When Cithians Attack (17 page)

“Why?”

“There’s a message for you in Jared’s
office.”Pedro said

Pedro took my hand and led me to a Golden
Pedestal. He touched it as we turned into blue orbs. I saw
everything in doubles as we were sucked into a green portal.
Materializing, we appeared in a room with a desk and three chairs.
Two in front of the metal desk and one behind it.

A black magnet was stuck to the desk. Jared’s
name was carved into it. Pedro and I sat down in front of the desk.
Jared came into the room. He sat behind the desk and looked into my
eyes.

“Slyer, don’t overreact. But, we have some news
about your dad.” he said

“What about him?”I said

“He’s been taken by Bloodshed.”Pedro
said

“I gotta save him then.” I said

“Your dad wouldn’t want that. He wants you to
finish your training.” Jared said

“He needs to be saved. I can’t just leave him
there!”

“Skyrid, the Helios can only be
activated...”Pedro said

“I know. By true sacrifice. But, I can’t just
stand here.”

“Skyrid Crop, your dad can handle himself! You
need to worry about mastering your powers!”Jared said

“No. I have to save him!”

I stood up and clenched my fists.

“Calm down! We both know that you can’t do
it.”

“And why not?”I said as tears streamed down my
cheeks.

“You can’t save him if you get imprisoned too,
can you?”Jared said

“No. But, who’s saving my dad if I don’t do
it?”

“The authorities will find him. In the
meantime, you can’t tell anyone he’s gone.”Jared said

“Why?”

“We don’t want to cause an uproar.”Jared
said

My eyes widened.

“Fine! But if Bloodshed has taken him, they
know another way to activate the helios part, don’t
they?!”

I stepped back.

“No, I don’t think they have...”Jared
said

I stepped forward.

“Have what?”

“Don’t worry. It’s not possible, Slyer.”Pedro
said

“It is. Zeddark told me that I could activate
it.”I said

“That is true. But, they’re just trying to lure
you to them.” Pedro said

I punched Jared’s desk. The books scattered all
over his desk crashed to the floor.

“Look at me, Skyrid.”Pedro said “You’ll get
your chance to fight against them.”

“No, I won’t if I don’t go searching for my
dad.”I said

“If you do that, it’ll be a bad thing.”Jared
said

“How so?”I said

“They could capture you. So, it’s too much of a
risk.”Pedro said

“Pedro, I have an entire army on my side and
you’ll think I’ll be captured?”

Pedro went silent.

“I decide to go find my dad then!”I
said

“No, you can’t! You’re not ready to fight
Bloodshed alone!”Pedro said
“He’s right, Skyrid. You aren’t.”Jared said

“I beat Kodyack, didn’t I?”I said

“Yes. But, he was possessed. So that made it
easier for you.”Pedro said

I sat down.

“What about my dad?!”

“The Sayis’ and police are out looking for him
and they’ll find him.” Pedro said.

“They are?”

“Yes. Are we done here, Skyrid?”Jared
said

I went silent.

“Good. Then we’ll take you to class.”Pedro
said

Jared and Pedro took my hands as a white portal
appeared. We all went into it and disappeared.

Materializing, we appeared in Kaiser’s
classroom. Everybody was getting ready to battle. Chaser was in his
warrior form and Anna was standing with him on their battlefield. I
blended into the crowd as Pedro, him and Jared stood in front of
us.

“Today you’ll learn how to turn into your
Mythical Creature Forms. Anna and Chaser will have the first
fight.”Pedro said

Anna threw a light brown-colored orb into the
air and Chaser ran towards it. Catching it, he grew a serpent for a
tail. His head turned into a lion’s head as he got a mane and a
Jaguar’s head and a cheetah’s head appeared on each of his
shoulders. He got in a crawling position as lion hair appeared on
his body and his shredded clothes were thrown into the crowd. His
hands and feet turned into eagle claw as Anna shot a beam of light
into the air.

Armor started appearing on Anna. A dodger-blue
helmet formed onto her head as flavescent plates appeared on her
shoulders.

Light green armor mixed with specks of white
appeared on her arms and hands as Dark Purple armor appeared on her
chest. Blue-Green armor then covered the rest of her body. Anna
threw a light beam beam at Chaser as he jumped into the air to
dodge it. Immediately, griffin wings grew out of his back and he
flew towards me. Chaser tried to pull himself back, but his wings
kept pulling him forward as Anna hit him with a beam of light and
threw him against the wall.

His mythical creature form started fading out
as we all were rushed out of the room by Jared.

Once we were outside the door, Jared stood in
front of us.

“What happened today is an example of fighting
against your powers. Your powers are something that’s inside of you
and if you fight against them, it’s like fighting against yourself
because you won’t ever win that way. You’ve got to let your power
flow through you.”

“Mr. Riker, when you’re in that form, you are
being controlled by two other brains. It’s not something that’s
easy to control.”I said

“It is if you’ve accepted having powers and
Chaser hasn’t.”

“Of course he hasn’t. We were all shocked when
our malfunctions happened. We thought we were just normal people.
Warrior powers are something that you have to learn how to accept
and control or they’ll take you over.”Parser said

“He’s right, Jared. It’s the reason why
Furliceo is evil. His powers have taken over him.”Nester
said.

“It doesn’t matter. But to have good control of
your powers, you have to accept yourself as you are. You have to be
proud of who you are basically and it’s one of the hardest things
to achieve.”Pedro said

“It looked like to me that he was trying to
resist the urge to pounce at me.”I said

“Yeah, what if...”William said

“What? You think someone forced him to do
it?”Jared said

“No. But he hasn’t accepted himself as he is
yet because, he hasn’t learned how to have faith and confidence in
Kursta and himself.”Caitlyn said.

