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Chapter 13-

Once the laughter had died down, we saw a sight that made us practically jump for joy. There was a sign saying Bridge Hill- 2miles. This was the first sign of civilisation we'd seen in a week so we were pretty happy. Of course then something happened to kill the mood, as it always does. There was a figure standing under the sign; a figure that I recognised all too well. Mr Jameson was back too, and I had a bone to pick with him.

He came towards us and I could see that he looked even worse than we did. He was even grubbier and more battered looking, not to mention the spectacular black eye and cut lip. Of course being the idiot I am, the first thing I did was march up to him and give him a smack in the face.

"God Blair," he gasped. "What did you do that for?"

I wasn't happy, so I let him have it:"Well you told us to save the world, then left us to discover magic powers and how exactly to save the world (still working on it by the way) alone for 3 months without so much as a word. What have you been doing all this time? We've been practising, keeping up with school, oh yeah and we were attacked by forces of chaos and forced to flee for our lives."

"Umm, sorry but I've been pretty busy too. I can't go into the details as it comes from a higher office. Besides, I'm here now aren't I?"

He had a point but I wasn't about to tell him that. Turns out I didn't have to, as he continued talking.

"Now girls, I have something for you. You powers alone have proven adept at disposing of chaos creatures so far-"

"What?" Annie interrupted. She's good at that. "Miss Greenwood came back to get us, and the BCs on the tennis court wiped out on their own"

Mr Jameson gave her hackies that topped even Abby's. "Yes and that proved adept. But soon you will have to face even worse so these may be useful."

He conjured up 6 leather sheaths with our names on. I was glad he was finally showing some interest. It had been a long 3 months. Anyway I looked inside and drew out a sword. Yes, a sword and let me tell you, it was HEAVY. It was nice though. It had a stone in the hilt that was a gorgeous sea blue and the blade had a wave pattern engraved. It seemed perfect.

The others had swords too. Grace's had a fiery red stone and a flame pattern; Annie had a green stone and a vine pattern; Abby had a clear, diamond-y stone and a swirly pattern; Hope's was darkest black and Ed's glowed with light.

Ed grinned at me and we both thought back to an especially boring school trip last year. Wed bought these wooden swords in the gift shop that still came out on occasion for mock sword Fights. Of course now that we had the real thing, I was slightly scared. We actually didn't have a clue how to use swords apart from whatever we'd seen in books and movies.

Mr Jameson's voice interrupted my train of thought: "but you must remember these aren't toys. You can do serious damage with these bad boys so don't try them on each other."

Reluctantly I put my sword away and strapped it round my waist. Then Mr Jameson kept going. It was slightly bizarre that he'd show up like this after 3 months; and here, in the middle of a field! "Now I know Hope has developed her secondary powers but what about the rest of you?"

Hope looked confused. "Secondary powers? What are you talking about?"

Mr Jameson looked amused. "Your invisibility?"

A look of realisation dawned on Hopes face. Ed pointed a finger at her and said, "So that's where you went when you were sucked down the black hole in the PE cupboard!" I smiled as I remembered our weird theory.

"Anyone else?" asked Mr. Jameson.

I then saw Annie giving Hope a weird look. Then she burst out, "No! You don't fancy Greg! Greg Brandon? Oh my god." hope was bright red at this point. Annie hadn't been told about it because of her tendency to blurt out supposed secrets. Fortunately Mr. Jameson intervened. "Ah mind reading," he sighed. "That's going to be fun"

Ed jaw dropped nearly to the floor. "Why?" she asked. "Why can Annie now read minds? Ah crap. It's going to be the book thing all over again. But worse."

"Mwahahahaha!" laughed Annie.

Mr Jameson looked slightly frightened by that, but he continued with his spiel. "Now you must know that these powers will be harder to control than your initial elements. You may hear more than you would like to or find yourself disappearing involuntarily."

"Yeah," said Annie. "I didn't want or need to know that you were wearing teddy bear boxers. That's slightly disturbed."

It was then Mr Jameson's turn to go bright red.

"And speaking of disappearing," continued Hope. "Has anyone seen Abby and Ed?"

I was sure that they'd been standing next to me, but when I turned they weren't there. Moments later, we heard a shriek as Abby fell out of a tree on the other side of the field. She began limping back over.

"How did she get over there?" I asked, slightly gobsmacked.

"Teleportation," came Mr. Jameson's reply. I think he was still embarrassed.

"What about Ed?"

"Down here fellow freaks!" came a squeaky reply. The words seemed to have come from a blondish squirrel that was sitting in the middle of the path.

Grace nudged me and whispered, "Did that squirrel just talk?"

"Yes, dipstick. It's me, Ed!"

"What?"

"Shape-shifter," Mr Jameson Smiled at the sight of squirrel-Ed. "You should be able to do other animals too."

"Good to know, but how do I get back to normal?"

"Visualise exactly what you were before and you should come back to it."

"Already tried it. Any other suggestions?"

"You should turn back when you run out of energy to keep it up."

Ed scowled which looked immensely cute if slightly odd on her squirrel face.

"Anyway, Blair you should have healing powers. I think they haven't been displayed as you haven't had need."

