Well back again I told you I'd have these next few chapters up fast. ^_^
Well I'm going to get straight to the point I haven't taken over the world
(despite my attempts) so I own nothing but the plot and the new characters
I made up. Thanks to aqua1332 and Avaris Sky for the reviews Smiles
happily. Now on with the story!
~Avalon
Chapter 10: Can you help me?
Kali was swept up in a bright light and when she opened her eyes it looked to her like she was surrounded in water but she was dry and she could breathe. Her feet hit ground; a bright light flashed forcing her to close her eyes. When she opened them she was wearing a snow-white gown with her tiara and, as always, the manacle now broken. Before her stood a glittering Palace. She turned around and looked behind her what she saw amazed her. A beautiful vast garden, with many plants that she knew from Earth and many she didn't.
"Welcome to the Glitter Palace Princess Kali."
"King Ryol." He walked towards her. Dressed in a white Jacket with a dark blue shirt showing underneath and a blue sash, to indicate his royal position, black pants and a gold belt finished off his outfit. This was a father she had never known.
"I'm here in your mind my dear, and I'll always be here whenever you need me my dearest daughter."
"Can you help me please I do not know how to save my friends."
"The powers in the stone."
The shattered stone floated down between them.
"The stone of light and justice."
"The strength of your desire to save your friends makes the stone grow bright and strong again."
The stone become whole and again and transformed into a sword, the blade made of the stone.
"Look at it, it is beautiful. With the powers in this sword I can save my friends, I can save this world."
"Dear princess remember the stone hasn't yet regained all its power but the stronger the true desire to save your friends the stronger it will become, it follows your heart. Please be proud of the fact that you are a princess and a warrior. One day you will become the Princess of Gaia once more."
"I will make you proud King Ryol, dad." Tears came to her eyes.
"Now say: By the power of Gaia take me back!"
Kali walked away and turned to look at her father. He nodded. "By the power of Gaia take me back!"
A light swooped down and for the third time engulfing the young princess taking her back to Gaia. Her father watched her go.
"I'll always be here for you my dearest daughter and I'm closer then you think." She never heard him but it didn't matter.
Gaia
Things we're not going well for, what was now being called, the resistance. Asutria and Fanalia we're loosing the battle but most had nothing to live for now anyway, their princess had been taken home through the pillar of light. Hitomi, 'seeing' it all sat in her chair a single tear falling down her cheek. So this was the end of Gaia, their Princess had abandoned them. The Demon Legion knowing the young former princess would return called back the troops and let the two countries lick their wounds and pretend they had a hope of beating them. A month had passed in Gaia and still no sign of the young woman. The Demon Legion waited for there was no use in having the others if they did not have the princess.
Van and Hitomi did their best to continue their lives, Van had given Hitomi a necklace as a present for their anniversary and she was really showing, as she was 5 months pregnant. Dion had been taken off the isolation confinement he had been given and was now moping around the palace at the thought of having lost Kali forever on the mystic moon. Maya and Dawn were doing the best two guardians who had lost their friend and charge could. Dawn was training day in and out and Maya had taken to beating up random people, mostly Dagan whom she never forgave.
Then one day the answer to their prayers came. A pillar of light came down in the middle of night. A figure dressed in a midnight blue cloak ran towards the palace. Everyone was there to meet the young woman.
"KALI!"
"Dawn!" Kali embraced her friend. And before Maya could protest she hugged her as well. She turned to Dawn "Are you all right?"
"Never better."
"But your wound?"
"Kali it's healed."
"So soon?"
"It's been a month."
"A month?!" Kali looked so shocked that Allen and Dion moved towards her in case she fainted or anything each glaring daggers at the other. (A/N: They found out how the other felt in the time that has passed and lets say they haven't exactly become the best of friends.think Toya Kinomoto and Syaoran Li) Kali much to their disappointment stayed on her feet. "I was gone only moments."
Van came up "Kali you were gone 5 weeks. Are you ok?"
"I'm fine but.5 weeks? I don't understand." It started to rain.
"Dion came up to her kissed her on the cheek and said "Let's figure this out inside out of the rain."
"Shadow!" The dog bounded up to her. "Hey there girl. You're looking well." She scratched the dogs' ear.
"I was looking after her while you were gone. She was pining for you all the time."
"Thank you." She hugged Dion.
"Now let's get inside."
Kali smiled at him "Good idea."
