Hi and welcome to the 11th chapter. I know it has been a month since I have updated this, but there really is a lot going on with me right now with moving and such.In this chap, you might be happy to know, you will get more answers, like the back round information about the mirror that Phoebe, Will, Ona, and Irma passed through to different worlds, and how Carver Caves got blocked and protected by magic.(Although it's mostly in the 2nd part, sorry.) It's basically based about Amelia, because she plays an important part. I have really been against doing the chaps in parts in this story like I did with 'Whispers From the Past' and like I'm planning to do at least once in 'P.o.w.e.r.' (which is starting to come along well I might add.), but there have been some problems and I can't even find the second part of the chap(don't worry because I'm sure I'll find it, or at least rewrite it or something.) I can tell that I have gotten better with detail since I first started 'Whispers' because I somehow managed to stretch the last chapter of that story to nearly 4,000 words! And I thought that would be a short one. (I was having fun going on and on until I finished it on Tuesday. And I was already planning for this chap to be a long one, so you kind of get the picture. Not like it's getting any shorter with me typing this long intro…)
Chapter 11: The Magic Mirror Part One
Amelia's POV
"That's so perfect!" Amelia cried. "Absolutely beautiful!"
Sarah spun around and looked at herself at the side and moved her head from side to side as to think of the right decision.
"Do you really think so?" she asked. Amelia sighed and smiled with happiness. She couldn't believe one of her best friends was actually getting married! Shy, timid and pale Sarah did look very beautiful in her dress, with her thin blonde hair pulled back and curling below her shoulders.
"My, if Amelia says it's perfect, I wouldn't try doubting her." Danielle said as she smoothed down her long and straight brown hair under her bonnet. Kiari walked over beside Amelia and looked at Sarah with pleading eyes that seemed as if she already knew the painful answer.
"Is it necessary for you to move though? You won't be here with us anymore." Kiari asked with her eyes big and blue. "We won't be together anymore."
"Well, we're not exactly going to be together whether she stays or not." Rebecca answered sadly. "I have to teach in a different city, Danielle is going back for more school, and I guess that would leave Kiari and Amelia here alone for men to sweep thee off thy feet." Rebecca laughed.
Amelia sighed and noticed that Becca was right. They really weren't going to be together anymore. She looked around at each of her friends in turn. Each of them were 21 except for Kiari who was 20 and Danielle who was 22. Rebecca was all the teacher like, with tightly curled chestnut hair and hazel eyes. She looked over at Danielle who was helping Sarah with her dress and fell onto Kiari. With short black hair and wide blue eyes, this girl was her best friend. She was lively and playful and wasn't as serious as Danielle or as quiet as Sarah. Rebecca had her different personality traits as did she. Amelia fingered her curled strawberry-blonde hair and sighed again. It seemed like everything they had gone through for the past five years was over. She went back to hearing Sarah confirm what Kiara didn't want to hear.
"Sadly, yes. Christopher wants me to move with him to be nearer to his family. His father is down with some sort of illness. It's weird how everybody is getting sick these days. And I thought it couldn't hurt, I mean, there's nothing truly keeping me here except being with you guys. And with everybody going somewhere and living their own lives, well, we don't have any more missions or anything. It is all over after all. For a long while at least, but by then, there will be new defenders."
"Huh?" Rebecca said blankly not having a clue at what she was talking about. "Speak your mind, I don' know how to understand fragments."
"She means, that nothing is truly keeping us here because we are finished with being the Guardians." Amelia explained. The room fell silent and Sarah looked back up at Amelia with sad eyes. Amelia was upset too. They had been together for so long, and then were united with a bond that kept them alive: Being the Guardians of the Veil.
