Chapter Twenty
Shanna looked up at where the two lions were fighting and noticed that one was down while the other, the golden one, was hobbling over to her. Shanna looked down at Heera's feet and found no wound on the leg she was limping on. Shanna looked back up, fear in her eyes.
"Don't worry about it." Heera's voice told her. "I'll be fine." Just then there was another screech from a distant animal. "Come on, this was only the first part of it."
Shanna nodded. As much as she hated to admit it, she had known that. They had only been fighting the magick's children, not the magick itself. Now they would have to fight the magick and hopefully they would win.
Shanna followed Heera down a tunnel that led to a huge room, that was filled with a blue mist. Instantly, Shanna felt scared, sick to her stomach, afraid of what was going to meet her in this room. And she had a right to be. In the center of the room was a tall creature that had a piece of every creature Shanna had ever been beaten by on it. Including the head of Dranzer.
"Welcome to my house, little ones. Unfortunately, you will not be able to leave it." The creature smiled and Shanna's disgust grew. "Now you will learn the true meaning of defeat at the hands of me."
Heera didn't wait for the creature to attack first instead she crouched down and then leaped up, pouncing at the creature that was supposedly going to kill her.
The second Heera moved, so did the creature and its tail, which looked amazingly like Heera's, wrapped around Heera and held her fast, keeping her from moving anyway.
"Your move." The creature said calmly to Shanna, too calmly if you ask her and she tried to think of what to do.
~Send fire at it. That way you won't have to get close.~ Kala suggested. ~The further away from this thing, the better, in my personal opinion.~
Shanna shook her mind's head. ~No. He'll be expecting that.~ Shanna sighed and looked around and spotted a mirror. ~But I know something he won't expect from us.~
Shanna grinned and turned towards the creature. "No, it's your move."
^_^ ^_^ ^_^ ^_^ ^_^ ^_^ ^_^ ^_^ ^_^ ^_^ ^_^ ^_^ ^_^ ^_^ ^_^ ^_^ ^_^ ^_^ ^_^ ^_^ ^_^ ^_^ ^_^ ^_^ ^_^ ^_^ ^_^ ^_^
Rei watched Tala worriedly as he put as much stuff as possible over Kai, trying to bring the heat back into Kai's body. Tala was sure that Kai was still alive, that he was just cold and that was all, and that Kai would be alright as soon as they got him warm again.
Rei was afraid for Tala as Tala rushed hurriedly around the room, grabbing everything that could be used as a blanket. Rei was almost sure that he wasn't doing this for Kai's sake but for his own.
Tala was afraid that Kai was dead and Tala didn't want it to be true, not one little bit and that was obvious to Rei. Tala was running around, trying to keep Kai warm because Tala felt like there was nothing else for him to do, that if he didn't..hell knows what was running through Tala's head right now. All Rei knew was that Tala was going crazy and it wasn't helping Rei's state of mind one little bit. If Tala didn't stop it soon, Rei was going to end up hyperventilating.
"Tala, calm down." Rei said finally, hoping that it would work to calm Tala down. Unfortunately, what actually happened was the exact opposite. Tala continued to run around and in fact, he went faster than before, ignoring Rei completely.
Rei sighed and went and sat down next to Kai, closing his eyes and ignoring it when Tala threw something down so fast that it sent a gust of wind directly at Rei, messing up his hair.
"Tala, if you don't stop it, when April comes, she's going to think that you care more about Kai than you do about her." Rei said.
Tala glared at Rei. "What makes you say that? April knows how much I care for her, infact she probably knows it better than I do."
Rei sighed. "I know Tala, it's just, you're starting to scare me with the way you're acting. Just take a couple of breaths and sit down."
Tala sat down next to Rei and took some deep breaths. "Sorry Rei." He said finally. "I guess I just sort of feel helpless right now."
"Join the club." Rei said and then the room went into silence for a minute. "I'm sorry Tala. I know how stressing this must be for you."
There was no response and Rei looked over to find Tala staring off into the corner, wide-eyed. Rei followed his gaze but saw nothing. "Tala?"
Tala pointed to the corner and Rei looked again and then his own eyes widened at the sight.
The unnamed creature flung Heera into the side of the room and that caused Heera to let out a loud groan. Shanna winced at the sound, knowing that that had caused Heera quite a lot of pain and April some with it.
"You think that you can out-plan me?" The creature asked. "Well then try it." The creature spun around and unleased a hurricane at Shanna.
Shanna dodged it and then looked in the mirror, checking the creature out for weaknesses while the creature was momentarily more volerable than usual. Shanna wasn't fast enough though, and so the creature managed to bring itself back to full power before she could see anything.
Heera tried to get up from her spot in the corner but wasn't able to as she slumped back down on that foot that had bothered her earlier. Shanna wasn't pleased what that fact and she was going to make it known to this creature that no one hurt her friends, except her. Of course, that was entirely different.
Shanna was so busy thinking to herself that she only got away from the next hurricane by a few inches. Shanna cursed herself for being so careless and looked for a weak point and grinned as she found it. Right under the tail that had held Heera hostage not that long ago.
The creature saw Shanna grinned and immediately took it the wrong way. "Do you think that you're winning because you can avoid these stupid attacks on you?" It bellowed. "Prepare to feel my full wrath." The creature opened his mouth and Shanna braced herself.
Heera pounced on the creature though and Shanna saw her chance, going for the tail but the creature saw where Shanna was going and stopped her, throwing her over to the other side of the room, but thankfully, it forgot about Heera, who slashed into it, causing it to fall flat on it's face and dissolve away.
Tala watched Kai carefully, looking for any sign that he was still alive, that when and if April and Shanna showed up, he wouldn't have to tell them that Kai was dead. Tala didn't want to break that kind of news to anyone but April would be the hardest of all, simply because he was so close to her.
Just then Kai sat up straight and began to cough, as if he had just been drowning and was now out in open air. Tala rushed over to Kai, relieved.
Rei came over too and slapped Kai across the face. "Don't ever do that to us again. Just be happy that it was me and Tala here and not April or Shanna. THey would have literally killed you."
Kai smiled. "It's nice to know that you care." Kai moved his body upright into a sitting position. "Speaking of which, where are they?"
Tala shrugged. "Sorry man, they're not back yet."
Just then there weas footsteps behind them and Tala turned around to see April. Tala jumped up, ran to her, and crushed her into a hug.
"I'm back." April said softly and then kissed Tala on the cheek, refusing to say anymore than that.
Tala nodded. He was glad that she was. Instantly he looked around and noticed where they were and pulled her out the door. "Come on guys, lets leae this place before anything else bad happens.
Everyone laughed but followed. Rei walked in front of everyone, April and Tala next, their hands intertwined as they walked. Then Kai and Shanna brought up the rear, Shanna was getting a piggy-back ride.
Someone watched them from a distance and smiled, realizing that this was the best magic of all.