Allen not to be outdone walked in front of Kali "I hope that you are well Princess" He took her hand bowed and kissed it. Kali lightly blushed. Dion glared at him. Allen just smirked knowing full well that if the council had their way Dion would be out of the picture as, even though the marriage would be beneath her, they would prefer that the princess marry Allen to Dion. The group walked into a hall full of councilors. All of them began speaking at once
"Princess how dare you leave!" "What were you thinking?" "Are you all right?" "Where have you been?" "What are you doing with that doctor?"
While they bombarded Kali with questions she walked right past them and sat down at the table. Everyone else walked after her and sat down too the councilors were about to sit when she finally spoke to them
"What do you think you're doing?"
"We're sitting so we can hear your explanation."
"I don't think so! Leave!"
"What?! We most certainly will not!"
"I am Princess Kali de Starfire crowned princess of Gaia the rightful ruler and heiress. I demand that you leave now!" Kali had never looked so regal in her whole life and her voice had never carried such power. Whatever had happened to her in that month Maya and Dawn knew that she had changed she was no longer Kali Carter, teen of earth. She was Princess Kali Starfire, princess of Gaia now. The councilors left mumbling something about 'this not being over'. "Van please tell me what has happened."
"After you left in the pillar of light people lost hope believing that you had abandoned them. We lost that battle and we were forced further and further back until, well you saw we only have a little land outside of the city. People have lost hope, we are so outnumbered that there is little chance of us winning now."
Kali sat thinking. /How could all of this happened in the short time I had been talking with my father? This makes no sense./
"Kali?"
"Van?"
"Well what happened to you over that month?"
"Van, to me, I was gone only 5 minutes. I don't know how all this happened."
"What happened to the manacle, Kali?" Kali looked over at Dawn confused. She looked down at her right wrist. She was right it was gone.
"Well during the battle, it got shattered. And when I saw my father it transformed into this sword." She pulled back her cloak took off the sword and placed it on the table so everyone could see it. "I have yet to use it but I can feel the same power radiating from it, although it is quite weak."
Dion spoke up "I thought that only your blood line could use it, has that changed now that it is a sword?"
"No it hasn't look." She pointed to the handles where there were 5 needles poking out from the handle, if you connected the dots it would form a 5 pointed star. "You can't hold the sword without those needles poking into your skin, if anyone but a member of my bloodline gets pricked by those needles a virus will enter their bloodstream and kill them within days."
"Nasty."
"Yeah. I didn't exactly want it like that but the sword chooses its master not the other way around. So it was the swords way of protecting it's self I suppose."
Dion was nervous "Note to self never touch the sword."
Kali giggled. "You can touch it just don't try to fight with it."
Allen wanting to put himself in the spotlight and Dion out of it reached out to touch the sword.
"Just be careful and don't touch the needles."
Allen glared a little at Dion turned to Kali smiled and said "No need to worry, I remembered what you said." He turned the sword over in his hands "It's cold" He handed it back to Kali.
"May I?" Dion asked. Kali nodded her head and gently passed the sword to him making sure the needles pointed away from him. He gently took it in his hands turning it over, Kali watched nervously as he did so. "It feels warm to me." He looked at Kali confused. Kali just smiled knowing full well the reason why: the sword was made of the stone and the stone, as her dad had said, followed her heart. Oh yes she had noticed Allen's advances towards her and the little competition between the two; but she choose to ignore it all. She loved Dion and Allen wasn't going to change that.
"Your Majesty." A servant walked in
"Yes?" Everyone turned his or her attention towards the servant.
"They're returning mi Lord."
"Thank You. Casualties?"
"Many mi Lord. We've failed." The servant turned and left.
Kali looked at Van waiting for an explanation.
"We've started a month on off again theory. Every other month we're going to try and send out a message to the other countries. And they try to send one to us on the month that we don't. Ours has just finished. It didn't get through this time." Silence hung in the room. "Come on we have to reestablish outer defenses and ready the recovery team if their messenger should break through."
Kali soon learned that Maya and Dawn had been given two of the five stones. Dawn had the Green stone of Faith and Peace and Maya had the Purple stone of Hope and Liberty. Only two remained to be found the Yellow stone and the Red stone.
A month passed and no messenger came from any country so it was assumed that they had failed to break through as well. With the return of their princess, hope was reestablished in Fanaila and when the time came for them to send out a message that said that the Princess had returned. Everyone was ready to get the message through no matter what the cost.
