Chapter 8:
"So, what are we doing for our training lesson today?", Sam asked as the ten of them were gathered in the woods near the Roberts' mansion.
"Today we're going to play Take Away.", Angelo said as he held one of the ten GPS units in his hand in his hand.
"Rematch time!", Irma said rubbing her hands together.
"You all know the rules.", Angelo said. "You, and your partner, have to find the football, that has a GPS beacon in it, at the end of the woods, where Mr. Roberts, hid it, with the GPS units you all have. Once you or your teammate get it, you book it back to the mansion! Which ever team wins, gets to decide what we do today."
"Oh yeah!", Sam yelled. "Me and Hay Lin got this!"
"Dream on, Sammy-boy!", Marcus said. "This game is ours!"
"So don't get your hopes up!", Cornelia said.
"It's so sad how they think they're going to win.", Leonas grinned.
"So very sad.", Irma joked.
"Enough joking around guys.", Malcom said. "We have a training session to win. Don't we Taranee?"
"You're just as bad as they are!", Taranee laughed.
"Will, if you'd please.", Angelo said to Will.
"With pleasure.", Will said as she held up the Heart. "Guardians unite!"
In a flash of light, the girls were transformed into the Guardians. Angelo then clapped his hands together and in a flash of light, transformed his clothes into his Solar Wing costume. He had on black pants, with a white belt, white boots. A white long sleeve shirt with a black sleeve-less top with a symbol of white wings on the sun over the shirt. On his wrist he had gold wristbands. On his face was a black mask that covered most of the top of his face. His energy wings then came from out of his back.
"Anytime now fellas.", Angelo said to his cousins.
Sam them punched his right fist into his left hand, and in a flash of light, he was in his Solar Bullet costume. He had on black pants with yellow boots, and a yellow belt. He wore a yellow tank-top with the letters SB on it, and yellow wristbands. On his face was a black visor that covered his eyes.
"Well, I'm good to go.", Sam/Solar Bullet said.
"The three of us been ready.", Malcom said standing with Marcus and Leonas.
Malcom was dressed in black pants with white boots, and a gray long-sleeve shirt, with black gloves. And like Angelo, he wore a black mask that covered most of the top of his face. Leonas was dressed in black pants with black boots, and a black tank-top. On his wrist were metal gauntlets. On his face was a visor, that covered his eyes. Marcus was dressed in a pair of black pants, with white boots, a white tank-top, with a black mask that covered the top half of his face.
"All we had to do was put our mask on.", Marcus bragged.
"Don't get cocky.", Angelo said as he took to the air with Will. "You still have to beat me and Will. And we won, how many was it.......?"
"I believe it was four, games.", Will bragged.
"Brag all you two want!", Irma said shaking her fist at them. "You won't win this one!"
"I say we do our best to make sure they don't win!", Cornelia said. "Who's with me?"
"I'm in!", Marcus said.
"Count us in!", Sam and Hay Li said.
"Us too!", Taranee and Malcom said.
"Irma. Leonas. What about you two?", Marcus asked as he turned to face them. "What the?!"
Once Marcus turned around, they were gone.
"Those sneaks must of took off while we were talking!", Sam figured.
"Looks like they're out of the deal then.", Cornelia said as she took to the air. "Let's get going!"
Marcus and Cornelia went in one direction, while Sam and Hay Lin went in another, just as Taranee and Malcom went in another.
Ten minutes later.............
"See!", Angelo said. "While they're chit-chatting, we got the ball."
"Shall we head back now, or have a little alone time?", Will asked as she wrapped her arms around his neck.
"I think we got a minute or two before they get close to us.", Angelo said as he wrapped his arms around Will's waist.
They then kissed, as the sun shined down on them. Hidden in the trees, watching them, were five figures. One of which was seething with anger at what he saw. He reached behind his back, ready to pull out his sword and cut Angelo down. But then a hand came up and stopped him from doing it. The young man turned to see one of his friends looking at his shaking her head.
"Not now, Cole!", she whispered. "We have to catch them off guard."
"But he's kissing her, Taranee!", Cole whispered back with a hint of anger in his voice. "He's kissing Will!"
"We can see that!", Cornelia whispered. "If it were Caleb with some other girl, I feel the same way! But you would stop me and tell me to wait. Right?"
