Chapter One: The Scroll
This is the first chapter to the whole story, hope you like. W.I.T.C.H dose not belong to me but X.L.A.K.R does.
The dark basement below Hay lin.'s grandmother's apartment was suddenly light by a not so flourescent light bulb that hanged from the ceiling of the basement. It fluttered but then was caught by a hand. Four girls looked at it suddenly stopped while the fifth looked at the end of the basement, then in unison they all fixed their eyes on the end of the stairs.
" Uh, remind me again why we are here?" asked Cornelia. Her sky blue eyes looked at the floor of the basement.
" We are here to look for my grandmother's family pictures remember?" Hay Lin said as she began heading down the stares, the rest followed.
" Oh yeah the stupid project for your history teacher." Cornelia suddenly remembered.
" Do you really have to do it? I mean we might not even find anything here under these tiny piles of boxes. And not to mention the strong bulb you have."Irma said sarcastically, and she added a smile to her remark. Irma was right, there were too many boxes of things and the light didn't really help them to see
" Come on people! Just look for really old pictures, I'll get an A." Hay Lin begged she smiled one of her nicest smiles she had. Cornelia, Will, Taranee and Irma smiled back.
" Al right but in your acceptance speech I want to here my name." Will said as she headed for a box. Hay Lin smiled in victory.
All the girls began going through box after box to find some proof that Hay Lin's grandmother named Yang Lin did have grand parents. In her search, Will found old clothes, earrings that were as big as knuckles, a shoe, and an old record player of a group named The Dinos. Irma found three recipe books, five empty boxes and a picture of Yang Lin holding a baby on a warm sunny day at the beach. Hay Lin found old books, a picture of herself as a four year old and an old agenda. Cornelia found old underwear and one rat.
" AHHHH" She screamed " Hay Lin didn't Yang Lin clean already?" Hay Lin giggled with the rest and nodded. Meanwhile Taranee searched with her hand inside a box and suddenly she hit something hard.
" Ouch! Hay Lin, what's this?" Taranee asked as she took out a cylinder metal object. Everyone became curious and left their search to check it out. The thing looked like a container with a odd shape in front of it. Taranee tried to open it but it wouldn't budge.
" I don't know. I've never seen it before but it looks kind of like an eye glass." Hay Lin said as she grasped the object and placed it next to her eye at the end of the container. She saw nothing.
" Check it out there's sort of a carving on it." Cornelia acknowledged. Hay Lin brought it down and studied the carving. The carving was in a circle shape that seamed to be dented to place something on it.
" And what is that supposed to be. I ask?" Irma asked as she cocked an eyebrow and folded her arms in question.
" I don't know but it kind of looks like the shape of the Heart of Candracar." Taranee said as she squinted her eyes behind her glasses. Will looked at the shape closely and gasped.
" Hey it dose." Will gasped and out of nowhere she suddenly took out the heart of Candracar. The little orb began humming and glowing a pink light. " Cornelia close the door." Will then said. Cornelia saw a strange look in Will's eye, she then swung her hand and the door closed shut.
Will took a long breath and she slowly began placing the Heart on top of the dent. Everyone watched carefully. Suddenly, it did fit, and perfectly! Nothing then happened.
"That was a waste of five seconds nothing ha . . . "
Irma was stopped and gasped at what was happening. Suddenly pink cracks of light began forming on the cylinder where the Heart had been placed at. Will was holding the container so she felt its energy . . . All the girls were amazed and flabbergasted when suddenly the cracks began heading for what seamed to be the top of the container.
POP!
The top lid un expectantly popped out and myriads of dust began spreading threw the air. They all began coughing, until Hay Lin blew the dust away.
" The Heart was the key." Will said as she coughed . She took the Heart out of the dent.
" I wonder why Yang Lin didn't show us this before?" Taranee pondered.
" Well duh, maybe she didn't know that it was or how to open it so she didn't bother." Irma told her.
" What's inside? " Hay Lin asked the question everyone was thinking. Will placed her hand inside the container and then pulled out a long scroll. The scroll was the same length and height of the container which was about one foot or two in height. Will then undid the paper and found something surprising, it was a painting.
