Alright, I have posted the newest chapter. I am also upset to announce that there will no longer be the talks between me and the characters.

Apparently, I found out that it is a big turn-off for the readers. I want people to enjoy my stories, not get annoyed by them.

So, I hope that you enjoy.

Previously on 'The Guardian of Mu: Solo':

"Sentinel?" Luna asked.

"That was my former name in Wave form. It means 'guardian' or 'protector'" Solo answered with a sad look in his eyes.

Chapter 21:

"That's strange. I thought you called yourself 'Rogue'," Luna said.

"That is my new name. But before, I went by the name 'Sentinel' because I had people I wanted to protect," Solo explained.

"I see. Then what happened when you caught the guy?" Luna asked.

"Well, after I caught up with Doppelganger…"

(Flashback)

"Hah. Do you think that I'm afraid of you, boy?" Doppelganger mocked.

"You should be. Cause the thing is, even if it was a genjutsu by Ken, I still witnessed you murdering my friends. And for that..."Solo began explaining with rage evident in his eyes.

Sentinel took a stance as if he was charging his energy. Suddenly, Sentinel began releasing a tremendous aura that started causing the air to get charged with malice.

"FOR THAT I WILL NOT FORGIVE YOU!"

For the second time in his life, Doppelganger felt fear. However, his fear quickly dissipated as he went back to battle stance.

Sentinel charged at Doppelganger and threw an array of punches and kicks. Doppelganger barely managed to dodge each of them, but the last punch him squarely in the chest sending him flying back. However, Doppelganger suddenly began to glow in a yellow light and when the light faded; he had a familiar appearance of a certain green armored warrior. A warrior like…Galeblitz.

"That form…" Sentinel couldn't finish as Doppel-Galeblitz had instantly charged at him with the Static Sabers.

Sentinel dodged it by a hair he did a set of back flips to gain some distance between him and his opponent.

Doppel-Galeblitz began to laugh, "You didn't expect this, did you? But you should know what I can do. I can take on both the appearance and abilities of anyone that I have gathered the data on"

'Damn, I thought that his only focus was me, but he did Fon's as well' Sentinel though before another thought hit him, 'Wait! If he copied Fon's data, then that mean's he copied everyone else's data as well'

As if to answer Sentinel's thoughts, Doppelganger transformed again, this time taking the form of Flare. S/he raised the arm cannon and aimed it at Sentinel.

"Flare Shot" Doppel-Flare cried out as several balls of fire shot out and Sentinel didn't have time to dodge as the shots hit him and he fell of the Wave Road and plummeted to the ground.

Solo managed to quickly recover and landed on his feet. When he looked up, Doppelganger had transformed once more, this time as Sentinel himself. Doppel-Sentinel managed to send a powerful kick at Sentinel's face before Sentinel had time to react.

As Sentinel was sent flying back, Doppelganger transformed to Glacias, Umi's Wave form. She wore small blue armor, symbolizing the connection to water and ice. Her armor was designed to be flexible. She wore a small helmet to frame her face and allowed her hair to flow out. Her hair had turned from blue to silver. The sides of her helmet form the 'fringe' and a seashell motif forms the bangs. The helmet greatest use is inside the water, where it acts as a propeller. She also wielded a harpoon-like weapon, which she can alter its size.

Doppel-Glacias wielded the weapon and plunged it to the ground, freezing it. Sentinel became trapped inside the ice when he landed. Dooppelganger transformed into Lustrous. Doppel-Lustrous transformed the staff into a bow and aimed at the trapped Sentinel while pulling the energy string back.

"Sagittario Infinite Arrows"

The one arrow that was released and many more began to form around it, until a wave of energy arrows was charging at Sentinel.

At the impact of the arrows, an explosion came. As the smoke covered the area, a form rose from the area landed a distance back with a back flip. It was Sentinel.

'It's a good thing I used the EM Distortion and phased out of both the ice and the attack' Solo thought.

"I hope you didn't think that you would get out of there just like that, now did you?" a voice said behind Sentinel.

Sentinel turned and saw Doppelganger as Galeblitz once more. But it seemed that he was preparing another attack. That's when Sentinel noticed the small marble-sized balls with three spikes in the top around him on the ground.

"Static Discharge"

All the spike balls generated an electrical field around him and then exploded with electricity.

