"Students! Stoodents!" Mrs. Keplinger called. "I have a very important announcement!" She dragged a boy up onto the platform, and held him close to her. "We have a new transfer student, Drake Mandy. I hope you will all try to impress him as best you can. Now, off to class you go!"
Hannah leaned over to Tammi. "You know," Hannah whispered. "I have a really bad feeling about that boy. But I don't know why!" Tammi nodded in agreement.
Hannah stepped close to the boy, but just then, the Heart of Candracar started to pulse and throb! It was plain as day through her shirt. She instinctively grabbed it through her shirt and giggled. But the boy was more interested in what she was holding. He then skittered away.
"Boy, is he strange!" Tammi trotted over to her locker. "Did you see that? He didn't even say 'Hi'!" Hannah nodded. She pulled out the Heart, and she swore that she heard a gasp. She paid no attention to it. In it, she saw a dark shadow boy, and a large slug…thing. She whispered 'Absorb Heart!' And the crystal disappeared inside her.
"Well, what do you say we call up the gang and we practice by the river?" Tammi giggled excitedly, and the two of them skittered off to class.
At the other end of the hallway, a boy with black hair, Drake, grinned coyly. He had found two Guardians in five minutes! His father would be proud. He teleported himself to the river to wait.
All five Guardians were at the riverbank. There was an abandoned bridge, and tall grass. No one ever went there. Well, except the Guardians, of course.
"Hey, y'all!" Tammi sprinted up to the group, then kneeled down, panting. "After practice, do you wanna come to my flat to talk over chocolate fortune cookies and green tea?" Everyone cheered. Well, everyone except dark shadow boy.
"Guardians, UNITE!" Hannah cried.
"Water!" That was Ella. Her waves sloshed her all over.
"Fire!" Ami yelled. Flames licked at her, like an energetic puppy.
"Earth!" Rose cried. Leaves skimmed her body.
"Air!" Tammi giggled as a breeze tickled her cheek.
"Quintessence!" Hannah could feel the energy around her stabbing her like lightning.
"Good." The Guardians jumped. "Fear me. I am the son of PHOBOS!" The Guardians flew off the ground and prepared for battle. "Why waste your energy? Just give me the Heart, and you can spare yourselves the embarrassment and humiliation of defeat!"
Hannah scowled, and lightning began to bubble up inside her. "NEVER!" She cried. And the battle began. The shadow boy laughed, and put up a shield in front of him.
"Psst! Hannah!" Tammi whispered. "You know how I'm air? Maybe, just maybe, if I concentrate real hard, I can become like air! You know, invisible like air!" Hannah was sure that was a stroke of genius.
"Brilliant! Strike from the rear! Oh, and take Rose and Ella with you!" Hannah whispered back. "Who are you? And why do you want the Heart?" The boy cackled. Hannah and Ami struck at the same time, but flew out of the way when their attack bounced back.
Tammi, Ella, and Rose snuck up behind him. Then, Tammi materialized. Rose wrapped vines around the boy's ankles, while Ella encased him in water. The last detail was saved for Tammi. She blew cold air at the water coffin, and froze the shadow boy, and his shield.
"Way to go girls!" Hannah cheered. Then everyone else started cheering for themselves, too. "Change back!" Once back into human forms, wingless and all, they headed home.
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Rose was sitting on her bed. She was dressed in her underpants and sports bra, staring at her overflowing closet. She had 10 minutes until her skating lesson started, and she had no idea what to wear! Her gaze kept returning to one outfit: Cream colored hip-band cargos and a blue nylon top. She sighed a picked it out of the messed-up closet. Rose slipped the stretchy blue shirt over her head, and pulled the cargos on. Then, she snatched her skates from a nail in the wall, and ran out the door.
Rose turned her head. She didn't see any cars, so, she rushed through the road. Across the street from her house was a medium-sized building with an ice rink taking up most of the room. She opened the door. Cool air rushed at her as she stepped inside.
"Hello, Rose! I trust you've memorized your routine?" Rose's teacher asked. She nodded. She had pranced around all week. But, she waited for Tammi to come. It would be more fun with a friend.
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"Hi!" Tammi chirped as she entered the cold building. "Hope I'm not late!" She hopped into her skates and glided onto the ice. Now, ice skating came easily to her. Of course, Rose's performance was perfect and confident. That was the way Rose's life was. Well, until now, that is.
"Good." The teacher was wrong. Tammi wasn't good. Rose was good. "Two Guardians in one fell swoop!" He turned around, and he transformed into a silver-haired man, who looked very powerful.
"AAH!" Tammi and Rose took off toward the nearest exit. Rose left vine traps, and Tammi put up air shields, but they didn't last long. Rose lifted up the ice into ragged peaks. Then, they ran as fast as possible.
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Hannah, Ella, Ami, Rose, and Tammi sat around in the Silver Dragon, fortune cookies and tea. "And then, our skating teacher turned into a tall, thin guy with silver hair, and he started throwing energy blasts! How did he know we were Guardians?" They heard Hay Lin gasp. They looked at her inquisitively.
"If that's who I think it is," Hay Lin started. "Then you'd better put in as much practice as possible! W.I.T.C.H. defeated him once, but they say a tyrant who has tasted power before is twice as dangerous." They gasped, and looked at each other.
"Who do you think it is?" Hannah asked. "And who is W.I.T.C.H.?" Hay Lin giggled, and conjured up a small tornado, whipping the cookies around the room. Hannah, Ella, Ami, and Rose looked at Tammi, but she shook her head. Then they gaped at Hay Lin.
"I used to be a Guardian, and so were Will Vandom, Irma Lair, Taranee Cook, and Cornelia Hale. Together, our first initials spelled 'W.I.T.C.H'. And, I think the person you are talking about is Phobos, a tyrant we defeated many years ago." Hay Lin looked at the worried faces on the girls. Well, all of them except Tammi.
"Ooh!" Tammi squealed. "Speaking of which, guess what our names spell!" Tammi's voice wavered with emotion. "'HEART'. See?" Tammi wrote it out on the palm of her hand.
"Cool!" They all shouted in unison. decision was made. HEART was ready for battle.
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GUARDIAN OF FIRE
The NAME: Armilla Candice Dander
AGE: 14
BIRTHDAY: NOVEMBER 30
BIRTHSTONE: Topaz
CONSTELLATION: Sagittarius
FAMILY: MOM: Beatrice DAD: Tom
GUARDIAN POWER: Fire, Telepathy
GUARDIAN OUTFIT: She has an orange choker and orange wristbands. She has a purple mini-tank top and a pink skirt that almost reaches her knee, with a split reaching from the bottom of the skirt to mid-thigh. She wears purple sneakers.
HOBBIES: Photography, getting to the bottom of something, and talking with friends.
FRIENDS: Helen, Ella, Rose, Tammi, Melinda, Roberta, and Donna.
DETAILS: Arm-length black hair and green eyes. Transferred to Sheffield.
