Guardians

Chapter 25

'Mindlink'

'Thoughts' 

"Speaking"

'Speaking to dragons'

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Aura's POV

"Bubba! Can we go see Papa?" A little girl ran up to a preteen boy. The boy smiled before nodding. "Let's go see Father, do you want to maybe find the others as well? I believe they are all hanging out around the same spot." The little girl nodded her head. 

On their way there, they stopped by the library quickly to get 2 books to take with them. One had a blurry title, while the other was something random. They found their father hanging around the training area, with 3 other boys. Two of them seemed to be twins, maybe a year younger than the pre-teen. While the other one looked younger than the boys.

A face turned around, but the face was blurred. I could tell he was talking to the pre-teen, but as I looked at the faces I realized I couldn't see them. I could see their mouths, but that was it. There was one boy, who I could see. It looked like Scar, but I couldn't tell how old he was.

I looked back at the girl, but saw her staring straight at me. Her face was the clearest of them all, she looked like me. She was mouthing the words 'Remember'. The area started to fade around us, but I was starting to hear her saying, 'Remember'. She started to fade as well, before I was thrown somewhere else.

I looked around to see Guards rushing around, the same girl a little bit older being dragged somewhere. But before whoever was dragging her could bring her safe, she was grabbed. The person was holding her over their shoulder, her wrists and ankles were tied with something. She was screaming as she was taken away. 

"Bubba! Bubba! BUBBA! BUBBA!" She was screaming the same name, to who must have been trying to take her to safety. The boy was trying to get to her back, but before he could a maid came over and started bringing him the other way, with guards going after the kidnapper. The guy holding her was taking her to a black hole. The girl started screaming a different name once they got closer to the black hole. "PAPA! PAPA!" She was crying, trying to wiggle her way out of the hold, but before she could get out she was tossed into the black hole. 

I opened my eyes at the moment, sitting up fast. I was trying to gasp for some air, but I couldn't.

"-y, hey, hey, Aura, I am right here." I heard a voice say. "I am right here, can you breathe in for me?" I tried doing that, once I got a breath in the voice said, "Good, can you breathe out for me?" Once I was able to breathe out, we restarted the process, until I was able to see who was helping me.

It was Kai, with Ace behind him along. I looked around to see it was starting to become bright. 

"Are you okay now?" Kai said softly. I nodded my head. When I moved my hand, I noticed I didn't touch a bed at all, when I looked down it was the couch. I looked back up to see them both looking concerned. "I'm fine." I said softly. They still looked worried before nodding their heads. 

"It's almost morning, if you would like to continue reading the book you can read in my room." Ace said. I thought about it. I'm not going back to bed with that dream, I might see if I can. 

"Can I?" I asked. Ace smiled before nodding. I went to find the book, but Kai pointed to where it was. "I put it over here, you were asleep before anyone noticed." I picked it up, Ace was already at the door waiting for me. I headed over to him before exiting out of the room, I waved bye to Kai. 

We entered Ace's room, I went to sit on the couch with the book, while Ace went to find a book. He sat down in one of the chairs around the couch. I was over halfway finished with the book when someone knocked on the door. Ace stopped what he was reading before heading over to the door. 

The maid was just telling us  it was time to start getting up. I looked over to Ace. "Can I put this somewhere besides the bookshelf?" I asked. 

"You can bring it into your room if you would like. Just to let you know that book has a series, but I have the rest of the series in my bookshelf if you need another book." He told me.

I nodded my head a little excited about learning it was a series. "I'm going to change my clothes real quick." I told Ace, before heading over to the door with the book in hand. I headed over to my room. I put my book down next to my bed and started changing into my new clothes. Once I finished, I headed outside of the room to see Kai, Ace, and Scar there. 

Kai sighed, he headed towards Kano's room, when he opened the door we could tell he wasn't awake. His room was dark inside, what I could see was a body still in the bed. Kai closed the door behind him, we heard a loud sound happen inside Kano's room a few minutes later we saw Kai walk out.

"He's coming soon, I told him we were headed towards the dining room. So we shall see how long it takes for him to catch up." Kai said, shaking his head. Ace started walking towards the dining room with everyone else towed behind him. True to Kai's word, it was right before we entered the room that Kano caught up.

"Sorry, slept in." Kano said as we entered the dining room. We walked in to see everyone was there, except for a few people from the other two families. "Well, at least we aren't the last people to come, where are Rai and Raine?" Kano asked.

"They were asleep." Basil said. "They both said they will catch up later."

With that, we continued talking during breakfast.

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Finished: December 5th, 2024

Edited:

Published: December 19th, 2024

Words: 1038

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