Okay I decided two chapters in one day would be fun!

Chapter 14: Mind Games

Elyon's POV

Phobos laughed cruelly at the scene. Elyon was disgusted. How could he play with her friends like this! Elyon looked up past her prison and saw each of the Guardians floating limply in the air with the purple aura around them. First it only had Cornelia, but soon those Evil Guardians successfully tricked the others to where the Dream Catcher resided. And she was forced to watch this. Phobos wanted to have his fun before getting rid of all of them. It sent anger pouring through her veins. Although it pained her, she needed to watch for other reasons. Elyon was listening carefully to every word Phobos said, in case he said anything of his plan. She hoped that her friends would find out everything, but it started to seem like Phobos had finally won.

Elyon looked closer. The girls were held high up in the air but large oval images were shown under each of them for eyes to see exactly what was happening in their heads. It was like a camera video taping their dreams. She watched as a nurse spoke softly in Will's image.

"Will, you're mother is dead."

Will opened her eyes wide and stood back shaking her head with disbelief. Her lips started trembling and she couldn't help the tears that had already uncontrollably streamed down her cheeks.

"H-How? She can't have died! S-she can't!" The nurse walked forward more and Will still backed away.

"I'm so sorry. By the time she arrived in the Emergency Room, she had already lost most of her blood in her head. Her brain was dying from lack of oxygen. We couldn't save her." He truly looked sorry. "They have realized that you have a father and will take you there once you're ready." The nurse lunged forward to grab her but she screamed and jumped out of the way.

"No! Get away from me!" She ran out of the hospital and down streets in tears. Animals started howling as she ran passed gates. She suddenly stopped in front of a door. Taranee answered it and both of their images merged together. Elyon was shaking. She had to know.

"Is her mother really dead?" Elyon asked fearfully. Phobos just smiled evilly.

"No. At least not yet." He laughed. "But Will thinks she is which is all that she needs to know." Elyon needed more information.

"I still don't get what you're exactly doing with them. How is your plan possibly going to work?" Phobos grinned an evil twisted grin. He was going to say it. She just knew it.

"Well Elyon, if you haven't figured it out already. These alternate Guardians here." He said pointing to the women looking eagerly at the pictures. "They have more power than your dear friends. In fact, they pretty much gave it to them." To demonstrate they all started firing their new powers all over the castle sending guards screaming in terror. They laughed and went back to the show.

"Since they got more powers, they broke out of their universe and made a plan, a wonderful plan to free me and have me rule over Meridian and get the Heart of Candracar. It was too perfect. They had a disguised trap set for you as your friend Cornelia. They already had her as a prisoner. Then they sought out me and broke Cedric and I out of the Tower of Mists. He's still weak." Phobos added disgusted at his servant. They all looked back at each of the scenes. Will was crying and Taranee started to pat her on her back. In the other images, the girls started waking up with confusion. Phobos was about to start talking again but Elyon beat him to it.

"So that wasn't Cornelia!" Elyon exclaimed. Phobos either didn't hear her or ignored her as he went on with the explanation of his brilliant plan.

"They told me the plan and I found the Dream Catcher which has already killed one Guardian and countless others before. The dreams themselves don't come true in real life but if you do something to yourself that is of your own free will, it does happen in real life. Hopefully they'll hate their lives so much and drown themselves." The Evil Guardians snickered loudly with pleasure.

"And if not." He said simply. "The Evil Guardians will get the Heart anyway and then destroy them. The Dream Catcher, you see takes control of a person's mind and fills it with a nightmare of fears. It's enough to make anyone go crazy. Or destroy themselves."

"So they are living their worst fears." Elyon said horrified. "Why did you tell your whole plan to me?" She felt her brother's eyes bore into her own. Those eyes made her feel anger and hate towards everything he had done, everything that he was doing. He kept them locked as he spoke coldly.

"Give me the Crown of Light."

"No." she responded firmly. Phobos would never wear her crown again. Not even if she died.

"Give it to me!" He yelled sending a bolt of magic to her body. She shook with pain as it connected with her body. Intense heat was coursing through her, and then suddenly it stopped. Elyon rolled back over and saw Phobos bearing over her.

"Where is it?" he demanded, already magic sizzling at his fingertips.

"I don't have it!" she spat. He lowered his hands with questioning eyes.

"Then who?"

Elyon glanced quickly at the images and didn't answer. She saw Irma and Hay Lin's image go together with Will and Taranee's as they went and hugged her.

"Oh we're so sorry Will." Came Hay Lin's voice. Phobos scowled and walked back to the images where the Evil Guardians were standing.

"If you won't tell me where it is, I guess you just have to sit here and watch them suffer!" He screamed as he leaned a curious eye to the image shown.

"I'm sorry. I just can't do it anymore! It's too much!"

"Do what anymore?"

"Everything. It hurts too much! I can't do it anymore! I can't be a leader, I can't be a Guardian anymore!" Will walked out the door and her oval image separated from the other three's as she walked off crying into the night. Phobos could not have had more glee. It seemed like everything was working better than he had planned.

"She's left the group!" Evil Will exclaimed happily. "She doesn't have the heart in it anymore."

"Excellent!" Phobos said. "It's all going according to plan then. They will become so confused, so immersed in their own fears that they'll weaken themselves and that's when we will go in with the kill. We will soon gain control of Earth and Meridian, and ultimately Candracar!" Phobos looked back to Elyon and she gulped.

"You will give me my throne, or watch the Guardians die."

Elyon gasped and pleaded in her head. Cornelia, she thought desperately. Don't let him get it. The Guardians had to release themselves from their fears, but how could they do that if they didn't know what was going on? Her fate, along with the universe's seemed to lie with them. They had to beat their own mind games, or risk destroying themselves.

Alright then so now you know more about what Phobos plans to do, cough, has already started to do. The 15th chapter will come later tomorrow after I'm back from a family barbeque, or the day after. I'm hoping to aim for one review for a chapter so I hope you review! Thanks to all of you who have already reviewed my story. They make me happy! Until I update, ciao!