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 6: A trap.

The following day was weekend so the guardians had the full day to think about how to manage to get the criminal fall for their trap.

Caleb was also there, so he also helped them to think about a trap.

The guardians were training on an empty space for about two hours while Orube was working at the pet shop and Caleb looked at them in silence.

While they were training, they had to stop twice cause of the feeling of the man not far from them, but it ended by go away on a minute.

"Hey, I think you should try hitting something instead of just air." Caleb told Isabelle who trained not only fighting with light beams and shadows but also normal fighting.

"I don't want to break anything." She said. "We need things to break with our powers."

"Then try figthing agaist me." He offered.

"You would end up wounded." She said.

"Oh, c'mon." Hai Lin said stopping her training. "That could be interesting!"

"Yeah, the fighter agaist the guardian." Irma said. "What a fight!" she added jocking.

"Don't laugh at him." Isa said smiling. "Sorry Caleb, but I don't want to hurt you."

"Are you afraid?" he asked trying to make her fight. "Don't worry, I'll go easy on you."

"Easy." Isa said picking a brick. "Ok, look at this."

She then put just one finger out and looked at the brik, after a second she touched one spot and the brik burst into millon pieces.

That made all of them open their mouths wide open.

"How did she did it?" Irma asked.

"That's... amazing!" Taranee said.

"Perhaps it's better not to fight you." Caleb said smiling after gulping noisily.

"In case you wanna know it, this is a trick I would never use on a friend." Isa said softly standing up.

"What's up Caleb?" Cornelia said smiling. "You are afraid of fighting?"

"Ok, I'll go easy on her." He said going into attack ready position.

"Let's see." Will said sitting next to Hai Lin to watch the fight.

"No powers hits then?" Isabelle asked. "Just to be fair."

"He has a copy of our powers so..." Hai Lin said.

"No Powers then." Caleb said smiling. "And... I don't fight agaist women, but for this time... I supose I could make an exception."

"Ok." Isabelle said bowing in respect. "Gentility before anything." She said then standing stiff to adopt a conbat position.

"What?" Caleb said. "Oh, do you really do that when you fight enemys?" he asked ironically. "Then they would end with you soon!" he said throwing a hit to her.

She then ducked and avoided the hit.

He threw several more but she ducked avoiding them, moving from a side to another as if she was dancing.

"Why is she doing it?" Hai Lin asked.

"Looks as if she was aboiding all his hits." Cornelia said.

"Irma!" Isabelle then said. "Can you sing my sister songs?"

"You are talking to her number one fan!" Irma said as if she was being offended.

"Then sing, please!" Isa said smiling. "Any song would be great."

Irma then went shocked but began sining as she got fun on it.

Isabelle then smiled and avoided Caleb's hits once again to then begin throwing herself attacks and more attacks. Hitting him as music sounded.Caleb was not bad either, but he got some efford to prevent her hitting him. Smiling as they were getting fun.

"You don't fight bad." Isabelle said smiling when Irma stopped singing cause she was shocked that Isabelle had hitten Caleb at his back not once but three times on a row before jumping backwards with two artistical gym acrobacies to stand on a wooden post standing just on one leg smiling.

"Nor do you." He recognised.

"Ok, I think we are all ready for getting that man." Will said.

"Yep, even the kitty." Irma said.

"Why do you always call me kitty?" Isa then asked her.

"Cause you came from the same place than Orube." Hai Lin said. "And she is like a human cat."

"As you are youger... then kitty. "Irma said smiling.

"By the way... how is you don't have those pointy end ears?" Cornelia asked.

"I can get my ears changed into human when I'm on earth." Isabelle said softly ater drinking some water. "Just as you when you wear guardians. But on the other way round."

"So you have... your gurdian appearance, your normal appearance and... your human appearance?" Irma asked doubting.

"Seing that way." Isabelle said moving her head as thinking. "In fact it's just two. And... well, the gift I got from my graduation as Supreme warrior was a power and... Kandrakar gave me something else then moment I took my identity as guardian. Something Orube also have."

"You mean... wiskers?" Irma asked with a rejecting face. "Tail then?" she asked with a frightened face when the rest looked at her frowning.

