Young Guardian Trilogy by Lady Adellandra Dratianos (the lemonade war series .TXT) 📖

The Dream Realm Chronicles:

Young Guardian Trilogy:

#3: Diary of the Young Guardian


By: Adella Dratianos


Outline

Book One: Earthbound?
PART 1: FAMILY MATTERS
Prologue #1: Diary of the Young Guardian
Prologue #2: Twin Celebrations
Prologue #3: Family At Last!
PART 2: LESSONS ON CONTROL
Chapter One: Enchantra's Warning
Chapter Two: Motherhood
Chapter Three: New Challenges
Chapter Four: Dark Secrets
Chapter Five: Destiny Awaits
PART 3: MEANWHILE...
Chapter Six: In the Realm of Dreams
Chapter Seven: Young Guardian's Quest
Chapter Eight: A Taste of the Magic Within
Chapter Nine: Companion Parenthood
Chapter Ten: New Friends and Magic
Chapter Eleven: Mysterious Warnings
Chapter Twelve: A Mystic Celebration -- Earthbound Style
BOOK II: TO CHANT OR NOT TO CHANT
PART 1: NEW NEIGHBORS
Chapter Thirteen: Enemies in the Neighborhood
Chapter Fourteen: Envy and Jamaican Gifts
Chapter Fifteen: Truth of Happiness
Chapter Sixteen: Horror in Hill View
Chapter Seventeen: Clairvoyant Visions
PART 2: NEW CHALLENGES
Chapter Eighteen: Lady Katherine's Crystal
Chapter Nineteen: Adrienne's Revenge
Chapter Twenty: Brother vs. Brother
Chapter Twenty-One: Difficult Road Ahead
Chapter Twenty-Two: Revelations from the Heart
Chapter Twenty-Three: Ghosts of Hill View
PART 3: LIFE AND A DESTINY
Chapter Twenty-Four: A Mother's Gift
Chapter Twenty-Five: Secret Wish
Chapter Twenty-Six: Friends of Magic
Chapter Twenty-Seven: Mrs. Gertrude's Plea
Chapter Twenty-Eight: Sincere Apologies
PART 4: BIRTH OF A NEW LOVE
Chapter Twenty-Nine: Dream Memories
Chapter Thirty: The Elusive Dorianne
Chapter Thirty-One: Luna's Confession
Chapter Thirty-Two: A Sacred Promise
Chapter Thirty-Three: The Miracle of Melody
Epilogue: The Mystic Oath: Happily Ever After
SHORT EXCERPT FROM: Mystic Circle Saga: #1: The Mystic's Challenge

BOOK ONE: EARTHBOUND?

Part One: Family Matters:

