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In a corner of the cosmos where starlight shines at its purest, there was a planet that ordinary beings could never find. It appeared on no maps, no star routes, and in none of the cold expanses where travelers searched for traces of life.

This was the Guardian Planet.

The beings born on this planet had a purpose beyond protecting their own world. They guarded other planets too — the ones where life existed, where children were born, forests grew, oceans breathed, and the light in the cold of space had not yet gone out.

Since ancient times the Guardians had watched the black holes. To other worlds, black holes were merely a dangerous mystery of the cosmos, but the Guardians knew the truth: some black holes were more than collapsed space. They were gateways — roads into dark dimensions, out of which dangerous creatures emerged from time to time.

These creatures sensed the energy of life. They attacked planets where life existed, tore at their cores, terrified the beings who lived there, and slowly extinguished the planet's light.

That is why the Guardians existed.

Among them, Lumis was born.

Little Lumis was different from the very start. He moved faster than the others, felt the energy of light more strongly, and carried such curiosity in his eyes, as if he meant to learn every secret of the galaxy in a single day.

The elders often told him that a Guardian's power was not meant for battle alone. Power was responsibility. A Guardian must not be led by curiosity, fear, or pride alone. A Guardian had to know when to fly — and when to stay.

But Lumis was small.

He did not yet understand that sometimes the greatest mistake begins with curiosity.

On the Guardian Planet, flight was a special gift. Every Guardian sooner or later learned to control the energy of air and light, but Lumis mastered it far earlier than anyone else.

The first time he flew, no one could believe it. He was still a child, yet he could already soar over the planet's high cliffs, dive into the clouds, and gaze at the stars as if they were near.

After that, the planet's borders became small for Lumis.

He had two closest friends. One was his childhood companion — a loyal boy who followed Lumis almost everywhere. He was careful, but Lumis's ideas always drew him in. The other was a girl Lumis especially liked. He never said it out loud, but when she was near, he became braver, more cheerful — and sometimes more reckless.

One day Lumis told them there was something they had to see beyond the planet's borders.

Far away, among the stars, one of the black holes could be seen. The elders strictly forbade going near it. They said it was not just a cosmic phenomenon. They said that beyond it, space moved differently and time flowed differently.

To Lumis, all of that only made it more fascinating.

He convinced his friends they would simply look from a distance and return right away. It was not meant to be a dangerous adventure. Just a short flight. A little secret. A small breaking of a rule that, as Lumis believed, no one would ever discover.

The three of them flew out.

At first everything was beautiful. The stars shone around them, the planet shrank behind them, and ahead the black hole looked like a dark point — an empty eye watching them from the depths of the cosmos.

But the closer they came, the more space changed.

Light stretched. Sound vanished. Movement grew heavy.

For the first time, Lumis understood that the elders had not warned them for nothing.

But it was already too late.

The black hole did not come toward them. Instead, it was as if all of space began to flow into it.

Lumis tried to turn back, but an invisible force pulled all three of them in. His friend fought in fear to change direction, and the girl was calling Lumis's name. Their bodies stretched into threads of light, as if the cosmos itself were trying to tear them apart.

Then, for the first time, Lumis felt true guilt.

This had been his idea.

He had talked them into it. He had convinced them nothing dangerous would happen. He had led them to the place where Guardians were forbidden to go.

And so he had no right to leave them.

Lumis gathered all his strength. First he managed to fly to the boy. The pull of the black hole was so strong that every movement felt like pain, but Lumis did not stop. He seized his friend's hand and pushed him back, toward safe space.

The boy broke free of the pull and was flung away from the black hole.

Then Lumis turned toward the girl.

She was already very close to the dark center. Her voice could barely be heard, but Lumis could see her eyes. There was fear in them — and hope. Hope that Lumis could save her.

Lumis used the last of his strength.

He seized the girl's hand and pushed her back with all his energy. She was free. For a few seconds she reached out to him, as if she could come back and save him too.

