Chapter 7: The Book
Normal POV:
Boomer flipped through the book he was holding before placing it back on the shelf.
He wasn't happy that Takaaki wanted him to find a book and he wasn't there to look for it himself. The title of the book Takaaki scribbled down on a piece of paper for him was in some language that Boomer cannot read so he presumed it was probably in Latin so it made it even more difficult to spot, not to mention Boomer cannot read Latin, only a few words. But the good part was that he was in the library by himself.
Boomer cringed when he heard the door of the library slam open, followed by someone snapping 'What do you think you're doing?!'
The blonde haired boy peered around a shelf to see Brick and Bloodfang strolling into the library.
"This is a library for heaven's sake!" Brick hissed at Kiva who only rolled his eyes and went off somewhere.
Brick let out a huff of annoyance and went off on his own. The library was huge so they both disappeared off among the shelves quickly.
Boomer shrugged and went back looking for the book he was here for.
Soon Butch, Beast and Blitz all entered into the library quietly on separate time and all went off into different direction of the big maze-like library.
Brick walked along one of the shelves, scanning across the titles of the books on the racks. He wasn't looking for anything in particular but one book suddenly caught his eye.
Brick pulled out the book and examined the old, brown and worn-out cover. He ran his fingers over the heading of the book, imprinted with golden letters that even Brick had never seen before.
Boomer let out a sigh as he walked along one of the shelves on the second level of the library, there was no way he'll be able to find a book if his brother didn't even write the author's name. "I don't even need to do this for him," the blond grumbled but suddenly stopped. He turned and started walking towards the balcony of the second floor; he could sense a strange atmosphere coming from the first floor of the library.
Boomer looked over the balcony and immediately stood back a bit when he saw Brick right below him on the first floor. He peered down again and instantly spotted the book in the redhead's hands.
Boomer yanked out the piece of paper Takaaki gave him, checking the letters before staring at the brown book in Brick's hands. "Well Prince of Fire," Boomer grinned and slipped the paper back into his pocket, "Thanks for finding what I'm looking for."
"Yo Brick, there you are."
Boomer watched as Bloodfang walked towards the redhead holding a blue book.
"What do you want now?" Brick asked, not bothering to hide the annoyance in his voice.
"You can read Latin right?" The white-haired boy held up the blue book, "I have some things I want you to translate."
"Why the heck should I do that?!" Brick raised an eyebrow, "No wait, what I should be asking is why the hell are you suddenly acting all friendly towards me?"
"As if I want to be all buddy-buddy with you!" Bloodfang snapped, "Since I'm forbidden to strangle you right here and now, I may as well get you to translate this for me since you know how to read Latin."
Blitz hearing the two talking decided to eavesdrop on the other side of the bookshelf that Brick had taken his book out from – which in on his right. Little did they know Butch was doing the same thing on the other side of the other bookshelf on Brick's left.
A irk-mark appeared on Brick's forehead. "Go and get someone else to do it! I'm busy." Ignoring the Wind Kingdom's prince he turned back and opened the book he was holding.
Bloodfang frowned with annoyance and decided to irritate the Fire user more and peered at the book he was holding from next to him. "What are you reading?"
Another irk-mark appeared on Brick's forehead. "What the actual heck, Bloodfang."
"Don't call me that."
Brick let out another loud sigh for the umpteenth that day but replied the Wind Prince nevertheless. "I just found this book okay? I don't know what's it about."
Butch was about to climb onto the bookshelf separating him from the other two princes until a soft voice stopped him – or more like startled him.
"P-prince Butch, I came to return this file you forgot in the–"
Butch panicked and tackled down the poor shy prince, covering his mouth to prevent any noises coming out of the silver haired boy's lips. "Be quiet or I'll dye that pretty hair of yours pink!" he threatened.
Beast nodded, the tip of his ears burning red from an upcoming blush as Butch released him and resumed his previous activity: climbing the bookshelf.
Beast blinked in confusion and instinctively followed after the raven-haired boy.
