The Guardians
Written by:
Starlight
Disclaimer: Well you should all know what is mine and not mine by now and also what my rules are on what IS mine so I should not have to remind you. If you must be reminded that just go read the last couple of chapters.
Chapter 9: Land of the Fire Unicorns
Two days. That's how long it took us to get to the Land of the Fire Unicorns. Two long days of traveling on foot, flying, or riding. We traveled during the night and day not stop. Well, we only stopping for water, food, and rest. That is how long it took what was left of the many armies combined. Fortunately the casualties weren't as high as we thought that they would be. Only a few hundred out of the many thousands were ether dead or still lying in sick beds.
We had reached the Fire Unicorn's castle on second night, where to mine and the others of my groups surprise, was Fireheart's and his brother's castle. When we reached it the chancellor and the king's advisers came running out of the castle to us and up to Fireheart, his brother SpiritFire, and Starlight.
The first to say anything was the chancellor. He was almost out of breath when he said, "Your highness, they have reached the borders and are still proceeding. They will reach the main plains sometime late during the day tomorrow. What should we do?"
"So what do you think we should do brother? Father is at the main castle and you are the main general." SpiritFire said this to his brother who was deep in thought.
"Well I'm not sure but I believe that we should wait at the plain for them but we would get there at midnight. Prince Vegeta would you please come here." Fireheart called out to Vegeta who then jumped off his mount and walked over to were Fireheart stood.
"What is it you need boyo?" Vegeta said to Fireheart as he moved his head to face Vegeta better since he was in his true form.
"I would like to ask you something. You were once a great general and I would like it very much if you would become my second in command and Help me out with this battle."
Vegeta seemed to shift his position as he was thinking of his response to Fireheart's question. After a little while of thinking he finally gave his response to Fireheart, "I would first start off by advising you, as your second in command, to go a head and go to the main plains and rest there and wait for them to arrive."
"Ok then it is final. You all heard him lets get going. Oh and Vegeta hop on. I think it would be better that you ride on my back so we can communicate a little more easily." Fireheart said as every one began moving and off we went.
We arrived at the main plains just like Fireheart had said we would. It was very dark and we were all tired. Bulma, Videl and Chichi didn't come with us because this was going to be a bad battle and Goku, Gohan, and Vegeta didn't want them to get hurt.
We then all settled down and rested as much as we could. I decided to go and sit by Starlight were they were preparing a fire. I looked around to see what my surroundings were as I was sitting down. In the far distance you could see the very edge forest in the distance. If I was right, I believed that if you went to the top of the hill that we had just came over you would be able to see the top of the Fire Unicorn's castle.
"The scenery is beautiful isn't it. I always liked coming here and visiting Fireheart when I was younger."
I jumped with a start because I was so captivated by the land's beauty that I was startled when Starlight talked to me. I then answered her, "Yes it is very beautiful here. I hate the idea of us having to go to battle on such a beautiful place."
"You know that each breed of unicorn and pegasus have a story behind there origins? And were they live has something to do with there origins?"
I looked at here with wonder. I really wanted to know about these stories. So I decided to ask her to tell me.
"Do you think you could tell me these stories? I would really like to know more of you history."
For some odd reason she started laughing hole heatedly and finally said when she calmed down, "I just knew that you were going to ask me that. Very well, I will tell you as long as you spar with me. I want to see how far a long you have gotten since the last battle. I wont push you too hard since we do need to rest up for later to day."
We then both got into our positions. She said we were aloud to use any type of attack, including magic. But the only problem to that was we could not use our elements. We were to save those for latter on that day since it took more energy to use them. As soon as we began she started telling me their history.
"It is said that on earth all unicorns and pegasi came from the earth it self. Fire Unicorns and Fire Pegasi come out of the fiery pits of the earth forming volcanoes that formed islands in the ocean. The Water Unicorns and Pegasi came out of the oceans forming rivers and lakes as they traveled over the land. The Forest Unicorns and Pegasi came from the forest trees and flowers. The Wind Unicorns and Pegasi were made of the clouds of the ski. And the Ice Unicorns and Pegasi the came from the snow itself that fell in the mountains."
She had to pause in her story to shield against one of my witch lightning attacks and she then countered it with one of her own fire magic attacks. I blocked her fire attack with and ice shield that I had learned the other day. We then went back to hand combat.
"There is also two other races of Unicorns and Pegasi that is very rare. The Moon Unicorns and Pegasus are said to come from the rays of the moon that hit the earth's surface. They say that they are the oldest and wisest. Also the Earth Unicorns and Pegasi that came from the ground and formed mountains."
She paused again to use one of her magic attack that I countered with one of my ki attacks. Then she began again as she caught me off guard by punching me in the stomach and then kicking my feet right out from under me.
