Sorry for the late update. With the school life, and the exam, I won't be updating wuite often these days, but I will try to finish this story as fast as possible. Well, here it is...
Irma : Back to the good side, finally.
Cornelia : Here we go again, another argument will start soon.
Me : Shut up and read the disclaimer.
Cornelia : *Grunt* storyLover58 does not own W.I.T.C.H..
Irma : Stop being so grumpy, Corny.
Cornelia : I am not grumpy! And don't call me that!
Me : Now on with the story...
Chapter 25 : The Next Strike
Simon and Irma was in the dining hall, having their meal. 'You think they will forgive me?' Irma asked Simon.
'They should, cause you were being controlled by the bracelet,' Simon said, making Irma smile a little.
'You just know how to make a girl happy,' Irma said before pecking his cheek.
'I know, I have the charm with girls,' Simon said with a wink.
'Yeah right...' Irma said while playfully hitting Simon on the shoulder.
'I'm kidding,' Simon said before they laugh together.
'Let's head outside, I'm kinda bored,' Irma said before exitting the dining hall. Simon then followed her out the hall and onto the field. He noticed that Irma was waiting by the tree, staring at the dummies. Simon then stand beside her before Irma shoot a fireball at the dummy.
It hit the dummy square on the chest, which it blew up into pieces. 'Nice hit, Irma,' Simon said, which made Irma smile.
'You know that you say that to please me only,' Irma said with a smirk, knowing that Simon saw that he always watch her trained with her new magic.
'I know, but that wasn't the real you,' Simon said before Irma held his arm.
'Let's head to the cliff, it always calms me down,' Irma said, before dragging him with her towards the cliff.
'Maybe later, I got to get into the palace to find out what Sarian will strike next,' Simon said which Irma sigh.
'Fine, you better hurry up then,' Irma said before Simon entered the palace.
He quickly headed to the meeting hall, eavesdropping on what would they do next. He heard three voices coming out from the room, which he recognised all of the voices. It was a discussion between Sarian, Lia-Hin and Miranda of their next strike on the guardians.
'So, Miranda, you will try to find a way to glue their wings, thus giving us some air time, while you Lia-Hin, you will take out two of the guardians with Miranda and Simon,' Sarian stated which they nodded.
'What about you, my mistress?' Miranda asked.
'I will try to take out two of the guardians with the help of my new friend, the water guardian. Then the heart of Kandrakar will be mine,' Sarian said while clenching her hand, like closing something between it.
'Then, the Infinite Dimension will be ours,' Lia-Hin said before they smirk.
Simon heard what were they doing next. He was worried about the others, so he had to warn the others tonight. But before he left, he heard some more discussion in the hall.
'We will head to one place call Mount Thanos,' Sarian stated.
'When will we strike?' Miranda asked.
'Tomorrow, before we seal their fate,' Sarian said while getting up.
Simon heard that Sarian was about to exit the hall, so he quickly left the place before finding a spot to hide. Just as he was hiding, he heard that the door had just open, which Sarian exitted the hall, followed with Lia-Hin and Miranda. He waited until they were nowhere to be seen or heard before getting out of his hiding place. 'I got to warn the girls,' Simon thought before exitted the palace, to tell Irma about the plan Sarian and her allies had made.
Once outside, he noticed that Irma was still practicing her air and fire combo. He quickly stand beside her before telling her about the plan. 'Irma, we need to tell the others,' Simon said after explaining to Irma about the plan.
'I will stay, you just go and tell them tonight,' Irma said, worried of her friends.
Simon nodded before headed to the cliff with Irma which he promised he would spend time with her over there. He hoped that no one noticed he was eavesdropping on the enemy door while they discussed earlier.
Meanwhile, at Heatherfield, Mr Lair was busy investigating about who attack him a few days ago. He was at Will's apartment, wanted to know what Will was doing on that day. He was facing the door to the Vandom's place before he knock on the door. Susan answered the door and was surprised that Mr Lair had arrived at her doorstep. 'Mrs Vandom, can we talk with your daughter?' Mr Lair asked.
'What's wrong? What did my daughter did this time?' Susan asked, remembering the last time they visited their home.
(From episode C is for Changes. Now lets continue the story...)
'I can't tell you about it, Mrs Vandom. But can I speak with Will,' Mr Lair asked, changing back the subject.
'Let me get her,' Susan said before she let Mr Lair into her apartment. She then knock on Will's bedroom door. 'Will, Mr Lair is here, wanting to talk to you,' Susan said.
Will then open the door before looking into the living room. She saw that Irma's dad was sitting on the couch, waiting for her. 'What have I done now,' Will asked, knowing of what had happened to him.
'I don't know, but I think you better go and talk to him before it gets complicated,' Susan stated before Will headed towards the living room.
Mr Lair saw that Will was now facing him, so he began to question her. 'Will, can you please tell me where have you been on the day where someone attack me,' Mr Lair asked.
'I was at Elyon's place,' Will answered, knowing that it was a partial truth.
'Do you have any enemies?' Mr Lair asked, surprising her with the question.
