Chapter 8: Kaitlin's Hidden Power

The Guardians and demons looked at the person who they will potentially fight with. Jacob noticed Will and Sydney staring at each other for a long time. He went besides him, "Dude, are you okay?"

"Sorta. There's something about her…"

Sydney smiled even more and charged at Will. She was really fast and grabbed his face as she flew away with him. "I call this one!"

Will was shocked to see her so fast. Jacob looked back and shouted his name, "Will! That idiot." He followed them to help save him. The other Guardians also looked back.

Trevor said, "Don't worry about them. You should be more concern of your own doom." They looked back and saw him and Mae spawning fire all over the place. The fire separated the team again but Peter sucked up all of it. Sam stayed next to Peter. Somewhere else, Nick airbended his way out of the wild fire and to a different area. Alex followed him because he wanted to do more torture to him like last time. Packard wasn't far from where Kylie was. When the fire was gone, he saw Mae hovering in the air. He waterbended some streams to her as water slicers. Mae effortlessly dodged them all.

"A water Guardian, huh? Interesting," she thought. When the two looked at each other, they also felt some connection just like Will and Sydney did. Their own separate battles were about to start.


Kaitlin was still walking around the main floor of the kingdom. She saw a huge, mysterious door that opened to a long cave. The kingdom must have looked really weird to have a cave connected to it. But she did not know that she was only at the center of the palace. While Kylie's battle was occurring, Kaitlin spent her time walking around slowly and trying to find a way out. The air felt different in the area she was walking in. It felt like it contained a lot of energy particles.

Kaitlin smelled the air, "The air is fresh here."

Luna agreed, "Yes, but I also feel some dark energy coming from this place."

"What is it?"

"I'm not sure but I have a feeling that we're onto something important."

A new voice appeared, "Look what we have here." Kaitlin looked up to see a girl standing on the ceiling with her arms crossed. She jumped down to the ground that made a huge ripple effect on the dirt ground. Kaitlin flew back to dodge it and got a clear look at her opponent as she got back on the ground.

"A Daughter of Darkness?" she had only heard of them from her mom's adventures.

"Yes, my name is Kayla, the earthbender of the sisters. I went to check on this room to see what it was all about and thought it would be wise to guard this area. To know that a small brat will find this place, you're very unlucky."

"What is it over here that's so important?"

"None of your business!" she punched the ground which caused the ground to fall beneath Kaitlin. But she jumped out of the way and started running away.

Luna said, "Small Lady, she's too strong for you. We have to get out of here."

Kayla was catching up to them and earthbended the ground again to hit her. But she was able to dodge it. When Kaitlin was about to reach the door, Kayla jumped up and landed in front of it, blocking her exit. "I don't think so. You're not going anywhere."

Kaitlin stopped, "I can't run from a fight. That's why I came along in the first place. Though I wished I bought my gi," she said as she put Luna down on the side.

"No, Small Lady!" but it could not stop her.

Kaitlin was a sky dragon slayer meaning that she can enchant spells to increase her skills. She decided to do that first before attacking. "Elemental resistances rise! Deus Corona! Physical abilities rise! Deus Equus!" She put one hand in front of her while the other rose behind. A bright white aura appeared around her as visible air circled around her. "Ile Arms! Ile Armor! Ile Vernier! Enchant!" Another burst of light appeared on top of the aura. The last three enchants increased her strength, defense, and speed, respectively.

Kayla looked at her with a straight face, "So you're a sky dragon slayer?"

With the white aura still with her, Kaitlin held her breath and then released it towards her target, shouting, "Sky Dragon Roar!" A gigantic cyclone of air rushed towards Kayla. Kaitlin had never used so many enchants at once. But she was glad that she successfully did it. Her sky dragon roar attack was multiple times stronger than before with the enchants.

After the cyclone disappeared, Kayla was seen to be left unharmed by the attack. Kaitlin was in great shock. Kayla smirked, "You'll have to do better than that, brat."

Kaitlin ran towards her and kicked up to her face, "Sky Dragon Claw!" When she kicked her, a powerful gust of wind came along with it. Laughing, Kayla only used one arm to block it. While still in the air, she was in shock again, "Nothing?!"

She flew back as Kayla prepared her own attack, "Dark Peerless Swords!" She mixed her dark magic with earthbending to create energy waves that would cut through anything.

