Vol. 07

Chapter 28

Selina stopped by at Ellie's place to pick up something that belongs to her. "I'm here, Ellie! I'm ready for the repaired bracelet!" Ellie came to the living room quickly with a velvet box that's the size of her hand.

"I got it right here. Give me your wrist." Selina brought up her wrist to Ellie. Ellie opened the box revealing the repaired silver bracelet, with S.C. carved in. "My mother told me to tell you that when you're playing soccer our any other sports, you got to remove all jewelry before playing or else you'll break them like what you did to this bracelet. I can't believe you manage to break a thick silver bracelet!" Ellie put the bracelet onto Selina's wrist checking the fitting.

"It's not my fault that a player decided to kick my wrist! If it wasn't for my bracelet I would have gotten a broken wrist."

"Sure. Well it seems to fit properly." Ellie gave Selina back her wrist. Selina noticed that Ellie didn't look to convince.

"You're being way to serious to be Ellie, are you sure nothing is bothering you because if it's the payment of the repair, I'll pay in installments." Ellie smiled and laughed a little.

"No, it's not that."

"Then what is it?" Selina sat on the couch and patted the space beside her, Ellie sat down right next to her.

"I'm sorry for being so gloom lately."

"That's okay, I'm quite use to it when it comes to mood swings, not mentioning who. You have something on your mind?"

"Well, I don't know what to say. I'm just worried about Alannah. Now, she misuses tennis equipment and things. She never did things like that before. It's like she's a totally different person."

"Maybe she's just tense because the important tournament is coming up." Selina tried to reason.

"That's what I thought at first, but that's not it. I wondered what's happened to her?" Ellie looked like she was about to cry.

"Alannah, did something happen? If there's anything I can help you with, just let me know." Ellie asked. Alannah turned her head towards Ellie but her back is still in view.

"This is none of your business." Alannah responded. Ellie was shock by her answer.

"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to bother you."

"I don't know why Alannah would act like that. I think maybe something terrible has happened to her, but she won't say anything to me." Tears were slowly flowing down Ellie's face. Selina felt bad.

"I see. Hey, why don't we investigate what happened? I will help you!" Selina said it with such enthusiasm. Ellie looked up to her.

"Selina...You don't need to do that."

"I have nothing better to do. So, cheer up!" The two left Ellie's place and went to the tennis club that Alannah goes as it gets dark. "So, this is the tennis club Alannah goes to?" Selina asked.

"Yeah. She practices here after classes." Ellie explained. Selina sigh in worry. Ellie noticed. "What's wrong?" Selina jumped a little.

"Oh, nothing!" I have a bad feeling about this. This couldn't be the work of the enemy, could it?Oh, but if I do a good job here, I can get back at Luna, showing her who's responsible. Selina thought to herself in the most devious way, Ellie saw her face expression from normal to creepy.

"Selina...What are you thinking?" Ellie asked but before Selina could answer, they both heard yell from the courts. The two ran in and saw a tennis ball in shreds beside a tennis player on the ground in pain. The other player was nervous. "Hey, are you alright?" he asked the player. The other player got up from the ground and recovered from the impact. "What a ball!"

"What's wrong? You're both pros! You should be able to hit this!" Said Alannah with a tease. The two professionals were looking scared. "Please give us a break!" they begged.

"Okay, here comes the next one!" Alannah squeezed the ball in her hand and managed to deform it. She took her position and ready to serve.

"Stop!" Selina yelled out, as the two girls went inside the court. Alannah grew angry.

"Out of my way!" She demanded. The two professionals ran away from the court and Selina watched them as if they were bullied little boys.

"No! Please stop acting like this, Alannah!" Ellie yelled out to her.

"Get out of my way, Ellie!" Alannah yelled back.

"No!"

"Ellie is worried about you!" Selina supported Ellie.

"Move!" Alannah's racket glowed in her hands. "Move!" Alannah did a back hand and a explosion of energy burst out of the racket throwing the two girls into the bushes. Within the shadows, Paris sense what is happening.

"The energy level is at it's peak. Go, Eleni!" Paris commanded. The Alannah's racket took possession of Alannah's soul and transformed into a lady monster dressed in a black tennis outfit.

"Your energy is mine now!" The Eleni spoke with a foreigner accent. Selina saw the monster appeared at the court.

"That's a monster! Okay, this is new!" Selina left the unconscious body of Ellie in the bushes and ran for cover at the side of a building. It's time to show them what you've got, Selina! "Upon the Rule of Diana, Lend Me Your Light!" After the transformation Selina showed herself. "A monster can never aim for the ace! Misusing tennis for evil deeds...I bet even Sharapova is crying now! I'm the warrior of the Hunt and the Moon, Guardian Moon! Under the name of Diana, I will defeat you!" After all that, Eleni (the monster) stood there and laughed.

"Impudent girl!" Eleni brought her hand and created a racket out of fire with a white energy ball in the middle. Selina got nervous not knowing what her opponent will do. Eleni did a serve, throwing the energy ball right at Selina. Selina turned around quickly and ran away as fast as she could but the ball hit her from the back and she ended up on the ground. When she got up, she noticed her white uniform turned into the material of a tennis ball.

