The Guardian (3 page)

John stopped off at his ex-girlfriend’s
parent’s house leaving a note since no one was answering the door
explaining to them that he had decided to leave for a while and
would stop by when he was back in town. He did not want Sandra
causing a fuss or being worried about him. He understood that he
was the last connection that she had with her daughter after their
last talk. With note firmly in place he headed to the airport to
get whatever ticket he could out of the country to the Baltic Sea.
He had no idea why but he was being drawn there in his dreams and
in his heart. He had already packed is book bag with an extra set
of cloths and had the little money he had managed to save in such a
short period of time. He had no idea where he was going to stay or
if he would be able to communicate with people there.

His flight was an all-night flight and he
was lucky enough to get the window seat. He was completely
exhausted for some strange reason and he drifted off to sleep and
was quickly in a dream seeing different things in what seemed like
the Baltic Sea. It was as if he was seeing through someone else’s
eyes. It was as if it was a female driving a car down some old
streets and turning into a back alley. It was a strange dream from
the very get go. The woman walked into a bar and was talking to
some man behind the bar collecting some information before heading
into the lady’s bathroom. She was checking her makeup and it was
the very girl he had been dreaming of all the other times; the
woman that had saved his life. When she looked at herself in the
eyes she paused and at that moment it felt as if she knew that he
was looking through her eyes.

“Everyone please settle down and buckle up
we have just hit a rough spot and will be out of it momentarily,
“sounded the Captain from the onboard system.

The plane was shaking about and everyone was
scrambling to get fastened in to their belts.

”
Looks like they might be scrapping
us of a building,” Said the strange man sitting next to John” I am
just funning with you boy, calm down.”

“
Do I look worried?” snapped back
John.

It was a nervous moment for all, but soon it
all settled down. John gave a look to his next door neighbor that
let him know that any other commentary was unneeded or wanted. John
took this moment to reflect and wonder could this be real or are
his dreams just becoming more and more strange. He laughed to
himself and thought: Maybe I need to become a writer and just
rehash what I dream at night. God knows, they are strange enough to
sell some copies.

After an hour or so John turned to his
neighbor and said:” You know this is my first flight out of
anywhere. I had to get out of dodge and try to clear my head, so
don’t take offence to my reactions earlier.”

The older man turned and looked at John
through his glasses replying: “None taken kid, I tend to rub people
the run way. You see I choose to be myself and not follow the
social standards at all. Maybe that is why I have had so many
ex-wives.” He said with a smirk.

”
Damn, not one, but multiple women
were dumb enough to hitch up with you. Maybe there is hope for me
too.”

Both men began to burst into laughing.
“True, true I am sure anyone has hope if I had multiple run ins.
Just remember, it is the escape that is hard.” Replied the older
man.

Both men were laughing and motioned the
flight attendant over to try and get a drink. “Hey Barbie how about
two scotches to wet our whistles.”

The woman just shook her head “which one is
paying for them?” “I’ get it, this is my new friends first flight.”
The man turned to John and said:” My name is Mike. What is yours?”
“John” Mike reached out to take John’s hand and said: “Pleasure to
meet you son.” “Same here sir.” “No need for that, I am not that
old kid.” “I don’t know you are old enough to call me kid are you
not?” Mike smiled and said: “I like that you got wit about you.”
They sat and talked the remainder of the flight until the landing
and the parted ways.

A strange feeling came over John as he
stepped off of the plain, he felt as if he was coming more and more
alive; every inch of his body from his toes to his figure tips felt
like they were surging with more strength and will. He felt more
centered and less conflicted about his past and present. The oddest
thing is it felt as if he had an onboard compass leading him into
the city. With just his backpack flung on his back with the few
items he brought he headed to god knows where from the small
airport.

The buildings here were different from what
he was used to in Simpsonville. These building were old, but more
history was in these buildings. He could smell the sea from where
he was. Listening to the people speak a language that sounded
somewhat like maybe Russian to him. Here he was and even though he
was in a new place it felt as if he already knew the area. It was a
unusual feeling as if he had been here before.

