Different WITCH AU
By: FunahoMisaki
(A/N: I own nothing and what if when Will was little and best friends with Lexvan's OC Angelo Vanders, she met Kadma during a sleep over with Angelo and was told the story of the Guardians? Awakening her powers a little earlier due to this information, Will is a little more prepared for everything and less interested in Matt. After all how can a normal boy compare to a Guardians descendant? AU OOC some bashing)
"Hey Angelo guess who's home?" John asked grinning at his six year old nephew who just got home from school, dragging his best friend with him. The two were going to have a sleepover tonight since it was Friday and little Wilhelmina 'Will' Vandom was spending the whole weekend with Angelo since her parents were gone on a business trip for her dad's work…again.
"Where's my little grandson?" A woman's voice called from further in the house, causing Angelo to light up happily.
"Grandma!" Angelo let go of Will's hand and dashed forward, nearly tackling the legs of a tall dark skinned woman in a red dress who had her jet black hair pulled up into a bun.
"Angelo! You've gotten so big since the last time I saw you! I swear you're growing like a weed!" The woman said beaming as she hugged the little boy, who came up to about her knees, back.
"You'd know all about that wouldn't you?" Grandpa Joe, as he told Will to call him, asked grinning at the woman who gave him a small smile and kissed his cheek when he walked in behind the two kids and over to her.
"Hush you." The woman said accepting a kiss on her cheek in return while Will looked at the woman confused and scared. She didn't like meeting new people, a lot of people confused her for a boy or said her name was weird and most of the kids and teachers at school were really mean to her for some reason.
She liked Angelo and his Uncle John and his Grandpa Joe better than she did most of the town, they were nice and were teaching her how to protect herself. She also liked electronics better than most of the town aside from her parents and these three boys, sometimes she would swear that they liked her too since it seemed like anything with a current through it would listen to her when she talked and could almost talk back.
"Grandma have you met my bestest friend ever yet?" Angelo asked suddenly remembering Will who was over by the door looking scared and confused as she clutched her frog covered bag with her things for the weekend in it. The bag had been a birthday gift from Angelo last year and she loved it, he said that they only had frogs but she didn't mind. It was the first gift she ever got from someone who wasn't her mom or dad!
"No I don't believe I have. Why don't you introduce me?" The woman asked smiling fondly down at Angelo before looking up and pausing when she spotted Will by the doorway looking ready to bolt with a rather prominent black eye.
"Okay! Will this is my grandma! Grandma this is my bestest friend ever Will! She's staying with us the whole weekend again!" Angelo said grinning as he let go of his grandma and rushed over to tug Will further into the room.
"Nice to meet you Will. My name is Kadma." Kadma said stepping closer to the girl, pausing for a moment when the girl shrunk back a bit, before kneeling down and holding her hand out for a handshake. Will looked surprised, and then nervous before she shyly reached her small hand out and managed to wrap her fingers around two of Kadma's long fingers to shake her hand.
"Hi." Will said shyly smiling up at Kadma before retracting her hand and hiding behind Angelo, peeking out at the tall woman curiously and a bit scared.
"Hey don't be like that. I'm not going to hurt you." Kadma said feeling her blood begin to boil at how the girl was acting. Scared around adults, obviously injured, and shy to the point that it reminded Kadma of Halinor back when they were children? That was not painting a good picture in Kadma's mind.
"Come on Will, we got to put your stuff in your room! Then we can go play Fighters!" Angelo said taking Will's hand and pulling her up the stairs to where the bedrooms were located. There was one for Kadma and Joe, one for John, one for Angelo, and ten guest rooms, one of which was apparently given to Will permanently.
"It's not domestic abuse Kaddie. We already checked. Her parents have some nasty fights but they both love her." Joe said immediately when his wife stood up and turned to him with a frown on her face and murder in her eyes.
"Far as we can see it's pretty much everyone else. Most of the teachers seem to expect more than they have any right to from her, the other kids all think she's weird or something, and she was bullied pretty bad by the other students too. She met Angelo a little over a year or so ago when one of her bullies punched her in the face and the little runt jumped him. They've been inseparable since." John said with a frown on his face as well as he stared up the stair way where the two kids had vanished.
"That black eye she's sporting? She got that when three boys tried ganging up on Angelo, she jumped right into the fray to help him and got that for her troubles. Those other boys got worse though. Spitfire's got a mean left hook for someone so small and shy, think a red haired Hallie without the parental abuse." Joe said grinning slightly and making Kadma smirk just a tad at the mention of her old friend. Halinor had always been the planner of their group, the lead tactician, but she sucked at school work and was rather shy for someone able to burn down villages.
