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There's like three episodes in this chapter and it's so short. I don't even understand how it happened. Like…wow.
Pairings: Emily(OC)/Caleb
Ok Matt's band is fucking amazing. Like the dude has the voice of an angel. A badass rock angel. Getting up from the couch I clapped and grinned maliciously as Matt blushed.
"Was it good?" he asked hesitantly while putting the guitar away. I scoffed and rolled my eyes.
"It was amazing. You guys should get published!" Matt chuckled at my enthusiasm and ruffled my hair. Squealing I quickly fixed it and glared at him with a pout.
"Thanks. Hey, do you need a lift back to the restaurant? I need to go to the library and return a book." I shook my head with a friendly smile.
"Nah, I'll walk. It's not that far anyway." Nodding I waved goodbye to the band and opened the garage door.
"See ya Matt!" I shouted and jogged down the road. I was five minutes into the journey when I heard the familiar sound of someone exiting a portal. I paused and looked up at the sky mouthing 'why me?'.
Turning to see the portal I gaped at seeing Caleb lying on the ground with a pained expression. Cuts tattered the side of his face, arms, and hands. My mouth fell to the floor.
"CALEB?!" I shouted and rushed to his side. Heart pounding wildly in my chest. His eyes opened and widened at me.
"Emily?...How did you – OW!" he cried out while trying to get into a sitting position. I was panicking. I know. But holy crap what do I do?! What do I do?!
"Caleb what do you need?" I asked and he sent me a shaky grin.
"A bed." Looking around I bit the inside of my cheek and sighed. Screw SHIELD. Caleb needs help. Taking out the heart I whispered 'Verto'. Grabbing Caleb by the waist I flew us up and to the restaurant. Praying he would be ok.
"You're such a baby." I grumbled as I dabbed Caleb's cut with antiseptic making him yelp.
"Not ten minutes ago you looked like you were near tears. What happened?" Asked Caleb in bemusement. Scoffing I sent him a half-hearted glare.
"I realized you weren't dying and that you didn't use the trench coat's flying use. You could have gracefully landed instead of skidding across gravel." I told him and was glad when he looked embarrassed.
"I used the sword?..." I sent him a glare. "Ok I forgot about the coat. But in my defense it's hard to remember those things when you're about to die." Raising an eyebrow at him I pressed a little harder on the dabbing making him wince and glare at me. I just smiled sweetly at him.
"Oh my God what happened?!" asked Hay-lin as she came barging into the room along with the rest of the group.
"Idiocy is what happened." I answered and laughed when Caleb pouted.
"Ok, what really happened?" Will asked, crossing her arms as she leaned against the door.
"I flung myself into a portal after being chased by a Larvek." Grumbled Caleb and winced when I bandaged a part of his arm.
"Smart." Snickered Cornelia, rolling her eyes when he glared at her.
"Oh, guys!" perked Hay-lin. "I forgot to tell you. Elyon met a guy!" she shrieked in excitement and Cornelia looked like she would have gotten whiplash from turning to the girl.
"She what?!" the blonde demanded.
"Um, she met a guy. Weren't you listening?" asked Hay-lin innocently. I snickered and dabbed a wet cloth in the bowel I brought up. Wiping a side of Caleb's face gently. Caleb's eyes turned to me with a soft look making my heart flutter and stomach flip.
"She didn't tell me." Murmured the blonde sadly.
"Well, it just happened." Said Hay-lin. "She met this guy, Brian. He's a dog walker. They met when a Pomeranian stopped to sniff her ankle. Is that cute or what!"
"Nobody ever sniffs my ankle." Said Irma moodily.
"Good for Elyon, she's been so unhappy since she dumped Mark." Taranee said empathetically. Suddenly Caleb's attention snapped from me. My mind growled.
We were having a moment! – wait…what? We were…what?!
"She dumped a guy so she's unhappy?" asked Caleb in confusion.
"Well, yeah. She doesn't have a boyfriend." Answered Cornelia.
"She had a boyfriend till she dumped him. Guess we're a little backwards in Meridian. We only ask people out we actually like." He said and I rolled my eyes. Wiping the dirt from his face again. But I froze as he looked at me significantly. My heart skipped a beat and butterflies were released inside me. An impish smile rose to my face and Caleb smiled softly.
"So what's taking him so long with Em?" I faintly heart Will whisper to Taranee.
She said what?! What…God what? Caleb with me…what?!
"I don't believe it!" Gasped Cornelia. Hugging herself as if when she lets go she'll unravel. "I've known Elyon all my life she's my best friend."
"Phobos sister, the heir to the Meridian throne was brought to Earth twelve years ago." Said Caleb in a calm voice.
"Elyon was born right here in Heatherfield Memorial."
"How does she know that?" asked Will, obviously considering the possibility.
