Chapter 13:

There Angelo Vanders was, running through Heatherfield Forest as fast as his super-speed could take him. Lucky for him, he had a major lead from the Guardians and their boyfriends.

"Let's see.", Angelo said as he was running through the forest. "How can I keep them busy long enough for Gramps and the others to find me?"

Angelo then saw a few things that caught his eye.

"Those will do!", he said with a smirk.

Meanwhile, the boys were running through the forest while the girls along with Matt were flying ahead of them, all trying to catch up with Angelo.

"Where the heck is he?", Eric questioned.

"He could be anywhere.", Nigel said.

"Or hiding anywhere.", Peter said.

"Hold it!", Caleb said as he stop running.

"What is it?", Cornelia asked as she landed next to Caleb.

"I think he may of went in there.", Caleb said as he pointed to some tracks that led to the entrance to a cave.

"But there are tracks that lead that way.", Nigel said.

"He may of doubled back and is hiding in that cave.", Caleb said. "Maybe. I'll go check it out."

"I'm coming with you.", Cornelia said as she walked with Claeb into the cave.

"We'll wait out here in case if Angelo's in there and makes a break of it.", Peter said.

"Okay.", Caleb said. "Be ready for anything."

Peter, Nigel, and Eric nodded as Caleb and Cornelia walked into the cave. At first, nothing happened.

"It's to quite, guys.", Nigel said as he looked towards the cave.

"Well, let's wait for another mintue or two.", Peter said. "If we don't hear nothing after that, then we..."

"AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!", came a familiar scream.

"Was that Cornelia?", Eric questioned.

"Yep.", Peter and Nigel said as the three of them headed for the cave.

But before they got near the cave, Cornelia came running out of the cave screaming, while waving her hands in the air! The guys looked at Cornelia as she jumped behind a tree. Just then Caleb came walking out of the cave with a snake in his hands.

"Snake!", Eric yelled as he joined Cornelia behind the tree.

"You too?", Caleb questioned.

"You're scared of snakes?", Nigel asked Eric.

"I do not like snakes!", Eric said. "I had a bad experiance when I was a kid!"

"They slither, and have those beady eyes that just stare at you!", Cornelia said.

Cornelia and Eric looked at each other and shivered at the thought of being near a snake.

"Okay. Eric I can somewhat understand.", Caleb said. "But you, Cornelia, have faced a guy who turns into a giant half-man, half-snake creature. How can this little creature scare you so much?"

"It just does, okay!", Cornelia replied. "Just get rid of it!"

"Fine.", Caleb said as he set the snake down in front of the cave allowing it to go back inside. "There you go, little guy."

Breathing a sigh of relief, Cornelia and Eric were ready to continue the search for Angelo.

"When I get my hands on Angelo, he's so going to pay for making me go in that cave! Argh!", Cornelia said as she flew through the forest following the tracks they were following to begin with.

"Revenge!", Eric yelled as he ran down the trail.

"I think they'll be okay.", Caleb said with a grin as he, Peter, and Nigel followed behind Cornelia and Eric.

Somewhere in the forest was Angelo who, by hearing Cornelia's scream, knew that one of his boobytraps worked.

"That's one trap sprung.", Angelo said with a smirk. "Wonder who will set the next trap?"

Now somewhere else in Heatherfield Forest, the Dark Guardians were searching for Angelo, in hopes of finding him before their enemies did.

"Anything, Halinor?", Joe asked.

"It's faint, but I believe he's somewhere west of here.", the Fire Guardian replied. "Elyon is putting up a powerful barrier!"

"She is a Heart after all.", Kadma said as she and the girls flew through the forest.

Joe grew fifthteen feet and behind them.

"We have to find him!", Cassidy saio with worry. "If they've hurt him..."

"Relax, Cass.", Joe said, "He'll be okay. It'll take more than them to take him down."

As they were searching for Angelo, the Will, Matt, Hay Lin, Taranee, and Irma were searching for Angelo. Their search brought them to Heatherfield Lake. Where the water was crisp and clean.

"You don't think he ran across the water, do you?", Hay Lin questioned.

"It's a possibilty.", Taranee said.

"Or he could be up a tree.", Irma said as sher followed a trail that went towards a tree.

Will, Matt, Taranee, and Hay Lin looked at the tree and each.

"You maybe right, Irma.", Will said. as Irma flew towards the tree.

"I don't think he's up a tree, hidng from us.", Matt said. "He might of made those footprints to throw us off."

"Well, let's find out", Irma said as she fires a stream of water up in the tree she thinks Angelo is hiding in.

At first they hear nothing. But soon, there's the sound of branches ruffling.

"I knew it!", Irma cheered thinking she was right.

Suddenly, a beehive fell out of the tree. Irma looked down at the beehive as it sat on the ground.

"Uh-oh!", Irma said as she heard the sound of buzzing.

Suddenly, a lot of bees came flying out of the hive and went after Irma!

"AAAAAAAHHHH!", Irma cried as she flew away from the bees as they were chasing her. "Ow! Ow! Ow! Help! Help! Help! HEEEEEELP!", she cried as she was getting stung by the bees.!

"Go in the water, Irma!", Taranee yelled out to her friend.

