I guess I didn't do two chapters per month huh? Oh well. I blame other things for that. And now finally top is out. ; and that will take up my time as well. But oh well, here the next chapter. And thanks for the review again Jessie glad ya like it!

(Ginny is Virginia nickname for people who don't know)

Chapter 13: Where they're darkness they're light

We weakly made are way out of the sands. And back into the land in front of us. But I could tell everyone was feeling the after affect of the dark sphere. And I was as well. We slowly made are way south; Then a bit west. Close to the mountains we found a small town there. The town of Little Rock.

We we're all glad to find somewhere to rest. That was the first thing on everyone mind. I'm sure of it. "Before we plan anything…let's rest for the day…" Clive said pushing his glasses up a bit. We all nodded to Clive and headed toward the saloon. We found a man in red at the counter. His name was Von. "Welcome to the rolling stone. We provide evening filled with beautiful music." Von said looking around at all of us.

"We like two rooms please…" Clive said stepping in front of the others. "Very good sir, it'll be 360 gella for the whole crew. That okay?" Von asked. Clive nodded placing some money on the counter. "Thank you sir…the rooms are right up the stairs..." Von said pointing to the left. Clive nodded then turned toward us. "Well we can rest anytime now…" Virginia nodded to Clive in return.

"I need to eat first!" Gallows yelled hold a hand in the air. We all shook are heads at him. "Just don't break are bank on your eating…" Jet whispered glaring at gallows. "What was that…?" Gallows asked glaring right back at jet. "Stop it!" Virginia yelled at the two of them. They both quickly looked away from each other. It like I'm traveling with two children, I thought. "I'm going to bed…" I whispered making my way up the stairs.

"Sara?" I heard Virginia run up stairs after me. Gallows slowly grinned. "Can I sleep in the girls' room tonight?" He asked with a huge grin. "No!" Clive and jet both yelled hitting gallows over the head. "Ouch…why is everyone so mean to my little head…?" Gallows asked rubbing the top of his head. "Because it's easy and it the only way to teach you a lesson..." Jet whispered crossing his arms. "Oh? And I thought you just didn't want any other boy sleeping in the room with your crush…" gallows said with a grin.

"I don't have a crush on her!" Jet yelled throwing his arms to his sides. "Hmm? Why are you reacting this way then jet?" Clive asked with a smile. "Clive shut up…" Jet whispered hiding his face in his scarf. Gallows and Clive both started to laugh. As jet face turned a bit red. "I don't have to take this! I'm going to bed!" Jet yelled starting up the stairs. "Don't forget to say goodnight to your sweetheart!" Gallows yelled to jet. "Shut up!" Jet yelled hearing more laughing behind him.

The next morning came pretty quickly. But no matter where you are on Filgaia you always see sand. As far as the eye can see; but before whatever happened on Filgaia. They're water as far as the eye could see. An ocean they were called. I remembered reading about them before. I closed the book on my lap. The other two we're still asleep. "I dream about that ocean sometimes…An ocean as far as the eye can see…with fish swimming in it…people laughing…" I didn't know why I was saying those things out loud. But the thing was…I felt like…I had touched…that water before.

The water called an ocean. But I knew that couldn't be true. They had been gone for a long time. Maybe because of the demons as well. I slowly stood up and headed over to the window. I stared out of it. "San as far as the eye can see…" I whispered closing my eyes. Was life easier when oceans of pure water were still around? No…because they had demons then as well. Life was never easy, if it was easy. They're would have no need for drifters like my self, I thought. As soon as I finished that thought I felt something jump on my back.

I let out a scream falling forward. "Sara!" I slowly looked up with a glare. Yup it was Virginia. "Get off…me!" I yelled. "No!" she yelled clinging into me. "I…I am going to kill you, if you don't get off!" I yelled moving wildly. "Can't kill me if you can't throw me off!" Virginia yelled sticking her tongue out at me. "Virginia!" I yelled again, but then I felt someone pull her off of me. "What the hell are you doing this early…?" The voice asked sounding angry.