"That is how the unicorns and pegasi were created. Unicorn-pegasus, also known as an alicorns, where created when unicorns and pegasi bred together. As you already know how we got here and why and the great battle that created the Guardians but what is it you would like to know further about?"
I had posed for a second and Starlight tool advantage of my mistake. She went down to the ground and swept my feet out from underneath me. And then stood in front of me and reached out a helping hand to lift me up.
"I think we should rest for now and save our strength for the battle. Who knows what tricks they will pull," she said while helping me get up off the ground.
"I would like to know how this all started. I don't know even exactly why you are here doing this. Or what the big deal is about MoonShadow."
Starlight paused right before she sat down were we were before in front of the fire. Then she began, as she was sitting down, "Well it all started several hundred years ago. Maybe even, a couple of thousand years ago. I guess you could say the planet was still fairly young.
"Here on this land lived two brothers and their sick father. The father was the king of the Fire Unicorns of the Kingdom of the Plains. That is what this land is really called. The eldest brother was to become king. The youngest was jealous and tried to kill the king and his brother. Luckily he did not succeed and was banished to the shadow lands were the demons lived. Before he left he vowed that he would one-day return and destroy the kingdom. He learned dark magic from the demons. Many years later he did return."
Starlight's voice was so full of sorrow. She had to pause for a second as if to re-gather herself up to tell the rest of the story. From the corner of her eye I could see a tear role down her cheek and right as it dropped it crystallized and hit the ground and shattered into sparks of magic and disappeared. I was totally shocked. And then she began to tell the story again.
"It is said that when ever you think about Guardians who have died horrible deaths that if you shed a tear it will crystallize and disappear into magic as a memory of there bravery."
She had paused again and looked at me with a smile. And then she said apologetically, "Sorry that I got off of the story a bit. I will continue now."
"When the brother returned he caused a war that ended up involving the entire world. If the demons won then the whole universe would be in great peril. The people of Utopia were beginning to loose. The ancient spirits were beginning to fear that they would loose. They came up with a desperate plan to save the universe. They decided to make a being that would hold great power and use it to protect the universe. It took them about two years to gather every thing that they needed and created two beings. They decided that they would be of the unicorn and pegasi races since they hold more magic than the other races. They would also be one male and one female. The female, being the more powerful one, because she is the giver of life. And the male because he is the protector, for the female might be more powerful but her mind is more vulnerable to attacks. There would be only as many of them that was needed at the time due to their great power. The ancient spirits had created the first Guardians."
As she took a breath I thought of all that she had just told me. I was wondering who were the first Guardians and who was the evil brother. Starlight then pulled me out of my thoughts as she began with the story again.
"It took the Guardians a little over three years before they destroyed the brother. They then looked his spirit in his own journal. The only way he would ever be set free is if someone with a good heart read it. The two Guardians died after they finally defeated him. They died do to the pain that they felt from the land that was badly destroyed. Before they died they cried tears that then crystallized as they fell from their eyes and turned to magic. A waterfall formed where they died. No river led to or from the waterfall. It is full of sacred water and is called the Crystal Falls."
I couldn't stand it any more. I had to ask her who the brother and the guardians were. I needed to know so I than asked her. "Starlight, but who were the first Guardians and who was the evil brother? I remember you started to tell us the story before but it seemed to affect Fireheart. The brother is MoonShadow isn't it?"
Starlight looked at me with a big smile. "I was wondering when you would ask. You are right about the brother. The two Guardians names were Starfire and Wildfire. They had both turned twenty one not too long before they died."
At that time I also remembered about how Fireheart was edgy about the mentioning of MoonShadow. It was another question that I just had to know. "I have another thing that I must ask you. Why does Fireheart hate hearing MoonShadow's name?"
"Well I guess you could say that it is another story but I will tell you any ways. DarkMoon was once Fireheart's and my great friend. We always did every thing together. I met them when I was six. At first they tried to get rid of me and then they excepted me. Well when I was seventeen DarkMoon went journeying through Fireheart's castle. He is also a Fire Unicorn but a very rare type. He has a black body instead of it being white. He was also a first general with Fireheart. Well when he went journeying through the castle he stumbled upon a very old library. In that library he found a very old dusty journal. DarkMoon took it to his room and read it. Unfortunately it was the journal that held MoonShadow."
"Let me guess, he got possessed by him didn't he? And you both don't want to hurt your friend even though you have to. That must really suck."
"Believe me it does. There is a way that we could get the spirit out of him but it is very dangerous and we are both afraid that we might accidentally hurt or, even worse, destroy his spirit. Also it is not easy considering he found the amulet of evil. Well we better go to bed for now. We really do need rest. Who knows what will happen to us tomorrow."
