Diahandra “Dani” Christian
General Facts
Age: 18
Grade: College Freshman
Gender: F
School: American
University
Occupation
College Student
Battler
Former Part-time UNITY Agent
Former Road Traveler
Appearances
Regular Titles: Books 3–15, 22–23, 30–31, 36–51, and 53–54
Super Battlers: All
Books Narrated
Regular Titles: Books 8, 14 (occasionally), 15, 23, 31, 39, and 47
Super Battlers: All (Alternated with the other Battlers)
Immediate Family
Mr. Christian (father, deceased)
Mrs. Christian
(mother)
Derrick
Christian (younger brother)
Character Summary
Diahandra was an average black teenage girl until Book 3, when she and her best
friend, Shauna Davidson, were sucked back into the past by a spell Evilla cast
to prevent Deyon, Maurice, J.J., Kesse, and Aaron from returning to their time
from 1785. After Deyon, J.J., Kesse,
and Aaron were kidnapped by Evilla and
combined into the Mega-Battler, Shauna
and Diahandra were added to the group as the Blue and Purple Battlers to help Maurice save the others. Kit,
Oriana’s mutant southern kit fox, found Battler Crystals for them to use
underneath Oriana’s house. Since they did a good job of saving the others,
Oriana decided to keep them around a little bit longer.
Diahandra’s first major mission was in Book 8, when she and Shauna had to reinsert the other Battlers into
history after Evilla deleted them. While trying to find the spellbook containing
the Reinsertion Spell, they learned that Evilla was forming an alliance with
the Killer Beavers, their other enemies. The alliance still stands today. The
girls succeeded in their mission and the boys were safely reinserted into
history.
Dani’s next major story took place after she and the other Battlers returned to
their own time. In Book 14, while fighting Chief Manhunter and his Killer
Beavers, who’d been pulled through time in their wake, a spell was cast on her
and Shauna that broke the bond between
them. They started hating each other immediately. They played horrible pranks
on each other that ruined each other socially. The hatred finally came to an
end when the spell broke after Shauna
realized how much she cared for Diahandra.
Things turned bad for Shauna and
Diahandra in Book 15, when they found an SO — a Selection Orb — that randomly
selected them to leave on a journey around the country to hone their skills as
Battlers. They were forced to sadly pack up their backpacks and leave Alexandria. Diahandra’s
younger brother, Derrick, was allowed
to come with them as soon as they got Diahandra’s mother’s permission. They met
two new friends on the road — Jamal O’Connor, a rising user of water magic from
Woodbridge, and, in Book 23, Felicia Hooper,
an aspiring fire magic user from Fairfax.
The girls have currently met four new enemies in their travels — the Sabre
Brothers, two twin men-turned-tigers named Striker and Killer, Ursa
Infernus, a grizzly bear who’s a master of fire magic, and his cohort, Teddy
Volcanis.
In Book 30,
Diahandra and the others arrived in Denver
to face their next challenge at the MBA there. But no sooner did they get there
did they have to solve the mystery of a heat wave that’d lasted for days there.
The perpetrators turned out to be the Sabre Brothers, who stole a weather
machine from the city’s MBA to make the heat wave. Pablo Peak,
the MTC of the Denver MBA, helped Diahandra and the others solve the case and
retrieve the weather machine. They earned their Agro Orbs after defeating Pablo a month later.
After arriving in
Seattle, Diahandra, Shauna, Derrick, Jamal, and Felicia found themselves
meeting up with Dominic
Carter, leader of the evil MEF — Men Eradicating Freaks. The group
specializes in exterminating BMPs — Bearers of Magic Powers because to some
people, they’re seen as freaks. After rescuing Marina Rivers,
the MTC of Seattle’s MBA, they went to the MBA for their BOP — Battle of Powers. Although Derrick and Diahandra were defeated by her, Shauna managed to use one of her attacks against her
and defeat her. But before they could get their orbs, MEF attacked the MBA and
took all who were there hostage except Shauna
and Marina. Derrick
and the others were going to be shot in an alley, but Shauna
rescued them and they all defeated Carter
in a five-on-one showdown. During the showdown, though, Jamal got shot by Carter, thanks to Derrick
using his animal transformation power to turn into a monkey and cover Carter’s face. Jamal barely survived the shot and was
up and walking again in two weeks. The kids got their sixth orbs, the Torrent
Orbs, as well.
In Book 31,
Diahandra, Shauna, and Felicia were recruited by UNITY agents Andre Rice and Jeri Wilkes to help them
stop Susan DiCapa from killing a Senator. The three
girls battled Susan in a bus station
and lost. They were tied up with a bomb set right in front of them. Felicia barely helped them escape by using her claw
and they deactivated the bomb. They then defeated Susan
when she was so close to completing her objective.
Next, en route to San Francisco, Diahandra
and Shauna were kidnapped by the Sabre
Brothers, Infernus, and Volcanis, who were working together at the time. When Derrick, Jamal, and Felicia
finally found them, Derrick and Felicia ended up being taken prisoner, too. It took
Jamal’s magic to save them all. And Diahandra got to witness Jamal and Shauna’s official pairing after they admitted their
long-awaited feelings for each other.
