Chapter 10
Cassie sighed, exasperated. " Not again!" Everyone else turned to them.
"Let her go!" Zack ordered.
" Not until I have my revenge! Warners, all of you! Do as I say and I will not harm the girl!" Kirk pulled out a sword and held it up to Cassie's neck.
"No! Don't do as he says!" Cassie said, struggling to get out of his grip. None of them knew what to do. Finally Yakko sighed, and said rather tensely, " If we agree to come with you, will you let her go?"
"Yakko!!!! Are you nuts?!" Cassie was desperate. "C'mon guys! Don't say yes!!", she hesitated. "Just Say No!"
Yakko again looked at Kirk, "Well, would you?"
Kirk thought for a moment, " Yes, I suppose I would."
"Then.." Yakko sighed, " I give up." he lowered his head.
Zack did the same, Wakko and Dot soon followed.
Aqua wanted to do something but Cherry and Emerald held her back.
"They have to settle this their own way.." Emerald murmured.
"But we cant let them die!" Aqua whispered.
" They wont." Cherry said.
Cassie knew she had to do something, but she felt so powerless. Her magic was badly drained from the encounter with Justice.
Suddenly, a large sandbag fell out of nowhere and hit Kirk on the head, he released Cassie and fell to the ground.
Zack and Yakko grabbed Cassie.
"Are you okkay?" they both asked.
"Yeah I think so." Cassie answered.
"Who threw that sandbag?" Dot asked.
" I didn't." Said Aqua.
" We Didn't." Said cherry and Emerald.
" I sure didn't." Zack said.
" Don't look at me." Wakko shrugged.
" Nope." Yakko said.
" We did." Said a voice. It was a male voice. Two forms appeared in a darker corner, they could not see the two forms appearances, but could see white outlines to tell them that they were Warners. One looked like it could have very long hair, longer than Cassie's. The other was wearing shorts by the outline. The one wearing shorts appeared to be male. He was as tall as Yakko and almost the same type of Warner as him.
"Who are you?" Cassie asked softly.
" We are here to help, but that is all you can know for now Cassie." The male form said.
" Anyone you know?" Yakko murmured to Zack. Zack, dumbfounded, simply shook his head.
" What, how did." Cassie started.
" That will be explained in time, but for now, we have to say goodbye." And with that they ran out of the doors and dissapeared.
"That was creepy." Zack commented.
" Oh and it wasn't with you watching us cape boy?" Yakko grinned.
" Point taken." Zack sighed and looked where the two figures were standing. Cassie then turned to the three girls who were standing nervously. Yakko, Zack, Dot and Wakko also did the same.
Yakko walked up to them. He raised one eyebrow. "Thanks for helping us, but why? And who are you?!"
Aqua looked at them. " My name is Aqua, I knew Justice was my enemy after she." Aqua closed her eyes. "After she kidnapped my sister and destroyed so many people. Sunshine. Harmony...Amber.." Cherry helped Aqua stay steady.
Emerald took it from there. " You see, Justice was always rather insane.as we noticed. You Warners made her that way."
"We did?" Yakko thought. "She did seem familiar..but I cant place her." "She used to trick people for a living. She had this gig that she got a lot of money for.." Cherry said. "Counterfeiting." Emerald finished. Cassie was confused. "So, what happened?" "Justice's job was soon put to an end by the Warners one day after they escaped to their tower and went out to find someone to be their 'special friend', They found Justice, who back then was known as Sarah. And pretty much got her into jail. She went insane while in prison, types like her can go insane easily." Cherry snorted. Yakko frowned, then whacked his head with his hand. "Of course. Now I remember her. She had blonde hair back then." Emerald glanced at the torn Justice, who was sobbing while lying on the floor. "Don't worry, well take care of her." Cherry replied to the Warners. "After all, this was our mess." "Wait!" Dot called. " You didn't tell us your names." " I'm Emerald." Replied the green haired girl. "And I am Cherry." Cherry looked at the smirk Yakko had. "Got a problem with it?"
"No." Cassie answered before Yakko got a chance to start a fresh fight. Cassie looked at the three girls who helped them. Aqua walked up to them slowly. " I suppose you want to know about everything else too? What exactly we are? Where we came from?" " If you wouldn't mind.." Cassie replied. Aqua pressed her lips together as if thinking what to tell them. " I and my sister were orphaned since my father was a dangerous man, he was rude, intolerable and... Yet he loved me and my sister. We went for help after our father was put in jail. Lavender, my sister, and me had no place to go. Until we found this place. It was ruled by a generous man who needed volunteers." "More like ginnie pigs." Cherry snorted. " We were given magnificent powers and each called a different name by our color and our power. Cherry had power over all plant life. She had chosen the color red, so she was known as Cherry. Emerald had power over gems, mostly Emeralds. So she was given the name Emerald." " And you were named over your power over water.." Cassie finished. Aqua nodded. "What about that orb thing?" Zack asked. "I saw you with it and Justice seemed to want it pretty badly." Aqua closed her eyes. Cherry came foreword. "That was our power orb. It held all our magic, which gave us the power to do what you saw. Including Justice's power. But Justice it appears had contact with it since she had trapped two of our friends in it." Aqua's eyes filled up with water. " One of which was my sister Lavender." Cassie walked over to Aqua and hugged her as she started to sob. " And. I had. to." Aqua tried to talk but it was hard since she also was crying. Cherry was frowning; she was apparently in her own world. " What I can't figure out is how Justice had access to the orb in the first place." She looked at Justice. "Well?' Justice stubbornly turned her head away. " Why should I tell you anything?' Emerald stepped up. " Because if you don't, we could have you in jail for four murders." Justice was obviously not convinced. She scowled slightly. "What about this ruler of yours? What was his name?" Cassie was worried, why didn't this guy show his face. Aqua stopped crying. She slowly turned her head towards the door. Zack instantly ran over and pulled the door open. A fairly large man, he looked around fifty or so, collapsed to the ground in front of them all. Apparently he was leaning against the door listening to their conversation, before Zack had opened the door, that is.
Justice got up from the floor and made her way towards him. " You lying, cheating, scumbag." She growled, furious. " You said it would be easy. You gave me the power to get rid of those nosey do gooders, Lavender, Harmony, Amber and Sunshine. Yet you have the nerve to give Aqua the source of all our power." Everyone in the room was shocked, even the old man. "Who is that old guy?" Yakko whispered to Cherry. Her mouth formed an angry scowl as she said, "Our 'leader', the Caster."
Meanwhile, Aqua was looking at the Caster in disbelief. " You....You were working with her?!" She squeaked. "No, Aqua. please let me explain." The Caster said. He sighed as he saw Cherry, Emerald and Aqua look at him, so mad, and yet so sad. "You." Justice was on the verge of killing the old man. Cassie saw this and quickly ran over to the infuriated woman and grabbed her away from him. He finally stood up. "Listen, Aqua, Cherry, Emerald. Yes, I DID work for her for a while. But after what happened to Lavender, I knew she was too dangerous. She said she needed the orb. So I gave it to her, the next time I checked on it. Amber and Lavender were already imprisoned; there was nothing I could do. Then she started to disobey my orders and went after Harmony and Sunshine. Those poor girls." He closed his eyes and shook his head.
"Yes," Justice said snidely, almost insanely. " And I would have gotten away with it, if it wasn't for this stupid girl and her stupid crystal and you!!!" She growled at Aqua, who looked frightened. " Wait till I get my hands around your.." Justice began, but Cassie's crystal started to glow a bright pink. " Be quiet, or I will turn you into dust right now." Cassie warned. Justice knew that it was over. She went slack in Cassie's grip. "Well take her." Cherry said. Her and Emerald grabbed the broken girl from Cassie and walked out with her. "Come along Aqua." Cherry yelled. Aqua started towards the door, when she turned to the Warners. She smiled faintly at them. "I'm sorry we caused so much trouble." She said softly. " Don't worry you wont hear from us again, goodbye.." She started to run after the girls. The Caster was also trying to make an escape. Cassie glanced behind her and saw Kirk, still knocked out cold, or so she thought. She looked at the fallen man closely. Suddenly she saw him struggle to stand up. She turned