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Website: http://celestialsushi.2ya.com

Story:
"Aright, I got yer fish heads, octopus on a waffle, tank o' anchovies, hot frogs, an' squid kebabs. Whaddaya want?"
The angel in Cho Haruki cringed. "Well, I'm not really supposed to eat anything that has eyes."
The vendor was not sympathetic. "That's all I got. Ya hungry or not?"
Cho's stomach growled. She sighed and ordered a squid kebab. As she sat down on the sidewalk to eat it (or attempt to), she drifted back once again to her early childhood. She was young. She was happy. She was not being scientifically tested. Until that fateful day...
She was eight years old, living with her human mother on Earth in 1997. Bats were living in their attic, and her mother had called the next-door neighbor, a biologist, to get them out.
"Aaaah! Get it offa me! HELP! I'm a SCIENTIST, darnit! I only work with DEAD bats! Help!!!!!"
The curious Cho poked her head into the attic and saw the cute bat attacking the scientist. "Calm down, batty!" she called. The bat flew to her outstretched hand, latched upside down to one of her fingers, and instantly fell asleep. "Here you go!" she said cheerily, offering the bat to the frightened scientist. "Batty won't hurt you now."
"How-? Wow," the scientist began as he recomposed himself, "Thank you, little girl! You're a little angel."
"Actually," young Cho piped up, "my mommy says my daddy was an angel!"
"Oh really... Listen, I have a physicist friend who would like to meet you. You wouldn't mind testing out a few things for us, would you?"
"Of course not! It sounds like fun!"
Fun. Oh yes, the six years that followed were a lot of fun. Testing devices, being bombarded with radiation, isolation from friends and family, failed escape attempts... Very fun. Then, the final machine... Being strapped in, that was fun. And not breathing, that was fun. But the most fun part of all was being shot with radiation, flying through dimensions, nearly having organs torn out by G-force, then ending up in a world where the air is polluted, you get hit by flying cars, and your entire life savings is enough to buy a squid on a stick! Yeah, that was more fun than a barrel of monkeys! Let's do it again, why don't we?
Cho looked with disdain at how naive she had been. But at the same time, she felt a pang of sadness. Before the scientists got her, she had been innocent, kind, the perfect angel. But she was no longer the purest of the pure. By angel standards, she wasn't even "of the pure."
She sighed and finished her squid kebab. The eyes were the best part.

Comments: Whoa, that was fun. It turned out way less happy than I intended, but I like it. And that was my first time working with Jasc Photoshop! w00t! I will probably never touch MS Paint again.