The New Guardian

by Lily Boom

Well, the main here is Isabelle, a new er... guardian the Oracle has made. About the rest... you will find out. DOh, yes. I ask you for your understand and forgive my mistakes. I'm not english speaker but a spanish girl so... english's my 2nd language.

9. Chapter 9

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 9: Unexpected presents.

The following morning, the guardians went to school as every day, they joined there and spoke about the previous day afternoons after separating at Cedric's book shop.

Then they noticed Isabelle was late.

"I hope she has not been attacked by those two." Will said.

"You mean the rat and the snake?" Irma said.

They didn't said a word cause they all knew who they were refering too, they were evil, and there was not chance for them change, even if they were given a hundred chances.

Anyway, guardians were being wrong about the delay.
"Look who are comming!" Hai Lin said smiling.
"Yes, Isabelle and her rat." Irma said like jocking.
"Morning." Will said. "Why are you bringing him here?"
"He is starting here, remember?" Isa said. "I nearly had to help him getting wear to come here so I'd rather you not to speak about that."
"This is really annoying!" Phobos said. "I'm elder than you!"
"And you know nothing about earth so you will be lucky if you can follow the class track." Taranee said.
"They don't trust me..." Phobos said softly. "Well, that would change after a wishe strategy." he added smiling to himself.
"C'mon Phobos." Isa told him holding his arm. "You have to move or you will arrive late for your first lesson."
"What do you girls here want to trust someone?" he asked.
"A normal guy?" Isa asked. "To probe us we can trust him. You?... Better to give time to time." she answered. "But if I were you I would begin showing them they can trust you. That you have changed."
During lessons, Phobos got punished several times for sleeping on history and language. Then on biology he made Cornelia go sick when he eat some of the crickets he was suposed to be giving to the laboratory lizards. And on meal time, he was nearly got into a fight when he tried over Will.
"Stop trying." Isa said softly as she moved to catch the guardians.
Then Matt and some guys sat with him.
"It's hard to try and win their trust when you have been their enemy, isn't it?" Matt asked him sitting down.
"You seem to know how to do it." Phobos said looking at him with a raisen eyebrow.
"Women are from other planet dude." Martin said.
"Yes, you can never know what they want." Nigel added.

"Girls." Isa said. "I don't think Phobos is that evil anymore."
"You don't know him." Will said.
"He is rotten to heart." Cornelia said. "He tried to kill Elyon."
"I know." Isa said. "But... this time I think he is being sincer." she said looking at him. "I can't feel so much evil aura on him, he has a great ammount of good feelings growing inside him."
"Hey, you are begining to sound as the baldy." Irma said.
"Yep, but... he is really trying." Isa said. "Why don't we give him a chance?"
"A chance of what?" Irma said. "Of stealing our powers again?! No thanks."
"Anyway, why are you trying to defend him?" Cornelia said.
"I want to trust Oracle." Isa said standing up and walking to drop her tray remains to the bin.
Then she left.
"Do you really believe she was being serius?" Hai Lin said.
"Well, she was thinking that." Taranee said. "Perhaps she was right about his good and evil feelings."
"Don't tell me you want to forgot what he did Elyon!! What he did to us!!" Cornelia said slapping her hand agaist the table.
"That's right, he was pure evil." Irma said. "He can't change from day to night."
"True, but perhaps we should give him a chance afterall." Will said.
"Granma used to say second chances are holy gifts, perhaps he should apreciate it." Hai Lin said.

