Okay, my Internet isn't working right now so I decided to write both of the chapters for my stories. I am fully finished planning the chapters for both of my stories, but I still need to find the time and sit at the computer and type the chapters while I improvise. This is going to be the longest chapter yet, but that's probably because I don't really feel like braking this one into two parts. I already have four chapters with two parts and I think people can deal with the fact about a longer chap to enjoy. I'll tell you now that I've always been this way. I keep writing and writing and I can't stop. You might find that this chapter is very much action based. It's about time I can write one considering that you guys (and me) are tired of all the conversations. They've figured everything out now! Their powers are back and so is their friendship. I hope you guys remembered something important about powers from chapter 10, A Path to Understanding. If you didn't it's okay because you'll find out what happens if you read what happens next!
Chapter 22: A Collision of Chaos
Elyon's POV
"No." Elyon whispered. She still couldn't believe it! How could she have taken the Heart of Candracar?
"Face it Elyon! Your friends don't have their powers anymore! Evil Will has the Heart! We will go back in and take the crown away forcefully if that's what you want!" Phobos yelled. He stormed back over to her and Elyon leaned back in disgust.
"Tell me. Does the earth Guardian have the Crown of Light?"
Elyon didn't know how to answer. If she said yes, they would go to her and take it away and even try to hurt her! If she said she didn't know what they were talking about, they would take that as a yes and go and do the same thing. But what if she said no…
"Well!" Phobos demanded. Elyon turned back to him.
"No." Elyon answered definitely. Phobos was in an angry rage.
"What do you mean 'no'?" Phobos yelled.
"I mean that she doesn't have it." Elyon said without any emotion in her voice. Not even the pounding fear that felt like it was going to burst from her chest was detected in the sound coming out of her mouth. Phobos turned around and faced Evil Will. She smiled and nodded.
"I'll take care of it."
Evil Will was standing before her and Elyon gazed reproachfully back at her face.
"So, I bet you're wondering how I got the Heart." She said sarcastically.
"Not really, considering I know that you went to a low level to steal it." Elyon replied. To tell the truth, she really did want to know. She wanted to know what had happened to her friends. What was happening to them now?
"It was pretty easy, although your friends did give me a hard time in that cell." She rubbed a spot on her back carefully and Elyon had a small smile that said 'she deserved it.'
"Disguising myself as Luba, from the Council of Candracar was easy. She never liked the Guardians to begin with. Will had the Heart out and I got it away from her. Just like I said earlier," Evil Will said with a nasty smile. "Weakness. Of course, they're all weak now. I'd feel pretty cruddy myself, being powerless. Aw, too bad for the ex-Guardians of the Veil!" Elyon's head snapped to focus on her face.
"What do you mean ex-Guardians? Just because the Heart is gone doesn't mean-"
"Doesn't it though?" Evil Will told her casually. "They pretty much handed their powers on a silver platter to us. They didn't act like the Guardians, so the powers they were losing slowly crept to us. We got stronger and they had little powers. Do you possibly think that there can be any power left in them after the Heart of Candracar became mine? Now, all is lost. Just tell us where the crown is and we may not have to do anything to you."
"Please." Elyon said rolling her eyes. "Like Phobos isn't going to try and take my powers the moment he gets his hands on it anyway." She stared at the woman glaring back at Elyon with hate. Elyon felt the same way. She hated them for making all of them suffer through this.
"Nobody is powerless." Elyon told her. "Power is a matter of faith. Even at our weakest and most desperate times of our lives, it can be found deep within one's self. You just have to trust in it, and in your friends." Evil Will rolled her eyes too and just laughed.
"If you don't want to give up the Crown of Light, it's going to be your funeral. You need to grow up little Elyon. Power is about who is the quickest, smartest, and strongest. The one who gets it all is the most powerful! And that person is me!"
"Wrong again Evil Will." Elyon felt something strange. Something was happening. Automatically, Elyon and everyone else lifted their gaze up to each Guardian floating in the purple auras, the midst of the Dream Catcher and evil itself. The mist and the girls had started dissolving.
"No! How can it-" Phobos stuttered.
"What's happening?" Evil Irma cried out. The castle floor was shaking and rocking back and forth. Tables and vases crashed to the floor and everybody grabbed something to keep their balance. The floor trembled ever more as a crack of white light zig-zagged through it. Everyone shielded their eyes from the blinding light. Elyon saw many colors dance past her eyes. Elyon was hopeful. It had happened before, maybe they had done it again. Elyon squinted her eyes to see past the colorful lights flashing everywhere like some firework show. Something was spinning in the middle of the room. It got larger and larger until it exploaded. The light only dimmed down enough for Elyon to see five girls landing lightly on the castle floor.
