Title: A Guardian's Homecoming
DatePosted:December 14, 2011
WrittenBy: WV-Rebirth
BetaReadBy: My Boyfriend (Blows a kiss)
Rating: M
Disclaimer: I don't own W.i.t.c.h., Marvel Universe, Kim Possible, Monster High or any other characters that may make a cameo in the story. In fact, many of them will only share names and some similarities and will not be the actually character.
Summary: After a tragic event in Will Vandom's life she is more or less forced out on the street where she begins a new life and despite not wanting anything more to do with the people of her past she still becomes a guardian, just not one of Candracar's.
Warnings: This story will have lesbian characters in it, plenty of mature themes such as rape and abuse, and plenty of changes to the universes the characters come from. If you can't handle this then be forewarned, if you don't mind and just want what will hopefully be a good story then please enjoy.
Since I've been asked to explain a little more about the chips creating the foot soldiers I decided to add a scene at the beginning explaining them a bit more and give a little more detail on the enemy while Danni also gets a bit more scene time in the story. I changed a lot of this chapter from what I had written down, but I could only work on it little by little over the last month, month and a half as my life is getting more and more hectic the closer the holidays get. I'm trying my best to make a little extra money baby sitting just to afford some Christmas presents for my family and boyfriend. Some of which I had to use for other things so far. On top of that I have been having to maintain decent grades to be allowed to do baby sitting. I've also been having some problems in real life, many of which I really don't want to get into on here. Suffice to say, my life has been crazy but it is thankfully slowing down a bit so I can get back to typing up this story and I have been working on a special project which I'm hoping to have some done by Christmas as I want to post it Christmas eve. Sadly I won't get as much done as I wanted to be able to get to the point in the story that would be putting them at Christmas unless I make some big changes, but that wouldn't work out too well with what I had worked up so far. I haven't disappeared, I am really sorry about he length of time since I last posted, but as I said I've been really really REALLY busy and I even have a tone of emails in my inbox I really need to get through if I can just get a few minutes without distractions to do it. I really hope that you enjoy this chapter and hopefully I'll have another posted in a few days if all goes according to plans.
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"You bitch!" Danni roared as she hit Christa hard, knocking the red haired valkyrie as hard as she could sending the girl sprawling to the ground. Danni couldn't believe anyone would be as callous as to openly laugh about what that little group of valkyries did after coming back from a mission to one of the other realms. Of course they were successful in securing the seals on that world by destroying all of their enemies in one large attack. The problem was there was an entire village there that Christa's group had sacrificed as they believed it was the quickest and easiest way. Thousands of people dead, it didn't matter that they were lycan in nature, they were innocently trying to live their lives out peacefully.
"You will pay for that!" Christa spat as she held her now broken nose while glaring at the blonde, blood flowing from the injury. The girl pissed Danni off to no end as she believed the blonde to be worthless since none of the pegasus had bonded with Danni
"You can try you sick..." Danni got out as a retort before Sif and Thor along with Isya interrupted them.
"You will stop this immediately!" Thor's voice boomed out over the hall where a small group was starting to gather to watch the growing tensions. The loud booming voice startled the gathering group enough to make them scatter not wanting to get on the bad side of the ruler of the gods.
"Danielle, you are to go with Thor. Christa, we have some things to discuss." Sif said, a little anger clearly coating her voice as she glared at the young warrior who in turn glared at the blonde.
"You'll pay for this, bitch." Christa snarled quietly as Danni walked, head hung low towards her fellow blonde.
"Come child, we have much to discuss." Thor grumbled, making Danni realize she was in trouble with the one man here who she trusted besides his brother. He had been the only one who gave her hope in returning to Earth despite the rules. While being a valkyrie cadet she was not allowed to leave Asgard, but when she finally found her partner and bonded she could go on missions, missions that Thor promised would mainly be on Midgard and while she was there it would be up to her on what she did during whatever she was assigned to do. Sadly, a partner was looking less and less likely to happen.
"I'm really sorry, Sir." Danni sighed as she matched the older man's pace as they walked out of the hall and began walking through the town passing people who respectfully bowed to their lord, Odin having retired a year earlier.
"Don't be sorry, dear, if you didn't hit her I most likely would have done something much worse. I don't know why my wife puts up with her." Thor said running his fingers through his long golden locks. "That isn't what I wanted to see you about."