"AAAAARRRRGGGGGHHHH"

After the electricity ended, Sentinel was burnt to a crisp as smoke started to rise from him. Sentinel then collapsed to the ground. Doppel-Galeblitz watched as he knew that he won the battle.

"You see. You were never a match for me. With my ability to copy others, I am invincible" Doppel-Galeblitz stated.

He turned back into Doppelganger and was about to walk away when…

"Heh. Is that really all you've got? Cause if it is, then I am sadly disappointed" a voice mocked.

Doppelganger froze at the sound of the voice and slowly turned around. There was Sentinel, still injured, but smirking like nothing had happened.

"Bu-bu-but how? I had defeated you? So why are you still standing?" Doppelganger questioned.

"Simple. Because there is no way that I would be beaten by a phony who can't even scratch the surface of my friends' power" Sentinel stated.

Doppelganger was furious and transformed once as Glacias. Doppel-Glacias turned the ground into ice again, but Sentinel calmly phased through it and slowly walked towards the now furious, yet slightly scared, mimic.

"Just so you know. If that Static Discharge was actually Fon's, then I would've lost," Sentinel continued to mock his opponent, "And the ice stage that you created just now. It only stopped at my legs, while Umi's would've covered me entirely"

Doppelganger turned into Silence and engaged with Sentinel in a hand-to-hand combat. Although it seemed even at first, Doppel-Silence managed to find an opening in Sentinel's defenses and pressed his palm on Sentinel's chest, pushing said warrior back.

Sentinel's vision suddenly turned black and he realized that he was enveloped in Silence's Genjutsu.

"Hahaha. Looks like now you're the one in the illusion," Doppel-Silence laughed within the covers of darkness. He then threw multiple kunai and small shuriken at Sentinel. But to his shock, Sentinel easily dodged each of them.

"Hmph. Do you have any idea how many times Ken traps me in one of these illusions," Sentinel said, "I have been through so many that I can see right through them"

Sentinel jumps directly at where Doppel-Silence was and landed a punch at his face, breaking the darkness.

"However, if Ken really tried, I would be fooled. But you…it's a piece of cake" Sentinel stated as he was once more walking slowly towards the helpless copycat.

Doppelganger rose up and became Lustrous once more.

"Heaven's Chains"

Chains of light emitted from the crystal of Doppel-Lustrous' staff and confined Sentinel. But he was struggling inside the confinements.

"Hah! If this was really Mimiru's attack, then I wouldn't be even able to move," Sentinel said as the continued struggle began to cause the chains to start cracking, "And I most certainly wouldn't be able to break it AS WELL"

The last words came out as a yell as he shattered the chains in a burst of energy. Doppel-Lustrous just looked in disbelief at the boy-now-man in front of him.

"You may be able to copy our appearances and abilities. But you can never use the same amount of power as the original. And that is why you are pathetic"

At that statement, Doppelganger's fear turned to pure hatred. He turned into Sentinel and pulled the Guardian Sword out. He charged at Sentinel with the full intent to cut the warrior down. But as soon as the sword was swung, Sentinel caught the middle of the blade in his right hand. Doppel-Sentinel tried to no avail to move. Sentinel had an iron grip on the sword. One look in Sentinel's eyes made every fiber in Doppel-Sentinel's body want to scream in fear.

"You call this the Guardian Sword?" Sentinel said softly as he began to clutch the sword so hard that it began to break, "I would consider it an insult if I were to pull out my own Guardian Sword of for this piece of shit"

The ground began to quake as another powerful aura began to envelop Sentinel as the dark energy in his right hand began to flare up.

"BECAUSE THIS CAN NEVER EQUAL TO THE SAME STRENGTH AND WORTH AS THE ONE AND TRUE GUARDIAN SWORD"

And with that said, Sentinel shattered the sword with his bare hand. The force of the breaking caused Doppel-Sentinel to push back in surprise. Before he could even react, Sentinel grabbed his right shoulder with his left hand and punched him with the other. Then with his left hand, he let loose another punch. Sentinel slightly crouched and threw another right hook before crouching down again to let loose a back flip kick. The force of the combo sent him flying towards the wall and return to Doppelganger.

