Chapter 5: Our lives as Angels.
The next day, Joey awoke early in the morning before Nagisa did. He slowly snuck out of bed and got dressed into a white robe which was prepared for him the day before. The robe was surprisingly comfortable and wasn't as saggy as Joey thought it would be. It felt like it was made just for him. He decided to walk around the castle grounds for a little bit. As he got out of the back door, leading to the garden, his eyes stared in amazement. Heaven sure was a wonderful place to be. He always imagined it would be something like you see in the movies. A bright white light, clouds everywhere and people feeding each other grapes. But this was completely different. People actually lived here. Like they did in their ordinary lives. Although it seemed to be more in a medival setting, which Joey was all right with. He made his wat over to a small tree which stood lonely in the middle of the grassy field. He smiled as he sat down against it, leaning his head against it as well.
"Hey! Get away from me! I live too you know!". A voice said all of a sudden. Joey jumped up, being startled from the voice. He looked around himself, seeing no one around.
"Show yourself! Where are you". He said as he found cover against the tree.
"You're doing it again! Get off!". The sound appeared to have come from the tree.
"Are you talking?" He gently touched the tree and poked it.
Suddenly the tree started shining bright. After the light was faded away a young beautiful girl appeared in front of him. The girl seemed to be dressed in clothes which resembled a flower. Her hair seemed to be almost like petals of a rose.
"Hey that tickled" She said laughing. Suddenly she stopped laughing and took a closer look at Joey.
"You're not from here are you? I must have given you quite a startle! I'm sorry!". She said. Joey was indeed startled because a tree just transformed into a girl!
"I indeed got quite.. startled how did you do that?" Joey asked looking at the girl.
"Well. I'm a Nymph and my name is Rose by the way! I'm a forest creature taking residence right here in the gardens of the castle. I teach some Magics to the students and warriors here! And you were?" She explained and asked. casually, Joey was amazed by Rose's words, she said she was a Nymph, a creature that only existed in fairy tales, but she was right there!
"How should I name myself? My human or.. Angelic name?". He asked. Rose looked confused at Joey because he had two names.
"Well I'll call you by you're Angelic name even if I know you're human one.. so spill it, what's you're name?". She said smiling.
"Its Avo". He said. Rose's eyes widened and she quickly fell to her knees.
"What are you doing? Get up and do like you did 5 seconds ago". He said irritated.
" But Sir! You are the great and mighty Avo! I must obey you!" she said still bowing down.
"Obey these words and act normal, I'm just a trainee, I didn't know what you were until you said it, how could you possibly respect me? Now get up and never call me sir, or suck up at me ever until I say so. Okay?". As Rose got up Joey smiled at her which made her smile too.
"Okay then.. you better get ready for breakfast and after that training I guess, since your a trainee as you said" Rose spoke. Joey smiled and walked back into the castle where Nagisa already was sitting at a great table having breakfast, Krad was there too.
"Good morning Joey, 200 years ago you always walked in the gardens, seems like you haven't changed a lot" Krad said smiling.
"Now lets have some breakfast together and get going to our training area". As Joey, Nagisa and Krad ate breakfast together Nagisa left the room with another robed man.
"Ahe's going to train as well. But separate from you." Krad said.
"But why? Why cant we train together?" Joey asked
" Well because.. You will undergo a different training than she will.. you were the most powerful in the universe and she was second. But you were still a lot stronger than she was, so your training will be harder and tougher" Krad explained. As our duo walks into a great hall Joey sees a lot of men and woman battling each other, lifting weights and practicing with various weapons. Suddenly everything became quiet and all these people were looking at him.
"Krad.. are they like.. surprised to see me?" He asked
"Yes they are, although you are a little different from your former life, these angels have the power to identify they're allies and other beings by they're energy, and your energy is unique so they know who you are." Krad said
"So in a few second all these people are going to.."
"Bow for you" Krad said while interrupting Joey
as Krad finished his line all the people in the giant hall bowed for him, greeting they're former leader
"Stop this at once" Joey said. As he said that everyone in that hall looked confused at him.
"Every single warrior in this room is stronger than me, smarter and everything else I can think of. There is absolutely no reason for you great fighters to bow for me at this moment. As from now on, I will be your apprentice and learn where all of you have worked so hard for to achieve." Joey said.
As he finished speaking the people in the hallway started applauding to Joey.
