Greetings fellow readers and writers! You are about to experience my 14th story and I hope you like it! We're once again about to enter the world of our five favorite girls from Heatherfield. I'll bet you're thinking oh great, he's gonna cross W.I.T.C.H. with Naruto and One Piece again, big f#ck$ng woop. Well you can relax; I'm not crossing W.I.T.C.H. with Naruto and One Piece again. Well, I may have a few characters from Naruto come in later, but Naruto Uzumaki won't make an appearance in this story.
This time around we're crossing W.I.T.C.H. with 'Spectrobes,' a new game for the Nintendo DS, a very cool game if I say so myself. The game just screams 'crossover!' and I hope to be the first to make a fic about Spectrobes.
Time wise this story takes place about two and a half months after my last W.I.T.C.H. fic, 'Fullmetal W.I.T.C.H.,' making it sometime in May of 2008. Now I don't own W.I.T.C.H. or Spectrobes so don't sue me, I'm just trying to tell a good story. And now, without any further delay, please enjoy…
Kurse of The Krawl
By AndrewK9000
Chapter 1: Broken Seal
On a small, desolate planet, much like Earth's Moon but with a breathable atmosphere, orbiting a blue star near the center of the galaxy, a madman plotted something foul. He looked to be Caucasian with light brown hair and pale orange eyes, with the whites tinted red. He was dressed in archeological clothing. In his hands he held several scrolls written in a nearly forgotten alien language. These documents, penned long before man discovered fire, were what lead the lunatic to this barren world.
The madman wasn't alone. He had dragged several people along with him on this journey that promised to end in evil. Most of them were hired helpers who were ignorant on the true purpose of this foul mission. But one man in the group knew the awful truth. He too was dressed as an archeologist.
"Dr. Cager," said the rational man, "I must ask you one last time to stop this madness. Truly you do not understand what you're trying to do."
"Oh, Emory," said Dr. Cager in a voice that brimmed with mad energy, "It is you who doesn't understand our purpose here today. What I am about to do will change the galaxy, if not the universe."
"It will change the universe," said Emory, "But for the worse. For the love of the gods, Dr. Cager! Think of your people! Think of your whole f#ck$ng world! If you go through with this, it will all be destroyed!"
"Sometimes sacrifices are needed for the greater good, my friend," said Dr. Cager. He motioned to the men he hired, "Start digging you lazy dogs! I'm not paying you to stand around and do nothing!"
"If you won't consider your people and home world, Dr. Cager," said Emory, "Then think of your daughter. Is she worth sacrificing?"
At the mention of his daughter the red began to fade from Dr. Cager's eyes. He hesitated for two seconds, blinked, and the red had returned, only more pronounced. "I'm doing this for my daughter, Emory. And I'll thank you no not bring her into this again!"
"You truly have lost your mind," said Emory, "You leave me with no choice. I won't stand by and let you destroy all life in the universe!"
"Then I'm afraid this is the end of our friendship, Emory." Calmly, as if talking a walk in the park, Dr. Cager pulled out a laser pistol as shot Emory in the chest. Emory dropped to the ground like a stone.
"You monster!" gasped Emory as blood began to fill his lungs, "How could you?"
"As I told you, Emory," said Dr. Cager, "Sacrifices need to be made for the greater good."
"Damn you, Cager!" exclaimed Emory, "Damn you to Hell! You won't get away with this, someone will stop your madness!"
"Oh really," said Dr. Cager in a sarcastic tone, "Who's gonna stop me? I'm about to unleash the greatest force the universe has ever seen. Just who is going to stop me? I ask you, who?"
"I don't know," gasped Emory, "But there must be people out there who will stand up to your insanity! Someone will end your madness before it's too late!"
"You're boring me now," said Dr. Cager. He aimed his pistol at Emory's head and pulled the trigger, ending the life of his former friend.
As he holstered his weapon he noticed the workers had stopped digging and were staring at him. "What did I just say to you?" he said, "Get back to work, unless you wish to join my dead friend here!" With that the workers continued digging.
It wasn't long before the diggers found what Dr. Cager was looking for; a huge metal urn with covered in the same ancient writing that lead the madman to this place. The urn had a covering made of a different metal.
"At last," said Dr. Cager as he motioned to the workers. They brought forth a ladder and placed it against the urn. "At long last," said the lunatic as he climbed the ladder to the metal top of the urn, a crowbar in his hand, "The power is within my grasp!"
He heaved the crowbar against the metal top, forcing it off the urn. He looked inside; the urn was filled with some sort of multi-colored, viscous fluid that pulsated with dark energy.
"The power of The Krawl is finally mine!" exclaimed Dr. Cager as he plunged his hand into the pulsating goop. For a second nothing happened. Then the fluid reacted to Dr. Cager's presence. It began to slither up his arm as if it had a life of it's own.
"Yes!" exclaimed Dr. Cager as the goop spread over his arm and onto his upper torso, "Give me your power!"
