Part 2: The Guardian is Awakened!
I woke up on a bed, my back pounding and wrapped in bandages, and covered by a blanket. Two people that looked like cats were looking down at me. I blacked out again. When I woke up again I was alone.
"Oh………whoa, hello." My voice was deeper and rougher than it was before.
I sat up slowly and pain shot up my back like a lightning bolt. I gritted my teeth against the pain, but it was soon too much to bear. I roared a small roar, but it was enough. The 2 cat-people came rushing in, on 4 legs!
"Lord Van! He's awake!" One of them said in a feminine voice. I heard a bunch of footsteps and I knew who it was as soon as they came into focus.
"Van Fanel?"
"How do you know my name?" he responded.
"Help me up and I'll unnnh tell you." I said with a groan of pain. Reeko and Merle (the two cat-people) helped me up off the bed I was sleeping on and onto my feet. I looked to my right and saw myself in a full-length mirror.
"What the...! Is that me?" I looked at myself with awe and surprise. I looked like a Siberian tiger, but I stood on 2 legs, and 5'11", and had golden brown fur. Had long deep jet black hair spiked, kinda like a super sayia-jin level 3, except it was black like a regular sayians is, that stopped at about the base of my ft long bushy, striped, constantly moving tail, and had 1 lock of hair in front of my left eye, it was about 5 inches long. My muscles were huge! I'm not kidding I was ripped, I was never as ripped as I am now.
"All right!" I flexed my muslcues. (Okay, that wasn't even close. Thank God for spell check right? Oh great, and the word is right there! Look ahead two words. Yea. That's pretty bad.) The muscles on my arms were at least 5 inches on my forearms, 6 inches on my on my upper arms, and 6½ inches on my shoulders. I looked at my legs, my thighs were at least 7, 8 inches, and my calves were 5, 6 inches. My feet went from barely size 9 to about 10½ and had a 2 inch long, retractable curved cat claw, on each toe.
"No wonder my shoes exploded." I muttered to myself. My chest: 3-inch pectoral muscles. Abs; a 6 pack. I was completely proportioned, built for speed, grace, and incredible strength. My hands were covered in fur, my fingers were thicker and had no fingernails and looked a little bit like a cat's paws. SHING!
"Whoa!" I exclaimed as a 2 inch slightly curved cat's claw, extended slowly out of each my fingers.
"Hmm...interesting." I said to Van, retracting them. I noticed that my face looked like a human's except it was elongated a little bit and my ears extended diagonally upwards and I had whiskers. My pupils were slits, but my eyes were the same color. When I smiled I saw I had a tiger's teeth as well as human ones. I call this form the Tyger.
"Umm... excuse me, Are you evil?" Hitomi spoke up for the first time as she peeked around the open door.
"No! Why do you think I'm evil?"
"Because I saw you in a vision." Hitomi responded as she into the room. Suddenly, a light pink aura surrounded her, her wings burst open, and half of a circle with one wing on it appeared on her chest. I looked at Van, he was surrounded by a light blue aura, his wings burst open, and the other half of the circle, along with one wing on the side appears on his chest. I saw a silver aura surround me. I felt heat rise in my back and a snap as my wings came out, my bandages snapping. They were golden brown with black stripes. And no pain. Halleluiah! The same sign that was on the stone appeared in the center of my chest.
"What's happed to me?" I asked Van and Hitomi.
"What do you mean?" She responded.
"First of all, I am a human being from the US. I was fighting a school bully, and then a beam of blue light just sucked me up and dropped me off in a cave here there I found a stone with this sign on it. Except different, when I touched it, it changed into this form and turned me into the beast you see now before you." I pointed to the tattoo on my chest.
"The stone that is inside of you is called the Rhinestone of Life and unfortunately it is cursed." Van explained. Now they tell me. "I found you in the Cave of Rebirth."
"So you are The Angel of Light." I pointed to Hitomi. I'm not how I knew I just knew.
"Yes." She nodded her head.
"And you are the Protector." I pointed to Van, again how I knew I was not certain.
"Yes." He nodded his head.