'No,' Will answered, which was a lie.
'And does the others know where were you?' Mr Lair asked for the last time.
'Yes, we always hang out together,' Will said, wanted to get this over.
'I also wanted to know why someone wanted to frame you girls,' Mr Lair asked, making Will tense up.
'Can I get a cup of water first before continuing, I'm kinda thirsty,' Will said, which Mr Lair shook his head. Will then headed into the bathroom, in a normal way.
Once inside the bathroom, she quickly locked the door before headed to the window. Once she open the window, she took out the heart. 'Guardian... Er... Me... Unite!' Will called out before transforming into her guardian form. 'I so need to remember on what to call first,' Will said before flying out the window and towards the Silver Dragon.
Meanwhile, Taranee and Cornelia was at Matt's house, helping out the band, Wreck 55. Matt and Nigel was getting their guitar set. 'Okay, guys, let's do The Demon In Me first,' Matt said before they started the rehearse. As the song started to play, Taranee turn her recorder on, which Matt insisted that she brought it along.
Didn't know why I couldn't fly,
Didn't want to be stuck on the ground,
I wanted just soar across the sky,
But something was holding me down.
What had me cower in fear?
What was it I couldn't see?
The answer near, but so unclear,
I was fighting the demon in me.
The demon in me,
The demon in me,
The battle weird, over all that I feared,
I was fighting the demon in me.
He fell on me when I was weak,
Made me feel so lazy and dumb,
He talked to me deep in my sleep,
My mind and my soul overcome.
I started to just let him win,
I decided to just let it be,
It was up to me not to give in,
I was trapped by the demon in me.
The demon in me,
The demon in me,
My head in a spin, my strength wearing thin,
I was trapped by the demon in me.
Asked myself, what did I want?
Kick back or just go for broke?
My dreams continued to haunt,
I'd get close – then the demon said choke.
Somehow you gotta step up,
Stop buying excuses for free,
So I went face-to-face, laid claim to my space,
And rocked the demon…
The demon in me,
The demon in me,
I recovered my spark, got free of the dark,
And I rocked, the demon in me,
The demon in me,
I rocked, the demon ïn me…
(I'm not sure whether is this the correct one, I did some research though. Just need some review here, now on with the story...)
As they finish off the song, Taranee stopped the recording and hand it to Matt and the others to listen. They then listen their play while Cornelia check her watch. 'Taranee, I better head to the Silver Dragon, I promised Hay Lin that I will help her with some dress she was making,' Cornelia said as she headed out the garage.
'Well, I will meet you there later, bye,' Taranee said before she joined the boys. They all listen to the music the band had just played.
At the Silver Dragon, Hay Lin was finishing putting the final touches on the dress she made for Cornelia and Irma. Since Irma wasn't with them, she made Cornelia's dress first. 'She should be here any moment now,' Hay Lin said softly while checking on with the dress. It was a red colour dress, with a gold colour man made gold on both of the sleeves, to make it more stunning. And a beautiful flower was put on at the side, beside the right sleeve. Hay Lin was happy about the dress she made for Cornelia, even though it took her three days to make it. As she was getting a drink from all of the worked, the back door was knocking.
'Coming!' Hay Lin called out as she was rushing up the stairs. Just as she opened the door to expect Cornelia was waiting for trying on the dress, she instead was seeing the guardian Will. 'Will, what are you doing here?' Hay Lin asked as Will walked into the restaurant.
'No time to explain, get the others here, quick,' Will said as they both headed back down into the basement.
'Got it,' Hay Lin said as she took out her phone and dialled Taranee number. Right after the third ring, she answered the called.
'Hello,' Taranee said.
'Taranee, 911 at the Silver Dragon, get here now. And if you have the chance, bring Matt as well,' Hay Lin said before she heard another knock on the back door. She figured it could be Cornelia, so she told Taranee to hurry up before heading back up the stairs. Will stayed in the basement, not wanting to frighten the cooks and the waiters, since she was in her guardian form.
As Hay Lin answered the door, she noticed an anxious Cornelia standing there. 'So, did you finish the dress yet?' Cornelia asked in excitement.
'Sorry Corny, but we have a situation,' Hay Lin said as Cornelia walked into the placed.
'What kind of situation? Did you mess up the dress? Or is it the wrong colour?' Cornelia asked as they headed into the basement.
'Worse, Irma's dad just question me at my place,' Will said, which Cornelia stared at her.
'What are we going to do? We can't just go to jail, I'm too pretty to go there,' Cornelia said as Will rolled her eyes.
'I don't know, but we need to find a way to clear our names before it will go even worse,' Will said.
'Well, we may try to tell Mr Lair about us being guardians,' Hay Lin suggested.
'We can't. We don't want to freak both Irma and Mr Lair,' Will said, which left them in a tight spot.
'Let's wait for Taranee, she can figure this out,' Cornelia said.
Then, the back door was being knock again. Hay Lin then rushed to answer it while Will transform back into her normal form. Just as she was sitting down on the bed, Hay Lin was walking down the stairs with Taranee and Matt following her.
