How to say 'I love you'
By Rachel Jhoson
Dedicated to
Fegs2fan (Who has a really nice story named 'forever guardians' which btw I can´t wait to be updated!)
Persian huntress: I agree with you!
Cara Miro: A very very loyal reader and reviewer
Chapter 16: To the rescue?
In Meridean:
The guardians and Caleb walked slowly through the castle's main corridor. The one that would possibly lead them to the room where Phobos, Cedric and Miranda always where.
Nobody said a word. None of them knew if it was because of the enormous risk that was to be in Phobos´s castle, or because of the news they had just received had left them without words.
'Caleb…will die…in the church where Cornelia will get married''
Caleb will die; Caleb will die…those words sounded three times on Hay Lin ears. Caleb, her best friend, the guy that was always there for her (as a friend, of course) was going to die. She…She just didn´t how she would be able to handle it.
When they finally reached the door, the air guardian fell on her knees,
''Hay Lin!'' The rest of the girls and Caleb tried to stand her up
''What's wrong Hay?'' Will asked worried putting a hand on her shoulder. The air guardian started to sob loudly
''I-I can´t…'' She turned to Caleb with her little eyes full of tears ''Caleb you can´t die, you can´t…''
''oh Hay Lin'' Caleb said unhappily. He also put a hand on her shoulder ''Please don´t worry about me'' he said removing the tears of her eyes sweetly. But Hay Lin managed to make more tears
''Y-you don´t have to go…''
''yes I have to'' The rebel answered without thinking it two times ''Cornelia is in danger Hay…''
''We can save her ourselves'' Irma interrupted softly
''I can´t, I just can´t'' Caleb answered shocking his head ''she is here because of me, It´s my fault''
''Caleb it´s not your…'' Taranee started
''Okay fine!'' Caleb suddenly screamed totally out of himself as he got up of the floor ''perhaps it´s not my fault…but I have to go, I have to! And do you guys want to know why? Because I LOVE HER!''
The guardians stared at him with their mouths opened. Caleb continued
''Yes, you heard well! I LOVE HER! I´m not afraid of dying for her because I can´t live without her! And I won´t stay here while you guys make the dirty work!''
There was a long silence where the guardians did nothing but exchange looks. After a couple of seconds, Hay Lin stood up from the floor, went to Caleb's direction and hugged him tightly
''You're like my older brother'' She whispered on his ear
''Then help me, sister'' He answered smiling, hugging her too.
Hay Lin nodded softly, and turned to the rest of Will, Taranee and Irma
''Let´s go''
Meanwhile on the other side of the room:
Elyon wasn´t ready yet.
Where was she? Phobos didn´t had time for this. Everything was ready. The monsters dressed up as human beings that would pretend to be Elyon's relatives, the throne where she would sit, even the crown that would absorb her powers until kill her, was already resting on a table.
After all he had done to get her powers; the little squirt was busy doing who knew what.
He wanted Elyon's powers, he wanted them now.
Impatience was written all over his face. How could he be so near to get what he wanted, and yet so far?
'' where the hell is that damned girl? '' The evil prince roared to himself standing up from his own throne '' Cedric!! Miranda!!'' he called
'' yesss your highness? '' Cedric asked as he and Miranda appeared in front of him on their human form, dressed formally
''.Elyon?! '' He asked angrily
''I´ve just went to her room, sir '' Miranda answered ''She says she will be ready in a couple of minutes'' Phobos roared once again
''Bring her here, now'' He ordered coldly ''No matter what she is doing, I want her here NOW!''
Miranda nodded and walked through the crowd in order to get to the door. She opened it; she was ready to leave when, suddenly, an extremely huge wind hit her, making her fall on the floor
''Oh I´m sorry, Miranda'' She heard a feminine voice say between laughs ''I didn´t know you where there''. When the spider girl opened her eyes, she saw the Asian guardian stand in front of her with a playful look on her eyes. She tried to stand up, but Hay Lin created an air bubble all over her little body
''Ah-Ah-Ah'' The air guardian smiled at her prisoner ''where do you think you are going??''
Just then the rest of the guardians went flying to the room. Everyone, but Phobos gasped. Instead, the prince stood there with a little smile on his calm face. He knew this was going to happen; it was part of the plan, after all.
''The guardians! '' Cried Cedric as his eyes became completely red. He instantly began to transform into a reptile
''yeah, that's how we are usually called here'' Irma's sarcastic voice said as she went flew all over the big room ''but, actually…'' She said staring at the monsters that were under her, with their horrible eyes full of fear ''we prefer to be called …W.i.t.c.h''
And with that, she sent them one of her water attacks. Screams where heard from all over the room as the water started to drown the monsters
''Taranee! Now!'' Will's voice was heard and instantly, the fire guardian started to send fire balls to Phobos and Cedric. With his own powers, Phobos stopped the ones that were going on his direction, but Cedric was not that lucky.
''AHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!'' he screamed as the fire started to burn his reptile skin ''HELP ME!!!''Phobos ignored him, letting the snake man collapse on the floor.
He turned to Will, who stood with her arms crossed in front of him.
