CHAPTER 22: FIGHTS AT MERIDIAN.

It's funny but today the day began as another common day in Meridian since Elyon went back in the power as Meridian true Heir to the Crown. She was woke up by her loyal maid and she went to another of the dull meetings she had to stand twice or three times a week for dealing with boring matters of buildings that needed to be rebuilt, farmer's arguments, and so on; the list of boring matters to deal at a meeting was long.

Anyway, that day the meeting was a bit different.

"What?! What do you mean I have to marry?!" Elyon said angry and surprised. "I'm still underage!!"

"But… your highness…" One of her counsellors said. "It's tradition on this land for the queen gets marry and the country has a king and a queen…"

"You should have a look at the possible kings." Another one said handing her a bunch of portraits.

"I… DON'T… WANT… TO… MARRY!!!" Elyon said shouting and hitting the portraits with her hand. "I DON'T HAVE TO!!"

"You should think it twice, your highness." The woman that was her mother on earth said picking them up. "If the council allows me… I'd like to say a possible solution."

"Speak, brave soldier of Kandrakar." One of the men said.

"Queen Elyon said she is still underage and I must agree with her it'd not be good for her to marry so young." She said. "On the other hand, she has been wanting to keep on with her life at earth since she arrived here. Maybe if she went to earth for a couple of years she could not only become overage but also see things better and then marry a good king who would match both her heart and our crown."

"But…" Elyon said.

"Hum… we don't see any reason for that to be a solution." One of the men said.

Meanwhile on earth…

"I said NO!" Cornelia said. "THERE ARE NO POPCORNS WITH CREEK TASTE!"

"But I've heard Chinese food cooks insects." Phobos said.

"Oh, man…" Irma said picking a cookie. "This is going to be hell to have to keep an eye on him while the two cats are out of business…"

"It's ok Phobos." Hai Lin said then. "I can cook you some meat but it's not insects or something like that."

"Ok…" He said. "But not those f tasteless worms again."

"WHAT KIND OF LANGUAGE IS THAT?!!" Cornelia asked him angry.

"Kids." The mother said. "Down to the cellar. At once."

"I'm sorry, but after the scandal upstairs this is all I have managed to sneak." Hai Lin said arriving with a biscuit packet and some chips.

"Chips!!" Phobos said taking them.

"He is completely as a kid with a new toy." Taranee said.

"Anyway, we have something to do, remember?" Will said. "I don't know what did that meant."

"You mean Kandrakar's last time advice?" Cornelia asked her.

"Yes." She answered. "How can you take 'Future on our universes is to change and it will concern you too' for?"

"Maybe they just wanted us to change the colour of our dimension too." Irma said then.

"Irma!!" They all said.

Then a pop happened at the cellar.

"Sorry." Isabelle said appearing over Phobos and spilling the chips. "I think I must leave this trick to Heart guardian." She added standing up and helping clean around.

"So soon you have come back?" Cedric said. "I bet you didn't got what you were going there to."

"I'm still angry at you." She said. "So I will do as if I had heard nothing."

"What did you do and where?" Will asked.

"I went to my world." She answered her. "And I didn't like what I saw. If I'm not mistaken, what I sincerely hope and expect, the troubles at my world were just the beginning."

"So your dimension is in danger." Taranee said.

"What news." Irma said bored.

"No, no." Isabelle said. "I think you have mistook me. All the dimensions are in danger. Even Earth."

"Explain yourself." Will asked her frowning.

"Everything is changing, for good or for bad." She said holding her arm. "Traditions are being broken, fights have began all over my place… People… people are… beginning to… to go mad…"

"Isa!" Caleb said being quicker than the rest and holding her up before she fell down. "What's wrong? What is going on with you?!"

"I'm ok." She said. "It must be just tiredness of fights and…"

Suddenly, Phobos had got next to her and had lowered her top and sleeves to reveal the multiple wounds and the wound over her front just three fingers over her bra.

"That is what happened her." He said. "Really wounded, and not good wounds. You were attacked by a Red Crakertogten, weren't you?"

She didn't answered but covered herself and tried to slap him but it was as if he was just tried to refresh by using the hand as a fan.

"She is going to need Kandrakar's help." Caleb then said.

"And we are going to take her there." Will said standing up steady.

"And we are taking there alone." Cornelia said holding Isa with Hai Lin's help and looking hard to the guys.

"There will be no need of it." A voice said at their back as Orube arrived. "Caleb and Phobos can come on quality of Kandrakar's herald and guest."

"Orube!" Cedric said. "You are wounded!"

"It's ok." She said holding Isa on her arms. "There were not those things on my place, but… she will not like the news I have for her either."

As soon as they reached Kandrakar, the Oracle and Yan Lin saw them.

"Oh my!!" The old woman said. "You were wounded?!"

"I'll take care of her. Make her lay there." Oracle said.

"Kandrakar Warrior from Basilide." Endarno said then. "What news do you have?"

"The invasion was stopped, the invasors killed because they didn't allow us to bring them alive here." Orube said kneeling down with her head lowered in respect. "Some of the best warriors at Basilide have died and some areas have been destroyed. We managed to evacuate innocents from the fight area before beginning and while we fought so I think not many innocents have died."

"What about the school?" He said.

"We managed to save all the learners but the headmaster was murdered and some of the masters died on the fight. The place… The Two Suns Gardens were destroyed."

That was more than enough for the rest of guardians to understand what she meant. Even Orube's voice seemed to tremble and go a bit darker when she said it: "The Two Suns Gardens were destroyed". The place where both Orube and Isa, and some other good warriors at Basilide and surroundings, were trained during years in their lives was now destroyed, their head was killed and same went for some of the teachers there. That was certainly hurting the light guardian too.

