Vol. 10

Chapter 38

Selina was walking around and about outside of the mall, but she was having doubts. "Maybe I should have told Hermione and Marcy after all." Her cell phone started to ring. She took it out of her pocket and read the caller ID. "Speaking of which...Hey, Hermione! What's up?"

"Where are you, Selina?"

"Oh, Hermione, I'm sorry. I'm in Manhattan." At the other end of the conversation, When Marcella heard what Selina said through the speaker phone, she got out of bed immediately.

"She is going on a date with Guardian Earth behind my back?!"

"I don't think her intention was to go on a date but to confront about the phoney letters." informed Hermione.

"I don't care! She is going to see that man!" Marcella started to dress up. Back inside the mall, Ellie couldn't move but can still talk, Troy's hand was still on her chest.

"Mr. Parisi..." Ellie was trying to set thing straight. Troy looked confused.

"What's wrong?! Transform into Guardian Moon!"

"What are you talking about?"

"Are you not Guardian Moon?"

"I'm not..." Ellie started to faint when Troy started to take her energy from her. Troy was surprised from how much energy he collected from one person.

"What tremendous energy!" He glanced at the orb of energy that he collected on his hand.

"Mr. Parisi..." Ellie blacked out and dropped. Troy caught her and held her until he drains her out completely. Selina went inside the mall and follow the strange light that was flashing here and there ever so often. When she took a turn and saw something not natural, she ran to a corner and hide. She peeked out again and realized it was Ellie in the arms of Guardian Earth.

"Oh, Ellie! Why is Guardian Earth...Wait a minute!" It hit her again like a train. "No! That's not Guardian Earth! I knew it! It was a PRANK! Hang in there, Ellie! Upon the Rule of Diana, Lend Me Your Light!" She transformed. Not too far from the mall, Eddie was walking home from a late night study. In the middle of his walk, his pin started to glow.

"Time to get into action. Upon the Rule of Terra, Lend Me Your Land!" The made out of lead pin of Earth's symbol started to glow green, than storm of leaves surrounded all around Eddie's body creating a complete green tuxedo, then the leaves went to his hands creating leather brown gloves. The leaves moved on to his feet creating brown leather shoes. At the top of his head appeared a green fedora hat with a leaf sticking out on one side and the lead Earth symbol pin appeared on the left side of his chest on the pocket of his jacket. A mask of green covered his eyes and a branch-like cane appeared on his hand. When fully transformed, he felt a sharp pain going through his head. He fell onto his knees holding his head trying to stop the pain. "Why does this always happen to me?!" The pain stopped. He got up and ran to the rescue. Back in the mall, Troy was holding the fainted Ellie in his arms after draining her energy out of her.

"This girl was not Guardian Moon, but I obtained an unexpectedly vast amount of energy!" As he was looking down to her, a gold pendent slipped out from the inside of her shirt and hung by her neck. Troy saw the pendent drop and was shock to see what it was. The pendent was of a Golden Apple. "Where did she get that?!"

"Release Ellie!" Yelled Selina from afar. Troy looked up to see who spoke.

"Who are you?!" He demanded.

"A tuxedo is not fitting for a monster who toys with a girl's love!" Said Selina with anger.

"You're..." Troy felt like an idiot.

"I'm the warrior of the Hunt and the Moon, I'm Guardian Moon! Under the name of Diana, I will defeat you!" She said in such pride.

"How were you able to tell that I am not Guardian Earth?" He wondered.

"I guess you can say it's the intuition of a girl's mind!" Selina charged up to the man and jumped in the air making a high kick aimed to his head. Troy dodged it by going low and lost his hat by her kick. She landed right in front of him. He stood straight up still holding onto Ellie.

"If you want this girl, you can have her!" He through Ellie to Selina and caught her good but too heavy to carry out.

"Ellie!" She set her lying on the floor carefully. She look up to her enemy. Troy jumped into the air and ditched the green costume revealing his true self. Selina recognized him. "You're Mr. Troy Parisi!" She exclaimed.

"I am Prince Paris, one of the Great Four of the Evil Box!" He introduced himself.

"Prince Paris?!"

"Guardian Moon, I became Guardian Earth in order to lure you out." He snapped his fingers making the place pitched black and shone stars here and there. It's like floating into the night sky. "O Regulus, star of Leo, shining in the southern night sky, grant me your power!" Paris disappeared but leaving behind a constellation of a lion. The lion came to life, turn and roar at Selina.

"Oh my God! It's alive!" Selina freaked out.

"I'll tear your body to pieces!" Paris warn her, Selina started to run for her life.

