Chapter 2: Move Like the Wind

Jen lives in a big tree house in a forest. Before she met Kenny, she participated in a earthbending arena to make money and practice her earthbending. She never won a match but earned enough money for her to survive. Though the Natives don't use their powers to fight, they used the arenas for exercises or sports. When Jen and Kenny met at the forest, he told her that there was still poison in her body. He would help her get it out if she allowed him to train her. Now, since she accepted, the two would spend time in the forest where no one could see them. Jen didn't want people to know she was the Guardiankeeper or else they wouldn't leave her alone.

The Guardiankeeper went back to the meeting place, waiting for Kenny. He arrived with a plastic bag.

"Is that the surprise?" she asked.

"Yep, but first, let's go deeper in the forest."

"Alright." Jen showed him where her tree house was. He wanted to stop there first for the surprise. Inside the bag were some battle clothes for a quintessence guardian.

Jen was surprised, "Those are rare battle clothes! You can never find those in stores since the Natives somehow don't use their powers for fighting much. Unless you go to the arenas."

"I got them for you," he handed the bag to her.

"Thanks. I'll go change now." She took the bag and climbed the ladder to her tree house. After a few minutes, she climbed down and saw him playing with fire in his hand while sitting next to a tree. He stared at her for a while when she walked towards him. Jen wore a purple sleeveless shirt with a white line from her neck, her chest, and to the side; the shirt also had a small drawing of the tattoo, that she had on her chest, directly above her tattoo, which was the Heart of Kandrakar.; she wore dark purple loose pants and black combat boots; she also had gloves that covered up to her upper arms and palms but not her fingers.

"How do I look?" she asked with her arms out.

"Like you're about to fight," he said, "I would've asked you to cut your hair too but you already managed to do that earlier." Jen's black hair went up to her shoulders. "Aren't you wings suppose to be bigger than others?"

"I think the poison made them smaller. Until I get my full powers back, I think they'll get bigger. I also noticed that your fire power might not be so safe to use here."

"I'll be careful. I can take in fire too." Once they reached to a open area, Kenny told her to start with quintessence. He could redirect lightning as well. Jen would practice quintessence for a few days until she could form electric bombs.

While Jen was practicing quintessence, Kylie was starting to learn airbending with Alan outside.

He gave her an advice, "Here's a tip that I got from Jen, 'Move like the wind.' This will be similar to waterbending except you're going with the flow of air."

"I understand. Hope this is as easy as casting wind from my weather powers."

"Airbending allows you to do much more than just summoning wind. But you have to be calm in your mind and body."

"I'll give it a go." She moved her arms in a circular path in front of her. A small vertical cyclone of dust formed between her and Alan. He was so surprised of how easily she did it. Kylie stopped moving her arms and tried to keep the cyclone still moving. Smirking, she moved it towards Alan. He immediately stopped it with one hand and destroyed it by forming his hand to a fist like crushing it.

He complimented her, "That was really good! You didn't just airbended. You dustbended which is a special ability for an airbender."

"Awesome! This is going to be really easy for then." After a few hours of training, they saw a white flying ball coming towards them. They could also hear it say, "Kylie! Kylie! Alan!" It pulled out it's small robot arms and flew straight at Kylie, hugging her.

"Ahh!" she screamed and fell on the ground.

"Hi, I'm Giru! Nice to meet you." he said as he let go.

Kylie sat up and stared at it. "Giru? Like from Dragon Ball GT?!"

"I don't know what that is. Jen asked the same thing before."

"Jen! You saw Jen!?"

"Oh yeah. I met her and she wanted me to tell you that she's fine."

"That's a relief. Why didn't she come back with you?"

"She hasn't got her full powers back. But she told me all the stories about the Gatekeeper Guardians. I can't go back to her until I get your team's memory back."

"You can do that?"she asked.

"Yep! The previous council made me. I consist of souls of past guardians to be alive."

Alan replied, "For some reason I can't believe that."

