Chapter 32:

As the battles raged on, each side was trying to gain the upper hand.

Cornelia & Taranee

As Taranee and Halinor were hurling fireballs at each other, that were colliding with each other in explosions, Kadma and Cornelia were pushing against each other with their telekinesis trying to knock each other back. And try as Cornelia did, Kadma was gaining the upper hand as she was pushing Cornelia back due to her experience.

"Don't tell me that this is all you have, Cornelia!", Kadma said with a smirk as she was pushing Cornelia back.

"I'm not done yet!", Cornelia said as she stomped her right foot sending a powerful shockwave at Kadma that made her stumble a bit, giving Cornelia the chance to knock Kadma back a bit. "Still think I'm weak?"

"Weak, no.", Kadma said as she stood her ground. "But I doubt that you're ready for this!", she said as she reached into the small side pouch she had and pulled out some seeds.

Kadma then tossed the seeds on the ground and used her powers to make them sink into the soil. She the made them take root and grow into strong and powerful vines.

"Always be prepared!", Kadma said as she sent the vines flying at Cornelia.

"Aw, crap!", Cornelia said as she took to the sky and began dodging the powerful vines that Kadma had swinging at her. "Two can play that game!", she snapped as she gained control of half of the vines.

"Well, this just got interesting.", Kadma said as she and Cornelia went at it with the vines in a duel of plants.

As for Taranee and Halinor, they were matching each other blow for blow with their fireballs that were colliding with each other. Getting tired of this, both flew at each other with their hands a blaze! Once they collided, they had their hands clasped together pushing against each other!

"Give up, Taranee!", Halinor demanded of the Fire Guardian. "My fight is not with you, but with Kandrakar!"

"Then your fight is with me!", Taranee proclaimed as they continued pushing against each other. "For I am a Guardian of Kandrakar! Just like you used to be!"

"That's right!", Halinor said as the fire on her hands increased. "USED to be! Now I fight for something else! Kandrakar's downfall!", she said surprising Taranee!

Seeing this, Halinor took this chance and began to spin Taranee around and ended with throwing her towards the stands! Once the dust cleared, Taranee got to her feet coughing before she looked up to see Halinor diving towards her ready to continue the fight. Being quick, Taranee took to the air with Halinor right behind her!

Peter, Nigel, & Eric

"Argh!", Peter grunted as Angelo hit Peter with a telekinetic blast sending him flying towards a wall.

Seeing this, Eric and Nigel jumped at Angelo with their weapons ready to strike Angelo only for him to make the coating around his hand grow bigger and grab the two boys in his hands surprising them.

"Not today, fellas!", Angelo said as he tossed Eric to the right and Nigel to the left.

Peter then got to his feet and charged at Angelo with his sword ready to take Angelo on. But Angelo was ready as well as he made the coating around his hands normal size again. He then made the coating of his right hand and formed a long sword and a the coating around his left hand into a shield. Soon Angelo and Peter were clashing blades while Nigel and Eric were getting to their feet. Once they saw Angelo and Peter going at it, they decided to help Peter.

"Looks like you've learned how to use the sword well.", Angelo said to Peter.

"What can I say? I'm a quick learner!", Peter said as they clashed blades and were pushing against each other.

"I can see that!", Angelo said as Nigel and Eric jumped at them trying to get Angelo.

But Angelo sensed them and jumped out of the way leaving Peter as their target!

"Whoa!", Peter yelled as he held up his shield blocking their attack. "Watch it, guys!"

"Sorry, man!", Nigel said.

"Yeah!", Eric said. "He's way to fast!", he said talking about Angelo.

"Actually, guys, I didn't use my speed.", Angelo said. "I'm using my natural skills here. The armour coating is to protect me from your weapons. So, shall we continue?"

Peter, Nigel, and Eric let out a war cry as they charged at Angelo who was more than ready for them as he charged at them.

Irma & Hay Lin

"Please, Grandma! I don't want to fight you!", Hay Lin said as she was flying away from her grandmother, who was hot on her trail.

