Disclaimer: W.I.T.C.H isn't my idea. Wish it was though.
As the W.I.T.C.H girls, Caleb and Melinda entered the castle, they saw the place was in an uproar.
"So much for sneaking in. It looks like they know we're here." Will murmured to Caleb, but Caleb held up his hand.
"It's not us they're looking for." He replied. "If this doesn't work, then we'll have to rescue Vathek on the way out."
"Y'know we have absolutely no idea if this will reset the timeline for certain." Taranee pointed out.
"Hey, it works in the movies." Melinda replied, to which Irma, Cornelia and Taranee all rolled their eyes.
"Yeah, because movies are such a great source of reliable information." Irma snapped back sarcastically.
"You know, something must be wrong. I'm actually agreeing with Irma. AGAIN." Cornelia added.
"If you have any better ideas, feel free to tell me." Melinda shot back.
"Besides, we all need a little movie magic moment in our life." Hay Lin added, a goofy smile forming on her face. Caleb raised an eyebrow.
"Don't worry, she's always like that." Irma said by way of an explanation.
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Thomas looked around at where the spatial fold had taken them.
"You know I was sort of aiming for the palace." He said quietly. Caleb shook his head.
"No-ones been able to fold into the palace since we discovered Lord Shail. He almost captured the queen by folding into the dungeons. After that, Elyon cast a spell to stop any such attack from ever happening again." Caleb pointed out. Thomas and the remaining guardians raised eyebrows in disbelief.
"We're not far from the palace anyway." Cornelia interjected, sensing an argument "This way!"
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Lord Shail silently slipped himself into the palace, as he had done so many times before. This time he wasn't here to spy or to try and capture the queen. (After his last and only attempt had almost gotten him captured.) Lord Shail preferred to send others in to do his dangerous work, but Elyon would have detected them in seconds. Lord Shail's immunity to magic on the other hand, meant that he could slip in. There were of course guards, but he could dodge them.
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As Melinda, Caleb and W.I.T.C.H entered the dungeons, they came face to face with someone Melinda knew far better than she wished. With her metallic skin and blood red eyes, Rebecca Hart stood in their path.
"What are YOU doing here?" Melinda and Rebecca exclaimed as they saw each other.
"No matter little girl. You are no match for me, your friends cannot help you now. Even as we speak, my Lord Shail is already waiting for them. And when you die, so to dies any chance of your timeline being restored." Rebecca snarled.
"You forget something Rebecca. You can't kill. It destroys your powers." Melinda replied quietly.
Rebecca chuckled. "I can't. But I don't need to. All I have to do is to hold you off until, say Lord Cedric arrives or Prince Phobos's other minions. They can."
At that point, Irma shot a stream of water at Rebecca, yelling, "You look like you could use a little polishing tin girl!"
But the stream never reached her, as the distance between them suddenly stretched out for what seemed like miles. "You can't even touch me, little girl!" Rebecca sneered, before suddenly shortening the gap between herself and Melinda and smashing her fist into Melinda's jaw, knocking her unconscious. And so the battle began.
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"Cornelia!" an excited voice called over to the group as they entered the castle. A young woman with straw-blonde hair engulfed Cornelia in a massive hug. "How are you? What are you doing here? How did you get here?"
Cornelia smiled. "Hi Elyon. It's a long story." She replied.
Caleb bowed to Elyon. "Your majesty." He said in a formal voice.
"Caleb, how many times do I have to tell you? Just call me Elyon, ok?" Elyon rebuked him in a friendly tone and the others smirked. For as long as Thomas and the other guardians could remember, Caleb had called Elyon your Majesty and every time he did, she would tell him to just call her Elyon. It had become something of a running joke.
Turning to face the others, Elyon quizzically raised an eyebrow.
"Who are these people?" Elyon asked curiously.
"It's a long story Elyon." Cornelia began.
"We'll fill you in as we go down into the dungeons." Finished Caleb.
Elyon stared at her best friend and at Caleb, Cornelia's husband curiously for a moment. Then, turning on her heel, she gestured for them to follow her. "Very well. Start by introducing these people." She said.
"Hi, I'm Alice Dwar the water guardian!" Alice said, jumping forward. "We've met before, but you won't remember it 'cos of the changes in the timeline an all."
"Are you trying to scare her Alice?" Anzu asked sardonically. "I'm Anzu Watshashi. I'm the Earth guardian"
"Sarah Gold. Fire."
"Hannah Smith. Air."
"And I'm Thomas Vandom, an agent of time. I'm meant to help fix things." Thomas finished.
Elyon stared at them in disbelief.
"We'll explain on the way to the dungeons." Cornelia added.
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For W.I.T.C.H, the battle was going badly. Every attack they threw at Rebecca Hart simply couldn't reach her as she stretched out or compressed the space around her as she dodged attacks from W.I.T.C.H and Caleb, while throwing her own attacks, reversing gravity and throwing powerful punches. Caleb and Irma were on the floor, caught by surprise as Rebecca suddenly compressed the space between them and threw a couple of knockout punches at them both. Hay Lin, incensed at the attack on her friend, sent a small tornado heading Rebecca's way, but with practised skill, Rebecca curved the space between her and Hay Lin and the attack smacked firmly into Will, sending her flying.
Cornelia split the ground apart attempting to pull Rebecca under and she almost succeeded, had Rebecca not suddenly reversed gravity on the blond Earth guardian and sent her flying to the ceiling.
Taranee cursed under her breath. How where they supposed to beat this woman? Every time they threw an attack at her, she bent the space around herself, causing the attack to fail. Then it hit her.
"Cornelia!" Taranee yelled "Pull everything towards you!"
"What?" Cornelia asked incredulously.
"Do as she says Cornelia, I think I know what she's thinking." Will added.
With a sigh, Cornelia kneeled down, closed her eyes and focused on pulling everything towards her. Suddenly, the warped space around Rebecca returned to normal. Without hesitation, the remaining members of the group attacked. A small tornado from Hay Lin picked Rebecca up and a fireball from Taranee blew her away. As Rebecca pulled herself back to her feet, Will smacked a punch into her jaw knocking her out cold.
"Ouch, that hurt." Will said as she blew on her knuckles.
Melinda, Caleb and Irma came to, still groggy from Rebecca's punches.
"Seize them!" yelled a new voice. Turning in the direction of the voice, they saw Lord Cedric and a huge group of Lurdens and castle guards standing at the entrance to the dungeons. W.I.T.C.H, Caleb and Melinda ran for it, deeper into the dungeons, to their destination.
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"So let's see if I understand this right. Lord Shail's minion Rebecca changed the past and caused his defeat at Candracar to become a victory instead." Elyon said.
"That's about the size of it." Thomas agreed.
Elyon shook her head in disbelief. "Sounds crazy to me." she said.
"Well it can't hurt to look." Cornelia replied calmly. "Besides, since we discovered the whole Guardian stuff, crazy isn't so far-fetched."
Elyon chuckled. "No it isn't, is it? Well I don't want any of Rebecca Hart's devices in my dungeons. What do you plan on do-"
Elyon was suddenly cut off as a wall came crashing down between them.
"Elyon!" Screamed Cornelia.
"I'd be more worried about yourself." A cold voice said from across the room. They all turned to the originator of the voice. There stood Lord Shail. "And now you're trapped in here with me. By the time help gets here, you'll all be dead."
"Yeah? Well we'll just see about that." Replied Sarah challengingly and although her powers were absent, Anzu could've sworn her friends eyes were aflame. And with a cruel laugh, Lord Shail attacked.
AN: I had to use this chapter to drill through a little writers block, so it's not perfect, but I'd like to think it's good enough.