Isabel
It's the weekend and, as usual, I'm at Arkarian's chambers. We're in the octagonal room with the sphere- watching it. I would much rather being doing something else, but Matt has specifically told Arkarian that he is to watch the sphere for anything espescially suspicious. Of course, Arkarian finds this job tedious, but lucky him, I'm here to keep him company. The sphere suddenly starts spinning our of control making it seem more like a blue blur than a 'television' to the past. Arkarian suddenly gets up and starts clicking and pressing buttons on the magnitude that is the computer. He concentrates hard, and by the looks of it, is communicating with Matt who suddenly appears.
"What are you doing here?" Is the first thing he says to me
"I should be asking you that! What happened to precaution? Shouldn't you be in Italy right now?"
"It's night time there right now," he waves me aside and focuses on the real reason for his being here. Arkarian directs him to the sphere
"Is it working?"
"I don't know," Arkarian answers and as he does, the sphere suddenly slows down
"Excellent," Matt says staring at the sphere presently showing a picture of a castle. It looks like none that I have ever seen before. It looks like one that would be in a fairytale, not one from history. For a second, I can almost swear that some sort of winged human passes by. I open my eyes in shock.
"What's going on?" I ask. I would seriously like to know. Matt hides so much from all the other Guard members except for the tribunal and Arkarian. I cross my arms waiting for their reply. Arkarian looks to Matt who then nods letting him know it's okay to tell me.
"This, Isabel," Arkarian begins," is not the past, but the present. The present of another world," my mouth opens further and my arms limp to my sides.
"Are you serious?" I move in closer to the sphere and watch," which world is this?" However, they do not answer me.
"Isabel," Arkarian says," we have to go. Matt is holding an emergency meeting,"
"I can come though right?" I still ask although I know what the answer will be
"No," Matt says in his most authorative voice, "this is strictly for the tribunal,"
"Why? That's-" he cuts me off with a hand and Arkarian comes over to give me a kiss goodbye. As we separate, I say, "Fine," and cross my arms again as they use their wings to depart. Using my own wings, a gift I had only recently perfected, I go back to my dorm. Neriah, being a part of the tribunal and all, is not here so I do my homework- my last resort to my boredom
Matt
The tribunal is in chaos. It is as if the goddess had come down here herself and implanted chaos and disorder in the tribunal's minds. However, I know this is not possible. It's just the controversy that's got the tribunal in such a raucous.
"We should tell her!" Lord Alexandon shouts above the rest
"But her decision has to be natural," Lord Penbarin protests
"Yes, but unless we do, it's highly likely she would make the wrong decision,"
"She has to make the choice completely on her own, if she doesn't, it doesn't follow the prophecy," Lady Arabella intervenes
"But she has doubt!" Lord Meridian adds
"Attention!" I say in attempt to quiet them down. Maybe if Neriah were here, they'd listen. She's very commanding when it comes to things, but she's never to forceful. However, she told me through her thoughts that she had to stay at her dorm to do some group project with her classmates and they had planned it earlier and it would be strange if she just left them. The tribunal are all too excited, "We are currently going to let her make the decision on her own, there's a reason we gave her all those gifts," someone gets up to speak but with one immortal glare, he sits back down, "This is not what we came here to discuss. We need to figure out how we should go about saving the other worlds,"
"My Lord," Lady Arabella states, "I still do not understand why we can't journey to the Underworld to rescue Laura and Lucy,"
"Lady Arabella, I've explained before- they won't be harmed unless we go there,"
"Yes but either way, we'll be threatened. And the sooner we save them, the sooner we can get one problem off of our shoulders," once again, the whole tribunal starts up wih conversation and protest.
"Quiet down!" I say as loud as I can. Immediately, the room silences. Even the crickets heard in these ackward silences are quiet, "We will take a vote. Anyone who believes we should go to the Underworld now..." the whole tribunal rises. Great! I look like an idiot again and just when I've accepted the whole leader business, "Okay. I'll be planning one. Expect a mission sometime soon," I dismiss them and take a seat on the chair Sir Syford had been sitting. I slump down in it and think. How should I go about entering the Underworld? Maybe Neriah could open a portal on her own with her paintbrush because the machines have been disabled from bringing us there. I don't know how the Order even did that! Maybe I'll have a meeting, not with the tribunal again, but with the Named and Allies, not Melissa or Ethan though. I quickly arrange the meeting and have them transported here. Isabel is not currently asleep seeing as she is in another time zone as well as Neriah so they do not arrive. However, Arkarian, Natalie, Dillon, Zoe, Stephen, and Giselle arrive.