"Right.", Cole reluctantly whispered. "I'll wait. This time."
After they finished kissing, they pulled apart from each other, smiling.
"Shall we?", Angelo asked Will, as he gave her the ball.
"Let's!", Will said as they flew back to the house.
As they flew off, Angelo looked back to where they just were.
"Something wrong?", Will asked.
"I don't know.", Angelo said. "I just had this weird feeling we were being watched."
"I didn't feel it.", Will said.
"Must of been my imagination.", Angelo said. "Let's head back, so we can claim our victory."
"Music to my ears.", Will said as they flew on.
Once Angelo and Will were far enough away, Cole and the Guardians, from his reality, jumped down from the trees they were in.
"Okay.", Taranee said. "So far, it looks like it's just him with Will. But there could be others around here somewhere."
"Then we must be cautious.", Cole said as he spread his wings. "But, we must catch up with them also."
With that said, they flew up through the trees, hoping not to be seen.
Elsewhere.............
"That should give us a good head start, from the others!", Irma said as she flew through the woods.
"We just have to watch out for Marcus and Corny!", Leonas/Lionheart said as he jumped from tree to tree. "Thanks to Sam and Angelo, Cornelia can fly pretty fast, now."
"So can I!", Irma said. "And shouldn't you be in your feral form?"
"You sure?", Leonas asked. "I know it's been a month, since we've been together, but...... after all that's happened to you....."
"It's okay.", Irma said. "I'm over it now. Mostly. I'll be okay."
"If you say so.", Leonas said. "Here we go!"
"Suddenly, while jumping from tree to tree, Leonas' fingernails began to grow a little sharper and longer. His teeth grew a little sharper as well. Finally, his eyes turned yellow and cat-like. Soon he was in his Lionheart form.
"The beast is unleashed!", Leonas/Lionheart yelled as he jumped even greater distances, from tree to tree, with Irma flying right behind him.
"Let's kick it, in to overtime!", Irma said as she sped up. "Let's move it slowpoke!"
'She'll never change!', Leonas said as he saw the smile on her face.
With that thought, Lionheart and Irma booked through the woods, only to see Angelo and Will flying towards them.
"What the?!", Irma questioned as they flew past them. "They got the ball!"
"Looks like we got the ball first.", Will said as she and Angelo flew past them, holding the football. "Again!"
"See you two at the mansion!", Angelo laughed.
"Think again!"
"Uh?!", Angelo and Will questioned looking forward, to see, the others coming at them.
"Looks like they want to team up.", Angelo said.
"Then bring it on!", Will said as they flew right at them.
"Do it Hay Lin!", Cornelia yelled.
Hay Lin the formed a mini twister that caught Will in it and spun her around. Sam, with his energy aura around him, flew through the twister and took the ball from Will.
"Hey!", Will yelled as she the twister slowed down to nothing. "Whoa! Getting dizzy here!"
"I gotcha!", Angelo said as he caught her. "You okay?"
"I've been better.", she said as she gathered herself.
"Now we got the ball!", Sam bragged. "Let's go Hay Lin!"
"Woo-hoo!", Hay Lin cheered as they flew off.
"Oh no they don't!", Leonas said as he and Irma went after them.
"They've gotten better.", Angelo said.
"It's not over yet!", Will said as they flew after them.
"We have to get that ball!", Malcom said as he and Taranee flew after Hay Lin and Sam.
"They can't be to far!", Taranee said flying next to Malcom.
"I'll go on ahead, to see if I can distract them!", Marcus said running faster.
"I'll catch up.", Cornelia said as she stopped in front of the others. "After I take care of the others."
Cornelia then turned around to face the others.
"What's she up to?", Angelo questioned as they got closer to her.
Cornelia then landed on the ground. She knelt down and placed her hands on the ground and concentrated.
"Aw, crap!", Will yelled. "Angelo! Fly higher!"
"Uh!", Angelo said looking at Will.
But it was to late. Suddenly, some vines came up and wrapped themselves around Angelo , Taranee, and Malcom.
"Well, this is just great!", Malcom said as he tried to break free. "You okay, Taranee?"
"Just peachy.", Taranee said. "This isn't funny, Cornelia!"
