Chapter 18:
There the Guardians were, along with Matt in his Regent form, Caleb and Blunk trapped in a hole that Angelo trapped them in, looking up at the six Hybrids as they were looking down at them. Each of the Hybrids had curious looks on their faces as they looked down at them.
"I've never seen these creatures before.", Alchemy said. "Are they another kind of dragon?"
"I don't see any scales on them.", Joel said.
"But most them have wings.", Nerissa said. "But they're not dragon wings."
"So, why don't they fly out of the hole?", Cassidy questioned.
"No idea.", Micheal said. "Maybe you should help them out Angelo."
"And maybe I shouldn't.", Angelo said. "How do we know if they're not dangerous?"
"Hmmmm... good point.", Micheal said.
'Can anyone still fly?', Taranee asked the girls telepathiclly.
'I can.', Will said as she flapped her wings.
'Me too!', Hay Lin said doing the same thing.
'Same here.', Cornelia said as she flapped her wings as well.
'Ditto!', Irma said as she and the other girls began to fly out of the hole.
Cornelia and Taranee grabbed Caleb by his arms and flew upwards out of the hole, while Irma grabbed Blunk. Matt soom followed once he had enough room to fly. Once out of the hole, they landed on the opposite side of the hole coming face to face with the Hybrids.
"Okay. So they can fly.", Micheal said. "Well, six of them can."
"Um... hi.", Will said, making the first move. "I'm Will. And these are my friends Matt, Irma, Taranee, Cornelia, Caleb, Hay Lin, and Blunk."
"I'm a friend?", Matt whisoered to Will with a smirk under his golden mask.
"They don't know what a boyfriend and girlfriend are.", Will whispered back.
"I'm just kidding.", Matt said with a grin.
"So, who are you?", Hay Lin asked with a smile.
"Well, I'm Angelo.", Angelo said, introducing himself. "This is Alchemy, Nerissa, Joel, Cassidy, and Micheal."
"So, what are you?", Alchemy asked as Angelo closed up the hole with his powers. "You don't look like dragons. So, you must be something different."
"We're humans.", Cornelia replied.
"Blunk not human.", Blunk said correcting the Earth Guardian. "Blunk is Passling."
Nerissa then stepped up to Blunk and took a smell of him.
"Ew!", Nerissa yelled as she jumped back and covered her nose. "Blunk stinks!"
"You can say that again.", Irma whispered to Hay Lin who giggled a little.
"Not stink!", Blunk said. "Blunk's natural aroma."
"Well, it doesn't smell good to me!", Micheal said as he along with the other Hybrids stepped back a little.
"So, why are you all here?", Cassidy asked.
"We're here looking for you.", Taranee said with a kind smile. "Would you like to go on a trip with us?"
"I don't know.", Alchemy said.
"It'll be fun.", Irma said as she knelt down to face Alchemy.
"Sorry, but Draganos told us not to wander to far from our den while he's away.", Joel said.
"Besides, we don't know you that well.", Nerissa said. "You could be bad hu-hu-hu... What are you again?"
"Humans.", Caleb said as he looked down at Nerissa sternly as he made a tight fist.
Nerissa saw the look Caleb was giving her and backed away a little, next to Cassidy.
"You okay?", Cassidy asked.
"I don't think he likes me.", Nerissa whispered to Cassidy as she looked at Caleb.
"Don't worry, we won't let him hurt you.", Cassidy said with a smile making Nerissa smile as well.
Seeing the way Caleb was lookind down at Nerissa, Cornelia pulled him aside.
"Don't blow this!", Cornelia whispered to Caleb.
"I'm sorry.", Caleb whispere back. "It's just that even looking like that, I still can't stand her!"
"Well, don't sweat it.", Cornelia whispered. "If Will's plan works, then Nerissa will be locked away for a very long time."
"You're right.", Caleb said. "The sooner she's out of the way the better."
As they walked back up to the others, Caleb saw the scared look on Micheal's face.
"Oh-oh!", Caleb said getting Cornelia's attention. "I think he heard us!"
Micheal then blew a powerful wind, making a dust cloud that made the teens cover their faces while stepping back a bit.
"Run for it!", Micheal said.
"What wrong?", Angelo asked.
"They want to do something bad to Nerissa!", Micheal yelled.
"WHAT?", Nerissa questioned in shock. "I didn't do anything to them!"
"Who cares!", Angelo said as he and Cassidy grabbed her hands and pulled her along. "Just run!"
The Hybrids dropped to all fours, and ran as fast as they could through the forest.
"What was that all about?", Will asked coughing with the thing of dust Micheal kicked up when he flew at them.
"I think Micheal heard me and Calen talking!", Cornelia said coughing.
