[Will. Irma, Cornelia and Hay Lin are in the basement of the Silver Dragon. Cornelia is sitting on a chair, Irma - lying on her back, with her head over the bed, Will is sitting on the bed, with her back rested on the wall, as is Hay Lin, who is writing in a notebook]
Will:
Is anyone else worried that we haven't heard from Elyon or Caleb in, I don't know, weeks?!
Cornelia:
[yawns] Not really. Caleb knew I was travelling and Meridian is definitely a roaming charge.
Irma:
Besides, we've kicked enough bad guy booty to earn our vacation.
Hay Lin:
But vacation's over! School starts tomorrow.
[They all sigh. Taranee enters holding a laptop]
Taranee:
Hey, guys. Isn't it great? I thought summer would never end. And, in honour of school, I have completed my first assignment.
Irma:
Oh, can I hurt her? Please.
Taranee:
[typing] Welcome to Taranee's handy dandy guide to... [The Four Dragons and the nymph, which is the dragons of the Guardians' powers appears on the screen] ...Quintessece.
[They all crowd round the screen]
Cornelia:
Quintessence?! That's the word that hag used to attack us!
Hay Lin:
But, what does it have to do with the legend of the Four Dragons? That's about our powers!
Taranee:
Right! Each of the dragons controlled one of the four ancient elements. :[She points to each dragon, as she says the elements that they control] Earth. Air. Fire. Water. [She points to the nymph, in the middle of the screen] But the nymph, Xin Jing, had a power too.
Irma:
Oh, an X Factor, like Cafeteria Mystery Meal.
Taranee:
[Typing and saying aloud each syllable as she types it] Quin-tessence. The fifth element.
[The scene changes to one of Nerissa standing atop a hill in Meridian, under a red sky]
Taranee:
[voiceover] The Ancient Sages described it as exactly [shot of Nerissa summoning Quintessence from lightning] like electricity. They believed it could be found in lightning, but [Nerissa shoots a lightning bolt at the ground] they also called it "the stuff of life", like bio-electricity. [Farm men charge at Nerissa.] [Back to the girls]
Taranee:
Quintessence has the power to make things come alive.
Hay Lin:
Kinda like Doctor Frankenstein!
Will:
Kinda like me. Throwing lightning bolts, talking toasters. My powers sound exactly like Quintessence.
Cornelia:
The fifth Guardian gets the fifth element. Makes sense.
[Scene changes to Nerissa standing atop the hill, laughing and casting lightning bolts at the farm men]
Will:
[voiceover] What doesn't make sense is that the sorceress [Nerissa holds up the Heart of Meridian and it emits a shock wave which makes the farm men's tools attack them] has the same powers. Only hers are the extra strong version.
[Scene shifts back to the girls, and as the camera zooms out, we can see Yan Lin listening to the conversation]
Will:
What's her connection to the Guardians? What's her connection to me?