After getting to San Francisco around
Christmas time, Diahandra and the others defeated underground magic master Lenny Digg,
MTC of the San Francisco MBA, and won their seventh orbs, the Subterra Orbs.
In Super Battlers 3,
while getting ready to celebrate New Year’s Eve in San
Francisco, Diahandra, Shauna,
Derrick, Jamal, and Felicia were reunited with the boys when they were
transported to Dare
Island by Bin Dare, a
sorcerer who wanted them to compete in a tournament he was holding. They were
to face their ultimate enemies in battle and win. If they lost, they’d get
eaten alive by the opponents they lost to.
Diahandra was split
up with Kesse and they ran into Infernus and Volcanis, who were ready to take
them both down and eat them. But defeating them was easy because of Kesse’s
mountain magic. But when they were forced to take on Kesse’s ultimate
enemy, Chief Manhunter, things were different due to his psychic powers.
Although Diahandra barely managed to hold out and win against him, Kesse lost
and was eaten by the chief got to eat him alive and Kesse couldn’t escape
because his stomach was magically shielded from any effort to burst out.
Diahandra reunited with the others after the fight was over and faced Dare with them in a battle for their freedom. When they
defeated him and found out that they’d been brought to Dare Island
just for his amusement, they were sent back home. Diahandra, Shauna, Derrick,
Jamal, and Felicia got to spend New
Year’s Day with the boys, but they would be transported back to their journey
when midnight of
January 2 arrived.
During the timeframe
of Book 32, Diahandra arrived in Los
Angeles with Shauna,
Derrick, Jamal and Felicia. The first was about Shauna’s
encounter with Quatic
Ugong, an evil, magic-absorbing
elephant seal that tried to add Shauna’s
magic to his collection by eating her. But luckily for Jamal, she was rescued.
Diahandra took no part in that adventure, so not much of it was known by her.
A few days after
that incident, during the timeframe of Book 33, Diahandra, Shauna, Derrick,
Jamal, and Felicia arrived at the Los
Angeles MBA. They met Eartha Quaker, the MTC of the MBA, and learned that she
was not only the most powerful MBA of
all MBAs in the country, but she was also the most powerful mage in the country. She oversaw
everything that went on in the nation as well as trained aspiring Earth mages
to be their best. Shauna and her
friends challenged her to a BOP
and she accepted. The next day, with many of the patrons of the MBA watching,
Diahandra, Shauna, Derrick, Jamal, and Felicia
battled Eartha for their final orb. But every time it seemed like they were
getting the upper hand, a mysterious jewel Eartha was wearing would glow and
she would suddenly unleash a powerful spell. The first time it happened, the
team stayed intact. However, with each spell after that, one member of the
party was knocked out at a time. Felicia,
Jamal, and Derrick fell victim to
Eartha’s spells and were eliminated from the fight in no time flat. Things
looked bleak for Diahandra and Shauna
until they realized that Eartha could only attack when her jewel (which they
later learned was called a Bide Stone) glowed. So they quickly took it from her
and knocked her out to win the battle. The kids got their Terra Orbs and were
now eligible to enter the Tournament of Wonder.
During the timeframe
of Book 34, Diahandra, Shauna, Derrick, Jamal, and Felicia
left Los Angeles behind and headed through a Nevada forest. There,
Diahandra battled and sealed her newest Battler Animal, a squirrel she later
named Nut. Soon after sealing her, though, she and the others were captured by
a group of squirrels called Killer Squirrels, who were led by a warrior named Niger.
But a young man named Woody Lamina came in and saved them with his animal
transformation magic just as the Killer Squirrels, who were angry about
Diahandra’s capture, were about to eat them. Woody
then took the group to his cottage and, after explaining about his life of
protecting all travelers from the Killer Squirrels, was challenged by Derrick to a battle of their animal transformation
magic. Derrick ended up winning the
battle (which was his first-ever win in a battle), and soon after Woody came to, Niger came along and kidnapped Woody.
Niger took Woody
back to the Killer
Squirrel Village,
which was hidden in the trees, but Diahandra and the others were right behind
him. After discovering the location of the Killer Squirrels’ village, they
found Woody tied up in the house of
their chief. They released him and were about to leave the village when Chief
Mankiller, the Killer Squirrels’ chief who evoked emotions similar to those
of Chief
Manhunter (patience, calmness, sternness, fierceness, and hunger), caught
them and prepared to eat them. After Diahandra and the others defeated most of
the Killer Squirrels, the chief almost defeated them with a powerful Shadow
Sphere spell. But thanks to a good move by Diahandra and Nut, Chief Mankillers’ spell
backfired on him and blew up the entire village, sending him and Niger flying
off in one direction and Diahandra and her friends in the other. But Woody had officially been rescued, and as a way to
say thank you, he gave his new friends a magic compass and sent them on their
way.
