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Chapter 15-Good Things Come (and then turn bad)
Wills' POV
Once the others had left, Will walked over to the couch and collapsed onto it with a sigh. She was exhausted, yet she didn't want to sleep. That didn't stop her though. She didn't even remember falling asleep.
"Huh?" Will looked around, "Okay, what's going on?"
She was standing in the middle of nothingness. Literally. It was completely black all around. It wasn't like it was dark or anything, just black…well, it was hard to describe. She looked around, but didn't see anything, and it was really starting to scare her.
"Hello?" she yelled, but her voice was lost. Not good, she thought, Not good, not good, not good, not good...
"No, no, no…"
"What?" Will looked around. She knew she had heard someone talking, but didn't know who, or where the voice came from, "Who's there? Hello?"
"No, no, no…" Will looked to her left, and finally decided to try going that way. She walked for a few minutes, and finally, she found something that completely stopped her dead in her tracks: Elyon.
"Elyon!" Will cried, running forward, but she stopped. The last time she had seen Elyon, she'd been trying to destroy them.
"Will!" the blonde girl turned around, and Will saw there were tears in her eyes, "You're here!"
"What in the world is going on?" Will asked, "Last time I saw you, you had us trapped with Cedric, what-"
"Cornelia said it", Elyon said, "Phobos came to the castle, put some sort of spell on me, made me hurt all of you…"
She broke off with a shuddery sigh, and Will loosened up a little. It was obvious Elyon wasn't going to try and hurt her, so she took the chance…
"Where are we?" Will asked.
"I dunno", Elyon said, "I know one thing though: when you were fighting Cedric earlier, I saw everything. It's like, a mental prison or something, I don't understand…"
"So how did I get here?" Will asked.
"You got me", Elyon said, "I-I…"
"Elyon?" Will said uncertainly, watching Elyon falter. Suddenly Elyon jumped up and lashed out at Will, knocking her backwards.
"Elyon!" Will yelled, "What are you doing?"
"Huh?" Elyon fell backwards, clutching her head, "No stop, I-"
"What's going on?" Will asked desperately, "I don't understand, I-"
Elyon recovered from whatever was happening to her, and blasted Will with a wave of energy.
"AAAAHHH!" Will yelled as she flew backwards. She hit the ground with an"ow", and tried to pull herself back up.
"Oh man, that hurts", Will muttered, trying to pull herself up, while Elyon approached her, hand raised, "Elyon, don't…" Will said weakly, falling back to the ground.
"Too late guardian", Elyon said. Black energy pulsated around her hand as she prepared to fire at Will. And all Will could do was watch, knowing what was coming next…
"AAAHHH!" Will yelled, bolting right up. She shook her head, still breathing hard, like that dream had actually happened. "What time is it?' she muttered, looking around for a clock.
"Seven thirty!" she cried, "We got back it was like, three o'clock! I can't believe I slept that long!"
"Will?" she heard a knock from the door.
"Coming", Will called tiredly, pulling herself up.
"Yea?" Will said as she opened the door. It was Taranee.
"Irma called me", Taranee said, "Said she called here three times and never got an answer"
Will gave her a blank look for a second, then shook her head slightly and said, "Uh, sorry, I fell asleep. I'll call Irma and let her know everything's okay-"
"Everything is not okay", Taranee said, "I know you Will, you have that 'something's wrong' look, I'm not dumb Will"
"I know you're not", Will said, turning away from Taranee, "Nothing's wrong Taranee, I'm just tired"
"If you're sure…" Taranee said doubtfully, "I've gotta get home, if you don't want any company, I mean-"
"No, I'm okay", Will said, "You go home, I gotta go call Irma. Let her know everything's all right"
"All right, see you tomorrow Will", Taranee said as she left.
"Uh huh", Will muttered as the door closed. She grabbed the phone and dialed Irmas' number.
"Hello?" Irma picked up, and Will noticed a note of panic in her voice
"Hey Irma", she said dully.
"Will!" she yelled so loudly that Will pulled the phone away from her ear, "You're dead, do you know how worried I was?"
"Sorry Irma", she said, "I fell asleep, never heard the phone ring-"
"I'm guessing Taranee was over?" Irma asked.