"What is this?! This is a joke right?!" Selina freaked. Eleni walked up to her and made her float in the air. Selina didn't like what was happening. "This is too high! Put me down!" Selina was higher than the tallest trees.

"If you say so." Eleni responded. All of a sudden Selina dropped down in such speed and the court grounds and bounced up and hit the fence.

"I should have called everybody first!" Selina mentioned in pain. Eleni laughed as she enjoyed herself with her new toy.

"You look good out there!" She commented as Selina was continuing to bounce of the ground, over the net and against the fence. She end up hitting her face, her back and everywhere else that I obviously haven't mentioned. Eleni continue to laugh until a leaf cut her cheek. "Who's there?!" Eleni looked where the leaf had come from and saw a green suited man sitting on a park bench, giggling. Selina finally stopped bouncing and tried to get up, withstanding her injuries.

"Guardian Earth, it's about time you showed up!" Selina yelled out not looking too happy to see him.

"If you interfere with me, you will end up like her!" Eleni threaten him.

"It looks fun. Why don't you try it!" He talked back.

"You fool. Then you can find out for yourself if it's really fun!" Eleni lunged a energy ball at him but Guardian Earth managed to dodge the attack by leaping up into the giant venue lights making himself invisible for her to see. He took out a brown branch-like cane and extend it aiming right at the enemy pushing her all the way to other side of the court. Selina stood aside and watched while still wearing the tennis ball clothes.

"That's a pretty neat weapon." She commented. When Eleni hit the ground, Selina's uniform went back to normal, but her wounds are still there. "I'm back to normal." Guardian Earth landed beside Selina holding his branch as it shrunk to it's regular size. "Thank you for your help." Selina thought that she should say something nice to the guy.

"Don't let your guard down!" He responded. Selina went back to her old self.

"I was only being nice!" She said under her breathe. Eleni got up from his attack ready for anything.

"Why you..."

"Watch out!" He said to Selina and the two took guard.

"I know what I'm doing!" She responded back. I never thought I'd get to fight with Guardian Earth. This is weird of him to help. Eleni brought out her flaming racket and serve them a ball of fire.

"Take this!" She shot the ball right at them and the two each went in opposite directions and dodged the attack. "There. There. There! THERE!" Eleni started to shoot rapidly the fire balls at Selina, which she is dodging successfully. "And this and this and this!"

"Hey, what is this? Stop it! What are you going to do if it hits me?!" Selina continues to dodge around the court until a fire ball passed under her foot before she land and made her landing awkward, spraining her ankle. She was on her knees when a giant fireball came right at her and there was no way for her to avoid. In an instant, Guardian Earth leaped to Selina and grabbed whole of her and jumped away from the giant fireball. Selina's mind was blank as the two drifted in the air with him still holding on to her. Now that I'm close to him, his scent is familiar, but why?

"We'll finish her now." He mentioned, Selina came back from the clouds and responded quickly.

"Right." As the two landed safely, Selina remembered her injured ankle. Eleni shot another fireball that's was huge.

"DIE!" Amazingly, Selina managed to dodged it but the effort was painful, Guardian Earth managed to dodge it on the other side. He took out a bundle of leaves and threw at Eleni's face, blinding her.

"Now! Guardian Moon!" He yelled out to Selina but as he did, he felt all of a sudden painfully weak.

"Got it!" Selina stood her ground the best she could and noticed Guardian Earth didn't look right. "Guardian Earth, are you alright?!" As she was about to go to him, he stopped her.

"Don't worry about me! Use your discus, quickly!" He said as he bares the pain. Eleni was still struggling to get the leaves off her eyes.

"Fine! Silver Moon, Watch My Aim!" Selina threw the discus towards the monster. Eleni finally cleared her eyes but it was too late, the discus made impact with the monster. As the battle ended, Guardians Mercury, Mars and wolfed out Luna finally showed up and witness the remains of the monster disintegrate into thin air. Alannah still on the ground started to regain her consciousness.

"Guardian Moon! You pulled it off!" Commented Hermione.

"Not too bad!" Said Marcella.

"I guess it means she's growing up a little." Admitted Luna. Selina in the court looking around and saw that he wasn't there.

"Oh, he's not there. I wonder if Guardian Earth is okay?"

The next day at the college's tennis court, Selina and Ellie stood by and watched Alannah play. "Alannah said she doesn't remember anything she did." Ellie mentioned in a odd note.

"Well, at least she's doing fine now, so it's good, right?" Selina said with such happiness.

"Yeah, that's true." Ellie agreed. Alannah ran up to them in a huff.

"Ellie, do you want to play a little?" Alannah offered.

"Sure, I guess if it's just a little. Go easy on me, okay?" Ellie ran into the court with Alannah.

"Oh, I can't do that! Then you can serve first!" She said back.

"Okay, then I'll give you my super lethal serve!" Ellie joked. Selina stood there and watched the two enjoy themselves.

"I'll bet it'd be fun to play tennis with a pro." Selina as usual wasn't paying any attention to whats going on. The tennis ball came right to her face giving her an impression of the ball. Selina hit the ground with a thump.

"Sorry, Selina! Selina, please wake up!" Ellie felt guilty.