During the timeframe
of Book 35, Diahandra, Shauna, Derrick, Jamal, and Felicia
finally returned to Virginia. But just as the
traveling teens were about to say goodbye, Infernus and Volcanis showed up to
attack them. But the teens defeated them in a quick, easy battle. Afterwards,
the teens went their separate ways, Diahandra, Shauna, and Derrick heading back
to Fort Belvoir. As soon as they got to Fort Belvoir,
Shauna separated from Diahandra and Derrick and headed for her home. And just as
Diahandra and Derrick arrived at their
home, Derrick dropped a bombshell — he’d decided to just be a normal kid for
awhile and stay out of Diahandra’s Battler life. He’d be focusing only on
finishing high school now.
Diahandra and
Derrick reunited with their mother, and while they were catching up with her,
Shauna came over to their house and invited Diahandra to join her in finding
Deyon, Maurice, J.J., Kesse, Aaron, and Jon. Diahandra accepted her invitation
and joined her. But after failing to find the boys at any of their homes, they
concluded that they were on a mission and left to join them. They used their
new magic compass to find out they were in the DiCapa Enterprises
Office Building,
so they went in to find them.
In Book 36,
Diahandra and Shauna rescued Deyon, Aaron, Jon,
and their new friends, Richard and Jay, from DiCapa and his henchmen. They helped them
all escape back to Deyon’s house, where they spent some time catching up with
them on the events that happened since their New Year’s reunion. The girls were
filled in on DiCapa knowing the boys’ identities, and that he’d put Maurice into a coma, kidnapped and imprisoned J.J., and paralyzed Kesse. But their return to town
had given them an advantage — DiCapa had no clue about the girls’ existence and
was now frantic to learn who they were.
Unfortunately, the
advantage didn’t last long as Goril Primus returned to town in that same book.
His sights were set on Aaron again,
but thanks to the urging of Malik, one of his new cohorts, he was also focused
on getting all the other Battlers, as well. He followed them when they
tried to rescue J.J., after they’d
found out where DiCapa had stashed him. When he learned he’d been moved to
DiCapa’s yacht, he ambushed them on the way there. He ate Diahandra, Deyon, Jon, and Shauna
and tried to eat Aaron and his
returned-from-the-dead girlfriend, Juliet Kwarteng,
but UNITY forces arrived just in time to save them all. After Goril was taken
into UNITY custody and locked up in the prison ward, DiCapa struck the Battlers
again and injected Aaron with a
twelve-hour poison.
In Book 37,
Diahandra, Deyon, Jon, and Shauna were given the chance to solve all the
problems the other Battlers were going through and get their team back on track
again. A mysterious ally offered to help them out. Of course, this “ally”
turned out to be the Gamester, who was back for another round of games. Playing
his games would be the only way to cure Aaron’s
poisoning, awaken Maurice from his
coma, and, most free J.J. (whom he’d
kidnapped from DiCapa’s captivity and had turned into a game piece again).
Diahandra, Deyon, Jon, and Shauna
began playing Gamester’s games. The first game, Rueful Roulette, saw Diahandra
getting eliminated. But Deyon, Jon,
and Shauna managed to win the cure to Aaron’s poisoning. After curing Aaron’s
poisoning, Deyon, Jon, and Shauna were called back the next day to play Chaotic
Cards, which saw both Shauna and Deyon
getting eliminated. Alone, Jon won a
spell to awaken Maurice from his coma.
So Jon used the spell to wake Maurice right up and the other Battlers all caught
him up on what was going on.
All eight Battlers
finally reunited after Jon beat Gamester
in his final game, the Battle Game. They knew they were all “lean, mean, and
ready to go” against DiCapa. But just as they were leaving to celebrate, Deyon
got some surprising news. DiCapa was going after the ultimate target: the
President of the United
States.
In Book 40,
Diahandra and the other Battlers put a risky scheme in motion when they snuck
into the White House to protect the President. The mission was successful as
the Battlers nipped DiCapa’s attack in the bud by finding out that he’d planned
to have himself smuggled into the President’s Oval Office in a box addressed to
him. Unfortunately, although the Battlers’ plan to stop DiCapa succeeded, an
unfortunate thing happened — using a very clever ploy, DiCapa managed to unmask
Diahandra and Shauna, finally learning their secret identities. He had Albert Labinnac,
his right-hand man, take a picture of each of them before they escaped.
From there, it was
utter chaos for the Battlers. Diahandra was attacked just outside of her home
by DiCapa Enterprises guards sent to kidnap the Battlers in order for DiCapa to
unmask them to the public, as he’d promised to do in a statement to the press.
Although Derrick tried to save her by
transforming into a wolf (off-page), he was shot and stunned, giving DiCapa’s
men enough time to kidnap Diahandra. Deyon, J.J.,
and Kesse were the only three Battlers who stayed out of DiCapa’s clutches.
While Diahandra and
the others waited for their fate to be decided on the roof, Deyon, J.J., and Kesse arrived to rescue them. But J.J. and Kesse were captured by some of DiCapa’s
guards and were forced to join their already-kidnapped friends. DiCapa had
already been waiting for them there and was waiting out the last thirty minutes
before the press arrived so that he could reveal the Battlers’ identities on
live TV.
