We are Guardians.
If we were in some wonderful alternate universe where I'd had the fortune to not be a Guardian and you'd asked me what a Guardian is, here's what I might've told you:
In every generation, there are seventeen. One for each element. These guardians are dispersed throughout the world, keeping balance and maintaining peace, blah, blah, blah.
A new guardian only appears when the old one dies. There's some sort of power transfer that no one really understands that happens after they die. Some kid gets chosen as the new Guardian. They get freaky awesome powers.
Some say that the power of the elements will only go to those that have a great destiny. Others say that it is the power itself that makes their destinies great. Some say that it's random, a matter of luck – though whether it's good or bad luck is debatable. (Hint: these days, the answer is definitely bad luck.)
Maybe a decade ago, in less than a year, all seventeen guardians disappeared. Or at least that's what they thought, at first. Then they all started turning up dead. Somehow, some group of lunatics had managed to organize the systematic murders of the most powerful group of people on the face of the planet.
Why? Who the hell knows? It certainly wasn't for the fame, because no one claimed responsibility. And no one tried to take over the world in their absence, either.
Even without the guardians keeping the peace, the world didn't end. Life went on. However, things changed. Nature basically decided that if there's no Guardians to regulate it, it's just going to go nuts with natural disasters. Pokémon went a bit crazy too, even attacking humans without provocation. There aren't nearly as many trainers as there used to be. It's considered 'too dangerous' now.
Anyways, the children that receive the power of the guardians don't realize it at first. There's no giant glowing symbol or sudden enlightenment that tells them that they've been chosen. It's nearly impossible to tell until the kid starts bending steel and flying across the room.
There are hints sometimes, though. Favorite colors, things like that.
Their power awakens over time. They can't do much of anything out of the ordinary until they're at least ten. Even then, they usually need help from an older guardian to learn to actually use it properly. If they had to figure it out by themselves, it might take years.
It's too bad that all the old Guardians are dead, then. The new ones? Sucks for them. They have to figure it out by themselves.
When new Guardians are chosen, it's usually a kid between five and ten. And it was ten years ago that the old ones died, so they'd be teenagers by now. They probably know that they're Guardians. They should be bringing the world back to normal.
But of course it's not that easy. I mean, how the hell would they know how to do it? There's no one with any experience left alive anymore.
Even so, I wouldn't have expected for things to actually get worse. The weather recently has been complete chaos, and there's no sign of it inproving any time soon.
There have been some pretty wild theories flying around trying to explain this. Some are ridiculous and entertaining to listen to. One of the most widely believed ones is that the group that had killed the previous guardians is starting to kill the new ones.
But that doesn't really explain why it's getting worse. Recently, there's also been a major increase in pokémon attacks. Those attacks usually happen with big packs of pokemon of the same type. In addition to that, natural disasters are happening more and more often, to the point where there's definitely nothing 'natural' about them.
The rumor that's gained more of a following recently is that some of the new Guardians basically decided to ignore what they're supposed to do and instead took a 'screw order, let's destroy the world' point of view.
The fate of the world has been put into the hands of seventeen teenagers.
Yeah, I can just tell this is going to end well.
This is just the prologue. The real story will be told from the pov of various major characters.
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