Hello, and thank you for clicking the link to my story! I've had it in development for over a year, so I hope it's to your liking. I also have it posted on AO3, a link of which is at the end of the chapter. Enjoy! :)

Edit: I have re-written the first chapter! None of the information given has been take out, nor does it change the other chapters as well. I just re-wrote it in a way that I felt was better, if you have read the old chapter 1 there is no need to read this if you don't wish to. I would appreciate it though and like for you to tell me what you think!


"Mommy?"

"Yes Andrea?"

"Why are you a Guardian?"

The older woman let out a sigh in response, but wore a small smile all the same. She knew were this was going. Carmen scooped up her daughter, barely eight years old, into her arms. "Well, to be honest it's a bit of the family business. You'll be a Guardian too one day little blossom, remember?."

"But I don't want to! Why can't someone else do it? Like Fin?" Another sigh, her smile faded and the woman pulled her small treasure closer to her, as if to protect her from all the bad in the world.

"Listen, our family is very...special. The duties we must carry out, only someone with our family's abilities can do. Fin is your brother yes, but he's your father's son not mine. The same goes for your brother Joe."

Andrea crinkled her nose as this, obviously not satisfied with these answers. "But, the war ended over a gazillion years ago! I'm sure everyone can take care of themselves just fine now! I don't even think the Normies[1] remember us anymore!"

"Oh you'd be surprised on how little care others take of themselves. And yes, the war has been long over, even since I was born, but we want to keep it that way. Normies are nosey people."

"But the barriers are made for that! No one has ever found the forest! Or the other places where Elves, Dwarves, and whatever hide!"

"Andrea dear who do you think maintains the barriers?"

"Oh...Well why us then? Why?"

"I can't really answer that little blossom. Our family has been doing this since before the golden age, granted our family consisted more than just us since then...If we stopped bad things would happen Andrea, very bad things. We can't just let that happen.."

The young girl nodded, seeming to have given up fighting her fate for now. She wore a downcast expression, and well, her mother couldn't stand it.

"Oh now don't you fret, you won't be a Guardian for a very long time. Those duties are not for children. My father didn't train me until I was 18 years old! And I plan to do the same with you little blossom. No matter how much the council tries to fight me on it." She planted a kiss on her cheek which made Andrea giggle, she turned to her mother and smiled slightly at her.

"And.., at least we'll be Guardians together! Right mommy?"

"Yes little blossom, as long as I'm around I'll make sure you never work alone." Another kiss, another giggle. Both were satisfied for now, if their fate was set in stone at least they'll be together.

Oh how wrong they would be.


Andrea Lopez, barely seventeen, was in quite a pickle. She literally turned her back just for a moment to check one of the barriers in one of the few hidden magic forests left in the world, when some pixies[2] ran off with her bag.

Andrea ran after them as soon as she realized it, shouting so many curse words at them that if her mother was still on this earth she would have put some soap in her mouth. But Andrea continued to curse, both swear words and magic hexes. When she finally caught up with the pixies she did not like the sight that was in front of her.

They had stopped near a Wyvern[3] nest, the few eggs that laid there were nestled together and no mother was in sight at the moment. The pixies had opened the bag's contents and paid no mind to the eggs, and instead started pulling things out and messing with them. Two of them were going through her notebook and tearing all the pages out, another was trying to open her spell book, and two other ones had gotten her cell phone and portal key!

As Andrea rushed over to get her things back, one of the nearby eggs started to hatch. Soon a wide-eyed, newborn wyvern was wandering about, and wondering if any of these funny creatures in front of him was his mother.

Andrea had been fighting one of the pixies over the portal key, when she finally noticed the wyvern hatchling. The pixie she had been fighting took this opportunity to snatch the portal key and used it, open a blue and glowing portal leading to New York city. Before Andrea could react and close the portal, the pixie with her phone had somehow managed to play (very loudly) some of the music on it, thus startling the hatchling, who ran straight into the portal without thinking. After another quick string of curses, Andrea grabbed the portal key out of the pixie's hands and made a mad dash for the portal after the hatchling.

