Magical Witches
Chapter 2: We're What?!
By: KawaiiLeena

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Then, Meiling stops her sentence when Kaho starts to laugh. She arches one eyebrow while Chiharu asks, "What's so funny?"

"Everything, my dear," Kaho replies. "Let me put it in a more clearer way. You five are special girls, more special than the average teen. Each of you possesses one earth element power that is bestowed by your ancestors."

Everything became silent and but Meiling breaks the silence with, "Whaaatt? I don't understand!"

Kaho sighs and says, "Or in short, you five have magical powers."

Chapter 2: We're what?! >>>

Then, everything REALLY became silent. Nobody says a word, and not even a breath can be heard, too. The five girls were surprised by the explanation of Miss Mitzuki. Them, Has magical powers? Unbelievable!

"I can't believe this!" Chiharu cries, standing up, her brown pigtails swaying, and her long eyebrows furrowed. "I don't want to believe this crap!"

Just then, Kaho's eyes turns serious as she says in a strange tone, "Mihara Chiharu, this is not 'crap'. This is a serious situation that involves life and death and everything in between. I know that this might sound unbelievable, but there is nothing you can do about it. It is fate. It is your ancestor's wish. Your special gift."

Chiharu looks away, her face still fuming with anger that boils inside of her. "Chiharu, calm down," Tomoyo comforts her, patting her shoulders. "We agree with you, because we also didn't expect this, but we have to listen to what Kaho have to say." She turns to Sakura and asks, "Right Sakura?"

Sakura nods and pleads her emerald eyes to Chiharu's brown ones to calm and sit down. Chiharu gives up and sits back down, receiving a smile on Kaho's lips. "But I still won't agree to this!" she mutters under her breath, again receiving a nudge on the ribs by Naoko. "Hmph."

"Thank you for your support and lending time to listen," Kaho says gratefully. She looks up to one of the girls one at a time before proceeding. "Please allow me to start in the beginning."

"Since the start of time, there is a man called Clow Reed, a man with majestic powers of many kinds, a very powerful man. Since he is special, he has given the gift to live for eternity and beyond. The Gods in the high heavens gave him under his guard many universes and planets and kingdoms to protect."

"After some time, Clow Reed cannot protect all of this alone, and with this, he formed five powerful elements he summoned from the Earth's atmosphere. But he needs someone who will use it wisely and well, and with that, he picked five young girls about your age, and they became the guardians of the fortress of Clow Reed, Deimos."

Kaho stops for a while to catch her breath. She looks up to the five girls to see them listening to her intently, eyes filled with emotions such as confusion and a tad bit of anger. She takes a deep breath again before continuing.

"Anna; the gentle mother of the group; stunningly kind and beautiful at the same time; has artistic and creativity for fashions and dresses galore; is the Guardian of Air and Wind. Kaoru; the stubborn and sometimes presumptuous of the group; a girl who will do everything to protect her love ones from any kind of danger; and an emotional girl that never fails to open her problems to others is the Guardian of Earth. Yuriko; the smartest girl of the group; a girl who stands up for herself and for others; a girl who make the best out of anything; a girl who will always mark her every word; is the Guardian of Fire. Xiao Yu; the joker of the group; a girl who cheers her friends up when sad; a girl who jokes at everything; a very happy-go-lucky girl; is the Guardian of Water."

"Last but not least, Ying Fa; the naïve and innocent of the whole group, but also a very headstrong leader; a girl who knows how to handle jobs well; a girl that never fails to help others; is the Guardian of Light, and the leader of the five girls. And being the leader, she holds the Crystal Heart. A silver heart shaped pendant that will transform everyone to their appointed guardians form."

"These five guardians protected the fortress well, until one day, something tragic happened that changed their lives forever. With that, they were forced to resign their contract with Clow Reed being Guardians. But since this is forbidden, they were stuck to it, until the problem grew and grew, that they were permanently resigned. Until then, Clow Reed handles the jobs all to himself."

"But right now, he needs the new guardians to take place. Because another dark enemy is planning to destroy the fortress where Clow Reed lives and wants to take his position," Kaho explains to them, and then glances to them with a worried look. "And those guardians are you! Sakura, Tomoyo, Meiling, Naoko and Chiharu; you five are the special girls."