"Let go of me, jet!" I quickly looked up to see jet holding Virginia up. I slowly got up brushing my self off then I turned to look at them. "Hold her still jet, so I can kill her!" I said holding my hands together. "Sounds like a good idea to me…" jet said with a small grin on his face. "No! This isn't fair! Two on one!" Virginia yelled moving around wildly. But to my surprise something happened I never thought would. When Virginia was trying to get free from jet.

She—she kicked jet somewhere. Somewhere no guy ever wants to be kicked. Jet quickly let go of Virginia as he let out a huge yell. I stood there with my mouth open in shock. "Oh my god!" Virginia yelled watching jet fall into the floor holding the area that had been kicked. "What the hell are you waiting for Virginia!" I yelled at her. She could only look dumbfounded at me. "Go get ice!" I yelled. She quickly nodded and ran out of the room.

I could hear jet cussing quietly. I couldn't help but feel sorry for him. I slowly kneed down to him. "Jet are you alright?" I watched him slowly look up at me blushing. Then he quickly looked away. I could her him whisper whatever. This time I didn't care if he was acted like he normally does. Why you ask? Well he is hurt right now. I grabbed a pillow off of one of the beds and placed it under jet's head.

I watched him look surprised up at me. I could only give him a confused look. "T-thanks…" jet whispered quietly. "No…problem it was my fault….stupid Virginia did that anyways…" I said crossing my arms looking away. Jet quickly looked around the room to make sure Virginia really was gone. "No….that not true…" jet whispered feeling his face turning redder. "Huh…?" I said turning to look at him. "I did that because I wanted too…so I-it no one fault…aside from mine…" jet finished saying closing his eyes. I slowly smiled watching him. He isn't as bad as he normally acts toward others. I guess he just doesn't show it very much.

Then I heard the door fly open. "G-got the ice…" Virginia said trying to catch her breath. "About damn time…" jet said quickly opening his eyes looking at Virginia. "What?" Virginia yelled waving the bag of ice over her head. "I didn't have to get you this stupid ice!" she yelled glaring at jet. "Even those…it was your entire fault…?" Jet said looking away from her.

"It was not--!" As soon as Virginia finished saying that; the ice when flying toward jet. Me and Virginia watched in shock by where it landed. Jet let out another loud yell. "VIRGINIA!" I yelled at her. "I-I didn't try to do that!" She yelled back at me. I Glared at her. Then she quickly ran out of the room. I shook my head at bit before turning to look at jet. "I'm sorry about stupid Virginia again…" He quickly shook his head at me. "D-don't worry about I-it…" He whispered still holding the area.

I could still he was doing his best to hide that he was in pain. But I could still tell he was in pain. None of the less. I grinned a bit and patted his head. "Poor little jetty…" I whispered with a grin. "shut-up…" he whispered back to me. Then we heard a knock on the door. We both looked as the door slowly opened. "Hey, you two it time--…" but gallows quickly stop talking seeing my head on top of jet's head. And jet's red face. "Oh…? Was something happening in here?" Gallows asked with a grin. We both quickly looked to each other then away. "No!" we both yelled at the same time. "Oh, really now?" Gallows asked. "Stop thinking that way you pervert!" I yelled throwing some pillows at him.

But somehow I knock him out of the room with just pillows. Uh, I guess he has really bad balance huh? Jet slowly stood up looking surprised. Don't blame him. I was surprised gallows would give up so easy. "Well we should head down stairs…I guess gallows was trying to say…but are you alright to do that jet…?" I watched him glare at me. "I'm fine, I don't need you to baby me…" he answered and quickly left the room.

Gees…he sure changes quickly…I like him better when he is hurt, I thought. We slowly made are way down stairs; where we found Ginny and Clive sitting at a table talking. Me and Jet slowly headed over to them. "Oh, there you two are…" Clive said turning to look at us. "Something up…?" I asked looking to Ginny. She slowly nodded. "Yes another guardian temple should be close to this town, so we should ask around the town for information…" Clive nodded but looked around confused.