''Nice to see you, guardians'' He said politely ''is there anything I can do for you girls? Please be quick, I´m in the middle of a celebration here'' he said staring at the group of people that was being submitted to Irma´s strong powers
The leader of the guardians frowned ''you know exactly what we want, Phobos'' she said sharply, ready to attack him ''the question is, what do you want us to do in order to get it?''
''hmm, let me think'' he said with a thoughtful look ''no, I really don´t know what you are talking about''
''tell us….Cornelia…'' The redhead ordered with red eyes
'' Cornelia,
who?''
He was playing with them. This was just a game for him
.Madness was written all over the guardians face. They wouldn´t stop
until they told him where their friend was.
''You know exactly who we are talking about you bastard'' Taranee spitted. The rest of the girls stared at her with her mouths opened. Could it be? The always correct Taranee Cook, the one that would never be impolite with someone, had just shouted at an evil king?
Phobos smiled at her
''what makes you think I will tell you where she is?''
Without being able to control herself anymore, Taranee prepared to attack
''you´ll see…'' A fire ball appeared on each of her hands
''Taranee, no!'' cried Will, in order to stop her. But it was too late
''Fire!!'' the guardian shouted angrily as she sent the fire balls to Phobos. This time, instead of stopping them, the prince sent them back to the fire guardian, making her fall on the floor
''Taranee!!'' all the guardians shouted. Irma, who was already done with the monsters, that where know laying unconscious o the floor, went to help her:
''Are you okay Tara?'' the water guardian asked worried once she was next to her, checking if she had anything serious.
''Y-yes, I guess I'm fine'' She answered weakly as Irma tried to stand her up
Phobos got up of his throne with an evil laugh
''You guardians are so weak when you are separated'' He assured as he started to get closer to them .The four girls stared at him with anger. What else could they do to make him speak?
''then they are really lucky to have me'' A male voice said from behind him. Before Phobos could turn to see who was talking, Caleb's sword was already on his back.
''Yay Caleb!'' Hay Lin said with joy. Will shushed her. She stared at the rebel with horror. Was that guy insane?
'I´ve just told him he will die and he just throws himself to the wolf's mouth?'
''I´m going to ask it just once'' The rebel whispered on the prince's year, coldly. Phobos felt the anger on his voice. The rebel was mad, really mad. 'Perfect'
''Where… is …Cornelia?'' Asked Caleb slowly
''Ahh, this is so sweet'' Phobos said with a smile, paying no attention to the sword that was resting on his back '' the rebel leader is looking after his girlfriend, isn´t that cute?'' He laughed.
Will raised an eyebrow, how could Phobos be so calm? Caleb was about to kill him! And he knew as well as she did, Caleb was totally capable of it.
'' He has a plan'' whispered to herself. Then she turned to the guardians ''stay alert! he is planning something!''
Caleb's face stood as hard as a rock as he pressed the sword a bit more against the prince. At the same time, the guardians prepared their attack position.
Phobos stopped laughing and turned to the rebel with an evil smile
''why do you care where she is, anyway? She will never be yours after tonight and you know it…'' He said coldly, turning to Will as he said the last words.
Caleb's face stood as hard as possible, but the images of his Cornelia being unhappy were enough to make his emerald eyes get wet; the hand that was holding the sword was now shaking, much to Phobos delight.
''ah Love'' He sighed ''that stupid emotion that is able to turn the strongest man into the weakest''
This time, the Rebel pressed his sword against Phobos's back. By know, the sword was about to cut him in two pieces, but the prince didn´t even seemed to panic. Instead, he smiled at his weak enemy
''Caleb…'' Whispered Hay Lin when she saw Caleb's devastated eyes. He could hardly stay on his feet know.
''C-Cornelia'' He whispered softly
''you don´t even have the guts to kill me'' Phobos assured ''see what I mean? Do you see what love has done to you?''
Suddenly, Phobos took from his pocket a purple diamond and closed his eyes. Hay Lin stared at it with curious eyes. What the hell is that thing?
''don´t move!'' Hay Lin warned preparing to attack ''put whatever that thing is down! Now!''
But Phobos paid her no attention
''Your Cornelia is King Aaron's propriety now, and there's nothing you can do to save her'' he touched the diamond with delight
''and thanks to that, this heart is mine''
''Wha-… who the hell is King Aaron?'' Irma's inappropriate question was heard. But before anyone could say anything, a purple light came from the diamond Phobos was holding.
The light blinded them.
''What´s happening?'' yelled Taranee
''Aah! It burns!'' Irma's voice was heard
''oh no!''
All of them shouted
Phobos evil laughed was heard once more
Then, everything became dark.
In Arianda
''Horace? '' Was the first thing the Earth guardian said when she heard the door of her room open. But when she turned, she just saw a petite girl of about 15 years old with short blonde hair holding a piece of bread on one of her hands, on the other one, she had a plastic bag.
