I'm sorry. I don't own W.I.T.C.H. magazine or tv. Serie so... this could not be what is happening on either of them. (what am I saying? This is not going to happend in either of them!!)
Chapter 3: Home away home. The Lights and Shadows.
"Welcome to your friend's house." Irma said jocking.
She had spent most of the time on the public bus jocking around to break ice between the new one and them.
"This looks... warm." She said. "I have been here before dropping my things around so.. well, I still have not met my relative here."
"Alex, please, be sincere." Tara told her so as me also to her in my mind. "You are special, do you know who the Oracle is or not?"
She then looked at me disimullatelly as she opened a move box.
"Does she hear us?" she thought.
"Yes, and don't worry, she is a guardian too." Taranee thought.
"Yes." She said speaking now. "He was the one asking me to come here. Karmilla is just the daughter of who adopted me. My mother was from... a far dimention. So I'm afraid I have grew up between the garden of the two suns in Basilide and Earth."
"Are you also... a guardian?" Irma asked.
"Somehow like that." She said.
Then she stood stiff looking at the main door ready to strike and seconds after that it opened.
"Irma? Taranee?" Orube asked. "What are you doing here?"
"Friends of you?" Isabelle asked then relaxing a bit.
"Kitty, this is our feline friend Orube and he is you relative Caleb." Irma explained then. "Orube, Caleb... This is Alex." Hai Lin said.
"Get happy Caleb." Irma told him jocking. "You have been ordered to 'babysit' a girl instead another brainless guy."
"He is going to be my mate?" Alex said as Caleb said too "She is going to be my mate?"
Then Caleb began shouting angry and she seemed not very happy either. I was about laughing and Hai Lin smiled in fun. However it was Orube who managed to fix things up.
"Hey!" she said. "You two have been commanded by the Oracle to do this! True warriors doesn't mind the sex of their allyes but their hearts and strength!"
"Ok, I don't care to share house with a guy as long as he doesn't peep when I'm bathing or changing clothes." Alex finally said.
"And who would want to do such thing?" Caleb asked then.
"Er... we are leaving for doing some things." Hai Lin said as she saw how Alex was looking as Caleb. "Orube all yours."
Then both left quick and just Orube, Caleb and Alex were left there.
"I think you should better begin remodelling this place." Orube suggested. "Smells as old people."
"I don't want to share anything with such a rude guy." She said.
"And I don't want to share house with a little girl." Caleb added crossing his arms at his chest.
"WHO ARE YOU CALLING LITTLE GIRL??!!" Alex said jumping over him and inmovilicing him agaist the ground.
Then they began struggling till Orube managed to separate them.
"I know it's hard to share between a guy and a girl, but you must achieve it." She said. "The Oracle have told you to do it so you must do it. So, I recomend you to go shopping before anything unless you want to stabber here. Alex, do you know how money works?"
"Yes, I have been living here for some years before and after the warrior training at Basilide gardens." She answered still a bit angry.
"I can get myown meal." Caleb said.
"Team work, right?" Orube said begining to lose her temper. "I want you two to get out of here and begin working toghether."
"Hey, you look as my elder sister." Alex said. "Bossy and hard, yet she is a rocker."
Orube then went confused.
"Karmilla, she was adopted remember?" Alex added. "Never mind." Then she sighed and looked to Caleb. "Ok, wanna start from zero? My name is Isabelle Alexandra Banks, Isa or Alex for short. Nice to meet you Caleb..."
"Caleb would me enough." He said shaking hands with Isa.
"Shall we go shopping some meal then?" Isa asked then.
"I think that's a good idea." Orube said. "Well, if you need me... I live on Rudolph's house. He knows where it is."
"Thanks, er... Rebeca, was it?" Caleb said.
"The guardians call me by my real name, I'm Orube. Rebbeca Rudolph is the name I have to use to be here."
"Orube sounds better." Isa said smiling softly. "I wish I had a cooler name, but my parents came here just after me being born so... they named with an earth name."
"The name doesn't do the person." Caleb said.
"I know." Isa said smiling. "By the way, good way of fighting. But I'll give you an advise, don't try fighting agaist a basilian warrior, you could get injured."
"Well, I hope to see you two around soon." Orube said then.
When Orube left, Isa took some money from the freezer and they left.
"Is it eatable?" Caleb asked looking at a bank note.
"No, but the freezer is a good place to keep some money. Burglars never look there in search of valuable things." She said softly. "Have you ever lived here anyway?"
"Yes, but I never had to use those." Caleb said handing her back the bank note.
"Uff... ok, I'll teach you, right?" Isa said smiling. "An exchange, your company and protection or whatever the oracle asked you to do in exchange of me teaching you how to survive here. Done?"
"Done." Caleb answered smiling softly. "Humm..." he then thought. "I think perhaps I will like to take along my task."
Then Isa looked at him by the corner of her eye and smiled. She could not read minds, but she was certainly really good at reading feelings and hearts, not to say she was also good on filling enemys minds with confusion and shadows so as her to get things she wanted. She was the light and shadow guardian, the master of illutions and tricks.
They spent the whole afternoon shopping things to fill the fridge and some other things for the house. And when they were returning back home, Caleb was carrying most of bags as Isa carried just two.