"Well, that's just great!", Irma said coughing. "A little help, Hay Lin!"
"Hold on!", Hay Lin said as she coughed.
Hay Lin then used her powers to make a gust of wind strong enough to blow the dust away.
"Thanks Hay Lin.", Will said as they could breath again.
"No problem.", Hay Lin said.
"Now what do we do?", Matt asked.
"We have to find them and take them with us before this Draganos guy returns!", Will said. "They said that he was gone. They didn't say how long he'd be gone!"
"Then let's get going and find them!", Caleb said as they split up and went in search of them.
As for the Hybrids some stayed together, while others ran on their own.
"We have to keep running!", Cassidy said as she and Micheal ran through the forest.
"I'd rather fight!", Micheal said. "I think we can take them!"
"Well, we don't know that!", Cassidy said. "So keep running."
"Wait!", came Hay Lin's voice as she and Irma were flying right behnind them. "Come back!"
"We're not going to hurt you!", Irma said as she and Hay Lin picked up speed.
Before Cassidy and Micheal knew it, Irma and Hay Lin flew past them. Hay Lin then blew a wind to the ground that brushed up some leaves, which made Micheal and Cassidy stop un their tracks.
"One of them has powers of an air dragon!", Micheal said in surprise.
Seeing that they stopped, Hay Lin used her powers to blow the leaves away. Micheal and Cassidy looked up to see Hay Lin and Irma standing there with their hands on their hips.
"Now you two are coming with us!", Irma said as she was about to reach for one of them.
"No!", Cassidy yelled as she flew into the air surprising Irma and Hay Lin.
"I forgot they can fly!", Irma said.
Cassidy then called up a large thing of water and sprayed the two Guardians with it!
"Hey!", Hay Lin yelled as she and Irma were trying to back away. "Cut it out!"
Seeing this, Micheal took a deep breath and blew a cold wind at the girls as they wee being hit by the water. Before the girls knew it. They felt the water around them freeze up fast.
"Oh crap!", Irma shouted as she felt the water freeze around her.
"You can stop now, Cassidy!", Micheal said to his fellow Hybyrid.
Once she stopped, Cassidy looked to see Irma and Hay Lin frozed in a chunk of ice in a defencive position.
"Wow!", Cassidy said as she knocked on the ice. "Did we do that?"
"Yeah!", Micheal said with a smile.
They then looked at each other and smile.
"Alright!", they both said as they raised their tails and smacked them together.
They then saw Taranee flying towards them!
"Run!", Cassidy yelled.
They two Hybrids then took off running, hoping to get away from Taranee. Once Taranee was close enough, she landed in front of the large block of ice that held Irma and Hay Lin.
"Wow!", Taranee said as she looked at the block of ice. "They're good."
'You two okay in there?', Taranee asked the two frozen Guardians telepathiclly.
'GET US OUT OF HERE!', the two of them screamed to Taranee telepathiclly.
'It'll take some time, but I'll get you two out of there!', Taranee said telepathiclly as she began to melt the ice with her fire power.
Elsewhere, Alchemy was running from Caleb and Blunk, who thanks to all the battles they've fought, we're in good enough shape to keep up with her.
'Got to keep going!', Alchemy thought to herself as she kept running. 'Got to use my head and think of a way to beat them. Come on Alchemy! Remember what father taught you!'
"We almost have her, Blunk!", Caleb said as they were keeping up with Alchemy. "Man, she can move!"
"Blunk wish he didn't come here!", Blunk said as he ran behind Caleb. "It to hot here!"
As she was running from Caleb and Blunk, Alchemy saw that she was near the beach. She then saw some palm trees and had an idea.
'I hope this works!', Alchemy thought as she jumped up onto one of the palm trees and began to climb up it quickly. 'I'm glad I learned how to climb trees faster! I have to thank Angelo later!'
Caleb and Blunk saw how fast Alchemy climbed the tree and were pretty surprised.
"Oooooo!", Blunk said. "She fast climber! Blunk may take lessons from her!"
"She is fast!", Caleb said as he and Blunk looked up at Alchemy.
Alchemy looked down at Caleb and Blunk who were looking up at her.
"We're not going to hurt you!", Caleb said. "Please come down!"
Alchemy then stuck her tongue out at them.
"And now we have to go up there and get her.", Caleb said as he began to climb up the palm tree with Blunk right behind him.
Alchemy looked down to see that Caleb and Blunk were climbing up after her.
'That's it.', Alchemy thought to herself. 'Just a little closer.'
Soon, Caleb and Blunk were about a foot from Alchemy. Taking a chance, Caleb reached up to grab Alchemy's tail. But Alchemy simply smiled at Caleb and flew off the tree, leaving him and Blunk up in the tree. But she wasn't finished.
