The Legend of the Lost Galaxy chapter 2

Sorry everyone for the cliffhanger....Yea I go super hard on my favorite Oc In the next chapter😭.......I'll post that one soon!😁

Chapter 2 The Guardians of The Lost Galaxy 

“The Guardians of the Lost Galaxy?” Janner said as Oskar handed the book to him. He flipped through the pages. All of them looked old and he noticed that instead of the words being printed they were handwritten. “I haven't read it yet. I wanted to wait for you all to see it before I did.” Oskar explained.

 “So who's going to read it?” Esben asked. Janner flipped back to page one and began to read.

March 14th of the first Epoch

 “Dear diary…I'm starting this diary to catalog all my adventures as a guardian of the Lost galaxy. For today the reenactment of the guardianship has been passed down from generation to generation of rulers from each one of the planets. And now I was chosen to be a real Guardian of the Galaxy! I mean how cool is that! It is hard though, me being an only child and the heir to the throne. That means that I have to not only be a guardian of Aerwiar but also the queen of Aynara. I pray to The Maker that I'll be a good guardian. I couldn't bear the thought of letting my kingdom and my planet down.”

 March 15th of the first Epoch

 “Dear diary… today the Guardians had our first official meeting. It was honestly quite awkward. I had no idea what to say and it kind of seemed like they didn't either. There are seven of us, one Guardian for each planet. I noticed that Naida, I think was her name, kept touching her necklace which was in fact a pearl that I thought was really pretty. I wonder why she was doing that. The leader of the meeting was Umba, she is the queen of the Shapeshifters. She can transform into a dragon! That would be so cool! I really hope that as time goes on I'll get to know her better.

“Doesn't really seem like much, just an old diary.” Janner said as he stopped reading from the book.

  “It's not just an old diary. It's from Anyara. If it's that old there must be something important about it. Also, have you failed to remember the fact that it was hidden in a bookcase wall room!” Kalmar said,

 “Maybe try skipping to the end,” he suggested.

“Out of the mouth of Jiminy who danced a jig ‘Are you out of your right mind? One never skips to the end of a book!’” Oskar said horrified at just the very thought of doing such a thing.

  “Do you really want to go through countless pages of just boring diaryness, rather than being able to figure out why this thing was hidden for so long and what made it stay preserved since Anyara?” he asked.

 “If we must…” Oskar grumbled.

 Janner flipped through the old pages all the way to the back and started to read where he noticed one of the page numbers was underlined.

January 15th the year of the first Epoch

“…. Dear Diary, today not only is it my birthday, but also us Guardians met for a meeting. It was about the Darkness…. Rosalin warned us about the Darkness. She told us  it originated from the planet, Milky Way, which is her planet and that the Darkness will only grow stronger. I fear that if the Darkness grows too strong, it'll infest the other planets and take over The Lost Galaxy. I pray to The Maker we will find a way to defeat this Darkness before it destroys us all ....”

“Man, that's ominous!” Leeli said.

  “No kidding!” Janner said and flipped a few more pages and continued reading.

September 20th the year of the first Epoch

“… The others all think I'm crazy. But who can blame me? War has broken out, old friends of mine have turned against me and stabbed me in the back. The Darkness is taking over the entire galaxy, and my home has been almost destroyed five times now! The forests of Aerwiar are getting restless, creatures of scary tales and nightmares have started appearing from nowhere. It's no wonder that I came up with such a dangerous idea. Isn't it worth trying? Isn't it worth the risk if we could banish the Darkness once and for all? I don't get why the others won't let me do this. I just want things to go back to the way they were before the Darkness and before my family and friends turned against me, before I was a Guardian… For such things that I cannot share with you, Dear Diary, have happened to me that are too dangerous for anyone to hear...”

“What in The Shining Isle of Anniera is that supposed to mean?” Kalamar asked.