Grace snorted from behind me. "You're kidding right? The girl who failed her brownies first aid badge has magic healing powers. I really hope I don't get hurt."

"It's true," I agreed. "I tend to make things worse rather than better..."

"Yes, but things will be different now. Here, fix Abby's ankle. It looks broken."

Abby had finally limped back across the field and was now looking slightly scared. "Are you sure that's a Good idea Mr Jameson?" she asked.

"Just do it, Blair," he sounded like he was beginning to lose patience. So I sat down and put my hands on Abby's ankle. I could feel the break and willed it to fix. Under my hands I could actually feel the bones knitting back together. After about a minute I stopped. Abby tried standing up and her ankle was perfectly fine.

"Wow," she was amazed as was I. I normally failed at this sort of thing so to find that I could fix broken bones was pretty cool. I tried to heal some of the cuts and bruises that I'd acquired over the past week too (some in the fight and some from particularly vicious trees and those pesky invisible bushes that trip people up). Amazingly that also worked. Soon everyone was patched up and as good as new. Then Mr Jameson turned to Grace. "Your power may be a little later in developing than the others," he began. "You should have the sight; visions of the past, present or future."

Grace nodded. She looked slightly worried and a little ill as well. I thought she might faint and I wasn't sure if I could cure that.

Of course Mr. Jameson didn't notice and he kept talking, "In addition to this you should also have enhanced speed, strength and stamina. Now, these pendants should keep you safe (he gave us all a pendant which was a similar design to the swords) and I'm sorry to say that I have to go now, so good luck."

With that, he turned and started to walk away. When he reached the cover of the woods he broke into a run and soon he was gone. Id considered running after him using this enhanced speed I was supposed to have, but I got slightly distracted by Ed and grace.

There was a loud pop, and Ed was back to normal. "Next time I see that guy," she pointed in the direction Mr Jameson had headed. "I will do what Blair did and smack him. Or maybe I'll just show him what this sword can do." then there was a hollow thunk noise and we turned to see grace sprawled on the ground in a dead faint.

I didn't know what had happened to make her faint. I splashed water on her face to try and make her come round. It actually worked! She sat bolt upright and said, "we can't trust him. Mr Jameson, I mean. I just had a weird vision. He's going to betray us. I don't know when, but it's going to happen."

"Maybe we should get out of here," I was slightly worried. "Who knows where he went."

"Where do you want to go?" asked Abby. This worried me even more. I could guess what she was thinking and I didn't like it.

Fortunately, Hope spoke for me. "You can't teleport us all back to someone's house! It's supposed to be hard to control. You just fell out of a tree and broke your ankle. You could kill us, or leave parts of us behind. I do not want to be splinched Abigail Georgia Blakefield. No!"

Abby looked slightly sad. Then there was rustling in the trees behind us. I could hear the heavy breathing of the chaos demons and I could just make out their glowing eyes. Ed saw them too because she screamed really loudly.

I tried to make an ice barrier to stop them getting through like I'd done sometimes when we were practicing, but nothing happened. My powers were failing, leaving me at the mercy of the beasts.

I was screaming too. "Abby, just do it! Teleport us out of here!"

We all held on to each other and suddenly we were freefalling through a void. There was nothing around us; we were just falling forever until I landed on my back on a stone floor. I could hear Annie groaning in pain somewhere behind me. I turned, and it was really horrible. Her arm was all bloody and mangled. It was sliced to ribbons in places and it was nearly cut off at her shoulder. I honestly thought I was going to be sick.

I got ready to try my healing thing but again, nothing happened. I was really starting to panic. Luckily (I think...) Annie didn't see how bad it really was before she passed out from the agonising pain she must of been in.

Then I heard a crack. Hope had smacked Abby really hard across the face; I think she drew blood. This came as a shock because hope is normally a really calm person and is pretty opposed to violence. However now she was screaming at Abby, "You idiot! I told you not to do it. I knew someone was going to get hurt. Have you seen your best friend? You splinched her!"

Abby was shouting back. "I had to! There were at least 30 of those things in the woods and Blair's powers failed. Mine are gone too! They went during the freefall. I thought we were going to keep going forever but we didn't. Something saved us."

I decided to interrupt. "Abby, where were you trying to get us?"

"Um, Ed's place in Keswick."

"Have you seen where we are instead?"

"I lost my powers mid teleport! It's not my fau-"

The silence was deafening as we realised where we were. We saw the familiar dark corridor with slimy walls and doors branching off. We were back in the gateway to chaos.

Chapter 14

"No," said Ed in disbelief. "What's this, another test? Is there more?"

"Somehow I doubt it. We're stuck this time because our powers are failing. At least mine and Abby's are. And Annie's unconscious so we can't really tell."

Hope was still angry with Abby, but at the moment when the lightning should have come, there was nothing yet again. Grace was clicking into a frenzy but there wasn't as much as a spark. Ed laughed and lit up. Then there was another pop and she turned into a turtle. "Aw, come on!" she shouted. "A turtle? Oh crap. My powers are gone now too. I can't turn back!"

