As Cree predicted, it didn't take long for his Guardian to arrive. Cree and Vixx had just settled up on her terrace, catching up together while Wayzz sat close to them, making sure the two mischief gods didn't dive into any trouble when a new kwami popped into their room. Something akin to a little, golden brown bear with honey colored eyes and a fluffy cream colored color around her neck, and a pair of whisker like antennas above her eyes. She didn't greet the room, instead glared around it, grimacing.

"Ursaa!" Tikki greeted, zipping to the bear.

The grimace disappeared and was replaced with a warm smile as the bear reached up and hugged the ladybug god. "Tikki, sweet honey bug! How have you been?"

"You couldn't have come sooner Ursaa?" Beea asked, floating over to greet the bear god.

Ursaa turned to the bee with a laugh, "Hello to you too Beea. Still as proud as ever?"

Beea hummed her confirmation.

Juuno zipped up to fetch Cree, Marinette drew near to welcome the bear. Ursaa turned to her curiously, tilting her head as she looked over the human. "You're not a Guardian."

"She's more of a caretaker for now," Nooroo voiced, seating himself on Marinette's head, smiling.

Ursaa gasped, floating up to the butterfly kwami. "Nooroo! Look at you! You got such a shine in your eyes!"

The butterfly giggled happily wings fluttering as he charged the bear in a happy hug. Ursaa twisted him about, the extensions on his wings trailing behind him in that spin. There was a groan from above. Ursaa stopped and glared up to see Cree peering down at them in a bored slump. "I think I'll wait till your done," Cree declared, turning to float back up to the terrace.

"Oh no you don't!" Ursaa called out, baring her teeth. "You get your fuzzy butt down here, Cree! You are in so much trouble! We were all in a panic to find you had disappeared! We were expecting chaos!"

"This building is still standing, isn't it?"

Juuno puffed up, tail fanning behind him. "If you do anything..."

Cree sighed, floating down to sit beside Vixx. "The life of a chaotic god is a hard one."

"It is," she agreed with an echoing sigh. "You always get the blame if something goes bad."

There was a hissy giggles from the trapdoor, and everyone turned to see a little cobra kwami float up, amber shining. With a toothy smile, the little kwami bid, "That'ss becausse, ussually, it'ss your fault." Turning to Marinette, she bowed to her. "I apologissse to any disssturbance Cree has caussed."

"The kwamis made sure he wasn't any trouble," she reassured, gently scooping up the cobra based kwami. "You must be Naagaa?"

The kwami beamed. "I am. And it'ss quite a pleasure to meet a human that will sstep in as Guardian. Mosst would try to take advantage of the fortunate godss power." Naagaa floated up, peering at Marinette with a broad smile. Nodding to herself, the little snake bid, "Wissely chossen."

Beea drew near, bowing to Naagaa. "If you wish to see Wayzz, he's up on the terrace.

Marinette peered after her, then turned to watch Ursaa squabble with Cree, who was ignoring the bear and tying to steal Vixx's food. The little fox looked torn between amused and annoyed. To Beea, Marinette asked, "These are war kwamis?"

"They are," Beea confirmed.

"They don't really seem..."

"Well, there are many aspects to war. Just as we were born to echo a nature, they too were born to echo a nature. Cree echoes the chaos of war, Ursaa the determination to protect, Naagaa is the grim neutrality, sometimes what needs to be done, Nimbll is reluctance, Jaaw touchy frustration and aggression, Luun is following orders and being a leader, and Wiido," Beea flinches a little, drifting closer to Marinette, "Wiido would be the coldness of war."

Humming, she glanced back to her trapdoor. "I'm guessing we have more on the way then... where are the rest?"

No sooner did she ask, a little shark kwami popped up, looking around the room with her curious black eyes. They sharply settled on Marinette, and narrowed. Blinking at her awkwardly, Marinette cautiously greeted, "Hi?"

Who she assumed to be Jaaw zipped up to her, clacking her teeth. "You're not a Guardian! Why do you have all these gods in your room?"

"Brash as ever I see," Beea huffs.

