Hi, guys! I see I really intrigued you! So, I'm already off to the new chap, I'll try to fulfill your hopes, but remember I don't promise anything! So, it's useless to beg me about the happy ending, 'cause I won't tell you anything, I want to torture you a little more. So, just sit and SUFFER! Just kidding. Anyway, this will give a better reputation, 'cause it's one of the methods of a genius author. And I'm a genius one, right? Anyway, the best way for you to know what will happen, is to read chap 10. Enjoy! So hare comes
Chapter 10
They couldn't answer those questions; they were just standing and looking at each other. Maybe in the last time ever…
Suddenly, Will noticed that Blunk was behaving strangely. He crawled to the inside wall of summer-house and was smelling it.
«Hey, guys, just look» she said to her friends.
The guardians paid attention to the stupid little creature. Caleb and Cornelia also looked, but they didn't see anything important in anything now, in the hour of their possible separation.
Blunk continued smelling the wall, and exactly through the blocks of the wall. When the creature noticed that he was watched by, he looked at the girls and Caleb, pointed at the wall and said «Blunk smell books»
«What did he say? » the four guardians immediately asked anxiously.
«He said he smelled a kind of books…» Cornelia pronounced indifferently and then immediately regained consciousness «Books? »
«Can it be? » Caleb said looking at Cornelia. They were both thinking the same and understood each other's thoughts. Maybe a hope appeared and there is a chance that everything can still end well?
Irma understood their surmises. «But are you sure that Blunk was really able to scent a book? » she asked «I don't think that a mere book can have such a strong characteristic smell, to scent it through a wall? »
«Sure he could» Caleb convinced her «At Montages' family library that creature ate so many books, that he can easily smell them anywhere»
Blunk stupidly looked at his friend and put on a "you see, I was right to eat those books at the library, and you shouted at me! Now don't try to apologize, I'm completely offended on you' face.
«Then, this is our chance! » Cornelia said. Caleb looked at his innocent angel, her silver voice sounded a bit more cheerful. How could he loose her?
«If that green one smelled anything behind a wall, then there must be a double-wall and there is more space inside, hidden properly» the Earth guardian continued. «Then, the magic book might be there and that means that we did everything right»
«You may be right about the double-wall! » Taranee said «It is rather typical for Middle Ages, and then… everything gathers as in the riddle! »
«Corny, you're a genius! » Irma yelped.
Everyone seemed to have hope now. Will came into the open summer-house and touched the wall. «We need something really strong to knock this down» she said.
«Oh, if only I had my powers, I could simply break it» Cornelia sighted «but without them, we can do nothing»
«Yeah, we really need something strong…» Hay Lin murmured looking at the wall from top to bottom «…as strong as Cedric's tail for example»
«You guys, look there! » Caleb sighted pointing at something on the opposite side.
The guardians turned to look what it was…
Suddenly they so that on the open space not far from them started to appear a strange light. As they watched it was growing and growing and started to form something. Some seconds later it turned into that fire portal through which the guardians got into Verona. And from the portal went out Cedric in his snake form and some warriors. When they left the portal, it immediately disappeared.
The girls and Caleb didn't expect this at all. They first didn't even realize what happened, but Blunk did. He screamed very loudly and quickly jumped into the bushes to hide.
«Oh my gosh, why did I say it? Why did I say it! » Hay Lin yelled when she realized what had happened. She said that they needed Cedric's tail to break the wall, and now there was Cedric himself!
«Use them up! » Cedric ordered to the warriors «I don't want to dirty my hands»
And huge monster warriors with weapons rushed to the guardians.
«We must fight. Take the weapons quickly! » quickly said Caleb grabbing the sword from the wall of Lord Capulet's summer-house.
«But our powers…» Taranee tried to say. She was very afraid to fight with those huge monsters without her guardian powers. They could simply make a steak from all the girls.
«We don't have any choice! » Cornelia interrupted her grabbing a another sword herself «Take the weapons if you don't want to be killed»
The guardians looked at each other. That was probably the only way. So they started to grab quickly the rest of the weapons. Will grabbed two three-horned daggers (like Gabriel's weapons from 'Xena, the warrior princess') and Irma took two small daggers. There were no weapons for Hay Lin and Taranee left.
And so the fight began. Caleb was doing magnificently with his word, his was a skillful warrior and though the monsters were twice bigger than he, Caleb did his best to protect himself and the girls from the monsters.
Cornelia was also fighting well. It was her first time when she used a sword and it was difficult. The sword was really heavy and it was uncomfortable to fight in a long medieval dress, but she repulsing the strikes very well. She didn't want to let down her friends and her only love, so she decided to win this battle at any cost.
Will also tried to fight with her three-horned daggers. It was difficult, but she was the leader of the guardians and couldn't loose.
Hay Lin stayed without weapons, so she used her con-fu skills to fight b with the monsters. She flogging them as strong as she could, but sometimes it didn't work.