"What's up?" Natalie asks immediately. However, once she sees which two members are missing, she soon realizes, "Oh," she says in an almost deflated voice
"First off, this meeting is a secret to be kept between only those attending it," I say eyeing each and everyone of them who, in their thoughts, make a promise to keep it a secret, "Good. Now," I lead them to a room where they all take a seat. "The preious plan has been changed- there will be a mission to retrieve Lucy and Laura," no one speaks, maybe too baffled to talk- except for Arkarian, that is, who was at the previous meeting. "And I've had you transported here to discuss the plan itself- I want your ideas incorporated in this,"
"So which way should we enter the palace?" Natalie wonders. I'm a bit baffled by her question.
"What do you mean 'what way'?"
"Well, the palace isn't exactly in the Underworld- it's in the ancient realm of Legends although the easiest way to get in is by the portal in Lathenia's palace in the Underworld," Damn! Why didn't I realize it before? The Order must have been expecting this. The first thing we think of when we think Lathenia's palace is Underworld when it's actually in the Realm of Legends. Bugger. But if getting in by the Underworld is the easiest way, than how hard is the other? We entered it before, but it was Mr. Carter doing all the teleporting work. How did he send us there last time? Maybe Dillon will know.
"Dillon? Last time we went there, and we appeared in that dark, cold landscape, where were we exactly: the Underworld or Realm of Legends?'
"It's hard to say- the weather that day is very much like that in the Underworld and a typical winter in the Realm of Legends. It might have been the Underworld if we went through that portal near the rocky cliffs. But there are similar rocks like that in the other realm," this is harder than I thought. It seems as if the Order was ahead of us the whole time. It's impossible for them to have planned this though- unless they saw the future, but they couldn't have since they didn't get the sphere.
"Wait!" Dillon suddenly says, "I think it was the Underworld we went through. If we were in the other realm, we might have come across some other creatures from that realm, but we didn't. Most likely we went through the Underworld portal that would bring us directly to her palace boundaries, past all the other creatures," this is great! And the second time Dillon has helped us using his memory. However, since a portal to the Underworld is inaccesible, we'll have to enter the other way.
"How do you get in the palace if you're in the realm of legends?" Natalie, Dillon, Zoe, and Stephen open their mouths to talk, but Stephen's loud voice dominates and he explains
"It's not easy. I can tell you that, it would be easier to walk across all of the Underworld. The distance to her palace is not the problem, it's the challenges you face to get there. It's nothing like the Underworld. I mean, the Underworld is a weak place and so are its current inhabitants. Its tactic to defeat any invaders is to weaken them using fear, but in the Realm of Legends...you need not only courage, but strength. Physical strength too and power. It's impossible unless you're on the goddess's side."
"But there's another way!" Zoe interrupts, "Remember last year we were building Lathenia's underground headquarters? Well, we could use that way. When we were there, Melissa and I were constructing secret passages. The goddess told us to, but she never bothered to ask where they were or how you went through them, she thought she could wait until the prject was complete. It almost was when we left. And no one could have found it- only me and Melissa could since I could 'see' them with the sight thing and Melissa could 'feel' them. No one else there had the same powers as us so they couldn't have found it. As for Lathenia...I don't know. She would have her soldiers look for them,but they wouldn't know where to start or what they should even be looking for." I take in everything that she and Stephen say. This is very valuable information and since Lathenia's outrage at them is still pretty fresh, it would be too dangerous for any of them to go on the mission no matter how well trained they are.
I look around the room, "Thank you, Zoe...Stephen. Now, uh- how do you think we should enter? What are your opinions?" Everyone speaks and by the looks of it, are pro Zoe's plan. "Okay," I say dismissing them. Another short meeting, but another big topic covered.
Anybody notice anything strange...? Muahahahahahaha. You'll never guess! Or maybe you will, I think the change/ happening pops out a little.