"Blunk! Give me those sunglasses!" Will tried to find the direction of the voice, but dust was spinning in front of her eyes. She could faintly recall the passling playing with Hay Lin's pair, but hadn't realized the creature had nabbed them.. What was she thinking? Of course it had nabbed them! "Straight up!"
Will flew up and found the other girls; assuming that was what the purple and green blurs were. Caleb called out direction and the girls placed their hands, ready to turn the lid straight up. "PUSH!"
"WILL! LOOK OUT!" Will squinted through the sandstorm and assumed the giant dark shadow must be the spider, apparently not needing sight to find it's victims. The first thing she knew was that she couldn't let it get to the girls. Will let go of the oversized lid and flew at the creature; barely sliding past as it lunged for her and fell a few branches.. Just a few more..
The lid was stuck, she knew from all the moaning and she supposed she ought to get Cornelia to try and squish it with rocks, but Hay Lin seemed to have had an idea, "PICKLED QUAIL EGGS! RUN IT UNDER HOT WATER!"
"Oh! Metal expands faster than glass!" Will dodged the spider again, wishing they'd hurry up, but a thick steam was filling the room and Will abandoned the tarantula-monster, flying up to the girls and Caleb. As she got to the top the lid had been pushed off by the force of Irma and Taranee's hot water, so Will hooked Caleb's arm over he own, letting Cornelia take the other. He'd already told her he wasn't particularly fond of flying; he didn't trust their strength with his weight, but she guessed he'd prefer it to the spider.
It was once they could see again that Caleb seemed to tense up, and when they flew through one of the giant windows she realized why. It was Phobos' castle. Phobos could've been there any minute and squished them like bugs, "Now that Phobos has Elyon's powers on his side, it'll make everything harder!"
"We'll find a portal, hope it returns us to normal size.." She released Caleb's arm, but noticed Cornelia keep hold as he glanced at the scaled up version of Meridian's village. "And come up with a whole new-"
"Is that..?" Irma pointed and Will frowned at the two people struggling at the hands of some guards. She'd never seen them before in her life. "That's Elyon's parents!"
"Phobos' grip grows tighter.." Will felt a shiver of anxiety as Caleb glanced at her wearily, "This'll be a lot harder than we thought."
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"Sorry mom, we're just not hungry." Susan Vandom frowned as Will wrapped her arms around her legs in a tight hug; a telltale sign that something was wrong. At least she had her friends, though they all seemed gloomy and Susan suspected some kind of fight over something as the blonde kept glancing at her daughter with a slight mixture of anger and guilt. She'd raised her own daughter - she knew the face.
"Girls, whatever it is, these teenage problems have a way of working themselves out!" Susan smiled evilly at her daughter, hoping to lighten the mood. "Think about something else.. Like math!"
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Caleb frowned down at his map. It was no use. He couldn't think properly and he knew it wasn't entirely his fault, but Elyon Brown was gone. His best hope. The thing disturbing him more being the memories of how fast-stuck the girl had seemed to her teenagedom and how upset she'd been by the notion of Meridian. Will had made the same decision as he would have, but that didn't mean it had come out right. Will hadn't counted in the fact that Caleb was just as capable of making mistakes and it was because of him that she'd been so sure of her actions. Everything would be falling into place for Phobos, and quite frankly, Caleb wasn't even sure what he was fighting for..