Disclaimer: you should know the drill by now but here goes I don't own Escaflowne or W.I.T.C.H or any of the characters.
Chapter 3.
Will, Irma, Taranee, Cornelia and Hay Lin sat around a tree in the park, together they were W.I.T.C.H, the guardians of the veil but today they were just normal girls hanging out on a weekend - that is until Hay Lin's map started pulsing. The map of the portals that Hay Lin's grandmother had given them showed the guardians where portals between Heatherfield and Metamoor opened and right now it was showing a new one open.
"Can't we ever get a day off?" Irma joked.
"Afraid not" replied Cornelia "I wonder what monster's coming through this time?"
"Only one way to find out" said Will standing up and brushing dirt off of her. "Lets go."
"The portals at the old amusement park." Hay Lin directed while putting the map away.
The five girls all ran off towards the amusement park.
Van and Hitomi got thrown out of the portal and landed on the hard ground, Van jumped up and drew his sword once more and turned towards the Portal.
"Hitomi get back, before we went through that thing we got spotted."
Hitomi got up and moved behind Van. As predicted, the blue portal started crackling again with energy as something came through, it was the giant snake-man, he slithered fully out of the portal and stood before Van. Van ran at the Snake-man, he jumped up at him and swung his sword but the snake-man swatted him away, Van recovered in mid-air and landed firmly on the ground and once more charged the creature. Van jumped once more but the snake-man moved to the side, Van landed in a crouch and turned to face the creature.
"Your faster then you look, I wouldn't think something your size could move that quickly." Van said.
"There's a lot you don't know boy." replied the snake-man holding out one of his giant hands.
The creature sent out a pulse of energy at Van, Van crossed his arms in front of his face to try and block the strange blast but it was more powerful then it looked, Van got thrown back and rolled across the ground.
"Van!" shouted Hitomi. She turned to the snake-man "Who are you? what do you want with us?"
"The name's Cedric." Cedric replied with a sly grin. "And its my master that wants you not me."
"Your master?"
"You'll meet him soon enough." Cedric smirked. "Of course it will probably be the last thing you see so you should be honoured."
Cedric moved towards Hitomi, Hitomi stumbled backwards away from Cedric, Cedric reached out with one of his giant hands but before he could grab a hold of Hitomi he felt a sharp pain across his back, he let out a howl as he moved his hands behind his back to hold the wound. Van ran around from behind him and stood in front of Hitomi with his sword ready again, his Katana had a few droplets of blood running down the blade.
"You fool!" spat Cedric "You'll pay for that."
Cedric reached out again but once more before he could grab one of them he was interrupted but this time by a torrent of water hitting into him with substantial force, he got forced backwards and looked around at what happened, he spotted five familiar figures.
"Guardians!" he shouted. "Must you interfere with everything!"
"We're sorry scale face." said Cornelia sarcastically.
'I need a new plan' Cedric thought.
Cedric pointed at Van and Hitomi.
"I'll be back for you."
And with that he moved back through the portal and got away. The Guardians walked over to Van and Hitomi, Van sheathed his sword.
"Thank you." he said. "Do you know that thing?"
"Not by choice." said Taranee.
"Why are Phobos and Cedric are after you?" asked Will
"Who's Phobos?" Hitomi spoke up.
"Cedric's boss." replied Irma.
"We don't know why they were after us." said Van again.
"Well maybe you should come with us, we can talk about it some place else." Cornelia offered.
The Guardians transformed back to their normal selves and walked away with Van and Hitomi.
End of Chapter 3.
Chapter 4 to come.