p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"You wouldn't imagine the confusion at the meeting that day. There was questioning, and answering, and yelling, and swearing, and all kinds of stuff. We just…didn't know what to do with this girl, Logan. No one had ever heard of an older person who could see guardian characters./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"Let me give you the abridged version of the meeting./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"After school, which wasn't all that long after finding Logan, I walked into the club room to find it filled with everyone. Cameron sat at his desk, his hands folded on top of the wood, and Kennedy sat on the edge of the desk, with his legs crossed. Angelina sat at her desk, with Angel sitting on top of her head. Clara and Alicia sat on one of the couches, with Isabelle standing on the arm writing notes, and Vorpa sitting on Alicia's lap while James sat on the other with Excaliber on his shoulder. Logan stood in front of the coffee table, looking directly at Cameron and Angelina. I quickly sat next to James and looked to Cameron./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in;""Good, everyone's here." Cameron said in an almost irritated voice. "Now, today was originally going to be about events coming up, but an unexpected event has turned up, that needs our attention. Everyone meet Logan Keeper."/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"The girl looked down at the floor next to her./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in;""Why's she here?" James asked./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in;""Logan is a mystery." Cameron sighed. "A girl with no guardian characters to speak of, but she can see them…"/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in;""You can see me?" Vorpa asked./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in;""Y-yeah…" Logan admitted. "I'm a little…confused."/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in;""Well that is to be expected." Cameron said. "You shouldn't exist."/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in;""Uh, Cameron." Angelina said. "Considering today's events, I don't think opening with that is a good idea."/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in;""What do you think we should do?" Cameron asked./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in;""Tell her what we are, and what we do." Angelina said confidently, and that's what we did. We told her everything we knew. About characters, and guardians, about the Keeper, the X-eggs, the wand, and what the student council does. She was a good listener, never really looking away or focusing on anything else./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"It took about an hour before we had her convinced not to tell anyone. She remembered that she forgot something in her locker once we finished, and left./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in;""I have a theory." Clara said after she left. "Two actually."/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in;""I figured you might." Cameron commented. "Go ahead."/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"Clara stood up. "Something that has always been slightly dangerous to us is little kids. Children, who have not given birth to their heart's egg, can see guardian characters. This has been justified as, they don't focus on the future, and they focus on the here and now."/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in;""So, what's that gotta do with Logan?" James asked./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in;""Logan Keeper suffers from Cancer." Clara told him bluntly. "It's probably why she's been made fun of here, and led to the bullying. Her future, involves death. I think that's why she focuses on the present, and might be why she can see characters, because her future, her true self, leads to death."/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in;""But when I cleansed that…thing, it became a guardian character." I threw in. "She has to have a heart's egg then, right?"/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in;""Which makes it even more confusing." Clara sighed. "Which is why I have explanation two, she's the promise that Keeper wanted to give us."/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in;""Clara," Cameron started. "How can you be so sure?"/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in;""Her last name is literally Keeper." Clara presented. "That combined with the fact that she has a hearts egg, can see charas and had a corrupted egg turn into that…thing, leaves room to justify that she might be the fifth item."/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in;""Interesting." Cameron simply said. "I would like to see a little more evidence before we continue with either of those theories, though."/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in;""Which brings us to the next topic." Angelina sighed. "What do we do with her? She isn't a guardian, and I don't know if we can just add another chess piece to the board, especially halfway through the year, but we can't let her go too far from us. If the seekers found out about her…"/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in;""Yes, that would be a problem." Cameron said thoughtfully. "To be honest I have no idea what we should do." There was silence for a while. "Her safety should come first, let's reschedule her, and put her in the same classes as Alicia, James, and Brandon for now."/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in;""Right, I'll fill out the forms." Clara nodded./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in;""Excellent." Cameron sighed. "Now onto other matters, I think we need to talk about the thing we fought today."/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in;""That…wasn't normal, was it?" I asked./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in;""Nothing we stand against is normal, including this thing." Cameron admitted./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in;""What was it anyway?" James asked./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"Cameron stood up. "When Kennedy was first born," He started. "We were trained by a set of board members in high school. I don't recall they're names, or even their dreams, but they were skilled in egg protection. They learned a theory from another group of guardians in a very faraway place. The theory stated that an X egg could hatch while being punished and create something even stronger than the egg; an X-character." He took a deep breath. "I think that is what we fought earlier. If the theory is true, then the Seekers are getting stronger."