Amelia closed her eyes and could remember those days. They were all sixteen the day they learned of their powers. Amelia got the Heart of Candracar and helped her and her friends become stronger while fighting off the villains of Metamoor. It was quite an achievement The five girls were always proud for defending the world as women while the men usually had all the power. Most of all though, they loved using their powers and working together as a team! Rebecca directed the water, Sarah mastered fire, Danielle moved the earth, and Kiari harnessed air. While she, Amelia, held the Heart of Candracar. It tugged in her heart deeply at the thought of the Oracle telling them that they had helped a great deal in protecting the Veil. They could live normal lives now, but they would someday live for eternity in Candracar. She didn't want her adventures to end. There must be some way to do something, even without my team here, Amelia pondered. I'm still a Guardian, even if I'm not actually guarding anything. I still have powers.
"Amelia?" Amelia looked up again and saw her friends standing in front of her. Tears were starting to form in their eyes.
"Remember, we'll always be together in Candracar." Danielle reassured her. Amelia nodded with a tight throat. She felt like if she tried to speak, she would cry then and there.
"Thee is welcome to visit anytime." Rebecca told each of them. "It's not like we're saying goodbye for forever."
"It sure feels like it." Sarah groaned. Stillness went by and Amelia felt a chocked sob. She remembered all of the battles they did together, all the magical adventures where she felt more powerful and normal than anywhere else. It would all change. Amelia had actually started to live for everything they had been doing. Now, it felt like everything was over. Everything.
"Amelia?" came the voice again. Amelia wiped away a tear that had accidentally escaped onto her cheek. She saw Kiari with tears filling up in her eyes too.
"We're all going too miss it."
They all hugged each other and cried.
Amelia's head moved upward at the birds flying overhead. She needed to think. Everywhere she went, it felt like someone was watching her, like they were trying to keep tags on her at all times so that she could never be alone. She hugged her arms tightly and bit her lip with her eyes shut tight as her feet shuffled across the rocky ground. She couldn't let it all go yet. She needed to be in her special place, the one place that only she knew about and could get into. Amelia let a soft moan escape her lips and didn't open her eyes until she stumbled into Carver Caves. Yes, she thought running straight ahead, through the tunnel and through a side entrance that nobody would normally notice. Carver Caves is the only place where I feel safe. She pushed a rock that covered up a small hole and crawled inside it.
Amelia looked around the round room once before falling to her knees and crying. She had been dead for 3 days. Amelia had gone to her funeral, but was still in shock. Realizing finally what truly happened, Amelia had to go somewhere, somewhere far away and let herself cry her heart out.
Her best friend was dead. Kiari died from Typhoid fever.
Amelia's head started to hurt after sobbing for nearly an hour. She gently wiped her wet cheeks and stared with her puffy eyes. No more tears could come from her eyes. She kept thinking back to the funeral. Once the other girls had heard, they came over and they all tried to comfort each other. They seemed to feel terrible that they hadn't seen her in four months, and then never would again for a very long time. At least they got to say goodbye the last time they saw Kiari, Amelia yelled in her head. She leaned her head up against the wall and let her mind drift away to when she last spoke to Kiari, almost a week ago...
Flashback
"Why hello there Miss leader." Kiari said weakly from her bed in the corner. Amelia hurried over and placed some tea by her and sat down on the chair that had been permanently her seat since she found out of her friend's illness. Her eyebrows furrowed together in despair over the girl's condition. Kiari's big eyes seemed so small and cold as if they had lost all of the vibrant energy they once held. She was very pale and with her hair a mess, but she still gave a small smile before shuddering and pulling the blankets up to her chin.
"Hi Kiari." Amelia said with her voice caught up in her throat. "Are you feeling any better?"
"Sorry, no." she whispered. Amelia turned her head away. She couldn't look at her because it would show that she was losing her best friend. Kiari had already lost her sense of excitement, and Amelia noticed that the air started to feel more different.
"Amelia." Amelia turned her head back and looked into the eyes that she no longer recognized. It was hard to picture...surely nothing would happen...
