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Legend of the Ghost Guardians: Night of the Shadows
Chapter 3: Dreamscape
Chinook was dreaming of the same dark mountain, only as it grew closer to him, a dark purple ray of light beamed inside of the mountain while the moon shone a bright dark aura once again as it blinded him.
When he opened his eyes again, he was experiencing the battle of Phantana two months ago. The whole scene played exactly like in the past as he watched from afar.
"My Master returns."
"We're too late!" Chinook cried out.
"Are you ready, sis?" Chinook said.
"To the end." Luna answered as she smiled.
They began to gather all of their power in order to perform their own powerful fury attacks, which incapacitated Phantana. After the fury attack, the teens watched as Phantana returned to her true form; a young halfa with dark blonde hair and brown eyes, free from the Eon Lord's influence.
"She is just like us." Chinook said in amazement. But then the realm began to collapse in on itself and the portal started to suck everything inside.
"We have to get out of here... now!" Danny insisted on making a quick exit, but Chinook, looking back, refused.
"I can't leave her behind...I got to save her!" Chinook declared not wanting to leave Phantana behind.
"What?" Danny reacted in shock. "Save the girl that's been trying to kill us?"
"That wasn't her fault... She was being used by the Eon Lord!" Chinook argued as he saw Phantana drifting away into the portal. He then went after and was able to grab her and escaped safely.
"Now we can go!" Chinook shouted to them as Danny and Luna followed him back to the Ghost Zone. While they were flying, Chinook suddenly heard a dark ominous voice calling out to him as the whole scene turned to black.
"C-Ch-Ch-Chinook..."
"C-Ch-Ch-Chinook..."
- In the balcony of the Guardian's Temple, Ghost Zone-
"C-Ch-Ch-Chinook..."
Chinook suddenly woke up from his dream as he tried to gather his surroundings. He saw that his old friend the Ghost Writer walking towards him and realized that they were outside in the temple's balcony.
"Hey Chinook! Some night, huh? It would more beautiful if we were in the human world." Ghost Writer happily explained as Chinook got up.
"What is it you want, Writer?" he groaned.
"Why do I have to want something?" Ghost Writer said. "I'm just ready to spend the best day ever now that the evil-crazy-she-ghost is gone."
Chinook then stopped him there. "What!? Rebecca? What do you mean, Writer!?"
"Whoa! Calm down! You're awfully tense. Haven't been sleeping much?" Ghost Writer worriedly asked his friend. "Maybe you should listen to Frostbite tell one of his glory days or Walker's rule listing. That'll put anyone to sleep."
Chinook ignored his advice and asked again. "Writer... What happened?"
Ghost Writer sighed. "Okay, you ready?" Chinook nodded. "I get up to clear my head... since I don't sleep much myself these days with the female of fright hanging about, low and behold... there she was, sneaking out into the garden..." he shivered from the thought of it.
"She gives me the creeps. Hear my teeth." Ghost Writer showed his teeth chattering.
"Come on. We have to find her." Chinook told his friend. "It's dangerous for her to be outside the Temple at night or even into the human world."
"It's dangerous for any of us to be outside at night." Ghost Writer warned Chinook before he could go any further. "Besides, Walker said you have to wait till your powers return... cause you're weak, no offense."
"No time to argue. Come on." Chinook argued as he ran inside the temple.
Ghost Writer cleared his throat. "Ah, you'll be helpless without me. I better come with you." He then followed him, not wanting to be left alone.
Once inside, the two guys saw the rest of their friends sleeping deeply and peacefully in their rooms.
"Quiet... we mustn't wake them." Chinook whispered to Ghost Writer.
"What?! I can't hear you over all this snoring!" He tried to say until Chinook shushed him and thankfully, none of them woke up from him.
They tiptoed and silently sneaked past Undergrowth who snored as loud as thunder. Then they pass Frostbite who mumbled in his sleep.
"Yes of course..." he kept on snoring while the boys moved on until they saw Vortex who also talked in his sleep, or in this case, wheezed.
"The weather is my art..." He then kept on sleeping and finally, they sneaked past Clockwork and Walker who slept peacefully, until they reached the exit of the temple.
Chinook then saw Rebecca leaving and caught up with her. "Rebecca, what are you doing out here? It's dangerous."
Rebecca then stopped and softly said. "You shouldn't have followed me, Chinook."
"That's good enough for me. Let's go. See ya and I don't wanna be ya!" Ghost Writer happily said as he tried to leave until Chinook stopped him.
