2ND SEASON
EPISODE 3: A.
(Isa's voice)
It was next morning when I woke up on Phobos' bedroom, while he was snoring at the bed but over the sheets covered just by the blanket.
He had clearly spent the night next to me and obviously, he came there while I slept after he watched his movie at the laptop.
I shook my head, I could not tell him off; after all it was me who was sleeping at his bed, his bedroom… I was the guest and he the host in that room.
I went out of the bed wearing my shirt half opened, so I buttoned it up again while I went out of the bedroom silently.
"Empty fridge, typical from Phobos and Caleb…" I sighed opening the fridge and taking some peach stones from the litter to put it on some cotton to lie at my hand and make a full fruit to grow up from a little plant. "Lucky I'm good at survival and I'd be able to survive even on the Sahara dessert in the middle of a war."
I then smiled making another pair of peaches to grow up at the same cotton from the other two stones to pick them up and put them at the basket over the table.
"I suppose today is going to be a hard day." I said lying against the wall. "First some shopping and then some cleaning in here…"
I planned to see what I could do with the little money I had still at my earth bank account at Heatherfield.
Smelling my shirt I walked towards my bathroom snapping my fingers to call for them to get there. Unluckily for me, I was still a bit as a beginner on that trick and I had to get to the door and control their way there before getting in the bathroom.
(Will's voice)
"Will!!" My mother called me then. "Please, you have to take care of your sister, I've got to get to the office for a while and Dean will be at the high all the day."
"Mum!" I told her. "I was talking with my friends! We had some plans!"
"You can go out with them any day, and I need your help now." She told me while the little monster reached the door.
"Ok, ok, ok, ok." I said finally giving up. "Do you mind? I was speaking at the phone."
"Have fun together." Mum said winking at me before kissing me once.
"Sorry girls, I have to quit." I said to the phone. "My mum has to work and I have to baby sit this little monster of my sister."
"C'mon Will…" Hai Lin said. "It's not going to be the same without you…"
"Sorry girls." I said. "Say Isa hello from me, ok?"
"Ok." The four of them said nearly at once.
"By the way, Elyon told me she could be visiting us for a while." Cornelia said then. "I wonder if she would want to also come."
"We don't have granted she comes today." Taranee said. "But when she comes, we could go around for more shopping."
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(Elyon's voice)
"Caleb, by heavens shake!" I called him at the very edge of his door. "It's going to be holydays, not a century on the end of the world!!"
"I'm going back to earth." He told me throwing robes in a bag. "There are so many things I want to carry…"
"No way." I said going inside and seeing him so worried putting things in a bag that he seemed to have forgotten to wear a pair of matching shoes. "Relax a bit and take it easy. If you keep on throwing things in there you will end up by packing the whole room."
"Yes…" He said sighing and relaxing a bit. "Elyon, are you sure you want me to go back? Don't you mind if I get there again?"
"Really, after hearing you moaning for not being able to see our little friend coming here on visits to Kyrlee and me cause you were out… sure, I want you to get there. And now, c'mon, drop all those useless things and let's move. Oracle left you the keys to a flat and a map to find it. But I've appointed to meet our friends as soon as we reach Earth."
"Hum." He said.
Finally, he ended packing even a pair of swords what made me sigh and smile when he said he was ready.
"Ah!" He said. "I also have to pack something else…"
"I've already thought about that." I said wanting to laugh when I handed him the little paper bag from earth he once took Meridian with something inside, now full of little presents that went from some dry flowers to one of the finest earrings of the coolest jeweller from the town.
"Thanks." He said smiling.
He certainly was a bit nervous; I thought I should not tell her how our friends changed in all this time, specially the long red haired that he had not seen on about two years and a half, maybe three. If he was to discover it, he would have to do it himself.
"Ok, ready or not, we are leaving now." I told him holding his hand to open a portal in the corridor and get back Earth through there. "Cornelia must be waiting for us there."
(Cornelia's voice)
"Hey, I'm still waiting for them." I told the rest through the mobile phone bothered on their constant asking. "No, she said they were appearing here, so stop asking… When they arrive I'll phone back." I said before hanging down.
"Again phoned to ask you?" Peter told me when I sat down next to him.
"Yes, Elyon and Caleb were to arrive a while before, but they have not." I answered him. "I wonder what they've been doing."
"Some times planes arrive on delay." He told me trying to comfort me. "Relax, they will be to arrive."
Sure, I sometimes forgot he didn't know of our powers because the only time he was at Kandrakar, Oracle got sure he didn't remember anything of that. But that was some time ago, about two or three years ago.
