Chapter Two-
The Training Begins
Wanda and the girls were in her room.
"Wow, this place is so cool!" Said Tress in astonishment. She could not believe she was in a real castle.
"I know, and so fashionable!" Smiled Cerella, already in Meridian robes, the shade of earthy green. She looked right at home in this castle.
Even Ingrid, who normally did not like dresses, enjoyed her robes- ocean blue and lavender. Wanda was the only one who was not in her robes.
"Come on, Wanda!" HuiLing grinned.
"No way am I going to wear anything that makes me look like I'm in my pajamas." Snapped Wanda, her arms crossed over her chest in a way that stated quite clearly that she was not going to change in to her robes- purple with light pink- that were laying on a velvet red couch.
HuiLing's robes were sky blue and aquamarine.
There came a knocking at their door.
"I'll get it!" Called Cerella. She strode over to the door and opened it. "What's up?" She asked unceremoniously to her older brother.
"Dad just wanted me to let you know that training starts right after breakfast tomorrow morning." Replied Derek, glancing past her at the other girls.
"Right. I'll show them where the Great Hall is. You can ogle Wanda during training. Now if you'll excuse us, we're trying to wrestle her in her robes." Smiled Cerella, shoving Derek back out into the hall.
Derek caught a glimpse of her standing stalk still, arms crossed, and glaring disgustedly at the robes laying on the couch, still in her Earth clothes before Cerella slammed the door shut.
"Girls."
Cerella heard him say as he walked away.
"Now... Back to where we were." She turned around, an evil look on her face matched only by HuiLing's expression.
"I'm not getting into that thing, and that's final." Snapped Wanda.
Will stood in her cell with the others.
"So, here we are back in Meridian." Cornelia's voice was full of sardonicism.
"I wonder how the girls are." Terrane sighed, leaning against the rock wall.
"Well, since Caleb and Elyon are at the castle, I'm sure they're fine." Irma pointed out. "By the way, Will, what did you do with the Heart of Kandrikor?"
Will opened her mouth to answer, when a giant green lizard came slithering towards them from down the hall.
"I would like to know that too." Said Phobos, appearing at their cell entrance as well.
"Well, you're not going to get any information out of me, lizard boy." Snapped Will.
"Is that so? What about if I told you I knew where your children were?" Smiled Phobos.
A look of alarm briefly flitted across the parents' faces.
"And how would you know something like that?" Asked Cornelia.
"Because the traitor is no longer with you. There is one of your group missing." Phobos was speaking about Caleb.
"I know for a fact that they are with him, and because they have no powers, crushing them will be easy." Phobos smiled.
"Except you don't know where HE is." Irma pointed out.
"That will be easy. Once I find out where the Guardian has hidden the Heart of Kandrikor, I will find your children and the traitor." Said Phobos as he turned away. He and Cedric left the cell.
"So... where DID you hide it?" Asked Hay Lin to Will.
Will made sure no one was listening in before turning to them.
"I left it with Wanda. Hopefully she and the girls will learn how to use it." She explained in a low voice.
"Elyon will be able to help teach them how to use their powers." Nodded Terrane.
"Either that or Caleb and my son." Nodded Cornelia.
"Right... Derek will probably do more flirting with Wanda than training." Smirked Irma.
The others couldn't help but laugh at that comment.
"Either way, I just hope they learn how to use their powers in time. I won't be able to keep this from Phobos or lizard boy for long." Said Will after the laughter had died down.
"I'm sure we'll see them before too long." Matt said bracingly. "Wanda's a tough kid, and so are the others."
"So long as HuiLing learns to control her sneezes." Terrane muttered.
HuiLing gave an evil grin.
"Guys, I have an idea on how to get her in to some robes. But it's going to be a bit of a team effort." She said to the other three.
"Well, what is it? We're all ears." Said Ingrid.
"Well the plan is pretty simple. We will need a trash can, the metal kind, Wanda's clothes from home, Tress, and a good excuse to get into Wanda's room and get the clothes... So... Ingrid, since Wanda would never suspect you, I want you to go in and if she is awake tell her that the maid lady asked her to gather up everyone's clothes for washing. I know there will be clothes in the rooms, they wouldn't expect us to wear the same thing everyday. Bring her clothes out here. Someone needs to get the trash can. When we have the clothes and trash can we will go into my room put the clothes in the trash can, open the window, Tress will light the clothes on fire, and I will use air to blow the smoke out the window. No one will ever suspect a thing. That way she won't have a choice in the morning but to wear one of the boring dress robe things, or the ones that Cerella will so thoughtfully bring to start up the argument again." HuiLing practically danced around as she finished the statement.
