In the last chapter...
"What are you up to, Talon?", Nigel questioned. "If you wanted to try and take Elyon's powers, you just had a good chance to do so!"
"Which begs the question, what are you really up to?", Joel questioned.
"Looks like you've chose you deputies well, Angelo.", Talon said. "But my plans are my own. Plans that will come to light real soon."
"Not if we can help it!", Hay Lin said. "We will stop you!"
"You'll try.", Jeron said. "Remember. We have the powers of the Dark Crystals backing up!"
"Power isn't everything!", Nigel said.
"Less talking! More fighting!", Larra said ready to fight.
"I couldn't agree more!", Talon said. "Attack!"
"Battle time, boys!", Angelo said as he, Joel, and, Nigel flew at Talon and his team that were flying at them.
"Guardians, GO!", Hay Lin said as they flew were right behind them.
"Here goes nothing!", Matt said as he flew next to Will.
Chapter 25:
Once close enough everyone, good and bad, split off going after or flying from someone!
Joel & Irma vs Victor
"Figured you'd come after me, Victor!", Joel said as he turned face Victor, while still flying away from him.
"Oh really now?", Victor questioned before firing an energy blast at Joel.
"Yeah, really.", Joel replied while dodging the attack. "Which is why we trained for this!"
"We?", Victor questioned.
Suddeenly, Victor was covered, up to his neck, in water! He turned around to see Irma right behind him. She then, with a smirk, clinched her fist and turned the water to ice, freezing Victor.
"Cool off, jerk!", Irma said as she Victor fell to the ground.
Once he hit the ground, the ice holding him scattered, and he fell to the ground. Victor got to his feet and was ready to fly, but his wings were still cold from the ice he was trapped in!
"Crap! When I get my hands on that Guardian I'll...", Victor began to say as he turned to look upward only to seee Joel flying at him. "What the..."
Victor was cut off as Joel flew at him and punched him, knocking him out!
"That should do it!", Joel said as he and Irma landed next to Victor's unconscious form. "I hope. But just to be sure."
Joel reached for his belt and pulled out a thing of cuffs from the pouch on the belt. He then cuffed Victor's wrist together. The cuffs then glowed a light blue color.
"What's with the cuffs?", Irma asked.
"They're Neutral Cuffs.", Joel said. "They cut off the powers of any being with powers. To be honest, I never thought that we'd be able to get them on Victor."
"Well, let's just hope that the others are as easy to beat.", Irma said as she and Joel looked up at the others hoping for the best.
Nigel, Matt, & Will vs Jeron
"So, it's the three of you against me?", Jeron questioned as Nigel, Matt, and Will flew at him. "Well then, show me what you can do!"
"Gladly!", Nigel said as he and Matt flew at him with Will hanging back.
Matt fired his eyebeams while Nigel fired an energy blast at Jeron who countered with energy blast from all four of his hands! When the attacks hit each other, there was an explosion creating a thing of smoke. Waiting for them to strike, Jeron took a fighting stance while scanning the area.
'Where are they?', Jeron thought to himself as the smoke cloud slowly faded away.
As the smoke cloud faded away, he saw Nigel and Matt hovering in the air.
"There you are!", Jeron said with a smirk. "Wait! Where is the girl!"
Suddenly, Jeron felt a surge of electriclty run through him from behind. He let out a scream of pain as the electricity ran through him. Lucky for him, he was in his Dark Wing Knight form. But it was still enough power to stun him enough to have him fall to the ground.
"I can't believe that worked!", Will said as Jeron fell.
"It'll take more than that to take me down!", Jeron said as he began to flap his wings.
"We know!", Matt said as he and Nigel flew down at him.
"Which is why we're finishing the job!", Nigel said as he and Matt rammed into Jeron making him fall faster towards the ground!
"You fools!", Jeron snapped as Nigel and Matt were ramming him closer towards the ground. "You'll go down with me!"
"That's what you think!", Matt said as they were getting closer to the ground.
Then just before they hit the ground, Matt formed an energy aura around himself and Nigel! Once they hit the ground, a dust cloud was formed around them. Seeing the dust cloud, Will landed a few feet from it.
"Matt! Nigel!", Will called out hoping they were okay. "Guys?"
Will suddenly heard some coughing from with in the dust cloud. Charging electricity in her hands, just in case if Jeron comes out, Will takes a fighting stance. But she smiles when she sees Matt and Nigel walking out of the dust cloud.
