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Part VII

"Get off me!" shrieked Cornelia the second she hit the ground.

"I hate you! I hate you! How could you do this to me?" demanded Will tugging on Cornelia's blonde tresses.

"Because! Because you stole Caleb from me!" By now Cornelia was sobbing. Will instantly let go and scooted away from the blonde. Cornelia sat up and wiped away her tears. "I know I messed up. I just…I've liked Caleb for so long that I didn't want to lose him…and to you? No offense, Will, but you aren't exactly the type of girl that could steal a guy from someone else."

Will chuckled as she too wiped away some tears. "Cornelia, what you have to realize is that I never meant for this to happen. It was out of my hands."

"I know, but it didn't stop me from being insanely jealous. I'm sorry, Will."

"Me too," murmured Will softly. The red head glanced up at Matt who was running a hand through his hair anxiously.

"Uh…Will…I…you…I think it'd be best if we…you know…broke up for a while…I really don't know how to handle this…I…I gotta run. I can't be late for class." Matt turned on his heels and sprinted towards the school house with Will watching his every move.

"You're not gonna kill me, are you?" asked Cornelia shrinking down with fear.

Will flinched as she thought of a reason for Cornelia to kill her rather than the other way around. "How about we kill Phobos together? He's the reason everything has gotten so out of hand."

Taranee breathed in relief as Cornelia and Will helped each other onto their feet without killing one another. "Maybe we should find Hay-Lin and Irma and skip school today. I don't know how much longer we can hold out with this spell. Everything's going crazy now."

Cornelia nodded in agreement. "Totally. I so wouldn't mind skipping English today. Did you ever get the feeling that Shakespeare is just mocking true love? Everyone dies!"

"Cornelia, we're reading Romeo and Juliet—they're supposed to die in the name of true love," pointed out Will making a face.

"Whatever, I totally think Romeo was wasting his time on Juliet. She wasn't even that pretty," replied Cornelia flipping a strand of hair over her shoulders. "Oo, look! It's Hay-Lin and Irma and…Blunk…god, he really needs to take a bath."

"Just hold your nose—you don't notice the smell so much then," advised Taranee with a laugh.

"I kinda have to agree with Cornelia," murmured Will wrinkling her nose in disgust. "Blunk needs to learn personal hygiene. We have to be breaking a million health codes hanging around him. It's unsanitary."

"What is?" asked Hay-Lin as she, Irma and Blunk joined their friends.

"C'mon, we'll tell you on the way." Will motioned for the group to follow her.

"Uh, shouldn't we be going to school?" questioned Irma with a frown.

"I don't think that skipping one day of school is going to hurt us," called back Will. Irma and Hay-Lin watched in surprise as both Cornelia and Taranee hurried after Will.

"Did we just walk into the Twilight Zone?" hissed Irma as she and Hay-Lin followed suit.

"The what zone?" Hay-Lin drew a blank face, causing Irma to hit her own forehead in annoyance.

"Never mind."

"Where we go?" asked Blunk running to keep up with his friends. "Should Blunk find Caleb?"

"I think it won't hurt to leave Caleb out of this one," said Taranee as Will and Cornelia exchanged wary looks. "Lord knows how long before Corny and Will tore each other apart with him around."

"Did we miss something this morning?" demanded Irma.

Taranee shook her head in exasperation. "You don't even want to know."

"Well Blunk want to find Caleb. Blunk don't think girls going to Meridian alone good idea. Blunk get Caleb."

"That's a great idea," stated Hay-Lin nodding appreciatively at Blunk's good intentions. "Why don't you try and hunt Caleb down while we go and wait for him in Meridian?"

Blunk didn't need to be asked twice as he bounded out of sight in search of his good friend. Will sighed. "Good," she whispered to Cornelia. "That gives us more than enough time to try and find Phobos and break the spell without Caleb around. I don't think it would be a good idea for us to fight over him in the midst of battle."

"No kidding," agreed Cornelia glancing back at their friends who were struggling to keep up with Will and Cornelia. "The sooner we break the spell, the sooner we can fix this mess."

Will nodded and bit her tongue to stay quiet. Sooner of later she would have to let Cornelia know what had happened between herself and Caleb. But Will really didn't want to lose a friend. Even if it was Cornelia, because despite her shallowness, the blonde was still Will's friend. And in the end all that would matter would be friendship. Of course, Will only felt that way when Caleb wasn't around.

After a while the girls made it to an empty alley way. Will pulled out the heart and quickly opened up a doorway into Meridian. She glanced at the other girls and watched as they readied themselves to transform into the witch selves. Will breathed out her incantation and within minutes the girls were in their battle forms.

"Alright," announced Hay-Lin clapping her hands together. "Let's go kick some monster ass!"

"If you say so," said Irma with an indifferent shrug. "But if my parents find out I skipped school today I'm gonna kill you guys first."

"Party pooper," muttered Cornelia under her breath. Irma made a face but didn't speak up as she followed the rest of the team into the portal. The second the girls were on the other side they realized they had made a horrible mistake. Cedric stood in his snake form, arms crossed along with various other monsters. Only, the other monsters held weapons pointed straight at the girls.

"Turn around," croaked Taranee. Irma turned to retreat back into the portal but found her self face to face with more monsters. The portal had disappeared.

"Uh, big problem guys. The portal's gone," murmured Irma.

"Then lets fly!" shrieked Cornelia flapping her wings.

"How?" hissed Taranee. "Our wings are gone!"

"This can't be happening," repeated Will over and over to herself as she and the other girls backed up into one another.

"Now what do we do?" moaned Taranee glancing around at the menacing monsters staring straight back at her with fangs bared.

Hay-Lin shot her arms up into the air. "What?" she replied upon noticing the looks her friends gave her. "Obviously we're surrounded. What else are we supposed to do? Besides, all hostages put their hands in the air when they give up."

"She has the right idea," sighed Will putting her arms into the air as well. "It's not like our powers are working right now any way."

"Man, what did we do to deserve this?" groaned Irma as she, Taranee, and Cornelia put their hands up slowly.

"Better yet, how did this happen?" questioned Cornelia simply.

"It was all my doing," came a cold voice. The girls looked up in shock to see who had spoken.

"No way," breathed Will shaking her head in denial.

"Please tell me this is all a dream." Taranee rubbed her eyes to no avail. She wasn't dreaming.

"Oh boy, we're in trouble," said Hay-Lin keeping her hands up in the air for all to see.

Cornelia's eyes widened and then fluttered shut as she fainted backwards into Irma's arms. Irma's breath was knocked out of her as she struggled to hold Cornelia up. "A little help here, guys."

But no one was paying attention. All eyes were drawn to the slim figure of Elyon.

A/N—I know, I know, it's been way too long. I am so so so sorry. I just couldn't figure out where to go from the last chapter, but today I decided you guys had waited long enough. So here it is, the latest chapter. Enjoy.