Disclaimer: See Chapter 1.
In a nearby forest, Heather and Deanna stood, glaring each other down.
"Ready, pipsqueak?" Deanna said.
Heather frowned. "If I'm ready? I've never been more ready in my whole life!" she said confidently.
"Is that so?" Deanna raised an eyebrow skeptically. "So you may think. Manipulating the Earth element isn't as easy as it may seem. Sure you have learned a few Ferrokinesis tricks, but that is about as little as you can do. You also need to master Agrokinesis and Terrakinesis!" she exclaimed.
Heather raised an eyebrow.
Deanna sighed. "Metal Manipulation, Plant Manipulation and Earth Manipulation..."
"Okay then..." Heather said, putting a hand on her hip and rolling her eyes.
"You see!? You do not even know the technical terms for our powers! You claim to be ready, but you are far from it! What are you going to do when the time to fight Radcliffe comes? Stab him with your claws?" Deanna said, annoyed.
"Hey!" Heather exclaimed, holding up a hand and protracting her nails into metal claws as she had done before.
"Yeah, yeah. Nice trick. I had that ability too. They're only good for being meat cleavers if you don't know how to use them in combat properly though!" Deanna insisted.
"So then, teach me what you have to teach me then!" Heather said impatiently. "I can't stand it if there's something to be done and it's not being done!"
"Is that so? Well then, let's start with some basics. The rock fist." Deanna held up her right fist. "Packs a pretty good punch when you're in hand-to-hand combat. Try it!"
Heather imitated Deanna and held up a fist and tried to make it like Deanna's but only succeeded in partly covering it.
Deanna sighed. "Let's do this again Heather. Concentrate! Do not let anything distract you!"
Heather tried again and succeeded in covering her fist a bit more, but still not getting it fully.
"Heather! Keep your mind connected to your element! You cannot slacken up! Try harder!" Deanna commanded.
"I'm trying, dammit!" Heather yelled, shaking her fist. As she shook it, it became fully encased in stone.
Heather blinked and then did a double-take at her fist.
Deanna roared with laughter at the look on Heather's face.
"And the time you get it, it was totally by accident!" Deanna laughed even more while Heather was glaring at her all the while.
"Anyway, back to training matters. Now try hitting me with it!" Deanna said.
Heather immediately flew at her and aimed a punch but-
"Ha! Too slow!" Deanna taunted as she dodged.
Heather aimed again. "Can't get me!" Deanna called from the top of a tree, which she had commanded to lift her out of the way.
Heather flew at her and attempted to punch her.
"Ha! You wish!" Deanna yelled as she summoned a boulder and flew off on it.
Heather grew furious. "DAMMIT!" she roared as she punched in front of her.
When she did, the rock came off her hand and went straight at Deanna, who not expecting it, was knocked right off the boulder and plummeted to the ground, only saved by calling upon a nearby vine to swing herself to the ground.
"Humph!" Heather landed and looked at Deanna, folding her arms and looking at her expectantly.
"Beginner's luck!" Deanna said dismissively.
Heather fumed at this.
"Anyway, moving right along, the rock lift. That is pretty much what you just saw me do."
"What, fall to the ground?" Heather taunted.
"You've got some nerve, girlie. Anyway, you're going to learn how to lift-" Deanna commanded a section of rock beneath her feet to lift up, raising her hands slowly as she did.
"-The rock beneath you. You can either fly on it, if you need to dodge quickly when you're not transformed or you can use it as a projectile which will effectively crush your opponent!" Deanna exclaimed, lifting it higher and with only one hand.
"Here. Catch!" she said, throwing the giant rock at her successor.
Heather immediately grew out her hair long enough to reach out, wrap around the boulder in mid-air and threw it back at her predecessor, who lifted her hand into the air and muttered a spell which covered the rock in a dark green colour and slowed its fall.
" I see your reaction time has improved. You did not react fast enough to attack me the first time, but you manage to turn a defense mechanism into an attack instead! Brilliant!" Deanna clapped.
"Huh?" Heather stood there genuinely puzzled.
Deanna noticed this. "What? If you've done something well, I will tell you so. If not, I will still tell you about it, perhaps even more." Deanna paused. "Now you try lifting some rock. Without your hair, please."
Heather concentrated and soon enough, a small boulder lifted itself out of the ground.
"Not bad. It's pretty good for a first try, I shall say that. Perhaps next time you'll be able to lift larger masses."
"Now, let's try some plant manipulation, shall we?" Deanna said.
Heather nodded.