"That's not possible!" Evil Will screeched. Elyon smiled. Oh, but it was. Elyon could soon make out her friends' beautiful Guardian outfits and the determined looks on their faces. Elyon was so happy! They had done it! But how did they do it? It doesn't matter right now, Elyon told herself. As long as they're here, they can get me out of here for us to beat evil, because that's just the way they rolled.
"No! It can't be! It isn't possible! You could only get out with the Heart of Candracar!" Phobos screamed. Will looked his way and stepped out of the light which after the Guardians' dramatic entrance, was starting to fade away back into the dark and gloomy castle. The other girls did the same.
"We're the Guardians of the Veil. What part of that do you still not get?" Will said with a smile.
"Yeah! What she said!" Irma retorted with her hands on her hips. "Anything's possible with us so buddy, you better believe it!"
"Elyon!" Cornelia yelled as she spotted Elyon smiling in her prison. "Are you okay?"
"I'm fine Cornelia!" Elyon yelled. "But could you please get me out of here so that we can destroy these guys already?"
"I'm down with that." Taranee said as she geared up a large fireball and aimed it at Elyon's cage. Elyon recoiled for fear that the fire would burn her, but it moved quickly up the cage and melted it. Elyon didn't have quite as graceful of a landing than the Guardians did, but she stood up and shook it off. Phobos and the Evil Guardians were still staring anstonishly at them. They still couldn't believe they had gotten out of their fears.
"Well it took you guys long enough." Elyon joked as she moved toward her friends.
"Oh give us a break Elyon. I'm so happy we're free!" Hay Lin exclaimed. Elyon's spirits rose. Everything was like it used to be. They were all friends again! She gazed approvingly at them and then turned to look at her brother who shook his head but then got in a calm stance. Yep, everything was like it used to be, Elyon thought drily. Which means that it's about time to battle these guys and win. It was for Meridian, Earth, and Candracar. Phobos said that it was like a puzzle, a game. Well this game wasn't over yet!
Cedric suddenly came slithering in and stopped dead in his tracks and his mouth dropped.
"Sire, how did they? They can't have."
"Oh, so nice to see you Cedric." Cornelia said stiffly. "Did you think it was fun to kill Caleb, burn Hay Lin's home, and get Taranee and Hay Lin put in jail for a murder they did not commit?" Cedric started squirming. Taranee rolled her eyes at his pathetic gestures.
"Well, my mom is a judge. I can always tell when somebody is guilty!" Taranee yelled.
"There always has to be a punishment for your crimes." Hay Lin said. She started to look thoughtful. "Hmm, how about a fiery tornado?" She looked at Taranee and they reered back with their hands together. Before letting go, Taranee looked at Hay Lin with her eyebrows raised.
"A fiery tornado?"
"What? I can't help it if I'm creative." They pushed the magic forward and a tornado of fire started spinning toward Cedric.
"No!" he yelled. It caught up with him and he started spinning around and around until it shot him out with burns all over his body. He hit the castle wall and slid down without a sound.
"All right Hay Lin and Taranee!" Irma cheered. "Let's say we beat these suckers down till they cry!" Elyon smiled at Irma's usual quips. She had something else that she had to do first though.
"Cornelia." Elyon started as she moved toward her friend. "Before Phobos put you into the Dream Catcher, I slipped something to you. You have the Crown of Light."
"I knew it!" Phobos yelled. He shot out his hand and white magic beams hit Cornelia squarely in her chest. She fell back as Phobos advanced on her with his arms outstretched. Slowly and surely, something began to come out of Cornelia. She gasped when it flew out of her and high into the air.
"No!" Elyon cried.
"Hurry everybody!" Will said. "Get the crown!"
"Oh no you don't!" Evil Taranee yelled. The Evil Guardians' hands were crackling with power. The Guardians stood their ground and took a fighting stance. The Crown of Light started slowly falling back down.
"The Crown is mine!" Phobos yelled as he ran forward.
"No it isn't!" Elyon shouted as she ran forward to grab the Crown too.
"Get out of my way Sister!" Phobos spat. One arm was in the air and he brought down the other and was about to shoot an attack. Elyon knew that she was going to be too quick for him.
"Not on your life, Phobos!" She raised her hand up too and glanced quickly at Will right by her who started bringing up her pink magic.
