Chapter Two: The Guardians Of Cyberspace

Author's Note:

I am only doing this author note in ordinary typing and not italicized because I want Cali-Bunny to read this. In her review, she said that she had problems reading the italicized words. No big, Cali-Bunny! If you look on the top right hand corner, you would see five blue hyperlinked characters. Click on the capitalized B. It should enlargen the words, and make the italicized words more clearer to read. If I could enlarge the words myself on my program, it would be so easy. Unfourtunatly, my system is a notepad system. There's nothing else I could do. Sorry. But let's hope that the resizing system on Fanfiction(dot)net will help you out. Anyway, here's Chapter Two: The Guardians of Cyberspace. Enjoy and review please!

-CelestialTime93


"Okay, so what are we gonna do?" Matt murmered to his friends and wife in the kitchen, "The summer's over and we can't send Andy to summer camp. And I can't send him to a day care, he's too old."

"We can't take him with us." Slider added, "It's too dangerous. Hacker might hurt him. Or even worse."

"Don't even think about it." Inez groaned.

"What are we going to do?" Jackie wondered out loud, "All options are denied, and Alizia isn't here to protect him. We're the ones out to find her.

"I wish it could be easier." Slider groaned.

"How about Digit?" Inez suggested.

"Nah, he's one of us." Matt reminded, shaking his head, "Remember, he's the element Wind. We can't leave anyone in the group behind."

"What do we do?" Inez asked, "Andy will be home in several minutes. It's 3:00 already."

"Andy will be taking the bus." Matt figured out loud, "And the bus takes about five minutes to get to our house and drop off Andy. Oh man, we only have exactly five minutes and 30 seconds the decide."

"Does that mean we have to bring Andy with us?" Jackie asked.

"Are you crazy?" Inez hissed, "He'll be killed! Who knows what Hacker and Wicked will do just for kicks!"

"Inez has a point there." Matt agreed.

"What do we do?" Jackie asked, "We only have five minutes left."

"Okay, think..." Inez said.

Matt turned to look out the window.

"Uh...Inez?" Matt said.

"Maybe we could just take him just this once." Inez figured.

"Inez..." Matt said frantically.

"Or maybe the day care..."

"Nezzie!"

"Don't call me that!"

"Look! Andy's home early!"

"WHAT?"

"Great!" Jackie cried, "We only have 30 seconds to figure out what to do!"

"Starting now!" Matt groaned as the familiar 11 year old red head boy exit the bus.

"Okay, choose!" Inez hissed, "Daycare or a sleepover at his friend's house until we come back?"

"Does Andy even have any friends?" Matt asked, "'Cause none of his friends came to his birthday party."

"He made one last week on the first day of school now choose!" Inez cried.

"Okay, okay!" Matt cried, "Um...the sleepover. It's better than a daycare!"

"Times up!" Jackie cried as the doorbell rang.

"You didn't give him the house keys, didn't you?" Inez groaned.

"No, I didn't." Matt groaned, remembering that he was supposed to give them to him this morning.

"I'll get it." Inez whispered.

Inez walked to the front door and opened it for her son to walk in.

"How was school?" Matt asked.

"It was awesome!" Andy exclaimed, "Hey, mom? Dad? Phil asked me if I could come over to his house for a sleepover for a week. Is that okay?"

What a coincedince. Inez thought with a smile. "Of course. But, if you need us, you need to call me on my cellphone, okay?"

"Yipee!" Andy jumped with joy, "I'll be packing now!"

"Be ready to leave at six!" Inez called as Andy rushed upstairs to his room.

"What a coincedince." Slider smiled.

"Agreed." Matt agreed.

"You both read my mind." Inez smiled.


"Okay," Inez said that evening, closing the door behind her, "I just dropped off Andy at Phil's and I'm ready for battle! So? Is the portal ready?"

"You bet!" Jackie exclaimed.

"I'll go in first." Slider said as the portal opened.

When Slider jumped in, Matt followed. Then Jackie, then Inez. The portal closed after Inez jumped in.

The guardians landed gracefully on the ground of their next destination: The Northern Frontier.

"Um...a lot more darker than usual..." Matt commented.

"Hey!" Jackie exclaimed, "Where's Digit?"

"Bada-bing, bada-whoa!" Digit cried, being shot out of the portal. He landed with his beak in the hard soil.

"Digit!" the kids exclaimed.

"A wittwe hewp pwease?" Digit cried, struggling to pull his beak out.

Matt and Jackie went behind Digit, grabbed his shoes, and pulled as hard as they could until they were shot back, holding each of Digit's legs as his body clunked on the hard ground.

"Thanks." Digit said, straightening his squished beak.

"I wonder where our creature is now?" Slider wondered out loud.

Just then, ground began to shake and the sky changed from blue to fiery red that glowed like a demon's eye.

"Brace yourselves!" Matt cried over the noise of the growling from beneath and the screaming from the glowing sky.

"Matt!" Slider cried, "The Crystal of Shangri-La! Summon it now!"

Matt opened his palm to reveal the crystal. "Crystal of Shangri-La! Subside the glowing sky and the shaking ground! Show the enemy now!"

The Crystal of Shangri-La began to glow ever so brightly. One liquid shard shot up to the sky, subsiding the glowing and screaming, and one liquid shard shot to the ground, subsiding the shaking ground.

Then, one final shard was sent to the mid-air infront of Matt. A cobra then appeared. It hissed at Matt's face. It screamed in pain when someone behind Matt scared it.

"What'd you do?" Matt asked Inez.

"Snakes don't like blank stares." Inez answered. Then she furrowed and put her hands on her hips. "Have you not been paying attention in Science?"

"I forgot." Matt shrugged.

"Now's a good time to transform!" Slider cried.

"Got it!" Matt held up the floating crystal once more, "Slider! Fire! Inez! Water! Jackie! Earth! Digit! Air! Crystal of Shangri-La! Release your magic!"

The crystal that hovered above Matt's outstretched palm sputtered electricity, and shot out five raindrop-shaped crystals. Aqua Blue for Water, Crimson Red for Fire, Emerald Green for Earth, Shimmering Silver for Air, and Bright Pink for Energy Water. While the crystal orb itself, transformed into a crystal raindrop.

The Aqua Blue crystal went to Inez, Crimson Red to Slider, Emerald Green to Jackie, Shimmering Silver to Digit, and the transparent crystal raindrop to Matt.

When the transformations were complete, the guardians flew to the sky, as the snake was still blinded.

Then, different sounds came from behind.

"Uh...is it me?" Jackie squeaked, "Or, do I hear more than one snake behind us?"

"I hear it too." Inez groaned.

The guardians turned to face a thousand giant snakes. And the small one behind them grew to be as big as the others.

"The Snake Dark Minions!" Slider cried.

"We're trapped!" Jackie cried as the snakes created a dome around the guardians.

"Not quite!" Matt cried, grabbing the Crystal of Shangri-La that was worn around his neck, "Crystal of Shangri-La! Take us to the Grim Wreaker!"

"ARE YOU NUTS?" Jackie shot.

"This is where the real battle begins!" Matt retorted, "Now just stick with the teleportation system! Whatever you do, don't move until we arrive at our destination!"

The Crystal of Shangri-La released ribbons of white light that surrounded them. The ball of white disappeared, taking the guardians and the crystal with it.


Find out what else they find in the Grim Wreaker in Chapter Three: The Light and The Dark. Until then, see ya! ;-)

-CelestialTime93