Chapter 4:
"Oooooh. My head.", Eric said as he slowly woke up. "What happened?"
Eric tried to move only to find out that he was shackled to a long chain that went to the wall of the cage he and Angelo were in.
"What the...?", Eric questioned as he saw the shackles that held him. "What gives?"
Then it all hit him! Going to Mongolia with Angelo to find the Griffin. Fighting Fire and his friends. And getting knockedout by one of Earth's thorns.
"Well this is just great!", Eric said as he stood up and looked around the cage they were in.
"Aw, man!", Angelo said waking up, getting Angelo's attention. "What the heck happ..."
Angelo saw Eric chained up and it all came back to him. He then saw that he too as shackled up.
"Well this is just dandy.", Angelo said.
"Can't you melt the chains?", Eric asked.
Angelo tried to melt the chains, but couldn't.
"Thought so.", Angelo said as he stopped trying. "These chains are just like the ones Fire held Taranee in when he tried to use he to lure the Phoenix to gain it's power."
"So we wait for the others to find us?", Eric questioned.
"Looks like it.", Angelo said.
"I hope it won't take long."
The boys looked to see Earth standing at their cages with a smirk.
"Hello, boys.", Earth said. "Did you have a good sleep?"
"A bed would of been nice.", Angelo joke with a smirk.
"Not to mention breakfast in bed.", Eric joke with a smirk of his own.
"Aren't we the funny ones.", Fire said as he walked up to the cage. "Let's see how funny you are once we make your friends tell the Griffin to give my friend, Earth, some of it's power."
"They'll never do that!", Eric snapped.
"Wouldn't they?", Earth questioned as she looked at Angelo. "You were willing to risk life and limb to save your beloved Fire Guardian, when we first met. And you only had your Guardian Decendent powers at the time!"
"Then you should know that our friends won't stop until we're free?", Angelo countered.
"Perhaps.", Fire said. "But they're not going to find you until we get what we want."
"I'm guessing that would be the Griffin's power.", Eric said.
"Oh not just the Griffin.", Fire said. "The Thunderbird as well."
Angelo and Eric's eyes went wide in surprise at what Fire said. He saw this and a wicked smile formed on his face.
"Didn't think about that did you?", Fire said. "We may even make them search for the Phoenix, Pegasus, and Leviathan so we can have their powers. I mean we do have the perfect hostages."
Angelo and Eric glared at Fire as he and Earth walked away laughing. They both had one thing in mind.
'We have to get out of here!'
Meanwhile, the girls and guys were in Mongolia flying around the mountains looking for Eric and Angelo, hoping that they were okay.
"Oh! Where are they?", Hay Lin questioned as they all were flying around the area. "Can't we use our wristband to contact them?"
"I tried to cantact Angelo, but I didn't get a responce!", Taranee said. "I think something might of happened to them!"
"We'll find them.", Will said as they flew through the mountain area. "And I'm sure they're okay."
"Leave it to boys to get in trouble!", Irma said.
"Hey!", Peter, Matt, and Stephen yelled.
"What?", Irma said. "You don't see us girls getting captured or doing something dumb!"
"Really now?", Peter questioned. "Cornelia has told me stories. Most of them about you doing a few dumb things!"
"And boy were there a few.", Will said with a laugh.
With a huff, Irma flew further on ignoring the giggles from the others.
"Well, look who's joined the party?"
Everyone stopped and looked to see Fire, Air, Water, and a Mexican girl with green hair, eyes, and a green cloak, who Taranee knew all to well.
"Earth!", Taranee called out as she looked toward the green hair girl.
"So, you remember me.", Earth said with a smile. "Or is it my thorns that you remember? You beloved sure did. Only he didn't count on my giving one to Air to use."
"Yeah!", Air said grinning. "And that other guy sure didn't see the one you shot at him coming, Earth!"
"Where's Eric?", Hay Lin demanded as she glared at Air.