"A great speech!" one said
"As expected from the great Avo!" Another said. But there was one warrior who wasn't applauding, who was still busy training. Ignoring the speech of Joey and kept silent during everything.
"Pssh what's so great about this brat, making all this ruckus about that stupid brat." the man said
"Don't mind him" a man said "That's just Kane, he didn't like you since when he was a kid, and was pissed when he heard the news that you lived once again". He continued.
"I can imagine why he is angry at me now.. but not in my previous life.".Joey said. "But lets leave that to sometime later, lets train" Joey said full confidence
Krad made a step forward and looked at the men.
"I want all the warriors whom I appointed earlier this week to join me" Krad said. As he pointed to 2 women and 2 men they stepped forward up to Krad and Joey. After a little talk Krad turned to Joey along with the 4 people behind him.
"These will be your masters, they will be training you for at least 6 months, get used to them and give them your respect." Krad said.
"The one on the right is Jin, he is a master in weapons, he will be teaching you all about the weapons you can find and use" Krad said
What Joey saw before him was a slightly older man. He must be around his forty's. His hair was black and he had just a small beard. He was wearing something similar to Joey's robes and he was carrying a massive sword on his back which didn't fit his slim posture at all.
"Its an honor to work with you Joey" He said "
Trust me, no one will be standing up straight after were done training".
"I'm looking forward to it Jin" Joey said.
"The girl next to him is.."
"Rose?" Joey said interrupting Krad. "We've already met in an unusual way"
Rose giggled as Krad continues.
"Lets save that story for another time, but your right this is Rose and she will be teaching you elemental magic"
"That's great right Avo? We'll be working together!" She said cheery
"Y-Yeah, it'll be great. You can call me Joey though." Joey said with a smile. Rose could sure be cheery, even on a morning like this.
"Lets continue" Krad sad
"The man next to Rose is Marcus, he will be learning you martial arts such as judo, karate and every other martial art known on earth and Heaven" Marcus bowed for him and stood straight again. What Joey saw was pretty frightening. It was a big muscled man and a bit hairy too, he as covered in sweat and had scary eyes
"Better not chicken out of my training Kid, I'm looking forward to it!". He said while he was laughing
Joey gulped once and nodded at Marus. He then looked at the final girl.
"That, That is Tomoko, she will be helping you to teach our Holy magic's" Krad said
Joey took a good look at Tomoko, she was a girl who seemed to be not much older than himself. Her hair was long and blue. She was actually pretty cute.
"I'm looking forward to training with you" Joey said.
"I..I..well I euhm." She stuttered a lot while blushing majorly.
"What the heck is wrong Tomoko?" Marcus said "introduce you're self, your never shy!"
" I euhm.. I-am-looking-forward-to-working-with-you!" she said quickly with a tiny bow. Joey knew what she said although it was difficult to hear. All the men and women in the hall were looking surprised at Tomoko, starting to whisper some things.
"Hey Krad?" Joey whispered "Why are these people so surprised?"
"She's never shy" Krad said with a smile as if he knew more.
"With who am I training first?" Joey asked
"Me! Me! Me!" Rose said smiling 'I want to go first"
"Rose, Joey didn't develop any magical powers yet so its impossible to start any magic training right now" Krad said patiently
"Oh yeah your right." She said. "Well Tomoko, I guess we're out for now right? Okay Joey, we'll leave you to the guys right now" as she said that she threw her arm around Tomoko and walked away cheery.
"Well Joey I think you should train with Marcus first. He will help you get in shape for some heavy weapons and after that, you may even have developed some magic" Krad said
Joey looked at Marcus, the big muscled, sweaty and hairy man who smiled in an evil like way
"I'm going to die right here in Heaven by the Devil" He thought while looking at Marcus
"Don't worry kid, we'll have you in shape in no time!" Marcus said laughing. Joey gulped once and followed Marcus into another room, full of training dummy's and a lot of weights.
"Are these weights your breakfast?" Joey said jokingly
"No, my lunch" Marcus said sarcastically "Lets get busy already" as he said that he got a dummy and placed it in front Joey.
"Now hit his head as hard as you can" Marcus said.
Joey looked at the dummy, it seemed to be wood but as he looked around he saw metal dummy's too so maybe Marcus wasn't as hard as he thought. He hit the dummy's head as hard as he could and there was a big crack right at where its nose should be.
