Ha. If they forget- bye bye stuff, hello random plant or creature from another world!
I was perusing through my story folders today, and I happened to stumble across the plot for Guardians! So... I will post it up here as a reminder, plus the power descriptions:
Since humankind could even think, many people have dreamed of other worlds, parallel universes stretched over existence. Many children and adults have found they wistfully staring up at the stars, a sly thought creeping into their brains as they blankly gazed.
What if there was another world? And what if these worlds had a copy for every single human in existence?
There has never only been “one” universe. Instead, it is many universes jammed close together, like pages in a book. They exist so closely together that only a thin layer keeps them apart, ever narrowing to accommodate new, accidentally created universes.
In every universe are the same people, but in many different forms. Even though the many manifestations of the one person may be completely different, they are still all the same person. If one of these manifestations in another universe dies, all the other manifestations will also die, at the same time and most likely in the same way. These manifestations make it so that an ordinary person cannot simply drift between universes, because there is already a manifestation of them there.
Many attempts by ordinary people have been made to travel between universes, but at the rare chance they manage to get through the veil between universes, they die as soon as they come in contact with the next universe. This stops one manifestation of a person meeting another manifestation of themselves- if a person did ever meet up with himself or herself in another universe, the consequences would be deadly. In other words, all universes would most likely be completely destroyed. Therefore, universes always will and have been kept apart.
But…
Every generation a group of people are born in one universe that have no other manifestations in any other place. They are completely unique to the one universe they are born to (which, oddly enough, is our universe most of the time). Because there is only one of them in the whole range of universes, they can quite easily and painlessly travel between the different places, without causing serious ramifications. They do so by finding a weak point in the veil separating universes (quite often by accident), and simply just passing through. However, it can be quite difficult to find these weak points in the veil, and sometimes they can’t just walk back the previous entry way back into their home universe. It can take hours, or even days just to get back.
As well as these special people having the ability to travel between universes freely, they also have the powers of different elements (fire, water, earth etc.) No one is quite sure why this happens- it is mostly thought that these powers were developed as a defence method against other universal attacks. The eight elements are as follows: Fire, Water, Air, Electricity, Earth, Light, Darkness and Emotion. Therefore, only eight of these unique people are born every generation.
Since they were blessed with these abilities, the Council Of Universes (a select few people who oversee the universes and try and prevent any problems, a little like the UN) decreed that they would be the universal protectors, preventing magical harm to any universes under threat. So for ions, the Guardians Of The Universes (as they were called) sorted out the threats, settling down to make sure they carried on the legacy by having a child when they had some spare time between working. The child would then take over the universal protection once they turned sixteen, receiving the special crystal from the previous holder of their element (just because your parent was fire, it didn’t mean you would also be fire. You would more likely end up being water or earth, and be the successor to the one before that had your element). Once their child turned sixteen, the parent who was a Guardian (Guardians mostly married normal people. Marrying another person with an element could cause problems) would lose the seriously powerful side of their power and the ability to travel between worlds (they would be still be able to use their powers, but not as hugely fantastic as before. And once their child did turn sixteen, copies of them would appear in other universes so they didn’t travel between them any longer).
Everything was going fine, completely to clockwork until the generation just before this generation. The Guardians had started to die mysteriously, just a couple of years after having a child. The Council Of Universes was very worried. Some kind of shadow was creeping across the universes, leaving destruction wherever it went. The Guardians had been in the middle of fighting it when all of a sudden they started dropping dead in their home universe, in very suspicious circumstances. The police in the home universe were baffled. These random murders had no clues left at the scene, not a trace apart from the gristly wounds. Something was definitely wrong.
But before the council could get too worried, the shadow retreated, satisfied with the deaths of the Guardians. Its reasons were simple- if the grown up Guardians died, the child Guardians would be forced into protecting the universes before their powers were fully developed. Easy prey for the shadow, all it had to do was wait until they came across its path. They would be too weak to even put up a struggle- and then, that would be the end of all Guardians.
In a small area called Tweed, in the hot country of Australia, the future Guardians were all born. They all had things in common, one dead parent, a strange dead stuffed animal (the reason for this shall be revealed later), some very strange problems and that they all were very easily scared. They grew up separately, not really knowing each other at all until one fateful day, where all eight were hiding from bullies in the playground. They were all drawn together by some strange force, whether it is fate, divine intervention or the fact they were all wimps clutching dead stuffed animals. Later that day, they stumbled over a bunch of crystals (not coincidentally, of course. As soon as the council had found out the future guardians had met, they placed the crystals nearby). They donned the sparkly jewels, deciding on the spur of the moment to play running races. One of the boys, who was a faster runner, got to the gate first- and disappeared in a flash of white light. After the other kids finished freaking out, they plucked up some reserve of unknown courage and ran after him, also disappearing.
This was their first trip to another world and the discovery of their powers. After that, they have to figure it out all by themselves.
The full powers (you will not get to fully use any powers yet, you are only just starting, the Uber powers come later on!) and weaknesses for each element are:
Electricity: Able to shoot electrical energy from fingers, moderate power over electricity, can cause power surges. Often a side affect is an accelerated interest and talent with technology. Weakness is that water completely fizzles out all power. A very large amount of water will actually “short out” the Guardian’s system, often resulting in death. They can still go swimming, but if hit with any water in the midst of attacking, these side affects will happen.
Air: Able to glide on air (fly, if you will), moderate power over air and wind currents. A common side affect is that they can run extremely fast (because they always have the wind behind them!). Weakness is that if there is no wind or air movement, their powers will not work. They cannot just magic moving air into existence- the air has to already be there for them to use it.
Fire: Able to shoot fire out of hands and fingers, can withstand extreme heat, moderate control over fire. A usual side affect is pyromania. The weakness is again water, which will completely null the power and also in large amounts kill the person (again, only when they are using their powers. If not, they will be fine.).
Earth: Able to grow plants from bare earth, moderate power over earth and stone, limited communication skills with animals. Often a side effect of this is a fascination with the natural world. The weakness for Earth is fire, which damages severely any plant life they will try and protect themselves with and scorches earth. Usually people with Earth elements are hippies.
Light: Power to illuminate, can glow, can use light to knock enemies over and burn enemies. A side affect can be a slight obsession with all things shiny and bright. The main weakness for light is that their power energy levels get used up very quickly. If they do one huge burst of light, they will lose their powers for a couple of hours or so. If they continuously use their power without resting, it will start dimming and eventually just get used up. Also, for fighting enemies, mostly light is used to temporarily blind or cause a distraction. It can also be focussed into a beam to burn enemies or knock them back, but it takes a trememendous amount of concentration.
Darkness: Power to make any lights around darken severely, can make a place pitch black, limited command over creatures of shadow and able to construct objects out of shadow. A side effect is depression, often the patrons of this power turning into Goths. The main weakness is that they are very sensitive to light, and a big burst of light will stun or even kill them. This power can be used to control creatures of the shadows, and can be used to construct objects out of darkness (Like light, this takes a lot of concentration to pull off).
Emotion: Power to know what the people around them are feeling and manifest fake emotions in others. A big side affect of this is that the patrons of these powers often are too empathic and forget about themselves in the rush to help others. The weakness for this power is that they can’t do anything against inanimate objects and often get so overwhelmed by strong emotions around them that they will burst into tears or get a very bad migraine. Mostly both, but the overwhelming can be stopped by blocking the emotions of others off. But this takes a lot of training to be done properly.
[NOTE= I updated the powers and made them a little cooler- especially for light and darkness (sorry I made them so lame before)]
