This is my first W.I.T.C.H. fanfic and actually, the first fanfic that I've ever decided to post. Please R&R.
Summary: It's been 3 years since the girls' last mission as guardians. All of them are focusing on living normal lives. Yet somewhere in the midst of all of this normality, the five of them have started seeing unexplainable things. The guardians return to Kandrakar to find the answers and discover that they must travel through time to stop this new villain from destroying everything. (Sorry for the crappy summary, but the mystery is what's going to make it good so...) Definite pairings in the story are WillxMatt, Hay LinxEric, and TaraneexNigel. The rest are subject to change at any time, although you're welcome to give your input on which ones you'd like to see.
Author's Notes: Peter may be a bit out of character. I'm not really sure. I can't remember what he was like all that well to be honest. And I've decided to combine elements from the show and elements from the comics, because there were some things that I liked better in the show and some things that I liked better in the comics. There are a few things that I wasn't sure of, like Will's bracelet and Matt's tour with Karmilla in the comics mainly because I haven't read those issues, I've only seen images from them in various languages that I cannot read. So if something's completely and totally off, you'll know why. Each chapter is around 6-8 pages long.
Disclaimer: I do not own W.I.T.C.H. or any of it's characters/places.
Cornelia twirled on the ice. The beautiful blonde had the grace of a swan and the elegance of a queen. She smiled as her boyfriend Peter lifted her up off the ice and carried her out to the seats that surrounded the ice rink. She kissed him lightly before he set her down in one of the seats. "Hey, I'm gonna get us some hot chocolate from the café, okay?" Peter asked. Cornelia simply nodded. As soon as he left, she quickly took off her skates and pulled her journal out of her bag and began writing.
Ever since the Oracle gave the Guardians a sort of 'vacation' as Irma calls it, I've been able to focus on my skating again. Peter agreed to skate pairs with me last year, I was so happy about it. Practicing for regionals has been hard, but I know we can win. Last time I only got third, this time Peter and I will take the gold. I just know it. Speaking of Peter, our 1 year anniversary is coming up soon. He keeps saying that he has something special planned and I can't wait to see what it is.
I haven't seen Elyon in about 3 or 4 months now. She usually comes every few months, but she said that things have gotten busy in Meridian lately. I just hope that she gets here in time to watch me skate in the regionals and to come to my 18th birthday party.
As for everyone else, they're all great. Even without going on missions together all the time, we've managed to stay close friends. I'll just make a list of what everyone's been up to lately...
Will - Still dating Matt. They've been together for what? 3 years now? Her relationship with Matt has been way more stable than any of ours. And to think that they had such a rocky start. Well, anyway, she's pursuing a career as a veterinarian with writing on the side. I'm glad that she's found her calling. She also won first place at the swimming nationals. And her mom finally tied the knot with Mr. Collins, they're getting ready to go on their honeymoon right now.
Irma - She's dated more guys than I care to count, Joel being among the many. She couldn't handle an exclusive relationship. She's currently pursuing a career as a marine biologist. Recently, she had the biggest 17th birthday blow out ever. I swear she invited the entire school and every guy within a 50 mile radius. But other than that, not much is going on with her at the moment.
Taranee - She's had an off and on relationship with Nigel over the past few years. The biggest break they had was when she started liking Aaron, a college guy, and pursued a relationship with him last year. He seemed like he was perfect for her, but he had a hidden agenda, and everything ended badly. I won't go into details, but the guy attempted to do things to her, and Taranee wound up almost burning down his apartment. I'm glad to say that she's back with Nigel again, and hopefully, they'll stay together for a while this time. Besides that, she's studying to become a psychologist and she's gotten early acceptance from Harvard and surprisingly, Juliard. She skipped a grade and will be graduating with me this year. Though, she still hasn't decided on where she wants to go.
Hay Lin - Her and Eric are currently trying to keep their long distance relationship going, though I know it's hard on Hay Lin. But Eric's supposed to come back to Heatherfield in a few weeks, so we'll see how things go. Hay Lin's also been pursuing a career as a fashion designer and everything seems to be going well there.
Well, that's all for today.
Cornelia
Cornelia closed her journal as Peter approached her with two hot chocolates. "Hey, what were you writing about?" He asked. She just smiled.
"Just things that have happened over the past few years. It's my first entry in my new journal. Will got it for me as an early birthday present," Cornelia replied as she put her journal away.
"You excited about tomorrow?" Peter asked, taking a sip of his hot chocolate.
"Of course! It's our anniversary," She replied as she took a glance at her watch. "Oh wow, it's 8:30PM already. I have to get home, okay?"
"Yeah, just don't forget to meet me here tomorrow around 8:00AM," Peter yelled as Cornelia ran out.