"You guys had me worried for a minute there.", Will said.
"You weren't the only one worried.", Matt said as he brushed some dirt off of himself. "But we did knock that Jeron guy out."
"That's good to hear!", Will said as the dust settled to show Jeron knocked out.
"And now for the Neutral Cuffs.", Nigel said as he pulled out two part of the cuffs and cuffed Jerons wrist with them.
"What do they do?", Matt asked.
"They cut off the powers of any being with powers.", Nigel explained. "Thankfully, they made to fit anyone."
"One size fits all.", Will said. "Lucky us!"
"Now I wonder where Neta is.", Nigel said. "She has to be around here somewhere!"
"Question is, where?", Will said.
Hay Lin, Taranee, & Cornelia vs Larra
"How fast is she?", Hay Lin questioned as Larra was flying circles around the three Guardians.
"I don't know, but we better think of someway to stop her before she takes us out!", Cornelia said before Larra hit her from behind. "Ooof! See what I mean?"
Larra then began to strike at all three of them as she flew around them at a fast pace. After a few seconds, Larra stopped in front of them with a smirk.
"Come on girls!", Larra said as they glared at her. "You can only take so much of a beating before you drop! So, you can either give up or try something!"
'I hate to say it, but she has a point there.', Cornelia said through their telepathic link. 'All she's been doing is taking hits at us while flying around us!'
'I have an idea but I need your help, Hay Lin.', Taranee said.
'What's your plan?', Hay Lin asked.
As they were talking telepathiclly, Larra was growing bored as she hovered in the air in front of them.
"Well, if you three are going to just hover there in the air, I might as well, finish you off!", she said as she flew towards them and began to circle around them, ready to restart her assult on them.
"You ready, Hay Lin?", Taranee asked.
"Ready! Willing! And Able!", Hay Lin said as she held her arms out.
Hay Lin then began to form an air funnel and shot it out towards Larra. Taranee soon follow with by adding fire to it making a fire funnel! Seeing this comig at her, Larra took off from it.
"Nice try girl!", Larra said. "But you have to be quicker than that!"
But as Larra looked behind her, she saw that the fire funnel was right behind her.
"Whoa!", Larra shouted as she began to pick up speed. "How long is that thing?"
Larra was flying as fast as she could from Hay Lin and Taranee's fire funnel! But what she didn't see was that Cornelia had teletransported a few feet in front of her.
"What the heck!", Larra said as Cornelia held her hands out in front of her.
"Gotcha!", Cornelai said as she hit Larra with a powerful telekinetic blast.
Once it hit her, Larra was sent flying back towards the fire funnel. Taking a chance, Larra wrapped her wings around herself for protection. Once in the funnel, Larra began to feel the heat as she was being sucked though it. Thankfully her wings, like all Wing Knights' wings, could take a lot of punishment. Once in deep enough of the fire funnel, Hay Lin and Taranee whipped it back and flung it forward sending Larra crashing to the ground! Thinking quickly, Cornelai landed and made some strong vines grow and wrap around Larra, who still had her wings wrapped around herself.
"Hey!", Larra yelled as she tried to get free as well as unwrap her wings. "Let me go! This isn't funny!"
"For you it isn't!", Cornelia said as Hay Lin and Taranee landed next to her.
"What are you going to do now?", Taranee asked in a teasing tone getting as laugh out of Cornelia and Hay Lin.
"That's it!", Larra snapped.
Suddenly, Larra was covered in a yellow aura. She then busted free of the vines, making the three Guardians jump back from her.
"Now, I'm going to kick your butts!", Larra said as she spreaded her wings.
But before she could do anything, Joel and Nigel got the jump on her and grabbed her arms!
"Hey!", Larra shouted trying to get free. "Let me go!"
"Gladly!", Joel said as he slapped a pair of Neutral Cuffs on her wrist.
"Aw, crud!", Larra said as she sat on the ground. "No fair! You two are no fun!"
"So sue us!", Nigel said as Irma, Will, and Matt teletransported to them with Victor and Jeron in tow.
They then sat the three of them together with their backs against each other glad to of had them out of the way. Just then, Caleb came up to them, riding on a horse.
"I take it everything went alright?", Caleb questioned as he saw Jeron, Larra, and Victor cuffed.
"Yeah.", Cornelia said. "How's Elyon?"
"She's oksy.", Caleb said as he walked up to her. "She's getting some much needed rest. She may of had the power to fight Talon, but once he punched her, she was out of the fight."
