Chapter to: part two:

Jack ran as fast as he could, help wasn't close…. If he had more power… if he wasn't injured during this time…..

"damn it! Faster!" he roared, blazing past trees and animals, who fled at his mere presence.

A tall tower just reaching the heights of the trees, a tower made of dirty metal, once gleaming gold, now reduced to greyish green from time.

"hold it there!" yelled an Elvin man from one part of a long wall, bows with arrows aimed at jack as he slid to a halt.

"I come to speak with the princess!" jack yelled, as bows were aimed at him.

"I do not want quarrel with the Elvin kingdom! Just help!" he yelled up, a few moments before a voice came from the wall again.

"you may enter!" said the guard again, as the large gates opened, jack almost ran in, as he was aided by Elvin guards.

"follow us… step out of line-"

"I know." Jack said annoyed as they rushed to a large chamber deep within the city.

On a large platform, stood three thrones, one in dead center, the largest and colored deeply, red and blue around its cushion sat a thin man with a true golden crown straight from the dark ages.

The second chair to the left of the man sat a woman in teal robes, a golden twig crown and long silver hair, the chair somewhat smaller than the middle one but had some deep purple in its cushion.

The last chair to the mans right sat a young teen elf, with a silver twig crown and a whitish green garment, in a chair with little color and size, but still holding familiarity to the other two with a mix of blue, green, purple, silver and gold.

"king Erial, my lady Eris and tari…" jack said quickly, and kneeling.

"what do we owe the pleasure jack?" tari said, standing, seeing this face of worry.

"I need help, a rogue aranea has escaped the barrier…. I need only a squad of soldiers to help dis-"

"we take no quarrel with humans… let them deal with it." Said the Elvin king Erial.

"we need none of YOUR kind here either custos!" the man almost boomed in his Irish accent, standing before jack.

"leave now-"

"father!" tari roared, as the entire room flinched.

"this man has asked for our help…. Even if he is what he is he cannot fight…. He is injured!" she boomed, stepping for her father, which wasn't mch distance but the man subcausiously leaned away.

"a squad isn't much to spare… I will go with him to insure this is not a hoax as well!" she said, the king said nothing as he walked past jack.

"up.. I need a squad to my assistance… actually mke it two!" she ordered a guard, who ran away quickly.

"wow…." Jack said on the way to the gate.

"I have… a temper even my father wouldn't mess with… you are lucky I know you Jackson…" she said, with a blank face, jack only smiled lightly, while keeping a four foot distance as guards moved behind them.

The diner finnaly stopped, and everyone scrambed out.

"move!" wendy boomed, pushing a man trying to grab his glasses, Mabel snatched them and jumped ot with the man, and gave it to him quickly.

"dips?!" wendy called, dipper tried to move, but his leg was stuck under a bent table, it didn't hurt… but it was stuck.

"go! Ill get my self out!" dipper roared as wendy looked to the door and dipper repeatedly.

"im not leaving you behind…" she said, and ran to his side, trying to bend the table, it didn't even creak.

"come on!" she said, trying harder as slams got closer…. Large slams of several legs.

"go leave me!" dipper yelled, wendy risisted several attempts to push her back.

"im not leaving you dipper!" she said, trying harder with more force, only snapping the table in half…. Hirozantally.

"oh come on!" she yelled, and repeatedly kicked it as the steps got closer.

"wendy…" dipper said, she turned to see him crying, someone outside screamed.

"go…. Its your only chance…" he said, she couldn't move as a large shadow came above them, she shut her eyes, excpecting the slam…

"NO!" Mabel roared, as the spider lifted one leg, ready to slam down on the diner, but something stopped it, an arrow planted right at the spiders joint, it screamed and recoiled it, taking several steps back, that's when she saw them…

"elves?!" said lasy susa, as a small band of golden warriors burst into the clearing, arrows came froma back unit while a second unit ran forward with blades.

"Mabel!" jack called, running up to her with the elvin princess.

"where were you?!"

"getting friends…." He said.

"and owes me a favor." Tari said, somewhat grinning with determination.

"dipper and wendy are stil in there!" Mabel said, as tari and two soldiers ran forward.

"we got them!" she sad, as they changed corse for the diner.

"what the?!" wendy said to herself, as several elves slashed the spiders legs, effectively taking one down but merely injuring the others, as arrows rained down on it.

"dude! Elves!" sh said to dipper who saw arrows fly by the window and the spider screamching in pain.

"wow… but who-"

"come on dipper, cant leave your arse here can we?" tari said, with two guards.

"hes stuck…" wendy said as the two guards moved for dpper, yet seemingly able to bend thre inches of steel together and free dipper.

"wow.. elves are strong…"

"eh… its one of our triats most overlook." Tair said, as the five left the dinner quickly, as the spider fought the small band of soldiers what were at its feet, arrows hit its head in attempt to blind it, three of eight eyes were hit already, and the spider wasn't happy.

"its stil up?!" tair said, admased.

"what do you mean " its still up"?" wendy asked.

"well most creatrures barely last a minute after battle against us, the dwarves have lasted a while but the arrows got them, man cant fight weither ground or archer units…. And ndont get me started on creautres…" she said as the spider slammed down as a elvin soldeir just barely dodged.

