Chapter Twenty-Six: Saving Cassidy
Both Angelo and Will stayed hidden while the three Guardians and Joe Vanders were there, hopping not to get spotted.
"They were here!", Halinor said as she and the other two Guardians hovered in the air. "I can feel it!"
"I hear Nerissa!", Yan Lin said as she listen to the wind. "She flew off in that direction!"
"What about Cassidy?", Kadma asked.
"She's......... down there.", Yan Lin said sadly. "The Oracle was right. Nerissa......... she........."
"Don't say it", the young Dragon Knight said.
"But..... Joe", Kadma said as she landed next to him.
"Just go after her.", Joe said sadly. "I'll go help Cassidy."
Joe then made his way down the cliff as Halinor and Yan Lin flew after Nerissa. They noticed Kadma looking down the cliff, watching Joe make his way down it. Yan Lin flew to her friend.
"Come on Kadma.", Yan Lin said as she gently pulled Kadma along. "We have to get Nerissa."
"R-right.", Kadma aid as she took to the air.
"You okay?", Halinor asked her friend.
"Yeah.", Kadma said as they lew off. "Let's hurry! Nerissa has a huge lead on us! We can't let her get away!"
"So, that was Grandpa Joe.", Angelo said.
"What do we do now?", Will asked.
"Beats me.", Angelo said. "Wait! I remember something!"
"What?!", Will asked.
"It was when me and Cassidy freed Phobos and Nerissa from the Shadow Specters.", Angelo said.
(Flasback)
The Infinite City Prison..........
"Now for the other one. Queen Elyon if you please."
"Right.", Elyon said preparing to release Nerissa from her cell.
"Are you two going to be able to do this?", Angelo asked his grandfather, and Cassidy. "I know she's your friend."
"Nerissa's been one of my best friends for years.", Joe said. "I'll do what I hve to do to save her."
"Same goes for me.", Cassidy said. "So let's do it!"
"Ready when you are.", Angelo said.
"Here we go.", Elyon said as she lowered the bars from Nerissa's cell.
"Freedom!", Nerrisa yelled flying out of her cell. "Free to do what I planned from the......... YOU!"
Nerissa stopped in her tracks when she saw Angelo.
"You're here?! In this time?!", Nerissa yelled. "You and your friend stopped me from finishing Cassidy off the last time! So, I'll finish you all off here and now!"
"What's she talking about?!", Cassidy asked Angelo as she looked at him in confusion.
"Now idea.", Angelo replied just as confused.
"Focus your power now!", Joe ordered.
(End Flashback)
"I think she was talking about us!", Angelo figured.
"Okay.", Will said. "So how do we save Cassidy, and make sure she makes it to our time?"
Both pondered on what to do. Then, like a bolt of lightning, it hit them.
"The Suspension Crystal!", they both said snapping their fingers at each other.
"We can put Cassidy in it!", Will said. "She'll sleep for forty years, and be woken up by Nerissa."
"Which means, you're going to have to put her in the Suspension Crystal.", Angelo said. "Seeing as you both have the same powers."
"But what about Grandpa Joe?", Will said.
"I'll handle him.", Angelo said. "We just have to hurry and get down there."
"Leave that to me.", Will said as she put her hand on Angelo's shoulder.
In an instant, Will teletransported then to the bottom of the cliff, where Joe was knelt down next to Cassidy's body.
"Why did you do it Nerissa?", Joe asked himself. "Why did you go after Cassidy like that?"
Not being noticing by Joe, Angelo knocked his younger grandfather out with a pressure move on hie neck.
"Sorry Grandpa.", Angelo said as he moved him aside. "Do it Will."
Will then placed the Suspension Crystal on Cassidy's chest. She then sent a bit of her energy into the Suspension Crystal, making it grow around Cassidy. Within seconds, Cassidy was encased in the Suspension Crystal.
"What now?", Will asked.
"We go after Nerissa.", Angelo said. "Think you can track her?"
"Just watch me!", Will said as she teletransported then away from the area.
As she was flying, as fast as she could, the possessed Nerissa, was thinking of how she could get her hands on the Heart.
"I could trick them into thinking that I'm under some spell.", she thought to herself. "As long as they don't know that I've been in this body for months now, I'll be safe! But for now, I just need to find a place to hide!"
"You're not going anywhere!"
Nerissa looked up to see two figures come down upon her. They then grabbed her and she fell to he ground with them.
"Who dares attack me?!", she hissed.
"We do!", a female voice said.
Nerissa looked up to see two people standing above her. One was an African-American boy in red Dragon Knight Armour, while the other was a red-headed girl, that was dressed as a Guardian.
"Another Guardian?!", Nerissa questioned in shock. "And a Dragon Knight?!"
"That's right, Shadow Specter!", Angelo said.
"How did you know.........?!"
"We have our ways!", Will said. "And if you think you're getting away!"
Will then zapped Nerissa with a bit of electricity, causing her to go unconscious slowly.
"Keep dreaming!", Will said as Nerissa'a eyes slowly closed.
"I'll get my revenge on you two.", she said as her eyes slowly closed.
"Well, that's that!", Amgelo said.
"So what happens next?", Will asked.
Suddenly, the same green stone the Oracle had appeared before them.
"It's that stone again!", Angelo said.
"It is time to go home.", a voice from the stone said.
"Was that............. the Oracle?", Will questioned.
Then, in a flash of light, they were gone!