Diahandra and the
other Battlers then watched as Deyon, who needed time to distract DiCapa so
that the UNITY agents posing as the press could get there, engaged in the final
battle against DiCapa that resulted in Deyon getting shot eight times after his
Battler Crystal powered down on him, returning him to his normal form. But he
and the others also watched as Deyon made a miraculous recovery when he used a
Crystal Advance, a phenomenon only possible when a Battler Crystal has obtained
and used so much power in previous battles that it is ready to advance to the
next level — the Battler Emerald. So after Deyon’s crystal shifted its shape
into that of an emerald, Diahandra and the others watched as he used his new
Battler Emerald to assume his new Battler form.
It was all downhill
from there. Deyon defeated DiCapa with his brand-new physical abilities and
powerful new spells to defeat DiCapa. But just as Deyon was about to slice
DiCapa open after all the hell he’d put the Battlers through, Susan jumped in the way and Deyon ended up slicing her, instead. The attack was fatal and Susan died almost instantly. DiCapa became so
enraged, he went off on Deyon, shouting out every crime he’d committed and how
much he wished he’d done them to him and the other Battlers. Unfortunately, the
UNITY agents masquerading as the press showed up, captured his confession on
camera, and broadcast it live to every single television in the country.
DiCapa, knowing he’d
be going down, anyway, decided to try and make light of the situation by
revealing the Battlers’ identities as planned. He tried to tear Deyon’s helmet
(which was part of his new Battler costume) off his head, but Deyon tore
himself away. Unfortunately, he pulled away a bit too hard because DiCapa’s
momentum sent him barreling over the edge of his thirty-story building and
plummeting to his death. With DiCapa now dead, the war against him and the
Battlers was now over, and Diahandra and the other Battlers were released from working
with UNITY (she’d started working for UNITY after she and Shauna
arrived back in town). With their work finally done (at least for now),
Diahandra and the others headed for home, ready to go on with their lives.
In Super Battlers 4,
Deyon led Diahandra the other Battlers on a journey to a new world — the realm
of Magicia. The mission was to locate the Exchanger — mace with the power to
exchange the magic powers of two different individuals or simply transfer the
power of one mage to one with no magic. They would then use the mace to
transfer a soon-to-be-departing J.J.’s powers to anyone he chose. And after a
long journey that included being captured by Killer Beavers, a reunion with the
Mutant Guerrillas, who’d been in hiding in Magicia to get stronger, an
encounter with some Magician rams known as Ramblings, and a harrowing battle
with a fire-breathing dragon (all of which Diahandra had close calls with and
was saved by Deyon each time), Diahandra and the other Battlers found the
Exchanger on top of a mountain known as Mount Cagim and brought it back to
Earth with them. The next day, they used it to transfer J.J.’s powers to Richard. At the same time, they also used it to
transfer the powers of Kesse, who’d surprised everyone that he was leaving town, too, to Jay. After that was done, graduation followed a few
days later, followed by J.J. and
Kesse’s departure from town the very next morning after an emotional goodbye
from Diahandra and the other Battlers.
In Book 41, after
school started, Diahandra and Shauna
finally entered the Tournament of Wonder, having trained hard for several
months before the day finally arrived. But they were all shocked to learn that
the director of the tournament had allowed Deyon, Maurice,
Richard, Jay,
Aaron, and Jon
to enter, too, to give the competitors and spectators something cheery to talk
about. Although there was initial suspicion from Deyon and Aaron, at first, they eventually went along with it
and entered. They got through the preliminary rounds, thus qualifying for the
main tournament. When the main tournament began, Diahandra and the other
Battlers fought hard and fairly easily won all their battles in the first
round. All eight made it through to the second round. To celebrate, they all
went up to the park, along with Vivian,
who was recovering from her parents’ deaths, and ate pizza and ice cream.
But their night of
celebration was interrupted when Chief Manhunter and his new cohort, Castoro
Dammon (known to all as “Cast”), showed up, along with nineteen other
Killer Beavers, and the chief presented his latest scheme to them. He’d stolen
and swallowed a powerful stone called the Stone of Absor and was going to use
it to grow more powerful than ever — powerful enough to defeat the Battlers. He
dropped a very cryptic hint that the best way to defeat them would be to use
their very selves to do it, but the only way to do that . . . was by doing what he had tried to do for over a year —
eating them. So after a battle started between the Battlers and the Killer
Beavers, Diahandra and the others were knocked out and nearly captured by Cast.
It was thanks to Maurice undergoing
the Crystal Advance — the second one in their group —
that they were saved. But now that Chief Manhunter has become their deadliest
enemy, things will never be the same.
In Book 42,
Diahandra and the others found out from Oriana what Chief Manhunter was truly
up to. They learned that the Stone of Absor he’d eaten was created centuries
ago by its previous owner, a wolf by the name of Cyrus Absor.
