The Torn Guardian

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Author: J.D. Wilde
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power of all six of us to watch over and protect the world. Right now, I’m only two-thirds of the way there. That simply is not going to cut it.
    “Lux,” Oran began softly, but I interrupt.
    “No, why can’t you go and hold him off?” I question, and I feel the panic start to course throughout my body. Jo’s tormenting death is definitely affecting me more than it should because it is all I can think about. My palms sweat up as her limp body replays in my mind, and I keep envisioning me falling to the same fate.
    As selfish as it sounds, I don’t want to die for the sake of this world. I’ve never even been to it! I know I’m supposed to protect it. It is the reason I was created in the first place, but I was told I’d be watching over keeping the balance. That sounds routine, almost mundane. In this case, I’m being asked to fight in a suicidal battle I will lose as soon as I enter it. And these dragons know this.
    “We cannot leave our realm; it would risk great catastrophe to the balance even if we could,” Oran met my eyes. I knew this of course. It was one of the many things the dragons had taught me. Their jobs were to maintain a balance between peace and chaos, life and death, light and darkness. Because of this, the brothers made a binding pact between themselves. Not one of them can enter or manipulate the world in his favor. Sethos has found a way to break through, though, and this has made it substantially more difficult to keep the balance at a distance. “The time has come, Lux” Oran continues without missing a beat, “Your presence is needed in Nilohm. There is no way Grace or Adira can win that fight.”
    Both Mors and Jenesis huff their disagreements. I might have been the one they all eventually agreed on, but it is obvious Mors and Jenesis still think my sisters can fair well under the right circumstances. I would actually agree with them if I wasn’t so shocked at Oran actually saying my sisters’ names- Grace and Adira. With the exception of Jo, I only learn the names of my sisters through their memories. Previously I had tried to bring them up in conversations as I desperately want to know why they bothered making all of us in the first place, but the life, death, and light dragons brushed me off every single time.
    “Lux, you are going Nilohm,” Oran orders.
    “But, I can’t win against Sethos yet,” I argue. With how little I truly know, I do still understand perfectly well without the final two souls of Grace and Adira, I am incomplete. This is obnoxiously frustrating because he knows this as well. In fact, all three of these brothers are very well aware I cannot win without my final two sisters’ souls, so why are they trying to send me down to fight I will undoubtedly lose?
    “Grace and Adira are also in Nilohm,” Oran counters.
    My panic is momentarily replaced with confusion. It takes me a few minutes to piece together what exactly he means. But when I do, my mouth loses every ounce of moisture it had, and I can barely speak. “You want me to kill them?’” I ask completely dumbfounded.
    “Or they could kill you,” Mors nonchalantly replies.
    Oran quickly cracks heads with Mors in retaliation and roars fearlessly. I wish I had retaliated like he did. I would have looked like an over aggressive idiot, but anything is better than the dumb, stupefied, terrified expression I’m currently sporting. I have not even considered the fact that I might be the one to die at one of my sister’s hands. In reality, I should have anticipated the possible outcome. There is no chance my sisters are pushovers, and I doubt they will lie down and let me take their lives.
    “We agreed Lux gave us the best chance,” Oran scowls at his brother.
    “We agreed that the strongest would be the most appropriate host. True, as of right now, it appears to be Lux, but we do not know how Grace or Adira would fair in a fight against her. You cannot rule out ours entirely because you favor

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