leave me like that! I don't want to be alone..."
A girl cried her sister name with sadness and anger. She lost her composure and started sobbing and twitching.
"Sorry, Sora. I know my body well enough to say that I will die before help arrives."
Akira smiled in the pool of her blood. The cold began to spread through her body. Her life started flashing before her eyes.
"After all you have done for us? I don't want to see you die before I repay you, stupid! Why do you sacrifice yourself for everyone? Can't you see that it pains us to watch you solve every problems by yourself?
Sora cried. She was overhelmed by regret and sadness.
"I am happy Sora, I fulfilled my goals and I can finnaly rest. Thank you for everything and remember that there are no debts between us. You helped me with as much as you could and I am happy because of it."
Akira smirked and looked at the stab wound.
She saved her sister, but was stabbed in the process. How pitiful it was.
"I know that you don't want to hear me apologize, so I will thank you instead, sis."
Sora wiped her eyes from tears and smiled.
"Thank you for helping us, even when you were tired."
"Thank you for sharing those days with me."
"Thank you for your effort and pain, even when we didn't deserve it."
The sun began to illuminate the area.
' If I had to name one regret, then it would be not spending enough time with you.'
Akira hugged Sora and her last breath escaped her body.
After a while ambulance came to save Akira, but she didn't live long enough to see it.
***
'Where I am?'
Akira tried to say something but she wasn't able hear anything.
'Well I am dead huh?
That's quite interesting. I wonder what will happen now, after everything.'
"You're quite calm, aren't ya?
Light appeared in endless darkness.
After a while Akira realized that it was an eye with wings. It watched Akira with interest.
'Who are you and what will happen to me now?'
Akira tried to ask but she realized that she didn't have a mouth neither body.
"Calm down, please. You died and as you can see, you lost your body. I am what you humans call an angel. Call me Kelara."
Akira felt a mix of sadness and joy at the same time.
"Why do I feel like this? Are those your feelings?"
She was puzzled because of this new experience.
"Correct. You are a bright child huh?"
Akira wanted to laugh but she didn't make any voice.
"Well let me explain okay? We just don't feel any need to conceal our feelings for others. It's one of many traits that we angels share."
"How is that possible for me to hear you, since you are just wings and an eye?
Akira interrupted Kelara and regretted it.
'I am sorry. That was rude, right?'
"I don't feel insulted. I feel your curiosity and sincerity."
"You hear my voice in your mind, because you don't have ears to communicate, in ways you are accustomed to. My real body is in the other place and you hear it's voice."
"Well let's start with a new body for you first, okay?"
Akira blinked and she already had torso and hands. After a few seconds her body was completed.
"Well here it is, a copy of your previous body. Do you want to change something?"
"Change? I can change the shape of my body?"
Akira was bewildered and happy at the same time. She was able to communicate with her mouth again. It was interesting for her to have a conversation in such a way, but in the end it was tiring for her.
"Yes, that's quite an addition, isn't it? Hovewer please refrain from going too far. For example someone once tried transforming into a monster, tall as a mountain and that was... a bit annoying to deal with."
Akira thought for a moment. She never had any problems with her body, so she didn't feel any need to change it.
"I understand. The world that you will go into, is a place that you humans could call a purgatory."
Akira felt a sense of relief and concern from angel.
"Was I a bad child?"
Akira asked with a bit of sarcasm, chuckled and started rolling in darkness. Her childhood consisted of almost endless problems that she had to face everyday. Only after her succes, she was able to spend more time with her family. She didn't have time to be a bad child.
"An excellent one. You made progress in both body and mind, most adults never had to experience a misery like this for such a long time."
Akira started feeling more emotions from the angel.
'Pride and sadness?'
"It's a place for people, that didn't achieve something that you humans call peak. They were never able to feel certain emotions or understand precious moments."
"Isn't that a paradise then? If not then what are the defects of such a place?"
Akira was even more suprised than before.
"There is endless space, you are able to let your imagination go wild and have fun, but there are also beings that some call trials.
"Trials?"
"Yes, Trials. Your goal is to become more aware of your body. Learn more about others and obtain what your mind lacks. Some will have to face hardships of others. Those may be even memories from thousands of years ago..."
Kelara body started glowing and Akira had to cover her eyes.
Akira opened her eyes and was puzzled.
Before her stood a boy with white wings.
For example trial of trust. Will you trust what's before your eyes and turn your back to me? Remember that there are no limits, of what one call appear as in this world.
"I could be an devil, angel or neither one of them."
Kelara chuckled at Akira astonished face.
"Well that worked like this on earth too, right?" One could look nice and have a nasty personality, but I don't blame you humans for falling for such a trick.
"Please tell me one last thing."
"What do I lack?"
Akira asked with a bit of curiosity. She never thought about things that she would lack.
"You lack care for your own body. You are a child that didn't experience any childhood. That's what you lack. You may fool others, but not me, dear. You concealed your own emotions for years.
"That was quite helpful, thank you. I must admit that it's better to be cautious in such a place."
"That's my responsability as a guiding light. My old acquaintance will tell you the rest. Sh-... he is brutal, so please be prepared."
"And there is one last thing. You can meet fallen people. Those can be humans, demons, even angels. They are heretics that pose danger to everyone in our incrementum. Be wary of them and if you can, capture anyone on their side.
Kelara smiled gently and transformed back into an eye.
"I hope that you will be able to ascend soon, Akira. It was nice to meet you."
"Same for me, Kelara. I hope that we will meet soon. Thank you for everything.
After those words Akira started falling and everything turned black.