"Jackson.. you have a way to contact a guardian of that gem right?" she asked the teen, who glared.

"guardian of that gem?!" dipper questioned as jack threw imaginary daggers in his mind at tari.

"yes… but it has to be an emergency." he said, tari merely pointed behind her to the fight and jack sighed with a chuckle.

"fine…. Consider that favor used." Jack sneered before pulling a small rock out of his pocket.

"don't think they will help!" he said before stompng on it with his foot, where it smashed and created thick dust around him, almost a deep fog, as some fugure appeared, the dust hadnt settled before jack ran out coughing.
"okay.. I was wrong…" he said before something launched out of the fog like cloud, something with a giant silver blade, the elvin archers stopped their hail, the soldiers ran for cover, as a saound of steel armor creaking rang in the air, the world went quiet for a mere second, as a armored knight in black robes launched itself at the spider, a laud roar came from it, some roar that even the spider stepped back from, as the blade swung, cutting the spider in half from the bottom, it went cleanly through, nothing could stop the power of the sword… nothing.

"… holy crap!" Mabel boomed as the spider fell all the way, everyone was quiet as the knight stood from a anding kneel.

"Jackson Peterson…" it said, turning to the teen, who gave a deep glare to it.

"don't call us again without an emergency… this hardly called for an emergency.." it said in a somewhat female voice as it walked past the body, and the other townsfolk Back into the forest.

"uh.. who or what is that guy?!"

"not a guy… girl…" jack said, frowning as he watched the place the being disappeared.

"one of four guardians, I personally met all four.. out a good thing mind you." jack said darkly.

"they do not like revealing themselves…. Most of the time." Jack said, sighing.

"I swore she was going to cleave my head…" he murmured silently as dipper walked to Mabel.
'you okay?" he asked hs trembling sister.

"more than okay! That was AAAAWWWWEESSSSSOOOOOMMMMMEEEEEE!" she boomed, dipper and wendy laughed as tari chuckled.

"okay! I have a million questions and so does dips here who are the guardian? What are the guardians, how did you know them and when did you meet them!" Mabel blurted out to jack, who chuckled.

"later… I have to do something first…" jack said, walking to tari, who sighed.

"fathers going to kill me… we are not supposed to meet a guardian or be in the presence unless it wants to…" she said, as jack sighed with her.

"yeah… but that's over now right?"

"okay gem…" she sneered, as jack chuchled.

"funny… I couldve swore you said-"

"I did. Do not cross me jackson… never cross the elves…" she said darkly and left with her soldiers, jack gave a worried glance to her as she left.

"wonder whats got her underwear in a twist…" he said, as dipper and Mabel barked him with questions.

"this will be a long evening…." Jack thought as he headed for the supermarket for suppies for soos, and the two twins followed, wendy watched the elves leave, facinatied, as she looked at a small picture, a picture of a woman,… an old picture with a young wendy at the corner, the woman was smiling, and had something around her neck… a locket similar to taris.

Mic drop!

Your first glimpse at the guardians of the gem! They wont appear for a while…

And you dear reader whos name I shall not mention! Thank you! Wow I didn't expect apm yet! Yes you are correct about one thing:

Jack is hiding something…

Something big? Something small? I cannot tell except for one thing, custos… decode it (its in a special code I never thought ill use et here I am) and know a secret jack knows.

Thanks T.S.W. for giving me the end ropes for this! And loyalartemis? I hope to meet you soon!

Anyway! Destorytheawesome62 out!

(T.S.W. slams a rather large maul onto his head, splinterring it into a glory explosion.)

T.S.W.: on with the epilogue for the chapter!

Jack finally got some peace from the twins…. Sighing he looked at a small frame n a desk, of him and seven girls and two other boys.

"heh…" he said, smiling at the old photo… for some reason jack was dressed up in a old pilgrim outfit, along with the other teens.

"miss you all…" he said, lightly embracing it as a knock came from his door.

"who knocks at ten pm?!" jack said, opening the door with a forceful pull, but was lost for words when he saw the knocker.

"hello… I am looking for Jackson Peterson." Said a teen with an eye patch, one that bore a single image of a cartoonish eye, with his pitch-black hair, jack smiled.

"welcome to my home… and you are?" jack asked, the teen smiled.

"rich…. Rich pilleb…"

Mabel heard the car arrive before she even moved, with dipper, she burst down the stairs, where Soos stood at the door, which was thrown open.

"Soos! Let go of me! I can't breathe!" called a familiar voice to the twins, a gruff older voice.

"Stanley…. we have been gone for five years... give him a break…" Stanford pines said.

"well he's going to break my back, arms, chest and several body parts I cannot pronounce!" Stanley pines boomed as the man put him down.

"now where-" he said as Mabel rushed into stan.

"holy Mabel!" he said, as she threatened to break his back too.

"god dang it Mabel let go…" he said, but suckered up to it.

"oh dipper… sixer has something for you…" he said, as ford stepped into view of the teen boy wh didn't move from his spot.

"I think this might fascinate you..." ford said, holding a journal... one bearing a number four…

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We got sorted… mostly so here's the next chapter guys! D.T.A.62 did most of this! Thanks james!

The next chapter is called "the fellowship of the gnomes". Enjoy!

-T.S.W. and pals!