"But it's true! I was just born a few weeks ago. So that might be why I sound like a little boy. Hehe."

Kylie stood up. "So you'll help get my team back?"

"Yep! But I can do much more than that. I have so many tools in my small body."

Kylie and Alan continued training. Peter gave them an alert that there were some rock ogres attacking Area 12, where big companies are mostly at. It was time for Kylie to show her airbending skills. Giru followed her as well. Before leaving, she changed to her Guardian Princess outfit.

Phobos kept spawning creatures that will collect energy to open the gate. However, he knew now that Jen was getting her powers back and Kylie was learning to be a Guardiankeeper. So he had to eliminate Kylie's team who already had amnesia to ensure the gate couldn't be sealed again (it takes all 14 guardians to close the gate). He assumed Jen's first team wouldn't return or else he would kill them too. But Phobos does not know that not only they didn't age, but also had immortality.

Once Kylie and Giru arrived to Area 12, they noticed that the ogres were targeting only one building that was about five stories high. The rock-made ogres were rushing inside and made smashing sounds. Kylie and Giru flew in and saw the chaos they were doing. Energies were being taken away from the workers. Kylie saw that they weren't transformed with their wings. Looks like these people didn't use their powers at all. But their energies are just as much as others. Still at the first floor, Kylie tried to stop the ogres lightning first. It seemed effective but not enough. They noticed her after the attack so they ran towards her. Giru sensed one of her teammates in the building.

So he pulled on her arm, "Kylie! Jacob is at the fifth floor. We have to get to him before these nasty ogres take his energy."

"Let's go then!" Kylie and Giru dodged the boulders that the ogres were throwing from the ground. They found the stairs and flew all the way up. The first person she saw when she opened the door was Jacob surrounded by the ogres at a corner. Jacob also saw her.

"Guardian Princess! Help!" he shouted. Kylie could tell that he didn't remember her anymore nor remember that he had powers himself. She and Giru flew between Jacob and the ogres and Kylie created a lightning barrier. The ogres tried to break through but Kylie put her arms in front of her to keep it up. She turned her head to the side and saw a clearer image of Jacob. His appearance looked about the same because of the youth magic: short blonde hair, glasses, average height.

"Hey, Jacob, I'll hold them off while Giru helps you get your memory back."

"How do you know my name? Also, what about my memory?" asked Jacob, confused.

Giru hovered in front of his face, "Don't worry. Just stand still." His eye changed to a different type and projected a symbol on Jacob's forehead. The symbol was for air guardians, which was shaped like half a heart on the right side. Jacob was getting all his memory back from the time he just joined the team.

Kylie couldn't hold off the barrier so the ogres broke it and charged. She blasted air at them next. The ogres weren't damaged by it but it was slowing them down. By now, Jacob retrieved all his memory from Giru.

Jacob looked at the situation that was happening, "Kylie!"

"Nice to have you back. Transform!" Usually the leader or keeper of the Heart was the only person that could allow their teammates transform. But after some rule changing, they didn't need to and could transform anytime they want.

Jacob looked at what he was wearing which was a business attire. Then he shouted as he put one hand up, "Air Unite!" He was an air guardian. Once transformed, he got his wings and white and black jacket and pants. His symbol was on the center of his jacket. "Nice to be back in my battle suit. Hope I still know how to airbend." He did the same action as Kylie by blasting air at the rock ogres. Jacob's secondary power was telekinsis. So he made the metal cabinets crash at them. The cabinets didn't damage them so the ogres continued to come forward.

Jacob tried to think of a plan, "Air and earth, two opposite elements. We have to erode them."

Kylie nodded, "Let's go outside. There's a opening over there." She pointed at a broken window. Kylie, Alan, and Giru flew over the ogres and outside. The ogres followed them out the window. They don't take damage though when landing down from the five stories building. Jacob made a small tornado at them so they could change their battle field to a safer place without people.