"Caleb, I want to carry something else." She told him. "Don't feel well allowing you to carry that much bags."
"No, it's not gentle to allow a lady to carry so much weigh." He said.
"Dear, here there are not gentle mens." She said smiling.
"Well, but you got that things for free." Caleb said refering to some items the shop assistand gave Isa for free.
"Well, I don't know why guys tend to look at me too much." She said.
"And you don't like it?" he said. "Cause to the rest of friends is just the oposite."
"In case you have not noticed it yet, some of people getting near me are just wanting me to introduce them to my dear sister. And the rest look just to my phisic instead of my heart. I don't like that kind of people. It ends up being annoying but sometimes useful."
"I think I understand what you mean." He said. "And do you also have... powers as the other guardians?"
"I don't know what you are speaking about." She said looking around. "And this is not the place to speak about it either."
"So you..." he added.
"When we are home." Isa said.
That day they spent on "redecorating" the house. First thing they did was getting their bedrooms and then redecorating them. For the guardian it was somehow easy doing it cause she could move things with great ease. Furthermore, one of the light powers was the "light speed" what was very useful for quick movings and bedroom rearranging.
She soon had a cutte bedroom with everything on it's right place so she went to see how Caleb was doing.
He was still rearranging things.
"Need a hand?" she said.
"No, I supose you have to do yourown bedroom." He said.
He was sweating as he tried to find the use of a plug.
"I've already remodelled my room." She said sitting on the bed wich was dust full. "If you want to have a look..."
"You have clean and put all your things in the right place?" he asked confused.
"Yes, that's no problem for me." She said making the light of the unplugged studio lamp go on. "I can clean this mess on a cuple of seconds while you keep discovering what the use of a plug is."
"Do as you want." He said.
All he could then see was a dot moving four seconds at the bedroom and then she was sitting again at the bed but the room as shiny clean and the window open.
"How did you...?" he asked.
"I told you, I'm fast." She said smiling. "And by the way, that's a plug. It's used for getting electrical appliances work. See?" she said plugging the lamp to it.
"I can't understand this place." He said.
"If I were you I would beging arranging my things here." She then said. "I'll cook something for dinner, for you and me. Want anything in special?"
"What about the meat lices?" he asked. "Yet anything would be ok."
"Ok, pork then." She said. "Then dinner will be ready on... ten minutes."
"Couldn't you move so fast?" he asked jocking.
"Hey, I can move fast. What I can't do is fasten things as the kitchen or time." She answered. "That trick works just on me, not the things surronding me."
However, when she called him for dinner twelve minutes later, he saw that the livingroom was clean and shinny as new, and the dinner was ready. It was not perfect but it was good and eatable.
After dinner, Isa began studying and about 8 on the afternoon, someone ran on the door.
"Did you wait someone?" Caleb asked Isa who was studying at the livingroom.
"No, you?"
"No." He said getting ready to stricke as he opened the door.
It was Hai Lin and Cornelia who came.
"We have heard you were on trouble here." Will said.
"Hey, is this place clean or is just my eyes are lieing?" Cornelia said.
"Clean." Caleb said. "She took care of it."
"Hello." Isa said. "Hey, come in. Feel as in home."
"Hi Isa!" Hai Lin said. "Don't you mind?"
"No, I was studying. Does Caleb mind?" she answered.
"No, I was a bit bored." He answered.
"Hey, I don't understand why Orube said you two were angry." Will said smiling.
"Yeah, you seem to have got used to this too soon." Cornelia said.
"He is nice." Isa said after looking at Cornelia for a moment. "A good one for sharing this big place. He on his bedroom, me on mine. The rest is for both."
"Are you sure you have our age?" Cornelia said a bit angry.
"A year elder, why?" she asked then.
"You don't look as them." Caleb said. "I mean... you look as about my age or so."
"He is elder than us." Will explained.
"Well, don't know." Isa said sitting on the living room as she put a bowl with snaks on the teatable. "I don't think I'm so different."
"But you look cutte!" Hai Lin said, then going pink. "Even Eric thinks so..." she added softly.
"Don't worry." Isa said after looking at the three of them. "I'm not taking neither Eric nor Matt from you. Will, Matt loves you too much; it will be really difficult to take him from you."
"Wha...? Oh, ok." Both of them said at once.
Isa then smiled.
"And what the hell are you?" Cornelia asked.
"What are you?" Isa answered back. "Mother earth? Flexible water? Greacile air? Pasionate fire? Energetical heart? I can see you are not fire. That's Taranee."
"Has she told you?" Hai Lin said.
"No, I have guessed it up." Isa said serious.
"Cornelia, Isa, time up." Caleb said. "They are the guardians."
"So I am... somehow." Isa said.
"Ok, I'm the guardian of Kandrakar's Heart." Will then confessed. "Taranee is the fire as you have said, Irma is the water, Hai Lin is the air and Cornelia is the Earth."
"I suposed. She is a bit rough and elegant." Isa said.
"I'm a Meridian warrior." Caleb said. "And what are you?"
"The Light and Shadow guardian." Isa answered making lights turn off and then back on. "Nice to meet the guardians and you, Meridian warrior."