Butch only gave the Ice Prince a glance as they both peered over the bookshelf at the other two boys on the other side. Boomer raised an eyebrow when he saw the two princes.
"This is not Latin is it?" Bloodfang asked the redhead.
"No," Brick replied as he started scanning through the index of the old worn-out book.
"Have you seen this kind of language before?" Bloodfang continued to question.
"No."
"You can't read it, can you?"
"No! God dammit!"
Bloodfang held up his hands in defence when Brick shot him a death glare before he huffed with annoyance, once again focusing on the foreign words in the book. He slowly ran his fingers across the words, feeling the slightly curved in letters like no other books ever had. As his eyes continued to trace across the lines a warm vibe seem to come off the words, drawing him in; his surroundings seem to grow silent as soft murmurs and whispered echoed in Brick's ears, seemingly telling him what the words mean. "Spirit of Time….Protector of The Haven…..Beast of the Four Seas…."
"I thought you don't know how read it!?" Bloodfang's sudden rude interruption snapped the redhead out of his trance.
"I can't!" Brick snapped back with many of his own irk mark appearing, "But somehow I can understand its meaning!"
Bloodfang let out a huff and crossed his arms – a bit childishly.
Brick let out a snort and continued scanning the index until two words caught his attention. "Guardian Angel?"
All the princes' interest perked up as they listened to Brick flipping through the book to the page before he started reading its history.
Brick's eyes widened as he read the book's content at a fast pace, taking in all the information it provided as he spotted many familiar names of great heroes he himself have read in his history books. "Whoa…."
"What is it?" Kiva asked.
"Apparently the Great Lord Lukao of the North Mountain didn't win the war because of his Lightning Rain," Brick said to Bloodfang, both completely forgetting they hated each other at the time. "It's because of the Ice Needle Tower the Guardian Angel he summoned created."
"Who's Lukao?" Bloodfang raised an eyebrow.
"Haven't you been listening in our history class, Kiva?" Brick continued scanning through the book. "He was once one of the greatest Lord in our neighbouring planet: Planet of the Great Mounts. They said he unleashed a lightning so big it split into millions of lightning needles that wiped out all his enemies, ending the war in a second – and literally a second – but I didn't know he got help from a Guardian Angel, it wasn't mentioned in our books though."
"Heeeh?" Bloodfang hummed.
Brick carried on, "Also the Queen Kyuro of Planet of Promising Craft, when her revolution army was at the brink of defeat the prince of that time offered a proposal since he saw how determined Kyuro was at changing their planet, the proposal was that if she can stay alive in the cave of Dying Ice for 130 days he'll take her as his wife and make her the next Queen. In this book it says on the 46th day in the Cave Kyuro was already starting to turn into an ice statue – which is what that cave does – but she then summoned a Guardian Angel for help and made it through all the way till the 130th day. But in our history books it didn't say anything about how she survived. And there's many more stories like that recorded in here…"
"So you're telling me that we can summon Guardian Angels for help?" Bloodfang questioned, not really believing the redhead.
"As far as it says in this book, yes," Brick flipped through the pages.
"Hah, as if you can summon an angel out of thin air," Bloodfang chuckled, entwining his fingers together behind his head, "Do they say: 'Oh Guardian Angel I need help!' or 'Please save me Guardian Angel!' something along those lines."
Brick shot him a glare. "No in fact there is a specific summoning spell, here." Pointing at the spell he showed the white-haired boy.
Blitz peaked from around the corner of the shelf, Boomer squint his eyes to see from the balcony as Butch and Beast also peered closer to make out the words.
Summoning Spell: Kore ikeru as'karai ta mokre'i angel koru
"What the hell is this, I've never seen this like of language before," Bloodfang frowned to try and understand the words, "Kore ikeru as'ka–"
But before Bloodfang could finish the book was suddenly seized out of Bricks hands in a flash, the two boys' heads jerked up to see Blitz balancing the book on one of its corner on his finger.