/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in;""How did they know what was going on?" Alicia asked. "How did they learn that Logan was getting bullied?"/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in;""My honest opinion?" Cameron asked. "I've been playing with the notion that there is something working for the seekers in this school, which has been causing the recent influx of X-eggs. Now that this incident has happened, I think it's safe to say that this theory may be true."/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in;""Wouldn't we be able to see their character?" James asked./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in;""If the character hung around them, then this would be the case." Kennedy piped up. "I don't think their character has been around them while they are here. Perhaps they abandoned their character, or perhaps they are hiding them from us, because they already know. Whichever is the case, it's safe to say that they are a few steps ahead of us."/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in;""So what do we do?" Gentus asked./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in;""We pretend nothing happened." Cameron said. "It was just another normal day."/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in;""You can't be serious, your majesty!" Excalibur called out. "There is an evil-doer in this school and you want to pretend that everything is perfectly fine?"/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in;""Excalibur, we need to trust in his judgment." Angel told the little knight in a very soothing voice./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in;""We need to have a man hunt, not just sit around, waiting for them to do more damage!" Excalibur argued. "No wonder Katy and Bandit left y-"/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in;""You will not speak their names in this office!" Cameron yelled, a tie materializing on his dress shirt. "You will do as I command, or you will share the same fate as her, do you understand me?"/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in;""Prez, chill out." James said. "He's just being in his nature."/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in;""Mr. President," Clara spoke. "If there really are seekers in this school then they are watching and laughing as we drive ourselves apart."/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in;""Cameron, please calm down." Angelina soothed./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"Cameron took a deep breath, and grabbed his bag. "This meeting is over." Then with that, he left the room./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"There was an awkward silence in the air before anyone could speak. Angelina stood up and left the room as well, leaving Alicia, James, Clara, and myself./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in;""Well," Clara clicked her tongue. "I want to talk to Logan some more, so if you guys want to head home, you can, but I'll be here."/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in;""I think I'll stick around a little longer." Alicia quickly said. "I wanna know more about her too!"/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in;""Yeah…I guess I should hang out too." James sighed./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in;""Oh, Brandon, let's stay!" Gentus exclaimed. "We should get to know the young lady."/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in;""We might be able to find answers. I think we should stay as well." Teris agreed./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"The door opened before I could give an answer and Logan entered the room. "Where are the others?" She asked./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in;""They…had to leave." Clara told her. "We just wanted to ask you a few questions."/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in;""Um…okay…" Logan said nervously./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in;""So…how long have you been able to see characters?" Clara asked./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in;""A long time…" Logan admitted./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in;""You never thought to tell anyone you were seeing things?" James asked./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in;""Well, I didn't really know how to phrase it without sounding insane." Logan sighed. "I didn't think seeing little people and eggs in people was a normal thing for people to do."/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in;""Wait, what do you mean eggs?" Clara asked./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in;""Well...with focus, I can see eggs in people's chests." Logan seemed a little scared./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in;""You can see a person's heart egg..." I muttered./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in;""Yes, I think that how you put it..." Logan told me./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in;""So, then we can have you help us find other guardians." Clara said with an intelligent look in her eyes./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in;""I...don't think that works..." Logan butted in. "I mean...I can see an egg in Brandon's chest..."/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"Clara and James both looked at me, while Alicia didn't really seem to be paying that much attention./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in;""There's another egg?" James asked./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in;""Makes sense, in away." Clara noted. "I suppose, when you think about it, Brandon uses the wand a lot, he keeps a part of the keeper in him, it's probably the remains of the Keeper's will."/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in;""Speaking of the Keeper, mind telling about this whole, keeper business?" I asked. "I still feel like there is a lot I'm missing, and no one is giving me any answers."/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in;""Sorry, not happening." Clara told me. "Cameron's got it on lock down. The only people allowed to handle anything involving the old artifacts are me and him."