Irma didn't want to fight without guardian's powers, but she saw that her friends were doing in the battle and she also threw one of her daggers at the nearest monster. But she missed and her action caught the warrior's attention. He rushed to the Water guardian, she didn't even manage to realize that she was in big trouble, but her reflex worked and she threw another one at him. A moment and the monster was stabbed to a tree. Irma nearly failed when she saw that she coped with that.
Taranee didn't have any weapons and she tried not to fight, but it was impossible. She saw a warrior rushing towards her. The Fire guardian wanted to run in the opposite way, but there was another monster from the other side. Taranee thought a little and just bent down instead of escaping. The two giant warriors run into each other and fell on the ground, and Taranee quickly ran away.
The girls were not very bad fighting, if you take into account that it was their first fight without guardians' powers, and it was their first time to use weapons, so they soon were past their best. It couldn't last long like that, and the guardians needed to do something.
Suddenly Cornelia remembered Hay Lin's words. She looked at the inside wall of the stone summer-house and she had an idea. She crashed the warrior, she was fighting with, with her sword with such strength, that he fell down. And the Earth guardian rushed to the building.
«Cornelia, what are you doing? Come back! » Caleb tried to stop her, but it was too late. Cornelia started to put her plan into action.
She stood in front of the inside wall of the summer-house and tried to catch Cedric's attention. «Hey, you, brainless snake» she cried, though her heart was beating very quickly with fear «Come and kill me if you can. Are you too cowardly to cope with a mere human? » she continued with all her hatred. She hated Cedric, and Phobos and all other villains that wanted the reign of eternal evil.
Cedric heard Cornelia's words. How dare that insignificant girl say that? That show-off Earth guardian, she always put him in traps and he hated her the most. Now he will flatten her like a fly.
In a moment the snake got near Cornelia and raised his tail to hit Cornelia. The girls gasped and Caleb's heart was going to torn apart.
When Cedric started to let down his tail, Cornelia put together all her strength and jumped aside and the tail hit on the wall. The blocks immediately scattered away and the guardians saw that there was empty space behind the wall as they supposed before… and there was a thick leather-binding book standing inside on a tall stand.
«The book! » Will cried and rushed to the stand. She immediately grabbed it and tried to open, but it was impossible. «Oh no, it's locked! » she whispered and suddenly felt that somebody was straight behind her. The guardian turned around and saw Cedric just in front of her. He crept to her from backside and was going to hit her. Will didn't move. She didn't know what to do and she didn't have any time.
Cornelia saw what was happening, she didn't want her best friend to be killed by the large snake and she decided to save Will at any price. So she did the first which came to her mind. She grabbed the sword lying on the ground and quickly rushed to Cedric. He couldn't even realize what was happening when Cornelia hit him on the tail with her sword.
The monster roared from pain and raised his bleeding tail. «You again! » he hissed with rage when saw the Earth guardian and bit Cornelia with his tail with such force that she rebounded far backwards. The blond hit on the tree and fell on the ground motionlessly.
When Caleb saw what was done with his only love, blood in his veins started to boil. He couldn't imagine that somebody can hurt his holy angel, but Cedric did it, and the young warrior hated him even more. He was to do anything to take vengeance on her. He was ready to pierce Cedric's evil heart with his sword. And he rushed to the snake.
«Caleb, wait, you will suicide yourself! » the guardians tried to stop him, but the monsters didn't let them.
Caleb was going to kill Cedric, but the snake expected his attack and gave him a strike first. Caleb fell back and couldn't move.
«How that urchin pestered me! » Cedric hissed «I will finally cope with him» As his powers were blocked 'cause he went through the portal and now was in XIV century, (I don't know exactly if Cedric had any powers, but if he did, they were blocked) so he took the burning flare, formed the fire from it into a fire ball and was ready to throw it at Caleb. This could definitely kill him.
Cornelia saw all that and her heart was bleeding. She couldn't let that giant snake kill the one, she loved the most. She would anything for him, she was ready gave away her own life to save his. But she could do nothing. She was too weak to stand up and it was too late to manage do something before Cedric would throw the fire ball. For only a moment the Earth guardian imagined that the fire ball hit Caleb and he fell breathless on the ground. She imagined herself weeping on his lifeless body. How will she live without him? No, this wont happen, Caleb won't die. Not now, not here, not like this. She would do anything to stop that. Cedric threw the fire ball.
«No! » Cornelia cried and did the first her heart prompted her. She teared the Heart of the Ocean (which she wore as usual) off her chest and threw it towards the flying fire ball…
Slackened showing
The diamond was flying past Caleb and it appeared in front of the fire ball just in the moment when it was going to hit him. The fire ball hit against the Heart of the Ocean and it was reflected by it and flew to the opposite side. The fire ball flew straight to Cedric, but the snake managed to evade, it only grazed him just a little on the shoulder. Cedric roared and fell on the ground.
