Chapter Three: The Guardians of Cyberspace

"I am sorry, but I cannot tell you who the other two guardians are." Master Pai said to the five visitors, "Unless you look closer into yourselves, that is when you will discover who the guardians are."

"How do we look deeper into ourselves?" Jackie asked.

Master Pai pointed to a large fish pond, not too far away from the group. "Go to the pond and look at your reflections. If you see yourself as a different person, then you are the next Guardian of Cyberspace."

The kids listened, and walked over to the pond.

When Matt, Jackie, and Inez starred into the pond, their reflections showed themselves dressed in their transformed clothes, and wings sprouting from their backs.

But around Matt's neck in the reflection, dangled the Crystal of Shangri-La.

Matt glanced at Slider and Digit's reflections.

When Digit saw his reflection, he jumped back, yelling, "Yoiks! Is that me!"

As Digit walked back to the pond, Matt glanced at Digit's reflection. He was wearing a white tunic just fit for his size, and had a golden stopwatch around his neck.

Matt glanced at Slider's reflection. Slider was dressed in a red t-shirt, a pair of jeans, and white and red runners. A red and gold strap was wrapped around Slider's wrist tightly.

"Okay, I think I know what Slider and Digit's elements are." Matt said, "Slider's the element Fire, while Didge is the element Air."

"Now you know that you are all one team, as you will face your greatest battles." Master Pai said behind the guardians, "I was once also a guardian at a young age, but now, I am much to old to carry on the tradition. The powers are now handed down to you five, to use them wisely to defeat the dreadful evil that haunts all of Cyberspace. And I believe your first mission starts now. Transform Guardians!"

Matt and the other stood up.

"Okay, guys!" Matt said, summoning the crystal, "Role call! Crystal of Shangri-La, Absolute Energy!"

"Crystal of Shangri-La, Power of Water!"

"Crystal of Shangri-La, Power of Earth!"

"Crystal of Shangri-La, Power of Air!"

"Crystal of Shangri-La, Power of Fire!"

"Elements Unite! Create the force of The Guardians of Cyberspace!"

The Crystal of Shangri-La shimmered with a sharp shine, then exploded into a thousand colours. Five of the colours (Electric Yellow, Aqua Blue, Emerald Green, Platinum Silver, Ruby Red) shone above all of the rest.

A yellow light led the other four colours back into the crystal, creating a symbol that looked like a mystic lightning bolt with the colour yellow that illuminated the hole crystal orb of the pendant.

The pendant created four teardrop shaped crystals. One had a symbol of two lemongrasses and a leaf and was the colour green. That one went to Jackie. Inez's teardrop crystal was blue and had a symbol of a mystic raindrop. Digit's teardrop was the colour silver and had a symbol of mystic wind, while Slider's teardrop was red and had a symbol of mystic fire.

Each teardrop sent off waves of the teardrops' colour, spiraling around the guardians, and trapping them into coocoons of their element.

Matt's crystal glowed, then released waves of yellow light around Matt, trapping him inside the exact same coocoon as before. The same thing happened inside. The strong force of energy pressed against his skin and body, forcing him to curl up in a ball, as his clothes were magically transformed as before.

Once the pressure was too much for him, Matt released himself from the coocoon, the same time as the others did, sending shattered pieces of elements into the air.

While the kids landed gently on the ground, Digit crash landed beak foreward, getting it stuck inside the soft soil.

When Digit yanked his beak out, his beak was squashed.

"Even with the powers of Air, I still have to work on my landings!" Digit whined in a stuffed up voice as he straightened out his beak.

Matt smiled then got serious. "C'mon guys! We've got some dark minions to get rid of!"


When the guardians got there, the cybercitizens of Happily Ever Afterville were running away from gigantic black insect like creatures.

"The Insect Dark Minions." Slider said, "One of Five Kingdoms of the Dark Minions! C'mon! Let's go!"

Slider paused, and waved his hand infront of Matt's face. Which happened to be stunned or something.

"Hello?" Slider said, trying to get Matt's attention, "Earth to Matt! MATT!"

Not knowing what he was doing, Matt dove foreward, with his crystal in sword-mode. He swished his sword while he passed through an insect dark minion, cutting it in half and making it turn into nothing but black ashes.

It was when Matt touched the ground that he found himself back in reality. He turned around and gasped as he saw the insect minion into a pile of black ashes, and disappear into thin air.

"Whoa!" Inez cried, "How'd you do that?"

"Do what?" Matt cried, "If you're talking about the bug, then I don't know!"

"The crystal!" Digit cried, "It used your body to demolish the bug!"

"Whoa," Matt mumbled to himself, "Strange..."

"Matt!" Inez cried, "Look out!"

Before the bug behind Matt could hit the young guardian, Inez pushed him out of the way.

"Venus Flytrap!"

"Wind Tunnel!"

"Flamethrower!"

The three attacks collided and destroyed the bug.

Inez got up and and gasped.

"Matt!" Inez cried to the unconcious guardian, "Please! Get up! Get up! This isn't the time!"

Inez and Matt were overcasted by a gigantic shadow. Inez twirled around and gasped.

An insect was right above the two guardians!

"Eat this!" Inez cried, holding up her hand to a nearby fire hydrant, "Powers of water, from the deep, come to wash away this creep!"

The fire hydrant sputtered, then released a jet of powerful water at the bug, demolishing it to pieces.

Inez heard Matt grunt behind her.

"Nezzie?" Matt asked weakly, "You still there?"

"Yes," Inez answered, "You all right?"

"Yeah, I'm fine." Matt said. Then, he paused. "What kind of rhyme was that?"

"It was one I copied off a book." Inez answered, "It was the first thing that came to my head before we got demolished."

Matt smiled, then fell back down on the cobblestoned ground.

Inez smiled faintly, then whispered, "Have some rest. You deserve it. We'll take care of the rest."