/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in;""Guys, we're supposed to be focusing on Logan." James told us./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"So, we talked with Logan for a bit, doing all sorts of things with her, we didn't learn all that much. We learned that she grew up here, and that she hasn't really been anywhere outside of the country. She just got back to school not that long ago. It wasn't long until I went home and spent the night talking with Teris and Gentus, having a sort of reflection on everything going on. Something that I think was well needed./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"Let me give you the abridged version of the meeting./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"After school, which wasn't all that long after finding Logan, I walked into the club room to find it filled with everyone. Cameron sat at his desk, his hands folded on top of the wood, and Kennedy sat on the edge of the desk, with his legs crossed. Angelina sat at her desk, with Angel sitting on top of her head. Clara and Alicia sat on one of the couches, with Isabelle standing on the arm writing notes, and Vorpa sitting on Alicia's lap while James sat on the other with Excaliber on his shoulder. Logan stood in front of the coffee table, looking directly at Cameron and Angelina. I quickly sat next to James and looked to Cameron./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in;""Good, everyone's here." Cameron said in an almost irritated voice. "Now, today was originally going to be about events coming up, but an unexpected event has turned up, that needs our attention. Everyone meet Logan Keeper."/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"The girl looked down at the floor next to her./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in;""Why's she here?" James asked./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in;""Logan is a mystery." Cameron sighed. "A girl with no guardian characters to speak of, but she can see them…"/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in;""You can see me?" Vorpa asked./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in;""Y-yeah…" Logan admitted. "I'm a little…confused."/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in;""Well that is to be expected." Cameron said. "You shouldn't exist."/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in;""Uh, Cameron." Angelina said. "Considering today's events, I don't think opening with that is a good idea."/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in;""What do you think we should do?" Cameron asked./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in;""Tell her what we are, and what we do." Angelina said confidently, and that's what we did. We told her everything we knew. About characters, and guardians, about the Keeper, the X-eggs, the wand, and what the student council does. She was a good listener, never really looking away or focusing on anything else./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"It took about an hour before we had her convinced not to tell anyone. She remembered that she forgot something in her locker once we finished, and left./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in;""I have a theory." Clara said after she left. "Two actually."/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in;""I figured you might." Cameron commented. "Go ahead."/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"Clara stood up. "Something that has always been slightly dangerous to us is little kids. Children, who have not given birth to their heart's egg, can see guardian characters. This has been justified as, they don't focus on the future, and they focus on the here and now."/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in;""So, what's that gotta do with Logan?" James asked./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in;""Logan Keeper suffers from Cancer." Clara told him bluntly. "It's probably why she's been made fun of here, and led to the bullying. Her future, involves death. I think that's why she focuses on the present, and might be why she can see characters, because her future, her true self, leads to death."/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in;""But when I cleansed that…thing, it became a guardian character." I threw in. "She has to have a heart's egg then, right?"/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in;""Which makes it even more confusing." Clara sighed. "Which is why I have explanation two, she's the promise that Keeper wanted to give us."/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in;""Clara," Cameron started. "How can you be so sure?"/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in;""Her last name is literally Keeper." Clara presented. "That combined with the fact that she has a hearts egg, can see charas and had a corrupted egg turn into that…thing, leaves room to justify that she might be the fifth item."/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in;""Interesting." Cameron simply said. "I would like to see a little more evidence before we continue with either of those theories, though."/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in;""Which brings us to the next topic." Angelina sighed. "What do we do with her? She isn't a guardian, and I don't know if we can just add another chess piece to the board, especially halfway through the year, but we can't let her go too far from us. If the seekers found out about her…"/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in;""Yes, that would be a problem." Cameron said thoughtfully. "To be honest I have no idea what we should do." There was silence for a while. "Her safety should come first, let's reschedule her, and put her in the same classes as Alicia, James, and Brandon for now."/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in;""Right, I'll fill out the forms." Clara nodded./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in;""Excellent." Cameron sighed. "Now onto other matters, I think we need to talk about the thing we fought today."/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in;""That…wasn't normal, was it?" I asked./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in;""Nothing we stand against is normal, including this thing." Cameron admitted./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in;""What was it anyway?" James asked./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"Cameron stood up. "When Kennedy was first born," He started. "We were trained by a set of board members in high school. I don't recall they're names, or even their dreams, but they were skilled in egg protection. They learned a theory from another group of guardians in a very faraway place. The theory stated that an X egg could hatch while being punished and create something even stronger than the egg; an X-character." He took a deep breath. "I think that is what we fought earlier. If the theory is true, then the Seekers are getting stronger."/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in;""How did they know what was going on?" Alicia asked. "How did they learn that Logan was getting bullied?"