Phantom Guardians|Episode 11|

Shiroi was shot on the leg out of nowhere and he fell on the floor bleeding like hell

"Shit shit what the hell!?"

A lone figure came out of the shadows and walked up to Shiroi with a knife ready on his hand.

He slowly kneeled down and stabbed Shiroi right on the chest.

"Oh fuck oh fuck I'm gonna die!!" Shiroi yelled


Slowly the knife plunged deeper into Shiroi and he was losing consciousness

"whe...where's Grimm when I need him.."

Shiroi was slowly drifting away and darkness started to take over.

"Is this the end?.." he said softly


"SHIROI! WAKE UP!!!"

"huh? has someone come to rescue me?" he thought to himself

"DAMNIT SHIROI! WAKE UP!!"

"He's one heavy sleeper that's for sure.." Grimm said

"Heavy...sleeper? What the fuck?! I'm sleeping!??"

Shiroi shook his head and quickly woke up and saw Grimm and Violet staring at him

"Holy shit, what are you guys looking at?" he asked

"Man..you can really sleep! Both of us tried waking you up for nearly an hour now!" Violet said

"Wow, I didn't even feel a thing."

"Trust us, we tried everything we could..I even tried stabbing you with my scythe!" Grimm said while grinning

"Tell me you didn't..." Shiroi said with a shocked face

"Yeah I was kidding bout the whole scythe thing AHahahhahahah"

"Come on, we're gonna be late for class!" Violet said

"Uhh...you mean breakfast?" Shiroi asked

"No time for breakfast! Class is starting in 5 minutes. If we're late for this class, Professor Polly will punish us like hell!"

Shiroi got up, got ready and both of them ran like hell to the advanced learning class. Today's lesson: Phantom Invocation


.:Be late and die!:.

Violet and Shiroi ran as fast as they could and finally reached the classroom. No sign of Professor Polly yet.

"Shit, we're lucky we made it." Shiroi said

"You said it. Come on let's find a seat before she comes in!" Violet said


They picked a seat at the back of class. Next to Violet was a female student named Chloe and next to Shiroi was a really fair-skinned guy named William. Both of them were new students just like Violet and Shiroi


Professor Polly came in class and the whole class became quiet. She was an old lady with short blonde hair. She was abit shorter than Violet and she wore glasses. She looked like a grandma!

"Good morning class. First thing's first. Attendance time!" She yelled. "Tim?"
"here"
"Deborah?"
"here!"
"Violet?"
...
.... "Ahem...Ms Violet Tsubaki?"
"Oh sorry. Here!!"

It continued on and on till the last name on the class list was read out.

"Okay, now that that's outta the way, Let's begin lessons on Phantom Invocation."

"Phantom Invocation. It is one of the advanced technique that one can learn in their lifetime with their phantoms. It is the act of invoking your guardian's power into the weapon that you wield. This will usually result in your weapon changing it's appearance and allow you to damage other phantom guardians. Once invoked, your weapon will also have some other ability that differs from other people and is unique to you and yourself only.

The ability to use phantom invocation varies from person to person. Some can master the technique faster than others while some may take some time. This technique is very valuable and important to a phantom wielder. It can be used for offensive or defensive purposes.

If one wants to achieve greatness, this is the technique you would want to start out with. Most people usually master this after they master the summoning technique. The easiest way is to practice yelling out 'phantom invocation' while wielding your weapon. Sooner or later you might actually invoke your weapon with phantom powers."


"Psst, William.. you getting sleepy from this lecture?" Shiroi whispered


"DO I hear whispering at the back!? Shiroi Teski!!"

"Uhh..sorry prof...my apologies.."


"For whispering during my class, you shall stay during lunch time and write me an essay on phantom invocations!" she yelled

"Damn. That aint cool prof!"

"There's nothing cool about skool!"

"Ok..sorry..."



Suddenly the P.A system started talking.

"This is headmaster Douglas speaking. It's mission announcement time!"

Everyone kept quiet and listened.

"First on the list is Patrick and Gary. Next pair is Willliam and Suzzie. The final couple is Violet and Shiroi."

"COUPLE?!?!" Shiroi exclaimed.

"The three of these pairs will come to my office immediately to get their mission briefings. That is all."


The six of them were excused out of class and walked over to the headmaster's office.

After Patrick,Gary,William and Suzzie got their mission briefings, it was Violet and Shiroi's turn.

"So..the two new young couple that everyone's talking about." headmaster Douglas said

"Uhh..sorry to burst your bubble sir but we're not a couple." Violet said.

"Yeah! We're definitely not a couple!" Shiroi shook his head
"If Princess Naomi heard about this, I'll never get a chance with her!" he thought to himself.
"Keep dreaming dumbass. Ahahahahhaha" Grimm laughed


"Anyway, back to the mission briefing. You're assignment: Kill a rogue phantom guardian that's terrorizing a small little village north of Angel's Garden."

"Okay no problem. Anything else sir?" Violet asked

"Oh yeah, one more thing. This rogue phantom guardian has killed about 50 soldiers already."

"Holy..."

"Yeah. I'd normally send a trained and experienced student for this but I'd like to evaluate both of you. Do good on this mission and I might have a surprise for both of you." the headmaster smiled.

Both of them walked out and walked out of the castle

"Shit, I don't wanna die yet." Shiroi said trembling.

"Don't worry, we've got Tsuki and Grimm by our side." Violet said as she pat Shiroi's shoulder.

They walked to the teleporter and they were teleported to Angel's Garden.

As they stepped off the teleporter and walked a few steps, another teleporting sound was heard behind them.

"Wait up! I'm coming with you both!" a familiar voice yelled.

They both turned around and saw Princess Naomi running after them.

"Princess Naomi?! Why you coming with us?" Violet said.

"We don't mind though." Shiroi smiled cheekily as his face turned red.

"You don't have to be so formal around me. Just call me Naomi. Oh and I decided to tag along and help you out with your mission. Headmaster Douglas allowed me anyway." Naomi said

"Awesome! Let's go then!" Shiroi said as he started walking infront of Violet and Naomi.

"Hey dumbass, the village we're going to is the other way." Violet laughed

"I...I knew that! I was ..uhh..just testing you!" Shiroi said

Along the way, 5 black ninjas ambushed the three of them.

"Interesting..maybe I should try phantom invocation here."

Violet took out her katana and pointed it infront of her.
"Phantom..Invocation!"


..



Nothing happened.

"ahahahahha noob! This is how you do it!" Shiroi took out his handgun and pulled the top slide backwards.
"Phantom INVOCATION!!" he let go of the slide and it sprung forward.

His handgun glowed black and suddenly changed colour to black with blue markings. The top barrel turned black and the bottom barrel turned silver.

He took aim and shot all 5 of the ninjas in quick succession. Each bullet left a trail of blue mist as they left the chamber.

"The hell!? You weren't even concentrating in class just now!" Violet grumbled

"Wow, that was...pure coincidence, I swear ahhaahhahah" Shiroi said as his handgun turned back to its normal colour.

"You do know that those ninjas weren't phantoms right?" Naomi laughed quietly

"Uhh...right...again I was just testing!!" Shiroi said as he blushed.
"You're blushing like an idiot, idiot!" Grimm laughed
"Shush! Don't make me eat grapes as I summon you so that you can't taste them!"
"Damn youuu!!" Grimm cursed


"Erm guys, do those 3 look like rogue phantom guardians to you?" Violet said as she pointed infront of them

"Hmm, those are intimidating looking phantoms indeed.." Naomi said.

"ILLUMINATE THE DARKNESS FROM WITHIN, TSUKI"

"LEND ME YOUR WINGS, ARCHANGEL"

"WIELD YOUR SCYTHE AND REAP THE WANDERING SOULS, JIM..I MEAN GRIMM!"


Tsuki and Grimm came out while Naomi grew wings and wielded a golden bow as usual.


"Let's kick some ass!" the three of them said

"Hey how come you didn't summon me?" Wakizashi said

"Cause I don't know how to summon you yet AND you're a brat!" Violet laughed

Wakizashi just grumbled


"Angel's Premonition, First Strike!" Naomi plucked a feather out of her wings and she pulled it back on the bow, suddenly the feather turned to a golden arrow and disappeared. It striked the phantom right in the heart

Tsuki quickly dashed forward and slashed around like some mad person. The phantom didn't stand a chance as it got it's limbs slashes off here and there and finally it's head was cut off.

Grimm just stood there, leaned against his scythe and smiled. The phantom was so scared that it fled in terror.

"What the hell?!" Shiroi said "What did you do?!"

"I just smiled." Grimm said

"O..kay pretty weird..." Shiroi replied.

"I'm kidding, I used one of my special technique, death stare. The phantom didn't run away, he died. That was his soul running away. I basically scared the crap out of that soul's,..soul Aaahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahhahahahahahahhahahahahahhahahahahahha" Grimm laughed continuously.

"Dude, too far man..too far.." Shiroi said

"My bad.." Grimm shrugged.

Phantom Guardians|Episode 10|

"This..blade. This black short sword. It looks as if it fell from the sky.:

"Maybe its a gift from the heavens?"

"Can't be. Why would it be black? Heavenly items are always white."

"But look at where it's placed. Directly in the middle of this room. It's as if this position was where it was supposed to land."

"I guess we'll have to make this the relic room then."

"Agreed.."







.:Black Wakizashi:.



"Wh...what do you mean little brother!?"