"Thanks for offering to get them to the centre." I told Peter while he surrounded my shoulders with his arm.
"Well, I remember that dude, Caleb." He said. "And Elyon, they are nice. Furthermore, I can't trust you to drive them to the centre."
"I'm still trying." I said bothered.
From all the girls, I was the first one getting the driving licence, at least from the ones remaining at Heatherfield.
Suddenly there was a little flash at the death point of the corridor where there was a janitor closet and I knew they were there.
"Corny!" Elyon said arriving with a bag at her back and Caleb taking a big backpack too. "It's so long I didn't saw you!!"
Being true it was just a couple of days, but it was somehow true, now she was spending some days at my place, it would be as if she was still living there with us instead of in Meridian as the queen of there.
"Hey, Caleb, nice… er beard." Peter told him making Elyon and I hold our laugh.
"Thanks." He said shaking hands with him. "Girls back Europe loved them; some of them." He added when we all looked at him suspiciously.
"Have you decided where to stay?" I asked him.
"Yes, he got a shared flat cause he is going to stay here for a long while." Elyon told for him.
"Yes, but all I was given was the keys of the door and a map of how to get there." He added showing it to me.
"Wonderful, we've arranged a little party tonight." I told him. "In fact we are going to join Peter's one and ours into a macro-party at the beach. Matt is going to play guitar there." I added for Elyon.
"Yaw!!" She said thrilled. "I've always loved their music!!"
"C'mon, let's first drop his things and then we go shopping." Peter said.
"I hate shopping." Caleb said raising an eyebrow.
"Well, dude." Peter said. "Not to offend you, but do you really intend to get to the beach wearing… that?"
"C'mon Caleb." I told him. "A bit of mode will do no bad on you. And I know the perfect help for you. Us." I said holding Elyon by the back while I also held Peter.
"Man, this is going to be hell…" Caleb said nearly whispering.
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(Isa's voice)
"I still can't see why I have to buy this." I said while going out of the department stores' dressing-room into the dressing-rooms' area wearing the clothing Will, Irma and Hai Lin gave me.
"Because you need to look great on the party tonight." Will said as if it was a rule.
"It's just a party." I sighed bothered when Hai Lin gave me another pair of clothes to try on.
"Everyone is going to be there." Hai Lin said dreamily. "It's going to be the greatest event since the graduation day."
"C'mon, c'mon, you need to look spectacular." Will said pushing me into the changing room again.
"Man, she would look shinny even wearing a rubbish bag tied with a rope as if it was a dress." Irma muttered.
"Irma, I've heard you." I said from the changing room putting on the clothing to see at the mirror. "Happy?" I added going out of the cabin again.
"Not yet." Will said rubbing her nose and having a look. "I like the shirt, but the trousers…"
"I'm not a doll you can play with dressing and undressing it." I said bothered about taking the robes off there and go away.
"No, but you look great and you have the obligation to show it." Irma said. "That's what Cornelia would have told you if she was here too." She added joking.
"Ah!" Hai Lin said. "I know what would be perfect!!"
"Great, more clothing." I said rolling my eyes.
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(Cornelia's voice)
Finally after being on the other end of the town department stores, we managed to make Caleb look as a common guy, well, a cute and hunk one. Even Elyon who is now engaged to that Prince Kyle seemed to be about having her eyes fall out of their place.
"And now, let's go and see what we can do with that hair." I said.
"Oh, no." He said holding it. "No way are you going to touch my hair."
"At least allow a professional to have a look at it." Peter gave us a hand. "You look as if you had not taken care of it on a long time."
"Well, he is not the kind of guy to spend hours in front of a mirror." Elyon said. "Furthermore, Caleb, a hairdressing session will do great on you. And you don't need to have your hair cut, just… well, a bit combed."
We had appointed to met Taranee and Will at the front door, and when we arrived there they said hello.
"Er… Caleb." Will said. "Is it me or you are wearing your hair as if… you came from a barn in the middle of the war."
"Wow, you look as if you were a tramp who has just been dressed up." Taranee said.
"Ok, ok." He said. "I caught the idea… take me wherever you want." He ended giving up.
"You need a place in which they dare to deal with that mess of hair." I said. "And I know the perfect place."
"If you allow me dear…" Peter said. "Maybe he would rather a cheaper one. Maybe the one I use to go."
"Does that place have someone to dare depilating his chest and legs?" I asked him pointing out the jungle of hair going out of his robes when he tried some clothes and that were disgusting. "Then maybe we should try at the place I suggested. They are so professional they will not be frightened to do it."
