Dawn of a New Era
Chapter 30: Darkness vs. Elements of Light
Jasmine's Point of View:
A lot of people could probably tell you that they have a lot of problems in their lives, mostly complaining about the fact that things were going their way or the way they wanted to go. My friends and I however, we're not like that. We don't have any problems with boys or girls, parents, well... maybe from time to time, but that's not the point. While other kids go about complaining about their lives, I have something I can complain about, I have to fight seven Dark Ones with only the help of my friends, and our powers and weapons. Now isn't that something that seems more demanding of a person's time?
All of them floated out of the portal, each one of a different color and a similar animal form, which means they would also have some sort of advanced abilities of the animal shape they have taken upon themselves. Great, as if we didn't have enough problems already. They all landed on the stone platform with us and let out howls and cries, it was most likely that none of them could speak in a more 'intelligent language' as Gabriella's father, Gibson would put it.
My team and I got into our fighting positions and stood ready to face all of them, sadly, there was a though going threw all of our minds, that this would be the longest fight of our entire lives. There was no getting by it.
Before the Dark Ones came at us, one of them let out a cry that made the black fog come rolling in. From this dark fog, I felt myself be shoved away from my team, and hit the edge of the stone platform. My team had been separated into individuals or in groups. I was by myself when I saw them last before walls of darkness stood up from the stone I stood upon and a single Dark One floated down over the wall in front of me, my final opponent.
Good luck everyone. I thought. I hope to see you all alive and together when we're done with this.
Cobi's Point of View:
I sat up, looking around me and saw that I was next to my cousin and Midnight, the two of them shaking off the dizziness from the throw and stood up next to me.
"What happened Cobi?" My cousin asked me, using my shoulder as support to hold her up as she tried to walk off the dizziness that filled her being. I shook my head.
"I don't know June. It's a mystery to me too. But I have a guess…" I trailed off and my cousin didn't like that.
"What are you waiting for? An open invitation? Give me your best guess Cobi." She snapped at me, swaying on her feet. I helped her sit down and lean back against Midnight.
"My guess is that the Dark Ones split us up so that we'd have to face the Dark Ones in smaller groups, as to take us out one by one." Midnight whined at my words, understanding them and sniffed the air before lunging to her feet, ready to fight whatever it was that we couldn't see. I helped June stand again and she stood her ground and we both looked off into the dark wall that stood in front of us. From the center of it, we saw the Dark One that we we're to fight make its way threw the dark door and stand before us.
This Dark One was a lion in shape, a light lime green in color with wings that were a dark green, like a deep forest in the dark. Its single eye that come out of its head by a long, thin nerve filled skin string held it in front of it, like a light in front of a fish's face in deep water. The eye itself was dark red, like that of our blood.
"That's one of the Dark Ones, isn't it?" June asked me, she looked at me worriedly.
I sighed. "Yeah June, that's one of them." I drew forth my white sword. "But I'm not going to let it take me down." It was then that I left June to Midnight and rushed at the Dark One. It let out an ear bleeding cry and I raced to cover my ears to block out the pain I felt in my head. Suddenly it stopped and I raced to look up at it. A spear had been tossed strait into its throat, stopping its head splitting cry. I turned back in the direction I saw the spear must have come from and saw my cousin with a grin on her face.
"In your face you damn Dark One!" I watched my cousin shout, and I couldn't suppress the grin from appearing on my face.
It squirmed as it tried to knock the blade out of its mouth. I gave it no time to recover as I raced toward it and ran my white sword into its heart, cutting its body in half, but I didn't stop there. I proceeded to cut every piece a millions times over and Midnight joined me in tearing apart the head with her teeth. It was only when I could no longer see any piece of the Dark One much larger then my hand that I stopped to catch my breath and stood again by my cousin's side.
"I think you got it Cobi." My cousin told me, staring at me strangely. Creped out at the violent moment she had seen me perform.
"I couldn't give it a chance to regenerate or else we'd be fighting for longer then we could hold out for." I told her. I then looked over at the dark doors that had surrounded us earlier. "Now we just have to find a way out to help the others." It was then that we felt the ground shake beneath us and the first set of dark doors fell to the ground and the dark fog surrounding us lifted, but another wall was behind the first and the fog condensed in the already dark areas.
"I guess we're the first ones to get by one of the seven Dark Ones." June commented to Midnight and I. I nodded and stepped toward the doors.
"I guess we have to wait and hope that the others make it threw." I whispered, watching the doors, just waiting for them to fall, and my chance to find my friends and girl friend. Please don't die guys.