"Hum… I understand." Endarno said. "The most important now is Basilide seems safe until we can get the informing of the other guardian." He added looking to where Isa was laying.

"It's going to be a bit difficult to do it fast, Endarno." Yan Lin said. "This is not normal wounds. We have to remove the slightest drop of poison she can have."

"Did she said something before… well, going so ill?" Oracle said.

"She said something about everything changing." Will said remembering.

"Yes, and mentioned something about broken traditions, fights beginning on that dimension." Taranee said.

"And mad people." Irma said. "Yet maybe that was not cause of that. She seemed ill then, maybe it was all hallucinations."

"And then the wounds." Caleb said.

"I bet she was attacked by a Red Crakertogten." Phobos said. "Even when she didn't agreed nor denied it."

"It could be." Oracle said. "But those are not really numerous at Basilide's dimension."

"They… were soldiers…" Isa muttered while Yan Lin ended healing her up. "Something… was controlling the enemies…"

Then she blinked once and twice and smiled while the Oracle held her hand to help her standing up.

"So, what news can you tell you from your planet, my friend?" He asked her.

"The enemy, whoever he is, seems to have find a way of controlling vicious creatures to help him or her fighting this war." She said as she refused the help for being on her feet and standing still. "Whoever is doing this has managed to make everything change making a great mess and chaos. Traditions are beginning to break and be forgot, fights have began all over the place by the time I arrived. All the people seemed to have gone mad and there were no longer alliances I could trust on. The only ones standing against invaders were the Shinkingamis and they can just face all that, not solve anything."

"But there's something else that is making your heart weigh too much." Yan Lin said. "What is worrying you, dear?"

"I have got rumours saying… well, the black and fool warrior is back again." She said now forgetting a bit of her warrior manners. "I'm worried about it, she is not ready for fighting such a war yet."

"We will have a look at that." Endarno said serious. "Anything else?"

Isa then bit her lower lip before keeping on.

"I was wondering… I'm worried about old Yuro." She said making Orube's face immediately go dark and look down. "He is the best warrior I've ever met but… well, he must be a bit old and… yet I know he must be able to fight lot of intruders I can't help being worried about him… Oh, that's a silly thing for a warrior to feel." She muttered sorry the back of her neck. "I'm sorry. I beg you to forgive my improper and rude behaviour." She said bowing.

"If that was rudeness then what must they think about us." Irma whispered for the guardians.

"It's ok you are worried for who was your master." Oracle said.

"That probes a great heart every single warrior must have." Endarno said. "However… it's not longer use to be worried about him."

"He is safe…" She said smiling mildly. "That's it, he must be safe and sound with the pupils…"

But for Orube's face even the guardians, Caleb and Phobos, who didn't knew the man they were talking about, could see he was not safe as the light warrior thought.

"No, he is not with the pupils." Oracle said.

"Is it any need of her to know?" Will asked. "Will telling the truth this time fix anything?!"

"Guardian, you should watch your mouth out." Endarno said then.

"The choice is hers." Oracle said. "It will fix nothing but she deserves to know the truth. The question is other. Will she be ready for truth?"

Then they all fell silent. The light and darkness guardian was being now supported by everyone. She looked at everyone looking sad at her.

"I'm ready." Isa said separating from the rest. "I will face anything you can tell me."

"The Two Suns Gardens no longer exists." Oracle said. "Lot of brave and skilled warriors have fall, Yuro was one of them. And we think that was not by hazard, they aimed at it in order to end one by one with all of the warriors trainers."

Then Isa seemed to happened something. Her eyes went black and opener but she didn't changed her position or faint or cry.

"In this moment, nothing you can know is safe anymore." Yan Lin said. "And Meridian is being attacked now as we speak. No, Cornelia. You are not going there now."

"You are needed all together at Earth." Endarno said. "Because we can sense it will be where most of the attack will be focused to."

"WE ARE ALL TIRED OF THAT WAY OF ACTING!" Will said speaking for all. "YOU ALWAYS DECIDE EVERYTHING BY YOURSELVES! ALL YOU DO IS TO TELL US WHERE TO GO AND WHAT TO DO BUT YOU NEVER GIVE US TRUE DETAILS! YOU DON'T CARE IF YOU HURT ANYONE OR IF ANY OF US IS HURTED!"

"This is not a way of speaking to us." Endarno said frowning.

"It's ok Endarno." Oracle said. "Let them speak freely. If they put their fury out it will be just fine."

It seemed Will was to keep on but Isa stepped in front of her.

"Will, let's go back home, please." She said softer than usually. "We need to rest and get ready for the fight."

Then they looked at her. Even Orube was now on the guardians' side. That was not a way of acting even when she was used to it.

"Isa… don't you feel bad for how they have acted?" Hai Lin said.

"No." She said shaking her head and faking a smile. "I'm happy you think about me but… it was me who asked for the truth, they can't be blamed for that."

"Great loyalty they don't deserve." Phobos said. "Pity you were not my follower, two or three like you and Meridian would have kept on being mine."

"Phobos!!" The guardians told him off furious.

"Ok, come here." Phobos said holding Isa over his shoulder. "Let's go back home and rest a bit. There's someone who deserves it."

"Don't hold me like that." She said poking his back with a finger and making his legs tremble and him to fall to his knees so she was freed. "I don't like it."

"Wow!" Irma said. "I'd call that to have a man to your feet…"

"What have you done on him?" Hai Lin said.

"A bit of strength on a concrete spot of his back." Isa said softly. "Easy human technique but really effective." She added while she began holding Phobos to help him walk.

"Hai Lin." Yan Lin said mentally when they were about going away. "Take care of her. I'm afraid of the consequences on her knowing that."