Turning to the bee, the little shark beamed. "Beea!" she cried, charging her.

Beea quickly ducked out of the way, letting the shark kwami zip right into a wall. Withdrawing with a big shake of her head, she turned and blinked at a very stiffly seated Plagg. "Oh no," the cat uttered.

"Plagg!" Jaaw cried, charging at him. With a yowl, Plagg fled away, trying to avoid the giggly shark.

Staring after her skeptically, Marinette turned to Beea, brow raised. "That was a bit rude, Beea."

Beea puffed out her chest. "I was only being cautious. Whenever Jaaw gets excited, she get nippy. And she has no self control when she gets nippy. One time she accidentally bit of the tip of Juuno's tail. He threw the biggest, most depressed tantrum I've ever seen. It took Vixx nearly half a month to perk him up. He's actually still quite terrified of her-"

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH!"

Everyone jumped, seeing a blue blur duck to the terrace above.

Cree cackled after his brother, while Vixx giggled.

Jaw turned her dark gaze down to Cree, face twisting up into an angry scowl. "Cree! You stupid bird! You had us all scrambling!" Jaaw dove down at the crow, who squeaked and fled. Vixx rolled back, just in time to let the charging shark zip past her.

Now she can have her snack in peace.

Well, Marinette reasoned as she watched the spur of kwamis darting about, this was quite a crowd.

So, who was left?

There was a knock below.

That must be the Guardian below.

Beea waved her to go get the door, before zipping off to cautiously help control Jaaw.

Coming down, Marinette gulped a little bit, nervous.

This was going to be the first official Guardian of kwamis that she was going to meet.

With how surprised all were to see that she wasn't a true Guardian, it made her wonder what this Guardian would say. She stopped at the door, hand resting on the handle.

...What if the Guardian took her kwamis?

She shook her head, pushing that unease away.

The Guardian had enough on their plate. Would they really take seven more gods? Especially if said gods didn't want to leave?

Feeling more grounded, she turned the handle, opening the door.

She met Adrien's baffled gaze first, then looked to the person next to him.

A towering, silver eyed blond that was staring down at Adrien with a slight grimace. Then he turned to her, looking even more skeptical. Clearing his throat awkawrdly, he said, "Hello, I think I have some... pets who sunk in?"

Before Marinette could answer, Tikki called out, "Welcome young Guardian!" She flew up beside Marinette, flashing the tall youth a broad smile.

The boy blinked at the ladybug god in surprise.

"These two know," she reassured, paws clasped together as she bowed to him.

"Wha?" a voice sounded from the bag the boy had. The boy instinctively flinched. A tawny wolf kwami with a white underbelly darted out with a big toothy smile, and bright orange eyes that settled on her. Then Adrien. "You guys are really shaking things up this year."

"Luun," the boy sighed tiredly.

Tikki giggled. "It's good to see you Luun."

"Sweets," the wolf returned, turning to Marinette, curiously tapping his paw to his chin. "And I guess caretaker?"

"Um," Marinette shrugged.

"Everyone's hanging out upstairs," Tikki cut in, waving to the stairwell.

"Ah, thank you. There's a crow I need to grab," the blond said, turning his silver gaze to Marinette. She jerked back, letting him slip in. He set his bag down on a near couch and opened the flap. Then he went up to her room, no doubt to grab Cree. Luun went after him, tail wagging.

Int he bag, two heads peeked out.

A brown rat kwami with big, nervous black eyes, and another bug type, red with a black fur around her shoulders, and eight bright blue eyes, and a four spiked tail fin similar to Tikki's.

The two turned to Marinette and Adrien. The rat kwami squeaked in fear and ducked back down in the bag. The red kwami blinked down at him, then floated up and bowed to them. Tikki shuffled nervously and greeted, "Hello Wiido."

Wiido nodded, then floated up towards her room.

Tikki darted to the bag, trying to coax out Nimbll; Adrien came to Marinette's side, brow raised high. "So," he started, "what's been going on?"


Sorry to those that were hopeful that Jagged Stone was the Guardian of the war gods! I wanted a Felix cameo more.