Back at the cave a handful of the coven were
having a meeting behind closed doors about steps that the coven
needs to take in the future to handle the never ending problems
with the possibility of technology blowing their cover. “Really,
how are we supposed to deal with these cameras and body scanners
everywhere,” stated Ivan with his hands lifted up in the air
pointing at random locations to make a point “any type of creature
vampire of human cannot take a step in most countries now without
it being tracked. How long until there are scanners that will make
them aware of our presence? How long until, these devices ruin
everything we have spent centuries building?” A sound of clapping
hands came from behind the group in the shadows. “Great speech, but
since the other covens have control over these humans we have
nothing to be scared of. Do you really think that after being alive
as long as the ancients they would not be somehow in control of
these things,” retorted what seemed to be Vitaliy “We never talk
about it much but two of the ancient ones have worked very hard to
have the reins on all the companies that do the hunting and
tracking for Governments. No need to fuss over these things
youngsters.” Vitaliy walked to the center of the room and took his
time to look every person in eye and continuing with: “These times
are not so scary and we have other things to consider closely. A
good example is where we are going to take our next gamble in
business boys.” “Really, you are not worried about the others
having all the power over this? Could this not be used as an end
all dispute against our coven?” proclaimed Drakus “How much longer
should we allow them to have this monopoly on the humans tracking
systems?” Drakus added. Adela now entered the room and began
“Drakus, Drakus, Drakus, you should be on a drama show on some
station somewhere, but your grandstanding in unwanted today.
Vitaliy, good to see you again, are there any news from the other
covens worth bringing up?” “Only behind closed door my lady. Our
matters are not for the ears of the younger coven.” Replied Vitaliy
with a slight bow towards his coven leader. “Is it any thing
pressing?” “Nothing that cannot wait a few days mam.” “Oh, how I
have missed you on my court. Have you anything for these
youngsters?” “Other than not worrying over conspiracy theories, I
have nothing at all. May I retire back to my room?” “Of course you
may, I know this trip was a long and tiresome one on you.” Vitaliy
bowed once more like an aristocratic man of a royal family and seen
himself out of the room.

“ I am completely bored and tired of your
antics in this coven,” Adela spoke with a soft voice as she was
walking behind Drakus,” Are you trying to corrupt my coven or just
trying to feel important?” She looked at him with interests and he
could not even look her in the eye knowing that she could remove
his head from his shoulders without even breaking a sweet.

“
No, not at all mam, I am just worried
about the well-being of our coven,” He said with a trembling voice,
you could hear the complete and utter fear with every syllable that
he spoke, “Please forgive me; I meant no disrespect.”

He now could feel her breath on the back of
his neck and ear and feel her finger tips tapping on his shoulder;
she had appeared in this position like a specter and with her voice
so faint that only he could hear the demonic under tones in his ear
she said:” If you ever go behind my back and voice your concerns
again,” pausing for a breath second, while placing her slender
fingers around his neck,” I will crush your neck and rip your skull
off of your shoulders. Do you understand me?”

Trembling and shacking beyond control he
shook his head yes and “creaked out, “Yes, yes my mistress, please
forgive me.” Everyone in the room held their breaths fearing an
attack from their leader.

“
My coven, my beloved coven, am I not
fair and always take care of you?” Everyone in the room looked down
at the ground trying not to enrage her any more than she already
was. This was not her usual way of acting, which scared the coven
even more. She normally was calm and lead without threats or
attacks. “I will not tolerate any more secret meeting in dark
corners of my castle. Is that understood by everyone here?”
Everyone in the room nodded their heads and murmured,” Yes,” at a
very low volume and tone.

On the other end of the castle Galechka was
in her room feeling odd in a disturbing way. She felt as if the
walls were caving in and that she was losing control. She felt
love, anger, fear and confusion all at the same time. She did not
know what was going on and was stark raving disturbed that she
could not control her emotions. She hated him, loved him, wanted to
kill him, wanted to make love to him and had no idea what was
causing these emotions. She had only saved his life once and had no
clue of why she was drawn to that place on that night on the other
side of the planet. Why was she felling these emotions? This was
the first time in her life that she had ever felt this way about
anyone. Looking in her mirror, fussing with her hair, reaching over
and cranking up her radio; she was trying anything she could to not
think about him.