"Yea", Will said.
"Did she wake you up?" Irma asked.
"No, I woke up before she got here", Will said with a sigh.
They talked a little more before Will found an excuse to hang up, not really in the mood to talk.
She made back for the couch, feeling more tired then she had before she had fallen asleep.
"What is going on with me?" she wondered out loud, "What was that dream supposed to mean?"
Will fell back to sleep on the couch, and by the time she woke up, it was ten o'clock the next morning.
"No way", she muttered, rubbing her eyes, "Ten? Great, so much for school, there's no way I'm going in this late"
Ring ring
"Even better", Will muttered, yanking the phone of the hook, "Hello?"
"I had a feeling you'd be home"
Will nearly dropped the phone, "Mom?"
"The one and only", her mom said with a laugh, "Why aren't you in school?"
"I-I overslept", Will said. It was true to.
"Okay, right", her mom said.
"A-Are you okay?" Will asked.
"Tch, I've been better", her mom said, "Been worse to, actually. How are you?"
"Me?" Will squeaked, "I-I'm fine, sort of"
"Whatta you mean, 'sort of'?" her mom asked.
"Huh? I mean, I'm fine, really", Will stammered quickly, not wanting to worry her mom.
They talked for a little while longer before some doctors came into Wills' moms' room and made her get off the phone. Will gave a small sigh of relief as she hung up, grateful that something was finally going right.
"Come on in guys", Will was saying a few hours later, opening the door for her friends.
"Why weren't you in school?" Taranee asked, "You could have at least sent an astral drop"
"I over slept", Will said, "Literally, I slept till ten a.m."
"Wow", Irma said, "I wish I could sleep that late"
"Uh huh", Will muttered, "Well, I do have some good news…"
"What?" Taranee asked.
"My mom's gonna be okay!" for the first time since she had gotten the call, Will felt truly happy.
"No way!" Irma cried, "I mean, that's great, but, I guess I just didn't expect it-"
We get it Irma", Cornelia cut her off, "That's great Will"
"You're telling me", Will muttered.
"Bout time something went right", Irma added, "As for all our other problems…"
"Not so good", Will finished the sentence for her, "So, any ideas?"
"I wanna know why Elyon attacked us yesterday", Irma said.
Wills' thoughts flashed back to her dream, but she shook it out of her head quickly, not really wanting to think about that.
"I'm telling you, she's under some kind of spell", Cornelia said, sticking to what she had said yesterday.
"Why are you here again?" Irma asked, obviously still on thin ice about the whole Cornelia thing.
"I'll be where ever I want to be", Cornelia snapped, "you're not in charge of me Irma"
"Don't fight", Hay Lin said, "Go one day without fighting, and I'll be happy"
The two girls glared at each other, but fell silent.
"Ah, silence", Hay Lin said, "Golden"
"Okay, can we stay on track?" Will said, "The track that started back at 'why did Elyon attack us?'"
"Right, Elyon", Taranee said, "Maybe Cornelia's right, maybe she is under some kind of spell, or something like that, but then again, who knows? She followed Phobos willingly once, who's to say she isn't again?"
"Are you serious?" Cornelia asked, "Come on, she followed him once, but it was different, she didn't know who he really was, she didn't know what he really wanted with her. It's different this time, I know it is-"
"Cornelia, we know you you're tryin to go over all the possibilities", Hay Lin said, "But face it, Elyon was your best friend, are you sure that's not all your thinking about?"
"I know what I'm thinking Hay Lin", Cornelia said, "And I stick by what I'm saying, she's under some sort of spell"
"Corny, come on", Irma said, "Lets' go over some other possibilities, not just yours-"
"One, don't call me Corny", Cornelia said, "Two, you just don't want to believe I'm right because you hate me"
Will caught a note of hurt in her voice when she said that.
"Cornelia", Irma sighed, "I don't hate you, you just aggravate me sometimes. Ever since Caleb…well, you know, ever since that happened, you slam doors in our faces, you yell at us, it would make anyone mad. I'm just the only one who happens to hold a grudge in this group. I mean, lets face it, if any of us treated you like that, wouldn't you be aggravated? But in all honesty, I don't hate you. You always made me a little mad, the way you act, but this whole thing just puts it right over the top-"
"Oh be quiet", Cornelia snapped, "You never cared, you know you didn't!"