"Hmpf that's not bad for an untrained Human." Marcus said
"Your doing even better than I thought at your first try."
He grabbed some nails and a hammer and he nailed the dummy tight to the ground.
"Alright now keep hitting it until you broke every part of the dummy, and I'm going to time it." He said with a serious look. "Judging from your first punch I don't think it would take long." Marcus Said.
"Alright then lets do this" Joey said and he started hitting the dummy over and over again. After half an hour his hands were bleeding of giant splinters and the dummy was broken in a thousand pieces.
"Half an hour" Marcus said "You kept yourself in shape on earth? You seem to have a heck of a endurance for a young earthling" Marcus said smiling.
"time for a break, our training sessions usually go by half an hour and after that half an hour rest, were doing that 6 times a day so you train for three hours with me a day, its the shortest training but the toughest" he said.
"I can imagine that" Joey said looking at his bleeding hands.
"You go meet up with your girlfriend now, and get those hands healed, I cant use you if you cant hit stuff" Marcus said as he opened the door for him. Joey walked outside and saw the other people still training, he had a lot of respect for them but then he continued to the main room where Nagisa sat on a big chair.
"Hey Joey! Oh my God look at your hands! What have they been doing there?" she said while running up to Joey and lifting his hands.
" Ow ow! Watch the hands! You mean what have you NOT been doing" he said "You have no scratch on you!"
"Well I went to make potions with a cool girl and other fancy stuff." She said
"Great" Joey said. "Just great you get to mix leaves with some lady and I get the big sweaty bear and need to hit wooden dummy's until they shatter" Joey said sarcastically.
"Big sweaty bear?" Joey heard someone say. He looked behind him and there were Marcus, Jin, Rose and Tomoko.
"Who you calling a big sweaty bear kid?" Marcus said laughing ",I get that a lot! Hahaha!"
Suddenly Krad opened the door and walked up to Joey, Nagisa and Marcus. Rose, Tomoko and Jin following him.
"Tomoko thought it would be good for you to be with your masters so you can get to know them better." Krad said
"Yeah, that would be fun!" Rose said cheery as always. "If we only train together, we'll have a boring teacher student relationship, and almost every one of us is your age, except for those two guys then."
"It is good to not be only colleagues but also friends" Jin said.
Jin was a calm man and he reminded him a bit of Krad who also kept his cool all the time.
"Well then, its half an hour break, Tomoko you heal Joey's hands with your magic, and I'll have someone get some drinks for you guys." Krad said.
"This" Joey said "Is the beginning of a very long training period".
"Hey! Get away from me! I live too you know!". A voice said all of a sudden. Joey jumped up, being startled from the voice. He looked around himself, seeing no one around.
"Show yourself! Where are you". He said as he found cover against the tree.
"You're doing it again! Get off!". The sound appeared to have come from the tree.
"Are you talking?" He gently touched the tree and poked it.
Suddenly the tree started shining bright. After the light was faded away a young beautiful girl appeared in front of him. The girl seemed to be dressed in clothes which resembled a flower. Her hair seemed to be almost like petals of a rose.
"Hey that tickled" She said laughing. Suddenly she stopped laughing and took a closer look at Joey.
"You're not from here are you? I must have given you quite a startle! I'm sorry!". She said. Joey was indeed startled because a tree just transformed into a girl!
"I indeed got quite.. startled how did you do that?" Joey asked looking at the girl.
"Well. I'm a Nymph and my name is Rose by the way! I'm a forest creature taking residence right here in the gardens of the castle. I teach some Magics to the students and warriors here! And you were?" She explained and asked. casually, Joey was amazed by Rose's words, she said she was a Nymph, a creature that only existed in fairy tales, but she was right there!
"How should I name myself? My human or.. Angelic name?". He asked. Rose looked confused at Joey because he had two names.
"Well I'll call you by you're Angelic name even if I know you're human one.. so spill it, what's you're name?". She said smiling.
"Its Avo". He said. Rose's eyes widened and she quickly fell to her knees.
"What are you doing? Get up and do like you did 5 seconds ago". He said irritated.
" But Sir! You are the great and mighty Avo! I must obey you!" she said still bowing down.
"Obey these words and act normal, I'm just a trainee, I didn't know what you were until you said it, how could you possibly respect me? Now get up and never call me sir, or suck up at me ever until I say so. Okay?". As Rose got up Joey smiled at her which made her smile too.