"It's exactly as what it sounds like Violet, this little kid..is my lil bro"



"Phantom Guardians have siblings?!?!"



"Well, I dunno bout other PG's but its a fact that I have one, And I know it." Tsuki said.





"Cut the chitchat! Who's this adolescent looking girl?!" Black Wakizashi asked.



"ADOLESCENT?!"



"Calm down Violet. This, lil brother, is the person who just accidentally summoned you." Tsuki replied.



"The heck!? This...this weakling summoned me?! ME?! The great Black Wakizashi?!?!"



"WEAKLING!?!??!" Violet yelled



"Both of you! Please, make peace -_-" Tsuki sighed




"The girl won't accept that she looks like a weakling! How the hell am I gonna make peace with her?!"





"This little brat keeps calling me names! You think I'm gonna make peace with him!?!?"





"Oh.My.God. You both are acting like little kids!" Tsuki yelled



"Technically, I AM a kid!" Wakizashi said



"Shut up little brother! Don't make matters worse for yourself!"



"Hmph, Fine! Just cause your older than me doesn't mean you can boss me around everytime ok!"







The loud conversation between the three of them woke up the professors and Princess Naomi. They all rushed to the relic room to find that the short black sword has been touched and summoned.



"Holy crap! Someone was actually able to go near the sword and grab it!!" one of the professor said.



"Your theory was right Professor Friedrich." Princess Naomi said.



"Indeed..Violet was the chosen wielder for both White Katana and Black Wakizashi. Just as the elders had prophesized." Friedrich replied.





"Uhh..hi" Violet waved and forcefully smiled





"she summoned the short black sword!"

"she got near it and activated the guardian!"

"looks like she was the other twin afterall!"





Many whispers were heard among the crowd of people that gathered outside the relic room.



"Erm..Princess Naomi...wh...what's going on?" Violet asked



"Its been so long but you finally came. You have finally activated and wielded the Black Wakizashi successfully."



"So...what does that mean?"



"It means, the prophecy was true. You have a twin don't you? The prophecy read that one of the twins would come here and wield their second weapon and guardian, the Black Wakizashi. And it looks like you're that twin the prophecy was talking about." Friedrich explained.



"YOU KNOW WHERE MY TWIN BROTHER IS!?!?"



"I'm sorry. Unfortunately we don't even know who your twin brother is or where his location is at." Princess Naomi said.



"Then how the hell do you know that I have a twin brother??"



"Didn't you hear me? I said it was the prophecy that told us of a twin coming here. Common sense immediately kicked in the moment the prophecy said 'twin' wouldn't you think?"



"Violet, I know. You're very angry at your twin brother right now but please hold it in.." Tsuki whispered.





"I..I'm sorry that I screamed..I..I just wanna find my twin brother.." Violet said softly.



"If its true, that means Violet's twin brother must be wielding two weapons then." Princess Naomi said. "W..wait..could it be...?"



"No! It can't be! Thats impossible! For all we know, her twin brother could still have a dormant phantom guardian!" Friedrich replied.





"What what!? Are you keeping something from me??" Violet said impatiently



"I'm sorry but we're not allowed to discuss this information to you or anyone outside of the Sanctuary Order."



"The what!? Why can't you tell me?! I'm his twin sister afterall!"



"Again, we deeply apologise not telling you anything." Princess Naomi said.





The whole castle was quiet. Suddenly quick footsteps were heard running towards the relic room. Everyone got ready their weapons. As the figure quickly ran around the corner, he starting screaming and flailing his arm around and stopped right infront of Friedrich's scimitar.



"Holy crap! I heard so much ruckus from the Inner Sanctuary and I came rushing here to find everyone trying to kill me?!" Shiroi said

"Jeez, Its just Shiroi" Friedrich said to everyone "Kid, we thought you were an enemy"

"Sorrry to keep everyone's hopes up. I was just curious why there was such a commotion here."

"Why'd you have to scream and flail your arm around like that then!?" Friedrich asked

"I uhh...was chased by Grimm?" Shiroi said as he pointed his finger at Grimm

"...Hi?" Grimm smiled crookedly


"Teenagers these days.." Friedrich said as he shook his head and walked away.

Everyone started to walk away from the scene and went back to bed. Shiroi, Violet, Princess Naomi, Tsuki, Grimm and Black Wakizashi were left.


"Violet! I mastered my summoning technique!!" Shiroi screamed in joy

"You don't have to scream you know. Besides, everyone's sleeping. Keep it down a little." Violet said softly

"Sorry! I'm just...so...excited! Hey who's the short black kid?" Shiroi said

"Black?! Who you calling black!? You racist or sumthin? I'm not even black! It's just my ninja apparrel thats black!!" Wakizashi yelled


"Hey Tsuki, isn't that your lil bro?" Grimm asked

"Hey how'd you know?" Tsuki asked in return

"Just guessin' since both of you wear ninja clothes and all.." Grimm laughed


Princess Naomi laughed quietly. "You all seem like one big happy family."

"Family!? Woa woa woa...wait a second. Tsuki has a little brother?!" Shiroi said

"Noo~ I'm her little adopted child~" Wakizashi said in a sarcastic tone. "Jeez this guy's a slow dumbass."

"Who you calling dumbass, shortass!"

"Why you!"

"Enough! Both of you! Little brother, can't you be more nice to these people?!" Tsuki ordered.

"Try being in that sword for a decade or so! It was like prison!" Wakizashi said

"WELL AT LEAST YOU'RE OUT NOW AREN'T YOU!??!" Tsuki screamed so loudly it echoed till outside.

"Holy...cow..chill sister!" Wakizashi said

"YOU ASK ME TO CHILL AND YET YOU'RE THE ONE COMPLAINING SO MUCH RETARD!"

"Whoa take it easy Tsuki." Grimm tried to calm Tsuki down

"I uhh..think I should leave the 5 of you alone for now.." Princess Naomi said. "Goodnight everyone, and please calm down Tsuki." she smiled

Violet and Shiroi were stunned and froze on the spot since they've never seen Tsuki this angry before.

"I..think I just wet my pants.." Shiroi said in a shivering voice

"I think I just crapped myself. She's my guardian and I'm scared now..." Violet trembled

Phantom Guardians|Episode 9|

"Hey Forked Tongue, where the hell are we?" Shiroi asked

"You don't remember? It's the phantom world where you meditate, or what you like to call, your dreamworld." Forked Tongue replied.

"Oh right..my dreamworld..."


.:Shiroi's Dreamworld:.


Forked Tongue's phantom world was quite different from Tsuki's one. The environment was like any normal fantasy world compared to the blank white environment of Tsuki's

People walked around like any normal day and everyone were busy with their own businesses.


Suddenly

BANG BANG BANG BANG!

4 shots rang through the noisy busy street. 4 people dead on the streets.

"Holy shit. What's going on!?" Shiroi exclaimed.

"Damn, probably a gang war!" Forked Tongue said.


4 guys with hoodies and handguns were walking down the street shooting at 4 other guys, probably other rival gang members


BANG BANG!

BANG

BANG BANG BANG!


"Muthafukas!!! Die bitches!!" one of them said as he emptied his whole catridge


One of them slowly jumped in the air and let loose a barrage of bullets everywhere. One of the bullet nearly hit Shiroi and it went right through Forked Tongue.

"Man, good thing that wasn't a phantom weapon. I wouldv'e been dead.."


"How bout we just kill all 8 of them from both sides." Shiroi laughed

"Whatever man, it's your 'dreamland' afterall. You can do anything here." Forked Tongue said.


Shiroi took out his dual barrelled handgun and stared at it.

"You are a masterpiece aren't you? I was the creator afterall. Ahahahahha"

"You created that?" Forked Tongue asked

"Yeah..the basic skeleton of the gun was from my dad's handgun. Took it apart and remodeled it and added stuff to it. I was about...5 or 6 that time. Then my old man passed away and my mom ran from home. I was sent to a foster home. So yeah..and here I am now.." Shiroi said

"Wow, 5 years old and you already knew how to build a handgun.."

"It wasn't that hard, when my dad died and my mom ran away, that was when my emotions built up, and that was probably when you were born."

"Sounds like it.." Forked Tongue laughed.


Shiroi got his handgun ready and grabbed Forked Tongue's scythe.

"I'm gonna have to borrow this for awhile."

He spun the scythe and held it on his left hand while holding the handgun on his right

"Let's do this.."

He ran forward and quickly slashed off 2 of the gang member's heads off while using their headless bodies as leverage as he ran upwards on their bodies. With the sycthe planted on the ground, Shiroi leaped in the air and fired off 4 gunshots by quickly tapping the trigger twice and all 4 shots landed directly on the other 2 remaining gang member's forehead. Pure headshot with 2 holes on each of their foreheads.


The other 4 rival gang members saw this and started shooting wildly at Shiroi but missing all the shots.

"You're all terrible shots!" Shiroi grinned as he quickly aimed at the first member's face.

At the speed of light, 8 shots were fired, all from Shiroi's handgun and all 8 evenly spread among the 4 gang member's face.

"Nicely done Shiroi," Forked Tongue said as he clapped his hands.

"So like, was that our meditation for today? Cause that was quite short." Shiroi said

"You can continue meditating or you can just stop and go back to the real world. Your choice bro"

"I'll stay for a while longer I guess. Gimme another meditation scenario."

"No prob."


Shiroi closed his eyes and opened them again.

This time the world was inside a castle. It looked familiar.