"But Van-"
"Hitomi I'm going. For you, for our children, for the future I'm going." Hitomi didn't say anything and just cried. Van held her. "I won't let our child be born into a world of war. I'll end this so he can be raised in peace."
"What makes you think it will be a he?"
"A daughter would be great as well." Van hastened to say with the look on his wife face. Hitomi softened her look
"I was just kidding Van, I would love to have a son."
Across the room another debate was being held between Kali, Maya, Dawn and Dion.
"Kali I won't let you go!"
"Maya I'm going and that's final!"
"Be reasonable Kali-"
"Dawn don't you start too! I'm going. I started all of this I will finish it!"
"Maya Dawn I think you should let her go. This is her battle." Kali looked at him her eyes saying what she couldn't: Thank you. Over the past month she had learned that he had accepted her proposal even if no one but them knew about it and that he had always kept a white candle lit in his room for her. If anything time had strengthened their love for one another.
Maya sighed, "Fine you can come with us but either Dawn or myself must be with you at all times understood?"
"Yes."
"Your father might not be here with us but we are still bound by the promise we made to him to be your guardians."
Kali nodded to show she understood. She turned to Dion "Take care of shadow for me again?"
"Of course." He embraced her, for they could not kiss here. In her ear he whispered the words he could not say aloud. "I love you."
Hitomi and Dion walked them to the doors of the palace where they joined the group that would lead the assault on the Demon Legion. Here it was expected that the leader give a small speech to the troops. Van opted for Kali to give the speech. Nervous she walked to the front of the group standing alone under the darkening sky above the troops she started.
"Years from now this day will be remembered as the day the war turned tide. On Earth the USA has a day called Independence Day; now not only will Fanaila celebrate this day all of Gaia will celebrate this day as our Independence Day. The day we told our enemies that we would not run, we would not hide in the dark, we won't quietly roll over and die. We will fight and we'll win our freedom." As she finished her speech the crowd erupted in cheers. She turned to Van "It's time." Maya and Dawn walked over to her side she turned back to the crowd preparing to go to battle and said, "It's time to fight for the future of Gaia."
Well that's it for now people. I'll do my best to get the next chapter up before I go camping but no promises ok. See you all in the next Chap. Again thanks to all who've reviewed. ~Avalon
Chapter 10: Can you help me?
Kali was swept up in a bright light and when she opened her eyes it looked to her like she was surrounded in water but she was dry and she could breathe. Her feet hit ground; a bright light flashed forcing her to close her eyes. When she opened them she was wearing a snow-white gown with her tiara and, as always, the manacle now broken. Before her stood a glittering Palace. She turned around and looked behind her what she saw amazed her. A beautiful vast garden, with many plants that she knew from Earth and many she didn't.
"Welcome to the Glitter Palace Princess Kali."
"King Ryol." He walked towards her. Dressed in a white Jacket with a dark blue shirt showing underneath and a blue sash, to indicate his royal position, black pants and a gold belt finished off his outfit. This was a father she had never known.
"I'm here in your mind my dear, and I'll always be here whenever you need me my dearest daughter."
"Can you help me please I do not know how to save my friends."
"The powers in the stone."
The shattered stone floated down between them.
"The stone of light and justice."
"The strength of your desire to save your friends makes the stone grow bright and strong again."
The stone become whole and again and transformed into a sword, the blade made of the stone.
"Look at it, it is beautiful. With the powers in this sword I can save my friends, I can save this world."
"Dear princess remember the stone hasn't yet regained all its power but the stronger the true desire to save your friends the stronger it will become, it follows your heart. Please be proud of the fact that you are a princess and a warrior. One day you will become the Princess of Gaia once more."
"I will make you proud King Ryol, dad." Tears came to her eyes.
"Now say: By the power of Gaia take me back!"
Kali walked away and turned to look at her father. He nodded. "By the power of Gaia take me back!"
A light swooped down and for the third time engulfing the young princess taking her back to Gaia. Her father watched her go.
"I'll always be here for you my dearest daughter and I'm closer then you think." She never heard him but it didn't matter.