"Sorry, but you don't have much of a choice in this one!", Yan Lin said as she was flying after her grand-daughter. "We will fight! One way or another!"

Yan Lin used her power over air to give herself a boost of speed to catch up with Hay Lin. Once she did, she grabbed Hay Lin by her ankles and flipped around before tossing her to the stands of the arena! Thankfully, Hay Lin used her power to create a ball of air to stop her fall. She then made herself invisible and flew up and behind her grandmother.

"Now where did you go?", Yan Lin questioned as she looked around the area.

'I just have to keep this pocket of air around me up so she won't hear the beating of my wings.', Hay Lin thought to herself as she kept her distance from Yan Lin.

To bad for Hay Lin, that Yan Lin had more training with her powers than Hay Lin would ever have.

"Let's see if I can find you another way.", Yan Lin said as she closed her eyes and focused her hearing through the air.

Sure enough, Yan Lin was able to hear the beat of Hay lin's wings from her right.

"There you are!", Yan Lin said with a smirk as she looked to her right surprising Hay Lin who gasped as she turned visible.

"How did you...?", Hay Lin began to question before Yan Lin cut her off.

"experience, Kiddo!", Yan Lin said as she hit her grand-daughter with a powerful wave of air that sent her flying back against the upper wall of the arena. "It's all about experience!"

"Ow!", Hay Lin whined as she hit the wall but was able to stay in the air.

"Looks like your stronger than you act.", Yan Lin said feeling somewhat impressed with her grand-daughter. "Now let's see how long you last!", she said as she flew at Hay Lin.

In a panic, Hay Lin began to fly off with Yan Lin right behind her! In another part of the arena, Irma and Cassidy were going at it. Both were soaked from head to toe from their water attacks and now they were firing streams of water at each other trying to gain the upper hand against each other. But soon they both stopped only for Cassidy to fire a powerful ball of water at Irma knocking her back.

"Is that all you've got, Lair?", Cassidy questioned as she used her power over water to dry herself off. "Cause if it is, then you're in big trouble!"

"Oh, I'm far from done!", Irma snapped as she dried herself off the same way. "Matter of fact, I'm just getting started!"

"Then let's go!", Cassidy said as she knelt down and punched the ground.

At first, Irma was confused by Cassidy's actions. But then it all became clear when water began to shoot up from the ground.

"Underground springs.", Cassidy said. "Now we can cut loose!"

"Good enough for me!", Irma said as she took some water around her arms and used them as water whips and attacked Cassidy with them.

"Nice try!", Cassidy said as she jumped back from Irma's attacks. "Try this on for size!"

Cassidy then took some water and formed some ice shards and sent them flying at Irma! Seeing this, Irma used her water whips and slashed at the ice shards cutting them up and letting them fall to the ground.

"I guess they weren't my size!", Irma said with a smirk before she was hit by a large ball of water from above. "What the...?"

"I'm far from done!", Cassidy said as she called upon a large thing of water and formed a dragon out of it and sent it at Irma.

Try as she might, it was too much for her as she was knocked back far as well as being soaked from the attack. As she was catching her breath, Irma looked up to see Cassidy coming at her while firing streams of water at her.

"Uh-oh!", she said as she quickly took to the air while drying herself off.

"Run all you want!", Cassidy said as she was hot on her tail. "You'll have to fight me sooner or later!"

Matt & Caleb

The fight with Joe wasn't going so well for Caleb and Matt. At first, they thought they had the advantage with Joe being bigger than them. The figured that they could dodge him and possibly tire him out.

Boy were they wrong!

If anything, Joe kept them on their toes with his quick movements. Matt hit him a few times with his eyebeams, but Joe was able to shake them off and swat Matt down a few times. And Caleb was doing no better. He tried to slash at Joe with his sword only for him to grab the blade of the sword and toss Caleb aside like nothing to it. But when Caleb got to his feet he saw something the made him smirk.