"Please, don't make this harder for me than it already is." She sadly tried to explain to him.
"I'm just trying to understand." Chinook comforted her and she sighed as she lowered her head.
"I'm leaving Chinook, I don't belong here. After all I've done, all I've put you and Luna through... I can't stay here anymore."
"Rebecca, nobody blames you for what happened." Chinook reassured her, knowing how she feels guilty for all the things she had done under the Eon Lord's control.
"I do. Speak for yourself." Ghost Writer scoffed until he received a glare from Chinook.
"Writer..."
"No, he is right." Rebecca said agreeing to Ghost Writer. "And every day that goes by, I'm reminded of it. Chinook, your place is here, your destiny is here. But mine is somewhere out there for me to find."
"Rebecca, I don't want you to go." He pleaded to her, hoping to change her mind.
"Goodbye, Chinook..." And with that, she flew off away from the temple a Chinook watched her leave sadly.
"Now can we finally get some sleep around here?" Ghost Writer said. "I've been only sort of half-sleeping, with one eye open for weeks now... alternating eyes of course... it lessens the strain, but I tell ya, it's taken a toll."
Ghost Writer then saw Chinook looking some kind of dizzy for some reason. "Chinook? You okay, buddy?" But then, he suddenly collapsed when he didn't answer.
"Hey... I want to sleep too, but I didn't mean NOW!" Ghost Writer said nervously trying not to panic. "Let's at least get inside... it's dark out man... and I don't like it. Hello? Anyone home? Hellooo!?"
But Chinook laid there still despite his friend's cries and pleas.
-Dreamscape-
Chinook woke up and looked to see that he wasn't home, but a strange world. It was as dark as the night with stars shining; stone pillars everywhere, and even some kind of a temple at the end of it. He walked to the edge of the pillar he was on and tried to examine the area.
"Hello? Is anyone there?" he cried out hoping to find an answer until suddenly a wise voice emitted to him.
"Do not be frightened, young halfa. You are not alone."
"Who are you? What is this place?" Chinook asked the unknown stranger.
"I have summoned you here so that you might be warned. The moon is counting down and time is running out."
Chinook then stepped back as he heard lots of whispers and voices inside of him, making him nervous until he shout out.
"MAKE IT STOP!"
And just when he said that, the whole area froze in place. Chinook opened his eyes and saw that everything had slowed down but he could move slightly faster than anything around it.
"How did that happened?" He asked after everything returned to its pace.
"A Ghost Guardian can wield many rare abilities that other ghost cannot, including time itself."
"But I've never used it before and I thought only Clockwork can control time. Why do I have this gift?" He asked.
"Sometimes we receive unique abilities only when it is needed. Learn to master this ability and you will be able to see things almost before they happen. But...use this gift wisely, only when circumstances demand. Manipulation of time is not to be done without the utmost of care."
Chinook nodded in agreement as he proceeded on. On the way, he practiced his new gift to pass some obstacles until he reached some kind of pool that shone an icy blue light.
"You seem to have abandoned your true calling." The voice spoke again. "It is your destiny to harness the powers of your elements. Yet, you possess not."
"I haven't been able to use my abilities as well as my sister's for some time now." Chinook admitted.
"Yes. Right now, your powers lay dormant within of you. Let's see if we might not awaken them."
Chinook went into the pool as he concentrated as the voice gave him advice.
"Clear your mind Chinook, cool your thoughts and feel the ice flow through your veins. Allow its cold consume you and breathe with it. Now rise up, and release the blizzard within you!"
Chinook did as the voice commanded and successfully released his ice fury like a natural. He was amazed of how easily he managed to retrieve his favorite power.
"Excellent Chinook." The voice congratulated him. "You're a natural. But now that a primal ice flows inside you, show me you have command of it."
Chinook went ahead and faced many test to improve his abilities and passed with flying colors. With his ice powers, he managed to perform new styles of combat like an ice tail attack (in his wolf form, his tail freezes and uses it to slam opponents with), his ice claws, and mist attack to confuse enemies.
He entered through a temple which reminded of his home, and walked towards a pool in the center of the room as he heard the voice again.
"You have done well... and now it is time for you to return. But be careful Chinook, the enemy approaches."
"Wait!" Chinook called out. "You still haven't told me who you are!" He then saw inside the pool a vision of a great big tree with spike roots as the voice finally said.
"You shall know me as the Great Observant. Seek me out..."
That was the last thing he said before Chinook returned to the real world.
Who is this Great Observant? Don't worry. There's more to come.
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