Thread:Maddog98/@comment-4842541-20151115095231/@comment-4842541-20160112021028

So I started to notice that even with my first story for Guardian, the stories were kind of all over the place. Sure there were connecting themes, but in all fairness I started to notice that events just happened.

So recently I took to trying to tie things together depending on which story arc it takes place in. For one the first book would be based on the Leviathan and Cult arc. The second at first was to be Mark meeting up with all his enemies that are after him for the Guardian blessing. While I'm not going to stray from that, I decided it'd be better if there was an actual threat that he needs to face. It'd also serve as a good introduction for Shadow. I decided that an arc in which there's this plague spreading and there's this 'mafia' group that is selling some sort of antidote. Since this serves as Rai's second appearance to Mark, Mark thinks Rai is suspicious and this whole time Mark thinks Rai and Lee are resposible for the plague, only to find out it's Jack's alliance with Shadow.

Third book would deal with Layla having to come to terms with how weak she really is compared to what Mark is facing. It'd also take a few more stories for Mark to get to his fight with Angel. I was thinking Angie would be introduced in the first chapter of that book, we get our thing about how Angie wants to date Mark and stuff, and then each chapter would have Layla face how weak she is even to the point that Donny, their younger cousin, manages to help Mark in a pinch. And eventually this would lead up to Layla being possessed by the Kyubi.

The stories have flowed a little better in my head since I started sorting them out like this.