That afternoon Isabelle didn't went to lessons. None of the guardians knew where she was gone, and Phobos was in lessons too. Trying to earn their trust again.
The bell rang to mark the end of the day lessons and she had still not came back.
Phobos took her things too,
"Perhaps we were a bit rude with her on meal." Will said.
"We were not." Cornelia said then. "We just told her what we think about."
"Sometimes things can hurt." Phobos said.
"Who asked you?" Irma said.
"Noone of course." he said.
"Anyway, I'm a bit worried." Will added. "taranee, could you try to contact her with the mind, please?"
"I'll try, but I can't assure you I can find her..." she said concentrating, then after a while she opened her eyes. "She is near. She will be on the park on five minutes."
"Well, then let's met her there."
"Do I also go?" Phobos said.
"It's up to you." Hai Lin said.
"Then I go." he said. "I can't drive so I will need anyone else."
When they arrived the park they found Isa sitting at a park bench. She was looking around and some guys were looking at her as they got near.
"Hey, you skiped the lessons." Taranee said. "Is something wrong?"
"Sorry." she just said. "I couldn't attend. I had... something to do."
"Sorry." Cornelia muttered. "We wanted to show you what we thought but didn't thought we could sound rude."
"Oh, it's my fault." Isa said. "Perhaps I insisted too much... but it was not that." she said showing them a cuple of sports bags.
"Don't tell me you have joined a club." Irma said. "I hope it's not Martin's one."
"What?" Isa asked confused. "No! It's Kandrakar's mails. This for Phobos, this for Caleb. So as us not to buy them necessary things."
"Afterall that idiot man has done something right." Phobos said.
Inmediatly the guardians looked at him angry.
"He also gave me a credit card to have some money for them." she said softly.
"What?!" Irma said. "He has never gave us one!"
"And we deserve it more than them!!" Cornelia said.
"Hey, it's not a toy." Isa said. "Just for food and really necesary things, understood?"
"Then I could have it." Phobos said.
"No." she said. "I'll keep it. That's for you and Caleb."
"And what is that?" Cornelia asked pointing to an extra bag that was from a shop.
"Oh, nothing." Isa said pink and quickly hidding it. "It's just... I had things to do."
Phobos was getting fun at that. He didn't needed his powers to notice lies and nerves and that girl was doing both.
"Do you want to come home and help us with the cleaning up?" he asked then.
"I have myown bedroom to clean." Irma said. "So do not count me."
"And I have training today." Cornelia said.
"Same goes here." Hai Lin added.
"Sorry." Will said. "But I have to met Matt."
"Don't worry." Isa said as Phobos took the bags. "We will be able to hand with it ourselves."
"I don't like cleaning up." Phobos said faking an smile.
"Oh, Isa." taranee said when they were leaving for the bus stop. "Peter told me he was playing some basket today, same place. If you wanted to go..." she said smiling.
"Sounds cool, but today I'm with company." she said.
"Hey, you can go if you want to." Phobos said. "I'll go meeting Cedric."
"If you don't mind carrying this home." Isa said handing him the sports bags.
"Don't you also want me to carry that bag too?" he said pointing to the shop bag.
"No, hehe. I can carry this myself." she said smiling and going pink.
"You are simmilar to me." Phobos then said. "You are also a liar."
"I'm not." Isa muttered as he left. "Drop them and we will arrange them when Caleb returns."
"He has left his beautiful mate alone today?" he asked ironically. "What a bad teammate."

When Isa arrived the basketball pitch she found the same guys that the previous day but for Matt and Joel. They played and she got fun again. When they ended again Peter and her were the last ones remaining so he took her home.
"Wow, you live on a beautiful place." he said.
"I have to share it with more people."
"I see what you mean by other people." he said when Phobos came out walking towards them.
"Isa!" he said nearly singing. "Oh, is that your boyfriend?"
"You left him alone here?" Caleb asked going out of the house too seeming to be a bit angry.
"Er... we will chat another day." Peter said starting the car again. "I see you are pretty bussy right now. see you soon."
"See you petter." Isabelle said then.
Then when the car left, she turned to both Phobos and Caleb.
"Couldn't you have kept that for later?" she asked. "Yes, I left him alone cause he is not my prisoner, and no Peter is not my boyfriend. Happy both of you?"
"Hey! Don't go angry at me!" Caleb said. "I was just asking! He is not that nice as you think he is."
"Hey, I have not asked you for your trust!" Phobos said. "You were once my servant remember?"
They were begining to go angry one at the other so Isa slapped both on the back of their necks.
"Stop it, now." she said holding both from the collar of their jackets. "This is not the right place for speaking about that. Furthermore, there's a house to clean and bags to open."
"What was it?" Caleb asked.
"I have had a look." Phobos said. "They are clothes and books."
"School books." Isa said showing them to him and handing them to Phobos. "Your new school books. Now... let's see which clothis is wich..."
Then she began taking out clothing and the two guys should see how they reparted them among both.
"hey!" Calbe said. "I don't think that's ours!" he said showing her a pair of knickers as Phobos holded a bra and a dress with surprise.
"That's women clothes?" she asked having a look. "Ok, for me." she said grabbing them. "Caleb dear, could you take those to the cellar please?" she asked him softly as they ended unpacking the bags.

