Falling from Grace

Prologue

While you were growing up, your parents told you that lying was bad, that it was never okay to do it. While we were growing up we were taught that we had to lie, for not only our good, but for your good to.

And while we are talking about what your parents told you. Remember when you were five years old and you were afraid of monsters, in your closet or under your bed, and your parents would tell you that monsters don't exist and tuck you back into bed. Well, monsters do exist, they just aren’t the monsters you would imagine. They are completely black figures of any shape or size; they have fangs and yellow eyes, and stalk one person for their whole lives.

Not everyone has a monster, or a shadow, only certain people, and they aren't dangerous all the time, only some are and only when they are in a bad mood. Shadows are not passed down generation to generation; basically, if you are born at the same time as a shadow is born it finds you instantly and haunts you. Shadows arnt born as recently as humans are, and neither are we.

We are a group of trained fighters, or Guardians as Simon calls us, we are also called fallen angels- or warrior angels who decided to leave heaven to protect humans. We were born in heaven with a special ability, which we keep when we are reborn on earth. Some are born with the ability to read minds, or shoot fire from their hands, or simply to see which people were angels or which people have a shadow. We use our abilities to help protect the humans with shadows. We don't remember about lives in heaven, we only remember our human lives, even though we aren’t completely human. We are stronger, faster, and harder to kill than humans are. We live in pack-like groups, divided up by whatever city were born in, and collect as many abilities as possible within the groups. When a Guardian is born, our mothers usually either die in childbirth or give us up for adoption and we find our cities group leader. Our leader is the one who finds us a haunted human and to raise us, our job is to get close to our human, conform to whoever they turn out to be, and protect them no matter what, but we are never allowed to leave our city, our group.

My name is Andriana, I am currently 17 years old and I am a Guardian in the city of Grace, I go to Grace high, and am currently assigned to Krista Holden. My leader is a 46 year old man named Simon, who has raised me since I was seven years old. There are currently nine members in our group, seven of which are in high school. This is a look into our world, my world that not many get to see, so open your eyes and pay attention, because I’ll only say this once.

My story begins on a Thursday afternoon, I was watching over Krista, when she dropped the bomb on me that would eventually lead to one of the biggest controversies in our long history. It started like this: