Author´s note: I also managed to write chapter 6 during this week! It´s like a miracle! In this chapter there will be some Tyson/Anjali stuff and our heroes will go to Egypt where the fight with priest Setho will take place and there...Well, you´ll have to read the chapter if you want to know what happenes next. DON´T FORGET TO REVIEW!! PLEASE!!!!
The blue tattoo - I won´t let you die
Hilary and Anjali went how to pack their backpacks and then they returned to the dojo, because they decided to spend the night once again there. So Tyson´s grandpa brought two futons (thanks for the info!) and put it next to the others. After dinner, they all went to bed. After some time Anjali could hear everybody breathing quietly and she thought: "They´re so lucky. I wish I could fall asleep too. But everytime I close my eyes I see this traitor in front of me. How could he just do such a thing, he´s a priest after all. Did he plan this right from the beginning? Whatever, he´ll pay for what he has done to Menfi and to Egypt. I will definetly beat him and with that the whole dark power and then...Yeah, what then? Or will I even lose the battle? Who said that I´m strong enough?" Suddenly she stood up and went outside. Tyson, who wasn´t really sleeping noticed her leaving and a minute after he followed her.
Anjali was standing in the garden and looking at the moon. Suddenly she felt something on her shoulders. She looked around and saw Tyson, who had put a jacket over her shoulders. "I didn´t want you to catch a cold.",he said with a smile. "Thanks.",Anjali said and put the jacket on. "Can´t sleep?",he asked and sat down. Anjali nodded and sat down beside him. "And you?",she asked back. "I was worried about you, so I couldn´t sleep either.",he answered. "Thanks, but you don´t have to be worried. I´m alright.",Anjali said with a sad smile. "I don´t believe you. Since the priestress left, you have such a sadness in your eyes. I just know, that thers´s something bothering you.",Tyson said in a stern voice. "There´s nothing.",Anjali said not looking at him. Suddenly she felt Tyson´s finger under her chin who turned her around to face him. "Please, tell me what´s wrong with you. Otherwise I won´t be able to help you.";he insisted. Anjali could feel the tears showing up in her eyes as she said: "Okay. I´ll tell you, but I don´t think that you´ll be able to help me." She paused for a second and then she said: "Tyson, I´m afraid." "Of what?",Tyson asked. "Of everything. Of the demons, of the dark power, of the fights and..." "And?",Tyson asked. "I´m afraid to die.",Anjali said and then she bursted out into tears. Tyson took her in his arms to comfort her. "Hey, you don´t have to be afraid. I´ll do anything to protect you." Anjali looked up at him and he wiped her tears away with a warm smile on his face, but then he suddenly had a very stern look on his face and he said: "I won´t let you die, I swear. Even if I would have to sacrifice myself for you." Anjali´s eyes opened in shock. Never had anyone said something like that. Never had anyone thought of doing so much for her. Never had anyone cared so much about her. "I really appreciate what you said, but I don´t want anybody to die for me. Still, could you please rest by my side to encourage me?",she asked. Tyson nodded and the smile returned to his face. "Sure.",he said. "Then, could you hold me a bit longer in your arms? I felt protected and safe, for the first time in my live.",she said and Tyson just nodded and took her in his arms again. "I´ll always be there for you, to take you in my arms, to encourage and to protect you. And I´ll always love you.",he said with a warm and gentle voice. (I wish he would say that to me!!) Anjali freed herself from his arms and looked into his eyes. "Tyson! Did you just say...?" "Yeah, it seems, like if I really managed to say that I love you.",he said with a smile. "Tyson, I love you too.",Anjali said and hugged him and he hugged her back. They rested like that for some hours more and then they fell asleep in eachother´s arms.
