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Hands

By: Crystal of Psyche

Chapter 10: I'll Tell Ya Why!!!

Author's note:  A lot of you had the same question.  Why Max?  Well the poor thing barely gets any spotlight and he's adorable!!!!!!!!!!  And to me he seemed like the perfect person to take up the role in my little winged warriors *Giggles*.   And sorry folks Nightswift will not have her mind changed, but if you try and convince her that you like the coupling, you never know she might change her mind.

Tyson walked slowly to Damon who was still on the ground, "Hey mister are you going to be okay?"

Damon responded without looking at them, "Do you know why Sutekh wanted them so bad."

Everyone looked at each other wondering how to respond, but they said nothing.

"They are the last of their blood line.  Sutekh killed everyone else before he realized that he could use their powers.  Now he wants them for evil purposes and he finally got them," Damon cringed at the last part.

Kenny stepped forward, "Can you please explain what they are?"

Damon looked into the sky, "Max and Tolaku are from the same blood line some how, but they aren't related.  They are Calains, people that are bonded with the specific elements that they are born with.  You can identify their element with the color of the wings that they have."

"What type of elements do Max and Tolaku have?" Crystal asked amazed that her best friends are the last of their kind.

"Well Max's were green so that means he holds the power of electricity, and Tolaku's was red so that means she has the ability to control fire."

"What about Julia?" They all turned to Kai who had his arms crossed over his chest.

"She's different she is what you would call a psychic.  She can move things with her mind, but she can't read what's on another's thoughts.  There's only one person with her powers."

"Whose that?" asked Tyson.

"Sutekh himself."  Everyone gasped.

"You that guy that kidnapped them!?!" Ray asked shocked.

Damon nodded his head, "Yes, I don't know why he turned evil.  I guess that's something we need to ask him when we see him again."

"Where has he taken them?" Kenny asked clutching his laptop with his bit-beast trapped inside of it.

"It's an ancient island that has withdrawn from the world, only I and Julia, Tolaku, and Max can get to it."

"But what about Sutekh?" Ray asked.

"Now that he has those three, he can easily transport himself to the island," Damon let out a sigh, stood up, and wrenched his swords out of the ground.  He then turned to everyone, "Well who are the volunteers?"

Crystal was the first to step forward, "Two of my best friends are there!!   Have to try and rescue them!!!"

Tyson went next, "Our team mate and best bud is there!!!  I'm comin!"

Ray and Kenny looked at each other smiled, "We're in."  Everyone looked at Kai, who stared back at them.

"Well what about you Kai?" asked Tyson narrowing his eyes at Kai, not exactly sure what his answer is going to be.

Kai shifted his gaze from their eyes, "I have a promise to keep."

"Huh?" Tyson said in shock. 

Crystal snickered, "That's so swwweeeeeeeett!!!"

"Oh shut up!!" Kai grumbled, "Are we going or not."

Damon looked at everyone, "Okay each one of you grab onto someone and then give me your hand."  They formed a line and Tyson took Damon's hand.  "All right, let's go." They all glowed, floated off the ground, and then disappeared in a blinding flash.

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Tolaku opened her eyes groggily; she didn't know where she was at first.  After awhile she absorbed her surroundings.  She was in a fancy looking room on a bed.  It looked kinda medevilvalish.

"I'm glad your up."  She looked to her side and saw Max sitting on the side of the bed.  She gasped as she noticed his greenish wings.

"That means it was all real then!!" She sat up and looked behind her and saw her own reddish wings.

Max gave her a sympathetic look, "You going to be okay?"

Tolaku shook her head, "Where's Julia?"

Max nodded towards the window, "Over there."  Tolaku looked in that direction.  Julia sat on the windowsill hugging her knees looking at the landscape.  Tolaku got worried so she got up with her wings swooshing behind her and walked up to Julia.

"Hey."

Julia looked up at her and smiled weakly, "I don't know, I'm scared.  That Sutekh guy seems very familiar."

Tolaku hugged Julia, "Don't worry the others will come and save us."  Max smiled at the two girls, but then he had a strange feeling someone was coming.  He ran in front of the girls protectively while they shook with fear also feeling the strange feeling.  Just then Sutekh came in.

"What do you want!?!" growled Max.

Sutekh smiled evilly at him, "I'm glad that you're all awake.  I have many plans for all of you."

"What do you want from us?" squeaked Julia in Tolaku's arms.

"Power." Sutekh said simply.

"We're only fourteen, how are we possibly going to give you power!?!" yelled Max, trying to protect the two girls behind him.

Sutekh waved his finger, "Uh uh uh, you've obviously never checked your family background."

"What?"

"None of you are related to your current parents.  You were all adopted."  Julia and Tolaku gasped and Max stood there shocked.

"W…What!?!"

"That's right, you went to an orphanage after Damon brought you to the mainland.  After that families adopted you, I guess you were too young to remember."

"You're lying!!!!!" Max shouted, "My parents never told me anything about me being adopted!!"

"How do you explain those two things on your back."

Max looked over his shoulder, and saw his wings, and frowned.

"See I'm right."

"Are you saying that we're some type of alien from outer space," Max clenched his fists.

