I was gonna do this chapter yesterday, but my computer wouldn't let me upload the file to fanfiction. Until today, duh. Haha! Hope you like it. Send in tonz of reviews, no flames!
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"Miss Will?", Aldarn asked. Will looked up. All the girls had messy hair and were tired. "I think that we should continue this tomorrow. You girls look very tired, and we're going to need your full strength. Especially Cornelia", Aldarn said. Will looked blank. "Yeah, Will. Our parents might be worried about us already. It's 11 p.m. on Earth!", Irma exclaimed. "Besides, it's a school night", Taranee yawned. "Alright. We'll come back tomorrow", Will whispered. The girls waved to the rebels and flew up the stairs. "Hey, wait!", Caleb ran up the stairs.
The girls flew up into the Meridean sky. "Cornelia!", she heard Caleb scream from below. "I'll see you guys later, ok?", Cornelia hovered. "Ok, be careful. And once you get to Earth, you will turn into your human self again", Will said Cornelia nodded and flew down back with Caleb. "Yeah?", Cornelia said with a sleepy face. "Cornelia, I just wanted to say...you should be careful with that Jason guy", Caleb said with a serious face. Cornelia smiled weakily. She brought her arms up and hugged him slightly, "Thanks for caring, Caleb. You're the best". Caleb hugged her slightly too. He didn't want to hurt her since she was fragile and weak right now. Cornelia looked at his passionate face and smiled. "I'll come back tomorrow, Caleb", Cornelia whispered. "Be safe, Cornelia", Caleb smiled back. Cornelia flew up and into the portal, leaving a smiling Caleb on the ground.
When Cornelia went through the portal she fell to the floor because she went through flying. "Ow!", Cornelia groaned. The portal disappeared. Cornelia closed her eyes, Ow. This hurts a lot, but I can't get up...I'm too...sleepy. "Get...up Cornelia. Don't give up", Cornelia said to herself. With her hands, she slowly and weakily lifted her body, like doing a push-up. "Ugh!", she groaned loudly. Cornelia hesitatingly got up on her feet. She looked at her hands. They were scratched badly and had a little bit of blood. Her cheek also hurt a little, so mabye she got hurt there too. Her knees were also scraped and a little bloody. "Perfect", Cornelia whispered in grief and frustration. "If only there was some kind of healing spell", Cornelia whispered as she began to walk slowly to her apartment.
It seemed as if she saw no cars, no people, nothing except the path in front of her. She went through the gates and opened the door. Everything was dark and quiet. She slowly and painfully went up the stairs to her room. She closed the door behind her and went into her bathroom. "All because I was so careless", Cornelia looked at herself in the mirror. Yes, her cheek was badly scraped and (again) a little bloody. She got the first-aid kit weakly and disinfected the scrapes and washed the blood. "So...weak...gotta go...to sleep", Cornelia dragged her feet to her bed. She collapsed on the bed, clothes and all.
Lilian suddenly came into Cornelia's room rubbing her eyes. "Huh? Cornelia?", Lilian asked sleepily. Cornelia was too asleep to answer her little sister. Lilian opened the covers from the side Cornelia's body wasn't on, and rolled her to the open side. She put her head on the pillow and covered her with the covers (aaw! I wanted to make her little sister nice for a change). "What happened to her?", Lillian looked at the scrape on her cheek. Lilian shrugged and went back to her room.
The Next Morning...
Cornelia fluttered her eyes opened. "Huh?", she whispered. She got out of bed and stretched. She went to her bathroom and saw that she had the scrapes everywhere. "Oh, so that wasn't a dream", Cornelia said. She got her pink towel and went in the shower. Cornelia cringed as the hot water sizzled on her scrapes. "Ok, now I'm totally awake", Cornelia whispered.
After an hour, she got out and dressed herself in a pink turtle neck (it was cold) and a long green skirt. She combed her hair and looked at the scrape on her cheek. "I can't go out with this on my cheek. People will get suspicious...especially mom", Cornelia said to herself. She opened her drawer and got out a cream called, "Disappear". She put it on her cheek, hands, and knees. "Ok, you can still see it, but it's not as noticable", Cornelia went downstairs.