But Lumis had no strength left.

The pull of the black hole grew stronger. Space folded in on itself. The stars disappeared. His friends' voices were lost in the silence.

The last thing Lumis saw was the girl's outstretched hand.

Then the darkness swallowed him.

His friends survived.

Lumis was lost.

For them, it was the day a mischievous little child disappeared.

For Lumis, everything was only beginning.

When Lumis opened his eyes, he was no longer in his own universe.

Around him the stars shone differently. Some planets seemed alive, while others turned so silently, as if they had lost their voice long ago. Space behaved strangely — distant objects seemed near, while near ones sometimes became unreachable.

Lumis could not tell where he was.

He tried several times to return. He tried to open a way back to his planet, but the black hole that had dragged him in was gone. Around him there was only an alien cosmos.

At first, Lumis was afraid.

He was still a child. For the first time he was completely alone. No friends, no elder Guardians, no light of his home planet. Only endless space and questions he had no answers to.

But something in Lumis refused to give up.

He kept flying.

In the other dimension, time flowed differently. For Lumis, days and months passed, but he could not feel what was happening in his home world. He did not know that years were passing there. He did not know that his friends would grow up, and that his name would be remembered as the name of a lost Guardian.

Lumis felt only one thing — he had to survive.

Slowly he learned the laws of this alien world. He learned how to avoid the dark rifts, how to see the flows of energy, and how to tell which planets were dangerous and where he could find temporary shelter.

In this world he saw for the first time the creatures that came out of the black holes.

They were not all alike. Some were small and fast, some enormous and heavy. Some moved like shadows, others hurled burning energy. One thing united them — they sensed the energy of life and hungered toward it.

Lumis understood that the black holes were not just his own world's problem.

This threat touched many dimensions.

And if he wanted to return, he first had to learn how this dark cosmos worked.

Lost in the strange dimension, Lumis crossed five planets.

The first planet was cold. Its surface was covered in frozen crystals, yet deep below, life still existed. There Lumis found small creatures who lived beneath the ice, hiding from the predators that came out of the black hole. It was there that Lumis learned that fighting does not always mean attacking. Sometimes the greatest victory is bringing the weak to a safe place.

The second planet was a world of fire. The ground shook constantly, and sparks rained from the sky. Lumis was forced to move fast, because stopping meant death. On that planet he used his light energy in an attack for the first time. There he understood that his power was not only for flying.

The third planet was covered in forests. Enormous plants grew toward the stars, but their roots were fighting a dark energy. There Lumis learned that a planet, too, can feel pain. If its core fell into the hands of the dark power, all its life would slowly fade away.

The fourth planet was almost dead. There Lumis saw what remains of a world when the Guardians come too late. The cities stood silent, the sky was gray, the core extinguished. That planet changed Lumis. For the first time he felt that unless he acted in time, the same fate awaited other living planets.

On the fifth planet, Lumis was nearly defeated.

The enemies there were far stronger. It was as if they had been waiting for him. Lumis fought, but he was still small, exhausted, and alone. In one of the battles he lost almost all of his energy and took shelter in an unknown cave.

It was there that he found the thing that changed his destiny.

A mineral that glowed even in the dark.

The mineral was no ordinary stone.

It lay deep in the cave as if it had waited centuries for the one who was meant to find it. Its light was unlike starlight. It was calmer, deeper, as if it held not only energy but memory itself.

Lumis first came closer, then touched it.

And then everything changed.

Light unfolded around him. Lumis felt something connecting to his mind. It was not a voice, yet it was clearer than words. It was not an image, yet it showed the truth more plainly than eyes ever could.

Knowledge was stored in the mineral.

It was an ancient inheritance, left behind by beings who had once been considered the wisest and strongest in this dimension. They knew the secret of the black holes. They knew where the dark creatures came from. They knew how the energy of life could be protected.

