PROLOGUE - THE NIGHT THE MOON CALLED ME

CYRUS' POV

Soft. The first thing that my senses felt was soft and it was weird. I don't where I am. In fact, I don't remember anything at all to be honest. No memories, no flashbacks, no nothing. Everything is just a blank, empty hole in my head. And then I remember that feeling. Soft.

I slowly try to pull myself up with whatever strength I've got and then fall back down to the ground. This is just great isn't it? I just lay on the ground to try and regain some energy before I try again. My vision is still blurry to the point that I can't even make out what's in front of me.

Soon enough, my vision clears up enough to reveal just where I am. I see tall trees with low branches everywhere that go on for what seemed like miles and miles. When I look down to the ground, I see why everything feels so soft all around me. I was in a small patch of grass and leaves with some wildflowers scattered around me.

"Hello?" I as to the wind.

"Well hello there young spirit..." Wait who said that?

"I did young one." Seriously who?

"Look up..." The voice giggled a bit.

I look up to the sky and I see only the moon shining down on me. It was big and it was bright but it was beautiful and mysterious with its soft silver light illuminating me and my surroundings with a soft glow. It couldn't be the one talking to me right? Right?

"Yes I am the one speaking to you." Wait, the moon... is talking to me.

"Um... hello there. May I ask, who are you?" I asked politely.

"I am the Man in the Moon, the spirit that looks down upon the Earth from the heavens... and I have summoned you." He says.

"Summoned... me? Why?" I'm so confused.

"Don't be confused, I have summoned you because you have done an act of bravery and of selflessness once before. I have given you the Gift of the Guardians." He answers me.

"But, why?" I ask in return

"We have been waiting for you for quite some time now." He answers

"Waiting... for me? But why?" I ask. It's been only a few minutes since I first felt something and now I learn that the moon has been waiting for me.

"Dear Guardian, there will be a second darkness that will fall upon the Earth. This second darkness has risen once before but it will return with an anger, a power stronger than what is had and it will strike at the darkest hour. This darkness will decide the fate of all the children across the globe from the past towards the future." He carefully explains to me.

"So wait... Why did you summon me? Why not someone else?" I ask the moon. He's very vague with his answers by the way.

"I have summoned you because I have reason to believe that you may be able to defeat the darkness."

Whoa stop there. Me? Defeat this second darkness? I can't even process what's happening right now, how does the moon even expect me to defeat this... darkness? What does the moon see in me that it doesn't see in others?

"Dear Guardian, you guard a power that is stronger than all powers, powerful enough to restore light from the darkness, a power locked within the hearts of all children across the globe. Its name is unknown and you must be the one to discover it." He tells me.

"Wait, but if I'm going to defeat this... Second Darkness, will I be alone?" I ask.

I mean, if I'm going to battle a second darkness, I can't do it alone. I mean, I don't know if I can do it on my own actually but it's better if I don't do it alone because even I don't know what power the moon is talking about.

"You will not be alone in your battle. Five spirits will be there alongside you when you battle the darkness. Roam the world and find them for you must be the one to discover their names." The moon says to me.

Suddenly I hear it whisper in a language that should be foreign, but I understand.

The memory will be set in stone

The light is lost and all alone

The sand is blown across the sky

The snowflake breaks the silver eye

The wind will tear itself apart

And soon will break its fragile heart

Within the dark shall shine a flame

To heal the wind of hurt and pain

But with this will come a cost

For the gentle flame will be their loss

It sounds like some sort of riddle or prophecy. I can hear it echoing in my head over and over again like a whisper that you can't forget. Why is the moon telling me this? There are, what I believe, millions of other souls out there to follow his command, but why me? What's so important about me?

"Dear Guardian, remember this and from there, all your questions will be answered in due time but now, I name you... Cyrus Rose." The moon says as its voice fades slowly.

"Wait! Don't go yet! I need to know more!" I try to call the moon.

But he doesn't answer. He left me with just my name, Cyrus Rose, and nothing else. Just my name. I'm on my own now.

Cyrus Rose... That's my name. I don't know if I should trust what I just heard because it might just be inside my head and it was all just a dream. So why doesn't it feel like it? It feels all too real for me and I'm left here, wondering what I should do now.

I should really check what I look like.

The first thing that came to me was my skin. Raising my arm I see that I look just like every other person the planet. My skin was fair but had a rosy complexion to it, almost like my whole body was blushing. I did notice a few strand of hair that fall just above my eyebrows and they were this deep shade of brown.

"Well, the moon sure does know how to make me look good."

When I look down at what I'm wearing, I'm just overwhelmed with confusion. I was wearing a white shirt, leather-like pants of some sort and what looks like and overcoat that's just like the pants that I'm wearing. Judging by the clothes, I must be a village dweller or something like that.

The little wildflowers that were there were a set of blues, red, purples and yellows that shine even in the moonlight. Their smell was so good though, it was a dew-like scent after a light rain with the sweet scent of their nectar mixed in.

Being the sappy person that I believe I am, I began picking the flowers leaving a few of them behind. I was imagining a crown out of these things and then it hit me. Why the heck not? I carefully weave the flowers into a circle, making sure that they'd blend together nicely along with the small amounts or wildgrass and leaves I put in there too.

It took a while to get a hang of it but the crown was finally done and it was just how I imagined it. The flowers and leaves just blended together so perfectly and the crown looked just big enough so that it'll fit my head... Hopefully.

I gently picked up the crown and placed it softly on my head. The feeling was soft and tender as I took it into my senses. As I stood up it started doing something that I did not expect it to do in the first place, it began to glow.

It glowed a soft white color around my head which suddenly faded out quickly. At first I wasn't sure what just happened there but, low and behold, I had answered my question.

