Thanks to all of my great reviewers, DragonRaiderX9, XV-Dragon, CCRox4Eva (hope you enjoy this chapter), and Guardian's Light. To people who read and haven't even reviewed once, I fart in your general direction.
As always, I do not own W.I.T.C.H., Rimmer Dall from the Shannara book series, Oak, and/or Kim Kakaski (thanks again to Guardian's Light for letting me borrow his characters). kdh
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"This time you're going down Shagon," Matt said with a growl.
"No my boy," Methuselah said putting a hand on the now much taller Matt's shoulder," He feeds off of negative emotions and I sense your hatred for him. We and the Champions of Ulzbor shall deal with him. You and the Guardians deal with the creature and let your warrior, the queen, and the Earth Guardian deal with this Shadow Knight fellow. If that's all right with everybody?"
"Okay with me I guess," Matt said looking down at the old man.
"Works for us I guess," Will said.
"I think not!" Shagon said interrupting them," I will destroy you boy and then I'll move on to your little girlfriend Will."
"Not wait a moment, golden mask fellow," Zui Quan said while walking haphazardly towards Shagon," You are going to fight the nine of us first."
"Is that so?" Shagon said readying an attack to kill the drunken undead man.
"Yes it is," Zui Quan said matter-of-factly. Shagon fired an ice blast from his Tridart arm, a fire blast from his Ember arm, and his own green eye blast at the undead monk who dodged it. As he dodged it, he fell backwards and rolled as if he was just drunk but it seemed more skill was involved too. Shagon was startled that his attack was dodged so skillfully.
"If that's the best you got," Zui Quan said as he took a swig from his bottle," Then this will be quick."
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The four Guardians and the two Regents were facing down Dark Squall. They had him surrounded but he kept them at bay by swinging his green glowing ball and chain over his head and carrying a hammer in the other hand.
"I will crush you, you little pests!" Dark Squall yells as he creates a huge swirling vortex of water around himself and firing water blasts at his enemies without. They were pretty erratic but easily blocked by everyone but Mr. Huggles, who didn't have a magical attack and had to block it with his punches. Eventually Dark Squall stopped and went out onto the water.
"Now you shall see why I am called Dark Squall!" as he said that, the water started to churn and fly upwards into a whirling water spouts that he sent at our heroes who weren't doing well against them.
"Everyone, cover me I have a plan!" Will yelled and flew at Dark Squall. He sent his water attacks at her, but he kept getting blocked by Irma and Hay Lin while Taranee and Matt kept firing at Dark Squall. While Dark Squall was stronger than his opponents, he was just brute force and couldn't concentrate on getting through the blocks and fending off the attacks of his opponents flying around him. Then they started taunting him.
"Hey horn head, your mama was a toad and your daddy was a Passling!" Irma yelled.
"Come on, this is pathetic!" Matt yelled firing an eye blast.
"Be quiet you cursed brats!" Dark Squall said.
"Why don't you!" Will said as she hit him with every single volt of quintessence she had causing him quite a bit of pain seeing as how he was a giant lightening rod. Will flew as far away as possible because she was both drained and to get out of the way of the attacks of the others. Dark Squall a first floated on the top of the water and eventually sank like a stone.
"That went pretty well, don't you think?" Hay Lin said as the group flew up (except for Mr. Huggles who stayed on shore) to the spot where Dark Squall had sunk.
"Guys, what's going on over there?!" Taranee asked looking at a dome of utter darkness.
"That's where the others were fighting Caleb," Will said.
"Since our soggy friend is sunk, let's go help," Irma said as they flew back to shore.
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"For a being with the power of two Hearts and negative emotion power," Ghor said while tangling Shagon's wings in his net," You're not much of a challenge."
"I'll show you how much of a challenge I can be gladiator boy," Shagon said causing the earth to quake and stone spikes to erupt from the ground. All of our heroes were surrounded by vines and drawn into the ground.
"Wow, I didn't even mean to do that," Shagon said amazed and rather smug with himself.
"You did not do that," the green skinned druid Pine said rising up from the ground," I did and you are now in for a world of hurt."
"What!?" Shagon said about to blast him when a fire ball from Lady Draquina hit his ice arm and he was hit from behind by Grendel with his great mace.
"You fools, I am Shagon!" Shagon said," I am not only powered by negative emotions anymore, I have the power of darkness!"
Shagon then sunk into the ground and as our nine heroes attempted to follow him a huge earth look-alike of Shagon rose up and with its two glowing green eyes and huge rock fists, attacked.
"I say old boy," Zui Quan yelled at Shagon," You may be strong, but you're too slow!"
Immediately, stone hands rose up to grab any of the nine and some succeeded but were thrown off and destroyed, but two more took each of their places. Things were starting to look bad and they knew that they had to finish this fight soon or else they were all doomed. It was then that Morgan of Ulzbor, the pirate swordsman, jumped with amazing force, drew his sword, and cut off the head of the giant earth Shagon. All of the earthen hands and the rest of the body crumbled as the head fell to reveal Shagon on the inside.
