It was two hours later when Will found herself sprawled out on her back laying on her bed. It had seriously taken her that long to go through the insane amount of presents and put most of them away except for the television and stand as well as the smaller outfits which she left in her mother's room since Susan had said to because they would buy ones that fit. The only thing that she took was the VMJ shirt that was signed and hung it in her closet for now though she planned to hang it on the wall later.

Not only had Dean and her mother bought a ton of gifts for her but so did the girls and all them were great, well thought out gifts. None of them was just something they pain a buck for at the register of a gas station. That wouldn't have mattered though as she loved the frog her mother had bought her the day before when they stopped off and got the ice cream. What was important was the thought and caring behind the gifts that touched her.

Looking over toward her mirror she saw all the pictures covering her mirror and sighed sadly as she wished that the scenes in those pictures were reality. They couldn't have been real but they didn't really look fake, the genuine happiness on all their expressions couldn't have been faked. Then there was the picture of Susan, Dean and herself all together and happy in that picture which was a lie for sure. While she still loved her mother on some levels and despite wanting to believe all this she still hated that bastard. After everything he did to her Will didn't think she could ever even like him.

There were so many questions though about why everyone seemed to be acting to nice to her. Why did they seem as if they loved her but after spending the day with Susan she actually felt very conflicted about the older woman. While Will didn't truly trust her she felt as if the woman was being on the level and actually believed the story she was telling Will. The hardest part about all of it was all of the evidence around her that had actually started making the redhead start to question her own memories of the past events. Could there have ben some truth to Susan's story, could Phobos have kidnapped her and messed with all of her memories? If so though why let her escape and with the Heart no less?

It couldn't be that, there had to be more to it and as much as Will enjoyed all this time with a mother who loved her Will could not really relax until she knew what was going on. The question was who could she turn to for answers? She didn't want to confront her mother on it for so many reasons. If this was true then it would possibly hurt the older woman deeper than Will had already hurt her by acting the way she has around her. However if she angered Susan it could also earn her a beating which if that happened Will wasn't sure if she could take it. After seeing the beautiful, loving face and loving heart of the woman to see the fury and ugly hatred descending on her again would crush what little life Will felt she had left.

Candracar was out for the moment, as much as she wanted to make sure Luba was okay she was afraid that if she went back Luba would be punished worse and Will was afraid of what the Oracle would do to her. She had run off with not only the Heart of Candracar but also the source of the guardian's powers the aurameres.

There was only one person who she could think of who could give her some answers and it meant risking running into Cornelia's lapdog. Still, Yan Lin while never really liking Will the elder Asian woman didn't completely hate Will and had protected her from some of the worst from the guardians as the elder woman was disappointed that the guardians could beat the Keeper like they did. The elder woman was very disappointed in Hay Lin when finding out the younger girl's role in that particular attack on Will as Yan Lin had agreed to Will's decision to not tell Elyon and even supported it.

Getting up off the bed with a destination in mind Will grabbed her new black leather purse that Cornelia had gotten her that now held the wallet her mom gave her as well as a spare set of keys to the apartment. It didn't take her long to put a pair of sandals on and head to the elevator taking it down to the lobby where there was another reminder of just how strange things were getting.

She remembered the lobby was always filthy and always had gang members who lived in the apartment hanging out in the gang room, some often harassing her and leering at her. More than once they even groped her and shoved her around but thankfully it didn't get any worse than that not that it mattered lately with what Dean had forced her to do.

Instead of the game room there was a solid looking door that said 'SECURITY' on it and the lobby was not only clean it was beautiful. The floor was a white marble with expensive looking paintings on the walls and a desk that had actually had someone behind it and a large, beautiful fountain in the middle of everything.

"Can I help you?" The twenty something woman in a business suit asked from behind the desk. Will had never seen her yet as there was an older balding man sitting there yesterday wearing the male version of the same type of black and white suit making Will wonder if it was a uniform or something.

"Just going out for a bit, thanks." Will said giving the woman a shy smile as she passed, noticing the said woman giving the redhead an odd look. Will could hear the woman start to say something but was out the door before the woman could finish it.

Will wanted to get to the Silver Dragon before the lunch rush as started making it almost impossible seeing the woman until after it but if she had to wait Will was afraid that she would lose her nerve to confront Yan Lin. Still, Caleb could be a problem but how did get by him without causing a scene? Will almost laughed at herself for coming up with the perfect answer, make a scene! If she went in through the front and Caleb was serving he wouldn't dare attack her, not before a large group of people. It was the perfect plan.

Walking quickly towards the Chinese Restaurant Will pain little attention to some of the differences that she was seeing compared to her memories. Gone were the liquor stores and pawn shops to have beauty salons, book stores and even a youth center. As much as she wanted to stop and check out the youth center she forced herself onward until she passed one of the portal locations with the wall around it and actually did stop when she heard screaming coming over the wall.

