Chronicles of Life and Death

By: Lord-Squirrel

Part One of Chapter Six

One Year later

It was dark at about twelve- no probably one in the morning. My head told me to keep running but my legs were protesting. BANG! Jet fell down unconcious next to me blood dripping out of a bullet hole in his shoulder. Those assholes are so screwed!

"Hey I think I got them!" I heard one of them say. I hid in the bushes with Jet, fully transformed. "Wait did you hear that?" another one said. They approached the bush I was hiding in cautiously.

End P.O.V.

They took small baby steps towards the bush. Something big and furry jumped out of it and attacked them. It ripped them to shreds and where they were standing lay a pile of dust. The one that killed them was a girl at about sixteen with dyed dark brown hair that was usually a lighter shade but they had to dye it, seeing as she was legally dead. She was unnatrually tall and strong for her age as was Jet. Probably since they both were werewolves.

"Jet? Jet?" Irma said poking him. "Damn he's still unconcious. Oh well the special regeneration abilities should be kicking in by now." She brushed the dust off her clothes.

"Hey would ya look at that. The vampires left us their wallet and their keys." she grinned. "Sweet that means I won't have to drag him to Heatherfield." She picked up Jet and dragged him to the vampires' car.

Elsewhere

BANG! "What was that?" Hay-Lin squeled. "I don't know." Will replied nervously. She turned over in her bed. The four girls were having a sleepover at Will's house and were sleeping quite contently until some explosion had woken them up. Yet no one else was stirred by it. She headed for the door followed by the others, down the stairs and out into the streets. They saw a red car driven by a girl their age. She stopped the car in front of them and hopped out of it and another door opened and a boy came out of it.

They both were unusually tall, taller than Cornelia even. But the girl looked really familiar somehow, she had dark brown hair with lighter brown highlights and blue eyes that seemed to be twinkling even in her situation. The boy had black hair with the occasional silver streak and he was taller than the girl. He was bleeding from a wound in his shoulder.

"Hey do any of you live around here? My friend was hurt and needs to be bandaged up. We've been traveling for days." the girl said. The boy raised his sleeve. They gasped. It was from a bullet. Will nodded "My house isn't too far from here I'll let you guys stay for the night you look pretty tired." she said.

She led them to her house and into the bathroom where the first-aid kit was. The boy pulled out the alcohol and started applying it to his wound. Will, Taranee, Cornelia and Hay-Lin pulled the girl aside to the kitchen. "Who are you?" Taranee asked. The girl gave them a mock hurt look. "Geez I leave for a year and you guys don't even recognize me." the girl said with an offended tone.

"Recognize you what do you mean?" Hay-Lin said. Hay-Lin already knew, She knew from the moment that the girl came into sight. The girl winked at her "Well maybe this will help." she said. She walked over to the sink and turned it on and let the water run over her hair.

Dark brown dye ran out of it leaving a honey brown behind. She snapped her fingers and all of the water that was in her hair returned to the sink. They gasped. "Yep that's right I'm back." Irma said smirking.

"But you're-" Cornelia started "Dead? No I'm perfectly alive." Irma interuppted. The boy came back down with a band-aid wrapped around his wound. "Guys this is Jet. Jet meet Will, Taranee, Cornelia and Hay-lin." Irma said pointing to each girl as their name was called. "Pleasure's all mine." Jet said grinning.

"So why did you guys come here?" Will said. Irma gave her another mock-hurt look. "What do I need an exuse to see my best friends." she said. Will scowled at her. "Okay okay we came here on a mission." Irma said.

Jet chose this moment to speak "Yeah. Do any of you girls know of a world called Metamoor." Jet said slyly. Will looked at him "How you know about Metamoor?" she said. Jet brandished an old parchment and handed it to Will.

She examined it. "What makes you think that this is a map of Metamoor?" she asked. She handed it to Taranee to look at. Her eyes flickered across the parchment then a look of shock crossed her features. "Will this is of Metamoor!" she exclaimed. She gave it back to Will.

She examined it closely. "It is but it's really old." she said. "So why do you have this?" Will asked. Jet grinned.

"It's a map that leads to something of upmost value." he replied. Upmost value? Why would a kid like him have something this important?

"What's it lead to?" Cornelia asked. Jet grinned even broader. "Information." he replied. Information? What kind of information would be important enough to travel for days for? "We need a portal to Metamoor so we can get this information. That's why we came here and why I'm probably alive again." Irma said.

Hay-Lin frowned. How could she be talking about her death so bluntly? And since she had died why wasn't she a vampire like Cornelia and herself? Vampires gave off a different aura than humans but Irma's and Jet's were different, she had never felt one like theirs until now.

Will smiled "Well if this information is so important to you I'll open a portal for you. But you have to take us with you, we haven't had any excitement since we retired."

