CHAPTER TWO

As the group approached the castle, they heard a whistling sound, like someone was trying to get their attention. When the group realized what it was, they turned to see Raven standing in a thicket of briars.
"Raven? Why are you hiding?" Sarah asked. Raven motioned for them to be quieter.
"The demon took over the school. The professors have guarded the magic the best they can, but he will get into it sooner or later, unless you help. He's in the highest tower in the east. Here, take my scanner. It can bring you in and out of this world without hindrance, and the files you need are there. Read the final chapter of each section carefully and you'll discover how to vanquish him," she whispered. A sound then filled the air, a distinct crackling. A line of lightning penetrated the sunny afternoon and struck Raven where she stood.
"You shall not help the members of The Elements; they shall help themselves," the demon glared. He then disappeared again. Sarah smirked as he faded away.
"Say nothing," she mouthed. She pulled out the scanner and they quickly read of an attack that even the demon could not escape from, but the castle would be destroyed. Tom looked up, amazed at what his powers could do when joined with the others'.

"Let's get Chaotic," he mouthed. Sarah shook her head and held him back.
"We can't," she whispered as quietly as she could. "Their home," she pointed. Tom shrugged, as if to say 'it doesn't matter, we need to vanquish him once and for all'. "Lure him out," she whispered. Peyton grinned.
"We can get with the Mepedians!" he smiled. The group gave him a strange look. "They can give us the power to 'be in two places at once'," Peyton tried. The group still gave him a strange look. "Follow me then," he whispered, grabbing the scanner and finding the Mepedian desert. Once there, he went to their leader, who followed him, with others, back to the group.
"What are you doing, Peyton?" Tom asked angrily. He was tired of standing in the briar thicket to hide from the demon.
"Luring out old ugly in there," Peyton smiled. A guard from the Mepedians appeared beside him.
"We're attacking the northern wall, and luring him away from the castle, like the boy said," the guard whispered gruffly. Peyton nodded with satisfaction as fighting sounds began at the rear of the castle. The guard became invisible again and ran towards the castle, firing random shots at windows. Luckily the students were hidden and no one was injured as the demon left the tower and entered the field of rocks behind the castle. Mepedians fired their weapons, blasting stone from the walls of the castle.
The Mepedians ran like cats behind the demon, and they began firing upon him from behind, pushing him further away. They began pushing him further away, moving their teams to all sides behind him as he walked. As soon as the castle was unable to be seen, the Mepedians officially disappeared. Suddenly, a storm began, all of Kaz, Peyton, Sarah, and Tom's making. Kaz made lightning because it burned like fire, Sarah made the rain, Peyton made a vortex surrounding the demon, and Tom filled it with debris from the earth. The team cranked the power on the storm, and all four stood focusing on the demon despite the soaking they were taking from their own creation.
Kaz was transfixed by his lightning, which he was intentionally aiming closer and closer to the demon until it eventually struck him. Because the demon was standing in a puddle of water, he was electrocuted, and in a brilliant light show, the demon exploded, vanquished, and he and his effects left Chaotic forever. The group gradually let the storm wane away until the sun returned again. Students filed into the field and the headmaster appeared from nowhere. Raven, the one she was expecting to find nearby, was no longer in their world. She had experienced a second death, one that she would remember and never return from.
The group turned to see a gathering of students and Mepedians. The leader shook hands with the headmaster. This was their first meeting.
"Nice to meet you. This is a nice fortress. I had no idea this was apart of our territory. We will have guards here from now on to protect you from such creatures. What was that?" he asked.
"He was a demon, and these Chaotic players vanquished him with powers I gave them," the headmaster smiled. The group nodded, exhausted from the effort. The students then cheered for the four, and they mingled with the crowd before pulling out their scanners and porting to where Kristalla would be waiting.