We are running down the hall to figure out what's going on. I see Ezikels shirt is on backward and laugh to myself because when the alarm goes off we kind of just throw our clothes on. He didn't want to stop but he knew his duties and I knew mine we would if Been caught in the moment by someone and I wasn't willing to let it be one of my parents. One of the guards came. Front of me and lifts me up and away from Ezikel. Exikel doesn't stop him he just keeps moving forwards. I hear the guard behind him talk into a mic I think in his Ear. "Package secured and moving to a new location now."
"What the fuck is going on last I check I'm not a package," I shout but neither of these assholes answers we go through a black door and there is a golden silver rim at the end of it leading into a darkroom. I am placed on a chair and the guards turn around to face the entrance we just came through.

It feels like hours have passed by when I hear a whistle from the entrance come through the guards whistle back in a low tone and then the whistle on the other side sounds low then high. It's a completed melody of a song. I don't know what song but I have heard it before. My mother comes through and thanks the guards. "What the fuck happened and why was I picked up like a bag of potatoes and put in this room?" I can't even hide how pissed I am. "The building was breached by an unknown entity and we couldn't locate them. We had to make sure you were safe just in case someone found you." My mother is trying to remain calm. I take a couple of breaths and walk with her through the portal and before I can ask if the person was caught Clarissa is waiting right outside.

"Well, aren't you the most wanted soul and the most protected?" She says with attitude. "Hey to you too. How did you find us?" I ask her. She looked me up and down like it wasn't hard to find me. "I didn't know you were going to be here. I thought this was a safe house as well as I know has one of the biggest holy maps. I tried telling your mother that I needed it too but she nearly took my throat out." She looks at my mother with dangerous eyes. "What do you need the map for?" I ask her and I make sure that I swear myself to her shoulders just in case she wants to fight. She looks at me again scoffs and walks away. "I can't help you Clarissa unless you tell me what you need it for." My mother laughs, "You can't trust a reaper especially one who uses things only for her advantage." Then my mother is walking away and that's it. I am over their bitch attitude and I guess this pisses off my soul as well. I feel my body start to heat up and I can see the red flow on the floor. Two large hands reach out of my body and grab them. They both struggle and are cursing up a storm. As I turn them around to face me Clarissa's eyes go wide and my mother's mouth drops open a little. "What the fuck are you?" Clarissa asks in fear. I didn't even know she had the emotion. "I'm a guardian," I say proudly and continue. "Now tell me what you need it for." She looks at the hand wrapped around her body still and looks at my bother then at Ezikel like they are going to protect her or help her out. She finally gives up and says, "Damian is missing. He was out collecting lost souls and no one had heard from him in two weeks. I also can't track him. It's as if his soul has disappeared completely." Her voice cracks and she clears it so no one sees her cry. I'm afraid that the person after me might have snatched him to lure me out and Ezikel must think the same thing because he says, "It's a trap to get Nubia into the world and be exposed to whoever is behind this whole thing." Clarissa looks at Ezikel with a confused expression and starts with a snarky attitude, "Someone is after you because you're a guardian? What is a guardian anyway." My dad jumps right in to show how much he has learned over the past month or so and says proudly. "My daughter is a protector of all the realms. Heaven hell and earth or any living soul. Which also means Aliens. There indeed is a person after her but we haven't figured out why and what they may do to her but she is being targeted by someone powerful. So little lady if you want to figure out where Damian is I advise you to join us in our quest and see what you got." I started to laugh at the last sentence cause my dad had played too many Dungeons and Dragons and hey who am I to judge his way of understanding what world we are in? Clarissa looks at him then me and back at po him. Like this is a joke but she looks at my mother who hasn't looked at her for some time she finally sees it is indeed all true.