"It isn't?" Danni asked in surprise since she was sure she would be facing discipline for striking a superior out of sparing.
"No, it isn't. I know you know a little about why it is necessary for the valyries duties to be expanded, but I want to make sure you understand before I tell you what I wanted to see you for." Thor said as they came up to one of the private stables for the royal family where Thor leaned against it and watched a few pegasus grazing. Danni leaned up against the fence as well, Thor wasn't acting on an official capacity it seemed and he hated her treating him formally when it didn't require it. In fact, she almost saw him as a father...the type of father she always dreamed of having. "Danni, I'm not going to lie to you, all of reality as we know it is in danger. All of the known realms are connected by the world tree, each of it's roots connected to the seven seals in each realm imprisoning the ultimate evil. No one remembers it's name, and there are those who don't even believe in it any longer. I can assure you it and the danger it represents are real."
"I know, Isya already explained it to me. It is recruiting generals and giving them power and knowledge to create monsters to find and destroy the seals. On Earth they are using a cross between magic and technology to create zombified vampires." Danni sighed as she looked away as images flashed through her head of her death at the hands of said creatures.
"They aren't zombies, Danielle, they are reanimated bodies. They no longer have any inhibitions or conscious despite retaining some of their personality. These chips that the human generals create are imbued with magic and more magic is used to infuse them into it's victims creating a fake vampire. Unlike real vampires, these things are made by very dark magic so sunlight will destroy them while real vampires only find it very uncomfortable. Also, a real vampire doesn't turn to dust by being staked, but there are several points on the body of these fakes that interrupt the flow of magic and causes a feedback which burns out the body." Thor explained. "The longer the fakes stay active the greater the risk of burning out also becomes as a body can only contain this dark magic for so long. I've been told of these things exploding into dust by themselves from staying active for too long."
"Why don't we just go take out all of these generals?" Danni asked, the question was something she had asked several times before though no one ever really had an answer and for a few moments while silence reigned she didn't think she was going to get one this time.
"Danielle, we don't know who the generals are. There is so much dark magic that it hides their identities from us and the three most important realms are Asgard, Midgard and Nifelheim. The others are just important in reality, but they are so small compared to the three main realms. If the seals were destroyed on the three key realms, the great evil might be able to break free ad shatter the smaller ones on its own." Thor admitted, "Danielle, I knew your grandfather once...he was a great man and I see a lot of him in you."
"You knew my grandfather?" Danni asked in shock as she pushed away from the fence to stare at the blonde, muscular god in shock.
"Years ago Midgard was overran with people who had special abilities, Danielle. Many of them good people such as your grandfather, but all of that changed one day when a very powerful young woman who was tired of the prejudice against them used her powers to change the world. At first she made it where they were the rulers, but there were those who remembered the way things were and fought back. In the end she thought it would be better if these people never existed so she used her powers one last time before dying. She made it as if no one had ever had any powers so the team of heroes your grandfather was on never formed. Your grandfather never made the once famous Iron Man armor and I he never met me though I remember everything. My father forbade me from returning to Midgard because we were once again forgotten and he believed it best to allow mutants and gods disappear from Midgard forever."
"Then why bring me here?" Danni asked, shaken a bit by this revelation. If this woman didn't change the world then would she have had a better life? If she did though would she have even met Will then?
"Because times are once again changing, creatures of the night are once again emerging as well as some people with powers and mages. The time is coming when Midgard needs a champion, a God to stand for what is right...Or a Goddess." Thor said giving Danni a soft smile as he too pushed away from the fence. "We aren't Gods as you may know them, Danielle. We are mortal beings just like humans, but we have great powers and live for a very, very long time. We do hold offices of power that can be passed from person to person, usually generation to generation. The symbol of my office is my hammer and lightning while others have different forms. Take that pegasus over there, she's not a valkyrie's partner."
Danni looked out across the field where Thor indicated to see instead of a white horse, a deep violet one, almost black. It's mane and tail seemed to almost be formed out of gas and looked to have stars floating in it as if it was a portal into the night sky. It's eyes were also deep black and seemed to have the same quality of the ever changing mane and tail. Like the other pegasus, it had wings folded at it's side however it also had a long, spiraled horn which most of the valkyrie's partners did not have. "Beautiful."
