CHAPTER 1
"So you are a 'Gate Keeper' also?"
"Yes, I've told you that already didn't I?"
"Yes, and you are a member of the so called AEGIS?"
"Yes, why do you keep asking me questions that you already know?"
"Well, nothing. Just nothing. I still can't believe that my girlfriend is also one of them." He smiled.
Loids laughed.
"What's funny? Hmmm, what is your 'Gate' then?" he inquired.
"It's the 'Gate of Love'" smiled Loids.
"What?!" showing in his face disbelief and shock, "Don't tell me you just let me fell-in-love with you?!" stressing the phrase "let me fell-in-love".
"Hmm, maybe. I can't remember anymore." She smiled with a look of seriousness. "Why? You don't like it that way? You should be thankful and glad I chose you. Who knows you might have no girlfriend yet... "
He interrupted, "It's not that I don't like it, how can I? You're so beautiful, divine... "
"Liar..." interrupted Loids and looked away from him.
"It's just that, it's like you've cast a spell on me, and that means what I'm feeling for you is not real! Much more, if you don't like me anymore you can just remove what I'm feeling for you, and" he paused, sucking in the reality if everything is true, "and" he changed his sentence, "I am a person, not a toy, not a robot. " He continued very sadly and seriously.
Laughing hard she declared, "No! It's real! What you are feeling is as real as you can imagine!" she starts to reassure her boyfriend, "I was just kidding, you know. I do not use my ability in such ways. It's unfair and besides I want someone who truly loves me and not someone who I just spell-bound as you said." She continued while caressing him.
"As you say so. I will take your word for that." He replied smiling. "I love you dear."
"I love you too John." Said Loids with a sweet voice and embracing him tight.
"Commander! Negative energy detected at the Luneta area!" shouted Tess.
The commander stood up. He is a tall man about 6" in height. His eyes are deep, black, and have a white skin similar to the Chinese people. He is well built, good for his height, and a very pleasing looks which makes him famous among the women in the headquarters. He looks like a 23-year old person but in reality, he is 7 years older.
He pressed a key in his table and said, "Gate Keepers make a sortie!"
"Let's go to the mall shall we?" said Loids.
"Sure why not." Replied John with a smile.
The two went out of their school and walked heading for the mall, which is a kilometer away. The couple is very sweet with each other as if they are the only ones in the world. Loids a 5'5" petite girl with a long hair passes by her shoulders. She has small eyes, born from a Chinese family, but she is not as light-skinned as her family and her boyfriend.
She has a pointed nose, pink lips, and a beautiful smile. She is also cute and slim which makes her more attractive to the other guys, young and old alike, with girlfriends or none. Even to the other girls. Yet she is just plain simple kind of a girl, she does not take advantage of such positive traits. She loves her family and her first love very much. She cares about them.
The red-alarm from her watch beeps. She looked at the watch, it moved, a small window showed up. The face of a man appeared on the screen and said, "Gate Keepers make a sortie!"
She replied, "Roger, AEGIS!" She then put an earpiece to her right ear and a mini microphone in her teeth inside her mouth.
"A negative energy source was detected at the Luneta Park. It disappeared very fast. According to our personnel in the area, an unknown Gate Keeper just appeared from nowhere and is instilling depression in the area.
"You must find the negative Gate Keeper and see what you can do. Be careful, we do not know the person's Gate and what it can do. Good luck to all of you." Then silence fell.
After listening to the details, she looked back to her boyfriend and said, "John I'm sorry..."
"I understand, do your job well." Reassuring her.
"Yes I will, for you. Wait me here." She replied with a smile and started running to Luneta.
"Loids, do not act alone, wait for me, I'm coming."
"Yes, Anna."
"Where are you Loids and Anna?" asked Allan.
"I'm already here at the Luneta." Replied Loids.
"I'm coming there, one more street to cross." Anna added.
"Ok, we're coming by the portal." Replied Allan.
The place where the Philippine national hero, Dr. Jose Rizal was executed, now a national park. A beautiful place where people can spent their time. Great and old trees that has been here for so many years. A grand Philippine map at the center, a public cinema at the right, a restaurant ran by the deaf and mutes, and people sitting and resting everywhere in the grass.
The once beautiful view of the park is gone now. Emotional depression fills the air. There are families and couples fighting and quarreling. People who's faces are down to earth, and people killing other people, while others are committing suicide.
A crystal ring of light appeared out of nowhere and from it two people came out. Another ring of light appeared, this time it's silver colored. It surrounded the whole area and it is shielded.
"Good work Anna, we must prevent other people into coming here." Shouted Allan.
"Thanks, and I also shielded the two of you and Loids here." She replied.
