Hello everyone. I'm sorry that's it's been a week or so since I updated. I've been busy with volleyball and I started my PSSAs, which are a pain in the ace. l=/ I promise I will update whenever possible. I swear on the Power of Kandrakar. Lol. XD. Anyhoo, on with the story.
Title: Warriors in Shadows
Chapter 5: Missing Water
Hay Lin's POV
Will, Irma, Taranee, Cornelia and I were getting ready to open the restaurant up for the day. Grandma went back to Kandrakar and my parents weren't going to be back until Monday. I swept the floor and then looked at my friends.
"Hey, has anyone seen Nattie and her friend, oh what's her name, Kayleigh?" Will asked.
"I'm pretty sure it's Kayla, and don't be surprised if they don't show up. They stayed up all night giggling and laughing." Cornelia grumbled. She laid her head down on one of the empty tables.
"Awe, was Corny deprived of her beauty sleep?" Irma antagonized as Nattie and Kayla walked in. Will walked up to Nattie.
"Natalya, you are late. Where on God's green Earth you been?" Will interrogated the young red head.
"Will, relax, I was showing Kayla around and we lost track of time." Nattie said calmly.
"Where exactly did you show Kayleigh?" Will asked.
"Umm, it's Kayla." Kayla said quietly.
"And I was just showing her around our HQ. Nothing to worry about." Nattie said. Will was about to say something until Taranee interjected.
"People are going to coming in soon. Shouldn't we get Kayla a uniform?" Taranee stated. Natalya nodded and led Kayla off to get a uniform. Will just stood there staring at the doorway.
"Will, are you ok?" I asked.
"I don't trust this Kayla character." Will simply said.
"Kayla seems like a sweet girl." I said.
"Keyword being 'seems'. We know nothing about her and she won't tell anyone anything with the exception of Natalya." Will said.
"What are you saying?" Irma asked, confused.
"I'm saying that we should spy on Kayla."
Meanwhile with Natalya and Kayla – Normal POV
"Nattie, it's so good to see you again." Kayla said.
"Same goes here. Where have you been the last seven years?" Natalya said. Kayla remained silent and looked down at the floor. "Kay, what's wrong? Was it something I said?"
"No, it wasn't you, Nattie. I just…don't really like talking about it." Kayla said.
"How about we just drop the subject." Nattie said as she handed Kayla a uniform. Kayla nodded as Natalya took Kayla's hand. "C'mon, we had better get back up there before Will freaks out again." Kayla nodded again and followed Natalya back upstairs to the others.
One Week Later – Cornelia's POV
One week has passed since me, Will and the others decided to spy on Kayla, excluding Nattie, of course. Actually, Nattie can't find out, so, this whole thing is like a game. Anyway, we were all by the river waiting for Nattie and Kayla so our training session could begin. After about ten minutes of waiting, Nattie and Kayla came running into view.
"Natalya, what's wrong?" Taranee asked.
"Something…Is…" was all Nattie managed to say before she stopped to catch her breath.
"What Nattie is trying to say is that there's something attacking the city!" Kayla finished. Nattie nodded as we all looked at her for confirmation. Natalya stood up and took out the Heart.
"Guardian's Unite!" she said as we all transformed, excluding Kayla. When we landed, Kayla was nowhere to be found. We assumed that she went to a safe place and took to the sky. We didn't have to fly very far to see a black phoenix type beast attacking downtown Heatherfield.
"Lets go!" Will shouted as we flew behind her. When we finally approached the beast, it instantly spotted us and tried to swat us away like flies.
"Natalya, what is this thing?" I asked.
"Why are you asking me?" Natalya responded.
"Well, you are our resident expert on creatures of Metamoor." Irma said.
"Just because I grew up on Kandrakar doesn't mean I know everything of every…Look out!" Natalya exclaimed as the beast made another attempt to knock us out of the air.
"We need to contain it so it doesn't hurt anyone." Hay Lin said.
"Hay's right. Irma, Hay Lin, Taranee, try to weaken it from the sky. Will, Cornelia, come with me. We are going to try to weaken it from the ground." Natalya said. We split up and flew in different directions. Will, Natalya and I landed on the ground and looked up.
"You know, this thing looked smaller from the air." Will said. The three of us continued to look up.
"Something tells me that we are going to need a lot of Earth." I mumbled. We saw Irma, Taranee and Hay Lin attack the beast.
"Cornelia, quick, while it's distracted, help me make a cage from Earth. Then when we complete that, help me levitate some metal onto the cage. That way, Will and I can charge up the metal to make…"
"An electric cage!" Will and I exclaimed. Nattie and I began to form an Earth cage. We got halfway done with the cage when Irma called for help. We looked up and saw that Irma's power was weakening.
"Irma's losing her powers. Her magic is being drained!" Natalya said.
"But the thing isn't touching her." I said.
"Maybe it doesn't have to. Maybe it belongs to the Shadow Warrior, making it able to drain our powers one by one!" Will said.
"Natalya, come back here!" I exclaimed as Natalya raced towards Irma. She grabbed Irma's hand and extended her own arm.
"Water!" they both shouted. They attacked the beast, but then it blew a black cloud of smoke around us all.
"Hay Lin, can you clear this." Taranee and Natalya said between coughs. Hay Lin quickly made a hurricane and cleared the smoke. Taranee and Natalya collapsed onto the ground, gasping for air. Actually, Natalya was on the verge of just collapsing period. She struggled to support herself from falling on her face.
"Taranee, Nattie, are you two ok?" Hay Lin asked as Kayla came running back.
"Just fine. With all of that smoke, it took away a lot of oxygen, which Natalya and I need for our Fire powers to work." Taranee said, standing up and walking towards us. We waited for Nattie to get up too, but she didn't move.
"Nattie, are you ok?" Will said, kneeling beside her little sister as she transformed into her human form.
"Yeah, I'm ok. I'm drained of power for the moment. Not only did that smoke almost kill me, it drained almost all of my energy." Natalya said quietly.
"You just need to sleep, that's all." Will said. Natalya looked up and around. Then she said two words that made all of our hearts stop.
"Where's Irma?"
Dun, dun, duuuunnn! Yeah buddy, this is getting good! So where is Irma? Where do you think Kayla was during all of this? I would love to hear your ideas on where Kayla was during the battle. Again, I will try to update as soon as possible. Right now with my schedule, I'm surprised I had time to finish this. 'Till then. ^_^