"The more you attack me, the more energy you waste.", Joe said to Matt as the Regent fired another eyebeam that he blocked.

"Maybe so!", Matt said as he dodged the thirty foot Dark Guardian's fist. "But I won't stop until I find Will!"

"Then it looks like we have a problem.", Joe said as he did a powerful clap resulting in a powerful shockwave that knocked Matt to the ground.

As he got to his feet, Caleb came running up to him.

"You okay?", Caleb asked Matt.

"Y-Yeah.", Matt said. "That last attack of his really packed a punch."

"Well, know that it was worth it.", Caleb said with a smirk.

"So you were able to do it?", Matt questioned to which Caleb nodded. "Good. Now all we have to do is wait."

Suddenly, Joe began to shrink back to normal size, surprising Caleb and Matt.

"Don't tell me you're giving up.", Caleb said.

"Hardly.", Joe said as be began to shrink down to twelve inches. "Let's see how well you do against me at this height!"

"You've got to be kidding me!", Caleb said. "Don't insult us with this!"

"Suit yourself.", Joe said as he jumped at Caleb and gave him a hard right knocking him back a bit!

"Oof!", Caleb said as she felt the left side of his face. "How in the heck...?", he questioned as Joe landed with no problems.

"Did I mention that even when I'm small, I still have the strength I have at my normal height!", Joe question. "I didn't? Oh well! You know now!", he said as he jumped at Matt and gave him a hard left knocking him back.

"Aw, man! That smarts!", Matt said gathering himself.

For the next few seconds John was either giving Caleb and Matt jump kicks or punches. Having enough of the beatings, Matt used his wing to block one of Joe's attacks and sent him flying away from him and Caleb. But Joe was quick to catch his balance and land on his feet.

"We have to find a way to take him down!", Caleb said.

"He's worse little than giant!", Matt said.

"Is that so?", Joe questioned getting their attention as he grew back to his normal height. "Then let's find some even ground.", he said as he grew sixteen feet. "Now. Shall we continue?", he questioned as she cracked his knuckles as he walked towards them with a smirk.

"Oh boy.", Caleb and Matt said feeling that this just wasn't their day.

In another part of Nolan's lair, something small was crawling through the tunnels looking for something. Or should I say someone. It was moving as fast as it could while trying not to be seen. And it was doing a good job. And soon, after a few minutes of searching it found what it was looking for.

A door.

But not just any door. A door that was giving off a strange aura of energy. Energy that this creäture knew was bad. But this creäture knew that someone important was behind this door. This creäture was none other than Mr. Huggles. Matt's pet dormouse and one of Earth's Regents. During the beginning if Caleb and Matt's fight with Joe, Caleb was knocked back against the wall. Once that happened, Caleb saw the hidden door and knew that Will was somewhere behind it. So, like he and Matt had planned, he let Huggles out and of his oat pocket and had him search for Will. And now here he is, ready to get Will and leave. So, he transforms into his Regent form and knocks the door down surprising Will.

"H-Huggles?", Will questioned as the Regent walked into the room. "Huggles!", Will cheered happily as she ran up to him and hugged him. "You brave fuzzball you! Where are the other?"

Huggles then pointed down the hall telling her that they were close.

"Good boy!", Will said as she exited the room. "Are they fighting the Dark Guardians?", she asked getting a nod from Huggles. Then let's go help! But first...", she said as she pulled out the Heart of Kandrakar. "Guardian, Unite!"

Once transformed, Huggles transformed back to normal and jumped up on Will's shoulder. Will then flew down the tunnel in hope of getting to her friends on time.

"I hope I'm not to late for my plan to work!", she said as she picked up the speed.

Taranee & Cornelia

After a long hard fought battle of vines, Cornelia and Kadma were standing twenty feet from each other panting while the vines were laying on their sides worn, bruise and ready to fall apart. Both girls were sweating from using so much power that they both needed a break but knew that wasn't going to happen anytime soon.

