Story

Ayashi no Ceres is about a young, spirited girl named Aya Mikage who leads a normal high school life, or it is so until her sixteenth birth day. Until one day, she has her fortune read, and it doesn't sound too good; later on that day, she falls off an overpass trying to stop a purse-snatcher, yet lands on her feet safely. She is then in the path of an oncoming car, but a punk-rock-star-dressed young man pushes her out of the way. She is startled, but all right, and her twin brother, Aki, scolds her. The punker disappears into the crowd. The next day, Aya and Aki's sixteenth birthday, they come home right after school, just like their parents told them to do the day before. When they come home, all their relatives are sitting at a table waiting for them. A shriveled hand, presented to them by the punker from the day before, is placed in front of Aya and Aki. Aya starts to feel some strange power upon seeing it, and the hand explodes, cutting Aki severely and shredding Aya's clothes. Aya screams for an ambulance, saying Aki will die -- but her grandfather stands and tells her that she is the one who will die. Aki, as the "boy who stole the feather robe", is called the old enemy of Ceres. When her powers awakened, Aya later finds out that she possesses the blood of the "tennyo" (heavenly maiden), and when severely shaken she will transform into Ceres, a heavenly maiden who is revived to bring ruin upon the Mikage family and to retrieve the robe that they stole long ago.

The story deals with Aya's struggle to fight against her destiny and rid herself of her darker half,Ceres, so she can once again become a normal teenage girl. She must perservere through numerous attempts her own family makes to end her life as well as setting his brother free from his own terrible fate. Of course, she's not entirely alone; with the help of Yuuhi Aogiri, she sucessfully escaped from the family while Aki, imprisoned by the family. There after, she stayed with the Aogiri family to understand her powers. Helping her is Suzumi Aogiri, a woman who also possesses tennyo blood, and Suzumi's brother-in-law Yuuhi, a boy Aya's age who is assigned to protect Aya. Working in the dark shadows of the evil wing of Mikage family is Aya's cousin,Kagami, who keeping it a secret from the grandfather, tells the Mikage family's "body guard", Tooya not to kill Aya but to keep an eye on her and find out more about her powers as Tennyo Ceres. But Tooya and Aya is in love with each other. Kagami imprisons Aki in order to learn of the power past of his ancestors and also to successfully capture Ceres and hope to make his family more powerful through gaining control of all the ones who contains the blood of the Tennyo.

In hiding with the Aogiri family, Aya goes to school together with Yuuhi. However, Tooya is also sent to the school as the school doctor. One day, as Aya is with Urakawa, a girl in Aya's grade who had fainted and Aya had helped, the teacher who had been looking after Urakawa in the infirmary is suddenly engulfed in flames...!? (that's it for right now people.... too busy with school and FINALS are coming up...)

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