Protection: How To Save Your Guardian - Chapter 6

The hours pasted and soon it started raining. CRASH, BOOM, CRASH. It began to storm. Naomi opened her eyes to see she was in a ditch with Pepper who was laying on the ground. Naomi said “I can’t see anything Pepper, I can barely see you.” Naomi felt around the walls of the ditch and found that there was an opening, smiled, and said “come on Pepper,” but Pepper didn’t answer her. She looked at Pepper and said “come Pepper there’s an opening we’ve gotta go,” but Pepper still didn’t answer her. She walked over to Pepper and started to shaking her while saying “get up Pepper we have to keep going! You can’t die,” but Pepper didn’t move. Tears ran down her cheeks and she screamed “Pepper!” She dropped to her knees and yelled “Logan killed her! He killed Pepper!” She looked up and screamed “no more.” She kissed Pepper, stood to her feet, and walked through the opening. She wiped her hand on a dry part of her pants, made sparks in her hand that turned into fire, and saw that she was standing in a tunnel. As she walked she could feel the tunnel shake from vibrations from the storm. Dirt falling from the ceiling. She cried “Eric, Alex, and now Logan… everyone keeps dying… I have to get to Jax… I have to keep moving.” She continued to walk through the tunnel as tears fell down her cheeks. The tunnel began to get steeper and steeper. She began sliding down the tunnel trying to stay on. Tears ran down her cheeks and she said “I’ve had enough!” She grabbed ahold of the wall making her way up and out of the tunnel. She looked all around her to carriage marks leading to a stone path. She smiled with tears in her eyes saying “were almost to The Brinny Kingdom. I’m gonna take my kingdom back.” She walked over yo the stone path and began walking down it. The rain beat on her and the wind blew her back. She fought the wind trying to walk through the storm but it kept getting stronger and stronger. She said “I’m never gonna beat this storm and I need to…. I need to take some shelter.” She looked around her trying to find a place to rest. She saw a broken down garden shack and ran over to it closing the door behind her. She leaned up against it and said “it feels like there’s nothing I can do. Nobody’s here with me… I’m all alone by myself. I wish Jax was here with me, he would know what to do. He would help me. I wish he was here right now… I wish I could hug him.” BANG, BANG, BANG she heard someone pounding at the door. A voice of an elderly woman said “open up dear.” Naomi opened up the door and the elderly woman walked into the shack. The old woman said “what are you doing way out here dear. Its cold, its storming out and your gonna get sick. Tears ran down Naomi’s cheeks as she stood up and hugged the woman. The old woman said “its okay sweetheart, come inside my home and I’ll get you something to eat and some warm clothes.” Naomi said “but the wind, its so strong.” The old woman smiled and said “yes but I’m stronger.” Naomi took the old woman’s hand as they left the shack and walked further into the forest to her home. they walk up to the old woman’s light red brick home that had a brown roof and entered it. Her room was small but open. Her living room was right next to her kitchen with no walls separating the two. She had bird figurines everywhere and a red couch with matching couch chairs sat in her living room along with a light brown wood coffee table, a white brick fire place, and a bookshelf. Naomi saw Pepper laying on the on the living room floor and yelled “Pepper!” Pepper limped over to her and rubbed her head against Naomi. Naomi said as tears fell down her cheeks “I thought you were dead! How did you get here?” The old woman said “I saw her in a ditch earlier. old woman lit the fire place, went into one of her closets, and pulled out a green shirt with a pink bird on it, black jeans, and pink tennis shoes. She gave them to Naomi and said there’s a bathroom down the hall to the left. You can change in there. Naomi said “thank you,” and went to go change. As she changed the old woman made her a peanut butter and jelly sandwich and hot coco. Naomi came out of the bathroom to where the old woman was and the old woman said “go sit down I made you something to eat.” Naomi sat on the couch and the old woman put the food and drink on the coffee table in front of her. The old woman sat on a couch chair while Naomi said Grace and ate her food. The old woman smiled and said “now Princess Naomi, what are you doing way out here.” Naomi looked at her and said “how did you know who I was?” The old woman chuckled and said “I may live on the outskirts of The Brinny Kingdom but I know who the royals are and my son talks about you like your his own daughter.” Naomi bit into her sandwich and asked “who’s your son?” The old woman smiled and said “Jax your Guardian.” Naomi quickly swallowed the sandwich that was in her mouth and said “your son is Jax?!” The old woman said “yes that’s my baby boy. Although he isn’t much of a baby anymore is he?” Naomi smiled and said “no, he’s all grown up.” The old woman said “speaking of Jax why aren’t you with him right now sweetie? Isn’t he supposed to be watching you?” Naomi looked down, back at the old woman, and said “yeah he is but…. I…. I was going back into to him right now.” The old woman said “oh well you can wait here until the rain stops and then its back to Jax you go. I know he must be very worried about you, you mustn’t worry Jax like that. He loves you very much Princess and always wants to make sure your safe and happy.” Naomi said “yeah… he’s…. he’s my best friend….”

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