Another Generation

A/N-I am only going to say this once, so listen up: you will see WITCH in this fic, you will see Caleb in this fic. I am going to make five parts to it, all in different intervals. This is part 1, part 2 is in progress. WITCH will be along in the 5th part, but if read closely enough, you'll see little hints of them in the 4 parts before it. Now stop sending me reviews asking about WITCH!

Chapter 7-The First Encounter

Sams' POV

"I'm going out!" Sam called as she headed for the door of her the apartment. It was a roomy sort of place, Sam and Jamie each got their own rooms, and, if ever necessary, Sam could lock her brother out of her room.

"Can I go on the computer while you're gone?" Jamie called. Sam was lucky enough to have a net-ready computer in her room, all Jamie had was a computer for school work only; in other words: he didn't get the Internet in his room.

"Let me think about that for a second", Sam said, "Uh…no. Bye!"

She bolted out the door before her brother could protest. As she made her wait out the door to her building she suddenly found herself thinking about Hudson (A/N-I needed a name for a town, so I took the name of a town close to where I live). She hadn't exactly been the life of the party there either. She had just been your normal, run of the mill school girl with some average friends. Well, that depended on your idea of average. A few of them had been pretty weird. Still they had been Sams' friends since seventh grade, and she liked them, weird or not. They had all been different, which just made them more fun to be with, and they were always there for each other. They had been a pretty tight-knit group. Which was pretty much why Sam felt awful about the way she had told them she was moving. It had been a pretty rotten way to say good-bye.

Flashback (A/N- If any of my friends who I mention in this are reading this, even though I highly doubt it, sorry to publicize you, but don't worry, I had no intention of using last names)

Come on Sam", Shayna said as they made their way to the buses, "You haven't been online for weeks, what's going on?"

"Yea, you usually live online", Corinne said, poking Sams' arm kiddingly. Sam shrugged and adjusted her bag, which was surprisingly light, even though she had just cleaned out her locker.

"I've been busy", Sam said shrugging, "Get off my back you guys"

"Normally, we'd listen-" Catie said.

"Listen? You?" Sam asked in a mock shocked voice, "Yea right!"

"But you have been avoiding us lately", Catie went on, ignoring Sams' interruption, "What gives?"

"I've just got a lot on my plate right now, okay?" Sam said irrtatedly.

"Come on Sam", Allison said, "tell us what's going on"

Sam sighed. Allison had been her best friend since fourth grade, she could blow her off the way she could Catie, Corrine, and Shayna.

"Okay", Sam said, looking around at her friends, "Here's the deal; I'm kind of…moving"

"What!" her friends cried at the same time, "When?" Corrine added, looking upset.

"Tomorrow", Sam said, making her way towards her bus.

"What?" Catie yelled, "How could you not tell us this? Do Chapin and the other teachers know?"

"Yea", Sam said, "I gave my books back to Deroy and Gonzalez today. I'm sorry I didn't tell you guys earlier, I just didn't wanna drag it out, I don't like good byes"

"But we're your friends", Shayna said, "You have to say good bye to us"

"I just did", Sam said, finding her bus and heading towards it.

"What about Jen?" Corrine asked, "What about Julia? And Ana? And Carol? You have a lot of people to say good bye to Sam"

"I never planned on saying good bye to any of you", Sam said as she got on the bus at last, "I'm sorry guys, but that's the way it has to be"

She found a seat on the bus, and looked out at her friends. Allison and Corrine looked hurt. Shayna and Catie looked angry.

"Sorry guys", she said quietly as the bus left the school, "But this is how it is now"

End flashback

Definitely not her favorite moments in Hudson. Sam sighed and kicked at a stone. The whole time she had been reflecting, she'd been walking. She wasn't even sure where she was going, really, she was just kind of wandering. She'd been wired to the net since she had moved to Hudson, and had already talked with most of her old friends online. None of them were mad at her for what she did; they were just a little hurt that she wouldn't tell them what was going on. Sam had always been a bit secretive, a bit of a withdrawer. While her friends had loved hanging at the mall, and having sleep overs and stuff, Sam had always been happiest behind a book, or maybe with a piece of sheet music in front of her, her flute out, and she was practicing. And she was always wired to the net; it was like a sanctuary for her. No, she had never been the type to hang out the mall, or talk about boys with her friends, or anything like that. She was happiest just being alone. And now here she was, thrown into leadership by some ancient being in another dimension, and now she had to help save the world. And the funny thing was, she was still alone. Her new friends had normal powers, well, as normal as they could get anyway. But her? She was stuck with some stupid crystal inside of her, she was an outcast. But then again, what else was new? Absolutely nothing.

"Aaaaawww, feeling alone are we?" said a taunting voice behind her. She whirled around and saw a straw colored blonde haired girl standing there, glaring at her evilly, a small smirk on her face.

"Who are you?" Sam snapped, "Whatta you want?"

"Oh Sam", the girl said, sighing, "It's not what I want. It's what Phobos wants. And what Phobos wants, is something only you have"

"How do you know my name?" Sam snapped, "I don't know what you want, but leave me alone!"

"Give me the Heart of Candracar, and I will"

Sam froze, "I don't have it!" even she wasn't convinced by that. This girl sure wasn't.

"I think you do", the girl said in a silky voice, "And unless I get in my hand right now, you and your four little guardian friends will suffer"

Sam was shaking with fear. She didn't know who this girl was, but it was obvious this girl knew her. And her friends. They were all in danger.

"I won't give you the crystal!" Sam said stubbornly, "Forget it!"
"Your only delaying what will come to pass", the girl said, "But for now…"
She snapped her fingers, and disappeared. Sam looked at the spot where the girl had been standing, still to shocked to move.

Kaprees' POV

"Oh wow", Allie said, mesmerized. Sam had called them all over to her apartment for some reason, and as it turned out, it was just to hang around or whatever.

"Yea", Sam said. She was looking out her bedroom window, rather than at her friends, "Looks like we aren't as much of secret as we thought we were"

Haley stood up and laid a hand on the shaking girls shoulder, "It'll be all right Sam", she said, We're new at this, it's gonna take time to get used to"

"I dunno about any of you", Allie chirped, "But I am so ready for this. I say bad guys beware. We are so totally gonna kick this Phobos guys butt!"

"Oh. Great Allie", Torie said sarcastically, "But you're forgetting one little thing: our so called leader can't stand up to someone who works for the bad guy, how can you expect her to handle actually fighting?"
"I am standing right here you know", Sam snapped, "What would you have done? I', sorry, but I'm new at this, last time I checked, we all were"

"We are", Kapree said quickly, "This whole thing is new to all of us, it's gonna take time. All we should do is wait and see what happens"

"Good idea", Sam said sighing, "It's all we've got right now, so just keep your eyes open. Danger could be anywhere now"