/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in;""My honest opinion?" Cameron asked. "I've been playing with the notion that there is something working for the seekers in this school, which has been causing the recent influx of X-eggs. Now that this incident has happened, I think it's safe to say that this theory may be true."/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in;""Wouldn't we be able to see their character?" James asked./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in;""If the character hung around them, then this would be the case." Kennedy piped up. "I don't think their character has been around them while they are here. Perhaps they abandoned their character, or perhaps they are hiding them from us, because they already know. Whichever is the case, it's safe to say that they are a few steps ahead of us."/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in;""So what do we do?" Gentus asked./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in;""We pretend nothing happened." Cameron said. "It was just another normal day."/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in;""You can't be serious, your majesty!" Excalibur called out. "There is an evil-doer in this school and you want to pretend that everything is perfectly fine?"/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in;""Excalibur, we need to trust in his judgment." Angel told the little knight in a very soothing voice./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in;""We need to have a man hunt, not just sit around, waiting for them to do more damage!" Excalibur argued. "No wonder Katy and Bandit left y-"/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in;""You will not speak their names in this office!" Cameron yelled, a tie materializing on his dress shirt. "You will do as I command, or you will share the same fate as her, do you understand me?"/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in;""Prez, chill out." James said. "He's just being in his nature."/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in;""Mr. President," Clara spoke. "If there really are seekers in this school then they are watching and laughing as we drive ourselves apart."/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in;""Cameron, please calm down." Angelina soothed./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"Cameron took a deep breath, and grabbed his bag. "This meeting is over." Then with that, he left the room./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"There was an awkward silence in the air before anyone could speak. Angelina stood up and left the room as well, leaving Alicia, James, Clara, and myself./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in;""Well," Clara clicked her tongue. "I want to talk to Logan some more, so if you guys want to head home, you can, but I'll be here."/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in;""I think I'll stick around a little longer." Alicia quickly said. "I wanna know more about her too!"/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in;""Yeah…I guess I should hang out too." James sighed./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in;""Oh, Brandon, let's stay!" Gentus exclaimed. "We should get to know the young lady."/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in;""We might be able to find answers. I think we should stay as well." Teris agreed./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"The door opened before I could give an answer and Logan entered the room. "Where are the others?" She asked./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in;""They…had to leave." Clara told her. "We just wanted to ask you a few questions."/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in;""Um…okay…" Logan said nervously./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in;""So…how long have you been able to see characters?" Clara asked./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in;""A long time…" Logan admitted./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in;""You never thought to tell anyone you were seeing things?" James asked./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in;""Well, I didn't really know how to phrase it without sounding insane." Logan sighed. "I didn't think seeing little people and eggs in people was a normal thing for people to do."/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in;""Wait, what do you mean eggs?" Clara asked./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in;""Well...with focus, I can see eggs in people's chests." Logan seemed a little scared./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in;""You can see a person's heart egg..." I muttered./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in;""Yes, I think that how you put it..." Logan told me./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in;""So, then we can have you help us find other guardians." Clara said with an intelligent look in her eyes./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in;""I...don't think that works..." Logan butted in. "I mean...I can see an egg in Brandon's chest..."/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"Clara and James both looked at me, while Alicia didn't really seem to be paying that much attention./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in;""There's another egg?" James asked./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in;""Makes sense, in away." Clara noted. "I suppose, when you think about it, Brandon uses the wand a lot, he keeps a part of the keeper in him, it's probably the remains of the Keeper's will."/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in;""Speaking of the Keeper, mind telling about this whole, keeper business?" I asked. "I still feel like there is a lot I'm missing, and no one is giving me any answers."/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in;""Sorry, not happening." Clara told me. "Cameron's got it on lock down. The only people allowed to handle anything involving the old artifacts are me and him."/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in;""Guys, we're supposed to be focusing on Logan." James told us./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"So, we talked with Logan for a bit, doing all sorts of things with her, we didn't learn all that much. We learned that she grew up here, and that she hasn't really been anywhere outside of the country. She just got back to school not that long ago. It wasn't long until I went home and spent the night talking with Teris and Gentus, having a sort of reflection on everything going on. Something that I think was well needed./p
