Kindan no Tanjōbi

Chapter Five: I've Missed You

Tenshi jolts up with a start, frantically looking around and noticing she wasn't in her room with her twin.

"Darling, I've missed you," a voice says coming from Tenshi's right. "Watching from afar is truly boring, I'll have you know. Ah but it's paid off, I see," A woman spoke, giving Tenshi and quick once over as if she was admiring a painting at a museum.

Tenshi turns her head and see an elegant woman dressed in all white. She wears a dress that hugs her petite frame and accents her breast embroidered with lace and flowers flowing down her arms and back. Her brown hair falls on one side of her lightly make-upped face. She is truly stunning.

"Who're you?" Tenshi asks politely, just in case she might need to use her charm to get out of this dark yet light abyss.

"Woe is me," the woman sighs dramatically, "I give the child life and this is how I'm repaid?"

Tenshi is stunned.

"Calm down, dear, I was only joking," the woman says, beckoning Tenshi over, "Come, child."

Tenshi stood on shaky feet and scuttled towards the beautiful woman I front of her.

"Well here's a fun fact; when you were a wee baby on the brink of death, I gave you life," she explains, clapping her hands together, "and now, for your 18th birthday, I will give you your gift."

Tenshi nods, not fully comprehending what's going on.

"Close your eyes and think positive thoughts," the woman says.

"Wait," Tenshi says, forever curious, "What should I call you?"

"Call me Queen Utsukushi-sa, dear," she replies.

Tenshi nods and closes her eyes and thinks of the time where her and her sister and her aunt laughed so hard they couldn't breathe. She thinks of all the good moments she shared with Akuma and Aunt Mae and feels herself relax.

"This may hurt just a bit," the queen says quickly before Tenshi feels a burn of pain coming from her back.

She falls to the floor, clawing at her back and peeling off her shirt, not caring about the woman in front of her, screaming loudly.

As she claws at her back, her perfectly manicured fingernail catches onto something. She starts pulling and slowly the pain goes away and is replaced by a white feather covered in blood. She continues pulling at her back, vaguely aware of how she must look in her lace bra, pulling feathers out of her back. Her body started changing. Her eyes grew bigger and turned bluer than the cleanest sea. Her back arched beautifully, making a slide for her now ginger hair to slide down all the way to the middle of her stomach, meeting the red skirt that stopped there as well. Her legs were suddenly wrapped in lace leggings that met her underwear. She felt her chest grown in size and her lace bra broke and was replaced with a new white one and not black. A shirt appears on her, not covering her shoulders but swooping behind her neck and underneath her arms to the middle of her back and it stopped at her stomach.

"Alright, dear, that's about enough," Tenshi suddenly hears the queen say as she was handed a mirror about the size of her, "Look at yourself now,"

Tenshi gasped and fluttered backwards, hovering above the ground.

Tenshi has wings.

Beautiful, bright white wings that stop at her waist and flutter silently, keeping her in the air.

"Oh my," Tenshi breathed, "talk about a birthday gift,"

"Ah, yes, I responded the same when my mother gave me mines," the queen said, suddenly robeless as her long golden wings touch the backs of her ankles, "I rarely give out compliments to any other than myself but you are stunning," she told Tenshi.

"Thank you," Tenshi said bowing.

"Well, you're welcome. Now come closer so I teach you all there is to know about your... newly found self," the woman beckoned her over and off into a dark room. Tenshi wasn't afraid, though.

This was how it's supposed to be.