Chapter 18: Moon, Lights, Action!
The theatre lights faded to darkness and the spotlights grew brighter as the curtains rose. As the curtains rose the revealed a girl standing alone on the stage. She smiled and greeted the crowd. “Good evening ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to a performance directed by me, Alice Liddell. So please sit back, relax and…” Before she could finish a dark aura started to radiate around her. She suddenly to grin an evil smile. “To give up your lives!”
She clicked her fingers and suddenly the theatre group members chained the doors shut. As soon as they had chained them shut the audience started to get distressed and began to panic. Alice just laughed. "Fear not. It shall not last long. Your lives will soon be part of my greatest masterpiece." Suddenly all the lights cut off. The whole place was pitch black. Confusion grew. Everyone was scared. Suddenly a voice echoed throughout the whole theatre.
“Fear not! I shall not let anything happen to you! Moon Power, Freedom!” Upon hearing this the whole place fell silent. Nobody could tell what was going on and suddenly few spotlights started circling all over the place. As they circled few times they passed a figure. After few times they all came together revealing a figure on the rafters above the crowd. “This play was an attestant of love and hard work. But then you decided to come to destroy all that. The Guardian of Love and Freedom, I am Petra Moon. In the name of the moon I will slay you.”
Many of the crowd just watched in amazement as Alice just scowled at her. “How dare you...How dare you steal my spotlight!” The dark aura around her grew even stronger. Petra Moon jumped down to the stage and just looked at her and shook her head. “I’m not here for you. Come out Kení.” From the darkness above Kení slowly descended. “Good evening my dear Petra Moon. How nice to see you again.” As he landed on the stage beside Alice, Petra Moon confronted him. “Up to your old tricks again Kení. You should know by now I will not be defeated by the likes of you.”
Kení laughed evily and laughed as he put his hand on Alice. “Oh I don’t know about that.” As he placed his hand on Alice the other theatre members started to act weird. They soon started to collapse as dark energy started to head towards Alice. It all poured into the script she was holding. She looked panicked as she dropped the script. Soon she fell to her knees. She looked at Kení. “What is this?” Kení smirked. “Why you are doing your part in this production.” Alice collapsed as dark energy came out from her and entered the script. The script soon floated and tore apart. Each page turned into a titan. Soon the auditorium was filled with several titans. Kení laughed out loud as Petra Moon was surrounded by a few titans. However before they could touch her they suddenly stopped. They screamed in pain as revealed two figures in black behind them.
Kení stopped laughing in shock and looked round. Suddenly the titans surrounding Petra Moon started to collapse. Kení started to get annoyed and angry and stared at the two figures and scowled. “You…You…” The two figures removed the clothing revealing their true identities.
“Foul beings desecrating the abilities and talents of these talented individuals.” “These people have worked hard to put on this play only for darkness to try to ruin it.” "I am the Guardian of Knowledge, Zoë Mercury,” “and I’m Guardian of Love and Fire, Isabel Mars.”
Kení scorned at the girls. “How dare you try and ruin my masterpiece.” The three girls stood in defiance before him. “I told you. I won’t fall to you. None of us will. Together we will defeat you.” Kení’s expression changed as his anger soon changed to a smirk. Behind the girls the titans which were crying in pain were suddenly standing again. Their wounds were completely healed. They girls were surprised and quickly jumped out of the way. Kení started to laugh. “Surprised? You should be. I think I will take my leave for now. Enjoy your time here. For it will be lights out for you.” He soon disappeared as the Titans started to spread out heading towards panicked audience members who were heading to the exits trying to escape. Petra Moon headed towards the Titans to stop them when a few headed her off. Before they could do anything Isabel Mars had taken them down using her arrow ability. However they didn’t stay down for too long. “Petra Moon you stop them attacking the crowd.” Zoë Mercury nodded. “Don’t worry about us. Isabel I am gonna need you to cover me for a while. I’m gonna analyse them all. Find out their weakness.”
Petra Moon nodded and jumped of the stage while holding her tiara. “Titans get away from them!” Her tiara soon became the bladed disc. “Moon Tiara Slash!” She launched it at a Titan and it slashed its neck apart. It didn’t return as a tiara as it continued heading towards another Titan’s neck and slashing its neck. Other titans started paying attention heading towards Petra Moon. Petra Moon was unfazed as she controlled the disc and attacked Titans continuously. Meanwhile Isabel was taking out Titans heading towards Zoë as she analysed them searching for why they keep regenerating. Isabel Mars was attacking a titan when she was attacked from behind. Zoë Mercury saw this and quickly attacked. “Thanks Zoë Mercury. Sorry to disturb you when you are analysing.” Zoë Mercury smiled. Its ok. I just noticed what is the cause.” “Really! What is it?” “The main titan is feeding energy to them all. It controls them and heals them by feeding them energy it has absorbed.” Isabel Mars was shocked. She then noticed some of the titans heading towards some of the Theatre Club members. “Petra Moon! Theatre Club members are in trouble!”