Which brings us to where we are now, a rampaging baby wyvern who can't even fly yet knocking over cars, food carts, shooting small balls of fire from his mouth, and freaking out over every loud noise left and right.

"Wait! Hold up-" She didn't even have time to finish her sentence, because she had to duck from barely getting hit by a fireball. It was times like this she was glad she had her gear on. Nothing like an enchanted, hooded poncho to make sure you don't get roasted alive. Her protective goggles and the mask that went from her nose to her chin didn't hurt either.

"Damn it, calm down!" she shouted while she raced after him, she honestly didn't even know why so was trying to reason with him. The hatchling literally just came into the world five minutes ago, he probably couldn't really understand her yet.

The wyvern finally stopped at an intersection, having no idea where to go and freaking out over all the cars honking and people shouting at him. He thrashed about, scared and confused. Andrea was finally able to catch up with him and stopped to catch her breath before approaching him.

"It's okay, just calm down, I can take you back ho-" For the second time that day she didn't get to finish her sentence, because the wyvern hit her with his tail and set her flying into the air, making her crash into a nearby taxi. The wyvern continued to growl, thrash about, and spit small balls of fire in random directions.

"Ahahaha! Man that was hilarious."

"Nova!"

"What? You gotta admit that was pretty funny, the way she just went, FWOOSH!"

Andrea let out a groan while she struggled to get off the (now crushed) taxi. Gods, this just was not her day today was it? A white gloved hand had extended out to her face, offering to help her up. Andrea gladly took the hand and was soon on her feet, in front of...a girl in a white full body costume with cat ears and a long ass ponytail? And behind her were... four other teens (or so she guessed) in tights and spandex? Andrea mentally mused to herself about how normies were so weird.

"Hey you alright?" the girl asked as she let go of Andrea's hand.

"Yeah, I'll be- LOOK OUT!" Andrea pushed the girl to the ground as a car went flying into their direction, nearly crushing them. Both girls groaned and Andrea helped the white masked girl off the ground. "This is getting way too out of hand." She said as she dusted herself off. "I gotta find a way to stop this."

"You? Stop that thing? Dude that thing knocked the wind out of you barely three seconds ago." Stated a tall, muscular boy wearing sunglasses, unlike the rest who wore masks.

"I have to, it's my job." Andrea simply stated as she started making her way towards the wyvern, but then one of the boys, dressed in a blue and red suit jumped in front of her with his arms out to stop her.

"Whoa there, I know you rookie heroes are always ready to throw yourself into the fight, but I think maybe you should start with purse snatchers and not like, oh I don't know, a dragon!" he emphasized on the dragon part.

"Okay three things, one it's a wyvern, not a dragon. Two, you can't tell me what to do. And three-" Andrea paused mid sentence, the wyvern was ready to launch another fireball, only this time it seemed it was going to be much much bigger, and also headed their direction. Andrea jumped in front of the boy just as the fireball launched from the hatchling's mouth

"Contego!"[4] Andrea shouted as she spread out her arms, the moment she did, a blue force field made out of magic surround the six teens, protecting them from the harsh fire. As soon as the fireball dispersed the barrier fell down.

"Dude, I gotta learn how to do that." Said the boy in a helmet aloud to no one in particular.

"Focus Nova! We gotta stop that thing!" The red and blue clad teen snapped, he then turned to the boy in a green suit and yellow mask. "Iron Fist, you've slayed a dragon before right? How do we take this thing down?" Iron Fist opened his mouth to respond, but before he could say anything Andrea interjected into the conversation.

"Whoa whoa whoa! You will not lay a finger on that wyvern! It's only a baby! It barely hatched no less that fifteen minutes ago!" Andrea snapped at the boy who even dare make the suggestion of hurting the hatchling.

"That thing is a baby? Could have fooled me." The girl said sarcastically.

