Disclaimer: I don't own W.I.T.C.H

I only own my imagination and a few other things…

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IRMA POV

My name is Irma Lair. I used to be the group comedian until the Serenity thing happened. Im 14 and guardian of Water.

What a great day for a girl to find out her BFFL best friend for life has kept something as big as not being born on Earth a secret.

"IRMA!" screamed Hay Lin. I felt a something jerking me to the side as a car came zooming past where I was standing. I sigh.

" thanks Hay Lin" I said in a very depressed tone. I look over at Serenity, she was holding hands with Caleb.

I THOUGHT WE WERE FRIENDS! I scream at her mentally. She looks back. Then she sighs and stops

"Irma we need to talk…"she begins

"there's nothing to talk about. You lied to me and friends don't do that."

"would you have believed me?" I shake my head then I look away. " I see" she says " your not ready to forgive me. Well I hope you do cause im leaving soon. I've been summoned to Candracar." she says and leaves me to cry. She was acting so cold to me. That wasn't the Serenity I remember. The Serenity I remember was like Hay Lin. She was crazy and happy. She was serious but could have fun. The look in her eyes now was a solemn one. Like one who's seen too many battles. And had the ruthlessness to kill without regrets.

what happened to you Serenity? You used to be so happy! I thought as I walked next to Hay Lin. she's changed so much. She…maybe she's seen too many fights. I mean she was leader of the rebels before Caleb was. And from what she said the time she was rebel leader was the worst time, that they had more fights back then. She must have killed more men then, then any other time.

Well I wouldn't say that she said in my head lets just say that I did things at the age of 13 that would make you guys gag in horror.

What do you mean? I ask as I turned down my street to go to my house

I killed Irma she said in a miserable tone I killed without regrets, I killed Lurdens, those monster things that guard the castle, rebels, humans that worked for Phobos and, this is what I regret most, innocent people that he thought were working for the rebels. I thought that when I joined the rebellion that we would stop all the killing. But when I joined I found out that there would only be the more. The same amount only on the other side. When I was rebel leader I killed humans in wars and when they tried to ambush us on the streets.

I had stopped, my mouth hanging open. This was soo not the Serenity I remembered. The Serenity now would kill without hesitation, would kill without regrets, would kill just because. She was a ruthless person. She had killed before and would do it again. She would use her powers to hurt and corrupt just because.

WHAT ELSE ARE YOU GONNA KEEP FROM ME! I screamed at her.

that hurt you know. she said calmly I kept everything from you guys because I didn't want you guys to worry. And would you have believed me? I don't think so! You would have sent me and my alter ego to the nearest mental institution! So I wasn't about to spend my days in a nut house, I had better things to do!

Like kill innocent people? I snarled in my head as I went to my room in a storm. Even my little brother knew not to mess with me I'll call you!

Mmmk she muttered and our mental connection was broken. I quickly dialed her number.

" yo this be Serenity" she answered as though it was gonna be a normal conversation.

"I want to talk about everything that you've been hiding from us!" I snapped. I heard a sigh.

"Irma its not that simple-" I cut her off

" I don't care! I want to know everything!" I could almost see the dark look on her face

" I don't have to tell you ANYTHING! My past is my past and I don't have to share it with anyone!" I winced.

" so your gonna keep it from us? Some friend you are! I mean a real friend would tell-" she blew a gasket right then and there,

"I CANT BELIEVE YOU! YOU THINK YOUR HOT STUFF HUH IRMA? WELL NEWS FLASH YOUR NOT! I'VE BEEN DOING THIS WAY LONGER THAN YOU SO I KNOW THE RISKS!" I winced again I was silently grateful that this was over the phone and not in real life. Cause if it was real life she would have decked me. she was panting on her side of the phone.

"and what would give you that idea?" I yelled at her " you think your hot shit but your not! I've been through plenty on my own with all the guardians!"

" have you killed anyone? You think its all noble and shit but it aint! It's not as clean as you think! When you strike the final blow you have to sit and watch the lights slowly leave their eyes! You have to hear their final breath, the ragged cry as they know their going to die. The tears that gather in their eyes as they know that their not going to see the ones they love ever again. I've done that to countless people Irma! And for what? A MAD MAN! A FUCKING SICK FREAK!" she sounded like she was crying.