"Ready... to... give up?", Cornelia questioned as she stood tall.

"You know... the answer... to that!", Kadma said as she stood tall as well.

Taking a chance the both of them hit each other with a telekinetic blast which knocked them both farther away from each other and onto the ground. Up above them Taranee and Halinor weren't doing so hot either. And Taranee was starting to be at her wit's end.

"Ready to quit?", Halinor questioned as she had her hand still ablaze.

"Fat chance!", Taranee snapped as she did her best to keep her hands ablazed but could only kept a small flame going.

'How is she able to keep her hands fired up?', Taranee thought to herself.

"It's quite easy actually.", Halinor said surprising Taranee. "With my experience, I've learned to use my powers properly."

"How were you able to read my mind?", questioned Taranee in shock.

"Once again, experience.", Halinor said. "Plus, I've been a Guardian a lot longer than you have! So. You ready to give up?"

"Never!", Taranee yelled. "Give me your best shot!"

"As you wish!", Halinor said as she sent a large fireball at Taranee.

But instead of the fireball hitting her, it formed a round cage around Taranee keeping her at bay.

"That should hold you!", Halinor said proud of her work.

"That's what you think!", Taranee said as she closed her eyes. "You forget that you taught me a few things before you were turned bad! Like using your enemy's power against them!", as she opened her eyes.

Taranee stretched her arms and focused her powers to take control of the fire that formed her cage. She then reformed it into a fireball.

"How do you like that?", Taranee questioned with a smirk.

"Not bad. You've learned well.", Halinor said. "But you and I both know that if you attack me with it, I'll just redirect it back at you.", she said making Taranee glare at her. "Face it, Taranee, you can't win when I can also use your power against you!"

Flashback

"I only have one more thing to say, young ones.", the Oracle said. "Above all else, no matter what happens, you must retrieve the Heart of Kandrakar."

End Flashback

"No matter what happens.", Taranee said to herself as she looked down at Kadma, who was slowly getting to her feet after she and Cornelia knocked each other down.

"You maybe able to turn my attack back at me, Halinor!", Taranee said as she prepared to launch the fireball. "But can she?", she questioned before she threw the fireball at Kadma.

"No!", Halinor yelled a she flew down at top speed to intercept the fireball.

As the fireball closed in on Kadma, the Dark Guardian looked up to see it coming at her and tried to put up a wall of earth. But thankfully, Halinor got in front of the fireball in time to redirect it towards the stands of the arena.

"Thanks, Hallie.", Kadma said giving her friend a thumbs up and a smile.

Halinor returned the gesture. But then, from out of no where, Taranee teleported a few feet behind Halinor and fired a powerful fireball at her back! The fireball hit Halinor's wings burning them severely as she let out a ear-piercing scream as she fell to the ground a few feet from Kadma.

"Taranee.", Cornelia said to herself not believing what she just saw. "No."

"HALINOR!", Kadma cried as she ran up to her friend and knelt down next to Halinor who was lying on her stomach. "Don't move, Halinor! You'll make it worse!", she said as she moved Halinor's hair out of the way to see how bad her wings were burnt.

When she did, she saw that the feathers of her wings were totally burnt off leaving the rest of her wings burnt. Kadma then glared at Taranee as she landed a few feet from them.

'Try to contact Joe, Halinor.', Kadma said to Halinor telepathiclly.

"You'll pay for this, girl!", Kadma said as Taranee looked down at Kadma with a glare of her own.

"She brought this on herself!", Taranee said as she had her fist lit up. "Now you're going to take me to Will right now, or you'll lose your wings, too!"

"Taranee!"

The Fire Guardian turned around to see Cornelia walking up to her not looking to happy.

"What did you do?", she asked her friend still shocked by what she saw her do.

"I did what needed to be done to save Will and the Heart of Kandrakar!", Taranee said. "Just like the Oracle said to do!"

"But you could of...!", Cornelia began to said.

