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Chapter 15-

"Fine, but it took a week's walking to get to here. I'm not walking back."

I smiled. "We don't need to. It'll take a second with Abby's teleporting." And it did. Within a minute we were back in the woods and I felt really safe, more than I had in ages. Then we realised we had a little bit of a problem. We had no idea which tree we'd buried our school uniforms under. We exchanged blank looks. After all we couldn't really dig up the while forest.

Then Annie started pacing. After a few minutes she kicked off her shoes (a bit odd considering it was winter and absolutely freezing) and continued to pace in bare feet. Eventually she stopped and raised her arm. The ground moved until our hideous red school uniforms were visible, albeit caked in mud at the bottom of a hole. It then took a combination of water, wind and fire to get them looking remotely presentable.

Hope then made us all invisible as we slipped through our form room window into the end of day rush. I never thought I'd miss it, but being on the run and imprisoned in a different world can really change your opinion. I was really worried that someone would see us reappear and demand to know where we'd been but nobody batted an eye. They didn't even acknowledge that we were there (nothing new really, but you'd think after disappearing for at least a week...) I looked around the classroom and my heart sank when I saw the date, 3rd march. Wed been gone for more than a month, at least 3 weeks spent trapped in the gateway. Wed missed half term (granted we were staying at school anyway. None of us really get on with our parents...) but there was something else that made me feel like crying.

Grace came over and put her arm round me. "For what it's worth," she whispered. "Happy Birthday!"

I smiled back. Coming back to school in desperation to find a magic portal was a pretty sucky way to spend a birthday but it wasn't the worst one I've ever had. We then proceeded to make a plan.

In everybody else's minds we'd never been gone. They could see us so searching the school was probably not the best thing to do in broad daylight when we could be caught. We couldn't really use Hopes invisibility to search as we needed to be in contact and it would fail. We decided to return to our room and go for tea when the bell went. We would then search for the gateways after lights out.

When we got up to our room we were in for a shock. It had been completely desecrated. Furniture was smashed to pieces, clothing was ripped to shreds. Miss Greenwood and her demon buddies must have broken through the door and searched the room. They would not have been happy to find out that we'd vanished from the face of the earth. Weirdly enough, we hadn't seen her in the hour we'd been back. She was always prowling around main corridor somewhere, but not today. The BCs were back to normal as well. I'd been rammed into a Locker as they ran away cackling and gossiping. To be honest I'm not sure if it was a good thing they were no longer possessed.

Dinner was amazing. The food was horrendous, possibly even worse than usual, but it was still the best meal I'd ever had, probably because it was my first hot meal in a month. I'm still not quite sure how we went 3 weeks in the gateway, without food or water.

After dinner we slipped back into normal school routine as far as we possibly could; only we didn't go to bed at lights out. After rummaging through the wreckage of our room we found some black clothes that weren't too badly ripped. We slipped them on and snuck out. Ed lit the way and we headed to main corridor. It was decided that room 4, Miss Greenwood's room, would be a good place to start. We were going to test Graces theory about the entrance to the chaos gateway being located there. Of course, our previous experiences with the gateway entrances all seemed to involve unconsciousness and getting literally sucked in. Not fun.

We stood around the cupboard door. It seemed to fit that the gateway would be in here; nobody had ever been allowed in the cupboard and Miss Greenwood would spend bizarre amounts of time in there. I was nominated to open the door, and so I gripped the handle and swung it open.

I had my eyes shut (I'm a BIG wimp when it comes to scary), but I opened them when I heard Ed saying, "That's it? Seriously?"

The forbidden cupboard was empty, apart from a few textbooks and ordinary school stuff. Everything was caked in thick dust, but there was nothing that could be a gateway. This meant we had absolutely nothing to go on and we'd have to search the whole school for 2 gateways. However just as I turned to leave the cupboard, Abby blocked my way. She said, "wait 2 minutes," and sent out a wind that blew all the dust off everything. Then I saw it.

On the back wall, there was a symbol painted in red. It was like nothing I'd ever seen before and my best guess is some kind of ancient rune. I could feel power surging from it and I was pretty sure we'd found the first gateway. The only question was, how did it work?

Abby worked it out first and she walked up to it and placed her hands on part of the design that I'd only just realised were handprints. A section of the wall crumbled to reveal a portal. There was lots of the smoky red pure chaos swirling inside it but before anyone or anything could go in or come out of the gateway grace shouted, "Nulaivu Mutavum!" I have no idea what that means but it's probably something along the lines of 'close the entrance' because that's exactly what happened. The bricks returned to the wall and even the dust resettled, almost obscuring the gateway symbol from view.

Ed looked slightly gobsmacked. "Where the hell did that come from?" she demanded.

Grace looked slightly baffled herself when she replied, "It just came to me. I think it's my sight."

"Cool, will your sight tell us where the other one is?"

"Um, I don't think so. It just kind of comes and goes, usually at inconvenient moments. I can't really control it. Just like you can't control your shape shifting and randomly turn in to cute animals."

"Damn."