"Shhh Someone is coming!" Tress hissed as Derek came around the corner of the hallway back to their room to send them off again.
"I thought you girls were going to bed?" It felt weird calling them girls, but it was weirder to call them ladies, or women, or whatever phrase it was that people used with the female sort. It was easy normally. There wasn't anyone here his age so it was always Your Highness, Ma'am, or Mom. But he wasn't exactly sure how to address the group in front of him. His sharp eyes noticed that wanda was missing from the gaggle. "At least one of you had enough sense to go into your room and get some sleep for tomorrow. I suggest you all follow her example. Its going to be a long hard day tomorrow and none of you are getting out of it. No matter how tired you are." He strolled down the hall and out of sight before stepping up to the corner. He couldn't go to bed without being seen with the girls all standing right there, so he then turned and went to Wanda's room to make sure she was following the Queen's orders.
Cerella grinned behind her older brother's back. "What he doesn't know won't hurt the guy." She said. "I'm going to get to work on her robes for tomorrow." And she trotted off. Making and designing clothes was her favorite of all things to do. This was her element- like when she was in the mountains surrounded by nature.
Ingrid ran into her room after Derek so kindly told them that they should be in bed, changed out of her regular clothes, figuring it would be more believable if she had her own clothes in hand. She walked out and across the hall, winking at the other girls- who were peering through HuiLing's bedroom door which stood ajar- and knocked on Wanda's door.
"Hey, its Ingrid. The maid said she needed all of our clothes so she could wash them. Will you hand me yours?" She hoped she had made her voice as inconspicuous as possible. Tress slipped into her room, as did HuiLing and they both tossed Ingrid their clothes, so that she had a growing pile in her hands, before slipping back into their rooms. Ingrid stood in front of the door impatiently.
Wanda glared. First Derek had been here to make sure she was following the Queen's orders, and now Ingrid was here. But she had no choice, so she put on some plain robes and handed Ingrid her regular Earth clothes after she finished changing. She could hear Cerella busy in the next room over, probably sewing or something that had to do with clothes.
"Right. See you bright and early tomorrow!" Smiled Ingrid, making sure Wanda could see the pile of clothes. She stared at the door that had slammed shut in her face. "Boy, talk about moody tonight."
She turned and saw Queen Elyon walking down the hall way towards them.
"A plan to get Wanda into Meridian clothing?" She smiled at Ingrid. "I won't tell." She added with a wink before moving past her.
Ingrid blushed at the fact that the Queen could see through her so easily, but hurried to HuiLing's room, where she and Tress were now gathered again. Cerella was still busy at work making a set of fancy dress robes for Wanda in the morning to choose from.
"Great! And look what Tress found in her room!" Said HuiLing when they were all back in her room. Tress had managed to find a large trash can.
"Apparently Her Highness likes to be able to use the garbage cans... So try not to incinerate it AND our clothes, ok?" Asked Ingrid.
"Right... So here goes..." Tress looked at the garbage can and raised her hands. "Ok fire... any time..." She said, trying to focus herself to make fire appear while HuiLing rushed to her window and opened it up.
But for several minutes, she could not even get a spark.
"Nothing's happening." Said Ingrid.
"I don't have anything to be irritated or angry at right now, that's my problem." Sighed Tress, rubbing her forehead.
"Hey everybody! I've got the first set made already!" Cerella came bursting in to the room, startling them all so much that even Tress was able to get fire going at last.
"How about that." Smiled Ingrid, pointing at Cerella.
"What?" Cerella blinked.
"We were just trying to find something to get Tress' powers working is all." HuiLing grinned.
"Next time you're having trouble, we'll just ask Cerel' here to barge in unannounced." Ingrid looked at Tress, who managed to form a ball of fire in her hands and was even able to aim it correctly.
"Anyway, what do you think? Isn't purple Wanda's color or what?" Cerella overlooked the comments made by her friends and held up the robes she had put together.
"That'll look good on her if we can get her in them." Said Ingrid. "I doubt even having her clothes burned will change her opinion."