"You know that I'm not going to live so just listen well. Take your cry, then only think of me happily; I don't want you being sad all of your life. Start a new though. Start your life again somewhere other than here so you don't have to feel all of the things that have happened in this place. You can find a new treasure in life, Church, love, and a lot of magic no matter where you are. Are you heeding me?" Amelia nodded.
"Yes." she replied with hurt in her voice. "Why though?"
"You'll need it. I know you Amelia Renee. Everything will be good again. I promise."
"But how will it be good if you're not here? And I'll be all alone without any of the other Guardians. We've really been broken up for good." Amelia told her dully. Amelia felt a cold hand residing on top of hers. Kiari squeezed and gave another small smile.
"You're losing your spunk. It would do you good to be somewhere else. Go to a happy place where there isn't evil lurking in the shadows. Find a loophole and make a happier place. With your magic, you can do anything." Kiari responded. She started squirming under her blankets, looking very tired...and very, very sick.
"I do have reason to believe that there is no such thing." Amelia chuckled. Kiari squeezed her hand again.
"Believe me. Danielle even said that we would always be together, here or not. You'll always be there for me and I'll always be there for you." Amelia felt a tear fall down her cheek and she wiped it away. Kiari's eyes started to close and Amelia felt that it was time for her to leave for Kiari to get some rest. She was in the doorway before Kiari whispered out to her.
"Do you promise?" Amelia gazed at her and gave a sweet smile, not really knowing that would be the last time she ever saw her face.
"I promise."
End Flashback
And now, she was most likely watching over her and her friends from Candracar and right by the Oracle's side. What else could she do?
'Take your cry, then only think of me happily. Start your life again somewhere other than here so you don't have to feel all of the things that have happened in this place. You can find a new treasure in life, Church, love, and a lot of magic no matter where you are.'
She had to listen to Kiari. Amelia had promised, and now that Kiari had passed, it was a promise that she intended to keep. She stood up and tried to smile. It hurt, it hurt a lot but she made herself pictures Kiari spinning around swiftly in the air with the brightest smile and pure lightness in her soul. 'Think of her happily', she really could do that if she tried. I have to be strong, she told herself firmly. For Kiari... It was then that her Guardian self kicked in.
"Hmm. How will I ever start over?" she asked herself, kicking a stone across the dirt. Her eyes traveled over the small rock caved room that held all of her secret possessions. She had never felt comfortable with leaving her personal and valuable things in her house, especially since her stepfather had been robbed a year ago. So, she ended up putting her diaries since she was a little girl and throughout her Guardian years on a hand-carved shelf her grandfather made, jewelry, letters from her friends, and , of course, heirlooms that were special to her from her mother. There was her mother's ruby ring that was kept in a small jewelry box, and another masterpiece from her grandfather and passed down to his daughter, an oval and beautifully designed mirror with a crystal clear reflection. Amelia looked at herself and noticed how much a mess she seemed. She washed her face with a bit of water nearby and brushed her hair. Now that was a whole lot better. Now, she was back to the real problem.
"She wanted me to get out and have a life again, maybe a life without evil, or all this mess that has followed me throughout my life." Amelia sniffed. "I'd rather be anywhere else in this world-no. I'd rather be anywhere but this world but I-" She paused and her face lit up slowly as an idea started forming in her head.
"Maybe...maybe I don't have to stay here." she whispered slowly as if daring not to believe it. She started to feel curious at what had already taken over everything else in her mind. The Oracle was always there to help them, but never gave them any more answers on what was truly out there. Sure, they had gone to a couple of different worlds to protect the Veil, but what if there was another time out there, another dimension out in the universe with many more worlds...
"There could be some way to get out there. I can't stand staying in Hetherfield. The only things here are all of my things in these caves. But how can I go out into the universe? The Heart will help, of course, but how?"
'Go to a happy place where there isn't evil lurking in the shadows. Find a loophole and make a happier place. With your magic, you can do anything.'