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(Phobo's voice)
"Isa!!" I said hitting the bathroom door trying to get in after she locked herself inside with the other two girls. "Get out of there at once!! We are going to be late and I'm peeing!!!"
"Wait a second!" The air guardian said then. "We need the place, this is a red code!"
"Why don't you pee on a plant pot?" The water guardian suggested ironically.
"No way!" Isa said then. "Phobos, isn't a toilet downstairs? Do it there, please."
"Yep, and stop bothering, you rude man." The water guardian said. "We ladies need a bit of time to get ready."
I couldn't believe I was forbidden to get in a room on my own home; anyway, I ran downstairs to pee on the toilet and arrived just on time of preventing peeing on my pants. While I was there I felt I needed to also do other thing there and so I began unzipping the trousers I would be wearing at that damned party the girls organised; to tell the truth, I didn't felt like going, but I just went because I wanted to satisfy Isa that said would feel better if I also went with them.
Anyway, I was still there when someone knocked on the door so I cleaned myself and went to open it before they broke the bell.
"Er… Phobos, aren't Irma and Will here?" Matt asked.
"Irma is upstairs locked on the bathroom with Isa and Hai Lin." I said. "If you want to wait them they seemed to have a long go before leaving."
"Get going." Hai Lin said appearing running to the fridge and noticing the weird meeting at the door. "We are going to take a little bit more and Isa can drive us to the beach; you have to get the concert area ready, haven't you?"
"Yeah, we were… we came here to pick you all up on the van." The blond guy with glasses told her.
"Isa will drive us there." She answered before going back upstairs.
"Girls, we are leaving!!" I shouted for the girls to hear me. "Men, I go with you." I said picking my jacket. "I can't stand this torture of girls any longer."
"Sure." Matt said. "But you will have to give a hand."
"Whatever just for not having to keep on being forbidden to get in rooms in my own home." I said going out with them and closing the door behind me.
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(Will's voice)
"How has it ended up?!" We said when the stylising man working at the beauty parlour Cornelia brought us all for them to 'bring up Caleb's best face up to surface' went out of the room where they seemed to have took Caleb for the 'miracle' to be performed.
"To tell you the truth if Miss Hale here hadn't been such a good customer we would have refused to take that titan's challenge." The man said then. "It's been a hard and painful task but… finally we managed to do something with that man." He added smiling and opening on arm to show the new Caleb.
"Wow!" All of us said at once surprised.
"Mr. Dupree, you've managed to do a miracle again." Cornelia said smiling happy and delighted. "Now we have a prince."
"I would not say such, maybe a commoner; but you are right, miss Hale." The man said. "I'm more than proud on our hard work on this creation."
"Man, I'm going to recommend this place to all the people I know." Taranee said.
"This is really terrifying…" Peter said with a funny face. "Is he really the same…?"
"What's up?" Caleb asked a bit frightened. "Am I so terrifying?"
"No way." Elyon said with a thrilled and astonished face of delight. "I know on someone that is going to be really pleased with the result."
"No need on saying every single girl is going to be pleased with this." Cornelia said. "Of course not me." She added for Peter.
"I would understand." He said. "He looks… well, not as before."
"Ok, ok." I then said. "Shall we move to the party then?"
"After ladies." Peter said opening the front door.
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(Irma's voice)
Hai Lin and I were all sitting next to the place where the bonfire was to be lighted later in the night when Will, Elyon and Cornelia arrived.
"Look who has came back." I said. "Wasn't the throne enough for you, your highness?"
"Drop it, Irma." Cornelia said. "Are you two alone here?"
"Yeah, where are Taranee, Isa and the guys?" Will asked us.
"Taranee was giving a hand with the barbecue guys, and Peter, Eric and Joel were looking at something at the scenery they were using for the concert later, or so they were doing last time we saw them." Hai Lin said.
"And our little friend was going to look for some more drinks on her car." I said. "Where have you left the rest?"
"Peter went to give a hand with the discs and the speakers." Cornelia told us.
"And Caleb went to look for somewhere peaceful. I think he was ashamed on telling us he wanted to pee." Elyon said nearly whispering at the end.
"I hope he has not came wearing his rags." I said. "Man, this is summer, not carnival."
"Oh, you should see how he looks now!" Elyon said cheerfully with thrilled eyes.
"Yeah, thanks to Cornelia's contact on styling and hairdressers on a beauty parlour he has been transformed from frog into prince." Will added joking.
"Then you must see the masterpiece we've managed to do on our little friend." I said.