"What the hell Blitz?!" Brick snapped. "Why are you– were you here the whole time?!"
"Yep~" Blitz singsong.
"Hand over the book," Brick demanded, holding out his hand.
Blitz grinned. "Sorry Brick, but did you really think I'll just stand by and watch Kiva summon a Guardian Angel? If those stories you read just now was true then having a Guardian Angel will already determine the victor of our war."
Realization dawned on all the princes as whitish-blue eyed boy's words sunk in, it was indeed true that whoever summons a Guardian Angel will have an upper hand, thus the person can take the lead in their never ending conflict.
"…and besides, since when are you and Kiva this close?" he raised an eyebrow at the two who stood next to each other.
Brick and Bloodfang's eyes widened for a moment before they jumped away from each other, creating some distance as they remembered they were enemies.
"Hand over the book, Blitz," Brick repeated calmly. "I found that book first."
"No can do," Blitz's grin only widened.
Boomer – who was also not about to let the others have the book – sees his chance as jumped off from the balcony and grabbed the book, dashing pass Brick and Bloodfang and disappeared around the corner of the bookshelves.
"Boomer!" the three boys exclaimed when they recognized the Prince of Water and immediately chased after the blond.
Butch clicked his tongue and stood up atop the shelf before going after the other princes, running and jumping from shelf to shelf.
Boomer made his way to the section of the library where all the tables were laid out for the students before turning and faced the others. He held the book with one hand and held up the other shooting out three orbs of boiling water at the three princes who all jumped out of the way.
Brick noting that Bloodfang jumped in the same direction as him – towards the right – clutched his hand as fire emitted around his fist, swiftly pulling back his arm he aimed a punch at the white-haired boy who back flipped, swinging out a kick at Brick when he did his flip which the redhead also dodged.
Blitz charged for Boomer as hard earth coated the whole of both his arms before he jumped up and landed, slamming his earth-armour covered fists at the ground. Huge long cracks appeared on the cement floor, shooting in different directions like lightning as the cracks started unbalancing the floor, making some of the ground sink down while some rose up.
Boomer wobbled and fell onto his hands and knees when the floor he's standing on was one of the ground which rose into the air.
Blitz grinned and leaped for the blond but suddenly face-planted the floor when Bloodfang jumped onto him, using him as support to boost his jump towards the Water Prince.
"Oh no you're not!" Brick grabbed Bloodfang's ankle and pulled him back – while standing on Blitz – before the Wind prince could reach Boomer. Not about to let the redhead do as he wished, Bloodfang tackled him down together with him when he fell, both of them crashing down on Blitz.
Boomer took this chance and jumped down from the raised ground and made a dash for the exit but thick green vines shot out from the ground and wrapped around his waist, lifting him into the air. The other three boys scrambled to their feet but were quickly lifted into the air by the vines like Boomer.
One of the smaller vines grabbed the brown book from Boomer's grasp and slithered its way towards a certain raven-haired prince as Butch took the book from the vine with a smirk. "Thanks for the book fellas," he snickered.
"You're here too?!" Brick and Kiva exclaimed.
"Well yeah," the Wood Prince shrugged and held up the book for the others to see, "But thanks for the book again, I'll make sure to put it in great use."
But once again book was suddenly snatched away from Butch by a grey wolf with a snarl-like growl before it landed on one of the tables, turning its head looking at the rest of the boys with its light purple, its choker with an 'X' on it a dead giveaway.
"The hell! Beast, you're also after the book!?" Butch shouted.
The wolf slowly shifted back into his human form, Beast blushed bright red as he held the book with both his hands while kneeling on one of his knee. "I apologize, but I can not let you have this book."
"Fine if that's what you want," Butch growled and started forward towards the shy prince.
Brick suddenly blew out a huge fire with the form of a dragon which wrapped itself around the vines, burning the vines loose which released him – and the other three unintentionally.
Butch turned and caught Brick's fist when he threw a punch at him.