In an open field, the ogres smashed the ground to summon earth pillars up to Jacob and Kylie. The Guardian Princess shot lightning to the pillars. The ogres fell down and got trampled by the falling rocks. Jacob and Kylie were next to each other. "We have to blast air at them with a lot of force," Kylie said. The two made huge cyclones to the rock ogres. Jacob was pretty proud of himself that he still knew how to airbend. Soon, the ogres eroded away and the energies they gathered were back to the business people.

"Yes! We did it!" exclaimed Kylie. She turned to face Jacob. "Will you come back to Area 5?"

"I actually don't know how I lost my memory or why I came here."

"Didn't you say that you were bored of the place so you tried to find a job?"

"I guess so. Since now I know why I don't age, the other people were confused why I never look older."

"Do you have a family? We can arrange some time so you can still come back."

"No one believed me when I said that I was thirty or forty, and I was "too young" to marry since I'm still in my 22 year old body. But I'll return to Area 5."

"These twenty years must've been hard for you. Thanks for coming back though." Kylie, Jacob, and Giru returned back to base, Area 5.

After a few days of practicing quintessence, Jen moves on with airbending. "This should be really simple since part of my weather powers is wind."

"Your weather powers and airbending are two different concepts though. Just remember to stay calm."

"Yeah, yeah." Jen swung his arm like she was punching out the air but nothing happened. She did her usual moves for airbending but still no effects. "Why can't I airbend anymore?!"

Kenny walked up behind her and said, "Because you're not calm enough. Firebending might be easy for you though." He touched both of her shoulders. She flinched a little. "Just relax," he whispered in her ear. Jen was motionless for a second but then walked a little forward to get him off of her. She did feel a little relaxed and tensed at the same time.

Jen tucked her arms in and concentrated on the air particles around her. Once she was ready, she put her arms to the side. The fallen leaves and dirt around her surrounded her like she was in the middle of a tornado. She was surprised when she did that. She turned around to see Kenny but he threw a fireball at her. Jen immediately stopped the tornado and swung her arm to use air to blow the fire away. However, her reflex didn't do anything to the fire. Jen fell down on the pile of leaves.

With her hand on her head, she shouted, "Hey! What was that for?!"

"You should be able to block the fire with your airbending. Didn't you say it would be easy?," he explained while walking to her.

Jen sighed, "Last time when I learned airbending, it was a piece of cake. Waterbending was my weakness though because lightning was my main power."

Kenny sat in front of her. "Each element has it's personality, believe it or not. Air stands for freedom and lightheartedness. Water is the element of change."

"Oh I get it. Before I was calm with my teammates with me. I remember that I didn't like change before too."

"And now, you're so into getting your powers back that you'll beat up anyone who stops you. But you changed so much now."

"I'm guessing my waterbending skills will be better then." Jen looked at her outfit again. "I really like the outfit you gave me. How did you know what my tattoo looked like?"

He gave a confused look, "I didn't. I saw the Heart of Kandrakar go inside you but I didn't know that you had a tattoo of it."

"Oh, well you put on my shirt at the same place where my tattoo is." She felt the place where the tattoo was.

Kenny took a closer look at the drawing. "They should call your Heart a Sweetheart." He looked her in the eyes.

Jen blushed but sarcastically said, "Oh ha, ha. Very funny." She got up and continued her airbending training with him. When they took a break at Jen's tree house, Jen asked Kenny, "So I know you took the potion of youth and I had something similar of that but," she paused. "How old are you?"

"My real age or the body that I'm in now?" he asked back.

"Both."

"You probably don't want to know my real age but I'm 25 in this body.'

"I'm 20 in this body but why can't I know your real age? Are you really old or something?"

"You can say that. But I have the mind of a person in their twenties though."

"When do you think I'm ready to move on to firebending?" she asked excitedly.

"Whoa slow down. You still have a lot to work on for airbending."

Jen crossed her arms and pouted, "Fine."