"So he's your boyfriend?", Air questioned. "He's cute! I wonder if I'll have a chance with him when you're out of the way?"
"WHAT?", Hay Lin shrieked as she was about to fly at Air and fight her.
"Easy, Hay Lin!", Will said as she held her friend back. "Don't play into their game!"
"What do you want?", Taratnee questioned as she looked towards Fire.
"Straight to the point, huh?", Fire questioned with a smirk. "Oh well. Might as well get to it. Earth? If you will, please."
"Gladly.", Earth said with a smirk. "We want you to have the Griffin give me some of it's power instead of you!"
"Figures.", Cornelia said as she set the slab of rock she was on with Matt and Stephen down on a nearby cliff.
"And after that you'll do the same with the Thunderbird, when it comes to our friend, Energy!", Water replied. "And then you'll go find the Phoenix, Pegasus, and Leviathan!"
"And if you don't...", Fire began to say. "Well... let's just say that two of you will be looking for new boyfriends."
Taranee and Hay Lin had worried looks on their faces, fearing for Angelo and Eric. They knew what was at steak and not give into what their enemies wanted. But at the same time, they didn't want anything to happen to Eric and Angelo.
"So what will you do, heroes?", Water questioned with a stern look.
'What do we do now?', Will thought.
A few minutes earlier...
"There has to be some way out of these chains!", Eric said.
"I wish they was, but these chains are fireproof.", Angelo said. "Only the Phoenix was able to do it."
Suddenly, they felt this feeling in their hearts. A feeling that told Eric that Hay Lin was close, and one that told Angelo that Taranee was close. They also felt that the others were there as well. But they mostly felt the ones that had the same powers as them.
"Hay Lin's here!", Eric said. "I can feel it!"
"I can feel Taranee here too!", Angelo said. "I can sense the other too! Just not at much as I can sense Taranee."
"We have to find a way out of these chains, before they're made to have the Griffin give Earth some of it's power!", Angelo said.
"I here you!", Eric said. "But,like you said. The chains are firepro-... That's it!"
"What's it?", Angelo asked.
"You said that the chains are fireproof!", Eric said. "Right?"
"Yeah.", Angelo said with a raised eyebrow wondering where Eric was going with what he was talking about.
"What about the inside of the locks?", Eric questioned with a smirk.
A smirk then came to Angelo face as she looked down at the shackles that were on his wrist. He then lit his right index finger like a blow torch.
"Here goes everything!", Angelo said as he aimed his blow torch finger at keyhole of his shackles.
Present Time
"Well?", Fire questioned. "What is your decidsion?"
Will then looked at Fire, who had a smug grin on his face.
"Think wisely, my friends.", Water said. "Remember that your two friend's lives depend on you making the right choice."
'Any ideas guys?', Will asked the girls telepatichlly.
'I say me, Hay Lin, Taranee, and Peter kick their butts while the rest of you go find Angelo and Eric!', Irma suggested.
'I know it sounds strange, but part of me feels that Angelo is around here somewhere!', Taranee replied. 'It's like some weird connetion.'
'I feel it too!', Hay Lin said. 'Well, with Eric I mean. It's like I can sense him around here somewhere!'
'It might be you Legend powers!', Cornelia said.
'Maybe so, but we just can't risk their lives like this.', Will said. 'I say that for now, we play along until we find away to save the guys.'
'Right!', Irma, Taranee, Cornelia, and Hay Lin said before they ended their telepathic conversation.
"What is your choice?", Fire demanded.
With a sad look on her face, Will looked towards Fire.
"We'll...", Will began to say before she saw something that put a smile on her face. "Kick your butts and find the Griffin!"
This surprised everyone until they heard two voices speak two words.
"Pyro Twister!"
Suddenly, a twister of fire rose up behind Fire and his friends.
"What in the...?", Water questioned.