"Well, like I said, she'll have to choose between the boring ones provided by the maid, or the nice, elegant, fancy ones so kindly provided by Cerel' here." Smiled HuiLing. "She'll just bring them into her room tomorrow and the argument can start up all over again."
"Uh... guys... this fire is getting a little out of hand." Said Tress suddenly.
"Okay... does any of us know who controls water?" Asked Cerella quickly.
"Um... Ingrid practically lives in the pool back home." Said HuiLing.
"Well, try putting out the fire before it burns these robes!" Cerella backed up to the door.
"Right... Here goes." Ingrid looked at the fire and raised her hand. She imagined herself in the water again, and she could almost feel it flowing through her. Doing her best, a large ball of water formed at her hands and made a zig-zag line to the fire and Tress, knocking her over at the same time it put out the fire.
"Well, the clothes are officially ruined." Said HuiLing, walking over to the now charred trash can.
"And it looks like Her Highness won't be using that trash can again anytime soon." Said Ingrid.
"What were you trying to do, double duty or something?" Asked a completely soaked Tress.
"I'm going to go make the other two robes for Wanda. I'll see you girls in the morning." Smiled Cerella.
"Right. We'd all better go get some shut eye. Otherwise we'll be feeling it in the morning." Nodded Ingrid.
"Great, just leave me to clean up this mess..." Glared HuiLing.
"Don't look like that. Smiles suit you much better." Cerella said to HuiLing as she left.
It was the morning hours at least, and Derek could hear arguing from Wanda's room this time, instead of HuiLing's. He knocked on the door.
"What is this? A mutiny?" Wanda was to be heard asking when he knocked.
"Don't come in, big brother. Angry girl alert." Called Cerella.
"Ok, fine. But we need to go down to breakfast." Replied Derek.
The door snapped open and Derek stared down, blinking at Wanda. She was wearing new robes that his younger sister had put together- lavender and light pink. And it was amazing the difference it made on her, even if she wore a scowl on her face. As long as he had known her, she normally just wore jeans and a t-shirt.
"What?" Snapped Wanda, walking past him, followed by the girls who were all looking rather pleased.
"What's with you?" Asked Cerella, noticing that her older brother was rather pink in the face as Wanda walked by.
"Nothing." Said Derek quickly, coughing. He led the way down to the Throne Room.
Cerella and Ingrid looked at each other, finding it rather hard to conceal their laughter at this moment.
Glaring down at her plate, Wanda sat in her chair still wearing her lavender and light pink robes. HuiLing was looking rather pleased with herself as she sat next to Wanda.
"Well, I must say it's a nice change from your usual jeans and t-shirt." Cerella had to agree with HuiLing.
"I'm only doing this because I have no other choice." Glared Wanda.
"Hurry up and eat. We need to get this training out of the way." Caleb said rather impatiently.
"Yes master, whatever you say master." Ingrid huffed.
Even Wanda forgot about being angry at the girls and snorted with laughter at Caleb's expression in response to Ingrid's statement.
So, after breakfast in the Great Hall with Elyon presiding over the meal and guests, Caleb and Derek led the girls to the gardens.
"This is amazing!" Shouted HuiLing, staring at all the tall rose bushes, neatly trimmed hedges, and the conifer trees all around them.
"Time to focus." Said Caleb. "Wanda, do you have your mother's jewel?"
"Of course." Wanda pulled it out of her robe pocket.
"Be careful with that and guard it with your life. That is the source of your powers. It is called the Heart of Kandrikor, and allows you to transform into the Guardians of Meridian." Explained Caleb.
"Okay, so how do we transform Einstein?" Asked Ingrid.
"Wanda, whenever your parents transformed, your mother always held up the Heart of Kandrikor and said 'Guardians Unite.'" He replied. "They would also stand in a circle before transforming." He added as though in afterthought.
"Right." Wanda nodded.
The girls stood in a circle next to a fountain.
"Guardians Unite!" She said, holding up the Heart of Kandrikor.
The Heart of Kandrikor glowed a bright red light that shot in five beams at each of the girls. Wanda was engulfed in a lightning-white ball of light. Ingrid was surrounded by a water-blue ball of light, Tress was engulfed by a fiery red-orange ball of light, Cerella by an earthy green ball of light, and HuiLing by a sky-blue ball of light. When they emerged, they were in the outfits of the Guardians and looking almost a year older than they were.
Wanda actually loved her blue skirt and boots. Cerella was ecstatic over her outfit.
