Jinx 11 and a half.

We were here. I walked out of the blinding light with Silvia at my side. We took a step, and my eyes needed to readjust unlike hers, she must be use to it I guess. Kyle and Terry came out next, rubbing their eyes, followed by Ed and Sam. Ed and Sam like Silvia were unfazed by the blast of light.

I looked at Silvia, and her hair was now a light brown with red swirled in, I looked at my hair, the part I could see, and it was red now, blood red in this daylight. Sam had his hair just like Silvia's, only his was a dark brown with auburn swirled in every so often. Ed lost his usually green hair to an orange, like his hair when we were little. Kyle's red eyes were now green with black hair that falls around his head. Terry looks the same, platinum blond with her dark blue eyes.

I watched her walk up to a woman. The woman had short pin straight black hair that was shorter in the back than in the front where it barely made it past her face with slender relaxed blue eyes and blood red lips. She had very short bangs, and wore a red spandex mini dress, sleeveless and a black choker and belt to match her long elbow length gloves and thigh high black boots with a pair of red leggings. She looks evil if you watched how she was talking to Silvia.

Our snow clothes seemed to have disappeared, and been replaced with light gray shorts for all of us, except Silvia. She got white bandages covering her arms and legs along with a red skirt to her feet and a stiff looking white shirt. She was talking to her while kneeling. I don't like how she had to act like a slave to her, but I'll have to keep it up, just a little longer.

I took a look around and noticed how the people here look. Some had scales, feathers, skin, horns, claws, sharp and/or long and twisted teeth and others had; green, pink, purple, orange, red, yellow, blue, white as in milky white for their color, in combinations, shades and various tints. Some were very tall as in 12 feet and other very short as in a foot tall. They were all very skinny though, and had various eye colors and mixes; greens, blues, reds, oranges, pinks, purples, yellows, in any shade, tint, and some a=had more than one color in their eye. Some had no pupils at all and other multiple in one eye, or so many that their eye was black. Some eyes were mismatched and others weren't, some had two eyes only one eyes and some eyes all over their body, some had no eyes on their head! A few looked human and/or had silted eyes like Silvia, Sam and me. Some had no pupils and just a solid color like white or green. They had a variety of clothes for girl in many styles; some had long see through skirts, some had solid skirts, some silk or satin others cotton or wool, some had a shirt that just covered their chest and other had one that covered them completely in various patterns and combinations. Men could wear anything from just a speedo to a full suite. Some had weapons like a sword or lance, others wore gloves or a brief case or purse or had nothing with them. A lot of kids were by the side of an adult in similar clothing. Some of them had animal parts or were animal completely. A lot of teen and adults without a child clinging to them were holding the shoulder of a child, teen or adult, these ones looked human and had a strange white aura around them.

The climate here is like spring all the time. I looked around where people weren't creatures and there were tree branches, or wooden houses. There were wires and branches everywhere, the wires were fixed to a branch or wooden landing. There were houses everywhere, small shack ones and a few tent buildings. I noticed that no two people looked really anything like another, and the humanoids had animal parts, but no one was staring at them, unlike us, all eyes were on us.

I noticed a boy with curly blond hair in what looked like a medieval musician's outfit walk up to Silvia and the woman with a boy that has pure silver eyes in a black skin tight body suit with a silver mask and dark blue shirt and hooded cape, African American too.

The blonde looked outraged to see her, and the other boy was trying to calm him down.

I walked over and finally asked Silvia, "Sis what's going on here, it looks like this guy," I said with a gesture to Blonde, "wants to kill you, this place looks like it's out of a movie, and who is she?" I asked pointing to the woman.