Naoko looks at Kaho with an understanding look and asks, "Why us, Kaho-san?"

Kaho gives her a half-smile and replies, "Because you are the descendants of the previous five guardians." Naoko's eyes widen in surprise, but nods. "Please understand me, and I hope you will cooperate before the enemy destroys—"

"Let him destroy the fortress, like we care anyways!" Chiharu retorts back angrily, standing up once again from her seat, and put her hands on her hips. "Nothing will happen after that anyways!"

"Yes, there will, Mihara Chiharu!" Kaho says back sternly, an angry look on her face. "Now please sit and keep your voice down! This is something very urgent!"

"Yeah, Chi, keep her a break," Meiling says, a smirk on her face. "You don't have to yell at her like that. Don't waste the time Kaho-san made for us. 'Sides, it's fun skipping classes for a while." She says this with a grin.

A soft sigh escapes Tomoyo's pink lips as Chiharu sits down, fuming. She looks up to Kaho and says, "Thank you for the offer, Kaho-san, but we don't think we can handle it."

"Yeah," Sakura agrees, nodding her head, her golden brown locks dancing with her rhythm. "We're just teenage girls, after all. Just sweet sixteen, but well, Naoko and Meiling are fifteen, nevertheless, that has no difference." She turns to her friends, "Right girls?"

Naoko, Meiling, and Tomoyo nods with her, while Chiharu just glare. Kaho makes a small smile and sighs, "That's nice, girls. But if you want to know, the former guardians that stood place many years ago were the same age as you." The girls' eyebrows rise up in surprise. "Not more or less. And if you know what, they were excellent doing their jobs well. If the problem ended, they would still be the guardians today. But now, it is entrusted to you. Please."

The five girls look at each other with their colorful eyes, as if thinking hard for an answer. Is it right to do this? Should they join this for the sake of the world? What will happen after they join in?

Chiharu sighs and puts her hands on her lap, and the anger that was on her face fades away, turning to a calm look. She looks at Naoko who shrugs; to Meiling who shrugs as well; and for Tomoyo, well, she just sighs and makes a small smile.

"What do you think, Sakura-chan?" Chiharu asks, turning to Sakura's emerald eyes, seeing a mixture of confusion and hope in her eyes. "Should we join or reconsider?"

Sakura glances over to Kaho, who looks back at her and gives her hopeful eyes that she would say yes. The auburn-haired girl sighs and looks down. Is it worth it?

"Kaho-san, girls, for me, this is my answer," she tells them with a forced smile. "I do not know what will happen after; I do not know what is the outcome of our future, but if you ask me… Yes, I'll join."

Tomoyo's eyes widen in surprise, while Naoko, Chiharu, and Meiling gasps. Did they just hear her right? Did she really say yes? Did she REALLY agree by the offer Kaho-san gave to them?

The teacher turns to Sakura with a big smile and takes a small, but polite bow, "Arigato, Sakura-san. Arigato for understand the problem. Arigato Gozaimasu!" Sakura just laugh nervously, and one question fills her mind: Did she really want this?

The amethyst-eyed teenager sighs and glances over her best friend, looking at her with the same hopeful eyes. "Well, if Sakura is joining, then I'll join, too!" she announces with a proud face. Kaho smiles.

"I know this will be dangerous and quite risky, but I want some more tougher challenges!" Naoko says cheerfully, smiling. "So, if joining in will give me the challenges I want, then sure!" Kaho smiles wider.

Chiharu gasps and looks at Naoko with almost tearful brown eyes. "Naoko! Are you serious about this?" she asks her with confusion hinted in her voice. The maroon-haired (a/N: I don't know Naoko's hair color, so; yeah) girl turns to her and nods with a smile. "I can't believe this!" she turns to the Chinese girl. "How about you, Meiling?"

Meiling turns to Chiharu and smirks, "Well, life is quite boring right now! And I actually want some rampage fun!" Everyone sweatdrops. She continues, "And since this offer sounds exciting and inviting, I think I'll take it!"

Chiharu gasps once again and her jaw almost fell to the floor. "Not you, too, Meiling!" the pigtailed girl sighs and raise her hands in the air and says dully, "Guess I'm the only one who'll not join." After she said these magic words, the other girls turn to look at her and start to smile a little too sweetly. Chiharu crosses her arms in front of her bosom and arches an eyebrow, "What? Why are you looking at me that way?"