"you really do regret it all don't you?" I ask

"of course! I want to take it all back! I…"there was quiet and suddenly I heard glass shatter and the phone drop. "IRMA! HELP! ITS CEDRIC! HEL-"

"SERENITY!" I heard the phone line go dead. I sat in shock. I quietly go down the stairs and out the door.

"So Serenity got taken?" asked Will. I roll my eyes and nod. I looked at my watch.

"look I have to go back home. I'm gonna be nailed with questions by next week. Watch." I left Will, she caught up with me at the door.

"its ok to be worried. I mean I'm worried and I hardly know her. Though I doubt she wanted to know me." she added bitterly. I rolled my eyes.

" Look Will she's just not used to having a leader around. She was the leader before even Corny. So coming back and seeing you as the leader is new." I say. "and yes I am worried but I think Serenity can take care of herself. I mean she's part wolf. And if you've read about those guys they're pretty fierce. Well I gotta go." I hugged her and left.

WILL POV

4:00 am

Im Wilma Vandom. Well I like to be called Will. Im 15 and I hold the heart of Candracar. Im the unofficial leader of W.I.T.C.H. which is all our names put together. Will, Irma, Taranee, Cornelia, Hay Lin.

this is not going to go over well with the girls. Especially Hay Lin. Serenity was like a sister to her. They're not gonna believe that she was taken like that. I thought as I walked to Serenity's house. It was the day after Irma came over and broke the news that Serenity was taken while Irma was on the phone with her. I have to see this for myself. my breath was taken away as I saw her house.

It as a mess. The yellow tape was already around it.. I saw the windows were cracked and broken. The furniture was overturned, and all the things she had on the walls were knocked off. The walls had dents in them like she had been thrown into them. There were claw marks and slashes in them too.

"Will I need to talk to you." said a voice I didn't want to hear at the time. Officer Lair, Irma's dad. I nodded weakly as he lead me away.

" yes Officer?" I said. He looked grim.

"your not going to tell me anything are you?" he asked. I shook my head. He sighed. "Will you have to understand we think this is a attempted murder." I started.

"don't you need a body for that?" I asked as I stifled a yawn. im up at 4:00 in the morning to check on a girl I hardly know! And to top it off I get to be interrogated by Irma's dad!

He nodded. "we have one."

"WHAT?" I yelled. I ran past him before he could grab me and saw her. She was really bad, all these cuts and scrapes on her body.

"hey W." she said. "im fine but they think its something bigger then that." she looked at me.

it was Cedric. I was talking to Irma and he came through my window. How did he get out? she thought at me. I don't understand. I mean as you can tell I put up a really good fight and sent him packing, but I don't think he's gonna give up tha' easily.

So he really was here? I asked.

Aye. Did you think I lied? I felt the anger at my words Christ Will even I wouldn't lie about somethin' like tha'

Sorry I just thought that maybe you lied to get back at Irma. I mean from what she told me you two had one hell of a fight.

Aye it was a big row. But listen go home and tell tha' girls that I'm fine and tha' I'll be back at school in a few days. Oh and tell your mum I said hi. She's always so nice to me. I shook my head and left. Officer Lair let me go. He just shook his head and lifted the tape. It was 6:00 by the time I got to school. I was panting from running.

"why are you here so early?" asked Cornelia

"I stopped at Serenity's at 4" I whispered. They all started. Hay Lin jumped at me

"how is she? Is she ok?" she asked "is she alive?"

"In order, she's ok, same to the other question and yea she's alive, though she's pretty scraped up from her fight with Cedric." Hay Lin gasped.

" how come she didn't call for backup?"

"she had a fight with Irma so im betting that she wanted to prove she could handle things on her own."

"sorry" said Irma "I never meant for that to happen." she looked so sheepish. I put a hand on her shoulder.

"its not your fault Irma." I muttered, Thinking that it was just a little bit.

"that's not very nice, thinking that Will" said Taranee.

"sometimes I wish you couldn't read minds Taranee" I said dryly.

"why what were you thinking?" asked Irma, "were you really thinking that it IS my fault? Cause that's messed if you did!

"she wasn't ok. Will's not like that, you know." said Caleb "you are not the only one who's worried Irma."