We both then laid down by the fire. But before I had dosed off I though of another question that I wanted to ask Starlight. "Starlight, how old are you, Fireheart, and DarkMoon? You don't look any older than me."
"Well I am nineteen, Fireheart is twenty-one and so is DarkMoon."
Starlight then dosed off. I stayed a wake a little longer thinking of all the information that I had just soaked in. I really felt sorry for Starlight and Fireheart. I could only imagine how hard their lives really were. I was really glad that I didn't live in their shoes.
After a little while I finally fell a sleep. All though I only got a few hours of sleep I still felt really refreshed when I woke up. I could tell that the sun had only been up for about an hour so I was guessing that it was probably about six thirty or so. I looked around a bit and saw every one from my world and the generals of all the little armies that were with us gathered around the freshly made fire eating breakfast. I also saw Vegeta talking to Fireheart about the battle that was going to come soon. After the last battle I was not excited about this next one. I then saw my grandfather coming over to me with an extra plate of food in hand to give me. It was awfully a little amount compared to what we saiyans usually ate.
I then looked up at him as he sat down beside me and handed me the food. I then asked him, "Why so little food? This is barely enough food for a human."
Goku just looked at me for a second and then gave the Son trademark smile. He then said, as if it was commonly known, "It is some special food that they have here. It is supposed to give us more energy and is also used for healing. Little is needed because it fills you up very easily. Well at least that is what Starlight says. She also told me this fruit," he pointed at what was on our plates that seemed to look like a peach except it was larger and had no pits, "is like what senzu beans are to us. Unfortunately senzu beans don't work for them."
I just kind of stared at my grandfather in total shock. It was rare time to actually hear something so intelligent come out of his mouth and he acted like it was just nothing.
After I got over my shock I took a bite out of the odd looking fruit that my grandfather had given me. I was amazed by the shocking sweet taste that I received with my first bite. And the after taste was very sweet too. I had never in my life tasted anything like it. But it wasn't too sweet were you could get sick from it like when you ate too much chocolate. Although it was as addicting as chocolate.
I must have had been making a funny face of some sort for right after I had taken my first bite I could hear my grandfather laughing hole heartedly. I looked at him as to as 'what's so funny' which he then answered my question still chuckling.
"Very shocking isn't it? That's what I thought too when I first tried it. Oh man, you should have seen Vegeta's face. He practically jumped right out of his seat when he first took his bite. But it is very good though. Go a head and finish it. We're going to need all the strength that we can get."
I then finished my wonderful treat. That was almost as great as my grandmother Chichi's food. I had kind of missed eating the large quantities thought. When it was all eaten our plates just seemed to magically disappear. Well actually I knew that it was magic. Then Fireheart and Starlight came to sit beside us. Goku then left and Trunks took his seat right next to me. I was quite shocked to see them all come over at the same time.
"So how was breakfast? I hope you enjoyed it. That was a very special fruit that we usually only use for energy and healing," Starlight said to both Trunks and me.
"It was pretty good. I liked it very much. Thank you," I replied to Starlight's question and Trunks just nodded along with my answer.
"That's good. Well we wanted to talk with you all about the up coming battle. We are going around talking to your group about our plans. It seem as if the demons already know that we are our up here. What we want all of you to do is to go over to on the other side of that hill," he pointed over to our left with us facing the battle field, "There is a little valley over there. We are going to slit the army up into three little armies. The main army, also the largest one, will hit the demons head on with me at the front. Vegeta will take over your group with mostly air support with all of you. Starlight will led the other group that will be over in that valley to the right," he then paused and looked at us as to make sure that we understood all what he had just said. We all nodded.
He then took a deep breath and began again, "I am going to have some one carry a trumpet so he can sound it to call you. Two blows will be for you all to come out," he directed that to Trunks and I, "and one blow will be for Starlight's army to come out. Do you both understand?"
We both nodded and then Trunks started, "I'm presuming that you are going to have our army come out last. Am I right?"
Fireheart thought for a second and then answered, "Actually I don't know right now which I am going to have come out first. We are just going to have to wait and see when the time comes."
"Well that seems good enough. Well you were the last ones we had to inform. So how do you all feel right now," Starlight asked us as I saw Bra and Goten walking up to join in on our conversation.
"I personally really don't like this war at all. But sometimes you have to do things that you really don't like," Trunks said while it seemed that he was in thought.
