A Guardian

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Enjoy, and remember- It is not within the star that hold our destiny but within ourselves-William Shakespeare

Chapter 3: Shocking Discovery

"I love cookies." Blade said through a mouthful of cookies as he dug into them. Lara-Le, Wynmacher, Knuckles, and Julie-Su watched as he devoured tray after tray of Lara-Le's home made cookies. "These are the best!"

"Thank you." Lara-Le said bowing slightly. "I'm glad someone enjoys them."

"Was that directed at me?" Wynmacher asked pointing to himself with his free hand while the other held the whine glass.

"I think that was directed at me Wynmacher." Knuckles said sighing.

"No it wasn't." Lara-Le said going into the kitchen. "Just saying." Just as she set the new tray down she and the others blinked as the cookies were already gone and going down Blade's throat. "Those are hot!"

"Not hot enough." Blade said with a fist in the air in triumph as he swallowed the cookies in one gulp.

"You'll either die choking to death or from burning your throat." Julie-Su said as she snuggled closer to her boyfriend.

"I'd say both." Wynmacher added.

"So what you going to do today?" Knuckles asked Blade.

"Locke wants me to come over to Haven for some test and such."

"That's not good." Knuckles said.

"Why?" Blade asked.

"Well usually when you are called to Haven it's bad thing." Knuckles said.

"Knuckles!" Lara-Le said to her son.

"Sorry mum but it is true."

"Well you are right." She said sighing.

"It never seems like a good thing when they call anyone over." Wynmacher added.

The four then noticed that Blade was already gone. "Now that's sneaky." Julie-Su said blinking.

Blade arrived at Haven shortly later. When he walked in he noticed the receptionist. "How may I help you sir?" It was then the young female echidna noticed the tall white echidna standing in front of her desk. Her glasses slightly dropped as she stared at him. He was tall and had white fur, two rarities for echidnas. He also noticed her a bit. She was a cute purple furred echidna with pinkish hair. She had part of her hair tied into a tail in the front. He also noticed her lovely purple eyes.

"Ugh-Shoot why am I here?" He mumbled trying to gain his posture. "What is your name?" He asked stupidly as he poked his index fingers together. The receptionist blushed.

"My name is Anna-Li."

"Wow she's hot." Blade then blushed as he realized that he had said that out loud. "I mean that I was called by Locke."

"You're name?"

"Blade." She looked through some notes.

"You may enter, and my friends call me Ann."

"Thank you, Ann." The second Blade got in and at the first intersection he paused. "Damn it. I don't know where I am. Last time I was here I followed Knuckles in."

"Right this way Blade." Blade looked left and spotted Locke. Blade followed Locke into a large room filled with all sorts of machines. He noticed that there was a small room with a glass panel. Inside were Sabre and a male purple echidna he didn't recognize.

"Who's that?"

"That's Thunderhawk."

"Oh." The room was mostly silver from the machines but it also had white tiling and a white roof.

"Now then. We need you to strip down to your pants and await further instructions. I'll be in the monitoring room."

"Okay." After getting down to his pants Blade awaited further instructions.

Blade began with jogging on a treadmill, then breath holding with air around and then with his head in water. Blade did weight lifting, showed flexibility, endurance rate, and finished with a brain scan.

After that they took a blood sample, hair sample, and then a urine sample.

"Okay then. While that is being run through the computer we need to get some data recorded on you that your body can't show." Thunderhawk said as he held a clipboard with a piece of paper on it. First off name, age, and date of birth."

"Blade Jin Ishikawa, 919 of age, and I was born February 1, 2301."

"Okay. Family and status of them."

"My father was Jin Ishihitei, my mother was Liu Rong, and my grandfather was Jin Mitsuruki. All are dead."

"Okay, and the last thing we need to know is where you are from and where you live." "I am from the Yu Jing Fang tribe of Xia Ting Province. I currently live with Lara-Le and Wynmacher. I don't know the address."

"That's okay. We have them in our files. Thank you. We'll call you if anything important comes up." With that Blade left to go eat as he hadn't eaten in hours.

"So let's get started on those results and see if Blade is in good health." Sabre said clasping his hands together.

After much work on the results and everything they had on him they set it into the computer. "So how is it all going?" Spectre, the second oldest of the Brotherhood asked.

"Good father." Thunderhawk said as he entered the data. "Almost done, and done!"

"About time. I wonder why the computer had such a hard time entering the data." Sabre said.

"That was rather odd." Spectre said tapping his fingers on the desk. "It shouldn't have taken so long."

"Hey. What's that?" Sabre gestured to a flashing icon in the lower right corner.

"Hang on." Thunderhawk opened it and what popped up made the three gasp. Streams of data came flowing in on all sorts of things.

"Slow that down my son." Spectre said rubbing his that now hurt from trying to read what was going by.

"Hang on." Thunderhawk began typing furiously at the computer in hopes of slowing or stopping the data. "There we go. Now let's see what we, what is this?" The three read on and grew even more confused as they read.

