Guardian: The Broken World

Fending The Ghost Slayer Temple

-Guardians-

As the two lovers disappeared deep within the temple, Lin, Zhu, Da Qing and Guo went to sit in a small lantern illuminated gazebo, outside the main building. Savoring the monk’s special tea, they admired the beauty of the place and the peace it seems to emanate.

“You are so lucky to live here little Guo. This is quite a nice place to be raised.” Zhu said.

“Yeah, it such an honor to call this temple home, and also to be allowed to help keep it this beautiful and peaceful. I honestly don’t have much talent to be a full monk or anything else.” Guo shyly said.

“That’s not true kid, your virtue alone speak volumes of you, as a special kind of human. To gather such a huge amount of it, you must have done a lot of good deeds both now and in your past lives. In a way, you could call yourself a blessed child. Also, the Ghost Slayer have you in high regard, and he is a fair judge of characters, so don’t sell yourself short.” Da Qing said seriously.

“Oh, well… the Ghost Slayer is just too kind.” Guo added a bit embarrassed.

“That he is, but still, you are quite something in your own way. It’s the same with Yunlan.” The cat added.

“Ah, the Chief… who would had thought he was such a big gun. I mean, he was quite strong before, but man, a former god? No wonder his talismans are always off scale in terms of strength.” Lin said, still a bit shocked.

“And not only any god, Kunlun no less. He was quite formidable back in his days, or so my Uncle Four said. Now I can finally understand why he want me to become a familiar of the Order. Our kind, had always served the gods, most of them to Nuwa, but sometimes we also help others to keep the world safe.” Zhu said, hugging herself as a soft gale of cold air make her shiver.

“So, you fatty, why the hell did you keep that secret from us? It’s obvious you knew everything.” Lin protested.

“I’m not fat! And why did I have to tell you, when Yunlan himself didn’t knew?” The cat reply.

“You have to be kidding me. He didn’t knew? Not even suspect it?” Zhu asked in disbelief. Since childhood, she knew she was different from the rest of his people, as not all of them have the ability to transform, in the modern age the same as Da Qing.

“Not a clue. He knows it now because Shen Wei make it pretty obvious he was the Ghost Slayer when opening the Hell Gate and so he told Yunlan everything he needed to know. Then he had a talk with himself deep in the mountains, or so you told me.” The cat recalled.

“Oh, that… it’s kind of scary to meet your godly self, as a human.” Lin said.

“Not to mention that those two have been in love with each other for centuries…” Lin whistle.

“That’s right, no wonder they hit it off so quickly.” He said.

“Well, the Professor did wait a very long time for him. It was quite sad to watch him come here in the weekends, before he met Chief Zhao personally again.” Guo added.

“Well, that’s all in the past. They are together now and I hope this time they stay like that as it was meant to be.” Da Qing wished.

“As a god, I’m sure he planned for that to happen.” Zhu reaffirmed.

“So Zhu, did you talked with your Uncle Four, as the Chief ask you? With gods involved in all this sudden madness, things are going to get ugly for us soon.” Lin said, having a zip to his tea.

“Idiot, don’t go jinxing us, it’s nightfall, you know?” Zhu retorted.

“You don’t have to worry about demons in here, even if they come, the barrier protecting this temple is at gods level.” Da Qing said.