"I am not fighting her." Said Cornelia. Glaring at us. "I don't care who she is." Sighing Will placed a comforting hand on her shoulder.
"We have a job to do." Scoffing Cornelia swiped the hand away, narrowing her eyes at the leading Guardian.
"What, betraying our friends?" she asked morbidly. "And if she is this evil princess, why haven't the bad guys just taken her?" behind her the door opened to reveal Grandma.
"Because they must earn her trust. The true heir has great powers," when Cornelia was about to say something grandma cut in "Even if she is not aware of it. Phobos knows he must step carefully. Me must not underestimate his cunning."
"But that means we have time right?" asked Cornelia hopefully. "We don't have to do anything right away."
"No," grandma said sharply "he will send beasts in human form to charm her. She will be drawn to them for reasons she does not understand." Next to me Taranee gasped.
"Oh no! Her new boyfriend."
"With green eyes." Added Irma. Suddenly the air was thick with tension.
"They're at the carnival right now!" exclaimed Will.
"Carnival?" asked Blunk, "That's where portal."
Looks like we're going to the carnival.
"ohh son of a bitch!" I yelped and practically hung off of Caleb as we passed another clown. "Those things are so fucking creepy." Caleb chuckled and wrapped his arm around me. As if offering comfort, and boy I took it.
"I don't see why you're so scared of them." Spoke Will, grinning at my irrational fear. "They're just people in costume."
"Have you seen Buffy the Vampire Slayer?" I asked with raised eyebrows and she shook her head. "Then shush."
"There she is!" exclaimed Cornelia and pointed to the line where Elyon was with Brian. The one thing I remember from this episode was that Brian was not the monster. But once again I couldn't exactly tell them and expect them to take my word on it.
"Oh Elyon!" shouted Will as we made our way over. The blonde turned around with a stunned but happy expression.
"Hi!" Cornelia said, her eyes showing pain but the girl masked it well. Turning to look at Brian I had to say when Elyon gets a boyfriend she gets a boyfriend. That dude was hot.
And now he's staring at me. Quickly I averted my attention back to Elyon who was making her way over. Ducking under the line barriers.
"Will, Cornelia, Emily, Caleb…" Elyon started with a love-sick puppy expression. "This is Brian." Behind her the ginger made his way over, smiling politely at us. My heart went out for him with what the others were about to do.
Will and I smiled back politely, while Cornelia and Caleb looked at him suspiciously. Caleb used his free hand to shake Brian's, I winced as his grip tightened against the others. Brian gaped slightly as Caleb looked like he was doing nothing wrong.
"Pleased to meet you." He said emotionlessly. Letting go Brian jumped back next to Elyon as if she would protect him.
"Y-You too."
"Cornelia, are you ok?" Elyon asked her friend in a quiet tone.
"Yeah, I'm fine." She responded in a non-convincing way. Elyon looked like she was about to say something when Brian offered to join us on the ride. Will immediately agreed and jumped in line.
"Thanks." I said to Brian and he smiled at me friendly. I knew what he was doing, trying to get on our good side. Impressing his girlfriend's close friends.
"No problem." He waved off and grabbed Elyon's hand, dragging her back into the line. The girl giggled and leaned herself against him.
Ok, they are adorable.
Getting in line I looked up at the rollercoaster and felt anxiousness well up inside me. Oh shit that looks high. My fear must have been showing because I heard Caleb choke on a snort.
"What?" I asked with a pout.
"Don't tell me your afraid to go on the ride." He said slowly and I pouted even more. Laughing I felt myself blush when he kissed the top of my head. Next to me Will wiggled her eyebrows and I sunk against Caleb. Heart rate going a mile fast.
I am not blushing. I do not have butterflies in my stomach. I do not. Nope. Oh shit did I just let out a giggle.
Kill me now.
"So we just sit here?" Asked Caleb and I rolled my eyes. Pulling the strap over our heads and clicking it in. "This is supposed to be safe…right?"
"Who's scared now?" I teased and he rolled his eyes.
"I'm not scared." He dismissed and sat on the seat casually. But I saw his calculating eyes.
"You know fear is a natural human emotion." I said in a soft comforting tone. Placing a hand on his arm. Caleb turned to stare at me with a deadpan look.
"You are fucking with me right?" I was about to say something else when the ride lurched forward. Yelping I suddenly latched onto the closest thing to me.
Which happened to be Caleb. But right now I didn't exactly care because we were going up and getting ready to fall. Muttering curse after curse as we came to the top of the slope the ride paused for a second before falling down. Screaming at the top of my lungs I closed my eyes and hugged Caleb tighter. So hard it might leave bruises.
At the end of the ride I was panting and shaking.