"No, I mean... I can go to the places I have been. Something simmilar to transposition but... using phisical and shadow powers."

"What?" Taranee asked.

"Look." She said going behind Caleb and sinking into his shadow.

"Where is her?!!" Irma said.

"She disappeaered??!!" Will asked her eyes wide opened.

"Just here." Isabelle said behind them.

"What did you do?" Cornelia said.

"Moving at shadows." Isa said. "This. Go behind Caleb and Caleb, don't move please. I have never tried doing it on a moving shadow." She said sinking in shadows again.

The guardians went behind Caleb and he turned around.

"Ouch!!" Isa voice said. "Step out the shadow please!"

"Oops, sorry." The said moving a step behind.

Then Isabelle began reappearing in the shadow as she rubbed her head.

"That was great!" Hai Lin said happyly. "That hurted. I crashed into someone's feet!"

"Ok, could you keep on thinking on how we are going to catch that mad man? I don't like to show off."

"You seem just the oposite." Cornelia said.

"What do you mean?" Isa asked. "Cause I'm begining to go tired on you always treatening me like that. Speak clear!"

"Girls..." Taranee said.

"Oh yeah?" Cornelia said. "Then why did peter took you to orube's?"

"He was going near so he picked me up and took me there!" Isa said.
"Really? And what were you doing with him?" Cornelia said.

"Nothing." Isabelle said. "We were playing basket, that's all."

"Ah, I must intervent Corny." Taranee said then shyly. "Peter said they were playing with a girl yesterday."

"You are jalous of me for that?" Isabelle asked confused.

"I'm not jalous!" Cornelia said going pink.

"Feww. I thought it was something else." She said smiling in relief. "If that serves you of something... I'm not interested on him. He likes someone else. Sames goes for Matt and Nigel in case you wanted to knew it."

"What is she speaking about?" Caleb asked.

"Secret." Taranee said smiling as so did the rest.

"You women are really weird." Caleb said.

Later in the afternoon, Isa was walking with the other five guardians on their guardians form but degised as normal humans.

They seemed to be smiling when they got into a street market.

"I feel him near." Isa said as she felt she was going weaker.

"You know what to do, right?" Will asked with her psichic powers as they were chatting like that.

The guardians the noded. Caleb and Isa were left alone little by little as the rest began to disappear when stopping to see the stands.

Isabelle did asked the rest to leave her alone being the feed for the trap, but they refused and sended Caleb, who was still not trusting her fully but begining to be like a friend to go with her in case things were wrong or she would fall again due to weakness for the amount of bad feelings of their prey.

"Are you feeling well?" Caleb said as he noticed Isabelle was begining to look a bit pale and slightly shivering.

"Yes, he is too near." She muttered. "keep walking, please."

Then she did a mental call to the rest to inform them about the situation.

"Can't you spot him yet?" Caleb said.

"I'm not that. I just can feel his evil feelings." Isa said.

Then something caught fire and people began running away. Caleb and Isa were separated for the flock of terrified running people.

The weakness feeling seemed to diappear for a while and then she saw how the other guardians cleaned the mess.

Then they came to her.

"Still nothing?" they asked.

"No, but..." she said the weakness feeling began to go back again.

Caleb was arriving back.

"Sorry..." he said. "The riots took me away. I completely lost sight of you!"

"Never mind." Cornelia said. "She seems not to mind."

Isa was smiling but didn't said a word.

"Yes, I see." Caleb said looking at her. "Cornelia... We have to speak. I..." he said going next to her to kiss her, then when he was hugging her and taking some of her magic out making her go weak... "Ahh!!!" he said shocked.

He opened his eyes wide open as he was begining to get his feet sinking on a shadow filled hole on the ground.

"What's goind on here?" he said.

"She is not Isabelle!" Someone said on his back. "And you are not Caleb."

It was the true Caleb who was there, some blood comming out of his head on little drops.

"Caleb!!" the guardians said.

"Will!" Isabelle said appearing on the top of a stand holding her heart and head laying on there. "Please, guardians get him!!"

"It sounded more as begging than commanding." Irma said. "Water!"

"Air!"

"Fire!"