Amelia closed her eyes and tightened her fist. Kiari was right. She could do anything. She was the powerful Guardian of the Veil, the Keeper of the Heart of Candracar. She could make something happen if she wanted it badly enough. And she really wanted this. Kiari wanted it for her.
Her hand felt warm and pulsated with light. She opened her eyes and saw the Heart of Candracar hovering in front of herIt bobbled in the air for a few seconds and then started moving away from her.
"Hey! What are you doing?" she called out. She walked forward hurriedly to catch up with the flying crystal. It was hanging in the air over her mother's mirror and seemed to be trying to tell her something.
"What, the mirror?" Amelia looked from the Heart, to the mirror, and back again to the Heart. It seemed crazy. It made sense, having a mirror as a passageway through different worlds, but it wouldn't really work. Would it, Amelia thought, walking up until she was directly in front of the mirror. I have never doubted the Heart of Candracar though. I'm not going to start now. The Heart flew back into her palm and Amelia stared at it with a zing of happiness and anxiety.
"Now, lets see what you can do Heart of Candracar!" Amelia clung to the crystal and held it out in front of her and the mirror. She closed her eyes calmly and focused on letting all of her energy, and the powers of her friends, to unite within the Heart with absolute power. She opened her determined eyes and smiled. She pushed the magic with tremendous force. The ground shook and Amelia almost lost her balance and concentration as rocks and dirt started flying everywhere. She could only think of making the gateway. It had to work.
She gasped and grinned when the dust finally settled and she could see what was in front of herThe mirror was swirling with blue magic and a strange wind blew past her hair. She breathed in deeply, bid goodbye in her heart and stepped through.
There were too many colors and shapes passing her. Amelia twisted and turned as she fell through darkness. Dizziness started to overcome her until she at last felt herself hit soft grass. She lifted her head and her mouth dropped open in shock. It was...just like Earth. Had she made a wrong turn and gone somewhere else outside of Heatherfield? But, the color, the air...everything felt so different, like she had just stepped into real life.
"Hmm. Strange. Well, I guess I really made it! I can't believe I did it! Now, I need to close this thing before anyone else around here noticing. Amelia looked out from behind some bushes and looked back at the mirror. She brought the Heart out again in front of her.
"Heart of Candracar." she said. "Close this-huh?" Amelia jumped back in surprise as the Heart turned scarlet and started spinning and quivering until it started running itself into the mirror.
"Goodness!" Amelia cried before snatching the crystal. "I wonder what that was all about." Amelia realized with panic that if the Heart of Candracar couldn't close the mirror, what bad things would leak here?
"No. This might just be the kind of place Kiari was talking about. I need something to close the mirror and open it again whenever I please. That way, nobody here will ever be harmed by darkness traveling between worlds." Her thoughts automatically went back to Carver Caves and she felt another pang at what she was leaving behind. She was leaving her home and her very favorite place with all of her special things. What about her diary, her friends' letters, her mother's ring...
"Wait a second! The ring! Of course. That will be perfect." Amelia closed her eyes and stepped back through the mirror, spinning inside the strange darkness again until her feet landed back where she had been minutes before. She ran and hurried to gather the letters and her recent diary. Amelia stopped at the jewelry box and gently lifted the ring out and placed it on her finger.
"Now, for the final touch." the ring was caught up in a whirl of magic as she closed her eyes and touched the Heat of Candracar to her finger. A warm and powerful feeling surrounded it and its ruby color sparkled brightly before itsettled down again.Taking a deep breath and setting her determined face forward,Amelia beared her feelings of her old lifeto walk through the mirror to the new world, where she would never look back again.
Okay, so I know that there should be more(and there really would be if my floppy disk hadn't have screwed up...not to mention my brother's computer.) I will get the 2nd part up whenever we have these things unpacked and I can find that file on that stupid computer. I'm sorry if I dissaponted anybody, but at least be happy that I didn't wait another week or so to post the whole chap! See you guys soon and review if you are kind!