Don't own W.I.T.C.H, never will.
Set on the TV series, after season two.
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Actually a huge thank you to XV-Dragon for being such a loyal reviewer :-D
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Echoes of Our Worlds
Chapter Nine
Sarah pressed herself up against the magical barrier.
"You can't!" The Hag glanced up from adjusting the machine, and wandered over.
"Oh can't I? It's not like you can stop me. My power has reached a peak, and I will go divide and destroy the guardians, all helpless without their esteemed leader…" The Hag cackled at Sarah threw herself at the barrier with a growl. "You never know, I might bring back a shard of that little gem of yours, a souvenir." The Hag tutted as Sarah let out a stream of colourful curses. "Now now, mind your language. You wouldn't want to be insulting your host would you?" Sarah stepped back and glared. "That's better. Just a few more hours before my visit…"
Taranee sighed, blanking out the babble from the rest of the class, trying to focus on the experiment in front of her, adding another weight to the string. She was thinking about Will again, reliving what had happened in her mind. The park, the heart, the hag the fight, the girl, the disappearance, the wait. Odd things: the heart was left, they couldn't figure the source of the witches' power, the ghost like figures, the oracle not being able to see, the likeness between the witch and Nerissa, the heart unable to see Will, the voices. Taranee knew it was all linked somehow, but she felt like she was missing something, something right in front of her… She almost fell off the chair trying to catch the improvised scales before it hit the floor, and dumped it back on the desk with a huff, carefully setting it up again, to take a fresh set of recordings.
After school, Taranee didn't wait for the others, shoving the Heart in her pocket and walking straight towards the park, ignoring the clouds gathering overhead. Cornelia watched her back disappearing into the distance.
"Where are you going T?" she murmured to herself, pausing only a moment before following, glancing up at the thick grey clouds. She shivered. A storm was coming. As they got to the park heavy raindrops began to fall.
"Ah, my hair's gonna be ruined. Someone seriously owes me." There was a pause as she lost sight of her friend, before she took a guess, and headed towards where Will had gone missing. Sure enough she caught a glimpse of Taranee working her way along the roads to the estate.
Will was bored. School hadn't been as interesting today and a couple of minutes ago a guy had rapped on the door telling the guardians of a disturbance at some construction yard, and they had all gone off, leaving Will alone in the apartment, with nothing to do. She tried the front door, and to her surprise, it was open. She headed out. Nothing wrong with a walk around the local park and a breath of fresh air, she decided and headed down.
After a while she found herself heading round the city, in a place she didn't know. Then again, she didn't know most of the city. She was wondering why she had decided to come to this bit of town when a pink glint in a bush by the edge of the path caught her eye. She crouched down to see what it was and gasped. It was the Heart. Iva must have dropped it, she thought, picking it up and looking around to see where they had gone, ignoring how the heart seemed to pulse happily in her hand. She looked at the Heart.
"Where are they?" The Heart stayed silent, but a hug flash by some cranes and incomplete tower blocks caught her attention and she started running towards it.
Meanwhile the guardians had reached the construction site, and Iva went to retrieve the Heart from her pack. She spotted the partly open zip, and searched the bag, becoming more frantic as she realised the Heart wasn't there. Dee called across.
"Iva what is it?"
"The Heart, it's not here."
"What!" Lizzie exclaimed overhearing this, and tensing up.
"I definitely had it when we left the apartment, it… it must have fallen out on the way here. I'm sorry." They all looked at each other in fear realising how much trouble they were in, Iva close to tears.
"Oh! Four guardians, leaderless and without their precious Heart! Ah, this is too easy!" The Guardians turned around to see the Hag walking towards them. With a yell Lizzie launched herself at the Hag, closely followed by Dee and Laura. Before she even got close the Hag made a sweeping gesture, send her crashing into a nearby skip, and Dee into a pile of what looked like plastic piping. Laura jumped up from the floor, where she'd dropped down to avoid the Hags attack, and launched at the Hag, before being sent flying across the yard.
"Is that al... oof!" The Hag staggered forward as someone hit her, before turning around and blasting thin air, Iva suddenly becoming visible mid flight before she was pinned against the building , partially stunned by the impact. The Hag observed her work. Lizzie picking herself out the skip, Dee scrabbling to escape from the mass of pipes, Laura slowly getting to her feet, and Iva, stuck by her magic against a girder, high above all their heads.
"You've already lost guardians." The Hag smiled, savouring the moment.
"OI HAG!" The Hag spun around and stared in shock at the red haired girl standing at the entrance of the site, holding aloft a clenched hand from which a bright pink glow emanated.
"You! No!" The Hag shrieked, but it was too late as the shout echoed off the half constructed buildings.
"GUARDIANS UNITE!"
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