User blog:The Zero of Faram/Guardians' Peril: Chapter 4

Hey guys, it's Zero. I can never seem to do anything better than the first chapter, can I? It's kinda sad when you think about it. Leaving you guys with rushed stuff just because I'm too lazy and preoccupied to do something better. Coming up with Excuses like Toronto and other stuff like that. Or filling this stuff with nonsense or fights that span the chapter's entirety. Well, screw the deadlines! Screw uploading it at nine at night so it's too late for people to care! Screw the other excuses! I'm going to make this worth while and this will be worth while! Mark my words! Sorry. I can get into this stuff more than Daniel can ask Questions or Mia can get emotionally active to activate her powers. So, hopefully this will be better than previous chapters. Enjoy.

My curse. My life. Nothing's ever good without bad. Things going from bad to worse just for them to go great in the long run. Wish my life could be like that. The life of an Orphan is never the best one. Stuck with my brother Alvis trying to survive. Having to keep my powers secret from anybody and everybody. Being known as a monster makes life not worthwhile. This curse has given me the ability to kill and to save but both at the cost of reputation and false assumptions.

Daniel looked confused.

"Brother?"

"You have to be aware of the war that has been going on between the Guardians."

"No... I'm not actually." Daniel said shamefully. Alyut sighed again.

"What? Are your parents survivors too?"

"Yes actually. My family's farm survived. I've heard stories about you guy but I wasn't aware of the war."

"So, your parents are still alive? Are they with the survivors siding with Sodis?"

"No..." Daniel's expression fell to the ground and he didn't bother to pick it. "The farm I lived on was destroyed with the same kind of explosion that destroyed the marketplace in the Adventurer's Prairie." Daniel said sadly. Alyut knelt beside Daniel and pushed his head up.

"Here's a lesson. Never act like your emotions are a ball of burning coals. Don't try to struggle to keep it up and make it fall. Make it like a ball of fragile stained glass. One that you won't want to drop. When you hold it, it looks good but if you drop it it will break. Keep your moral up."

"Alright." Daniel said trying to follow his lesson. Alyut stared back at the approaching Guardians who were much closer. He put his hand to his sword's handle prepared to draw it. The other Guardians prepared their weapons too. Daniel created the ice gauntlets and summoned Selena and Fencer Vargas who both were ready. I looked at my hands and tried to summon Lario. I called him from the back of my mind. He soon responded.

"Yes Mia? Is a battle soon going to become inevitable?" He said from the back of my head.

"Yes, I desire your help."

"But it is not I who summons myself. You are my summoner."

"But how do I summon you?"

"Figure it out. I am battle ready." He said. I thought about how to summon him. Eventually driving me to ask Daniel. I walked up to him. He was still looking down about having to talk about his parents' death but he took Alyut's advice and picked up his expression a little bit.

"Daniel?" I asked.

"What is it?" He grumbled.

"How do I summon Lario? I can see you doing it with Selena and Vargas, but how can I do it?"

"Say the units name followed by a phrase matching the situation. It's like whispering to your units that they need to come out." He said. I nodded and walked back to my spot.

"Archer Lario, help me out." I whispered. I waited before looking around me and seeing nothing happen. I felt stupid. I could beat Ophelia to a standstill but I couldn't summon a unit weak to the likes of Daniel's. I gave up on it and got ready to make the obsidian crystal but then a green vortex came from my right and Lario fell out, missing his chance for a perfect landing and falling on his face. The vortex disappeared and Lario stood up, brushing the dirt off his tunic and grabbing his bow.

"Maybe you could have dropped me lower to the ground. I'm pretty sure that it would have prevented dirt on the tunic my friend bothered to make for me."

"Oh sorry. Didn't mean to do that." I said sarcastically while laughing a bit to myself. Lario laughed it off and pulled an arrow out of his quiver and set it on his bow. I looked at the group who was a couple of seconds away. I stomped the ground and the crystal shot out of the ground. Then the group stopped in front of the Inn and Alyut walked up to the horseman who was getting off his horse and both off them stood before each other. The horseman towered over Alyut but Alyut didn't lose confidence.