"Very well then. Let's start with the basics. Plenty of vegetation growing around us, is it not?" Deanna gestured to the several flowers, plants and trees which were indeed surrounding them.
"Yeah..." Heather said.
"Let's start by helping it grow a little faster." Deanna demonstrated by stretching her hand towards a small patch of grass.
Immediately the grass began to grow, not stopping until it brushed her hand.
"Wow." Heather said, amazed for a moment. The she shook her head to clear it.
"Now, you try!" Deanna said, gesturing behind her.
Heather pointed to a small plant nearby and lifting her finger, the plant followed her movement- until it zoomed to a height taller than she was and nearly as tall as the tallest tree in the forest.
Deanna face palmed.
"Oh boy..." she muttered as she brought the plant down to a reasonable size.
"Dammit! Why am I making so many mistakes? I cannot afford to make so many mistakes!" Heather said, stomping the ground.
When she did, she caused a minor earthquake.
Heather flew into the air, startled.
"Tremor Fault. Otherwise known as an earthquake. Get down!" Deanna called up to her.
"Sure, I knew that!" Heather said, quite unconvincingly.
"I'm sure you did." Deanna said sarcastically.
"Try it again. This time keep your mind fully focused on the task at hand. Do not let anything break your concentration. No thinking about Total Drama World Tour, no thinking about your little boyfriend Alejandro..."
"He's-not-my-boyfriend!" Heather seethed.
"FOCUS!" Deanna snapped. Heather went back to what she was doing.
"Imagine it growing." Deanna instructed.
Heather tried again and this time made the surrounding vegetation around her grow to about as tall as she was.
"Finally!" Heather exclaimed in triumph, doing a sort of backwards flip while flying.
"Yeah, yeah congratulations on performing a little trick. Big deal." Deanna said.
Heather rolled her eyes at this and reduced the plants around her to their regular size.
"Let's move onto metal manipulation, shall we?" Deanna said, summoning a metal pole out of nowhere.
"You're going to learn how to use your Earth magic to bend a simple piece of metal. No using your enhanced strength, just your Earth magic!" Deanna explained.
"I can already do that!" Heather exclaimed.
Deanna snorted. "Yeah, to make nail files. Now I know you like to keep your fancy little English manicure-"
"French manicure!" Heather exclaimed. She couldn't believe her ears! English manicure? Seriously?
"Whatever. Point is, no nail file is going to do much damage to dear old Raddy and his pretty powerful servants in a fight. Watch this."
Deanna moved her arms and the pole floated out in front of her. She moved her arm in a circular motion and the metal followed her movement to form a perfect circle.
She immediately clenched her fist and the middle of the ring crunched together. Deanna flung it aside.
"You try!" Deanna said, conjuring up another metal pole and tossing it to her.
This was the first of the things she was taught today that she managed to get correct on the first try.
"Good job! I guess you are more partial to Metal Manipulation as I was to Earth Manipulation! Saveeta herself was more partial to Plant Manipulation. Keep this up and maybe I'll be less harsh on you! Maybe..." Deanna said.
"Anyway, as powerful as we are, we need a break from all this." Deanna waved her hand towards the ground and two chairs woven out of grass began to form.
"Sit down and do not de-transform!" Deanna commanded.
Heather immediately sat.
"Tell me, why must you be such a hard-ass?" Deanna quizzed her.
"Who me? Takes one to know one! So are you!" Heather exclaimed indignantly.
"I guess so. You can never let people see any sign of weakness from you, got it?" Deanna said.
"I know that! Do you think I'd be pretty much ruler of my school's social scene and the leader of the popular girls if I let anyone see my weaknesses? Not that I have any of course!" Heather exclaimed.
"I'm sure you don't." Deanna said sarcastically. "Look here. I may be stubborn sometimes but I know when to admit my mistakes no matter how much I don't like it. I know that I have quite the temper. Even now my temper is less than it normally is because I know what must be done. You are a strong-willed girl Heather. Just do not let your stubbornness get in the way of doing what has to be done! It is not your life alone at stake here. Yours, the other Keepers, your family, friends and the entire world will be doomed if you do not learn to master your powers. You may not like me and frankly I'm not that fond of you either. But it has to be done, so suck it up!" she said to her successor.
Heather signed and got up. "Fine. Break's over. What are we doing next?"
"Now that's what I like to hear!" Deanna exclaimed, smiling slightly.
Lindsay and Akari were on the top of the mountain they were on, talking.
"Well now that we're up here, let's get started!" Akari said, smiling.