"Uhh, isn't this the sanctuary?" Shiroi asked

"Indeed, but concentrate or you might not be able to find out what you're supposed to achieve here."


Shiroi looked around and saw a little kid crying.

"Who's that?" he asked Forked Tongue

FT just shrugged

As Shiroi walked closer to the little kid, the boy suddenly stood up and ran away.

"The hell? Where's he going?"

Shiroi chased the little boy to the basic knowledge class.

When Shiroi opened the door, there was a lone man infront of the room teaching a little boy.

"Hey that's the same kid!"

He sat down at the back of the class and listened to the man teaching basic things such as what phantom guardians were, how they were born and everything else. The little kid was infront of the class looking sad and eventually crying.

"What's wrong with him? Why's he crying all the time?" Shiroi thought to himself.

He stood up and walked closer to the kid but then the kid ran out of the classroom.

"You should try and comfort him, Shiroi." A familiar yet eerie voice echoed the room.

Shiroi turned around and looked at the man who was teaching the kid just now. It was his dad!

"Holy shit, Dad! is that you!?" He couldn't believe it and ran out of the classroom.


"Uhh, Forked Tongue...I..I don't like this session.." Shiroi said to Forked Tongue

"Why don't you just keep chasing after that kid. You might find the answer that you've been looking for."


Shiroi ran after the kid to the advanced teachings classroom.

He couldn't see him anywhere but Violet was standing infront of the class teaching, but noone was in the classroom.

"Err, Violet? What are you doing in here? Theres noone here.."

Violet just kept teaching.

Suddenly the little kid appeared behind Shiroi, laughing in a very scary tone. When Shiroi turned around, the kid ran out the room. He chased the kid all the way to the inner sanctuary.

"Isn't this the room where people meditate?" he thought to himself.


The kid kept laughing. Shiroi started to feel shivers down his spine

"Hehehe...Do you know who I am?" the kid asked

"Uhh..no.." Shiroi replied.

The kid tilted his head up and stared at Shiroi. It was....himself..when he was young!!!!"

"Hehehehehehe..now you do. I'm you."

"Hooolllllyyyyyyyy crrrraaaaappp..." Shiroi exclaimed "What the hell is going on here Forked Tongue!!?"

"Forked Tongue is unavailable right now. Hehehe" the kid said as he pointed up

Forked Tongue was haging on the ceiling with the rope wrapped around his neck.

"Oh fuck oh fuck oh fuck!! What do you want with me!?" Shiroi yelled

"I want you....to...KILL ME!" the kid jumped in the air and took out the same handgun that Shiroi had and shot him on the shoulder

"Faaaackk!" Shiroi rolled to the side and took out his handgun. "W...what..?! Why do you want me to kill you!?"

"Because my dad is dead! My mom is dead! EVERYONE'S GONNA DIE. I WANT TO DIE TOO!"

"Uh...Forked Tongue...this...this isn't funny!"

"I TOLD YOU. FORKED TONGUE IS UNAVAILABLE RIGHT NOW!!!!" the kid shot Shiroi again on the legs this time. "NOW KILL.ME! OR YOU WILL DIE TOO!"


Shiroi was in deep thought now. He was really concentrating. "Do I..really kill this kid..?"
"Is this a test?" "what should I do?"

"you should try and comfort him"

His dad's voice echoed through his mind.

"I should try and comfort him..."
"Hey kid, listen to me. Calm down and relax for awhile. Sit down next to me."


"WHY SHOULD I LISTEN TO YOU!? WHY CAN'T YOU JUST KILL ME!!!!"


"KID! I said calm down!"

"....I don't wanna calm down...I ..I just wanna die..."

"You don't have to die yet. You still got a long way ahead of you kid.."

The kid stared to calm down and sat next to Shiroi, crying.

"Why..why must everyone die?"

"It's okay kid, everyone dies sooner or later, its just...life I guess. Your time will come when it does but not now. You still got people to meet, things to discover. The world around you is expansive and huge, its incredible. You gotta enjoy every moment of it and take it all in whether it hurts you or not. Oh and you gotta meet Princess Naomi. Ahahaha" Shiroi winked

"...t..thanks..Shiroi..I..I guess I should appreciate life more..."

"Don't mention it kid.."

At that moment the kid started to disappear slowly and the surroundings turned blank and white.

"Ahahahhaahaha, well done Shiroi, well done!" Forked Tongue said as he slowly descended.

"I get it now...AND THAT WASNT FUNNY MAN! I THOUGHT YOU WERE DEAD!!"

"Well, I gotta do what I gotta do. You were stalling too much with all those worthless dreams of yours. So I tried something else. It was too drastic though.." Forked Tongue shrugged with a sly look on his face

"Well, thanks.. I guess I understand what I should do in life now.."

"And what is that?" Forked Tongue asked

"WAKE UP AND MARRY PRINCESS NAOMI!!"

Forked tongue smacked the back of Shiroi's head with his backhand.

"Seriously.."

"I gotta wake up and summon you..sheesh don't be such a serious jackass.."

Forked Tongue just smiled



In the real world Shiroi opened his eyes as it glowed silver and he realised that he wasn't in his room, he was in the inner sanctuary just like in his dreamworld.

"I know what I gotta do now.." he whispered to himself.

Shiroi took out his handgun and aimed it at the floor. He shot around 20 rounds onto the ground and made a scythe shape.

"WIELD YOUR SCYTHE AND REAP THE WANDERING SOULS, GRIMM!"

The scythe shape on the ground started to crack and glow as the hooded guy bashed open the ground and clawed his way out.

"You finally mastered the summoning technique.."

"You bectha Jim!"

"JIM!!??"

"Jim sounds better.." Shiroi smiled

"But you're still gonna say Grimm when you summon me right?"

"We'll see. Ahahahhaaha" Shiroi laughed

Phantom Guardians|Episode 8|

"How did..how did you grow wings?!" Violet asked



"I..uhh..it's a long story. I'll explain it to you when we get inside." Princess Naomi said.





The three of them walked inside the castle. It was magnificent inside. The walls were quite authentic looking just like what a real castle would have. Chandeliers were hanging from the ceiling and it illuminated the whole castle easily.



"We call this castle, The Sanctuary." Princess Naomi explained.





.:The Sanctuary:.





"So, you gonna explain to us bout your wings and bow?" Violet said.





"You're an impatient one aren't you. Oh well, I was gonna explain to you sooner or later anyway. As you know, everyone here is a phantom wielder, and that includes me. When someone summons their phantom guardian, the guardian itself will usually come out and aid the host yes? I'm sure professor Friedrich has explained this to you. I unfortunately, cannot fully summon my guardian. Instead the guardian gave me wings and a golden bow called the Bow of Penitence. The feather from the wings act as arrows for the bow and they are unlimited in numbers. Obviously, that is why I know how to use a bow. Apparently it is very rare for someone to not be able to fully summon their guardians. I'm one of the unlucky ones." Princess Naomi explained





"Wow, that's really sad." Shiroi said as a tear rolled down his face

"Hey idiot, how come you didn't complain that it was a long lecture?" Forked Tongue teased him

"Shut up FT!" Shiroi whispered





"So basically, you become your own guardian?" Violet asked.



"Indeed, that is somewhat true. I can still hear Archangel talking to me though so he's still inside me but unable to come out." Princess Naomi said. "Oh yeah, why don't I show you around since we haven't done that yet."



They toured around inside the huge castle the whole day. There were dormitories for the students, classes for basic and advanced learnings, a library, restrooms(obviously XD), a relic room where they kept relics and important items, an inner sanctuary room where advanced students usually go to meditate, a huge dining hall and many more.



As they passed by the relic room, a black short sword was on display in the middle of the room.



"How come that short sword is on display?" Violet asked.



"That's the unnamed black sword that noone has ever been able to touch or go near at all. Apparently it fell from the sky and landed right here in the middle of the relic room and since then noone has touched it. Anyone who tried was kicked backwards by a powerful shockwave that emitted from the sword. If I were you I wouldn't go near it." Princess Naomi said.



"Interesting.." Violet said

"Hey, why don't we try touching it sometime." White Katana said.

"You crazy?! Didn't you hear Princess Naomi said that anyone who touched it would get kicked back?" Violet whispered

"Hehe, I dunno. Seems like fun." White Katana replied.

"You're crazy you know that.."









They walked around the castle where they haven't toured yet and without realising it, night time came.



"It's been nice being a tourguide for both of you." Princess Naomi smiled. "Anyway here are your keys to your room. Just go in the dormitory and look for your door, there should be two unoccupied rooms ready for both of you. Goodnight and sleep well"



"Good night my princess~" Shiroi said in his mind

"ahahahahha, why don't you say that loudly." Forked Tongue said.

"The hell!? You can read my mind?!" Shiroi thought to himself.

"Duh..I know every..single..thing that you've thought of today" Forked Tongue laughed

"Shush! Don't you dare say anything."

"Wahahahaha looks like I can blackmail you now. Get me some grapes!!!"

"No!"

"Ok I'm telling everyone!"

"Ok ok fine.." Shiroi grumbled to himself.





"Goodnight Princess Naomi!" Violet waved.



They both walked into the dormitory where everyone stared at them.



"Uhh..hello?" Violet said while shivering

"I don't think they accept me..." she thought to herself.



"Welcome to the dormitory newcomers!" all the students shouted and celebrated.



"Ok..maybe they did accept me..I gotta stop thinking too much.."







