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CeCe was confused. She just woke up to find herself just floating. She looked down and saw that she couldn't see the ground. All she could see was a bunch of clouds. Then, it hit her. She was in the sky! CeCe started to panic, probably because she had a fear of heights. She was looking around, when something caught her eye. It sort of looked like a giant white castle in the middle of a sea of clouds. She cupped her hands around her eyes so that it looked like a pair of binoculars when she noticed it.

Her hands were gone!

CeCe started to panic even more. She couldn't see her hands, but she could still feel them. It was like her hands were invisible! She looked at down at the rest of her body and realized that all of it was invisible too. So ten to one, her head was probably invisible as well. It was like she was made out of air.

Suddenly, CeCe felt a presence behind her. She turned around and saw four vaguely looking human things. One looked like a person made of... Fire? Another looked like a person made from water. The third looked like they were made up of some kind of pink lightning, and the final one looked like a tree person with long blond hair. It was like they were made up of the 4 elements plus 1. Water, fire, earth, air, and... Lightning? Then, she noticed it. In the middle of their little circle was a jewel. It was pink, bright, beautiful, and had a long silver chain. The jewel was mystifying. It sent off waves of calmness and unity. It made CeCe feel like she was a part of something special, like she belonged.

Soon without warning, the jewel started to glow.

"CeCe." The jewel got brighter.

"CeCe." It got even brighter.

"CeCe!" And brighter.

"CeCe!" This time the jewel got so bright that CeCe had to shut her eyes.

"CeCe Ridgewood!" Then, everything went black.

CeCe's POV

"CeCe, wake up."

"Huh?" I said sleepily while wiping my eyes.

"Wake up."

"What?" I yawn. I looked up and saw that the teacher was standing over me. Oh crud.

"I said 'Wake up.' And now that you are awake, do you mind telling us what ecology is?" the teacher said.

"Ecology?" I said nervously. "Yeah, ecology is the study of... Life?" The class burst into laughter while I sunk down into my seat, totally embarrassed. I'm pretty sure my face was as red as a tomato.

"Nope. That's Biology, which is this class that you're in now. Ecology is the study of interactions between living and nonliving things," she said while trying to not laugh.

"Oh," I said becoming even redder if that was even possible. I felt pretty stupid.

It was then that I noticed some person I didn't know sitting a couple of seats over from me. She had shoulder length light brown curly hair, dark green eyes, and pale skin. She was wearing black sweatpants, a dark pink sweatshirt, and white tennis shoes. Her face was carrying a smirk, and to me, it felt like she was giving off a tough girl kind of vibe.

I didn't know who this person was, so I poked my ex best friend's back. Ex best friend? Well, yeah. You see we were best friends forever since kindergarten until about 7th grade when she practically ditched me for other more popular friends. I wish we were best friends forever again. Now, she's an infielder, or popular person, while I'm still an outfielder. At least she's still pretty nice to me and she's like the only infielder that talks to me. Well, kindly anyways.

"Hey, Kara," I whispered.

No response. I poked her again. "Kara," I whispered a little more loudly.

Kara turned her head around. "What?" she whispered back a little annoyed. Whoa. Kara really had changed. Her short dark brown hair was now cut into a stylish bob, and her brown eyes were surrounded by mascara and eye shadow, which neither of us ever put on. She was wearing really skinny skinny jeans and a frilly white top instead of her normal baggy jeans and oversized sweatshirts. The only same thing she wears now is her brown cowboy boots.

"Hello, CeCe, is anybody home?" she said while waving her hand in front of my face.

I shook my head. "Huh?"

"You said, 'Hey, Kara.' I asked, 'What?' And then you sort of spaced out."

"Oh yeah. Who's the girl sitting over there?" I pointed to where the girl was sitting.

"That's AJ Norman. She was introduced while you were in dream world. She's a new student. She's also a freshman, so that would make her a little tuna just like us."

I laughed. At least Kara still had some of her sense of humor.

We froze when we heard fake coughing coming from the front of the room. "Sorry to interrupt you, girls, but if we could continue our lesson, that would be great," the teacher said nonchalantly.

"Sorry, Mrs. Vandom," we said.

"It's all right," she said. "Just try to not talk during class."

"Okay."

"Good, now let's continue our notes..."

CeCe's POV

"Hey, Sam, over here!" I scream really loudly, while waving my arms wildly. Biology is over and now it's lunchtime, one of the best parts of the school day.

Sam then walks over here and takes a seat next to me. "Hey," she said. "So..."

"Guess what?" we both say at the same time. We giggled.

"You go first," I said still giggling.

"Thanks. Anyway, guess what? I got an A+ on that volcano project."