When the others woke uo the next morning, they couldn´t find Tyson and Anjali anywhere. But when they went outside, Max noticed them lying on the ground. "Hey guys, I found them!",he said. "Look at these two. They must have fallen asleep very late.",Tyson´s grandpa said. "Don´t they look cute together?",Hilary asked. The others nodded. "Should we wake them?",Ray asked. "No. Let them sleep. Anjali will need her whole strenght when we´re in Egypt, so she should rest some more.",Kai said. "You´re right. So guys, what do you want to have for breakfast?",Hilary asked. "You won´t make breakfast today, Hilary, cause you´ll need your whole power as well. So someone else will do the breakfast for you today.",Kai said. "Max and I can do the breakfast today. Right, Max?",Ray said and Max just nodded. Hilary raised an eyebrow. "You´ll be surprised about how good we can cook.",Max told her and so he and Ray went to the kitchen. "I´ll go and check some things about Egypt, that might be necessery for us.",Kenny said and left. "Wait! I´ll go with you!",Daichi shouted and ran after him. "And what are we going to do now?",Anjali asked. "Maybe we could take a little walk.",Kai suggested. Hilary liked the idea and so they went for a walk. After 20 minutes breakfast was almost ready and a fantastic scent was comming out of the kitchen into the garden. Tyson immediately sensed this smell and jumped up. "Food! Finally! I´m hungry like a wolf." Anjlai also woke up. "Where am I?",she asked, still half asleep. "Sorry. I didn´t want to wake you up. And you´re in the garden, if you really want to know.",he told her. "What am I doing in your garden?",Anjali asked and stood up. "And with your jacket?",she added. Then she remembered everything and she blushed as she looked at Tyson. "Fully awake now?",he asked with his happy smile. Anjali nodded. "Then let´s go and eat something. You´ll need to be strong for the battle.",he told her, took her hand and pulled her with him to the kitchen. The others were all sitting at the table and Max and Ray were putting the food on the table when the two entered. "So, how was it to sleep in the garden?",Daichi asked trying to tease the two, but Tyson was in a too good mood to get angy so he answered: "It was great! You should try that too Daichi. So, is the food ready? I´m hungry like never before." "You´re always hungry like never before.",they heard a voice say and everybody turned around. "Hiro!",Tyson said. "Where have you been?" "I was in Egypt." "Why?",Tyson asked. "Because father asked me to come to help him. He found a really interesting little temple in the desert, far away from the city.",Hiro explained. "Could it be, that this is the temple, where you two have lived?",Ray asked looking at Hilary and Anjali. The two girls looked at eachother and nodded. They didn´t know why, but since Isis had kissed them on the forehead they could remember everything again. "And father also found an old papyrus which was hidden in the wall. He even managed to translate it.",Hiro said. "And what does the text say?",Anjali asked. "Wait a second. I wrote it down somewhere. Ah, here it is.",Hiro said and took out a paper from his jacket and then he started to read: "When a priest forgets his duty towards the gods a dark power will awake again to take over the world with the priest´s body. Then the gods shall send two girls with the power to beat the dark. But they won´t be able to do that alone. The 6 guardians of the elements should help them with their powers. Still, in the end, only one girl will fight with the power of all the others and the blue tattoo will show the chosen one for the ultimate battle." After Hiro had finished everybody was looking at Hilary and Anjali. "They are definetly talking about you and the blue tattoos you have on your arm.",Kenny said. The two girls nodded. "But who are these 6 guardians the text is talking about?",Hilary asked. "We´ve got to find them as soon as possible. But how much time will it take? Till then Egypt might be destroyed.",Anjali said. "You don´t have to look for them.",Hiro said. "What do you mean with that?",Daichi asked. "Well, you are the 6 guardians the text is talking about.",Hiro answered. "How do you know that?",Kai asked. "On this papyrus there were also pictures of the five guardians and everyone of them had a sacred animal with him. The guardian of wind had a blue dragon, the guardian of fire had a red phoenix, the guardian of water had a violet turtle, the guardian of light had a white tiger, the guardian of earth had a smaller yellow dragon and the guardian of plants had a green grashopper. (I don´t know what kind of animal Kenny´s bitbeast is, if he has one. But because his blade is always jumping, I imagined it to be a grashopper) Is that proof enough for you?" "That´s why I could use wind-magic when Anjali and I have been on the beach.",Tyson said. "I knew, that Dragoon is a sacred animal, but I didn´t know that it would have a connection to my destiny.",Anjali said and then she asked: "How´s Egypt looking like?" "Are you taliking about these strange creatures?" Anjali nodded. "Well, they didn´t reach the big cities yet, but the desert is full of them." Anjali sighted in relief. "Thank Ra, we won´t be too late.",she thought. Suddenly a white light appeared and just a moment later Merikara was standing in the room. "Here I am, as promised.",she said, kneeling down before Hilary and Anjali. "I told you millions of times, that you don´t have to do that!",Anjali said angrily. She didn´t like it when someone was treatening her like someone special, but this time she understood why Merikara was doing that. She was a goddess after all, the daughter of Ra and Isis. "Are you all ready to come to Egypt?",Merikara asked and everybody nodded. "Then make a circle and take your neighbour´s hands.",Merikara told them and they did so. Only Hiro and Tyson´s grandpa didn´t. "Aren´t you comming Hiro?",Tyson asked. "No. I´ll be waiting here for you to return. Besides, someone has to tell Mr. Dickenson that you´re gone for some time."
