I'm back again! Okay, let me just say it is going to be a godsend to get back to school, I've been bored out of my mind the last week! I love having some time off and what not, but I'm going stir-crazy! Anyway, now that I've got that out of my system, on with the story.
Chapter 15- The Fight
Torie's P0V
Torie scribbled down some more notes, and cast a glance in Sam's direction. She'd been acting funny for the past few days, and it wasn't funny "ha-ha", either. She'd gotten more quiet, and seemed less and less enthusiastic to get involved in this whole Guardian thing. I'm suppose to be the rebel, Torie thought, Sam is suppose to be the one giving me grief about not wanting to get involved with this.
But it had turned into the exact opposite of that. Torie shifted her gaze to Allie, who was staring absent-mindedly at the board. Even Allie likes this whole situation better than Sam does, Torie thought, remembering what Allie had said about thinking the whole thing was dangerous and pointless. The blonde moved her gaze to Kapree, who was half doodling, half taking notes. She likes her powers, Torie thought, amused, She probably wouldn't give them up for anything in the world!
Finally she looked over at Haley. Her I'm not sure about, Torie admitted to herself, But she's handling it a lot better than I thought she would!
BRIIIIIIING!
Torie jumped a mile as the bell rang. She hadn't even noticed how close to the end of the day it was.
"Okay!" Allie said as the girls left class, "Who wants to go over my place, my parents our out, and my brother has soccer practice!"
"Okay!" three girls chimed at once. One remained silent.
"Sam?" Allie asked the girl, "You wanna come?"
"No thanks", Sam shook her head, "I've…got stuff to do, talk to you later"
"Uh, okay…" Allie said as Sam split off from them. Torie shook her head. This was crazy.
"Is Sam there?" it was later that night. Torie wanted to talk to Sam about something. She just hoped Sam would listen.
"Hang on a sec", her brother said. He covered the phone, and there was muttering on the other end. He finally came back and said, "Is your name Allison, Corinne, Shayna, or Catie?"
"No", Torie said, confused.
"Then she's right here", there was a slight shuffling, and a second later, "Yea?"
"It's Torie", she got right to the point, "Can we talk?"
"I think we are", Sam pointed out.
"Very funny", Torie said, "But I'm serious"
"Talk away then"
"Well…" suddenly, Torie wasn't sure how to word this. Words usually came easy to her, but now she was brain blocked, "Well…I was just thinking, you've been acting weird the last few days. I mean, I realize our lives just got flipped and turned in ways there is absolutely no way we will ever understand, but I get the feeling it is something more than that. Not that I'm great with feelings or anything", she added quickly, "But…well, I was just wondering if maybe something was bothering you…?"
"I don't know where you got that feeling from", Sam said, "But there's definitely nothing wrong"
"I know it's weird", Torie said quickly, "But…"
"Well, rest easy", Sam said, "Nothing's wrong"
She hung up before Torie could say anything more. Torie, of course, was less than convinced.
The next night, they were back at the mall. The girls had finally convinced Sam to go with them, and now the girls were wandering around. Kapree was stopping at key-offs every now and then to look at covers for her phone. Sam was stopping to look to. She said she was getting tired of the same blue cover. They hung out at the mall for an hour, and Torie was watching Sam the whole time. Something just didn't seem right about her.
"It's late", Sam said about nine, "We should probably think of heading home"
"Maybe if we hurry we can catch the bus", Kapree said, "It'd be better than walking"
Turned out, though, they weren't in time to catch the bus. "Hey!" Allie yelled at the retreating bus, "You can't wait for five minutes!"
"Better start walking", Torie said, "Not that I particularly want to walk, but…"
"Lets cut through the construction site", Allie suggested, pointed to the site across the street, "We'll get home faster"
"Are you crazy?" Haley asked in a hushed voice.
"We go through there during the day all the time", Allie pointed out with a shrug.
"During the day we can see around us though", Haley pointed out, "At night we might as well be blind"
"What could go wrong?" Sam broke in, "Better than walking along the sidewalk and taking longer, right?"
In the end they ended up going through the construction site, much to Haley's detest.
"Hey", Sam said suddenly, pulling out her cell phone, "Maybe this will make you feel better"
She pressed a few buttons on the phone, and suddenly there was a light shining out of the top.
"Built in flashlight", Sam grinned, "I swear, this phone is the best thing to ever happen to me"
"That's a little better", Haley said in a relaxed voice. For a small phone, it had a bright light, which lit the area they were walking in.
