Disclaimer: I don't own W.I.T.C.H. Elizabetta Gnone and Disney do. Because some of the characters show Spiderman characteristics so to be on the safe side I don't own that, Marvel comics do. So don't sue ok.
AN: The sequel to Miranda's children, this fic evolved through no fewer than three separate incarnations before arriving and promptly gave birth to Miranda's Children. To the WillXCaleb shippers please don't hate me. Same to the CorneliaXCaleb shippers. Oh and the Hannah Smith character is NOT the same one found Cornelia's penance, although she does have many of her characteristics.
AN2: You know how we're supposed to avoid putting up stories with names that are already taken? Then how come there are at least 5 or 6 stories with that exact name? Weird.
Melinda ducked as a burst of magical energy shot over her head. Pulling out the Heart of Candracar, she threw a web of electrical energy at the dragon and pinned it down. To her right her friend Anzu Watshashi had caught a squad of Lurdens in a web of vines. Beside her stood the former Earth guardian Cornelia Hale who was using a quarterstaff to devastating effect on any Lurdens who came near. Her wife Irma Lair on the other hand favoured a pair of tonfa and was showing just how powerful she was with them.
Her parents Will and Caleb were using a pair of axes each on the lower level against the Sarnanonn, or slug creatures as Aunt Irma called them. On her left, Hannah and Sarah were combining their powers to create a flame-thrower effect against Liam O-Mally, the man known as Goldhand, forcing him back, while her twin brother Thomas used his webbing to tie up his powerful golden hand from which he derived his name.
In the middle of Lord Shail's forces, the water guardian Alice Dwar had gotten cut off from the rest of the forces fighting Lord Shail and had isolated herself from the enemies forces by creating a moat of sorts around herself, along with Matt Olsen and his wife Hay Lin, who were wielding a pair of swords with devastating effect. Auntie Hay didn't often get angry, but when she did, it was a good idea not to get in her way.
The others she couldn't see, but she was sure they were doing well. Time to finish this, she thought to herself. Using her spider eyes sense of pattern, she quickly found the lead dragon of the pack, she flew towards it. Reaching the dragon, she unleashed a web of magical energy against the creature, cutting its connection to its brothers and sisters. The connection cut, the dragons began to attack the Sarnanonn, leaving the Lurdens exposed. With the Sarnanonn out of the way, the missing members of their forces reappeared, fighting from Candracar's right wing. Taranee had a pair of nunchaku and her fiancé Eric wielded a massive hammer.
Those two, she smiled to herself had taken far to long getting THAT together. Seriously, she had to all but threaten to lock them in a wardrobe together to get them to admit their feelings for one another.
Seeing his forces decimated, Lord Shail began to flee. But he had reckoned without Thomas and Melinda's determination to bring the one who had had their mother killed. Liam O-Mally, the perpetrator was already in the custody of Candracar, but they wanted to bring him in too.
Shail sneered at the sight of Thomas and Melinda Vandom approaching him. Foolish humans! Did they seriously expect to be able to stop him, Lord Shail? His enhanced strength and immunity to magic made them no match for him. Or at least that's what he thought.
Thomas was the first one to reach him. Using his webbing, he forced Shail to trip up and fall on his face. A flying kick hit Shail in the stomach and he doubled over. Melinda came next and caught his fists in her hands. To Shail's immense surprise, she was forcing him down to the ground.
"How is this possible?" he gasped, to which she grinned. "I'm not entirely human. My biological father was Lord Cedric."
He fell to the ground, his strength exhausted. As he was taken away, the Oracle turned to face the twins. "Through your bravery, skill and intelligence, Candracar has been saved. You and your friends have turned the tide against Lord Shail and I have every confidence in your ability to end this war."
The guardians looked at one another. Anzu Watshashi, looked at her through her almond shaped Japanese eyes. "I think I speak for all of us when I say that we'll follow Miranda to the bitter end."
This caused a few raised eyebrows. Of all the guardians, the Earth guardian was the one who had been most resistant to being led, rather than leading. Looking around her she said "What? I was wrong ok!"
Sarah Gold, the tall willowy fire guardian came up behind her and said, "Well now I really have seen everything. Our little Anzu admitting she was wrong. Anything else you want to add?"
"Don't call me little" Anzu snapped. Even in guardian form she was short, barely reaching 5 feet and so her height or rather lack of it was something of a sore point. At that everyone laughed much to her visible annoyance.
1 month later
A hyperactive, dark skinned girl of thirteen years was babbling to her friends. "I've gotten a picture at home I want to show you." She burbled happily. "It's something you'll love, trust me."
Miranda looked down at her friend. At almost five foot five, she towered over her classmates.
"So you want us to head over to yours tonight. Fair enough Alice, I'll meet you at the school gates and go from there."