They they were all surrounded by the white light and when the light faded again they found themselves standing in the hall of a big temple. "Where are we?",Daichi asked. "You are in the temple of the great goddess Isis.",a voice answered. "It´s the great priestress Heseret!",Anjali said. "Yes, my little. It´s me. We were worried about you.",she said and patted Anjali´s head. "I know and I´m sorry about that. But tell me Heseret, where´s Naja, the priest of Seth?" "He left the village and we don´t know where he´s hiding. But it´s probably the place where all the demons are comming from." "And where is that?" "It´s in the holy mountains." "We´ve got to get there as soon as possible.",Anjali said and turned around to go. "Wait, Anjali! You aren´t ready yet. At first we´ve got to awake the power of the five guardians and then this power together with the power of your blue tattoos will choose the fighter for the ultimate battle.",Heseret said. Anjali bit her lip. She didn´t want to wast any time. She wanted to kill the traitor as soon as possible, but then her fears returned and she said: "You´re right Heseret. First we have to awake the true power. Without it we wouldn´t have a chance." "What do we have to do?",Ray asked. "It´s not so hard. You just have to go to the temple where the statues of your sacred animals are and you´ll have to call out the power of your element in front of them. Then they´ll awake and choose the fighter. The girl, that isn´t the chosen one, will loose the blue tattoo on her arm. The other will keep it as a symbol of her destiny.",Heseret explained. "Now I understand the true meaning of this tattoo.",Hilary said. "So let´s go to this temple!",Tyson said and so the great priestress guided them through lots of corridors till they finally reached a new big hall, where they were 6 statues all made of gold. One was a dragon, the other a phoenix, the other a tiger, the other a turtle, the other a grashopper and the last one another dragon, which was smaller than the first one. "But that are our bitbeasts.",Kenny said. While they were looking at the statues some other people entered the hall. "May I present you the rest of the great priests and priestresses. This is Taita, the preist of Thot, this is Himea, priestress of Hathor, this is Ameni, the priest of Ra, this is Acha, the priest of Osiris, this is Iset, the priestress of Neith and this is Kha, priest of Horus." All the priests and priestresses kneeled down before the Bladebreakers and before Hilary and Anjali. "So, what exactly do we have to do now?",Daichi asked. "Go to the statue of you holy beast and kneel down before it. And then try to call your element out. And you, Anjali and Hilary, you have to kneel down in the centre of this hall and you have to close your eyes. The rest is in the hand of the gods.",Heseret said and everybody did what she had said. "How can we call out our powers?",Max asked. Tyson, who had managed to do it once explained to the others how it worked and so they started. They all managed to call out their powers and suddenly all the statues started to live. They flew and ran around the temple till they stopped and made a circle around the two girls. Then, they all turned to light, which flew into Anjali´s body. She could feel the power in her growing bigger and bigger. She could feel a pleasant wind surrounding her, she could feel the warmth of the fire, she could hear the sound of a river she could feel the earth under her legs, she could smell the sweet scent of the plants and she could feel the light lightening her soul. She felt the power of her friends flowing through her. It was an incredible feeling for her. Then she opened her eyes and saw all the priests and priestresses kneeling before her once again. "The gods and the holy beasts have decided. You are the chosen one. You are the one who´s going to fight the power of darkness.",Iset said. Anjali looked at Hilary, who was smiling. "I knew, that you would be the chosen one. You´re the best one for this job. You are so stong and you aren´t afraid of anything.",she said. "You don´t know how wrong you are sis.",Anjali thought and suddenly all her fears and doubts returned, but she tried to keep them away. "Are you ready to go?",Ameni asked. "Yes. I´m ready.",Anjali said and so they left the temple. What they saw was unbelieveble. Menfi was full of demons, who were attacking the frightened people. And on the back of one big lion-demon there was Naja, the priest of Seth. "Naja! Stop that right now!",Anjali shouted. "Look who we have here. So you´re back?",he asked with a grin."Yes. And I´ll kill you for what you´ve done!" "Oh, do I have to be afraid right now?" "You should be, cause I want to fight with you." "So you thing it´s time for the ultimate battle?" "Yes it is. So let´s start!" "I´m sorry, but you´ll have to be patient. You had the chance to prepare yourself, but I didn´t. I won´t fight you today. But I´ll be waiting for you at the little temple tomorrow after sunset. I hope you´ll come." "I´ll definetly be there.",Anjali said her voice and eyes full of anger. "Good. So we´ll meet tomorrow.",he said and called his monsters back. Then he wanted to leave, but then he turned around once again and said: "Oh and Anjali, don´t forget to make your last prayer. And I want to remind you of another thing. If there´s another feeling in the heart of the chosen one than his love to the gods, his power gets weaker. So prepare to lose, cause I know that your power is nothing compared to mine. Hahahahahah." And with that he left. "Did he tell the truth?",Anjali asked the priests. "Well, partly. It is true, that the power of the chosen one gets weaker if there´s another feeling in his heart, but this feeling, especially when it´s love makes him stronger again. Why do you ask?",Asha said. Anjali looked to the ground. "Are you...?"Himea started. But Anjali just turned around and said: "Enough about that. I want to rest for awhile." "Shall I take you to your old room?",Heseret asked. "No, I still know where it is." And so Anjali left, full of hatred, doubts and fears. Tyson followed her. He felt that she needed him right now.
Author´s note: I´m sorry that in this chapter there wasn´t any Action, but I promise that the battle will start in the next chapter. Somehow my chapters never finish like I had planned them to. But maybe it´s better that way. Please tell me if you liked it.