Guardians

Chapter 3

'Mindlink'

'Thoughts'

"Speaking"

'Speaking to dragons'

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Aura's POV

I looked over, confused. 'How does he know me?' I thought to myself. I slightly opened my mouth to speak, but I started coughing, hacking up blood from the coughing.

"Guards! Get all of them out!" A voice boomed. A shadow fell over me. I looked up, seeing that the guard seemed to have found a key.

'Wait... that... is not the right key!' I thought to myself. "s-st-sto-p, wr-*cough cough*ong *cough cough cough* k-ey." I could barely hear myself speak, so hopefully they heard me.

"Hey, hey, hey stop talking, you're hurting your throat. Do you think you could show us which key is the correct one?" The guard asked, gently. I nodded my head. He held out the keys they had been looking through. He slowly went through them, until I put my hand up. I noticed something that looked like a water canteen. I tried to reach for it through the bars.

"Kid? Are you ok?" I snapped out of it, and pointed at the key that goes to my cell. The guard opened the door before going to the next door. I then pointed at the other 2 keys which would open the doors for Chase and Autumn. I directed them to the correct doors by pointing.

Just as I felt myself slipping out of consciousness, I got picked up by someone. I could tell we were going up the spiral stairs. I opened my eyes to see that one of the twins holding me. I analyzed my surroundings and found that we were walking onto a ship.

"W-he *cough cough* r-re i-" I went into a coughing fit. "Stop talking. We have both of your cousins, do you need something from us?" The twin asked. I shook my head no before deciding to point out what I needed. I pointed at the canteen he was wearing. "Do you need water?" I nodded my head frantically. He took off the cap and held it up to my mouth. I was gulping so fast that he gently pulled it back. "Slow down, you're gonna choke." He put it back in my mouth. Once I was done drinking, I pushed the canteen away. Right as he went to put the cap back on, I used my powers to move the water to point towards Autumn.

"Oh? Does she need it too?" He asked. I nodded my head. "Do you know if the unconscious person needs anything?" I changed the water arrow to form a lightning symbol. I was slightly winded from using so much of my power, which would have been a lot easier if I had regularly been training with it. The water lightning symbol trembled a bit, as the twin looked at it. He started to speak again. "Hey, save your energy. We have what they need." My vision went blurry.

Just as I blacked out, I felt myself being submerged in some sort of liquid.

??? Pov

I lowered Aura into a water healing pod that we have aboard the ship. I approached my brother to see him putting Autumn in a separate area with a water healing pod. He placed Chase into a lightning healing pod, to help heal him.

"Have you told Aunt Freya about Chase?" I asked my father. "No, not yet, I'm about to call her. Hopefully, this time she answers. I know how busy she has been looking for him and his sister. Although, I wonder why we haven't found my other son, nephew, and niece. Were they not taken together?"

Father brought the water up from a fountain that looked like a bird bath, a water monitor, showing mulitple icons. He selected the calling icon and selected the picture of Aunt Freya. It rang for a bit, and just before the call was about to end, Aunt Freya appeared.

"Ah Poseidon, Kano, Ace, how are you doing?" Aunt Freya asked. She was wrapping a bandage around her arm. "I was just about to call you. I already told Arthur about it, too. I found Scar, Talia, and Ren!"

A dead silence fell upon us as we all wore shocked expressions from her words. My eyes watered a bit. Father looked ready to cry too, but he started talking as he blinked his tears away before he could. "W-w-well, we actually.... found Chase. Along with Aura and Autumn." Aunt Freya wore the same shocked expression we had before bursting into tears. I could hear my cousins ask my aunt what was wrong.

"A-a-are they ok?" Aunt Freya asked, rubbing her eyes, trying to rid them of tears. My father, also clear of tears, nodded his head. "They are healing as we speak, but I'm afraid our ship doesn't quite have what Chase needs. Ours really mostly has healing water."

"I see. Luckily Ren and Scar aren't too injured, but we did have to sedate them. I have sent you the coordinates of where we should to meet up, did you get it?" Father swiped her image to the side, too see that the coordinates were sent. He walked over to a table on the side of the fountain, pulled out a map, and found the midpoint. "Alright, I'm sending the midpoint coordinates. We will meet you there, it might take a while. But what we have for Chase should be enough until we get there."

"Alright, I will see you there, little brother." Father gave her an annoyed look and swiped his hand through the water, ending the call.

"Father! Aura woke up!"

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Finished: December 2nd, 2022

Edited: December 7th, 2022

Published: April 13th, 2023

Words: 919

Q: If you could have any power, what would it be?

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