Lindsay merely nodded at this.
"You can already levitate some things, right?" Akari asked.
"Absolutely, Natari!" Lindsay exclaimed excitedly.
Akari face palmed.
"If she can't remember my name, then how the hell is she going to learn how to control the Air Element?" she said to herself.
"It's Akari. Anyway, the Air Element: one of the most fun to work with. It is light and free, just like most of the Keepers who have the honour of possessing it." She said, while creating a sphere of said element in her hands and then releasing it, blowing Lindsay back slightly.
"Let's start with something extremely basic- telekinesis. Or a harder to forget for you term, floating. When used on a person it's normally called Levitation though." Akari lifted herself slightly into the air.
"You can levitate yourself- although that isn't necessary since you can grow wings, other people and objects." Akari said, lowering herself.
"Here." Akari summoned a pillow from somewhere.
"Try with this. It's light, so it should be ea-" Akari watched as Lindsay blew the pillow far off into the distance with a gust of wind from her hands.
"Oopsie!" Lindsay said sheepishly.
Akari tsk-tsked.
"Let's try that again." Akari summoned another pillow.
"This time, put a little less power into it." Akari told her.
Lindsay scrunched up her face in concentration but only managed to lift the pillow about six inches into the air.
"Aww!" Lindsay whined.
"That's okay Lindsay. Let's try that again. You aren't always bound to get it right the first time. Try again. You did get it lifted up at all, that's something. Let's see if you can get it as high as I did next time." Akari encouraged her.
Lindsay tried again.
"Now that's just ridiculous!" Akari shrieked as she was hauled upside down into the air, hair whipping around her face.
"Sorry!" Lindsay wailed as she let her predecessor down.
"Calm down, Akari, calm down. This is only the first day... She's bound to make a few mistakes..." Akari thought to herself.
"Try this. Move your hands slowly upward and keep them up to maintain the floating of an object. I have the feeling you aren't ready to do it mentally yet..." Akari muttered the last part to herself.
"Let's try it with this..." Akari conjured up...
"OH MY GOSH! IT'S A PAIR OF GUCCI BOOTS! AND THOSE ARE THE BOOTS I'VE BEEN LOOKING FOR AGES!" Lindsay squealed in delight.
"Curb your excitement, they're mine!" Akari said, before making them disappear.
"Aww!" Lindsay pouted.
Akari conjured up another pillow; however it was a bit larger than the first.
"Imagine that this pillow is that pair of Gucci boots that you wanted so much. You want to make them come to you. Now put all your effort into it..." Akari encouraged Lindsay in the tone of voice that would imply that she was talking to a small child.
Lindsay held up her arms, concentrated as hard as she could...
"Drat!" she exclaimed as the pillow fell about halfway between the pair.
"Hmm... How can I make this work? How can I get her to pick this up faster? Oh, wait, I have an idea!" Akari thought.
"Imagine that there's a large, icky, gooey, nasty puddle of mud separating you and the shoes. What do yo..." Akari trailed off as the pillow zoomed towards her successor, knocking her over the side of the mountain.
"I can't believe she let a pillow bowl her over. I can see how these training sessions are going to be..."
"I'm okay!" Lindsay called out. Akari finally peeked over the side of the mountain and saw that Lindsay was flying up from nearly the bottom, floating the pillow above her as she went.
"And she went that far too." Akari face palmed.
"Alright Lindsay. Perhaps we should move on..." Akari floated the pillow back to her and made it disappear.
"Invisibility. Now, you can already do this to some extent, however it mostly comes involuntarily, therefore you need to learn how to control it. Can't have you going invisible around your non-magical friends and revealing you secret to the world, now can we?" Akari said.
"No we can't, Natari!" Lindsay nodded her head in agreement.
Akari chose to ignore Lindsay getting her name wrong again.
"Try making one body part invisible at a time. We'll start small." Akari held up her index finger and made it invisible.
Lindsay oohed.
"Your turn!" Akari gestured to her.
This was the first thing she succeeded at the first try.
"Yay me!" she squealed flying up and down in excitement.
Akari smiled at her glee.
"And now the whole hand!" Lindsay waved her hand and it became invisible.
"Brilliant! Brilliant!" Akari clapped.
"Finally I'm getting somewhere!" she thought.
Lindsay learning to become invisible bit by bit progressed until she was entirely invisible.
"Success!" Akari clapped after being fully unable to see her successor.
"Let's try air spheres now!" Akari said.
Akari raised her arms and as soon as she did, a gust of wind came out of nowhere, surrounding her, whipping her hair around her face.