"He's scared, he was just born and has no idea whats going on, I need him to stay still long enough so I can calm it down." Andrea replied. "Besides, if that hatchling gets hurt and his mother finds out what happened, you'll have an even bigger wyvern to stop."

"Well alright." The boy in blue and red let out a sigh "Got any ideas?" he inquired Andrea. She paused for a moment in thought, when she remembered something she read not too long ago.

"..We'll need for him to focuses on something other than the cars, something shiny. Wyvern babies love to look at and chew on shiny stuff." She reciprocated.

Immediately after she said that, the rest of the teens turned to look at Nova. Nova then noticed everyone looking at him and let out a sigh.

"Why do I have to be wyvern bait? Can't Spider-Man or White Tiger do it?" He whined.

"Because you are the shiniest! Now go do your thing so blueberry here can do hers." Spider-Man retorted. Andrea raised an eyebrow at the nickname, okay so maybe she was wearing a blue poncho. And blue tinted goggles, and a blue tunic, and a blue- okay maybe she should work on that..

Nova let out another sigh and flew over to where the hatchling was, shining brightly as he did. "Hey! scale face! Lookie lookie! Over here!" Nova shouted while waving his arms around.

"Scale face? Really?" Retorted the boy in sunglasses.

"Hey I like to see you come up with a better name, Power Man." Nova snapped. Just as he did the wyvern looked over and saw Nova, his eyes lit up, and the hatchling proceeded to stomp over to Nova, bearing his teeth. Nova backed up as the wyvern got closer. "Um, any time now guys! I rather not get eaten today!"

As soon as they got closes enough, Andrea leaped up into the air, and landed right on the wyvern's face, clutching onto his horns for dear life. The hatchling got startled and roared, he started to thrash about again to throw her off.

"That was her plan to calm it down?!" Spider-Man shouted. For a moment the five teens thought she was crazy, when suddenly the wyvern came to a complete stop. The faint sound of someone singing filled the air.

It was Andrea, she had her forehead pressed to the wyvern's, both their eyes glowed a faint blue as she sang softly in a langue none of them could understand. The wyvern gave her a look, a look that seem to say he understood her, and that he knew her intentions. The hatchling gently laid his head on the ground to let Andrea off once she finished singing, and he stayed there as Andrea stroked his head gently.

"There there, you were just scared, weren't you?" Andrea inquired. The wyvern gave out a soft rumble, as if to say yes to her question. "It's alright." She said as she pulled out her portal key. "I can get you home, just follow me, okay?" Andrea stuck the portal key into the air and gave it a turn, and suddenly in front of her a portal appeared leading to where they last were, the wyvern nest.

They five teens looked on with awe as Andrea led the wyvern into the portal, but before she went in though she turned to them and gave them a small wave.

"Thank you" She said, and you couldn't really tell under her mask, but she was smiling.


Andrea let out a content sigh as she watched the baby wyvern and his siblings (now fully hatched), being fussed over by their mother. The pixies long gone, and her stuff returned. It was moment's like this when she didn't mind her job too much, it was almost enjoyable.

A lump formed in her throat the longer she looked at them. Reminded of her situation, of why she was even doing this in the first place.

"And.., at least we'll be Guardians together! Right mommy?"

"Yes little blossom, as long as I'm around I'll make sure you never work alone."

With a sigh and a heavy heart, Andrea opened a portal leading back home. Not wanting to look at the happy family any longer.


[1] Normies - Slang for Non-Magical humans, or 'normal' people. Mostly used by Wixen like Andrea, who are human but have magic.

[2] Pixies - Mischievous small creatures with wings who want nothing more than to cause those around them misery.

[3] Wyvern - A type of giant lizard that looks like a dragon, although unlike a dragon it only has two back legs and no front legs. It's wings act as front legs.

[4] Contego - Latin for protection

And that's that! I hoped you enjoyed the first chapter, please leave a review and let me know what you think!

AO3 Link: /works/2781086/chapters/6238898

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