Chapter 7: Daughters of Darkness
The team arrived outside of Kylie's apartment except for Jen's first team who went back to the Dream World. Kylie was no longer needed and had to return back home. She said her farewells to everyone.
"Thank you so much, Kylie, for freeing me," Jen said as she hugged Kylie.
"No problem. Here's the Heart too," she gave the necklace back to Jen.
Peter gave Kylie a hug too, "It was really nice knowing you."
"You too. Also thanks for sacrificing yourself for me."
"It was worth it for you." He expected a kiss but Kylie continued to hug the others.
"Bye everyone!"
"Bye!" Everyone exclaimed. And they return back to their own base.
"When can we ever get out of the gate?" asked a long, blonde, wavy hair girl to her father, Phobos.
"Tomorrow will be your lucky day. The gate will be weak enough that you could sneak out. I tried to brainwash one of the former teams but they managed to come back to good. Be patient, Samantha," Phobos explained in his throne chair. Five girls stood in front on the throne. They were the daughters of Phobos: Samantha (quintessence), Mae (fire), Kayla (earth), Sydney (water), and Helen (air).
"So does that mean we can destroy the world however we want!?" Helen said excitedly. She had two high pigtails and a short height.
"No, that's my job. You can make it easier by destroying the gatekeepers and retrieving the Heart of Kandrakar for me," he sternly said. He showed a hologram of what the team looked like.
"Four boys and one girl. I thought they would change that by now," said Kayla.
"And why do they all look Asian too? Is the council being racist?" Sydney laughed.
"I know right!" Mae agreed.
"Silence!" Phobos shouted at them. They rolled their eyes but stopped talking. "You will kill them anyways. Tomorrow you will attack."
"Sure thing, Father. But can we still steal other people's energy too. We missed doing that," suggested Sam. They had a secret power that when they sing, people will be in their control and give up their energy.
Phobos sighed, "Fine. But don't take too much time doing that."
"Thanks!" exclaimed Sam.
Meanwhile, the team talked to Jen about the strongest elemental powers and the forbidden spells.
"You got some talking to do, Jen," Peter said crossing his arms. "Why did you never teach us those powers and tell us about the forbidden spells?
Jen sighed knowing she was caught, "I didn't think you were ready for them. I tried to get you all to master the basics first before you can do them."
"But we're ready now," Alan said putting a hand on her shoulder. "You saw us battling your first team and we successfully made them back to good."
"True, but the forbidden spells are to be never used. If you perform them, your powers will be taken away and memory about the gatekeeper guardians will be wiped. All by the council."
"Oh that wouldn't be a problem. We just want to know them," replied KK.
"Since you guys really want to learn the strongest elemental powers and special techinques, we have to go to the Library of Secrets then."
"Kylie told us about it!" Peter mentioned.
"Did she? Well, then let's go there," Jen made a portal to the Dream World. All of them went in and arrived at the library. She led them to the scrolls section.
"Here are the scrolls that contain the special powers. I don't know exactly which is which so you have to find it yourself," explained Jen. She turned around to go somewhere else.
"What will you be doing?" asked Alan.
"Hm? Oh just going to see Nick."
Alan felt uncomfortable when she said that, "Oh okay." Then went on the search, trying to forget she said. After an hour, the four had read their own special abilities and strongest powers. Jen returned back but decided to go to the convergence section for a sec. She was lucky to see one that caught her eye. A scroll laid on a table with a star engraved on the wall above it. She unrolled it slowly. "The Star Formation. Could be useful," she said. Then she heard a voice in her head. It was the council talking to her telepathically.
"You may use this convergence but it won't defeat Phobos but wound him. You can use it to kill the creatures though."
"Thanks," she replied. She can teach her teammates this convergence too. Grabbing the scroll, she ran back to her teammates upstairs.
"Hey, guys! I found a convergence spell we can do together," she shouted across.
They turned around, "Cool. Now we have three convergence spells and our own special abilities to use," said Alan.
They went back to the real world at base. Each one trained with one another. Jen noticed that they have gotten better and were proud of them. However, that didn't change her harsh personality.
"Aright, everyone. Let's do Becoming Your Element!" demanded Jen.
"How do we do that?" asked Rishuv, excitedly.
"You have to find the element within you and let it all out. Let it consume you," she explained.
"Easy enough for you to say," Peter rolled his eyes. "I don't want to get burn in my own skin."
"I don't think it will. Let's just try and if you do get burned. Blame it on me," she said sarcastically. "We'll need a flying start. Remember to say your element out too when you feel yourself at your peak."
They flew up and then parallel to the ground. Each one focused their energy hard. Surprisingly, they could feel what Jen explained.
"Water!"
"Fire!"
"Earth!"
"Air!"
"Quintessence! Guardians Unite!" And they were off. Their bodies were what their elemental power was, something inhumane. Their mind was only focused on defeating their enemy. After searching around, they finally got their senses back and changed back.
"Whoa! Okay. We have to do that again some other day," exclaimed KK.
"Why can't we think like ourselves?" asked Alan.
"It is hard but we're not ourselves when we're our element. It's the inhumane thing. That's why it takes that long to change back," Jen explained. "But congratulations! You are officially called Gatekeeper Guardians."
"Yay," Alan said sarcastically. "Do we get an upgrade?"
"Let your special abilities be it. Now let's do the Star Formation!" she ordered. The guys just sighed.
The five sisters flew in the Earth skies. They tried to find a city where a lot of people were to take their energies. Then Kayla, the earth guardian, found somewhere that had tons of skyscrapers.
"Over there! That place seems to have tons of buildings and people walking around," she acclaimed. They were talking about New York. When they arrived above the state, they started to sing "Welcome to the Show" by the Dazzlings. The civilians heard it and were being mind-controlled by it. A light aura were being sucked out of them and into their necklaces. The jewel contained the energy for their powers and singing. Their voices were in perfect harmony.
The Guardians were informed by the council about the Daughters. They teleported to New York with a safe distance away from them. Jen made a force field around them so they won't be mind-controlled. They flew towards them.
"Hey!" Jen shouted. The five turned around and stopped their singing. The citizens were still under control though.
"You five must be the gatekeepers," Samantha smirked, putting her hand on her waist.
"We're guardians now though!" shouted Rishuv.
"Guardians. Gatekeepers. Same thing. You'll be killed anyways," Samantha scoffed.
Helen stared at Alan for a while. Then pulled on Samantha's arm. "Samantha, do we have to kill all of them? Can we keep one?"
"Who?"
"That boy with the white and black jacket. I think the name was Alan." Alan raised his eyebrow.
"Sure, we'll see what use he'll be," Sam sighed. The guardians were confused why they want Alan. Jen wasn't going to allow that.
"If you want Alan, you'll have to go through me first," she said going in front of him. Alan smiled when he heard those words.
"And us," said the other three.
Helen made a face, "Fine! You want a battle then let's battle. Winner gets Alan."
"Do I get a say in this?" Alan said worryingly behind everyone.