Kaiser opened the door. Chaser was in a blue
dress shirt with squares on it and blue wrangler jeans. The dress
shirt also had the top two buttons unbuttoned to show a red shirt.
He ran towards me.

“I’m so sorry, Skyrid. I tried to resist my
powers, but I couldn’t for some reason.”

“I know. It doesn’t make sense.”I
said.

“Maybe your powers were tampered
with.”

“What’d you mean?”

“Someone messed with your wrist power rings,
maybe.”

Chaser covered his gaping wound. Blood was
pouring out of his wrists.

“Chase, you’re hurt.”
“Don’t worry about me, Skyrid.”

“How’d you get the cut?”

“Kaiser tried to cut out my power rings because
I hit him with a orb of light.”

“Kaiser did this to you? Why didn’t you tell
anyone?”

“I was just so scared.”

I touched his wrists. Chaser’s wrists healed as
I touched them.

I stared at Chaser.

“What?”

“The Healing Warrior can only heal things
caused by warrior powers. You lied to me! Somebody hit you with
their powers, didn’t they?!”

“Yes.”

“Who was it?”

“Kama.”

“Why?”

“I accidentally hit him with an orb of
light.”

“You’re not telling me everything, Chaser, are
you?”

“I am. Leave me alone about it.”

We all went silent as I saw Kodyack coming down
towards us.

“Nancy has escaped! She’s gone!” He
said

“What?! How?”Pedro said

“Apparently Drayer has betrayed us all. He let
her go free.”Kodyack said as he looked down at the floor. I looked
at Chaser.

“Chaser, Drayer’s a guardian.”

“More like a betrayer.”

“He helped her!I said

“Yes.”Kodyack said

“No one panic! I’ll summon the rest of the
guardians.”Pedro said.

As Pedro’s wrist rings glowed green, five orbs
of all different colors appeared and materialized into Shais,
Natasha, Lane, and two other guardians. One had sapphire armor on
with a long blue staff that a flame in the middle in their right
hand. And, the second had light red armor that had specks of light
green armor blended into it on his body with a thick redwood staff
that had a griffin and a gray pegasus carved into the top of it and
she had her brown hair in a ponytail.

“Sir, what seems to be the problem?”the
sapphire one said.

“Nancy has escaped, Napier Jones.”Pedro
said

“I know. We were trying to find her. Drayer is
obviously in an alliance with her.”Napier said

“But, I want you to take these students to
their dorms.”

“Alright. Shais and I will take all the
Servants of the Sayis’.”the pony-tailed one said

“Good idea, Drakia. You can protect them while
the rest of us handle the Dragons of Light .”Lane said

“I’m sorry, but I have to be one to fight
Drayer and Nancy.”Natasha said

“No you don’t. Skyrid and I will help
you.”Chaser said.

“You can’t do that, you two!”Jared
said

“Why not? Nancy’s powers have been suspended.
So we’ll only be fighting against Drayer.”
“What do you have that the Guardians don’t have?”Natasha
said

“We have Mythical Creature Forms. None of the
Guardians have them.”

“You’re right. You can come. But, you’ll be my
reserves.”

I watched Shais’ group go into a blue portal as
a ruby-colored portal appeared and Lane’s group went into it as it
disappeared. Pedro, Jared, and Kaiser wished us good luck as they
all went into the blue portal. We all watched it
disappear.

“Be warned, Skyrid and Chaser, Drayer’s power
exceeds the rest of ours. So don’t underestimate him.”

“We understand, Natasha.”Chaser and I said in
unison.

Walking down the long corridor, we saw Nancy
and Drayer coming towards us. Drayer looked at me and threw an orb
of Darkness at me as Chaser jumped in front of me and it hit him in
the chest.

“You hurt him!” I said, running up to
him.

Natasha threw a beam of light at Drayer and
threw him across the hall as I touched Chaser’s chest and healed
him.

“You saved my life. Why?”

“I want to pay my debt to you.”

Drayer got up and I stood.

“I challenge you to a battle, Skyrid.”Drayer
said.

‘“
What for?”

“You’re weak. I’ll win easily.”

Chaser rose.

“Don’t do it! He’s...”

“I’ll fight you to prove that I’m willing to
stand up for my Friends.”

I turned into my warrior form and threw a light
brown beam at Drayer. Turning into an orb with cracks in it, I flew
above the beam. Jumping up into the air, I turned into my Mythical
Creature form and my lion head roared at him. Drayer threw two red
beams at me. I flew above them and threw an orb of light at
him.

Leaning backwards slowly, Drayer dodged it. He
hit a beam of lava and a beam of fire against each other.
Exploding, they threw both of us across the room. A pain in my back
came on as I fought it and flew up. Drayer got up and threw a beam
of darkness at me and I threw a beam of light at it. Moving my
hands back and forth, I watched as Drayer did the same.

I pushed my beam harder as sweat poured down my
face and threw Drayer across the hall again. He tried to get up,
but couldn’t.

Nancy ran down the hall as Chaser ran after
her.

“You’ll never catch me again!”She said, looking
back at us.

Chaser hit her with a beam of light and she was
knocked out.

“Good work, you two. Now, let’s get them back
where they belong.”

Natasha shot a fluorescent orb at them. They
were sucked into it. She opened a yellow portal. We all watched
Nancy and Drayer get sucked into it. It closed.

“You two did excellent. But, we have to get you
to your dorm.”

“Why?”

“Chaser has shown true sacrifice by saving your
life.”
Natasha opened another portal. It was chalk white as we all stepped
into it . We appeared in our dorm. Drakia was standing in front of
us and Shais was standing beside the right side of the
couch.