The Shard Portals #1: Hidden Powers

Summary:

Matt, Jackie, and Inez are finally in college. But just as their new life in dorms with each other start out fine, Motherboard calls on them again, and Slider is the messenger. A new evil has crossed over to Cyberspace from mysterious portals created between the barrier of Virtual Reality, and Fantasy Reality. The barriers were created by the shards of a certain Sand Crystal Statue. Now, it's up to the Cybersquad to collect all Sand Crystal Shards, and put it together, closing the portals at the same time. Book one of countless to come. Inspired by Cali-Bunny's "The Dharma Sequence" series.

Author's Note:

I'm back! You might know me as the author of "The Cyberchase Choronicles" and "Cyberchase on Grouse Mountain" series. Well, I'm back with a new series for Cyberchase! It's called "The Shard Portals." The story format is a lot like the books in the "W.i.t.c.h." series, where each chapter is through a different chracter's perspective. Mainly, the five Guardians of the Veil. Sometimes it would be the enemy, other times it would be allies, such as family and unknown allies, like The Oracle. This one, it is very identcial. The first chapter will be through Inez's perspective, but narrarated in Narrarator style. You might know about the Sand Crystal Statues, if you saw "Sweet Home Alabama." You find out that Melonie and Jake found a strangely morphed glass statue made of sand. Some may call it glass, others call it crystal. But they found that in the sand, after the lightning striked when they were about three to five years old. That's basically what shards of the statue that they are looking for, to close each portal. This series was inspired by one of my most favourite books by far, "The Dharma Sequence" series by Cali-Bunny, well known for her strange yet amazing crossovers (The Power of Seven) and her unique stories of magic and science fiction (The Marinus Trilogy). So, this series is dedicated to Cali-Bunny, and also to another one of my favourite Cyberchase authors, Lightening816and I hope they'll enjoy it as much as the rest of you will!So get ready for an awesome adventure through beyond Cyberspace. Here's Chapter One: Inez's Perspective (Textbook Arguements). Until Chapter Two: Matt's Perspective (Real Trouble), see ya! Please read and review, please! ;-)

-CelestialTime93

Chapter One: Inez's Perspective (Textbook Arguements)

"Where is it?" 19 year old freshman college student Ineza Garcia exclaimed, tossing objects from under her bunk bed, "Where is it?"

"Lookin' for this, Nezzie?" a voice asked.

Inez turned to look at one of her roommates, 21 year old junior college student Matthew Williams, a certain boy she met in the Massachusatts Library almost 10 years ago. He had scruffy orange hair, hazel eyes and wore his school uniform; a blue blazer over a white t-shirt. He wore matching pants and black shoes. The school's insignia was on the jacket.

Inez on the other hand had long brown hair, bright blue eyes and wore glasses. She wore her school uniform; a blue and white sailor suit with black loafers and white ankle high socks. She wore her hair in a long braid, and the school's insignia was on her sailor suit.

Matt held up a book that was labeled "Chemistry." It also happened to be Inez's. Matt was smiling teasingly.

"Hey!" Inez exclaimed, fuming with anger, "Give that back!"

"Make me!" Matt smiled.

"Give that back, now!" Inez growled through gritted teeth, reaching for the book which was being kept out of her reach, "Matt! I'm gonna be late for class if you don't! And don't call me Nezzie!"

"Like I care if you get to class on time!" Matt laughed.

Inez growled, then started grabbing Matt's wrigling arms to prevent him from moving the book further away from her. The two started wrestling for a while; Inez trying to reach for the Chemistry book, while Matt was trying to keep Inez away from it.

Unfourtuatly, at that moment, Matt and Inez's roommate, 21 year old junior college student Jaclyn Edwards entered with another familiar person with her. Only, he didn't go to the school.

"Give that back now!" Inez squealed angrily.

"No way!" Matt retorted.

Finally, Inez grabbed the book, and started pulling on it. But so was Matt.

"Let go! Let go!" Inez cried, straining to pull her book back.

"Make me!" Matt retorted.

"I will!" Inez exclaimed. She slammed the heel of her loafer on Matt's foot.

"YEOW!" Matt exclaimed, and began hopping on one leg,letting go ofthe book.

Inezpulled it back towards herselfand scoffed, "Ha! And you said I'm weak 'cause I'm a girl!"

"Ahem!" Jackie coughed.

The two stopped what they were doing and turned to see the two at the door.

"Jackie!" Matt exclaimed.

"And... wait. That's not right." Inez suddenly noticed who the boy was.

He had brown hair, emerald green eyes and was wearing the school uniform identical to Matt's. Only, he wasn't from the school.

Jackie on the other hand, had long black hair tied into a low ponytail, brown eyes and wore the school uniform that was identical to Inez's. She was definatly from the school.

"Meet our new roommate, you guys." Jackie smiled, "I think we all remember Slider Metropolis from 10 years ago?"

Inez definatly remembered who he was. Slider Metropolis was 13 years old when the three friends first met him. By now, he was 23 years old. He was the oldest in the group by far.

"Nice to see you again after 10 years." Matt strained, seeming to smile as much as he can, "Excuse us for a sec."

Matt led Inez out of the dorm and into the custodian's closet.

"Number one, how did Slider get here and why is he here," Matt hissed, "And number two, why in the world did you hit my foot that hard?"

"Okay, Answer Number One, I do not know." Inez replied, "And Answer Number Two, It was the only way to get your hands off of my textbook!"

"I can't help it if you want to go to school so early all the time!" Matt hissed angrily. Inez could tell. His face read 'anger' written all over it.

"Okay, so I was a bit too harsh!" Inez hissed back, admiting that she was a bit harsh against her friend, "But you deserved it!"

"So did not!" Matt retorted.

"Whatever!" Inez shot back. She glanced at her watch. It was almost 8:30am. "Great. I'm gonna be late for class. I'll see you and the other two at lunch! Or, you come with me, since we're in the same classes all semester. That is, unless you want to skip classes again."

"How'd you know about that?" Matt growled.

"The whole school knows, Matt!" Inez shot back, opening the closet's door, "If you don't like some of the classes you're taking, why did you sign up for all of them in the first place?"

"I can't help it if I had to choose all of the classes!" Matt retorted, as the two exited the custodian's closet, "My parents made me!"

"Yeah, and I chose mine freely." Inez smiled, "Jackie! Slider! We'll meet you in Period 2!"

"We'll see ya there!" Jackie called back, as the two walked away.

"Now, where were we..." Inez growled, looking at Matt angrily. Matt had a sheepish look on his face.