I finished writing this a little while ago, but I couldn't post it because we've been shopping the past couple hours. I swear we have enough food to last through winter! Chapter 7 is here!

Chapter 7: The Advancing Mist Cornelia's POV

Birds were singing, the sun was high up in the sky, shining on this new day. Cornelia shifted her position at her window so that her head lay on her propped up arms. She sighed when she saw all the kids down on the sidewalk skateboarding and sitting on benches licking ice cream. Like they have no problems, she sniffed.

Cornelia longed to be down there with them though. She missed school and acting like a teenager. She missed being a Guardian of the Veil with her friends. She knew that they were trying to help, but sometimes, they only made it worse. Especially Irma. She just doesn't know how to control the words that come out of her mouth. But she did come to apologize…

Suddenly, she jumped up and walked over to the phone. After pondering her action for a few minutes, she slowly placed the phone on the hook. Maybe it was finally time to reconnect with the world. Her friends really did seem to care about her. There was only one problem: Caleb.

What would happen if I left and he died without my care and protection, she wondered, gently stroking the pedals of her love. Tears welled up in her eyes when she thought back to that fateful day when Phobos had turned him back into the flower that he started as, the flower that she had guarded and cared for ever since they got back from saving Meridian. She wiped her tears away angrily and stomped her foot.

"No. I have to bring him back, and I'm going to find the one person who can help me." Cornelia grabbed her pink shawl and was about to walk out the door when she stopped and looked back at the flower she was leaving behind.

"Hmm. I can't leave you alone." She said to Caleb. "Maybe if I made like a force field around Caleb. He would be protected then." Cornelia walked back to him and closed her eyes to concentrate. She opened them when she felt it was done, but she just saw the flower and nothing else.

"Huh?" she exclaimed confused. "Why didn't that work?" Cornelia squinted her eyes, again feeling power surge through her. She opened her eyes and gasped with surprise and rage.

"What's happening! What's wrong with my powers!" she spun around and opened her door when she suddenly heard Lillian screaming.

"Mommy! What is that stuff!" she yelled as she ran into her mother's arms at the far side of the living room.

"I don't know!" she replied, plainly terrified at the gold, glittering mist substance that was filling the living room. It was swooping in and covering everything. Cornelia stared in horror when it swept over Lillian and her mother making them fall down on the floor asleep. That stuff seems to make everything stop working, she noticed as she saw the clock in the hallway. She didn't have a lot of time to think though because the mist was approaching up the stairs fast! Everything was in slow motion when she started running back to her room. She glanced back at Napoleon trying to run up the stairs, away from the advancing mist. It past over him and he fell asleep before he could take his next step.

"No!" Cornelia screamed, shutting the door behind her. The mist was coming through the crack under the door and it was making it hard to move. The phone started to ring and Cornelia desperately tried to reach it. She fought the mist with trouble because it wouldn't let go of her legs. It reminded her of last time, when the Seal of Phobos made inky black stuff go all over her room and trapped the girls. But then, she had Will and the Heart of Candracar to get her out of trouble. There was no one here to stop the gold mist that was up to her knees now and spreading around the rest of her room. She reached with great strength and grabbed the phone. Hay Lin's voice instantly came out of it.

"Cornelia! You won't guess who's here! Hey, what's wrong?" Hay Lin had just heard her desperate attempts to break free. The mist was swimming up the rest of her body and Hay Lin's voice seemed to get slower. Cornelia screamed the only sensible thing before the mist encircled her and she fell into her unconscious dreams.

"Help!"

I know that this was a very short chapter, but if I added what I was going to have, it would have been way too long. Everything now is being moved a chapter back so the whole evil Guardians thing will be explained in the 10th Chapter. You'll see more of them soon. That chapter will be the hardest because I need to work out everything without making it confusing. Thanks for reading and please review if it's not too much trouble. I don't seem to be getting too many.