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Daybreaker355
Of course, I can not keep you in suspense on what happened to the other girls...
This is what had happened...
Hay Lin was combing through the shelves with Blunk hopping about above her, half looking through the books and half thinking about how to bring Caleb and Will together without hurting Cornelia, when suddenly the spine of a book she'd run her fingers over caught her eye.
"Hey guys! Come look at this!" she said quietly.
All the others came running.
"Look at that writing!"
The others looked at it, wide-eyed.
"It looks like writing from the Maridian!" Irma said quietly. Taranee and Cornelia only nodded, mouths still open.
"What's it doing here?" Taranee finally asked.
"I don't know, but it really does make the new 'cute' guy another suspect!" Irma replied.
"A suspect at what?" Cornelia asked.
"A suspect at who Cedric had turned into when he came into the human world to get a certain girl he's after!" Taranee said.
Cornelia groaned. "Oh."
"What does it say inside?" Irma wanted to know.
Hay Lin shrugged. "There's only one way to find out!" she and and reached for the book, all the others clutching her arm.
As soon as Hay Lin touched the book, they were consumed in a bright flash of light, and when the light dissipated (sp?), the girls were no longer there. Blunk looked around curiously. "Where did girl go?" he asked himself, then bounded off to Will's house.
Meanwhile, the girls had landed into amaze of bookshelves, the same one that Will and Caleb landed in later on.
"The store didn't look like this," Hay Lin observed quietly.
Sure enough, she was right.
Taranee thought for a moment. "We do want to know what's on the other side of the maze, right?" she asked everyone. They nodded.
Taranee continued. "Cornelia, your sweater. I think that..." Cornelia looked at her puzzled, then shook her head vigorously, clutching her sweater. "Oh no, no you don't..."
Taranee and the other girls gave her a look.
Cornelia and the others had a staring match, then finally Cornelia gave up. "All right, but you guys owe me a sweater!" she declared before handing her sweater toTaranee. "Hmph...didn't really like that sweater anyways..."
Taranee undid one end of Cornelia's green sweater and dropped the end to the ground. Carefully, she began to pull the sweater along with her, allowing the other end to stay where she'd dropped it. They began their search for the other end of the maze.
When they finally found it, they saw that it was a big, green portal. Doubtless a portal to the Maridian. Taranee dropped the remains of Cornelia's sweater and ran after the other girls. "Come on!" she said and they plunged into the portal, landing at a coppersmith shop no doubt in the Maridian.
They looked around before Hay Lin pointed at a lady coming down the road straight to them.
Hay Lin and the others could only stand there in horror. Whenever you were in the Maridian, you couldn't tell what would happen next.
The lady came to them and gasped when she saw who they were. "You are the 5 Guardians of the Viel!" she cried. The girls just nodded dumbly. The lady frowned. "But where is your leader?" Cornelia butted in. "She wasn't with us when we tumbled into the Maridian."
The lady nodded. "Ah." Then she saw that the girls were shivering. Some of them were looking a little hungry. "Come, the rebellion will spare you some food and blankets," she said. The girls followed her greatfully.
As they ate, the lady told them a story. "The king of the Maridian, as you know, is Phobos at the moment. But, a legend says that he has a sister, the true hair to the throne! They say that she lives on earth and was borne by a earthen mother when she was taken to earth, and she does not know who she is and what she is destined to! Nobody knows who she is, for she one day disappeared. Many people think that it was Phobos' doing."
Cornelia spoke at once. "We will bring her back and overthrow Phobos. We promise," she said.
Just as they were eating and talking amongst themselves, they heard a scream and a snarl. They looked up in time to see a huge, black, UGLY witch-like creature with a green-glowing chain in its hands. At its side was a wolf-like dog, except it was shaved well and it hadlong, flappy ears.
The lady, along with many others, shrieked. "The Oridigon! Run!" and she plummeted off with some other people. The girls got up and ran into the woods. Irma looked behind them and shrieked when she saw the wolf and the witch after them specifically. "It's after us!" she cried. They just barely dodged blows of teh green chain as they ran. "If we can't go on, we'll go up!" said Cornelia forcefully, then ran to a tall tree, her friends at her side. They clambered up the tree easily, just missing the ever-snapping green chain as they kept going up. When they were at the crown of the tree, they watched as the witch-like creature threw the chain around the base of the tree and pulled. The chain began to dig into the base of the tree and the tree began to fall, slowly, slowly, then faster...
Will and Caleb, very aware of each other at the other's side,were running along the green strand of string. Just as they got to the end, they ran into the last person either wanted to see.
Phobos.
Will skidded to a stop, but Caleb kept running. Will gasped. "Caleb! Get back here!"
Caleb paid no heed. "No! Never back!" he cried and rushed on, only to be lifted and thrown off into a book shelf by Phobos' powers.
"So nice to meet you two again," Phobos said. "So, how's your relationship?" he smirked. Will felt her last nerve strike.
She flew at the book shelf that Phobos was standing underneath and threw her weight into it. The book shelf came tumbling down, crushing a not-so-quick Phobos.Caleb jumped out of the way just in time.
Will joined Caleb on the floor and the two ran into the portal.
This time, Will directed the portal to wherever the other WITCH members were, and when she and Caleb stepped through, they saw the other girls falling from a tree with a ugly-looking hagard with a green chain whacking at them.
Will held out her Heart of Cadracar. "Guardians Unite!" she cried, and all the WITCH members, in a bright flash of different kind of lights, changed into their hero-mode forms.
Will began to focus on her energy power. She devised a plan. "Distract it! I have an idea!" she cried to the others. They nodded and began to tease the witch and the wolf.
Will's hands began to glow pink, intensifying by the minute. She raised her hands out before her, closing her eyes and feeling beads of sweat run down her forehead. She fell to the ground with a groan and lowered her head, her hands began to glow even more brighter a pink. Only when her power began to circle the witch and the wolf and she began to float straight in the air did the others stop teasing the witch and watch her with wide eyes and open mouths.
Will opened her eyes and concentrated on the villains before her. She clenched her strong hands into fists and opened them again, clenching her bared teeth in determination. When she knew she was fully charged, she let her powers go. She let out a cry and her powers encircled the witch and the wolf, tightening around them harder and harder until they dissipated into black dust. When the dust cleared, the others saw Will, now on the ground, standing straight and stiff, her hands in front of her, still glowing a faint pink. Only when sher hands cleard did the fall over in exhaustion.
Will felt someone pull her gently into their arms, carressing her cheek, their arm around her shoulders, their forehead pressed on hers.
Will opened her eyes weakly.
It was Caleb.
"Caleb...?"
Caleb smiled. "Yep, it's me."
Will tried to sit up but fell back, biting down a groan. "I..." she managed before blacking out