Gaia
Things we're not going well for, what was now being called, the resistance. Asutria and Fanalia we're loosing the battle but most had nothing to live for now anyway, their princess had been taken home through the pillar of light. Hitomi, 'seeing' it all sat in her chair a single tear falling down her cheek. So this was the end of Gaia, their Princess had abandoned them. The Demon Legion knowing the young former princess would return called back the troops and let the two countries lick their wounds and pretend they had a hope of beating them. A month had passed in Gaia and still no sign of the young woman. The Demon Legion waited for there was no use in having the others if they did not have the princess.
Van and Hitomi did their best to continue their lives, Van had given Hitomi a necklace as a present for their anniversary and she was really showing, as she was 5 months pregnant. Dion had been taken off the isolation confinement he had been given and was now moping around the palace at the thought of having lost Kali forever on the mystic moon. Maya and Dawn were doing the best two guardians who had lost their friend and charge could. Dawn was training day in and out and Maya had taken to beating up random people, mostly Dagan whom she never forgave.
Then one day the answer to their prayers came. A pillar of light came down in the middle of night. A figure dressed in a midnight blue cloak ran towards the palace. Everyone was there to meet the young woman.
"KALI!"
"Dawn!" Kali embraced her friend. And before Maya could protest she hugged her as well. She turned to Dawn "Are you all right?"
"Never better."
"But your wound?"
"Kali it's healed."
"So soon?"
"It's been a month."
"A month?!" Kali looked so shocked that Allen and Dion moved towards her in case she fainted or anything each glaring daggers at the other. (A/N: They found out how the other felt in the time that has passed and lets say they haven't exactly become the best of friends.think Toya Kinomoto and Syaoran Li) Kali much to their disappointment stayed on her feet. "I was gone only moments."
Van came up "Kali you were gone 5 weeks. Are you ok?"
"I'm fine but.5 weeks? I don't understand." It started to rain.
"Dion came up to her kissed her on the cheek and said "Let's figure this out inside out of the rain."
"Shadow!" The dog bounded up to her. "Hey there girl. You're looking well." She scratched the dogs' ear.
"I was looking after her while you were gone. She was pining for you all the time."
"Thank you." She hugged Dion.
"Now let's get inside."
Kali smiled at him "Good idea."
Allen not to be outdone walked in front of Kali "I hope that you are well Princess" He took her hand bowed and kissed it. Kali lightly blushed. Dion glared at him. Allen just smirked knowing full well that if the council had their way Dion would be out of the picture as, even though the marriage would be beneath her, they would prefer that the princess marry Allen to Dion. The group walked into a hall full of councilors. All of them began speaking at once
"Princess how dare you leave!" "What were you thinking?" "Are you all right?" "Where have you been?" "What are you doing with that doctor?"
While they bombarded Kali with questions she walked right past them and sat down at the table. Everyone else walked after her and sat down too the councilors were about to sit when she finally spoke to them
"What do you think you're doing?"
"We're sitting so we can hear your explanation."
"I don't think so! Leave!"
"What?! We most certainly will not!"
"I am Princess Kali de Starfire crowned princess of Gaia the rightful ruler and heiress. I demand that you leave now!" Kali had never looked so regal in her whole life and her voice had never carried such power. Whatever had happened to her in that month Maya and Dawn knew that she had changed she was no longer Kali Carter, teen of earth. She was Princess Kali Starfire, princess of Gaia now. The councilors left mumbling something about 'this not being over'. "Van please tell me what has happened."
"After you left in the pillar of light people lost hope believing that you had abandoned them. We lost that battle and we were forced further and further back until, well you saw we only have a little land outside of the city. People have lost hope, we are so outnumbered that there is little chance of us winning now."
Kali sat thinking. /How could all of this happened in the short time I had been talking with my father? This makes no sense./
"Kali?"
"Van?"
"Well what happened to you over that month?"
"Van, to me, I was gone only 5 minutes. I don't know how all this happened."
"What happened to the manacle, Kali?" Kali looked over at Dawn confused. She looked down at her right wrist. She was right it was gone.
"Well during the battle, it got shattered. And when I saw my father it transformed into this sword." She pulled back her cloak took off the sword and placed it on the table so everyone could see it. "I have yet to use it but I can feel the same power radiating from it, although it is quite weak."
Dion spoke up "I thought that only your blood line could use it, has that changed now that it is a sword?"
"No it hasn't look." She pointed to the handles where there were 5 needles poking out from the handle, if you connected the dots it would form a 5 pointed star. "You can't hold the sword without those needles poking into your skin, if anyone but a member of my bloodline gets pricked by those needles a virus will enter their bloodstream and kill them within days."