Starlight then looked at me as if to ask the question 'so what is your answer'. I then looked down at the ground and then gave my answer, "Now that I think about it I can't believe that at one time I couldn't wait to be in a battle. I was so excited to come here at first and to join in. But now I kind of regret it. I was so naive to just jump in without a second thought. But I have now learned what it truly means to be in a war. It means to give up your life for others and that you might die at any second," I had paused and I could feel tears rolling own my cheeks. I believe that Trunks noticed this and pulled me into a hug. As I regained my voice I began again, "Although I mite not being in a war I do not regret it. I just hope that we will succeed."
"Like my silly brother said 'some times you have to do things you really don't like' but at least we are doing it for the better," came Bra's voice to my ears.
Bra must have came over beside me for when I heard her voice I looked up and she was right there beside me. She then gave me a hug and every one joined in which made me felt much better. Then Vegeta's voice interrupted our little group hug.
"If you don't mind me but I believe we need to start getting this plan into action. I am expecting that our unwanted guest will be arriving over that main hill within the next hour."
Fireheart then stud up and said, "Yes, I do believe that is a good idea," than he yelled out for every one to hear, "Ok everyone, I need you all to gather into your appropriate groups. Vegeta's group and the fliers that I talked to earlier, I need you all to start heading over to the valley to the left. Starlight's group needs to start heading over to the valley to the right and I need the rest of you to gather at the bottom of the hill. When we get to our appropriate points we will then get into formation. You all heard me so get to it!"
Every one then went to were we all needed to be. I stayed with my uncle, Bra, and Trunks. It took us a long while to get to the valley that we needed to be at. When we reached there we saw a side of Vegeta that we had never seen. He became the prince who once ruled armies and took total command.
"All right now, I want the group from my world to get in the front. The more experienced warriors need to be in the middle. Those with less experience are to be at the sides. Now those of you who will be in human form need to be right behind them and are to do the same thing. Those in true form will take up the rear and are also to do the same. When we get out there you all know basically what to do. Ok you heard me so do it NOW!"
It only took us a little while but we finally got into formation. I was on the right at the end standing beside Trunks. He would every once in a while look at me with reassuring eyes to make sure that I was ok. I would then smile at him as to say I was ok.
It was very quiet. Personally it was too quiet for my tastes. It stayed like this as we waited. I really hate waiting and this was doing no good for me. I was beginning to get very nervous. Trunks apparently noticed this and put a hand on my shoulder to calm me down.
I looked up the hill and I could see the man that Vegeta had placed on top of it to watch for when the battle started. It seemed like hours until we heard the sound of yelling and the trumpets signalling the start of the battle. The look out person came running down the hill to Vegeta and said, "It has started! It has started!"
"We can tell that you fool. Shut up and go back to your spot in line. Now all we have to do is wait," said the calm and patient Vegeta.
Wait! I could barely stand still and he wanted us to wait! Who ever said patients is a virtue never had to sit in a battle and wait and wonder weather your friends that are out there are ok.
You could hear the clang of metal hitting metal. I put my hand on my new sword. Starlight had given us all swords before we left her castle. It wasn't too long until we heard the trumpet for Starlight to come out of hiding. We all got very edgy. We knew that it wouldn't be to long before we too would be called out.
It had seemed like forever but we finally heard our call. We all lurched forward into a full run calling out our battle calls and weapon in hands. Those who were in true form flew up into the air and into battle. It only took a short time before we reached the top of the hill.
Out in front of us was total chaos. It seemed as if our army was being out numbered with ten demons to every person. We didn't care. In a matter of seconds we hit the battle with full force. I powered up along with everyone else.
Every were you turned there was blood showering us. Since witch lightning was a very simple spell that took little energy, yet very effective, I through it at every demon that I came in contact with. I pushed ki into my sword to make it even deadlier. There was death and gore surrounding every one.
But then something extremely unexpected happened. They all disappeared. The dead bodies stayed were they had been slain but the ones that were still alive were gone.
I could hear insane laughter coming were the demons had came from. I recognized that voice. It was DarkMoon's voice. Every one then turned to its source. And there stood DarkMoon himself. He had a sickly red glow emitting from his body. Behind him stood all the demons that had not been slain.
He then called out, "Starlight, Fireheart my dear friends. I purpose a duel of power. Who ever wins will win this battle. If I win I get to destroy your army and I you win. Well you just win this battle and I will leave peacefully."
Uh oh. this doesn't sound too good was my only thought.
**So what do you think? Well I know it's been a while but I had summer school (which I absolutely hated) and then ff.net wasn't working for a long time. Well I hope the cliffhanger didn't bug you too much and that it made up for my absence. Well if you all want the next chapter you need to cheer me up. I only had one person read my last chapter and only two read the chapter before that. So if you want me to keep going you better start reviewing!**
Starlight
P.S.
I went though my chapters and changed a few things that I notice that I had missed or just basically messed up on. So those of you who have read my story from the beginning might want to go back and read it but you don't have to.