Petra Moon heard Isabel Mars warning and quickly defeated the titans that were heading to the theatre members. Unaware behind her another titan approached her. Before anyone can react it attacked her. Petra Moon lost control over the bladed disc and it stopped in its place and transferred back into the tiara. Isabel Mars and Zoë Mercury saw this. Isabel Mars moved to help her but Zoë Mercury stopped her. Confused Isabel Mars looked at her. “Why are you stopping me? We gotta help her.” Zoë Mercury looked at her worried. “That is the main one. We can’t rush in blindly. Besides look.” Isabel looked round and saw the Titans Petra Moon had defeated getting back up and heading towards the audience members and theatre club members. “We’ve got to help them first. Petra Moon will be fine somehow. She always is.” Isabel Mars reluctantly nodded in agreement. “You help the audience members Zoë Mercury. I’ll help the theatre members.” Zoë Mercury nodded in agreement and headed to the back of the auditorium as Isabel Mars headed towards the theatre members. As they did Petra Moon screamed in pain. Zoë Mercury looked and stopped. She changed direction and went towards the titan. Isabel Mars looked at her confused. “What you doing?” “That is the main titan. We got to defeat it.” Zoë Mercury headed towards the Titan when suddenly other titans stood in between her and the titan. Zoë Mercury quickly stopped and looked round. She saw Petra Moon struggling. She also noticed Isabel struggling against the Titans. She started to panic. She was unsure what to do.
“Never hesitate. The look of confusion doesn’t suit the maiden of knowledge.” Zoë Mercury looked round and noticed above them all leaning against the wall in the rafters was Aururo Mask. “Go help Isabel Mars. Leave this titan to me.” Zoë Mercury hesitated for a second and then nodded as she went to aid Isabel Mars as Aururo Mask jumped down in front of all the titans. “A nice welcoming party. All of you against the one of me.” The Titans headed towards him and he just took out a rose. He threw the rose and suddenly petals appeared. “Petal storm!” Petals attacked all the titans defeating them. The titan with Petra Moon looked on at Auruo Mask looking angry. It went towards him. Auruo Mask pulled out another rose. As the Titan looked to grab him Auruo Mask flicked his wrist and the rose transformed into a cane which smacked the Titan hand causing it to withdraw it in pain and as it did Auruo Mask moved in a blink of an eye and struck the hand which held Petra Moon which caused the Titan to release her. As she fell Auruo Mask caught her.
“Hello there. We need to stop meeting in these situations.” Petra Moon smiled. “You are right but I’m glad you are here.” He jumped back onto the stage. As he did many of the titans started to surround the stage area ignoring everyone but Petra Moon, Zoë Mercury, Isabel Mars and Auruo Mask. “Ok. I think we need to finish this quick. Isabel Mars and Zoë Mercury can you two use the Scalding Arrow combination? If you do I can quickly get my tiara and finish it.” The two girls nodded and stood but briefly fell to one knee. Auruo Mask placed his hand on Petra Moon shoulder. Why don’t you girls take it easy for now. I’ll finish it for once. Petra Moon looked at him confused but nodded. He stepped forward with his cane. The main titan motioned the other titans to move away. It faced him angry and ready to attack. Auruo Mask just stood there holding his can. The Titan moved in to attack. Auruo Mask grabbed part of his cane and pulled a blade out. “I don’t usually like taking the good part but for you I’ll make an exception.” In a quick moment he slashed the titan. The Titan had suffered heavy cuts. It collapsed and Auruo Mask walked up towards it. “Farewell. For I need to keep the Maidens of the Moon safe.” With his blade he slashed the back of the neck. The titan cried in pain and the other titans also cried and all collapsed. They all started to dissolve as the main one collapsed fully and dissolved.
With the Titans now gone the fainted Theatre club members started to revive. So did Alice. She looked at everything and just sat up in sadness. “My dreams..My ambitions gone.” Petra Moon walked over to her. “Yours dreams and ambitions aren’t over. If you go round it in a positive way then you can claim them. But force it then it might never come true.” She looked around. She couldn’t see Auruo Mask but she noticed Zoë Mercury and Isabel Mars leaving. She went to leave when she realised she didn’t have her Tiara. She went and fetched it quickly before getting back onto the stage again. As she went to leave spotlights focused on her. The rest of the auditorium was dark. She noticed many of the theatre club members and even audience were around her. She didn’t know what to do. This was first time someone was pretty close to her. They got closer and closer.
Suddenly spotlights disappeared. It was pitch black. Suddenly the spotlights came back on and Petra Moon was gone. Where she was stood a rose. “I’m sorry everyone but she is tired from a huge fight. Maybe another time she will meet you.” Everyone looked round and noticed Aururo Mask hold Petra Moon in the rafters. “Till next time Goodbye.” He jumped away with her and left.
Outside Aururo Mask released Petra Moon and turned to leave. “Moonlight looked great again. You all worked hard.” As he was about to leave Petra Moon leaned in and kissed him on the cheek. He was surprised as he held his cheek. “That was to Thank you for everything you for all your help.” She smiled and turned and left. He stood there watching her. He smiled and left himself.
Few days later Petra popped by the Theatre Club and saw them all working hard. Jel noticed Petra. “Hey Petra. You came.” Petra smiled. “I said I would. Especially after all that chaos before.” Jel nodded. “I don’t know what happened. But after it Alice changed. She became more integrated with the group. I don’t know why it all happened but if it wasn’t for Petra Moon then we wouldn’t be here. I wish we could thank her. Petra just smiled. “I think she knows. I think she knows.”