"Sodis... Of course you couldn't leave us alone for two days." Alyut said before grabbing tightly to the hilt of his sword. "But, if you came to fight, you've got one!" He said firmly before unsheathing his sword and putting it before the horseman's face. The Guardians got ready for the upcoming fight but the horseman pushed Alyut's sword away.

"Calm yourself, Alyut. Man..... Nobody says hello normally anymore. Everybody's pointing swords and other weapons at people but that's just rude."

"Then what do you want If you don't want to fight?"

"I want the boy and girl. The summoners."

"Why should we? We're not going with you!" I said before Lario shot an arrow at Sodis's face. Sodis grabbed the arrow and snapped it in half with his hands.

"I knew that you two wouldn't oblige. So I've got a back up." The horseman said. He snapped his fingers and two hooded figures walked though the crowd of Guardians and came before Daniel and I. They took off their hoods and revealed their faces. One with orange hair and the other with blue.

"Hey Daniel, Mia. Miss us?" The blue haired one said. Daniel couldn't believe his eyes. The horseman walked to the side of the two.

"Sen and Ren here have some history with Daniel and Mia. They said that they would help us capture them for a small price." He said. Daniel fell to his knees. I realized that these were the two that blew up the marketplace and Daniel's farm. I saw tears fall down his face and fall to the ground. Then ice solidified around Daniel and formed ridged armor.

"I'll kill you both!!" Daniel yelled before running and kicking Sen, the orange haired one, in the chest. Alyut went to run after Daniel but Sodis stopped him there and slashed at him. Alyut recovered and charged and all the other Guardians started fighting. Selena and Vargas stood there confused. I ran to them amidst all the fighting.

"Aren't you going to go after Daniel?" I asked them.

"Honestly, he didn't say anything about going and trying to kill people. I don't know what to do." Selena said.

"Same here. I've never seen Daniel so angry before." Vargas said.

"Then let's go help him. Two against one isn't a good match up. He can only hold on for so long." I said. They nodded and we rushed to Daniel who was mercilessly attempting to attack the two. Sen swung his axe at Daniel which missed and Daniel retaliated by punching him in the chest. Sen landed on the ground with four holes in his chest and lightly bleeding from them. Ren appeared behind and attempted to slice him with his claws but Daniel grabbed his arm and slammed him into the ground and threw him up before forming a sledgehammer with his ice and hitting him like hitting a baseball across a stadium. Ren landed slightly farther than Sen. Daniel breathed heavily and the sledgehammer got absorbed into Daniel's hand. Ren moved forward to Sen.

"We can't fight him while he's in this state of anger. Let's bail out of here and get the bomb to nullify everybody." I heard Ren tell Sen. Sen stood up and grabbed his axe from the floor.

"You know damn well that it doesn't work against summoners, let alone the Guardians. And you know what's on the line here." Sen said sternly before rushing towards Daniel.

"Sen, wait!" Ren yelled. Sen flipped forward and attempted to attack Daniel but Daniel grabbed the axe and slammed Sen into the ground, burying him in the ground. Ren ran and also attempted to attack Daniel. He clawed at Daniel's armor and finished with a kick that did minor damage and sent Daniel back a bit. Ren appeared behind Daniel and attempted to repeat the combo but Daniel did a leg sweep that tripped Ren and Daniel grabbed Ren and threw him up into the air and jumped after him. Ren knowing he couldn't do anything else, braced himself for the incoming attacks from Daniel. Daniel followed up by punching Ren to the ground and following that up with a kick to a which sent him flying. Daniel held out his hand which made a wall of ice rise up and catch Ren. Daniel pulled his hand back and the wall came towards Daniel. Daniel jumped up and made spikes on his gauntlets.

"This is for my parents!" He said before punching him once and denting the ice.

"This is for my home!" He said before punching him again and denting the ice even more.

"And this is for everything you've done!" He said before making the ice grow into a dragon and punching Ren and breaking the ice which sent Ren flying into the forest. Daniel landed and started breathing heavily from exhaustion. Then Sen ran with his axe blazing in orange flames.

"Daniel!" Selena yelled but it was too late. Sen began to swing his axe and Daniel didn't have enough time to even brace himself. I lifted my hand and a wall of obsidian formed behind Daniel, barely shielding him from Sen's attack and trapping the axe in the obsidian.