"Forget it!" She said. The lion was chasing after her. Selina kept running but Selina tripped over something and fell, the lion leaped and coming down with claws and all toward Selina. A handful of leaves was rushing through and smashed against the lion's face. The place was normal, no more night sky and Paris appeared.

"Who's there?!" Paris looked where the attack came from and saw Guardian Earth standing by the elevator looking very calm.

"So, you sent those love letters using my name in order to lure out Guardian Moon! Unforgivable!" Eddie said his part. Selina got up from her fall.

"Oh, there's the real one! Good, for a minute I thought you were a fraud." Selina admitted.

"Guardian Earth..." Paris was not happy. Eddie jumped high and landed right in front of Selina facing Paris.

"Guardian Moon, go and run now!" Eddie ordered her. Selina gave him a stink of a face not liking to be told.

"Okay, but only because I don't have to deal with this mess!" She ran towards the elevator.

"Fool! Do you think you can get away from me?!" Paris was losing his patience. Eddie brought out his cane and grew it into a staff.

"Bring it on, toughy" Eddie joked around ready to battle.

"Attack!" Paris ordered the lion to attack the sly green man. As the lion as advantage of it's aerial attack over Eddie, Selina turned saw what was going to happen and couldn't help herself but to help out.

"Guardian Earth, are you crazy?! Silver Moon, Watch My Aim!" Selina's discus flew and hit the lion on the face making it itch. Selina was shock as she was standing by the elevator. "Crap! That usually works!" Eddie was running to her not happy of what she did, but still respect her trying.

"Guardian Moon, be quiet and get in the elevator!" Eddie got into the elevator and pulled Selina in with him.

"Hey!" She responded. The lion was running toward them. Selina pressed the closed button to block the attacks of the lion, but the elevator was taking it's sweet time to do so. The lion was so close to them they thought they were lunch but the elevator finally closed and the lion crashed onto the door making a dent impression of itself. Paris just stood there and laughed away.

"You fell for it!" He yelled out. Eddie tried to open the doors but it was too strong to move an inch.

"Damn it! It's a trap!" Eddie mentioned.

"No shit, Sherlock!" Selina complained. Through the intercom of the elevator, they heard Paris's voice.

"This elevator will go up to the roof. What do you suppose will happen when it gets to the top floor?" He teased.

"So, tell us what will happen?" Selina responded. The elevator started to go up.

"By the law of the Earth's gravity, the elevator will fall! Your bodies will be flattened into pancakes!" Paris laughed on. Selina started to panic.

"I don't wanna become a pancake!" Said Selina. The two Guardians were standing in the elevator thinking of a way to escape. Selina was starting to feel nervous, now that she's with Guardian Earth.

"We must do something." He said.

"Clearly." Said Selina with sarcasm. What's going on? My life is in danger, but my heart is pounding like crazy. It must be that I'm scared due to the situation. Selina was thinking to herself.

"Guardian Moon." Eddie called out to her. Selina still thinking.

"Hmmm..." She responded. Eddie got a hit of deja vu which bothered him.

"What are you doing?" He wondered. Selina got out of her train of thought.

"Oh, sorry. I was thinking of something. What is it?"

"Good news! We're getting out of here!" Eddie pointed up in the elevator showing her the opening on the top.

"Smart!" Selina commented. Eddie busted the opening with his cane and climbed out first.

"Come on! Give me your hand!" Eddie reached down to Selina. She did what she was told and with all his strength, he pull her out of the elevator. The two were now standing on the top of the elevator. "It's the top floor! Jump off!" The elevator stopped, and Eddie jumped off the elevator and grabbed onto the ledge of the opening of the top floor. Selina jumped off also when the elevator started to fall. She couldn't make it to the ledge like he did but he manage to grab hold of Selina's arm.

"Ouch! That's going to hurt in the morning." She said to herself feeling the pain going around in her arm. On the bottom floor, Paris was watching the elevator fly down rapidly through every floor. When it finally hit the last floor, a huge crash was heard shaking the floor a little for how powerful the impact was. Paris started to laugh with pride.

"I did it!" He continues to laugh. Inside the elevator shaft, all the way on the top floor, the two Guardians were hanging on for their dear lives. Due to the pain on Selina's arm she gave out a warning still holding on to Eddie's hand.

"I can't hold on anymore!"

"Do not give up! We will get out of here somehow. Until then, we should mind ourselves by talking about something." He suggested. She gave him a dirty look.

"Your kidding, right?!"

"It'll get your mind off of what's going on around us. It's called distraction." He gave her a sly smirk.