But they did not leave this power for everyone.

The mineral was to be found only by one who was worthy. Not the strongest. Not the greatest warrior. But the one who could save another even at the cost of his own life.

Lumis found this power by accident — but the mineral did not accept him by accident.

It saw Lumis's past. It saw how he had saved his friends from the black hole. It saw his fear, his guilt, his loneliness, and the choice that had cast him into the darkness.

The mineral judged Lumis worthy.

Lumis received energy that made his light stronger. He received knowledge far beyond his years. He learned that the creatures coming out of the black holes were not just random monsters. Behind them stood a far greater dark power — a power that hunted planets full of life and devoured their energy.

Lumis was no longer just a lost child.

He became one who knew what he was fighting.

But the knowledge he received showed him one more thing.

In this dimension there existed one special planet, where life was developing in a wondrously different form.

Earth.

Earth was a strange planet to Lumis.

It was not the strongest, not the most advanced, and not the best protected. Its inhabitants — humans — looked like fragile beings in the eyes of the cosmos. They could not fly freely among the stars, they did not feel the energy of the planet's core, and they could not see the true nature of the black holes.

But Lumis saw something special in them.

Humans were afraid, yet they still dreamed. They fell, yet they rose again. They could not see the full picture of the universe, yet they still tried to touch the sky.

The children most of all.

In the children Lumis saw himself — the curiosity, the boldness, the recklessness, and that small light which does not yet know how strong it can become.

But dark rifts appeared on Earth as well.

Small black holes appeared at night. They were nothing like the great cosmic holes, but the creatures that came out of them frightened the children. Sometimes they appeared in rooms like shadows, sometimes they reached into dreams, and sometimes they tried to drag children away into the dark space they themselves had come from.

Lumis could not stay indifferent.

He began sealing the rifts on Earth. He moved quietly between cities, through forests, over mountains, above oceans. Humans almost never saw him. To some he was only a swift trace of light across the sky. To others — a strange dream. But to the children he was sometimes a guardian who appeared in the darkness and made the fear vanish.

Earth taught Lumis that life does not always exist in the form of great planets, powerful civilizations, or galactic forces.

Sometimes life is a small child standing at a window at night, watching the stars.

And if dark creatures threaten that child, a Guardian must be there.

Lumis closed the black holes that had opened on Earth.

But in doing so, he came to understand his own power better. The telepathic knowledge he had received from the ancient mineral was slowly revealing one great secret — there was a way back to his own dimension.

A way home.

One year had passed since the black hole swallowed Lumis.

For him it was a year filled with fear, battle, discoveries, planets, brushes with death, and the awakening of power.

But in his home world, time had passed differently.

There, no less than ten years had gone by.

On the Guardian Planet, Lumis was counted among the lost. His friends had grown up. The boy carried his guilt for a long time, because he had survived when Lumis was lost. The girl Lumis liked never forgot the moment when Lumis saved her and then vanished into the darkness.

For them, Lumis had become a memory.

But Lumis was alive.

With the knowledge of the ancient mineral he could read the flows of energy. He learned that black holes were not only entrances. Used rightly, they could become roads — dangerous, unstable, but roads nonetheless.

Lumis gathered his light energy.

He knew that one mistake would mean being lost again, or vanishing entirely between the spaces. But he could no longer stay in the alien dimension. He had to return home. He had to see whether his friends had survived. He had to learn what had happened to his planet. And above all, he had to warn the Guardians of a threat far greater than they imagined.

During the teleportation, Lumis felt space unraveling around him. Past and present blurred together. He saw his childhood, the faces of his friends, the sky of Earth, the light of the five planets, and the memory of the mineral.

Then everything stopped.

Lumis fell onto the surface of his home planet.

The sky shone just as it had in his childhood.

But everything had changed.

The planet that had stayed in his memory now looked more serious, more careful, more burdened. The Guardians gathered around him. Some did not recognize him. Some watched in silence. And in some eyes was written pure disbelief.