"I'm just glad she's okay.", Cornelia said,
"That and Talon's team is down and out.", Irma said.
"And with them out of the way, there's just Talon left.", Will said as they all looked up at Angelo and Talon fighting.
"And that's one fight I don't want to get in between.", Irma said. Look at those two go at it!"
"I think this has been a long time coming.", Hay Lin said.
"You think?", Larra said sarcasticlly. "Once Talon beats Angelo, he'll free us and we'll be on our way with what we came for!"
"And what did you all come here for?", Joel questioned.
"Wouldn't you like to know?", Larra asked with a smirk.
"Actually... Yeah! We would!", Hay Lin said as she tried to read her thoughts.
"Now! Now, Keeper!", Larra said with a smirk. "It's not going to be that easy!"
"She's right.", Hay Lin said while rubbing her forehead after she stopped trying to read Larra's mind. "She has some kind of mental block protecting her mind. I can't read her thoughts!"
"Me neither.", Taranee said while rubbing her forehead.
"This is Neta's handy work!", Nigel said. "She has psychic powers."
"Well, that's just great!", Cornelia said. "That's the last thing we need!"
"Then let's hope Angelo can beat Talon, so this can all be over with.", Matt said as they all continued to look up at the fight between the two.
Angelo vs Talon
"Looks like your friends were able to beat my team!", Talon said as he and Angelo were exchanging blows. "Looks like you were prepared for us!"
"Well, I figured that Victor and Larra, unlike you and Jeron, would be using the power from the shards of the Dark Crystal!", Angelo said as he blocked one of Talon's kicks. "So, we just planned out ways to take you and your team down!"
"I see!", Talon said as he blocked one of Angelo's punches. "You figured that Victor would go after Joel, after the defeat he gave him on Earth! So, you made sure the Water Guardian was at the ready to freeze Victor! And when he broke free, his wings would freeze, keeping him grounded long enough for Joel to knock him out and cuff him!"
"Pretty much!", Angelo said before they both moved back from each other and fired powerful beams of energy at each other!
Once both attacks collided, a shockwave went off as both attacks pushed against each other, struggling to out do the other.
"Now as for Jeron, having Nigel, Matt, and Will take him on was a simple choice!", Angelo said as he began to pour more power into his attack. "Cause let's face it! When Jeron gets into a battle, he mostly focuses one those in front of him."
"And Larra?", Talon questioned as he poured more power into his attack.
"She's fast!", Angelo said. "But not to bright sometimes.!"
"True!", Talon said as their attacks were reaching it's peek.
Suddenly, their attacks reached their peek and exploded sending them both flying back! But they soon balanced themselves as they eyed each other.
"So, where's Neta?", Angelo questioned. "I know she's here somewhere."
"She's... around.", Talon said with a smirk.
"What are you up to?", Angelo questioned.
"You'll soon find out!", Talon said with the same smirk. "And trust me when I say it's a good one!"
Down on the ground, Victor and Jeron had just come to and saw that they were in cuffed Neutral Cuffs. A smirk came to Victor's face as he looked down at them.
"Neutral Cuffs, huh?", he whispered as he reached inside his boot and pulled out some lock picks. "They haven't built a lock that I can't pick!"
"Hurry up will you!", Jeron whispered to Victor.
"Just a few more seconds.", Victor said as he was almost finished picking the lock on the cuffs. "There! I got it!"
Victor then blasted the Neutral Cuffs off of Jeron and Larra, freeing them. The three of them got to their feet and were ready to attack! Thankfully, Matt turned to check on them to see them up and ready to strike!
"Look out!", Matt yelled warning the others.
Everyone turned to see Jeron, Larra, and Victor on their feet and ready to attack. But instead of attacking, Larra clapped her hands together releasing a bright flash of light.
"What was that?", Caleb questioned as he closed his eyes from the bright light.
"Can't see!", Taranee said as she covered her eyes.
"Where are they?", Joel questioned aas he and the others covered their eyes.
"Hey!", Will yelled as she felt someone grab her roughly. "Let go!"
"Will?", Matt called out as his vision started to clear.
Once his and the others' vision cleared they saw that Jeron had Will while Larra was flying towards Talon and Angelo.
"We win.", Victor said with a smirk as he stood along side Jeron. "You lose. Big time!"
A/N: Well, after a good fight, Will got nabbed and Larra is about to get the jump on Angelo. And when will Neta do what she has planned? And does it involved Will? Find out in the next chapter!
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