((Seriously, though, Matt seems more powerful than Luke and Anakin combined! Tone down the Force powers - between him and Shono, the other characters have been lucky to get one shot in))

Cosmi accepted the ride gladly. After all, he was in far more danger of being blown away than other, larger persons.

As Mona continued running, the village was finally visible. But a clap of thunder from the Force storm made her realize that with the Jedi unconscious and, realistically speaking, no longer able to control it, the storm could easily spread and become a great danger, spreading indiscriminate mayhem and destruction across the landscape, putting countless lives at risk.

Mona came to a halt and turned to face the storm. Her face was set with resolve as she slowly raised her arms above her head. Her lips started to form words, at first inaudible under the raging storm, but gradually growing in volume. Words tumbled from her lips in a strange tongue, one that didn't sound altogether pleasant, but laced with power. Suddenly, she stopped speaking, and violet light began to crackle around her fingertips. Mona closed her eyes and spoke again, this time in English, in a rhythmic cadence.

"And now cease, this terrible storm. Bring back the sun, both calm and warm!"

The violet light lanced out from her fingertips and pierced the dark storm clouds. There was a bright flash, and the storm was gone, and the Ornis birds (those that still lived) were already high-tailing it in the opposite direction.

Mona heaved a weary sigh and stumbled, barely managing to stay on her feet.

"There," she said softly with a shaky smile. "Maybe now we'll have some peace until we get to the village." She then promptly sank to the ground, exhausted.

Dona, who had been running behind Mona the whole time, stopped to gawk as Mona dispersed the storm.

When Mona collapsed, she extended a hand to the girl, then paused. "Er... can I help you?" she offered, shy of yet another person who could do extraordinary things.

Kari had stopped to look back at the storm, worried and unsure of what to do, when Mona suddenly- and very unexpectedly- broke out some magic and calmed it down.

Her, their strange guide, who they had met fleeing in terror from one monster. The woman that had been worried about standing in the open for fear that more monsters would come, and when more monsters did come, had run away from them faster than anyone. But now this allegedly frightened woman had broken out awesome power. All of the bird-beasts that hadn't been killed by the storm were flying away at top speed.

Kari opened her mouth to speak and then shut it again. Something didn't add up here. Of course, there might be a perfectly logical explanation, but until Kari figured out more about this curiously powerful woman she wasn't going to say or do anything rash, or ever anything that might get her on Mona's bad side.

Xerec marched over to Shono. "I care to see the injured Jedi-man." She told the autobot.

Shono eyed the wraith with supision "Ok... But if you do anything bad to him I'll personaly ripp your head off" he said while lifting him out of the cockpit" pushing the cat and mouse out of himself before changing back into his robot shape. "If you are going to try and heal him I don't think you'll be able to, last time he did this he was out for a few days"

"I wouldn't underestimate Xerec if I were you," Bobby said to Shono. "That girl healed me when I was close to death. She's rather powerful." He grinned slightly, as though proud to know such a person, even though in reality he really did not know much about Xerec. He did not even know how she had healed him or know where she got her powers.

Simon stared at Mona. "Well, we could have done with that a little sooner," he commented.

P.S."Brooklyn!"

Xerec inclined her head to Bobby. She crouched down next to Matthew and felt his chest with her hands and measured his pulse with two of her fingers. At last, she moved both of her hands to his head, pushed two fingers from each hand into his temples and closed her eyes. One could see their movements flickering beneath her pale white lids as she concentrated.

Suddenly- so suddenly it was hard to catch- a little blue glow lit her hand and sunk into Matthew's head. Abruptly his breathing evened out and deepened. Xerec stood up. "I think he shall be fine." She made an about face and stalked off back to her former position.

Kari pulled herself out of her reverie and started looking around at the rest of the group. "Are we missing anyone?" She called out, raising her voice to be heard.

Matthew coughed up a bit of blood before groaning then he lifted his hand to his head. Suddenly the most dreaded part came flowing through his mind, the part when he realized how many lives he had just decimated. Matthew rolled over onto his side and looked up at the clear clouds, still something was wrong; they were basicly in the same place as they had been before. The a big red foot entered his veiw, he looked up "Shono? What just happened"

Mona took Dona's hand gratefully and let herself be pulled back up to her feet. She brushed herself off, still a little shaky from exerting herself.

"Thank you," she said to Dona, a kind smile lighting her face. She shrugged, almost apologetically, to Simon.

"If I knew I could do that, I would have done it sooner," she said. "I've never been very good at spells, much less something like that. About all I've been able to do is keep myself from aging and get a campfire going. I guess it takes a crisis to show who you really are. But I really don't want to do that again. We should get going." She started off at a slow pace, her first few steps unsteady, but quickly gaining in strength.

Cosmi sighed as he and Tomas were kicked out of the cockpit. "I do wish these magical people would make up their minds promptly," Cosmi remarked absently. "If they wanted to run, I'd certainly not get in their way, but if they will do something, they should do it first, and save the rest of us the trouble of panicking."

Kari was scanning the group. "I think we're missing Sammy." She spoke up. Some people were already beginning to move away. Kari ran to catch up with Mona. "Hey, we're missing one of our party. Can we look for her?"

Mona hesitated and looked around, her former nervousness having returned in full force.

"Okay," she finally said slowly. "But let's not take too long."

Shono said "Are you ok man?" Matthew looked up at the Autobot "Of course I am, now help me up" Shono planted his foot firmly on Matt's chest "Next time you do something like that... Just don't do it, you nearly got us killed" Matthew tried pushing the Autobot off but to no avail "oh and you had a better idea?" he said roughly "Now would you let me up?" The autobot grunted and lifted his foot. Then extended his hand which Matthew grasped and pulled himself up with it, Shono turned to the rest of the group "I'll search my radar for her"

Mona continued to wait impatiently as the Dittotopians searched for their missing companion.

"Please hurry," she said in a whiny voice.

((To move the story along...))

At last, with the help of Shono's radar, the group located Sammy and began on their way again.

"You should not run off like that again." Xerec advised the wayward shapeshifter superiorly. Without waiting for a response, Xerec trooped back toward Mona.

"Where are we headed?" She demanded.

Some signs of civilization where beginning to appear as they walked further on. A crumbled road, the remains of a house, and so on and so forth.

"What happened here?" Kari wondered to herself.