Alice grinned at her. The hyperactive water guardian looked at the rest of her friends. The ever-calm Apache-American girl, Hannah nodded at her, followed by an affirmative grunt from her slightly moody friend, a longhaired blonde girl otherwise known as Sarah Gold. Of course Sarah was probably moody because she had caught her boyfriend cheating on her with a girl called Jennie Small, one of the girls most unpleasant classmates. Finally Anzu shook her head, blushing slightly "Sorry guys, no can do. Simon finally asked me out and I said yes"
The girls cheered at this. Even though she was almost two feet shorter than the five foot Chinese boy, they had been in orbit of each other for a long time.
"So just you three then? Ok then see you later." then Alice said cheerfully as the girls went their separate ways. Hannah and Miranda headed off towards their first class of maths, taught by none other than Eric Lyndon and Anzu and Sarah headed off towards history, the bane of everyone's life at the Sheffield institute, not least because their teacher was none other than Courtney Grumper. Even Anzu, who loved history, hated her class.
Sarah looked at her friend. "You know" she began "If we were as good at art as Alice, perhaps WE could get out of this rotten class." Anzu just laughed. "Alice has to have extra lessons with her to make up for lost time." To which her friend shuddered. "A fate worse than death I think." She replied in a deadpan voice.
A few hours later
Alice reached into her art folder and withdrew a sheet of paper. "Here it is guys, the picture I was telling you about." She passed it to Melinda who unfolded it and gasped. It was them in their guardian forms. It was really good to.
At the front of the painting stood Melinda in her black trousers and purple tank top, her long black hair billowing in the wind. Behind her Hannah Smith was wearing her light blue tank top and flared purple trousers, her short wild hair making her look every inch an Apache warrior. On her left stood Anzu, wearing her all to familiar samurai armour, but still shorter than everyone else. On Melinda's right stood Sarah and Alice. Alice was wearing purple spandex leggings with a one-piece swimsuit over the top of the bottom half, defining her curvaceous figure as it tightly hugged her body. Finally right beside Alice was Sarah. Unlike the others, Sarah wore a short dark red miniskirt and a dark blue jumper. It was them to a T.
"I see taking lessons with a world famous comic book artist has paid off then." She said as she passed the picture around the group. Her friend grinned at her. "Yup, your Aunt Hay Lin has really helped me improve. Can you drop it off at Anzu's place on the way home? I want to get her opinion to."
She nodded "Sure, no prob. See you tomorrow Alice."
In Meridian however a less pleasant conversation was taking place. Normally Rebecca Hart would be trying to avoid the dungeons of Queen Elyons castle at all costs. However this mission promised to reverse the fortunes of their almost defeated group. Walking to a cave-like room (did it really count as a room? Looked more like a cave to her.) She looked at her companion, who was carrying a large, ornate clock. You could still see where the old fire guardian had cut through the metal bars.
Standing at the entrance of the cave/room she told her companion "Place it here." An arrogant, impetuous streak in her voice. "Are you absolutely sure this will work? This clock is flaming heavy."
Her companion whined in a high pitched voice, his pale white face covered in sweat.
"Of course I'm sure" she snapped. "This is the best place to cause the most damage to the timestream.
Love" she cackled, a vicious smile crossing her steel face "really is the most devastating weapon of them all." Reaching forward towards an impressive looking control panel, with lots of knobs and buttons, she pushed the large red button in its centre. Have fun guardians she thought to herself as the clock began spinning.
Melinda's friends were talking animatedly to one another, their excited voices busy speculating over Anzu's date, when the room flashed and suddenly they found themselves in a derelict version of the same building they had just been in.
Melinda was working at the Silver Dragon when the world simply flashed white and she found herself looking at a much younger version of Joan Lin, her boss. And in the corner, was an elderly lady she had only seen in pictures, Yan Lin. While Joan seemed unable to speak, probably at surprise at seeing a strange girl suddenly appearing out of thin air, Yan Lin simply fixed her with a hard stare and said "Who are you and what are you doing in my restaurant?"
Anzu's date was going well. They had gone to Heatherfield Central Park and were sitting at a bench. They kissed and the world went white. When she opened her eyes she was alone in the middle of a battlefield.
Caleb turned to face the guardians, grateful he had been rescued from the oubliette. As he did, the love spell hit him and bounced to first person he saw, Will Vandom. They didn't notice the spell, but as his green eyes met her brown they certainly noticed each other.
Cornelia Hale turned to look at her husband Caleb cleaning his M-16 and asked "You ready?" to which he nodded. Cocking her weapon, she stepped out of the bunker and charged at the enemy, rifle blazing, beside her was Caleb and behind them were their troops.
AN: The pairings in this are pretty random with the exception CorneliaXIrma and WillXCaleb. It all started with something I said in one of my reviews to XV Dragon about pairings not normally staying together. I'll be focusing on Susan's war for now I just wanted to get at least some of this out of my system.