And then he saw them.

His two friends.

They were no longer the children with whom he had crossed the forbidden boundary.

They were grown.

Lumis had returned — but he returned to a world that had lived ten years without him.

Lumis was no longer the mischievous little child who had led his friends into a forbidden flight.

He returned as one who had seen another dimension, crossed five planets, protected Earth, received ancient knowledge, and learned the true threat of the black holes.

The Council of Guardians could not explain his return for a long time. Some believed Lumis's survival was impossible. Some thought he had come back changed, and that his power might even be a danger. But Lumis no longer cared only about his own place among his people.

He already knew what was happening beyond the black holes.

He knew the dark creatures did not attack planets at random. They hunted living worlds, consumed the energy of their cores, and grew stronger with every new assault.

Lumis told the Guardians about the five planets, about Earth, about the children, the dark rifts, and the ancient mineral that had passed its knowledge to him.

But hardest of all was meeting his friends again.

The boy who had once followed Lumis in everything was sterner now, and quieter. For years he had waited for an answer — why had he survived, and why had Lumis been lost?

The girl Lumis liked looked at him as if a lost memory had returned to life. To her, Lumis was both the pain of her childhood and the reason she was alive.

Lumis could not bring back the lost years.

But he could protect the future that still remained.

The power of the ancient mineral woke a new light inside him. He was no longer simply one of the Guardian Planet's children. He became a Guardian who could read the energy of black holes, protect the cores of planets, and fight the dark creatures that threatened life.

It fell to him to become the strongest among his people.

Not because he wanted power.

But because he knew better than anyone what it meant to lose.

Lumis swore he would never again allow the darkness from the black holes to destroy living planets.

And when the first distress signal came from a distant planet, Lumis was ready.

"This was no longer the adventure of a mischievous child.
This was the way of a Guardian. The way of Lumis.
And his story was only beginning."

Not long after Lumis's return, an ancient warning sign lit up in the sky of the Guardian Planet.

It was no ordinary message. It was the last voice sent out from a core of life — faint, broken, and full of fear.

The signal came from a distant world lying close to the dark rifts.

The Guardians opened their maps. The star-lines tangled together, the circles of energy strained — and finally settled on a single point.

Rift World.

This world's core was still alive, but a black hole was opening in its sky. The beings who lived there could not defend themselves. They had no Guardians, they did not know the secret of the black holes, and they did not understand why the dark creatures were attacking their planet.

Lumis felt the signal as if someone far away were calling his name.

His two friends stood by his side. The boy, who had carried his guilt for years, now looked at Lumis calmly. The girl was with him too. They no longer wanted to let Lumis go alone down the road that had already become his fate.

Lumis knew that taking them was a risk. But this time everything was different. He was not leading them out of curiosity. This time he was going to save life itself.

The three of them left the Guardian Planet.

The stars opened before them.

And for the first time, Lumis flew as a true Guardian.

The Rift World was already under siege.

An enormous black hole spun in the sky, and dark fighters descended around it, as if space itself were hurling them onto the planet's surface.

Cities burned. Rivers of fire cut through the streets. The people searched for shelter, but the dark creatures sensed the energy of life and moved toward it.

Lumis descended from the sky like a blue star.

His light touched the planet's core for the first time, and those who lived there saw that even in darkness, hope still existed.

Lumis spread his arms and created a cosmic shield. The blue energy protected thousands of beings while his friends carried the wounded to safety.

The boy moved calmly and fast. He was no longer the frightened child who had lost his bearings before the black hole. Now he fought so that others would not feel the fear he had once felt.

The girl gathered the planet's children and placed them beneath Lumis's shield of light.

The dark army felt the resistance.

A stronger enemy had appeared before them — someone who read the energy of the black holes and anticipated their movements.