"This... Is so cool!" Said Ingrid, looking down at her purple skirt with a slit on the left side.
"What do we have on our backs?" Asked HuiLing when she saw Cerella spinning around on the spot.
Wanda tried to crane her head back to see.
"It's wings!" Shouted HuiLing. "We have wings!" And if she had known it, she was reacting just as her mother had when she realized she could fly.
"Sweet!" Said Wanda. "I wonder how it works..."
It only took HuiLing a few seconds to take flight, and soon she was zooming all around the gardens. Wanda was next to figure it out, and she quickly caught up with HuiLing. Both girls had always loved being in the sky ever since they were children.
Derek watched the two girls zooming around the sky and gardens, at one point HuiLing sent Wanda spinning in a circle when the two collided in mid-air.
"So cool!" Said Tress, and she too took to the air, followed by Ingrid, then finally Cerella at a look from her father.
"All right, now that you three have had practice with flying, try using your powers." Said Caleb after he waved them back to the ground.
"Exactly how do we do that?" Tress looked rather skeptical. "The only time we've ever done something with them we've had no idea how it happens."
"Well... you were irritated at that video game when you burnt your hands the other day." Said Cerella.
"And HuiLing sneezed when she blasted out Wanda's room." Ingrid remembered.
"Yeah, thanks a lot." Wanda said when she remembered that incident again. HuiLing gave an embarrassed grin.
"Well, the power always comes from our hands, or in HuiLing's case, her sneezes." Ingrid added as though in afterthought.
"Well, then maybe we just have to focus our powers." Tress blinked, adjusting her glasses.
"Yeah, like when you tried to burn our clothes and couldn't even get a spark." Smiled Ingrid back at her.
"What was that?" Asked Wanda, glaring.
"Nothing!" Tress clamped her hand over Ingrid's mouth rather quickly at this point.
Wanda blinked, staring at the girls.
HuiLing waved one of her hands, wondering if she could get a gust of wind going. She just got a tiny wave of air to go around her.
"I wonder... My mom could always get plants and flowers to grow just by raising her hands..." Cerella put the palm of her right hand facing down to the ground, and flowers and a new rose tree sprang forth, forcing her into the air and getting tangled in the branches.
"Lightning... I always see it coming in a burst of energy back home..." Wanda looked around for something she could shoot her lightning at that would not damage the garden as Cerella had just done. And she got an idea.
Focussing all of her energy to her hands, she saw sparks of white lightning forming in her hands, she then flew over to the giant tree that Cerella was stuck in and touched her hands to it. The entire tree became a lightning rod temporarily, and Cerella was able to get free. After that, she fell several feet before learning how to use her wings like HuiLing and Wanda.
"You certainly are learning faster than your parents did." Said Caleb.
"Maybe because there's time to learn this time around." Elyon had joined them.
Wanda stared down at the ruler, surprised by her arrival. HuiLing took advantage at her distraction and waved both hands right at Wanda, knocking her down from the air with a powerful gust and 'gently' directing her fall right into Derek.
The two landed in a particularly thorny rose bush.
"Oops! Sorry!" Said HuiLing, flying over.
"Nice one, HuiLing." Ingrid was smirking at the sight that was before them.
Derek was stuck in the rose bush with Wanda right on top of him, also stuck in the rose bush. When Derek opened his eyes, his face went red.
"A little help here?" Asked Wanda, who could not move.
"Right." Cerella raised her right hand, and the rose bush moved away from the two. Derek collapsed on his back when he landed on the ground, and Wanda quickly moved.
"Talk about your awkward moments." Tress was smiling.
"I think we've destroyed enough of the gardens for today. Don't you?" Wanda looked over at Caleb, with her hands on her hip.
"You've earned a break." He nodded.
Wanda pulled out the Heart of Kandrikor. There was a flash of red light, and the girls reverted back to their original forms, wearing their Meridian robes again.
"I'm starved." Cerella stretched out her arms.
"Yeah, destroying the Queen's garden can really work up an appetite." Agreed Ingrid.
"I wonder what's to eat for lunch." Said Wanda.
"Well, I was just coming down to see how your progress- or lack thereof- was." She added.
"They still need a lot of work to do before they can take on Phobos and his cronies." Caleb told the Queen. "Wanda nearly electrocuted my daughter trying to get her down from a tree."
"Yeah, thanks a lot. My hair nearly got singed." Growled Cerella.