"Fine. Let's see. Oh, I know, why do you always rescue me?" She asked.

"Of all the things he can talk about and you came up with that?!" He responded.

"Well since were both stuck here and now, I don't think were in rush of going anywhere. So answer the question!" Selina demanded.

"Fine. Everytime there's danger, I could sense it and everytime I go there you always seem to be there all the time, so I manage to help you out by luck." Eddie stretched his leg to a sign bolted to the wall and set foot on it. "I've secured a foothold! Can you get onto my back?" Selina climbed up and onto his back like a koala.

"There. Better?" Selina asked.

"Much."

"Good. Next question. Why won't you stay with the group and fight along side with the other Guardians?" She asked again.

"My Goddess is not part of Mount Olympus but with the Titans. They don't really like each other." He responded as simple as possible, Selina was confused.

"Then why is your Goddess helping us out?"

"Because she feels that it's her responsibility to help out you since this is her territory, the Earth that is."

"Make's sense, I think. Hmmm...Who are you, by the way? I can't think of anybody or haven't heard anything about you. Are you mortal or I should say human?" She asked again.

"Guardian Moon."

"Yes?"

"I don't know if it's just me or what but I cannot help but feel that I knew you somehow, like ages ago." He admitted. Selina felt surprise for some reason.

"You know what, I have the same feeling too. It's something stirring in the corner of my mind, but I just can't remember it." She added. Eddie tried to push himself up on the ledge by pushing his weight onto the sign, but the sign popped out from under his foot loosing his support. Now the two are hanging by only using Eddie's strength. "Don't let go!" She freaked.

"Not planing to! Just calm down!" Eddie responded in pain trying with all his might to not let go.

"I'll try but I'm not promising you anything!" Selina said back. Eddie was slipping slowly off the ledge and he couldn't regain his grip. His one hand gave up, now only hanging with one. Before they would fall to their deaths, the elevator doors opened with Luna wolfing out and the other two Guardians beside her, Mercury and Mars.

"Guardian Earth!" Marcella exclaimed. The two grabbed an arm each and pulled the two out of the elevator shaft.

"Guardian Moon, you should never have come here without telling us!" Said Hermione acting like a responsible adult.

"Sorry, I thought I can deal with a stupid prank but I guess that wasn't the case." Selina explained. She was happy to see Ellie with them also.

"That was close." Marcella added. The group went to the roof top of the building to reason out. "Thank you guys for rescuing us." Selina said with such sweetness.

"I have a cold, you know. How dare you take that chance to go behind my back and drape yourself all over Guardian Earth?! It's not fair!" Marcella debated.

"I told you of my reason being here, and it wasn't anything like that!" Selina defended herself.

"Stop fighting!" Hermione was getting impatient since she was giving Ellie a piggy back ride since she's still unconscious.

"Not you too, Mercury! You're going to side with Guardian Moon?!" Marcella was hysterical.

"No! I just want to quickly take Ellie to a hospital!" Hermione explained. Eddie who was watching this fiasco decided to make his leave. He jumped onto a fence and having fantastic balance as he stands on it.

"Everyone, be good to one another. Good-Bye!" He said and disappeared as he jumped off the building. Selina and Marcella were shock that he took a leap.

"Oh, please wait!" Marcella called out.

"Holy crap! Where did he go?! That was a killer jump!" Selina was looking for him. Eddie was hiding right under them.

"I do not deal well with cat fights." He said to himself.

In the dark cool cave of Lady Pandora's lair, the Lady herself was having an annoying conversation with Paris and Admete. "Lady Pandora, Paris boasted that he would defeat Guardian Moon. But in spite of it, he was not able to kill her. He should be sentenced to 'Eternal Sleep'" Admete was trying so badly to get rid of Paris, and he knows it. Lady Pandora was examining the energy orb the Paris got from Ellie.

"The energy that Paris brought back has enormous power. In light of that, I will not punish him this time." The Lady reported happily. Admete was shock of what she just heard.

"But my Lady..." Admete tried to reason with her. Paris put on a smirk.

"I can punish him anytime I want. ADMETE, stop worrying about others and tend to your own business! Hurry up and find that MOONSTONE!" Pandora showed her who's boss. Admete was basically shaking in fear.

"Yes, my Lady!" Admete bow to her leader and Paris smiled on. He went back to his mansion and work on the stars.

"All humans become focused on something at least once in their lives and produce an enormous amount of energy. That girl, Ellie...The powerful energy she produced was unbelievable. It seems she truly loves my disguise as Troy Parisi. But why is that foolish girl wears the Golden Apple pendent?!" Paris was worried.