"Retired?" Jet said to Irma telepathicly.

"Long story. Cornelia's talking pretend to listen and I'll tell you it." Irma replied.

"Come with them? No I've had enough of this Metamoor business." Cornelia said defiantly. She clenched her fists angrily. "I have to agree with Cornelia." Taranee said "Ever since we've retired our lives have been.. well.. normal."

"I won't force you guys to come but I know as sure as hell that I'm going." Will declared. Hay-Lin gave her a smile and a thumbs up. Ha! Four against two. Taranee sighed and gave in but Cornelia was stubborn.

"So you're saying that you guys used to have elemental powers and you used them to defend some sort of Veil?" Jet said.

"Yeah it was kick-ass but then the Oracle decided that everything was safe so he took our powers until we were needed again or in a moment of danger." Irma replied.

"Hey are you two paying attention?" Hay-Lin waved a hand in front of Irma's face then Jet's. They had a glazed look in their eyes and they weren't paying attention.

Irma grinned. "Don't worry Hay-Lin we're still tired from the trip." Her eyes lost the glazed look as did Jet's. "I call couch!" she cried. She ran and did a flying leap onto the couch. Jet sighed and follwed her and fell asleep on the floor. The remaing took one last look at the two before going upstairs.
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Part Two

Will woke up and wiped the sleep from her eyes. On the floor she could see Taranee, Cornelia and Hay-Lin doing the same. She could hear noises from downstairs and talking. She got up full alert and grabbed the first thing she could find, a baseball bat, and crept down the stairs followed by the others.

There was a boy standing near the couch. Without hesitation she brought the bat down on his head multiple times and he fell down unconcious. Laughter came from her right she swung the bat instintialy to her bat. A hand caught it before it could hit its target. Will turned to her right and saw a girl with brown hair and blue... oh crap.

Irma started to laugh followed by Cornelia and Hay-Lin. Taranee bent down and put an ear by his mouth. "He's breathing you didn't kill him." Taranee declared.

"Don't worry he has a hard head he'll be up in minutes." Irma said.

Soon enough Jet began to groan. He pushed himself to his feet and sat on the couch holding his head which was now sporting a lot of bumps. "God Will you should consider playing baseball." Jet groaned and rubbed his head. "Anyways when are we gonna open a portal?" Jet said.

"Soon." Will replied. She turned to face Cornelia "Are you sure you're not coming?"

"You guys need me I'm gonna come with you." she said. The girls stood there, jaws dropped. Irma recovered first "Well actually we don't-" Hay-Lin put a hand on her mouth "Yeah you're right we need you for this mission to work." she shot Irma a glare. Irma nodded behind Hay-Lin's hand.

"Actually we really only need you guys for a portal, otherwise we could've done this on our own." Jet chirped. Will, Irma, Taranee and Hay-Lin cringed.

"Don't mind him he's crazy." Irma said. She glared at Jet.

"What we could've!" Jet said telepathicly.

"I know." Irma replied. She winked at him and broke the connection.

"Are you guys okay you kinda.. spaced out for a second." Taranee said. Jet grinned. "Yeah don't sweat." he gave them a cheesy smile.

"As I said before you two spaced out we're going now." Will declared. The Heart of Kandracar popped out of her hand. She opened a portal. She hopped in followed by Taranee, Jet, Irma and Cornelia.

They tumbled out of the portal in a dog-pile. Will was pissed. She was lying facedown in the dirt with six people pinning her down. "Would you guys mind getting the hell off me!" Will roared. She picked themselves up, smiling sheepishly. Will got up and brushed the dirt off her clothes and out of her mouth.

They were standing outside a forest. Will took a breath and walked into it. She bumped into someone and froze. The others didn't see her stop and crashed into her. It was a man, he was really tall and had a wild black mane and broad shoulders. Will gulped.

"State your business here." the man growled. Jet took a step forward. "We came here for imformation." he stated. The man looked at him then the rest of the group. His eyes rested on Hay-Lin and Cornelia for a second and he growled.

"You two may pass but these four must stay." he said pointing at Jet and Irma. Irma took a step forward. "If they don't go we're not going." she said. The man thought for a second.

"If you all want to enter then you must pass a test." he grabbed Jet's wrist. Two more men appeered from out of the trees. The first one pinched Jet's nose. Jet opened his mouth for air then the second man forced a green liquid down his throat. He fell to the ground. The third one picked him up and dragged deeper into the forest.

"Hey what the hell was that for!" Irma screamed. The second one forced the liquid down her throat. She fell and the second man dragged her away. The first one turned back to them and smirked then ran off with the other two.

"They took Irma and Jet!" Hay-Lin cried. Will stared ahead, her eyes hard "This is the test we have to find them." she said grimly.

She didn't know how wrong she was.