Growing up with her abusive parents and older brother had given Halinor plenty of reasons to be scared and shy of other people, as well as a mean left hook whenever someone really got under her skin.
"Maybe one day I'll drop by Kandrakar and bring the Matchstick with me when I come back from Zambala again. She'd love the little one…but is her name really Will? It's a bit boyish for a girl isn't it?" Kadma asked smiling slightly at the thought of her old friend meeting the little girl, Halinor would absolutely melt when she met the little red head for the first time, before frowning when she mentioned the girls name.
"Her full name is Wilhelmina but it's kind of a hard name for a six year old, not to mention all the teasing she got for it. Angelo got sent home twice in one month a few months back because of yelling at the teacher or other students when they made remarks about her name. The runt is as protective as a starving dog with a bone." John said smirking as thundering feet were heard as Angelo came running back down the stairs.
"Angelo don't run! You'll fall and get hurt!" Will yelled after the boy, coming down the stairs behind him much slower.
"You worry too much! Come on let's play!" Angelo called back with a laugh as he waited on Will at the bottom of the stairs.
"Grandpa! Grandma! Can Will and I go play Fighters?" Angelo asked rushing over towards his grandparents while Will followed at a much slower, more nervous pace.
"Fighters? I haven't heard of that game before. Why don't you show your grandma how it works?" Kadma asked smiling down at her grandson and his friend, causing Angelo to beam at her and nearly pull Will to the dojo. The two older adults followed along while John left for the kitchen.
"Come on Will!" Angelo said cheering as he and Will stood across from each other, the two of them eyed each other down and circled each other for a moment. Kadma and Joe watched, Joe grinning and Kadma curious, as Angelo lost his patience first and lunged at Will.
With a smile on her face Will dodged to the side barely avoiding Angelo and then countering with a kick to his exposed side.
"They're fighting?" Kadma seemed confused as she looked at her husband for an answer. Why were the two fighting and calling it a game?
"Well we were going to start Angelo on his lessons sometime soon and Will could use some lessons of her own…do you know a better way of getting two kids to learn how to fight than disguise it as a game?" Joe asked with a shrug while his wife silently admitted the point to him for that one.
"Ha! I'm bigger and stronger than you Will!" Angelo said gloating a bit when he finally got a hit in on the girl who winced at the bruise that was sure to be on her shoulder later.
"Yeah but I'm faster and sneaky! If the lights were off I'd win." Will said back and almost instantly all the lights in the house went dead, causing everyone to look surprised. Kadma and Joe however tensed and looked around with narrowed eyes.
"Cool! How'd you do that?" Angelo asked as the two children looked around confused and grinning, the 'game' forgotten almost immediately.
"I…don't know…" Will was just as confused as the others as she looked up at the lights. As soon as she mentioned the lights being off so she could win they all went off…then…maybe…
"Um…can you turn on please?" Will asked still looking up at the lights, in an instant anything with a current running through it in the dojo turned on.
"Thank you!" Will said smiling up at the lights but she looked lost. How did she do that? She knew that it felt like the electronics listened to her but this was just plain weird!
"Kadma did she just…?" Joe asked looking at Kadma shocked. He had only known one person who had been able to do something like what Will had just done.
"Yes. I think I need to go speak with Halinor sooner than I thought." Kadma said her eyes narrowed as she stood up. The powers of Quintessence, she would recognize them anywhere no matter how long it's been since she last saw them.
"Bring her on over. She should meet Will, and besides it'd be like a reunion. Hopefully she won't chase me with fireballs this time." Joe said with a grin, he didn't honestly mind. It had been fun to mess with Halinor until she lost her temper and threw fireballs at him or chased him with a fireball in each hand.
"I swear you two…" Kadma said sighing but she smiled slightly as well. After they got Halinor away from her parents and brother for good, something which had been a bitch to do in the 1950s, the blond and Joe had developed a kind of sibling like relationship. They acted like Kadma and Cassidy used to and Joe even jokingly introduced Kadma to Halinor on their wedding day calling the blond his wife's new sister-in-law.
"Angelo. I'm going to go pick up an old friend of mine to see if she can stay here for a while." Kadma called to her grandson who pouted a bit but ran over to hug her.
"See you soon Grandma." Angelo said making Kadma ruffle his hair.
"See you soon Angelo." Kadma said before she left the room to grab the Heart of Zambala from her and Joe's bedroom.
A quick fold later and Kadma was standing in the familiar marble palace that she both loved and hated. She loved it because it had led her to her four friends and Joe, she hated it because it had cost her two of those four friends one to death and the other to madness.