"But nothing!", Taranee snapped. "We have a job to do! And I plan on completing it!", she said before turning her attention back to Kadma and Halinor. "Now take us to Will!", she demanded.

Suddenly, Joe Vanders appeared and quickly grew twenty feet and swatted Taranee and Cornelia away! He then shrunk down to normal and ran over to Kadma and Halinor and saw Halinor's wings.

"What happened?", asked Joe shocked at what he saw.

"No time to explain!", Kadma said. "We need to get Halinor to Nerissa so she can heal her with our Heart!"

Wasting no time, Joe picked Halinor up while Kadma put her hand on his shoulder. Joe then teleported away with them in tow. Cornelia and Taranee got to their feet to see that they were gone.

"Where did they go?", Taranee questioned.

"I overheard Kadma say something about going to Nerissa to have her heal Halinor with their Heart.", Cornelia said. "I suggest we go find the others and see if we can lend a hand."

"But what about Will?", Taranee questioned. "We have to find her!"

"And we will!", Cornelia said. "But I think we'll need all the help we can get to do it! Don't you?", she questioned before she flew towards the way they entered the arena.

Grumbling to herself, Taranee followed Cornelia wanting to go look for Will instead.

'I will find you, Will!', she thought to herself. 'This I promise!'

'What happened to you, Taranee?', Cornelia thought to herself as they flew though the tunnel.

Caleb & Matt

Moments earlier...

After minutes of fighting, Matt and Caleb were getting tired. Mainly Caleb, seeing as Matt had his Regent powers to keep him going a bit more as he fired an eyebeam at Joe who blocked it easily.

"Face it, boys! It's over!", Joe said as he shrank back down to his normal height.

"It's never over!", Caleb yelled taking a fighting stance.

"We're not leaving without Will!", Matt said doing the same thing.

"Looks like I'll have to send you packing.", Joe said as he cracked his knuckles while walking towards the boys.

'Joe! Help!', came Halinor's voice telepathiclly.

'Hallie?', Joe questioned through their link. 'What's wrong?'

'Please hurry!', Halinor pleaded. 'It hurts! It hurts so bad!'

'Hang on, Halinor!', Joe said to Haljinor through their link before turning his attention back to Matt and Caleb.

"Well, fellas, it looks like you've caught a break!", Joe said. "I'm needed elsewhere. But next time, you won't be so lucky!", he said before teleporting off to help Kadma and Halinor leaving Caleb and Matt confused.

"Ooooooookay.", Matt said. "What was that about?"

"He said he was needed somewhere.", Caleb said. "Which means that one of the other teams is winning!"

"Then we better go help them!", Matt said as he took to the air.

"Matt! Caleb!"

Both boys turned to see Will flying towards them with Huggles on her shoulder.

"Will!", Matt said happy to see Will as he flew towards her.

Once they were close enough to each other, they gave each other a loving hug as they landed. Both happy to be together again. Once they landed, Will lifted Matt's mask to see his face and gave him a kiss that he happily returned.

"I'm so glad you're safe!", Matt said as they pulled away from each other.

"That makes two of us.", Will said as Huggles jumped from Will's shoulder to Matt's.

"Good job, buddy.", Matt said as he petted his dormouse.

"Where are the other?", Will asked.

"We splitted up when we came to four tunnels.", Caleb explained as a static like sound came from his coat pocket.

"What's that?", Will asked.

"The walkie-talkie Eric have me earlier.", Caleb explained as he pull it out of his pocket. "What's up, Eric?"

"No idea.", Eric said through the walkie-talkie. "One minute were fighting Angelo, then next he stops and teleports away."

"Joe Vanders did the same thing with us.", Caleb said. "Something is up! Meet us at the spot we spilt up! We have Will!"

"Really?", Eric questioned. "That's great! The girls will be happy to see her! See you at the spot!"

"Later!", Caleb said before putting the walkie-talkie away.

"I wonder what's up.", Matt said.

"We'll find out sooner or later.", Will said.