Disclaimer: Well you should all know what is mine and not mine by now and also what my rules are on what IS mine so I should not have to remind you. If you must be reminded that just go read the last couple of chapters.
Chapter 9: Land of the Fire Unicorns
Two days. That's how long it took us to get to the Land of the Fire Unicorns. Two long days of traveling on foot, flying, or riding. We traveled during the night and day not stop. Well, we only stopping for water, food, and rest. That is how long it took what was left of the many armies combined. Fortunately the casualties weren't as high as we thought that they would be. Only a few hundred out of the many thousands were ether dead or still lying in sick beds.
We had reached the Fire Unicorn's castle on second night, where to mine and the others of my groups surprise, was Fireheart's and his brother's castle. When we reached it the chancellor and the king's advisers came running out of the castle to us and up to Fireheart, his brother SpiritFire, and Starlight.
The first to say anything was the chancellor. He was almost out of breath when he said, "Your highness, they have reached the borders and are still proceeding. They will reach the main plains sometime late during the day tomorrow. What should we do?"
"So what do you think we should do brother? Father is at the main castle and you are the main general." SpiritFire said this to his brother who was deep in thought.
"Well I'm not sure but I believe that we should wait at the plain for them but we would get there at midnight. Prince Vegeta would you please come here." Fireheart called out to Vegeta who then jumped off his mount and walked over to were Fireheart stood.
"What is it you need boyo?" Vegeta said to Fireheart as he moved his head to face Vegeta better since he was in his true form.
"I would like to ask you something. You were once a great general and I would like it very much if you would become my second in command and Help me out with this battle."
Vegeta seemed to shift his position as he was thinking of his response to Fireheart's question. After a little while of thinking he finally gave his response to Fireheart, "I would first start off by advising you, as your second in command, to go a head and go to the main plains and rest there and wait for them to arrive."
"Ok then it is final. You all heard him lets get going. Oh and Vegeta hop on. I think it would be better that you ride on my back so we can communicate a little more easily." Fireheart said as every one began moving and off we went.
We arrived at the main plains just like Fireheart had said we would. It was very dark and we were all tired. Bulma, Videl and Chichi didn't come with us because this was going to be a bad battle and Goku, Gohan, and Vegeta didn't want them to get hurt.
We then all settled down and rested as much as we could. I decided to go and sit by Starlight were they were preparing a fire. I looked around to see what my surroundings were as I was sitting down. In the far distance you could see the very edge forest in the distance. If I was right, I believed that if you went to the top of the hill that we had just came over you would be able to see the top of the Fire Unicorn's castle.
"The scenery is beautiful isn't it. I always liked coming here and visiting Fireheart when I was younger."
I jumped with a start because I was so captivated by the land's beauty that I was startled when Starlight talked to me. I then answered her, "Yes it is very beautiful here. I hate the idea of us having to go to battle on such a beautiful place."
"You know that each breed of unicorn and pegasus have a story behind there origins? And were they live has something to do with there origins?"
I looked at here with wonder. I really wanted to know about these stories. So I decided to ask her to tell me.
"Do you think you could tell me these stories? I would really like to know more of you history."
For some odd reason she started laughing hole heatedly and finally said when she calmed down, "I just knew that you were going to ask me that. Very well, I will tell you as long as you spar with me. I want to see how far a long you have gotten since the last battle. I wont push you too hard since we do need to rest up for later to day."
We then both got into our positions. She said we were aloud to use any type of attack, including magic. But the only problem to that was we could not use our elements. We were to save those for latter on that day since it took more energy to use them. As soon as we began she started telling me their history.
"It is said that on earth all unicorns and pegasi came from the earth it self. Fire Unicorns and Fire Pegasi come out of the fiery pits of the earth forming volcanoes that formed islands in the ocean. The Water Unicorns and Pegasi came out of the oceans forming rivers and lakes as they traveled over the land. The Forest Unicorns and Pegasi came from the forest trees and flowers. The Wind Unicorns and Pegasi were made of the clouds of the ski. And the Ice Unicorns and Pegasi the came from the snow itself that fell in the mountains."
She had to pause in her story to shield against one of my witch lightning attacks and she then countered it with one of her own fire magic attacks. I blocked her fire attack with and ice shield that I had learned the other day. We then went back to hand combat.
"There is also two other races of Unicorns and Pegasi that is very rare. The Moon Unicorns and Pegasus are said to come from the rays of the moon that hit the earth's surface. They say that they are the oldest and wisest. Also the Earth Unicorns and Pegasi that came from the ground and formed mountains."
She paused again to use one of her magic attack that I countered with one of my ki attacks. Then she began again as she caught me off guard by punching me in the stomach and then kicking my feet right out from under me.