"Selena, Vargas, Lario. Go and find Ren. I'll stay here with Daniel." I said to the units. They responded by nodding and ran into the forest. I ran and stood beside Daniel and Sen freed his axe from the obsidian. Daniel looked at me and I looked back.

"What are you staring at me like that for? If you're going to thank me just say it." I said with a smile on my face. I put my hand out to Daniel and he grabbed on. Obsidian lifted him off the ground and to his feet.

"Thanks." Daniel said. The obsidian flew back and fused into the crystal and flew to my side.

"What happened to our units?"

"I made them go after Ren. Don't worry." I said to him.

"Hah, look who's talking big. Let's go." He said back. The ice armor that formed into armor came off his body and formed into a bow and arrows and the obsidian formed into two katanas and a longsword that all hung to my shirt in their own sheaths. Sen walked to confront us. I looked back to see Daniel draw an arrow into his bow. I grabbed the longsword and readied it. Sen limped and jammed his axe into the ground to hold himself up. He grabbed his cloak and threw it off when flew off. He had an orange shirt that matched his hair and the black pants we could see with the cloak on. He yanked his axe out of the ground and orange energy started channeling though the axe.

"He can manipulate too?" Daniel asked.

"You guessed it." Sen said before charging towards me. I pulled out the longsword and blocked the attack Sen did. Daniel jumped back and prepared more arrows. Sen fell back and I sliced at him with the longsword but he swung his axe and the two weapons clashed. We pulled back and clashed our weapons again. Our weapons clashing with a heavier clang, we didn't want to pull back now. I grabbed one of the katanas with one hand while holding the longsword with the other. I quickly unsheathed the Katana and sliced at Sen which landed and made a cut on Sen's chest. I sliced at him with the longsword which connected with his arm and made him fall back further. I put away the longsword and drew the other katana. Daniel shot arrows at Sen which hit him in the arms and chest but Sen grabbed the arrows and threw them to the ground.

"I thought that would've hurt more. Looks like this won't be as tough as I thought it would be." Sen said confidently. Daniel brought three more arrows to the bow and pulled back on the bow.

"You will pay for what you do and what what you've done! To my family and others!" Daniel yelled before shooting the arrows at Sen and pulling more out. Sen swung his axe and all the arrows fell to the ground sliced clean in half. Daniel trembled and motioned me to go on ahead. I ran with the two katanas in my hands and the longsword in it's sheath. Sen swung his axe at me driving me to hold out the katana in my right hand to clash with it which left him open. I thrusted my other katana into him but Sen dodged while retaining some damage from that. I swiped my sword upwards and kicked Sen in the chest while he was open. Sen looked at me after taking the kick and grabbed me by the neck.

"Let her go!" Daniel yelled before firing a barrage of arrows at Sen. The arrows hit Sen and made him loosen his grip on me. I shook free and grabbed my longsword. When Sen looked back at me, he already saw the longsword right in front of his face about to connect with it. He didn't have time to block it so he took it and recovered from it very quickly. He swung at me meaning I had to dodge. I flipped back and landed on the ground with my hands slightly sore. Sen turned his focused on Daniel. He rushed to Daniel and the bow he had reformed back into the gauntlets. He grabbed the axe and slammed Sen and the axe into the ground. Daniel raised his fist into the air with anger in his eyes and started to throw a punch Sen. Then a flash of light blue sped out of the forest and charged towards Daniel and Sen. The flash turned out to be Ren who kicked Daniel before his hand connected with Sen, sending Daniel back towards me and leaving him to recover. Ren stood beside Sen with his cloak gone and also had a shirt matching his hair and his claws blazing with blue energy. I ran over to Daniel and knelt beside him. He struggled to get up but did and formed the ice into a large sword and some formed into boots that protected his feet. I stood up and kept the katanas ready on my hands. Sen and Ren laughed a bit to themselves before Ren snapped. I looked Daniel who stood there motionless.

"Daniel?"

"I'm sorry, Mia. I've broken my promise. Don't let them get to you. Be strong." He said before falling over. I knelt beside him and shook him.

"Daniel? Daniel? Wake up!" I said worriedly while shaking him.

