Hey guys im back! OMG! I am so ashamed of how long it has taken me to update! You have no idea how many times this chapter has been rewritten and im still not truly happy with it but i figure its way past time for an update so i'll update any way. The next chapter is being written and i have more of an idea of what i want to happen in it so it shouldnt take as long!

Disclaimers: I own nothing but the plot. I wished i owned Arkarian but no hes Isabel's damn it!

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Lala: Thanx for the review! Pleased you liked it here is the next chapter i hope you keep reading!

Elle: Thanx for the reivew! Pleased you like the story and now im aware of my mistake in both the spellinmgs of Arkarian and Veridian both because i read the books again and because reviewers were kind enough to tell me. So thanx and i will but that right it was an honest mistake on my part i hope you enjoy the next chapter anyway!

Cheese-eee 1: Thanx for the review im pleased you think the characters are true. As for Arkarians feelings i admit i am not good at romance i try my best and i think i might be getting better but it remains a difficulty of mine. I hope it didn't ruin the story too much.I hope you read on!

Halfbred: Thanx for the review and thanx for the heads up on the spellings you have no idea how red i went when i realsied. So embarressed. Hopefully i've corrected them all in this chapter and i will get round to correcting the other chapters when i have time

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RoseZephyr: Thanx for the review! Don't worry about Ethan i'm not done with him yet. He's my favourite character and i was just trying to say that although hes not over Rochelle hes dealing. Anyway the chapter was a little sudden but i hope it didn't spoil it too much!

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Robster639: Thanx for the review! Not giving up this chapter just took longer than expected Chapter 5 should not take this long you will be pleased to know!

Arkarian's lover: Thanx for the review! It doesn't hurt my feelings at all its great to get some construtive feedback and as ive said i hope ive corrected the mistakes in this chapter and i'll get round to doing the same to the others ASAP. Thanx for taking the time to review!

Twilightangel61090: Thanx for the review! More fluff coming your way though not in this chapter but there will be some. Fluff is not a favoured aspect of mine but with Arkarian and Isabel its a must so im working on it here is the next chapter in the mean time i hope you read on!

okay one last thing. Thanx to everyone that give me the heads up on the correct spellings of names and places to quote one of my reviwerers incorrect spelling is no one's friend. Hopefully everything should be correct in this chapter and i will get round to correcting the others ASAP. It was an honest mistake on my part and i'm sorry for that. Now with that said on with the story!


Angel Falls

Chapter Four: Arkarian

I awoke with the biggest headache on the planet. For a moment I couldn't remember where I was or what I was doing. Then I remembered everything that had happened and I sat bolt upright.

I looked around and all I could see was black. I tired to move but my body screamed in protest and the skin was red and blistered from the flames. "Hannah." I whispered.

Suddenly memories of that night in the fire roared back and I screamed at the intensity. These were memories I had tried to hard to forget. But now I remembered clearly. I remembered that a man with blue hair had come to help me and because of it my sister and I had survived. But three of my friends had died that night.

All because Lathenia had discovered there was a young member of the Guard living there and decided to kill me rather than let me join the ever-growing number of the Guard.

Soon afterwards I'd had to say goodbye to my sister as Lorien had come for me and I had started my training in the Guard and began living in the safety of the Critidel because ad the years went by I could not go back to the world I had once been part of.

It had been too painful to think of Hannah in the years afterwards. I felt guilty for leaving her, guilty for leaving her but lucky in the fact that I had been Chosen. In the first one hundred years I was much like Ethan is now excited by every adventure and eager to do well. Lorien himself was my mentor and it wasn't until just a few short months ago I actually found out why.

Lorien, my father. The idea still blows my mind and causes me endless amounts of pain knowing that I never really had a chance to know him before he died making sure that Lathenia went with him.

I stood up and dusted myself off looking around the cavern I had landed in. I took that as a sign to say I had passed the test but I had come at a greater cost than I had been willing to pay judging from the pain in my chest at the thought of Hannah. I'd abandoned her there was no other word for it and that was something I was going to have to live with it.

It wasn't as if I had forgotten it was simply that I had hidden it in the back of my mind and as the time had gone by the memory had become fuzzy. I may have eternal youth but my memory is still very much human and I forget things and force myself to forget others this was one of those occasions.

Still I knew that the City had showed me this for some reason. I looked around, did that mean I had passed? I didn't know but I was determined to find out. I stood up my legs like jenny and looked around I was in a cavern I'd never seen before but then I couldn't exactly say I'd seen the City at all. It moved and showed what it felt like, when it felt like it.

The cavern I'd been put in was a simple stone cave with, what appeared to be no way out. I wondered round the cave looking for a way out, but satisfied I couldn't find one I sat down to wait Ethan and Isabel hadn't arrived yet and I suspected I would not be allowed to pass till their own judgement had been made.

It could have been minutes, it could have been hours but eventually Ethan appeared on the floor and I ran to revive him and when he came round I'd never seen him look so haunted. "Hell that was a bitch!" He gasped. "Am I alive?" I had to laugh Ethan and his flare for the dramatic.

"As alive as I am I'd guess." I said looking him over. "Are you hurt?" I asked. "I don't think so, the memories hurt but other than that I think I'll survive." I nodded. "I understand." He looked around. "Where is Isabel?" "She's not here yet." I said trying and failing to keep the worry out of my voice.

Ethan looked at me. "She'll be fine Arkarian you know Isabel there aren't many like her." I smiled at Ethan in thanks and said, "No you're right there aren't." We sat talking for maybe another hour Ethan making general chitchat and I trying not to pace. What the hell was taking so long? Where was Isabel!