"She is very beautiful, Danielle. Her name is Nightmare Moon and I was wondering if you would like to go meet her?" Thor said a small smile playing on his lips.
"Yeah." Danni sighed as she stared at the beautiful creature as the two walked across the field and stopped just a few feet from her.
"Hello child." A kind yet amused voice echoed through Danni's mind. "I've been waiting for you."
"Y-You talked to me?" Danni gasped staring into the eyes of Nightmare Moon.
"Yes child, I want someone worthy of my Mistress's place. Someone with a strong yet pure heart to take up Hecate's mantle." Nightmare said, a feeling of peace and amusement flitting through Danni.
"Who's Hecate?" Danni gasped as she looked between horse and god.
"Hecate was the Goddess of the night, but she passed away a few years ago and we have not found a suitable replacement for her yet. Since you couldn't find a partner, I thought maybe you weren't meant to be a valkyrie. Or at least, not fully." Thor explained, his smile growing. "Since she talked to you, I guess she offered you Hecate's place? If you accept Danni, you will be a God. The Goddess of the night and a secondary goddess of magic. Danni, Asgard and Nifleheim is covered, but we can't afford to send a God to Midgard and the valkyrie is being spread thin through the lesser realms. If you accept, I'd like to assign you to protect Midgard after you learned some control of your power. The question is, do you want to accept the responsibility of a Goddess and have to return to Midgard...to Earth to protect all of it's people?"
Danni looked back at the dark horse and couldn't help but smile at the encouragement Nightmare Moon was sending through her. An even bigger smile formed as she processed Thor's words.
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Laura was worried sick when she finally managed to drag Susan down the hallway, and despite not liking the woman at all, Laura managed to calm her down some and convince her it was best to give Will some space. Of course space was something Laura didn't intend to give the girl, she remembered how depressed Will was after what happened to Danni and this was bordering on being just as bad if not worse. She never heard as much self loathing as Will showed in just a few moments from the redhead before. Self pity, uncertainty, depression, anger, but never self loathing to this degree. What the hell happened to make Will act like this? She seemed to be over her past, so what set her off like this?
The young vampire found her way back into the office where she found Anna holding the redhead on the leather couch and rocking her a bit. Seeing the site made Laura smile a bit, it showed that Will had friends who cared for her here and two new employees that had the redhead's best interest at heart. Maybe between the three of them they could possibly pull the redhead out of whatever abyss she had found herself in. At least she hoped they could, screw the mission, she would drag Will out of there if that was what her friend needed.
"Will, sweetie, look at me." Laura said softly as she kneeled down on the floor before the couch and took Will's hands in her own. "Please tell me what happened? I've never seen you...this bad before. Do you want to go home and let Mrs. Lair, Hale and myself to take care of things here?"
"N-No." Will sniffed, looking into Laura's eyes. The deep pain that the redhead clearly shone in her watery orbs and it worried Laura even more as the vampire rubbed the back of Will's hands with her thumbs. "This is my mess anyways. I should have taken control sooner then things wouldn't have gotten so bad here."
"Will, honey, why did you say those things to your mom? Why did you say those things about yourself?" Anna asked gently, curiosity in her voice as well as a hint of sympathy and caring. There was no judgment in the woman's eyes nor her voice.
"Because, that's all I am." Will sniffed as she pulled her hands away from Danni so she could pull her knees to her chest. "Being here...seeing her...it brought everything back. All the pain I felt every time she chose him over me, every time she rejected me to be with him. I can't make it stop either and it's tearing me up."
"Sweetie, I thought you worked through this." Laura said softly, reaching up to rub Will's knee while looking up to catch Will's eyes once again.
"She...I always thought that deep down she wanted me, that we were both as much at fault for the tension back then." Will whispered, but all three women left in the room besides Will heard her. "She got rid of everything that could have reminded her of me, and even replaced me."
"Oh sweetie, that isn't true." Anna sighed.
"That's bullshit, Will." Elizabeth said, her voice a bit harder. Her expression was stern, but caring as she leaned over the arm of the catch next to Anna. "Mr. Stark sold her a house for cheap years ago and Susan refused to move into it in case you came home. After fighting with Dean over it so much they compromised when your brother was almost due and moved your bedroom and most of the rest of the apartment to the house so when you was found it would be ready to move into. The only reason they changed your old room was your brother needed a room until you was found."
