I do not own W.I.T.C.H. Part 1 of the finale! Once again, I warn you my fight scenes aren't the best, they're pretty fast paced. But they are easy to follow, so enjoy.
Episode 25 (Battle of the Fold)
The sunlight sifted through the closed curtains on the bedroom windows. Outside, the day had already begun; the late April sun lit the quiet Sunday street with warm light. Inside, the clock changed to 8:49 AM. Will rolled over in her bed, pulling the covers higher over her head, shielding her face from the incoming sunlight. Mumbling in her sleep, Will's hand tightened around the Heart of Candracar. It hummed softly, giving off a gentle pink glow. Slowly, the colors in the orb shifted. The silver claws no longer clutched a pink crystal, but instead, a miniature Earth.
Brown eyes fluttered open and glanced towards her outstretched hand. Will sat up in her bed, and pulled the heart closer to her face to make sure that she was seeing what she thought she was. Understanding what the crystal was telling her, Will jumped out of her warm bed and began to change into her clothes for the day.
"Taranee?" called Will mentally.
"Yes?" came Taranee's quick response, "How are you?"
"It's today, the battle is today, the heart looks like the Earth," explained Will while pulling on a pair of shoes, "Tell the others to meet at my house, I'll call Matt."
"Ok," replied the guardian of fire. Will picked up her bedroom phone and dialed Matt's number. He picked up the phone after three rings, and Will explained the situation to him. He told her Huggles and himself would be at her house in a matter of minutes.
Will hung up the phone, left her bedroom, and grabbed a slice of toast to munch while she waited for the rest of the group to arrive. She noticed a sticky note stuck to the fridge and glanced over the scribbled note. Will, I went to the grocery store, I'll be back at noon –Mom. The doorbell chimed and Will rushed over to get it.
"Hay Lin, Taranee, Irma," greeted Will as the three girls entered the room.
"Morning Will," yawned Irma.
"So, do you know where the fold is?" asked Hay Lin.
"Not yet," Will replied. She watched the heart continue to imitate the earth's coloring in her hand. The counter top echoed the heart's glow and reflected it onto the ceiling. She walked to the door when she heard a knock and let the remaining members of the group inside.
"Hey Matt," smiled Will. Cornelia and Caleb walked in behind him with Napoleon. Mr. Huggles chattered on Matt's shoulder; he jumped over onto Will and perched on her arm. The room was suddenly crowded as the seven human occupants looked to each other.
"Will, the heart," noticed Cornelia. Everyone turned to look at the Heart of Candracar. The miniature Earth had taken to the air by its own free will and had begun to tug at the chain, pulling Will towards the door.
"Let's go," announced Will. She led the girls of witch, Caleb, Matt, and Napoleon out of her living room, outside, and onto the sidewalk. She walked down the streets towards a large park at the outskirts of town and bit her lip. Inside the park's boarders, a giant picnic had already begun; children raced around while their parents grilled and set out food.
"Faris sure picked a great place," muttered Irma.
"How are these people not going to notice anything?" asked Cornelia.
"That's where we come in," smiled Matt. The heart pulled Will into the park and towards a grove of towering pine trees near the northern edge. A bunch of children scurried away when the group approached, running over the nearby set of swings.
Suddenly a bright red light erupted from the center of the trees. Hurrying inside under the umbrella of pine needles, the girls saw the fold glittering between two trees.
"Guardians Unite!" called Will.
"Water,"
"Fire,"
"Earth,"
"Air,"
"Quintessence." When the girls had transformed and landed on the ground, they saw Matt, Mr. Huggles, and Napoleon had assumed their regent forms. Using Lillian's magic, they glamoured the area in the pine grove in case anyone stumbled in. The trees formed a thick barrier on their own, but the magic solidified the fact that no one needed to know what was going on inside.
"What did you turn it into?" asked Taranee, not noticing anything different; the fold still sparkled in front of them.
"If you were one of the people out there, you'd see a door where where the fold is," laughed Matt.
"A door?" asked Irma, "wouldn't that make people want to open it?"
"It's locked," stated Napoleon, his voice deadpan.