"Then let's meet up with the guys and find the girls.", Matt said as they headed out of the arena to meet up with the others.

Hay Lin & Irma

Moments earlier...

There Hay Lin and Yan Lin were hovering in the air both tired from yan Lin chasing Hay Lin around.

"No more running, Hay Lin!", Yan Lin said. "We fight now!", she said as she fired an air funnel at Hay Lin.

Seeing this, Hay Lin fired her own air funnel at making it collided with Yan Lin's air funnel. Once they hit, they began to push against each other trying to gain the upper hand!

"About time you took a stand!", Yan Lin said. "I was worried that this was going to be easy!"

"I wish I didn't have to fight you, Grandma!", Hay Lin said. "But it looks like I don't have a choice!"

"You got that right!", Yan Lin said. "And you better give it your all against me, grand-daughter!"

"I guess you're right.", Hay Lin said as she added more power to her air funnel just as Yan Lin was doing the same thing.

But do to the power they were putting in their attacks, both attacks merged into a powerful twister that sucked them both into it giving them a wild ride before sending them flying in different directions making them hit the walls of the arena hard! So hard they got smashed into the spot they hit. As for the twister it slowly lost power and faded off.

"Ooowww!", they both said weakly due to the pain from the impact they took as they were still stuck in the spot they hit.

Also in the arena were Cassidy and Irma who were standing a couple of feet from each other from each other panting and sweating as chunks of ice were around them. Both of them could see their breath as they were glaring at each other. But they weren't ready to give up the fight.

"Tell me. How are you in your Guardian form?", Cassidy asked.

"The Oracle transformed us.", Irma answered before she fired a stream of water at Cassidy who dodged it and fired a stream of water of her own.

Cassidy then Formed ice around her fist and flew at Irma and hit her in her stomach with her left fist and in the face with her right fist sending Irma flying back and onto the ground.

"You may have the power, but not the fighting skills to take me!", Cassidy said as she hovered in the air looking down at Irma who slowly got to her feet while wiping blood from her mouth. "How do you expect to rescue Will, when you can't beat me in a fair fight?"

Hearing that, made something click in Irma's head as she began to think back to what the Oracle said earlier.

Flashback

"I only have one more thing to say, young ones.", the Oracle said. "Above all else, no matter what happens, you must retrieve the Heart of Kandrakar."

End Flashback

"I'm ending this... NOW!", Irma said as she flew at Cassidy and tackled her in mid-air. "See how you like this!", she said as she held onto Cassidy

Irma then reached behind Cassidy's back and grabbed her wings and froze them solid! Cassidy felt this as she tried to get free! But it was to late as Irma rammed her against the wall shattering her wings into nothing. Cassidy let out a scream of pain as she fell to the ground. With Irma hovering over her.

"Cass!", Yan Lin cried as she pried herself from the wall and flew down to aid her friend.

"What have you done, Irma?', Hay Lin questioned to herself as she got loose as well.

As for Irma, she landed a few feet from Cassidy who was still hurting from the lose of her wings.

"Now tell me where Will is!", she demanded before Yan Lin flew at Irma and hit her with a powerful roundhouse kick sending Irma flying against a wall and then fell to the floor.

"Back off, you!", Yan Lin said while glaring at Irma who slowly got to her feet glaring at Yan Lin.

"You want some, too?", Irma snapped before Hay Lin landed in front if Irma standing in her way. "Move, Hay Lin!"

"NO!", Hay Lin said. "You went to far, Irma!"

"I did what was needed!", Irma snapped surprising Hay Lin. "Remember what the Oracle said! "Above all else, no matter what happens, you must retrieve the Heart of Kandrakar."

"And what about Will?", Hay Lin snapped. "Did you forget about her?"

"No!", Irma said. "If we find the Heart, we find Will!"

Suddenly, Angelo appeared next to Cassidy and Yan Lin, still coated in his metal armour. He then looked and saw Cassidy and what was left of her wings on the ground still frozen.

"Cassidy!", Angelo yelled as he knelt down next to her.