That night while everyone was sleeping, Violet was wide awake and couldn't sleep.



She walked to the inner sanctuary where people usuall meditated and sat down on the floor.

"White Katana, it's time for our meditation again."

"With pleasure."

Violet closed her eyes and when she opened them she was in the phantom world.

"So, Violet. You think you can finally master the summoning technique here?"

"Of course, I...I can feel it running through my veins!"


After nearly 2 hours of meditating......


Violet's body in the real world started to glow with a pure white aura with a mixture of light blue. She started to levitate above the ground and her katana glowed white. Suddenly her eyes opened and they were glowing light blue.

Her unconscious state suddenly grabbed her katana and took it out 1/4 from its sheath.

"..ILLUMINATE THE DARKNESS FROM WITHIN! TSUKI!"

She took out the katana fully and the whole room started to vibrate. The whole room illuminated fully from the glow of the katana and suddenly the white ninja came out from Violet's body wielding the pure white katana.

"You finally mastered the technique Violet. Congrats." Tsuki said.

As she regained consciousness, Violet stood up and grabbed her katana and sheathed it in.

"So like..your real name's Tsuki?" she asked

"Yeah. We don't really get our real names until our hosts master the summoning technique." Tsuki answered.

"Wait...I mastered the summoning technique?! Wooo!!! Wooohoo!!!!"

She quickly ran out of the room and ran past the relic room where the black short sword glowed immensely. She didn't realise this and quickly went to Shiroi's front door and knocked it wildly.

"Shiroi!! I mastered the summoning technique!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

The door slowly opened but Shiroi was still on his bed.

"..Shiroi..?"

Violet slowly walked up to Shiroi and saw him having multiple wounds.

"..be..hind you...Violet.." Shiroi muttered

A huge werewolf was standing behind her. His fur was dark brown and his claws were sharp as hell. He roared loudly and woke everyone up.

"Holy...crap..." Violet said as she stared blankly at the werewolf


"Fresh..blood....must...kill!!!" The werewolf tried to slash Violet but she quickly dodged as she stepped backwards.

She took out her katana slowly, "Illuminate the darkness from within, Tsuki!" and she finally took it out fully. The blade shined brightly and Tsuki walked out of Violet.

"Well, well. Look's like I get to finally kill again." Tsuki said as she quickly dashed next to the werewolf and withthin a blink of an eye she used her white katana and stabbed the werewolf's neck and slashed it off. The head fell on the floor and the body kneeled down, lifeless. Tsuki wasn't satisfied as she grabbed her katana and slashed off the wolf's arms and legs leaving the body there.

"Wow, you really must be thirsty for killing." Violet said

"I try," Tsuki laughed.

"Oh my god, Shiroi!" Violet turned around and Shiroi was still badly wounded.

"Violet! You got any healing fruits with you?" Tsuki demanded.

"Oh yeah, I have one in my pocket right now!." Violet fed Shiroi a piece from the fruit and Shiroi's wounds started to heal and disappear.

"Man, took you long enough! I almost died there. Oh and I'm happy that you mastered your technique and all but still.." Shiroi sarcastically said.

"Who asked you to be so stupid and not retaliate?" Violet laughed

"In case you don't remember, I still haven't mastered summoning Forked Tongue.."

"Oh yeah..sorry." Violet smiled.


"Hmm..you know what, I saw the black sword glow just now when you ran past the relic rom." Tsuki said.

"Really?" Violet asked. "get some rest Shiroi, I'll go and check out the sword."


Violet and Tsuki walked to the relic room and saw the black sword glow yet again.

"Interesting..." Violet said as she walked up to it.

She put her left hand above the sword and it glowed even more immensely dark black

"Hey, you weren't kicked back by a shockwave." Tsuki said.

"You're right.."

Violet slowly lowered her hand down and grabbed the handle of the short sword. A powerful dark shockwave started twirling around Violet's body.

"Shit, what's going on!?!?" Violet grabbed the short sword and took it out of the display. An intense power surge ran through Violet as a short ninja kid walked out of the sword carrying an exact copy of the real short sword.

"Ah...finally someone woke me up.." The kid said.


"Wh...who the heck are you!?" Violet said as she was trying to recollect herself.

"Black Wakizashi!?!?!?!??!" Tsuki suddenly said with a shocked face.


"Eh? Big Sister!?!?!?" the kid responded.


"WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON!?!?" Violet yelled.

Phantom Guardians|Episode 7|

"Why don't you both come over here and rub lotion on my soft skinned back~" Princess Naomi winked.


Both Shiroi and Forked Tongue dropped their jaw and nose bled to death while smiling

"Hehehe, boys" Naomi cheekily laughed.












XD today's guest dialogue has been brought to you by Marcus, yet again and edited by me >.> LOL




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When they walked through the gate opening, the environment was much different from the blank plain white look outside. It looked exactly like Angel's Garden except that it looked much much much more beautiful. Violet and Shiroi couldn't believe that there was any place in the world that could look more beautiful than Angel's Garden.

"I'm sure you're both thinking that this is Angel's Garden times 10, I assure you, this is a much different place. It's called Heaven's Hideout. This is the real headquarters of the Phantom Sanctuary Guild." Princess Naomi said while smiling warmly.


"I swear I've never seen someone smile that warmly before. I think my heart just melted." Shiroi said as his face turned red.


"You're being cheesy and stupid. Stop acting so stupidly infront of a princess. Why are you being stupid?!?!" Violet smacked Shiroi on the head with the back of her hand.


"Sorry to make you jealous~" Shiroi chuckled


"Jealous? Please! Again, stop being stupid!" She smacked him again.


.:Heaven's Hideout:.


They were both toured around the castle's compound. There were training fields, archery range, a really soothing looking pond, a magnificent looking tree that was really old and huge, there was the usual benches and hedges. It was like the compound of a university. All the people there wore white robes or white clothes. Everyone looked as if they were in heaven or something. Some of them wore shiny white armor. Even the training bows were white.

The castle itself looked much more calm and inviting compared to how it looked like from outside. From a close view, the castle had beautiful architecture and amazing details. The glass windows were so clear and yet noone could see the inside since the windows themselves were pretty opaque from outside.

"So how do you like our surroundings? This sanctuary is actually kind of like a university. Inside the castle you'll see that there are classes going on. Our young phantom wielders still need to learn basic knowledge as well as advanced studies on the phantom guardians." Princess Naomi said.


"Holy crap, speaking of classes, I got one to teach right now. Catch ya all later." Friedrich said as he ran quickly into the castle.


"So that's why he's called professor..." Shiroi said.

"Yes, and one of the highest ranking professor too." Princess Naomi said.


"So where does the king live? If there's a princess I'm sure theres a king right?" Violet asked.

"Correct. My father lives on the highest tower of this castle. Unfortunately I cannot show you where his room is for now. Please do understand." Princess Naomi replied.

"My apologies for asking. I understand." Violet said.


"Princess Naomi!!" a female student yelled from the archery range, "Come join and practice with us!!"

The three of them walked over to the archery range and met up with two students. The female student who yelled just now and her little brother.

"Who are these two?" the little brother asked.

"They're our guests and hopefully they will join us in this sanctuary." Princess Naomi smiled.


"I guess you're very well liked around here since everyone smiles at you." Shiroi said as he blushed again.

"I dunno. I guess?" the princess replied with a cute blank look.

"Soo...you wanna demonstrate your archery skills princess?" The female student asked, "we love to watch you shoot a bullseye every single time!"

"You know how to fight?!" Shiroi asked in amazement

"I wouldn't really call it fighting, but I do know how to wield a bow and arrow.." the princess replied as she blushed.

"What's with everyone blushing today" Violet thought to herself, "maybe its like..blushing day or something.."
"I know what you mean... bleh.." White Katana whispered.


Princess Naomi grabbed a bow from the assortment of bows on the table and grabbed a quiver full of arrows. "My favourite practice bow." she smiled.

She took an arrow out and pulled back from the bow. Slowly she aimed at the target far down the range and concentrated. As she let go, the arrow zoomed so fast with a bright golden light trailing behind it and it hit the target right in the middle. A bullseye and noone even saw how the arrow flew. Everyone was amazed and awe-struck


"Wow..that..was..so....AWESOME!!" Shiroi literally jumped in joy. "Uh..sorry..
"Stop making a fool of yourself dumbass!" Forked Tongue yelled.



"Wow, you're really amazing." Violet said in amazement.


"Aww, don't compliment me too much. I like to think of myself just like any other ordinary student here. Makes me feel more at home." the princess said.


"Again! Again!! Just one more short pleaseee!" the little boy asked for one more shot.


"Alright, alright" the princess smiled.

She took another arrow out of the quiver and fired another shot and this time the second arrow pierced right down the middle of the first arrow that was stuck on the bullseye. Again a golden beam of light trailed behind the arrow.

"Holy cow, you're really accurate.." Violet said.


"HYAAAAAAHHHH!!!" a loud voice yelled out from the swordsmen training area.


They walked over there and saw 2 men wielding longswords practicing their sword skills.


On the right was a man with black scruffy hair and wearing blue training armor.
On the left was a younger man with short blonde hair wearing red training armor.


The man in blue swung his sword in a sweeping arc while the one in red stepped backwards to dodge the attack. He grabbed his sword and leaped upwards and swung his sword down and was blocked by the blue one's sword.

