Hi again peoples of the internet! im not dead! (althought that could be good or bad...) I hope you all had a nice chrismas and heres a very very late happy new year! Im sorry that i havnt posted in aaaaaaaages, it is my resolution to post more often! The sad news is, theres probably only gonna b another 3-4 posts on this thing, cos its nearly done. (agen that could be good or bad...) I am also sorry that this is a really short post, but that is because i am mid way through the next chapter which is pretty long! Oh yeah, and if you didnt notice, i finally came up with a title. YAY!

Finally, virtual hugs to Lulu Bee (again. are you my 1 and only reader/reviewer chiiiiiild?). ok byee! pls review if you liked it. Or recommend to your other internet peopley friends. if you want. you dont have to.

xxxx

Chapter 18-

The gateway seemed very empty when they'd gone. It really was a case of 'what now?' Hope suggested that we stayed in the gateway and tried to get some sleep; after all, it was 4am and we couldn't really go back to our room on account of it being trashed. The only other option was going back to the woods to find the camping stuff, but no one really wanted to go all that way. It was a unanimous desicion.

We settled down on the cushions and beanbags and Annie was asleep in seconds. That girl sleeps like a rock; she is pretty much impossible to wake up. The rest of us followed minutes after. While I was asleep I had a dream. I weird premonitiony dream I really hoped wouldn't come true.

I was standing in the middle of what appeared to be a battlefield. Bodies of all manner of monsters and demons were strewn across the ground which was completely shredded, in a way that seemed familiar. I looked round and realised why. A power vortex even bigger than the one on the tennis courts tore round the perimeter of the battlefield. In the middle of the carnage I could see the six of us, in our giant warrior shield forms (or Bob, Sybil, Pete, Larry, Fred and Shaun as Ed decided to name them all). Shrieks and howls filled the air and I watched us turn to face the enemy.

Then the scene changed. What looked like a fiery red comet was blazing through a perfect blue sky. Twin silver and gold comets were hurtling straight towards the red one. Seconds before impact, the scene changed again.

This time I was looking down on the battle, but it was frozen in time. However the world zoomed in on a single sight. One body, pretty much too charred and mangled to be recognisable. Impossible to tell if not for the magic sword sheath, now empty, strapped round her waist. The name had been singed off, but I could see blonde hair. That left a choice of 2 people, neither of which I was prepared to lose.

I woke up with tears streaming down my face. The dream couldn't come true at any cost.

Chapter 19-

I didn't go back to sleep, so you can imagine how perky I was the following morning. It was about 8:30 when everyone else woke up and we decided to go back through the gateway to get some breakfast. So we headed back through the gateway and blended in with the morning rush. Once upstairs, we rummaged through all the junk in our room to find some clean school uniform and set off. Again, I never thought I'd miss the school food so much.

Once we were full of bacon we began to make a plan. We were going to go to all our normal lessons that day and try to get as much of normality as we possibly could for what would possibly be the last time. After all, we didn't know how much time we had before the final showdown and schoolwork might just take our minds off it for a little while.

It happened during physics. I hate physics, especially with mrs pritshaw. She's just a pants boring teacher and unlike Miss Greenwood she doesn't have the excuse that she's an immortal demon from another realm.

Anyway, we were sitting bored in physics. The time was dragging by painfully slowly, and I was counting minutes until the bell went for lunch and fish and chips. Then things turned weird. The clock slowed down. Yes, I know that clocks go slow sometimes, but everything and everyone in the room slowed down too; slower and slower as time passed (or rather failed to).

"thhheeee heeeeaaaat iiiiiiisss trrraaaaannsfeeerrrrred byyyy..." Mrs Pritshaw slowed to a complete stop. So did everyone else. Well, almost everyone, but I was the only one who'd noticed that we were completely frozen in time. The silence was deafening; but I had absolutely no idea whether it was this one classroom, the whole building, the whole school, the county, country, or even the whole world that had been affected.

At this point Ed looked up, saw that we were the only things moving and said, "whoa."

Abby began to snigger. It as clear she was formulating some kind of evil plan. Annie began laughing too, meaning shed read Abby's mind. Abby got out a black sharpie (sharpies are her not so secret obsession) and went over to the frozen in time Mrs p. She then proceeded to draw on glasses, a moustache, a goatee beard and a Harry potter scar. Revenge was sweet.

We were too busy celebrating our small (well tiny) victory that we didn't notice the smoke. The red smoke that I remember death-eater weirdo guy saying was pure chaos evil, was writhing through the air to form a face. The face/mask of death eater weirdo guy himself. That grabbed our attention, especially when it started to speak.

"Guardians," he gave a malicious laugh. However I still couldn't quite put my finger on why his voice sounded so familiar. "Guardians. Clearly you have no idea what you are up against. Your attempts to blend back in to your old lives are futile. Stop trying to escape and face us. We have almost gathered the strength to break through the gateways of reality and I'm assuming you are going to want to be there when we do. The final battle is drawing near. You have a choice; surrender and join our forces, or put up a good fight and die. Its your choice but choose. It will begin."

"I think there's only one choice we can make here," Hope sounded determined.

Ed nodded. "I'm not joining those creeps from the evil side, so I will fight. I will not go down without a fight and if I die, maybe the prophecy will be fulfilled and that sacrifice will save the world, at least for a while."

I turned to face the face and spat, "there's your answer, freak. Bring. It. On."

As soon as those words were spoken, the face disintegrated into a swirling mass of chaos that was drawing us in. We tried to fight it and failed. The smoke enveloped us and we were falling, just like when chaos took us to the gateway and trapped us there. Only this time we were deposited onto grass. We were on the school field.

Just as I was pondering the bizarreness of the situation, there was a horrendous noise; cracking and screeching and grinding. I turned to see a crack appearing. Not in the ground, but in mid air as if the very fabric of the universe was falling to pieces. It grew and expanded to a ridiculous size then they began swarming out of the crack. At least 500 demons, the size of small wolves but with reptilian tails and legs and unnaturally human-like eyes poured out and all began to head towards the 6 of us standing there. We were sitting targets. It had begun.

Cliffhanger! sorry(ish) for leaving you hanging! xxxx