Walking through the streets of Lithuania
John found himself in a strange state of being; He felt stronger,
more energetic, and in love not knowing what was causing these
feelings. All he could do was to think about the girl that saved
him. How her eyes were different than any other that he had seen.
Not just the fact they were sometimes blue and sometimes green, but
the fact that she had a different look behind them. She was a
mystery and enigma that maybe know man could ever figure out. All
he could dream about was to meet this mystery woman and try to win
her heart. Feeling foolish and embarrassed about his fantasy about
a woman that was not a real woman; who never existed in the first
place and only existed in his mind. Still, it sent a smile onto his
face and put a skip into his step.

When John cut around a familiar corner he
noticed the Pub that he had seen in his dreams. The very club that
this haunting woman went into to collect a payment he believed.
This rattled John’s nerves, because it was 100% like what he seen
in his dream and he soundly felt a strong feeling that she could
feel his presence. At this moment Galechka felt his presence. She
wondered: How could this be? She was overcome with so many emotions
that she did not know what to do. She closed her eyes just for a
moment and it was as if she was looking at The Pub through his
eyes, much like he had done through her eyes in his sleep.

Galechka quickly grabbed her keys off of her
dresser and made way to her car as quickly as she could. She did
not know why, but she felt as though he was in grave danger. The
tires to her car spun wildly from the raw power of her engine;
small white stones from the castles drive way sprayed up into the
air from her tires. Her car burned black marks onto the road as she
reached it catching everyone’s attention that was with in the
castle. No one had ever seen her leave this way and Adela already
knew that Galechka was headed to her Guardian. It sent a smile onto
Adela’s face knowing that soon Galechka was going to have the
strength to lead the coven out of the control of the other covens.
Adela being the youngest of the ancients had to abide to their
every demand, for she could not protect her coven from their
strength. Her clan would no longer be enslaved by the others and
she would see revenge for what happened to her Guardian.

John sat down at the end of the bar in the
far corner, trying to allow the locals to realize that he was from
out of town. He knew it was best to avoid problems in a country
that he had no idea how to speak the language. He motioned to the
bar keep that he needed assistance and the keep a huge 260 pound
beast with hairy knuckles was the responding party to John signal.
John looked at the man once he made it down to him and said,”
Beer.” The keep looked at him for a moment grunted and went to the
tap and took a long glass feeing it with a ton of foam in it. “Here
that $5 now,” the keep demanded from John. John reached into his
pocket and pulled out a bunch of funny looking paper money and
said,” How much from this?” The keep reached out and took a few
different pieces. “You need to learn money from here, others will
rob you.” John nodded his head to the giant of a man in front of
him.

An hour had gone by and John had figured out
which of strangely colored notes he needed to pay for each drink.
He had knocked back more than a few by this point. Some of the
locals were looking in his direction and whispering amongst each
other. John was wondering if he was just being paranoid or were
they speaking about him. He was dreading any conflict that was all
he needed at this point. Two of the three men started to make their
way towards him while whispering to each other as the third was
stretching his neck trying to see what was going on. John had a bad
feeling about this and was trying to seem unconcerned. One of them
bent down and spoke, “Where you from?” John to a moment and
replied, “America.” Both men looked at each other and snickered a
drunken snicker. “Why pig you here?” the one man said abruptly.
“John figuring well here we go laughed and said, “Having a beer
having a lot of beer.” The one man grabbed a hold of John by the
shoulder trying to rip him off of his stool being surprised by how
nibble John was. He had not only managed to catch his balance, but
rolled his shoulder stepping back so that the attacker was standing
face to face with John at an arm’s length, grabbing the attacker’s
hand with the hand from the opposite arm so that he could not
remove it from his shoulder. John winked at the man and took his
left leg swinging around while he grabs the man’s elbow of the arm
locked to John’s shoulder with his free hand. Pushing the man’s
elbow towards the owner’s head quickly starting a hundred and
eighty degree turn as soon as the man was off balance, he pushed
the man to the ground by torqueing his elbow forcing him to the
ground. Everyone is looking and John still has the man’s hand
attached to his shoulder being trapped by John’s hand he left up on
the pressure of the man’s elbow allowing the man to stand slightly.
As soon as the man thought he was going to stand John rolled his
hand over the man’s elbow forcing him back down onto his knees.
John repeated this a few times before forcing the man completely to
the ground saying, “Stop!” The other man charged towards John and
John quickly forced the man to stand and used this man as a
projectile into the second attacker.