CHAPTER 23: EVIL AWAKES.

"I can't still believe it." Irma said. "What does it mean everything is changing?"
"Don't know, but we have to get ready for unexpected." Will said.
"Maybe you should ask the only ones that have faced something till now." Matt said.
"Ah, no." Caleb said. "Orube is out again, and Isa is still ill."
After having returned from Kandrakar, all of them went their homes to rest before waking up the following morning and having to face another school day.
Now they were sitting at the cantina the guardians on a table and the guys on another. Anyway, they were so close that they could chat easily.
"Ill or not she seems to felt like coming here." Phobos said pointing to the main doors where the long red haired had appeared.
And it was true, all for sudden she was there, standing still wearing a thick long sleeve t-shirt and a pair of jeans torn at the knees and tights. She was looking around.
"Guardians?" All of them heard on their minds. "Hello? Where are you?"
"At the cantina." Taranee answered for all.
"You shouldn't be here, you are still ill as Caleb and Phobos told us." Will told her.
"I'm not on pleasure visit." She said. "Could you ask Caleb and maybe Phobos to come down? We have to leave. Now. And the rest of you must stay here just in case."
"Guys, you have visits." Cornelia said roughly.
"Oh, sure." Phobos said. "She can't live without us, can she?"
"I think it must be for the papers about the house we had to have a look." Caleb said realising the headmistress was going near then and not wanting to call for the attention.
"Oh, sure..." Matt said. "Ok, get going we will manage to explain why Phobos is also missing."
Then they nodded and both left.
"So, what's happening?" Phobos said. "Why do you need us now?"
"Sorry but we have a trip to do." She said holding their hands. "Not minding if we are happy with it or not."
"You are still a bit ill." Caleb said. "You shouldn't allow Kandrakar to send you on a mission when you are still not full recovered."
"That's the point." She said as she got ready. "It's not Kandrakar who called me. It was... other person."
"Who?!" Both of the guys said at once before disappearing.

"Do you think they will be ok?" Hai Lin said when the lessons ended and they walked out of the school.
"Well... they are taking their time." Irma said. "Maybe they went shopping after wherever they went."
"That's not funny." Taranee said. "They didn't even say where they were going."
"You know there's a way of knowing it." Cornelia said.
"Ok, ok..." Will said. "This way."

"Ah!!" Caleb said while they sheltered next to the castle. "Did you knew it before coming here?!"
"No!!" She said focusing on keeping the shadow shelter. "He didn't mention this little problem! We have to reach the castle!"
"WE could begin kicking buts if I had powers, but DO I HAVE TO REMEMBER YOU I'M NOW A COMON HUMAN?!" Phobos said angry. "YOU HAVE TO PROTECT ME!"
"Hum... I like the idea of kicking butts." Isa said with her eyes suddenly dark and a couple of black lines appearing to be a tribal at a side of her face. "And I've got a perfect plan."
"Damn..." Phobos muttered as she stood out of the shelter. "HEY YOU MOROONS!" He shouted at the monsters next to the castle that avoided the entrance. "DIDN'T YOU WANT THE KING?! COME FOR ME!!"
It was such a silly plan that maybe it could work. He had to catch the enemies' attention and such had he done.
"Hello... Looked for someone?" Phobos said turning into Isa and kicking some buts and cutting one of the monsters hands to hold them as if they were weapons.
Phobos and Caleb were fighting with swords while she used both a bladed fighting stick and her powers making monsters sink into their own shadows so Caleb, Phobos and her could kill them.
"Now!" Phobos said while more enemies came along the village path. "This way!!"
"I don't want to trust such a rat!" Caleb said.
"Allow me to tell you this was once my castle so I know all the ways in there!" Phobos said.
As soon as they reached in the castle, Isa managed to lock the doors with her powers and the guys help.
So soon they were looking for the queen, but what they found was not her.
"Hey, don't go dark at me." A guy said when she attacked him. "Thanks for the quick arrival."
"Who are you?" Caleb said noticing he was standing next to a sleeping Elyon with a weapon at his hand.
"It doesn't mind." He said noticing they were like that for the weapon and putting it back at his belt. "I called her to come here. Elyon needs to go back earth now."
"Excuse us." Elyon's adoptive mother said. "Allow us to explain."
Then the weird masked guy did a gesture as telling her it was all hers.
"We are in the middle of a war and we know they have come to look for our queen." She began saying. "So we have just decided to send Elyon back to... well, to hide her on a safe place."
"There's no need of you to speak any further." Isa said then still stiff and ready to strike. "We understand where you want us to take her. But I was wondering if Kandrakar approves it."
"Kandrakar is through with it." A white herald said. "Ithmer from Eraclyon, white herald of Kandrakar."
"Ok." Isa said. "I see there's no other word to say in here. WE will send help as soon as..."
"You must stay at earth and protect Elyon and your planet." The herald said. "Oracle said so to you. The new command is respecting to Queen Elyon's matter. And don't worry, if your help is needed you will be told."
"BUT I WANT TO FIGHT HERE!!" Caleb said. "I OWE IT TO MY COUNTRY!!!"
"No." Oracle's face, Endarno's one and Yan Lin's one said appearing at the air from the herald's gauntlet. "Your duty is to protect the guardians, specially the foreign ones."
"SHUT UP, YOU OLD MEN!!" Isa said as mad. "I NEED NO PROTECTION, YOU FOOLS!!"
"Hummm... Dark again?" Oracle said.
"It seems so, your highness." The weird foreigner said. "And none of us can blame her for this. She is the heroine of our country, she was fighting at there lately."
"Phobos, take her to earth." Yan Lin said. "Caleb, you should carry Elyon."
"Don't dare to lay a finger on me, you moron." Isa said hissing when Phobos tried to hold her.
Then he rolled his eyes but a beam was to hit her so she turned and he took the chance to hit her at the neck making her to faint so he held her before she hit the ground taking her at his arms.
"Anyone can take us back earth, please?" Caleb said.
"I'll open a portal for you." The weird man said taking a horn from his necklace and opening one for them to jump in. "This can open portals but when she wakes up ask any of them to do it. Good luck, and tell them we will be able to stand alone."
"Sure." Phobos said as they stepped to the portrait.
"And take care of my precious Elyon, please." Was the last they could hear before being sucked by the hole?