"Much better", Kapree agreed, "Not that I minded walking in the dark, this is just better-"
"What's that?" Torie said suddenly. She'd seen something out of the corner of her eye.
"What's what?" Allie asked, looking around. Torie turned her full view to whatever it was she had seen. She nearly swallowed a lung. She knew exactly what it was. Not that she wanted to say anything. Sam finally managed to make a guess at it though.
"A portal?"
"Might be", Kapree said, eyeing it weirdly, "What do you think we should do?"
"What are we suppose to do?" Allie said, "What do you think we're guardians for after all? We close the portal. Hence the reason they call us 'Guardians of the Veil'"
"Uh, right", Sam said distractedly, "Right, we close it, yea, right…"
She fumbled to put her cell phone away, and as she finally shoved it in her pocket, Haley cried, "There's something coming through!"
Torie automatically stepped backwards. She didn't want to be within ten feet of anything that was like that snake they had seen. But it wasn't like the snake. It was worse. It was maybe ten feet tall, with long, gnarly claws, and big, no huge, feet. It was a weird, brownish, whitish sort of color. It had spikes on its elbows and knees. Needless to say, it was anything but defenseless.
"What in the world is it!" Allie practically screamed, stumbling backwards. Haley and Kapree exchanged frightened glances before scrambling away. Sam just kind of backed away slowly. And Torie? Forget Torie. She panicked.
"Run!" she screamed, whirling around with any and every intention of running until she got home, and then hiding under her bed.
"No!" Sam snapped, "We can't run and take the chance of letting…whatever this is get near anyone. And we certainly can't leave the portal open!"
"No one cares about the portal!" Allie cried, "I'm with Torie –for once- run like the wind!"
"We can't leave!" Kapree said, "We have to do…something!"
"Any ideas?" Sam asked. She looked just as scared as the rest of them, but she was holding her own. Sort of. She looked like she was resisting the urge to run screaming in the other direction.
"Hmn…run comes to mind", Allie said sarcastically, "You know, run is an option"
"We have another option, actually", Sam said quietly. She held her hand up steadily. There was a burst of pink light, and a second later, the crystal-The Heart of Candracar, Torie reminded herself- popped out of Sam's palm.
"We're done for", Allie said, her mouth twitching slightly. Sam shot her a disgruntled look.
"Just trust me. Here goes everything. Guardians Unite!"
"My, that's reassuring", Allie muttered as a pink light consumed them.
It was like nothing Torie had ever felt before. The light was so warm against her shivering body. She felt power surging through her, and suddenly, it felt like something burst out of her back. It didn't hurt though. It was the weirdest feeling ever.
The light died away. Standing in the place of her four friends were four…well, fairies were the only way to describe them. And that was what they were. Well, guardians, to be more exact.
Allie was looking at the monster, "And this is going to help us how?"
"Well we are guardians", Kapree said with a shrug, "I guess we just…do whatever comes to mind"
"What if running comes to mind?" not that anyone answered Allie. Torie looked over at Sam.
"Well oh leader?" she asked mockingly. She didn't care if she sounded mean, "What should we do?"
"Get it back through the portal, I guess", she said as the thing approached, "Whatever we do, I say we do it now!"
"Okay then!" Allie said enthusiastically, "If we're gonna fight, I'll start us off!"
She flew into the air, and leveled herself with monster face, " Water!"
A jet of water shot out of her hand and hit the monster squarely in the face. Torie grinned. Maybe this wouldn't be so bad after all. She flew up to join Allie.
"Hey monster thing!" she yelled, "Think fast! Earth!"
A big chunk of rock ripped out of the ground around them, flew at the monster, and hit the monster in the side of the head. It roared and staggered side ways. Allie and Torie exchanged smirks and look back down at their friends.
"Any time now!" Allie called down to them. They exchanged looks and quickly to the skies.
"This isn't gonna be easy", Kapree said as she met them in the air.
"Who wants it easy?" Haley said. She took aim at the monster, " Fire!"
A fireball formed in her hand and shot at the monster, hitting it in the forehead (or what Torie assumed was the forehead). It roared as the flames hit, and when they died away, a burn mark could be seen dead center on his head.
"Nice one", Allie cracked, "Looks a bit hot though, maybe we should cool him down, huh? Water!"
She aimed right above the things head, and a stream of water shot out of her hand, curved, and landed right on the things head, literally showering him.
"What, too much?" Allie asked as the thing tried to swipe at her. It had water in it's eyes though, and couldn't see.