The next day, Cornelia arrived the ice rink around 7:00AM. "Good, right on schedule. I'll get some practice in before going out with Peter..." She said to herself as she stood outside of the ice rink's building. She noticed a man walking around the corner of the building and took a few steps toward him. "That's weird...no one's usually here at this hour..." She said as she walked toward the corner. She then saw the man sitting on a bench near the building. He glanced back at her and she caught a glimpse of his face before he ran away. "...Caleb?" Cornelia asked as the man disappeared in a flash of light. "It was you, wasn't it?"
Meanwhile...
"Will, you'd better get up. Your mother's leaving today, remember?" Will's frog alarm clock yelled to her as it rang simultaneously.
"You're way more annoying than the other clock, you know that?!" The red head yelled as she pushed the off button on the alarm.
"Well, you're no walk in the park either missy," The clock replied as Will got up.
"I swear, one more peep and it's into the-" Will was then suddenly cut off by her mom.
"Are you talking to your clock again, Will?" Susan asked with a smirk.
"N-no, whatever gave you that idea?" Will replied with a nervous laugh.
"I thought you'd grow out of that, but look at you...18 and still talking to your appliances," Susan mumbled as she walked into the kitchen. Will then quickly changed into a pink t-shirt and a pair of jeans and joined her mother in the kitchen. "Okay, now I'll be gone for 2 weeks. Emergency numbers are by the phone and you can reach me on my cell if you need me."
"Relax mom, I'll be fine. I think I'll get some packing done while you're gone. I know you're anxious to get me out of here," Will said as she put some bread in the toaster.
"You can stay as long as you like, Will. You know that. I'm not exactly crazy about you moving in with Matt either."
"Matt's a great guy, mom, and we're both going to the same college so..."
"I know, but couldn't you room with one of your friends instead?"
"No, Hay Lin and Irma are getting an apartment together, Taranee's going to be in a totally different state, and I don't think I could handle living with Cornelia," Will replied as the doorbell rang.
"Dean's here. I've got to go. Bye, Will. I'll see you in a couple of weeks," Susan said as she gave Will a hug and a kiss.
"Bye, mom!" Will yelled as Susan left with Mr. Collins. Will was just about to get her toast out of the toaster when the phone rang. "Hello?" She answered.
"Hey Will, it's Matt. Would you like to meet me for breakfast?"
"I'd love to! Where do you want to meet?"
"Um, how about we meet at the park around 9:30 and then decide where to go from there?"
"Sounds good to me."
"Okay, great, see you there!"
"Yeah," Will replied as she hung up the phone. She turned off the toaster, threw on a pair of sneakers, and rushed out the door.
Meanwhile, Irma was still fast asleep in her bed, dreaming about Joel, when she was abruptly woken up by her father. "Irma, get up! Someone's here to see you!" Her father yelled as he banged on her bedroom door.
"Just a minute!" Irma screamed back as she rushed to get dressed. She ran downstairs hoping that it was Joel, but instead, she saw Martin Tubbs standing at her doorstep.
"Hello, cupcake!" Martin greeted her.
"Hi, Martin," Irma greeted him back with a bit of irritation in her voice.
"You look ravishing today!" Martin stated as he gazed at her. Irma was a curvy girl and she loved to flaunt it. She was wearing a pink short sleeved blouse and a jean skirt, all of which perfectly complimented her figure. You'd never guess that she had thrown this outfit together in only a few minutes. All that rushing just to come down and see...Martin of all people. Irma sighed. He's not as geeky as he used to be though. A bit less awkward maybe...too bad he's still Martin. Irma thought with a tiny bit of a chuckle.
"What do you want?" She asked as she tucked a strand of her honey highlighted brown hair behind her ear.
"Well, I was wondering if you'd like to-" Martin was then abruptly cut off by Irma yelling to Hay Lin, who was walking up to Irma's house.
"Hey Hay!" She yelled as she waved, completely ignoring Martin.
"Hi, Irma!" Hay Lin yelled back, bright as ever. The young Chinese girl's smile could light up even the darkest of days in an instant.
"Sorry Martin, already have plans with Hay," Irma yelled to Martin as she ran towards Hay Lin, leaving him on her doorstep. Okay, so I didn't REALLY already have plans with Hay, but he doesn't have to know that. She thought to herself as she and Hay Lin began walking.
"What did Martin want?" Hay Lin asked with a bit of a giggle. She knew exactly what he wanted - a date with Irma - but she always asked anyway. She loved teasing Irma about it.
"A date, what else?" Irma replied with a slightly disgusted look on her face. "But anyway...what're we doing today?" She asked after realizing that she was just following Hay Lin.
