7: Unite

Will flew above the buildings of Heatherfield, the night had taken hold with the stars and moon shining in the sky. Behind her was the 4 creatures, they were only about a 2-3 meters behind her. They had been flying around now for 10 minutes. Will had been keeping watch on a tall red tower but not going near it, that was the tower she had summoned the new guardians to come to and she didn't want to give away the end location yet.

She flipped round to fly backwards, holding her arms out to her side with her hands open, in them formed a white orb the size of tennis balls. She then threw them 1 at a time at the creatures after her. The orbs both hit 1 of them punching a hole right through it that after a couple of seconds had healed up, but clearly disrupted that particular 1 as it stopped to heal while the other 3 kept after her, she flipped back to be flying forwards and thought to herself 'Seems they need stronger magic to be beaten. Guardians hurry'.

The girls arrived at the base of the tower that they were summoned to. The ground floor was purely glass walls and a large door in the middle. Inside was a large room with lifts and escalators in the middle with some desks and seats scattered around, the lights were all out.

"How are we going to get up top?" Emma asked the question on their minds. "Cos the moment we smash the glass and step inside we will be on the security feed."

They looked around the building and in a narrow ally don't the right hand side they saw a floor up was a black metal escape staircase that went to the top. However the bit to the ground floor was raised up out of their reach and the whole thing was enclosed by a cage to stop people falling out with the release on the inside of it for the last bit which ruled out Rachel using her shield to lift one of them up. Amy then spoke "Hey Emma fly up there and lower it."

Emma looked up, even tho she had her fear of heights, she could see there was no room for her to use her wings to get up. Before she could say anything Terri spoke up "Normally a good idea Amy, but too narrow, she can't even stretch her wings out. Holly you ability seems to be intangibility, and as we have seen our abilities don't show up on camera's you should be able to do this as if you were invisible."

"I'll do more then try, I will do this, someone needs help up there." Holly firmly told them, still a little shaken inside from Monday but she wasn't going to let that get in her way. She ran back round the front of the building, checking around for anyone watching, she was alone. Taking a couple of deep breaths to calm herself she then focused on her ability, a moment later she became a pink glow and walked through a piece of glass into the building. She stood around just inside for a moment to be certain she hadn't triggered an alarm, when she was sure she hadn't she ran across the room and up one of the escalators to the 1st floor. Once she was up there the place was a maze of white wall, ocean blue carpets and sky blue ceilings. Deciding best way to find the way outside was just to go through the straightway. She ran through the wooden diving walls of the offices on that floor as she made her way to the outer wall. She then followed it along till she got to a door saying emergency exit. Passing through it back outside and onto the emergency exit. Like Terri thought for the security devices in the place: Holly didn't show up on the system as if she wasn't there.

"There she is" Rachel muttered seeing a staircase lower from above and Holly standing there having returned to normal. She was turning a handle to lower the stairs, manual because if there was a power cut they wouldn't lower then, despite the advance state of the world there was manual things for the safety of everyone. The stairs reached the ground floor. They then quickly ran up and joined her and then helped raise the stairs backup to prevent anyone noticing and contacting the police. Once it was back up completely and they were certain it was secure they then started to make their way up to the top.

Back in the skies Will wasn't certain how much longer she could keep leading the creatures around, so she decided to fly over the tower she was trying to avoid, only because she now realised her foe may realise she was avoiding the place for some reason. She turned to fly over it coming towards the top low and fast, but as she got near she could see he was standing on it, his right hand out from under his cloak, a back energy ball formed before it and launched at Will when she was too close to get out of the way.

As Will took the hit she felt a shock travel through her body causing her wings to stop, she dropped down while still travelling forwards and hit the roof of the bouncing and skidded along to the other side of the building from him. There was a pink energy that travelled over her as she stood back up, healing from all the scratches she took in the landing, and she reverted back into what she wore before she changed into that re-coloured version of her guardian form. She looked round trying to catch her breath as the cloud creatures landed alongside their master.

"Tisk-tisk-tisk Will, your mistake was coming to this tower, you should have stayed away, knowing I could watch everything from here and by keeping away you were at a distance to dodge." He teased her, clearly not knowing her true goal. "But you aren't a threat to me without your guardian powers, but I can make that possible again, give me what I want."

"You won't have it, and there isn't anything that will make me, Demal" She said his name in a teasing manner.

"Aww, you remembered my name, how touching" He spoke that in a soft voice before returning to a serious one. "But if you won't willingly surrender the key, get her my beasts."

Upon his command the 4 creatures shot forwards. Will held her arms out before her and placed a barrier like the one Rachel was capable of just in white before her. They bounced off, then tried again rapidly as she focused on keeping it up, then sneakily 1 went through the floor as the others kept her distracted. That one then rose out the ground behind her, grabbing her lowered hood and tossing her against a slightly raised edge of the roof, she was left there leaning against the raised ledge while on the floor.

