Chapter 14

The Battle Begins

"What?" the good side girls asked, confused.

"I said," announced Ursula through clenched teeth, "I declare war!"

"But why?" Naomi looked concerned.

"That's none of your business," Ursula snapped, but she softened a little. Did this girl really care about her?

The GSG's(good side girls) ran outside, hoping to get away. But no such luck. Ravenswood was packed with monsters and magical animals. The monsters to help the evil side, and animals to help the good.

The GSG's and animals were hopelessly out numbered. But they forgot all that. They concentrated on the fact that they had been chosen to protect AvALon, the home of all magic. The girls knew that they had incredible powers, powers no one else could ever have. And they knew, just then, that they had to win this battle.

Tired, hot, and thirsty, the GSG's fought on. They had been fighting all morning. As the day streched on, they realized something. Monica wasn't there! Just then, someone tapped Sapphire on the back. It was Monica! She held a finger to her lips and whispered, "Come over to my house tonight. I'll tell you how to win."

Sapphire had a million questions, but she managed to keep quiet. Monica quietly crept back to her spot, and during the day, she smiled and winked at Sapphire a lot.

As the girls separated to go home (it was dinner time) Sapphire could hear Ursula yelling at Monica "Why were you winking and smiling so much? Do you have some sort of disease?" As Monica struggled to think of an answer, Sapphire was pulled out of ear shot. "Come on, Saph!" Angela called. "We're almost home!" Sapphire trudged over to where the other GSG's were, and told them what she had heard. The girls giggled at the thought of a winking disease. The girls all agreed to go to Monica and Erica's house at 7:00 and tell their mothers they were going out with friends.

"In a way, we are going out with friends.. sort of," Angela told her sister and best friend as they walked to their houses.

"Yeah." Sapphire replied.

Naomi was quiet, but her friends didn't notice. She was always like that.

Naomi didn't feel that way, though. She felt like she wasn't doing enough for AvALon, and she was determined that that would change. Soon. When she found out how.

Angela interrupted Naomi's thoughts by saying good-bye to Sapphire. Naomi, after a minute, did the same, and in a minute they were at their own house.

"It's good to be home." They sighed at the same time.

"Oh, you guys." The twin's Dad smiled.

"Who, us?" Angela asked innocently.

"Ha-ha. Very funny." Their dad entered the kitchen to help his wife prepare dinner.

After a short amount of time, the twins and their family were eating dinner. They ate for about five minutes, and then the mom spoke up.

"Your father and I are going on a date tonight and Mandy's going to a movie. She'll be back at seven. Until then, we got Emily, a nice girl in the neighborhood, to baby-sit, and she's bringing along her friends Kara and Adriane. They seem to know the twins very well, and will be spending more time with them. Is that all right with everybody?"The mother told her children. Mrs. McKenna shared a knowing smile with her twin daughters.

"Where are you going?" Angela asked, her way of approval.

"That's fine by me." Mandy said.

"'Kay, Mommy. But you gonna be gone for a long time?" Josh asked worriedly.

"Of course not, dear, We'll see you in the morning."

"Okay." Naomi and Angela's other brother gave in.

"Perfect!" Naomi said, smiling broadly.

Just as Mrs. McKenna was putting the last dish in the dishwasher, the door bell rang. "I'll get it!" Angela yelled.

She answered the door, and Emily, Adriane, and Kara, were standing in frontof her. "Hi, guys!"

"Hi SSS SM!" Kara greeted her soul mate. "Oh, and hello to you too Naomi."

"Hi Angie and Naomi," Emily said.

"Hello Angie. Hi WBAFA!" Adraine cried.

"Hello Everyone!" the twins replied at exactly the same time.

Everyone giggled. The girls stepped inside. Mr. and Mrs. Mckenna left. "The twins can show you everything!" they called as they stepped through the door.

The boys left to play Wii, and Emily went with them to keep an eye on them. "Well," Angela started.

"Well?" Adriane said.

"Kara, please take that pink hat off. It's driving me crazy!" Naomi cried.

The girls burst into laughter. They talked a little about this, a little about that, and at one point, even joined Emily, until one touchy subject came up.

"So, Adriane, you must miss Zach a lot huh? You were really close to him," Angela said.

Dead silence.

Finally, someone spoke. "Well, yes. It was like... like... losing my best friend!" Adriane cried and burst into tears. Adriane doesn't cry very often, so this was a surprise.

"I'm so sorry," Angela whispered.

"Oh, Angie, it's not your fault!" Kara said, ruunning towards Angela.

Naomi comorted her soul mate and said,"Don't worry. We'll always be here for you, WBAFA," and, "It'll all be okay. Don't cry," and finally started crying herself.

Kara and Angela started comorting the warriors(after Kara was done comforting Angela, of course)until they were all crying.

Mandy chose that moment to walk in the door. "May I join your little love fest here?" she asked with a big goofy smile on her face.

"Why of course you may!" Angela said drying her tears and inviting her sister to the "little lovefest".

She started crying too, even though she didn't know why, and that was so funny the girls went from weeping to laughing in a matter of seconds.

"Well, we better get going," Adriane said.

"Yeah, we better," Emily replied, coming into the room.