"I am never doing that again." I muttered and struggled to get out. Stumbling out of the cart I turned to see Elyon and Brian leaving and laughing. Those lucky buggers. Behind me Caleb sent me a worried look.
"Are you ok?" he asked and I nodded, waving off his worry. "You don't look ok." Rolling my eyes I saw Will gesture for us to follow Elyon.
"Come on, we have a job to do." About to go Caleb placed a hand on my shoulder. Eyes showing deep worry. "I'm fine." I said softly and patted his hand. "Come on." Grabbing his hand we laced our fingers together and went to follow Elyon and her boyfriend.
As we were walking a smile stretched my face. Sparing a glance up at the rebel leader I noticed he too was smiling. And it made my stomach flip in joy.
"Motherfucker!" I growled as the same little twat bashed his dodgem car into mine. Cackling madly as he drove away. Glaring at the little bugger my eye twitched as Caleb threw his head back and laughed. Jabbing him in the ribs I turned my car around wildly making him yelp. Putting the pedal to the metal I drove madly into Will's. She laughed and bumped back into me before circling around and banging into Elyon's.
I laughed at the sight and grinned up at Caleb who seemed amused by our antics.
After the dodgems I bought some fairy floss and sat down, resting my aching legs.
"What is that?" asked Caleb, giving the fairy floss a stink eye.
"It's fairy floss." The rebel leader raised an eyebrow. Huffing I peeled some floss off and placed it in his hand. His mouth parted in shock at how light and fluffy it was. "Now eat it." The moment he placed it in his mouth his eyes blew wide open.
"It melted!" snickering I gave him some more. Caleb took it greedily, smiling at this newfound food.
"Hey you guys!" both of us turned around so see a panicked Irma. "Blunks found something."
"Oh no…" I mumbled.
"Before you sealed the portal something must have come through." Said Caleb in irritation, running a tired hand over his face.
"Blunk say, buggy-thingy." Spat Blunk, obviously sickened by the thing. Which was ironic really.
"I'll check on Elyon." Caleb said about to leave when my voice made him stop.
"I'll come too." Before he could argue I activated the crystal. "If you get in trouble I think you could use an extra hand." Rolling his eyes we waved bye to the group. As we left the backyard we saw a pink glow.
Running to the haunted house Caleb spotted Elyon and Brian walking away, both laughing. Caleb froze at noticing Brian.
"He's not…" his voice trailed off as we heard screams from the haunted house along with a loud bang. "The girls!" we both leaped through the crowd, ignoring the calls of the ticket man and ran through the tracks. Coming to the end of the line to a big room I screamed in shock at seeing the 'buggy-thingy' roar at us.
"Son of a bitch what is that?!" I asked, taking a step back.
"A Larvek." Growled Caleb and grabbed a bone from the skeleton near him. Running at the Larvek he jumped over it as the thing dived down, flying into a dummy as the tail wacked him.
"CALEB!" I shouted and froze as the Larvek was a meter from chomping me. I flung my hands out with the force making it fly to the wall.
"We can't let it get outside!" shouted Will as the Larvek wiggled its way into another room. The Guardians flew chasing after it, about to follow I stopped at hearing Caleb call his friend.
"Vathek!" flying down I noticed the blue guy stuck in the Larvek's mucus. Placing my hands on the white stuff I focused on the force and it being peeled apart. Digging my nails in I pulled away and the mucus let go. Freeing Vathek.
"Awe yeah." I grinned.
After freeing Vathek I helped capture the Larvek and transport it out of there, with the help of Caleb of course.
"You sure the portal is here?" I asked Blunk who nodded vigorously. Grimacing as his drool went flying across the floor. "Great…You know someday we're gonna be arrested." I told Caleb who shrugged as if he didn't care before leaping over the fence to a toy factory. Muttering curses under my breath I flew up, the box holding the Larvek trailing after me in the air. Taking out the heart I sighed. "Here goes nothing, heart please point me in the right direction to the portal." When nothing happened I almost swore before the heart pulled me around the werehouse. Caleb and Blunk followed after me quickly. Just near the trucks there was a blue glowing portal.
"Looks like we can send it back to Phobos." Grinned Caleb, looking at the pink bright bow covering the box along with a thank you card. "You do know if Will knew about this she would have a fit."
"That's why we didn't say anything." I told him and flung the box through the portal, closing it afterwards. "I wish I could see his reaction."
"My Lord, we found this outside the castle…it's dressed to you." Spoke Lycan, bowing at Phobos's feet. The dark prince glared at the pink bowed box.
"Leave me." Lycan nodded once before fleeing the room. After hearing the door slam shut Phobos cautiously moved to the rather large box, tilting his head in confusion as he saw a thank you card. Opening it he smirked maliciously.
"Guardian you are an enigma in my plans."