"I wanted to ask Will if she could take us to Kandrakar. I want to visit grandma. I haven't seen her in months. But Will's not picking up her phone," Hay Lin replied.
"Oh, she must be out with Matt. You'd think they'd have gotten sick of each other after three years..." Irma stated. This caused Hay Lin to giggle a bit.
"Not everyone's as hard to please as you are Irma," She laughed.
"I'm not hard to please, everyone else is just boring!" Irma replied. She suddenly felt cold. "Brr, why does it feel like we just stepped into a freezer?" She asked as she rubbed her arms. The two girls then stopped dead in their tracks. "What the...?" Irma mumbled in shock as she looked around Heatherfield, now covered in ice.
"But it's spring, there shouldn't be ice anywhere! Besides, the sun's out," Hay Lin stated.
"Can't you take care of this, Hay Hay?" Irma asked, referring to Hay Lin's power over the air.
"This is way too much, I can't do it unless I'm in guardian form," She replied, taking a few steps onto the ice.
"You see how useless water is? I can only make MORE ice!" Irma yelled with a bit of irritation.
"We should probably go find Taranee," Hay Lin said as she ran across the ice toward Taranee's house.
"Great...ice skating on a bumpy road," Irma said with sarcasm as she attempted to get across the ice, stumbling the whole way. "Miss fire guardian had better be able to do something about this..."
Will sat in the park waiting for Matt. She glanced down at her frog watch. "10 o' clock...he said he'd meet me here half an hour ago..." She mumbled. Will began to fiddle with the bracelet on her left wrist that sat next to her watch. Looking at that bracelet always made her smile, it was a gift from Matt. It had their initials engraved onto two golden square beads on it. Ever since the day that he gave it to her, she never took it off. It was the only thing that kept her sane while Matt was away for those long six months on tour with Karmilla. She felt that it was almost like a promise that he'd come back and they'd pick up where they left off. And they did.
"Will!" Her thoughts were interrupted by Matt's voice, calling out to her as he ran to her. "Sorry I'm so late, I had to get here from Midgale," He said as he sat down next to Will.
"What were you doing in Midgale?" Will asked.
"Oh, you'll see," Matt replied with a smile.
"Come on, please tell me?" Will begged as she gave him a hug.
"Nope, hugs won't get me to tell you what this surprise is," He replied.
"Can't I have just a little hint then?"
"Alright, it's a huge gift for you."
"...That doesn't help much," Will mumbled, returning to her spot on the bench and crossing her arms. Noticing her irritation, Matt kissed her, then stood up and took her hand.
"Aww, come on, don't be mad. I promise you that this surprise is worth being surprised over. Come on, let's go get breakfast," He said with a smile.
"That's easy for you to say, I never surprised you by going away on tour with Karmilla for six months," Will replied as she stood up.
"Don't worry, I'm not going anywhere. Besides, it's a lot worse knowing that your girlfriend could go off on some huge mission and not come back."
"I haven't had one of those missions in years though," Will replied. Then she noticed Irma, Hay Lin, and Taranee running towards her.
"Thank goodness we found you!" Hay Lin yelled as the three girls approached them.
"What's wrong?" Will asked.
"Half the town's been turned into an ice cube, that's what! Come on, see for yourself," Irma replied with a bit of irritation. Will and Matt followed the three to the area that the girls had claimed was iced over.
"That's weird...I swear it was here just a few minutes ago," Irma said as the girls stared at the town, no ice in sight.
"We wouldn't lie to you about this Will. It was here, I swear," Hay Lin said.
"They're not kidding, I saw it too," Taranee stated, looking around in disbelief.
"No, I believe all of you, but I wonder what happened to all of the ice? It couldn't have just vanished, could it?" Will asked as she looked around for any sign that there had been some kind of abnormal weather that day. But everything looked completely normal.
"This is really weird...it was here...I-I saw it...were we just hallucinating?" Hay Lin asked Irma. Irma just shrugged.
"That was no hallucination, it was freezing. And the ground was all slippery. I wouldn't have bruises on my butt if it were just a hallucination," Irma replied. "Good thing Corny's not here or she'd tell us that we're all crazy."
"Hey, where is Cornelia anyway?" Will asked.
"Peter took her on a cruise for their anniversary," Taranee replied. "Speaking of which, I wonder how it's going?" She asked, hoping that something strange hadn't happened to them to them too.
Meanwhile, Peter pulled into a parking space near the docks. He got out and ran to Cornelia's door to open it and lifted her out of the truck. "Can't I look yet?" Cornelia asked, about to take off the blindfold.