She lowered her arms and held them out in front of her and shaped the air into a small sphere, which she immediately tossed at Lindsay who caught it.
"You should try it, Lindsay!" Akari said.
Lindsay tried- and only managed to create a small breeze.
"That is to be expected. I wasn't all that great at it either." Akari said.
"One more try and we'll take a break, okay?" Akari asked.
Lindsay nodded.
"Ready? One, two, three... go!" Akari said.
Lindsay followed Akari's motions and managed to create something larger, but not quite what Akari had done.
"Well then. Let's pause for a while shall we?" Akari said, levitating herself down to a ledge that she could sit on, Lindsay flying close behind her.
"So, you're really into fashion, huh?" Akari asked.
"Yeah!" Lindsay answered.
"Who's your favourite shoe designer? I personally prefer Manolos!" Akari said, smiling at the thought of her favourite pair of shoes back home.
"Really? Me too!" Lindsay squealed in excitement.
"Well, that's something we have in common then! What are things like for you at home? Which part of Canada do you live?" Akari asked her.
"I live in a wealthy neighborhood in Ottawa. My mom owns one of the fanciest restaurants in Canada, my dad's a pretty successful businessman and my older sisters are all away at university. We all get along swell!" Lindsay smiled.
"Sounds like you lead a charmed life, Lindsay." Akari said. "Have you lived there all your life there?"
Lindsay nodded.
"Lucky. When I was younger, I lived in five different countries- other than my native one. China, Thailand, Malaysia, South Korea and of course, Canada. This reminds me. I should visit Japan again soon!"
"Cool! You could speak all those languages before you got that omn-omni-omnalangua thingy?" Lindsay asked.
"Omnilingualism, Lindsay. And yes, I was fluent in not only my native language of Japanese, but also Chinese, Thai, Malay, Korean and English on my own before I had that ability." Akari answered.
"Anyway, enough of the chit-chat now. We are moving on!" Akari said, levitating back to the top of the mountain.
All five of the Keepers and their predecessors had finished training and were now going back to the point where they had split up earlier.
However as they were far away in the distance they could see flashes of light in the distance- one orange brown and one a sunshine yellow.
"What the hell is that?" they all thought.
As they neared that point they noticed Hasim dueling with a man, whose back was turned to them.
When he heard them coming he turned around and they could see a tall, tan, lean man with long black hair with red streaks tied in a ponytail and narrow light green eyes wearing a black dress shirt and black pants looking right at them.
"Well, well, well, Hasim. These are the new Keepers." He smiled mischievously. "I'm so glad to meet you in person!" he said starting towards them.
"Oh no you don't!" Hasim said, covering him in a beam of yellow light and teleporting him farther away from them.
"Who the hell was that?" Heather asked.
"That, my dear was Radcliffe." Deanna answered.
The girls gasped.
"What is he doing here!" Gwen asked in surprise.
"Can't a fellow make a visit to the Mora region?" his voice came from behind her.
"Oh crap." The Keepers flew out of the way to avoid an incoming spell.
"How dare you, you creep!" Deanna said, flinging the largest boulder she could at him.
Radcliffe simply waved his staff and made it disappear.
"Oh please, that's pathetic." He taunted.
Deanna fumed.
Aideen waved a hand and a flaming dragon appeared and rushed towards him. Another wave of his staff and it disappeared just as the boulder did.
"Still pathetic." He said nonchalantly.
Now Aideen fumed quite literally.
"You are no longer welcome here Radcliffe. Leave." Hasim said in a tone which was quite unlike him.
"Very well then Hasim. All I have to say to you girls is..." he gestured to the current Keepers with his staff.
"...watch who you trust..." And with that, he fired a parting shot at them and disappeared, an evil smile on his face.
There was stunned silence for a few moments after his disappearance.
"Well then. You girls have met him..." Vesta started.
"I wish I hadn't!" Bridgette exclaimed.
"Don't we all?" Marissa muttered under her breath.
"I think we should get you girls back to where you belong now. I will have to make a report of what happened to the other Immortals." Hasim said, quite seriously.
"I quite agree." Vesta said. "We can go back to Saurian and take the teleporters in the center of the city back home. Get them out of here of first!"
Hasim nodded.
"Go." He told the Old Keepers.
They nodded and were soon using their various elements to transport themselves back to Saurian.
"Well, let's go, shall we?" Hasim gestured to a beam of yellow light he had just conjured up with his staff.
They all looked at each other uncertainly before stepping inside.
