Angel's Tale
Chapter 1
The characters in this story are:
ALEC SU: Alec/ Shion (pronounced *Shee-on*) *grin*
VICKI ZHAO: Vicki/ Allyce
NICKY WU: NICKY/ Ryan
LOUIS KOO: Louis/ Folken
KRISTY YANG: Kristy/ Ellena
CECILIA CHEUNG: Cecilia/ Serena
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SYPNOSIS OF *ANGEL'S TALE*
Who is Alec Su?
To Vicki Zhao, he is her longtime best friend and someone who shares the secrets of her soul. To his younger sister Cecilia, he is a caring brother and a confidante. To his closest friend Louis, he is a hero and a saviour.
But to a woman of the past named Allyce, he is the lover of a lifetime...after lifetime....a man whose soul burns with suffering and hate and the need for revenge...a man who loves her enough to wait for her, even if Destiny's curse may prove that their love was never meant to be...
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Vicki Zhao, a seventeen year old girl, has always had her head in the clouds. Like the romantic soul that she is, she dreams of a man who will one day come for her and give her the meaning of true love. When Nicky Wu, a new student, transfers to her school, she realizes that her dreams may come true in his embrace. It feels so right to love him and so very REAL to want to make him hers forever. Yet, why is her best friend Alec suddenly so angry and furious with Nicky and growing more and more distant from her as well? Is it not right for her to experience and taste the sweetness of true love just this once?
Things lead onto the path of the paranormal when Vicki is approached by Kristy Yang and Louis Koo, two students at her school. They confide in her that they have had dreams or *Moon Visions* as they call it, about themselves as other people and about HER as a beautiful woman named Allyce. They confide to her that there is a strong link to them and to herself and warn her that they could all be reincarnations of a group of unique individuals from a time of the past. It's just sci-fi fantasy talk, Vicki thinks to herself. Only a fragment of the imagination. It can't be true...
Until Vicki begins to have dreams too.
It is then that Vicki will have to embrace the truth about herself, and about her true identity as Allyce. But what truly happend to Allyce in her past life and what happened to Kristy and Louis's real identities in the past? What targedy had occurred to them to make their souls inhabit the human form and live once more?
Soon, answers are given to them as the story begins to unfold. It is then that Vicki begins to realize the full extent of this hauntingly bizarre twist of fate that had fallen upon her and begins to realize how very wrong her love for Nicky is....and how very strong is the love that Alec has for her. She will begin to remember the bittersweet love that Allyce once shared for a man named Shion and accept the brutal betrayal that separated them for lifetime after lifetime.
Tragedy and pain, loss and hope, reality and dreams -- Vicki Zhao will experience all of these turmoils and emotions as her heart and soul begins to remember and accept her Destiny as Allyce ... and how she must love and destroy the man whose love for her spans across Time.
A man named Shion.
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Chapter One – PROLOGUE: For the Love of Allyce
He was growing weaker and weaker, mentally and physically. He felt the disease spreading throughout his limbs, the fever embedding its way into his very soul. Pain wracked him from the centre of his brian and spanned across his chest and into his heart. On the verge of collapsing, he fell onto his knees, gasping and spitting out dark crimson blood as he choked out his bodily fluids. Higher and higher his temperature soared, redder and redder his bloodshot eyes got. He could do nothing but endure the pain in silence as it pierced through his heart, so severe that he gasped and sputtered, falling upon the cold ground like a broken doll.
Is this what it is to die? Is this the pain that she felt when she took her last breath? Finally, blessed Death...He had been waiting so long for it to come to bring him into its clutches. Finally and at last...Take me now....take me now....
The night air was cooler than ever out in the atmosphere and the wind struck him full force in the face. In this lonely and dismal land, he would die with nothing but the winds and the trees overlooking him. His fingers frozen with dried blood and sweat, he forced himself to crawl back to the base. But he knew that he wouldn't make it and yet, his spirit refused to cease trying. Hands clawed through the soil as his arms extended outwards, pulling his deteriorated body along behind. More blood leaked from his mouth, more vomit of blood stained his shirt. One pull, two pulls. His fingers grabbed onto the single blade of grass that poked its form up from the gravel but he was too weak to even yank on it. It was futile, everything was futile. He was dying.
It was a pity for him to die this way – to die all alone. His sadness grew as he lay still upon the hard ground as he watched the moonlight wash the Earth from afar. It was Allyce's Earth – her vision of the perfect world. He faintly smiled melancholy as he saw the white moonbeams soften the harsh outlines of the mountains and turn the fluttering leaves to gossamar. He knew that soon, the light would pour like liquid silver upon the river in the distant woods, and touch the water with a pearly glow that would linger until the moon sank behind the hills when darkness fell. The world was still too beautiful to leave yet ... but the loneliness was too much to bear. He wanted to be where she was, where everyone was. He didn't want to be alone anymore.
The dreams haunted him then. Dreams of Allyce.
She was wearing an ivory silken robe, her long ebony hair shimmering in the silvery moonlight as her luminous eyes bore through his soul. She was beautiful and ethereal in her angelic way, her lips curving into a divine smile as she beckoned him forward to her. Come Shion, come, she seemed to be telling him with those heavenly dark eyes wide and full of mystic magic. A tendril of her locks billowed out into the breeze and it floated toward him, fluttering gently in the breeze. He struggled to grab onto it, lifting his fevered face from the ground to meet her gaze. But the vision was gone. Allyce was gone, buried so long ago, too long ago. She was gone and free forever, while he lived on, living in his private Hell.
The rain began to spill at his feet as the sky exploded into a raging storm. With each second, the rain fell more fiercely, lashing its wetness and sped at him like raging bullets. He could no longer move and his limbs felt airy beneath him, as though his body no longer had any substance.
"Shion, the time has come...."
It was her voice, her sweet and lilting voice. It was calling for him, urging him to submit to it. Then, she was singing in her clear and beautiful voice, the notes high and sharp and clear. It was his song, the song he had composed for her so long ago. A song for his Allyce. He closed his eyes and listened intently to the mournful melody, battered by the fierce of the storm within him, until the Spirit of his soul entered him. From somewhere far away, he thougth he heard a cry of sorrow echo into the night but his mind was shutting down...his body's lifeforce diminishing rapidly...
Allyce, we will meet again. In another time, in another place that will span across worlds and Time. We will meet again.
Death was so near to him. Not until this moment had he really believed that it would finally come for him. His cheeks were wet, but whether with tears or rain he did not know. He only knew that he could no longer bear the pain that sliced through him with every drop that struck his skin, his face, his nake throat.
"ALLYCE!" The single name rose into his throat, carried from the heart of the storm inside of him, a last despeate pleas to one who was already lost. "ALLYCE!"
His heartbeat stopped. The raging storm gave way to a world of darkness and silence. He felt the sensation of falling and then, he landed. He fell into the arms of Allyce and felt the softness of her skin as she caressed his fevered face. She smiled at him and he reached out for her with trembling hands. Together, he relished in the comfort and the love that they once shared. He was with her again and he would be with her again...in another lifetime, even after Death.
"I'll see you soon," Allyce promised him.
Her vow was carved within his soul.
"Soon." Shion smiled at her lovingly.
At that moment, he heard her heartbeat pumping in rhythm with his. They were one. Their hearts entwined as one.
We will meet again, Allyce.
