Daughter of the Heart
Lillian couldn't sleep that night.
When she'd came home and during dinner she was very quiet and her parents wondered what was wrong but she assured them she was fine but not really. She was still thinking about what had happened in Meridian and had nearly saved Cornelia if it hadn't been for Frost.
Napeleon noticed his owner's sadness.
"Don't worry you'll see her and you'll be together soon.
The Guardians of the Veil saved Meridian once and they can do it again with your help. With your Heart of Earth and Will and Maya's Hearts of Candracar, you can stop Phobos again but you just have to believe in yourself." the black cat told her.
Lillian nodded but was scared.
She was onlt twelve but wasn't sure about helping the Guardians of the Veil. She shivered remembering being in that cold , sad dungeon with Meridians suffering by the passing day.
"I want to help..... but I'm not sure if I'm brave enough to.
Being in Meridian sort of scared me especially in that dungeon." she thought as tears fell from her eyes as she fell asleep.
Will sighed as she saw Maya asleep. She seemed at peace for somebody who was a Guardian of the Veil because she hadn't gotten much sleep but she'd been to Candracar a few hours ago. The Oracle had told her there was a way to defeat Phobos by both the Hearts of Earth and Candracar along with the united front of the Guardians of the Veil but the Oracle had seemed worried.
But when she'd asked, he wouldn't tell her.
It had something to do with Sukai.......
Will saw worry in the Oracle's eyes as he looked into her hazel ones with fear and sadness. There was something wrong and he was hiding it. He sighed deciding there was no point keeping it a secret any longer.
"Will..... Sukai is my daughter.
She was born by my wife who was an astral drop that I made into a living, thinking being just like Nerissa made your astral drop real once. But a few days after Sukai was born, Cedric broke out. He wanted Candracar for Phobos and himself. When my wife and I refused, Cedric took Sukai and brought her to Earth where she grew up among humans never knowing her true home." The Oracle told the former Keeper of the Heart.
"But..... why tell me this?" Will asked him confused.
"Because there are six Guardians of the Veil but the in the prophecy, in the part I never told you and the others is that you of the new Guardians would become the Dark Guardian through Phobos and serve him.
I believe that Sukai is the Dark Guardian.
But she can be saved by Maya." he told her.
Will understood now why the Dark Guardian had held back when she and Maya had fought her.
"You must go both the new and old Guardians of the Veil need you.
May the strength of Candrac ar help you." the Oracle told her as she left.....
After she'd returned from Candracar, she had decided to keep the information about Sukai a secret..... for now but eventually the others would know especially Maya.
But Sukai was confused as she was in class at Sheffield Institute. She wanted to be the Dark Guardian and please Phobos but her heart didn't like it and had been trying to remind her of Candracar especially when she was asleep but she was also tired from carrying out misdeeds in Meridian but as she walked home, a portal opened and a voice beckoned her.
"Come home Sukai honey.
You don't belong with Phobos." it told her.
Sukai was curious because that was what she was thinking in her heart but was too afraid. She then went through it and it brought her to a forest where the aura was peaceful and a crystal like lake with rainbow tinged ripples.
"Hello Sukai." a voice said as the girl turned around and saw somebody. It was a woman with the same blue hair as hers and warmth was in her turquise eyes as she smiled at her.
"Who're you?
I...... feel like I know you from somewhere but where?" Sukai said as the woman laughed gently.
"I'm your mother Oria.
Don't you remember?
I would sing to you when you were a baby until..... Cedric took you away and hid you among humans where your father and I couldn't find you. We searched for eons after that day." the woman said but Sukai felt fear in her. Cedric, Phobo's right hand man had stolen her when she was a baby.
"B-But Phobos told me......." she answered.
"Yes I heard what that evil monster told you so he could make you his Dark Guardian but he's lying to you. The Oracle of Candracar is your father and he loves you deeply, his heart hurts from yeaning to find you.
I know you are not meant for evil and you know it too.
You must destroy the darkness and embrace the light withing you." Oria told her as Sukai closed her eyes. Inside she could feel the darkness trying to overtake her but she wasn't listening to it.
Suddenly another power was growing inside of her as the darkness was being destroyed by light. Suddenly light surrounded the young girl's body and when she opened her eyes, she wasn't in her Dark Guardian form but her Guardian of the Veil form.
She smiled broadly along with her mother.
"I knew you would be able to destroy the darkness and free your true power.
You are Sukai, the Light of Candracar." she told her as she left the forest.......
She would help the Guardians of the Veil destroy Phobos once and for all.....