"That is how the unicorns and pegasi were created. Unicorn-pegasus, also known as an alicorns, where created when unicorns and pegasi bred together. As you already know how we got here and why and the great battle that created the Guardians but what is it you would like to know further about?"
I had posed for a second and Starlight tool advantage of my mistake. She went down to the ground and swept my feet out from underneath me. And then stood in front of me and reached out a helping hand to lift me up.
"I think we should rest for now and save our strength for the battle. Who knows what tricks they will pull," she said while helping me get up off the ground.
"I would like to know how this all started. I don't know even exactly why you are here doing this. Or what the big deal is about MoonShadow."
Starlight paused right before she sat down were we were before in front of the fire. Then she began, as she was sitting down, "Well it all started several hundred years ago. Maybe even, a couple of thousand years ago. I guess you could say the planet was still fairly young.
"Here on this land lived two brothers and their sick father. The father was the king of the Fire Unicorns of the Kingdom of the Plains. That is what this land is really called. The eldest brother was to become king. The youngest was jealous and tried to kill the king and his brother. Luckily he did not succeed and was banished to the shadow lands were the demons lived. Before he left he vowed that he would one-day return and destroy the kingdom. He learned dark magic from the demons. Many years later he did return."
Starlight's voice was so full of sorrow. She had to pause for a second as if to re-gather herself up to tell the rest of the story. From the corner of her eye I could see a tear role down her cheek and right as it dropped it crystallized and hit the ground and shattered into sparks of magic and disappeared. I was totally shocked. And then she began to tell the story again.
"It is said that when ever you think about Guardians who have died horrible deaths that if you shed a tear it will crystallize and disappear into magic as a memory of there bravery."
She had paused again and looked at me with a smile. And then she said apologetically, "Sorry that I got off of the story a bit. I will continue now."
"When the brother returned he caused a war that ended up involving the entire world. If the demons won then the whole universe would be in great peril. The people of Utopia were beginning to loose. The ancient spirits were beginning to fear that they would loose. They came up with a desperate plan to save the universe. They decided to make a being that would hold great power and use it to protect the universe. It took them about two years to gather every thing that they needed and created two beings. They decided that they would be of the unicorn and pegasi races since they hold more magic than the other races. They would also be one male and one female. The female, being the more powerful one, because she is the giver of life. And the male because he is the protector, for the female might be more powerful but her mind is more vulnerable to attacks. There would be only as many of them that was needed at the time due to their great power. The ancient spirits had created the first Guardians."
As she took a breath I thought of all that she had just told me. I was wondering who were the first Guardians and who was the evil brother. Starlight then pulled me out of my thoughts as she began with the story again.
"It took the Guardians a little over three years before they destroyed the brother. They then looked his spirit in his own journal. The only way he would ever be set free is if someone with a good heart read it. The two Guardians died after they finally defeated him. They died do to the pain that they felt from the land that was badly destroyed. Before they died they cried tears that then crystallized as they fell from their eyes and turned to magic. A waterfall formed where they died. No river led to or from the waterfall. It is full of sacred water and is called the Crystal Falls."
I couldn't stand it any more. I had to ask her who the brother and the guardians were. I needed to know so I than asked her. "Starlight, but who were the first Guardians and who was the evil brother? I remember you started to tell us the story before but it seemed to affect Fireheart. The brother is MoonShadow isn't it?"
Starlight looked at me with a big smile. "I was wondering when you would ask. You are right about the brother. The two Guardians names were Starfire and Wildfire. They had both turned twenty one not too long before they died."
At that time I also remembered about how Fireheart was edgy about the mentioning of MoonShadow. It was another question that I just had to know. "I have another thing that I must ask you. Why does Fireheart hate hearing MoonShadow's name?"
"Well I guess you could say that it is another story but I will tell you any ways. DarkMoon was once Fireheart's and my great friend. We always did every thing together. I met them when I was six. At first they tried to get rid of me and then they excepted me. Well when I was seventeen DarkMoon went journeying through Fireheart's castle. He is also a Fire Unicorn but a very rare type. He has a black body instead of it being white. He was also a first general with Fireheart. Well when he went journeying through the castle he stumbled upon a very old library. In that library he found a very old dusty journal. DarkMoon took it to his room and read it. Unfortunately it was the journal that held MoonShadow."
"Let me guess, he got possessed by him didn't he? And you both don't want to hurt your friend even though you have to. That must really suck."
"Believe me it does. There is a way that we could get the spirit out of him but it is very dangerous and we are both afraid that we might accidentally hurt or, even worse, destroy his spirit. Also it is not easy considering he found the amulet of evil. Well we better go to bed for now. We really do need rest. Who knows what will happen to us tomorrow."