Silvia signed back, "that's Jericho or blonde as you out it, the guy next to him is Herald, old friends of mine that I haven't seen in a long time. This is my master and one of my mentors, Madame Rouge. She saved me from dying and brought me here when I was two. She has been helping me train to be the head apprentice for when she takes over for our Head Priestess. She is a good person despite her new outfit. She is also going to be who we are going to stay with until the rest of you either find your guardian or become an apprentice and are placed. I will attend to the guardian thing and placement with you. As for where we are in the Land of Trees, it is a combination of a refugee and kingdom in the Country of the Sky. There is one rule, though, we cannot touch the ground because it is out of our domain and very few of them even know we use to exist, and think we are extinct. This is a universe blender, to get to any other universe you have to pass through this one with the exception of certain portals."

"Okay, what's a portal, guardian and placement mean for us?"

"A portal let's you travel through time and space, but also dimensions and universes along with planets and parallels that shouldn't even be seen. A Guardian is a sprit guide, but you may only be bonded with one truly, the others are bondings from your guardian with other guardians allowing you to communicate through them with others as long as your guardian and their guardian are friends. It's sort of like telephone numbers or emails, you can talk to others through them and no two are exactly alike, and you depend on them to transfer your message, only these ones can aid you with everyday life and use their abilities to help you. A placement is where you are best suited for and also are needed the most, like a job chosen for you that works just right for you and you talents"

"oh… well do you have a guardian?"

"three technically, but my main guardian is my hawk, the other two are ones that lend me their power because they are siblings with my guardian, a guardian can be anything, and it can be related to another guardian it looks nothing like, as long as it is in the same basic group, which is plant or animal."

"Can we meet it?"

"'It' is a she and if Fury/hawk chooses so then alright."

With that a red hawk flew onto Silvia's shoulder.

In a second she was right next to her as a teen with blood red wings with a few purple feathers mixed in. She was a red mini skirt over black leggings that end above her knees. Her hair is red with purple swirled in accompanied by golden eyes. Her sky blue sleeveless shirt fell just above her mid-drift; a red see through sleeveless jacket fell her shirt and covered her mid-drift. She was bare foot with a few anklets. Her skin is just tanned over. She wore a red choker with a silver wing on it. Her hair hung loosely around her body in an uneven hair cut for a boy at the top and slimming down in a single slightly messy braid. On her waist was a brown leather belt with a silver sword unsheathed that had a red handle with a hawk attacking or swooping down with its talons out on the butt of the sword. She wore a pair of fingerless gloves and cooper arm guards with a dent here and there. I guess she's changed since Silvia's last seen her, judging by her surprised expression.

"I'll call Fiona and Tamera"

In seconds a tiger and snow white fox appeared next to her. They both revealed their humans forms.

"Fiona?" signed Silvia to the fox human, "Tamera?" she signed to the tiger human.

The white fox or Fiona has snow white hair which one pair of snow white wolf ears stick out. She has bright green eyes that are almost hidden by long bang that fall into her eyes like her wavy hair flowing down her back. She wears a white skirt that falls down to her ankles, and reminds me of Tropical dancer's skirts from the tie being by her waist. She wears a white tube top that flatters her curves. She is very pale, like she has seen sun in years. Her tail is poufy just fell down instead of perky and up like most foxes I've seen, on each ankle was an anklet hanging loosely. On her neck was a white furry choker. She wore a pair of silver arm and leg guards. In her hand was a silver axe that shines in the sun light.

The orange tiger or Tamera wears an orange skirt with a black stripe pattern on the material that falls to her knees. She has orange hair and always has it down with two small braids. She has her tail is orange and slashed with black stripes until the tip of her tail started to come up, then it was snow white, her ears were just like her tiger ones with a flash of white on the left on and black blab on her left with orange striping in. She had calm golden eyes. She wears a white spaghetti strap that was cut off after her chest with a black see through open sleeveless vest. She is dark brown in skin tone. On her neck was a choker like Silvia's only it was orange with black and white stripes. A few orange metal bangles hung on her upper arms. A pair of metal yellow and orange arm guards covered her forearms. She had a spear with a sharp gray stone tied to it with an orange band under a few covering black and white bands.