Sentinel didn't stop there as he punched the ground and let a shockwave loose at the defenseless copycat. The force of the impact left Doppelganger standing for a second after the smoke slightly cleared. He fell down defeated. But Sentinel didn't stop. He charged his right fist with energy and jumped up until he was right above Doppelganger's body.

"Flying Knuckle"

Although Sentinel cried out the attack, he didn't let loose the attack until he was at point-blank range of Doppelganger. The force of the charged punch, along with the hundreds that followed after, left a crater in the ground and Doppelganger was out of wave form, but entirely crippled. There were fist marks all over his body. But he was still breathing…if only barely.

Sentinel then left to go find his friends when he saw the guards come to arrest Doppelganger.

(Back to Present)

"You didn't need to go that far did you?" Luna asked. The shock evident in her voice from hearing about Solo's brutal beat down of Doppelganger.

"I was exerting my anger and hatred though that. He had attacked me, impersonated me, made me witness the murder, though false, of my friends, and then used my friends' abilities against me" Solo retorted.

"…I guess that's reasonable" Luna said softly, "So what happened afterwards?"

"Doppelganger and his two lackeys were arrested and were being interrogated for information. But that didn't involve us, so I and my friends simply hung out"

"But…after a few days…"

(Flashback)

Solo was sitting together with Mimiru watching Ken and Umi having a sparring match in their wave forms. Despite Ken having the upper hand, Umi was holding her ground. After a few minutes, the timer went off, signaling the end of the match and since neither was down it ended in a draw.

Ken and Umi shook hands for the good battle. It was time for the next match to start when…

"Guys, can I have a moment of you time?" Fon asked out of the blue. He was standing on the other side of the room with Siko. While Ken and Umi were having their battle, Fon and Siko seemed to be having a serious discussion.

The others stopped what they were about to do and went to Fon.

"What's up, Fon?"

"Is something the matter?"

Questions of this manner were asked when they noticed the look that Siko had. They couldn't tell if it was a good or bad expression. It was just…indifferent.

Fon slowly drew breath as if the next words that were going to come out of his mouth would be his last.

"I don't know how to tell you this, but it must be said" Fon started. Siko looked down, as if she was afraid to look at the others. The others were starting to get worried now.

"You see, the truth is…it has been over a year since my ceremony of age. And with that… my family have finally decided…on a suitable mate for engagement"

And with the final words spoken, the room entered an eerie silence.

(Present)

"E-E-E-EN-EN-ENGAGEMENT? You m-mean l-l-like ma-ma-marriage?" Luna stuttered out, blushing like mad.

"Yes. Fon had been engaged to get married" Solo answered.

"But, how? I mean, they were too young," Luna wondered.

"No we weren't," Solo stated as a matter-of-fact, "When we reach the age of 13, it would be imperative that we find a suitable mate. Then after a year in marriage, you must then work to conceive an heir for the next in line for the role of Tribe leader"

The explanations of both the marriage and the child-bearing were too much for poor Luna to take. She simply collapsed on the grass. Solo either didn't notice or didn't care about Luna's current state and continued his explanation.

"…but you have to conceive an heir by the time you are 16. It's never happened before, but apparently the consequences of not fulfilling the task are grave," Solo finished.

Luna got back up after a few minutes of resting.

"Okay…but other than that, it seems that Fon didn't want to get married yet" Luna said.

"Well…yes and no. Fon would accept the marriage, but that fact is he didn't want to get married to someone he didn't love" Solo stated.

"So he was against the arranged marriage" Luna started to catch on.

"Before, Fon would've happily agreed to an arranged marriage…but then…"

Luna didn't say anything.

"…Fon changed…when he fell in love…in love with Siko…"

There was a long pause at the revelation. Luna sort of figured in the back of her head that that might have been the case. But now she was sure. After a while, Luna decided to break the silence.

"So…there was no way for Fon to…you know…marry Siko?" Luna asked steadily.

"Impossible," Solo answered bluntly, "It was forbidden for the heir to the Tribe to marry the heir of another Tribe. They had to be married to another high-class family member. There were rare cases of where a lower class family member could marry the next heir, but that was it"

Luna took a moment to register the new information in her mind. The whole thing started feel so sad on this beautiful day.

Solo decided to break the silence and finish the story here.

