The Guardians

00-A touch of Destiny

In the year 2003,Humans were blissfully unaware that they were being monitored-and that those doing said monitoring lived right beside them. Hiding until the time in which they would have to reveal themselves.
One fateful night a group of young humans unwittingly made contact with one of those watching over them-and changing their destiny forever...

(Note: The prelude is based off of actual events,and at which time remote car starters were still very uncommon.)

The Guardians: A Touch of Destiny

Even as the sun sunk beyond the horizon the heat persisted and most sane people were locked away some plcae with air conditioning. However, this didn't seem to dampen the spirits of a group of friends making their way through a parking lot. It was void of human life but the amount of cars jammed together was evidence that people were somewhere close by,probably shopping at the newly renovated supermarket. Ali,Amber,Brian,Chris,Holly,Liane,and Richard had just come out of a popular arcade and were currently heading to the supermarket for cheap drinks,snacks and impromptu dinner. Suddenly gaining a burst of energy,Holly ran ahead of the others several feet and began to spin around in a circle quickly,looking like she might trip over her own feet at any moment-
'I'm a big black helicopter!'
It wouldn't be uncommon if she did trip,Holly seemed to be accident prone and even more so when she did such things as this act of hyper activeness.Her balance seemed to be on overdrive as she her body was still used to her dancing on a game called DDR for two hours straight,which is the only thing keeping her from falling at the moment.
'Pfft. I'm an F16! and I can shoot you down! Puew-Puue!'
Liane chimed as she curled her hands to resemble guns and pretended to shoot at Holly,who tried dodging the invisible bullets.
'Don't encourage her'
Brian half groaned but put no effort forth to try and stop Liane-completely ignoring him she lept forward a little to continue this game a little longer. Holly's face contorted as she pretended to crash to the ground, she then began to chuckle and clap her hands loudly in front of her face. Something was on her mind and it probably was something that would draw attention to herself,and to her friends much against their desires.
'Guess what!? My Hummer has a cannon mounted on it an I can blow you to smithereens! Kablewie!'
Holly flailed her arms and leapt back like she had been hit with a small explosion-grinning widely the whole time as she took great pleasure in the idea of something like a fighter jet blowing up at her own doing. Amber sighed with a smirk, pausing long enough to place her hands on her hips like an old fashioned parent,shaking her head and looking disappointed in her friend.
'How many times do I have to say this? Its a box! A box on wheels!'
'It is not!'
'Hummers are ugly...Fugly even'
Brian added with a dark smirk,deciding to annoy Holly as well-he became amused by the dark hurt look he received from her. Ali and Chris also seemed to be mildly entertained by the events transpiring around them but they fell back into their own conversation,speaking about a concert they both planned on going to in the next city over.While Richard remained silent,knowing better then to get involved in any of this,but he did join in with the laughter,and it wasn't really considered laughing at Holly as she too had a small smirk on her face.
Sticking her tongue out at her friends,Holly pulled a pout face before spinning around to turn her back to her friends and was going to pretend to not be their friend any more by running off away from them but something snagged her sandal and she tumbled forward. Looking like an invisible force had pushed her,Holly glared down at the ground then to the yellow car she now stood in front of.
'The car tripped me! Stupid car!'
Shaking her fist at the car,she forgot all about the fact that it was her favorite colour and ended up sticking her tongue out at it like she had done to her friends moments before.
'Sure...Blame the car'
Ali snickered loudly,making no effort to hide the dark and sinister tone in her voice,she loved to see people in pain and this included her friends,she loved causing it even more though.
'Its the car's fault! We should blow it up!'
Holly's devious idea was quickly burnt out when the car suddenly started on its own,the headlights burning angrily at Holly-who promptly screamed bloody murder,like she had just been shot. The group stopped a good several feet away from the car and the over reacting girl,glancing around for the owner of the vehicle, who was probably getting their daily kicks out of Holly's reaction. The engine revved once,which was more then enough to cause Holly to yelp again in terror and run for protection behind her friends.
'Holy Hell! The car's alive! It wants to kill me!'
She cowered behind Richard,who looked confused but did nothing to ease his crazy friend's mind against the car being alive. Brian heaved heavily,finding that since none of the others cared to put some sense back into the girl,he would have to and end up looking like a jerk.
'Its not going to transform and eat you-Holly-its one of those remote starters...you know...for security reasons...'
'But...where's the owner?'
Slowly Holly stepped away from Richard and the group progressively made their way past the car.
'Probably over there with arms full of groceries.'
Still not looking fully convinced,Holly looked towards the store entrance where people were mingling.
'Holly! If we hurry up, we can go for Bubble tea after'
'BUBBLETEA!'
Seeming to forget her fear at the mention of Bubbletea,Holly dashed ahead of the group again,giggling madly.
'What have you done?'
Chris more commented then asked,giving Amber an annoyed look similar to an 'You've doomed us all' look.
'At least she's not being paranoid about cars living any more'
'True'
The group slolwy followed onwards,pretending like they didn't know the girl waving her arms wildly in the air and yelling like a rambling lunatic.