As I thought this she appeared in much the same fashion as Ethan and Ethan and I ran to her to bring her round. I whispered in her ear softly rubbing her arms and she jolted into my arms and wouldn't let go. "Oh god!" She gasped. "It wasn't real was it? You're here! You're alive right?" I looked down at her and smiled. "Alive as I can be in this place, wherever we are." The relief in her eyes was so tangible I hugged her to me and whispered, "Hey, I'm here. It's okay I'll always be here." I bent and kissed her quickly but before it could become heated Ethan's voice stopped us.

I think we're about to find out where we are exactly." Ethan's voice said from behind me. I broke away from Isabel and helped to her feet and looked at Ethan. "Why do you say…" I trailed off and then said, "Never mind."

The whole of the cave was changing as we stood and watched it. "What does this mean Arkarian?" Ethan asked. "I'm not sure but I thin we're gonna find out." I said and Isabel squeezed my hand. "Its okay." I said in response. She might have been good at hiding her thoughts at times but I could still guess that she was thinking.

"Of course It'll be okay." Isabel whispered, "I'm with you." I smiled. We watched as the cave changed from the dank dismal thing I had woke up in into something else entirely. "I take it we passed then?" Ethan asked watching. "I'd say it's a possibility." I nodded. "Though I'm not taking anything for granted until we get out of here."

"I agree with that." Ethan said.

We watched as the cave changed and then a slivery figure appeared in front of us. She looked up at me and my knees nearly gave way. "Hannah." I whispered. She nodded. Isabel and Ethan looked at me. But all I could see was her. "Hi Jonah." She said in her serene voice.

"Long time no see." "I know." I choked. "I couldn't help that." She nodded. "I know you didn't belong with us did you?" "I loved you anyway." I whispered. She nodded. "I know and we all loved you."

Then she looked at all and her eyes grew serious. "The City has lost its trust in its fighters. One of your number, it's warriors betrayed you all and so in betraying you he betrayed the City now each of you must win back the trust and stop the invasion of demons that still not have been caught or you may loose your status as one of the Named and one of the Guard."

"What?" Ethan yelled. I shared his sentiment. Ethan was one of the Guard's most dedicated members and having thought he'd lost his place in the Guard before he was not eager to do it again.

"I'm sorry." Hannah said looking directly at me "but this is what the City has decided and I can't change that I wish I could but I can't."

"What do we have to do?" Isabel asked speaking for the first time since Hannah had appeared and unfortunately due to my powers I had a sneaking suspicion why. Isabel is usually amazing at keeping her thoughts to herself but today it didn't seem to be the top of her priority list.

"You have to prove you are one of the guard." "Haven't we done that already?" Ethan demanded. "I felt like I was going to die." "That proved that you are at least willing to try now comes the hard part. Proving your trust and removing the demons from your path."

"Demons?" Isabel spoke up. "But we got rid of them." "You got rid of them from the Earth's surface." Hannah said nodding. "But there are those that have escaped deep into the city. They need to be stopped. This is your task as both Guardians of Time and Named."

She looked at Ethan and Isabel and they held her gaze calmly then she looked at me and said, "do you accept?" "Yes." The three of us said quietly.

Hannah nodded. "Very well." She motioned towards the wall and as she pointed it again began to change. This was it. We couldn't go back after this and I made sure Ethan and Isabel knew that. "We are Named Arkerain." Ethan said strongly. "We have to do what we can." I nodded and looked at Isabel who hadn't really said a word to me since Hannah had appeared.

"And you Isabel?"

"I go where you go." She said softly love and trust shining from her eyes. I felt my heartbreaking for what she thought was true.

I needed to tell her someday but I knew we didn't have time for my history for now I was pleased she trusted me and I loved her all the more for it. I smiled and squeezed her hand. "I don't deserve you. But I love you now and forever."

Isabel's smile could have lit up the room and she squeezed my hand. "I love you too. One day you will explain this to me I deserve to know." I nodded. "I will."

"Yes you will." Hannah said. I looked at my sister still after all this time I still respected her as much as I did then and I would do as she asked when the time was right. She looked at me before nodding and then looking to the door and then back at me. "Jonah!" I turned back. She threw something at me and I caught it without thinking.

I looked down at what she had given me. It was a simple crystal on a leather throng. "For when you need light in the darkest places." I nodded tears threatening to cloud my vision. I cleared them and reminded myself of where I was and what was expected of me.

The door appeared in the stone as quickly as it had disappeared trapping us but now I knew there was only way out and that was straight through the door. I just hoped that we were all strong enough for this.

I knew we would be going to places few in the Guard will have been since ancient times and it scared me though I would not let Ethan and Isabel know since they needed me to be strong now and I would be strong for them.

I looked at Hannah and whispered, "Thank-you."

She nodded and said, "If you need me, any of you think of me and call my name and I will answer good look and God-speed may the Guard prevail." Then she was gone in a shimmer of light and the dark seemed so much stronger without her.

Ethan ever the practical one said, "Well we can't go anywhere in the dark. And as easily as that three lamps appeared and he handed them to us. This should help." I smiled. "Use of resources there Ethan." Ethan shrugged. "Well it was needed."

We headed into the cave and I realised just how much the light was needed. It was so dark, darker than even the Underworld had been and it was nothing like I remembered the City to be.

"What happened to it?" Isabel whispered. "It lost it's faith in us." I whispered Hannah's words again but all of a sudden they made sense. "We need to gain it back."

And with that we headed deep into the catacombs of a City that only a few short weeks ago had been destroyed for it's own protection.

Isabel gripped my hand and I looked at her smiling giving her all the strength and support I could as we headed into the unknown and into a City that lived and breathed and right now saw us as invaders. I prayed it would give us the chance we needed before it passed judgement.

I took a deep breath and continued forward. Only time would tell.

And in the City time was a strange thing.