Chapter 4: The Story

Both Rose and Jake woke up two hours later on the couch. Jake woke up on one side and Rose woke up on the other side of the couch. "Jake, are you awake?" Rose asked tiredly as she woke up. "Weren't we on the floor before?"

"Yeah Rose, we were. Who moved us, not that I am complaining, the couch is much more comfortable." Jake said, happy to be on the couch.

Then Will walked into the room. "Hey you two, sleep ok?" Will said smiling at them. "Your grandpa has been talking to us about you and your history together." Then both Jake and Rose gave her an evil look. "Ok, so it was only me, but that is because your grandpa said that I need to know things about you so we can work better together. So now I get to tell you my history with the guardians. So here it goes." Will said as she sat down between the two. "It all started when I moved to Heatherfield. I was the odd ball and didn't exactly fit in with the other kids, well, I didn't think so. The only one that was nice to me at first was Hay Lin. Everyone got used to me except for Cornelia who, to me, didn't think that I was worth much to anyone. That got worse once we became guardians."

"Once we became guardians, Cornelia would blame me for everything that went wrong. It took a whole year for her to really like me. Once again, that is what I think. We have so many rules to being guardians like not showing anyone that we are guardians, not even family." Jake nodded to show that he could relate to that. "Anyway, at one point we had to find the rightful ruler of Meridian." Rose and Jake gave her confused looks. "Meridian is another planet but in a different dimension. The rightful ruler of Meridian is our friend Elyon. Her brother is Phobos who was the leader before her but he was very evil and tried to get to Elyon before me and my friends did. At first we didn't even know the rightful ruler was and neither did Phobos. Me and my friends found out but never told Elyon, fearful that Phobos would get to her. Unfortunately Phobos got to her anyway. That is when all the trouble started."

"When we would try to talk to Elyon at all, she would ignore us. She thought that we were keeping Meridian from her so that she would stay on earth. That was the complete opposite of course. At one point we found a book that told us what Phobos was planning. Long story short, Phobos screwed up and we beat him right before he killed Elyon. We had thought that that was the end of the whole thing but we were so wrong."

"It turns out that there is an ex-guardian named Nerissa. She was once the holder of the Heart of Kandrakhar until it corrupted her and it was taken away. Then she killed a friend of hers just to get the heart back. She actually helped us to defeat Phobos. She only helped so that she could take the Heart of Meridian, who is Elyon. She gave Elyon a necklace that would suck all of her power out of her. While she had the necklace, she still had her power but Nerissa tricked Elyon into freely handing the jewel over to her. Now Nerissa had a heart of her own which was bad news but it got worse once she got three hearts. We were out numbered three hearts to one. One day we got desperate and set Phobos free to help us take the hearts from Nerissa. We made a deal with Phobos; he had to swear on Kandrakhar that he wouldn't use the power for himself. We knew he would and then he would lose the power and we could fix everything. He took the hearts from Nerissa and our plan was working out perfectly until Cedric; who works for Phobos; took Phobos power and used it himself which nobody had counted on. Cedric used the power and almost won but we did something that he hadn't counted on. We had one superpower that turns us into our elements; we will never use again because we practically lost ourselves to the heart in a way and almost didn't return to our normal selves. Now here we are, getting ready to fight demons." After explaining, Will went to the kitchen to get a glass of water.

"Wow, they really had troubles." Rose said

"Yeah, and to think, we thought that we had problems with the Hunts-clan. So you think that the demons will be a problem for us at all?" Jake asked worried that Rose or his gramps or sister will die to them.

"I can't say Jake, but I can say that we will win, no matter what happens." Rose said trying to calm Jakes nerves.

"I sure hope your right Rose; I can't bare to think of right might happen if I lost you or one of my family members.

"Jake, don't worry so much until the battle begins." Rose said trying to comfort Jake some more.

Then Will walked back into the room. "Yeah Jake, don't worry until this thing actually happens. So until then, let's come up with some sort of plan to fight these things."

"You're right Will, thanks and thank you two Rose for helping."

"You're welcome Jake, besides, what's a girlfriend for?" Rose asked playfully

"I don't know, how about to be kissed?"

With that said, Will rushed out of the room and right into the others. They were heading to the living room but were stopped by Will. "I wouldn't go in there if I were you. Jake and Rose are having a boyfriend/girlfriend moment." It took them a moment to catch on and they all went the opposite direction.