"Then what am I?" I asked. That didn't know. I knew everything else just not that, how confusing
"The legend speaks of a Guardian, so I guess that's you." they responded in unison and then pointed at me. Our auras faded and Van and Hitomi retracted their wings.
"Retract your wings." Van said.
"How?"
"Just concentrate on retracting your wings."
"Okay." I focused and my wings slowly retracted.
"You did it." Hitomi said.
"Good job." Van added.
"Thanks." I responded grinning stupidly. Merle and Reeko were both just stunned.
"Wow." They both said with awe and surprise. I looked in the mirror again and I saw no trace of the scars on my back.
"Another one who shares the fate of Lord Van." Merle asked excitedly.
"Huh?" I replied.
"Does it hurt?" Reeko asked me.
"It always hurts the most the first time." Van said to me.
"Duh. If you heard me screaming, yea it hurt."
"DIE DEMON! Hyah!" I knew that voice. Allen Schezar! I spun around and him charging at me with his sword drawn.
"Hyah!" I yelled as I felt my claws extend as I tried to counter his attack. The sound of bones on steel filled the room as I countered his attack, turning from a calm, cool person into a fighting machine. I was countering every attack with lightning speed. Then I bared my pearly whites (my teeth) and roared and as I made swift low kick and knocked Allen off his feet. He hit the ground on his butt pretty hard. I retracted my claws, crossed my arms, and glared at him. (The trademark Vegeta look basically) Allen sneered, got up, and charged at me again, but Van jumped in the way blocking Allen's sword with his own.
"Stop!" Van told Allen.
"Why?"
"He's not evil."
"But he was glowing silver and y'all were glowing blue and pink, and all of yours wings were extended." He said has he and Van put away their swords.
"He's a good guy trust me." Van assured Allen.
"And he's a pretty good fighter if he is able to blocked Allen's attacks." Hitomi added. I blushed.
"Excuse me, but I think I need some new clothes." I said to Van.
"That's already been taken care of." he replied as he threw a large package at me.
"Go to town tomorrow morning. We'll meet you there. Oh and wear this." he said pointing to the package.
"Come on, I'll take you to your room." Hitomi said.
"Follow us." Allen said. I followed them through corridors and up stairways until we came to a stop and to the right of us was a solid wood door about 10 ft high.
"These are royal quarters." Van explained.
"Eeh?" I tilted my head to the side.
"They are for kings, princes, royalty."
"Oh. How am I royalty?"
"You will become a knight." Allen said.
"Ok."
I cut the package partly open with my claws, pulled out a small package, and unwrapped it. It was a 4 in long gold key. I unlocked the door and walked in.
"Holy moly!"
"Ahem. Make yourself comfortable." Merle said.
"Thanks I will." They left and I shut the door behind them. I looked around my quarters and they were huge like about 25x30 sq ft. there was a brilliant chandelier above me, a full-length mirror beside a door that led to a balcony. As well as furniture, chair, couch, etc, etc. It was night out. I walked into the bedroom; it must have been about 18x20 sq ft. My bed was jumbo king size. There was also a bathroom. I went back into the main room and sat down in my comfortable chair, and ripped the package open the rest of the way. I'm beginning to like my claws I thought to myself. Inside there was a brilliant metallic-silver cloak, I grabbed it and stood up. The cloak unrolled, it was my height and what fell to the ground brought tears to my eyes. They were the shredded, bloodstained remains of clothes.
"Man these were brand new too. Drat."
I folded up my cloak and picked up my shredded clothes and key, walked to my dresser in my bedroom, and I put the shredded clothes in the first drawer. I set the folded cloak on top on my dresser. I heard a knocking sound. I walked into the living room and opened the door. It was Hitomi.
"Hi. Is it comfortable?"
"Yes, very. Come on in." She walked in and sat down on the couch.
"So what's it like on Gaia?"
"It's pretty nice. How is it on Earth?"
"Oh, the same"
"Do you have any siblings?"
"Yeah. I have a 13 year old sister with the attitude of an 18 year old."
"I'll see ya in town tomorrow."
"Alright. Good night."
I opened the door, let Hitomi out, and shut the door behind her.
I went into the bedroom and lay down on my vast comfortable bed. I got under the covers and was asleep before my head hit the pillow.