"That's the third lamp." I mumbled, sending a sheepish Caleb a look that said 'you idiot'. "Next time you tell me a story about how you've defeated a troll or whatever, leave out the kicking." Lying down on the couch with a tired sigh. I raised an eyebrow as Caleb sat on the floor next to me, foot tapping anxiously. "What's with you?"
"It's been two days since I found out Elyon is the princess and I can't help but think something terrible is about to happen to her." Caleb let out quickly. Sighing I turned onto my side, propping my head up on my hand. With a free hand I ran my fingers through his hair in a soothing manner.
"You need to calm down. Or you'll break another lamp." I joked but he didn't laugh. Sighing deeply I plopped myself down next to him and lent my head against his shoulder. "She'll be fine."
"Can you promise that?" I stayed silent.
The next day was a weird one. Especially at night wen we were battling an invisible mutant pig!
"A..ghost?" I asked Martin the day after in the hallway. The nerd nodded with a goofy smile.
"Uh-huh! And I'm going to catch it!" he proclaimed and gestured to his sleeping bag and camera.
"Like a Ghostbuster?" Martin raised an eyebrow.
"What's a Ghostbuster?" blinking I shook my head and muttered gibberish under my breath. What's a Ghostbuster he asks? Was anybody raised properly?! Fear struck me at the thought of SHIELD finding out. From what I vaguely remember in this episode the school gets trashed.
And SHIELD wouldn't like that one bit. Sighing I walked into the girls bathroom and checked the stalls to make sure nobody was there. Pulling out my phone I dialed SHIELD's number. In an instant Fury picked up.
"Fury, speaking."
"Hey, it's Emily…I've got a bit of a problem on my hands and I need your help." There was silence on the other line.
"What problem are we talking about?"
"Where did it go!" shouted Will as we walked the hallway of the school.
"It couldn't have just vanished." Said Taranee, peeking into an empty classroom. I shifted awkwardly against the wall. Guilty at having my friends running after a wild goose chase. Caleb looked at me critically, raised a silent questioning eyebrow. Cautiously I mouthed 'SHIELD'. His eyes widened in hidden rage.
"You…" he started and pinched the bridge of his nose. "Me and Emily'll check out down here." Caleb told Will and he harshly grabbed my arm, leading me down to the cafeteria. We stood in silence, neither saying a word as Caleb looked at me in betrayal and confusion.
"You called SHIELD?" Caleb asked slowly.
"Yeah." I answered.
"You went behind my back and called SHIELD?" I stared at him, hurt by his words.
"I didn't go behind your back! I made a decision. The right decision. And why did I have to tell you? I'm the guardian here!" Caleb snorted and crossed his arms.
"The beast was from my world."
"That doesn't change anything, Caleb. Have you already forgotten the threat Fury said? That if anything public happens again, we would have to face the whole SHIELD organization!" Caleb's face softened a bit but the hardness was still there.
"Do you really think we couldn't have handled putting it back into Meridian?"
"Judging from the mess last night, yeah." There was a moment of silence before Caleb sighed and nodded.
"You're right…Sorry." I smiled at his apology before coughing awkwardly.
"So…what now?" before Caleb could say anything we both heard the other's screams.
We both ran out of the cafeteria but to only be thrown back by a hard head. Landing roughly on the ground I looked up in a daze to see a bigger Meridian pig. My breath caught in my throat as its purple drool landed on my foot.
"EMILY!" Shouted Caleb. His shout startled the pig making it leap at me. Closing my eyes I waited for the impact. When nothing happened I gaped at seeing the pig lying at my feet unconscious with a darting it's back.
"What the…" I mumbled.
"You could have mentioned the mother would be here." I recognized that voice in an instant. Looking up I saw Ward with a tranquilizer gun in his hand and a body bag behind him.
"I didn't know." I said breathlessly. Wishing I had activated the heart sooner. Caleb got up from where he was on the floor and gave Ward a rare grateful look before rushing to my side. "But how did you know?" Ward smirked and picked up the pig and dropping it into the bag.
"I had an inkling that there was more than one. And my inklings are always right." Hearing voices of the others coming closer Ward gave us a salute before walking into the kitchen and taking the backdoor out. Just in time as Will and the others flew through the doors in a battle position.
"Where is it?" demanded Will.
"I – "
"It got away." Caleb butted in. Picking me up by the waist. My cheeks reddened and I tried to keep a straight face.
"It…got…away?" Will said slowly and flew to the ground. Taking deep breaths to calm herself. "Well that's just perfect! We've got two Meridian creatures running around Heatherfield. JUST FUCKING PERFECT!"
"Um…Will, you good?" asked Hay-lin cautiously and shut her mouth when Will gave her a look. "Right…I'll just…" she stepped away from the fuming guardian.
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