"Oh, c'mon, Chiharu!" Meiling insists, tugging her arm, and then starts to grin. "Don't you want to join in? Imagine, you'll have to do magic and kinds of stuff! Isn't that cool?"

Chiharu rolls her eyes and snaps back plainly, "If 'cool' means foolish and idiotic, then yeah, I guess so." Just then, everyone starts to stare at her with wide, and big hopeful eyes. "What?" Naoko starts to nudge her on her ribs, "No, Naoko!"

"Please!" The four girls plead, giving her goofy grins. Kaho laughs slightly at this. "Please, Chiharu-sama!"

"Alright, already!" Chiharu cries, standing up so that her friends won't bug her anymore. "I'll join; I'll join! Happy? So there!" she sits back to her seat with a very unhappy frown.

"Thank you everyone," Kaho says gratefully, bowing to them with a bright smile. "Thank you so much. I'm very sure that you will protect the fortress well enough to please Clow Reed and the other Councils of Deimos."

"Now that's over with," Tomoyo starts, putting her hand on her chin. "Will you kindly tell us about our powers bestowed to us?"

Kaho smiles at her and says, "Why, I thought you'll never ask, my dear." She turns to Sakura and raise up her right hand to her and asks, "Sakura-san, may I borrow your pendant?"

Sakura looks up in surprise. What would Kaho want from a mere pendant? Well, she won't take chances. The 16-years old girl pulls out her silver heart-shaped pendant off her chest and hands it to Kaho.

"As you don't notice, this is not just a mere pendant," Kaho explains to them, as she puts the pendant to her left hand and rise it up high to the air. "Watch, girls." Kaho closes her eyes as she chants loudly,

Air, Water, Earth, Fire and Light,
I combine all these elements to summon the spirit of Yuan Xin within you.
May the legendary five dragons bow down under your presence!
It is I, Mitzuki Kaho, calling upon your name,
To withdraw the five energies created by the highly Clow Reed
I command you to release the elements right now,
Crystal Heart!

While Kaho was chanting her spell, the silver-heart pendant started to float in midair, making the girls gasp and watch in amazement. A whitish light soon starts to surround around it, and a combination of red, yellow, earth-ish brown, silver gray and blue colors above it, and starts to form a magical circle of drowning colors.

"Sugoi…" Chiharu and Meiling whispers at the same time, and then stares at the floating pendant with amazed eyes, wondering if this is real

"Kawaii!" Tomoyo exclaims, putting out a video camera from who knows where, and starts to record it on tape, a tint of blush coming from her cheeks. "Ne, ne, Sakura-chan! Stand beside your pendant, so that I'll be able to record with you in it!"

A rather large sweatdrop appears by Sakura's head and laughs nervously, "Tomoyo-chan!" she then turns to the pendant and to the chanting Kaho. – This is too good to be true –

"Crystal Heart!" Kaho almost yells, opening her eyes and looks up to the shining pendant. She smiles when it shines another enchanting yellow light, and then, little five magical auras with different colors with the same shape of circles comes out from the pendant and floats back to Kaho's right hand. "Good."

"That was so cool!" Meiling cries happily, grinning ear to ear, her ruby eyes twinkling with such interest. "Do it again! Do it again!"

Everyone sweatdrops and giggles. Kaho smiles and turns to all of them. "These are the five elements I'll be giving you right now," she explains, her kind eyes turning to theirs. "With this, you can use your powers right now and then. But I warn you, girls, be wise when you use them. Sometimes, magic is dangerous."

"Aww… we know that!" Meiling interrupts, grinning again. Everyone turns to her and gives her an odd look. Meiling blushes and sheepishly grins, sinking in her seat. "I mean, go on, and go on."

Kaho sighs and turns to Tomoyo, and then picks up the silver gray aura ball in her left hand and points it to Tomoyo's forehead, "I, Mitzuki Kaho, hereby entrusts you, Daidouji Tomoyo, with the power of Air and Wind, use it for good; not evil, use it to help others in need; and to use it to protect the fortress of Deimos, do you agree?"

Tomoyo bows her head, closes her eyes and nods and says back, "Yes, I agree." With a satisfied nod, Kaho pushes the aura ball to Tomoyo's forehead, making it go inside through magic. After a few moments, Tomoyo looks up and smiles, "Wow, I feel much stronger!"