"You insects!" Shagon yelled struggling to get up," I will destroy you all!"
"Think again," Zui Quan said running up to him looking rather unsteady and making a beeline and skillfully avoiding Shagon's eye beams and with a mighty kick, broke Shagon's mask. When his mask fell away, it revealed a deep, darkness with two glowing green eyes.
"You dare remove my mask!" Shagon said, knocking away Zui Quan with his darkness," I will-,"
Shagon never got to finish as the lady druid Galatia struck with a mighty, animalistic kick to the back of Shagon's head. Shagon fell down with a groan and was out like a light.
"Well done ole' gal," Zui Quan said with a drunken smile.
"There's trouble with their fight," Methuselah said directing their attention to the dome of darkness," Now that he's down, we best go help them!"
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Alchemy, Elyon, and Cornelia were facing down the Shadow Knight, their former friend Caleb. Cornelia attempted to talk to Caleb as Alchemy and Elyon prepared for battle.
"Caleb what are you doing!?" Cornelia asked," Stop it please."
"Get out of my way," Caleb said monotonously as he knocked her away with a wave of mud. He then just disappeared, causing Elyon and Alchemy looked at where Caleb had just been.
"Cornelia, are you-," Elyon said as she was running to help Cornelia and was stopped by Caleb who hit her with a beam of energy that turned her to stone. As Caleb went in for the final strike, he was knocked away by a blast of light from Alchemy's sword.
"Caleb, you may be a friend, but don't think I won't kill you if I have too!" Alchemy said uncharacteristically serious with glowing white eyes.
"I will destroy you, Light Wolf," Caleb said jumping up from the ground in his full armor.
"We shall see," Alchemy said as the two circled each other. During all this time Cornelia was just laying there stuck in her prison of mud. She couldn't believe that Caleb just did that, she knew there was something wrong with him but she had no idea how to help him. Even with the darkness in the earth and her stone arm, Cornelia broke out of her stone prison just in time to see Alchemy fend off Caleb matching him sword to sword.
"You have the advantage now Light Wolf, but not for long," Caleb said as he took a small, black orb out of his pocket and crushed it in his hand, creating a dome of dark energy around the Caleb, Alchemy, Elyon, and Cornelia. The interior wasn't purely darkness, but more of a deep twilight.
"What is this place?" Alchemy asked squaring up and readying her sword.
"This is a dark area," Caleb said with the shadows gathering around him," It is a simple spell given to me by master Fenrir, but an effective one. It grants power to those of the darkness, weakens those of the light, and cannot be broken through from the outside or inside for five minutes."
"Caleb, stop this!" Alchemy said to him but was only attacked in return. They clashed sword to sword but now Alchemy was losing without the light to empower her and the battle lasted about four minutes easily. Caleb was finally able to knock her away with a powerful blast of dark energy and blasted her sword out of reach with another blast of darkness and finally hit her with one of his energy blades, turning her to stone. Caleb lifted his blade, charged at Alchemy's stone body, and was stopped as Cornelia stepped in front of him with his sword just an inch away from plunging into her chest.
"Caleb you have to stop this, it isn't you," Cornelia said through the tears," Elyon was your friend and you turned her into stone; this just isn't you, any of it. Please stop."
In a moment, Caleb's eyes flickered from the evil eyes back to his brown eyes. He looked at Cornelia with a mix of concern and confusion. Then he looked down at Cornelia's stone arm.
"Cornelia, your arm," Caleb said as he touched the blade of his sword to her arm as Cornelia looked on through her tears. Faintly at first and then glowing brighter green, Cornelia's arm was being cured of its stone affliction. The energy from her arm was being drawn into the blade and when it was done, Cornelia's arm was back to normal flesh and bone.
"Caleb?" Cornelia asked hopefully looking into his eyes. He looked into her eyes and then took a step back and closed his eyes. Cornelia took a step toward him, but stopped as he opened his eyes to reveal that his eyes had reverted back to the dark wolf's head pupils.
"Move aside Earth Guardian, I have no quarrel with you," Caleb said once again the Shadow Knight.
"Caleb, stop this now," Cornelia said looking into his eyes with her voice half pleading and half anger.
"I can move you aside," the Shadow Knight said threateningly as he slowly started stepping backwards.
"Caleb," Cornelia said looking into his dark eyes," I care about you and this hurts me to do this, but I will fight you to save you and my friends."
"Move aside."
"No Caleb!"
"I am no longer Caleb, I am the Shadow Knight. Now move aside," he said holding up his sword preparing for battle as he stopped walking backwards, now three yards away from her.
"Caleb I will not let you hurt her," Cornelia said preparing to defend herself.
"So be it," Caleb said as he sheathed his sword slowly and then with a burst of speed and attempted to punch her in the gut with his gauntleted fist. He never made it as his feet were ensnared by vines and as he fell the rest of his body was held down by vines.