"Yeah... handsome.", Cassidy said before letting out a grunt of pain.

"What happened?", Angelo asked Yan Lin.

"Little Ms. Loudmouth froze and shattered her wings!", Yan Lin said. "We need to get her to Nerissa so she can heal her with our Heart!"

"Right!", Angelo said. "But first..."

Angelo used his speed to run behind Irma and grabbed her wings.

"You ground my girl, I ground you!", Angelo said as he coated her wings in metal to keep them from moving. "Only I'm not going to destroy your wings!"

"Hey!", Irma yelled as Angelo ran back to Cassidy and Yan Lin.

Angelo picked up Cassidy while Yan Lin put her hand on his shoulder. He then teleported away, leaving Hay Lin and Irma alone in the arena.

"Now what do we do?", Hay Lin questioned.

"How about find a way to free my wings!", Irma said trying to flap her wings. "I can't move them!"

"Let's head back and try and find the others.", Hay Lin said as she began to fly towards the way they came into the arena. "They may need our help."

"Wait for me!", Irma said as she ran behind Hay Lin. "I can't fly! Remember?"

"Well now you know how Cassidy feels thanks to you.", Hay Lin said as she continued to fly.

Mumbling to herself, Irma continued to run behind Hay Lin as they made their way back toe way they came.

Eric, Nigel, & Peter

Moments earlier...

"This is getting old, guys.", Angelo said as he looked at the trio of Peter, Eric, and Nigel who were sweating and getting tired from their fight with Angelo who wasn't so tired due to his martial arts training and Guardian powers. "You guys are good, but even if I didn't have my Guardian powers, I'd still be able to give you guys a pretty hard time."

"We're not... going... to give... up!", Nigel said in between breaths.

"We're... going to... beat you.", Eric said.

"And then we're... going to find... Will and get out of here!", Peter said not being to tired due to him being in sports.

"Then let's have one final round before I send you all packing.", Angelo said ready to go at it again.

'Angelo!', came Cassidy voice through a telepathic link.

'Cass?', Angelo questioned. 'You okay?'

'Help... me!', she cried out to him.

'Hang on, Baby!', Angelo said. 'I'm on my way!', he said telepathiclly before turning back to the guys.

"Sorry, guys! But I've got to be somewhere else!", Angelo said. "We'll have to settle this later!", he said before teleporting away.

"Where did he go?", Peter questioned.

"Who cares?", Nigel questioned. "I'm just glad he's gone!"

"Me, too!", Eric said. "But why did he leave?"

"Think he went to help the other Dark Guardians?", Peter questioned.

"Let's find out.", Eric said as he pulled out his walkie-talkie. "I just hope Caleb can talk.", he said as he tried to reach Caleb. "Caleb, come in. Come in, Caleb!"

After a few seconds Eric heard a static like sound.

"What's up, Eric?", came Caleb's voice from the other walkie-talkie.

"No idea.", Eric said. "One minute were fighting Angelo, then next he stops and teleports away."

"Joe Vanders did the same thing with us.", Caleb said. "Something is up! Meet us at the spot we spilt up! We have Will!"

"Really?", Eric questioned. "That's great! The girls will be happy to see her! See you at the spot!"

"Later!", Caleb said before cutting communications.

"Well, Will's safe.", Nigel said. "Now we just have to find the girls."

"Then let's go.", Peter said as they began to make their way back to where they split off from the others.

As for the Dark Guardians, they were all in the chamber where their Aurameres were with Nerissa, who was more han shocked at the state Halinor and Cassidy were in.

"What happened?", she asked with concern.

"Taranee burned Halinor's wings.", Kadma said as Joe laid Halinor on her stomach.

"Irma froze and shattered Cassidy's wings.", Yan Lin said as Angelo laid her on her stomach next to Halinor.

"Can you heal them?', Joe asked Nerissa.

"Yeah.", Nerissa said as she knelt down next to Cassidy and Hailnor. "It may take a while, but they'll be okay.", he said as she pulled out the Heart they had.