"I didn't say I was!" she yelled

"SHUT UP" yelled Hay Lin "this is NOT helping Serenity!" suddenly they heard sirens.

"Radio Hay Lin!" cried Irma

RADIO HAY LIN

"GET BACK HERE SERENITY!" yelled Officer Lair

"hahahahahahahaha! Catch me if you can!" she suddenly jumped over a car and screamed "CEDRIC!" Snake man was there. She put up her fists and lunged.

BACK TO THE GANG

"WHAT?" Screamed Hay Lin, her eyes wide. "SHE WENT AFTER CED- SNAKE MAN HERSELF!" BAM!

"wow that the best ya got snake man?" said Serenity as she got up from the ground which had an indent of her. " this is better then watching Irma beat on Martin." she ducked as he swung at her.

SWING! She jumped and in midair she spun around so that she was on his tail. The police came around the corner to see Cedric holding Serenity.

"Prince Phobosss wants to sssee you my queen."

"shut…u…up" she was talking quietly because Cedric was squeezing .

"YOUR HURTING HER!" I cried tears came to my eyes as blood came out of her mouth. Suddenly I felt what she was feeling. Tears of pain came to her eyes.

"be quiet Keeper you shall be next."

"keeper? You know this thing Will?" asked Officer Lair. snake man came to my rescue, slithering away.

"hello? Damsel in distress here!" cried Serenity. She clawed Cedric and ran. We all stood there and then:
"Keeper? Keeper of what?"

"nothing" I gasped and ran.

"WILMA VANDOM GET BACK HERE!" bellowed Irma's dad. The gang went after me. I ducked into a an ally.

"GUARDIANS UNITE!" I yelled Officer Lair came in as the transformation was done.

"WHAT ARE YOU!" he yelled pulling out his gun.

"oh no you don't!" yelled Serenity as she ran at him "your not shooting the only girl you have!" she kicked the gun out of his hand and Taranee shot it with fire. Serenity clawed her way to his throat and held him down. He was breathing hard, she snarled at him. He couldn't recognize her because her clothes had changed and her hair was down to her waist. She muttered some inaudible words and Irma's dad was out cold.

"when he wakes" she said standing up "he wont remember a thing."

We flew to the city park. I observed her when we landed.

She was in a tight black shirt with belled sleeves, her pants were loose around the waist so she had a dark blue leather belt and black boots. Her hair was the strangest, it was down to her waist but it was pitch black. So black it was scary. Her eyes went from green to bright blue, clashing with her dark get up. Small fangs came out of her mouth, sharpened to points. But the thing that scared us the most was her wings, they looked like shadows. She looked like a dark angel.

"this is what a half breed looks like. Well minus the wings." she looked down. "and the clothes. I kinda had to dress myself but the looks and teeth and claws are all apart of it. If you've seen the full breeds they have huge fangs that go past their chins and dark blue eyes and move faster then even I do, its amazing. Only im just a half breed. My moth-" she suddenly stopped.

"what?" I asked it was nice that she was telling us about her past. She looked angry. "tell us more."

"I tell NO ONE of my past." she said emotionlessly. "no one ever cared about me enough for me to tell." I felt a hot anger rise in me.

"you should know by now that we care!" I yelled. "cant you trust us?"

"I TRUST NO ONE!" she yelled. "its how I've survived this long!" I was taken aback. I heard a sniffle, then a sob. I quickly turned to see Hay Lin crying.

"oh now look what you've done!" I yelled "your so-" I stopped myself.

"so what Will?" she whispered "so uncaring? Is that what you think of me?" I looked at her, she was expressionless.

"yes! No!" I quickly corrected myself "you've showed emotion before! Why the sudden change?"

"its who I really am! I had to show no emotion when I was younger! it's the only way I was sane! I had to not care!"

"well that's stupid! Why would you-"

"don't assume you know anything about me Will! I've lived through tough times!"

"well why cant you-"

"BECAUSE THERE ARE THINGS ABOUT MY PAST THAT I DON'T WANT TO SHARE!" she screamed, her eyes flaring up "THINGS IM ASHAMED OF!"

"you think you've been through tough times? We've probably been through worse!" she grew dangerously calm.

