The four friends were terrified by what happened because if Tony wouldn't had taken quick action and killed the monster, they would have not only get badly defeated but in the course they could have been killed or worse.
Tony said, "We should train ourselves to increase our understanding of our powers, or else we are bound to be defeated next time." So the four of them went to the dome to seek some information from Phoenix.
Phoenix gave them some scrolls saying, "My dear children, I am giving each one of you a scroll, read through it thoroughly and try to understand and use your powers correctly and this is and an ancient scroll in which whereabouts of the shard is given go find it and you'll also meet the gaurdian protecting it."
They read the about the whereabouts of the shard, it was hidden in the forests of Canada. So they agreed to meet together near playground after one week and then search for the shard. But Michael suddenly exclaimed, "But what will we tell to our parents, how we will explain our absence?" "Don't worry I will duplicate ourselves with the duplication spell, I recently learnt", said Serena.
So after the conversation, they left to their homes to study their elemental scrolls.
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They all met at the playground, Serena with her magic power stone drew a teleportation array to the middle of the rainforest in Canada. As they reached their, they saw beautiful scenery, but behind that beauty they also sensed danger.
They roamed there aimlessly, John said, "We should find someone who knows the routes here, because we roaming aimlessly for at least an hour and my legs are hurting like hell." "See there is a old cottage far away and I can see an old man there, we can ask him routes and then go for search", said Serena.
Serena went to talk with the old man and the three of them rested there a bit, suddenly Tony got an uneasy feeling in his heart, John said, "Let's drink some juice here one for you Michael and one for Tony."
But when John turned towards Tony, he vanished with lightning speed. On the other side when Serena approached the old man, he suddenly turned into monster, and he darted towards Serena. It's hands were sharper than a sword. Serena couldn't understand what had happened, when she came back to her senses, the monster was charging at her with sharp claws, she had a narrow escape and dodged the attack, the monster.
The monster suddenly took turn and attacked her again, she got lightly grazed by the attacked, but that little scratch was very fatal as the blood was flowing like water from it. "You are now finished little girl, ready to die.", said the monster and attacked at full speed, Serena had no space to dodge, she closed her eyesout of fear of dying she screamed loudly.
Serena thought, "Is this the end of me, but strange I am not feeling any pain." When she opened her eyes, she saw Tony break the monsters hand. The screamed in pain and backed out, following Tony, Michael and John came running. Seeing all of them together the monster fled away.
Serena told all of them about what happened and how Tony saved her. After they gave first aid to Serena. They continued their search.
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