''N-no…'' The young girl said shyly ''I-I'm Agnes, Madam'' Cornelia raised an eyebrow 'Madam? I kinda like that'
The girl continued ''err…Horace is…well King Aaron ordered him not to see you anymore''
'King Aaron…puaj!' Thought the earth guardian with disgust
''that stupid bastard'' She murmured to herself
Agnes made some steps closer to Cornelia handing her the piece of bread. But Cornelia stopped her. She was too depressed to eat.
''I´m not hungry, thank you'' Cornelia said politely. Then she took a better look of Agnes. The girl was not the most beautiful girl ever, but she was pretty. The only problem was, she was so thin that Cornelia thought she could break in pieces if she touched her
''You can eat it, if you want to'' Said Cornelia as she observed this. Agnes stared at the guardian blue eyes, nervously
''I-I can't do that, your majesty'' She said '' I will leave it here, so if you get hungry later…''
''no, no'' Cornelia said shocking her head ''I want you to eat it'' Agnes didn´t seem that convinced, so Cornelia finished by saying '' That´s an order'' wow that sounded so good!
This time, the girl was smiling
''in that case'' She said with a reverence ''I will be glad to serve you'' She started eating the piece of bread slowly. Cornelia watched with a smile
'' So tell me Agnes'' The guardian began to ask as the girl ate the bread with pleasure ''do you have any idea of why did King Aaron told Horace not to look after me anymore?''
Agnes stopped eating and faced her ''Well, Aaron doesn´t have a good relationship with Horace and he thinks Horace wants to…sent you free''
''oh''
There was a long and uncomfortable silence. 'So, Horace was telling the truth when he said he would love to free me?' She smiled. Horace was a good person; there were no doubts about it. 'Agnes, on the other side…also seems pretty nice, but she is surely a good servant of King Aaron, otherwise…why would he sent her to look after me?'
Cornelia sighed unhappily; now she didn´t had a chance to escape
There was a long and uncomfortable silence
''so uhmm how is Arianda like?'' Asked Cornelia trying to start a conversation. Agnes didn´t answer, she looked at the floor
''d-did I say something?'' The earth guardian asked as she heard Agnes sobs
''N-No It´s okay, It´s just… I don´t know if you knew, but our king gave up the heart of Arianda in order to get you and…'' She could finished her sentence, she broke up on tears
Cornelia hugged her. Okay, Agnes didn´t seemed like she was on Aaron´s side.
''I'm so sorry'' Whispered Agnes as she removed Cornelia's hands of her body ''I…I … our world was so beautiful, and now everything is …so dark'' She said softly '' and it´s all because our king gave up the heart in order to get you…'' She repeated with more tears on her chocolate eyes.
She seemed so weak, so vulnerable
'What had that damned guy done to these people?' Thought the earth guardian sadly
''Agnes'' Cornelia now asked seriously ''Do you agree with this marriage or not?''
Agnes didn´t thought it two times. Instead, she seemed pretty offended by this question
''what?! Of course not! I hate Aaron!'' She almost screamed '' I hate him! I've always had and always will!''
Corny smiled as Agnes kept talking
''He thinks I agree with him, that´s why he sent me, but come on! Who in Arianda would ever agree with this?'' She asked as she pointed the window, from where you could see the now dark and weak world
''our world is dying and all he thinks about is having his girl'' She thought for a moment ''no offence of course''
Cornelia smiled
''It´s okay, so in that case… you are with Horace…''
Agnes smiled playfully
''yeah, and in more than one way…'' Cornelia raised an eyebrow, confused
''What do you mean with…?'' Then it hit her ''oh… my…god!''
Agnes smiled proudly
''you and Horace!?'' She asked with joy as if she knew them for always ''That's awesome!''
The time, the girl put a finger on her lip
''shh, don´t shout, nobody must hear you, I'm sorry for being so impolite but…If Aaron finds out…''
Cornelia raised an eyebrow
''explain yourself please'' And so she did
''I´m Aaron's most loyal servant, or at least, that's what he thinks'' she winked and Cornelia giggled ''if he finds out I'm engaged with Horace…''
''YOU GUYS ARE ENGAGED!?''
''shh!!!''
''ups, sorry…no problem, I won´t tell anyone'' Then she thought it two times ''Why would I ever want to tell something to Aaron? I don´t love him, and I will never will'' Agnes smiled
''Because you love that Meridean guy…I know I know…''
Cornelia stared at her with widened eyes
''You know that too? Is there anyone here that doesn´t know about him!?''
They both laughed falling on the large bed. It was the first time in this world, Cornelia seemed happy.
And it didn´t last more than some minutes.
Suddenly, Agnes stopped smiling. Her eyes started to water
''oh no…''
''w-what?'' Asked Cornelia as she say Agnes horrified face ''what's wrong?''
''I-I…'' All of a sudden she was as shy as the beginning. She stood up of the bed and went to take the plastic bag ''I almost forgot…'' Tears started to appear all over her eyes as she handed Cornelia the bag
''I..I'm so sorry…''
Cornelia stared at her confused
''what?! Why? Agnes you're scaring me''
The earth guardian received the plastic bag, and when she opened she could help but gasp
''oh my god'' She screamed breaking up on tears
''T-That's your wedding dress…''
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