"Yeah." He said softly. "No problem."

"Phobos and me are going to put his clothes somewhere." She said.

"Can I have myown bedroom?" he asked.

"Sorry, but not today either." She said. "We will see what we can do, but while we settle it... I'm afraid you will have to have to share room with Caleb."

"Geez... He was a servant and he keeps being just that." He then said.

"Hey, I don't allow you to keep on with that, right?" Isa said a bit bothered. "I don't know what he was, I don't care about past of people. All I care about now is what people are now." She added standing up. "Undestood? Other whise I would never have accepted you to come here."

"I don't really know if you are so noble or just silly." He said. "But I think that's something funny in a girl of your... age."

"I'm just a year elder than your real sister." Isa said softly as she walked towards the kitchen to put some water to heat to begin cooking dinner for all. "And now let's find you somewhere to keep that clothing."

"As you order mistress." He said ironically.

Isa then smiled softly. He was really weird guy, but she had seen a lot of evil men and he was now not as any of them. He really was... as if he was once rotten but suddely he had begining to...

"What are you doing putting his clothing there!" Caleb shouted.

"There's where he is living so... as you have plenty of space here I suposed he could use it."

"Hey Caleb." Phobos said. "Stop being so rough, I would not want to get her space."

"Ok, let's vote then." Isa said. "Hands up the ones who want him to sleep on a bed."

Phobos and Isa raised hands, then Caleb raised too.

"Right. Now hands up those who want him on a bedroom." She said inmediatly raising her hand.

Phobos also raised his hand.

"Caleb?" Isa asked.

"Ok, he can stay here again." He said. "And use half of the wardrobe. But just till we can get him somewhere else to keep his things in."

"Ok, can I count on both not killing eachother while I'm down cooking dinner??"

"Can I help?" Phobos said.

He wanted to win all the guardians trust, that was his first step to achieve his final goal.

"I think you still have to do something." She said. "For example homework, which I think will take you a bit, and then helping Caleb cleaning what from now on is your bedroom too... oh, and trying to fix that water loosing tap in the toilet. You can begin from where you prefer."

"Hey, can I choose dinner today?" Caleb said.

"Today it was my turn." Isa said. "But ok. Anything special?"

"What about those meat things you call dogs?" he said.

"Do people here eat dogs?" Phobos asked wearing a 'disgusting' gimace.

"That's not dog." Isa said. "It's called sausages and they are made out of pork. Hum... ok. I'll make some sausages. Anything else?"

"How were they called...?" Phobos said thinking. "Oh, yep. Pop-corns!"

"You knew them?" Isabelle said.

"Hey, I'm from meridian, not idiot." Phobos said.

"He has been here before." Caleb explained.

"Ok, sausages, popcorn..." Isa said. "I think I can do it. Ok, wait here, please. I'm going out to buy some corn for Phobo's request."

"You don't have to." He said after thinking a bit about it. "There's no hurry afterall." He added walking back in his bedroom.

"Ok, sausages then." Isa said. "They are going to be easy. And... Caleb, would it be too much to ask if I ask you to show him how the bath tube works?" she asked putting a funny face.

"Ok, I show him. But don't expect I bathing him." Caleb said.

"Thanks!" Isa said smiling. "By the way, did you managed to get a work?"

"Well... I think I got something." He said. "I'll tell you about at dinner, ok?."

"Ok." Isa said smiling.

As she was cooking, she could hear shouts of disagreement comming from the bathroom and sighed. It was plain clear those two would not get along well even if she tried her best.

