Vol. 15
Chapter 60
The day has fallen to night, all you can hear at the church of St. Mark's, a continuous rants of huffs and puffs. "Training will help me to God!Training will help me to God!Training will help me to God! Marcella, I'll do my best!" Caron was beating up a punching bag, but distracted himself of remembering when she thank him of his advice. The punching bag came swinging back and knocked him off his feet. "Back to training!" He said to himself. Both dogs started to bark for attention from Marcella when she was having a warm bath.
"So, Fear and Terror, what do you think? Is it really just the weather that changed Atilio?" Marcella knows that the dogs can't answer for her but she wish they could. Atilio was at the alter doing his nightly prayers to St. Mark and then he sense something familiar. He turned around and prepared himself.
"You dare to appear again, evil one." Atilio called her out. Admete appeared in front of him giggling.
"Tonight I will take the Iris Gem." Admete was confident. Atilio did an exorcism against Admete creating a powerful force of fire. Admete did her usual counter attack. "Samos!" The explosion caused the whole area to shake. Marcella still in her bath was in wonders of what caused it.
"What the..." Marcella then sensed something. "Something doesn't belong here." Marcella quickly got out of the bath. Atilio continues to battle with Admete who was slowly beating him. Admete leaped into the air and threw a force of petals aimed at the priest.
"Samos!" The priest was trapped inside the tornado of petals and Admete took out the Sunstone and activated. "Give up." The indigo gem quickly appeared. "I have the Iris Gem." The gem flew to her direction but a razor leaf but in and knocked it out from going to her. She saw the leaf sticking out of the ground with the gem beside it. She looked up and saw him smirking at her. "You! Guardian Earth!"
"I'll have the gem. Thank you." He said with class.
"Hermit Mentor, get that Guardian!" Admete demanded. A dark cloud formed around Atilio and sucked him in. Eddie jumped down to ground level and witness the transformation.
"This..." He was over whelmed. Atilio transformed into a older man with a white beard and a indigo coloured robe with a hood over his head hiding his face and holds a tall staff with bells dangling from the top.
"I shall teach you a lesson, my son!" He yelled out to Eddie. Admete crushed the leaf and took the gem with a giggle.
"Guardian Earth, Hermit Mentor will defeat you." Admete ran off with Mentor charging at Eddie.
"Come back here!" Eddie yelled out to her. Eddie dodged the charge from the hermit's charge. "Admete, you deceiver! Fight me!" Admete continue to run off into the St. Mark's park and Eddie followed. Mentor summoned a wind blast aimed at the Guardian but missed him as Eddie jumped up in the air. Caron came outside to see the mishap and saw the craziness.
"Shit! It's a wizard!" Caron shouted out. The hermit turned to Caron and chased after him. Caron ran for his life. Eddie continue to run aimlessly in the dark park but stop realizing he lost her.
"Damn, I lost her." He said to himself.
"Guardian Earth, too bad." Eddie looked around to see where her voice is coming from. "I have the Iris Gem." She ended it with a giggle.
Caron barged into the bathroom with out thinking. "Marcella! There's a wizard..." Caron saw Marcella's naked back side and turned around to see no more. Marcella screamed in shame. She quickly covered herself with a large towel.
"Don't look, you idiot!" She yelled out to him.
"I looked! But it doesn't matter." Caron remembered the situation and turned back around and faced her.
"Yes it does!"
"We have to run!" Caron looked down the hallway and saw the wizard like figure. Marcella put on her comfort clothes quickly and went up to him.
"What's the matter?" She asked, Caron pointed to the hermit. Marcella saw what he was looking at. "Shit! An enemy!" The hermit charged at them and started to chase them around the church. "What's a wizard doing here?" The two ran into a hallway when the hermit blasted a gust of wind, blowing the two into the alter. Caron crashed into the wall in pain. "Caron!" Marcella turned to face the old man. Caron got up an placed himself between Marcella and the monster.
"Hurry! Run, please!"
"Caron."
"I'll be happy to die to protect you." He was serious of what he was saying. Marcella felt touched. Mentor charged at Caron. "Take this!" Caron did the same, but the hermit pushed him away and knocked him out against the wall. He look at Marcella and saw her standing there. "Marcella, run." He said in his last breathe.
"Caron!" She yelled out in fear. She then ran to the alter and knelt before the statue of St. Mark. She began to pray. "Under the name of Mars, please help me to face this evil!" When the hermit tried to get into the alter but couldn't get through a hidden barrier.
"My dear Marcella, he is not an enemy but a person of caring and guiding. He has been cursed by the Iris Gem. He is Father Atilio." Said a voice in her heart.