"You know Mia, you're acting like him when we destroyed than marketplace and paralyzed his units. He did the same thing except you look cute while doing it." Sen said. I fell to my knees and grabbed the ground. My obsidian fell to the ground and turned back into crystals that laid on the ground. Burning tears fell down my face and I felt weak. Sen stood in front of me and Ren stood behind me and drew their weapons. I saw Sen raise his axe and swing it at my head. I closed my eyes with the burning tears in my eye. Whatever they do to me, at least it would end soon after Daniel.

"Flaming Meteor Burst!" I heard a voice say before I heard cracking flames and I smelled smoke. I sat up and looked around to see fire everywhere but on me. Sen and Ren were away from the flames with their weapons still blazing with energy. The fire went away shortly after and Sen and Ren looked confused. A person landed in front of me and stood up. He had black hair and wore red and black and he wielded a scythe that was also red with flames engulfing the scythe. He ran to Sen and swung his scythe. Sen clashed with him, their weapons grinding against each other. The person kicked Sen back and swung again at Sen. However, this time when the weapons clashed, the scythe sliced clean through the axe. The axe felt to the ground and disintegrated when it touched it. The person jumped back and kept his axe at bay. Ren ran to confront the person. The person turned around and created a ball of fire in his hand. He then threw it at Ren which directly hit him and exploded, knocking him back and putting him on the ground. Sen rushed at the person with his hands blazing with orange energy. Sen thrusted his arm forward, attempting to grab the person. The person grabbed the arm and threw Sen at Ren. Sen landed not on but next to Ren who held his chest with his palm. The person spun his scythe which made it shift and change into a disk. He pointed the disk at the two and the disk started to emit flames and glow. Sen and Ren put their hands on the ground and dark energy spiraled around the two and cloaked them in it. The dark energy quickly died and disintegrated into the ground, making the two disappear. The person threw the disk up into the air and caught it which made it transform back into the scythe and ran to Daniel's body. He picked him up and inspected him before laying on the ground. Then another person ran beside the person. This one was a woman. She wasn't as tall as the other person but she did wear a leather coat and had two pistols in her hands. They then started talking to each other though I couldn't hear it. Noting that they were talking about would be of any help even if I could hear them. I looked back at the inn and saw that the horseman and his group had left and the Guardians were in sight. The tears on my face were dried and I felt that I couldn't cry again. Just imagining tears that burned my face as much as those made me tremble a little bit. I stood up and ran to the Guardians ignoring the two people conversing. When I went in closer, I saw someone who wasn't there before. I ran more and stopped in front of the group and saw that the person was Raydn. Awake and well. I felt more tears in my eyes but I blinked them away. Then Raydn ran up to me and knelt in front of me.

"Mia? Did you miss me?" He asked me. The tears came flowing again and I struggled to blink them away.

"How did you come back? We thought you died...."

"It wasn't really me. I had the help of someone. I don't know him or remember him if I do." He said before standing up and looking back to see a person in blue clothing with brown boots and a giant staff with a blue orb on it. He walked forward to me. Raydn turned back to me.

"He helped me. He gave me something to restore me. Then after I ran to the battlefield they said I finally came back after a day."

"Then who are you?" I asked the person.

"Rigness. Renowned alchemist. Were you the one who summoned me?"

"I wasn't the one. A person named Daniel did."

"Where is he?" Rigness asked me.

"Yeah, where did he go? Raydn asked.

"About that. He sort of collapsed when we were attacked by the horseman and his side. He went berserk after the horseman revealed that the two who burned down his home were working for him. He was affected by something that knocked him out cold. I was about to meet a similar fate when a person saved me."

"I'm glad to hear that your still alive. And well. But you fought?"

"Well..." I said.

"Mia? Are you alright?" I heard a person ask. Alyut ran up to me.

"Yeah. I am but Daniel didn't really make it. He's laying there." I told him. Lunaris came and hugged me.

"We're really happy to know that your okay." She said.

"I know. I can fight remember?" I said. Lunaris let me go and the Guardians looked at the two people who were approaching them. The two stood before them and the Guardians kept their weapons at the ready.

"Who are you?" Rina asked.

"Not much. A Reaper and a Bounty Hunter. We also have an amnesiac who is trying to get here. You people are?" The Guy asked.

"The Guardians of the Gods." Alyut said.