Prologue One:
Diary of the Young Guardian

A lot of things have happened to me in my life. From growing up in an orphanage, to learning I had special powers, to meeting both my true love and twin sister at the same place I learned I had a family, I’d have to say I’m grateful to be someone, finally. I’m happy My Lord Guardian O’Dell made me his successor.
As I write these thoughts in my journal, I think back to the past years’ adventurous events. I would do anything for my family or my friends, the Dream Realm Crusaders. I used to be a nameless, faceless child caught up in the cruel orphanage system. Now, all grown up, I’m one of the Dream Realm’s most popular Crusaders. I’m an Ancient Mystic, with power beyond comprehension. It was all up to my own mind how I would use it.
O’Dell calls me Young Guardian. The Sisters, Enchantra and Challandra, call me that, too. In fact, every Dream Realm Companion calls me that. It’s who I am.
Finally, I’m no longer an orphan with no home, or name, or destiny. Imagine my surprise when I found out my very special destiny. It’s all thanks to my best friend, Aaron Schmidt.
I grew up with him and his twin sister Amethyst, but we call her Aimee. Aaron Theodore would shield the two of us from any harm Mrs. Gertrude or any of her favorite spies would dish out. Sometimes, I would protect them.
I never knew how I could do it, at first. When I found out whom I really was, I knew what I was doing and was able to control it, letting the power grow inside me. At first, when I was about five (as Mrs. Gertrude told me once), I came to the orphanage in Shore Point, California, not even able to talk. I would send telepathic messages only to those I could trust. I didn’t start to speak out loud until I was nearly nine. By the time I was twelve, I knew I could do more. I could do telekinesis, moving things with only the power of my mind. I could tell the future, to a certain extent, with premonitions, and could tell the past of an object or person with a simple touch. The one thing that would direct most of my life was the safety of being empathic. I could sense things in the air, like hurt, pain, or any other emotion.
My twelfth year ended in a new form of expression from Aaron. In an attempt to be safe from a beating, we headed to the attic. I sensed something from him I never noticed before. Soon, we had made love, and later found out I was pregnant with his child. Before Mrs. Gertrude could sell me to the highest bidder on my thirteenth birthday, I ran away.
I wanted out of that agonizing life, and the thought of being on my own brought me hope for many new tomorrows. A week on my own, though, I fainted from exhaustion. A kind stranger took me to the hospital, but left before I could thank them. When I woke up, I found I’d had the baby. The doctor who was taking care of me, Dr. Mathews, I think it was, told me I had a girl. Right away, I knew the baby would be special. After wishing the baby good luck in her new life, I had no choice but to give her up. I was again stuck in the court system as a ward. Since I had no home, I was bounced from place to place until I thought I’d had enough.
I thought about both O’Dell and Aaron, and how their kindness throughout the years made me safe and warm, inside and out. Lord Guardian O’Dell officially started calling me Young Guardian when I had the baby, whom I named Kelina. There was a Companion from the Dream Realm I’d befriended who helped me learn all about what I could do.
Her name is Katherine Hawk, and to this day, she is my best Companion friend. She’s a Balinese-Human girl with a remarkable knack for making me feel welcome and loved in the Dream Realm. For the next two years, she would stand beside me through thick and thin, keeping me company and showing me things in the Dream Realm I never saw before in my life. Through her, I found out she was Banished to my mind, left to search for her twin sister, Kitten’s Claw (she called her Kitty-Hawk and Kit a lot.) Katherine played a very important part in the Crusades.
Katherine taught me how to trust again, which made the ball of magic inside me grow by the day. Soon enough, I trusted her, the Companions, Lord O’Dell, and myself. She knows a lot about the Sisterhood I could only imagine. Being a Companion herself, she introduced me to the Mystic Sisters, Enchantra and Challandra. Every night, I would escape the pain of my world and go into theirs, feeling safe and loved.
Two years go by and I’m stuck in a juvenile detention center just south of Shore Point. I’m only comforted by the thoughts of Katherine, O’Dell, the Sisters, and Aaron and Aimee. Thoughts wouldn’t be enough to satisfy the hunger for love and friendship. At the center, I’d had no one but myself to rely on. No friends, no one to care about me but me. That’s why I was surprised to find a visitor waiting for me in a little room down the hall.
The visitor turned out to be Bridget Guy, and she was a representative from a place called the System. The System, as she explained to me, is a teen detective’s training agency. I’d learn all I needed to know to be a first-rate detective while living on-campus, sharing a room with a partner. It all depended on the case I was assigned. Well, Big Guy, as she wanted me to call her, introduced me to Shannon Ryan, the boss of the System. Shannon, the Chief of Detectives, was only twenty-one, but she was smart and in control.
She knew exactly what to do, when to do it, and what to do in an emergency. Shannon was also the nicest, by letting me call her by her first name. It wasn’t too long the same day I met my true love, my Imaginary Romeo I could only dream about in my youth. The one guy in my mind that rivaled Aaron in my heart. As our eyes met, I could tell it was for real.
I was his Dream Girl and he was my Imaginary Romeo. His name is Derrick James Reading.
At first, Derrick was mean and rude on the outside to me. He went for two weeks before actually trusting me enough to begin to be nice to me. With my empathic powers, I often wondered why he was keeping his sincerity to himself. I could tell he was sweet and generous, caring and concerned, not to mention cute and smart! Why wouldn’t he show me his real self? Why does he have to hide behind a mask of deception?
Maybe it was nerves, or shyness, or an effort to look tougher. I never knew.
I just knew I could trust him with my heart if I had to.
One night, I had to trust him with my secret past, minus Aaron’s love and the baby. I’d had a nightmare, which the Dominionite Master Orthos had given me. Orthos loved to play games, to this day, and keep me on my toes. In the nightmare, the Dream Realm was in shambles. My whole world was crumbling to the ground and none of my Companion friends was there to greet me. All was dark; I was lost, alone, and afraid of everything around me.
I began to hear footsteps . . . closer . . . closer still, and I was just staring into the darkness, unable to move to save my life. Something in my soul told me to use Magic, but I still didn’t want to chance it. My Magic was still a little rusty, and untamed.
I awoke screaming, and Derrick came to my rescue in the middle of the night. I told him about my nightmare after he insisted on staying awake to find out what was wrong with me. His brown eyes were so concerned, and more trusting of me, so I couldn’t resist. I told him about my past life, before arriving in the System, ending up in tears just thinking about it.
That’s when he kissed me for the first time. Shivers went up and down my spine, my heart raced, and I could begin to hear his thoughts of love for me. Suddenly, no horror in my life before seemed to matter. All that mattered was that I had my Imaginary Romeo, and he had his Dream Girl. According to the Sisters and Lord Guardian O’Dell, we were meant for each other.
For two long years, we were on a Crusade together: to help fight in the constant battles with the Master Orthos, his son Damian (who’d taken a shine to me before too long), and his menacing, seductive daughter Sabrina. It was Sabrina through the years of orphanage misery that would come and taunt me as if I were the one to steal her precious power away. She seemed to think I did, but I knew my Magic was my own birthright.
Shannon Ryan was the one to introduce me to my twin sister, Aluna. When I first saw her, I couldn’t believe my eyes. Another me! A family, somewhere, finally! Imagine my good luck! Turned out, we were both eighteen. I was the elder twin by five full minutes, and Luna hated it. So, the three of us, Derrick, Luna, and me, along with Luna’s boyfriend, an agent I knew as “Shadow,” were the Dream Realm Crusaders. Before too long, we were also the best of