"Oh, dear Aurora." Spectre said when his eyes crossed something rather shocking.

"Leave me alone!" Blade said from the corner he was curled up in.

"I know that you don't want to be disturbed right Blade but Locke says it is important." Lara-Le said stroking his back.

"Why can't they leave me alone?"

"Just listen to him and then you can be left alone."

"Okay. Can I have cookies after words?" Blade asked.

"Sure." Blade walked over and sat on the couch next to Wynmacher. Lara-Le sat on Wynmacher's other side holding his hand.

"Okay so you wanted to talk with me?" Blade asked looking at Locke and Spectre. "And that fog is really creepy." Spectre looked at him with his red eyes. "Sorry."

"Okay then. What we are about to tell you may be disturbing but it is the truth of the matter." Locke began. Blade nodded.

"Okay."

"We ran the results of your tests into the computer and some interesting things came up." Locke took a second to think out and the order in which he should tell it. "First off we should tell you about your age."

"Nine hundred nineteen." Blade said for himself.

"Actually you are exactly nineteen years of age." Blade just blank stared. "It's hard for us to explain but your DNA reads out only at nineteen. How you have lived this long is beyond us."

"Wow." Lara-Le said. "That's amazing."

"It gets more interesting Lara." Locke said. "You have family."

That sent silence through the room. "I do?" Blade asked now sitting up even more.

"Yes." Spectre said. "Some of which is still living and parts that are dead." "Blade Jin Ishikawa. Great grandson of Dimitri, grandson of Menniker, son of Moritori Rex, brother of Luger, and the uncle of Kragok, Lien-Da, and Julie-Su." That took silence to a level no one heard of.

"My father is Moritori Rex and my brother is Luger?"

"Yes. What we believe happened is that you were born much after your brother Luger and your memory was either erased or you have been suffering from amnesia. Your gray hair is due to genetic defects."

"Then what about my arm and eye?" Blade asked gesturing to his right arm and left eye. He rolled the sleeve up to show the full length of the arm which reached short of his elbow.

"That was lost recently and they fixed those, that or they put the parts in and erased your memory or you still suffer from amnesia.

Blade began looking about in confusion. His entire life had been a lie and his family was the very people he had fought against already and was the enemy. Blade stood up and rolled his sleeve down. "Where are you going?" Lara-Le asked standing up.

"I need to take a walk."

"It's late out." Before Lara-Le could follow she felt Spectre put a hand on her shoulder.

"Let him go Lara."

"But Spectre."

"He needs some time alone. He's needs to figure things out right now."

"Besides Lara, he can take care of himself." Wynmacher added.

"But he forgot his katana." Lara-Le said picking it off of the counter. All four ran outside to find Blade but he was gone. Lara-Le placed the katana close to her chest. "What if something happens to him? He's only a child."

"Calm down Lara. We'll find him. I'll get Knuckles to keep an eye out for him and I'm sure he'll get the Chaotix to help." Locke said. In his mind he prayed that nothing would happen because Blade may be a good fighter but what they found out from his test was that he fairs poorly in night combat without his katana and can't last in long range combat.

End

Blade Jin Ishikawa

Age: 19

Appearance: Read Chapter two

Residence: Currently with Lara-Le and Wynmacher

Favorite Food: Cookies (Especially Lara-Le's)

Family: Dimitri (Great grandfather), Moritori Rex (Father), Luger
(Older Brother), Kragok (Nephew), Lien-Da and Julie-Su (Nieces)

Abilities: Fast in close range, wide knowledge of fighting styles, master
swordsman

Julie-Su

Age: 17

Appearance: Pink fur with purple hair, lavender eyes, black and green vest

Residence: Echidnapolis

Favorite Food: ???

Family: Luger (Father), Mari-Su (Mother), Kragok and Lien-Da
(Half-Sibling), Blade (Uncle), Remington (Half-Nephew), Simon
and Floren-Ca (Adoptive parents)

Abilities: Good fighter, excellent shot

Remington the Echidna

Age: 27

Appearance: Brown fur, black hair, green uniform and hat, blue boots

Residence: Echidnapolis

Favorite Food: ???

Family: Kragok (Father), Lien-Da (Aunt), Julie-Su (Half-Aunt), Luger (Grandfather), Merin-Da (Grandmother), Blade (Great Uncle)

Abilities: Strong Fighter

Thunderhawk the Echidna

Age: ???

Appearance: Purple fur, white beard, blue coat

Residence: Haven in Echidnapolis

Favorite Food: ???

Family: Spectre (Father), Hawking (Grandfather), Mathias
(Great Grandfather), Sojourner (Son)

Abilities: Varies with use of Chaos Emeralds

Spectre the Echidna

Age: ???

Appearance: Black fur, red eyes, silver helmet, black cloak

Residence: Haven in Echidnapolis

Favorite Food: ???

Family: Tobor (Father), Voni-Ca (Mother), Hawking (Grandfather),
Sonja-Ra (Grandmother), Thunderhawk (Son)

Abilities: Varies with use of Chaos Emeralds

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