"Ok everybody, help the people while I searched for that Gate Keeper." Allan ordered.
"Roger, AEGIS." Replied the other three.
"Gate Open" murmured Loids. "Fill the atmosphere with understanding." A red gate opened and small streaks of clear red light shoot out from everywhere. Then the people began to recover from the depression that was filling them, they also began to comprehend things which they never thought of.
"Gate Open!" shouted Val. A crystal ring appeared again but this time near every people in the area. "Ok, let them pass through the gates, it will lead them to the hospitals." Val said.
"Sure!" Replied Anna and Loids in unison.
"Commander the Gate Keeper has been detected again!" shouted Tess.
"Gate Keepers prepare for an encounter!" shouted the commander.
"Roger AEGIS!" Replied the Gate Keepers.
A sinister laugh can be heard everywhere and a black gate appeared at the other side of the park. "Good work AEGIS puppets! I never thought you can save these pitiful people in time." Said by a man with a black coat, black shade, black eyes, and a black hair.
"Tsk." Allan murmured.
"What?! Who is he? Can he be...?" Anna asked startled.
"Can't be, it was 28 years ago, and this guy is at our age." Replied Val with assurance.
"But..." Loids was interrupted.
"No, he isn't Reiji Kageyama you fools!" shouted by a woman who appeared from the black gate. She is as tall as the guy besides her, about 5'8" or so in height. She looks like a perfect woman, she is wearing a white blouse and a mini-skirt showing her smooth light legs. Her hair reaches down to her waists and the air makes it waved making her face more hidden.
"And who the hell are you?" Loids shouted.
"Ah, the Gate Keeper of Love! Hmm. You sounds like you are angry at me, or maybe you are just jealous of how I look?" Replied the woman.
"No I'm not, and won't" she replied back.
Suddenly Allan shouted, "Gate Open!"
"Oh no you don't!" the woman said, "Gate Open!" A gray ring of light appeared. "Sleep!" Slowly Allan fell asleep.
"Gate Open!" Val shouted.
Out of nowhere another voice shouted, "Gate Open!" and a colorless ring of light appeared. "Gate Stop!" Val's Gate of Portal disappeared.
"What the...?!" Val said angrily.
A boy laughed, "See? They are useless. We shouldn't have bothered to check their capabilities, I am right all along. We should've conquered this place already!"
"No, I want these Gate Keepers to kneel down before us. I want them to realize that no one can beat us. And I want them to join us once they know they are hopeless against us!!!" Shouted the black Gate Keeper.
"Remember this AEGIS-Philippines and you Gate Keepers, we, the 'New Order of Gate Keepers' will conquer this country and no one can stop us!"
"Yes no one! We will see you again, this is only an introduction for you AEGIS puppets." The woman added.
Suddenly, a streak of red light started rushing towards the black Gate Keeper. "Gate Open! Deflector shield!" The red lights deflected up to the sky. "Do you think you can beat me? Your level is way out of mine fool!" He declared loudly, "Shadow edge!" He shouted.
Black lights came out from his gate and headed towards Loids, but it was stuck and disappeared after it hit a force field around her. "Thanks Anna."
"No problem." Replied Anna.
"You are lucky you have a friend who protected you. I wonder how long your friendship will last.
"Till our next encounter." Said the black Gate Keeper.
Then three Gates appeared and the three went in and disappeared.
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"Good work you saved the people in time two days ago. But I'm afraid we have to train more or else next time..." the commander said.
"Yes, sir!" replied the Gate Keepers determined to improved their skills.
"We already coordinated with the AEGIS-South-East Asian Central Command and they said that it is the same group that has been attacking the other countries for the past three years already.
"They said that this group, the so called, 'New Order of Gate Keepers', has members of about twenty-seven Gate Keepers."
"And only Gate Keepers?" interrupted Allan.
"Yes. And they are not easy to detect because of the fact that... that not all of them are negative Gate Keepers or is using the negative side of their Gates." He seriously continued.
"No way" replied the Gate Keepers.
"Does that mean we have a new enemy?" asked Anna.
"And not only that Anna, we are fighting with people who are also using a positive Gate which AEGIS-SEA has no way of detecting but..." Val commented.
"A very good intelligence network." Interrupted Tess.
"Right," continued the Commander gaining back the center of attention. "All members of AEGIS-SEA and especially here, the AEGIS-Philippines has been called to duty, everybody are on duty and standby twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. This is all that we can do. We don't have any equipment yet. The AEGIS committee has not told us if they already have equipment for this kind of situations.
"Now, the Gate Keepers Party will need to train more. Master your abilities, this is for your own good, for your country, for the world, for humanity.
"You are all dismissed."
"Roger, AEGIS!!!" replied the Gate Keepers.
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