Vol. 12

Chapter 46

In the night at Central Park, Ellie was sitting on the park bench with Troy Parisi. "Sorry for asking you to come so late at night." He apologize to her with sympathy. Ellie looked up to him with such innocence.

"No, not at all. It made me really happy." She replied with a smile, Troy looked away from her.

"I came to say good-bye today."

"What?" Ellie looked down to her feet. "Oh, I see. I guess I'm a bother to you, aren't I?" Ellie seems like she was about to cry.

"No, not a bother at all. It's more about not wanting to drag you into a dangerous situation." He explained.

"What?" Ellie was starting to get worried of where this is heading.

"To be honest with you, I'm being threatened by some bad people. It would be terrible if you got caught in the middle, so this is good-bye. I'm glad I got to know you." Troy got up ready to leave.

"Wait!" Ellie stopped him. "Please let me know if there's anything I can do for you!" She begged.

"The Moonstone. If I only had the Moonstone..." He mentioned.

"What is this Moonstone?" she asked.

"If I just hand over the Moonstone to them, I'll be free. Oh no. I'm sorry. Please forget what I said anything." Troy brush the topic off.

"The Moonstone..." Ellie started to think if anything clicks to her mind. She remembered her mother showing her a stone.

"WOW! It's beautiful!" Ellie commented.

"This type of stone is very rare in the world. Legend has it that it came from the Moon." Her mother explained.

"Wow! It has a white cloud in it!"

That must be the Moonstone. Ellie thought to herself. "Troy, please wait here. I'll bring it right away." Ellie ran back home. Troy stood there and watch her run as he he smiles with confidence. Ellie went inside the jewelry store and went to the storage cabinet. Ellie had a handful of keys to test out to see which one fits in the lock. "I'm pretty sure it was this key." as she fidgeted with the key in the lock, it opened. "Oh, it opened!" She reached for the stone and grabbed it carefully in her hands. "This is the one." In an instant, the lights went on scaring Ellie's heart out.

"Who's there?! What are you doing?!" Yelled out her mother as she entered the room. Ellie dropped the keys when she entered. Ellie held on to the stone tight and backed up. "Helen, what are you doing with that? Helen!" Ellie stuffed the stone in her pocket.

"Mon, I'm sorry!" Ellie stormed out of the store and ran like she never ran before. Her mother popped out of the store to see which way she went.

"Helen!" Her mother went on her knees crying with fear. "Helen, what's happened to you?" Somewhere in the same area, Selina and Luna were on their way to see Ellie.

"Hey, Luna, let's not do this." Said Selina looking unsure of herself.

"What are you saying? We're going to make sure Ellie understood what you said, right? Besides, we have to do this now because you didn't do it right the first time!" Luna reasoned the facts plain and clear.

"I know that, but...Oh! It's Ellie's mother!" Selina saw the woman walking about on the sidewalk looking very worry. The mother saw Selina and went up to her.

"Sorry to bother you but have you seen my daughter, Helen?" She asked.

"Is something wrong?" Selina asked.

"She grabbed the store's jewelry and took off."

"What?! Do you have any idea why?" Luna asked.

"She got a phone call from somebody named Troy Parisi and..."

"He's a bad guy! I'll help you look for her!" The two ran as if their life depends on it looking for Selina's friend, Ellie. "I can't forgive him! How dare he take advantage of Ellie's feelings?!"

"Selina, transform now!" Luna suggested as she also transformed.

"Upon the Rule of Diana, Lend Me Your Light! Luna let's go!"

"You got it!" Luna responded as the two look for Ellie.

At the park, Ellie brought out her hand with the stone, showing it to Troy. Troy took out the Medieval Sunstone and put it close to the other stone to see if it reacts. The Medieval Sunstone is not responding. This is just a regular stone. Troy took the crystal in his own hands and tried again. Ellie stood beside him looking proud of helping out.

I'm so glad I was able to help Troy. The Medieval Sunstone started to react in Ellie's direction.

This is...The Medieval Sunstone is showing a response! Why? Troy was trying to figure this puzzle out as Ellie's necklace of a golden apple glowed. That necklace! This girl can't be her! Troy's heart was in his throat, he looked at her with intense eyes. "I want you to help me with something. Would you come with me?" Troy placed his hand on her shoulder leading her the way. "Come, shall we go?"

"Alright." Hiding in the bushes was Yakshini eavesdropping into their conversation.

"Wait a second!" The two stopped walking when they turned around and saw who it was that stopped them. "How dare you take advantage of a girl's love?! I'll arrest you on the charge of romantic fraud!" Said Selina with pride.

"Don't interfere in my business!" Yelled out Troy.

"I'm the warrior of the Hunt and the Moon! I'm Guardian Moon! Under the name of Diana, I will defeat you!"

"Guardian Moon, what are you doing here?" Ellie asked, not knowing what's going on.

"Ellie, don't be tricked! Troy Parisi is really Paris! He's a member of an evil organization called the Evil Box!" Selina explained.

"No! It's a lie! Troy Parisi is not a bad person! Right, Troy?" Ellie turned to him and folded her both hands in a begging position. "Troy?" Paris grew angry. He raised his hand and let out a beam of energy at Selina hitting her in the abdomen, knocking her to the ground. Paris put his hands together and started to concentrate.

"O stars, grant me power." Selina recovered herself from the attack and saw that Paris' hands were glowing with spots of light. Then the lights went up to the sky and came back down to Selina like a meteorite shower. Selina braced herself to avoid anymore injury.

"Shit! It burns!" Selina complained. Luna showed up behind her.