"Nice touch", Kapree said, "Mind if I lend a hand? Air!"
Wind started whipping around them. Somehow though, the girls weren't affected. It took Torie a second to realize Kapree was controlling the wind to only aim at the monster. It roared as it was knocked backwards, and hit the ground directly in front of the portal.
"So…how do we push it back through?"
Sam was the first one to head back towards solid ground. The other girls quickly followed.
"All at once", she said as they landed behind her.
"Huh?" the girls said at the same time.
"Hit him all at once!" she said, stepping backwards, "On three, ready? One, two…"
Torie took aim at the thing. If this didn't work, they were sunk.
"Three!"
Rays of green, blue, red, pink, and white hit the monster. With a great force, the thing was slowly pushed through the portal. A loud bang echoed through as it finally flew through.
"YES!"
The girls exchanged high fives as Sam closed the portal. For their first real fight, they'd done all right.
"Cops", Sam said as sirens broke through their cheers. She held up her hand. A flash of pink light and a second later, the girls were back to their old selves.
"We'd better get home"
"How did this happen!" Phobos yelled. Ellie and Cedric stepped backwards slowly. The door was so close. And open. All it would take was for them to slip through-
SLAM!
The doors slammed shut, locking them in. They jumped backwards in surprise, and turned back to look at Phobos, wide-eyed and scared. They'd both seen what happened to those who suffered under Phobos's wrath. It wasn't pleasant.
"Well?" he shot at the two. They both exchanged a scared glance and started babbling at the same time.
"Well uh-"
"You see-"
"Minor miscalculation my prince-"
"It won't happen again-"
"They weren't suppose to beat it-"
"Yes, they were supposed to be destroyed-"
"ENOUGH!" Phobos roared, silencing the two, "I want no excuses, I want results! Make sure you succeed next time, or you will wish you had. Understand?" the two nodded, "Good. Now get out of my sight. Now!"
"Yes my prince!" they said at the same time. Both scurried for the doors, which flew open. Once they were outside, the doors flew shut behind them. Ellie sighed with relief. Glad to be out of there didn't describe. More like thrilled. She looked over at Cedric with hard eyes. Even if the two of them did often end up on the same side (the side that was normally getting fried by Phobos) didn't mean she had to like him. She turned away from them and made to her room. She had a feeling it was going to be a long night.
"They did well, for their first mission", Yan Lin said, "Wouldn't you agree Luba?"
"Well, yes", she stuttered, "But it was mere luck, if you ask me. They might not be so lucky next time"
"Ah", the Oracle said, "But this time they succeeded. And all you can really ask of young girls, is that they take it one step at a time"
Luba huffed in frustration and stormed away from the Oracle. He would never see her side. She was just going to have to live with that.
"We are so cool!" Allie exclaimed, "I'm serious, things could not have gone better if they tried! We kicked his scaly butt all the way back to where it came from, ha-ha!"
"What'd you do, beat up a lizard?"
"Jamie for the last time, get away from my door!" Sam yelled, whirling around to face her brother, who was standing at the door, "Whatta I need, guard dogs?"
"It'd be a nice touch", he smirked as he headed for his own room.
"All things aside", Kapree said, steering the conversation back, "We did do pretty awesome, didn't we? You know, that being our first fight and all?"
"Yea, we did", Haley sad. She looked over at the clock, "I'd better get home, my mom is going to be worried"
"Oh, hang on, I'll walk with you!" Kapree said, jumping up.
"We might as well all head home", Torie said, grabbing her jacket, "It's been a long night"
"Sure has", Sam said, laying down on her bed, "Bye guys, see you tomorrow"
"Bye!" they all said at the same time. The phone rang as they left, and they heard Sam say, "Hey Shayna", as they closed the door.
Haley said bye to them and peeled off down another street. Allie, Kapree, and Torie all lived pretty close to each other, and were able to walk the whole way home together. None of them said much though. They were too tired to.
Torie walked into her apartment and saw that Will and Hay Lin were over. She flashed them both a quick grin before saying good night and heading for her room. She changed into her pajamas and was about to lower the shade in her room, when something caught her eye. The city. Heatherfield. She smiled as she looked out at the lit up buildings. Her life had just changed in ways even she didn't think were possible. She lowered her shade and smiled. Her life would never be the same again.
Okay, and so ends part one. Part tow should be along in a few weeks, so you're just going to have to live with this for now. Anyways, review!