The two nodded then returned to their animal forms.

The fow had the collar on though, and so did the tiger, Fury stayed in her human form longer, then said, "why don't I just make things easier?"

In a second she was a hawk and flew in fast circles that became closer and closer to Silvia's body, a wind fallowed and it looked like a tornado of red was engulfing her image. In seconds the bird flew so fast all I could see was her aura and a red blur closing in on my sister. The wind was so strong that the few that were close by were starting to be sucked up in it as she began to lift off the ground. Silvia's form was engulfed in a red so fast that I couldn't look anymore out of fear of my eyes being sucked up in the wind.

Kyle quickly used his powers and took me out of rang, and we were stuck crouching down trying not to get sucked up with Kyle shielding the rest of us, everyone seemed to have scattered, and in moments the wind died down completely.

I dared to put down my arms which must have moved up involuntarily to protect me from the wind earlier and I didn't notice. I started to get up, felling a little dizzy, and saw that Kyle had dragged me about four miles away from Silvia. I took an uneasy step after regaining full control over my slightly dizzy body. I took a few experimental steps then broke out in a sprint to get to my sister, soon to be followed in close pursuit by Terry, Ed, Sam, and Kyle. In a few moments Terry, much to my surprise was riding a rock and was ahead of me, then grabbed me as we watched Sam and Ed disappear, and Kyle using his powers over darkness to shove himself ahead of us, so I held on for dear life to Terry as she sped up. In a few seconds we were there, while my stomach was about 3 and half miles back. I hopped down and joined the others, my stomach still trying to catch up.

We walked over to what we think is Silvia, seeing as she's the only one there and is descending down from her orbit.

Silvia's hair wasn't a brown and red anymore, now it was auburn with purple swirled in. She had her new wings that were red mixed in with purple and brown open as she was returned to the ground or landing as the case would be. Instead of being in its usual shoulder length her hair now was in a braid that flew down her back down to knees. Her stiff white shirt was replaced by a dark red sleeveless shirt that had a white I over where her scar should be. Her arms were covered with black bandages that I'm pretty sure that they covered her chest under her shirt too. Her long red skirt was traded in for a brown knee length with black bandages covering her legs down to where her feet actually start under a pair of white skin tight shorts. She wore no shoes and in place of her sandals form earlier. Her waist now had a belt with a sword that now had a leaf the butt of the red handle. Her once pure black choker now had a pair of sliver open wings on it, with a light green metal leaf pointing up as a pendent hanging from its point. When she got closer I noticed she was now tanner and her once pale non-existent thin lips were red. She also wore a pair of fingerless leather like gloves that had a red wing on the back with a green leaf on the palm of her hand. Her ankles now wore; a thin red anklet, a black thin one, a thick green one with a leaf bead and a thick white one with a yellow wing painted on. Her nails were now sharp to the point where barely touching the sides would cut your skin instead of neatly trimmed as she had kept them. She wore a pair of arm and leg guards that were silver with golden wings painted on. Her eyes snapped open and instead of being foggy gray they were now mismatch, one golden the other purple, for the moment they were not silted, but I know that if she even uses her powers slightly they instantly become silted and take hours to return to normal if you use them for a second. If it's any longer you better get used to being stared at for at least a month, use them constantly for a week and give it a year, anymore and I suggest a power absorber or wear a pair of sunglasses or contacts.

I watched her finally touch the ground. Many people dared to peek form their shelters and I heard them grumbling under their breath about it being unfair that she was combined in the middle of town square and or not getting a warning or how powerful it is that it ruined some of their stands. They walked out and a small child with scales and a python wrapped around his torso pulled on her skirt a few times before she looked down.

"Pwiestess Apwentice? Why did Furwy combwine with woo?" he asked.

Translation: Priestess Apprentice? Why did Fury (the hawk) combine with you?