"Sweetie, your mother misses you so much. All she ever talks about when we're with her is you and begging us to tell her some kind of good news." Anna sighed softly. "Will, honey, your mom knows she messed up. We all do, there is no guide to raising children and sometimes things happen, words are said and feeling are hurt. It doesn't mean that she doesn't love you and if you are hurting this much, you must still love her."
"She betrayed me." Will sobbed as she pushed up and away from the three and stormed over to the large bay window to stare out over the city as her fist clenched and unclenched. She was feeling so angry, hurt and lost right now and everyone seemed to be suggesting that she do the one thing she didn't want to do right now. They were suggesting that she talk to Susan about what happened. "She...she made her choice when she chose my teacher over me. When she refused to help me the night..." Will punched the window hard, wincing as her knuckles felt like they cracked from the impact. Laura was right, she worked through this years ago so why was it all coming back to haunt her with a vengeance? It wasn't fair!
"Will...I'm the last person who would defend that woman, but maybe you do need to talk to her. If only to bring some closure to everything." Laura sighed as she joined Will at the window, rubbing her shoulder as Will clenched her eyes shut tightly.
"Please...let's just drop this." Will said, her voice growing a little harder as she rubbed her eyes. "We have a lot of work to do, and it would be best if we get a start on it."
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It was a long, tiring day. Both emotionally and physically, but when the work day was coming to an end Will finally found herself able to relax a bit. They looked through so many files trying to determine what exactly they should do while both Laura and herself tried their best to find any clues as to who was behind the chips being made there. There were no records indicating who ordered them, who took the order or set them up to be made, or who in the company was involved beyond the manufacturing section themselves. They could always go and ask the workers there a little more about it, but that would tip them off that they were there searching for them. For now they both knew it was better to just let it go and keep digging through records.
Of course the day would have went much smoother if it wasn't for the incident with Will's mom and Anna and Elizabeth trying to talk Will into talking with the woman. While she admitted a part of her wanted to, she just couldn't get near Susan without all of the anger, self insecurities, bitterness and resentment that she didn't really knew she had to this extent to surface. She felt so worthless in Susan's company while at the same time being furious with both the older woman and herself. All she wanted was to leave Heatherfield and not look back, to leave the past where it was and go on with her new life and new friends. So why couldn't she?
"I was planning on asking you ladies out for some dinner, but I really need to head back to the hotel and get some rest." Will sighed, the weariness weighing her down as she rubbed her eyes.
"It's fine Will, I hope you feel better." Anna said, her tone giving away just how much she was worried about the redhead.
"I will, I just need some rest Anna." Will said grabbing her bag and pulling out two hundred dollar bills. "Here, take your families out for some nice meal tonight. But don't tell them about me, please."
"I can't..." Anna started as she tried to avoid taking the money while Elizabeth took the bill handed to her.
"Anna, take the money and go eat. You deserve it." Elizabeth said, her voice a little stern.
"Fine, thank you Will." Anna said, a small smile spreading across her lips as she took the offered money. She was happy that her family was now pretty much out of debt thanks to the money given to her, but she still had a ways to go to mend her breaking family. Irma, despite being her stepdaughter had grown to love her and supported her as Chris does, but Tom just wasn't the same anymore and it was putting a strain on them all.
"I'll see you two in the morning." Will said before the two left, a few minutes later Will and Laura following. Will couldn't get the feeling of being watched as she got into the car out of her mind, but in the end chalked it up to her mom probably watching out a window or just being paranoid.
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"I still don't think it's a good idea to be running around like this tonight." Came the voice of Laura over the helmet's internal communication's system. Will needed to blow off some steam after the day she had and was currently enjoying falling over fifteen feet before he thrusters kicked back on softening her landing on top one of the many tall apartment building scattered across the city. She was searching for any signals on her helmet's visor indicating any freaks prowling the night though so far she had found nothing so far. It was such a shame as she was looking forward to some stress relief from dusting the freaks.
