Hey all! Up with the next chap of this story! I'm sorry it took so long. This first week of school has been crazy! I've already had 3 tests and homework! Jeez! I just want to point out that the poem from the last chapter holds a key clue to this story. It basically says what's going to happen later in the story and for its sequel, but it is hard to figure out. It's just the way my mind works. ;) Look at it closely and you might notice a thing or two. (Guardiangirl1 has told me that she figured out something, and if she tells anyone, I'll use it against her! Some other people might have figured out what I'm talking about already. It's all in the initials…I kind of just said too much.) After being sick yesterday too, I hope everyone's happy to know that I'm finished planning both of my stories! I said earlier that there were going to be 15 chapters for this story, but I also said that that might change. It has and now there are going to be 18 chapters. I added two chapters for when the girls go to each other's schools and another chapter that talks about how the mirror was created and all that other stuff. Well, you've waited for this chapter so here it is!
Chapter 6: Explanations
Cornelia's POV
Cornelia looked at the two girls standing in front of her nervously with a new feeling of suspicion. There was something about them that was…odd. Her head shook with rage at the fact that she didn't know what was going on. Well, that was about to change right now!
"Explain!" Cornelia demanded furiously. "What happened to Will and Irma?" The two girls started to get a little squirmy.
"We don't know! They probably went to our world." Phoebe said.
"Wait a minute. What do you mean by 'our world'?" Hay Lin asked with a very confused expression on her face.
"Um, like we said. We're not from around here." Onalia explained nervously. "We were just at a bookstore studying. Then we went looking for uh, these books. Phoebe saw a mirror and it only showed the W.i.t.c.h. books in it and Phoebe pulled me over a table when a bolt of lightning hit the mirror with lights flashing everywhere so we went up to the mirror and the pages started flapping very fast until-"
"Ona! You're doing it again!" Phoebe said with annoyance and frustration.
"Oh." She said with an embarrassed smile. "Sorry. We were in front of the mirror and I grabbed her arm, saying that it wasn't such a good idea. We saw two figures in the mirror right before Phoebe's hand went through it. Then, we ended up here." There was a moment of silence after her words. Cornelia's brows were furrowed with confusion. So, where did these two even come from?
"Were those other two people Irma and Will?" Taranee asked. "Could they be at the place you were at before you came here?"
"That's what we're thinking." Phoebe sighed. She stretched her legs out from under the table. They had left the construction site and were talking at one of the tables at the Silver Dragon. Cornelia took a gulp of tea and looked at the girl. Phoebe took a sip of tea too before continuing.
"We think that Will and Irma and us switched worlds or something. We both end up going through a weird mirror and we end up in Heatherfield. That means that Will and Irma would probably be in our world in the bookstore we were just at. It's the only thing that makes sense."
"Hold on! So you're saying that our friends are in another dimension by going through a mirror, and you two switched places with them?" Cornelia yelled angrily. "So what, is there like another earth or something? Besides here I mean." Onalia looked at Phoebe with confused eyes. Cornelia had a feeling that they weren't sure as well.
"Well, the thing is, we're still not sure if this is real." Ona said bluntly. A smile started to part her lips as she had another thought. "But if we're here, this has to be real, Phoebe." Phoebe bit her lip and put down her cup, looking around at the Silver Dragon. She sighed dreamily and then looked straight at Cornelia and the other two Guardians. Cornelia stared right back. Even if two of her best friends were gone, she felt like something else was kind of filling in their absence. Cornelia couldn't quite explain it, but she liked these girls, even if they were the ones confusing her at the moment. Cornelia's eyes snapped toward Taranee's voice when she gasped with surprise.
"What do you mean you have been dreaming about being here after all those books?" Taranee demanded. Cornelia just raised her eyebrow and stared at Phoebe who seemed taken aback at first. Then she just slapped her forehead.
"Duh! I'm so stupid! You can read minds." She said. Taranee seemed to be in a rage.
"How did you know that?" she exclaimed. "Where do you girls really come from and how do you seem to know everything about us? It seems like you've read our whole history like a book!"
"That's because we did." Ona said. Her eyes opened wide and she clasped her hands over her mouth. "Oh no, oh no, oh no." she whimpered. Cornelia almost choked on her tea. It just turned into ice, while a moment ago, it was really warm. But that wasn't the reason why she started coughing with disbelief.
"You what?" Hay Lin said with a scared expression on her face. "You read about us in your world? What, was it called W.i.t.c.h. or-"
"Yes." Phoebe said quietly. "We did."