towards her friends who were making the Caster stay. She pulled off her crystal from around her neck, she didn't have a plan, but she knew anything would be better than letting that guy hurt her friends. Yakko and Zack both turned to see where Cassie was. They glanced at each other. " Go!" Dot yelled, " We can handle him!" Dot and Wakko were tying the Caster up. Yakko smiled at his sibs, then ran to help Cassie, Zack followed. Both boys stood on either side of Cassie. "Need help?" Yakko offered. Cassie grinned. " I would love some, thanks!" Zack smiled a devil smile. " Then allow me." He pulled out from behind his back his cane and started to whack Kirk with it, in places that Kirk obviously didn't like. When Zack stopped to rest some, Kirk struck with his fist into Zacks chest. Zack staggered back and landed hard onto the cement floor. "Zack!" Cassie cried out. "Hey!" Yakko said, glaring at Kirk. " No one can whack Zack except me!" Cassie gave Yakko a look. " What?!" He looked back at her. " Jealous are we?" Cassie smirked. "Aaaaaaaahhhh, no!" Yakko said, a bit mad she would accuse such a thing. " Ummm, Guys?" Zack said weakly, pointing to Kirk. " Right.." Yakko said and pulled out a mallet and charged for Kirk, he held up the mallet high and whacked Kirk hard on the head with it. Kirk staggered and fell into a box. But he was up again and ready for them. He charged for Yakko and pinned him to a wall. "First you.." he hissed. " No!" Cassie kicked him. Kirk glared his dangerously insane eyes to Cassie, he pulled one hand from Yakko and pushed Cassie hard onto the floor. Yakko and Zack both were furious. Yakko tried to get from his grasp but then Kirk turned on him. Zack attacked Kirk with his cane once again and hit him hard on the back. Now that was it for Kirk, he grabbed Zack with both hands and threw him into a wall nearby. Zack, knocked unconscious by the blow, fell to the ground.
"That's It.. I have had enough!!!" Cassie growled, standing up. Her crystal was shimmering brightly. She walked towards Kirk, her eyes fierce and enraged at Kirk. Her crystal also seemed to be pulsating with her heartbeat. When she got close enough, her crystal started to shine so bright, Yakko, Zack, Wakko, Dot, and Kirk had to shield their eyes. Abruptly, the glowing stopped, and Cassie had closed her eyes. When she opened them again, a beam of light shot from her crystal and hit Kirk in the chest, his whole body turned into a white light, he cried out, then the light vanished, along with any trace of Kirk.
The crystal's glow vanished, and Cassie fell to her knees. Both Yakko and Zack ran to see if she was all right. Zack got to her first and she fell into his arms, and fell asleep.
Cassie sighed, exasperated. " Not again!" Everyone else turned to them.
"Let her go!" Zack ordered.
" Not until I have my revenge! Warners, all of you! Do as I say and I will not harm the girl!" Kirk pulled out a sword and held it up to Cassie's neck.
"No! Don't do as he says!" Cassie said, struggling to get out of his grip. None of them knew what to do. Finally Yakko sighed, and said rather tensely, " If we agree to come with you, will you let her go?"
"Yakko!!!! Are you nuts?!" Cassie was desperate. "C'mon guys! Don't say yes!!", she hesitated. "Just Say No!"
Yakko again looked at Kirk, "Well, would you?"
Kirk thought for a moment, " Yes, I suppose I would."
"Then.." Yakko sighed, " I give up." he lowered his head.
Zack did the same, Wakko and Dot soon followed.
Aqua wanted to do something but Cherry and Emerald held her back.
"They have to settle this their own way.." Emerald murmured.
"But we cant let them die!" Aqua whispered.
" They wont." Cherry said.
Cassie knew she had to do something, but she felt so powerless. Her magic was badly drained from the encounter with Justice.
Suddenly, a large sandbag fell out of nowhere and hit Kirk on the head, he released Cassie and fell to the ground.
Zack and Yakko grabbed Cassie.
"Are you okkay?" they both asked.
"Yeah I think so." Cassie answered.
"Who threw that sandbag?" Dot asked.
" I didn't." Said Aqua.
" We Didn't." Said cherry and Emerald.
" I sure didn't." Zack said.
" Don't look at me." Wakko shrugged.
" Nope." Yakko said.
" We did." Said a voice. It was a male voice. Two forms appeared in a darker corner, they could not see the two forms appearances, but could see white outlines to tell them that they were Warners. One looked like it could have very long hair, longer than Cassie's. The other was wearing shorts by the outline. The one wearing shorts appeared to be male. He was as tall as Yakko and almost the same type of Warner as him.
"Who are you?" Cassie asked softly.
" We are here to help, but that is all you can know for now Cassie." The male form said.
" Anyone you know?" Yakko murmured to Zack. Zack, dumbfounded, simply shook his head.
