The Immortal Guardians: Book I

Chapter Fourteen

        I opened my eyes. I felt tears come to my eyes. I had screwed up. I had gotten knocked out badly. I could remember the fight. I hadn't been strong enough to hold up against her. I thought they were going to have me fight someone my own size but instead I had gotten someone that was a Second Series student and she was about to graduate. She had also been taller than me. I hadn't been able to hold up against her. I had been too slow and too weak.

Byron had been right.

The words sunk in.

Tears came to my eyes. I grasped a pillow over my head tightly.

"Are you trying to kill yourself now"

"Go away" I told Byron. I didn't want to see or hear him.

He had been right. I had lost.

I especially didn't want him to see me cry. I tried to control the tears but they wouldn't stop.

"Iris"

"Go away-you jerk" I threw the pillow aside, sitting up. "You were right-HAPPY" I shouted. I glared up at him.

Dr. Nan, Ezra and Thomas were standing behind him. They were all frowning at me.

"I suck" I glared at them. "Just say it- I'm not good enough to be in the Guard or a Guardian" I covered my face. I couldn't stop crying. "I'm not strong enough or fast enough"

I felt a hand on my shoulder and I brushed it off.

"Leave me alone- all of you" I grabbed the blanket and I fell on my side. My back was aching but I didn't care. I didn't want to see any of them.

"Iris" Ezra muttered.

"Get out" I shouted. "Leave me alone" I blubbered. I hid my face in my pillow.

"Stop upsetting my patient" Nurse Gail scolded them. "Get out- all of you."

I curled up in the bed and I cried. I was so angry at myself.

The tears wouldn't stop flowing. I couldn't control my loud sobbing.

I had lost miserably. I knew it.

            "Eat something" Nurse Gail glared down at me. She put the tray on my lap.

"I'm not hungry" I told her. I pushed the tray down to the foot of the bed.

"If you want to get better, you need to EAT" she put the tray back on my lap. "I will force feed you- NOW EAT" she ordered. I wasn't in the mood to argue with her so I ate the fruit salad.

My arm was broken and I had been stabbed according to Nurse Gail in my back. As a defense mechanism, I had burned myself. I had also somewhat burned the girl I had been against. I didn't feel too bad about burning her. My hands were severely burned. They were almost healed.

"All of you Guardians are the worst-Stubborn" she glared at me. She left me alone to eat. I pushed the tray back and I stared solemnly out the window.

It had been a day so I had kicked out Dr. Nan, Ezra, Thomas and Byron. They hadn't came back. I was still upset with myself. I couldn't believe I hadn't lasted more than seven minutes at my first Ranking. I was most pissed off that Byron had been right.

            "We come in peace" a hand was stuck in between the shades. Ezra was waving around a white flag.

"Come in" I sighed. I sat up in the bed.

It looked like Ezra and Thomas had just gotten out of training. They had some of their plates on.

"Are you still angry?" Thomas asked warily. He sat down at the foot of the bed. Ezra nudged me over and he took up half the bed.