"Because you are stronger, Tomoyo," Kaho replies back. She turns to her and pats her shoulders. "Do you want to test this magic of yours?" Tomoyo cheerfully nods and Kaho leads her to the middle of the empty classroom. Making sure no one is around to witness anything, she closes the doors and windows. "Okay, Tomoyo, here is what you are going to do. You see the windows revealing outside, right?"

Tomoyo looks to her right side and nods. Kaho continues, "And there is no wind, right?" The raven-haired girl nods once again. "Good, then, I want you to command the winds to enter the windows to this classroom."

The amethyst-eyed student turns to her and gives a worried look, "But how, Kaho-san?"

Kaho smiles and explains, "Your hands, Tomoyo. You can raise them up and command the wind to come to you. But, it is possible that you can just control it using your mind." Tomoyo nods and gives a smile. "Now begin."

Tomoyo takes a deep breath and closes her violet eyes, then starts to raise both of her hands in front of her. Her long eyebrows twitches a little, then her mouth slowly opens, and she starts to chant to herself.

Sakura looks around and turns to Naoko, "Did you hear that?" she asks quietly, but Naoko heard it. The maroon-haired girl shakes her head. "Strange. I thought I heard something."

Just then, all windows in their right side starts to shake violently, and the before peaceful sky soon starts to blow furiously, the wind blowing in every direction. The four girls gasp once again and smiles. It worked! Then, after a few moments, it stops blowing, leaving Tomoeda in peace.

The raven-haired student soon opens her eyes with a smile and turns to her friends, "Well? Did it work?"

"Hell, yeah!" Meiling shrieks, jumping up and down. "It was so great! Strong winds started to flow! How did you do that, Tomoyo-chan?"

Tomoyo winks at her and laughs, "Magic!" she turns to the smiling Kaho. "Arigato, Kaho-san."

Kaho turns to her and says, "Of course, you are the chosen guardian of Air and Wind, after all." Then she turns to Chiharu, who is patiently waiting for her turn. "Well, Mihara-san… are you ready for this? No backing out." She teases.

Chiharu sighs and sarcastically replies back, "Yeah, I'm ready, and please, do not blame me. Blame my friends." She points them with her index finger and the other four soon starts to giggle. "Yeah, giggle all you want, guys!" she turns to Kaho and closes her eyes. "Well, I'm ready as you can be."

Their teacher nods and picks up the brown aura element and presses it to Chiharu's forehead as she says, "I, Mitzuki Kaho, hereby entrusts you, Mihara Chiharu, with the power of Earth and its sources, use it for good; not evil, use it to help others in need; and to use it to protect the fortress of Deimos, do you agree?"

Chiharu bows her head slightly and nods, and says, "Yes, I agree." With a nod, Kaho presses harder the aura element until it falls transparently to Chiharu's forehead. The dark brown haired girl looks up and looks at herself, "I feel… weird."

"That's what Kaoru said in the beginning, too," Kaho tell them in amazement. "You must be related to her, then. Even the attitude is similar, too." Then she pushes aside the chairs, making a straight path to the end of the room. "Now, test your Earth powers. All you have to do is…just do like Tomoyo had done, but yours is Earth. Try to make this straight path shake."

Chiharu looks at her with her brown eyes. "You mean, like an earthquake?"

"Yes, but this time, only this straight path, not anything else," Kaho explains. Chiharu nods and steps forward while the others steps aside. "Now begin."

The brown pigtail-haired girl nods and focuses her eyes at the straight path Kaho leaded her. She clenches her fists as she concentrates one thing in her mind: To make an earthquake. After a few moments, Sakura looks down.

"What's…. what's happening?" Sakura asks nervously, looking at the path Chiharu has her focus on. Her emerald eyes widen in surprise to see the path, yes, the pathway ONLY shaking! "Sugoi!"

After a minute, Chiharu loosens her fist and sighs, and turns to her friends with a tired look, "Wow, that was fun! But tiring in some way!" she turns to Kaho and gives her the 'thumbs up' look. "I changed my mind! This is going to be better than I expected." Kaho smiles back at her.