"There she is!", Kadma said to Yan Lin and Halinor as they came upon Nerissa. "She out cold!"
"I wonder what happen.", Halinor pondered.
"The important thing is that we've caught her.", Yan Lin said.
"Astral Drop!", Kadma said to the unconscious Nerissa, getting stares from Halinor and Yan Lin. "Just making sure."
Suddenly, a fold appeared in which the Oracle's voice came through.
"Please bring Nerissa through, Guardians.", the Oracle told them.
"Hearing those words, Kadma used her telekinesis to lift Nerissa up and float her through the fold to Kandrakar.
Moments later...............
"Wake up Joe!", Kadma said shaking Joe awake.
"Kadma?", Joe said waking up. "What happened?"
"You tell us.", Yan Lin said.
"We came here to find you knocked out.", Halinor said. "And that."
Halinor then pointed to the Suspension Crystal Cassidy was in. Joe was shocked to see her in something like that.
"What is it?", Joe asked.
"You don't know?", Kadma asked. "We thought you did it!"
"No.", Joe said. "One minute, I'm knelt down next to Cassidy. The next, I feel something use a pressure move, knocking me out. Then you woke me up Kadma."
"Then who did this?", Halinor questioned.
"I don't know.", Yan Lin said. "I say we take Cassidy to Kandrakar and see if the Oracle can help her."
In Kandarkar..............
"I'm sorry my friends.", the Oracle said to the girls sadly. "I'm afraid that there's nothing you can do for Cassidy."
That day, in the Fortress of Infinite, the cries of four friends were heard. For that day they lost two friends. One to the darkness, and the other to death.
Or so they thought.
(Present Day)
After Will and Angelo vanished......
"Where's Will?!", Matt asked.
"And Angelo?!", Nerissa asked.
"They are where they are needed.", Tibor said.
"They'll be back soon.", Alfor said. "Just give it time."
All the others could do was wait, hope, and pray for Angelo and Will's safe return. A few seconds later, another flash of light appeared. Once it faded away, Will and Angelo were standing where they were before they vanished.
"Trippy.", Angelo said.
"Totally.", Will agreed.
"Will!", Matt exclaimed as he hugged his girlfriend. "You're back!"
"Where were you?", Nerissa asked as she hugged Angelo.
"In the past.", Will said. "To when Cassidy was....... well.... you know."
"Really?", Cassidy asked. "So it was you two who put me in that Suspension Crystal!"
"And you knew this didn't you?", Angelo asked the Oracle.
"I see things that may or will happen.", the Oracle said. "When I saw you and Will put Cassidy in that Suspension Crystal, I was a bit confused, until a few years ago, when the Heart chose Will to be The Keeper. I knew what was going to happened when Shadon came to Earth."
"That I was going to be one of the chosen Dragon Knights, and with the others beat Shadon.", Angelo said.
"And afterwards, come with me back in time to put Cassidy in a Suspension Crystal, so she would be in our time to be a Dragon Knight.", Will said.
"Then along with Angelo and Joe, free me and Phobos from the Shadow Specters that possessed us.", Nerissa figured.
"So, everthing that happened, was meant to happen?", Phobos asked.
"Yes.", Alfor said. "Each trial you all went through, was to make you all stronger."
"We couldn't change or stop any of it.", Tibor said. "If we did, there would of been only three, Dragon Knights, instead of five."
"Any questions?", Joe asked with a sly smile.
"No.", Angelo said. "I'm good. I just want to head home and get a, very much deserved, well rest."
"Amen to that.", Cassidy said. "One fold home please."
"Allow me, my friends.", the Oracle said as he opened a fold. "This will take you to the Vander's home."
"That you, sir!", Angelo said as the others went through the fold. "Phobos. Elyon. You guys coming?"
"Sorry, but Meridian needs us.", Phobos said. "There's a lot of work to be done."
"Besides,", Elyon said holding her brother's hand. "we have a lot of catching up to do."
"Well, don't be a stranger.", Cornelia said hugging one of her best friends.
"I won't.", Elyon said. "It would be nice to see you all without there always being trouble all the time."
"Maybe I should go with Elyon and Phobos.", Marcus said walking toward Elyon.
"Boy! Bring your behind!", Malcom said as he dragged his brother through the fold. "You can visit her anytime!"
"Aw, come on man!", Marcus pleaded.
"Those are my cousins.", Angelo said grinning. "See you guys later."
"See ya!", Elyon said as she and Phobos went through their own fold to Metamoor.
"Until the next time, my friend.", Phobos said as their fold closed.
"And I hope the next time I see you all, we won't have to be fighting the forces of evil.", Angelo said to the Oracle and the Council of Kandrakar.
"Let us hope, so.", Oracle said with a kind smile.
"Until then,", Angelo said as he went through the fold. "see ya!"
"Until then, my friends.", the Oracle said as the fold closed.
"It's not over, is it?", Halinor asked.
"I'm afraid not.", the Oracle said. "They will face hard times in the future."
"Will it be Shadon?", Alfor asked.
"Him, as well as others who work for the Great Black Dragon.", the Oracle said.
"Will they pull through victorious?", Tibor asked.
"As long as they stand together, they shall prevail.", the Oracle said with a smile. "We can only hope and pray that things turn out well for them all."
A/N: Well, everything is the way it should be. And our heroes are headed home for a much needed rest. The final chapters coming up folks! Hope you enjoy it!