"Where…gallows?" As soon as he finished asking that. Gallows came falling down the stairs. "Never mind…" Clive said slowly shaking his head. I slowly started to shake my head; as did Virginia and jet. "Well let's start asking around for information!" Virginia yelled hold one of her hands up into the air. "….We are only asking around for information…but she acts like we are search for gella or something…" Jet whispered to me. "Yup that Virginia for you…" He nodded back to me. Again me and jet were pear together to go search for info. I wish Virginia would stop putting me with jet. Really do wish she would stop that!

Anyways we headed out of the saloon to ask around town; for the location of the guardian's temple. We found a man named Kovahn in town. "Kid, you believe in guardians?" He asked looking to jet. Jet shrugged at him. "I hear there's a guardian shrine just north of here, but look at what it done for us! Maybe the guardians lost all their powers eons ago…or perhaps we just lack faith…" Kovahn finished saying.

I thanked him for the information. Then we turned to look at each other. "Let's head back…" jet slowly nodded to me. We found the others waiting in front of the saloon. "Find anything?" Virginia asked. I nodded to her and told her the location we heard. "Sounds about right…" Clive whispered placing a hand under his chin. "Then we should get moving! Before they get they're before we do!" Virginia yelled running toward the exit of town. "She…right we should get moving…" Clive said with a sigh.

We nodded to Clive, and slowly followed him toward Virginia. We headed outside of town and climbed into are horses; then we followed what the man told us. We head north of town past two beaches where we found it. We found the guardian's temple called Glimmering Emblem. Then we quickly headed inside.

"Well….? Do you sense anything…?" Virginia asked as soon as we got inside. "No…not I…I do not even feel the sense of discomfort brought on, by Janus or the sense of exhaustion when the guardian energy is depleted." Clive finished saying with a look of worry on his face. It could only mean two things, we were too late, or the guardian really did lose it power long ago.

"Maybe we're the first ones here?" Jet whispered looking around. "No, I don't think so…" gallows said with angrier in his voice. We all quickly looked toward gallows. "You sensed something?" Virginia asked. "No, No…I don't sense anything…that's the problem…The sensation we're suppose to feel when the guardians' life force energy flows…" gallows said still looking forward. So the guardian maybe gone this quickly? "You mean to say they have already done their deed here?" Clive asked pushing his glasses up.

"I don't know…I hope not…" gallows said placing a hand on top of his head. "Let's go. We have to find out what happened here…" we all nodded to Virginia. We headed up some stairs and into a door at the left first. Two blocks we're blocking a switch in this room. Gallows threw his steady doll pushing the block out of the way then jet quickly stepped in front of him. "Hey!" gallows yelled at him. We watched jet throw his boomerang around a block to hit the switch. Then the door opened. "That what I call teamwork!" Virginia yelled holding her hand up into the air.

But from the look of it; it wasn't really teamwork. I could see gallows and jet glaring at each other again. Why do they hate each other so much? "Let's go, let's go!" I heard Virginia yell pulling me up some stairs then into the next room. With the boys slowly following behind us. In the next room we're blocks that move on both sides if you just pull one. We nodded to move them into a bridge so we could get to the other side of the room. Jet quickly hopped down to the blocks and started to move them. Don't ever have to ask him, huh?

I kept on watching him, and then I felt someone pat my shoulder. I looked to my right to see Virginia there. "Jet is alright, right?" I glared at her. She would ask a question like that; after what she did to him. "He said he was fine…" I could her Virginia giggling to her self. "What's so funny?" I asked in a whisper. "Or maybe he doesn't want someone to see him in pain…" I felt angry toward Virginia. "Virginia shut up…" I could hear her still laughing. God, she needs a hobby or something. Really, she does. "It's done…" we all quickly turned to see the bridge was finished.

"Good job!" Virginia yelled running across it. "Whatever…" jet whispered back to her. Then gallows and Clive started across the bridge. Then me and Jet; we followed the others into the door way in front of us. We found some weird window covered in black in front of us as we entered the next room. But we could see sunlight trying to come into the room from it. "Hmm?" Clive said looking toward it. "It looks like a dirty window…" I whispered; the other turned to look at me. "Meaning…?" Jet asked.