In the painting there were five teenagers. The teenagers looked like if they were 16 or so and they were all pained like if they were not posing at all. The first teenager from the right was a girl with a blue maiden's dress. Her long, black, loose, and wavy hair covered her ears and she looked at her left direction with her brown eyes. This girl smiled kindly and her kind of pointy chin made her look beautiful.
The next girl to her right was another teenager of darker color and of African features with a light brown and white servant's dress. Her short black hair couldn't hide the enormous plugs she had on but it didn't matter because she was half smiling and looking shyly up at the painter. Her hands were held together in embarrassment but she smiled anyway.
The girl in the middle seamed more aware that she was being painted. This girl flashed an enormous smile and her sea green eyes sparkled on her round and pointy face. Her dirty blond hair was long and had two rows of pearls that sort of hanged from one place of her hair to the next. Her clothes were much nicer than the rest. She had a red dress on with a black sort of jacket that covered her shoulders. The dress had also a gold slash around her waist.
To the right of the blond girl was a girl of Indian features. She had long black hair with pale skin. In her forehead she wore a red dot in the middle of her gray eyes. She wore a gray and dark blue servant's dress. She pouted and looked away from the painter.
And last but not least there was a Chines girl with her lack long hair in a bun. Her hair had daggers crossing at the ends which looked golden in the painting. Her smile was small but it said a lot about her. Her black eyes looked at the Indian girl and they seamed to laugh at her. She was wearing a dark purple dress like the rest. The background was of a building that had a strange sign on it.
" Is this a painting?" Cornelia asked as she looked at all the girls, everyone looked at each other but Will did not. She kept her eyes on the parchment.
" Who even painted this, dose it say?" Hay Lin asked. Taranee. Looked at the right down the corner of the painting and gasped
" Oh my god! Oh my GOD! This . . . this . . . this was painted by Leonardo DaVinci!" Shrieked Taranee. Everyone got excited and wanted to check out the signature. They couldn't believe it.
" This has got to be fake." Cornelia said she was amazed.
" Do you know how much this could be worth, a lost painting of one the greatest medieval painter and philosopher ever?!" Taranee shouted she smiled so much it looked like it would hurt.
" I wonder why my grandma has this." Hay Lin asked she looked at the signature.
" I know why." Will suddenly said in a toneless voice, they all looked at her.
" Why?" Irma asked. Will pointed toward the girl with the wavy long hair and told them to look at her necklace. Everyone looked but at first they did not understand, seconds later they did.
" What?"Cornelia asked in disbelief.
" Oh shit the Heart of Candracar." Irma suddenly said.
" Are these the first guardians?" Taranee asked Will shrugged.
" I don't know but I know someone who can tell us." Will said.
At Candracar . . .
" Oh yes, I do know who they are." The Oracle said as he looked at the painting. They were all in Candracar to ask the question they wanted to be answered.
" So who are they Oracle?" Hay Lin asked.
" Are they the first Guardians?" Will asked.
Well, yes these are the first guardians, I remember them like it was yesterday. Xichel Xocoyotzin, Kaira Mbemba, Antonietta Sfoza, Rnama Banu and Lin Nanjing. Well except that it wasn't yesterday but almost 500 years ago." The Oracle said as he half smiled. He looked as if he was remembering. He started with the girl with the Heart and ended with the Asian girl.
" 500 years ago! That was along time ago." Taranee was suprized.
" Did you guys know they spell Slacker? The X sounds like an S." Hay Lin said as she put their letters of their name into a word.
" Slacker? Are you serious? " Irma laughed.
"Do you know what happed to them?"Taranee asked as she looked at the Oracle.
" I'm glad you al brought this up Taranee, yes I do know what happened, and I would love to also tell you all the real truth of Candracar." The oracle said as his smile disappeared.
" The truth?" Cornelia asked. They were all confused.
" You know young air guardian, not only was your grandmother Yang Lin a past guardian but this girl in the painting[ pointing at Lin] was the first air guardian and your 13-time great-grandmother." The Oracle told Hay Lin. She was bewildered.