Cornelia's mouth and eyes were open wide, and she was aware of Hay Lin and Taranee doing the same. How could that be possible? Well, anymore possible than it was for them to have powers in the first place. There couldn't be another earth! How confusing had their lives turned after becoming Guardians of the Veil? Were they created? Cornelia found that very hard to believe. If that wasn't it, then how did their secret leak out into another world while they kept it so safe in this one?
"Phoebe." Cornelia said fearfully. "So you're saying that we're in a book? Books called W.i.t.c.h.?"
Phoebe nodded sadly with a loss for words.
"Well, in our world or dimension, wherever we are compared to here, there are books and it's the story about all of you guys."
Cornelia felt like she was going to faint. In another world out there, there were people who knew all about the Guardians? But, that meant that everybody thought that they weren't real if they had read books about magical fairy girls who protect the world. They had to be real…had to be.
"Are you saying that we were just made up or something? That we're fictional characters in a book?" Hay Lin asked hurtfully.
"No!" Onalia yelled. "You're here aren't you? We're here talking to you. You are real. You always have been even if all we could see was your pictures in the comics. If we have come into your world and Will and Irma into ours, that must mean that this has to be real somehow." Hay Lin suddenly looked a lot better.
"But the question is, how did people on your earth even know about us." Taranee asked. "Well, that is if you are from earth."
"Yeah, we're from earth. I'm not sure how anybody knew." Phoebe admitted uncomfortably. "Maybe somebody who knew about the Guardians crossed over to our world and told the story and somebody thought that it'd make a nice comic. I don't know. Ona's right though. You have to be real in a way if we can be in the Silver Dragon in Heatherfield talking to the legendary Guardians of the Veil." Cornelia blushed and then thought of something else to say.
"Well who are you guys exactly? We kind of had rushed introductions." Onalia smirked.
"I'm Onalia Johnson and this girl right over here is Phoebe Whitfield." She replied with a huge grin. (witchlover to readers: Hello! Ding, dong! You paying attention?) "We're both fourteen and go to Cradd Jr. High with our other four friends, Wei, Eva, Rachel, and Erika." Cornelia nodded and watched Hay Lin grab a marker and start scribbling on her hands. That girl was always creative and Cornelia looked over, wondering what on earth she was writing. Cornelia raised her eyebrows when she saw the five-letter word spelled out on Hay Lin's hand.
"P.O.W.E.R.?" Cornelia muttered. She was certainly puzzled.
"Yeah!" Hay Lin chirped with a wide grin. "They've got an acronym name just like ours Cornelia. Phoebe, Onalia, Wei, Eva and/or Erika, and Rachel! Isn't that cool!"
"It sure is!" Ona exclaimed grabbing her hand. "I should have put that together. I'm stupid, like I am at, history." She said that very slowly and a smile crept up her face.
"Phoebe, if we're here, then that means that I don't have to take that History test! Wahoo!"
"Calm down." Phoebe said rolling her eyes. "You know you'll have to make it up." Onalia's smile tilted down into a frown and she started pouting.
"What'd you say that for? Now I still have to study!" Ona folded her arms and lied back in her seat with a sigh and a frown. Cornelia blinked her eyes a couple of times. She looked at Hay Lin and Taranee who were holding their hands over their mouths to keep from laughing. They couldn't control it anymore and fell into small giggles.
"You looked like, you sounded just like Irma!" Taranee giggled. This time, Cornelia rolled her eyes and she turned back to Phoebe.
"So, what else do you know about us?" Phoebe smiled and leaned in as to not hear Ona making jokes and the howling laughter of Taranee and Hay Lin.
"Well, a lot I guess. We know that you are the Guardians of the Veil and about the day that Yan Lin told you of your powers here. We know about Elyon being the true heir to the throne in Meridian and you guys trying to help her defeat Phobos while closing all of the portals through the Veil. We know your crushes and loves-"
"Okay, you know what! If I wanted somebody to know exactly how I felt about everything, I would have asked Taranee to read my mind!" Cornelia said stiffly. Phoebe blinked with surprise and then gazed sadly at her cup. Cornelia took a breath.
"I'm sorry. That was really rude. It's just that, this is all so weird and confusing! There has to be a reason why you are here and we've got to do something about it!" Cornelia said loudly. The other three girls stopped laughing and looked at Cornelia. She flipped her hair back and looked straight at them.
"Yes, there has to be a reason why they are here, or at least a reason why they can't get back into their world." Cornelia said as-a-matter-of-factly. Phoebe put both of her hands down on the table.
"Cornelia's right. I don't even know why or how we came upon that mirror and why Ona and I and Irma and Will had to pass through it. We don't even know where to go for answers."
"Well, we might just have to wait until we can get some help." Hay Lin suggested. "Or if Will and Irma can use the Heart of Candracar and get back here."