"Well, just in case," Cornelia stated, she placed her hand to the ground. The girls watched as a rock wall rose between the tree trunks, blocking entrance to everyone outside. Sunlight filtered in through the top of the trees, lighting up the twenty by fifteen square foot grove of trees.
"Now what?" asked Hay Lin.
"We wait," sighed Will, "once they start attacking we'll have to drive them back through the fold. Since the battle will have already started, we won't have to worry about ambushes on the other side." The girls nodded and prepared to fight the approaching army.
The sun had moved further west in the sky; shadows fell where sunlight had been before. The girls sat picking at the grass around them. The fold continued to sparkle in front of them, and the heart continued to resemble the Earth in Will's hand.
"What's taking them so long?" asked Cornelia, twirling a piece of her blond hair around her finger. Will stood up.
"I'm going to see if I can see what they're doing," she stated. As she walked to the fold she hoped she would not see them. She didn't want to have to fight them on Earth. Maybe Faris will back out, she thought at first, but pushed it from her mind, not with Phobos and Nerissa urging him on. I don't want to think that's they're right across this fold, inches from us. The army's all the way in Rokador, they're far away. Will felt the heart glow brighter around her neck as she neared the red fold, but it faded away as she poked her head through it.
"What?" she mumbled to herself. Will pulled her head back through the fold and looked to the others with confusion on her face.
"Did you see them?" asked Matt.
"No," replied Will, "all I saw was white mist."
"What?" questioned Taranee.
"But this is a red fold, that means it goes to Rokador," Irma reasoned.
"I know, and this is the fold the heart led us to," Will added.
"Let's see," Hay Lin said. She walked through the fold and disappeared. Taranee, Irma, Will, Cornelia, and Caleb followed her in. Napoleon nodded to Matt to follow them, Huggles and him could keep the magic going without him for awhile.
"What is this place?" asked Matt as he joined the group in the misty new world. The ground was filled with white fog that swirled in spirals as they walked through it. The mist kicked up from the ground floated into the air, filling it with the fog like clouds.
"Look!" pointed Cornelia. The others followed her finger and saw another red fold at the far end of the misty world they had just entered.
"That must be the fold to Rokador," Taranee stated.
"Then what's this place?" asked Irma.
"I think this is the space between our world and Rokador," Taranee reasoned, "we must always travel through this space, but for some reason we didn't this time."
"Maybe I did it," Will said, "I kept wanting not to see them, and thinking that they were far away. Maybe instead of zipping through this area and going straight through to Rokador, the heart wanted to help, and widened the gap."
"It makes sense," Hay Lin responded.
"Do our powers work here?" asked Irma, "if so, then we can fight here and not have to worry about people seeing us!" The girls each tried out their powers.
Taranee shot a fire ball into the misty sky; Hay Lin sent gusts of air, mixing up the clouds; Irma formed a pool of water at her feet which Hay Lin froze; Will successfully sent a lightning bolt into the sky which exploded as a firework. Cornelia seemed hesitant at trying out her power. She kicked at the ground she stood on, and saw earth under the white mist at her feet. Pressing her hand to the ground, she forced a block of earth into the air.
"Good," smiled Will.
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The red fold glittered in the afternoon sunlight. Faris pulled back on the reins, calming his horse. He looked out over his army of hundreds of winged soldiers. Most had successfully completed their flight training and were ready to attack.
"Are you ready?" asked Phobos.
"Almost," replied Faris.
"What are you waiting for?" asked Nerissa, drumming her fingers against her staff. The red crystal sparkled in the warm light.
"For the sun to line up with the tower," explained Faris, "its tradition. All major battles must start at sundown, which is marked by the sun reaching the western tower of the castle." Both Phobos and Nerissa raised their eyebrows and looked at one another with the same thoughts of amusement at his traditions.
"Now, we may begin," Faris explained to them, he nudged his winged horse towards the fold and called out to his army, "Let us go and conquer Earth!" He then referred to Nerissa and Phobos, "find the guardians, and get rid of them." His horse trotted through the fold followed by the army.
"Who does he think we are? His lackeys?" asked Phobos.
"He'll see his mistake after the battle," Nerissa muttered. She walked through the fold with Phobos at her heels. Pushing through the army men, Nerissa found Faris reining his horse in circles.