Suddenly several tendrils of the fluid shot out of the urn and connected with the workers. They screamed in terror as the goop began to consume them, absorbing their bodies into the fluid. "Ultimate power!" howled Dr. Cager as the fluid consumed his body.
Once all the workers had been consumed, the fluid began to take shape into several individual shapes. These had a somewhat humanoid appearance; they hand arms, a head and a torso, but that's where the resemblance ended. They were at least eight feet tall, had no legs, slithered like snakes, the limbs elongated, their entire bodies throbbing like amoebas.
The amoeba-like creatures then began to absorb the rock surrounding them until they had a huge crater in the ground two miles wide and a mile deep. All the time more and more of the creatures were created. When one amoeba had consumed enough of it's surroundings, it split in two like a real amoeba.
Within 35 hours the entire planet had been consumed, leaving only dust and a few large chunks of debris floating in space. There were now thousands of the amoeba creatures, as well as several other varieties created from the urn. The creatures hovered in the vacuum of space, all pulsating with dark energy.
The pulses grew in frequency and intensity as several black vortexes formed around the creatures. Many of the amoeba creatures entered the vortexes. Said vortexes then began to scatter in different directions towards distant stars in the galaxy.
Four days later…
Deep within the halls of Candracar, The Oracle sat meditating, as was usual for that time of day. Then again, time had no real meaning in Candracar, The Oracle meditated when he felt like meditating.
Suddenly his meditations were disturbed as he sensed a dark presence in one of the many realities he watched over. The Oracle had never felt anything like this new evil before, yet he knew what it was. His predecessors had warned that this day would come; yet he had hoped that he would not live to see this day come to pass.
It was then that The Oracle's ever-loyal aide Tibor burst into the room. "Oracle!" exclaimed Tibor, "Something terrible has happened in the universe of The Guardians!"
"I know, Tibor," said The Oracle, his voice calm as usual despite the growing dread in his heart, "I've sensed what has happened. We must summon The Guardians as soon as we can, for The Krawl have been unsealed."
Elsewhere in Candracar walked Yan Lin, former Air Guardian. She walked down the halls, oblivious to the coming horror that would grip her home universe. But no threats of danger bothered Yan Lin, today she was here to visit her friend Nerissa.
It had been over nine months since Will's cousin Jaden Yuki duel Nerissa over possession of The Heart of Candracar. After Jaden's victory, Will forced Nerissa to face her inner darkness. The experience left Nerissa in a catatonic state. The Oracle then place a memory block on Nerissa's mind, leaving the former Keeper of The Heart with no memory of the previous forty years, and with no memory of turning to the dark side.
(See 'Heart of the Cards' for further details)
Just then Yan Lin heard an ear-piercing scream from Nerissa's room. Hurrying as fast as she could, Yan Lin burst into her friend's room to find Nerissa, in bed, drenched with cold sweat, a look of shear terror on her face. Said face looked to be in her mid-twenties, despite the fact that she was over 60 years old.
"Nerissa!" said Yan Lin, "What happened!"
"Yan Lin!" said Nerissa, her voice trembling with fear, "I've just had the most terrible nightmare in my life. I dreamt that I murdered Cassidy! I dreamt that I had turned to the dark side"
Forty years ago, back when Yan Lin and Nerissa were Guardians, Nerissa began to use The Heart of Candracar for selfish reasons. She kept drawing on the crystal's power for more and more personal gain. Eventually The Oracle and the Council of Candracar decreed that Nerissa had abused the right and privilege to be Keeper of The Heart. The crystal was passed to Cassidy, the current Water Guardian.
The other Guardians, Kadma and Halinor, agreed with The Oracle's decision, that Nerissa needed a lesson in humility. Nerissa disagreed to the point where she murdered Cassidy to get the crystal back. It took all the strength of Halinor, Kadma and Yan Lin to get the crystal away from Nerissa. The Oracle decreed that Nerissa was to be locked away for all time as punishment for her crimes. Nerissa escaped, but that's another story.
"It's alright," said Yan Lin as she sat down to comfort her friend, "It was just a dream." When The Oracle blocked Nerissa's memories, she was told that Cassidy died fighting a dream demon and that Nerissa was put into an enchanted sleep.
"It was so real," said Nerissa, "I could see the horror in Cassidy's face as I killed her, it was as if it really happened, that I truly turned evil." She looked towards Yan "It wasn't a dream, was it? I really turned to the dark side, did I?"
At first Yan Lin didn't know what to say. She knew that the memory block was only a temporary solution; that it would eventually wear off. But The Oracle had said that it would wear off when Nerissa was ready to accept the truth of her actions. Yan Lin didn't expect Nerissa's memories to return so soon. But it would be better if she were to tell her friend the truth, rather than let Nerissa discover the truth on her own.
"Nerissa," said Yan Lin, "There's something I have to tell you, something that won't be easy to accept, but it's the truth."
The end of chapter 1. Next chapter we look in on Will and the other Guardians and see how they've been doing. Reviews will be rewarded with cake and pie. See you next time!