" What, how did." Cassie started.
" That will be explained in time, but for now, we have to say goodbye." And with that they ran out of the doors and dissapeared.
"That was creepy." Zack commented.
" Oh and it wasn't with you watching us cape boy?" Yakko grinned.
" Point taken." Zack sighed and looked where the two figures were standing. Cassie then turned to the three girls who were standing nervously. Yakko, Zack, Dot and Wakko also did the same.
Yakko walked up to them. He raised one eyebrow. "Thanks for helping us, but why? And who are you?!"
Aqua looked at them. " My name is Aqua, I knew Justice was my enemy after she." Aqua closed her eyes. "After she kidnapped my sister and destroyed so many people. Sunshine. Harmony...Amber.." Cherry helped Aqua stay steady.
Emerald took it from there. " You see, Justice was always rather insane.as we noticed. You Warners made her that way."
"We did?" Yakko thought. "She did seem familiar..but I cant place her." "She used to trick people for a living. She had this gig that she got a lot of money for.." Cherry said. "Counterfeiting." Emerald finished. Cassie was confused. "So, what happened?" "Justice's job was soon put to an end by the Warners one day after they escaped to their tower and went out to find someone to be their 'special friend', They found Justice, who back then was known as Sarah. And pretty much got her into jail. She went insane while in prison, types like her can go insane easily." Cherry snorted. Yakko frowned, then whacked his head with his hand. "Of course. Now I remember her. She had blonde hair back then." Emerald glanced at the torn Justice, who was sobbing while lying on the floor. "Don't worry, well take care of her." Cherry replied to the Warners. "After all, this was our mess." "Wait!" Dot called. " You didn't tell us your names." " I'm Emerald." Replied the green haired girl. "And I am Cherry." Cherry looked at the smirk Yakko had. "Got a problem with it?"
"No." Cassie answered before Yakko got a chance to start a fresh fight. Cassie looked at the three girls who helped them. Aqua walked up to them slowly. " I suppose you want to know about everything else too? What exactly we are? Where we came from?" " If you wouldn't mind.." Cassie replied. Aqua pressed her lips together as if thinking what to tell them. " I and my sister were orphaned since my father was a dangerous man, he was rude, intolerable and... Yet he loved me and my sister. We went for help after our father was put in jail. Lavender, my sister, and me had no place to go. Until we found this place. It was ruled by a generous man who needed volunteers." "More like ginnie pigs." Cherry snorted. " We were given magnificent powers and each called a different name by our color and our power. Cherry had power over all plant life. She had chosen the color red, so she was known as Cherry. Emerald had power over gems, mostly Emeralds. So she was given the name Emerald." " And you were named over your power over water.." Cassie finished. Aqua nodded. "What about that orb thing?" Zack asked. "I saw you with it and Justice seemed to want it pretty badly." Aqua closed her eyes. Cherry came foreword. "That was our power orb. It held all our magic, which gave us the power to do what you saw. Including Justice's power. But Justice it appears had contact with it since she had trapped two of our friends in it." Aqua's eyes filled up with water. " One of which was my sister Lavender." Cassie walked over to Aqua and hugged her as she started to sob. " And. I had. to." Aqua tried to talk but it was hard since she also was crying. Cherry was frowning; she was apparently in her own world. " What I can't figure out is how Justice had access to the orb in the first place." She looked at Justice. "Well?' Justice stubbornly turned her head away. " Why should I tell you anything?' Emerald stepped up. " Because if you don't, we could have you in jail for four murders." Justice was obviously not convinced. She scowled slightly. "What about this ruler of yours? What was his name?" Cassie was worried, why didn't this guy show his face. Aqua stopped crying. She slowly turned her head towards the door. Zack instantly ran over and pulled the door open. A fairly large man, he looked around fifty or so, collapsed to the ground in front of them all. Apparently he was leaning against the door listening to their conversation, before Zack had opened the door, that is.
Justice got up from the floor and made her way towards him. " You lying, cheating, scumbag." She growled, furious. " You said it would be easy. You gave me the power to get rid of those nosey do gooders, Lavender, Harmony, Amber and Sunshine. Yet you have the nerve to give Aqua the source of all our power." Everyone in the room was shocked, even the old man. "Who is that old guy?" Yakko whispered to Cherry. Her mouth formed an angry scowl as she said, "Our 'leader', the Caster."