We both then laid down by the fire. But before I had dosed off I though of another question that I wanted to ask Starlight. "Starlight, how old are you, Fireheart, and DarkMoon? You don't look any older than me."
"Well I am nineteen, Fireheart is twenty-one and so is DarkMoon."
Starlight then dosed off. I stayed a wake a little longer thinking of all the information that I had just soaked in. I really felt sorry for Starlight and Fireheart. I could only imagine how hard their lives really were. I was really glad that I didn't live in their shoes.
After a little while I finally fell a sleep. All though I only got a few hours of sleep I still felt really refreshed when I woke up. I could tell that the sun had only been up for about an hour so I was guessing that it was probably about six thirty or so. I looked around a bit and saw every one from my world and the generals of all the little armies that were with us gathered around the freshly made fire eating breakfast. I also saw Vegeta talking to Fireheart about the battle that was going to come soon. After the last battle I was not excited about this next one. I then saw my grandfather coming over to me with an extra plate of food in hand to give me. It was awfully a little amount compared to what we saiyans usually ate.
I then looked up at him as he sat down beside me and handed me the food. I then asked him, "Why so little food? This is barely enough food for a human."
Goku just looked at me for a second and then gave the Son trademark smile. He then said, as if it was commonly known, "It is some special food that they have here. It is supposed to give us more energy and is also used for healing. Little is needed because it fills you up very easily. Well at least that is what Starlight says. She also told me this fruit," he pointed at what was on our plates that seemed to look like a peach except it was larger and had no pits, "is like what senzu beans are to us. Unfortunately senzu beans don't work for them."
I just kind of stared at my grandfather in total shock. It was rare time to actually hear something so intelligent come out of his mouth and he acted like it was just nothing.
After I got over my shock I took a bite out of the odd looking fruit that my grandfather had given me. I was amazed by the shocking sweet taste that I received with my first bite. And the after taste was very sweet too. I had never in my life tasted anything like it. But it wasn't too sweet were you could get sick from it like when you ate too much chocolate. Although it was as addicting as chocolate.
I must have had been making a funny face of some sort for right after I had taken my first bite I could hear my grandfather laughing hole heartedly. I looked at him as to as 'what's so funny' which he then answered my question still chuckling.
"Very shocking isn't it? That's what I thought too when I first tried it. Oh man, you should have seen Vegeta's face. He practically jumped right out of his seat when he first took his bite. But it is very good though. Go a head and finish it. We're going to need all the strength that we can get."
I then finished my wonderful treat. That was almost as great as my grandmother Chichi's food. I had kind of missed eating the large quantities thought. When it was all eaten our plates just seemed to magically disappear. Well actually I knew that it was magic. Then Fireheart and Starlight came to sit beside us. Goku then left and Trunks took his seat right next to me. I was quite shocked to see them all come over at the same time.
"So how was breakfast? I hope you enjoyed it. That was a very special fruit that we usually only use for energy and healing," Starlight said to both Trunks and me.
"It was pretty good. I liked it very much. Thank you," I replied to Starlight's question and Trunks just nodded along with my answer.
"That's good. Well we wanted to talk with you all about the up coming battle. We are going around talking to your group about our plans. It seem as if the demons already know that we are our up here. What we want all of you to do is to go over to on the other side of that hill," he pointed over to our left with us facing the battle field, "There is a little valley over there. We are going to slit the army up into three little armies. The main army, also the largest one, will hit the demons head on with me at the front. Vegeta will take over your group with mostly air support with all of you. Starlight will led the other group that will be over in that valley to the right," he then paused and looked at us as to make sure that we understood all what he had just said. We all nodded.
He then took a deep breath and began again, "I am going to have some one carry a trumpet so he can sound it to call you. Two blows will be for you all to come out," he directed that to Trunks and I, "and one blow will be for Starlight's army to come out. Do you both understand?"
We both nodded and then Trunks started, "I'm presuming that you are going to have our army come out last. Am I right?"
Fireheart thought for a second and then answered, "Actually I don't know right now which I am going to have come out first. We are just going to have to wait and see when the time comes."
"Well that seems good enough. Well you were the last ones we had to inform. So how do you all feel right now," Starlight asked us as I saw Bra and Goten walking up to join in on our conversation.
"I personally really don't like this war at all. But sometimes you have to do things that you really don't like," Trunks said while it seemed that he was in thought.
