Chapter 30: Welcome Home Orena
The guardians looked at this sight and smiled slightly. Will being the leader kept her head on and remembered that Elyon needs her power back ASAP and so she walked over to the two. "I don't mean to break up this moment, but Elyon needs her power back as well as her life force so if we could hurry this up a bit." Will said as nicely as possible.
Orena got up and looked at Will in the eyes. "Let's go." Orena said simply and so Will created a fold and the two went through. Will walked up to the guards when they arrived. "Raythor, Vathek, my good friends, I don't mean to sound pushy but, let's us through so that Elyon can have her power back." Raythor immediately opened the door and the two ran to the queen's room. "Elyon!" Will yelled seeing her friend looking so dead now. "Aldarn, how is she?"
"The queen has no heartbeat Will, it just stopped." Aldarn looked down sadly.
"Orena, give Elyon her powers back." Will yelled trying to speed things up.
Orena wanted to help but she wasn't sure how her evil half had stolen Elyon's power in the first place but she wasn't about to tell the leader guardian that. Orena focused as hard as she could but she began wishing that her evil self had never taken her power in the first place and without warning, Orena started feeling drained. A light blue aura flowed out of her and into Elyon. After the aura had stopped flowing out, Orena fell to the ground exhausted. "Did…it…work?" Orena asked weakly
Will held up Orena and watched as Elyon sat there not moving. "We're too late. We failed." Then Will turned and helped Orena out of the castle.
Will made a fold a little ways outside the castle and was about to head through when Elyon ran out. "Will, wait." Elyon yelled out to them before they went through.
Will turned around in shock and smiled happily at Elyon. "Elyon how are you alive?" Will asked utterly confused.
"I went into a sleep that stopped all my body functions. It only lasts three days or until my life force is back. I didn't know about it until Oracle told me." Elyon hugged her friend and then went over to Orena. "You my dear" Orena got herself prepared for Elyon to do something or say something that she deserved or felt like she deserved but she heard something completely opposite of what she expected. "Are no longer banished from meridian. You can come home Orena."
Orena looked at her confused. "But why…would I be…allowed here…after everything…that I did." Orena asked still recovering from the great loss of life force.
Elyon smiled at her. "You aren't to be blamed for not having control of your own body Orena. I have a friend that had a similar problem. He didn't have control of his body either and so he had no control over what he did and so he can't be blamed. Like you my friend, he was trapped in his own mind." Elyon explained to the poor girl.
"I'm a hybrid, why would you want someone like me?" Orena said getting down on herself.
"You have no need to be so hard on yourself Orena. I could use someone like you Orena. You have a special gift, that's what it is. Your not some hybrid to me Orena, you're a person gifted with great power. How would you like to join my guards. In fact, why don't you be my body guard Orena?"
Orena hadn't a clue what to say, she was being treated as a regular human with a gift, not a freak that doesn't belong like Phobos did. She finally had the feeling of being wanted by people. The only time that that had happened was when she was three. Tears of joy started flowing out of her eyes. "Thank you so much. I would love to be you body guard my queen."
Orena bowed but Elyon lifted her head. "That's Elyon to you Orena." Elyon said sweetly. "No need to bow either, I don't particularly like the bowing thing so much. My brother Phobos however, he is just a big weenie. Speaking of which, where is my brother Will?" Will looked down and shrugged. "Don't worry Will, we will find him and his goons."
"Well, you'll find some of them anyway. Most of the lurdans are well, dead now." Will said feeling somewhat guilty.
"No need to feel bad Will, they did agree to go because if they hadn't, they would have either stayed in Meridian or stayed in there cells." Elyon then looked to Orena. "Mindy really did a number on the lurdans huh?" Orena blushed and looked to the ground. "It's alright, like I said, it isn't your fault." Will left and then came back with Eric and the guardians.
Eric ran up next to Orena. "Thank you for keeping your promise Orena."
"How could I forget you Eric, you were after all the only friend I had then."
"Orena, there has been something that I have wanted to talk to you about." Orena looked at Eric curiously. "I always loved you Orena and so I wanted to find you after that long war. I wanted to make sure that you were ok and I found that you had lost your mind, in a way. I came back to ask you one thing Orena." Eric got down on his right knee and pulled out a box. The box was warn and it looked like he had had it for years. "I always kept this to keep me going so that when I returned, I could ask you to marry me Orena."
Orena took a step back and gasped after hearing what it was he had just said. "Yes Eric." She jumped on him and gave him a great big hug. All the girls sighed with smiles on there faces. The two stayed in that moment for a while before they broke apart.
"So Orena, do you think that your fiancé would mind helping you out." Elyon asked with a smile.
"Really?" Elyon nodded and gave Orena a big smile. "There is one thing I don't get, why didn't the guard know about the temporary sleep?"
Elyon chuckled and replied. "The Oracle only wants me to know, other then a few. If there is anyone around that would want me dead, they could kill me that way. While I'm asleep, I am vulnerable. No let me show you around here while the guardians head home." The guardians left and Orena was showed around her old and yet new home.
A/N: Thanks for reviewing and reading and please continue to. I really enjoy the comments and am excited to hear them. I hope you enjoyed this chapter and once again, thank you.