"Some kind of water could clean it and let the light in…" everyone looked a bit puzzled. "Water…?" Clive said holding his hand under his chin. "Ah!" Clive yelled. "Gallows fire your freezer doll at the window…" Clive said looking toward him. "Uh…ok…" gallows said looking lost. He did as he was told. He fired some ice cold water from his freezer doll at the window. And to everyone surprised it worked! We watches light shine down on a crystal under us. "So it really was dirty…" jet said sounding surprised.

"Sara has a good eye for things like this…" Virginia said with a smile. "I-I guess I do…" I said looking away. "I see another crystal over there…" Clive said pointing out. "So when both crystal have light that door will open…?" Virginia asked. "That would be my guess…" We all nodded and hopped down. Then head back to the first room. This time we when up some stairs to the right and into the door at the top. In the next room just headed up some stairs; then into the doorway in front of us. In this room; we had to light some candles as shown in the mirror. Meaning the same ones. I helped Virginia with this.

Then we heard the door open on the other side of the mirror. Virginia hit on the mirror but it didn't break. Clive shook his head and headed up to her. "Stand back!" he yelled placing a bomb at the mirror. Boom! The mirror quickly when into 1000's pieces. We nodded to each other heading into the doorway. In the next room we just head right into the next doorway in front of us.

We found are selfers at the second dirty window. Clive nodded to gallows. Gallows nodded back and pulled out his freezer doll; he fired at the window. We watched as light shine down on the second crystal as well. Then the door under us opened. "Alright, let's go!" Virginia yelled hopping down to the door. We followed her down and inside the doorway. We found another mirror in front of us. Clive placed a bomb then it quickly disappeared.

Then we headed into the next room. We found stairs on both sides of the room. We took the left side first; and headed inside the door there. We found more moving blocks that move on both sides. Again jet when ahead making a bridge out of the blocks. But the door on the other side was still locked; we could see a switch on the ground on the other side. I started to move one of the blocks over to move one of the blocks over to the switch. "Not going to stop her?" Virginia asked jet. He just shrugged at her. "Aww, little jetty not going to be protect of her right now?" gallows asked adding in his two-bit.

"S-shut-up…" Jet whispered turning a bit red; he tried to hide his face in his scarf. I slowly finished moving the other two into a bridge. I slowly turned to look to the others. I could see jet face was all red. Sun-burn indoors? Talk about weird. "Ok…" I said giving them a weird look. Virginia ran across without saying a word. As did gallows. They are up something. I know they are. "Well let's follow them, you two…" Clive said with a small smile looking from me to jet. We both slowly nodded following after Clive into the next room.

We found two blocks on a pillar in the middle of the room; but before there we're no stairs to walk up to the other side in this room. We would have to push those blocks into a bridge. Gallows took out his steady doll to push the blocks off the pillar. Then he slowly started to push them toward us. "This is going to take sometime…" jet whispered sitting down. "Yup…" I said sitting beside him. Ten minutes later…"Got any 2's Jet…?" I asked looking at my cards. "Go fish…" He whispered looking back to me.

"Finished!" gallows yelled standing at the now finished bridge. "Finally…" Jet said taking the cards and putting them away. "What do you mean finally!" gallows yelled at jet. "You took ten minutes to move two blocks!" Jet yelled back at gallows. "So…what's your point?" Gallows asked. "Ugh…" Jet said shaking his head looking toward the ground. "You should just play poker with her next time!" gallows whispered into jet's ear. "Why poker…?" Jet asked giving gallows a question look.

"Because maybe she will bet her cloths…" Gallows whispered with a huge grin on his face. Jet face turned a bit red as he glared at gallows. Jet slowly pulled out his boomerang; then quickly smacked gallows on the forehead with it. "OUCH!" Gallows yelled holding his forehead. We all turned to look at the two. "Oh, god…that hurts!" gallows yelled again rubbing a red spot on his forehead. "Jet what did you do to gallows!" Virginia yelled jet just shrugged then pulled on my arm heading over the bridge. The other quickly followed us over the bridge then into the unlocked door in front of us.