As they both kept swinging and blocking each other's swords, the one in red turned around and saw Princess Naomi. He smiled and waved and his arm got slashed by the blue one's sword.

"Shit, that was painful." the blonde guy said as he ate a healing fruit. His wounds quickly recovered and no traces of cut were left.

"Ouch, I hope you're alright" Princess Naomi said.

"I'm perfectly fine princess." the blonde guy laughed.

"I gotta get me some of those healing fruits..." Shiroi said as he looked intensely at the fruit.
"I wonder if it taste like grapes...mmmm..grapes..." Forked Tongue said


"Why don't we come inside and I'll show you around the..." the princess was interrupted by a a loud scream for help.

"That came from outside!" Violet said


They all ran to the gate and saw a wounded student with multiple slash wounds.

"Quick! Someone bring him inside and feed him a healing fruit!" the princess yelled out.
"How did an intruder teleport here? I thought only authorised people could use the teleporter." she thought to herself.


"Think quickly!" a quick slash suddenly materialised and tried to slash Princess Naomi but she dodged it quick enough.


"Who are you?! show yourself!" the princess demanded.

"How'd you dodge that quick slash?!" a voice said

"Found you.." the princess smiled

"Lend me your wings, archangel!" she muttered to herself

The princess started floating and a golden aura surrounded her. Pure white wings grew on her back and a golden bow appeared on her right grip.

"Angel's premonition, First Strike!"

Noone saw anything until the stealthed assassin was pierced with a golden arrow. The arrow was suddenly stuck on midair and blood started to flow out of the air. A man in black ninja clothing was shot right on the head with the arrow and died on the spot.

"Next time, please show yourself and make it easier for both of us.." Princess Naomi said as she turned around.

"W...o...w.." was all Shiroi could say.

The wings and the bow vanished from the princess and she looked at everyone and smiled. "I guess we're all safe now yeah?"

Phantom Guardians|Episode 6|

Shiroi opened his eyes and woke Violet up.

"Hey Violet,Why did the jelly wobble?" he asked.

"I dunno, Why?" Violet said.

"Cause it saw the MilkShake."

"WTF?!" Violet said

They both LOL-ed




The end.














AHhahahahahahah I'm kidding. That was just a guest section. Today's guest dialogue was brought to you by Marcus =D

Now on to the real episode 6~
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Bullets started whizzing everywhere and many rogue phantom guardians fell. Shiroi was the lone survivor and next to him stood Forked Tongue.

"We too cool to be fooled~" Forked Tongue said

"You said it." Shiroi grinned.



"Uhh..Shiroi, you're daydreaming again..?"

"Who dares interrupt our cool session!?"

Violet kept waving infront of Shiroi's unconscious state but still walking perfectly fine

"Damn. He's in his dreamworld again..oh well, I tried my best.."

"Does he do that often?" Friedrich laughed

"Yeah..most of the time. I think it's his method of meditation or something. Anyway how long till we get to the city?" Violet asked

"Look for yourself." Friedrich pointed.


They've finally reached the city after walking for nearly 2 hours. Inside the city, the magnificent look did not change. Everything they saw from far looked much much more beautiful up close.

The citizens were all cheerful and very friendly. The colours that painted the whole city was vivid and bright. Flowers bloomed beautifully. The fountain in the middle of the city square had water that was as clear as you will ever see.

"Welcome, to the city of the phantom sanctuary guild, or as we like to call it, The Angel's Garden." Friedrich said.


.:The Angel's Garden:.



"Why'd you call it a garden?" Shiroi said as he regained consciousness again

"So you're finally back to earth, anyway, Don't you see all these flowers and plants blooming and living in peace and harmony. Every plant grown here has lived far longer than any plants have lived before. Plants that have been planted here have also had other effects that they gain. One of them is the ability to produce healing fruits. Anyone that takes a bite out of these fruits will usually recover from any wounds/injuries or sickness that they might have instantaniously." Friedrich answered.


"Wow, you really can explain things in detail don't you old man? I just woke up and the first thing I hear is a long lecture.." Shiroi sighed

"Fine, if you don't want a full answer, don't ask a question next time kid. And I'm not that old alright!"


Violet was just observing everything and even breathing the air was soothing. There wasn't a hint of evil or bad aura to be found in this city.

"Looks like this really is the real deal" she thought to herself.



"Now then. Shall we enter the sanctuary?" Friedrich asked.


They walked down a flight of stairs and into a tunnel. In the middle of the tunnel was a round circular symbol on the floor. Weird calligraphy surrounded the symbol and none of them other than Friedrich knew what it really meant.

"Before asking any questions, I'll just tell you what this circle is. Just step inside the circle with me and we'll be teleported inside the sanctuary."

The three of them slowly stepped in the circle and suddenly a bright blue light surrounded them. The light quickly spun in a circular motion and the three of them vanished. It was a teleportation beam.




The three of them reappeared outside a huge castle. The environment was blank and just plain white. Trees growing outside the castle was white too and the huge gate that blocked out people from entering the castle was the pure white just like white katana's blade. This definitely wasn't the same place as the city just now.

"Where the heck are we?" Shiroi asked.

"This is the real city of the P.S.G The city just now was just a decoy. If any attackers came into the city to look for this sanctuary, they'll never find it." Friedrich said.

The huge gate slowly opened and a bright light shone from inside.

"Welcome back Professor Friedrich." A calming voice said

As the gate fully opened, standing behind the gate was a beautiful brunnete, middle-aged woman wearing a white sash and golden tiara with her long hair let down behind her. Her skin was smooth and fair and she had light green eyes. She looked like an angel with her soft white glow and innocent face.

"So these are the two young phantom wielders. Welcome Violet Tsubaki and Shiroi Tseki." the woman smiled with such a sweet smile.


"W...w..who..who are you?" Shiroi tried to find words to say.

Violet smacked the back of his head "Forgive my idiot friend. I guess you caught him awe struck, which is uncommon but anywayy.."

The woman laughed quietly, "It's alright. I should've introduced myself anyway. I'm.."


"Princess Naomi Nakano." Friedrich smiled.


"P..p..pri..princess!?" Shiroi said with his mouth gaping open.

Violet took her katana and smacked Shiroi with the back of the katana's handle. "I assure you miss Naomi, he's usually not this...idiotic.."

The princess just chuckled and smiled. "I guess I really made an impression to him eh?"

Violet nodded and laughed.


"I'm sorry to have kept you waiting, please come in." Princess Naomi said as she brought the three of them in.

Phantom Guardians|Episode 5|

"How the hell can we trust you?! You just came out of nowhere, you're as suspicious as that Ivan fellow. Who knows, you could be one of the 4 royal assassins as well!!" Violet yelled.

"No need to yell young one, you can choose to either trust me or not, but either way, I saved both of your asses, and that's a fact.." Friedrich smiled.

"Don't play nice with us! Who are you with? Why'd you help us? How come you can summon phantom guardians too!? Answer me!!" Violet yelled again.

"Looks like you're not gonna stop yelling eh? Ok then. If you want answers, then why not come by our headquarters. Its located somewhere in the city not far from here." Friedrich pointed at the beautiful city they saw before.

"Fine, but I still don't trust you.." Violet said


"The hell you doing!? It could be a trap!" Shiroi smacked Violet on the head.

"I don't care, I need answers! I want to know about these 'phantom guardians'. I wanna know how to summon them! I wanna know what's my purpose in this life!!!" Violet screamed.

"Fine, whatever. But if we get trapped and somehow manage to escape, you owe me a soda." Shiroi laughed.

.:The Path leading to the City of the Phantom Sanctuary Guild:.

On the way to the city, more rogue phantom guardians appeared. About 10 of them ambushed Violet,Shiroi and Friedrich.

"Stand back both of you, I'll handle this."

Friedrich grabbed his scimitar from the scabbard on his waist and pointed it infront of him. He closed his eyes and muttered "Phantom Invocation!"

His scimitar glowed and the blade started to turn from silver to golden.

"Blade of Anubis, give me your strength!"

Friedrich started slashing all 10 rogue phantom guardians in such a fast motion that Violet and Shiroi couldn't see what was going on. When the dust settled, all 10 of them were dead and their body parts were slashed off everywhere. Blue-ish green phantom blood splattered everywhere and pools of the blood appeared on the dead bodies.

Violet and Shiroi were shocked and couldn't say a word. Friedrich spun his scimitar once to cleanse it from the blood and sheathed it back in its scabbard. "Now, shall we continue our journey towards the city?" he smiled.



As they were walking, Shiroi was curious and he stopped. "Can I ask just one question?" he said
Friedrich stopped and turned around, "Hmm? What is it?"
"What are the royal assassins?"
Friedrich took his glasses off and massaged the bridge of his nose lightly, "They're the assassins that work directly for the P.O.W's master. The highest ranking of all assassins working for the highest ranking leader of that organisation basically.

The 4 Royal Assassins of the Phantom Outcast Warriors. The top assassins that work directly for the Phantom Outcast Warriors' leader. These are assassins that were chosen for their high skill level and their mastery of each of their own Phantom Guardians. They're also ranked within themselves.

The Ace of Spades. The highest ranking of the 4 Royal Assassins.
The King of Hearts. Second highest ranking.
The Queen of Clovers. Second lowest ranking
The Jack of Diamonds. The lowest ranking of the 4.

Each of them wields a weapon that they have mastered and a highly experienced Phantom Guardian that they have self trained.

