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 5: The rat smell track.
It was just a cuple of weeks after being called by the Oracle that they finally saw something weird.
The new guardian got better on just a cuple of hours, yet she seemed not as cheerful as always; anyway, she kept her word and managed to introduce a cuple of guys to Caleb and he was asked some details on their home to fill some gaps up. A week after, Isabelle gave him an N.I.D. and another pair of forger documents just identical to true ones that would allow Caleb to have an identity.
During that time, the six guardians chatted on the school and sometimes out of it during their free time.
Orube used to invite them all to get to her house but Isabelle and Caleb were the ones going more often.
Anyway, they all soon discovered that the new one, far from being the "Diva" they could think about her being for being Karmilla's sister, she was a normal girl who could perfectly pass as an ordinary human girl but for the fact that she seemed to be good in all she set a finger on.
That day, after lessons, the guys were at the sport area playing basketball with Peter too, the girls were bussy that afternoon and Isa didn't knew what to go. Caleb was also out cause he had told her he would be going back Meridian for some hours so the house would be also empty. Taranee was at dance training, will was swimming, Irma was taking care of his brother, Cornelia at ice-skating training and Hai Lin had to help her parents at their restaurant.
Isa then walked towards the school exit and then a baketball ball ran towards her.
"Ball, please!!" a voice said from her side. "Oh, Isabelle, it's you." Matt said.
"Oh, hi Matt." She said. "Is that yours?"
"No, mine." Peter said comming to the pitch fence. "Mind passing us it, please?"
"What are you doing so alone?" Nigel, Taranee's 'more-than-friends' said then. "Oh, I know. You also was left alone."
"The rest are doing theirown things." Isa said throwing the ball over the fence.
"Well, if you have nothing better to do..." Peter said. "Perhaps you would like to..."
"Play? I'd love to, if you don't mind." She said.
"Well, now that Eric is missing there's another empty place." Matt said.
"Wow, wow, wow." An unknow blond guy said then. "Do pretty girls around here play such rough sports?"
"Are you trying to flirt?" Isa asked lifting an eyebrown with an smile.
"My fault." He said smiling as he made the ball dance at his finger. "If you want some free lessons..."
"He is Sean, my cousin." Matt said. "Really different from me."
"I see." Isa said smiling, then she went next to him and took the ball from him quickly to ran toward the hoop and throw it from the three points line making the ball go cleanly in, catching it again and making it twist on her finger. "Did you said something about some free lessons?" she asked then jocking.
Petter and Joel then laugh and Nigel held his laugh.
"Mate, I think you should drop it." Peter said. "Welcome to our team, babe." He said doing a high five with her.
"Thanks Peter, who do I go with?" Isa said smiling as she passed the ball strongly to Sean again.
"Nigel, you and me. Agaist Matt, Sean and Joel." Petter said. "Our turn to begin so you'd better hand the ball back, Sean."
"What about you taking it from me?" he said bouncing it playfully.
Petter and Nigel looked at eachother and they began chasing him. That was not exactly beging one team it was just... play the best you can.
The "match" lasted about half an hour till they were tired. Then they had a shower and met back outside the changingroom area.
"Hey, that girl was really good." Sean said.
"Yep, didn't expected a girl like her to be so good on it." Peter recognised.
"Had any of you ever played basket with a girl?" Matt asked. "Cause I don't think much girls want to play agaist boys unless in P.E."
"Yep, not even Taranee." Nigel said.
"If you are worryed cause my sister doesn't pay you as much attention as you would like..." Peter said. "I should tell you she is taking the dancing lessons really serious."
"Who said??" Nigel said going pink.
"Mate, there's nothing weird on recognising it." Matt said smiling.
"Yep, there's nothing bad on loving a girl." Sean said. "Or more than one."
Then they threw him their sweated t-shirts as they laughed.
"Anyway, do you know if the 'sports queen' is still available?" he asked.
"I think so." Matt said. "I mean... Will have not told me anything about her being going out with a boyfriend. Anyway, if you want me to ask..."
"I'll find out myself." Sean answered. "As my beautiful Irma doesn't seem to want to pay too much attention to me..."
"You have decided to change your aiming, isn't it?" Peter said jocking.
"I just aim at the best of the best." Sean said smiling. "But never to an already taken girl."
When they went out Isabelle was already out, her hair tied on a high ponitail but for two locks at the sides.
They all left toghether towards the center and there they got separated.
Isa was waiting for the bus to come when Peter stopped his car just next to her.
"I was wondering... Do you go near the stadium?" he asked. "I have to get near it so pehaps I could take you somewhere."
"Oh, I was going to a friend's house. Rudolph's house, do you know it?" she said.
"Ah, yes." Peter said. "It's not so far from where I have to go so I can take you there. C'mon, front seat." He said opening the door.
"Thank you, you are nice." Isa said smiling at him.
He took her to Orube's house, but she was not there. Peter had already gone so she was alone again. She looked around and suddely felt that weakness feeling again. She then looked around and began running. The most she runned the most the feeling fainted till it finally disappeared.
Then she stopped to notice she had arriven a part of the city she didn't knew. She was sweat again and patting so she stopped for a second to rest a bit, getting in a music shop.
She then began looking at the cds looking for nothing in particular.
