A/N: This story is greatly horrifying to me. Don't ask why I wrote it, because I have no clue. I attach my standard W.I.T.C.H. Disclaimer from my profile to this story.
W.I.T.C.H.: The Fall of Meridian
"Terrible Memories"
It has been 3 months since the fall of Meridian. It has been 3 months since I saw an entire people wiped out. It has been 3 months of sorrow. It has been 3 months of reconciliation. We are finally on the verge of retribution for the crimes committed against an innocent helpless people. We are on the verge of revenge.
Yet I sit here and think back to the day we witnessed the horrible event. It is unbearable to think about the day I lost my best friend, the day I lost Elyon. But I think back, and keep it fresh in my mind. It feels good to have something to hate, to have something to focus on so I can vindicate Elyon's death.
I seek to tear those who committed the grave crime into a thousand pieces. I seek to destroy the fools who took away Elyon from me. When I am finished, a path of destruction shall lay behind me. I pity those who will get in my way as I bring forth a wrath never seen before.
You may be asking who I am, and what happened to build up such hate within me. I will tell you who I am and the story behind the hate which has pooled within me. The words that follow shall be my personal record to the fall of Meridian and those who committed such an atrocity.
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We were on the verge of removing Phobos from power and restoring Elyon as the rightful heir to the throne. It had been a long hard arduous journey, but we were finally going to stop Phobos for good.
We all sat in the Silver Dragon, Hay Lin's family restaurant. With us was Caleb who was helping us to plan our final moves that would bring Phobos to his knees. Caleb sat across from me in the booth. We both were seated next to the window. Seated on my left was Hay Lin. Across from Hay Lin was Irma. Irma sat next to Will, and Taranee sat across from her. Yes, I am Cornelia Hale, one of the Guardians of the Veil, the one who controls the element of Earth.
Enough of this idle chat, I must move on or this testimony to Meridian and its final days will not be finished before we seek retribution. As I was saying, we were all seated in the Silver Dragon discussing our next and hopefully final move on Phobos. Caleb had found an old abandoned passage into the castle that would help us bring the rebel army in undetected. The plan was so flawless that it had to work. Only to our horror would we later realize the mistake of this thinking as an unexpected element played into the game.
With the plan laid out in detail, everyone had a celebratory dinner and we all went home to get some rest before the battle that awaited us. I walked home thinking naught but the freedom we would bring to Meridian and of finally being able to free Elyon of Phobos' twisted grasp. Coming home I told my parents that I loved them, and I even complimented lily. That is how joyous my mood was.
Slipping into bed I beheld nightmares. I awoke in the middle of the night telling myself that it was just apprehension for the coming battle. With my mind naively put to rest, I returned to sleep for a few more hours. Awaking the next day (as it was a Saturday, I would not need to worry about school) I told my parents that myself and the girls would be gone for some time doing various things.
The day outside was sunny, a perfect day for a battle I had thought. But we would not walk into a battle that day; we would be walking into a horror beyond belief. I met the rest of the girls at our designated spot, and waited for Will to open the portal and transform us into our Guardian forms.
When the task has been completed and we were in Meridian, we found that we were a good distance from the city and the castle that looked over it. Unlike on earth, Meridian was clouded over like it always was. It looked like a storm was brewing, but there was no way to tell.
We began to walk toward our rendezvous point with Caleb who would take us to the abandoned tunnel where the rebels were already stationed waiting the moment of battle. Along the way though, we encountered a most mysterious object, a Walkie Talkie. But no, this was not one of the ones we had bought from the store for Caleb and his rebel commanders. It looked completely different and had a strange logo stamped on the back, with the initials MJ-12.
Shrugging we did not think of it until the radio crackled to life, but that is getting ahead of myself. Irma volunteered to carry it while we continued on. Will began to recite to plan to us one last time before we got to Caleb to see if there were any flaws we missed, but we found none. We got to the rendezvous point ahead of time and we all sat down to wait for Caleb. The place we had chosen looked over the city from a hill not to far away. The view afforded us relative concealment from anyone who would look up, but a clear view to look down upon.