"Now!" Will shouted. Everything seemed in slow motion to Elyon. Were they all going in slow motion? The Evil Guardians' attacks passed into the air at the same rate that the Guardians' did. The same thing was happening to Phobos's and her magic. All of their magic, their attacks against each other were all going to meet and hit together!
The problem was, the Crown of Light was right in the middle of the impact.
Ka-boom!
A huge explosion came from the middle of the magic and shook the castle even more than before. Elyon felt her feet leave the ground and she screamed as she was knocked backward by the force of the magical eruption. She fell hard on her back. Everything hurt. Her head, her body, but mostly, her heart. She didn't want to see it, but she had to know if it did happen. It hurt to breathe, but she couldn't even catch her breath. She suddenly felt very tired and weak, especially when she turned onto her side and looked on with a sickening feeling in her stomach.
The Crown of Light, her crown as the Light of Meridian, was lying down in three broken pieces, scattered on the floor.
"No." Elyon whispered. "It can't have. No." Elyon felt like crying. She had lost something that was a part of her. Maybe this is how Will felt after the Heart of Candracar was stolen. The Crown and Elyon had been connected, and now it was broken.
Like their powers.
The Guardians, the Evil Guardians, Phobos, and Elyon all slowly struggled to get up. Everybody looked breathless. Nobody looked as they had a minute earlier. Each one of them looked in bad shape, and that was just the beginning of it. Elyon felt weak and powerless…she was sure that some felt the same way…
"So," Evil Will breathed. "Our battle has come at last. You want to fight and win the Heart of Candracar back, then try and beat us! We'll see who the most powerful Guardians really are!" Will turned around to face her. She stared at her face for a moment before voicing her opinion.
"Let's see how quick it is for us to win!" Will yelled definitely. Evil Will raised her arms and sent them flying forward. Elyon inhaled a sharp breath as she prepared for the attack to go coming at Will.
But, there was nothing.
"Huh?" Evil Will said as she looked at her hands in confusement. "What's going on here?"
"Oh, I think I can help with that!" Will said angrily. She threw an energy blast and it hit Evil Will and sent her flying backwards until she fell down to the floor in a painful position on her side.
"Hmm, it looks like the real Guardians have more power after all." Will said leaning over her.
"Speak for yourself Will!" Irma yelled. Evil Irma was shooting water out of her hands that sent Irma flying at the top of a geyser of water, 9 feet in the air.
"Stop, stop, stop!" Irma yelled. "The water won't listen to me!"
"Earth won't either!" Cornelia shouted as she gave up on moving the earth to run away from the huge vines that Evil Cornelia had sprung to life and was trying to maneuver to chase Cornelia.
"Something is very wrong!" Taranee shouted as she sent fiery darts to Evil Taranee who started screaming in agony. "Only some of us have powers!"
Hay Lin flew around in the air and blew her Evil self around dizzily.
"I thought we were more powerful than them Will!" Evil Hay Lin shouted to her leader. "What's happening?"
"I don't know!" Evil Will growled angrily as she kicked Will and knocked her off of her feet. Will ducked from Evil Will's next blow and punched her in the side of her head.
Elyon gulped. She was barely aware of her brother moving ever slowly closer to her. She whipped her body around and waved her magic to direct it to the man in front of her.
But none came.
Elyon gasped with shock when a painful jolt went through her body and shook her. She forced her brain to remain focus, but anger clouded her mind when she could hear Phobos cackling.
"Nice try Elyon." He laughed. "But it looks like I have the upper hand here." He tried to send another attack at her, but Elyon jumped out of the way and tried to use her power again. She thought really hard, and concentrated all of her emotion and energy into pure power. But still, nothing came out.
Where were her powers? Elyon started to get frantic at the thought of being defenseless and weak while facing her brother. She kept trying to dodge out of his sight and she finally sat behind an overturned table while out of breath. Elyon peaked around the corner to see what was happening in the rest of the battle.
Hay Lin was flying around the castle sending gusts of wind at Evil Hay Lin who would try to jump up and grab her but then get dizzy from spinning around in circles.
"He, he!" Hay Lin giggled. "Dizzy yet? Maybe I should just fly higher."
Cornelia was jumping out of the reach of the earthly vines that were coming in all directions and intending on wrapping around her body. She spun around to dodge one, but only to be faced with four more heading her way. She grabbed them in her hands and tied them into a knot with a grin.
"Try to get them out of that!" She called out. "Ah!" More vines came from the side and Cornelia did a cartwheel and started running again to avoid their reach.