"Okay then.. you better get ready for breakfast and after that training I guess, since your a trainee as you said" Rose spoke. Joey smiled and walked back into the castle where Nagisa already was sitting at a great table having breakfast, Krad was there too.
"Good morning Joey, 200 years ago you always walked in the gardens, seems like you haven't changed a lot" Krad said smiling.
"Now lets have some breakfast together and get going to our training area". As Joey, Nagisa and Krad ate breakfast together Nagisa left the room with another robed man.
"Ahe's going to train as well. But separate from you." Krad said.
"But why? Why cant we train together?" Joey asked
" Well because.. You will undergo a different training than she will.. you were the most powerful in the universe and she was second. But you were still a lot stronger than she was, so your training will be harder and tougher" Krad explained. As our duo walks into a great hall Joey sees a lot of men and woman battling each other, lifting weights and practicing with various weapons. Suddenly everything became quiet and all these people were looking at him.
"Krad.. are they like.. surprised to see me?" He asked
"Yes they are, although you are a little different from your former life, these angels have the power to identify they're allies and other beings by they're energy, and your energy is unique so they know who you are." Krad said
"So in a few second all these people are going to.."
"Bow for you" Krad said while interrupting Joey
as Krad finished his line all the people in the giant hall bowed for him, greeting they're former leader
"Stop this at once" Joey said. As he said that everyone in that hall looked confused at him.
"Every single warrior in this room is stronger than me, smarter and everything else I can think of. There is absolutely no reason for you great fighters to bow for me at this moment. As from now on, I will be your apprentice and learn where all of you have worked so hard for to achieve." Joey said.
As he finished speaking the people in the hallway started applauding to Joey.
"A great speech!" one said
"As expected from the great Avo!" Another said. But there was one warrior who wasn't applauding, who was still busy training. Ignoring the speech of Joey and kept silent during everything.
"Pssh what's so great about this brat, making all this ruckus about that stupid brat." the man said
"Don't mind him" a man said "That's just Kane, he didn't like you since when he was a kid, and was pissed when he heard the news that you lived once again". He continued.
"I can imagine why he is angry at me now.. but not in my previous life.".Joey said. "But lets leave that to sometime later, lets train" Joey said full confidence
Krad made a step forward and looked at the men.
"I want all the warriors whom I appointed earlier this week to join me" Krad said. As he pointed to 2 women and 2 men they stepped forward up to Krad and Joey. After a little talk Krad turned to Joey along with the 4 people behind him.
"These will be your masters, they will be training you for at least 6 months, get used to them and give them your respect." Krad said.
"The one on the right is Jin, he is a master in weapons, he will be teaching you all about the weapons you can find and use" Krad said
What Joey saw before him was a slightly older man. He must be around his forty's. His hair was black and he had just a small beard. He was wearing something similar to Joey's robes and he was carrying a massive sword on his back which didn't fit his slim posture at all.
"Its an honor to work with you Joey" He said "
Trust me, no one will be standing up straight after were done training".
"I'm looking forward to it Jin" Joey said.
"The girl next to him is.."
"Rose?" Joey said interrupting Krad. "We've already met in an unusual way"
Rose giggled as Krad continues.
"Lets save that story for another time, but your right this is Rose and she will be teaching you elemental magic"
"That's great right Avo? We'll be working together!" She said cheery
"Y-Yeah, it'll be great. You can call me Joey though." Joey said with a smile. Rose could sure be cheery, even on a morning like this.
"Lets continue" Krad sad
"The man next to Rose is Marcus, he will be learning you martial arts such as judo, karate and every other martial art known on earth and Heaven" Marcus bowed for him and stood straight again. What Joey saw was pretty frightening. It was a big muscled man and a bit hairy too, he as covered in sweat and had scary eyes
"Better not chicken out of my training Kid, I'm looking forward to it!". He said while he was laughing
Joey gulped once and nodded at Marus. He then looked at the final girl.
"That, That is Tomoko, she will be helping you to teach our Holy magic's" Krad said
Joey took a good look at Tomoko, she was a girl who seemed to be not much older than himself. Her hair was long and blue. She was actually pretty cute.
"I'm looking forward to training with you" Joey said.
"I..I..well I euhm." She stuttered a lot while blushing majorly.
