A/N Sorry to all of you faithful viewers, especially nina19123 who reminded me I needed to get this chapter out soon it has been way too long and I am really sorry. I hope this makes up for it, it's not my best but it is something. Please R&R, all reviews are appreciated! :D

Chapter 12 Matt

Will's P.O.V.

Matt has a lot of explaining to do, how could he lie to me like that? Why did he need to make astral drops of those three girls he barely know? Why was he trying to cover for these girls? What were they hiding from us?

The W.I.T.C.H girls and I just hung around our room for an hour, not saying much, Irma even dozed off for a while. When we figured he would be there we went back to Lewis' house.

"Hey, is Matt here yet?" I asked Lewis who I saw first when I entered the house, he was holding the brunette haired baby, and Laura on his lap.

"No, he should be here soon though, I was just texting him and he said they were leaving," Lewis said. Why hadn't I thought of texting?

"Okay, do you mind if we stay here and wait with you guys?" I asked him, Zane and another guy I didn't know were also in there, each holding a baby. It's nice to know some guys who actually don't care about having to take care of babies, most boys I know would just lay the baby down and go play a video game or something.

"No, not at all," Lewis said and me and the girls spread out around the room, each finding a place to sit.

I'm surprised they didn't ask us where their girlfriend's are, or do they know? That would make sense, they want to cover for their girlfriends and Matt is willing to help out his favorite cousin. But that also means he told them our secret, how could he betray us like that?

I sat there deep in thought for about 10 minutes before Matt finally came home.

"Matt, we need to talk," I said to him right when I saw him, and then I dragged him into the kitchen to talk privately. The W.I.T.C.H. girls understood I wanted to talk to him alone and just stayed where they were, watching some TV show. Lillian and Christopher came in and sat down on the floor, I guess Kim and Elliot went home.

Matt's P.O.V.

Uh oh, she sounds angry, Lewis told me they figured out about the mermaid babies and astral drops. Boy am I in trouble.

"I know you lied to me to get the heart. I know you told them all about our secret. I know you made astral drops of the three girls, and I want to know why," She said.

It took me a while to find the right words to say, I couldn't lie to her, she would know, but I also can't tell a secret that is not mine to share. I could tell she was very impatient to hear what I had to say.

"I promised I wouldn't tell, but I will give you a hint," I said hoping she will be able to figure it out for herself.

"Okay, tell me the hint," she said.

"If you take all that you know and think beyond realistic reasoning, which shouldn't be too hard to do for you, you will find your answer," I replied mystically, it's kind of fun to tell the truth but not the whole truth to leave some mystery.

"That's too vague," she complained, "You owe me more than that." She was right.

"Three girls are missing, at the same time three babies are found. Not only that, but these babies are mermaids. You had your own suspicions about the girls being magical before, what if they were? The babies didn't come from the ocean, people would've seen them. The girls didn't leave, who would leave in the middle of such an amazing event? So the question is, how did the girls disappear and how did the babies just randomly appear in their place," I said, how much clearer can I be without giving away the actual truth? "Really think about it."

She didn't get it, I could see that. She either doesn't get it at all or gets it, but doesn't believe it, it does sound pretty impossible.

"That's all I can tell you," I said.

"Well that was no help! I still don't get what's going on," Will replied.

"I've been as clear as I can be, I don't know what else to tell you," I said.

"Tell me the whole truth," she begged.

"You know I can't do that, I promised and I never break my promises," I said.

"That didn't seem to be a problem when you told them our secret!" Will replied.

"I needed to help them, they could've gotten into tons of trouble otherwise," I replied, "When you figure it out you will understand."

Then I walked past her and back to the den, there wasn't much else I could do.

"So what's on right now?" I asked standing by Lewis who was sitting on the couch.

"Not much, Criminal Minds just ended," Lewis replied.

"You watched Criminal Minds with babies in the room?" I asked surprised.

"Don't worry, on the really scary parts we turned down the volume and covered their eyes," Lewis explained, though I still think it was pretty irresponsible of him.

"Well guys, we better go back to the hotel it's getting late," Will said to Irma, Taranee, Cornelia, Hay Lin, William, Christopher, and Lillian.

Then they all got up without protest, Lillian and Christopher were tired from all the things they did at the water park, and it was kind of a big day for everyone. After they left, we put the babies to bed in Laura's crib, it was pretty roomy for a baby's crib. Then Ash and Zane left, but not before giving each of their girlfriends a goodnight kiss. Me and Lewis both slept I his room, his mother set up a small cot next to his bed, she did the same thing in her own bedroom for my mom.

With the W.I.T.C.H. girls (no one's P.O.V.)

All the girls were gathered in Will's room, she had just finished telling them exactly what Matt had told her.

"You think he's suggesting that during the eclipse Rikki, Cleo, and Emma turned into baby mermaids?" Irma said.

"Or maybe he is saying that the girls were magical, but possibly the magic got out of hand during the eclipse and they turned themselves into baby mermaids?" Hay Lin said.

"Or they were just girls in the wrong place at the wrong time, maybe they were turned into baby mermaids by one of their enemies with magic or even by the magic of the eclipse itself. We definitely know how powerful and magical nature can be," Cornelia asked.

"All we can tell is that magic is involved some way or another, and that the three girls are not missing, but are in the form of the three babies we found that are mermaids according to Irma," Taranee said.

"I still think it's fishy (no pun intended), it just doesn't seem realistic," Will said, "Girls turning into mermaids and babies all because of an eclipse? It just doesn't seem right."

"Does it seem right that we turn into guardians with fairy wings to protect a veil between earth and many other worlds?" Taranee asked Will as a rhetorical question.

"That's different," Will said even though she knew it wasn't.

"It's not and you know it, it could've happened by magic with no logical explanation," Taranee said, "didn't Matt tell you to look beyond realistic reasoning?"

"I guess you're right, but I think we should search around for them, we don't know the area very well, but I bet it won't be too hard to find the major hot spots and we might even find them there. Plus I don't think Mrs. McCartney would mind telling us where they lived, we could check their house. It could've been a lot more reasonable than he hinted at, he could've been trying to trick us." Will said.

"That's highly unlikely since you're his girlfriend and he is usually pretty serious when it comes to magical business. But whatever floats your boat," Irma said.

"Can we do it tomorrow? It's like 10:00 and I need my beauty sleep," Cornelia complained.

"Fine, we search around tomorrow, if we don't find them we go to Matt and tell him our theories, he'll have to tell us if we are right or not," Will said.

"Sounds like a plan," Hay Lin said. Then they all said goodnight to each other and went to bed for the night.

A/N I'm soo sorry it took so long to update this. I've been really busy lately with homework and such. Plus I had some writers block and I was trying to figure out how long this story was going to be, I don't want to end it too abruptly. So far I think it will only be about 15 chapters but it may extend. So hope you enjoyed and please review! :D