Hi there again! I got some helpful tips from you guys when I asked about that commenting thingylingy. If I learn how to send private messages, maybe... just maybe... some beautiful day you shall have your answers. No, really, I´ll answer to them as soon as I can. Damn! I´m actually just so happy to get them that I need few days to cool it down and think about the answers! And as for you DarkHorseBlueSky, please don´t be afraid of the possible similarities in our stories. I haven´t read yours yet, which I might do after I finish my own. I don´t intend to make this a very long journy, but maybe I get so excited that there will still be chapters coming even in 2030... Right now I just write from my heart and only the time will tell what kind of a story this will be, and even I don´t know that yet... ( should I? D:).

Oh my... This writer´s commentary is already becoming way too long. Ugh... l´ll just shut up for now and let you read the next chapter.

And as always: Enjoy! ;)

"A Guardian?!", I spit the word like it would have tasted bad in my mouth.

The man looked at me and it seemed like he was happy about my reaction. He laughed.

"Yes you´re a guardian. But don´t worry, you´re not like them. You´re one of my Guardians. Actually you are the first one of them...", he said, still smiling at me.

I stared at him, confused. "I… don´t understand… Why would you need more Guardians? Is there not enough of them already..?"

The man lifted his brows. "Clearly not… And that´s quite a strange question, since it´s coming from a girl who would think to know that even better than the rest of us... ", he said sadly.

I looked away from him and let my hair hide my pained expression.

True. There was five guardians, but still they hadn´t found me. No matter how much I believed in them...

"But why did you choose me?, I asked. "I´m sure there would have been many much stronger and... more preferable children to be your new Guardians... ", I said quietly as I looked at my feet. Why would he need a puny girl like me to stand beside him? The world is full of children, he could have just picked one.

I didn´t hear when he moved, but suddenly I felt that he was sitting beside me on the bed. His hand touched gently my chin and he carefully turned my face towards him, so he could speak to me eye to eye.

"I chose you because you were perfect. You were a lot like me… You were left alone in the dark without a real family, pushed aside when no longer needed… almost forgotten by everyone. And since you knew how it felt like, I couldn´t think any other child to be somehow better than you.", he said softly. I looked at his golden eyes and tried to fight back my tears.

So he knew how it felt like too. He wasn´t just another adult who "tried to help me" or who "knew what I was going through"... They didn´t have any idea what they were talking about. But when I looked at those eyes, those old, eternal eyes, I could see all the hidden sadness, suffering, loneliness and even anger right through them. They were like two windows that opened a view into a cold, dark desert. A place that you just somehow knew nothing could ever bloom… nothing would ever grow in there and hide the dry white sand.

Then the man patted my head and smiled at me like before.

"And why on earth would you need to be strong? Bears are strong, lions are strong, but they aren´t even far as intelligent as owls, as sly as foxes or as quiet as cats. I have no use for some muscular idiots,

which you, my girl, are not. ", he said, clearly trying to cheer me up.

Somehow I was able to smile for his comment and I actually felt a little bit better.

Then he rose up from the bed and clapped his hands twice.

"Okay enough of useless moping! It´s time to get to work!"

First it seemed like a few of the shadows gathered before him and just danced in the air, but then they quickly started to take a more specific shape. And after a short while, he was holding one pair of black shorts and a top on his hands. Lastly he waved his hand in the air one more time and he took something from the darkness. It was a long gray hood. He threw the clothes on the bed before me and nodded approvingly.

"Here, you can dress in these. And don´t worry, they won´t disappear like shadows normally intend to do. I´ve commanded them to keep that form from now on, so in principle they aren´t even living things anymore, they just may help you blend into the shadows. ", he said.

I took the clothes into my hands one at the time and tried what the fabric was like. The jeans and top felt normal... just like an ordinary shorts or top would feel like.

But when I touched the dark gray hood, it felt like I was sliding my hand over a soft fur of a cat.

Although the material looked like a normal cloth.

"I didn´t know that the shadows were living things...", I said being a little bit surprised and still moving my hand on the hood.

The man just shrugged his shoulders.

"Well, maybe they are not really living things to you, but since I can command and shape them, or even move freely amongst them, they surely feel like that to me."

"And how can you do something like that? Command the shadows? ...Are you a Guardian too? ", I asked.

Even though I highly doubted it.

The man looked at me like I had just insulted him somehow, and I felt immediately sorry for asking something like that.

"Oh god, no. I´m not a Guardian. I´m definitely not one of those little lackeys of the Man In The Moon..." he said coldly.

But I didn´t give up, "Well, If you´re not a Guardian… and you still have those amazing powers… What are you?

No, actually… the right question would be: Who are you?" I dared to ask.

My question earned just a little dry smile from him.

"I am Pitch Black, the man that you should think as your guide and mentor for now on. It is simple as that.", he said, putting an end to our conversation.

But that wasn´t simple at all, I thought. Plus, It didn´t really even answer to my question.

I was going to ask him to explain it more clearly, but he didn´t give me a chance to do that.

"I´ll be waiting for you in the corridor, come there as soon as you are ready." he simply said without even looking at me, vanishing then into the shadows.

I sighed. I was so confused about all this new information that I suddenly had a strange urge to put my head on the pillow and just fall asleep. Maybe I would find myself from my bed at home and this all would have been just another strange dream…

Or a nightmare, like they usually had been. But when I thought about waking up in our home, in my normal everyday life, I immediately pushed aside the idea of sleeping. Whatever I was at, it was much, much better than my life there. So I got up from the bed and started to change my clothes.

"Pitch Black...", I whispered in the empty dark room. What a strange name indeed…

So there you have it. The 3th chapter of my story. Hopefully it was to yer liking! Arrr...

Okay, now I don´t know what I´m doing in here anymore... Jesus.

But anyhow, your comments, faves and follows are still appreciated like the old gods used to be back in the glorious days of Greek and Rome.

So again, Thank you for reading! ^^