We found a level in the next room; Virginia quickly when ahead and pulled it. We watched part of a wall go down. That was blocking a door way under us. "Uh, I see…Just like there were two crystals in the other rooms…" Clive started to say. "You think they're two levels in this room…?" I asked Clive. He slowly nodded to me in answer. "Then we better circle back around…" Virginia said hopping down. "What a pain…" Jet said with a sigh.

WE slowly hopped down following Virginia back into the room before this. We head up the stairs to the right this time then into the open door. In this room another moving blocks that move on both sides at the same time. Clive slowly moved the block into the switch; then the door west of us opened. He slowly nodded to us. Then we headed toward the door and when inside. Another mirror puzzle stood in front of us. I helped Virginia light the right one again. And destroy one of the boxes. Then we heard the door open.

Clive then nodded to us. He when ahead of us and placed a bomb in front of the mirror. Boom! The mirror when into 1000's pieces. We nodded to each other and headed toward the open door on the other side. Then headed inside; in the next room we headed down some stairs then an open door a bit north of us. We found are selves back in the room with the levels. "Looks like Clive was right…" Jet whispered to me. I slowly nodded to him. Virginia when ahead to pull this level as well. We watched as the last wall that was blocking the door goes down.

"Well let's be on are ways…" Clive said looking around the group. We hopped down to the open door there; then headed inside. WE found another mirror in front of us. Again Clive broke it with his bombs. Then we headed into the door way north of us. We stopped after we headed up some stairs. We could see now that we were too late. Poor thing, I thought.

"It appears we are too late…everything is in shambles…" Clive said shaking his head a bit. We all looked on ahead where only spider webs stood now. "Why would they do this? What do those people plan to do with the guardian's energy? What do they mean by transforming the planet?" Virginia asked holding a hand over her chest. "Don't worry…there must be something we can do…" gallows said heading up to the spider web area. He held his hand out as energy came too it. Gallows got the Flash hit medium.

"The guardian must have mustered its last strength and left this medium for us. The situation might be bad, but…the guardian wanted us to have this. We're gotta do something." Gallows said holding his hand on his forehead. I quickly started to look around. I-I felt something in the room with us. Then the room started to glow. Clive quickly looked around as well. "Looks likes there's another surprise in store for us." Clive said looking to the others. Jet then quickly looked around as well.

"What, to keep us company? Gimme a break…" Jet said rubbing a hand in his hair. "It's coming!" I yelled as a monster came toward us. IT was a huge eye ball monster. It was weak to light element attacks. So Virginia kept on casting Spectre on it when she didn't have to help with healing. Jet and Clive kept on shooting at it and let out Gatlings on it when they could. And gallows helped Virginia with healing. But before long the eye-ball fell. The room then let out a shake after the battle. We all took a look around; then we headed into the door in front of us.

We found some weird machine inside. IT had some glowing circle in the middle of it. "What's this big thingamajig? I've seen it before." Virginia said staring at it. "It's a stigma of Filgaia." Gallows answered her. Clive quickly turned to look at gallows. "Cloud this be the control device called the chock?" Clive asked. We all looked toward Clive. "Hey, not bad. You really are an Archeologist." Gallows said holding his hands out to his sides.

"A Stigma? And what's a Chock?" Virginia asked. "It's kinda like a symbol of sin—the sin committed by mankind. A long time ago, humans used the guardians' energy to stop the world from decaying. This lost Prehistoric culture viewed the guardians as living bio-plants and sealed them in rural locates of the world. The world is feeding off this guardian's life force…and Continue to survive." Gallows said holding a hand on his forehead.

I shook my head a bit. Because I knew the rumors about it were true now. This machine showed sin of all humans on this planet. "Help me…" I quickly looked to the other to see they were still talking. But I-I thought I heard a voice. A voice right to my heart. A voice I knew very well. Was I just hearing things? "No, that can't be true…" I quickly looked over hearing Virginia's voice. "Those bio-plants of the time exist today as the guardian shrines. And we the people of Baskar are the descendants of the planet protectors." Gallows finished saying holding a hand out in front of him.

