Well folks we're at the finish line, I'll be making a double post and letting you all finish it in one go.
"I don't like it," Matt said after Will explained her plan. He'd turned away moments before.
"But you know it has to happen." Will insisted
"Yeah," Matt turned to face her, "But Will if this all goes south, I'm gonna be beside you."
"I know…" Will sighed and pressed her forehead to Matt's.
Lexi decided that was the point in time her attention could go elsewhere.
"I was always a sucker for doomed romance," Lexi could hear Will say as she stood waiting with the other guardians.
"Yo!" Irma shouted as the two went quiet, "Romeo and Druliete, we got a mega battle coming."
"Yeah, okay," Matt said, drawing away from Will. "I'll do my part, Just be careful. All of you."
Lexi watched him run off into the city, and decided to break some of the tension, "Nice catch Will, he's got a fab ass."
Will frowned at her.
"Hey… it's snowing," Hay Lin said pointing out the obvious. Lexi looked up, holding a hand out. She'd never seen snow fall, had seen snow, but not watched it fall. Hay Lin continued, "I can't remember the last time it snowed…"
Will took off.
"Well when you're a guardian the fun never stops," Cornelia complained as the others took off. Lexi took the back, her wings taking up more space than the others. They flew over the city, and despite the urgency in their task; Lexi felt as though everything was at peace with the world. Her returned emerald green eyes took in the snow whited world, as they flew closer to the softened lights of the city. At least that is until they came upon Cedric.
"Oh great, right in downtown Heatherfield." Hay Lin cried.
"It won't matter if the Regents do their thing," Will said confidently.
"Easy for you to say," Cornelia protested, "Your favorite stores aren't about to get stomped."
Lexi grinned, "Then what say we go kick some scaly back side?" She could feel the regents shifting the world around it, glamoring everyone but the six girls, and of course Cedric. She looked at them giving them a Lexi only grin before she dove into action, shooting blasts of light at Cedric.
The others were just behind her. As Lexi gained height again planning to start another wave of attacks, she watched Irma water down the snow under Cedric before calling up to their leader, "WILL! NOW!"
The red head raised her hands and shot a bolt of lightning at the water shocking the snake man. "Huh… that's a new ability…" Lexi noted, "I'll have to remember that later…"
Cedric was not bothered by the attack he shook it off, smiling, "Really? Is that the best you can do?"
He shot lazers at Will and sent Irma flying with an attack that was very familiar to the white haired guardian. Lexi flinched in sympathy for the fellow evil fighter and stayed aloft as Cornelia broke the ground under the snake man, shooting a spike at Cedric. He caught it easily and broke the earth spike off, tossing it toward Cornelia. Lexi saw that coming and dove down, to tackle Cornelia out of the way.
They rolled on the snow ending up on their bellies before scrambling into the sky to escape another attack, "Thanks, Lexi… I'm way too pretty to be squished."
Lexi waved a hand, turning her attention back to Cedric. Her mind was doing double time to think of a plan to hit him, and hard.
"Nothing's working!" Hay Lin said from across the clearing they were in, "He can match every one of our powers, and beat 'em."
"Plus he's not exactly shy about endangering bystanders," Taranee said, right next to her. "Look!" She pointed at the street below.
They all glance in the proper direction. Will's mother and Irma's father were standing on the side walk talking, as the earth spike started to fall towards them.
"Mom!" Will shouted.
"Dad!" Irma screamed from the pile of snow Cedric had knocked her into.
Lexi felt part of her chest tighten. She wouldn't stand by and let the other Guardians risk losing their parents. She dove at the spike, her powers still weren't great, but she could help. She and Hay Lin managed to stop and divert the pillar. Lexi turned to Hay Lin, "You guys fight, I'll protect the Civilians. It's the least I can do."
Hay Lin nodded and flew off.
"Rescue my aunt while you're at it…" Lexi mumbled felling guilty she couldn't do better to keep her own duties. She watched as Cedric plowed right down the middle of the street. All the guardians chased him, and Lexi using a little of her abilities to hurry people out of the danger zone. Her wings strained to keep up with them, where the others had no problems. He managed to urge two large men and someone who looked like a wanna be rock star out of a limo before Cedric crashed his tail down on the limo.
Irma stopped flying when she saw him. "Was that…"
"Vance Michael Justin…" Cornelia cooed, in her 'oh my god a rockstar' voice. Until she groaned, "Oh, and my hair is a mess!"
"Uh… Priorities please!" Taranee said calling attention back to the fight.
"Yeah, priorities," Hay Lin agreed, "Besides he can't even see us."
"Come on," Will insisted, "One last strike, we can take him."
"Vance?" Irma asked.