"Guardian Moon, get hold of yourself!" Luna yelled out.

"No more games!" Paris crossed his arms to his chest creating another attack. "Starlight Attack!" He released the power and it ram through the ground with speed aiming for Selina. She leaped in the air dodging the attack by a hair. Selina realized she could have been killed with that attack. "So, you managed to just barely dodge it. But when I strike next, I will not miss." He assured her.

"Oh, you're so pitiful!" Said a voice.

"Guardian Moon, hang in there!" Selina turned with a smile to see colleagues.

"Guardian Mars has arrived!" Said Marcella.

"Guardian Mercury has also arrived!" Added Hermione.

"So, the three of you are here. I'll send all of you to the Underworld together!" He was preparing his next attack, but Hermione quickly set out their defense.

"Quicksilver Haze, Surround!" She covered the whole area in a thick fog of quicksilver which was slowly weakening Paris. He starting to feel agitated.

"Damn it! Where are they?!" He looked form left to right and top to bottom and couldn't find them.

"Iron Fist, Collide!" Marcella smashed her powered fist to the ground pulverizing the ground and ram to the enemy. Paris saw the attack coming to him. He leaped away and dodge it barely. He landed wrong and ended up on one knee. Ellie got scared for him.

"Troy!" She yelled out. He turned to see Ellie watching.

"I didn't know she was still here." He said to himself. Selina took out her discus and set to fly.

"Silver Moon, Watch My Aim!" Selina threw the discus to Paris. Paris wasn't paying attention to the Guardians but to Ellie.

"Shit!" He exclaimed.

"Troy!" Ellie ran to him and jumped in front of him.

"She's crazy!" He said.

"I will protect Troy!" Yelled out Ellie.

"Ellie! Get the hell out of there!" Selina yelled out, but Ellie didn't move an inch. "Shit, Ellie! Silver Moon STOP!" Selina scream to the top of her lungs. The discus stopped right in front of Ellie's face and dropped to the ground. "Thank God it stopped." Selina kissed the sky.

"Please don't hurt Troy!" Ellie begged.

"We cannot let him go!" Said Hermione.

"Get out of our way!" Yelled Marcella.

"No, I won't! Not even if you kill me!" Ellie put out an ultimatum. Paris looked up to her confused by her behaviour.

This girl cares for me...He thought to himself.

"Why do you go to such lengths to protect him?!" Hermione asked.

"Because I love him. I love him with all my heart, so I'll protect him, even if it costs me my life!" Ellie was crying but she didn't care.

"Ellie..." Selina felt bad for the situation. The Medieval Sunstone started to glow and the same with the Ellie's necklace. Paris examine the crystal further.

Does this stone respond to a kind heart? Sacrificing her own life to save another...Is this what mortal love is? Paris concluded. Yakshini popped out of the shadows and jumped onto Paris.

"Is that the Moonstone?" She attacked him in physical contact with a weird way of martial arts. Paris blocked her every strike but the Medieval Sunstone fell out of his pocket. Yakshini saw the stone on the ground and Paris was aware of what she was looking. Ellie picked up the stone and looked at it with curiosity. Yakshini left Paris alone and went for the stone. "Hand it over!" She screamed out charging at Ellie. Ellie screamed out of her mind.

"Helen!" Paris released an energy beam at the creature slicing through her ceramic mask in two. The Guardians were amazed by his actions.

"Paris saved Ellie..." Selina commented with an awe.

"Troy saved me." Ellie was also in shock by his actions, she then fainted.

"Ellie!" Selina yelled out. Paris looked at his hands in shock and wondered.

Why did I called her Helen?! He was in the state of shock. Yakshini was covering her face with her hands and recovering from his attack.

"Damn you, Paris! You intend to protect a mere mortal?!" Yakshini transformed from a dark haired, white sari maiden to a white hair, red sari demon with horns grown at the top of her head and a face of a beast. She charged at Paris with her horns coming at him. He grabbed her from the horns and threw her up in the air. She positioned herself mid air and grew her horns even longer. "Traitors must die!" She yelled out. She dived down head first to Paris. Paris just stood there ready to take the hit.

"Silver Moon, Watch My Aim!" The discus came flying behind Yakshini and sliced her through.

"Such regret..." She yelled out her last breath and turned to stone and explode to a million pieces. Selina ran to Ellie and rested Ellie's head onto her lap for comfort. Paris stood there looking at the stone that Ellie gave him. He bent down to Ellie and placed the stone in her hand and started to walk away.

"Paris, why don't you be a little considerate of Ellie's feelings?!" Selina yelled at him.

"I have returned the favour." He responded with no expression on his face.

"Excuse me, that is not what I'm talking about!"

"Don't you have a heart?!" Said Hermione.

"You're wasting your breath. Of course, he doesn't!" Marcella added. Paris laughed at their comments.

"Obviously, you guys know nothing! Listen! Once we get the Moonstone, the both worlds of the Gods and the Mortals will belong to the Evil Kingdom!" He explained.

"The Moonstone? You know about that?" Selina asked.

The Moonstone...This is not good. Luna thought to herself.

"You can pretend to be champions of justice for now, but that won't last for much longer! Until then, you can keep blathering on about your love and justice. Good-bye." Paris turned around and walked away. Ellie was starting to wake up.

"Troy..." She said in her sleep. Selina looked down to her feeling sorry for her.

"Poor Ellie..." Selina looked up to the night sky and prayed. Oh, Goddess Diana, please, if Paris cares about Ellie, don't let him do any more bad things.