"Take that fire Guardian!" Evil Taranee shouted with glee. Taranee stood there surprised but then grinned with relief.
"It looks like your powers aren't working as you had hoped, are they?" Evil Taranee stomped her feet in frustration, but then gulped when she noticed a huge fireball coming her way.
"Let me go!" Irma screamed from the top of the geyser that Evil Irma was holding her on top of. Irma's legs were flailing and she started waving her arms around as she tried to get away from the water. Evil Irma shrugged her shoulders simply.
"As you wish." Evil Irma dropped her arms down and Irma went sliding down fast as the water twisted and turned dangerously.
"Help!"
Evil Will and Will were moving around fast. They showed much anger as Will shot magic at her and Evil Will quickly dodged it.
"You're not bad, but you don't know how to use your powers!" Evil Will said as she started breathing heavily. "I can show you. Using them for good is pointless, especially since I have the Heart now! Your Earth shall be mine!"
"Shut up!" Will screamed. She hurled another energy blast at her and Evil Will screamed in pain.
Elyon stopped looking at her friends. She couldn't see Phobos searching for her anymore. And she had the feeling that he was-
"Hiding Elyon?" Phobos asked. Elyon shivered and faced her brother while still on her knees. He continued to stare at her with his playful eyes.
"Since the Crown of Light is gone, we have an equal fight dear sister. Well, it's not exactly my fault that your powers aren't working. Oh, well too bad for you. Good bye Elyon.
Elyon stared at him with disbelief and then froze. She could barely move her eyes. Everyone else seemed frozen in mid battle too. An unbalancing wave of electricity passed over everyone. Elyon saw a white bubble, sparkling with magic come out of Phobos and started to come towards her. Elyon could barely see the same thing happening to the other ten girls out of her peripheral vision.
A sliver magical bubble came out of Hay Lin and was moving downward toward Evil Hay Lin. A green one moved from Evil Cornelia to Cornelia. Another one that was orange moved from Taranee to Evil Taranee. The blue bubble was taken out of Evil Irma and placed inside Irma who was frozen in midair while she was falling. The last pink bubble popped out of Will and transferred itself to Evil Will. Everything went in slow motion again until Elyon could fully blink her eyes and-
"Ah!" Phobos cried with his eyes wide open. "What just happened? I feel-"
"Weak?" Elyon proudly finished for him. Her strength lessened as she started to feel so as well. She looked at her hands which started sparkling with magic. It was dimmed though and her skin started to look pale. If she had her powers back inside her body, why was she feeling this way?
"Ahhhh!" Hay Lin screamed as she started falling fast to the ground. She tried to use her wings, but it did no use against the force of her fall.
"Yes!" Irma declared. She pushed water out of her hands to keep herself up and stop falling. She landed gently on the ground while Hay Lin crashed on her feet. She fell over and hit the floor.
"Ow! My ankle." Hay Lin moaned. "I think it's broken."
"Well, we wouldn't want to do anything to hurt it more now would we?" Evil Hay Lin said. She whipped up a tornado and started to spin Hay Lin around. She screamed and landed on her backside after being thrown out.
"Ow, this hurts! You idiot! You're not supposed to move people when they're injured!" Hay Lin yelled.
"Oops!" Evil Hay Lin replied as she put up her arms sarcastically. "Sorry."
"Now, it's payback time!" Cornelia shouted. Her and Irma moved together as their evil twins started backing away from them frighteningly.
"Evil Taranee balled up both of her fists that filled with a blazing fire and started slashing at Taranee who kept jumping backward to avoid her thrashing arms.
"Actually Taranee." Evil Taranee started. She finally slashed her across the cheek and Taranee fell back. "They are working exactly how I had hoped."
Elyon turned away from looking at her friends and her captors again to face Phobos. He was still trying to get the magic out of him. And it doesn't seem to be working, Elyon thought with a small smile. She raised her arms in front of her. It's a good thing that mine are working perfectly!
"You deserve this Phobos!" She yelled. Magic slithered from her hands and coiled around Phobos. Another blast came toward him and surrounded him with nothing but pain.
Evil Irma kicked Irma in the stomach and Irma retaliated with a gush of water that knocked her off of her feet.
Taranee grabbed Evil Taranee's wrists and twisted her around and flung her across the room.
Cornelia made the vines crowding a section of the floor trip Evil Cornelia. She tumbled on the floor as a cover up and kicked Cornelia's feet from the ground.