"She did so this way I could talk and explain things to my friends with more knowledge on has happened in my absence," said Silvia for the first time since I ever met my sister when we were babies, she spoke.

Terry wasn't as surprised as the rest of us, or at least I think so since she wasn't paralyzed and/or fall over with the rest of us then turn to dust and get blown away by the wind.

"Terona, would you mind helping me explain? You might want to call your guardian also, I believe that would be a Siberian tiger cub, am I correct?"

"Yea, hey Tigerra, you there?" asked Terry/Terona.

In seconds a small white tiger with stripes down her body and a few across her face was next to Terry/Terona.

"Hey Tigerra, mind cutting the theatrics and just morphing with me?" asked Terry/Terona.

"Okay mistwiss" said Tigerra in an adorable baby voice.

In seconds where Terry once stood was a girl with a pair or claws instead of hands. Where human tanned ears once laid was a pair of soft white furry black stripped cat ears. In place of her gray Tee was a light gray 3 quarters under shirt with a gray and black tee shirt style belly shirt. A pair of jean short shorts. Her eyes instead of being dark blue were now a crystal clear pond blue. Her platinum blond hair was now almost white. She wore a pair of rough brown gloves and a pair of hiking boots. In place of her once tanned skin was milky white that you could trace her veins on.

"Hey guys, man, I have got to transform more often. It's so much easier to use my powers this way,-"

"Let's work on your control next though" interjected Silvia.

"Alright, so apparently the People of the Sun and People of the Moon are at war with one another. The People of the Moon and People of the Sun are normally at peace, but the People of the Sun are getting annoyed that the moon is always seen, day and night with the exception of one twenty-four hour cycle once every twenty-nine and half days and nights combined along with the fact that when the moon is up and the sun is going down or gone is considered the best time for pretty much everything," Terry/Terona said.

"So they have been attacking the people of the moon all over the place, and we are literally everywhere, so they even attack their own sometimes, and bystander-" continued Silvia

"Wait, who are the People of the Moon and People of the Sun?" asked Sam confused.

I felt a little bad, since it is self explanatory.

"The People of the sun are those that resemble the sun in many ways, and the People of the Moon are the people that resemble the Moon in many ways. There are also the People of the Caves, those that resemble the caves in all their mysteries, the People of the Water, those that resemble greatly any form of water, the People of the Sand, those that resemble sand, The People of Fire, those the resemble fire and the People of the Stars, those that resemble the stars. When you are 16 and a half you are brought to them and they decide which they of element you are like, until then normally outsiders and under ages here in the Land of Trees or where ever their guardian is after she/he is found, starting to make sense?"

"A little"

"Well you see all trees areas are our domain, all water areas the Land of Water's domain and so on, as long as it is the larger area of those elements then they are that people's domain."

"What if it's even?"

"Then its neutral land claim, and no one can take it"

"How does the sun and moon thing work?"

"That's more of your great grand parents or guardian's choice, they are born with an element and sub elements, so you get their nationality, understand?"

"More or less"

"We'll take what we can get, now as I was saying earlier they are attacking not only their enemies, but those who are mixes of their own and neutral, if you are not with them then in their eyes you are against them. Many are suffering, so all who have guardians that can fight re warriors now regardless of their placement, so it is important to find your guardian."

"How do you do that?"

"Normally they seek you out, but you can also travel around with others that have multiple guardians to find yours, but you never know what it will be."

"Does everyone have a guardian?"

"Yes, but if you are unable to get here in time your guardian will come to you in sprit and control you in your greatest time of need personally, but it is normally a onetime thing, and after that they either merge with you permanently or die."

"That's really sad"

"Yes, but it also frees their sprit and allows them to be reborn in another form and possibly be another life form that doesn't need another to stay alive, it is rather bitter-sweet"

"Can you live without a guardian?"

"Yes and no, it depends on species, personality, and many other variables"

"Oh…"