"So one of you goes by the name, Peter Quill?" The guy asked. The Guardians all started at him confusedly and the woman in the leather jacket shoved her elbow into him.

"Josh! Gods. Not Galaxy. These aren't the badass group of space whack jobs." She said.

"Oh.... Sorry. Haha....." Josh said laughing it off.

"Well... I'm their leader. Alyut." Alyut said walking up to him.

"Joshua Magnus Alpha. Though I prefer Josh." He said holding his hand out. "Friend?" He asked. Alyut thought about it for a bit before reaching his hand out to Josh's.

"Friend. You are also a Loyalist to the Gods?" Alyut asked.

"No. Not even close actually. I've had to slay their shadows but I'm not against them at all. It's just when a shadow is near I have to do my job."

"At least you don't despise them like my brother does. So how about you come inside and have a place to stay?" Raydn suggested after walking and standing next to Alyut.

"Yeah. We won't mind company." Alyut said.

"We already have a place to stay." The woman said but Josh interrupted.

"No Famil we can stay here. Your team of scientists and other jobs are working on fixing the place. It's also a place where Azure can get more memories." He said smiling after he started. The woman snapped at him.

"I told you not to call me that. My name is Eve!" She said angrily before looking back at the Guardians and seeing them staring at her confusedly again.

"Sorry." She said embarrassedly. Then a person came running and fell on the ground with a body on his back, panting like a dog on a summer day.

"Azure? What are you doing? What happened?" Eve asked. Azure sat up.

"Found body. Laying there. Brought back. After I saw. You two. Talking over. It. Ah...." Azure said in short bursts before falling on the ground. I looked over to the body and saw Daniel's body on the ground. I ran and knelt over to inspect him. Raydn then ran and sat down beside me and put his hand over Daniel's chest.

"He's dead? What happened Mia?" He asked me.

"I said he didn't make it." I said. Josh pulled out his scythe and inspected it.

"I found a human soul when I found him there. I think it's his." Josh said before rubbing his palm on the blade of the scythe and making a light blue light float over his hand. "Let's try bringing him back?" He asked. We nodded without hesitation but in my mind I still wondered what he meant. He shoved the soul into Daniel's Chest and the soul disappeared. Daniel then began to glow and he shot straight up.

"What... Happened?" He asked with his voice slurred. Rigness ran and knelt in front of him. The three of us stood up and walked back to the crowd.

"Did you summon me? Daniel?" He asked.

"I did. You woke up?"

"Daniel!" I yelled running back to him and kneeling on him and hugging him. Raydn walked and held his hand out. I stood up off him and Raydn helped him up. His feet wobbled when he stood up and Azure pushed himself up. Eve and Josh stood next to him and helped him.

"Now who wants lunch?" Lunaris asked.

"I do!" Farlon said. "I'm not the only one right?" He asked. The Guardians stopped.

"Of course not! We now feast on a meal of the Gods and everybody takes today and tomorrow off!" Alyut said excitingly. The Guardians cheered and everybody walked in except the three people. I continued inside to realize our units were gone. Daniel walked by me and I grabbed his attention by shaking him.

"What is it Mia?"

"Our units. They're in the forest."

"Hm... We can unsummon them and they will come back to us. Say something related to rest." He said before closing his eyes and grey energy flew towards his head. Then red energy flew into his head. I did the same.

"Good job Lario. That's enough for now." I said to myself and grey energy flew into my head. I closed my eyes and saw Lario my eyes. I opened them and saw that Daniel had continued inside. Then Eve and Azure went inside but Josh didn't. I walked up to him.

"Why aren't you going inside?" I asked him.

"I sense a shadow. Far though. I should be asking you the same thing." He said. "I'm going to track it down."

"I'll help you. I have the power to manipulate and create obsidian. I am going to fufil this thank you for saving me. It's the least I can do."

"Follow me then. And don't hinder me." He said before creating fire on his feat and flying away. My obsidian formed wings on my back.

"Yes sir!" I said enthusiastically before flying after him.

Yes! I have faith in this chapter! I have faith! Schools done and now I have nothing to worry about apart from music! This will get better dang it! And I am working on a collaboration chapter with somebody. You know who you are that somebody. Anyway, hope you enjoyed! ~ZeroGx