'Okay, what is going on here. My band need to rehearse before the battle,' Matt complained.
'Matt, this is serious, Irma's dad just ask me about what I was doing when he was attack on that day,' Will said, thus shocking everybody.
'We need to find a way to get out of this,' Taranee said, which the others nodded.
'But how? We can't just tell Mr Lair about us, and we can't tell him lies either,' Cornelia said, which left them in a disappointed mood.
'All we have to do now is to hide and wait for Irma to come back, so that she might get the chance to explain to her dad,' Will said.
'But aren't you worried that they will search for you girl? I mean, you just escaped an interrogation with Mr Lair earlier,' Matt said, which Will just remembered about her break-out.
'I totally forgotten about it, now I seriously got to hide,' Will said in a worried tone.
'Calm down Will, it might work out soon,' Taranee said, trying to calm their leader.
'Alright, I will try to calm down. But I hope we can get Irma to explain everything to her dad about us not attacking him but another person,' Will said, which the girls and Matt breath in another disappointment.
As they were sitting down on the bed, a fold was open right in front of them. Will got out the heart while Matt got into battle stance. But they stand down as Simon appeared from the fold. 'Girls, I have news, there will be another attack on you girls,' Simon said, which the girls let their current subject out and concentrated on defeating their new enemy.
'When, and where,' Will said.
'At Mount Thanos, tomorrow evening,' Simon said, which Taranee and Hay Lin wrote down the date and placed.
'Thanks for telling us, Simon,' Cornelia said.
'Tell Irma we say hi as well,' Will said.
'I will,' Simon said as he was about to head back.
'Wait,' Hay Lin cried out, which Simon stopped at his tracks before facing back at them.
'What's the matter?' Simon asked.
'Can you give her this? I made it for her,' Hay Lin said as she handed Simon a parcel.
'I will, see ya later, girls,' Simon said as he crossed the fold back to Bartiliate.
'Well then, let's get ready for our next battle,' Will said while facing them.
'Great, that means we can get to see her again,' Matt said.
'You seem to be excited about seeing her again,' Cornelia said.
'That's because she is the manager of the radio station, and the place we are playing needed her to be in the radio booth, to broadcast the music we are playing,' Matt explained.
'I get it, I get it,' Cornelia said, which made Matt rolled his eyes in annoyance.
'Let's head back home,' Taranee said as she was checking her watch.
'Good idea, I could use the rest,' Cornelia said as she left the basement with Taranee.
'Hay Lin, can I stay here? I'm kinda scared of seeing Mr Lair right now,' Will said, which surprised Hay Lin and Matt.
'Sure, you can sleep with me in my bedroom,' Hay Lin said, which Will thanked her.
'Well, so long girls, I better continue on rehearsing our current song,' Matt said as he left the basement.
'I better tell my mom I will be sleeping with a friend of mine, since I don't want her to tell Mr Lair of where I am right now,' Will said as she took out her phone and dialled her mom's number. Then she heard her mom had picked up the called and started to tell her about the "sleepover" at her friend's place, carefully not pronouncing which one. She was relief that her mom wasn't upset of her, but was somehow confused as how did she managed to escape the police when she was in the bathroom.
'My mom say it is okay for me to sleep at your place, and we better get enough rest for the upcoming battle,' Will said as they exited the basement.
'I wonder how is Irma doing right now,' Hay Lin said, as she was thinking of her best friend.
Irma was having her dinner with Simon and Sarian. 'Irma, I have some news for you and Simon,' Sarian said as they finished off their meal.
'What kind of news?' Irma asked, which she knew about it since Simon had told her when they were staring out into the ocean when they were on the cliff. But she played the clueless part, not letting Sarian knew about them which they were with the good side.
'We are going to attack those former friends of your at Mount Thanos tomorrow evening,' Sarian said, which Simon and Irma look at each other. 'Would you care to help me?' she asked as they both look back at Sarian.
'Yeah, I can't wait to take down Corny,' Irma said in her evil way, which she was actually playing around with her being evil.
'Good to hear, then you better get some rest before practicing another round outside,' Sarian said as Irma nodded. She then left the dining hall with Simon before they headed to their rooms.
On their way up the stairs, Irma stopped walking. 'We better find a way to stop her,' Irma said.
'We will, Irma, we will,' Simon said as they continued to head to their rooms.
'Simon, are you keeping something else from me?' Irma asked, noticing that Simon was day dreaming.
'Huh? Oh, nothing, just wondering about the battle tomorrow,' Simon said, which he was actually lying.
'Okay, goodnight,' Irma said as she entered her room.
'You too,' Simon said before continuing to his room. On his way there, he was thinking about whether he should tell Irma more about himself. 'If only there is a way,' Simon said softly while entering his room.
Well, there we go, the long awaited chapter. Sorry it took me this long to update this chapter, not having much time to turn my laptop on with the studies for the most important year of my life. Anyway, I will like to get some reviews and comments from the readers, thanks. ;)