The Will to Love.

(Yes, I know its Matt's song to Will but I'm using it as my story title for my Phobos and Will story.)

Chapter 1.

Will Vandom, to everyone apart from her friends she was your average red-headed teenager. Though to her friends, she was their leader. Leader of the Guardian's of the Veil and the controller of Quintessence. Savour of Meridian, Earth, Zambala and Kandrakar. Defeater of Prince Phobos, Lord Cedric and Nerissa.

And she was bored.

Yesterday, she and Matt broke up, it wasn't that they didn't love each other anymore; it was just a different love than they thought it was, plus with regular trips to Meridian and helping with the re-re-build after it was destroyed twice, not to mention school both were too busy to have a relationship anymore.

So again, she was bored.

Stuck at home doing math homework as her mother and friends all went on dates. It was the usual, Susan and Mr Collins, Irma and Andrew, Cornelia and Caleb, Taranée and Nigel and Hay-Lin and Eric.

Groaning to herself for lack of things to do Will spoke her homework out loud, talking to one of her many stuffed frog toys. "Ok, so if the square root equals that of the sum of the mass of nine divided by five you get... a massive headache."

Groaning again she let her head slam itself onto her desk. "Why can't I have anything exciting to do?" She asked to no one within hearing range.

Seems she got an answer because no more than a second had passed before Kandrakar's ever purple portal opened in her bedroom. Yet again another groan escaped the teen's mouth; the Oracle probably wanted her to do another tedious job, like sweeping the floating castle or deliver more building tools to the people of Meridian.

Lifting the heavily weighed down body, heavily weighed down by a mix of boredom and reluctance to do anything, Will dragged herself through the Veil.

"Ah, Will. It is wonderful to see you again." The Oracle greeted calmly yet warmly upon seeing the familiar Guardian.

"Hey." Will greeted back politely, though she was dreading whatever new punishment the Oracle himself had sought to give her.

"We have some rather disturbing news." The Oracle started, the only thing on Will's mind was 'Just say it already so I can get on with it.' Instead though her gaze foretold that she was listening, thus allowing the Oracle to continue. "I'm sure you remember Prince Phobos?"

"Him, sure, long hair, goatee, stuck up." Will cheekily remembered.

"Well, he has been behaving rather strangely for his, as you put it, stuck up attitude. Meridian has decided after long debate between the people and the royal court that he should be freed on the terms of good behaviour." As he spoke, the Oracle's tone changed to a disbelieving one, but he still retained his aura of calmness.

"Him! Good behaviour!" Will shouted her disbelief matching that of the Oracle, though her calm had long since eradicated since she heard the words 'Phobos' and 'freed' in the same sentence. Her Quintessence crackled around her, raising her messy blood red bangs with the flowing energy.

"Will, we are as upset at this as you, but we have come up with a solution." Halinor calmly explained, placing a reassuring hand on Will's shoulder, stopping the white lightning.

"What?" Will asked, switching her gaze back and forth between the Oracle and Halinor until she was given an answer.

"We have decided to strip him of all his powers, including the one that allows him to re-claim energy. But we have decided to place him on Earth, where his actions are more limited than on Meridian. Also this way, you and the rest of the Guardian's can keep an eye on him and also can report to us if you are suspicious of any wrong doings." The Oracle explained. "However, in keeping Phobos under such harsh restrictions, we have to limit the power of the Heart of Kandrakar, disallowing you to fold."

"W-What? But what if Phobos starts doing something bad? How are we supposed to tell you?" Will asked, her voice grating with irritation of lack of a straight and simple answer.

"Contact Yan-Lin, she knows the way here." Halinor rationalized.

Will stood there dumb founded, in a roundabout way, she figured out that she was going to have to baby-sit Phobos... again! Growling lightly Will spoke. "I don't supposed there's any way out of this, this there?" She was met with saddened nods. "Fine." Will reluctantly agreed, "But where's he going to stay?"

"We were thinking with you, at your house, with him as an exchange student."