scent.

"I got a bad feeling about this." They reached to a club. They passed two tough guards who were looking for any ID on everyone. They threw one meerkat out. Rusty just nodded.

"Nice throw. Great isn't it, Juru, they didn't say anything about us." Juru was becoming confused. He saw his friend watching others trading food.

"Hey, wanna gazelle?" He ordered his food but never got it.

"Rusty?"

"Looks like I gotta serve myself," he couldn't grab the gazelle because it went through his paws,"what?" The two looked at a puddle and didn't see their reflections.

"Rusty, we're ghosts!" The other lion growled looked at the heavens.

"Gem. Of all the rotten tricks!" He saw her in the puddle.

"Rusty, you're there for over an hour. We're waiting." He just put his paw in the puddle and watched the others eat, sing, laugh bust most importantly: having fun.

Chapter 3

Just then, after a singer finished his act, the spotlight fell on a stunning lioness. The master of ceremonies introduced the next contestint,"Let's give a round of appllause for Miss. Tasha." Rusty's ears perked up and saw his girlfriend.

"Juru, now I know what I'm missing in heaven, I gotta meet her again."

"You're a ghost."

"Quit reminding me," he stood infront of her but no one noticed. He walked to his friend and laid on his back,"I need to see her."

"You gotta love that Tasha huh?" A familiar voice said.

"Yeah, we met a while ago."

"Who's the voice?" Quiestioned Juru.

"New found friend named Bandit," Rusty shook his head and turned around,"Bandit!"

"You're out a little early."

"Off for good behavior. You?"

"Missionary work." He went to order some mice.

"Three please."

"He can't hear you Bandit." He got his food.

"Hey. How did you do that?" He pulled out a dark purple coller.

"I'm flesh and blood with this. Want one?" He nodded.

"Rusty, I don't like this." Juru told his friend.

"This will only take a minute." A few blocks later, they reached a dark cold cave.

"Lusifa will be here in a minute." Bandit said. Rusty laughed a little.

"Who's Lusifa, you're girlfriend?"

"Hey, that sounds really close to Lucifer. Another name for the-" an old feeble dark red lioness came on by and sat with the boys.

"Rusty and Juru I presume."

"See can see us?" Rusty cocked an eyebrow.

"She has mystical mumbo jumbo," Bandit explained,"Lusifa, they want to buy the collers." She smiled. She grabbed two collers and put them on the ghosts.

"See yourselves," They looked in a puddle and saw their reflections,"it's good till sunset today I'm afraid. Remember that, Rusty."

"That's not enough time. But I got it. Let's go Juru." His friend walked to Lusifa and Bandit.

"I'm on to you two." Rusty grabbed his friend by his coller and dragged him out. When they left, a puff of red smoke appeared. It transformed Lusifa's feeble image to a tall healthy looking lioness with glowing yellow eyes.

"They fell for it!" Bandit laughed.

"Silence," ordered the lioness,"you should have looked after the key! But, only angels could hear that tone."

"I'm an angel."

"No you idiot. You work for me now!"

"But-"

"Read the fine print on the article" she shoved an ad at him. It said in small prints: Will make you not an angel anymore but a demon.

"As long as I get my fortune." He crumbled up the ad and threw it away.

Chapter 4

"Not bad singing for a mother and wife." The master of cerimonies complimented to Tasha.

"I'm known as either a widow or a girlfriend. May I have my prize?"

"Here." He laid out a big grub.

"Ew, you advertised a meal for the winner!"

"Funds run low." She grabbed the grub and found a poor hungry meerkat smacking his mouth looking at the grub. She put it down and let him have it. She smiled a little and went to find some zebra, mouse and other food scraps. Rusty found and saunted up to Tasha.

"Hey, Tasha. Has anyone told you that you sing like an angel?" She laughed softley and gave him a nuzzle.

"I missed you."

"Me too. Looks like you got a feast for about four."

"I got a kid." She grabbed the scraps and walked home.

"Oh, how are the kids?"

"Tavo's growing his mane now and Shela is like a child everyone else. Why is your friend being squirmy?"

"Don't worry about Juru. How about you take us home?"

"Rusty," Juru yanked his friend closer,"we gotta find that key."

"We'll get it later. First, I wanna see the kids." They walked about a few minutes and found two sitting teenagers and something rattling in a bush. The lions smiled.

"Rusty!" They ran to him.

"Hey kids. I want you to meet a childhood friend of mine, Juru," Rusty saw Tasha going into a bush with some food,"giving the bush some food?"

"I got another kid."

"I'm good with kids." A small child with a tan dress, dark brownish-black eyes and shoulder legnth jet-black hair stood up and ate the food.

"Thanks, girl." Rusty looked astonished.

"Woah, she has a kid kid." Tavo sat by him.

"Yeah, she found us about three days ago." Rusty laughed.

"She found you? What did the kid do, follow you three home?" The girl yelled.