Anyway, at dinner time Phobos had his long withish hair still wet and so did Caleb, they were wearing both on sleeping t-shirt and pijama's trousers.

During dinner, Isa got some fun cause Phobos seemed not to know much about earth kind of food. He acted as if the sausages were something weird and were alive, pocking it with his fork.

"Phobos, they are not alive." She said smiling. "You just have to cut them into slices, see?"

"He is not made for this delicious things." Caleb said.

"I'm not used to villager's food." Phobos said.

"Well, you will have to get used." Isa said. "In earth they don't know much food from our dimentions. I have grow up here so I can cook more or less well with earth ingredients."

"That's why she is in charge of meals and I clean up." Caleb said disappointed.

"Did the secret bag containing fitted you, guardian?" Phobos asked remembering the bag and smiling evilly.

"I have still not tried on." Isa said appearing normallity.

She was a bit ashamed on what she did, but it was already done so it was better not to keep on caring about it.

"Phobos, can you clean dishes?" Caleb asked.

"I don't do that kind of nasty things." He answered.

"Ok, have you ended your homework?" Isa asked.

"No." He said smiling. "I'm afraid I'll have to end them."

"This time is ok, but tomorrow you will have to do double work." Isa said. "And that means sweeping, which can be done even for the most idiot person in universe, and dust cleaning."

"You are evil." He said.

"Sorry, but I was the inventor of 'I can't do it cause I have to end my homework' trick." Isa said smiling. "So, c'mon, go to the bedroom and keep on with your homework."

He took a bit to convince, but he ended by go to his room and begin appearing to do his homework.

And Caleb and me began cleaning up a bit. With some light speed minutes, Isa did all the cleaning up matters while Caleb sweeped and took dust off. She washed the dinner dishes and cutlery, did the bathroom up and cleant the lamps.

"Ok, ended here." She said. "Now homework and I'll be done. Can you take care of the rest?"

"Sure." Caleb said. "I feel bad if you clean all by yourself. You already cook for us and that prat doesn't even care about it."

"I'll have also a quick bath so... try to keep him away from the bathroom for a while too, right?" Isa asked him smiling.

"Ok." He answered.

The quick shower and homework doing took Isa more than a while. It was nearly eleven o'clock in the night when she ended all the duties.

Then she outstretched and loked around. Then she saw the bag still closen at the feet of her bed. She sighed.

"I have had lack of time and bravety to give it..." she muttered as she packed her things at her rugsack.

Then she took it and went to the kitchen to throw the bag to the rubbish. She walked down the stairs and got in the livingroom.

"Trying to run away?" a voice said on her back.

"What are you doing down here, Caleb?" Isa said turning round.

"You were taking that bag somewhere?" he asked.

"it's nothing." She said hidding it on her back, embarrashed.

Then both looked at eachother and she sighed to take it out again.

"I was lieing." She said handing it to him. "It's yours. You can do what you want with this."

"What is it?" Caleb said holding the bag but not opening it.

"It's nothing important, I... I just saw it when I was walking and I thought on you so... I bought it." She said. "As a thanking present for what you did for me when I was ill."

"It's funny." Caleb said looking from the present to her. "Cause I thought the same." He said taking a wrapped box from his pocket and showing it to her. "It's nothing too valuable but... I saw it when I was walking at Meridian and I thought you would like it..."

Isa then went surprised as she got the packet from his hands. She then smiled at him.

"Open it on the same time?" she suggested nervous.

"Great idea." Caleb said smiling too.

They counted to three and then opened both at the same time.

Caleb opened his eyes when he saw a white tank top with a sword painted on the back and a pair of black jeans carefully folded inside.

Isa went really surprised when she saw a hand joined book with leather hard covers, and a beautiful shiny bracelet.

Her eyes suddely filled with the shine of joy tears in joy and amazing. They both smiled.

"That's really great!" they said at once smiling wide.

Then they laugh at the coincidence. So much had been their nervers about the presents that they had forgot the most important, feelings.

Isa could have felt a great nervousity state on him before that moment but she had mistook it with herown feelings, but now she could feel how happy Caleb felt cause he was feeling just the same that her.