"That's just great!", Caleb said as he looked t Alchemy fly around the tree he and Blunk were in. "How can this get any worse?"
Suddenly, Alchemy flew a few feet away and grabbed a vine from another tree. She then flew back to Caleb and Blunk and flew around the tree quickly. Soon she had the two of them tied to the tree. Alchemy then flew a good distance from the tree. She then flew at the tree at a fast pace. Once she touched it, she began to push down hard on the tree.
"What're you doing?", Caleb questioned as Alchemy kept up what she ws doing.
Soon, Caleb and Blunk felt the tree they were in was bending a bit. Alchemy kept the pressure on, giving it her all as the tree bent more and more.
"Just a bit more!", Alchemy said as she saw that the tree was bending just the way she wanted.
Soon, Alchemy saw that the tree was bent down pretty well. Caleb saw that the only thing holding the tree down was Alchemy, who was smiling at him. He then put two and two together.
"Please don't.", Caleb pleaded to the smiling Hybrid.
"Bye-bye!", Alchemy said as she jumped to the side letting the tree fling back up fast! So fast that it sent Caleb and Blunk flying as the vines that held them snapped!
"Whoooooooooa!", Caleb yelled as he went flying towards the beach.
"Woo-Hoo!", Blunk cheered enjoying the ride while waving his hands in the air.
They both ended up falling onto the sand of the beach. Caleb slowly turned over onto his back and took a deep breath as Blunk turned over on his back.
"I never want to go through that again!", Caleb said.
"Blunk like ride!", the happy Passling said with a smile. "Need some on Metamoor!"
"I'll take to Elyon about it.", Caleb said in a dull tone before letting out a tired sigh.
Watching them from within the forest was Alchemy, who had a smile on her face. She let out a small laugh before flying through the forest.
"Now to find the others!", she said as she flew a bit faster. "I hope they don't get Nerissa!"
Further in the jungle, Cornelia was chasing after Joel as he was flying away from her.
"There has to be someway to catch him without hurting him!", Cornelia said as she was hot on Joel's tail. "I got it!"
Taking a chance, Cornelia trapped him in a telekinetic bubble. Once trapped in the bubble, Joel tumbled around in the bubble.
"Gotcha!", Cornelia said as she hovered in the air.
Cornelia then had the bubble come to her, happy with her work.
"Sorry little guy, but this is for your own good.", Cornelia said.
"Let me out!", Joel demanded as he glared at Cornelia from within the bubble. "Let me out or else!"
"Sorry, little buddy.", Cornelia said. "But I don't see you getting out of that bubble anytime soon."
"That's what you think!", Joel said as he brought his hands together.
"What are you doing?", Cornelia asked.
"This!", Joel said as he formed an energy blade.
Joel then slashed at the bubble mulitple times. Each slash was making Cornelia's telekinetic bubble weaker and weaker.
'I can't hold it much longer!', Cornelia said as she was trying to keep the bubble strong.
Then, after a powerful slash, Joel was free of the bubble!
"Aaaah!", Cornelia yelled as she was knocked back a little.
While trying to get her barrings, Joel flew at her and rammed her in the stomach!
"Oof!", Cornelia grunted as she was knocked against a tree.
The impact was hard enough to knock her out as she sat on the ground.
'Taranee... I...', Cornelia said as she tried to contact the Fire Guardian telepathiclly before going unconscious.
Joel snorted at her, in victory, before searching for Nerissa.
"If they hurt my sister, I'll make them pay!", Joel said as he ran through the forest in search of his sister.
As for Will, she was walking through the forest looking for any of the Hybrids.
"Where are they?", Will questioned as she walked through the area.
'Will!', Taranee called out to her telepathiclly. 'Can you hear me?'
'I can hear you, Taranee!', Will replied telepathiclly. 'What's wrong?'
'We'll Cornelia is knocked out!', Taranee told her. 'She tried to catch Joel and he beat her pretty good. She tried to contact me before she got knocked out.'
'Is she still unconscious?', Will asked.
'She's out cold!', Taranee replied. 'And speaking of cold, you've got to see what happened to Irma and Hay Lin!'
'What do you mean?', Will asked.
'Close your eyes.', Taranee said.
'Ooooookay.', Will said as she closed her eyes wondering what Taranee was talking about.
Once they were closed, Taranee used her powers to show Will what she saw. Soon, an image came into view. Through Taranee's eyes, Will saw that Taranee was melting a block of ice that held a shivering Irma and Hay Lin as the two were hugging themselves. So far the ice was at their waist as Taranee was melting it as fast as she could.
'What the heck happened to you two?', Will questioned.
'C-C-C-C-Cassdiy and M-M-M-Micheal hap-p-p-pened!', Irma hissed.