Meanwhile, Aqua was looking at the Caster in disbelief. " You....You were working with her?!" She squeaked. "No, Aqua. please let me explain." The Caster said. He sighed as he saw Cherry, Emerald and Aqua look at him, so mad, and yet so sad. "You." Justice was on the verge of killing the old man. Cassie saw this and quickly ran over to the infuriated woman and grabbed her away from him. He finally stood up. "Listen, Aqua, Cherry, Emerald. Yes, I DID work for her for a while. But after what happened to Lavender, I knew she was too dangerous. She said she needed the orb. So I gave it to her, the next time I checked on it. Amber and Lavender were already imprisoned; there was nothing I could do. Then she started to disobey my orders and went after Harmony and Sunshine. Those poor girls." He closed his eyes and shook his head.
"Yes," Justice said snidely, almost insanely. " And I would have gotten away with it, if it wasn't for this stupid girl and her stupid crystal and you!!!" She growled at Aqua, who looked frightened. " Wait till I get my hands around your.." Justice began, but Cassie's crystal started to glow a bright pink. " Be quiet, or I will turn you into dust right now." Cassie warned. Justice knew that it was over. She went slack in Cassie's grip. "Well take her." Cherry said. Her and Emerald grabbed the broken girl from Cassie and walked out with her. "Come along Aqua." Cherry yelled. Aqua started towards the door, when she turned to the Warners. She smiled faintly at them. "I'm sorry we caused so much trouble." She said softly. " Don't worry you wont hear from us again, goodbye.." She started to run after the girls. The Caster was also trying to make an escape. Cassie glanced behind her and saw Kirk, still knocked out cold, or so she thought. She looked at the fallen man closely. Suddenly she saw him struggle to stand up. She turned towards her friends who were making the Caster stay. She pulled off her crystal from around her neck, she didn't have a plan, but she knew anything would be better than letting that guy hurt her friends. Yakko and Zack both turned to see where Cassie was. They glanced at each other. " Go!" Dot yelled, " We can handle him!" Dot and Wakko were tying the Caster up. Yakko smiled at his sibs, then ran to help Cassie, Zack followed. Both boys stood on either side of Cassie. "Need help?" Yakko offered. Cassie grinned. " I would love some, thanks!" Zack smiled a devil smile. " Then allow me." He pulled out from behind his back his cane and started to whack Kirk with it, in places that Kirk obviously didn't like. When Zack stopped to rest some, Kirk struck with his fist into Zacks chest. Zack staggered back and landed hard onto the cement floor. "Zack!" Cassie cried out. "Hey!" Yakko said, glaring at Kirk. " No one can whack Zack except me!" Cassie gave Yakko a look. " What?!" He looked back at her. " Jealous are we?" Cassie smirked. "Aaaaaaaahhhh, no!" Yakko said, a bit mad she would accuse such a thing. " Ummm, Guys?" Zack said weakly, pointing to Kirk. " Right.." Yakko said and pulled out a mallet and charged for Kirk, he held up the mallet high and whacked Kirk hard on the head with it. Kirk staggered and fell into a box. But he was up again and ready for them. He charged for Yakko and pinned him to a wall. "First you.." he hissed. " No!" Cassie kicked him. Kirk glared his dangerously insane eyes to Cassie, he pulled one hand from Yakko and pushed Cassie hard onto the floor. Yakko and Zack both were furious. Yakko tried to get from his grasp but then Kirk turned on him. Zack attacked Kirk with his cane once again and hit him hard on the back. Now that was it for Kirk, he grabbed Zack with both hands and threw him into a wall nearby. Zack, knocked unconscious by the blow, fell to the ground.
"That's It.. I have had enough!!!" Cassie growled, standing up. Her crystal was shimmering brightly. She walked towards Kirk, her eyes fierce and enraged at Kirk. Her crystal also seemed to be pulsating with her heartbeat. When she got close enough, her crystal started to shine so bright, Yakko, Zack, Wakko, Dot, and Kirk had to shield their eyes. Abruptly, the glowing stopped, and Cassie had closed her eyes. When she opened them again, a beam of light shot from her crystal and hit Kirk in the chest, his whole body turned into a white light, he cried out, then the light vanished, along with any trace of Kirk.
The crystal's glow vanished, and Cassie fell to her knees. Both Yakko and Zack ran to see if she was all right. Zack got to her first and she fell into his arms, and fell asleep.
