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Chapter 1A

A young child walks down an empty street, calling out for her parents. She cries 'Mama! Dada! Mama...?' Something crash-lands behind her, startling her. When she looks, she sees it's a knight in armour. The knight gets up and approaches her, brandishing its gardening scythe at her. The girl shuts her eyes and screams. Someone shouts out, 'Zinnia Protection!' When the girl opens her eyes, she sees a red magical girl with a sunhat and long pigtails has used her power to shield her from the knight's attack. The magical girl picks up the child and carries her into an alley, putting her down safely behind one of the buildings. She asks the child 'Are you alright?' The magical girl says to the child 'You're not supposed to be here. Are you lost?' but the child doesn't respond. The magical girl says 'I have to go. Stay here, alright?' and turns to leave, but the child reaches out and stops her. The child holds onto the magical girl's skirt and looks up at her. The magical girl bends down and says to her 'It's pretty scary, isn't it?' and grabs her hands. The magical girl says 'I'm scared too, but right now... I have to be brave and go help everyone.' She unties her sunhat and places it on the child's head. She asks the girl 'Can you help me by being brave and staying here until the bad guys are gone?' The child nods. The magical girl gets up and says 'That's great.' and waves at the child, saying 'Well, see you!' before running off back down the street. The child looks on, now smiling, when the sunhat suddenly turns into a bunch of magical flower petals, and the flower on the hat turns into a red bug. The red bug flies away and back onto the red magical girl's head as she and her friends continue to fight off the knights. The child watches in awe from behind the building. The story of the Garden Guardians is told, accompanied by a picture of King Overgrowth and his minions capturing Florentina. The story reads: 'In the Kingdom of Botania there lived a girl named Florentina, who had the ability to make flowers grow. She was beloved by all, but the selfish King Overgrowth water her powers for himself, and locked her away in his castle. Florentina asked her most trusted friends, the magical Flower Fairies, to excape and track down someone who could help her. They flew all the way to the Earth town of Willows Bay, where they met...' The story of the Garden Guardians continues. The text reads 'The Garden Guardians! Yellow Dandelion, Blue Indigo, and the leader of the group...' The story is accompanied by a picture of the three Garden Guardians. The young girl from before, now wearing her hair in pigtails, is drawing a picture in a classroom of the magical girl that saved her. She says 'Red Zinnia! She's my favourite. When I grow up, I want to be just like her!


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Chapter 1A

25 September 2023

Thank you for reading the first part of the first chapter of Garden Guardians! I hope you'll stick around to see where the story goes.

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