I remained on the basement floor as I felt my spell form above. The shield I have conjured, cover my town. My stomach started hurting. But it was okay. I wiped tears that formed on my face and got up. I need to eat. that'll drive the pain away. i made my way to the kitchen but, the refrigerator was gone. i checked the cabinets that still held but nothing quick was in them. Nothing I ate was stored. It was all in the fridge, and the fridge was nowhere. probably somewhere. people around town, or my neighborhood started cleaning and salvaging the remnants of the tornado. For them, it was strange. There's never been a tornado in this country, we knew whirlwinds. that's our tornado, not this.
Rrrring! Rrrring! i heard a phone ring. my mother's phone ring, I think, or was it dad's? i quickly located it in a crevice between fallen wall pieces. i took it and... i wanted to hang it up instantly. On the screen, instead of the typical caller id and hang and answer options, a text read, "Sir, the spell that you've cast is classified under section 5.2 of the dangerous spells for guardians, casting it would affect your hinder your abilities to teleport, perform simple acts of levitation enchantment, conjuring even hinder all abilities of all guardians who may need to come to your aid should the need arise. it...
i knew all that. why did he think I cast it? it limits the abilities of all those within it. so I am safe and everyone else her from beasts and monsters. Only I can do a bit of magic, not the others. why did Thoth think it was dangerous? to heck with him.
I triple tapped the text, and the user input panel appeared. I typed an order to Thoth to stop texting or communicating with me until I reach to him first. I then put the phone away and continued to clean up. As night approached, I did the last of my duties and went down to the basement to prepare where I was going to sleep.
there was no power to light my sleeping area. the fence was gone. the roof was nonexistent. and the ground outside was drenched. most of the blankets were wet, so my night was almost hell-like, uncomfortable. plus I didnt sleep. my ribs felt broken.
The first night, the second night, I slept there, I didnt go to school as I started working on repairing my home. The army had stopped by, and the fire department did too, to assess the situation. they enquired of my parents and... that was a question I couldn't answer. I didnt know where Shay chucked them. I didnt even want to know.
the insurance company tried to pull a few tricks to avoid a payout and... to be honest, I wasn't concerned. spending a few nights hungry didnt hurt at all. I had other pains, other serious concerns to worry about. Guardian Corp also came by. Assessed from afar. Even the palace guards came by. Guess word of the monster was really far-reaching.
The third day after the attack, the social welfare services came by and I plain out, told them I wasn't going anywhere. My extended family was, as usual, nowhere. Except trying to claim insurance, they never bothered to ask me if I was okay.
But it was all okay.
I was alive, wasn't I?
The words of the keeper rang on my mind of the thirteen protocols, and I didn't try to shut them out. I needed to protect the guardians. Whether i was hurting and cried in myself to sleep, I knew my emotions did at the least matter. the fifth day of brooding, I walked out of the destroyed house with a resolution. I was going to do everything I can to protect my guardians.
Guardians can only be safe during the period where Earth is under any of the first thirteen protocols of the Earth protection detail. Too bad, the protocols cannot be activated using Thoth. But it's good since they can be activated at the Temples of the guardians. and I knew all of them, and their locations thanks to my long memory.
I walked into the bushes and ascended through a few hills and landed in front of the old temple that now looked like a hill. Well, was buried under a hill. I changed the dial and disabled the temple security traps and went into the river. i opened the shaft using the medallion i picked up atop the hill within a rock and a few miles later, the river led me to a cliff, which was as expected dry solidified mud on the doors. with a huge creek the doors opened and i walked into the prayer hall of the guardian temple. i smiled as dust rose and slowly cleared as the guarding sentinel looked at me.
everything was the very same way i left it two hundred and twenty years ago. nothing had changed.
I walked down the dark corridor and lodged the medallion on the control board in the middle of the room. i heard gears turn down below and a moment later, the crystals on the roof lit.
i didn't bother to look around. I knew where everything was. I moved from the prayer hall to the back Holy room. I opened the door of the Holy of Holiest parts of the temple.
As I walked into the Holiest of Holies, the statues came alive and looked at me. i greeted them the only way i knew how to. A nod. They recognized me and turned away. i took another turn and descended down a shaft and into the round room.
i took my wings out and stretched them. Lighting shot off them and into the walls of the room above.
i heard machines turn and everything come alife. the blue crystal strips at the ceiling line of the temple lit. i folded them and started reading the wall.
in front of me was protocol Zero. Zero? i didnt know there was protocol Zero. i read its brief and realized its for when a guardian turns against all life on earth.
I see why why they rurn but, i wasnt intersted. i skipped one to five, i knew them by heart. they were all for when war broke out. Or when Heaven, Olympus i might say specifically back to this solar system.
protocol six seven eight, didnt hold what i was looking for. the worst case scenarios.
Nine, they were far fetching. I am sure that that situation would never happen. Inter Galactic? where they kidding? there's no way a war would occur between the "milky way" galaxy and other galaxies. theres no way it would happen.
ten, hmm, nah, maybe but it was not gonna happen for now. Now eleven. that was the one i was looking for.
The protocol for protecting guardians from gods and titans. the Godkiller standby protocol.
now that was something. i went to its plague and felt it. i closed my eyes as i slowly pushed the plague.
a strong whiff of blood. foul hum... hmm hmm, bir... hmm... swan. shit! Regal Swan.
i took off and within few seconds, flew a bit around three or four kilometers, but hit the breaks so hard i almost my back as i got within four hundred yards to the farmhouse the scent came from. for a second i hung on top of a dome of fire.
"Fucking Celts!" i shouted in rage.
i reverted back down and stood on the edge of a shielding spell radius which was lined with curses and cruxes. Really?
i mean really? a tribal triquetra spell lined with salt and copper with small curses? what the fuck was the swan dying in there that it was covered with all these tough spells?
i looked at the seven borders of salt made around the farm house. then the three copper wires in between the borders. then the glowing marks of curses and spells within the salt borders.
my dome around town was a protective shield. this was... this had its own level. it wasnt just overkill. it was over over over kill. you can power it exponentially no one would blame you.
save... save... save... protect... please guard... i heard something whisper behind clear warnings of the curse that should i interfere, i would destroy a lot.
fuck they think i am. i am a guardian. cursing me would only add to my strength.
i tried to step on the salt, knowing that wiping it out was out of the question. all my hairs rose and if there were clouds in the sky i would say i was about ro get hit by lightning. i stepped on it and i instantly felt something slam on me so hard i almost fell back. but the curseds slapped me so hard i felt like i was being hammered by a mechanical hammer while being burnt and electrocuted at the same time.
i screamed and continued forth. the barrier of the triquetra spell, i touched, steppen copper wires. worst mistake of my life. everything came at me. ot was like i was being hit by lightning over and over again, but i wasnt. i was burning. all around me everything exploded on my face and everywhere.
everywhere in me hurt. my weight my feet couldnt keep it. i tasted blood on my tongue and... what the fuck was i trying to prove walking into the boundaries of a curse.
i raised my wings that felt lkke they were breaking and pushed the triquetra barrier.
i raised them high enough, i think and looked at the warped images in front of me. I garnered as much energy as i can from the earth, even that which was breaking me apart. i called for lightning and intentionally hit myself with it. Right at the tip of my lightning like wings.
i only saw white light, felt energized and my ears popped, i landed on something that hit me back. a horse's hindlegs?
i flew back fast and landed flat with my back on a stone.