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6. Unforgivable mistake

'The very first thingh she learned about her power was how to restore her energies without sleeping. In this way she avoided to relive every night the nightmare of her abandonment.'

Basiliade.

The creature was running.

Oh, no, going to that planet to steal… it was a very bad idea... really. The creature looked back and let out a shriek when he saw a group of warriors riding their fast flaming horses. They were chasing him, causing a big cloud of dust.

That was a planet of warriors, smart people. They had discovered him immediately despite of his shapeshifting skills and now they were chasing him relentlessy. And more, the bag of stolen stuff that rattled on his back wasn't helping him in the escape.

The creature panted. His chasers were more and more closer, one in particular was separating from the group and was pointing straight at him. His flaming horse was much more faster than the thin little legs of the shapeshifter who was beginning to feel really trapped. With a snarl he began to transform in the scariest moster he knew, the one with more teeth, more heads, more scales. In short, the one with more everything. He would have sold his life dearly and he would have escaped from that dangerous planet to steal in quieter place.

He turned to face the warrior with his enourmous mouth full of sharp teeth. He had now three heads, all angry. But the warrior didn't step back. He dismounted and drew out his sword to attack him.
The monster threw himself toward him, roaring. The warrior dodged the open mouth directed toward him and the monster ate dust and rocks.

The man jumped and climbed over the long neck where he began to hit mercilessy the creature with his sword. The monster cried with pain and started to wiggle. The other two heads flung themselves on the annoying warrior, but he jumped away once again and the heads number 2 and number 3 went to bite the poor head number 1 which was on their way. Completely blinded by pain, the monster didn't see the energy blow thrown by the warrior. The blow hit him and threw him on the ground. The exhausted shapeshifter started to transform back in his despicable humanoid form. The warrior pinned him and forced him unceremoniously to the ground.

"Himerish, did you catch him?" Some voices shouted. The group of warrior was arriving.

"Yes, I did. And now he will return what he stole." The warrior named Himerish answered, taking the thief's bag.

"The creature turned his head, disgusted. But in doing this he revealed the long scratch on his neck, red and infected. Himerish noticed it and firmly held his neck:

"Look..." Himerish said, "this is a magical wound. We are not the first to be annoyed. Let's see who you have robbed before us."

Himerish passed his hand on the wound. The creature shivered: he was reading his mind, now he would have known his every crime and deception...

But Himerish remained silent. For minutes he didn't move, lingering in the thief's mind while his expression became more and more serious and his face grew paler. The other warriors noticed that:

"Himerish? Is it all right?" They asked.

"Not at all. I must go to Kandrakar, now." He answered.

Kandrakar.

Yan lin was in the middle of her meditation. After the Trial she had been no longer able to allay the anxiety which housed in her heart and the pain for Will's betrayal. Even if she was the Oracle she hadn't managed to anticipate the power's thirst that had caught the Guardian.

And yet Will had always been so different from Nerissa, so generous. Perhaps this was way she had failed to See. Maybe her personal judgements had obscured the truth like a fog curtain. Even this day she couldn't meditate in peace.

"Oracle, is it all right?" Tibor asked,worried.

"Betrayal always leaves an open wound in our hearts, my friend" she answered, "and the cut isn't clean, but dirty and chipped; hard to close and easy to reopen. And we keep on suffering even after the time of trial has ended."

Tibor was about to say something, but he was interrupted by a sage who entered in the room:

"Forgive my interruption, Honourable Oracle," he said, "but there's someone who wishes to speak with you urgently."

"Who is it?" She asked.

"Himerish, my lady, your predecessor."

Himerish was waiting in a smaller room. With him was the shapeshifter, Himerish had tied him and dragged him to the Fortress. The creature moaned and whined, he pleaded him to let him go, but nothing, Himerish was inflexible. He waited for Yan Lin without moving.

Yan Lin saw her old mentor waiting for her. He was dressed as a warrior and behind him, immobilised, stood a strange, blue-skinned, humanoid creature who as soon as he saw her started to cry loudly. Yan Lin detected a strange familiar feeling coming from that creature.

"My friend, what brings you here?" The Oracle asked the warrior.

"Yan Lin" Himerish bowed with respect. "I'm here to ask a question. Is it all right here at Kandrakar? Are the Guardians okay? At that question Yan Lin frowned.