"She looks so much like a model!!" Hai Lin said dreamily.
"Speaking on models…" I said spotting a guy with short hair but a long ponytail hanging from his back tied with what looked as a ribbon. "Have you seen that hunk speaking with Matt and Joel? Grrr…"
"Hunk." Cornelia said to begin laughing. "But you already know that 'hunk', Irma!!"
No, I certainly didn't knew that hunk young man standing showing us his back while he was with Matt and Joel chatting cheerfully. He certainly was hunk and the middle length trousers baggy and tied under his knees suiting a tank top semi-transparent and stuck to his body marking all his muscles.
"And look who is arriving." Hai Lin said pointing to a car that just appeared on the very side of the sand ending with the parking area that slide gracefully until it stopped.
"She has still not learned to drive according to driving laws, has she?" Will asked then.
"Well, on the rest of dimensions it's not needed and… Oh my god!" Elyon said astonished. "I CAN'T BELIEVE IT!! Is it really HER??!!"
"Calm up." I said. "It's just another frog turned into princess."
"It's just… doesn't she look cute on that?" Hai Lin said.
"I thought she didn't felt like wearing it." Will said.
"What kind of threatening have you used for her finally agreeing to it?" Cornelia asked while we, as half of the male crowd there, saw a red haired model wearing a denim mini-skirt with a wide white leather and silken rope belt at her hips' height and a white sleeveless shirt open over the top part of a swimming costume coming all the way along carrying a box full of glass bottles with some extra plastic bags hanging from her arms while she carried the box well held in front of her.
"Well, whatever she is, she seems to have no problem on getting freed on her tasks." Will said smiling when some guys ran to give her a hand so soon she was just carrying another box she took from the car coming towards where the 'hand-made-bar' was being formed near us.
"Yeah, I still remember when Cornelia did so." Elyon said smiling.
"You know what?" Cornelia then said. "I've sworn I will not get jealous again on her."
Then Peter went to give her a hand and Cornelia changed her face.
"What were you saying about being jealous on Isa?" I asked with irony.
"It's not jealousy; it's just reminding her Peter is my boyfriend." Cornelia said standing up to go there.
Then Isa seemed to hand her the task on helping with the drinks and she noticed us who were waving and came to sit with us.
"Elyon!!" She said cheerfully. "Wow! I didn't knew you were also coming!!"
"I'm so happy to see you here too…" Elyon said. "The truth is I'm here on a 3 days holydays. And… I've came not alone."
"Where is Kyle?" She said looking around looking for him. "I'm willing to welcome him to Earth."
"He has not came here." Elyon told her. "But I came with someone else. Anyway… I can't see him right now."
"So early and already someone lost?" Isa said. "I was not told there would be so many people here. Thought it was just us and maybe some of Peter's friends."
"Well, not such." Will said. "It was that on a beginning but it seems the news spread and now… well, you can see the whole thing. Matt!!" She said standing up. "Sorry."
"Man, it's amazing." I said while Hai Lin also ran to join Eric. "They just see a guy and they loose their heads."
"Don't mind them." Elyon said. "After all it's a party; people came here to get fun."
"Sure, er… do you excuse me too?" I said. "I've seen someone over there."
"Sure, Joel was with Matt getting the scenery thing ready for their performance. How has been the travel?" Isa then asked Elyon.
(Isa's voice)
"Nice; you know, portals make it faster and easier." She told me. "Yet I didn't know we were to get to a party."
"Nor did me." I recognised. "I just knew while the rest where making me change robes at a big department stores for hundredth time."
"That's funny." Elyon told me then. "Going shopping with friends. I can't do it on Meridian."
"I would change place with you on those times." I said. "Don't tell them, but I find a bit silly to try clothes on when you don't intend to buy them."
That seemed to make her laugh, and all of sudden, Phobos was with us.
"Hey, you have to try this." He told me putting a can of beer in front of my face. "It's just great!!"
"It's beer, Phobos." I told him taking the can to take a gulp of the ambary liquid. "And by the way, I love it. Thanks. Elyon, want a bit?"
"Under-aged should not take it." Phobos said looking at her. "Hello, sister."
"Hello, Phobos." Elyon added a bit coldly as him.
"I see you two have still not managed to get a brother-sister relationship." I said.
"By the way, Isa." Phobos told me getting to my ear to whisper. "Maybe you should rethink about of the skirt length… I don't like how other guys are looking at you."
"For once in my life, I don't mind them at all." I recognised. "The girls said it matched me well."
"Yeah, but… I don't like them looking that much at you." He said.
