“Once upon a time, there were four guardians; Alexander, Edwin, Angelica and Stephanie.
Alexander had the power to control the sea and all the creatures of the water, Edwin controlled the land and the animals of the land, Angelica controlled the air and the creatures of the sky and Stephanie controlled fire and the creatures of the underworld.
Apart from controlling the elements they all had their own individual special talents.
Alexander had powers to deal with the mind; he could wipe, control or even replace memories. He also had the power to foretell the future of anyone who he touches.
Edwin dealt with matter; he could change the physical or chemical composition of anything in his sight.
Angelica dealt with life; she could bring people back to full health and heal anything she touches.
Although, Stephanie had one of the most dangerous powers of the four; she could kill anything by any means e.g. by a plague or an accident. Stephanie’s was only called upon in dire situations.
One day the guardians felt a strong dangerous presence. Angelica came running into their castle screaming, “They’re all dead! The birds, the animals, even some humans! They all just started to collapse and they stopped breathing!-” suddenly the ground started to shake.
Then outside the sky turned red, and it started raining acid and everyone who was outside at this time were burnt and died.
A black storm cloud appeared in the middle of the room, as it set we saw a woman; she had horns and a demon tail. Her name was Devine, a demon and Stephanie's cousin.
She came to make a deal with the guardians, she said either they surrender to her or she kills everyone on earth including them. The guardians refused to listen to her.
A great battle went down in the castle, and the guardians were defeated. What Devine didn’t know is that the guardians all left parts of them on earth; they all had children who were entrusted to their most loyal servants.
The servants dispersed all over the earth making sure to keep the children hidden and out of sight. Devine had taken over the castle and still rules up until this day, what she doesn’t know are that her worst nightmare may just come true.” My mom said as she closed the book.
She always told me this story, but I never really understood the use until then.
After she told me that story, she turned to the back of the book, which was filled with empty pages, she then poked her finger with a needle from the pin cushion that was on her table, hovered her finger over the page and a sparkling thick red drop of blood came out of her finger and went on the book and words and pictures of people started to appear.
She told me that it was the family tree dating back hundreds of years ago. At the very top of the tree was Alexander Whales, (whales was my mom’s maiden name.) And at the bottom was my name, it was right next to my sister’s.
At some points of the family tree, the branches joined meaning the descendants of the other guardians inter married causing a mix in the magical properties of their blood and the abilities of the children who were born from this.
The Angelica and Alexander’s ancestors mixed at a point which is why my mom, Ethina and me are able to do healing and water magic.
After mom told me that story I started training to control my powers. I’d take my lessons together with my elder sister Ethina, she was 7yrs older than me.
I really loved her with all my heart, we were inseparable. Until mom and dad started fighting. Ethina would always take me to our room and let me use her headphones.
I never really knew what they used to argue about, but whatever it was it led to them getting divorced. My mom got me and my dad got Ethina.
We really didn’t want to be separated, but they did it anyway. I was about 9 then, I really hated not having her around, but I hated the fact she had to go with dad more.
He wasn’t the best father in the world but he wasn’t really the worst either, as far as I remember all the memories I have of him, where when he was fighting with mom or bringing us gifts on our birthdays.
But why I really hate him is because of what he did to Ethina, he locked her in the house and made sure she had no communication with the outside world.
But what he didn’t know is that water can also be a source of communication, as long as she had a bowl filled with water we could talk.
Mom and I would call her every day; she was quite lonely because dad made sure she never saw another human being as long as he lives.
There was one day when we called and she had red puffy eyes and a black eye, it turned out my dad was not only never there, but when he is, he is drunk and abusive, he punched his own child!
After that day mom taught us some healing techniques, so that Ethina would be able to heal her wounds by herself, in case dad did this again.
The strange thing is that I haven’t heard from her for the past week. Something has probably happened at home. What if, they killed him too or what if they killed her- I need a bathroom.
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