Chapter 4: So Close and Yet so Far

The next day Nerissa went straight for another world. She arrived on the planet Reporge. She looked around for a while and then started walking toward the small village below. Everyone stared at her oddly as she walked through the small village for she isn't dressed like they are. Nerissa could see the fear in their eyes and most ran into there homes. She smiled as she saw them cower into their homes which may also give her the advantage on this heart and then she saw three specific girls already close the castle. 'The guardians won't beat me to this heart.' Nerissa ran as fast as she could toward the castle. On the way, she threw lightning toward them but just barely missed them causing them to turn around and look at her. Taranee ran up to the castle doors while the other stood by and used what they had of their power to hold off Nerissa. "This heart is mine guardians." Nerissa said throwing more lightning at them causing them to move out of the way. Nerissa quickly ran into the castle dodging the water and air blast coming at her and fired lightning back at them. Nerissa then found some suites of armor and used her power to make them come to life and then ran off letting the guardians fight off the armor. Nerissa ran into the throne room and could see the king handing the heart over to Taranee. Nerissa teletransported right in between the king and Taranee and grabbed the heart right before Taranee could and then teletransported away before more could be said.

Taranee made two fists and then relaxed and frowned. Just then Irma and Hay Lin ran into the room out of breath. "So did you get the heart? Irma asked and in response, Taranee shook her head sadly. "Please tell me that he wouldn't give it up." Irma said hoping that that were true but Taranee's expression told other wise. "Nerissa got the heart."

"She took it right before I was able to grab it." Taranee said sadly as the three walked back outside the castle and to the portal. They arrived back in Heatherfield just as school let out and so the three went and picked up Asha from school. When they arrived at the school, Asha looked very unhappy until she saw the three and she ran over to them. "Hey Asha, what's up?"

"I couldn't have had a worse day, I swear. If having Megan bug me all day wasn't enough, having to deal with Nerissa all day as well didn't make things any easier. I" Then Asha was cut off by Hay Lin.

"Back up a second, you said Nerissa was here all day?" Hay Lin asked and got a nod from Asha as a response. "Astral Drop, no wonder Nerissa hasn't, supposedly, been looking for hearts. She has been using an Astral Drop the whole time."

Then Irma came up with a realization. "That means she could have tons of hearts by now and not only that, she is trying to distract Asha. She's playing us like fools." Irma said getting angry.

"The other problem too, she has more ability then we do. While we have to find Blunk or call for Lillian to get us somewhere, she can be there in just a few seconds." Taranee said while thinking of a plan. "We will have to work all night too if we want to catch up with Nerissa even though we don't know how many hearts she has, we have to go all night anyway. Why would we think that she would look only after school to look for hearts? I bet Will would have said something and done something about it too." Taranee frowned and lowered her head.

"We aren't near as good without Will and Cornelia. We need to get Blunks' tooth to get hearts. Let's get back to the Silver Dragon and look for Blunk there." Irma said to the group and then they walked over to the Silver Dragon and for the first time in days walked down into the basement looking for Yan Lin. They found her wrapping some bandages around someone and some old bloody bandages lying on the floor. "

"Grandma, what's going on?" Yan Lin moved to reveal Kadma lying on the small bench. The three girls gasped at seeing Kadma there. "What happened to her Grandma?"

"She went to Coren, the most deadly places for anyone to visit. The king there is good to his people but cruel to people not of his world. You see, Coren is very powerful and not a single army bigger then the kings or smaller then the kings can defeat him. His only ally is Kandrakhar and even then, the king refuses help from anyone and refuses to help anyone. Kadma here is very lucky to have even lived but still, she somehow managed to get the kings attention by telling him about Asha being a demon. Because she is on our side, he was willing to help but all that work came with a price but in our current circumstance, the price was well worth it. We now have one of the most powerful worlds on our side." Yan Lin explained.

"I don't get it grandma, how is having Asha on our side make the difference?" Hay Lin asked before anyone else could.

"Demons are very powerful creatures' granddaughter, and they are also the only things that have almost wiped out his army even though there were fewer demons then there were in his army. So the King made a pact that they would be friends to demons so that he wouldn't be wiped out completely. Now whenever a demon needs help or fears something, the king there will help because of the pact made. Though they aren't really ally's they are far from enemies. They have no trade routes with each other and they don't help each other except under special circumstances but they will never go against each other. Even thought we only have Asha, the king is still likely to fear her, even more then Nerissa. Enough talk though, let's let Kadma sleep now.

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