Starlight then looked at me as if to ask the question 'so what is your answer'. I then looked down at the ground and then gave my answer, "Now that I think about it I can't believe that at one time I couldn't wait to be in a battle. I was so excited to come here at first and to join in. But now I kind of regret it. I was so naive to just jump in without a second thought. But I have now learned what it truly means to be in a war. It means to give up your life for others and that you might die at any second," I had paused and I could feel tears rolling own my cheeks. I believe that Trunks noticed this and pulled me into a hug. As I regained my voice I began again, "Although I mite not being in a war I do not regret it. I just hope that we will succeed."
"Like my silly brother said 'some times you have to do things you really don't like' but at least we are doing it for the better," came Bra's voice to my ears.
Bra must have came over beside me for when I heard her voice I looked up and she was right there beside me. She then gave me a hug and every one joined in which made me felt much better. Then Vegeta's voice interrupted our little group hug.
"If you don't mind me but I believe we need to start getting this plan into action. I am expecting that our unwanted guest will be arriving over that main hill within the next hour."
Fireheart then stud up and said, "Yes, I do believe that is a good idea," than he yelled out for every one to hear, "Ok everyone, I need you all to gather into your appropriate groups. Vegeta's group and the fliers that I talked to earlier, I need you all to start heading over to the valley to the left. Starlight's group needs to start heading over to the valley to the right and I need the rest of you to gather at the bottom of the hill. When we get to our appropriate points we will then get into formation. You all heard me so get to it!"
Every one then went to were we all needed to be. I stayed with my uncle, Bra, and Trunks. It took us a long while to get to the valley that we needed to be at. When we reached there we saw a side of Vegeta that we had never seen. He became the prince who once ruled armies and took total command.
"All right now, I want the group from my world to get in the front. The more experienced warriors need to be in the middle. Those with less experience are to be at the sides. Now those of you who will be in human form need to be right behind them and are to do the same thing. Those in true form will take up the rear and are also to do the same. When we get out there you all know basically what to do. Ok you heard me so do it NOW!"
It only took us a little while but we finally got into formation. I was on the right at the end standing beside Trunks. He would every once in a while look at me with reassuring eyes to make sure that I was ok. I would then smile at him as to say I was ok.
It was very quiet. Personally it was too quiet for my tastes. It stayed like this as we waited. I really hate waiting and this was doing no good for me. I was beginning to get very nervous. Trunks apparently noticed this and put a hand on my shoulder to calm me down.
I looked up the hill and I could see the man that Vegeta had placed on top of it to watch for when the battle started. It seemed like hours until we heard the sound of yelling and the trumpets signalling the start of the battle. The look out person came running down the hill to Vegeta and said, "It has started! It has started!"
"We can tell that you fool. Shut up and go back to your spot in line. Now all we have to do is wait," said the calm and patient Vegeta.
Wait! I could barely stand still and he wanted us to wait! Who ever said patients is a virtue never had to sit in a battle and wait and wonder weather your friends that are out there are ok.
You could hear the clang of metal hitting metal. I put my hand on my new sword. Starlight had given us all swords before we left her castle. It wasn't too long until we heard the trumpet for Starlight to come out of hiding. We all got very edgy. We knew that it wouldn't be to long before we too would be called out.
It had seemed like forever but we finally heard our call. We all lurched forward into a full run calling out our battle calls and weapon in hands. Those who were in true form flew up into the air and into battle. It only took a short time before we reached the top of the hill.
Out in front of us was total chaos. It seemed as if our army was being out numbered with ten demons to every person. We didn't care. In a matter of seconds we hit the battle with full force. I powered up along with everyone else.
Every were you turned there was blood showering us. Since witch lightning was a very simple spell that took little energy, yet very effective, I through it at every demon that I came in contact with. I pushed ki into my sword to make it even deadlier. There was death and gore surrounding every one.
But then something extremely unexpected happened. They all disappeared. The dead bodies stayed were they had been slain but the ones that were still alive were gone.
I could hear insane laughter coming were the demons had came from. I recognized that voice. It was DarkMoon's voice. Every one then turned to its source. And there stood DarkMoon himself. He had a sickly red glow emitting from his body. Behind him stood all the demons that had not been slain.
He then called out, "Starlight, Fireheart my dear friends. I purpose a duel of power. Who ever wins will win this battle. If I win I get to destroy your army and I you win. Well you just win this battle and I will leave peacefully."
Uh oh. this doesn't sound too good was my only thought.
**So what do you think? Well I know it's been a while but I had summer school (which I absolutely hated) and then ff.net wasn't working for a long time. Well I hope the cliffhanger didn't bug you too much and that it made up for my absence. Well if you all want the next chapter you need to cheer me up. I only had one person read my last chapter and only two read the chapter before that. So if you want me to keep going you better start reviewing!**
Starlight
P.S.
I went though my chapters and changed a few things that I notice that I had missed or just basically messed up on. So those of you who have read my story from the beginning might want to go back and read it but you don't have to.