The Forgotten Guardians<On Hold>

Chapter IV

I awoke early on a lunch table in the Weehawken High School cafeteria. We had broken in the night before for shelter and maybe some bad school food. New Jersey has been abandoned just like New York.

I got up from the table and walked to the lunch window peering outside expecting to see the homes that surrounded the school but was greeted with soldiers and tanks tracking their way through the streets.

"Agler!" I half whispered half yelled his name.

What was going on? "Agler!" I walked to the table he had been sleeping on and shook him awake.

"What?" Agler rubbed his eyes in annoyance.

"Look outside", I motioned to the window before turning my attention to Santino. 

After saving our lives yesterday Santino decided to stick around for a while. He said he had a kid with his ex girlfriend in New Mexico and we could all traveled together until we reached there. He was a pretty cool guy for all I knew and Alger and I could probably use the help navigating and what not. Agler didn't seem to mind his company either.

I called Santino's name and he stirred a little before opening his eyes and sitting up from the table.

"What time is it?" He asked rubbing the sleep from his eyes and stretching.

"I'd say around eight in the morning." Alger said looking around for what I guess would have been a clock.

"We should probably get moving then, huh?" Santino stood from the table he had been sleeping on and walked over to the window we had been standing by.

"Yeah, but do you think they would just let us walk away?" Alger asked motioning to the military outside.

"Oh shit, it seems they brought out the big boys a little too late huh. I wonder where they were when our loved ones lives were being taken from us." Santino uttered with distaste.

"Yeah, no kidding." Agler harmonized his agreeance.

I remained in my thoughts worried for Jack. What if the military opened fire on him and the others? Would they do that? Where is Jack and the others? I hope Jack was safe and warm and not hungry. I felt horrible. How could I have let this happen? My father warned me, he entrusted me with my brothers life and I screwed up. I should have let Alger take Jack to California and I could have came to New York to find my dad. At least then Jack would have been safe...

"...Are you alright?" Agler pulled me from my thoughts and I nodded in response.

"Just thinking about Jack, and how we're going to get him back." I spoke quietly and moved away from the window.

"We'll get him back Mai, I promise." Agler comforted me with little success.

"To be honest he might be a little more safer with the guardians than down here with us." Santino added his two cents.

"What do you mean by that?" I asked a little offended at the thought that he could believe that my brother was more safe with a psychopath than his own sister.

"Don't take offense to it Mai, just think about it. They might be the ones doing the attacking but there not getting attacked, right?" Santino made sense but I didn't like what I was hearing.

"How do we know that they aren't being attacked. How do we know that whatever just happened to them won't change them forever!" I surprised myself with my voices volume but I held my ground, "How do we now that Turr hasn't already killed them?"

"Turr? Whose Turr?" Santino still remained calm and it only made me a little more upset.

"You don't even know the guys name, jeez I mean how can you-"