If they were newly born freaks, then there was a small chance that they might not turn fully to dust. From the little that they learned from their studies of the freaks they captured, they were reanimated corpses that was created out of a hybrid chip made of technology fused with magic. The flow of the magic saturated the body over time and would eventually destroy themselves. However in the meantime, if they were old enough, disrupting the flow of energies by piercing the heart, severing the head, or damaging several other parts of the body would cause a backlash of energies incinerating the body and turning it to ash. If it was young enough there seemed to be a small possibility of the backlash not being large enough to destroy everything. These were the ones they got the best samples from to test.
"Relax, what could go wrong?" Will asked grinning a bit. She hat to admit she was already feeling much better just getting out and feeling the rush and excitement of roof hopping with her armor. The day was one of the most stressful and emotionally exhausting she had experienced for years and she had to admit, even if only to herself, she really did just want to say forget the whole thing and get out of Heatherfield. She couldn't though, she had responsibilities that she couldn't just dump because things were getting rough.
"Well, well, look what the cat dragged in." A rough voice said startling Will. Slowly she turned around to come face to face with someone she didn't want to see. Standing just a few feet from her was Napoleon in his regent form glaring at Will a few moments before his face softened, a small smile tugging at his lips. "Been a long time, doll."
"Na...Who are you." Will asked, barely catching herself before she finished calling out his name, but the damage was already done.
"You know who I am, doll face, don't try to deny it. I can smell you, but if that's how you want to play it I won't tell the others." Napoleon said, "Only thing is, I can't help you against them either."
"Against them?" Will asked, swallowing a limp in her throat as Napoleon motioned behind her. Slowly turning Will caught site of Irma like the other night, only this time she had Hay Lin and another girl who looked a little like Cornelia did when they were teenagers hovering a few feet off the roof.
"I think this time your a little outnumbered bitch." Irma said with a sneer while cracking her knuckles. With a silent curse Will primed one of her knuckle bombs hoping to make a distraction but a strong gale of wind actually blasted her back into the wall of the roof access door into the building. Will tried to move away but the brick of the wall shifted into hands clamping around her wrists and ankles while several tendrils wrapped around her waist holding her to the wall pinning her in place. It was taking all she had to keep from losing control. All she could see was Matt holding her down as the bonds tightened a little more.
"Girls, I think you should just let her go." Napoleon said, sadness filling his voice as he could hear Will's whimpers thanks to his enhanced hearing though he doubted the others could.
"Let me go you bastard." Will's strained voice came from her helmet, "Please."
"No way in hell." Irma said ignoring the looks on the other girls faces as the water guardian stormed forward and yanked the helmet off the girl only to drop it to the ground in shock as hazel eyes stared back, a vacant look growing in them as tears were slowly beginning to fall. "Wi-Will?" Irma gasped stepping back in shock as her anger at the bitch who dared break into Susan's drained away as she learned who it was.
"Will?" Hay Lin and the blonde gasped in shock at the same time.
"Lillian, I think you should let her go." Napoleon said softly as the blonde numbly nodded her head, the stone bonds holding Will dissolving back into the wall leaving the redhead free to hug herself tightly and slide down the wall to sit on the ground rocking back and forth trying to calm herself down.
"Will, is it really you?" Hay Lin asked hopefully as she let her transformation drop to sit next to the redhead.
"Why won't you just leave me alone?" Will asked, her voice strained and slightly harsh as she tried to avoid looking at one of her ex-friends.
"Because we love you, silly." Hay Lin said hugging Will the best she could with the redhead wearing the armor, She struggled for a few seconds before finally giving in to the Asian girl's embrace and let herself cry into the smaller girl's shoulder.
"I didn't know it was you. Why didn't you just tell me?" Irma asked softly as she to dropped her transformation to sit on the other side of Will stroking the redhead's hair, her own tears joining the others.
"Why should I, it isn't like you give damn about me." Will said as she pulled away from them while jolting to her feet while scooping up her helmet.
"We do care for you, Will." Lillian said softly, reappearing right in front of the redhead and hugging the older girl. "I missed you so much."
"I..." Will sighed, too tired to fight it as she gave in and admitted that she missed the troublesome little blonde as the girl didn't do anything to her. In fact, she even missed the other girls including Cornelia who made her life as keeper of the heart very difficult at times. Giving in, the redhead wrapped her arms around the younger girl returning the hug. "I missed you guys also."