He was a powerful nonhuman mage with a natural ability to gain more power by
swallowing other mages alive and whole. He’d learned that eight Battler
Crystals were needed to achieve the ultimate power to rule the world and had
gone after the original, thirty-person Battlers team for that reason. But when
he was defeated, he transferred his own natural absorption ability into a jewel
on his head so the power wouldn’t die with him. Now that Chief Manhunter had
stolen the jewel, eaten it, and waited for two weeks for the effects of it to
set in, he would have the ability to absorb the power of any mage he ate. So
the team came up with a plan to stop Chief Manhunter’s plan from working:
Diahandra, Richard, Jay, Aaron, Jon, and Shauna
would have to fight hard enough to undergo the Crystal Advance
and ascend to the Battler Emerald level to stop his plan of getting eight
crystals — or any crystals at all,
for that matter — to increase his power.
The Battlers
separated, but were called back together when Richard
answered a cry for help but was kidnapped by an alligator resembling Predator,
the late ultimate enemy of J.J. From Richard, who was rescued by their old
allies, the Crocoans, they learned that Predator’s younger brother, Scalorus
Gatorus, who preferred to go by the name “Carnivore,”
had come back from a terrible banishment from Gatora to seek revenge for his
brother’s death by devouring his killer — the White Battler. But he’d found out
Richard was not the White Battler he
was looking for. J.J. was, but he was
in L.A.
The next day, round
two of the Tournament of Wonder began, and Aaron
fought in the first battle of the day. But Diahandra and the other Battlers
could barely focus on him. They were busy having a brief confrontation with
Chief Manhunter over his plans for them and missed his battle. But they did watch Richard’s battle, and saw it get interrupted by
Carnivore, who kidnapped Richard again! When Jay
tried to save him, Carnivore kidnapped him,
too!
Diahandra and Shauna wanted
to go rescue their new members, but they had no coins to flip to get to Crocoa
and had to stay behind. But after the boys rescued them, they brought them
back, along with two coins the girls could also use to get to Crocoa.
With Carnivore
defeated (for now), Diahandra and the others then returned to the stadium and
watched Richard continue his battle in the tournament and, with Steeltooth’s
help, pull off a win. Things were, for the time being, looking up for all of
them.
That is, until Book
43, when Jay became the first of the Battlers to be eliminated from the
Tournament of Wonder when Avio Swan, a nonhuman mage, defeated him in the first
battle of the third round. To make matters worse, he encountered Bully Frog for
the first time and lost a battle to him. Jay’s
confidence suffered, in large part because not once had he lost a one-on-one
battle before either of those battles.
From there,
Diahandra, Deyon, and Shauna didn’t
play much of a part in the Battlers’ underground adventure as they didn’t go on
it. They instead headed back to the stadium for Deyon’s battle. But the ones
who did go on that adventure —
Maurice, Richard, Jay, Aaron, Jon, and Aaron’s girlfriend, Juliet
Kwarteng — returned to the surface to catch Deyon’s battle in round three
of the tournament.
In Book 44, Deyon
learned that Fenrir
Lupus, Maurice’s ultimate enemy,
had returned, as well as Aaron’s
ultimate enemy, Goril
Primus. Unfortunately, not much was seen from him in that book other than
him witnessing Aaron and Maurice’s losses in the tournament and delivering the
news to the two of them and Jon that Vivian had finally given birth to their son, Maurice IV.
Diahandra started
off Book 45 by watching Jon easily
lose his battle in the fifth round of the Tournament of Wonder to Deyon. It was
no contest — he was a stronger Battler and had an element that was strong
against his own. Worse yet, she and the other Battlers had to deal with the
problem of Oriana using a Chronos
transfero spell that ended badly — she ended up accidentally transferring
herself to their time, trapping herself there for a week! Also, Cast started a
series of attacks on Jon, and Jon couldn’t even figure out why. So at the
insistence of Diahandra and the other Battlers, he went on a reconnaissance
mission to the Killer Beavers’ village to find out what was up. They ended up
finding out about Chief Manhunter’s pictures of the eight Battlers — the five
marked-off ones of Deyon, Maurice, Richard, Jay,
and Aaron, and three unmarked ones of Jon, Shauna,
and Diahandra.
Diahandra and the
other Battlers figured out from the pictures that Chief Manhunter was probably
marking off how many Battlers still had Battler Crystals so he could target
them for eating, but later found out from Jon
and Oriana that maybe they were wrong. Maybe Chief Manhunter was trying to get
them all to get their Battler Emeralds so he could eat them then. The attacks
that Cast kept launching on Jon in hopes of fighting him only strengthened the
possibility — Jon figured out Cast was trying to get him to fight so as to use
up as much energy as possible to undergo his Crystal Advance. So after being
chased by Cast and escaping him (thanks in part to an often-appearing
mysterious woman), Diahandra, Jon, and Shauna decided to avoid having any
battles (except for in the tournament, which Shauna and then Richard eventually
lost soon after Jon did). The Battlers’ plan was put to the test, though, when,
after Cast won his quarterfinal battle, he indirectly revealed that he’d
kidnapped Monique and would only let her go if Jon came to the New Killer
Beaver Village and fought him.