"You talk?" She's the only human Rusty met who can understand the animal languge.

"Don't we all? I'm Rusty, that squirmy looking one is Juru."

"Someones playing a trick." The kid searched everywhere for someone playing the trick.

"Nope. I'm an-"

"Rusty, no!" Commanded Juru.

"An angel."

"Prove it." After a few moments, he took off his coller and disappered. He put it back on after a few seconds.

"You must be an angel. But most importent, my guardian angel." Everyone's eyes widened.

"What?" Questioned Tasha.

"Everyone in my family says everyone has a guardian angel."

"Hey," remembered Tavo to his sister,"remember when we said Rusty was our angel?"

"Good times." Tasha sat by Rusty.

"If she understands you, tell her where she lives."

"Why not you?"

"That'll take a miricle." He took off his coller and touched the three lions on the nose and put it back on.

"Three rounds of miricles sent." Juru growled.

"You wasted up the miricles. It was for an emergancy."

"Tasha, say something."

"Something." The girl jumped.

"You can all talk." She held on around Tavo's neck.

"Ain't that the truth." She jumped again.

"What's your name?" Questioned Shela.

"Tyli."

"Why did you run away?" Questioned Tasha.

"Ask my guardian angel."

"Got kid problems?" Guessed Rusty.

"With my foster family."

"You live in a foster home?"

"My parents are dead. I used to live with Danny and Sanjay who are my older brothers. But they didn't have enough money to raise me and they dropped me off at some foster home. I ran away from the home and now I'm lost." His ears lowered.

"Hey, I'll find you some money and stuff. So you can go back."

"Really?"

"Hey, I am an angel." When everyone was walking, He heared a voice like Gem saying: Rusty! He looked around and saw her reflecion on a small elephant tusk.

"Rusty, new arrivels are here. I need that key!"

"Put up a holding pattern." He grabbed the tusk and threw it in a river near-by.

Chapter 5

After walking for an hour, Tyli told Rusty,"Where are we going?"

"To a place where all your problems will disappear. We'll search some money and maybe the family." He walked back to talk to Tasha.

"Hello, Rusty."

"Listen, you ever want a husband and if so, what you want in them?"

"Not now. I don't want an interview."

"Just tell me. "

"Breeding, sensitivity, humility and," Rusty didn't see where he was going and bonked his head on a low tree branch,"of course style."

"Boy, are my ears ringing. I could hear a heavenly tone." Juru gasped.

"Rusty, look, it the key." Everyone saw a lion with the key around his neck.

"Hey, Juru get the key."

"It's your job." Rusty groaned.

"You're helping me by distracting him." Rusty took off his coller and took the key. When he put the coller back on, the lion who wore the key snarled.

"Hey! That's my key!" Everyone ran and rested behind a tree.

"Why do we have a key?" Questioned Shela.

"Guardian angel business." Informed Juru. They all went to an abandoned cave and Rusty was burying the key.

"Perfect."

"Rusy!"

"I have another mission with Tyli." The girl carried a small sack she found when they were walking and in it was a few pieces of money.

"Wow, money."

"About 79 cents." Tavo counted the money. A minutes later, it was pouring rain. Tyli looked from the opening of the cave a little hut with a mom, dad and a child.

"Rusty, can my parents see me from heaven?"

"Of course they can, kiddo." Everyone gave her a lecture on why she should go home to either her brothers or the foster home.

"Ok, I'll go home. If you take me." She hugged Rusty.

"I promise." When she was fast asleep, Rusty lowered his ears and walked to a boulder near the cave. Tasha soon followed him.

"Rusty, you are an angel."

"No I'm not. Even as a guardian angel.

"What you're doing for Tyli is wonderful."

"I'm just an errend boy sent to fetch Gem's key to the pearly gates. I always make and break promises. I'm going to do it again."

"You can't take her home?"

"I have to go back. Just when I was reunited with someone special and met someone special."

"Oh, Rusty. Choose what you think is importent." He looked at her leave.

"Tasha, wait."

"What."

"I've-" his coller disappeared,"no, not now." Tasha couldn't see or hear him anymore.

"Tasha, where's Rusty and Juru?" Questioned Shela.

"I guess they're gone."

"Rusty wouldn't leave," said Tyli,"he's my guardian angel."

"We got to do something, Juru. I promised Tyli I bring her home." He ran to the cave where he saw Bandit and the old form of Lusifa eating.

"Look, Bandit. A customer." Said the lioness.

"Hey, Lusifa. Can I have a new coller?"

"You have to pay and I don't allow IOU's. Let me sleep on it."

"Please. This is importent. Uh, I have this key."

"I don't need anything opened."

"This key is powerful."

"I like your spirit," her eyes began to glow,"shake on it." He shook her hand. He saw Lucifa's new form and a coller slithered around his arm and choked on his neck. She snapped

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