"To counter the 4 royal assassins, the P.S.G has their own division that resembles them. The Maverick Revolvers. And yours truly is one of them." Friedrich said while chuckling to himself.

"Wow, that was a long lecture..and how come I heard Ivan say you were one of the highest ranking professor?" Shiroi asked while scratching his back
"You should stop asking question if you don't want long answers smartass." Forked Tongue said.

"That's something that I cannot answer yet. You will have to wait till we reach the sanctuary." Friedrich replied.


"Why hasn't anyone answered my question? WHAT ARE PHANTOM GUARDIANS?!" Violet demanded an answer.


"Sheeesh Violet, you didn't have to scream you know." Shiroi said while digging his ear with his pinky.

"You're impatient aren't you?" Friedrich said. "Ok fine, I'll only answer this last question. No more questions until we get to the sanctuary."

"Fine by me." Violet said.

"Phantom Guardians. They're spectral souls that everyone in this world has. They are born from the emotions that we build over the span of our lifetime. Each Phantom Guardian has a different personality and differing powers. They can damage humans while humans cannot do anything to them unless they use methods that bypass the regular laws of phantom physics(whatever that is..) Phantom Guardians are actually born inside a human host. Inside, most Phantom Guardians just lay dormant and asleep, being inactive, until it is somehow awoken by any number of ways. The most common is when the host's emotions and feelings become so strong that they cannot be kept in anymore, the guardian will then be activated and awoken.

Once a guardian is awake, it can do one of two things. Stay inside the host until it thinks its the right time to come out or come out and try to take over the host, this will usually result in both the host and the guardian dead since the guardian has to share the same life force with the host. If the host dies, the guardian dies with it.

If the guardian decides to wait for the right time to come out, it's usually when the host is in danger and going to be killed. The guardian will then come out and aid the host. The host will then be able to summon the guardian if it has mastered the guardian's summoning technique. The technique differs and varies from each guardian. The host will from then onwards be called a phantom wielder whether he/she knows how to summon their guardian or not, it does not matter.

Rogue Phantom Guardians are guardians that are able to survive after killing their own hosts. It is quite uncommon for this to happen but the P.O.W has somehow found a way to enable this. RPG's become weak once their host dies and start to go wild and berserk. To keep themselves sane and strong, they usually target humans that have dormant PG's. They will rip open the host and eat the PG while it is still sleeping.

Phantom Guardians come in different shapes and sizes. Their powers and abilities differ from each other too. An experienced PG is usually much much stronger from an inexperienced PG. PG's that reach a certain stage that they cannot improve themselves anymore will then evolve to a higher stage that usually retains some of their old attributes while gaining new powers and abilities.

And there you have it, everything you need to know about Phantom Guardians." Friedrich said.


"Ok you know what, I take back what I said before, THIS takes the cake for being one heck of a long lecture!" Shiroi sighed after taking in all the information.

"So that's what Phantom Guardians are..finally one of my major question, answered in full. Thank you." Violet slightly bowed her head.
"Now that you know what we really are, why don't you challenge yourself to really put in an effort to summon me eh?" White Katana teased Violet.


......

"Wait, so..Ivan was one of the strongest assassin?!" Shiroi said with his mouth gaping open.



Everyone smacked their forehead....

Phantom Guardians|Episode 4|

Violet and Shiroi finally got out of the forest and they finally see the bright shining sun. It was daytime and they were standing atop a cliff that oversaw a magnificent city brimming with beautiful achitectures, the softest of colours, fields with the prettiest flowers that spanned as far as they eye can see, rivers that looked so glassy and pure that reflected the blue sky and with citizens that were busy minding their own business and interacting with one another.

"Wow, I've never seen such a beautiful city in my life.." Violet said.

"Neither have I." Shiroi replied.

Both of them were awe-struck and amazed but little did they know that the road that leads to the city was dangerous and someone had been stalking them since their journey started in the forest.


.:The Mysterious Shadow:.


"So like, how are we gonna go down this cliff and walk into that magnificent city?" Violet asked.


"There's only one path that leads to the city." Shiroi said as he pointed at the path that leads downwards.


They both took the path and slowly descended towards the city.


Secretly, the mysterious figure quietly followed them both without revealing himself.


After a bit of walking, Shiroi stopped and sat down. "You know, huff,puff, we haven't really gotten real rest since you woke up.." he sighed

"Are you that tired? Can't you handle a little bit more punishment so that we can arrive at the city?" Violet asked

"You crazy!? The city is still far from here. We won't be able to reach it in less than half an hour. It'll probably take 2 hours or more..."

"Okay fine, we'll rest here for awhile."


They both sat down and ate some fruits that Violet found along the path.

"Mmm, grapes..tasty.."

"Wha!? Who said that!?" Shiroi asked

"It's me you idiot.. Forked Tongue. And for your information, grapes are my favourite~"

"How can you taste the grape I'm eating?

"I eat whatever you digest..That's how us Phantom Guardians eat..we're almost like babies! Ahahhahahahah"

"Uhh..okay.." Shiroi said

Violet sat down and closed her eyes as she focused and meditated

"Remember, I'll always be here waiting for you to fully realise how to summon me yourself.." White Katana said
"But how? Can't you teach me how to summon you" Violet asked
"That's for you to concentrate and master. If you can't summon me yourself then you don't deserve my aid" White Katana replied

Violet was somehow inside some kind of unearthly vortex

"Welcome to you're mind."

"Who said that?!" Violet demanded

"It's me, White Katana. And this is both your world, and mine.."

It was a very weird place to Violet. It was quiet and everything was white. There were no objects and the whole place had a vortex kind of feel.

"If you feel that you cannot handle anymore, you can exit this place at any time by stopping your meditation. Feel free to come back at your leisure but the longer you take to master the summoning technique, the slower your training will be." White Katana explained.

"You know, I can't even start the learn the technique if I don't even know how to.." Violet sighed

"Then you're gonna have to start finding it out here.." White Katana said.



Outside of the vortex world, Violet's eyes are still closed and she's motionless. Shiroi saw this and started to panic

"Violet! You there?!?" he said while waving infront of her

"It's ok dude, she's there. She's just meditating and White Katana pulled her into the Phantom world." Forked Tongue laughed

"What the hell?! Phantom world?! As if not knowing what a phantom guardian was not enough.." Shiroi said while being frustrated

"I thought you're a very calm and cool person?" Forked Tongue teased Shiroi.

"Ugh, don't tell me how I should act!" Shiroi shouted "You sound like my dad before I...uhh..you know what, forget it.."

"Sorry, it was my fault.."

"It's alright...I just need some rest.." Shiroi said.



Suddenly a loud gunshot was heard.



BANG!


Violet regained consciousness as she exited the phantom world and saw a bullet being stopped infront of her by a katana. It was White Katana's, well..katana..

"That's no ordinary bullet.. It's a sniper bullet." White Katana said



"Your phantom guardian is quite fast.." a mysterious voice echoed from the distance.


Walking towards Shiroi and Violet was the mysterious figure. As he got closer, it was a very fair skinned man with a black suit, black tie, black gloves and he wore sunglasses. He wore a red cap backwards and he was carrying with him an M24 sniper rifle.

"Who the hell are you!?" Violet shouted.

"Me? I'm Ivan. One of the 4 royal assassins from the P.O.W, and both of you are my targets." the guy said

"Then why'd you come out and show yourself?" Shiroi asked

"I wanted to introduce myself, and to kill you with my own Phantom Guardian" Ivan laughed.

"Bring it on asshole!" Shiroi grabbed his gun and shot Ivan but the bullet was blocked by the sniper rifle's body


White Katana and Forked Tongue got out of their respective owners and got ready to fight.

"I thought you said you'll only help us out that one time." Violet said

"Shut up Violet, if you die, then I die. The guardian dies with it's user!" White Katana shouted.

"Besides, this is no ordinary PG wielder. It's a member of the Phantom Outcast Warriors. And his PG is a high experienced one." Forked Tongue smirked.


"Ah..so these are your guardians, they look pretty weak to me, I wonder why the master was so worried about.." Ivan laughed again. "Now let us battle, shall we?"

He grabbed his sniper and aimed it at the ground, "SLASH YOUR ENEMIES WITH MIGHT,
Espée Bastarde" and he shot the ground.

A huge knight in dark black armor shot upwards from the ground and he was holding a long sword. Engraved on the sword were the words "4th Wielder of the Bastard Sword"

"You will die before you can even master the art of summoning an experienced Phantom Guardian such as myself!"


The knight swung his bastard sword in a sweeping arc and a huge sonic wave was produced while flinging Shiroi and Violet backwards. White Katana jumped up into the air and slashed downwards onto the knight but he just grabbed her katana with his own bare hands and tossed her forward.

Forked Tongue saw this and rushed onwards and catch White Katana and put her down gently

"I don't need a hero to save me, I just need someone to focus on attacking this bastard with me!"


FT ran forward and dashed to the side while swinging his large scythe to cut through the knight's armor but the blade was deflected and FT flung backwards from the shock of the vibrations.

"Holy crap, that's one tough armor." FT said in shock.


"Do you really think you can cut through my dark armor? Don't make me laugh." Espée Bastarde roared loudly


He jumped forward and slashed downwards trying to split White Katana in half.


"Phantom Invokation!"

A scimitar stopped the bastard sword from touching WK. A middle aged man with grey hair and glasses was holding the scimitar.

"You, The 4th Royal assassin of the Phantom Outcast Warriors, shall leave at once or I shall be forced to kill you right here right now!" The man said.


