[Matt in his room, Mr Huggles on his shoulders]
Hungry again? Mr Huggles, you're a dormouse of a dormoose? [In french accent] Would Monsieur care to try ze Mouse Munchies? Zey are ze specialty of ze house. I'll tell le Chèf you approve.
[Knock on the window. Matt sees Will and climbs out]
Hi. I was just thinking about thinking about you.
[Mr Huggles freaks and Matt tries to catch him]
Mr Huggles, what is your damage? [To Will] I don't know why he's freaking out like this.. Sorry.
No apologies necessary, [Transforms into Nerissa] dear heart.
[Shocked, holding Mr Huggles] Nerissa!
[Nerissa steps in, holds out the Heart of Meridian and all of them teletransport away, leaving Matt's hat on the ground]
[To Tridart] Back off glacier face! [She charges up a fireball but Kor grabs her arm. In his eyes, we see Taranee's anger and argument with her mother. He starts to fight Taranee]
Watch it, hairball! [She telekinetically moves metal hinges to strike Kor, but Shagon intercepts and destroys them. Will appears in front of Cornelia]
The way I stayed away from Matt?
How much would you hate me if I did?
[Lightning appears, circling throughout Will's hair, her hair is raised]
You're about to find out! [She hurls a lightning bolt at him. He absorbs it]
Y'know those Knights of Whatever totally fed on our drama! Icicle Boy called you desperate, which you are, over Eric.
Lava Chick was gloating about Irma being in pain, which she is, over Martin. And Taranee...
I can't be fuzzy, if I'm mad at my mom?
Just try to keep it in check. You especially, Will. Dark Angel wanted you hating him.
[shaking her fists] Then he knew his stuff. Hey, since when are you Miss Intuitive?
Perspective. I'm the only one not starring in a soap opera.
WHWill, Hay Lin
This week.
[Yan Lin is travelling on Mount Thanos holding a bouquet of roses. She sees a graveyard. She walks up to a grave]
It has been too long, Cassidy, my dear friend. [She puts the roses onto the grave] I promise to see you again soon.
[She teletransports away]
[voice] Perhaps sooner than you think.
[The two gravestones on either side of Cassidy's grave transforms into Nerissa and Shagon]
[Shagon picks up the bouquet and hugs it]
I have business I must attend, and the Guardians must not interfere.
I'll drive them to distraction! Will, especially. [Picks the flowers] She hates me, she hates me not. She hates me, she hates me not. Who am I kidding? She really, really hates me. [He rips the flowers in half from the stem]
[Nerissa uses the Heart to teletransport Shagon away and unleashes lightning on Cassidy's grave]
[A blast of air comes out from the grave and the ghost of Cassidy rises]
[whispering] Nerissa. [not whispering] Wow! You look awful.
You haven't aged a bit. [Flies around her] You've aged many bits. Draining our life force for power are we? Granted, you have the sad disadvantage of having to live in this world, while I...
I apologise for any role I might have played in...your accident.
'"Might" have played? That's like me saying I might have missed curfew on prom night. [She laughs] Oh, oh, but were I just was, we don't hold grudges. Now, if you'll send me back?
Cassidy, I didn't raise you simply to apologise. We were Guardians together. I...feel a responsibility to show you all that you have been missing.
Really, Nerissa, that's not...
Oh, but I insist. And since I've bound you to the Earth Plane with the Heart of Meridian, we will stick to the plan. [softly] For your own good.
A field trip you can't get out of, that's good for you? Wow, even the afterlife's like high school.
[Nerissa has teletransported herself and Cassidy to Shell Beach]
Shell Beach! My favourite spot! Oh, what a perfectly lovely, and [She flies through Nerissa] totally transparent gesture. [She flies down to the water]
You shouldn't look a gift beach in the mouth. [She flies down] Don't you miss this?
Oh, sure. I'd love to feel the sand between my toes. Breath in the [she walks on the water] salt air and [Nerissa joins her] swim and swim and swim. [She stands still] Maybe even kiss a lifeguard or two.
All that is possible. If you say you want to live.
This may surprise you, Rissy, but I've sort of let go of the whole material world thing. Besides, [she turns to face Nerissa] I know you. There's got to be strings. I've hung onto my soul this long, I'm not selling it now.
[Yan Lin is outside the Silver Dragon, tying up a rubbish bag]
I wish you a safe journey to your final destination.
