Prologue: Birth of the Guardian

It was a dark and starry night as an old man stood on the ocean's shoreline and watched the meteor shower. Suddenly he noticed with some alarm that one of the meteors was rapidly getting larger and that it was headed his way. Finally the meteor crashed into the sea at least 50 feet away and although the force of the impact threw the old man to the ground, he immediately dove into the sea and swam out to it.

As he reached the impact site he heard the sound of a baby crying and saw a soft pale blue light shining from within the meteor. Slowly he reached out to touch it and as he did, the meteor dissolved in a display of shimmering lights. He could only stare in shock and wonder as there was a baby wrapped in a pale blue membrane that was crying and wiggling. The old man reached down and picked up the wailing infant, and he smiled as the baby immediately stopped crying and laid still in his arms.

"I think I will call you Julian." The old man said softly as he took the baby back to his cave, laid the cocoon by the fire, and laid down and went to sleep.

When the old man woke up the next morning, he was shocked to find the baby had grown into toddler form but was still wrapped in the bluish membrane. The next day it had grown again to child size. The following day it had grown yet again to the size of a teenager. Slowly the boy's body stretched and grew until finally after a week had passed he was the size of an adult.

The old man was surprised at first but every day he watched the expression on the boy's face as he slept. It was almost as if he was dreaming of someone, someone he'd never met before that brought peace to his heart. On the seventh day, the membrane cracked and dissolved as the young man finally sat up, opened his golden brown eyes, and took his first breath. His silvery grey hair fell down around him as he looked at his hands.

"Who…who am I?" he finally croaked as the old man smiled and covered his body with a blanket.

"Your name is Julian, you fell from the sky…" the old man said as Julian kept looking at his hands and would occasionally look up at the old man. "it took you a week to grow from the size of a baby into a full-grown man. You are special and I believe you were made for a very special purpose."

Julian was quiet for a moment as the image of a young woman with brown hair and green eyes flashed across his mind. "I think I was meant to protect someone…her name is Sakura."

Nearly a month had passed and the old man had Julian how to read, write, cook, clean, and how to fight. One day the old man became very sick and he knew that he was going to die. So he called Julian to his bedside.

"Yes father?" Julian asked as he sat next to his father's bedside and held his hand. His hair was now short, he wore a pair of reading glasses, faded blue jeans, and a white t-shirt.

"My son I'm going to die soon and go to heaven." The old man said in a weak voice as he patted Julian's head. "Before I die there are some things you need to know; never reveal the secret of your birth with anyone unless it's the woman you were meant to love. No matter what happens to you know that you are loved and that you are a special gift made by God himself who loves you dearly. And stay away from evil men who would try to use you…and…"

Here the old man stopped and passed away. Julian cried for a little while before he remembered the girl he was meant to protect. Silently he stood up packed what little belongings he had and left for the world of humans.

After many months of searching he finally found her, she was five years younger than he was and had a bubbly smile on her face. He was always close by her side as either himself or as Yue the moon warrior who shared his body with him. This made her boyfriend Li both jealous and nervous at the same time whenever he was around but gradually they became friends and the boy accepted him for who he was.

As for Sakura however, there was an attraction to her immediately but innocently he thought of her as a friend. That all changed one fateful day when Sakura got a phone call that changed their lives forever.