Chapter 32: Nerissa's Return
Will sat down on her bed and started writing in her diary. 'Dear Diary, it has been nine months since Orena was sent home and now she is pregnant. Cornelia is due anytime now and she couldn't be any happier. There has still been no sign of Nerissa anywhere which has been good but it also scares me. Who knows what she has been up to. Anyway, things have been going great.' Will then looked at the time and then went back to writing. 'I am going over to see Cornelia so I have to end here.'
Will got up off her bed, grabbed her keys, put on her shoes, and then ran out to the car. Matt had already been there and now it is the girls turn to go but as things got closer to the time to get Cornelia to the hospital, they slowly stopped taking turns visiting and all met there at once in fear of Nerissa showing up. Cornelia said not to worry but the girls and the guys refused to let Cornelia be by herself and Cornelia didn't argue with them. After all, she loves the attention as always. Will arrived at Cornelia's just as the others arrived. They all walked up to the door and walked in. Cornelia thought of them as sisters (as did all the girls) and would always get angry when they would ring the doorbell instead of just walking in. "Hey Cornelia, how are you feeling?"
"I'm so ready for this to happen already but I guess I can't really push it. I do hate the odd cravings I've been having which makes me really want to get this over with." Cornelia Walked slowly over to her friends and gave them each a hug.
"What was the weirdest craving you ever had." Irma said thinking. "Oh yeah, it was pickles with mustered dipped in ice cream. What is up with that and gross." Irma gave a small baby barf as she said this.
"You see my point Irma." Cornelia then sat down on the couch. "So how is Orena doing Will?" The girls but especially Cornelia grew close to her.
"She is fine Cornelia and is excited for you to have this baby. She wants us to go get her when you do." Will smiled at the thoughts that she would be there someday but until then she focused her attention back onto Cornelia. "I still don't see how you to have become such great friends when you two have hardly seen each other." Will said confused.
"What do you mean, she would come over all the time with the help of Elyon. The girls were supposed to tell you." Then both Will and Cornelia glared at the three women in the room. Just then the men came into the room and as they did, the guys and the girls, except for Cornelia, were all blown back into different directions and into the walls.
There stood the witch they had hoped wouldn't make an appearance. "You having a party and you didn't invite me, I'm hurt." She said mocking them. Then she looked at Cornelia. "You let yourself" She never finished the sentence and then realized what really happened. "Your pregnant, that is just too good. You know the expression, getting two birds with one stone."
Will got up and went to transform them but Cornelia gave off a deadly glare and Will backed down. Ever since Cornelia had become pregnant, her powers have been off the charts and Will didn't want to deal with that. Nerissa went in to kill her and so Cornelia spoke up. "Go ahead Nerissa, but just remember that if you kill me, you kill your grandchild as well." Nerissa was two inches from killing Cornelia when she stopped the attack.
"You lie guardian." Though secretly she knew that Cornelia wasn't lying and it scared her. Nerissa wasn't hiding her secret very well though. The thought of killing her grandchild brought back horrible memories of what she had done to Cassidy. Nerissa reached her hand slowly and weakly from the realization, and touched Cornelia's stomach and then teletransported away.
Cornelia watched as Nerissa did this not even flinching and just stared at her. Cornelia's breathing is as steady as a rock and then Nerissa teletransported away. "You see Will, I'm as safe as can be but it was odd, she looked as if she was in pain."
Caleb ran over to her and hugged her. "Cornelia, what were you doing?" Caleb asked worried for his wife and baby.
"I was doing exactly what you would have done Caleb. I used her weakness against her and that weakness is the baby. Her other is you Caleb. She couldn't kill me if she wanted to. The baby is, whether or not we like it, her grandchild and she wasn't about to kill her own flesh and blood." Cornelia smiled.
Caleb couldn't think of anything to say about this and just hugged her again. Will stood up and smiled. Who knew the baby would be what saved you. I guess that having this child hadn't been as bad as I thought nine months ago. I mean it was never bad but"
Cornelia cut her off. "I know what you mean Will. My question is where has she been the last nine months and what was she doing?" Cornelia asked out loud so that everyone could hear her.
Just then Yan Lin walked into the building. "Cornelia, good you're safe. Where is Nerissa?"
"She just disappeared grandma. Actually, the baby saved her life." Hay Lyn said the last part with a happy face on.
"As it should have. If it wasn't for the baby, you would all be dead right now." Everyone in the room gave Yan Lin a confused expression. "You see, Nerissa went to many different worlds to collect hearts as she did before. There were only three places she didn't go to and they would be the ones that have people to warn you of Nerissa. They are Zamballa, earth, and Meridian. She didn't visit any of these worlds and she now has twice as many hearts as she did before. Nerissa is playing this very well and I'm afraid that this time, you may not be able to beat her even in your alternate forms. Elyon has been searching for Nerissa not sure of what she was up to." Yan Lin explained the whole situation to them.
Will then made a fold to Meridian and hoped to catch Elyon still there. "Ok everyone, let's go." Then they all walked through the fold.
A/N: Here is chapter 32, I hoped you enjoyed. Thanks for the reviews and for all those reading. Please continue to read and review. Once again, thanks. Until next time. I still don't know how many more chapters there are.