"Guys," Hope interrupted. "I have an idea." weirdly enough I had the exact same idea, Hope was just faster. "Miss Greenwood always liked to be near her gateway; she always seemed to be in room 4. What are the odds that Mr Jameson was exactly the same? Where would we be most likely to find him?"

I remembered that he had a little office, not much bigger than the cupboard we were currently squished in, somewhere in the building. I told the others and we raced off to find it.

Everything in the office was caked in dust. It didn't look like anyone had been in since Mr. Jameson nicked off in the autumn.

After a few minutes we found the symbol. It was gold and had been discreetly incorporated into a weird swirly abstract painting. Abby opened it up and we stood before the portal, only this time it was swirling gold and I was getting a good feeling. The six of us linked arms and walked through, hoping we'd eventually find what we were searching for.

Chapter 16-

Seconds later we stepped into the White office. Like the chaos gateway it was exactly as we remembered it. Behind us we heard a voice say, "Yay! You guys are finally here!"

Then another voice said, "Yeah, sorry it took so long. We banned teleporting in after Dennis betrayed us for chaos."

I'm slightly to say that I was a little paranoid at random strangers talking to us like that so I whirled round to face them, sword drawn.

Just a random thought; how had nobody noticed us walking round school with full sized swords strapped round our waists? Wed kept them on just in case. Again, weird...

Anyway I found myself pointing my sword at two girls sitting on the desk. They looked about a year older than us and they were extremely pretty. I'm not normally that shallow, but I felt slightly jealous. The girl who'd spoken last had pale skin, ice blue eyes and sheets of glossy straight black hair. The other one had a tan that suggested she came from somewhere with lush weather (i.e., NOT England), chocolate brown eyes and slightly wild blonde curls. I realised I was staring and still pointing a sword at them, so I hastily rammed the sword away and looked at the floor.

The blonde one jumped of the desk and squished us all, including her friend, into a massive group hug. "By the way, I'm Jestein and that's Hallie!" she squeaked pointing at the black haired girl.

Annie was the first one to find her voice. "If you don't mind me asking," she began. "Who exactly are you?"

Hallie spoke this time. She seemed to be the quieter of the two. "Well, we're your new protectors. Dennis' replacement since he sucked at the job even before he changed sides."

"You keep going on about Dennis. That's not Mr. Jameson's first name is it?" asked Hope.

"Yeah Dennis Jameson, ex protector and all round annoying, slimy little..."

She was interrupted by Ed's sniggering. "Dennis? Who's called Dennis? It's like Larry, only Larry is a way more awesome name."

"Ok...?"

"So what exactly are protectors supposed to do?" I asked. "Because I'm pretty sure Mr. Jameson didn't do any of it."

"Well," Jestein looked like she was thinking. "We explain to you all about the guardianship and help you train your powers and generally try to protect you from dying. Think of us as like guardian angels."

Hope seemed to be thinking too. After a few seconds she said, "Not to be rude or anything, but you don't look that much older than us. How exactly are you going to protect us? You can't know that much more than us."

Hallie and Jestein burst out laughing and it was several minutes before they stopped. None of us had any idea what was so funny but eventually Hallie paused for breath. "You'd be surprised at just how much we know."

"Guys were 500 years old!" laughed Jestein. That was slightly mind blowing information. I think my chin might have hit the ground.

I heard Ed's voice behind me, "Holy crap." she has such a way with words.

Hallie smiled, "We look 14 because we choose to. We're immortals from the other side of the gateway. We can look however we choose, well within reason." Her form then began to shift and ripple, and she became a little girl with red hair in bunches. Then the little girl began to age until a gnarled old lady was sitting in her place. She screwed up her face and turned back into her eternally teenage self.

Jestein took over talking, "I think you'll find that were perfectly qualified to be your protectors. How do you think nobody noticed you were gone from school? We can influence the mortal world in several ways. Now down to business; what exactly do you know about the current situation from Jameson?"

I really had to think about that one, "um, not a lot. He told us that were guardians with powers over natural forces and we have to save the world from untold evil. Then he vanished for three months and he showed up again, Told us about secondary powers, gave us swords and pendants and ran off again. He also betrayed us because the pendants bound our powers and trapped us in the chaos gateway for 3 weeks."

"Ok, we'll just start from the very beginning. It's a very good place to start."

And we all burst into song.

Chapter 17-

"Ok," we were sitting on assorted beanbags and armchairs in the corner. "Everything about everything. There are three worlds, at least that we know of. They are the immortal realms, our realm and chaos, and the mortal world. The immortal realms can influence yours. Kindness and good luck come from our realm and everything bad comes from chaos. It's a vicious circle though as all the chaos in your world today: war, terrorism, pollution; its making chaos stronger. This is bad. Very bad."

"As a general rule, the worlds don't mix directly. There are gateway worlds linking them which you already know. Immortals can access the mortal realm, but mortals can't get to the immortal realms, only the gateways. Only a select few from each world have this right though. The protectors, the guardians and the frite; the 3 groups are also known as triversers. If chaos gets enough strength, they will be able to bend these rules and all their forces will amass in the mortal world as opposed to just the misery spreading frite."