"Er… Isa, are you two…?" Elyon asked me confused.
"Going out?" I asked moving my head over my shoulder a bit. "No, well, not what you can think of going out. It's nothing like Kyrlee and you."
"Ufff… you were beginning to make me frightened." She said.
"But that doesn't mean he is not someone important for me, somehow." I added allowing him to surround my shoulders with his arm.
That seemed to make her shock a bit. I could feel her shock and a bit of panic growing inside her. She was worried about me.
"But I thought Caleb and you…" She began muttering.
"She could never be from a servant as… ouch!" Phobos said when I hit the back of his neck.
"I told you million times not to call him such." I told him before looking back at Elyon. "Right, Caleb is also really important for me. As much as Phobos is, at least."
"So you are…" She said confused.
"It's not cheating on one or another." I said. "This thing in my case, is a bit more complicated than on other girls' one."
"Isa, come to have some more of this." Phobos said standing up and offering me his hand to go and get more beer.
"No thanks, I'm not thirsty." I said. "I already drank a bit of fresh milkshake when I went to buy some drinks at the supermarket. By the way, try not to drink too much alcohol or you will not remember anything by tomorrow." I advised him before he could leave for the bar again.
That was true, when I was to pay for all, the boy at the counter told me it was for free; I was beginning to get used to that kind of treatment from men when I was wearing as an ordinary girl, with skirt or sexy robes.
"The truth is you don't seem yourself wearing that." Elyon told me when I told her about that incident after Phobos left for more beer. "It doesn't surprise me that you got it for free; man, it was a big order."
"Yeah, well, I expect everyone likes what I brought." I said smiling.
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(Will's voice)
It was funny, but while Isa and the guys were having their second hamburger and the sun was to end hiding, Matt and Cobalt Blue took the lead on the scenery and they began performing.
"This one is addressed to two special people for two of us." Matt said. "Will and Irma, this song goes for you two."
"Yaw!" I said thrilled. "Matt dedicated me a song!!"
"I can't believe Joel has done it too." Irma said hiding her happiness as bother.
"C'mon." Hai Lin said. "Go there and dance!"
"Oh, no." Irma said. "No way, no way, no way."
"Oh, please." Isa told us. "You are not going to be bitten. C'mon, everyone is dancing!"
"But for you." I told her. "You've turned down everyone else's offerings."
"I don't dance with unknown guys." She said.
"I think she is waiting for somebody special to do it." Taranee told us.
"Tara, I can hear you." Isa said a bit bothered. "And it's not such! I don't feel like dancing. I prefer to sit here, keep on eating my burger and…"
"I bet she is expecting my brother to invite her." Elyon said smiling ironically in fun. "Recognise it."
"Your brother?" Isa said nearly laughing. "He hates dancing! I think he doesn't even know how to do it."
"Well, he could dance a slow one." Elyon said. "It seems royalty and nobility knows how to dance slow ones."
"Perfect, I hate dancing those." She said. "I don't like to dance with guys; I like dancing alone."
"Oh, c'mon…" I said. "Cornelia and Peter are dancing together, the same as Hai Lin and Eric…"
"The same that will do Taranee and Nigel and the same that you two should be doing." Isa told us. "This song is yours, go for it." She said pushing us to the dance floor.
"Well, now we are here…" I said beginning to dance with Irma by my side.
(Isa's voice)
"Why don't you go there and dance?" Elyon asked me.
"I don't feel like dancing." I recognised. "In fact I don't like how guys are looking at me, as if I was just a piece of meat instead of a woman."
"Well, you are beautiful." She said. "I would kill to be a bit like you instead of… this."
"Thanks for trying." I said half smiling. "But I don't like this. Sorry." I said standing up. "I think I need to get to the toilet."
"Oh, sure." She said.
I first headed towards the toilet, but then after using it, I went out and just stood there, I went to a rock a bit apart from the party and sat down there, just looking to the sky looking at the constellations and stars with the sound of the sea caressing my ears.
I sighed. I still didn't know what I was. Was I the light? Was I the darkness? What was I truly?
(Elyon's voice)
I was sitting at the same log watching the feast go on when Caleb finally arrived.
"I thought I got lost." He said apologizing. "I began walking next to the seaside and I lost track of time."
"Great, because your girl left some minutes ago for the toilet and has still not came back." I said smiling while I chatted with some friends.
"Is she here?" He asked me.
"Wow…" My friend Marietta said astonished about Caleb. "Is he really that guy?"