"Kaitlin, dodge!" Luna yelled.

The energy waves shot towards her. Luckily, she was in between the safe zone where two beams passed by her sides. She looked back and saw a slice of the cave wall gone. Kayla then earthbended a moving wall that hit Kaitlin upwards onto the cave wall. She felt a huge impact on her back as the wall stopped her. An indent of her body was made on it and she fell down to the ground. She quickly got back up but was very wounded.

Kayla said another attack, "Dark Earth Circle!"

"Kaitlin!" Luna shouted.

A huge dark green beam shot towards Small Lady. She did not have time to dodge it so she tried to block it with her own arms. "Even though I added multiple layers of defensive magic… how?!"

An explosion in the end caused her to be shot back at a far distance from the entrance of the cave. She slid backwards on her back, leaving a trail on the ground. Her hair was out of her pigtails, her white long-sleeve shirt was ripped, and her jacket and shoes were gone. Luckily, her necklace was still with her. When she skid to a stop, she saw some rocks that were the size of her body heading towards her. They crushed her arms and legs, making her immobile and causing her pain. She struggled to get out while Kayla stood right next to her.

The earthbender looked behind Kailtin, "Look." The small girl looked behind and saw a metal pillar with a dark aura. "This is the Oblivion Gate."

"Oblivion Gate?" She had heard about the gate that sealed Phobos, the King of Demons.

"Inside this pillar is the portal but also a Dark Heart in the making. Isabelle put this up to protect it so no one you pesky Guardians destroy it."

Luna tried hopping at the widen area where the pillar was, "A Dark Heart? That must be why I felt the strange energy."

"Isabelle will consume this Dark Heart in her just like how Kenny did."

"No," Kaitlin mumbled.

"But before that, I'll crush you!" She put more gravity on the rocks so they crushed her arms and legs even more. Kaitlin screamed as she tried to get out. Luna managed to hop her way to Kayla and spawned mini paws with claws. She tried to distract her but clawing her.

"Get away from Small Lady!" she shouted.

Kaitlin had one eye opened and whispered, "Luna…"

"Let her go!"

She had small tears in her eyes, "Don't. Get away from her…"

Kayla got annoyed so she swatted the ball away and used multiple rocks to squeeze it so it would pop.

Kaitlin's eyes opened wide, "Luna! No!" The rocks continued to squeeze it as Luna started to break a little. Small Lady screamed at the top of her lungs, "No!"

Luna managed to say, "Small Lady… the air."

At that moment, Kaitlin realized what she was talking about. The air around her was so fresh and she consumes air to store energy. Though she would take in dark particles, the crystal on her necklace had an aura of energy surrounding it too. What would happen if she breathed in both energies? She started to in inhale and tightened her fists. Before Luna could pop, Kaitlin powered up while screaming. Kayla stopped the earth and looked back at her. At the final scream from Kaitlin, Kayla was blown away by a wave of wind. The rocks that covered Kaitlin and Luna were gone as well. She got up and inhaled even more air.

Luna was smiling on the inside, "Small Lady was such a timid, weak girl before. But now she has the Dragon Force!"

The Dragon Force was like the super saiyan version of the dragon slayer magic. Now, Kaitlin had long, shiny, white hair; small angel wings on her back, wrist, and ankles; light blue eyes; but still ripped up clothes. The crystal Heart glowed brightly, and air circled around her as she had one leg bent, the other stretched out, one hand on the ground between her legs, and the other fist behind her. She went to the Dragon Force for the first time.

Kayla was surprised to see her like this, "What the heck is this?!"

She stood completely up and looked fiercely at her enemy. The wind still continued spinning around the area like a hurricane. She thought to herself, "I can hear the voice of the wind. I sense the pulse of the air. Right now, I control this space!" She disappeared before Kayla's eyes.

"Where did she go?!" Kaitlin rapidly climbed the walls upward in a zigzag path behind Kayla. At a good height, she jumped down towards her and punched her right in the back. It caused a huge gust of wind and crashed Kayla to the ground since she was in the air already.

"Why, you little -" before Kayla could attack, the air dragon slayer disappeared again and jumped from place to place. She punched her in the back again which caused her to spin and hit the wall with a huge impact.