"Ok... Earth!" Cornelia said.

"Kandrakar heart!" Will said. "Help us sealing that evil and take him to Kadrakar where he would never have gone!"

Then there was a big flash and they all disappeared.

"Well done guardians." The Oracle said as restrictions were put up the convict. "I must admit you have done a great job."

"Sir." Orube said looking how Caleb as holding a patting Isabelle. "What's gone on her?"

"She is going cold and... looks really ill sir!" Caleb said.

"Sir, what have gone on here?!" Will asked serious. "What's happening to her?"

"I'm afraid Alex is stronger than average warrior woman." The oracle said. "She is a great warrior and is also good on some human skills. But... great people with great spirit strength also have a great weakness. In her case, she is really vunerable to great evil auras. And this man has a great evil levels. All who was once good has now rotterned and turned into great evil."

"So agaist Nerissa or Phobos she would have not had any chance." Cornelia said.

"Don't worry." The Oracle said. "She will full recover soon. She has been exposed to too much evil all from sudden so she has got an... overload of it. She will be recovering sooner if she is surronded of good feelings. Now you should return to earth. Kandrakar is once again thanked to you for achieving another missios with exceed expectations."

Then Will took them back to earth where they returned to their human form.

"I'm beginning to go tired of being dismissed like that." Irma said.

"Caleb, you should take her home." Orube said refering to Isabelle.

"She looks really ill." Taranee said. "Should we call a doctor?"

"You heard what the oracle said." Will said shaking her head. "All we can do is to wait..."

Cornelia was quiet.

"I think you should tell her thanks." Orube said to her softly.

"Why? Just cause she layed up there?" she answered a bit angry.

"If she had not made his feet been trapped into hisown shadow he would have sucked all your magic out of you." Orube said as Caleb and the rest began leaving to their homes.

"Call us when she wakes up, please." Will said.

"Yes." Irma said. "And tell her not to expect chocolates from us. Maybe flowers." She said smiling.

It was night when Isa began opening her eyes. She was lying at her bed, a wet cloth over her forehead and little light at her bedroom.

She looked around and saw Caleb had fallen asleep sitting on a chair next to her.

She still felt a bit sick, anyway, she felt she was no longer alone by seing him there. Then he woke up and saw her.

"Heya, you have woke up." Caleb said smiling.

"Yep, er... sorry for that." She said. "I supose that I'm a bad warrior afterall."

"Oracle told us you had overflowed with evil feelings." Caleb said changing the cloth. "So you are not so bad afterall. He said that man was really risky and that you had standed too much." He added then. "And Cornelia owes you quite a lot now."

"Well... I supose I was lucky to been able to spot him then." Isa said going pink. "Yet I hardly could make him sink so little for the rest of you traping him..."

"Well, you managed to somehow caught him, that's quite a lot." Caleb said.

Suddely he was begining to see that girl with other eyes. It was true she was still younger than him. But she was as a mix of Cornelia and Elyon, a good mix in fact. All for sudden, after some days of sharing the house, he was begining to change his mind towards her.

She had probed to be stronger than what he thought, sharp, fast, brave and, overall, loyal. She had been about ending bad in order to save them all. Who knows what that crazy man would have done them if she had not been found him so fast and told Caleb that man was appearing to be him? The guardians would have lost their powers or worse, died.

"Caleb." She then said softly. "You should go to your bedroom and rest."

"I want to stay here guarding you till you are fully recovered." He said then. "But first... I'll call the guardians."

He went out of the room to call Will, the leader of the guardians and also Orube to tell them Isa was now awaken and recovering.

They went happy to hear that, specially Orube.

"Tell her that if she doesn't feel well tomorrow we will tell the teachers she is ill again." Will said. "We will cover her up in school till she is fully recovered."

Then Caleb took a box from The Silver Dragon's menu Hai Lin had sent him in order him not to stabber while his flatmate was unconscious.

"Ok, here I'm back." He said. "Hai Lin sent us this for dinner. I supose you prefer soup as it's easier to eat." He said putting a bowl of hot soup in front of her who was now sitting on the bed.

"Caleb." She said softly and smiling as she began eating the soup. "Thanks for your warm feelings."