Chapter 2: New Powers, Not so Easy
When they entered the room, Astroth looked around to find a room full of different metal contraptions. "What is all of this?"
"This is your training room where you'll be trained to use your power and keep your focus. Let's begin shall we?" Astroth nodded and they began.
Meanwhile in another part of Meridian, Lillian had just started received her power and is now getting ready to learn how to use it. "Ok Lillian, I'm not sure how this whole thing is going to work since you're the heart of earth and a guardian but until we figure things out, you listen to me ok." Will smiled as Lillian nodded and then she transformed the group. They hovered a few inches into the air and were engulfed into a pink light that shortly vanished. Will then looked over to Lillian. "Wow, you look just like Cornelia."
"Yeah but I look a lot better though." The group laughed.
"OK Lillian, keep focused. Now show me what you've got?" Will sat back with the others as Lillian tried using her new powers. The next thing they new, an earthquake started. "Please tell me you're trying to do this." Will asked as she got enough balance to fly into the air.
"No." Lillian then tried to stop but with no luck. Then vines came up out of the ground and caught the girls in the air and started pulling them down. Lillian then started to panic and it made things worse as the surrounding trees started moving and got in closer to the tied up girls. Lillian could hear her name being called and then she was told to focus which made her even more nervous and made things well, crazy. The vines holding the girls wrapped around the trees tying them to the trees. The trees then grabbed onto some other trees and started dancing. Lillian slapped her forehead. "Sorry." Lillian yelled up to them.
"Ok this is getting ridiculous." Will then detransformed the girls and the trees stopped and the vines loosened and dropped them to the floor. "Ok, let's go ask Elyon if she has a place that we can let you train where things can't get to out of control." Will saw Lillian's face fall and then heard a small sorry out of her. Will walked over to her and put an arm around her as did the other girls. "Don't worry about it Lillian, besides it was interesting to see dancing trees so you gave us a laugh." Will smiled at her.
"Yeah, Lillian, you're new to Cornelia's power so we expected it." Hay Lin smiled at her as well and then hugged her.
"You're no worse then Cornelia was when we got upgraded in power. Look, you're doing fine Lillian, you just need to practice, that's all." Irma said with a thumbs up.
"We all had troubles when we got our powers too, so don't feel bad about a little goof up. At least you weren't trying to do this to try to impress some guy." Taranee said giving a small chuckle.
"I wasn't completely focused though. It's just that Cornelia" Lillian couldn't finish her sentence. The girls gave her a group hug and smiled.
"Hey, I know she's your sister Lillian but you're going to have to live with the fact. She isn't evil, she is just upset and so we need to help her. She may not be a guardian anymore but she is our friend no matter what and you're her sister and so we need to help her." Will just stood there hugging her tightly with the others. "Come on everyone, let's get back to the castle and see what Elyon can do." Then the fie headed back to the castle while trying to keep Lillian happy.
Back in the lair, Astroth wasn't doing so hot either. She is now breathing hard and could hardly stand. Her knees are now shaking and weak and her hands are very red. "I can't take any more of this."
"Pathetic Astroth, you'll never beat them. Let me put it this way, the guardians are at level fifty while you're at level one. You had better pick up the pace or I swear I'll have them come after you." The man said angrily. "Go again until you get this right."
Just then a boulder came flying toward Astroth and she dodged it just in time. Then another and another came at her. She dodged one but got hit by another and another and after getting hit so many times, she got so fed up with it and the next boulder that came at her she knocked away with her hand and then dodged the one after that and hit the one after that away with her other hand. This went on and then she finally broke a boulder with her fist and the boulders soon stopped coming. "Finally."
"You finally broke a boulder but that is hardly enough to do any good against the guardians. You need to grow faster because if you don't, you'll never kill them. I'm beginning to think that you're not worth the trouble of training but you're all that I have right now and since you have a heart, you're the best I will ever get sadly. Get to bed and don't disappoint me tomorrow." The man turned around and Astroth had enough of him and charged him and when he went to hit him, he moved and grabbed her arm. Astroth went to attack him with her tail but he grabbed a little below the top inch of it and threw her into a wall. "If you can't even hurt me, you'll never touch the guardians. Now get to bed, your room is through that door." The man pointed to a door and then left her alone.
Astroth got off the wall and went to her room and laid down. "He is right, I couldn't even put a scratch on him and he doesn't even have any powers. I've got to work harder if I want to kill the guardians."
A/N: Ok so I don't know how often I am going to be updating for the fact that having a cold really messes up with my thinking though it is starting to go away finally. Thanks for the reviews and for reading and please continue to read and review. Thank you.