As we sat there, the first signs of something wrong showed themselves. We could hear a clear roar, slowly rising in sound, as if it were an airplane. Looking up instinctively we could see nothing. The sound passed us by overhead but we could not find the source. Whatever it was, it must have been using the clouds for cover. Hay Lin volunteered to fly up to see if she could find anything, but we decided against it since a guard might see her as she flew up into the clouds. Now I dearly wish that we had sent her up there, and then we might have had an early warning of what was about to happen.
The roar slowly faded away disappearing all together. We still had 15 minutes till Caleb was supposed to show up and we talked about the strange noise. Hay Lin had been sitting slumped when she immediately sat up right, cocking her head to the side. I remember her clearly saying,
"Guys! It's that strange noise again, but it sounds different this time." Hay Lin with her power over air could hear things long before us, and surely enough we soon heard the sound too. It sounded low as it first had, and it could not be mistaken for anything but a jet. Then to our surprise the walkie talkie that Irma had set down upon the ground crackled to life. What we heard from it was first confusing, as it was like the military jargon that you see in war movies.
"Spyglass to Royal flight, we see you near the target on radar, descend to suitable altitude and begin run."
So wrapped up in the radio before us we had not heard Caleb come up.
"What are you guys listening to?" Caleb had asked as he listened in too.
"We don't know! We found it on our way here!" Irma said excitedly gesturing to the walkie talkie. The roar got visibly louder as everyone looked up.
"Roger that Spyglass, Beginning run on target." We could hear from the radio as a black ominous shape emerged from the clouds about to fly over meridian. It was a Giant plane! And here in Meridian! We were shocked and speechless as Caleb asked what the strange object was.
"I-it's a plane Caleb! A plane here in Meridian, but how?" Was Taranee's startled reply. But no sooner had she said that when we could see two enormous doors on the plane open up revealing an empty darkness.
"Bombing run initiated. Dropping bombs now…" Was all we could hear. I did not comprehend the words spewing from the speaker on the walkie talkie as dark round shapes began to poor from the open hole on the plane. Then it clicked in my head, and I screamed out, "They're bombing the City! OH MY GOD! THEY"RE BOMBING THE CITY!"
And just as the last word left my mouth the first bomb from the series that fell struck the ground creating an immense explosion. The sound was tremendous as explosion after explosion created a strip of destruction in a straight line through the city. More planes descended from the clouds and began to drop there ominous load causing extreme damage. We all stood in shock as the city was being demolished.
"Phase one of Operation Living Hell complete, starting phase two." The radio scratchily said as even more planes descended from the clouds. The bombs from this one were different though, for when they struck the ground great gouts of flame sprouted creating an inferno. Now the city was being consumed by flames as the fire greedily licked upon the smashed houses. Terrible screams rose from the city startling us into action.
We ran towards the city at full speed to help all the innocent people that were trapped within the burning inferno. As we approached we could feel the sheer heat of the firestorm that raged through the city. We could not approach to close because of how hot it was. Objects not even near the fire burst into flames. Irma quickly diverted the water from the river and tried to douse the flames, but to no avail. The fire only seemed to grow higher as the all consuming flames quickly spread to surround the castle.
Taranee, the master of fire tried to calm the flames but succeeded only in increasing the power that raged behind it. Taranee tried to run into the fire to see if she could save anyone, but even her power over fire could not keep her safe. She came back out with burns covering her arms as she had shielded her face from the heat.
"It's to hot! I can't do anything." Taranee shouted, her breath in ragged gasps as she collapsed to the ground.
"But we have to do something! That's my people!" Caleb shouted back over the roar as the fire continued its dirty deed. We all looked sorrowfully at him only able to shake our heads. We retreated to our hill vantage point and continued to watch in horror as the flames burned on and on. For awhile we thought that the castle might be safe, and it would have had it not been for another wave of bombings that turned the walls into rubble. My heart leapt in fear as several bombs struck the throne room and Elyon's room.