"I know you, you're one of the highest ranking professor from the Phantom Sanctuary Guild,Friedrich! Show me your guardian and prove to me that you're not just all talk!" Ivan yelled.


"I never take orders from a P.O.W but you leave me no choice.."

Friedrich took his scimitar and made a small cut on his index finger. He plunged his scimitar deep on the ground and pointed his inder finger at Ivan.

"Lead this soul to his fate and lend me your aid, ANUBIS!"

The guardian of the underworld, Anubis, appeared as soon as the blood from Friedrich's index finger trickled down and touched the scimitar. It was a soul with the body of a normal man and the head of a jackal. He stood roughly 6 feet tall and held a golden staff with a blade at one end and a crescent shaped design with the symbol of death at the other.


"Just use your egyptian desert wind to blow those useless morons away."

"As you wish, Friedrich."

"Blow these pitiful souls as far away from here. Egyptian Desert Wind!"

Anubis pointed his staff at Ivan and Espée Bastarde and a strong gust of wind blew them upwards and a huge tornado sucked them in and were sent away.


"Who the hell are you!?" Forked Tongue said


"I'm a friend and an ally" Friedrich smiled.

Phantom Guardians|Episode 3|

The hooded guy twirled his giant scythe with his right hand and grinned,

"Come get some tough guy.."


The minotaur looked at him and he was suddenly enraged

"Damnit, looks like your phantom guardian's awake!"


.:Shiroi's Awakening:.


"What the, what's going on?!" Shiroi thought to himself while trying to regain full consciousness.

The hooded guy stopped his scythe by grabbing the huge blade with his left hand. He stroked the sharp end of the blade slowly and it glowed immensely with blood red.

"Sorry, looks like there's only one soul that's gonna die here." He quickly pointed the blade at the minotaur "and looks like you're the lucky soul!"

He quickly dashed next to the minotaur and slashed his legs off.

"You son of a bitch! You're gonna pay!" the minotaur roared.

He leaped into the air and gripped his axe tightly. After reaching a certain height, the minotaur came crashing down and slamming into the ground with the axe ready to hit first.


A loud sound erupted as if two metallic objects hit each other.


As the smoke settled, it was such a shocking sight to Shiroi. The minotaur's axe was stopped by the large scythe in mid-air. The hooded guy was holding the end of the scythe's handle by only using the tip of his index finger.

"Too slow.." he maniacally grinned showing his teeth and insane looking eyes.


The guy pushed the minotaur upwards and he continued with a backflip. He slashed the ground and made an X symbol where the minotaur was going to land.

"The soul of this merciless being shall rest and be in peace!" The guy muttered to himself.

As soon as the minotaur landed on the X, an intense white beam of light shot upward from the ground where the minotaur was and engulfed the beast. The light continued shooting upwards into the sky and into the heavens. When the light started to disappear, only a tag was left in place of the minotaur. It read:

"Rogue Phantom Guardian No.03"


The hooded guy walked over and picked it up.

"The Phantom Outcast Warriors.."


"Wha..what the heck did you just say?" Shiroi asked in confusion.

The guy turned and looked at Shiroi.

"No time to explain. Come on, Violet's in danger!"

"At least tell me your name man." Shiroi said

"Name?...I don't really have a name...but you can just call me Forked Tongue."

"What the hell kind of name is that? Forked Tongue?!"

Forked Tongue slashed the air infront of them and the trees were all cut in one hit.

"Shall we go and save your friend or do you want to waste time here and keep asking questions?"


Forked Tongue. Stands 5 foot 8. Wears a hoodie jacket and covers his head with the hood and wears black jeans. Usually calm unless he goes into a frenzy and starts looking like a maniac. Likes to eat grapes(wtf?!) Weapon: Huge ass scythe called the Reaper's Claw. Occupation: Shiroi's Phantom Guardian.









Violet fell backwards as she was shocked to see 5 rogue phantom guardians surrounding her. They were all fighting to see who gets to kill her and eat her phantom guardian. The 5 souls were:

A human looking soul with 6 spiderarms
A serpent soul with sharp spikes covering it's body
A grizzly bear soul that carried a large club covered with nails
A tiger soul that stood on its legs and held a claymore
A monkey that held a cutlas on it's tail


"Wait...you're not a soul!" Violet pointed at the monkey

"of course I'm not, but I can talk you idiot so doesn't that scare YOU!?!?" The monkey screamed mentally.

Violet just kept quiet

They finally decided that the winner was the tiger soul. He stood infront of the rest and held his claymore with both hands.

"Let's just make this quick shall we? I don't like wasting time.."

Violet's ruby-red eyes reflected the image as the claymore swung down. She rolled to the side just at the right moment to dodge the slash.

"Ugh, I told you,I DON'T LIKE WASTING TIME!!!!" The tiger roared loudly sending shockwaves through the forest.


The tiger stood back and leaped in the air. He stopped mid air and kicked the air behind him and sky-rocketed down with a supersonic wave. Violet was busy concentrating that she didn't realise that she was being tied down by the monkey. When she tried to roll to the side, she couldn't.

The tip of the claymore's blade was about to pierce right through Violet's head when suddenly a swooshing sound kept continuing from the distance


swoosh swoosh swoooshhhhhh


The claymore left the tiger's hand and flew away as it was deflected by Forked Tongue's scythe as it came swooshing into the scene at the nick of time.

"That was too close" Forked Tongue sighed and continued to grin while Shiroi was behind him being awe struck yet again.

"Shit, that was cool." was all he could say.


"I hate interruptions! Can't I kill someone in peace for once?!"
The tiger roared loudly and turned feral. His eyes turned silvery with a hint of green and his claws started to sharpen and dripped green liquid. It was phantom poison.

"Now that's one pussycat that aint happy." Forked Tongue frowned.


"Violet, get up and get in your battle stance! And try to wake up your phantom guardian if you can!!" Shiroi shouted.

"How?!" Violet screamed, "It's not like I can just summon it at any....."

"Try concentrating all your hatred into one energy..you might just summon me easier than you expected..."

"Who's talking to me?! Get out of my head!! Ahhh!!! I can't take it anymore!!!"

Violet forced her way out of being tied to the ground and grabbed her katana and started going crazy. She rushed onwards and slashed the monkey's head off in one swipe.
"THAT'S FOR TYING ME UP YOU USELESS PIECE OF SHIT!!!"

Suddenly her hands started to glow light blue again and her katana changed colour to white.

"I SUMMON YOU WHOEVER YOU ARE WITHIN ME!"

As soon as she screamed that with so much hatred in her tone, a young beautiful female ninja slowly walked out of her body. She wore white ninja apparel and held a white katana with both her hands. Her hair was black with pink highlights and her eyes glowed light blue.

"See, it wasn't that hard to summon me wasn't it? Too bad it'll only be this once that I'll let you off this easy" The ninja smiled.

"Who..who are you?" Violet asked as she was shocked to see a soul walking out of her body.

"Phantom Guardians don't have official names and so we make up our own name, I'm White Katana"

"That's pretty..stereotypical for a name.." Violet thought to herself.

Shiroi saw Violet summon her Phantom Guardian from the distance and all he could say was "Wow.."

"Now that you summoned your guardian, shall we continue the fight?" Forked Tongue told Violet as he pointed at the tiger that was rushing like a maniac towards her.

"Wha...what do I do?" Violet asked White Katana

"You just sit back and relax. Allow me to do the dirty work.."


White Katana. A very young ninja with white apparels and wielding the purest white katana known as the Angel's Tear. Likes: Anything pink, strawberries, teddy bears. Occupation: other than being a ninja trainee, Violet's Phantom Guardian.

Both White Katana and Forked Tongue sprung into action and were back to back as the other 4 rogue phantom guardians surrounded them.

"Theres 4 of us and only 2 of you. You don't stand a chance!" The tiger laughed.

"Rain of the shurikens."
"Reaper's deathslash."

White Katana pointed at the 2 souls infront of her, the human with the spiderarms and the serpernt. Endless amount of shurikens started raining on them slashing them off and cutting them into pieces. Limbs started flying around while phantom blood spewed everywhere.

Forked Tongue slashed the air infront of him to cut both the grizzly bear and the tiger in half in one swing. "Piece of cake, that was nothing!"

Shiroi and Violet just stared at how cool both of their phantom guardians were even though they still don't know what they really were.

"Our job here is done, try to learn how to summon us next time cause I can't assure you that we'll come out to save your asses again whenever we feel like it.." White Katana said with a stern look on her face.

"Psst, don't worry.. she's just being uptight cause she's been sleeping for so long..trust me.. I feel the same way =D" Forked Tongue whispered to both Violet and Shiroi.

After that, White Katana and Forked Tongue walked right back into their respective owners.

"Now that...was freaky.." Shiroi said

"Look, it's morning. We don't have time to stop and think about what just happened, the only thing we should do now is get out of this forest as quickly as possible.." Violet said as she ran forward

"Damnit Violet, wait for me!" Shiroi sighed..


..Somewhere in the forest, a mysterious figure had been observing the entire scene.

"Looks like we've got pests..."

Phantom Guardians|Episode 2|

Violet stared at her katana as it slowly changed colour from white to normal silver again. Why'd her katana change colour? Where did the voice that inspired her come from? Adding more questions in her mind didn't make matters easier for her to cope with but she knew she had to move on. She put her katana back and continued to walk forward

"Where you goin? It's still too dark to walk around right now," Shiroi said

That's when Violet realised that the illuminated forest had gone back to being dark. She wondered how the forest was so bright just now.

