Hey everybody! It's SEQUEL TIME! YAY! Thanks to Sokai, harryrulesmyworld, topazchick08, JayxKay, and MysteriousReviewer for reviewing the last chapter of BFF? So to reward you, here's chapter one of the lovely sequel! Enjoy!
Disclaimer: I don't own W.I.T.C.H. End of story. Don't sue me.
Chapter 1
You're Kidding…Right?
"C'mon, Irma, it's not that bad. Lots of people do this, and they don't have a problem with it."
"Well they aren't the ones that have to worry about them falling out and showing the world my mutant eyes!"
"Irma, they're CONTACTS, not a hungry pack of lurdens that want to rip your limbs off and have them for a snack at one of Phobos's tea parties!" Cornelia grabbed the newly-bought box of turquoise contact lenses, perched one on the tip of her finger, and held Irma's right open while Taranee, Will and Hay Lin struggled to hold the thrashing girl to a chair.
"You'd think we were forcing her into summer school with Mr. Collins," Will groaned as Irma started resorting to using her nice sharp nails to try and get free.
"Cornelia, would you hurry up? Some of us would like to live to see tomorrow," Hay Lin shouted over Irma's screams of bloody murder.
"What do you mean? I'm already done."
Cornelia held a mirror in front of Irma's face, waiting for her to comment on the job she'd done. The earth girl thought she had done an excellent job, if she did say so herself. Irma's eyes looked like they always had, a turquoise blue that held the essence of the sea…but something was missing, that little sparkle that defined what everyone had never known about her. It had gone away with her powers, back in Candracar where they didn't belong.
Irma smiled a little when she saw them, accepting that maybe her secret was safe for the time being. But as Cornelia gazed at her from behind the mirror, she couldn't help but wonder how much things would change. Irma had always been the spark of life that kept the group from completely falling into the dead seriousness of their situations. Now, half of her had been ripped away, and Cornelia could honestly say she was afraid that her bubbly personality had been swept off with it. Sure, Irma was the one that hit Cornelia's short-fuse temper more often than not, but the fun of their arguments had always been the ex-water girl's angry retorts, not her just sitting there and taking the earth girl's insults, like Cornelia was afraid would happen now.
"As much as it pains me to say it, you did a good job, Corny." The girls breathed a sigh of relief at Irma's satisfaction. Now there was only one thing left to sort out…
"So," Taranee began, trying to sound as conversational as she could. "Irma, what are you going to do about…well, you know…"
"You mean the test?" Taranee's eyes widened a little to hear Irma speak of it so bluntly. "You can say it, Taranee. I won't send a tidal wave after you…not that I can anymore…"
"Irma," Will said, kneeling down so she was looking her in the eye. "You still have a chance. It might not happen overnight but still…"
"Don't you get it Will? The Oracle gave me the one task he knew full well I couldn't do. He wanted to make it hard, but instead…he made it impossible."
Flashback
"Irma Lair, in order to reclaim your post as the guardian of water, you must…discover love."
Irma just stood there for a minute. All she could manage to say was, "You're kidding…right?"
The Oracle shook his head. "No, guardian, I am fully serious. This is the task that the Council has chosen for you, and it is the only chance you will be able to take to get your powers back."
"Can't you have me eat live bugs or survive a date with Phobos or something?" Irma cried. "I can't 'discover love!' I'm the most romance challenged person this side of our dimension! The closest to love I have is the unrequited one of Martin Tubbs! And there is no way in Metamoor that I'll be playing smoochy-smoochy to him!"
"I understand your frustration, but did you expect your task to be easy? Did you really expect that after willingly giving your powers away, they would willingly just up and come back to you? They need you to prove your worth. Since you have abused them in the past to get to what you thought was true love, but fell through all the time, they challenge you now to find what you shamelessly used them for, only to fail. They challenge you to discover what love truly is."
"And if I can't do it?" Irma asked in a whisper.
"You have your lifetime to try," the Oracle said. "But should you choose to give up, you may both remain on Earth knowing that you can never regain your power…or you can come into the service of Candracar and leave your life on Earth behind. You will not regain your powers, but…it's something to think about."
And before Irma could speak out against the outrageousness of her situation, the Oracle spoke again. "Best of luck to you, Irma. May your Heart guide you in your quest."
And those were his last words as he sent the girls crashing back to Earth.
End Flashback
"Irma, you're a great girl. There are a lot of guys that would want to go out with you."
"But none that would ever love me," Irma murmured. Hay Lin opened her mouth, but Irma just shook her head. "C'mon," she said, standing up and slinging her backpack over her shoulder. "We're gonna be late for school." The four remaining guardians stood silent for a second and then started to walk along after her, the aftermath that was change hanging heavily around their hearts.
Okay, so that wasn't that great of a chapter, but it answered your question, didn't it? I promise, the next one will be a MILLION times better. So if you want to see it, hit that magic GO button & I'll update when this gets 5 reviews!
