Another War Begins

Chapter 12-An Unexpected Return

Wills' POV

"Elyon!" Will was more than a little surprised to see her friend that she thought she would never see again. Before she knew what she was doing, Will had jumped off the ground and was hugging Elyon.

"Will!" yelled Elyon. "Hey, I'm glad to see you to but…"

"Sorry", said Will, pulling away from Elyon, "it's just…I was hoping maybe you could help me out with…with…" her voice drifted off.

"You to huh?" Elyon whispered quietly.

Will looked at Elyon, her eyes were filled with tears. "So, it wasn't just something that happened?"

"No", said Elyon quietly. "He's back Will"

For a second Will thought maybe she had fallen asleep again, but a second later, Taranee said, "What makes you think you fell asleep?"

Will jumped a mile, and said. "Oh yea, mind reader. Well, it started a few days ago. I started having these dreams about-about Phobos…" , her voice cracked and faltered, but the girls put the rest of the pieces together.

"Dreams of him coming back?" Cornelia said quietly. Will nodded, her eyes were filled with tears.

"When we were talking the other day", Hay Lin said slowly. "You spacing out on us…"

"I don't know", said Will miserably. "I'm not actually sure what that was all about. All I know is one second, I'll be talking to you guys, then the next second, there's this flash, and then I'm back with you guys…"

Will sat down hard and buried her face in her knees and burst into tears. The stress of being a guardian had finally caught up to her, and everything was just hitting all at once. Hay Lin kneeled down beside her friend and put a comforting hand on her shoulder. But Will didn't want comfort. She wanted someone to make this all just go away. Wanted someone to just make it all stop…

"Lets' go inside", said Irma. They had gone out in front of Wills' apartment building after she collapsed, hoping maybe for her to get some fresh air and clear her head. But now they all just stood up miserably and traipsed back inside.

Once inside, no one could stop Will from collapsing on her bed and burying her face in her hands. And no one wanted to either. Will had just gone through a lot, and she deserved sometime to take it all in. They all just sat quietly for awhile, but Irma finally decided to ask Elyon what she had been dying to ask her for awhile.

"So is this the only reason you came back?" she asked Elyon, not really caring what anyone thought about it.

"Irma-" Cornelia said threateningly, but Elyon cut her off.

"Yes", she said simply. "I just wanted to know if, you know…", she looked hopelessly at Will, who was still crying. Irma, still red faced from the fight with Cornelia, said, "So basically, you just came back to make our lives miserable, and now you're gonna go back to Meridian, am I right?"

"Irma!" Cornelia yelled. Elyon looked hurt by what Irma had said, and Cornelia looked like she'd had enough.

"Irma I am so sick an tired of you-", Cornelia started to say, but she was cutoff. Not by Irma, to everyones' surprise though.

"Don't", said Will, looking up at Cornelia and Irma. "Don' t fight. Things are bad enough without everyone fighting"

Irma and Cornelia looked at each other, and Will could tell they already felt bad about the fight, so she just decided to let the whole thing go.

"Now that that's settled", said Taranee. "Maybe we can get on to more important matters?"

"What?" said Irma, who was already starting to look like her usual joking self again. "You mean like the fact that our worst enemy is back and already looking to destroy us? Or the fact that now we're never gonna make it back in time for curfew, and the excuse, I was fighting evil demons and stopping them from taking over the world, is so overly used no ones gonna believe it?"

It wasn't one of her better jokes, but it still got a smile from everyone, even Will. Her smile was short lived though. Hay Lin looked sadly at her friend and said, "Hey Will? You okay?"

"I'll be fine", she muttered. Her eyes were red from crying, and she looked utterly miserable.

Some leader, she thought bitterly. I'm completely falling apart. This really stinks.

"Cheer up Will", said Taranee. "It'll get better, I'm sure"

Will didn't even bother to tell Taranee to get out of her head. She was to miserable.

"I just wish I was as sure as you are Taranee", she said miserably.

It was later that night. Will was laying on her bed, thinking. The others had gone home, and Elyon had returned to Meridian. Wills' mom was in the kitchen cooking, but Will wasn't hungry. She wanted answers, like an answer to how Phobos had escaped. He was locked away, and the Tower of Mist was impenetrable, so how, how, how had Phobos and Cedric broken out? And what…Wills eyes grew wide, and she bolted up straight. What about Candracar? Had it been destroyed? And if it had, what were the guardians going to do?