Will slapped Evil Will angrily and started in with a punch when Evil Will grabbed her fist and pushed her back with excruciating force. Will fell on her back and turned quickly to the side when Evil Will's foot started to come down on her. Her foot hit the ground too hard and she fell off balance.
Elyon released Phobos. He started to take deep breaths of pain and spat out some blood. He looked up angrily at Elyon who didn't even flinch. Phobos got up and started running at Elyon. He tried to grab her neck, but she easily blocked him and sent him flying away from her from her power.
Elyon stumbled. She started to feel sick. All she wanted to do was fall on the floor and rest. There was a pounding in her head and she was feeling very dizzy. Elyon fell to her knees and looked around at everyone else. Hay Lin was lying down and rubbing her ankle with a pained expression while Evil Hay Lin leaned against the wall, out of breath. Cornelia still sat on the vines from where she had been tripped and Evil Cornelia was moving very slowly on her hands and knees. Evil Taranee lay motionless on the other side of the room while Taranee fell to her knees like Elyon had and then fell to the floor on her side. Will and Evil Will were lazily punching each other. They looked in bad shape, as did everyone else. Irma started huffing with her evil self beside her. They both looked very sick and weak.
"Is it, okay? To, take a brake, from fighting for our lives?" Irma huffed. She fell down as did Evil Irma.
"Don't stop." Will ordered weakly. "They'll keep the Heart of Candracar and destroy Earth while killing everyone."
"Wake up Will!" Cornelia moaned. "We're the ones dying."
Elyon did feel weird. She didn't have the will to move. Not to use her powers…or even to live.
We are dying, Elyon thought frantically. She tried to move something but it was like trying to lift a house. Elyon blinked her foggy eyes and thought again. Something bad has happened, something that wasn't supposed to be. Everything seemed so unbalanced. Everything seemed so weak. Everything seemed so dark…
"I will not die!" Evil Will suddenly burst out. She held up her hand and a burst of pink light came up from it. The Heart of Candracar was floating above her palm.
"Give it, to me." Will said through gritted teeth.
"As if!" Evil Will told her. "Wait! Hey!"
Elyon lifted her head up and her eyes were filled with a sudden light. It wasn't 'the light' she had always pictured when you died. It was a bright, brilliant pink light that shown through her eyelids. She felt a little bit of warmth and hope spread through her body. She had strength enough to open her eyes and tilt her head upward.
"Will!" Elyon said with an amazed expression. The Heart of Candracar had lifted both Will and Evil Will into the air and bathed by its glorified magic. They both looked down. They had no clue to what was going on. Neither did anybody else as each person, weak on the floor, looked up with their mouths slowly opening.
The Heart of Candracar seemed to know what it was doing. It had made plans and was trying to decide on where to go. It spun around both of the girls' heads and flew even higher into the air where it showered the room with light. Evil Will and Will looked at each other with newly found strength. Both of their hands lit up with magical energy. Elyon could feel it in the air. But she just started to feel weaker…
They were all getting weaker, perhaps except the two Wills. Everything had been so bad, and when their first sign of hope came, their powers had messed up by switching from each body to the other. Now, they wouldn't survive without hope, without friendship, and without faith. The Heart of Candracar hung still in the air as a challenge, twinkling with powerful steadiness.
"Ready?" Evil Will asked with her eyebrows raised. Will narrowed her eyes with determination.
"Bring it on."
This is the true battle for Meridian,
Candracar,
Earth,
And their lives.
The battle for power,
Peace,
And friendship.
This is the battle for the Heart of Candracar.
Will and Evil Will both raise their arms to fight.
It has begun.
Whew! Now that was a chapter to write! That was the most fun that I have had writing this story! I think the longest too…dang! 11 pages on word with size 12 letters! OMG! I do write too much! Actually, go back and read what Yan Lin said in chapter 10 if you didn't understand what was happening with all of the powers switching, etc. Sorry for the cliffhanger too, but I'll maybe get to post another chapter either this weekend or next weekend. Well, I have this weekend to catch up on make up work for missing three days of school. I'm feeling better, but that might not be a good thing because I can't sit home and write, huh? ;) I had to take this to my dad's house and post it because the Internet is still not fixed at my mom's. It turns out that the dog chewed the cord again. starts pouting and muttering under breath I'll see you next time, and I would love reviews! I'm not totally well even if I'm going back to school tomorrow so they'll encourage me to write more and help me feel better:D I'll get the next chap up as soon as I can, no angry mobs on me please.