In this battle, for the first time, Lumis unleashed his new power in full. His body blazed with stars. The blue rays drove the dark fighters back. The rifts closed. The planet's core shone again.

The Rift World survived.

But the victory woke a new danger.

The trace of Lumis's power remained in space.

And there, in the darkest of dimensions, someone saw that trace.

Peace returned to the Guardian Planet.

But that peace was only the silence before the storm.

In the place where Lumis had first returned home, space grew tense again. The old teleportation trace, left by the power of the ancient mineral, had been found by a dark force.

The sky opened.

A black rift unfolded above the planet, and out of it came an enemy of whom even the most ancient records of the Guardians spoke only with fear.

His name was the Void Sovereign — ruler of the dark dimension.

He was not merely a monster. He was the power that commanded the black holes. Around him space unraveled, the stars grew pale, and his army sensed the energy of life the way a predator senses breathing.

Lumis understood the truth.

The Void Sovereign had followed him.

When Lumis returned home, he had opened the way not only for himself, but also for the dark power that had been watching him in the other dimension.

The Guardian Planet was attacked.

Dark fighters rained down over the city's sky. The Guardians raised shields, but the enemy was too many. Rifts opened all at once — in the streets, on the towers, by the temples, and around the energy core.

Lumis struck first.

His light split the sky, but the Void Sovereign did not retreat. His coming was not merely an enemy's assault — it was a warning that Lumis's returning light had shown the dark dimension the way.

Lumis's friends protected the people. The boy stood at the front, a shield for the children who could not reach the shelters in time.

One dark strike broke through the shield.

Lumis realized the strike was coming for him — but the boy stepped in front of him.

The one Lumis had once saved from the black hole now stood to save Lumis.

The black beam of energy split his armor.

The girl saw everything with her own eyes.

Lumis caught his friend before he fell to the ground. There was no fear left in his eyes. There was peace — as if he had finally received the answer to why he had survived back then.

His light went out.

Lumis froze.

The Guardian Planet was burning.

His friend was no longer breathing.

And in that moment, Lumis's grief turned into power.

The war did not stop.

But for Lumis, time stood still.

Before him lay the friend who had chosen death to save him. Behind him stood the girl, weeping, trying to hide her face in her hands. Around them the Guardians fought, the city was collapsing, and the sky was covered by the Void Sovereign's dark energy.

Something broke inside Lumis.

But it was not darkness.

It was light, kindled brighter by the pain.

His body released blue fire. His eyes lit up more sharply. The spheres of energy orbiting him like small planets sped up and joined into one great ring.

The Void Sovereign tried to turn Lumis's pain into his weakness, but Lumis's grief did not go out. It became power.

Lumis wasted no more time.

He attacked.

The strike was so powerful that the rifts opened above the city shook. Lumis shot into the sky and struck the Void Sovereign with a ray of light straight to the heart.

The dark ruler recoiled, but did not fall.

Their battle no longer resembled an ordinary fight. It was a collision of light and darkness that tore space apart. After every strike, the sky changed color. After every explosion, the core of the Guardian Planet strained — as if the planet itself were helping Lumis.

Lumis was wounded.

Black energy broke into his body and dimmed his starlight. He fell to the ground — but rose at once. His friend's sacrifice remained a bright trace in his memory.

Lumis understood that this battle must not become revenge.

If he defeated the darkness with hatred, he would become part of the darkness himself.

So he gathered all his wrath into a single point — and let the hatred go.

Only the promise remained.

Only protection remained.

Only light remained.

Lumis spread both arms. The knowledge of the ancient mineral, the hope of Earth's children, the pain of the five planets, his friend's sacrifice, and the core of the Guardian Planet united into one power.

A final ray shot into the sky.

The dark heart of the Void Sovereign cracked.

His army lost its strength. The rifts closed. The black hole fell apart, and for the first time the sky was bright again.

But Lumis had no strength left.

He fell.

The Guardians ran to him.