"Atilio! The hermit is Atilio!" Marcella was thinking fast. The hermit managed to get past the barrier and faced Marcella. "Atilio, what happened? Atilio..." The hermit just stared at her and threw a blast of wind at Marcella pushing her through the wall and outside she goes. Marcella landed on her back trying not to fight back. "Wait!" The hermit went after her and grabbed her by the neck and lift her above him. He started crushing her neck. With her vocal cords almost closed, she attempted to speak. "Atilio, please get control of yourself. I'm your dear daughter, Marcella." The hermit just looked at her. "Normally, if I said that, whatever human side of is left would stop him from attacking." The hermit stopped squeezing her neck. "Dad..." She said softly. The hermit groan and raised his staff, the top part of it transformed into a mace and raised over her head. Marcella began to freak out. "This is not a normal case!" The mace came down with no hesitation, before it could smash her head, the hermits grip loosen and she escape by ducking and rolling away. Marcella wasn't ready for another escape as the hermit quickly caught up with her and ready to smash her with the mace again, Marcella was ready for it. Before he brought down the weapon to it's purpose, a flying muffin smeared all over his face like mud for how fast it traveled.
"Hey, caught out!" Said a voice. Marcella looked to see who it is. Selina was standing her ground with a basket of delicious chocolate chip muffins. "I won't forgive you for hurting my harmless friend, Marcy. Upon the Rule of Diana, Lend Me Your Light! For freedom and justice, the Guardian warrior, Guardian Moon! Under the name of Diana, I will defeat you!" The hermit completely ignore Marcella and set his eye's on Selina. Marcella ran to Selina for cover.
"Thanks for saving my behind."
"If I hadn't came any sooner, you wouldn't have any. Hey, try these muffins, they're really addictive!" Selina handed Marcella the basket. Luna the wolf popped out from the bushes and growled.
"You idiot! We don't have time to eat muffins."
"Did you followed me?!" Selina yelled at her.
"Yes! In case you screw up, and you did!"
"How did I?"
"Can we get back to the enemy please?!"
"Right!" Selina took out her discus in it's Silver form, but Marcella stopped her before anything.
"Wait! That thing is Atilio!"
"No way! That's Father Atilio?" Selina was amazed.
"Now I get it. His mood swings were signs of this." Explained Luna. The hermit began to chase them around the front of the church.
"What are we going to do?" Selina begged as she continues to run around for a few more cycles with Marcella and Luna. "We can't punish him completely because he's our favourite priest!"
"Marcella, your rosary of St. Marcus! Use it to seal off the enemy's movement!" Suggested Luna.
"Got it!" Marcella stopped and turned to face the hermit. She took out her rosary and prayed hard. "Let's get this over with, Dad! Evil Spirit...Begone!" She jumped up over the hermit's head and placed the beads around his neck and she flipped, landed behind him. "Guardian Moon, do it now, hurry!"
"Father Atilio, go back to being a nice funny man. White Moon, Heal My Aim!" Selina whipped the discus to the hermit and did it's magic. Atilio back to his old self collapse in exhaustion.
"Atilio!" Marcella ran to her father, hugged him tightly and cried.
"I'm glad everything is okay." Said Selina. Walking to the church in the late hour, Hermione seemed gloom until she saw someone ahead of her.
"Huh, Jovana!"
"Hey, what are you doing here?" Jovana asked.
"Marcella and Selina are still fighting, right? So, I wanted to talk with Marcella."
"You too?"
"You mean you were, too?"
"A woman's friendship breaks up really easy. You have to mend it as soon as possible." Jovana mentioned and Hermione agreed. Selina and Luna were sitting by the bottom of the steps at the front entrance of the church eating the muffins that Luna made with Atilio, Marcella and Caron.
"These are delicious muffins." Marcella acknowledged the sweets.
"Told you." Selina agreed.
"But still, where did that weird wizard go?" Wondered Caron.
"What weird wizard?" Asked Atilio.
"Oh yeah, Father. You don't remember anything..." Before Selina could say anymore, Marcella covered her mouth.
"A wizard? What a silly dream, isn't Selina?" Covered Marcella. Selina only nodded with agreement. Marcella turned to Caron. "Caron, you must have been dreaming, too."
"For sure!" Selina supported her idea as she filled mouth with muffin.
"But it didn't seem like a dream." Caron was thinking which made the girls nervous. "Well, it doesn't matter." Caron shrug it off.
"Oh, Caron." Marcella blushed from the sight of him. "You look pretty dull and clumsy." Marcella kissed him on the cheek which freaked him out and everyone else. Luna dropped her muffin from her mouth in awe. Caron stood up in excitement.
"A climax! This is a climax of my youth!" He goes on.
"Marcy, you've got a crush on him!" Selina teased and elbowed Marcella.
"Wrong, stupid! He's always scolded by Atilio, so I'm just trying to comfort him." Marcella rebel.
"Isn't it wonderful?" Selina continues to tease.
"No, it's not!"
"Marcella, I won't let you marry Caron!" Atilio joined in. Marcella looked at him clueless.
"Marry?!" Selina laughed hard that she cried.
"Knock it off!" Yelled Marcella.
"Marry?" Caron was in his own world.
"Not a chance!" Said both Marcella and Atilio. Jovana and Hermione stop to see the bunch fooling around.
"Wait!" Jovana said to Hermione.
"Huh? What's going on?" Hermione was amazed of the sense of mood in the atmosphere.
"Marcella and Selina have already made up." Said Jovana.
"I suppose we were worried too much." Hermione added.