Irma waisted no time going into the water! The bees hovered around where Irma dove into the water for a minute before flying back to the beehive.

'It's safe to come out now, Irma.', Taranee said to her telepathiclly.

Irma slowly came out of the water and flew up to her friends.

"How bad do I look?", Irma asked her friends as she landed in front of them.

Hay Lin, Taranee, Will, and Matt cringed as they got a good look at the bumps on Irma's face.

"You look... okay.", Hay Lin said as she gave Irma a smile.

"Yeah! Fine!", Will said with a smile.

"Totally okay.", Taranee said doing the same thing.

"You can barely tell you've been stung.", Matt said.

Irma then smile with her bump covered face causing the others to cringe a bit more. Let's face it folks. The girl looked jacked up! And she saw it too, as she looked at her reflection in the lake water.

"This isn't okay!", Irma cried. "I look horrible!"

"Don't worry, Irma.", Hay Lin said as she as she walked up to her friend. "When Cornelia gets here, she can heal your bee stings."

Hay Lin then wrapped an arm around her friend's shoulder.

"Ow!", Irma said softly as she felt the pain of the stirngs Hay Lin was touching.

"Sorry!", Hay Lin said as said moved her arms away from Irma.

Across from the lake was Angelo, who was grinning to himself.

"Did not know there was a beehive there.", he said as he kept to his hiding spot. "Serves her right for disturbing it."

Back on the other side of the lake, Cornelia and the other guys caught up with Will and the others.

"WHOA!", Cornelia shouted once she saw Irma's face. "What the HECK happened to you?"

"Bee stings.", Matt said.

"How many?", Caleb asked.

"A whole hive.", Taranee said.

"Wow!", Eric and Nigel said as Peter walked up to his girlfriend.

"I'd touch your face, but I think I'd be doing you more harm than good.", Peter said as he gave Irma a smlie which she returned.

"Just hold still, Irma.", Cornelia said as she gently touched her friend's shoulder.

Cornelia then began to use her powers to heal Irma's bee stings. Within a few seconds, Irma was bee sting free and very happy.

"Thank you, Cornelia!", Irma said a she breathed a sigh of relief. "I never want to go through something like that again.", she said as she hugged Peter, who returned the hug.

"I'm glad that Irma's okay now, but we have to find Angelo, before the other Dark Guardians do.", Will said.

"But where is he?", Nigel questioned.

"Is that a snake?", Matt questioned as he saw something move among the grass.

"SNAKE!", Cornelia and Eric screamed in fear.

Cornelia jumped in Caleb's arms, while Eric jumps in Matt's, who was still transformed, arms.

"That's just plain wrong.", Peter said as he looked at Eric who was in Matt's arms.

"Very wrong.", Will said as she picked up the snake and placed him somewhere else.

"Totally wrong.", Matt said as she set Eric on his feet. "Not cool, man."

"Wrong, but funny!", Irma laughed as Caleb set Cornelia on her feet..

"Aw, it's okay, Eric.", Hay Lin said as she walked up to Eric and hugged him. "The big bad snake is gone."

"Yeah.", Caleb said to Cornelia. "Will got rid of it."

As Hay Lin was conforting Eric and Caleb was comforting Cornelia, Taranee noticed that Peter had a worried look on his face.

"What's wrong, Peter?", Taranee aked her big brother.

"Maybe we shouldn't of brought Angelo here.", Peter said. "Maybe we shoul of taken him to a much smaller area like Matt and Caleb suggested."

"Okay. It was a bad idea to bring him here.", Will admitted. "But we're here and he's out there somewhere."

"Question is where.", Matt said.

"That's what we'd like to know!"

Everyone turned around to see the Dark Guardians transformed and not looking to happy.

"Oh boy!", Cornelia said.

"Where's Angelo?", Cassidy demanded as she stepped forward.

Suddenly, Angelo came running around from the other side of the lake.

"What's up, Baby?", Angelo asked Cassidy as he stood in front of his girlfriend.

Cassidy waisted no time hugging Angelo and kissing him.

"Are you okay?", Cassidy asked with concern. "Did they hurt you?"

"Please!", Angelo said with a wave of his hand. "I out ran them so fast I had enough time to mislead them into a cave and up a tree!"

"You knew that beehive was up there!", Irma snapped as she was about to charge at Angelo only for Hay Lin to hold her back with Peter's help.

"Actually, I didn't know about the beehive.", Angelo said with a smirk. "You did that to yourself, Lair."

"May I suggest we get down to business?", Joe said. "We do have a Heart to take."

"You'll try.", Matt said ready to fight.

"If you please, Rissa.", Angelo said.

"Gladly.", Nerissa said as she pulled out their Heart. "Guardian! Unite!"

Suddenly, Angelo was covered in a yellow ball of energy! He then began to change into his Dark Guardian form.

"Speed!", Angelo said as he changed into his Dark Guardian form.

Once he was transformed, he was ready to fight.

"Now where were we?", Angelo questioned with a smirk.

A/N: Well, after an interesting chase, the Dark Guardians are reunited with Angelo and are ready for another battls with our heroes. And who knows what's going to happen now that the girls have their boyfriends their to fight along side them. And let's not forget about Elyon, who's also there somewhere. This may become an interesting battle.

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