"Nasty."
"Yeah. I didn't exactly want it like that but the sword chooses its master not the other way around. So it was the swords way of protecting it's self I suppose."
Dion was nervous "Note to self never touch the sword."
Kali giggled. "You can touch it just don't try to fight with it."
Allen wanting to put himself in the spotlight and Dion out of it reached out to touch the sword.
"Just be careful and don't touch the needles."
Allen glared a little at Dion turned to Kali smiled and said "No need to worry, I remembered what you said." He turned the sword over in his hands "It's cold" He handed it back to Kali.
"May I?" Dion asked. Kali nodded her head and gently passed the sword to him making sure the needles pointed away from him. He gently took it in his hands turning it over, Kali watched nervously as he did so. "It feels warm to me." He looked at Kali confused. Kali just smiled knowing full well the reason why: the sword was made of the stone and the stone, as her dad had said, followed her heart. Oh yes she had noticed Allen's advances towards her and the little competition between the two; but she choose to ignore it all. She loved Dion and Allen wasn't going to change that.
"Your Majesty." A servant walked in
"Yes?" Everyone turned his or her attention towards the servant.
"They're returning mi Lord."
"Thank You. Casualties?"
"Many mi Lord. We've failed." The servant turned and left.
Kali looked at Van waiting for an explanation.
"We've started a month on off again theory. Every other month we're going to try and send out a message to the other countries. And they try to send one to us on the month that we don't. Ours has just finished. It didn't get through this time." Silence hung in the room. "Come on we have to reestablish outer defenses and ready the recovery team if their messenger should break through."
Kali soon learned that Maya and Dawn had been given two of the five stones. Dawn had the Green stone of Faith and Peace and Maya had the Purple stone of Hope and Liberty. Only two remained to be found the Yellow stone and the Red stone.
A month passed and no messenger came from any country so it was assumed that they had failed to break through as well. With the return of their princess, hope was reestablished in Fanaila and when the time came for them to send out a message that said that the Princess had returned. Everyone was ready to get the message through no matter what the cost.
"But Van-"
"Hitomi I'm going. For you, for our children, for the future I'm going." Hitomi didn't say anything and just cried. Van held her. "I won't let our child be born into a world of war. I'll end this so he can be raised in peace."
"What makes you think it will be a he?"
"A daughter would be great as well." Van hastened to say with the look on his wife face. Hitomi softened her look
"I was just kidding Van, I would love to have a son."
Across the room another debate was being held between Kali, Maya, Dawn and Dion.
"Kali I won't let you go!"
"Maya I'm going and that's final!"
"Be reasonable Kali-"
"Dawn don't you start too! I'm going. I started all of this I will finish it!"
"Maya Dawn I think you should let her go. This is her battle." Kali looked at him her eyes saying what she couldn't: Thank you. Over the past month she had learned that he had accepted her proposal even if no one but them knew about it and that he had always kept a white candle lit in his room for her. If anything time had strengthened their love for one another.
Maya sighed, "Fine you can come with us but either Dawn or myself must be with you at all times understood?"
"Yes."
"Your father might not be here with us but we are still bound by the promise we made to him to be your guardians."
Kali nodded to show she understood. She turned to Dion "Take care of shadow for me again?"
"Of course." He embraced her, for they could not kiss here. In her ear he whispered the words he could not say aloud. "I love you."
Hitomi and Dion walked them to the doors of the palace where they joined the group that would lead the assault on the Demon Legion. Here it was expected that the leader give a small speech to the troops. Van opted for Kali to give the speech. Nervous she walked to the front of the group standing alone under the darkening sky above the troops she started.
"Years from now this day will be remembered as the day the war turned tide. On Earth the USA has a day called Independence Day; now not only will Fanaila celebrate this day all of Gaia will celebrate this day as our Independence Day. The day we told our enemies that we would not run, we would not hide in the dark, we won't quietly roll over and die. We will fight and we'll win our freedom." As she finished her speech the crowd erupted in cheers. She turned to Van "It's time." Maya and Dawn walked over to her side she turned back to the crowd preparing to go to battle and said, "It's time to fight for the future of Gaia."
Well that's it for now people. I'll do my best to get the next chapter up before I go camping but no promises ok. See you all in the next Chap. Again thanks to all who've reviewed. ~Avalon