Wanda gave an embarrassed smile.
"There's a tragedy. Let's inform the press, shall we?" Ingrid pulled her hair back behind her ears.
The girls banter carried all the way back into the castle.
"I wonder what kind of food they serve here." Wanda said.
"Well, if it's anything like Sheffield Institute's food, it's nothing special." Tress was not enthusiastic about this.
"Come on, breakfast was not that half bad. You have to admit, for foreign food." Ingrid looked back at Tress.
"Says you. But eggs are not my favorite breakfast food." Glared Tress.
"Yeah, yeah, we all know Tress hates eggs." Cerella waved one wearied hand.
"Woah!" Wanda said when the Queen opened up the door to the Throne Room, where they had eaten the last two meals.
The table was ladened with food such as they had not seen before, but it all looked and smelled delicious.
"Well, as they say back home, let's dig in!" HuiLing dashed forward, nearly bumping into Wanda.
Wanda was not shy about trying new things, but if it was spicy, she would just give it to Tress, who inhaled spicy foods unlike anyone she had seen.
"Don't eat too much or you won't have the energy for training this afternoon." Elyon warned.
After lunch, the girls were back outside.
"So, who's turn was it again to give some damage to the Queen's gardens?" Asked Ingrid.
"You and Tress." Replied Wanda. She held out the Heart of Kandrikor. "Guardians Unite!" She called out.
Phobos raised his left hand, and sand came pouring from it into a pool, which turned into an image.
"Interesting." He hissed. "So the Heart of Kandrikor has passed on to their daughters..." He said, seeing the girls transformed in the Queen's royal gardens.
"I can go give them a proper greeting, my Prince." Said Cedric. "Their powers are not yet fully developed..."
"Very well." Nodded the Prince.
Ingrid was first to act when they were transformed again. She raised her hands, and all of the water from the nearby fountain floated up into the air and took the shape of...
"Not bad!" Smiled Elyon.
Tress put her hands forward, and a burst of fire shot towards the tree that Cerella had grown earlier that morning. Ingrid at once sent the water right at the flames just as it hit the tree.
"Thank you, thank you very much!" She bowed her head, floating in the air since she learned how to use her wings properly now.
Alarms suddenly sounded throughout the castle, warning of an intruder.
"That's impossible! No one can get through my defenses!" Elyon said.
"You guys stay here! The Queen and I will go see what the problem is." Caleb told the group at once.
"Can't we help, dad?" Asked Cerella.
"No. You're still in training. You need more practice." Caleb said so firmly that it was clear it would be pointless to argue.
"What say we fly up to see what's going down?" Asked Ingrid once Caleb and Elyon had left the gardens.
"No way." Said Derek, grabbing Wanda's arm as she nodded and started to take flight.
"We're just going to check things out." She turned in surprise.
"Dad told us to stay here. If you go up and 'check things out' the enemy will be able to spot you plain as day." He looked right at her, an expression so serious he looked like his father for a moment.
"Relax. If anything happens we'll just come right back down and let Prince Charming protect us." Cerella gave him the 'sad puppy dog eyes' look. "Please, big brother?"
"Eh... fine. Don't blame me if the enemy finds us." He let go of Wanda. He hated it when his younger sister looked at him like that while teasing him.
"Great! See you on the flip side!" Said Tress, already in the air.
The five girls flew up around the hedges and the great wall that surrounded the gardens, looking down below for any signs of the intruder.
"There he is!" Ingrid pointed to a man that was cloaked, walking towards the castle as though returning to his long lost home.
Suddenly he stopped walking, and let out a howl that pierced the sky, before there was a flash of white light and...
"That's the guy who took mom and dad!" Said Wanda so loudly that even Derek looked up.
Anger was coursing through her as she remembered the events of just the previous day, and she clenched her fists as the giant lizard moved its way towards them.
"Gross..." Cerella could be heard saying.
"Uh... Wanda... you might want to take a chill pill." HuiLing looked at her, seeing the look in her eyes right now was rather frightening.
"Time to get back down, I think." Tress said this rather fast, sensing danger in the air as well.
It took Cerella, HuiLing, Ingrid and Tress to bring her back down without- hopefully- being spotted by Cedric.
"Why did you stop me from going?" Snapped Wanda, lightning flashing in her hands as she turned on the girls.
"We made a promise, remember?" Asked Ingrid.