Bloodfang blast out a Cutting-Wind at Beast who dodged to one side but at the same time a pillar of earth shot out from in front of the silver-haired prince, knocking the book out of his hands by surprise and sending the book flying high into the air – in the middle of the group since they're standing sort of in a circular format.
Time seem to slow down as everyone's attention snapped towards the book as it opened, the pages fluttered in the air as it did a few flips before it started falling back down quickly. At that moment a orb of their signature colour formed in each of the princes' hand: red, green, purple, blue, white and black.
Just as the book was about to reach the ground the six boys fired out their orbs of energy which hit the book at the same time. White blinding light filled the room as a big, loud explosion went off, blasting the boys back. The whole castle seem to shake at the impact, alerting everyone in the school as many of the students started dashing towards the possible direction of the explosion.
Not after long footsteps could be heard as a few teachers burst through the doors along with the librarian to see the state of the ruined library. Four big gargoyles have already taken action and flew into the hallway leading into the library through a window, blocking all the curious students who tried to get into the room to see what was the chaos about.
The teachers stood in shock as the dusts from the explosion started to settle down, revealing the state of the destroyed library.
"Oh. My. GOODNESS." Was the first thing that came out from the librarian, Mrs Brook's mouth as she took in the sight of her precious library: the ground by the tables' section all messed up, the whole first floor's book shelves were knocked over as books scattered everywhere, all the tables and chairs were destroyed except for the few lucky ones in the corner, black marks of the explosion smeared everywhere – especially the walls, ceiling and the spot where the book exploded; some of the books on the second floor where also blown off their shelves and the balcony was also damaged, some cracks could be seen on the walls and the pillars supporting the second floor. Only the third floor was undamaged.
Mrs Brook's shock quickly fizzed into fury as her newly formed glare focused on the boys who were groaning and slowly pushing themselves up, some from the pile of books that fell on them.
"YOU!" Mrs Brook bellowed, immediately catching the boys' attention, "YOU SIX!"
The princes instantly scrambled to their feet and stared at the librarian with wide eyes, if looks could kill the six of them would be a pile of ash by now.
"YOU– LOOK WHA– HOW COULD– YOU LITTLE–" the librarian shut her eyes for a moment to control her rage before she opened them, an even deadlier glare in her eyes than the one before, "WHAT THE HELL DID YOU DO?!"
"Ms Brook-" "We're so sorry-" "I can explain-" "We didn't mean to destroy the book-" "I wasn't trying to-" "We'll repair everything we-"
"Destroy the book?!" the librarian cut all the boys off the moment she heard the mention of book. She turned and scanned the floor, her eyes landed on the spot where the mysterious book exploded, only a small corner of the book cover remained but Mrs Brook's eyes widened with horror when she recognized the corner of the book since she knows every inch of every single book in the library like the back of her hand.
"YOU DESTROYED THE BOOK OF GUARDIANS!?" she screamed, her voice booming.
Every person in the library jumped when the ground seem to start shaking while the room grew darker and colder as shadows started dancing on the walls. A particularly big shadow that loomed over the librarian seems to grow bigger by the passing second.
All six boys shrunk with fear as they prepared themselves for the librarian's wrath – which they've never seen before.
But everything seem to halt when a calm voice echoed through the library, "Mrs Brook."
Slowly the light returned as the ground stopped shaking, all the shadows shrunk away and the atmosphere turned back to normal.
Everyone turned to the cloaked figure standing by the entrance of the library, the hood casting a shadow over the person's face so that no one could see his face, but they all know who it was.
"Why don't we talk this matter through in my office?" the School Headmaster said.
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Please review and tell me your thoughts. Please tell me anywhere where I should improve or what I should do to make this story more interesting for you readers. Or you can tell me what you'd like to see happening in the future, I always listen to all your thoughts and aim to make this story enjoyable for you all to read.
~Blackrose in the Moonlight
My other stories:
'Secret Around the Corner'
'The Living Ghost'
'Two Masked Life'
'The Green Winged Angel' (Buttercup one-shot)
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