Back in the Total Drama Jumbo Jet, a large, looming figure moved around. The figure had been previously frozen like the others, but unlike the others it had not bound him for long.
"Only Nasira could've done something like this. It can only mean one thing. The newest Keepers are involved in the Total Drama series..." the figure pondered.
"In my time with this show I sensed a lot of magic in the air. It is a good thing that Alyssa taught me to keep my feelings in check or I could've exposed them and me somehow. My powers still aren't fully recovered to what they were before Radcliffe attacked my home planet all those centuries ago..."
"I have not figured out who they are yet, so how could I possibly help guide them along their magical journey in beating that fool?" the figure muttered.
"I must get in touch with Alyssa. She will be able to help me reconnect with the others somehow..." the figure pulled a medium-sized mirror with an intertwining of ebony and ivory framing it out of seemingly nowhere.
"I sure hope she still has hers..." he said as he muttered a few spell words holding his hand above the glass.
His reflection in it suddenly twisted and contorted and changed to reveal a pale yellow room with some whimsical furniture in it. Alyssa's voice could be heard although she had not appeared yet.
Then suddenly, a very shocked Alyssa appeared in front of it.
"This mirror hasn't been used in ages! I wonder who..." she trailed off and grew wide-eyed as she saw who was reflected back at her.
"SAMUEL? What the… I certainly- but aren't you dead?" she said, obviously flustered.
"Well, it is rather difficult to kill an Immortal..." Samuel chuckled slightly.
"Well, I mean- what?" Alyssa said, still shocked.
"After Radcliffe attacked Zenith in order to destroy possible allies to help Ichigo, Madeline, Amora, Marjani and Ana defeat him, it was said I disappeared, wasn't it?" he asked.
Alyssa nodded.
"I lost my magic powers for centuries. I was weak, unable to do anything except watch the centuries fly by; watch Earth's history being made. I knew what Radcliffe had done; refugees coming to Earth from other planets, even if it had been stripped of its magical powers... I could do nothing, at least until now..." he shook his said sadly.
Alyssa smiled weakly. "I believe you Sammy, but how do we tell the others that a man who disappeared for over 9 centuries has suddenly reappeared? And you've changed quite a bit! I could only tell it was you because of my powers allow me to read magical auras and the fact that none of the other Immortals has their Mirror anymore... "
"Well, losing your powers for centuries will do that to you." He said dryly.
"I suppose it would. How do you propose we tell the others that Zenith's Immortal has returned?" Alyssa questioned him.
"I have an idea. How soon can I come over to Wispera and how soon can you get the others there?" he questioned her.
"Certainly not today! The newest Keepers are out training..." she answered.
"Gives me a little more time then!" he exclaimed.
"It's a lot to take in for anyone! Plus I doubt the fact that Nasira will believe that you're back if it just comes from me alone. You know she and I aren't on the best terms..." she frowned.
"Even after all this time, your personalities still clash." He commented. Alyssa nodded.
"Now let's get to work. The sooner we reveal you're back, the sooner we can get to helping the Keepers' chances of kicking Radcliffe's ass for good!" Alyssa said.
There was a sound of people moving around outside the compartment where the figure was, who immediately shushed Alyssa and went to look to see who it was.
Peeking out into first class, he saw Gwen and Heather returning with Hasim going to take their places.
He raised an eyebrow when he noticed Gwen with the Silver Star necklace on and Heather making yet another nail file for herself after snapping a piece of metal off somewhere in Economy Class.
"Well, I did lose my nail file in London..." he heard her say.
"You think of a nail file after you just meet pretty much the worst villain of all history. I can see how great you are going to be at this job..." Gwen snapped mentally.
Heather ignored her and proceeded to continue filing her nails.
The figure immediately ran to somewhere where he would not be seen and took back out the mirror.
"Oh, so Heather and Gwen are the Earth and Energy Keepers! Now tell me quickly, who are the others?" he said urgently.
"Izzy is the Fire Keeper, Bridgette is the Water Keeper and Lindsay is the Air Keeper!"Alyssa said.
"Oh good Lord! Izzy as the Fire Keeper? We're all doomed!" the figure shuddered.
"I must go. They are about to unfreeze time!" the figure told the mirror before pocketing it.
"Good luck! I will try to get a meeting with the others as soon as possible!" Alyssa's voice could be heard from his pocket.
He nodded as he quickly dashed inside the Confessional, waiting for time to resume so he could go back to his spot. He was lucky that none of them realized that he wasn't where they had left him...
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