Then she recovered her breath once again and went out as she was calling for some guys sight. She then walked around the place till she felt some guys were following her.
She disimullatelly then had a look at her chasers and noticed it was a pair of men who looked as gangsters.
Perhaps she could make them lose her track by using her "ligh speed" but that would be even weirder so she just began walking faster. The men then fastened their walk too so finally she began running controlling herself so as not to run over human speed.
She was used to control it so it was nothing hard for her.
Suddely she found herself alley cutted by a metal fence, she could jump it easy, but when she was about jumping she was held by the ankle.
"What are you doing here?" Taranee asked her.
She was wearing what looked as a aerobic tracksuit.
"Same goes for you." Isa said still a bit nervous. "Weren't you training?"
"Yes, but I have just gone out of it." She said. "What's going on here?"
"Don't know, some mafia like men were chasing me." Isa said. "I would use some fighting skills but I'm afraid they are armed and hurt an innocent."
"What?" she said. "Ok, this way." She said guiding me.
We then walked along streets till we arrived the Silver Dragon, the place where Hai Lin lived and worked. We inmediatly were made to seat on a table next to the counter where Hai Lin was working at.
"And you say you felt that... feeling again?" Hai Lin asked.
Taranee remembered what Will had asked her to do and tried, but then she felt as if she crashed into a brick wall.
"You are not going to be able to it." Isabelle thought and Taranee heard. "So stop trying it."
It was funny, she was as a surprise box. First those weird things and now she being able to close her mind to Taranee's powers.
"Are you sure they were chasing you?" Taranee then asked.
"Yes, I'm sure on a 99.9 per cent." Isa said noding. "But I don't know who they were."
"Ok, this is worth of a phone call." Hai Lin said. "We have to call the rest and tell them to come here. And where is Caleb?"
"He said something about meeting Elyon this afternoon." Isa said.
"And Orube must be at Matt's petshop." Taranee said.
"Then that's why I didn't found her when I went to see her." Isa said.
About half an hour later the guardians were all toghether at Hai Lin's where Isa informed them about the feeling.
"Ok, so you think he is around here." Will said. "And you have not seen what face was he wearing?"
"No, I just felt him." Isabelle said.
"And then why didn't you tried to got him?" Cornelia asked.
"I was just me, all alone." Isa said. "I'm a warrior, that's true. But a warrior knows where she needs help. Any of us all alone can't defeat him."
"Well, at least now we know what use is your power." Will said.
"Getting people around felt pitty for her?" Cornelia asked.
"No, spotting that man." Will said. "If she feels weak near him cause she feels his feelings and that makes her feel sick, she can spot him on an area. Even if he is hidding."
"I'll do what is needed for us succeding." Isa said then.
"Anyway..." Will said. "I think you are not telling us all the truth."
"What are you...?" Isa began saying.
"That you are telling part of the whole truth." Irma translated. "Perhaps you are trying to help the Oracle?"
Isa then looked down softly.
"It's not the first time you heard of that man." Will said then "You know the man, don't you?"
Isa took a bit to answer, but then she did it.
"It's the first time I cross his way." She said. "But I know him. I mean... I have heard of him."
"And?" Will said.
Isabelle looked at Will then to the rest.
"You can trust us." Orube said.
"It's not that." Isabelle then said. "It's just that... It's hard to speak about it. I just know of him about rumors and legends."
"Then you can tell us." Hai Lin said.
"I can imagine." Irma said. "The most wanted criminal."
"He was not a criminal on the begining." Isa said softly. "I mean... he was once a good man. A worker that was called to fight on a war..."
"All a hero." Irma said jocking and inmediatly being told off.
"In fact she was right." Isa then said. "He was said to do some heroical acts so..."
"And how is that he ended up being this?" Will said.
"Yeah, cause a good person doesn't go so evil from day to night." Taranee said.
"Don't know." Isabelle said then. "Coruption, could be. The thing is that he disappeared from public life for a while and when he returned he was already that evil. Well... no. In fact..." she said appearing to think about it. "In fact someone told me once that he was in charge of a magical object of great power that was stolen from him, of course, never been found a prove of it, and then he disappeared. When he came back he began doing the worse of the worse crimes till he was forced to ran away from the planet justice and been persecuted along all the dimention."
Suddely Will went a bit pale. That man's story... looked simmilar to Nerissa's one. It seemed that all the keepers of a great powe magical item ended up by rottening inside and turning evil.
"Well, whatever legends say, they are just legends." Cornelia said. "I vow for getting out there and finding him."
"It makes sense." Hai Lin said. "But we are forgetting something. He can change appearance."
"I want to end with this the fastest the best." Irma said. "So I vow with Corny."
"I think we should think it better." Taranee said then rubbing Isa's arm.
"Me too." Orube said. "But the fastest we act, the best. We have to be a step further than him."
Then they looked at Will, she was the Heart Keeper Guardian, so it was plain clear that her word was the last one. The rest of the guardians would do as she said.
"I think we should try to get him." She finally said looking ahead. "But we have to plan something before."
"He will not be expecting us to act so fast." Orube said.
"So we count on surprise effect then." Cornelia said.
"And we have a point to our favour cause we can sense him." She added looking at me.
"Yes, but... shouldn't we wait for Caleb too?" Isabelle said.
"He is not a guardian." Cornelia said. "So leave him aside."