"He is not my boyfriend." I said. "He is the son of one of Isa's parents' family friend. Caleb Banks, he is my friend."
"Is Isa around too?" He asked again.
"I've told you she left for the toilet a while ago and has still not came back." I told him. "Why don't you go and look for her?"
"If she is busy she would not like him seeing her…" Another friend whispered me.
"Caleb, why don't you sit with us?" Another girl said smiling to prevent him going to discover what in their opinion would be our friend snuggling with another guy or guys.
"I suppose she will end up coming back." He said sitting down and sighing.
"Wow, you have certainly changed a bit." Marietta said smiling and touching his long ponytail.
"Well, I'm elder now." He just answered.
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(Matt's voice)
We had just stopped having a drink when I saw Peter there.
"Peter, Cornelia, Will." I said. "Have you seen Isa? I thought she would be dancing mad with everyone."
"Er… I think she didn't felt like dancing tonight." Will said.
"Yeah, maybe she is waiting for the slow ones." Irma told me joking as always.
"Well, I expected she could hear something you girls inspired me to compose, but maybe she will miss it."
"Ah, no!" Hai Lin said. "No way she is going to miss it! We will look for her."
"We?" Eric said.
"Sure, great idea." Will said smiling. "We girls have the ability of finding each others."
Then I realised on the fact she meant about their other nature.
"Sure; Eric, Peter, Joel, Nigel and I will make sure everything in the show goes on." I said then. "Three songs?"
"For sure." Will said winking at me. "Even two would do."
(Will's voice)
"Ok, girls." I said as soon as we were not at sight. "Let's see if we can find that lash."
"Sure, a simple ball would do for attracting that kitten." Irma said then.
It was just a few seconds until Cornelia managed to spot her thanks to the sand.
"Over there." She said pointing to a big rock where the waves crashed and died.
"Well done." I told her when we saw at the top of that rock there was a figure cut against the dark sky.
Little by little, we managed to get up there, and when we did, we found her with her eyes closed looking up towards the sky as if she was a sculpture.
"Again acting as a piece of rock?" Irma asked her.
"Sorry, I was just on my own thoughts." She said then. "Has the party already ended?"
"No, but we missed you there." Hai Lin told her.
"Sorry, too crowded places are not matching me." She said as if it was a reason.
"Well, it seems crowd likes you." Taranee said. "I mean… you look cool so most people have realised you are missing."
"Sorry." She said. "I don't like showing off just because of my look."
"Mate, allow me to tell you a little secret." Cornelia said. "For those like me who are heavenly beautiful, we have the duty of making the rest happy by admiring us."
That made us all wear a weird face, even Isa wore with a total confused face.
"Well, I'm not going to show off like that." She said then going out of that state.
"At least come down to hear something Matt made using us as muses." I asked her.
"Hum… ok." She said.
"And let's move our bodies a bit." Taranee said.
"I'd rather not." Isa said then. "It'd be… weird."
"Why?" Taranee said then. "I mean… you can dance, pretty well in fact."
"Yeah… well, let's say I'd better not dance." She just said.
"Ok, then at least come down with us to the party." I said holding her hand to pull from her.
It was funny, but she was a bit weird not wanting to dance when some years ago, Phobos and Caleb said she used to dance while she cleaned and cooked, in the kitchen.
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(Isa's voice)
I was standing with the rest of guardians, Elyon and other some other school friends while Nigel held Taranee by the back and Peter did the same on Cornelia and Eric with Hai Lin while Elyon, Will and Irma looked to the scenery where Cobalt Blue were playing a song.
Then they ended and I smiled while they all went as mad cheering for the band.
"Thanks for such a hot thanking." Matt said smiling. "And now…" He added looking at us all. "I want to dedicate this new song to a special gang of friends."
"Is he talking about us?" I asked them.
"Who else?" Irma said. "Obviously not Lillian."
"Our last song: It's like magic!" Matt said looking straight at us.
Then the girls began cheering for Matt and the band while he sang the beautiful song. Suddenly they were moved into the dance floor in couples and they then began dancing for the vivid song.
I smiled sadly while I saw them there. I would have loved to dance too, but I knew pretty well about the effects it would have on the place and people around me, especially male people around me.
"C'mon Isa!" Phobos said holding me by the arm and pulling from me to the dance area. "Let's dance!"
"Phobos, I… I don't think it's a good idea." I said shaking my head.
"Why?" He asked.
"Yeah, why don't you want to dance when you do it well?" Will asked.
Then I held her by the head and I told her the reason, it made her frown slightly.
