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Chapter 18: WaitingIt wasn't just Alainia that night who didn't get any sleep. The rest of the Five stayed up that night preparing themselves for the Battle as well. Lurik had gotten himself in his suit of armor, and this wasn't the kind of suit of armor that nights from the Mideival times wore. This particular suit of armor had every weapon imaginable that can slay a magical creature built into it, but it is as light as a feather making it easy to move in. He then practiced his fireball throwing and a bit of water ball. There was also Pier and Codie, who shared a dorm. Pier dressed up in shorts and a T-shirt and pulled on some black hunting boots. But these weren't just any kind of shorts and T-shirt. These pieces of cloth were made of the standered protection cloth that produced an invisble sheild around him, this way he looked unprotected and whatever was attacking would attack him first. Codie, on the other hand, just grabbed his special sunglasses that could see anything invisible when he put them on, his boomerang (that was sharp enough to even cut steel), his venom sword (which had Wyvern dragon venom on it), and his water ball gloves. Then there is Miecyzslaw, who has now been known to be called Missy. She did her best to look over every single text book she had on healing. After she had done that, she went and got on her battle suit. It was her own invention. It was a kind of suit that could repair itself and her. Not to mention it will allow her to shape shift. This will be an advantage for she has mastered how to shape shift into a dragon. Just then, she heard a noise behind her. Missy swung around, making her black and orange hair go everywhere, and saw Bjorn standing in the doorway. "What do you think you're doing?" he asked. "I'm preparing for the Battle that's coming at the crack of dawn," she spat at him. Bjorn sighed and walked over to her and pulled up a chair. "Missy," he put his hand on her shoulder. "You don't know what a battle can be like." "Excuse me?" Missy scoffed. "I think I know heck of a lot more about it than you do. At least I'm not running away from a fight like you did. Because of you, Codie and Alainia don't have any parents." These words cut Bjorn as deep as a sword. "I didn't run away," he said simply. "Oh yeah?" Missy shouted. "Then what was it that you did?! Went for reinforcments?! Alexandria Montez, Alainia's mother, told you to stay put! And what did you do? You ran! Alainia and Codie have suffered from your actions and your choices!" They were quiet for a long time. Missy breathing heavily. "You don't understand," he whispered hoarsely. "I was about to lose the one I loved, and I still lost her." "Yeah well, Alainia suffered more than you know. She knew what happened to her parents and she still trusted you. She said she knew who you were when she first saw you." Bjorn looked up at her. "She knew?" he asked shakily. "She's known, Bjorn," sighed Missy. She put on her belt and pulled on a jacket. Just because the suit was practically indestructable, that didn't mean that it imune to coldness. "Alainia knows everything. You can't hide anything from her because Jason intruduced her to her telepathy powers." "Oh," Bjorn got up to leave. "It's almost dawn. You better go wake up Ice Moon and get ready to head out." He walked out the door. Missy watched him leave. She got up and went to wake up Ice Moon, but he was already awake and listening to the conversation. They were silent until dawn and they left for Alainia's room.
Alainia was already on Snow Fire's back and the ceiling was already open and they could see clouds that were painted in rainbow colors. They couldn't see the sun yet, but they knew they would soon. "Al," whispered Pier. "Where is this stationary cloud you were telling us about?" Alainia sighed. "Actually," she said finally. "I have no idea where it is. I guess we just have to look for the cloud that's not moving. There aren't that many clouds in the sky today, so it shouldn't be too hard." As the rest of the Five came into the room, Alainia couldn't help but wonder what was going to happen to Jason. If he really was going to die, then why wasn't he doing his best to make his last days the best? "Hey!" came a familiar voice from the doorway. Alainia spun around and saw Jason standing in the doorway in full armor and his silver-blue dragon, Silver Moon, was standing behind him, fifty feet tall and a wing span of over a hundred and fifty feet. Alainia then noticed that he had a big smile on his face. "Thought you guys might like some help finding that stationary cloud." He winked at her and she smiled back. "Alright, you guys," called Alainia. "Let's get going." And the others lifted out of the room on the back of their dragons. She then turned to Jason who was climbing onto Silver Moon's back. "Jason, what do you think you're doing?" "What do you mean?" he turned around and looked at her. "Why are you coming with us?" she asked. "Aren't destined to die?" "Well, yeah," he shrugged. "But if I do die, I want to die with honor. I don't want to die knowing that I was a coward and I ran away from the legendary Battle." "Legendary?" Alainia cocked an eyebrow. "It hasn't even happened yet." "Well, the soon to be legendary," Jason said. "Alainia! Jason!" called Missy from over head. "Are you coming or what?" Snow Fire then flapped her wings and took off without warning Alainia. When they got up there, Missy looked at me with a strange look on her face. A look that Alainia had never seen before. She then turned around and flew away from them and Alainia followed.
It was noon when the Five and Jason finally found the stationary cloud. It was right over an ocean where the Coucil of Races suspected Satasan's army might attack. Since the merpeople had fled, it was going to take all the Guardians in the academy to move the cloud. You know how dragons have special powers? Well, Guardians didn't only have the water and fire ball powers. Actually, all the dragons powers could be channeled into the Guardian so that they, too, had the same exact powers. No one, not even the oldest Guardian in the academy, knew quite how this happened...it just did. At the moment, Pier and Lurik were setting up the tents that they would be camping in. Of course, it might have been easier if they let Moon Beam help them. "No, no, no!" cried out Lurik. "That pole is supposed to go there in the middle! Not sticking out of the roof!" "Sorry!" shouted Pier. "Maybe you should stop standing around and just help!" "Well, you know what! I-" "All right, you two," Alainia stepped in. "Just give it a rest. If we're going to be fighting Satasan's armies, then we need to not be fighting amongst ourselves. Get a grip, okay?" And she walked towards Snow Fire. The red and white dragon let out a low sigh that erupted from her belly. "What is it this time, Alainia?" Snow Fire asked as Alainia sat down next to her. "Nothing," she said not looking into Snow Fire's blue eyes. "I've known you all my life, Al," she said, starting up and arguement. "I think I should know when something's wrong." Snow Fire moved her head towards Alainia. The delicious smell of cherry pie came from the dragon's nostrils. Cherries had quickly become Snow Fire's favorite food, and it was why she was so strong. "There's nothing wrong, Snow Fire," Alainia said crossly holding her head high. "And if there was, I would tell you." Snow Fire rolled her blue eyes and let out a low rumble that passed as a sigh for a dragon. "No you wouldn't," Snow Fire said grumpily. The dragon turned her back on Alainia making her fall over. She growled and pound her fists into the ground. Alainia got up and walked over to the edge of the cloud and looked down at the ocean. Looking up at the stars, Alainia realized that there was something wrong with her...and there was a reason. It was Jason. "You know," came a voice from behind her. Alainia spun around and saw Jason standing right behind her. "It's not going to help being mad at your best friends. I'm still going to die." "But you can't," tears stung Alainia's eyes. "I won't let it happen." Jason walked towards her and took her hands in his own. "Alainia," he said softly. "If I'm going to die, then I'm going to die protecting you. I don't know if you know this, but Satasan isn't trying just to gain power over the Guardians. He's trying to gain power over you, the most powerful Guardian since time began." Alainia smiled and big, fat tears rolled down her cheeks. Now that they got everything worked out, they had to start doing something that was going to be the hardest part of this Battle. Waiting....
To be continued....
p.s. Coming soon: The Battle between Alainia and Satasan 9:12 AM - Jan. 25, 2008 - post comment
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