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Lost Angelis Introduction
Introduction

A crack of thunder, a flash of lightning. The storm rumbled through Angel Haven, making everyone look up in fear. There hadn't been a storm like this in millennia. Jade, who had been waiting for her new brother to appear with her mom, watched the sky with a worried look, her dove-soft wings fluttering nervously. The tall girl started downstairs, worried for her mother. In the living room lay her mother with a smiling baby boy with beautiful angel wings unfurled from it's back. She opened her mouth to call her daughter down just as Jade entered the room. Suddenly lightning flashed over the house, and everything went black. A few seconds later, the lights came back on and the two gasped in horror. Where a smiling angel had been, there now lay a squalling baby human.

Lost Angelis Chapter One
The Golden Wings Council

The Council was in chaos. Everyone was yelling and holding up papers. "Silence!” The Head Of Council, Madoc, yelled, his eyes furious as he banged his fist on the table. The rest of The Council shut their mouths and all sat down meekly. Madoc sighed and sat down in the huge seat at the front. "Now that we are all settled, let us talk about this mysterious human angel switch that happened. Then we shall discuss the storm." With that, The Council erupted into shouting. "Hush!" Madoc shouted, and had to do it twice more before it had any effect.
Finally The Council settled down and everyone looked expectantly at Madoc. "First off." He said, looking around the room. "We need a team to go to Earth, where we suspect all the stuff is generating from, and get the angel back before the humans find us. While that team is gone, we shall take the human baby and study him." The assembly nodded, and The Head of Council narrowed his eyes, then said, "The team will be composed of our top scouts, Charlie Conroe, William Gayle, Winter Everee, and Connor Warren." Everyone nodded in silent assent, and the meeting was adjourned.
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Jade flew over to the mailman and swooped down, landing lightly on her feet. "What do we have today?" She asked, taking the letters and sifting through them. "Some family letters on Christmas, probably thank-you notes, and one for you from The Council." Jade raised an eyebrow and pulled it out of the thick stack. The envelope was a cream color, and it had very thick paper. Opening it carefully she skimmed over the letter in puzzlement.

Quickly her expression changed from confusion to anger. "They are sending scouts to Earth to find him? Without me? They got another thing coming, thinking that." She told the mailman and flew inside in a hurry, accidentally knocking her cat, Jackie, off her perch. Jackie fell to the floor, shook herself off, and followed Jade inside with a nod to the mailman. The poor, confused mailmen looked at Jackie with a bemused look on his face, then walked to the next house in a sort of dazed way.
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Jade faced Madoc with a stormy, determined look on her face. "I'm his sister, for goodness sakes! You better let me come! And don't say I'm too young. I saw the scouts headed off for this trip. I'm probably the oldest there! I'm coming, whether you like it or not!" Madoc raised an eyebrow, but felt impressed by this show of bravery and stubbornness, especially in front of him. The tall man raised his arms out wide and shrugged. "What can I say? I figure you're right, that you'll find a way to get on this trip no matter what. Yes, you may join this trip." Jade nodded, her eyes resolute about the task ahead. As she walked out of the room, her back turned, Madoc smiled, a grim, evil smile. He looked eerie in the light, or maybe it was just him.

Lost Angelis Chapter Two
Anywhere But Here

Jade hugged her mother, and then pulled away. Holding her by the shoulders, Jade looked her mother in the eyes and promised her, "I will get my brother back. I'm going to find out why all this has happened, and bring him back for you, no matter what. I promise." Her mother nodded and wiped her eyes, trying to stop the crying. Jade hugged her mother one last time, then smiled comfortingly and took a step back. "I will come back with my brother." She turned and walked away towards the entrance to the Ostium, the Room of Portals. She stopped and looked at the team. Connor smiled gently at her and took a step forward, opening the door.

"Everyone ready?" Jade nodded along with the others and they all stepped into the Ostium together. The huge, circular room had doors covering every inch of the walls, from tiny, inch-high doors, to doors that were over fifteen feet tall. It was about three times the size of a football field, with circular doors, square doors, sideways doors, diagonal doors, and some regular looking ones. All of it was masterfully built with marble, gold, and silver. Jade, with wide eyes, stared around her on amazement. "Whoa..." She whispered, and Charlie snorted in laughter. "Seriously? You think this is-" Connor cut her off with a glare, and Charlie fell silent. Winter, the youngest in the group, smiled at Jade. "Come on, I know the way." The eleven-year old took her hand as if she was the older and Jade was a young girl. Leading her to the only human-sized door, Winter spoke under her breath two words Jade couldn’t quite work out, and the door swung open.

Through it she could see a grassy field, and a rundown house far off in the distance. "So this is Earth." Charlie scoffed, looking at Jade and shaking her head. "This isn't an eighth of what you'll see of Earth. Oh and by the way, you might want to fold up your wings. Humans can't know we're angels." Jade nodded, ignoring Charlie's derision and folding her wings into her clothing.

Jade stepped through the door, and into this new dimension. "Wow..." She blinked, trying to take it all in at once. Connor smiled, and took the lead. "Charlie's right, this is only part of Earth." Charlie smirked, but Connor continued. "She did not have to tell you it in such a rude way, but she was right. Follow me, and I'll show you our base where we will be researching strange happenings in this dimension. We need to figure out who is behind all of this." Jade nodded, and added her own bit. "And I have to get my brother back." Winter smiled, as if that statement was the most normal thing she had heard.

As they walked, Jade felt her wings start to cramp up from being hidden for so long. She glanced at Connor with a questioning look, and he nodded. "It's OK to get cramps your first time out. That's why the portal is so secluded, so that angels with cramps can stretch there wings when needed. Go ahead." Jade grinned and let her wings loose out of the special clothing pockets made for them. She fluttered them a little, and sighed. "That feels much better."

Suddenly a farmer appeared around a hill nearby, and looks at Jade in surprise. "Hide your wings!" Charlie hissed, smiling and waving at the farmer as if noting was going on. Jade hid her wings and waved to the farmer too, scared. The old man ambled over and looked Jade up and down with a friendly smile. "I must be getting old. I swore I saw you with wings!" He grinned and turned to the rest of the group. "I see you around here a lot. Do you live in this area?" Connor smiled. "No, sir, but we do like to visit plenty. It's a beautiful place." The man smiled with pleasure. "Well, who knew teenagers these days could be polite? It's nice to see someone as sweet as you. Well, see y'all around!" The farmer walked off to tend his crops, and everyone let out a breath of relief. Charlie turned to glare at Jade. "You could have gotten us killed, spreading your wings out as wide as that!"
"Charlie, I said she could. And your first mission you spread your wings out even wider. You have no right to say anything. Come on, everyone." Connor set off at a brisk pace, and the group followed.

After about another fifteen minutes, Connor stopped at the top of a hill, right at the edge of a grove of trees surrounding the valley below them. "Here we are." He said proudly, and everyone looked around in confusion. 'Here' was in the middle of nowhere. There was a valley with a stream running through it below them, and nothing but wilderness surrounding them. "How are we supposed to live here?" William asked, confused. "We need technology to find Jade's brother."