Luna was so impressed, "Incredible…" Kaitlin descended to the ground and put her fighting stance up. Kayla was buried underneath a pile of rocks. She pushed her way through and was not happy at all. The earthbender charged at her with boulders from the walls at her sides.

"Dark Peerless Swords!" Kaitlin quickly dodged and jumped in sonic speed again. Kayla saw where she stopped and attack towards her at her direction. "Dark Earth Circle!" But Kaitlin was not done, she continued climbing up and down the walls. She landed with a kick to Kayla's face. Right after, Kayla as able to punch her right back where she landed flat on the ground. But she got up quickly afterwards and the two charged at each other.

Luna noticed the metal pillar sparking up more dark energy. The Dark Heart was almost complete. "Kaitlin, the gate!"

"I'll finish this now!" The dragon slayer had one hand out in front of her and the other behind. Each had air spiraling around them. Kayla got up from the ground and noticed that she was surrounded by white, visible wind. It came from Kaitlin's hands.

"Dragon Slayer Secret Art! Shattering Light: Sky Drill!" She switched places of her arms and a massive beam and wind shot towards the enemy. It had a blinding white light to it. Kaitlin had not mastered the secret art yet, but in the dragon force, she was able to have the equivalent power for the attack if she was in her normal form. Kayla blocked it with a thick earth wall.

"My dark magic with earth elemental power can cut through anything, even air," smirking, Kayla counter-attacked, "Dark Blade: Crescent Moon!" A dark green beam came through in the middle of the sky drill, hitting Kaitlin right on. She looked like she was in pain with her mouth wide open but she did not scream.

Luna was shocked, "Small Lady!" Kayla continued using earth as slicers. Kaitlin surprisingly recovered and did flips to dodge her attacks. Afterwards, the airbender skid to a stop using her feet and one hand. Her head was facing down.

"I…control… this space!" she put her head up with an angry face. She gathered all the wind she can to engulf Kayla in a white ball of it. The earthbender smirked and cut through the winds.

"It's pointless. My powers can cut through anything!" But each wind she cut, more and more wind surrounded her. After Kaitlin saw how overwhelmed her opponent was, she used one hand in a position like she was going to throw something. In that hand was a bright white and blue light which was increasing energy.

"All I'm asking for is a little bit… Give me a little bit of the power…"

Kayla used most of her dark magic to clear the wind trap that she was in. She charged towards her with a sharp metal sword. Kaitlin still tried to gather any last energy there was.

Luna did not know what her plan was but shouted her name, "Small Lady!"

"… like Mommy and Daddy has!"

When Kayla was going to throw down the sword on her head, Kaitlin put her hands up.

"Air Star Power!" The energy that she stored up blocked the sword from coming down. Because of the bright light from Kaitlin's hand, no one noticed the crystal also glowing and giving her more power. Normally, when someone used a star power attack, dragon slayer magic appears. However, Kaitlin already had this magic so she used air star power as a final strong attack.

Since the crystal was giving her more energy too, the attack created a cyclone and pushed Kayla way back, breaking the metal pillar, and to the other side of it. Kaitlin was surprised at what she could do and how strong she was. The rest of the metal pillar crushed down and revealed the actual dark portal. The Dark Heart could not be seen but it was still in there somewhere. If Luna could move her permanent cat face, she would be smiling very widely, though her face was already in a smile. During the windy attack, the necklace flew off of Kaitlin who did not realize it and landed next to Luna. She kept it safe by putting it in her robot-like ball body.

Ultimately, Kayla was defeated and she disappeared into mist. Kaitlin went out of the dragon force and smiled as well. "I did it!" But she was completely out of energy and went unconscious. She fell backwards with a smile and tears in her closed eyes. Luna was still far away from her and tried hopping to her until she noticed something.

Isabelle teleported in front of Kaitlin's body, "Well, well. You managed to defeat a demon and break the metal wall. Definitely improved since you went into the dragon force for the first time. Good thing you didn't actually break the Heart. But I'm afraid that I will have to keep you as hostage." From that, Isabelle picked up her body and teleported back to her throne room. She did not bother putting up another wall for the portal. The place was pretty ruined from the hurricane anyways. Luna was left alone and worried at what she was going to do to her.

"Small Lady?" she began hopping out of the cave and hoped to find a Guardian as soon as possible.