"Jeez, you try to be sympathetic", Irma muttered, "This is what you get…listen Cornelia, I don't care what you think of me right now, I don't hate you, I never did, you were the one who blew this whole thing way outta the water, whenever any of us tried to talk to you, you slammed doors in our faces, yelled at us, the whole thing. How would you feel if we did that to you?"
"Not very good", Cornelia muttered.
"There you go", Irma said, "I'll say it one more time, and if it doesn't get through to you then I don't know what to say: I don't hate you, I just happen to hold grudges, ask anyone"
Cornelia looked at Irma, and Will noticed there were tears in her eyes. Yet they didn't seem like sad tears…
"Aaawww", Irma said happily, "Come on Corny, gimme a hug"
Cornelia glared at her kiddingly for a second, then caved and gave Irma the hug she had asked for.
"YES!" Hay Lin yelled, punching the air with her fist, "YES! Peace at last!"
"One more thing goes right today", Will sighed happily. It'd been a long time since Cornelia and Irma had looked at each other and had not started fighting.
"Okay", Taranee said happily, "Now that Cornelia and Irma are straightened out, we do still have problems, and Cornelias' idea about Elyon is the only one we have…"
"Yea", Will said, "Except…"
"What?" Cornelia asked, giving Will a weird look, "Except what? As in, what aren't you telling us Will?"
"I-Nothing", Will said, "Thinking about something else, don't worry about it-"
"You've been keeping secrets from us a lot lately, what's going on?" Taranee asked.
"Nothing", Will said, "Really, it's nothing, just forget about it"
They talked for about an hour, and were no closer to figuring anything out then they had been when they started. Will sighed heavily as her friends left, and found herself feeling worse than ever. She knew what she was hiding from her friends might be important, but she couldn't bring herself to talk about it. Maybe the dream scared her. Maybe it was just the fact she didn't think it was that important. It was all very confusing. The thoughts drifted lazily through her mind, and she couldn't pick one from the other. She groaned a little; this whole thing gave her a headache.
She ended up in school the next day, and spent most of the day trying not to fall asleep. She was relieved for the end of the day, needless to say.
Irmas' POV
"Hey Will", Irma caught up to Will as she walked out of school.
"Hi", Will muttered.
"Whatsup?" Irma asked cheerily.
"Irma, if that trick didn't work before, what makes you think it'll work now?" Will asked impatiently.
""Good point", Irma said, "This is what happens when I listen to Hay Lin. I can use all kinds of sneaky, devious tricks to get you to talk, but no, be straight forward, don't be sneaky, just work it into the conversation"
"I don't know what you're so worried about", Will said.
"The fact that you're keeping secrets from us, that's what", Irma said.
"I'm not keeping secrets from you", Will insisted.
"Uh huh, right", Irma said, obviously not convinced.
"I dunno how many more times I can tell you I'm telling the truth before you'll actually listen", Will said, "I'm telling the truth, if you don't believe me, that's-uuunnnhhh"
Irma jumped and grabbed Will as she stumbled, to keep her from crashing into anyone or anything.
"Will?" Irma said uncertainly, "You okay?"
"Uh, yea", Will muttered, straightening up shakily, "I'm okay"
"Is it your usual dizzy spell?" Irma asked, looking around, "Is there a portal near by?"
"No", Will muttered, "It was…different. I don't know how, it just was"
Elyons' POV
Elyon watched as Irma came to Wills aid after her little dizzy spell. She heard the two girls talking to each other, and knew exactly why this dizzy spell was different from the many others Will'd had in the past. She had been the one who caused it. It was meant to be a sign, a sign that danger was coming. If Elyon had been at a better range, it would have been a lot worse. She watched the girls for a few seconds, then turned away from them. She wasn't in the mood to watch Irma go all sad eyed over her friend, and get all concerned for Will. It made her sick.
"Soon Will, you won't have to worry about your little dizzy spells", Elyon whispered, "Or anything at all"