"Not to do anything, even if he spots us. And believe me... you would have given us away. We're not even ready to fight yet!" Tress added.
"But he's the guy who took mom and dad!" Wanda pointed in the direction they had seen Cedric.
"We KNOW, Wanda. But we're not even ready to fight yet. This is just our first day of training." Cerella put a hand on her shoulders, but Wanda jerked away, still furious that they had stopped her from attacking blindly.
"And attacking in a blind rage is just what they would want you to do." HuiLing stood in front of her now. "You think we're not worried about our parents too?"
"Right, we're just as worried as you are, Wanda. But that's no reason to fly off the handle." Nodded Cerella.
"At least you still have your dad here." Snapped Wanda.
"You're forgetting one crucial fact, Wanda." Derek stepped in to the argument. "Your parents were once the Guardians of Meridian. They may not have their powers at full strength anymore, but they are used to this kind of stuff happening. This is how they grew up. Dad has told me and Cerel' all sorts of stories about the battles that went on when they were our age. Our parents will hang in there, and most likely give Phobos the worst time in his life for capturing them in order for us to find them." He looked at her, worry clearly in his eyes at her behavior. Perhaps her parents disappearance had affected her more than he initially thought.
"Fine. I'll be a good girl and stay put." She said, sitting on a nearby bench with her arms crossed over her chest, her eyes closed as though she were listening for any signs of the battle now going on outside the castle walls. Clearly not happy about having to stay where she was.
"Whew..." HuiLing sighed. "That was close."
"Yeah... Lesson of the day, Derek... Never piss off Wanda." Said Tress, looking at him with honest relief on her face as well.
"So... what do we do now?" Cerella looked at the others.
"Sit here and wait for death?" Shrugged Ingrid.
"Can do!" HuiLing took a seat right next to Wanda.
Cerella and Tress looked at each other, rolling their eyes at how literal HuiLing took Ingrid's statement.
On the balcony that Elyon usually used to address the people of Meridian, she stood with Caleb behind her.
"Cedric! What are you doing here? You are forbidden from stepping foot on these grounds!" She glared down at the giant lizard.
"Your Majesty, I have only come to give the new Guardians a proper welcome." He hissed.
"Likely story." Caleb glared down at Cedric. "Where have you taken the previous Guardians?" He demanded.
"That is for me to know and you never to find out." Cedric advanced.
"You are not to come any closer to this castle, Cedric!" Shouted Elyon, raising her hands. A ball of light formed, growing bigger and bigger until it was larger than a soccer ball, larger than a big serving plate, then shot it right at Cedric, who was forced back into his original form.
"Woah, what's that?" Ingrid spotted the beam of light, and everyone looked up.
"That is the Queen's power." Said Derek. "She's using it to force Cedric back. When you're properly trained, you'll be able to aid in the battles."
"Awesome." Tress was awed by the display of power by the Queen, as the light grew brighter and brighter.
Cedric was forced to flee, Elyon's light being too much for him when he was not at his full strength yet.
"That was a close one." Said Caleb to the Queen, who agreed, watching Cedric disappear.
"Let's go, Caleb." Elyon turned her back to the surroundings, and walked back in to the castle. "That was too easy. I am sure he'll be back."
She returned to the gardens, where she saw the Guardians and Derek were still waiting for them. Wanda and HuiLing stood up when she entered.
"That was amazing, Your Highness!" Said Ingrid at once.
Elyon smiled.
"The way you just blasted that guy, totally cool." Said Cerella.
"Thank you. Please, just call me Elyons. As Guardians, you are my equal." Elyon looked at them all. "Even if your powers could still use some work. I have faith you will achieve your goal."
"Thank you... Elyon." Wanda smiled at the Queen.
"Now, back to work." Caleb looked at the girls.
"Dad!" Cerella groaned in annoyance.
"So much for the excitement of the day." Ingrid rolled her eyes.
"At least now we know for sure it was Lizard Boy who took our parents." HuiLing nodded. "And now we can work to prepare for our fight with him and get them back."
"Right. So... let's get at it then." Wanda looked at the girls, who all agreed.
Elyon, Caleb and Derek oversaw the training for the rest of the day from the sidelines, dodging every now and then a rouge fire ball, or lightning shot. Or quickly getting out of the way as Cerella accidentally got a crowd of tree roots to raise up into the air from beneath their feet. And once or twice getting drenched by Ingrid while she practiced with her control over water...