"Snap out of it Caleb!" Cornelia yelled down at him. He then turned into mud and just moved around the vines and knocked her back with a powerful punch, putting her out cold. He then turned around and he had to remove his sword from the vines because it couldn't turn to mud with him. He then lifted his sword into the air and prepared to stab into the stone body of Alchemy, but stopped as his shadow dome was shattered.
"No Caleb!" Will yelled as she knocked him away with a blast of quintessence. Caleb suddenly disappeared, with what appeared to be the dark teleportation and as they looked around Shagon had also disappeared and they safely assumed that Dark Squall had as well. It was then that the others appeared through folds to help our heroes that were unconscious or turned to stone.
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"I can't believe they failed!" Fenrir yelled angrily in his chamber after his two lieutenants and his knight had been returned defeated," They are supposed to be unstoppable!"
"Well, in the defense of Shagon, he was outnumbered by the Druids and Champions and neither group is weak by any standards," Echo said telepathically.
"Dark Squall is an idiot though and Shadow Knight is held back by the good within him," Fenrir said still broody.
"Is Shagon completely bonded to his element?" Echo asked.
"No, why do you ask?"
"Well," Echo said picking up a cup full of some green liquid," You could kill two birds with one stone so to speak. Give the power of Dark Earth to Shadow Knight so he will lose more of his humanity and destroy Dark Squall and give his powers to Shagon."
"An interesting notion," Fenrir mused," Give the boy more power to more easily control him, get rid of the dead weight, and transfer said dead weights power to one who can use it properly. I like it."
"Shall we begin preparations?" Echo asked.
"Yes. The sooner the better," Fenrir said," Mutten! Bring in the three idiots, Shadow Knight, and Shagon immediately!"
"Yes… Master," the little man said as he ran from the room.
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Nicholas Flamel had not been so tired in a long time. He had destroyed the green orb in the process of summoning the most powerful evil from multiple reality's, but he now had an army of summoned being to do his bidding along with his own minions and his three previously summoned minions, Kim Kakaski, Oak, and Rimmer Dall. This group had the power of more Hearts than Flamel had ever imagined and he could now rule the universe and destroy that fool Fenrir in time after he was finished destroying those heroes.
The villains from the universes he had chosen were alternate realities to his own. He had summoned the five Guardians, Queen Elyon, and Caleb, each one from a different dimension, where they had been corrupted and taken over their own realities. Next he had summoned Nerissa and her Guardian thralls trapped in their elemental forms from the reality where she had succeeded, Phobos from the reality where he had succeeded, and Cedric from the reality where he had succeeded. He had also summoned three other beings that were truly bizarre; a Mogriff Queen who had taken over her reality and infested it with Mogriffs, a cosmically powerful Annihilator who had destroyed everything in its reality, a large Morphan the size of a house that was mysteriously intelligent and held great mystical power, and the humanoid embodiment of the Horn of Hypnos.
"With your collective power I shall rule all that is my minions," he said to the group of assorted summoned creatures," Soon enough when my enemies are weakened we will attack and destroy them in on swift strike."
"Yes master," those that could speak said in a collective monotone voice. These summoned beings had less personality than his previous three summoned beings, but they still had enough to function on their own.
"My lord?" Metal 7 said walking into the room with Kim Kakaski, Oak, Arc, and Collective.
"Yes Metal 7?" Flamel asked his right hand man.
"All is going as planned, but it would appear that Fenrir is up to something," Metal 7 said in his hollow, mechanical voice.
"I see," Flamel said partially to himself," Arc, keep an eye on Fenrir. Metal 7 and Ms. Kakaski, train with Abomination. The rest of you come with me."
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"The Alchemists Guild is gaining more powerful members from the alternate realities and now their war power is almost beyond comparison," a large armored man with a deep voice said. He wore black iron armor with a horned helmet that covered every part of his body except for his glowing red eyes. He also carried several nasty looking medieval weapons on his person.
"Yezzz, they are ever more powerfulzzzzz," said a man made of vermin and insects.
"Ah," an unhealthily skinny and pale humanoid creature said with a vacant look in its glowing green eyes groaned.
"Well do you three have any ideas? You War, or maybe you Pestilence, or maybe even you Famine!?" asked a figure with a cold, booming voice. He was hunched over, dressed in black robes that concealed his figure, and had one boney arm thrust out of his robes to hold his wicked looking scythe.
"Well Death, I say we send in Flicker or Charnelshroud," War said," Echo has already infiltrated Fenrir's group. Why not do the same with the Alchemist Guild?"
"For once you make a good point," Death mused," But I believe that we should ask Ori Oni to be sure."
"I agreezzzz," Pestilence said.
"Ah ha aa," Famine groaned.
"Then so shall it be," War said lastly.
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Preview: I got nothin'. It might take me awhile to get the next chapter out or not, who knows.