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Chapter Twenty-Five: The Power Within.

Opening her brown eyes confused, Avalon looked around the room confused about where she was and she had a feeling that this wasn't a good thing; her head ached and she couldn't remember what had happened after she had passed out. Peeking down at her clothes, Avalon frowned wondering why she was wearing golden dress; it hadn't been what she had been wearing for the battle and she didn't recall getting changed. The last thing that she remembered was being at the battle at the high school, where she and Leila had been fighting several Mogadorians but after that there was nothing but darkness.

"What on Lorien is going on?" Avalon asked looking around, she paused as she heard someone entering the room; she was sure that she had been here before yet she couldn't truly remember when that was. Avalon felt faint when she saw who had entered the room, it seemed to be an older version of herself and it left her with even more questions about what was going on here. Nothing made sense and Avalon truly hadn't been expecting this when she had opened her eyes; it felt like only a moment ago, that she had passed out and now she was seeing this.

"Leila, have you seen John?" other Avalon asked Leila, who seemed to have appeared from nowhere and was now sat at the table in the centre of the room. Avalon swallowed as she tried to wrap her head around what was going on, it didn't make any sense and she wondered for a moment if either of them could see that she was here.

"Sorry Ava, but don't worry he won't worry he can't have gone far isn't it his turn to watch the twins?" Leila asked with a shake of her head, her words making Avalon pale at the very idea of having children. They were in the middle of a war right now and she didn't think that she was ready to have children of her own; she doubted that she would be ready anytime soon.

"You'll be a wonderful mother," mused a voice that made Avalon jump, she turned around to face the person that had spoken just as the scene that she had been watching disappeared before her eyes. Lady Adela smiled approaching her granddaughter, it only felt like moments ago, to her that she had been giving her Midnight and now here she was all grown up and ready for what came next. There wasn't much time and Lady Adela could only imagine what had transpired before this moment; she could only hope that Avalon was prepared for what came next.

"That is an echo of what could be, I am an echo of what was," Lady Adela said sadly, she wished with all of her power that she could be with her right now but she was sure that she would have died during the invasion that had taken their planet. The council had planned this for a time and Lady Adela felt blessed that she would get to see how Avalon would have turned out; she wished that she would have been there to see it happen.

Avalon peeked back to find the other two figures had disappeared, she had no idea how they were doing this but to talk with her grandmother felt like a gift. There had to be some sort of power that was allowing this to happen and she doubted that they would have much time to talk about everything that needed to be said.

"Now let's get down to business… there is much to be told and so little time," Lady Adela mused looking at her only granddaughter sadly, she knew that this would be the last time that she saw her and she needed to pass on her wisdom before it was lost forever.

John and the Garde were working hard to push the Mogadorians back and to create a strong hold were the group could recover from the battle; they weren't going well and they needed their strength. It seemed to drag on and none of them were sure about what was going to happen now; Sam had found the others after Avalon had suddenly lost consciousness. Camden had been the one to give the order to fall back much to the annoyance of Six who had wanted them to continue to fight their way back; they had barricade themselves into one of the classrooms allowing Leila to try and heal them all while they had the chance.

"Will she be okay?" John asked not being sure what to make of his girlfriend's unconscious form, he ignored the small argument that was occurring between Sarah and Mark. The other teenager had shown up when he had heard that there was something happening at the school and he had been sure that Sarah would be there; now they just couldn't seem to get rid of them. Mason nodded his head exhaustedly watching Avalon, her head was resting on John's lap and he could only hope that she would wake up soon.

"I can't get a read on her thoughts," Mason admitted making John look at him concerned before he looked down at Avalon, he didn't like this and he could only hope that something wasn't going wrong. They had come so far and he didn't think he would be able to cope if this was it for them; they deserved to make it out of here alive. The room was silent as they all thought about what had happened, it had been a long day and the last thing they needed was to be a member short right now with the Mogadorians winning their fight.

"Maybe she's having a powerful vision," Leila suggested taking note of how fast Avalon's eyes seemed to move beneath her eye-lids; she wasn't an expert but she knew that it would be a good reason for her to be unconscious right now.

Lady Adela smiled sitting down at the table with Avalon; she had to get to the point since it wouldn't be long before the brunette would have to return to her body and they wouldn't be able to do this again.

"Now where to begin," Lady Adela murmured watching Avalon, who seemed to be struggling with the fact that she was unconscious and had just seen her future; she didn't know what to think of what was happening. Of course, it was good news that they might make it out of here alive but she had no idea just how long the fighting would truly last.

"First I wanted to say that I'm so proud of you for making it this far with so little supervision; however, you need to start taking control more," Lady Adela insisted watching her granddaughter closely. She was not brought up to take orders from others and Lady Adela only had some idea about what had transpired before this moment took place.