"But when will that be?" Cornelia questioned while throwing her hands up in the air. "We could be torn apart for a while and not have our whole team here! Without the Heart of Candracar-" Cornelia stopped right there and thought. It fully hit her. They didn't even have all of the Guardians in the same universe. They didn't have Will and her leadership. They didn't have the Heart of Candracar to make them become stronger and transform into the Guardians of the Veil.
"We're sorry." Ona told them quietly. "We didn't know-"
"It's not your fault Ona." Taranee said reassuringly. "All four of you must have done something without realizing it." Onalia just shrugged. Phoebe's eyes opened wide with horror though.
"What's wrong?" Hay Lin asked worryingly. "Do you think you know what happened?" Phoebe shook her head and kept her mouth open.
"I just realized, it's even worse for Will and Irma than it is for us!"
"What do you mean?" Cornelia questioned.
"They are in our world, the world where they sell the W.i.t.c.h. books. We were in a bookstore-"
"You've got to be kidding me!" Onalia exclaimed while slapping her head. "They are definitely going to see the books, considering that the mirror was right in front of them! What if people recognize them? What if they also see the TV show?"
"There's a TV show about us too? That's totally awesome!" Hay Lin yelled grinning. Her grin faded when se saw the scared expressions on everyone else's faces.
"Oh. I get it." Hay Lin finally understood the gravity of the situation. "That would be really bad."
"They would be freaked!" Taranee said with a shudder. "You guys told us about this stuff, but they will see everything and people might recognize them and they'll have no clue to what's going on." She frowned and looked out the window. "I hope that they find somebody who doesn't think that they are crazy to help them…" The girls all sat there and Cornelia felt her heart racing and her brain buzzing. They needed to find a way to get everything back to normal before something bad happened. Or, something bad had already happened…
"So let me get this straight." Cornelia suddenly said out loud instead of to her thoughts. She shrugged and just continued.
"You girls are possibly from another dimension where there are books about us. You and Irma and Will go through a weird mirror and end up in each other's worlds. You both know everything about us because you've read those books and now Will and Irma are in a place where everyone thinks that they are made up in books and in a TV show?"
"That sounds about right." Ona said while reaching for a cookie. Cornelia looked at her and then sighed and lied back in her seat herself. When did things get so crazy?
"Well, we're not going to find out anything without a good rest." Hay Lin replied. "I'll ask my parents if you two can sleep over. But we will all get grounded if we don't go to school again, and since we don't know what to do or where to go yet-"
"We can go with you." Onalia said excitedly. "We can go to the Sheffield institute." Hay Lin smiled.
"Yeah, I guess you can. Hopefully we will get some clue of what to do, but until then, make yourselves at home!" Ona still looked happy and Cornelia noticed that Phoebe smiled too.
"What about Will and Irma? Can you make Astral Drops for them?" Phoebe asked.
"Oh thanks for reminding us." Taranee said as she jumped to her feet. "Their parents will blow their roofs if they didn't come back home." Onalia grabbed her tea as Phoebe got up too.
"Well as long as you guys can make Will's Astral Drop not be stupid." Ona grumbled. Phoebe laughed and gave them a small 'thumbs up'. Cornelia concentrated. She pictured Will's moppy red hair with her brown eyes and her jeans and sneakers with a pink shirt and jacket. Irma's brown hair came to mind with her blue eyes and white pants and a light blue top. Their images filled her head and surely she knew something was happening. Cornelia opened her eyes and saw Astral Will and Irma looking around. Cornelia had to know.
"Will, what is my name?" Astral Will blinked at her.
"Uh, Cornelia Hale."
"Ha, ha! So now we know that it's just Will." Hay Lin said before telling the Astral Drops to say that they had a get together at the restaurant to their parents.
"Bye! See you tomorrow!" She called out as the Astral Drops disappeared. Hay Lin came back and sat down next to Taranee.
"That was really cool!" Phoebe said with disbelief. "Wow! I've always thought it might be real somewhere inside of me, but I didn't know it could possibly happen in real life."
"Welcome to our world." Taranee mumbled.
"Yeah, first it seems unbelievable that we could have magical powers, and now it's truly weird for us to see you two here claiming to know all about it." Cornelia said while shaking her head.
"I guess the impossible keeps proving us wrong." Phoebe said as she shrugged her shoulders.
"Totally." Hay Lin replied as she reached forward to grab another cookie.
Yay! I actually had time to sit at my computer and finish typing this chapter. Well, it wasn't too hard considering that I was sick today and had to stay home. I hope at least some people paid attention to what I said in the introduction and my little note in the middle of the story. Darn it! Something is wrong with my Internet. Well, I guess that means that I can type the next chapter for 'Whispers From the Past' too. Please review! It might make me feel better, literally. Bye!