"Damn it, get us reinforcements now!" A male voice shouted before gunfire drowned it out for a moment before it was silenced with a familiar loud roar. She was sure she saw blonde hair over the top of the wall for a moment before it disappeared back under the wall's top.

"Fools, you think you can stop me?" The voice laughed, "The only reason I haven't come before was because I didn't have a reason!"

"Oh god, he's supposed to be in prison." Will gasped shaking her head no.

"Oh god, get us help!" Another voice cried helplessly, "Two men down! Two Men Down!"

"Oh god, I don't have a choice." Will whispered running back into an alley out of sight before calling up the Heart from inside herself before calling out, "Guardian's UNITE!"

Will screamed in pain as five orbs of power shot from the Heart and straight into herself. She felt like she was drowning at first as power washed over her making it hard for her to breathe before she thought she was going to choke to death as she felt like she was being crushed by a ton of earth. Thankfully it was soon over giving her a few moments of relief though she was still trapped in the cocoon of power. It didn't last though as it felt as her entire body burst into flames before a hurricane gust of wind ripped through her tearing the flames away. Finally with a blast of what felt like lightning the cocoon of randomly changing colors shattered violently leaving a shaken Will stumbling while trying to catch her breath.

"Wh-What the hell just happened?" Will gasped while clutching her chest. It felt like her heart was going to rip right out of her chest as she felt sweat beading on her forehead. Actually, she was starting to become drenched in sweat as her breathing deepened even more and it was starting to hurt just to move.

"DIE HUMAN!" Cedric's voice echoed loudly as Will heard sirens in the distance approaching. They had no idea what they were up against, Will had to stop this before anyone else got hurt. Taking to the air, surprised how easily she shot up when she barely fluttered her wings. She quickly flew before the snakelike man, hovering before him grinning when he looked at her in shock. Dropping down to the ground she was shocked when cracks shot out in the ground from her impact.

Taking a quick glance around the small compound Will thought she was going to be sick seeing the blood pooling around the people, Meridianite and human both, as they laid on the ground. The few humans still able to move drew their guns aiming them at Will in shock at seeing her.

"Another one, kill it!" One of the men called before letting off several shots at her. Will cried out throwing her arms up trying to protect herself from the bullets as a part of her called her stupid for not trying to move instead.

"NO! She's a guardian!" A meridianite called in despair. Will blinked her eyes looking up seeing the bullets hanging in midair just before hitting her. Was she doing that? She got her answer as she relaxed a little causing the bullets to drop to the ground.

"I don't know how you survived guardian but I am going to rectify that right now." Cedric growled lashing his tail out at Will who tried to jump over it but shot ten feet up in the air as she felt the air currents caressing her body, lifting her.

"I-I'm taping into the others' powers?" Will gasped as she was starting to realize what was happening. The problem was that it was becoming much harder to breathe and move as the pain in her body started growing more and more. She wasn't sure what was going on but she knew she couldn't handle much more. She had to finish this up now!

"Come on down guardian, I have a little present for you!" Cedric growled making Will smirk a little, she had something for him to,

"Okay lizard lips, here I come!" Will cried rushing down driving her fist into the ground praying that this would work. She felt the earth shifting with her will as she commanded a huge chunk that Cedric was on to lift up. She hoped he would stay shocked long enough to shove him back through that portal due to him probably not knowing she could do this. Raising her hand up the ground under Cedric rose as will with him cursing her. With a quick shove Will sent rock and Cedric through. Taking out the Heart Will sealed the portal as several police cars skidded to a stop just outside the gate and the few people still up inside the compound started to wearily surround Will.

"Stay away from me!" Will cried launching into the air afraid of them trying to attack her again as she knew she couldn't protect herself from them. She did though, she stopped the bullets didn't she? But why couldn't she protect herself before? The last time she tried she felt like she was going to die from the pain the Heart sent through her.

The pain became to intense though as she almost made it to the alley she transformed in causing her to lose control and slam into the ground skipping across the uneven ground until slamming into a wall. She felt the worse of the pain fade away with her guardian form as she fought unconsciousness as a pair of dirty brown boots stomped into her vision. Looking up fear gripped her heart as she looked into the eyes of Cornelia's lapdog Caleb.

"Please…Please don't hurt me." Will whimpered as she tried to get up but gasped in pain as she strained. Slipping back to the ground she knew she couldn't protect herself as she finally succumbed to the darkness.

NOTES

Another chappie finished and I hope everyone enjoyed. This was actually the third time I wrote this chappie, each time completely different and I'm hoping the third times the charm as this was the best one I think. I suck at battle scenes but this one I had a lot of help on from some one I know but doesn't want their name mentioned.

Philip Gipson: Your welcome and I'm glad you liked the gifts though you are right about the Cornelia not likeing VMJ being called that which I really should make sure I put in here somewhere, thankies. LOL, truthfully that is usually the voices I imagine too as it's the easiest I guess as they are already established. You are totally right as I don't have HD, god I wish I did, but I might check it out this weekend. I'm working on it and hope you enjoyed this chappie.