Unfortunately, the
plan didn’t work, as Jon underwent the
Crystal Advance after all, as a result of his
fight with Cast. Of course, they also found out (from Jon)
that Chief Manhunter was indeed trying to get the Battlers to go through the Crystal Advance.
And he’d even hired Carnivore and Maximole to help him without the Battlers —
or even Carnivore and Maximole themselves — even knowing it! This was to take
the focus off himself and keep the Battlers focused on their enemies. It was
very brilliant, and even Jon admitted
it. Now that he had his new Battler Emerald, this only left Diahandra and Shauna with Battler Crystals. They’d have to lay off
the fighting now while the boys handled everything.
To make sure the
girls did lay off the fighting, Deyon
suggested they go out of town in Book 46 and find someplace to escape from
Chief Manhunter while the boys thought of a plan of dealing with him and the
Stone of Absor. So Diahandra and Shauna skipped town with Diahandra’s brother,
Derrick, and their two old friends, Jamal O’Connor and Felicia Hooper, and
headed off to Topeka, Kansas. There, the girls were reunited with Jeremy
Frost, an ice mage who’d knocked Shauna out of the Tournament of Wonder. He
let Diahandra, Shauna, Derrick, Jamal, and Felicia stay at his family’s house
with them, since it was a Hideaway Home for Runaway Mages, a house mages on the
run stayed in to keep themselves hidden away from evildoers pursuing them.
However, while the stay was pretty nice, at first, and Jeremy was very nice to
them, they soon found out how dangerous he was thanks to his romantic obsession
with her. While Shauna at first disregarded Diahandra and her other friends’
suspicions, she realized how right they were when she found out Jeremy’s room
was a shrine dedicated to her. Even worse, to make sure Diahandra, Derrick,
Jamal, and Felicia didn’t stop him from getting close to her, he’d frozen them
all with the intent of shattering them if Shauna didn’t become his. To save
them, Shauna fought for their lives, as well as her own. And while she
ultimately ended up defeating Jeremy, she wound up undergoing the Crystal
Advance, much to her chagrin. With no other reason to stay in Topeka,
as Jeremy was quickly arrested after the battle, Shauna and her friends
returned to Virginia.
In Book 47,
Diahandra came face-to-face with a newly-returned Dominic
Carter, who’d been released from prison and had learned their
identities and tracked them down to the Washington,
D.C., area. After two failed
attempts to kill them, he needed to regroup with his MEF buddies, so during
this, Diahandra participated in round six of the tournament, which turned out
to be a round robin battle since Jeremy, who was supposed to have been one of
the final four contestants, was officially disqualified as a result of his
arrest and incarceration. She needed to win at least one battle to stay in the
tournament — against either Deyon or Cast — but she lost both battles, which
quickly took her out of contention. To make matters worse for her, after Carter
had regrouped, he ambushed her and Deyon in the park and turned Deyon into
bronze as part of his plan to turn every mage in the Washington, D.C.,
area into bronze right along with him. Diahandra and the other Battlers managed
to track him down, but Maurice, Richard, Jay, Aaron, Jon, and Shauna were all
turned into bronze, as well. She later rescued and restored them after a battle
with Carter, during which she became the final Battler to undergo the Crystal
Advance, along with the team’s newly-obtained ally, Stephanie
Sadler, previously known as Horstephanie. And of course, there was
time for a little romance for her. During the whole ordeal, she met and quickly
grew close with Desmond
DiCapa, Vivian and Philip’s heretofore-unseen brother.
In Book 48, with all
eight Battlers possessing Battler Emeralds, Diahandra and the others knew they
needed to watch out for Chief Manhunter, as it was clear that an attack from
him was possible at any minute. Indeed, that was the case, as a few allies of
the chief’s attacked the Battlers in their homes on Christmas Eve — Carnivore,
Maximole, Fenrir, and Goril. With each attack, at least two Battlers were
kidnapped (Diahandra by Carnivore, along with Deyon and Richard) and taken to
the Killer Beavers’ village, where Chief Manhunter planned to do nothing short
of eating the kids and absorbing their powers. But Deyon thought fast and, when
Chief Manhunter tried to make them all suffer some last-minute humiliation by
publicizing their scared thoughts to his guests, made sure Goril heard that
Chief Manhunter was using him, all the while planning to eat Aaron himself
rather than let Goril have him. Goril went on a frenzy that resulted in the
Battlers escaping, and to ensure their escape, Deyon finally mastered his Magic
Advance. It was a big relief for Diahandra, as she wouldn’t have been able to
share her first kiss with Desmond had that not happened — and under the
mistletoe, no less.
In Book 49,
Diahandra and the other Battlers had to deal with the horrors of Pastry
Pat, a magical pig chef who turned them into pies to give to Chief
Manhunter. It was only thanks to Maurice they escaped.