"No you're from this island.  But you're very important to me."

"WE WON'T DO ANYTHING FOR YOU!!!!!!!" Max yelled.

"That is where your wrong," With the flick of his wrist Max flew against the wall.  Sutekh walked up to him and held up a necklace with a mysterious looking jewel on it.

"Don't hurt him!!" Shouted Julia as she ran towards Sutekh.

"Foolish child."  He raised his other hand and Julia and Tolaku flew against the other wall.  He walked up to them and placed a necklace around each of their necks.  As the jewel glowed on their necklaces their eyes became darker and cloudy.

"What did you do to them!?!" Max shouted as he struggled to get to them.  Sutekh walked towards him.

"Same thing I'm going to do to you." He placed the necklace around Max's the jewel glowed and his eyes turned dark blue.  "This is good."

*****

Another blinding flash and the gang appeared in a field.  Everyone looked around, while Damon went forward.

"I'm pretty sure that they are at the ruins of the castle here," Damon said as he walked towards the forest, "All we got to do is get past these woods.  Don't worry it's not far."  As they went through the forest everyone was silent.  The whole walk was more than they expected.

"Are we there yet?"  Moaned Tyson.

"No." said Damon simply.

"Ok……………………………………………How about now?"

"No."

"…………………………….now?"

"Tyson shut the hell up!?!" shouted an agitated Crystal shouted as she clenched her teeth.

"…Oh fine…………………………..Are we there yet?"

"TYSON!!!!!!" Crystal was about to pounce on him, but Ray caught her arms and using all his strength to hold her back.

Damon was walking in front of the group next to Kai.  They were quiet until Damon spoke, "An these are the people that are going to save the world from destruction."

"There always like that, but they come through in the end," Kai responded without even looking at him.  The others took a hint and stopped their quarrellings and stayed silent.  Finally they were out of the forest and stood in front a ruined castle.

"We're here," Damon said, he started walking to the entrance but ran into a force field and was repelled backward into a tree.

"What happened?" Kenny asked as Damon got up.

"Sutekh put up a force field that won't let Calains in."

"Are you one of those people with wings," Crystal asked in astonishment.  Damon didn't say anything.

Kai stepped forward, "Well none of us are Calains so let's go." Kai walked through the force field and waited for the others.

"Be careful," Damon warned them.  Everyone nodded and went through the field.  They pushed opened the doors and walked in.  It was dark they couldn't see anything.  All of a sudden all the torches lit.

"What?" Kenny said looking around.  They all stared at the huge staircase in front of them, at the top of the staircase was what looked like a throne, and sitting on the throne was…

"TOLAKU!!!" Everyone stared wide-eyed at Tolaku who had one of her legs propped up by the other one.  Her elbow was on the arm and her head was leaning in her hand.  She had her eyes closed and it looked like she was sleeping.  Her outfit was different too.  She wore a red outfit that was similar to Lina's in Slayers.  She had armor on her leg up tp her knees, her black pants underneath her mini skirt.  She had a short blue cape and black gloves.  Her hair was in a ponytail and her purple streaks can be seen.

(Author's Note:  Ok I admit it, I suck at explaining clothing, here's a quick and poorly drawn picture of her outfit if you to look at………http://www.angelfire.com/ct3/crystal0/images/other/tolaku.jpg)

"Tolaku, thank goodness your alright!!" Ray and Crystal ran towards her, but a huge firewall appeared in front of them.  They almost ran into, Ray burnt his hand.

"What the?"  They saw Tolaku stand up her eyes now open, but different.  Her red wings were spread to their maximum wingspan.  Tolaku smirked, as her empty eyes narrowed.

"What's wrong!?!" shouted Kenny who noticed the situation they were in.  The firewall ceased and Tolaku stood in front of them, with a bow and arrow.  It was strung and aiming for Crystal.

"You intruders are not aloud to be here.  Leave or die," said Tolaku.  Her voice seemed to echo.

"Tolaku we came to save you from Sutekh," said Ray taking a step closer.  An arrow was shot and it was a centimeter away from his foot.

"Now why would you do a thing like that?" Tolaku strung another arrow. And aimed it at Ray, "My master does not wish to be bothered right now."

"Stop your not seeing the whole truth!" Ray shouted as he took another step towards her.  Tolaku's eyes went to their normal grey.

"Ray…. help…." her jewel around her neck glowed and her eyes color went back.  She picked up her bow, "YOU DIE!!!"

A blinding flash happened, and Drigger stood in front of Ray with the arrow Tolaku just shot in his mouth.  "Drigger," Ray said in shock.  The huge tiger glanced at him.  He was bigger than a regular tiger, almost as big a suburban car.

"So you called upon your bit beast, but I got a surprise for you…………..TEKERO!!!" Another flash came and standing in front of Drigger was a huge artic wolf, slightly smaller than Drigger, it was Tolaku's reliable bit beast Tekero.

"What's going on!?!" shouted Tyson as he stared in awe by the lay out.

Tolaku's eyes narrowed, "And now we fight!!"

Author's Note:  Made it a little long for you guys, I hope you like it!

R+R PLEASE!!!!!