Shauna
Davidson
General Facts
Age: 19
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, 36–43, 45–51, and 53–54
Super Battlers: All
Books Narrated
Regular Titles: Books 7, 14, 22, 30, 38, 46, and 54
Super Battlers: All (Alternated with the other Battlers)
Immediate Family
Mr. Davidson (father)
Mrs. Davidson
(stepmother)
Charmain Taylor (older stepsister)
Character Summary
Shauna was an average black teenage girl until Book 3, when she and her best
friend, Diahandra Christian, were sucked back into the past by a spell Evilla
cast to prevent Deyon, Maurice, J.J., Keese, and Aaron from returning to their
time from 1785. After Deyon, J.J.,
Keese, 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.
Shauna’s first major mission was when
she and the other Battlers had to protect Sojourner Truth from Evilla in Book
7. When Evilla’s mutants kidnapped her, Shauna
and the others had to follow clues to find her. Shauna
was separated from them when she was pulled into some Lightning-Quick
Quicksand. But she was able to find and rescue Sojourner Truth on her own and
foil Evilla’s plans.
Shauna’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 Diahandra 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 her best friend.
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. They
reluctantly allowed Diahandra’s younger brother, Derrick,
to come with them. They met two new friends on the road — Jamal O’Connor, a
rising user of water magic, and, in Book 23, Felicia Hooper,
an aspiring fire magic user.
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, Shauna 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 Shauna 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, Shauna realized she was starting to have feelings for
Jamal. Then, Shauna, Diahandra, 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, Shauna and Diahandra 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 Shauna
finally admitted how she felt about Jamal and they had their official pairing
after he admitted his feelings for her, as well.
After getting to San Francisco around
Christmas time, Shauna and the others
defeated underground magic master Lenny Digg,
MTC of the San Francisco MBA, and won their seventh orbs, the Subterra Orbs.
Shauna, Diahandra,
Derrick, Jamal, and Felicia was just getting ready to celebrate New Year’s Eve
in San Francisco in Super Battlers 3 when they were magically transported to
Dare Island, a hidden island belonging to a sorcerer named Bin Dare. After
reuniting with the boys and meeting Red Battler Jon for the first time, they
were challenged to fight in a tournament against their ultimate enemies. The
winner of each fight would live. The loser would get eaten — and because their
enemies’ stomachs were magically shielded from any attempt to get out, there
would be no escape.
Shauna was separated from the others, with only Derrick and Jamal to accompany her. Diahandra was
sent with Keese and Felicia was sent
with Maurice. Shauna,
Derrick, and Jamal were forced to
fight the Sabre Brothers, and they proved it was no contest when they beat them
easily. All they had to do was find the others, which they did. But they were shocked
to learn that Felicia had lost a fight
and was eaten. They reunited with her later on when they fought Dare in his
throne room for their freedom. Deyon managed to land the final blow that led to
their victory. Dare sent them back home after revealing the reason he’d brought
them there — for his personal enjoyment of the struggles between good and evil.
The girls got to spend the last few minutes of New Year’s Eve with their old
friends and would transported back to San
Francisco after New Year’s Day was over.
During the timeframe
of Book 32, Shauna arrived in Los Angeles with
Diahandra, Derrick, Jamal, and Felicia. While relaxing on a beach, she was kidnapped
by an enormous elephant seal named Quatic Ugong.
Jamal gave chase and tried to rescue her, but Quatic managed to outsmart him
and take Shauna to his underwater cave, where he planned to eat her and absorb
her ice magic. This was because he’d obtained the power to absorb magic from
another user by eating that user by eating a mysterious stone he found one day
when he was still a normal seal. Since then, he’d racked up sixteen different
elements of magic by eating mages of those elements — Earth, underground,
water, mountain, wind, fire, forest, destruction, revival, solar, lunar,
shadow, light, curative, poison, and celestial. And he wanted to add ice to his
arsenal.
Shauna initially refused, but that changed after he
captured Jamal and threatened to eat him
instead. Then, she surrendered and Quatic gleefully swallowed her whole. But
just before Shauna’s ice magic could
be absorbed, Jamal rescued her by breaking a gem that’d appeared on Quatic’s
belly after he’d eaten her. With her strength and will to fight renewed, Shauna froze a few seals in Quatic’s seal army and
threatened to break the ice and them
if he didn’t let them go. Reluctantly, Quatic agreed, and Shauna
and Jamal were released. But they knew they might see him again.