"Good," Kaho smiles, then turns to the nervous Naoko, who starts to bite her nails, "It's your turn. Are you ready?" Naoko nods and walks to Kaho's side, as their teacher picks up the fiery red aura element and presses it to Naoko's soft forehead. "Well, here goes."

"I, Mitzuki Kaho, hereby entrusts you, Yanagisawa Naoko, with the power of Fire, use it for good; not evil, use it to help others in need; and to use it to protect the fortress of Deimos, do you agree?"

Naoko shakily bows her slightly and nods and mutters, "Yes, I agree." With a nod, Kaho pushes the element aura ball to her forehead, letting it pass through. When Naoko tints her head up, she asks, "So, is it over?"

"Yes, and let us test your fire magic," Kaho suggests, smiling. "Now, Naoko… in all the five girls, you control the wildest element there is… fire. I don't want to take any risk, but… I want you to make fireballs with your hands. Can you do it?"

Naoko swallows hard and nods. "Good," Kaho says, sighing. She joins Sakura and Meiling and the others. "Begin."

The smart girl rises up her right hand in front of her and focuses her dark eyes to it, twitching her eyebrows a little as she tries to concentrate. Then, a small fire starts to appear, and as time passes, it grows bigger and bigger, making Meiling squeal.

"Kawaii!" Tomoyo shrieks, popping her video camera again. "I have to get this one, too!" Everybody sweatdrops at this sight, and the fire that appeared vanishes off. "Aww… so soon?"

"Gomenasai, Tomoyo but we have to act soon," Kaho apologizes. "You still have to get to your classes." Then she turns to the very excited Meiling. "Ready, Meiling?"

"Ready as you can be!" Meiling responds back, giggling. She walks to Kaho's side and tints her head up.

"I, Mitzuki Kaho, hereby entrusts you, Li Meiling, with the power of water, use it for good; not evil, use it to help others in need; and to use it to protect the fortress of Deimos, do you agree?"

Meiling bows her head slightly, her jet-black hair joining, and nods. "Yeah, I agree!" she says this a little too excited. With a sigh, Kaho presses the aura element to Meiling's forehead. After a while, Meiling looks up, "All done? Wow! I have magic!"

"Now, don't get too excited about this Meiling," Kaho warns in a serious tone. "Anyways, let us test this powers of yours." The teacher soon leads the outgoing guardian to the window and points the swimming pool beside the gym. "Meiling, I want you to create small tidal waves to the swimming pool. Now, begin."

Meiling smirks and decides to make it a bit faster, of course, to impress everybody. She focuses her full attention to the swimming pool, and with a snap of her right fingers, small and a little big tidal waves soon starts to appear, making the girls gasp.

"How did you do that?" Naoko asks. "With just a snap of your fingers?"

"Magic, of course!" Meiling replies back, her head held high, with a proud smile on her face.

"I remember Clow Reed told me that the once Xiao Yu was a sometimes annoying person," Kaho teases with a smile. "She would do EVERYTHING to impress everybody."

"Then, that means," Chiharu starts, giggling. "Meiling and Xiao Yu must be related to each other. Meiling always HAVE to be the best of everything, right Mei?"

The Chinese girl rolls her ruby eyes and says in a grumpy voice, "Shut it, Chiharu!" and then starts to cross her arms. Everyone laughs.

Sakura, realizing that she's the only one who doesn't have received her powers yet, turns to Kaho and innocently asks, "What will be my power, Kaho-san?" she says this with hope in her emerald pools.

Kaho smiles at her and touches her right shoulder and says in a reassuring tone, "Believe me, Sakura-chan, your powers are more special." She then turns to pick up the very last aura element in her left hand and turns to Sakura.

"Hoe??"

To be continued…

Hi! Sorry about he chapter being very long, but I can't help it! Well, that's that! Thank you very much for the kind reviews! It flatters me so! Even only I got four… but that's all right, ne? Anyways, thanks for anyone who's readying this chapter! I really like this story and I hope it catches your attention!

Glimpse for Chapter 2:

-"I have forgotten to tell you. I still haven't told you the rest of your powers. With that, please go to my library beside my house about 4:30 PM and we'll do your training."

-"I won't let him! Unless he's getting burned first!"

-"I hope not, Ruby Moon… because if you do, it will be the first sign of defeat."

Well, that's all! Stay tuned!

KawaiiLeena