"However, even with the power of the guardian shines, we were unable to stop the world from decaying. We all know that much too well." Clive said pushing his glasses up a bit. "The power that sustains the world. These words directly signify the existence of guardians. The guardians help maintain world balances, while acting as a pillar, preserving the planet it self." Gallows said looking pretty angry over it. Can't really blame him. We humans are selfish. Asking no making guardians give up some of they're life-energy just to keep us as well as the planet a life. We all slowly turned to look at the machine again.

"This thing is like the original sin we continue to carry on our backs…" Gallows said looking away from the machine. We all stared up at it a bit. "Living on this planet means carrying a burden of sin…I Know it sounds crazy, but…that just gives us more reason to live. We can't let the guardians support go to waste." Gallows said placing a hand on Virginia's shoulder. "Yes, I know…that's why we have to protect the guardians…" Virginia said looking toward the ground. "Yeah, I hear ya…It's gotta be us…It's gotta be…" Gallows whispered back to Virginia. Then we headed back to the last room we we're in. But as soon as we entered; the room started to flash again.

"What now?" Virginia yelled. "I believe they are trying to buy some more time…" Clive said looking around the group. Jet slowly shook his head a bit. "Well, we don't have the time to adjust to their schedule!" Jet yelled to the others. "Carefully it coming!" I yelled as the monster came toward us. It was another eye-ball monster. Stronger then the last one. Again it was weak to light element attacks.

They just attacked it in the same way and it soon fell. Gallows quickly looked around after the battle. "What does this have to do with transforming Filgaia! Are we strong enough to carry this burden…?" Gallows yelled looking at the ground.

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In a dark room Melody was staring at a screen. "Program heart possession complete current sequence stability at 168h/F mark and rising continuing to monitor measurement. Gemini Circuit function normal. Recording peripheral phenomenon. Stand by for analogism expansion auto-level OS. Camouflage at 95 completion. Shifting limiter level green to yellow. 318 S/F until energy cycle defaults to 70." Melody said staring at a screen.

"Everything is clear. Codename: Divine Fortress, ready on command." Melody said bowing. "The Fortress created by the gods…the legacy of wisdom will finally take shape and activate. One of our goals is achieved. Come before us Divine Fortress. Asgard shall be your given name, and you are to shield us as our aegis!" Lee halt yelled toward the screen. He slowly turned away from the screen. "The Golem Asgard, created from the wisdom of Hyades…The hidden sparkle in your arm shall become a barrier capable of withstanding mighty force. Your enemy shall be everyone who stands in our way. Crush all enemies to pieces! Now, come before us!" Lee halt yelled holding his hands in front of him.

Then melody and the golem appeared in the room. Janus slowly walked up to the golem to have a look at it. "Huh? This piece of junk? Can this thing really fight?" Janus asked hitting hit hand on it. "It's been programmed for tactical mode. All related options are in place. See to it that Asgard regards this place as a battleground." Lee halt said. Melody nodded to him. Then Janus looked away, for a second. When he looked back the golem tried to hit him.

Janus quickly jumped backward. "WH-what the?" Janus yelled toward the golem. "A contra-Anninilitation barrier Asgard's Main Arm—hence the name divine fortress." Malik said with a small smile on his face. "That's not what I wanted to know! Why is this clunker attacking me all of the sudden? Can't it distinguish who the enemy is?" Janus yelled back at Malik. "It's still fresh, so its behavioral parameters may still be unstable. It needs more work." Melody said pointing toward the golem.

"Tch…looks like we got off on the wrong foot. Me and him don't seem to get along. Sorry, but I'll pass on the workshop class…later!" Janus said leaving the room. "So it's the auto-defender system we need to work on…" Lee halt said placing a hand under his chin. "Yes…It's been programmed to attack those with a certain level of fighting spirit at its own discretion…" Melody said.

"This will be of great use to us. How marvelous…" Malik said will a small smile on his face. "There are two types of people in this world. Those who use and those who are used. Janus Cascade…which might you be? And us?" Lee halt asked him self then started to laugh.