Heaven’s Visions

-Five Days Earlier-

The story starts back a little bit earlier than three days.

It was the angels that first noticed that something was heading for them. It began with warnings of a typhoon coming for Suiten. The humans were getting for the storm. Natalia went into town to get supplies. Izumi was out with her new girlfriend for the morning. The other angels went to different parts of town to do their own thing.

And then the visions began.

Baby Doll woke up to find most of the apartment empty. At first, her mind was too much in a fog to function. After a shower and getting dressed, the first signs started to appear. She had just put on her navy short-sleeved shirt when she spotted something out of the corner of her eye.

“Hello?” Baby Doll asked, turning around. Of course, there was nobody in sight. She frowned and shook her head. I hate when that happens, the angel thought. Baby Doll was about to exit the bathroom when she heard a tap on the window. She turned around and made a strange face. The angel walked over to the paw print pressed against the glass.

“The hell?” she asked. It looked too big to be a cat’s paw print and she doubted that most animals would get up that high by themselves without any help from nature or a person. Baby Doll opened the window and looked around. She didn’t understand why since there was no way that the “animal” could still be around.

When she made it downstairs, she found Liz playing a video game. Baby Doll came around the couch.

“Liz?” she asked. Her roommate didn’t look up. I walked around to her side and sat down. The battle on the screen looked like fire and explosions.

“Is it fun?” Baby Doll asked. Liz didn’t answer.

“What’s your score right now?” she tried again. Still no answer. The older angel didn’t even take her eyes off of the screen. The younger angel turned to her roommate, frowning.

“Okay, I’ll cut the crap,” she said. “There was a paw print on my bathroom window this morning.”

“Uh-huh,” Liz said.

“Are you even listening to me?”

“Yeah. It was probably some cat or something.”

“I don’t think a cat can get up that high without any help.”

“Okay, so?”

Baby Doll sighed and dropped her shoulders. “Don’t you think it’s strange? I also thought I saw something behind me this morning.”

“And?”

“Don’t you think that’s strange?”

“You were probably imagining things because you had just woken up.” Liz pressed the buttons faster on her controller. A tank blew up just as her character jumped out of the way. “Shit, that was close!” Liz made her character run faster across the battlefield. Baby Doll flopped backwards on the sofa and groaned.

“You’re not hearing me out!” she complained. “I think something might be wrong here.”

“And?” the older angel asked. It was all the younger roommate could do to keep from screaming out loud. Instead, Baby Doll sighed and dropped her head.

“Forget it,” she said. The younger angel got up and walked out of the living room. She paused when she came to the doorway and looked over her shoulder.

“Where is everyone else, by the way?” Baby Doll asked.

“Natalia went into town for shopping for the typhoon,” Liz said without turning her head. “Izumi and Himeko went out with their dates. I forgot where Yoshiko said she was going.”

“Okay,” the younger angel said. She walked back to her room. Though she didn’t want to admit it at the time, but Liz started share the same thoughts that Baby Doll was having about something not being quite right.