As soon as they arrived back earth, the five guardians got a call from Taranee as she was told by Will that Isa and the rest were back earth and wanted everyone to meet at a new area next to Heatherfield.

"Oh, I know that area." Cornelia said. "But I think that's too luxurious..."

"Wow!" The five guardians said at once while they got in the manor.
"This is so incredibly big and luxurious..." Cornelia said.
"Whoever did it had not much decoration sense." Irma said.
"This is Victorian style of house." Hai Lin said. "Decorated on Baroque and gothic style... I bet they respected the original design of the place."
"It remembers me on meridian castle when Phobos was ruling." Caleb said a bit darkly.
"So, then it's no problem about us staying here for tonight, is it?" Isa's voice said as if they were going out of a room at the ground floor.
"No, of course not young lady." A man said. "Now this place is all yours milady. And so you will have not to sleep on a hotel. And..."
The man was now staring at the guardians and Isa and Phobos noticed.
"There's nobody else than my dear friend Caleb at there." And elder looking Isa said. "There is no group of girls; it's all your imagination."
"How can you say such!!" Cornelia said angry.
"I thought you were lost around, young sir." The man said then smiling to Caleb as if he wasn't able to see the rest. "So, need me to appoint for the moving service for bringing your things here?"
"There will be no need of it, thanks." She said smiling. "Allow me to go with you to the main door so you will be able to tell me about the signed papers you will bring me tomorrow. I thought it was this way."
Then both left and Phobos stayed with the girls and Caleb.
"Ok, now explain us what is all this about." Will said.
"Oh, I love this place." Phobos said. "It remembers me home. I'm really happy she has decided to move here instead of the weird house we had."
"It's not moving here." Caleb said roughly. "She said it was just for Elyon to recover and that we will be living other place."
"Ok, ok." Taranee said. "Now we are really lost."
"She has managed to get the house for all of us." Caleb said. "For free. And she will manage to get the papers for tomorrow or a week... anyway, little time."
"I don't know how does it work here." Phobos said picking a fruit from the kitchen. "But it seems she has made sure no clue remains linking any of us to the house. The vendor will forget about having sold it or to whom and it will be as if it was sold since ever. Maybe inherited or something like that. I don't know."
"Ok, when she comes back she owes us an explanation." Will said.
"A big one." Irma said when they saw the big library at the house lighted by the sun going through the big vidrieres.

"We needed a better place to join than a family house." Isa said while she was at the top of a stair looking for something at the library. "So as we appeared here after the fight I thought on getting it for us as guardians' headquarters. That simple."
"But this must have cost a lot!" Taranee said. "How do you plan to pay for this!!"
"That's not a problem." She said having a look at a book. "Remember I can perform good and long-lasting illusions. On other words, they will not remember us, and the house would have never gone at sale. We just inherited it. And if doesn't work we could always send him to a far dimension or even make him silent, forever."
"Hey, I'm beginning to like the way you act." Phobos said then smiling evilly.
"That's not right!!" The guardians said.
"What kind of evil has invaded you?!" Will asked. "You were never that evil!"
"I've always been this evil." She said jumping down the stairs. "And I'm tired of always acting as a good girl and not managing to get anything!" She added pocking Will at the chest. "Don't you realise on it? You are also used. Do you think Oracle will save Matt if Kandrakar and he are in trouble on the same time? And you Hai Lin? DO you think he would do it for Eric? Or Nigel, eh, Taranee? NO!! KANDRAKAR JUST CARES OF KANDRAKAR!! THEY DON'T CARE ABOUT PERSON OR SINGLE UNITS!!"
Suddenly outside the house darkness was beginning to rise as Sun was beginning to disappear mysteriously as if it was an eclipse.
"This... something is wrong." Will muttered to the others. "She has never acted like that."
"She has go nuts, that's what happens." Cornelia said.
"It must be something else." Taranee said. "She has always been balanced and calm."
Isa was now dark and weird, as if she was sudden filled by something evil and dark.
"It's ok, Isa." Phobos said next to her. "You are right, Kandrakar is just like that. Now... I was thinking... maybe you know how to use the big room we were shown upstairs?"
"You meant the attic?" She said. "No, I'd rather not to get there."
"Then maybe a walk around the garden?" He added smiling. "I bet we can find something to decorate the house."
"Oh, I saw some rose garden at the side of the garden." She said. "Maybe we could turn some from red to black. I think I have always liked those."
"OK, let's then look for them." He said.