The girl took Lumis in her arms and stayed at his side, hoping he would survive.

Lumis was breathing, but his light was almost extinguished.

The enemy was defeated.

The Guardian Planet survived.

But the victory came at a great price.

For a long time no one knew whether Lumis would wake.

They laid him in the Guardians' temple, where the planet's ancient energy flowed at its purest. The Guardians stood around him. Some prayed, some shared their energy, and some simply watched in silence the being who had saved their world and nearly given his own life.

The girl stayed at his side.

Days passed.

Lumis's light faded and returned, faded and returned — like a star lost in distant space, trying to find its way home.

The Guardians honored their fallen friend. They carved his name into the city's highest cliff. In the place where the three of them had first looked at the stars as children, they kindled a small blue light.

Lumis still did not wake, but his energy was slowly gathering.

One morning, when the sky was calm and the first rays of sun fell on the city's towers, Lumis's eyes lit up.

He drew a faint breath.

Everyone standing around him understood his return without a single word.

Lumis tried to rise, but he did not yet have the strength. His body was damaged, yet his light no longer faded. He was returning quietly — deeper and stronger than before.

The Guardian Planet began to heal. The burned streets were cleared. The broken towers were rebuilt. And in the center of the city a new shield was created — a shield born of Lumis's power and the Guardians' unity, one that would sense the dark rifts far earlier.

Lumis knew his friend would never return.

But his sacrifice had not vanished in vain.

It taught Lumis that a Guardian does not grow by strength alone. A Guardian grows through love, through loss, through responsibility — and through the decision to turn darkness not into pain, but into light.

A few weeks later, Lumis was on his feet again.

His energy was restored.

The blue light burned in his eyes once more.

But now he was no longer merely the strongest Guardian.

He was the Guardian who knew the price of life.

The war was over.

The sky of the Guardian Planet shone peacefully again. The city where Lumis was born was slowly coming back to life. Light was returning to the towers, children were appearing in the streets again, and the planet's core breathed as if it had finally released a pain held in for far too long.

Lumis sat on a high cliff.

Beside him were those who remained — the girl he had known since childhood, the Guardians who had fought at his side, and the memory of his friend, which still lived invisibly among them.

Below, the city spread out. This was his home. The city he had saved. The planet that had not surrendered to the darkness.

Lumis felt well. His energy was restored. Starlight flowed calmly through his body, and the blue fire above his head no longer burned as a sign of war — now it looked like a sign of life.

For the first time in a long while, the silence around him was no longer the silence of loneliness. It was the peace of a world that had survived.

But Lumis's heart was still not entirely at rest.

He closed his eyes and felt the voice of a distant world.

Earth.

The planet he had left behind in the other dimension. The people who could not see the true threat of the black holes. The children who stood at their windows at night watching the stars — just as little Lumis had once watched the sky.

Lumis felt the dark rifts near Earth stirring once more.

The threat was still far away, but it was growing.

And Lumis knew that if he did not fly now, one day it might be far too late.

His friends asked nothing. They already knew.

A Guardian always has a home. But a Guardian's road does not end at home.

Lumis rose to his feet. Blue light kindled at the edge of the cliff. The wind carried his energy toward the city, as if the whole planet were saying farewell and giving its blessing.

He looked one last time at the place where he was born. Then he looked up at the sky.

Lumis's decision was stronger than words. He would return home — but as long as darkness threatened life anywhere, his road led there.

Lumis rose into the air.

The city remained below, but its light stayed in Lumis's heart. The stars opened before him, and Earth shone in the distance — beautiful, fragile, in danger, yet still full of hope.

Lumis flew toward it. Not because he had to. But because he chose to.

"Where there is darkness, light must go.
Where there is fear, a Guardian must appear.
And as long as even one living planet in the universe
still calls for help, the story of Lumis
will never end."

This was the way of a Guardian. This was the way of Lumis. And a new adventure was already beginning.