"Oh yes it is!", Cornelia laughed. "And the best part is, that they have a lot of moister in them. So burning them, will take a long time! See ya!", Cornelia said as she teletransported away.
"Well this is just great!", Angelo said as Will tried to help him break free. "If I can just power my wings up a bit more....... there!"
Suddenly, Angelo spread his energy wings, breaking the vines apart.
"Much better.", Angelo said as he stretched out.
"A little help here, cousin.", Malcom said.
"Yeah sure.", Angelo said as he blasted the vines off of Malcom. "Now for Taranee."
"Don't bother.", Taranee said as she teletransported out of the vines.
She then reappeared next to Malcom.
"Bye-bye!", Taranee said as she held Malcom's hand and teletransported away.
"They're not the only ones who can do that!", Will snapped as she placed her hand om Angelo's shoulder. "Hold on!"
Will then teletransported away. Once the area was cleared, Cole and the Guardians that came with him, began to land on the ground.
"So, there are Guardians here too?!", Irma questioned as they landed.
"Looks like.", Hay Lin said. "So why take our Will?"
"I don't know.", Cole said as he looked at the gem the cloaked man gave him. "But the gem was glowing when Will was here. And that's all I need to know!"
"Well, let's keep our eyes on them and wait for our chance to take them down.", Irma said as they flew off.
"I'd like to know who those other five were.", Taranee said.
"They must be friends of this worlds Guardians.", Cornelia figured.
"They may be a problem.", Taranee said.
"I'll handle them.", Cole said. "You all take care of your counterparts."
"Works for me.", Irma said. "I've always wondered if I could take myself down."
"Well, you'll soon get the chance.", Hay Lin said, as they flew on.
As Irma, Leonas, and Marcus closed in on Sam and Hay Lin, Cornelia appeared, from out of nowhere, in front of them.
"Hey!", Hay Lin whined. "You teletransported!"
"No one said we couldn't.", Cornelia said as she used her telekinesis to pull the ball out of Sam's hands.
"Aw, man!", Sam said as he flew after the ball, only to have Marcus spin around, below him, and catch him in a small twister.
"Hay Lin isn't the only one who can make a twister!", Marcus said with a smirk on his face.
"A little help, Hay Lin!", Sam said spinning around in the twister.
"Coming!", Hay Lin said as she flew into the twister.
Seconds later, she flew out with Sam.
"Thanks, Hay Lin.", Sam said as he kissed her.
"Aw, Sam!", Hay Lin said as she kissed him back.
"Come to mama!", Cornelia said as the football got closer to her.
Suddenly, from out of nowhere, Leonas jumped up and grabbed to ball, just as it was inches from Cornelia's grasp.
"NO!", Cornelia yelled. "Give that back, Leonas."
"Sorry, Corny!", Irma said as she appeared next to Leonas. "But we have to go!"
"Don't call me..........", Cornelia said as Irma placed her hand on Leonas' shoulder and teletransported away laughing. "...... Corny. Aw, man!"
"They got away!", Marcus said looking around.
"If we hurry, we might be able to catch them!", Sam said.
"Don't bother.", Hay Lin said as Taranee appeared with Malcom next to her. "They're at the mansion now. I can hear them cheering."
"Well, at least Angelo and Will didn't win this time.", Sam said.
"We heard that!", Will said as she appeared with Angelo next to her.
"Next time no teletransporting.", Angelo said as they all headed for the mansion.
"I'm all for that.", Marcus said. "I wonder what Irma and Leonas want to do."
"Someting that'll involve water.", Cornelia said. "As she usually does."
"She does love the beach.", Will said. "Then again, she is the Water Guardian."
"Hey! I'm the Earth Guardian.", Cornelia said. "You don't see me wanting to go walking through the woods all the time!"
"And yet, it was you who wanted to use the woods as our training grounds, instead of Shell Beach.", Malcom said. "Coincidence? I don't think so."
"Ha, ha!", Cornelia said as she flew further ahead with Marcus running right next to her. "Very funny."
"Don't sweat it, baby.", Marcus said as she flew down next to him. "I like the woods."
Cornelia couldn't help but smile at Marcus as they went on head, with the other behind them.
Watching from a distance, Cole and his friends watched what just happened.
"I think the Guardians here, are with each of those boys.", Irma figured.
"What was your first clue?!", Cornelia asked Irma.