"Afterwards, we talked a little about the engagement, but after that, we all decided to end the day there," Solo said as he stood up.

Luna also started to get up and looked at the time and saw that it was now 5:37 PM on her Star Carrier.

Luna was thinking about going back home when Solo asked something that he would later regret.

"Don't you have your friend's birthday celebration to go for tomorrow night? So you have something to wear there, right?"

Those questions. As soon as they were spoken, all hell broke loose for Luna.

"AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!"

The shriek that Luna had unleashed put any banshee in their place as all of Echo Ridge were now wondering what was going on. The Satella Police were even going around trying to find the source of the scream as they fear that someone could be in danger.

Luna turned back to Solo. Solo was quite shocked from the volume of the scream as his ears were slightly ringing. The mark on his face was already absorbing the EM Waves around them to heal the damaged cells in his ears.

"WHY DIDN'T YOU MENTION SOMETHING BEFORE? NOW I HAVE TO GO BACK AND TRY TO FIND A DRESS? OH MY GOD," Luna yelled.

Luna grabbed Solo's hand and went back to the mall to get the much-needed shopping done. Solo was once more going through the horrors of shopping. He was literally being dragged to and through every story and being forced to carry each and every one of her bags. Luckily, he was stronger than the average human adult, so it wasn't a big deal. As he was going through the intense shopping spree, his mind went back to the memory after the engagement was announced and the day ended. Or what he said to have ended…

(Flashback)

Fon had left the group after the talk of the engagement ended. Siko left soon after. Ken and Umi looked as if they also had some thinking to do, so they left. Now Solo and Mimiru were the only ones left in the room.

"…Can you believe it? Fon is getting married. Siko must be devastated" Solo said.

Mimiru nodded, "I knew that it would happen, but I never really put so much thought into it. And now…"

"…it happened," Solo finished for Mimiru, "All of us knew about those two, but we didn't say anything, because we wanted them to cherish every moment they had together…but now I'm wondering if not trying to stop it was the right thing to do?"

Mimiru turned around and looked at Solo as if he grew a second head.

"Solo, how could you say that? Fon and Siko loved each other, and still do. So how could you say that?"

"Well what's the point in loving someone if you're simply destined to be apart?" the moment that these words left his lips, Solo instantly regretted them. The look of hurt was clear in Mimiru's eyes and it looked like she was going to cry, but holding the tears back. Solo's emotions were raging inside, seeking escape, but he held them down.

Mimiru closed her eyes and smiled sadly, "You're right. What is the point of falling in love with someone you are destined to be separated from?"

Solo somehow got the feeling that Mimiru wasn't talking about Fon and Siko anymore.

"After all, the rest of us are also going to be engaged to someone eventually. No point in thinking something as trivial as 'love', right?"

Mimiru slowly turned and was going to leave. But, as Mimiru was heading towards the door, Solo caught sight of a tear rolling down her cheek.

That did it.

Solo could no longer hold it in.

The emotions just burst through.

A single tear was enough to break through his emotions' defenses.

Solo rushed to Mimiru, turned her around, pressed her to the wall…and claimed her lips with his own. Mimiru didn't hesitate to kiss him back. Solo had his hands gripping Mimiru's hips while she wrapped her arms around Solo's neck in an effort to deepen the kiss.

They didn't know how long the kiss lasted. To them it seemed to have lasted forever. However, the need for oxygen became apparent as they broke the kiss and were panting. Mimiru's cheeks were flushed.

"I'm sorry, Mimiru," Solo apologized, his crimson eyes met sapphire blue.

"Why are you apologizing?" she asked confused.

"All this time…I always held this feeling in. My feelings for you…I held them in because…I was scared. I am destined to be trapped inside the Guardian Sword and be separated from my family, my friends, and from you"

More tears started to spill from Mimiru's eyes as she clutched Solo as hard as she could, fearing that he'll disappear if she let him go.

"I know that. I knew that the sword would take you away from me. But still…my heart yearned to be with you. I wanted to stop. I wanted to stop having these feelings for you, but I couldn't. It was impossible. My feelings for you still existed"

After a while, Mimiru started to calm down and Solo slowly stepped back but still kept a hold of Mimiru.

"Mimiru, even after the conflict passes. Even after I become trapped within the Guardian Sword. My feelings for you still won't change"

At this, Solo stared deep into Mimiru's eyes, and moved his face so close, until it was merely an inch away from hers.