Nerissa then held it above her two wingless friends and began to use it's energies to heal them. As for our heroes, once they all returned back to the spot where they spilt up they were all happy to see each other after all the battles they fought. And I.T.C.H. was more than happy to see Will again.

"Will!", Taranee and Irma cried happy to see Will as they both hugged her.

"It's good to see you guys!", Will said happy to see them. "What happened to your wings, Irma?", she asked as she noticed them being coated in metal.

"Your best friend is what happened!", Irma said. "That jerk coated them in metal! Now I can't fly!"

"Do you think you can remove it, Cornelia?", Will asked her friend.

"I don't think so.", Cornelia said. "I never saw something like this."

"Well, that just great!", Irma said.

"Why did he do this anyway?", Peter questioned.

"Because Irma froze and shattered Cassidy's wings.", Hay Lin said.

"Wait. What?", Will questioned. "Why would you do that, Irma?"

"To rescue you!", Irma said. "And I'd do it again if I had to!"

"Just like Taranee burnt Halinor's wing?", Cornelia questioned shocking Will.

"Taranee!", Will said surprised by her friend's actions.

"I did what I had to do!", Taranee said. "She was in the way of rescuing you, Will!"

"But to go that far? For me?", Will questioned.

"Can you blame them?", Matt questioned.

"Matt?", Will questioned.

"They did what was called of them!", Matt said. "We came here to rescue you, Will! And they weren't going to let anything stand in their way!"

"Thank you!", Irma said. "At least somebody understands!"

"Well, I don't.", Peter said. "There could of been another way to do things, Irma.", he said to his girlfriend. "Same goes for you, Sis!"

"I agree.", Caleb said. "You two almost crossed a line. Let's just hope they don't die from your actions."

"Well excuse us for having the guts to go that far!", Taranee said. "It seems that you all forgot what the Oracle said. Above all else, no matter what happens, you must retrieve the Heart of Kandrakar. Remember that?"

"I remember.", Nigel said. "And if you ask me, it looks like he cares more about the Heart than Will's safety."

"I'm thinking the same way.", Eric said. "I came here to help Hay Lin rescue Will.", he said making Hay Lin smile at him.

"And now that we have, I say we head back home.", Caleb said.

"Not yet!", Will said. "We have to end this and save C.H.Y.K.N., Angelo, and Grandpa Joe!"

"Are you kidding me?", Irma said. "You know that Nerissa has healed Cassidy and Halinor by now!"

"Which is why now is a good time to do this.", Will said. "Ten to one, they think that we've all left this world."

"So they won't be expecting us to attack now!", Hay Lin said.

"Bingo!", Will said. "If we can pull this off, then we all can work together to take NoLan down!"

"It just might work.", Caleb said. "We just have to find them."

Just then Huggles jumped off of Matt's shoulder and transformed into his Regent Form and pointed towards the tunnel that he just came from with Will, Matt, and Caleb.

"I think Huggles knows the way.", Cornelia said getting a nod from the Regent.

"Lead the way, buddy.", Matt said before Huggles took off down the tunnel.

Once he did that, Will, Hay Lin, Cornelia, Taranee, and Matt flew after him with the others running right behind them.

"I hate running!", Irma complained.

"See it like this, Irma.", Peter said. "The sooner we free the Angelo and the others from Nolan's hold, the sooner he'll be able to free your wings."

"He had better!", Irma said as they all continued their way down the tunnel.

As for Will, she had a worried look on her face.

'I just hope that what Taranee and Irma did doesn't ruin my plan.', Will thought to herself. 'If it does, then we're in big trouble!'

A/N: Well, things just went bad! Who'd of thought that Irma and Taranee would go that far? Okay, maybe Irma. Maybe. But the main question you all are asking is this. What does Will have planned? Does it have anything to do with what Halinor told her about Kandrakar? And can she pull it off after what Taranee and Irma did? You never know!

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