"I think we will be able to stand that risk." She said suddenly smiling to push me into Phobos' arms. "Have some fun."
Phobos then smiled evilly in fun, while I separated from his arms closing my eyes. If our boss thought it was right for me not to keep all in me controlled for a while, then maybe I could try.
"It's been some time since I last danced." I recognised with my eyes closed while I began feeling how the music began filling me and ran through my veins. "So maybe the effects are weaker."
(Phobos' voice)
All of sudden, Isa, who until that point had refused to dance and told me it was better she didn't did it, seemed to transform into something else. Not physically, I mean her attitude changed completely.
I saw how she began moving as if she was part of the song too, waving and moving from here to there as if she was an air spirit that could move with the wind waves going out the singer's voice.
Her waving body was as a hexing charm, I needed to get nearer her and soon I found out it was not just me who had that feeling.
(Taranee's voice)
"What's going on here?" Cornelia asked when Peter seemed to stop dancing with her to look Isa dance.
"I don't know, but she is really moving as if she was a professional." Irma said. "Is it really the same girl that didn't want to dance before?"
"It's more than moving." I said staring at her body and feet moving. "It's as if… as if she could move with the music waves. She dances just so… perfectly synchronised with the music…"
"Oh, oh." Will said when she saw how, even Matt was staring at the red haired moving herself so sexily at the dance floor that it seemed everyone stopped to see her dance for a while. "She was right on not wanting to dance… she is really doing it."
"Dancing?" Hai Lin asked.
"No, catching everyone's eyes with the hex on her movements." She told us.
"Matt, cut it!" I asked him.
Anyway, he seemed not to want to do it; they kept on singing.
"Tara, it's going to last just for the song." Will told me holding my shoulder.
(Isa's voice)
I could not control myself any longer now, I couldn't know what I was doing, I was just letting music run through all me, moving at the veins and filling me with a weird kind of energy. The powers of the guardian of the sound, mixed with a bit of my own powers.
I knew it would cause that effect, but I didn't want to keep on making it.
(Caleb's voice)
I was sitting on a shadowy corner seeing how everyone danced and got fun while I just drank a beer and saw them when suddenly something happened. Most of people stopped dancing to see something, I then stood up to try and have a better sight.
And then I saw her.
A long wavy curtain of red hair falling at the bare back of a cute girl not much elder than me. She was dancing as if she was one of the air pixies that you couldn't see but were dancing on it all the time.
First thing I caught from her while I got nearer to see what happened was her scent; a mix of that scent that I used to love and also something fresh, that mix made me remember on Meridian blossoms over her skin mixing with her own clean skin scent.
That moment I knew who the girl was.
And Phobos was there too, of course; how could he let that chance pass away?
"What's going on?" I asked to Elyon that seemed to have managed to break her way to the front row near the other guardians.
"Nothing out of normal." Cornelia said. "She is showing off again."
"Caleb, can't you feel the effect?" Will asked me confused.
"What effect?" I asked. "Ah, you mean her new scent."
"Scent?" Hai Lin asked.
"Yes, it seemed as if now she smelled as herself with a bit of Meridian blossoms scent."
"Why don't you just go and try dancing with her a bit?" Elyon said. "Before Phobos and the rest get nearer of her and take advantage over you."
"I'll try, but…" I said.
"Go!!" Elyon and some other girls said pushing me laughing.
I then ended up in the middle with them, just back her. I didn't know how it was danced, but I began copying some of the other guys' movements.
(Will's voice)
"Wow!" We all said at the same time when we saw how just Isa, Phobos and Caleb were left in the middle of everyone when now even the girls stopped dancing to see the three of them dance like that.
"Anyone knew Caleb could dance like that?" Irma asked ironically.
"It's just as… the same soul in three different bodies." Taranee said.
It was true, Isa was dancing the same hexing than before, with that point of supernatural creature; on the other hand, Phobos and Caleb were dancing in front and back her making it look as if she was dancing with both at the same time, going from one to the other, as if they were fighting for her attention and she danced with both at the same time.
"It's just… so perfect…" I said shocked.
Then Matt ended his song and everyone clapped, yet I was not too sure if it was addressed to the band or the dancers.
"Thanks, now we pass the turn to the tinned music." Matt said. "It's been a pleasure to play for all of you. Thanks!!"
This time the claps where for them, while Peter turned on again the hi-ffi.
It was a little time until Matt and the rest of the band guys came back.
"May I ask you to concede me this dance?" Matt asked me while Joel asked Irma and Taranee and Nigel and Hai Lin with Eric were already dancing at the dancing area.