Demal watching on and laughing at her. "Pity it ended this way, I really did like you."

"Seems I had a way with male villains" Will jokingly replied, clearly exhausted. "They always seemed to come after me."

"Despite all of this, give the old girl Oracle my regards, I will be their soon to take my new home." He smirked as his left hand came out from under his cloak, he placed his hands together as then between a large ball of black lighting formed. His creatures moved back from Will to his side at the other end of the roof. Will looked on, knowing even if he did this she would only be transported back to Kandrakar, abet without the heart as it wasn't part of her.

Demal threw the ball of lighting at Will. She held her right arm before her face as she looked down prepared for the hit, but it never came, instead she heard an explosion before her. She looked up and there was a red shield before her. She looked around and just to her right the girls all stood, Rachel holding both her arms towards Will. Emma took a couple of steps forwards towards the attackers, taking a deep breath in before letting out a screech at them. Demal placed both his hands over his ears, falling to his knees from the sound, the creatures roared out in pain as they collapsed. When Emma stopped he looked up and before him was 5 of Amy running towards him. He braced for her to attack but the 5 just disappeared, he then stood up looking around to see a pink shape come out of the floor and form into Holly who dropped low and spun around clockwise to slam her tail into his legs knocking him down. As she ran off he stood back up, looking towards them to see the real Amy then punch him in the forehead, not letting him recover she then grabbed his shoulders and tossed him to her right, face-first into the ground. His creatures still unable to act from the effect of the screech.

Meanwhile Terri and Rachel ran over to Will, with Rachel keeping up her shield. Will looked up at them and spoke "So you have arrived."

Both girls recognised that the voice of this woman was the one from in their heads. And it was Rachel that spoke as the others arrived with them. "We want answers, why are you in our heads and what is happening to us?"

The others all stared at Will as Terri got her to her feet. She looked back and quickly spoke seeing Demal and his creatures were getting back up. "You will have your answers soon, but first they need to be repelled." She then took off the heart from around her neck, grabbing Holly's left hand and placing the heart in it. "That is the heart of Kandrakar, it is yours now. You are all chosen to be guardians, that will allow you to access your full powers, all it needs is for you to call out guardians unite."

"Surrender that to me now kids, or suffer!" Demal shouted to them as he fully looked on, clearly annoyed.

Holly looked at what now was in her hand, she could feel a warm energy coming from it. She then turned and looked to the others, all of them wanted answers. 1 by 1 they all smiled at her and nodded. "Then let's do this, whatever it is" she muttered to them. She stepped before the rest of them as they took a few steps away from Will, all of them not certain what was about to happen, but within each of them, something told them this was right.

Holly put the heart's chain over her head, resting it against the base of her neck, suddenly the heart then started to glow a brighter pink as it floated up level with her eyes before her leaving only a bit of slack in the chain.

"Give it to me!" Demal yelled as she and his creatures charged forwards at them.

'It's now or never, the way aunt Sophie raised me, teaching me to place others before me, and that guy is giving off just some darkness that I can feel is bad news for everyone, I won't let how I was raised go to waste' Holly muttered in her mind as she then held her arms out to the side, the heart started to give off energy beam pulses. She took a deep breath before calling out "Guardians Unite!"

As she called out the heart released 5 small energy orbs like it did before. They circled it as the glow from the centre of the heart got brighter. The orbs kept their circling formation as they flew above them and then broke formation going down to the person the original orbs of the same colour had gone to. They circled the girls a couple of times as then each gave off a bring flash of their colour. When the flash was gone there was only now 5 large orbs in the air where the girls had been standing, inside a silhouette of each could be seen curled up the orbs that were just big enough to fit them in. The orbs then floated 5 meters into the air, now giving off a large gust of air pausing away from them. Demal and his creatures stopped about half way across the roof, he covered his face trying not to be blown back, while his creatures were pushed back to the edge of the roof they started from.

Will held her right hand over the top of her eyes so she wasn't blinded by the glow coming from the orbs as she smiled where she stood, she called across to Demal "Too late, the new ones are chosen!"

Inside each of the orbs the girls all felt like everything drift away, they all were calm and at peace and time seemed to stop. It was then they opened their eyes. They all stood in a back environment, looking at each other apart from their heads, each had the rest of their body's (wings and tails included) in a glow that matched the orbs that went to them and all had a marking of the symbol that each was linked to. They all stood in a circle back with their backs to each other as they heard a roar. Suddenly out of the darkness the 5 dragons from their dreams appears and circled around them. Apart from the 5 colours they all looked identical, long serpent-like bodies with large mouths and forelegs and hind legs at the quarter and three-quarter points, halfway had a pair of wings about as wide as they were long.