"Will." she said in a soft voice that made me flinch "I spent the better part of my whole life running from the very people who im going to rule." she was within an inch of me "I was an outcast, hunted since the very day of my birth. I was hated. Why? Just because of what I am. My father was killed just because of what I am, my mother was killed when I was 5 just because of what I am. I spent the rest of my childhood running because they wanted me dead. They never knew about Hayden so I was the only one who went through that. Fuck I didn't even know about Hayden until I was 8. Even then I wasn't about to put him in danger. I was 8 Will. 8 when I came here. This was the only family I ever had. Hay Lin and her parents took me in. But even then I never really let them in. I fed them a false image that I conjured up, because I trust no one. I began to shut everything out when I was 5. I realized that I had no one, there was no one left to protect me. I had to stop caring otherwise they'd be able to get to me. I've lived alone for my whole life, despite the fact that you guys were there, despite the fact that I had everyone around me. I've been alone this whole time and all you guys saw was what I wanted you to. This is the real me. I never even shown Caleb this side of me and im more open to him then anyone else, I do trust him to a certain point. But this is the real me. I spent my childhood living in fear, afraid that I would get caught. I lived in trees, caves and anything else. There were times I didn't eat for days. So don't fucking tell me you've been through worse, don't fucking tell me that I'm a bad person. Because that's were you're wrong, im not a person Will." she leaned in and whispered in my ear "im an animal. I've lived like one, killed like one, hell I even loved one. So don't even think that you know me. Im not who you think I am. Im not what any of you think I am." she backed up and looked at me.

"so you've been lying then?" I asked. She looked away, her hair covering her face.

"there's a lot I lie about Will. If I got close to anyone they ended up dead. The only person I dared to get close to was Caleb. I taught myself to seclude myself. In a way I do show emotion. I cared to much about the well being of everyone else that I started to ignore what I wanted. I started to ignore my feelings and in the end I got rid of them." she looked at all of us.

"so you don't care? You don't care that you ended up hurting the person who sheltered you?" hissed Irma. Serenity looked away again, her hair blowing in the wind.

" I do care Irma." she said softly. "I care so much that I forgot about my own needs. Its not that im not grateful its just that I was scared that she would get killed. I was so afraid that all of you guys would get killed. All because of me. I know you all hate me now. But its not something that's new. Im used to that too." she laughed bitterly. " I had a lot of people hate me for being…well me"

"but your Queen now!" said Taranee "you rule the people that killed everyone you loved! They cant touch you now. Cant you open up to us now?" I saw that Serenity visibly struggled to keep her face calm.

"its not that easy Taranee. I've lived like this so long that its like second nature." she whispered. She startled us all with how much her voice shook. "I cant unlearn something that I taught myself… something that I've lived with for so long, something that I had to deal with alone. You have to understand that Hayden looked human so he wasn't hunted. When I was younger you could've taken one look at me and known I wasn't normal. I was alone. At such a young age I didn't really understand why I was so hated. I thought that it was cause I had been bad. I tried to prove that I was good, but as time passed I figured it out."

"but you've got us now!" Serenity looked at us, a tear slid down her face

"do I?" she asked " I've never had anyone. You don't know what it does to a little kid, being alone. Knowing that no one loved you, knowing that if you did love someone they'd end up dead, knowing that it would be all your fault. Sometimes it was too much. Other times it was ok, I didn't think about it too much because I was too busy running." she struggled to keep her face calm.

"but-" said Hay Lin

"I cant! I don't know how!" she yelled "I cant just open up! How can I if I don't trust any of you? There's one thing that will always keep us apart. Your humans, regular people and im… im an animal." she flinched as Taranee came forward and hugged her.

"you already have." she said. " you told us about your past." Serenity gently pushed her away and backed up. I saw a bittersweet smile on her face, it looked like she was deciding something. She suddenly stepped forward and looked us all in the eye

"as of right now I vow to tell you everything." she said " its high time I excepted the fact that they cant touch me. I need you guys cause…" she paused " cause I don't think I can do this alone"

Tears came to everyone's eyes as we all cried. I looked at her again, she really did look like a dark angel.

But then what else was she?

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Yo I finally got it up!

Ok ok in my last post I forgot Hayden and Elyon

So as of now this is how it goes

Serenity-Caleb

Will-Matt

Irma-Martin

Hay Lin-Eric

Cornelia-Seth

Taranee-Nigel

Elyon-Hayden