Rover's Point of View:
"Gabriella!" I helplessly called out over the dark wall for my girlfriend. It was the third time I had called. I was left alone in this- I guess you could call it a closed off space by the portal beneath me passed the edge of the platform and the dark walls that blocked me off from the rest of my family. I already tried to fly over and see if I could reach them, I was shot down by the black fog that settled in, keeping me firmly on the ground.
It was then that I instinctively turned when I heard a roaring cry in the same room as myself. Over the wall and out of the black fog came one of the seven Dark Ones, it looked like a blue chameleon I think. Its eyes were gone, and all that was in their place was empty sockets. Its claws and fangs grew to the size of me and I knew I had to be careful fighting this thing, or else it'd be the end of me for sure. One bit of those choppers- I'd hate to think about it.
I focused my element into my hand and formed a sword of fire. I stood myself in a defensive position and waited for it to charge like I knew the dumb beast would. True to my though, it ran strait at me. Just as its teeth were about to reach me, I side-stepped away from it and swung my sword, cutting off the first of its four very large teeth that I had to worry about before I could kill it. It cried out in pain and turned to charge again. Once again, I sliced off a tooth and another after it.
I guess the thing found out what I was doing because I saw it disappear before me, like any chameleon. And that was when I was thrown into the wall. If I couldn't see it, I'd have to find another sense to help me. I felt around me for a difference in the temperature from what was already here. I couldn't tell, the chameleon had adjusted its temperature too slammed its head into my right arm. I jumped form the spot I was in.
I then resorted to closing my eyes and looking for moving heat shapes threw my element. It was only then that I saw the cold best moving around me, ready to charge again. With my eyes still closed, I charged at it myself and stuck my sword threw its head, it cried before it fell to the stone platform we stood on. Before it was even given a chance to recover, I lit its body in bright flames. It shook violently for a moment before falling still and turning to ashes.
My sword raced back into my hand and the walls around me feel to the stone platform that had been our battlefield. When the walls fell, a large area to my right opened up and the black fog cleared from around and there I saw Cobi, June and Midnight. Must have gotten threw their battle too.
"Rover!" June shouted, turning my way. She ran over to me and almost killed me with her famous death hug. Cobi had to pry her arms off my before I suffocated.
"Its good to see you guys too." I gasped. "Have you guys seen any of the others yet?"
Cobi shook his head. "No, we killed our Dark One first, then you did, who's next is any ones guess."
"Gabriella's probably fine." June tried to calm me, knowing my troubled thoughts were of my girlfriend. "She a tough girl, she'll make it threw. I wouldn't be surprised if she finished in a little bit."
"I hope you're right June." I sighed, petting Midnight's head as she jumped onto my shoulder in her normal small size. "I'd die if she was gone."
Olivia's Point of View:
"Hello? Is anyone there?" I called out after I had gotten up form the stone I sat on. This place is really creepy, I can't hear anything and my family is no where around! "Jazzy! Cobi! Juney! Rosie! Annie! Rovie! Gabby! Middy Night! Where are you guys?" I turned my head when I heard a cry at my side. Well more like at my feet. I looked down and there was this cute little red cricket with purple eyes. Awe!
"And what are you doing here?" I asked the little cricket. I bended down on my knees to get closer to its level and let my hand slowly reach toward it. The cricket looked at me strangely before it bounced up high and attacked me. "Bad cricket!" I yelled as it bit into my tail. It was only then that I realized that the cute cricket on my tail was a Dark One. "Oh, you are so going to pay for tricking me!"
The Dark One Cricket jumped off my tail and looked at me strangely before a single plant grew next to it. It looked like a beautiful flower at first, white petals and a large green line where the seeds would normally be in the pollen area of the flower. Suddenly the flower grew teeth where the green line in the pollen area was and ate up the itty bitty cricket in one big old bite!
"Serves you right you mean old cricket Dark One thing!" I snapped at it angrily as my plant chewed and swallowed. It was then that I saw the black fog move out and the dark walls fall to the ground; behind them were my family, or some of them.
"Rover, Cobi, June Midnight!" I shouted, running at them. June came at me first, and hugged me to death, and I hugged her back just as hard.
"You okay girl?" June asked me when she placed me down on my feet.
"I'm fine; but I had to face this mean old Dark One Cricket! It was so mean to me!"
"How'd you kill it?" Rover asked. He and the others had powered down now and I could see his bright yellow fur and his black eyes, the red tattoos on the side of his face were quietly sitting there, ready for another fight. Same with the others, their rainbow color tattoos had been turned off and the white foggy aura stuff had gone too. I powered down and grinned.
"I grew a plant large enough to eat it. It was a small Dark One, but really mean and quick!" The three of them laughed at my complaints and Midnight just jumped on my shoulder and rubbed her body against my neck. "Where are the others?"