  “I don't know, but something happened and if you could stop interrupting we could find out!”  Janner said, getting a tad bit irritated by the fact that Kalmar kept interrupting him. Janner turned to the last page in the book; actually, the page right before the last  and started to read:

December 2nd the year of the first Epoch

 “....Dear Diary…The Guardians finally agreed to my plan! We were about to put all of our magic into the map of the Lost Galaxy. When my best friend….. from my own planet, Aerwiar, betrayed us all….He tried to steal the Enchanted map. We luckily got it back, but we now know that the map isn't safe. It wasn't safe on any of our planets. So all of us agreed on casting a spell on this map. The side effect of the spell was that we would have to give up our powers, our magic, in order to do the casting. We combined all of our magic together to create a spell that would rip the map into seven magical enchanted pieces. One for each planet….We all agreed that we would hide the map pieces somewhere where only the chosen ones could find them. For if anyone else got ahold of the map pieces and somehow put them back together, we would fail our guardianship. We would fail our mission of what we are protecting. And what we are protecting would be lost forever.

 I still have to find out where to hide that piece, probably going to be somewhere elaborate and over my head but I'll……..” 

“And?” said everyone of the Wingfeathers.

  “There's nothing left!” Janner said, as he turned the next page to see that the last page in the book was just a drawing of what looked like an exploding star with seven diamonds on it.

 “What! There has to be more?!” Sara said, as she took the book from Janner and saw that, originally, the last few pages of the book were only ripped portions of pages.

  “The last pages of this diary have been basically ripped out.” she said.

  “Why would anyone rip out pages to their own diary?” Leeli asked.

 “Maybe they wrote something on there that was too dangerous for anyone to see.” Artham said, 

 “It doesn't make sense, though; why would someone go to all this trouble and just rip the last pages out?” Janner said.

 “And what is the ‘Darkness?’ and ‘Guardianship?’” Leeli asked.

  “I don't know about guardians, but I do know about the Legend of the Lost Galaxy,” said Esben.

“What!” said each one of the children, followed by Nia and Podo.

  “A long time ago, when I was just, maybe 6, my grandmother, Maida, would tell Artham and me stories. One day, we had settled around her and she told us a story that she had never told us before. It was about the Lost Galaxy. Artham thought it was absolutely preposterous because she had proposed the idea that Aerwiar was a planet and there were six other planets in the solar system. I was only six at the time so I thought it was the most dreamy thing that could possibly happen. The legend foretold a prophecy of something yet to come, something that still hasn't happened to this day. It was prophesied that The Maker would choose people to save the Lost Galaxy from the Darkness. He would choose people to find a secret place in the galaxy, somewhere where no one, not a single soul, knows where it is. It's a place only for the Chosen Ones. Only they could enter this place and only they could grab the power that was inside of this place. It was called "The Jewel of the Galaxy.” Esben explained. 

“The Jewel of the Galaxy? Is that like the Jewels of Anniera because we certainly don't know where the Jewel of the Galaxy is.” Kalmar asked. 

“No, at least I don't think so. The Chosen Ones could come at any time. The Maker will choose people whenever it's His time, not ours. I remember always dreaming that it might be Artham and me. I do hope that the Chosen Ones might be in my lifetime.” He explained.

 It was suddenly about 9:00, They were all telling stories and playing hilarious family games and telling about legends and guardians in old times in the castle for so long that they had forgotten what time it was.

  “I think it's best, you kids get to bed now. it's 9:00.” Nia said.

 “Five more minutes?!” they all asked.

  Nia sighed and said “You're going to be tired in the morning if you stay up later. We have plenty of time to tell stories and legends and even scary tales if you're up for it in the morning. Go on now, get ready for bed I'll be in to tuck you in in a minute.”

 So that is what they did. They all got ready for bed and Nia tucked each one of them into their sleeping bags in one of the few parlors, downstairs, and kissed them goodnight. Everyone went to sleep without a sound. But no one could have known what would happen next.