Anguish was painted on all our faces. Caleb had rushed away to see if the rebels in the tunnel were all right, but came back only shaking his head as tears freely rolled down his face. The fire lasted into the night as we sat and watched, unable to do anything to save the people within the city.
My hate began to build that night, as I watched. I remember the words last uttered from the radio as the last plane noises faded away.
"Mission complete, Operation Living Hell is a success. The city is destroyed."
Irma quietly turned off the radio as we looked at it. When the flames had finally died down enough we went to see if we could find anyone who had survived the "Living Hell". All we found where piles of ashes from the bodies that were cremated from the extreme heat of the firestorm.
Upon investigating the castle, we found Phobos dead. He lay face down with blood pooling around him; his body crushed from a giant beam from the ceiling. Not even his powers could save him from the onslaught of the bombs that had rained down upon the palace. At the site of this I knew that Elyon had died. We moved quickly to the area where her room had been located.
Had is the keyword as now there was a gaping hole there. Nothing had survived. A few feet from the door we found Elyon's crumpled body. I cried out in anguish as I ran over to her. Her eyes were still open, but no longer did her bright life peer out from them. Instead her eyes were glossed over. Her blond braided hair was matted from the blood that had oozed from a head injury, most likely instantly killing her.
My scream of sorrow pierced the thunder that echoed from the clouds of ash that still fell down upon the city. My heart had been wreant in two, leaving nothing but a black hole and a burning anger of rage that built up, welling up from some reserve deep down.
The ground shook as my anger took hold of me. Cracks started appearing in the wall next to us as my rage shook the ground below us. Cries of the Guardians pleas to stop went unheard as the whole castle became unstable, and started shake with the violence of an earth quake. They managed to drag me away as I held onto Elyon's body.
We barely had made it out of the castle before in a shuddering boom it collapsed upon itself. Dust and debris rained down every where, but I cared not but for the body of my now lost friend. We returned to the hill, where I moved earth to form a grave for Elyon. I caused stone to rise up and cover her body, and engraved the following words into her tomb,
The lost light of Meridian rests here.
She left this world alone, a shinning beacon to those around her.
May her light continue to shine upon this world in her absence.
With the task at hand complete, I collapsed, sorrow racking my body. I could not move as memories of her flashed before my eyes. I had truly lost my friend, and I felt as if a piece of me had died with her. Finally we all left, Caleb included as his home now had been turned into a barren wasteland, the sole survivor of his people.
We brought the radio with us, as it was our only clue to what had happened that day. With it, we would track down those who perpetrated genocide on an innocent people and their queen. I remembered the rage that pooled within me, and made a vow to destroy those who had wrought the destruction upon meridian.
We went through the portal to find the sun setting on earth. The Beauty of the sunset was ignored as we trudged through the streets to our separate houses. Hay Lin offered to give Caleb a place to sleep. I did not know how I could go home to face my parents, my sister. How was I going to explain the sorrow that had permanently been set into my face? How was I going to explain the tears that still fell from my wet eyes?
I can't remember how I did it, but my parents bought my little story as I went to bed. I looked at old pictures of Elyon and her smiling visage as unconsciousness took me, as I was to tired to dream. And If I had, it would only been of nightmares of the burning inferno that consumed Meridian.
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Now you know why I am consumed by hatred. Now you know the fateful story of meridian. We don't know much about what happened, why Meridian was destroyed. Hopefully the answers we seek to the questions that have been asked will be found in a secret place outside of Heatherfield. We can find no references to it, but we know that it is the right place because the strange symbol we found on the walkie talkies exists on signs warning intruders away.
I end this entry here, as I must rest before the mission to infiltrate the strange facility tomorrow. If all goes as planned, the answers to what happened in meridian on that fateful day will be found out. But then again, nothing goes as planned…
A/N: Umm, shocking huh? If not, then I have no clue whats wrong with you. I was thinking random thought when I wrote this, and this idea just popped into my head. I await the reviews that shall prove quite interesting, if any are submitted. Review if you would, because it will be torture if you don't.