"Where are we?" asked Faris once he saw Nerissa.
"Did you make a fold to Earth?" asked Nerissa, annoyed.
"Yes I did," replied the prince.
"Look! Are those the guardians?" questioned Phobos, pointing out across the distance to another fold and small group of people.
"Charge!" called Faris, forgetting his worries. The army rushed forward with Faris at the head.
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"Someone's here," said Taranee. The girls, Caleb, and Matt glanced over to the other fold and noticed the dark mass of moving figures.
"Faris' army," figured Hay Lin.
"Let's go!" announced Will. Taranee, Irma, Hay Lin, and Matt, followed Will into the air. Caleb ran below them, wielding his sword, rushing at the army of winged warriors. Cornelia held back for a moment, but not out of fear. Touching the earth around the red fold, she created a barrier to slow the army's invasion into Earth. When the wall had risen, she sprung into the air, and fluttered away to catch the other guardians.
The two forces met in-between the two shimmering folds, the hundreds of soldiers verses the guardians, Caleb, and Matt. Roughly half of the Rokadorian army stumbled into the air, ready to beat down the guardians to get to the fold.
Swords clashed on the ground as Caleb met the grounded portion of the army. Matt swooped down to assist him, knocking away the soldiers.
Hay Lin blasted the men who flew at her away with powerful gusts of air. They tumbled through the misty sky; some recovered and flew at her again, only to blasted backward once more.
Taranee took aim at the army on the ground, shooting off fireballs at them to slow their progress. Most of the soldiers used their wings as shields to fight off the incoming balls of flame, but others where hit unaware and knocked down.
Irma formed water balls in her hands, and then sent them flying towards the men in the air. The ones she hit tumbled from the sky and landed on their fellow infantry men, shaking their wings to free them from the clinging water.
Cornelia rooted herself to the ground, raising the earth under the mist; tripping the marching men and making them sink into the earth. Will flew over to Cornelia and shouted over the noise.
"Remember what Yan Lin said about the army?" she called.
"What?" questioned Cornelia, sending a boulder towards a group of ten men, it knocked them all over.
"Strike!" called Irma from above, laughing.
"Earth affects them the most," Will reminded her. Cornelia smiled.
"One earthquake, coming up," she grinned. Taking a deep breath, Cornelia pressed both hands to the ground under the mist. She closed her eyes and exhaled; the ground under the majority of the army shook and quaked, parting down the middle. Opening her eyes, Cornelia smiled and deepened the pit.
"Irma!" called Will. Irma turned and saw the soldiers attempting to fly out of the gapping pit Cornelia had just formed.
"Hay Lin, want to give me a hand?" asked the guardian of water. The air guardian nodded and watched Irma send a wave of water towards the army, soaking them all. Blowing a chilling breeze towards the waterlogged soldiers, she watched them freeze in place. Some of the soldiers broke free of their ice bonds only moments later and continued to march towards the walled off fold.
"Irma, fill up the hole with water!" shouted Will.
"Hay Lin, get the rest of the soldiers into it!" called Cornelia, understanding where Will was going with her idea. Irma and Hay Lin complied, and the hole was soon filled with swimming winged soldiers. Will swooped over and sent a lightning bolt straight into the water.
"There," Will nodded, watching a few soldiers escape the electrified water and race back to the fold, escaping into Rokador.
"Where's Faris?" asked Matt. Will landed near him and Caleb on the ground. The other four girls joined them and looked around.
"And where's Nerissa?" questioned Taranee.
"And Phobos," added Hay Lin.
"There!" pointed Caleb, "they're escaping through the fold to Earth!"
"Stop them!" shouted Will. The guardians took to the air and flew towards the fold, watching as Phobos and Nerissa blasted through the rock barrier Cornelia had formed to block the soldiers. Phobos and Nerissa stepped through the fold and disappeared into Earth. Faris urged his horse through after them and also vanished onto Earth's landscape.
Episode 25 done! Up next is Episode 26 (The Battle for Earth) One more episode, and then it's over. How sad… : ( How was the battle scene, kinda short though, please tell me, I love getting reviews!