"Nope, just a little further," Peter replied as he pulled Cornelia's hands away from the blindfold. She could hear the clicking noises that her green heels were making on the cement. Okay, I can cross picnic off the list. She thought to herself. She couldn't help but wonder where Peter was taking her. The more she thought about it though, the more her mind began to stray. Caleb never took me anywhere romantic like Peter does. She was always comparing the two, she couldn't help it most of the time. No, I shouldn't think of Caleb. He dumped me for my best friend. It's over. Besides, it was a simple childish romance, nothing to get too worked up over. As her mind strayed, the smile that was on her face seemed to do the same. But look at Will and Matt...still together after all these years. Didn't they start out as just a childish romance? Cornelia's thoughts always brought her to questions like that. She would've held onto Caleb until the bitter end, yet he didn't feel the same way. Some scars never heal, and the one that Caleb left on her heart still affected Cornelia to this day, though her pride would never allow her to admit it. It wasn't that she didn't love Peter, she did, but she didn't dream of Peter every night. She hadn't known Peter since she was child, before she even truly met him in person. Caleb had always been part of her life and she knew that somehow, he always would be.Noticing that she was no longer smiling, Peter asked, "What's wrong?" Cornelia just shook her head, ridding her mind of her thoughts of Caleb for now.
"Nothing," She replied as she faked a smile, trying to get her mind focused on what was to come.Peter guided Cornelia to the cruise ship they'd be taking and slowly removed the blindfold.
"Peter, this is incredible!" Cornelia yelled with excitement as she stared at the cruise ship with admiration.
"And it's all ours for the day. No one else will be on board except for the captain and a few waiters," Peter said as he took Cornelia's hand.
"You're amazing. You know that, right?" Cornelia asked. A bit of a smug look appeared on Peter's face.
"I know," He replied with a smirk, causing Cornelia to laugh. She gave him a kiss before pulling him onto the ship. "Shall we set sail, mademoiselle?" He asked while taking a bow.
"Yes, monsieur," Cornelia giggled. Peter gave the captain the signal to go and the ship began to drift away from the docks. Before long, it was going at a good speed. Cornelia leaned on the balcony, smiling as the wind blew through her once perfectly curled blonde hair. "This couldn't be any more perfect," She told Peter, who was leaning on the balcony beside her.
"I'm glad that I've made you happy. Sometimes I don't feel like I'm good enough," He stated, this caused Cornelia to jolt up from the balcony so that she could look at him.
"What would make you think that?" Cornelia asked, keeping her eyes glued to his face.
"I don't know, it just seems like you're in love with someone else sometimes," Peter replied with a sigh. "I know, it sounds like I'm being insecure or something, but I'm not," He continued.
"You're the only one for me, Peter..." Cornelia paused. That's not entirely true. She thought to herself. "I love you more than anyone else in this world. Come on, let's go below deck," She said with a smile as she grabbed his hand. Well, at least that wasn't a lie. I do love him more than anyone else in this world. Frustrated with her own heart, Cornelia forced her mind to take over instead. Peter knows that I'm not completely his right now. But maybe I will be if I give myself to him... She thought as she pulled Peter down below deck and into one of the rooms. "Let's make this day even more memorable," She said as she sat down on the bed. Peter decided to let her think for a few minutes and put off what he knew was on Cornelia's mind by telling her that he was going to get some drinks for them. Cornelia laid down on the bed and waited patiently for his return, staring up at the ceiling. It was then that she saw what looked like one of the guardians laying across the ceiling. But it wasn't any of the girls that Cornelia knew, she looked different. "What in the world...?" Cornelia mumbled, but when she blinked, the fairy like creature was gone. Then she felt like the ship had crashed into something and rushed up to the deck. "An iceberg...!" She screamed. The ship was sinking fast and there was no land around them. Cornelia closed her eyes for a few seconds, unable to believe that this was real. And sure enough, when she opened them, she was back in the bedroom, as if nothing had happened. "What was that...?" She whispered as she sat back up on the bed. A chill air blew on her and she suddenly felt as if someone were watching her from behind. She looked behind her, but no one was there. I shouldn't put so much stress on myself...I'm starting to hallucinate. She thought to herself. Cornelia was always a rational thinker. Even when the girls had been given magical powers, she was focused on the realistic side of things and almost refused to believe that anything had changed. She was still like that.
"Cornelia," Peter called Cornelia's name as he entered the room. He handed her one of the sodas. "You sure you want to do this?" He asked, both of them knew what was about to happen.
"I'm sure," Cornelia replied. She set the soda on the night stand next to the bed. Cornelia, always the mature one. In her mind, she had left all of her childhood behind her a long time ago, but it wasn't until that day on the cruise ship that she truly felt like an adult.