"Hello Cornelia. I didn't see you yesterday", Mrs. Hale said as she took a sip of her mug. "Oh, right. Well, the girls and I got carried away with all the homework, mom", Cornelia smiled nervously. "No!", Lilian retorted. Oh great, leave it to the little pest to ruin everything, Cornelia thought with a frown. "I woke up at night and I came into your room and you had scrapes on your cheek, hands, and knees! And you weren't sleeping on your bed right", Lilian got up from her chair and put her hands on her hips. "Scrapes? Cornelia, is that true?", Mrs. Hale asked her eldest daughter. "Lilian must be imagining things", Cornelia said nervously. "No! I'm surely sure that it was real!", Lilian pointed her tiny fingers at Cornelia. "Hey! Don't point those lying fingers at me, you little monkey!", Cornelia slapped Lilians pointing hand slightly.
"Cornelia, you even have cover-up in the exact same places Lilian said your scrapes were", Mrs. Hale got up and examined Cornelia's face. "Mom! You actually believe her? I only used it cause of...acne!", Cornelia seemed confindent, but inside she felt anxious and nervous. "Well, at your age, acne does seem to be a problem...well, alright. It was late, Lilian must've been sleepy", Mrs. Hale patted Lilian's head. "Mommy!", Lilian whined. "Listen to mommy", Cornelia stuck out her tounge and smirked. Lilian stomped to her room.
"Well, I'm off to school, mom", Cornelia opened and closed the door before her mother could say anything. Cornelia ran to school. She was almost late, but arrived to her science class 5 minutes late. She crawled over to her chair next to Jason. "Hi Jason, what's going on?", Cornelia whispered. "Hi Cornelia, we get a substitute. Mrs. Lopez is out sick", Jason whispered back. "Class! Settle down! I'm letting you have some free time since Mrs. Lopez didn't leave an assingment, but you can at least be a little less quiet!", the substitute said. The class began to talk normally. Will wasn't there...odd, but I can't do anything about that now.
"Funny, I've never seen that substitute", Cornelia said to Jason. "She said that she was new around here", Jason explained. "Oh, ok. Did Will come at all?", Cornelia looked at Will's empty seat. "No, actually. The last time I saw her was yesterday with you", Jason smiled. Cornelia's lips were tightened into a tense line, Will never over-sleeps. And when I last saw her in Merridean, she looked fine, she can't be sick...what if the others didn't show either?."I don't think anything happened to her", Jason assured her. Cornelia looked into his hazel eyes. His eyes look...different. That look seems so familiar though...could it be?...Nah, Cornelia smiled and looked away to the talking boys and girls.
"Hey, so who was that guy I met yesterday?", Jason's face went serious again. "Oh, that was Caleb", Cornelia smiled at the mention of his name...the sacred name, she thought. "How do you know him, anyway?", Jason asked. "Well, um...he's...Irma's cousin", Cornelia said quickly. "Irma's cousin? I don't see the resemblance", Jason smiled.
Irma's cousin? I highly doubt that, Jason thought, Cornelia and her friends are hiding something...but what? It seems that when they're not at school, they keep having these meetings and then they just...disappear. I've even tried to call Cornelia, but the reciever always picks up. I know for a fact that girls never have their phones turned off unless they're in a "sorrowful stage". Cornelia has her phone off almost everyday! She seems so peaceful all the time, nothing could be wrong with her...I'm going to find out what's up with Cornelia and Caleb...
"Um, Jason, are you ok?", Cornelia broke his trans. "Huh, oh yeah, I'm fine", Jason said. Will suddenly came into the room. No one noticed but Cornelia. "Hey Jason, I'm gonna go see if Will's ok", Cornelia stood up. "Yeah, you must be concerned about her", Jason smiled. "Yeah, exactly", Cornelia smiled back and walked towards Will. Will went to go sit in her seat.
"Is everything ok, Will?", Cornelia asked as she sat next to her. "Yeah, it's just that on my way-", Will was actually panting! She was also sweating. Will put her hand on Cornelia's shoulders for support. "Will! What happened?", Cornelia exclaimed softly as she held on to her friend. Will held out her palm weakily to show her to wait a second. Will took a deep breathe and let go of her friend. "Geez, ok. So here's the story...", Will started.