Cobi stopped laughing and looked off in the distance. "Still fighting."
Gabriella's Point of View:
"Rover!" I called out for my lover. I had been separated from everyone and was now trapped on the edge of the platform. "Can anyone hear me? Rover!"
My calls were a waist of time. The others most likely couldn't hear me wherever they were. I sighed and sat down on the ground. A cry ripped threw the air that forced me to look up into the sky. Only then did I see the beast I was meant to fight. The Dark One came down close enough so that I could see and I instantly cringed. It was a bug, a huge fly, about the size of the Super Robot's foot. It was yellow in color and its eyes were multi-colored, while its wings were a turquoise in color, see through like any other flies.
It spat at me, and I ducked to avoid getting hit, when I looked behind to see what would have happened if I had stayed still, I watched as the acid spit had eaten its way threw the stone platform I stood on.
"I despise your kind." I mumbled to myself as it flew toward me. I formed my sword of ice in my hands and swung it at the fly when it came close enough, but it was too fast and made its way away from me. It spat against the area next to me and I was only able to just barely jump out of the way. I though I had missed it, until I felt burning on my ankle and foot. I screamed.
The bug turned its body back toward me and flew back in my direction. I couldn't stand, so how could I fight it? It flew at me and ran its head against me, throwing me into the dark wall. I guess it must have been enough force to activate the wall, because the next thing I knew, I was being electrified, which didn't help for my foot.
When the wall finally released me, the fly was on its way back for more. I only had seconds to act. Right as it hit me, I hit it with a freeze blast, freezing it instantly. It fell next to me and I took the harder side of my sword and swung it down at the frozen Dark One, shattering it's froze corpse into a thousand pieces.
I held my leg in pain as I watched the wall go down and the fog lift. I saw my family and lover off in the distance. I cried, so happy to see them. My time with the Dark One Fly felt like an eternity rather then a few minutes. "Rover!"
My lover and my family instantly turned their heads and ran toward me. He was the one who reached me first though, making sure I was alive and not hurt, so it bothered him greatly when he saw my foot and ankle.
"How do we deal with this?" Rover asked.
"I normally would do repairs," Olivia said sadly. "But Gabby's wound is more then just eating threw wires, its acid eating threw everything. There's blood and tissues have been opened. I don't want to cause her anymore pain by trying to close it up. All we can do is keep it clean for now and wait for Annabel. Besides Gabby, she's the only one with healing knowledge and abilities."
"You're going to be okay Gab." My lover whispered to me as he picked me up in his arms, bridal style.
"I know Rover, you'll keep me safe. You always do." I snuggled into his chest. He placed his forehead next to mine.
"Damn right."
Rose's Point of View:
Disgusting, miserable, horrible. Those were only a fraction of the words I could use to describe this small dark, black fog filled corner I was shoved in. Oh yeah, I forgot to mention it was cramped and small and I WANT OUT! I was mentally screaming in my head and I was freaking out. Let's look at the wonderful check list that's happened to me so far since this day started.
Got ready to start a war: check.
Charged into the Pit of Doom: check
Killed Mandy: check
Killed Skeleton Queen: check
Released seven Dark Ones: check
Faced one of the seven Dark Ones: not chec-
It was then that a screech filled the air and I raced to cover my ears. When it stopped I looked up and saw a giant bird, I think it was an eagle, a gray in color with dark black eyes. I had no patients to deal with this right now; I just wanted to get out of here and find my family and make sure they were okay. That's what matters to me the most.
The Dark One charged at me and I created my sword of air in my hand. When the Dark One came close, I stabbed it in the heart, not even giving it a chance to fight me. It fell to the ground and I used my element of air to slice and dice it with harsh winds that left nothing of it left. It was only then that I knew it was gone.
The walls around me fell and the fog was gone. I was instantly in sight of my family, who seamed to be all crowding around my brother and Gabriella. I hurried toward them and saw Gabriella out cold in my brother's arms. She looked horrible too. Her foot looked like it was going to have to be cut off to save her.
"Will she be okay?" I asked. My brother momentarily looked up at my face and then looked back at his girl friend.
"I don't know Rose." He whispered before crying. I haven't seen him this upset since Mandy had taken over Gab.
Faced one of the seven Dark Ones: check
Gabriella was hurt and possibly dying if she is not treated: check
Annabel's Point of View:
I could sense that most of my team and family had finished with their battles, but I could also sense the worry in Rover and most of the others, while Gabriella was in much pain. I had no way of reaching them until I was freed from this prison that kept me captive. My only option was to wait for a Dark One to come and for me to defeat it and kill it in battle so that I may reach and treat Gabriella.
