After a few exchanges of words, a light began to flicker on and off on Venus' pocket. Venus searched for the source of the light and pulled out an angelite. The stone continued to flicker on and off as Venus ran a gentle thumb over it, "who is it?" She said as a hologram began to project from the stone. Projected on the hologram was Mellie who was wearing a worried expression, "um, m'lady Venus, we have a bit of a situation here..."
Venus and the Guardians quickly rushed towards where Mellie were with worried faces, they found Mellie nervously pacing back and forth, "Mellie what happened?" Venus asked, but Mellie began to mumble incoherent words as her eyes darted back and forth, avoiding Venus' gaze, "Mellie hold yourself together! What happened?" Venus said as she took a grip on both of Mellie's shoulders. Mellie snapped her eyes towards Venus before gulping, "the Seraphims reported back here a hour ago, they told me that they were attacked but they quickly outnumbered them..." Mellie was sweating like crazy as she struggled to say more, Venus saw this and she calmed her friend down, "Mellie, I want you to calm down okay, I'm not here to hurt you, just tell me what happened" Venus said slowly. Mellie slowly took in deep breaths before finishing what she wanted to say, "... but they returned with 900 orbs missing," Venus' eyes widened at the news, "what, how?"
Mellie started rambling nervously, the Guardians stared at her for awhile before Venus grabbed hold of both of her shoulders to stop her from rambling more, "okay, calm down. This is not your fault you were just doing what you do best, okay. Give me an earpiece so I could help you," Venus said in a soft voice so she doesn't sound persuasive. Mellie gave her an earpiece from her pocket and gave it to Venus. Venus carefully inserted the earpice in her ear then she turned it on, she was met with blaring and barking of orders, as they tried to maintain everything under control, "Control come in" Venus called through the earpiece, it took a few seconds before she finally got a respond, "this is control."
"Control, status report," Venus said as she, hears murmurs behind the intercom, "we're receiving some heat signatures that we haven't seen in a long time and they seem unique. We've never caught this on the radar before. We've sent 15 gargoyles to check it out..." The caller from the other side said as Venus heard frantic typing on the keyboard, "alright I'm on my way, just keep me updated," Venus said as she motions for the Guardians to follow her.
The Guardians followed her with no questions asked, knowing that the team from Control is on to something and they didn't want to lose her focus.
It was silent for awhile minus the beeping of the monitors and the various clicking of the keyboard on the other line, "400 meters to the beacon."
...
"300 meters to the beacon."
...
"They're right on top of it."
...
"Status report on the area," Venus asked through the earpiece as she, the Guardians and Mellie board the cloud elevator, the person on the other line was about to respond but he was interrupted by a yell, "BUNÉ!!!!!!"
Then a series of battle cries, sword slashing, armor clashing, grunts, and yells were heard in the backgound, Venus stood there frozen as she hears what seems to be bodies and heart monitors flat lining.
More people began to shout as they barked more orders and heard more warriors dying fast, "SOMEBODY TALK TO ME WHAT IS HAPPENING?!?!" Venus yelled, tears streaming down her face. The Guardians could only look at her and each other with worried faces, they glanced at Mellie who was cupping her hand over her mouth in shock as she took in the sound of the last heart monitor flat lining.
Silence, and for once the people in the control room who were known for barking orders here and there, were silenced.
Bunnymund stood next to Venus, as he put a reassuring paw on her shoulder. Venus faced him with wide tear stained eyes then she tightly hugged him, clinging on to him with fear. The rest of the Guardians could only watch in sadness at her loss. They finally reached the 5th level, Venus and Bunnymund pulled away from each other as the angels in the control room turned to look at them. The control room wasn't like the modern control rooms on earth, it was bright, and filled with floating holograms serve as monitors and computers. There were 24 elders in there, they were dressed in white and had crowns of gold on their heads. They all sat in their own thrones creating a circle around the room and in the middle of the circle was a hologram off the earth and all of the seceret lands and biomes hidden from mortals.
