There’s their chance of escape. They go into the portal and they are about to teleport. She looks back at Amon, looking at him as he is in pain. She feels bad, as she never planned this. She couldn’t understand where this power came, but there was no time for that.

Finally, the portal beams them to the dwarf planet. The girls run fast, destroying the entering poin and going to a nearby cave.

“Get the spaceships ready, we will travel this way” says Amon now standing up.

“Sir, your hand”, a Paladin notices.

‘It should have healed by now’, he thinks, as the wound doesn’t seem to close.

His hand becomes dark and trembles.

“A curse? Remarkable”, says Vina appearing from nowhere.

Amon is caught by surprise, as Vina touches his hand and examines it. The two other Masters arrive. “What did just happen?” Kion asks in confusion.

Amon briefs the Masters of how Valerie and Nora escaped. Kion orders the Paladins to find the coordinates of the last entry.

“They went to a dwarf planet not far away, should we ready the portal?” says one of them. Odel quickly thinks about it and orders the man down. “What do you think you are doing?” Kion says all mad.

“Put your brains to use. They aren’t escaping there, this was just a means to access something. They had no authority to enter any other location, and pretty sure they must have destroyed the station for the portal to work. Amon’s idea was correct, get the spaceships and we travel to the planet”.

Amon is about to follow the Masters but Vina stops him. “Sorry kid, you have to stay out of this. If you let the curse spread, you are dead. Not many creatures can create wounds like that, so you won’t make it if it stays untreated. Go to the healer, we got this”.

Odel returns and asks one last question, “Who caused this?”.

“Valerie, sir”.

The three Masters look at each other, as if they had seen a ghost.

Back to the dwarf planet the girls are about to take off and get the engine going. They have taken position inside the spaceship and take off.

The monitor started beeping as an alien ship was detected. It was the Guardians, just two huge spaceships that could blow down everything. They weren’t really fast but their canons could create a lot damage.

“How long to FTL jump?” (FTL= Faster Than Light)

“We are still on 40%. I have locked down the destination but this ship needs time to power up. Let’s use the shields” says Nora but cold sweat covers Valerie.

“I don’t think this ship has shields..” she says frightened, not understanding why she didn’t think of that. She expected them to try to use the portal and win some time this way.

One of the canons charges and fires at them, shaking the whole ship and causing damage. “One more of this and we are done” says Nora frightened.

Valerie takes the wheel and dodges one of the incoming fire. They move to an asteroid field and try to lose them.

“60%. We need a new plan. I could try to shield the ship with my Item” says Nora. Valerie shakes her head. “It’s too much to shield this ship. It will tear you apart. Let me think”.

A white light caughts her attention that is coming from her necklace. It’s the glass pearl given from Master Odel.

‘...it will help you in a time of need’.

Their cannons aim at them and are ready to take the shot.

She grabs the pearl with both hands, knowing what to do now. She holds it close and whispers to it, “shield”.

The pearl shines bright creating a big shield around the spaceship, a shield that cannot be penetrated, no matter how many times they fire.

Nora takes the wheel, knowing Valerie should stay concentrated on keeping the shields up. She moves them out of the asteroids, trying to outrun the ships.

The Masters are on the ship behind them, and Kion is cursing. Odel smiles and Vina looks at him, knowing this he might have something to do with it.

“Alright, we are at 100%!” Nora shouts.

“Punch it”.