In Book 50,
Diahandra joined the other Battlers on a trip up to Cloud Nine, a magical
sky-kingdom whose citizens were all birds. There, she and the others went
head-to-head against a high-flying villain known as Vultura
Scavenge, a villain from Aaron and J.J.’s past during the time of
their absence in Book 25. It wasn’t an easy struggle, as Vultura was easily
more powerful than all eight Battlers. But they did manage to beat him in one
battle before he kidnapped Juliet in an attempt to lure them all up to the
highest point of Cloud Nine, which was close enough to the sun to let it
empower their Battler Emeralds. By the time they’d figured it out, it was too
late. Vultura was revealed to have been working with Chief Manhunter all along,
and he’d set all the events in motion just to get the Battlers up there. But
just as the chief was about to eat the Battlers, who’d been trapped by Cast,
his most loyal beaver turned on him . . . and ate him up in one quick gulp! He
also managed to absorb his own chief’s powers since the chief wasn’t the only
one who’d eaten a Stone of Absor. So had he. So now, although Chief Manhunter
was out of the Battlers’ hair, Cast
was firmly in it.
Diahandra and the
other Battlers found out just how deep in their hair Cast was in Book 51, when
they found out he’d recruited the Mutant Guerrillas to work for him. After
being defeated by the Battlers (who, at the time, were meeting Jay’s parents
for the first time), they were approached by Cast, who helped them by giving
each of them a fraction of his power. Their increased power enabled them to
defeat the Battlers the next time they fought them, and Diahandra was among six
of the Battlers who were kidnapped as a result of that battle. Deyon, Maurice,
Aaron, Jon, and Shauna joined her, as they were all taken to the Killer
Beavers’ village. Things looked bleak for them, but Richard and Jay, the only
two Battlers who’d managed to escape capture, rescued them, thanks to a well-thought-out
plan of Jay’s. Their rescue was more than ensured to be successful when Jay
mastered his Magic Advance to stop the mutants from following them.
In Super Battlers 5,
Diahandra and the other Battlers were shocked when they got word from Stalker
that the other twenty-two Battler Crystals Oriana had once owned were still
intact and somewhere out there in the United States. With this knowledge,
and the chance to take down Cast potentially heightened, the team agreed to
send two of their members to each of the four locations the Battler Crystals
had been hidden in. Diahandra and Jay went to search for five of the crystals
in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado (while Deyon and Maurice went to Louisiana, Aaron and Jon to the North Pole, and Richard
and Shauna to Utah).
But their journey wasn’t a calm one. First, the UNITY aircraft they were flying
in got shot down by a giant fireball and they nearly died in the impending
crash. They both survived only by transforming into their Battler forms. And
then, they were chased up a mountain by a huge stream of fire threatening to
burn both of them to a crisp.
Once Diahandra and
Jay had taken shelter in a cave on the mountain they were climbing, they found
out who was out to get them: Infernus and Volcanis. They’d been tipped off by
an anonymous source as to what they were up to and had decided to follow them.
Their objective? To finally do away with Diahandra, and Jay along with her,
since he was in her company. They planned to do so with some new fire spells they’d
learned since last encountering Diahandra nearly a year before. So they
challenged the two of them to a two-on-two battle. If they won, they’d get the
five crystals they were looking for — Infernus and Volcanis had found them long
before they’d gotten to Colorado.
If they lost, the two bears would eat them. Diahandra took on Volcanis, and
while she initially had the disadvantage, she turned things around by using her
Battler Jetting to lead Infernus around in a chase through the air. Eventually,
in his attempt to roast her alive, Infernus used a Lava Beam to fill up a ditch
with hot, molten lava. Diahandra took advantage of this and quickly tricked
Infernus into following her down in a nosedive toward the lava. Unable to see
what she was plotting until it was way too late to change direction, Infernus
followed her straight down to the lava and plunged right into it after
Diahandra successfully made a U-Turn that she knew he’d be unable to make due
to him being new at flying and unable to maneuver himself as well. Just like
Diahandra wanted to see happen, Infernus died, burned to death by the lava.
After this was done, Diahandra then flew off to find Jay. When she saw him
about to be roasted alive on a huge grill by Volcanis (to whom he’d lost a
battle), she swooped down and killed Infernus’s flunky by throwing her Battler
Deciduous Ax right into his head. With both bears dead, Diahandra and Jay
resumed their journey.
Diahandra and Jay finally
finished their quest by finding the lost Battler Crystals. But they were
surprised to find out they weren’t Battler Crystals. After years of having been
used by a team of Battlers that’d been formed long after Diahandra, Deyon,
Maurice, J.J., Kesse, Aaron, and Shauna had left 1785, they’d also gone through
the Crystal Advance and become Battler Emeralds. This changed the Battlers’
plans of using them (they’d wanted to use the crystals while they were still
crystals), as they didn’t want to make it easier for Cast to get at least eight
new, inexperienced Battlers more easily than he could get the eight he already
knew. So for the time being, they’d keep the extra Battler Crystals locked up
for safekeeping.