[She throws the rubbish into the large bin/tip]
Or as the kids say, "Smell you later".
[Shagon flies past her and she uses her powers as a light source and Shagon starts to charge up his green energy beam. Cut to Hay Lin's bedroom, Yan Lin teletransports]
[out of breath] Small problem. I nearly got taken out with the trash.
[Later, the girls and Yan Lin are in the basement of the Silver Dragon]
I had a feeling it was Shagon, but why attack Mr Olsen?
Maybe he hates grandparents?
[Flames appear in her glasses] Not just grandparents.
[Scene changes to at night, Peter Cook is playing basketball, he throws the ball and Shagon destroys it. Shagon is seen standing on a building and flies away]
[voiceover] I'm pretty sure he went after my brother last night too.
[Scene changes to at night, car headlights are seen on the road]
[voiceover] Join the club.
[Anna Lair is driving, behind her, Shagon's charged up green beam eyes are seen and he flies over the car. The car skids. In the now, lowering car window, Shagon is seen flying into the moonlight]
[voiceover] My mom said a giant bird nearly ran her off the road!
[voiceover] It gets worse.
[Scene changes to Lillian Hale, in bed. She gets woken up - Shagon is levitating outside her bedroom window. Lillian screams. Scene goes back to the basement]
Lillian got a real good look at Shagon - described him to the last feather! Luckily, my parents convinced her it was a nightmare.
Going after our families.
Even Phobos didn't sink that low.
We all do. But that's like exactly what he wants.
I know! I know! Hatred fuels his power, but he'll be back tonight. So, what do we do?
You go to dinner with your mom.
Pizza with the Professor, while Shagon's on the prowl? No chance.
Even if your mom's his next target?
[Nerissa has teletransported herself and Cassidy to Heatherfield General Hospital, the Children's Ward]
Heatherfield General Hospital, the Children's Ward. Ah, I recall you dreamt of being a paediatrician.
Yeah, and I once dreamt of eating a marshmallow the size of Jupiter. So, where's my giant sticky treat?
[A child coughs, Cassidy places her hand on his face and rubs his hair]
It's a shame you can't help these poor children. Comfort them. You have so much compassion for every living thing.
Except I'm not a living thing.
Aww, but you could be again. [darkly] Simply by admitting you want it.
I don't. Life people are so catty.
[Nerissa teletransports herself and Cassidy away]
[Nerissa has teletransported herself and Cassidy to outside a house, where a woman is tending to her garden]
Come on Rissy, give it up! We've toured Heatherfield up, down and sideways! It's not gonna happen! So send me home!
If home is where the heart is. [she points to the woman]
[The woman - Emily Chacon, Cassidy's mother notices Nerissa]
ECEmily Chacon
Hello? Is someone there?
It's Nerissa, Emily. I didn't mean to startle you. Oh, the garden looks lovely today.
EEmily
Thank you, Nerissa. And don't apologise, dear. You know Cassidy's old friends are always welcome here.
Thank you, Emily. Ah, that locket, is there a picture inside?
EEmily
Oh, my! Your memories are worse than mine. I've shown you this before. [She opens the locket]
[The picture is revealed to be Cassidy, Emily looks at the picture]
EEmily
It's Cassidy, of course.
[Cassidy flies over to join them]
EEmily
Now you wait here. I'll get us some lemonade.
[She turns around and starts to walk off, and Cassidy reaches out and touches her arm]
She misses you terribly, Cassidy.
Oh, I'd give anything. Anything!
There's nothing to give. Just show some mercy to your mother. [She holds out the Heart of Meridian, which emanates dark purple swirls, as Cassidy appears in a lilac aura] Just say the words. Say you want to live!
[The Heart is emiting green waves] Compassion is a powerful thing. Especially when it fuels desire. The desire for something you cannot, should not have is the chink in the armour of your soul and all I need to make you mine!
[Cassidy opens her eyes, which reveal that she is being mind controlled]
You will live again...very soon!
[She teletransports herself and Cassidy to a mountainside where the Knights of Destruction are]
Once your service to me...is complete.
I cannot believe you signed us up for the car wash! Without even asking!
Come on, it's for a good cause - Me.
Yeah, my mom has signed me up, too. But it would tank less if you guys came.
We can have a water fight!
[sarcastically] Oh, yeah! There's something I never do!
[She summons water and shoots it at the screen, which transitions to the next scene]