"What the heck is wrong Tomoko?" Marcus said "introduce you're self, your never shy!"
" I euhm.. I-am-looking-forward-to-working-with-you!" she said quickly with a tiny bow. Joey knew what she said although it was difficult to hear. All the men and women in the hall were looking surprised at Tomoko, starting to whisper some things.
"Hey Krad?" Joey whispered "Why are these people so surprised?"
"She's never shy" Krad said with a smile as if he knew more.
"With who am I training first?" Joey asked
"Me! Me! Me!" Rose said smiling 'I want to go first"
"Rose, Joey didn't develop any magical powers yet so its impossible to start any magic training right now" Krad said patiently
"Oh yeah your right." She said. "Well Tomoko, I guess we're out for now right? Okay Joey, we'll leave you to the guys right now" as she said that she threw her arm around Tomoko and walked away cheery.
"Well Joey I think you should train with Marcus first. He will help you get in shape for some heavy weapons and after that, you may even have developed some magic" Krad said
Joey looked at Marcus, the big muscled, sweaty and hairy man who smiled in an evil like way
"I'm going to die right here in Heaven by the Devil" He thought while looking at Marcus
"Don't worry kid, we'll have you in shape in no time!" Marcus said laughing. Joey gulped once and followed Marcus into another room, full of training dummy's and a lot of weights.
"Are these weights your breakfast?" Joey said jokingly
"No, my lunch" Marcus said sarcastically "Lets get busy already" as he said that he got a dummy and placed it in front Joey.
"Now hit his head as hard as you can" Marcus said.
Joey looked at the dummy, it seemed to be wood but as he looked around he saw metal dummy's too so maybe Marcus wasn't as hard as he thought. He hit the dummy's head as hard as he could and there was a big crack right at where its nose should be.
"Hmpf that's not bad for an untrained Human." Marcus said
"Your doing even better than I thought at your first try."
He grabbed some nails and a hammer and he nailed the dummy tight to the ground.
"Alright now keep hitting it until you broke every part of the dummy, and I'm going to time it." He said with a serious look. "Judging from your first punch I don't think it would take long." Marcus Said.
"Alright then lets do this" Joey said and he started hitting the dummy over and over again. After half an hour his hands were bleeding of giant splinters and the dummy was broken in a thousand pieces.
"Half an hour" Marcus said "You kept yourself in shape on earth? You seem to have a heck of a endurance for a young earthling" Marcus said smiling.
"time for a break, our training sessions usually go by half an hour and after that half an hour rest, were doing that 6 times a day so you train for three hours with me a day, its the shortest training but the toughest" he said.
"I can imagine that" Joey said looking at his bleeding hands.
"You go meet up with your girlfriend now, and get those hands healed, I cant use you if you cant hit stuff" Marcus said as he opened the door for him. Joey walked outside and saw the other people still training, he had a lot of respect for them but then he continued to the main room where Nagisa sat on a big chair.
"Hey Joey! Oh my God look at your hands! What have they been doing there?" she said while running up to Joey and lifting his hands.
" Ow ow! Watch the hands! You mean what have you NOT been doing" he said "You have no scratch on you!"
"Well I went to make potions with a cool girl and other fancy stuff." She said
"Great" Joey said. "Just great you get to mix leaves with some lady and I get the big sweaty bear and need to hit wooden dummy's until they shatter" Joey said sarcastically.
"Big sweaty bear?" Joey heard someone say. He looked behind him and there were Marcus, Jin, Rose and Tomoko.
"Who you calling a big sweaty bear kid?" Marcus said laughing ",I get that a lot! Hahaha!"
Suddenly Krad opened the door and walked up to Joey, Nagisa and Marcus. Rose, Tomoko and Jin following him.
"Tomoko thought it would be good for you to be with your masters so you can get to know them better." Krad said
"Yeah, that would be fun!" Rose said cheery as always. "If we only train together, we'll have a boring teacher student relationship, and almost every one of us is your age, except for those two guys then."
"It is good to not be only colleagues but also friends" Jin said.
Jin was a calm man and he reminded him a bit of Krad who also kept his cool all the time.
"Well then, its half an hour break, Tomoko you heal Joey's hands with your magic, and I'll have someone get some drinks for you guys." Krad said.
"This" Joey said "Is the beginning of a very long training period".