I took about three steps forward and a bunch of flowers grew on my footprints, as if I planted them there. It happened again when my hand touched the root just next to me. I thought about how I was doing it and then I realized, this must be one of the powers that the moon told me about.

"This is amazing!" I shouted and jumped out of so much happiness and little did I know what happened after.

The once empty depression on the forest floor with barely a few wildflowers became some kind of a huge garden with the entire ground covered in every shade of color from red to purple. The flowers even climbed up the trunks of the trees which glowed in the soft moonlight.

Suddenly I remembered one of the things that I had to do like, right now. I needed to find somewhere for shelter.

I could stay in the garden for the night, heck I could stay here forever but, I need to do what the moon says. Roam the world, search for them, answer the questions and I need to be fast. I mean, the whole world is really big, it'll take me ages if I don't start looking.

I carefully step out of the garden which now that I look at it, is pretty big and really spacious. Hopefully that it's deep enough in the forest that it won't be seen or if it's natural enough to be brushed off by the locals here, if there are any at all.

After a final goodbye to the garden that I created, I begin walking forward from where I'm standing since any direction that I'll walk to will just be the same scene over and over again, just miles and miles and endless miles of thick and dark forest as far as the eye can see.

As I keep walking, I occasionally gaze up to the moon that maybe he'll talk to me again or at the very least say a quick hello or something like that. The stars also become the center of my vision from time to time, twinkling in the expanse of darkness which is a nice thought to think about every once in a while.

Suddenly I feel a gust of wind that blows through the expanse of the trees and making whistles of different melodies. As if my brain was a type of translator, I can hear songs that sound like they've been there for ages and I hear the voices of people that lived in the past or maybe even father. I don't know why but I'm drawn by this wind.

Trying to get a clearer sound of the wind, I stop in my tracks and just listen to the soft songs that the wind sings. A new emotion suddenly overcomes my body and my senses. It feels like a warm, almost liberating feeling of some kind and it's not from nowhere. It's from the wind.

I feel its warmth and its power rushing through me. It's like it's promising peace and freedom from the world and I listen to it. I feel its energy rushing through me like a wave and becoming one with me almost as if it want to be with me. I can feel it calling me, I hear its name. The Southwind. One of the Four Great Winds and it's mine to control.

I wasn't even prepared for what happened next. The winds all converged around me and literally threw me and literally just dragged me up to the sky like I was some sort of ragdoll. I saw the sky and all the stars above me but when I looked down, I saw the expanse of the trees. I was just stuck up there trying to get a grip on... something. And that something just had to be falling. Just falling.

I didn't even prepare myself when I felt like an empty void just opened around me and before I knew it, the sky was falling out of view. Wind, what happened to you?! I flip myself over and I see the ground growing in my field of vision and just when I thought my insides were about to splatter across the ground, the winds wrapped themselves around me and caught me mere feet off the ground.

"Now you show up when I'm nearly about to die?" I complain to the winds in which the drop me to the ground. Rude much?

I slowly stand up from the ground only to be greeted by the faint red glow of flames that surround me. Flames? Houses?! Oh my gosh, the winds took me to a village! A real life village! I suddenly feel sorry for being rude to the winds when they were actually helping me getting to civilization. I can't believe it. I'm not going to be alone for long anymore!

I stood up and I glance at the things around me, a well, an open flame, houses, most of the typical village stuff that you see in many of them. I see so many faces of men, women and children that I'm actually a bit jealous because they get to live so... normally and here I am, a lost and confused person that, no one seems to be noticing.

"Uh, excuse me Ma'am? Ma'am?" I wave in the face of a lady that's sitting in front of the fire but she doesn't even move her eyes. Strange.

I look around and I keep trying to ask people but they don't even throw a glance at me, not one. I mean, I know I look like someone who just escaped from a mental institute but am I really that atrocious to look at? That hurts me in ways I didn't know I could be hurt.

Out of the corner of my eye I spot a group of children playing together one small group, maybe they'll notice me? I grow a smile on my face as I approach them calmly but still full of that amazing energy that I have pent up in my heart and soul.

"Hey there! Can you tell me-"

I couldn't process what just happened to me.

The kid just ran through me like I was a ghost, like wind, like... nothing and it scared me to the very core. That's why no one noticed me or even glanced at me, I didn't exist in their eyes and I was only an invisible mass of wind that nobody cares about, let alone knows.

I desperately try to get anyone's attention, even the slightest glance from someone around me, at all. I try and try but still nobody, not one soul is even moved by my voice which is practically me screaming at the top of my lungs. There must be someone that can see me, just one person! Now I'm just repeating what I say but then again, I'm all alone.

The man in the moon summoned me from the depths of slumber, gave me a prophecy and told me my name. I saw my own body, made a crown, discovered my powers and became one with the winds, all of it just to realize I was only a ghost that will haunt people in the night.

That fear I felt when I woke up, was the fear of being alone but this time, it's more painful than being alone. It was seeing others but people not being able to see you. I'm not alone but no one can see me and that's what scared me.

I was called for a reason and now I've got to search for it, on my own.

I am Cyrus Rose and I am afraid.

So yeah, I've updated this a bit because I wasn't satisfied with my first post because it used TOO MUCH intense wording and even I couldn't get the point straight, so I set it straight.

Now then... Yes Destined is only ON HOLD but I will return to that LATER because I'm updating some chapters and the grammar is a bit faulty so, wait for that.

Also, you might have noticed that I changed the name a bit so that it's easier to read than Cyrus Alexandria, oh no we ain't having that anymore. Here's why

Cyrus - young (Still the same)
Rose - the flower, means kindness and sensitivity but also passion and strength

Not much more to add I'm afraid, so there it is!

Until the next chappie folks!

-AviLexi