A few days after
that incident, during the timeframe of Book 33, Shauna, Diahandra, 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, Shauna, Diahandra, 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 Shauna and Diahandra 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, Shauna, Diahandra, Derrick, Jamal, and Felicia
left Los Angeles behind and headed through a Nevada forest. There, Shauna and the others watched as Diahandra battled
and sealed her newest Battler Animal, a squirrel she later named Nut. Soon
after she sealed 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 Shauna
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
Shauna 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 Shauna 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, Shauna, Diahandra, 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, Shauna,
Diahandra, 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.
Shauna came over to Diahandra and Derrick’s house while they were catching up with
their mother and invited Diahandra to join her in finding Deyon, Maurice, J.J.,
Keese, 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, Shauna and Diahandra 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 Keese. 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 Shauna,
Deyon, Jon, and Diahandra, 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, Shauna, Deyon, Jon,
and Diahandra 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).
Shauna, Deyon, Jon,
and Diahandra began playing Gamester’s games. The first game, Rueful Roulette,
saw Diahandra getting eliminated. But Shauna,
Deyon, and Jon managed to win the cure
to Aaron’s poisoning. After curing Aaron’s poisoning, they 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, Shauna 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 Shauna
and Diahandra, 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. Shauna was attacked in 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. The
attack resulted in her kidnapping. Her stepsister, Charmain, was left with a
bloody nose after a guard punched her. Deyon, J.J.,
and Keese were the only three Battlers who stayed out of DiCapa’s clutches.
While Shauna and the others waited for their fate to be
decided on the roof, Deyon, J.J., and
Keese arrived to rescue them. But J.J.
and Keese 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.
Shauna 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, Shauna 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 Shauna and
the other Battlers were released from working with UNITY (she’d started working
for UNITY after she and Diahandra arrived back in town). With their work
finally done (at least for now), Shauna
and the others headed for home, ready to go on with their lives.
In Super Battlers 4,
Deyon led Shauna and 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, Shauna 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 Keese, 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 Keese’s departure from town the very next
morning after an emotional goodbye from Shauna
and the other Battlers.
In Book 41, after
school started, Shauna and Diahandra
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, Shauna
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, Shauna
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, Shauna 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: Shauna, Richard,
Jay, Aaron,
Jon, and Diahandra 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 Shauna
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!
Shauna and Diahandra 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), Shauna 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, Shauna, Deyon, and Diahandra 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.
Shauna 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.
Shauna 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, that is, but
Shauna ended up losing her round-five
battle to fellow ice mage Jeremy Frost of Topeka, Kansas.
Richard eventually lost to Diahandra. The Battlers’ plan to save their
crystals’ energy 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 Shauna and Diahandra 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 Shauna and Diahandra 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, Shauna was reunited with
Jeremy, who let her, Diahandra, 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 her 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, Shauna
and the other Battlers were forced to try and save Deyon, who was kidnapped by
a newly-returned Dominic Carter, who turned him into bronze
as part of his plan to wipe out all the mages in the Washington, D.C.,
area. While Shauna and the other Battlers managed to track him down, she,
Maurice, Richard, Jay, Aaron, and Jon were all turned into bronze, as well. She
and the others were later rescued by Diahandra after she became the final
Battler to undergo the Crystal Advance, along with the team’s newly-obtained
ally, Stephanie Sadler, previously known as
Horstephanie.
In Book 48, with all
eight Battlers possessing Battler Emeralds, Shauna 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 (Shauna by Maximole, along with Jay and Jon) 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.
In Book 49, Shauna
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, Shauna
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.
Shauna 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 Shauna was among six of the
Battlers who were kidnapped as a result of that battle. Deyon, Maurice, Aaron,
Jon, and Diahandra 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,
Shauna 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.
Shauna and Richard went to search for five of the crystals in a desert in Utah
(while Deyon and Maurice went to Louisiana, Aaron and Jon to the North Pole,
and Jay and Diahandra to the Rocky Mountains of Colorado). But their journey
wasn’t a calm one. Shauna’s ultimate enemies, the Sabre Brothers attacked them,
having been tipped off as to where they’d be by an anonymous source. The two
twin tigers had escaped from the Magicia prison they’d been sent to in Book 46
and were now back to kill and eat Shauna once and for all. And since Richard
was with her, they planned to eat him, as well. But in a quick battle, Shauna
and Richard dispatched them easily by freezing them.
However, the tigers
escaped from the ice block Shauna had trapped them in and ambushed Shauna and
Richard, capturing them easily. But before they could eat them, they instead
decided to give Shauna once last battle with them, fair and square. If she won,
they’d go free. If she lost, Striker and Killer would eat her and Richard.