"Sure." I answered smiling.
(Isa's voice)
Finally, I was able to stop dancing when the music stopped and then I realised on the fact that again I seemed to have had an effect on people, an effect I hated on normal conditions.
I then clapped for Matt and the band and tried to leave while the CD-music was turned on. Anyway, I was not left alone for long. Suddenly, I found a hand in front of my face.
"May I have the privilege of dancing this song with you?" I was asked.
Then I raised my sight from the hand to see the owner of it. Bluish green eyes, a bit golden suntanned skin with now some hardly visible scars, long dark brown haired tied on a low ponytail, beardless… and wearing really hunk on some summer clothes: Caleb; more or less the same Caleb I used to know.
I could say nothing but I held his hand softly as a lady would do and followed him into the dance-area smoothly. I allowed him to guide me still looking into his eyes.
(Caleb's voice)
"You… also came back." Isa said while we were dancing a slow tune people danced stuck together but we danced with a little space between us. "Thought… you were somewhere at Meridian or Kandrakar."
"Well, I've been living at Meridian for a while now, after you left this place there was not much for me to do cause my basical task here was to take care of you here so I went back home. Anyway, now you've came back…"
"Oh, sure." She said softly, then she seemed to catch something and she smiled to put her head at my chest softly sticking to me a bit to dance nearly as one of the rest couples. "I like how warm your feelings are, thanks…"
"It's not fair." I said. "I nearly forgot you could catch other ones' feelings."
She didn't say a word but smiled in fun widely.
"Tell me, have you… missed us a bit?" I asked her a bit shyly.
"Yes, just a bit." She answered to then nearly whisper looking at me. "What I must miss was certain person…"
That made me go red on my cheeks while she looked back down laying her face again against my shoulder.
So she also missed me…
"I've… also missed you." I recognised. "Just a bit." I lied.
(Elyon's voice)
"Man!! Isn't that cute?!" I said thrilled when I saw the couple Caleb and Isa made. "They are such a lovely couple… Ah, I feel so happy for both…"
"Elyon, that guy seems not to think the same." A friend said pointing to my brother.
True, I nearly forgot he also felt something towards her.
"She is better with Caleb." I said. "They make a lovely couple; and if that chap dares to get mixed…"
Then I remembered on what Kyrlee told me some time ago, just some time after what happened on Meridian the time she turned into a human statue.
"This lash has two sides fighting inside her, and she does her best to keep her good face into surface and her evil one under control inside herself." Kyrlee told me then. "It's funny, but I think that her charming prince is not a person, but two. A good and loyal man and also a bit evil one; one for each size of her."
I couldn't believe such thing; I didn't want to believe it. She with the evil brother I had? No way, they didn't match at all.
"Well, he is also handsome." Marietta said. "He was at our class, Phobos I thin was his name. He really looks as if he was a model."
"The three of them look as models…" Another said.
"Wow… that Isa really grew up when she was out in Europe…" Sarah added. "Next to her I feel just like a beginner."
I then smiled, I should be proud of the three of them. Caleb was my best male friend and Isa was a great friend and ally to Meridian and to me, and Phobos… well, he was my brother after all… I should be also proud on him.
No, he was just an evil man, even if he was my brother, I could not feel proud on him.
"Don't let Phobos mistake you." I told him. "He is evil to the very end of his soul."
"Well, I must confess he is a bit… bad guy." Marietta said. "But he certainly will do something out of his life."
"Yeah, he got the top marks on our classroom after Taranee Cook…" Evelyn told me.
That made me confused while the song ended. Phobos? My evil brother? Getting top marks after my friend Taranee?
(Isa's voice)
"Hey, you should begin thinking on the university." Will told me when I was resting with her a bit. "I'm going to go Sheffield University, I'll study to become a good teacher."
"I didn't knew Sheffield had a university." I said. "Sure, it's really a bit little, but it's good anyway. Promise you will come."
"I'll think about it." I said.
"Oh, c'mon… it will be nice if you came there." She said begging.
"I'll think about it." I repated.
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(Isa's voice)
It was funny, but along all the night, I got invitations to join each and every guardian on their new destines they would aply for. While I was driving Will, Irma and Hai Lin packed with Phobos and Caleb at my car, while Cornelia, Taranee and Elyon went with Peter, I thought about the night. It was wonderufl cause I met Caleb again after so long, and my friends made me think no time separated had passed.
Anyway, on that enthusiams for making me feel loved, I seemed to have ended going to four different towns with their university. And it was all my fault, I didn't found the courage to tell them 'NO'.
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