"This is where you guys come in. You are the guardians. You have to stop chaos getting through. If they break the laws of nature the whole universe could fall apart."

"But why us?" hope asked. "Why are we the guardians and not anyone else?"

"We don't know."

"You don't?"

"No. Not for definite. There's a theory though. Because everyone with the ability to cross worlds has other gifts, such as your powers and our abilities to morph and influence mortals. Only triversers can do these things. It is believed that this is because we have a unique source if power within us, a magical core if you prefer. This is a completely random selection from every generation but triversers can always find each other. This is potentially part of why you're such good friends and how you all came together at Milton. The most important thing is that whatever happens the power inside you will always be a part of you and even before your full powers developed there have been traces. Even when you have to blend back in with normality, and that day will come, there will still be traces. You are the gateway guardians until the next generation show up and you need to save the world like all your predecessors."

"You know," said Grace. "It never occurred to me that there were guardians in previous generations or that there would be afterwards. Can't we talk to any of these ex-guardians?"

Hallie and Jestein remained stonily silent.

Throughout all the explanation something had been on my mind. I had to say something. "This is all really useful information and I really wish we'd learned this about 5 months ago. One thing though, everyone keeps telling us that we need to stop chaos, and I understand why. They are not nice people. But nobody will tell us, when, where or how to defeat untold evil. We can't do it without knowing anything."

Hallie smiled, but she looked kind of sad. "Each generation has a prophecy entailing what will happen. How you interpret yours is up to you."

At this point Grace collapsed, similar to the first time she had a vision. I'd thought she was over that. Then her form stiffed and she sat bold upright, her eyes glowing in a really freaky way. My first thought was that she'd been possessed, and I've seen possessed people so I know. My hand automatically flew to my sword but Jestein swatted it away. Then grace began to speak, but it wasn't her voice. It sounded ancient and all knowing, and seemed tripled, like 3 people were talking together. Freaky. The words were even more haunting though:

"The six shall rise in the thirteenth year,

The strongest must battle the strongest yet,

And the road will be hard, twisting unexpectedly,

But as the journey nears its end,

They must lose to win,

Their sacrifice will save us all."

"That would be your prophecy," said Jestein. "Do with it what you will. It's going to come true though. It's already started."

I must have looked confused because Hallie began to explain, "You guys are obviously the six and your powers have surfaced in the year you all turned 13. Chaos is at its strongest and you are the most powerful guardians to date. Ever. And so far you definitely haven't had an easy time. That leaves the ending."

Those last two lines went round and round in my brain. I thought and thought but I could only see one way that the prophecy could be fulfilled.

Across the room the conversation had pretty much stopped. Grace was back to normal and everyone was sitting looking very awkward. Hallie and Jestein kept glancing at each other as if they were hiding something and my friends faces seemed to be saying, "Well what now?" And to be honest, I didn't know. We knew probably as much as were going to, but the worst part was that we didn't know when we were going to have the big showdown against chaos. The whole thing was so vague. Not that I wanted it to come any time soon, if what I thought was going to happen was. It would be amazing though if things could go back to the way they had been at the beginning, when it had all seemed like a dream come true, and saving the world was just an optional concept. Instead we were almost staring doom in its face. Something had changed inside and I think that's when I grew up. Magical powers were great, but they all existed for a reason and lessons always follow playtime.

I was snapped out of my reverie by Annie's hysterical shrieking. "What? No! No!"

Hallie and Jestein looked deeply ashamed. "We're sorry. We thought we should protect you from the knowledge for as long as possible. We didn't want to be the ones to hurt you."

It seemed like Annie's mind had gone wandering into other people's and shed found out what our protectors had been hiding.

Annie was going off it. "I don't want this anymore! If I'd known this was involved..."

"It's been done before. Many times actually. If you do this willingly it will stop chaos for a time."

"A time? Then what? The next generation will repeat the process? There has to be a way to stop chaos forever without any more of this. Our world and the people in it are not just toys for you high and almightys to get rid of when you're bored!"

Grace burst into tears. She'd had another vision while Annie was shouting. "It was horrible," she whispered. "I saw them all. All the guardians who died to stop chaos. And it only came back! I don't want to next. Please!"

It was at this point that Ed, Abby and Hope cottoned on to what Annie and Grace knew and I suspected.

"It fulfils the prophecy," breathed Hope. She couldn't believe it. None of us could. "Our ultimate sacrifice would save the world and by losing our lives we'd win the battle. But for how long?"

"Agreed," said Ed. "There has to be another way. I for one will not go down without a fight. There has to be a way. Our crazy brains need to come up with something that nobody ever thought would work."

Hallie looked grim. "I really hope you can. I don't think anyone should have had to die for this. It's too much to ask, especially for young girls like you."

Abby looked slightly puzzled. "Young? But you're only...500. Oh yeah... blonde moment."

Jestein tapped Hallie's shoulder. "We have to go. They're calling us back through the gateway because chaos is pressing in." She hugged us all again saying, "Good luck you guys! I believe in you. You have to find a way."

Just as they disappeared in a blinding flash, I heard Hallie's voice: "otherwise you guys are completely screwed."

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