After a couple of moments each dragon stopped before the girl they had appeared in the dream of. The girls all stared back at them. The all the dragons changed to be a solid looking creature to being made up of something else. The pink one became lightning, yellow became made up of rocks and a verity of plants, red became water, black became white clouds and looked like a tornado, while the pear one became fire. Each then gave out a roar as they then flew into the one they were before, absorbed into the glow on them and they all felt something surge through them. Pink into Holly who then felt electricity inside her. Emma had the black one enter her and she felt weightlessness and every movement in the air, far better than she ever could before. Amy with the yellow dragon felt like she could feel the very ground and all the plants. Rachel got the pearl dragon, leaving her feel like inside her was on fire but without harming her. Lastly Terri had the red one go into her, she felt the water everywhere, even the vapour of it in the air. Each of them closed their eyes (in Rachel's case her markings that were her eyes stopped glowing) and tilted their heads back allowing what was going on to happen.

Beneath where they stood the marks appeared below them, each girl was in the centre of it. From each a beam that matched their power colour fired upwards, pink for Holly, pale grey for Emma, green for Amy, red for Rachel and blue for Terri.

Back in the real world, the 5 orbs suddenly turned white and fired a beam as wide as them down onto the roof, creating a shockwave that even Will had to brace herself for so she wasn't knocked back. She and Demal looked where the light hit and saw 5 silhouettes descend down landing on the ground as the light faded, revealing each of the girls had gotten about 3 inches taller. They all now wore the same pale blue and pale green stripped leggings and on their backs were the same small wings like the guardian that Demal had taken out on Meridian, tho Terri's wings were more curved then the others making them look more streamlined for underwater.

Holly had also had all her horns and spikes get a little longer, her hair was now down to the base of her neck slightly wavy. She was also wearing a teal tight elbow length sleeved crop top and pink skirt that came down to her knees with a short part of it extending back a little along her tail as it came out near the top of it. He also had dark purple ankle boots and black biker gloves on that her claws poked through. The heart wasn't to be seen around her neck, having been absorbed into her body as an energy.

Emma had had now got the dark red feathers grown up along the back of her arms like her father had along with a pair of thin black foot long antenna (something only on the female of her father's species) curving back over the top of her which hadn't changed. Her lips had now been replaced with a small beak which had also merged with her nose. She wore a pink tank top ant teal knee-length shorts that her tail poked out the back of. Her feet were wrapped in a dark purple material that let her talons poke out the ends of and didn't inhibit their movements.

Ami had had her vines and leaves grow a little while she stood there with a teal crop top that down her arms was a pair of ribbons that gently wrapped around them in a helix before ending in a matching wristband. She had a pink mini skirt that was loose so she could move freely and purple boots that had 4 straps around them come up half-way on her lower legs.

Rachel had her hair grow to below her shoulders and tied back into a tail on each side. The red markings now had a slight glow and looked like they had lava flowing in them. She wore a pink poncho that had a sleeve down her left arm to her elbow but the right only had a strap over the base of the right side of her neck. She also had a teal skirt that from the front and back looked like a mini skirt but on the sides it came down to her knees. She finally had dark purple over-knee boots that had a strap and buckle around her ankles.

Terri had now got scales covering up to her elbows on her arms and almost all over her tail. Unlike the others her hair had shortened to the top of her neck and also become wavy. The dark blue mounds on the side of her arms had grown out about 4 inches into 3 spines each and pale blue webbing linked each one. She wore what could be described as a 1-piece swimming costume that the lower part was like shorts, the top part of it was teal while from her waist down the top half of her upper legs and a couple of inches of her tail it was pink. Her feet wore dark purple flat shoes that wrapped around her feet below her ankles and had a 6 inch flipper at the front of each.

Each stood there with their eyes closed for a moment as Will smiled seeing them now. They then slowly opened their eyes (for Rachel they started to glow again) looking over themselves, seeing the changes.

"What am I wearing" Rachel exclaimed looking at what she saw.

"Try we, I mean look at this, it looks ridiculous" Terri mentioned pointing out her strange outfit.

"Plus I think we aged too, cos I now have a beak and antenna that I don't have yet" Emma said in a slightly clicking voice now as she had the beak.

"Least mine wont hinder me from hitting something" Amy commented, a little disappointed that hers wasn't as fancy as the others but she viewed it as physically practical.

"Wings" Holly called out a little exited seeing them on her back twitching away a bit.

"You know my name and it isn't wings" Emma scolded back at Holly.

"No I mean we all have wings" Holly then replied.

They all looked round behind than and saw the wings. 'Grate, just what I needed' Emma thought a little sarcastically 'another pair of wings for a flying type, who already can't fly'.

"You better enjoy those girls!" Demal shouted at them angrily, causing them to all turn to look at him. "Because I am taking that heart from you."

"Anyone have an idea how to deal with this?" Rachel nervously asked.

"Of course" Smirked Amy, tensing herself up a bit exited. "I don't know what the rest of you plan to do, but I am going to just beat them all back to wherever they came from."

The 4 creatures that Demal had then launched themselves right at the girls as they flew across the rooftop.

Next Time: Time to fight with new powers.