"The one with the wings seems to be the leader of the guys.", Taranee figured.
"So take him down and the rest will follow.", Cole said. "I think now is the time to strike."
"Then let's hit them and hit them hard!", Irma said as she punched the palm of her left hand.
"Let's just be careful, guys.", Hay Lin said as they flew off. "Who knows what they can do."
"Hay Lin's right.", Taranee said. "They may have different, if not better, skills than us."
"It doesn't matter to me!", Cole said. "All I want to do is save Will from that guy!"
"Well, he's on a mission.", Irma said as they followed behind him.
'You know how he feels about Will, Irma.', Taranee said to Irma mentally.
'You'd be the same way if it were Matt.', Hay Lin added.
'If not worse.', Cornelia told her.
'Okay, I get it!', Irma said to them. 'He's worried about her.'
"We're almost there!", Cole said as they heard the mansion. "I can sense their power!"
They others followed behind Cole as they got closer to the Roberts' mansion.
Meanwhile, at the mansion, Irma and Leonas were celebrating their victory over the overs.
"We bad! We bad!", Irma and Leonas teased as the danced around the others. "We bad, we bad, we bad!"
"Okay! You two won!", Cornelia said getting annoyed. "Do you have to rub it in like that?!"
"No.", Leonas said as they stopped. "No we don't."
"But it's so much fun to!", Irma said as they went back to dancing around them.
"We bad! We bad! We bad, we bad, we bad!"
"Do you two even know what you want to do?", Malcom asked the happy couple.
"We just want to hang around the pool today.", Irma said.
"What did I tell you?!", Cornelia said. "Something to do with water!"
"What?!", Leonas asked. "It's pretty hot today. So we figured that we could swim around for awhile."
"Works for me.", Will said as she transformed her and the other Guardians back to normal.
The girls, much to the boys surprise began to strip.
"What are yall doing?!", Leonas asked.
"Relax!", Irma said. "We have our swimsuits on underneath our clothes."
"Oooooh.", the guys said.
"Wait!", Leonas said figuring something out. "You all had this planned!"
"Maybe.", Irma said, taking her shirt off.
"We were duped fellas.", Marcus.
"And you're complaining?", Malcom questioned.
"No. Not really.", Marcus said as he looked at Cornelia's swimsuit.
Once out of their normal clothes, the guys saw what their girlfriends were wearing. Taranee was in a red one-piece, while Hay Lin was in a white one-piece. Irma was in a orange two-piece, while Will was in a sky-blue one-piece. Cornelia was of course in a black two-piece.
"Cannonball!", Irma yelled as she jumped off the diving board into the water splashing everyone.
"Oh, so not funny Irma!", Angelo yelled as Hay Lin jumped high in the air, using her powers.
"Super cannonball!", Hay Lin yelled coming down.
"Oh no!", Malcom said as she hit the water, making a huge thing of water splash on the others.
Soon Taranee and Cornelia jumped into the pool. The boys began to head inside to change their clothes, when Will gave Angelo a light zap of electricity on his butt.
"Ow!", Angelo yelled. "Not funny Will!"
"Aw.", Will teased as she skipped around Angelo. "Zap! Zap!"
She then zapped him two more times, grinning at his reaction.
"You ain't gonna do that no more!", Angelo said trying to hold back his laughter.
"Aw.", Will said as she wrapped her arms around his neck. "I'm sorry."
"You should be!", Angelo said as he wrapped his arm around her waist. "Zapping my butt, like that! It ain't right, Wi- YE-OW!"
Will jumped back laughing as she zapped his butt again, getting a laugh out of everybody.
"Oh that's it!", Angelo grinned as he grabbed Will. "In the water you go!"
"Do it! Do it! Do it!", the other cheered.
"Don't you dare, Angelo!", Will demanded, laughing as he lifted her over his head. "Angelo Vanders! You put me down! Right now!"
"As you wish!", Angelo laughed. "But remember, you asked for it!"
Angelo was about to toss Will in the pool, when he suddenly felt this burning pain in his back. Everyone looked to see smoke coming from a burn mark on Angelo's back as he fell in the pool, still holding on to Will.
A/N: Who ever did that, was powerful! Was it Cole, or the Taranee of the other reality! What's going to happen next?!