It was not long after that my opponent had come, announcing its arrival threw cries of anger and freedom. Landing in front of me with a large crash on the stone platform stood the Dark One, a white snake with bright red eyes made its way over to me. It was only at that moment that I saw the snake was blind in one eye, weakening its sight, but I didn't let that instantly give me the though of my soon to be victory.
When I wasn't paying attention, the snake attacked.
It was faster then most people I have trained with or anyone that I have faced against, but still, this was no mach compared to Jasmine, she is the fastest of us all. And if I can face her full force at the speed she's at, then I can face this Dark One the same way.
My spirit sword, made from the power inside of my very soul reached the ends of my hand and I grabbed the hilt. Before the Dark One could register my speed, I rushed on its blind side and forced my sword threw its head. I knew that death would be the only way to end the beast, the power of my will flooded into the snake, causing it to burst under pressure and expansion of its body.
The battle may have lasted no more then a few moments, but it felt like ages.
I watched the doors fall all around me and the black fog lifted. The only doors and fog that remained were surrounding the center of the platform, most likely where the last dark one and fighter were.
My family's worry hit me in a wave as I saw their figures come into view. I hurried toward them and saw Gabriella in Rover's arms with the others surrounding the two of them. Rover looked up and sighed in relief when he saw me.
"Annabel, thank God you're here." He said. "Can you do anything for her? We've done all we can, and we have no knowledge over this like you do." I sat down next to them and had him place Gabriella between the two of us.
"I'll do what I can for her. Rover, help me in anyway you can when I ask it. The rest of you watch for Jasmine and the last Dark One."
Jasmine's Point of View:
I had no idea where the team was. I had no idea where I was, well, other then the facts that I was on the center of the platform hanging over the Pit of Doom. The black fog was also very thick here, it was almost impossible to see.
But I felt it, the dark energy of the Dark One that was going to face me. It was moving around me, almost like I was the prey and it the predator. It was only out of the corner of my eyes that I saw its shape and color. The beast was a killer whale, orange in color with blue spots and black eyes. I raced around me before it tried to take a large bite out of me. I was out of its way before it was even close to me.
I couldn't afford for this Dark One to take up most of my time. Who knows how the team is doing? What if they need my help? My thoughts were broken when I felt the whale graze its teeth on the side of my arm. I hissed in pain in a flash had sliced off its side fin. It screeched in pain before charging at me. I stood my ground and let it come. Just as it reached me and opened its jaws wide for the kill, I shoved my sword up into its head. Its black blood spilled onto my face before it fell to the ground. Giving it no time to try anything else, alive or not, I electrocuted it. Its body then caught fire and burned to ashes.
It was only then that the dark fog cleared completely and the walls all fell. Only to leave the team and I on a stone platform, the sun high in the sky, shinning brightly. No portal beneath us, just earth.
The evil was gone, once and for all.
I looked around and saw my family over by the edge. They were all shouting at me when I came into their view and they all realized that it was no longer dark and gloomy. Rose and Olivia ran up to me and grabbed my hands before dragging me back to the others. I Gabriella resting in Rover's arms just as Annabel finished tying a bandage around her foot and ankle.
"Is everyone alright?" I asked.
"Never better now kid." Rover said, kissing the top of Gabriella's head. "And to think that we help put this back on the right track."
"Our only casualty as far as we know was Gabriella, who had her foot eaten threw by acid when she faced the Dark One Fly." Annabel explained to me. "Although it now looks like you have a couple wounds of your own on your arm." I let my eyes trail down to my arm and sure enough, on the area just above my elbow on both arms was holes from teeth.
"Jesus Jazz! Didn't you feel those at all?" Rose asked me, horrified.
"Not really." I admitted honestly.
"Well, at least let us wrap them up until we can get back to the robot." June said.
"I'll take the right, you take the left." Cobi told her. The two cousins walked over to me and started wrapping up my arms and Midnight, wanting to be known to me, sat on my back shoulder.
"Its good to see you two girl." I whispered to her while she purred and meowed for me. I turned to my team, my family. "I'm glad that all of you are alive. I can't wait to hear your stories about how you all defeated your Dark One, but for now, I think its best if we get back to our families, their probably worried out of their minds." My reasoning was then confirmed.
"JASMINE!" I heard my father shout in the distance.
"See what I mean?" My family laughed with me.
"I know exactly what you mean." Cobi whispered to me. He had finished bandaging my arm and he placed his hand under my chin. He closed the gap between us, and that was my first kiss after the war.
Witch's Note:
Hello people! I hope you guys can forgive me for the extra couple day late update, but I was stuck with some of the characters about what would happen, how they would react, and what damn Dark One they would be facing. Yet I hope you all still enjoyed it and don't hate me! ^_^
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