Just then, the weapon hilt, he took from Eric flew from his hand and into the fire twister. Suddenly Fire, Air, Water, and Earth were sucked into the twister of fire. The fire twister then turned into a spinning ball of fire and shot Fire and his friends far away in four different directions. Once the ball of fire faded away, everyone saw Angelo and Eric floating there in their Battle Legend forms.
"Now that was cool!", Angelo said smiling.
"And I feel less stressed.", Eric joked smiling.
"I do too!", Angelo said jokingly.
"Eric!", Hay Lin cries happily as she tackles Eric in a hug.
"Oof!", Eric grunts as he get's some wind knocked out of him.
"Now that girl moves fast!", Angelo said before turning towards the others. "What's up guys?"
Taranee waisted no time wrapping her arms arond Angelo in a hug.
"I missed you too, Taranee.", Angelo said as he returned the hug.
"Oh, Eric!", Hay Lin cried as she kept her hold on Eric. "I was so worried about you!"
"I'm okay, Hay Lin.", Eric said as he held Hay Lin close. "We just ran into a few problems."
"Yeah!", Angelo said. "Like Water and Air sneaking up behind us while we were spying on Fire, Earth, and some Ramitar creature!"
"Ramitar?", Irma question.
"Think a Minitor if he were a ram.", Eric said. "He was knocking some boilders loose to dump off the side of the mountain and make a rock slide that would destroy some farmlands."
"A fight broke out, and Earth and Air hits us with the thorn's Earth has.", Angelo explained. "You all know the rest."
"Well, I'm glad your safe.", Taranee said smiling. "How did you get free?", Cornelia asked.
"Actually, it was Eric's idea.", Angelo said. "We figured that the chains were fireproop. But then he thought that the locks weren't. And sure enough, he was right, as I was able the melt the locks!"
"And now we're here!", Eric said.
"You're so smart, Eric!", Hay Lin said happily.
"There's time to celebrate later!", Will said. "Right now we have to find the Griffin's cave!"
"We're close to it!", Angelo said pointing in one direction. "It should be over there somewhere!"
"Then let's get a move on!", Cornelia said as she made the slab of rock she, Matt, and Stephen were on go into the air and follow the others as they flew towards the Griffin's cave!
Elsewhere, Fire and his friends had just slowed down enough to stop being flung in different directions by Angelo and Eric's attack.
'How did those two escape those chains?', Fire questioned to his allies telepathiclly. 'Last I checked, they were fire-proof!'
'Does it really matter now?', Earth questioned. 'We have to stop them from getting to the Griffin and letting it give them some of it's power!'
'She's right!', Water said. 'Me and Air are the closest to them! We'll try and stall them as best we can!'
'Go!', Fire said as he flew towards the direction of the Griffin's cave. 'Me and Earth will catch up!'
'I say we teleport there and surprise them!', Earth suggested. 'We have more than enough power to get there! And then there's our little 'surprise' waiting there for them.'
'She has a point there.', Air said in a sing-song voice.
'Fine.', Fire said. 'Then let us teleport there!'
Each of them then teleported to the Griffin's cave. At the Griffin's cave, our heroes had just arrived there. As they all landed they looked around to see nothing.
"Okay.", Irma said. "We're here. So, where's the Griffin?"
"Maybe he went out to get somethign to eat.", Stephen said.
"Please don't tell me that we have to wait for it to come back.", Cornelia complained as she sat on a rock.
"Are you really going to complain about waiting?", Matt questioned. "It could be worse."
"And how could it be any worse?", Cornelia questioned.
Suddenly, Fire, Air, Water, and Earth appeared in the air above the cave.
"Hello, friends.", Fire said with a smirk. "Did you miss us?"
"That's how.", Matt said as they looked up at them.
"You just had to ask it.", Irma said. "Didn't you, Corny?"
A/N: Well, Eric and Angelo got free and sent Fire and friends flying with their attack and have found the Griffin's cave. But now, Fire and friends have teleported there and are ready to fight. Who will win? And what kind of surprise do they have for our heroes? Read on to find out.
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