"We have to keep moving. If the so called wandering ghost that I killed was any proof, this forest might really be the forest of the wandering lost soul, and odds are, there might be more of them.."

.:The forest of the wandering lost souls part 2:.


As the two of them continued walking deeper and deeper into the forest, they could hear whispers everywhere and it sent shivers down their spine.

"Why'd you think lost souls wander aimlessly here?" Violet asked

"You really think I have an answer for that? Who knows, lost souls are usually insane since they cant go on to the afterlife. This forest might be the only place that can soothe them." Shiroi replied.

"You know, you never told me about your past before." he continued

"That's something I don't wanna delve deeper into..It's just too..painful to talk about. Maybe next time yeah?" Violet replied.

"Alright alright, sorry for being nosy" Shiroi smiled.


After nearly walking aimlessly for about an hour, the two arrived at a fork road. One path leads left while the other leads right. They both looked at each other and agreed that they would each take a path and find their way out of the forest.

"Just scream if you're in danger alright?" Shiroi grinned

"Shouldn't you be the one who should take that advice?" Violet laughed.

Shiroi scoffed at her and took the left path.

"I was just kidding!!" Violet shouted.

"I know." Shiroi waved without looking behind.


Constantly having fear in her emotions, Violet pushed herself to take the right path.

As they both walked each of their own path, danger lurks as the citizens of the forest are awake by the presence of the two of them.




"I'm alone again. Noone to help me this time. Noone to catch me when I fall. Noone to shoot some crazy soul while they're grasping me. I just hope Shiroi's alright. No! I shouldn't be thinking about this. Shiroi's can handle situations into his own hand. Whatever. I just hope we both get out of this forest alive.." Violet thought to herself.


Violet continued walking without even realising that there were clicking sounds around her.





....

"boo!"



AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!




Shiroi heard the scream and looked around.

"That's Violet!"

He tried to run back but somehow he hit an invisible wall that blocked his path

"You're not going anywhere. You have something that I want and to get it, I'm gonna have to kill you.."

It was a huge soul that stood on 2 legs. It had the body of a man and the face of a bull. It was carrying a huge axe and just like the previous soul, it also glowed in a light blue aura. It was a minotaur!

Shiroi kept his cool and didn't show any signs of nervousness but inside he sure was shocked to see something so huge upclose and personal.

"Someone's gonna die here, and it sure as hell won't be me!"

Shiroi somersaulted backwards and grabbed his handgun.

BA-BANG!

Two bullets flew straight at the minotaur but it passed right through without even damaging him

"Ahahahahaahahaha. I like your enthusiasm to try and live but I'm sorry cause...YOU'RE THE ONE THAT'S GONNA DIE HERE!!" The minotaur roared loudly.

"Whoa dude, get a breathmint cause your breath stinks worse than when my fart, And I'm known to have one of the stinkiest fart ever." Shiroi laughed but his thoughts weren't,
"My bullets went right through him. How the hell am I gonna kill this bastard?" he thought to himself.

"Give it up kid, just let me kill you and let me eat your dormant phantom guardian. That way you don't have to waste your energy cause either way, you're gonna die anyway"


Shiroi smiled. "You think I'm just gonna give up? My friend's on the other side of this forest and all I know is, I'm not gonna leave her to die there!"

He leaped forward and shot two more bullets and as usual, they went right through the minotaur.

The minotaur rushed onwards to Shiroi and rammed him. Shiroi flew backwards and hit the ground with a loud thump.

"Fuck!..I gotta think up of a plan to kill this guy, and quick or I won't be able to save Violet in the process too.." Shiroi thought to himself.

"Stop your daydreaming and FOCUS! You're never gonna beat me but you can try! Aaaaaha ha haahh ah hahahhahahahahahahahha" The minotaur laughed and jumped in the air, ready to slice downwards with his huge axe.

Shiroi backflipped and dodged the slice right on time as he saw the ground where he was laying on split in two.

"Holy shit, that could've been me."

"You're too naiive! You think you're so good. Without a phantom guardian you're nothing!" The minotaur roared at Shiroi.

"What the hell is a phantom guardian?!" Shiroi kept thinking to himself.

The minotaur rushed forward again and rammed Shiroi, this time throwing him far backwards. Shiroi screeched to a halt and saw himself distanced from the minotaur about 100 metres away.

"Son of a bitch, how'd I fly so far?!"

Shiroi was losing consciousness. Another hit from the minotaur and he's not gonna be able to move.

"What's wrong? Tired already? Ahahahahahah then why not have another ram from me!"

The minotaur glowed brightly this time in a dark blue aura. He gained momentum and rushed straight to Shiroi and rammed him so hard that it knocked him unconscious. Shiroi's body stopped moving and he let go of his grasp on his handgun.

"Damnit...Why can't I move my arm....I can't even stand up or speak...am I...am I gonna die here?...I guess the soul was right, I'm pretty useless without any other help...." and with that Shiroi fell backwards and closed his eyes shut.















Suddenly his eyes glared open and his eyes turned silver. He stood up and a black aura surrounded him. Shiroi was half conscious at this moment and everything was a blur.

A dude with a hoodie stood infront of him carrying a huge ass scythe. The blade was 10 times bigger than a normal scythe and it had red markings on the blade with spikes running along the long handle.

"Don't worry. I'm awake now.."

Phantom Guardians|Episode 1|

They both continued walking aimlessly till they reached the entrance of a forest. It was an ominous looking forest and the atmosphere was quite unsettling. The leaves on the trees started rustling as the cold wind blew past the forest. Whispers could be heard from inside..

"You're not going through that forest are you?" asked a random passerby.

"What's wrong with the forest?" Shiroi asked back.

"You don't know? This is the forest of the wandering lost souls! Many rumours say that souls that never passed onto the afterlife wander aimlessly in this forest!" he replied. "Well good luck to both of you if you're even thinking of going in there.."

The old man walked off into the opposite direction rambling to himself. "Foolish kids these days.."


.:The forest of the wandering lost souls:.


Violet and Shiroi looked at each other and shrugged. They had no sense of direction and the only way to go was forward. They believed that going forward would be the only way to find their destiny, whatever their destiny is.

As they slowly walked inside, it got darker and darker.

"Shiroi, I think we should take a rest here. There's no point getting lost in this darkness."

"Are you crazy?! It's dark and there really might be wandering souls.."

"But we'll get even more lost if we walk through this darkness."

"Yeah..I guess you're right. Okay then, I'll try to make fire to keep us warm."


As they fell into deep slumber, Violet suddenly heard a raspy and deep voice calling her out.

She woke up and started to sleepwalk deep into the forest. She was sure that someone was calling her name.

"You....are a host to a phantom guardian...sweet delicious phantom guardian in its raw form..come to me..."

As Violet walked closer to the voice, she suddenly regained consciousness. As she slowly opened her eyes, a luminous shadow of light blue outline glowed dimly infront of her. When she fully regained consciousness, what stood infront of her shocked her so much till her body froze. Violet tried to grab the katana from behind her but her arm just wouldn't move. It's as if something was constricting her arm.

"What...what are you?" Violet asked as her eyes stared violently at this...ghostly figure.


"Me...? I'm a wandering soul..or a rogue phantom guardian. You on the other hand..are a host to a delicious raw phantom guardian that's still lying dormant inside that fragile body of yours....Just let me rip you open and allow me to slowly rip out that sleeping phantom inside you so that I can eat it to satisfy myself.."

"Wh..wha..what are you talking about?! phantom guardian?! what the hell is that? And why would I have it in my body!? Just let me go!!!"

Suddenly..

BA-BANG!!


In the far distance, smoke trailed from two gunbarrels that two bullets had just exited from.

"Don't you dare touch even a single hair from her!" Shiroi said with a smirk and still aiming his dual barrelled handgun at the figure.

The wandering soul suddenly dropped Violet from his grip and stared at Shiroi

"Hmm..looks like you too are a host to a phantom guardian.....
hehehhehhahahhahahhahahahahahahhahahahahahahhahahahahahhahahahahhahahahahahhahaha. Looks like it's my lucky day."

Violet slowly moved her right arm backwards and grabbed the handle of her katana from her back and took it out slowly

SCHWING~

The blade reflected even the slightest bit of light from any source and it suddenly illuminated the whole forest with a shockwave of light.

"I..I don't care whatever being you are. If you're gonna try and kill both me and Shiroi, then I'm sorry cause that's not gonna happen."

With a determined look, she held the handle of her katana tightly and started running towards the soul. As she jumped in the air ready to slice downwards, a light blue-ish aura surrounded her fingers and the blade suddenly glowed white.

"You can do this. You're strong and determined. Strike with precision and don't get distracted by any of your surrounding, not even the breathing of any life form in this forest. CONCENTRATE!"

The silver blade changed to a pure white blade that was as white as the snow during winter.

The soul stared at her hands as it glowed dimly in a light blue aura.

"Damnit! You're Phantom Guardian...it's awake!"

And with that last sentence, Violet's blade sliced right through the middle of the soul from top to bottom with ease and the soul was sliced in half. The lifeless body of the wandering soul started to crumble slowly to dust and blew away.

"What..the hell just happened?" Shiroi's mouth gaping open and awe struck.

"I..I don't know..." Violet answered, looking surprised as much as Shiroi was.