"Mimiru…I love you"

More tears left Mimiru's eyes, but they were of happiness. Happiness of finally hearing the very words her heart had yearned to hear.

"And I love you…Solo," Mimiru proclaimed before kissing him once more.

Solo never felt so happy in his life. The feeling of the person he loved most, to love him back, is far stronger than the feeling of having friends or his father telling him that he made him proud.

There are no true words to describe the feeling that both Solo and Mimiru feel right now.

An hour later, Solo and Mimiru were walking back home. Mimiru had broken the conversation to say something that has been on her mind.

"Solo…I've been thinking"

"Yes"

"Next year, we will also get engaged to people we don't know"

"Yeah," Solo looked sad.

"But, I've decided. Even if we do get married, let's promise to never forget each other"

"Mimiru…I wish that we could still be with each other even after our marriage"

"We can't. It's forbidden for us to already marry each other, let alone have an affair"

"Yeah. Even after all this, please don't ever forget"

"Of course I won't forget. I will always love you. Now and forever"

"And I will love you forever"

After that, Mimiru decided to talk about the incident from a few days ago.

"By the way, Solo. I fear that the events with Doppelganger is just the tip of a grander scheme"

"I had the same feeling as well"

"I have been having visions. One of the visions was of the past that I had seen last night"

That brought his interests up.

"What were they about?"

"I saw the past of when our god, Le Mu, used his powers to create the first EM being of Mu. That EM being rebelled against Le Mu and he was forced to seal the being away"

"Wait, by the first EM being of Mu, do you mean…?"

"Yes, the EM being…Laplace"

Laplace, the very first EM being to have been created by Le Mu. It held half of Le Mu's full power. However, legends say that Laplace went berserk and betrayed the people of Mu as it attacked both the people and Le Mu himself. However, creations of Mu cannot be destroyed by Mu, they can only be sealed. So Le Mu had sealed away Laplace. Even now, it is said that Laplace remains dormant in the deepest, darkest, chamber, of their continent.

"Laplace…what about it?"

"In the visions, we are always the observers, never actually a part of the time, but it was different. Laplace actually faced me and looked at me as if he knew of my presence"

This shocked Solo.

"But…how?"

"I don't know. But then he started acting like I wasn't there. As he passed through me, he spoke directly to my mind. And it sounded like a prophecy"

"What did he say?"

Mimiru began to repeat the prophecy Laplace told her:

"Though he may be the one that created me,

I see things of him that he truly be.

From the depths of despair will you know,

That you foolishly threw your hopes away to flow.

Soon the day shall come that Mu will pay the cost,

And then, all shall be lost"

"What does Laplace mean?" Solo asked.

"I don't know for sure. But I believe that it has something to do with our god, Le Mu. It sounds like Laplace was saying that he knows what Le Mu truly is. But that's what confuses me. Le Mu is our god. He protects us and helps us fight the darkness of the world. Without him, our civilization would collapse" Mimiru explained.

"I'm more worried about the last part where he said, 'all shall be lost', aren't you?" Solo grew worried.

"Yes. We have to be ready, Solo. Because the conflict is almost upon us" Mimiru sated gravely.

"But, your mother said that the conflict wouldn't be for much longer than now" Solo said surprised.

"Yes, but I think that the 'dark storm' that she had foreseen is approaching faster than she thought" Mimiru said.

"We have to warn the others. No, not just our friends, the Tribes themselves" Solo said placing his hands on Mimiru's shoulders.

"Alright. I'll discuss this with my mother when I see her tonight" Mimiru said as they both now reached the cross point where they must spit up to get home.

As goodbyes were said, one more kiss was shared before parting ways.

(Present)

That night was one of his happier memories. But Solo now felt nothing but bitterness from it now.

The feeling of your love requiting your feelings has no true words, but the opposite holds true as well.

As Solo was going through the mall being dragged by a shopping crazy Luna, Solo began to remember much of his past.

"Everything really happened the year after. It was then that everything began, ended, and sealed…"

The Chapter has been completed.

How did you enjoy the kiss? First time writing that.

LAPLACE! Oh my god, I didn't even see that one coming.

I just typed and I just found it. WOW!

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