The two birds sat together at the front of the boat enjoying the sunset. I sat behind them slowly paddling out into the sea, an unknown world. I looked back at Saratoga, the small island where I had spent my entire life. And now in the blink of an eye I was leaving it to apparently save the world with the help of two blue birds. I was expecting to wake up any second now and have this entire day just be a dream, a crazy nonsense dream. And now the more I thought about it this entire situation was becoming less and less believable. These two birds, who can talk, are messengers from god. I have to protect them? Protect them from what? And to make things more peculiar these birds, or at least Blu, has spoken about my father. The man who had disappeared one night without a trace or warning and leaving no clues. With all of these questions storming through my mind I didn't realize that Blu was calling my name.

"Daniel!" he yelled.

I stopped rowing and turned around, "Yes?"

"Are you okay?" Jewel asked.

"No I'm fine, just spaced out for a second."

"I know it's hard for you to leave your home especially in the state it is in, but it's for the better good and I hope you know that." Blu said trying to ease me.

"You know it really is..." I started, I could feel my face turning red and my breathing speeding up. "It's especially dam hard when I don't know what the hell is going on! You said you had answers and now I want to hear them! I want to know why I shouldn't just turn this dam boat around and go back!"

The two birds stood shocked at my sudden outburst, there was a death like silence for a minute until Jewel spoke first.

"He's right, he does deserve to know." She said hanging her head low.

I faced them and rested my head on my right hand, "Let's hear it then."

"Well what do you want to know?" Blu asked hesitantly.

The first question came to my mind instantly, "How did you know my father."

Blu sighed, "I thought you would ask that one first."

"I'll explain it." Jewel said putting her wing lightly on Blu's back before looking up to me.

"From the beginning the role of being a guardian was a family duty. For centuries it was passed down in the same family and each time the family would fulfill their obligations. That is how it was until seventeen years ago."

"The pieces were sent down from the heaven's and Blu and I soon followed down. The family was expecting us and had already began training their choice for guardianship, a young man named Zachariah. When we confronted the family and met Zachariah we also met his lifelong friend, Daniel, your father."

"Daniel was a wealthy man, inheriting a large sum of gold from your grandfather's shipping company. He financially supported Zachariah and his family, buying them guns, swords, ships anything they would need for the journey of finding the pieces. At first Blu and I were upset that the secret of the four pieces and the power they held was told to your father, it was never told to anyone else but there was never a rule against it. But we eventually came to trust him and even let him accompany Zachariah and us on the journey...a foolish mistake."

Jewel looked down to the bottom of the boat, "Your father betrayed us, he killed Zachariah in cold blood when we had all four pieces within our grasp and were going to seal humanity's survival for another century. He wanted to take the power for himself, he was greedy, a evil man. We were barely able to stop him from using the power and ultimately dooming humanity."

"What happened to my father?"

The two birds slowly nodded their heads no and I knew the answer.

"The pieces were once again scattered across the world but the duty of guardianship was relieved from Zachariah's family and placed onto your father's, as a curse now more than a privilege, more specifically you, his only flesh and blood left. You were still just a small baby when I was sent to look after you, I have watched over you Daniel for your entire life. I shared the same emotions of happiness, pleasure, love, hate, shame, anything you felt I felt. I know you Danie,l I see the good in you, something your father never had."

There was an eerie silence as I absorbed everything that I was just told.

"Now I'm paying for my father's mistakes..."

"Yes, it's sad but true. I'm sorry your father was not the man you always thought him to be."

"Wait then how did I get this?" I asked holding the medallion in my hand.

"Let's just say that a birdie dropped it outside your doorstep one night." Blu snickered.

I caught his drift and lightly smiled and then asked, "So what about Zachariah's family? What happened to them?"

"We don't know."

"We haven't talked to them after Zachariah's death."

I sat and thought about what to make of this whole mess. I always thought that it would feel good to finally have closure on my father and to know who he was and what he did. But now that I know he nearly doomed the human race and was a evil man I wish I could go back to not knowing.

"Are you going to turn the boat around or continue on?" Blu asked.

I looked up and smiled, "So, where to?"