'T-T-T-They f-f-f-froze us g-g-g-good!', Hay Lin said.
'I'll have them free in a few more minutes.', Taranee said. 'But, it'll be a while before they'll do any moving.'
'Okay.', Will said. 'Stay with them until they warm up and are ready to go.'
'Right.', Taranee said. 'Becareful, Will. These guys are stronger than they look.'
'Gotcha!', Will said before Taranee cut their link.
"From what's going on, it looks like these guys are as poerful as us!", Will said after pondering things over. "And if that's the case, then we've got trouble!"
Suddenly, Will was quickly wrapped in vines and hoisted into the air!
"Whoa!", Will screamed as she was being yanked into the air.
Once pulled up high enough, Will saw that she was hanging upside-down and swaying from side to side. As she was swaying, she saw Angelo landing to the ground. As he stood up straight on his hind legs, she saw that they were facing each other. She also saw that he wasn't looking to happy at her.
"Angelo?", Will questioned as she tried o get free.
"Won't work!", Angelo said. "Those vines are pretty tough!"
"Figures.", Will said as she stopped struggling.
"Goodbye.", Angelo said as he walked off.
"Wait!", Will yelled. "You can't leave me here like this!"
"I can and I am!", Angelo said as he turned to face Will. "I don't like it when something tries to hurt my friends! And you're trying to hurt Nerissa!"
"But-"
"By!", Angelo said as he flew off.
'Now to find Nerissa before those other creatures do!', Angelo thought as he flew faster.
"Well, this is just great!", Will said as she tried to get free.
'Taranee.', Will called out to her friend telepathiclly. 'When Corny come to, have her come find me.'
'Why?', Taranee asked. 'What happened?'
'I kind of gotten myself a litle tied up.', Will replied.
Now as for Nerissa, she was running for her life from none other than Matt who was flying right behind her in his Regent form. Formally known as Shagon. And deep down, part of him was enjoying the chase.
'Now she sees how it feels to be the weak one.', Matt thought to himself. 'But then again, she's not herself. So, I better make this quick.'
Nerissa, on the other hand, didn't know why the strange creatures wanted her so badly. She never met them before! And now she's running for her life from one of them!
"Got to run! Got to hide!", Nerissa said as she was running from Matt. "Got to get away! Got to fly!"
Nerissa then jumped high into the air and flapped her wings as fast as she could. Soon she was flying and trying to put as much distance between her and Matt. But he wasn't going to be that easy to shake!
"Oh no you don't!", Matt yelled as he flew faster. "You won't get away! Not this time! You'll pay for your crimes!"
"What did I do wrong?", Nerissa questioned as she flew faster.
"You know what you've done!", Matt snapped letting his anger get to him. "And you won't get away with it!"
Once he was close enough to her, he swung around and hit Nerissa with his tail knocking her to the ground.
"Ow!", Nerissa cried as she hit the ground and slid a little.
As Nerissa slowly stood on her hind legs, Matt landed in front of her. Nerissa looked up at him with fear in her eyes!
"Please don't hurt me!", Nerissa cried as she backed away from him slowly.
"Hurt you? Hurt YOU?", Matt yelled as he glared at her from behind his mask. "You're the one who caused pain and suffering to others. And now you're going to pay for it! I'm going to take you somewhere where you'll never see freedom again!"
'He's going to take me away from my brother and friends!', Nerissa thought as he was reaching for her.
"NOOOOOOOOO!", Nerissa screamed as she released a powerful wave of electricity from her body!
"Aaaaah!", Matt yelled as the wave hit him and knocked him back a few feet!
Nerissa, who was shocked at what just happened, looked at the form of Matt as he laid on the ground twitching a little. She then looked down at her hands as some electricity crackled around them.
"How... How did I do that?", she questioned as she continued to look down at her hands. "I didn't know that I was that strong!"
Suddenly, without warning, a green beam of energy shot down in front of Nerissa sending her towards a tree! A thud sound was heard as she hit the tree hard and then fell to the ground! As she laid on her side, she looked up weakly to see Matt walking towards her with his eyes glowing green.
"Why?", she asked in a weak and sad voice.
"Because you're a threat to all those around you!", Matt said. "And now you're coming with me!"
Matt then slowly reached down to grab Nerissa. Nerissa closed her eyes fearing the worst.
'Joel! Angelo! Cassidy! Somebody! Help!', she thought fearing the worst as Matt got closer to her.
"LEAVE HER ALONE!", came two angry voices.
A/N: Well, after a fun thing of chases of the other Hybrids, Matt goes a bit to far while chasing Nerissa. But two of the Hybrids have jumped in to stop him! Wonder who they are. Only one way to find out.
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