"GUYS!" Lexi warned using all her energy to shield a side walk from Cedric's tail, as the snake man pounded on his just like the Tarzan movie Lexi had watched with Yan Lin, "A LITTLE HELP!"
"No," Will said to Irma, "Cedric! Just hit him with everything you've got!"
They dove in to attack Cedric and as Lexi was distracted for a quarter of a second, Cedric somehow managed to catch Taranee, and send her flying at a building. She landed on top of it with a sickening thud, that made Lexi grimace at the bruise the firery girl would have by the next day. After a moment she saw the girl jump from the roof top, her wings beating evenly to land in front of the others. Lexi took the moment they were on the ground to fly around distracting Cedric so the other Guardians would have a chance to plan.
She wasn't able to stop him from knocking out a corner of a building, but having a large flapping white thing circle his head was slowing his attacks on the others. She was distracted for a moment as she turned and saw the guardians flying in a V formation for Cedric. The snake monster struck her, sending her flying into a car.
When she opened her eyes again, the guardians looked as though they'd made elemental versions of themselves. But the voice of her ancestors called otherwise. Telling her, those five bursts of light and substance were the Guardians, in elemental form. It warned her, not to step up and help, those weren't exactly her friends anymore. They might be more powerful than the human born guardians, but they were barely human anymore. It was best not to see them as who they'd been, not right now.
At that point she became just another bystander as she watched them fight Cedric, winning with an impressive ease. Cedric shot fire at the thing that had been Taranee. It was the dumbest thing he could have done. It only caused the fire guardian to grow with power. After a moment he began to cough and his flames stopped. In this moment the earth being used her hair to capture Cedric. The lizard struggled against his bonds, "I still have power…"
The water guardian snaked forward, and placed her lips against Cedrics, drawing the water from his body. Lexi made a mental note to tease Irma about that later. Fear gave Cedric power and he broke away, pushing the water being away. She broke up but quickly regained her form further away from him. Now the snake man was on the run, and in fear. An honorable warrior would have the knowledge and grace to surrender, but Cedric was a betraying snake out for power.
The wind guardian appeared before him and raised a cyclone, sucking the oxygen up and away from Cedric. The Snake stated his problems, "Can't …. Breathe…"
As the cyclone dispersed the figure made of pure energy shot a bolt of lightning at Cedric. He fried to the point that Lexi could see his skeleton underneath. The longer this lasted the more Lexi began to fear for her friends ability to return to themselves. After a second bolt the magic left him, and he shrank to his normal size. Lexi flew over to see Cedric passed out and Phobos sprawled on his stomach next to the lizard. She landed and saw a staff, it wasn't the scepter of Phobos which she'd formed in her mind's eye. For a moment she was confused then she saw the jeweled pendant with a tiny dent and crack on one side.
She touched neither, but kept an eye to make sure the two villains didn't rise. She could feel as the magic from within the pendant grew then escaped when she glanced over her shoulder again and saw Elyon, two Yan Lins, a red headed woman she didn't know, and two other older woman standing nearby.
"As always," One Yan Lin started, "Nerissa chose power over harmony."
"And thus remained trapped, as we achieved freedom," The other Yan Lin finished.
"The Jewel has become her prison," The young red head said.
The older blond woman nodded, "Leaving her with nothing but her dreams of conquest."
"I hope she and her fantasies are very happy together," Elyon said bitterly.
"Hate to break up the reunion," Lexi said, pointing to the guardians as she stood over the two villains, "But how do we bring these five back to normal?"
The others all turned their attention to the hovering elementals.
Elyon went over to the earth being, taking her head between her hands, "Cornelia, please…"
The red haired woman went to the water being, "Irma, wake up!"
"Snap out if it granddaughter," Yan Lin One pleaded with the wind elemental.
"Excuse me, My granddaughter," Yan Lin Two corrected. Lexi made another mental note to get the full story behind those two, but looked at the rest of them.
"Why can't they come back?" Matt asked, he'd landed when Lexi hadn't been paying attention and was trying to bring back Will.
"They've evolved beyond Humanity," The blond woman said, looking down, "They've lost themselves. They can come back, they've simply forgotten they should."
"So if we give them a light, something to follow back, they'll return right?" Lexi asked. They all looked at her, "Right? She pressed wanting to help the others as much as the next person.
"I suppose…" The blond woman said slowly, "But it would drain the life force from the rest of us."
"Not from me," Lexi said raising her hands to the Guardian's faces, "I'm a just another kind of guardian, my power comes from my ancestors' life forces." She closed her eyes and began to glow a soft white. She floated, crossing her legs as she meditated, her hands still stretched towards the others, "Don't stop calling to them…"
So We've left the guardians in a bit of a pickle, those of you who've seen the show, know what will happen, those of you who haven't... Well, you'll just have to read on.