"Princesss.." Will could hardly see now, through the rain, pummeling down with a rage. Her clothes clung to and hung loosely down on her thin body as she tried to hear over the crashing bullets of water that were coming down faster than the drains could swallow them. She vaugly felt the flooding water seeping up her jeans and into her trainers as Caleb leapt past her, and suddenly everything was clearer..

"Oh no you don't! Boreíte tis éfyge sta bountroúmia na sapísoun!" Will didn't know what it meant, but the outcome was clear; Caleb was jumping straight for Cedric! "Show your true nature Cedric!"

Will edged closer, and saw a gleam in Cedric's eyes as Caleb, who'd taken the older man to the ground, tightened his grip on Cedric's shirt collar, "And who is 'Her', your little girlfriend? Phobos wants her Caleb. He'll have her before we are done here I swear it."

And then Caleb was slammed into a wall; thrown off of Cedric by a strong kick from both legs. "Den tha tin angíxei. Aftí aníkei se kamía apó emás."

Caleb was swinging punches left and right, but for every hit he made, Cedric seemed to follow with his own. Until Cedric overpowered him. Will knew she had to do something, "Guardians unite!"

...

Elyon couldn't hear, but saw Will's lips moving before everything was blinded by an incredible light. And then it was gone. And the girls..

"Taranee!" Elyon's eyes bulged as Will's voice came from an older looking body, which suddenly took flight. All of the girls had changed, and wings seemed to take her friends into the air as if she was suddenly in some sci-fi nightmare. Taranee; or the being who reacted flew forward in a mash of greens and purples, throwing her hands forward dramatically.

"FIRE!" Obeying the command, fire came out of nothing to fall next to the fighting Caleb and Cedric, seeming to blow up and force the two apart, yelling out.

"EARTH!" Elyon watched in horrored shock as her best friend stepped forward; her shiny blonde hair blowing forcefully in the strong breeze. It was funny how the weather seemed conducted by her emotions at times, but what certainly was not funny were the vines pushing past the tar of the roads and wrapping around Cedric's legs and wrists to tie him to the wall.

Elyon blinked as Will took long strides toward Cedric; pulling out her necklace. Elyon screamed, "STOP! WHAT ARE YOU DOING!"

Then she swore she saw Cedric change for a second, but as he pulled away; slamming Will with ont of his arms into the wall, Elyon knew she'd been mistaken. It was shock, after all. Caleb ran after Cedric, jumping him and pressing his face against the cold ground. Elyon knew the water was rising as the drains backed up. It was at least four inches deep. Caleb was drowning him. "STOP! HE'S DEFENSELESS!"

"Elyon! ..Please! ..Stop them!" Elyon felt her sore and tired body beg for her to collapse as Cedric spoke in sparsed pattern; trying to inhale breaths when he could. Suddenly something coursed through her, like the anger and the pain and the hurt was all colliding at once.

"STOP!" Elyon pulled her hand back; as if burned, as she realised that light had comefrom it. A strong beam of white. Like magic.. But that couldn't be.. She'd only meant to reach out.. To throw out a hand of pleading.. But as she looked around the metals of cars and lampposts seemed to melt; windows and the tar of the road cracked and broke. What had she done? But what scared her the most were her friends. They'd gone flying; most of them landing with an easy thud, but Caleb smashed into a car and Elyon's whole body jerked as it made her jump; the car alarm sirening. People would be coming soon, but it didn't matter: they wouldn't know. Will had skid across the pavement and they'd all changed back when the crystal necklace rolled away from her slightly. "Cedric? What did I do?"

Cedric took her hand and promised her to explain. Elyon took sure comfort in his words, knowing he was right when he'd said they had to run now. Irma's father was a police officer. "Come on Elyon.." Everything blurred as she panted through the streets to the bookstore. They couldn't stop: she couldn't stop. And then they were in the bookshop and she realized how cold she felt with the rain having had drenched her, and the flood seeped into her favourite boots. A childish concern wailed that they'd be ruined. But Cedric was kneeling before her now. "Elyon, princess, you may stay here. Or are you ready to go to your kingdom? To cross to Meridian, it must be of your own free will!"

For a split second Elyon wondered why she'd ever be crossing against her free will, but then an image of Will crossed her mind. Of her lost friends. Of her parents. Anger bubbled inside her for everything that was ruined. "I'm ready."

...

Will had been the first to get up, running as fast as her tired legs could carry her as Caleb felt every muscle in his body explode with pain. He was sure he'd broken something, but Caleb pushed on with the others anyway, stopping only, behind Will's small frame in the bookstore. Cedric wasn't here, and neither was Elyon. "Oh, no."

Boreíte tis éfyge sta bountroúmia na sapísoun - You left her in a dungeon to rot. (her being Will, *sigh*)

Den tha tin angíxei. Aftí aníkei se kamía apó emás. - He won't touch her. She belongs to none of us. ('us' being evil people - bad people, people who've done evil things/sinned)