The Angel of the Hourglass(UNEDITED)

Chapter 18: I Couldn't Save You

Flashback scene: A Few Months Ago

It was a normal day upstairs as usual, all calm...all white. I woke up and did the usual thing, brush my teeth, get dressed, eat and since it was a weekend, I decided to go and roam by wings. Since I was roaming I put on a normal guardian uniform.

" Mom and dad!" I yelled about the head out

" Yes sweetheart?" Replied my mom from the living room.

" I'm doing a shift early! I'll be back after I'm done roaming!" I said

" Okay" She exclaimed.

I headed out and began to fly. I looked at my hourglass occasionally in case I had a transition to do. For the first hour, it was pretty quiet and my sense couldn't detect anything, everything seemed calm and taken care of. I continued flying around and that's when my hourglass started to go crazy and my senses detected something nearby. I Flew towards the area and snapped my fingers to get into the place.

I was in a hospital, particularly a kids hospital. I was greeted to a family surrounding a girl around 14, in a hospital bed, she was bald and had many things hooked up to her. Doctors were also in here talking to the family. At the window, a little white feather had fallen. The little girl noticed.

" Mom...an angels...feather...fell. Can yo-u get it?" She asked. I smiled, not everyone really pays attention to angel feathers.

There was actually an interesting fact about angel feathers. Not many people know unless they really do their research. If you have the right feather, a white one, it means a light angel is near but what most don't know is what you can do with it. If you hold it in your hands, close your eyes and make a wish then blow it. The angel who owns that feather can greet you one wish. All angels can do that.

But...

If you do that with a black feather , yes you can make a wish and the dark angel will grant it...except they will reverse it...

so lesson here is, make a wish on angel feathers, just not black ones.

" Why do you want the feather dear?" asked the mom as she got up to get the feather then handed it to the girl in the bed. The girl smiled faintly. She was fairly pale as her timer showed she had only a few drops left to live.

"They...are angel...feathers. You...can make a...wish" She explained through deep breaths. I smiled, she knew the trick. I was prepared to grant the girls wish.

She held the feather with two hands, closed her eyes and wished. I could hear her wish through the feather.

" I wish...that I wouldn't die today" She said. This broke my heart because she knew she was going to die. She blew the feather and it hit the ground. she smiled and waited. I began slowly filling up her timer with sand. I can't save everyone but she was very young so It was alright for me to do so. As I did so, I also put a safe guard on her so no dark angels could tamper it.

The timer began to slowly fill...suddenly...it began to rapidly drain! Something was draining the life out of her! The heart meter began falling. The girl fell unconscious.

" Doctor whats happening!? It can't be happening!" Yelled the father. A team of nurses came in and tried to give her a shock.

I tried to keep filling the hourglass. I was fighting against a force. I was using up every bit of my powers that I could and ever so slightly could only get a few grains of sand into the hourglass as the force was very powerful. It was then when my powers stopped working! I kept trying and trying but nothing worked! I didn't see any black feathers or even sense an angels presence!

The hourglass took its final drop and the heart meter went flat.

" Time of death, 10:43 am, October, 5,2016" Said the doctor as they put a white cloth over her body. The family was in great grief and I was too. This was the first case I couldn't save. After the girls death, My powers came back and the girls soul came to me. She didn't say a word when I took her hand.

" I'm sorry...I tried to fight for you...I couldn't" I whispered. She stayed silent and I snapped her upstairs. I looked at the girls lifeless body lay there under the cloth...The name tag read : Secret. M

A tear rolled down my cheek as I felt guilty for not being able to save her. I left the scene and whispered sorry to the family. I left as I heard the family about to say something. A black and white feather fell. Sometimes, the universe can't save one person...even if an angel has the power to...it's also up to the universe...I guess she was rejected for some reason since I didn't sense any Angels.

"Hey...honey, it's a black and white feather near the window...." Said the mom

"Oh...there's another feather here behind the door. It's a black feather. There's 2 black feathers and one white feather" said the father.