My mom was sick today, so she told me if I could go on my own to school. So I got out of the house and started to walk to school. Totally normal. I saw tons of other kids walking down the sidewalk, but I didn't see you guys. Then all of a sudden, everyone started disappearing. I stopped to look around. The people just faded away, and soon so did everything else! Except me, I was just floating there in nothingness! Then all of a sudden, you guys appear in your guardian form. I looked down, and I was suddenly in guardian form, too. You were just standing there, a few feet from me. Then Matt appeared in between you guys. You guys stretched out your arms like you were possesed and start to whisper, "The Heart of Candracar does not belong. Your leadership is pitiful. We will follow a worthier leader. Hand over the Heart".
Cornelia's eyebrows rose up. Will looked frightened. Of course, how could she not've been.
Then Matt stretched out his arm and I felt something beaming inside me, almost like it was going to rip out of my body! Suddenly, I felt something rip out of me, the Heart of Candracar. I fell to the ground on my knees, clutching my own Heart. I felt weaker and weaker. I fell to the floor, and I saw that Matt took the Heart of Candracar in his own palm. He then, out of no where! Got a frog, the same frog he gave me yesterday. He ripped its head off and threw it on the ground! I started to scream and I closed my eyes, hoping it was just a dream...When I opened my eyes, everything was back to normal, I was in an alley, all alone.
Cornelia saw as tears started to form in Will's eyes, "It was horrible! I felt pain when the Heart went out of me, and even more when Matt just...ripped off the frog! It told me that he didn't like me anymore. I'm just so glad I still have the Heart of Candracar, and that it was all a weird hallusination, but it felt so real!". Cornelia hugged her friend. Will began to sob on her shoulder. Cornelia was just glad that no one was paying attention.
"That is so strange...it couldn't have been real. We know that, but why did that hallusination just...appear?", Cornelia whispered with confusion. "I-I-I don't know. It was just the same as any other morning", Will stammered quietly. "Miss!", Cornelia called to the teacher. The teacher didn't pay attentin, she just nodded. "May Will and I go to the restroom?", Cornelia said over the mob of kids. "Yeah", the teacher said. Jason looked confused and worried that Will was crying and Cornelia was conforting her.
They ran to the restroom, hoping no one would see them. Cornelia opened the door and heard someone also crying. The two girls went inside to see that Hay Lin was sobbing and Irma was rubbing her back to confort her. "Hay Lin is also crying?", Cornelia asked. "Oh, guys! I'm so glad you're here!", Irma sighed. "What happened to Hay Lin?", Will asked while she sobbed quietly.
"I had the weirdest hallusination when I came to school! It was a nightmare!", Hay Lin exclaimed with more tears spilling down her pale cheeks. "That's what happened to Will!", Cornelia said in amazment. "What's Hay Lin's story?", Will whispered.
I was walking to school, like any other day. I smiled at everyone and waved like any other day. I closed my eyes and breathed in the salty air. I breathed again, but it wasn't the same smell. It smelled...horrible! I opened my eyes quickly and saw that everything had turned black and white except for me! Everything was going slowly. The people had frowns on their faces and mad faces. I got scared. Everyone kept pushing me foward. The people pushed me and pushed me until I reached the ocean. A black ocean! You girls were there, grey and black. You looked mad at me. At the same time, you girls said, "Hay Lin! You are not worthy enough to be the Air Guardian, or our friend! We no longer want to see your face again! Go!". And I fell into a black hole. I began to scream so loud, that I thought China could hear me. I landed on a cold and hard surface. I opened my eyes and saw everything white. I was still in color, but I saw two figures in front of me. One turned, it was Eric! I was so happy, to see him. But when the other one turned, I got so sad and angry! It was another girl, holding his hand. "Eric...what?", I felt tears forming. "Hay Lin, I don't think we should see each other anymore. You're too...old now. I need to move on!", Eric screamed. I started to cry and scream. I closed my eyes, hoping it would all go away! And then I woke up under a big tree, bumping my head on it.
Hay Lin started to cry even more. "I love Eric, you guys! Mabye I saw into the future! I don't wanna lose him! He's the best thing that's ever happened to me! And the only boy that's ever liked me that I like back!", Hay Lin yelled. "Hey, that's sorta what happened to Will", Cornelia said.
"Something tells me that this isn't a mere coincidence", Irma said seriously as she rubbed Hay Lin's back some more. "And something tells me, Irma...that we're next", Cornelia said seriously.
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Dun, dun, dun! What are all these hallucinations? Find out in the next chapter! Plz send in reviews, no flames!