Hours later, Shauna finally had her battle with the Sabre Brothers, and during
it, Shauna accidentally froze Killer while he was up in the air thanks a throw
from her. He’d been frozen thanks to Striker knocking her arm up in the air and
inadvertently allowing her Battler Subzero Scepter to cast an Ice Beam on the
airborne tiger. The impact with the ground made Killer’s ice block shatter,
killing him. Richard was the next victim of an ice-related accident when Striker
deliberately forced Shauna to cast an Ice Beam spell on him. Just as he was
about to shatter his ice block, though, Shauna beat him up while in midair and
absorbed the ice covering Richard to unfreeze him. Shauna then finished off
Striker for good (after previously giving him the chance to walk away alive) by
impaling him with an Icicle Illusion spell after he tried to attack them one
last time. With the Sabre Brothers both finally dead, the two kids continued
their journey.
Shauna and Richard
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 Shauna, Deyon,
Maurice, J.J., Kesse, Aaron, and Diahandra 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, Shauna
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. Shauna 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 Shauna,
Deyon, Maurice, Richard, Jay, Aaron, and Diahandra. 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 Shauna,
Deyon, Maurice, Richard, Jay, Aaron, and Diahandra 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, Shauna 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.
Of course, in her personal
life, Shauna was having some other non-Battler problems. First of all, upon the
discovery that Jamal had applied and been accepted for a job as an MTC in Seattle and hadn’t told her,
she broke up with him, partly due to the pressure of having a long-distance
relationship, and partly because he wasn’t honest with her from the beginning. Even
worse than that, her stepsister, Charmain, was having some relationship
problems of her own — her current boyfriend, Robbie, was verbally abusing her, yet
she was still adamant on staying in her relationship with him, something Shauna
tried in vain to warn her against. To ease her stress in the midst of all this,
she met a boy named Ty Butler, bonded with him for a few hours,
then spent a very pleasant night with him.
The next night, Shauna
found herself in great danger when a mysterious, pantherlike beast stalked and attempted
to eat her. With help from Maurice, she was able to fight it off, but it was a very
close one. She 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. After
a second failed attempt at getting Charmain to see the light about Robbie, a
talk with Jamal, and a second night with Ty, she ran into the Intimato again, this
time fighting it on her own. As a result of the fight, she managed to knock one
of its fangs out. She promptly gave it to Stephanie the next time the Battlers met
with her and Oriana.
Later, after her third
failed attempt at convincing Charmain that Robbie was no good for her, she unintentionally
wound up exposing his abusive nature by standing up to him and telling him off,
prompting him to grab her arm roughly . . . right in front of Charmain, who caught
the whole thing while coming out of her dorm room’s bathroom. She quickly gave Robbie
the boot and apologized to Shauna for not believing her. And after that, Shauna
finally realized that she still loved Jamal and that they could work through his
moment of dishonesty, so she called up Ty and let him know that she wouldn’t be
seeing him anymore. After he kissed her hand and then bit it, she saw the mark of
the Intimato on his arm and realized that Ty was the Intimato who’d been
stalking her! (She’d also realized the clues she should’ve seen — Ty had dirt in
his ear from being buried by Maurice, and he was missing a teeth that turned out
to be the fang that Shauna had knocked out of his mouth.)
Knowing his cover was
blown, Ty pinned Shauna down to her bed and was about to eat her when Maurice burst
in to save her (after warning her that Intimatos stalk their prey after being physically
intimate with them, prompting Shauna to realize Ty had been the only boy she’d been
intimate with and call Maurice for backup). Seeing this, Ty quickly turned into
his Intimato form and knocked Maurice out with a deadly screech, planning to eat
him after he’d eaten Shauna. But he ended up in a three-on-one battle when Deyon
and Diahandra, who’d been alerted by Maurice, came in and pulled him off Shauna,
who managed to get time to transform. 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.
Shauna’s archenemy is Polara, a mutant polar bear
who was added to the Mutant Guerrillas in response to her and Diahandra being
added to the Battlers.
Shauna’s ultimate enemies, however (unlike the other Battlers, she and
Diahandra each had two), were Striker and Killer Sabre. They had it in for her
because she stopped them from carrying out their vendetta against Michael Hill,
a boy whose family they’ve wanted revenge on for turning them into tigers.
Shauna fought them several times, finally killing them both in a final showdown
in Super Battlers 5 (Striker in self-defense, Killer by accident).
Shauna is the Ice Battler. Her weapon is the Battler Subzero Scepter. It
damages and/or freezes her enemies with ice magic. Her Battler Animal is a
polar bear she named Glacia. Her Elemental Fighter is the Tundra Fighter, which
can only travel up snowy mountains or across tundras.
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