A figure stepped out of the darkness. It morphed and shifted to something more fluid, smoke like in consistency. The cult's leader, evil and nefarious, grinned at his audience. "You dummies think you could take away what is mine?" he spat, disdainful malice dripping from his lips. "The shadows shall consume you!
Not if we can help it!" cried Lily, grabbing the Celestial Stone. Its power flared through her body and filled her with light and strength.
"Come on," Clara said, stepping onto Lily's other side of the stone. With Marcus by her side, she joined her energies to him and surrounded the stone in a circle of light that protected it.
The cult leader attacked them. But the light pushed forward against him, countering the dark that sought to consume them. "You are weak!" he roared, anger and frustration brimming over. "You cannot resist the shadows!
Yet through her, Lily felt that collective power of her friends, which she and them had hammered out through fighting together. "We're stronger when we're with each other!" she barked again, calling her energy inside towards the stone. "Before the glow of the Stellar Stone we're gonna banish you!"
The stone erupted in power, light flooding the chamber. The shadows contorted and screamed as they could not hold up against the assault of energy. The figure of the cult leader started breaking down, his rage morphing into fear.
"No! This cannot be!" he shouted as the light engulfed him, driving him back into the darkness whence he came.