  Clarissa is hesitant to follow us to the room where the map is. I try to hide My enthusiasm because this will be my first time seeing the map as well. We walk into a room and my mother hands us jackets. It's cold where we have the map. It's the only way to see all souls. The cold hits you in the face instantly. Teeth chatters start to fill the room. As we walk up to a paper there is nothing on it. My mother walks around the map she touches each corner of the map then slides her finger across the bottom. It's as if magic the map becomes alive. I can see the land and the seas and then there are blue, silver, gold, red, black, and purple souls." Wow, there are so many colors to people's souls" I say and my mother looks at me with a straight face. I look at her like I said something wrong but Ezikel says, "You can see different colors on the map?"
"Yeah, their varied colors, can't you see them?"
"No Butterfly we can see anything but blue and black souls." My dad says. Now I am confused, as I point to a purple soul that isn't far from a blue soul and asks, "Do you see this one it's purple." My mother looks at what I'm pointing to and shakes her head no. I go to another soul but red. "Tell me you can see this one?" Again everyone shakes their heads no. "Wait your a guardian which means you can see all souls. Which means souls we can't see you can see. You can also possibly find exactly what's after you because its soul will show A different color." Clarissa says. Ezikel looks down at the map and goes to the table and looks for something. He must find what he looking for because he stops and comes back with paper and a pencil. "Okay Nubia, tell me all the colors you see and how many you see. Not rid of the light blue ones or the black ones but all the other colors you see." His head is down and ready for me to count I keep a note of why not the light blue or black one after I count each one. "56 red, 23 silver, 123 gold, 3 purple, and 1 pastel rainbow." My fingers hover over the pastel rainbow and see the light blue souls standing around it there are four people close and two a little distant. I look at my mother and we both say at the same time. "It's your/my soul."

Ezikel says I need to go look these up I have seen it in a book we just read a week ago. Clarissa asked the question I was thinking. "Why are there only black and blue souls on the map?" My mother looks at the map and starts to say, "Because there are holy which are blue and then there are the unholy souls. It's the way we can track them all on this map. But it seems Nubia can see all souls even those that aren't one of us on the map." She walks around to Forest. Looks closely at it and says, "This is where Damian is. He must be underground that's why his soul is so dim." Clarissa doesn't even say thank you she just walks out of the room. My mother just shakes her head. I follow Clarissa out and decide at that moment I'm going with her in some way or another. "I'm coming with you."
"Nubia you can't come with me till you figure out what is after you and I'm not going to be responsible for the reason you die."
"I'm not asking Clarissa you don't know what you are up against or if he is in danger and last I check two is better than one."
"I can't have you come and I won't." She starts to tell the guards but my mother walks out and says, "Neither of you will be leaving. I'm going to make sure you are well-equipped to handle whatever it is out there." Clarissa gets in my mother's face and she swings. My mother moves swiftly out of her way and yawns. Clarissa doesn't like this and tries to side-kick her and misses again. My mother keeps dodging her hits. Until my mother hits her right in the nose. Clarissa goes down holding her nose and cussing at my mother. "I get that you want to go get your boyfriend or whatever but it doesn't look like he is in danger. It looks like he is in hiding. I'm sure you don't want to believe he is but I also received word from his father that whatever was after Nubia tried to go after him to get back to her. So, you both are staying put till I say so." Clarissa gets up holding her nose and is pissed off. She walks away and I want to follow her but my mother grabs my arm and shakes her head no. "Nubia, I need you to look at the map again and see if the colored souls have moved." I keep watching Clarissa walk down the hall. My mother is right she is going to need some time to calm down.

I have been staring at the map for about 20 minutes when I see the 3 purple souls leave and for just a second there is a magenta color that appears and disappears in half a second. I didn't even fully blink when I saw it. My mother watches me move closer to the map and I wait for it to appear again. Nothing happened but then I saw it move from Brazil and now it's in Europe in seconds it appear and it's gone. "Mom theirs a soul that appeared over here for not even a second and now it's over here. It doesn't show on the map for long only for a glimpse and then it is back in hiding. I think this is what's after me." My mother looks at her guards and hands them a letter. "How is it moving so fast? They have to be using portals but how. Only the elite can grant those powers." Her voice is full of concern. She is looking at the map to see if she can see what I'm seeing but gives up frustrated. She is about to say something when Exikel runs in. "I know what souls you are seeing and why."