In Book 53,
Diahandra and the other Battlers had to face a new problem. Philip DiCapa’s
grief over his parents’ deaths was finally coming to a head, and he was finally
vowing to make the ones responsible for their deaths, the Battlers, pay. Jon
tried to convince him that it was their own fault that they died, not the
Battlers’, but Philip wasn’t having it. Noticing how much rage Philip felt
toward the Battlers, Cast kidnapped Philip and magically endowed him with magic
powers of his own that he could use to fight and defeat the Battlers. Diahandra
and the other Battlers knew they’d have to help Philip get over his grief in
some way, so they opted to get the help of his brother, Desmond, and his
sister, Vivian, to get through to him. They planned to call Philip to the
DiCapa mansion so that his siblings could hopefully talk him out of working for
and with Cast, with the Battlers waiting in the wings to fight him if talking
to him didn’t work. Unfortunately, Cast overheard the Battlers’ plan and
alerted Philip, who went to the DiCapa mansion to attack them long before they
were ready to put their plan into motion. He fought and defeated the Battlers,
kidnapping Diahandra, Deyon, Maurice, Richard, Jay, Aaron, and Shauna. Only Jon
was left behind. But they’d be released if Jon met up with Philip for a rematch
twenty-four hours from the time of the other Battlers’ kidnapping.
Jon wasn’t about to
give up. He finalized the original plans with Desmond and Vivian, only making a
few small changes to the plan — he’d go to the rematch, but only if they’d come
in to talk to Philip just before he killed Jon, should Jon start losing to him.
That plan was put in motion the next day, when, at the rematch, which Diahandra
Deyon, Maurice, Richard, Jay, Aaron, and Shauna all watched from the sidelines,
Philip did indeed defeat Jon and came close to killing him. Desmond and Vivian
entered just in time to talk him out of it, finally convincing him that Liam
and Susan had, in fact, gotten themselves killed from being too obsessed with
finding the Battlers, learning their identities, and killing them. Philip
finally got the message, admitted that part of him knew that, and decided not
to kill Jon over something he knew wasn’t his fault. An infuriated Cast, angry
that Philip had betrayed him, attacked the youngest DiCapa and ate him alive.
This prompted Jon to engage in a new battle, this time with Cast. This time,
Jon won, but only because he used his Magic Advance on Cast. Jon was allowed to
take the other Battlers home, since they’d be his prize if he won, and so, they
all escaped the village. But now, they had even more incentive to defeat Cast —
rescuing Philip from his stomach, as they knew Cast was now absorbing his
powers with the Stone of Absor.
In Book 54, Diahandra
and the other Battlers discovered the perfect way to stop Cast — removing the
Stone of Absor from his body. To do that, they found out from Oriana and
Stephanie that they’d need to use a powerful spell called the SRS — the Stone
Removal Spell. It’d require four special ingredients — the fang of an Intimato,
the hair of a female human Necromage, ten or more drops of werewolf saliva, and
a vulture feather. All four ingredients would have to be obtained and added, in
that order, to a special cauldron called the Superior, which was used mainly for brewing
the most potent of spells.
When Deyon, Aaron, and
Jon (and later Diahandra, though she didn’t find out when they did) learned that
a mysterious, pantherlike beast had stalked and attempted to eat Shauna, only to
be fought off with help from Maurice, it was found out from Oriana and
Stephanie that the beast was the Intimato they were looking for. They were
beasts that disguised as humans in their attempts to lure unsuspecting victims
into their clutches, then hunt them down for food within thirty-six hours after
meeting them. They could be identified with a specific mark on their arms — a
backward six standing back-to-back with a forward six. Shauna ran into the
Intimato again and managed to knock one of its fangs out. She promptly gave it
to Stephanie the next time the Battlers met with her and Oriana.
After finding out that
Ty Butler,
a boy Shauna had been seeing temporarily while on the outs with Jamal, was the Intimato
who’d been stalking her, Diahandra, Deyon, and Shauna ended up in a
three-on-one battle with him after alerted by Maurice. The three Battlers
successfully fought and defeated the Intimato, whom Shauna sealed in a block of
ice that she quickly shattered. After this, Shauna made up with Jamal for
breaking up with him, and the two of them left for a romantic weekend in a
beach cottage Charmain had originally rented out for herself and Robbie.
Diahandra’s
archenemy is Lionardo, a mutant lion who was added to the Mutant Guerrillas in
response to her and Shauna being added to the Battlers.
Diahandra’s ultimate enemies, however (she and Shauna each had two), were
Ursa Infernus and Teddy Volcanis. They hated Diahandra and Shauna for not
giving them a powerful fire spell they could destroy the city of Richmond with. Diahandra
faced them several times, finally killing them in Super Battlers 5.
Diahandra’s the Forest Battler. Her weapon is the Battler Deciduous Ax. It
devastates her enemies with forest magic. Her Battler Animals are a wolf she
named Blaze and a squirrel she named Nut. Her Elemental Fighter is the Tree
Fighter, which she uses to safely travel through forests.
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