"Really? That's awesome!" I said with a huge grin plastered on my face. Sam is really smart, like genius level smart. She gets straight A's and is taking like all honor and AP classes, except for biology.

"Now your news."

"Oh yeah. Guess what?" I said getting all excited and hyper. "We've got a new student! Her name is AJ and she seems pretty cool!"

"Yeah, I know. All 3 of us are in Biology together." It was true, and I totally forgot. In Biology, she sits on the other side of the room from me, so we don't really get to talk to each other that much in that class.

"Oh yeah. Sorry. I forgot. You know I have some memory problems."

"Yeah, I know you do. Short term memory loss, right?"

"Yup," I said with a smile. Then, I spotted AJ walking around the cafeteria with her lunch. "Hey, AJ!" I screamed. She looked over here, and I made motion with my hand telling her to come here.

AJ started to make her way over here when someone tripped her and she fell ending up with her lunch all over her face. "Clutz," they said harshly. Then, their whole table started laughing. AJ wiped her face off and started to grit her teeth together. She looked pretty upset, but who wouldn't be? After picking up her crushed lunch off of the floor, she made her way over here.

"Just ignore them," Sam told her. "That's just Stevie and her cronies. They're just a bunch of snooty, rich, preppy infielders." Yeah, Stevie... I remember her. We both went to the same elementary school and middle school. She has long golden blond hair and bright blue eyes.

"Yeah, she's the big queen bee and captain of cheerleading squad. She's a big jerk," I said with a frown.

"Figures," AJ sighed. "Every school has one."

We all nodded in agreement.

In Meridian's prison, in a certain cell sits a man. A man who has been there for over 40 years. Just sitting there, planning his revenge. His revenge over a certain group of girls. A group of girls called the Guardians.

"Curse them," he mumbled. Then, he coughed a hacking cough. "Curse them all."

Suddenly, he heard footsteps coming from outside his cell.

"Dear, dear sister, come to see your older brother again?" he falsely cooed.

"Oh, I'm sorry. Were you expecting someone else?" said a gruff voice.

He quickly turned around and his eyes went wide at what he saw. All of the guards were dead! He looked around the circular prison. All of the prisoners were dead as well!

"Wh - who's there?" he said in shaky voice.

"A friend, Prince Phobos." Then, out of nowhere, a hooded figure appeared right in front of his cell. "A friend."

Phobos's eyes widened even more. "Where did you come from? Why are you here? What did you do to them?"

"The air guardian is not the only being that can use the power of invisibility," the hooded figure said. Phobos seethed with the mention of the air guardian. "And I am here to set you free. Oh, and the guards and prisoners are just asleep. They'll wake up soon, but by then it'll be too late. You'll be long gone."

"Why would you want to set me free?" Phobos asked suspiciously.

"My, my. Aren't we just full of questions?" the figure sighed. "Well, I guess I should answer... So let's just say that I'm setting you free because of the Guardians."

"The Guardians?" Phobos raised an eyebrow.

"Well, yeah. Isn't that what you want? Revenge on the Guardians? I mean look at you." When they said that, Phobos began to look at himself. "Old." True. Phobos was over 60 years old. "Defeated." True. He's been defeated more times than he could count thanks to the Guardians. "And powerless." And true again. He was as powerful as a rock. "So what do you say? Staying here and rotting? Or being free and having your sweet revenge?"

"So what's the catch?" Phobos asked still slightly suspicious.

"There's no catch. It's all free. Here have a taste of freedom." The figure waved their hand and the electric bars disappeared. They snapped their fingers and white lights began to cover Phobos, who started to panic. Seconds later, the white lights dispersed and Phobos was just left standing there. "Here, take a look." Suddenly, a mirror appeared in the hooded figure's hand. They handed it over to him. "So what do you think?"

Phobos's eyes widened for like the 3rd time in 10 minutes. He was shocked. He looked exactly like he did 40 years ago. His hair was once again long, blond, and perfect. Instead of wrinkles, his skin was smooth and soft. And his clothes were back to a long robe instead of rags. He was young and healthy again.

"H - How?" stuttered Phobos, who was still aweing at his transformation.

"Don't ask how, just know that it worked. Jeez. Anyway, I'll just give you some power and be on my way," said the mysterious figure. They pointed their finger at Phobos, said, "Zap!", and a white light beam came out of the figure's index finger and into Phobos. Several minutes later, the light beam stopped. "Well, have fun. See you later."

"Wait!" Phobos yelled. The figure paused. "What if I need to talk to you?"

"Then just call." And with that the figure disappeared.

"That was odd," Phobos stated. "Now let's check out these new powers... Hmmmmmmmmmm... To Earth!" He opened a blue spinning vortex by poking the air and then, jumped through screaming, "Watch out Guardians, here I come!"

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