While that, the Heart of the Ocean continued its flight (you remember it's a slackened showing). While it was flying, the bright moonlight beam fell on it and was reflected in one of the diamond's border. It was mastered and changed the direction. The moonlight beam now went straight to Will and fell on the Heart of the Kandrakar, still hanging over her neck. Just when this happened, the crystal started to glow pale pink, but more moonlight fell on it, the brighter it started to glow. It even raised a little, just like when the girls transformed in their guardian form. Everyone was astonished.
But the Heart of the Ocean passed the beam and fell on the ground. The Heart of the Kandrakar stopped glowing.
Suddenly Will realized what was happening. «That is it; that is the riddle» she whispered «'The shining heart will give its power to heart another', that's what it meant» she cried loudly and rushed to the jewel lying on the ground. The other four girls and Caleb didn't move, they were that strongly astonished.
Will grabbed the Heart of the Ocean and raised it high above her head. She turned it in that way, the moonlight beams fell on the diamond, and being reflected changed their direction to the Heart of the Kandrakar. When the reflected beams touched the crystal, it again started to glow brighter and brighter. Will continued holding the diamond, and her magic crystal was feeling with power, it powers were returning! Soon the glowing circle of pink light appeared around the leader guardian, and the Heart of the Kandrakar received all its power back.
When this was over and the Heart of Ocean gave all the power it had, Will threw it on the ground. And Caleb quietly put the diamond in the pocket of his coat. Nobody noticed this action.
Will hold out the Heart of the Kandrakar on her open palm and pronounced 'Guardians united!'. And than the transformation began. The crystal was glowing and shining and each girl called out her element.
'Guardians united!' (I didn't see the English version of the film, so I don't know what Will says when they all start to transform)
'Water!'
'Fire!'
'Earth!'
'Air!'
(And bla bla bla, you know yourself how it all happens)
After a moment the five girls were in the sky with their wings and in guardian outfits ready to fight in equal terms.
«Girls, the book! » Irma cried pointing at the magic book lying on the ground (Will threw it when she rushed to the Heart of the Ocean) Now one of the monsters was stealing up to it.
«No problem, guys! » Cornelia answered. No she felt confident having her powers and nothing could stop her. She made some movements with her hands and a big wave of earth came up from the ground. It immediately grabbed the monster and took him away.
Will flew to the book and took it. «I'll try to open it, and you guys cover me» she told the girls «You distract those monsters»
And the girls started to use their powers. Irma was pulling water at the monsters, Taranee threw fire balls at them and Hay Lin blew them away with the wind. Cornelia did the most work, now she felt herself in her own element and now she could express all her hatred to those insignificant creatures. She grew weeds, threw large rocks at them and caused dust on them to take vengeance of her girlfriends and her only love. Caleb also was fighting courageously; when Cornelia saved his life he felt a new wave of energy in him and now was ready to do anything.
While the other guardians were fighting, Will sat on the ground with the book. She applied the Heart of the Kandrakar to the cover of the book and it suddenly started to glow with bright light. When a shining light circle appeared round the book, it opened and the pages rapidly started to turn themselves. Finally, they stopped turning and Will looked at the opened page.
There was some text, written as poetry. It was on an unusual unclear language, maybe ancient Latin. It looked like a spell. Will started slowly to read it.
While she was reading the spell, everything started to cover with bright light, strong wind blew and the girls heard thunder and saw lightning in the sky. The other guardians and Caleb quickly came to Will and took each other's hands. Cedric and his monsters were all astonished.
When Will finished reading the spell, a bright yellow portal started to open. It looked just like the one, through which the girls got to Verona, but it was much brighter.
«Guys, quickly to the portal! » Caleb cried and the company rushed to it. But before they jumped into the portal, Blunk (everybody really forgot about him) jumped from his bush shelter and first jumped into the portal. All the battle he was hiding in the bushes, hoping that he won't be notice, but when he heard that his friends were going to leave without him, he decided to take the initiative in his own hands (or paws?) and save himself by himself.
After Blunk jumped to the portal, Caleb and the five guardians followed him, and when they stepped into it, the portal started to close.
Cedric realized that he could simply stay in Middle Ages and quickly rushed to the portal. «Step aside, you fools! » he roared at the warriors and jumped into the closing portal.
The monsters looked at each other stupidly and then they realized all and also rushed to the portal. Only they managed to step inside it, the portal closed and everything became quiet again. Nothing reminded of the battle a moment before, as if nothing ever happened in a small Italian town formerly in the XIV century…
Yeah, finally this chap is over! Sorry it took me so long to write it; anyway, I hope you will like it. I know it looks like the last chapter of my genius story, but it isn't. I'll put one more chapter, maybe the most important one. So, read and don't forget about reviews! Remember my golden rule: the more reviews you send, the faster I will update.
Well, see ya!