Chapter 34: Explanations
As the guardians retreated, those helping them, retreated shortly after and left Meridian. The water people left the battle but not the world. Phobos glared angrily at the retreating guardians but grew even more angered when none of his fellow fighters followed. "Go after them you fools." Phobos yelled but got no response. The orcs and others turned around with smiles on their faces.
"We don't care about them Phobos, we want Meridian." The group leaders below Phobos said.
Phobos stood above them with a simple expression on his face, his hands behind his back. "I can't say that I'm surprised by this betrayal after all great minds think alike." Phobos smiled widely as a horde of lurdans came up behind him. "Kill them all." Phobos said as he turned to leave. Soon the whole castle once again had a battle raging inside. It only lasted moments before the Water People came into the building.
"Enough of this foolishness!" One of the Water People screamed. Then a deep voice could be heard as the whole group began talking. "I shall end this now." They all said as they raised their arms into the air and a tidal wave much bigger then anything that anyone had ever seen came from behind them and crashed down on the multiple armies drowning all but the vampires who were able to make it away from the castle. All drowned in the flood except for Phobos who was swept up against the roof of the castle and smashed multiple times, bones broke. The water lowered and flowed from the castle leaving many dead. "My job is done." They all said at one time and left leaving dead bodies everywhere.
Back on earth, Hiccup was taken to a hospital. Astrid stayed by him the entire time. Will came over to Astrid with a serious glare on her face. "Astrid, which side are you on, Hiccup's or your fathers?"
"Is this really the time to talk about this?" Astrid said holding onto Hiccups hand tightly.
"Yes Astrid this is the time. Hiccup needs to know as do all of us. So who is it Astrid, which side are you on?" Will said both her hands landing next to Hiccup but her eyes fixed on Astrid.
"I'm with Hiccup but I can't disobey my father." Astrid said plainly.
"Then you're with you father then." Astrid screamed out no. "You can't have it both ways Astrid, you're either with or against Hiccup. So who is it Astrid, who?" Will screamed. Astrid couldn't take the screaming anymore, she plugged her ears with her hands and ran out of the room.
She was so confused now, she wasn't sure what she wanted to do but she knew what she had to do. 'Sorry Hiccup.' Astrid whispered as she sat down on one of the chairs.
Back in the ER the Oracle came into the room Will sat down in one of the chairs. None of them but Will knew that Hiccup would be fine. Irma and the others stood around Hiccup asking out loud if he would be ok. "He will be fine, I'm not sure about their world though. It's up to Astrid if their world falls apart or not." Everyone looked at Will oddly hoping for an explanation. "Astrid and Hiccup are two pieces of one heart. I'm not sure how but that is what Oracle told me. The problem is if they don't get along they will be torn apart as may their world. Astrid's father is unknowingly tearing their world apart." Everyone's jaw dropped by this info and then a Water Person walked into the room.
"Everyone I have paid off our debt to you. Now there is one last thing that four of you must do. I suppose I should explain things to you. When the world first began, we were here as well as the four other elements. Lightning, earth, wind, and fire. We were the original power holders. The heart of Kandrakhar and Kandrakhar are just substitutes for us. We were imprisoned by a dark entity, cursed to be forever imprisoned in our elements. We were hidden away from the worlds so that none could find us and only those that control the elements could free us. You the guardians are those people. We controlled all the powers of our elements to their full extent and we gave the humans some of it. But only one human at a time can hold our power within them." The Water Person said.
"The Oracle never said anything about this." Will said shocked by this information.
"He doesn't know of us, no one knows of us until now. I know where the other elements are but you must hurry and free them from their prisons. The elements must either all be free or imprisoned. Having any free and the other or others imprisoned will cause instability. You must hurry and free the other elements before we become unstable." The Water Person said as he melted a bit and then reformed. "You must hurry." The Water Person then created a way for Will and the others, except for Irma, to find the other elements and pointed them to the folds that they needed to go through. The group really didn't want to leave but there wasn't time to argue and so they left.
"What happens if you become unstable?" Irma asked.
"The elements lose their powers and everything will die." The Water Person said.
"One thing that I don't understand, the past guardians are able to use an amount of the power they once had." The Water Person stopped her there.
"That is true but they become exhausted doing so, the power is unstable. The older they get, the worse it is but I must leave now." The Water Person then disappeared.
"What's going on, I'm not clear on everything?" Irma said confused and then looked over at Hiccup who began to wake. "Hey Hiccup, you ok?" Irma asked handing Hiccup some water.
Hiccup shook his head trying to focus. Once he woke up fully, he grabbed the water and drank some. The water stung his chest as it flowed down. Breathing hurt as well and his head felt as though it were going to explode. He had such a bad headache he couldn't stand the light. "Could you turn off the lights and shut the blinds?" Hiccup asked weakly. Irma quickly got up and closed the blinds and turned off the lights. Some light still came through the blinds but it wasn't enough to hurt his head more then it already did. He couldn't remember a thing of what happened other then he took a beating. Soon though, he fell back to sleep.
Irma looked at Hiccup sadly and then the door opened to reveal Astrid. "Shut the door and keep the lights off." Irma said quickly not wanting to wake Hiccup.
"What's going on?" Astrid asked confused.
"Hiccup woke up and asked to have no light in the room, or at least minimal amount of light. The light hurt his head and so they need to be off." Irma said and then told Astrid where the others went. After that they relaxed and watched as Hiccup slept neither Astrid or Irma talking.
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