Avalon was the only member of the council that remained and she shouldn't be letting the others tell her what to do; it was her birth right that was at stake every time that she stood back and let others take charge. Avalon chewed on her lip, she had never really been the take charge type and she knew that she was a little unexperienced to be leading the Garde into war; she didn't even have any idea about how she would do so.

"It is important that you find the other Garde before the Mogadorians do; the Pittacus charm has ended since Four, Eight and Six are now together and this leaves the others in danger," Lady Adela continued.

Avalon noticed a glowing sphere in the room that captured her attention, she didn't know what it was but she felt like it was important for her to remember what it looked like. It made her memory jump a little and she was sure that it was important, she tried to remember just what she was looking at and the crystal around her neck seemed to burn a little the longer that she looked at it.

"You need to find the other parts of the Lorien crystal that you are wearing, upon touching the shards of the crystal to yours they will tell you were the next piece is, when you have found all the pieces they will lead you to…" Lady Adela said before something made the room shake causing Avalon to jump up; the brunette looked around confused wondering what was going on. She had thought that this was a dream and yet the shaking seemed to be very real; the room started to grow dark like a storm was gathering outside of the windows.

"It seems the others need you now," Lady Adela said sadly as the room started to shake even more, this was not how she had wanted things to end and she hated that their time was being cut short right now. Nodding her head, Avalon couldn't imagine how she would help them when she was unconscious and even less of an idea about what she would do when she was awake. Lady Adela smiled softly getting to her feet and stepped towards her granddaughter, she knew that this was goodbye for them; the next time she saw Avalon, she would be a little girl again.

"I can only offer you this piece of advice, believe in the love you have for your bonded, for your friends and hopefully your planet, this is the key to your power," Lady Adela whispered with tears in her eyes before she slowly disappeared from the room which also started to disappear as well. Avalon looked around as the room became dark before her hands went to the crystal around her neck; it seemed to glow and she had a feeling that it might just help her in some way now.

"Is she meant to be doing that?" Sam asked drawing everyone's attention away from the door that was threatening to breakdown as the Mogadorians pounded on it to get inside and back to Avalon, who had started to glow. The Garde started at what was happening to their friend before Six cursed under her breath and she quickly moved to grab hold of Sam and dragged him away from Avalon.

"Now she decides to help, everyone duck and cover; Leila cover us with your shield," Six ordered not wanting to be blown up, she turned over a table and pushed Sam behind it before making sure that everyone else was ducking for cover. Sam looked at Six confused making her roll her eyes at him as she ducked behind the table and prepared for the worst; they didn't have much time and they didn't need to be caught out now.

"Someone had to save your ass," Six muttered with a shake of her head, the light that came from Avalon seemed to get even brighter and before she could say another word a blast ripped through the room. The Garde all snapped their eyes closed and held on to each other as the blast ripped through the room, destroying everything as it went; there was no way that anything would be able to withstand what was too come.

The Mogadorians, who were around the room were killed instantly while the building started to shake from the pressure of the blast making the building collapse in places. Leila's nose started to bleed from the pressure being applied to her shield while others around her started to lose consciousness as the room started to heat up while the lights above them started to burst from the power of the blast that Avalon had created.

"What the hell is that?" Sarah screamed clinging to Mark terrified, the room seemed to be boiling and she felt faint at the heat that was coming from where Avalon was; she had never experienced anything like this in her life. Camden grinned offering a quick glance towards where Sarah and Mark, he couldn't believe that Avalon had been holding this back when they had been losing the battle.

"That is Quintessence," Camden called to them, the room seemed to shake as the power started to become too much; they were in real danger of the room collapsing if this didn't end soon. If any surviving Mogadorians saw that then they were going to have one hell of a fight on their hands; they would want to destroy the source of the power that had killed the others.

The blast seemed to be over before any of them realised what was happening; John was the first to climb out of his hiding place and he rushed to Avalon's side. He had never seen anything like that before and he feared that this would have caused more damage than they knew about; he was relieved to find that she had woken up.

"You're okay," Avalon whispered in awe that the plan had worked, she was exhausted and could barely keep her eyes open as she stared up at John. John's blue eyes swept over her body, the cream blouse that she had been wearing was dirty now and had smudges of blood on it; there was no reason sign of the colour that it had originally been.

"I'll make this better Ava," John whispered to her before he placed his hand over her heart and let a beam of his Lumen touch her; he didn't know what he would do if she didn't recover from this. As John repowered Avalon, he felt something else take over him making him feel just as weak as Avalon; he didn't last much longer before he succumbed to the feeling and collapsed next to Avalon losing his consciousness before Avalon joined him.

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