As soon as they left, the rest sighed.

"She's been that weird even since we got back from Meridian." Caleb said. "Don't know, as if she was... filled with something dark."

"I think we should ask Kandrakar about this." Will said making the heart appear.

"But we can't leave Elyon alone with those two around here." Cornelia said. "Her brother would try to kill her, and the thing that possessed Isa could want just the same."

"Then maybe you should stay here, Corny." Irma said. "We will ask and tell you later."

"Ok." She said. "Try not to take too long."

Then with a flash the left and appeared on Kandrakar where the triumvirate were waiting for them.

"Hey, we came for asking." Irma said.

"WE know." Yan Lin said. "And we are ready to answer."

"Ok, then I suppose you know what's going on with our mate." Will said. "She is... weird! As if she was evil somehow now."

"Hum... I see." Oracle said.

"I told you this could happen." Endarno told the other two.

"What is THIS exactly?" Hai Lin asked.

"You all have one of the first importance elements." Yan Lin said. "But from those, they were born some other minor elements such as light and Darkness guardian, Weather guardian that is now dead or the tidal guardian that was once kidnapped and erased from all dimensions."

"You know how elements affect to their guardians." Oracle said.

"Yeah, it's as a second puberty." Irma said. "A madness and lot of problems."

"Well, then imagine you have to pass through double changes." Yan Lin said.

"That's... disgusting and really hard." Taranee said with a disgust face mixed with pain.

"Well, your mate the light and darkness guardian has not gone mad or possessed." Oracle said then. "She's been keeping her darkness part under control till now. So all you've seen of her is the light part. But she has also a dark part and it's now stronger than the light one yet it seems the darkness inside her has still not gone too strong."

"So... it can be helped?" Will said with a hope shine on her eyes. "How could we help her now?"

"That's something you will have to find out." Endarno said looking to the other two oracles. "WE can't help with that. But maybe you should begin by finding her pain cause and trying to help with the solution of that pain."

"Ok, thanks for the no-information once again." Will said.

"Yeah, once again all we got from you guys was we had to deal with it ourselves with no help from here." Irma said.

"We can't give a hand because it is her element's test." Yan Lin said. "Made up again by her recent p…"

"Yan Lin." Endarno told her off. "Ok, guardians, if you have no other question then the best thing to do would be leaving back for earth."

They were no given the chance of saying anything else and were sent once again to earth.

"So, once again we leave with no piece of information." Cornelia said bothered.

"I don't see what use is to trust them when they never tell us anything." Irma added.

"I don't think it has been no use." Will said. "We have been told this is one of her faces she usually keeps under control but due to recent events have been released."

"And we know it has something to do with a P beginning word." Taranee said.

"Prize?" Cornelia said. "Pride?"

"Poison? Pity?" Irma said.

"Oh, it could be anything!" Taranee said loosing her nerves.

"Keep calm." Will said. "What we have to do is to keep an eye on her and find out what 'P' is what made her take out that evil face."

Suddenly they heard a "boom!" and they ran to find out the cause of it.

When they arrived to the central park where once Will found his mouse, they saw how Phobos and Isa were now appearing to be attacking Uriah and his mates. That soon left running after having been stained on their own ink filled balloons.

"What has gone on here?" Will asked.

"Those brainless dudes seemed to have wanted to laugh at us by throwing us the old joke of ink filled balloons and we have thrown them back." Isa said smiling. "That's all."

"Hey, that's not… likely of you." Hai Lin said.

"Well, maybe it's I'm tired of always behaving as the good girl and always getting the bad things." She answered.

"By the way, you two were supposed to be at the manor, looking the gardens." Cornelia told them off.

"We were, but that was boring." Phobos said. "So as you didn't arrive back we thought on going back home. And then we found those idiots that were making cans burst near the people's benches. You should have seen their frightened faces when she made the one about putting to a tree nearly go off at the orange head's hand."

"That's not funny!" They shouted.

"What would have happened if it had gone off in his hand and…" Cornelia said imagine and going sick.

"Blah, blah, blah." Isa said. "We took care of it not being like that. Anyway, girls you are going a bit boring. By the way, we were thinking on doing something else. Feel like going somewhere tonight?"

"But tomorrow we have lessons." Taranee said. "We can't."

"C'mon, we will be back before that." Phobos said.

"No." The girls said frowning. "Anyway, were are we going to go?"

"Having fun." Isa said smiling.

"Then you two go alone." Will said.

"Ok, as you want." They said.