I tried to remember how we'd escaped the gateway last time. Wed wiped out after beating miss greenwood and we'd woken up in the white office. I could only assume that it had been Mr. Jameson. To be perfectly honest I didn't think he was going to save us this time, and even if he did I didn't want his help.

Of course us being us, things went from bad to worse. One of the doors creaked open and we were sucked inside. It was pitch dark and we couldn't see a thing, not even each other. Soon our eyes got used to the darkness and we could make out the room. It was pretty small and there were no windows; even the door had disappeared. I went over to a wall and sat down. It looked like we were going to be there a while.

Then, what looked like red smoke came through the wall. It was a bit more substantial than smoke though because it moved through the room chaining all of us to the wall (except Annie who wasn't going to wake up anytime soon) and formed a cage round turtle Ed.

"Awww! Not fair!" she shouted. It echoed weirdly in the room that I was now thinking of as our prison cell. Our arms and legs were clamped to the wall so we couldn't move. That was a bit of a problem as my nose was really starting to itch.

Also the weird smoky stuff that had imprisoned us seemed to be sapping our strength. I don't know how long it was before I eventually fell asleep. I dozed fitfully on and off for I don't know how long. It could have been hours, days or maybe weeks. Time seemed to pass weirdly in the gateways worlds anyway.

Eventually I woke up because I heard something or someone moving in the room. Thinking it might be Annie coming round, I tried to open my eyes. It was a real struggle, so much energy had been drained. There was a figure in the room. He looked kind of like a death eater from Harry Potter in a black robe and freaky skull-like mask. i gave him my best hackies, which thinking about it was probably not that scary...

"What do you want?" I asked, surprised at how weak and croaky my voice sounded.

He gave an evil laugh. "I came to see how you girls were bearing up. Unfortunately your still alive, even with your powers bound and your energy being sapped by pure chaos evil."

"Why are you keeping us here? What did we ever do to you?"

"Well its in your job description as guardians, to stop our side from taking over. If we stop you doing your job, we can take over Earth. I mean you've seen the gateway, the rest of chaos isnt exactly pretty."

Then he was gone. Thinking about it, his voice sounded familiar, although i was pretty sure i had no idea who he was. I began to doze again, but I don't know how long for. Next time I woke up I heard a groan. Ed poked her head out of her little turtle shell. She must have felt at least as bad as I did if not worse.

"Last time I EVER turn into a turtle," her voice was as weak and croaky as mine. "I think there's something wedged in this shell. It's seriously uncomfortable." Then she went back into her shell. I thought she was going back to sleep so I closed my eyes. Just as I was slipping back under I heard Ed shouting again. "No. It's that stupid pendant Mr Jameson gave us. Fat lot of good that did, keeping us safe. We've been captured by the bad guys for crying out loud! I don't want or need his help." She started chewing through the cord on the pendant. Eventually it snapped and clattered against the floor. As soon as it was off, the turtle began to grow. Soon Ed was standing in the cage which had grown to fit her new size. It would have been funny if it hadn't.

Ed seemed stronger now, and she whipped out her sword and sliced through the smoky stuff. We grinned at each other. The pendants had bound our powers. It seemed that the betrayal Grace had seen had already happened. Ed cut me free then, and we sorted out the others. Then we destroyed the pendants in the best way we know how. Our thoughts then turned to getting out of the gateway. Teleportation seemed the best way, but after last time Hope was a bit unsure. Actually, a bit is understatement of the century. But we didn't really have much choice and our powers weren't going to randomly fail on us this time.

So, we grabbed Annie, who was still out for the count and we were away. A minute later, we were back at the signpost for Bridge Hill. We lay Annie down on the grass, and I sorted out her arm. I don't know how long we'd been trapped but it seemed to have gotten infected. It was extremely hard not to throw up as I sorted it out. It was eventually over and Annie sat up and puked everywhere. Then she grinned and said, "Did we beat them?"

I grinned back; glad she was ok and said, "Yeah, we beat them."

Then I realised how hungry I was. It must have been days. Then Abby came out of the woods, carrying our backpacks. I grabbed mine and rooted through until I found my last chocolate bar. This may sound mean, but there was no way on earth I was sharing. When it was gone I turned to the others who'd managed to find food too.

"What do we do now?" I asked. "We can't exactly keep running. They found us once, they can do it again."

Nobody said anything. Grace shut her eyes and screwed up her face; she was having another vision. Luckily she didn't pass out this time. "We need answers," she began. "And we can get them in the other gateway. The one with the White office where we woke up."

"We can't teleport between realms. I just know it. I don't know how we got in the gateway to chaos, but it wasn't me. Well have to find another way in to the other gateway."

Grace had a knowing look on her face, but she didn't look too happy about it. "We know where the entrances to the gateways are. They're somewhere in Milton. We were told they were close and anything would come for us there first which, granted, is why we left in the first place. I think the entrance to the chaos gateway is in Miss Greenwood's cupboard, which is how we ended up in the gateway from detention. The question is, where's the other one?"

That detention seemed so long ago now, when we'd been wishing for something to happen. I agreed with Grace though and with grim determination said, "Were going back to school."

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