"No it isn't, my friend, a terrible thing happened." She answered.

"Tell me."

"Yan Lin told him about the night in which Will had tried to steal her Auramere. She told him about how she had failed and how she had been wounded. But when she arrived at the Trial she stopped because she found it too painful to continue.

"So… Will was sentenced. She's not a Guardian anymore." Himerish said.

"No. It was very upsetting for everyone… nobody expected that... even I couldn't foresee it." The Oracle said.

"And this is why I'm here." Himerish said pulling the rope in his hand. The shapeshifter squealed.

"You must see his memories. They're important!"

The Oracle stared at the poor thief who started to move for the discomfort. She lingered for a long time on his bony appearance... and on his neck. Yan Lin slowly paled.

"Who is him?" she asked.

"A shapeshifter thief. She was stealing on Basiliade, but he had been caught."

"A shapeshifter..."

The Oracle fell on her knees and took the creature's head between her hands. She started to read his mind and to examine it carefully. As she proceed with her research her expression became more and more upset:

"It can't be possible... it can't be..." she stammered. She stood up, but she had a faint and Tibor quickly helped her:

"Oracle! What's happening?" The worried sage exclaimed.

"We had been tricked… we made an unforgivable mistake!" Yan Lin exclaimed, shocked. Himerish helped her too. after she had calmed down a little she finally spoke again. She seemed much older, now.

"How could we be so blind and stupid?" she cried, "A thief's trick was enough to convict an innocent... how..."

"There was evidence." Tibor tried to confort her.

But our heart was hard for the anger. We didn't listen to Will's pleas and I couldn't See in the dephts of her soul, I stopped at the appearance and I fell in this thief's trap! I I should not be worthy of being called Oracle!" She took her head in her hands and collapsed again.

"We all do our mistakes" Himerish affirmed firmly, "and we can never go back. I did mine, too. But we can move forward to make up for wrong choices. The first thing to do is to call the other girls immediately and tell them to bring Will here."

"If she will be willing to listen to us again." Yan Lin sighed.

"Grandma!"

Yan Lin and Himerish suddenly turned toward the door. Hay Lin, Taranee, Cornelia and Irma advanced toward them with a worried expression on their faces. The Oracle and Himerish quickly looked at each other. They had both a bad feeling.

"What happened?" The old lady asked.

"Will! She'd disappeared!" Hay Lin exclaimed, "We can't find her anywhere and we don't know where she could be!"

"Himerish... Sir. What are you doing here?" Cornelia asked while her and the others bowed respectfully toward the old Oracle.

"I'm here for your own reason" he answered, "but perhaps it's better if you sit."

First the Guardians told the motif of their visit, then the explanations were repeated. The girls remained silent during the talk and even after Himerish had finished. Only after a long time Taranee spoke:

"Are you serious? Is it all true?" she asked.

"Unfortunately, yes."

"We abandoned her. We are monsters." Irma sobbed, "Yan Lin, did you find her?"

The Oracle was deeply concentrated. While Himerish was explaining the situation she had attempted to find Will and to feel her presence, but she couldn't find anything.

"No. I'm feeling nothing." She said.

"And if those mages who attacked us had..."

"It's impossible." Yan Lin negated, "Because all the spirits of those who had something to do with the Fortress pass through Kandrakar. If Will had been dead I would have seen her spirit."

"So she is alive" Cornelia said, "but she'd disappeared."

"Perhaps they kidnapped her!" Hay Lin said.

"Probably." Himerish agreed, "That's why from now on I'll go come with you on Earth. I'll put in prison this shapeshifter and I will join you in Heaterfield. I'll take the Rudolph's house where Orube stayed.. I'll say that I am her relative. I will help you to find Will, no matter what. It's a promise."

Thank you to Yellow 14 who told me about the comic section of W.I.T.C.H.

Listen carefully: from the next update, I will MOVE MY STORY IN THE COMIC SECTION, because since that it exists I'll use it. So... if you want to read more... you'll have to look there for my fic. That's all.

FFHannibal was wondering why all the bad guys are always pale and in a black dress... well, here they're in black because the're black mages, and they're not pale. Rifel is the only one to be pale, but not the others. It's the black robe which puts in evidence their skin^^

Next chapter will be: Looking for Will.