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 12: Dates.

"Are you sure you are ok?" Will asked Isa as they walked through the corridors to get out the school. "You don't have to go if you don't want to."

"I made a trade so I have to take it along." Isa said smiling softly. "He is not going to do anything evil on me." She added smiling. "I have felt something in him, something good."

"Good?!" Cornelia and Irma said at once.

"That guy doesn't have a good feeling in him even if he wished it." Irma said.

"Believe us, he is rotten." Taranee said as they reached the main door.

"And where are you going?" Will asked.

"Don't know." Isa said. "Eating somewhere and then perhaps to walk a bit around. I doubt he knows around this place."

"Alone? With him?" Irma asked pointing to the door where Phobos was wearing as a motorbiker.

"Well... he is not eating me. Is he?" Isa asked smiling softly.

"Heya!!" he said waving at her.

"I think he needed a date." Taranee said mentally to the rest as Isa walked to him.

"And she even wore skirt for him." Irma added.

"Ok, let's drop it." Will said. "Say hello and leave. She will hand perfectly with him."

"Hello Phobos." They all said at once.

"We are leaving." Cornelia said

"You know, things to do... that kind of things." Irma said.

"Have fun!" Hai Lin said smiling.

She seemed to be the only one doing it from hear.

"Are they still angry?" Phobos said.

"Yeah, it's hard to earn someone's trust if you have been so evil as you seemed to be in past." Isa said. "Now... we do begin with the date?"

"Willing to." He said smiling evilly as he used to and holding his arm out for her to hold it.

"Don't ask for too much." Isa said softly. "We would call for attention by walking like that."

"Ok, ok." He said. "No arm holding walk here." He said. "Can we go somewhere?"

"Had you thought of anything?" Isa said.

"Er... no." He said.

"What about eating?" Isa said. "Burger is cheapest."

"Is it insects?" he asked.

"What...No!" Isa said laughing. "Here on this country they don't eat much insects."

"Then what do they eat?" Phobos said.

"Things like what I cooked for you guys." Isa said smiling. "Oh, I like that... square things they serve on the school meals."

"French fries?" Isa said. "Have you ever tested pizza?"

"no that I remember." Phobos said.

"I know the perfect place for meal." She said smiling.

"Golden." Both him and she said at once.

"You knew it?" Isa said smiling.

"I heard Matt speak about that." He said.

Then both went there for having meal, and after that they were to cinema. While they were having meal they chatted.

"You know what?" he said. "You are different from the other guardians. I first thought you were... fool to trust me. But I have noticed you seem to be the only one. And... well, I think I prefered to date you than Irma."

"Don't even try." Isa said jocking. "I can get really evil when a guy trespases certaing lines."

"I mean you are easier to talk to." He said raising his eyebrow. "Not that I... love you."

"Better that way" Isa said smiling. "I'm not a good girlfriend."

"You are also evil?" he asked.

"Somehow." Isa said stiring her coke with the cane. "You know, I'm light and darkness. That's also... good and evil. And... well, when I'm going out with a guy that is something not much men can stand."

"Then you should look for a guy simmilar to you." He said eating his fries like a pig.

"Phobos dear." She then said. "Fryes are not going to run away. Like this." She said showing him how to eat.

"I love those." He said. "But ok, I got the idea." He said begining to eat more decently.

"Thank you." Isa said smiling. "What would people say if they knew you are a prince that eats like... I better no say it."

"So you think that eating more normally would fix things up?"

"No, but could help a bit." She recognised.

"Ok, now... can I ask you a question?" Phobos said empting the bag and turning it into a ball and throwing it into the litter bin. "Why do you treat me so nice and the rest...?"

"Not everyone is ready for giving second chances. Well, second second chances." She said. "And you have tried to kill yourown sister who was their friend, tried to get all the dimentions under your power, tried to be Oracle to rule over all..."

"But now I'm just another human!" Phobos said hitting the table.

"He is having a bad day, hehe." She said trying to apologize him in front of the people around. "Hey, hitting tables is not a nice thing to do, right?" then she sighed. "I supose it must be hard for you, but you must get used to it. Humans don't want to rule over all, but... I've got an idea! If you keep on studying perhaps you could end up being politician, or an important bussiness man. Perhaps chairman of a company?"

"I don't understand." Phobos said expresionless face.

"You like the power, and want have more and more." Isa said. "You can't become king here cause you are not considered one here, so... chairman is the head of a big company, have money, power, status... Perhaps you could be that."

"I think I like the idea." He said. "So if I am a good human then I will earn the guardians trust?"

"Yeah, could work." Isa said not minding it. "And beging calling them by their names, not guardians or alias."

"Ok, so... good human, calling their names, manners... easy!" he said smiling. "But If I'm to become that, I'll need help. Would like to help?" he said helding out his hand.

"I'd love to." Isa said holding his hand. "But just friends, right?"

"Sounds perfect for me." He said smiling. "Ok, where do we go now?"

"Paying?" Isa said. "And then we could go... don't know." She recognised laughing.

Phobos saw her go to pay to the counter. She was always that warm to him. Perhaps she could be a good princess afterall. And why couldn't he try to become that chairman she had told him about?

Afterall, she had assure him he could beging low and then, with a proper strategy and hard work he could go higher and higher till the top. It would not be controlling the whole world but... having great power over it.

He should think about it and, why not? Trying to achieve it.

After having meal, they went to have a little walk around, it that was what it was done on dates he wanted to have lots of more.

"Watch out." Isa warned him smiling. "If you date a lot of girls you will have a fame among us that you would not love." She said making an "L" with her fingers at her forehead. "And noone would like to date you but really few girls."

"Women here are really weird, you know?" he said serious. "They like bad guys but they don't like to be tricked by one, the guardians use their powers for theirown interests from time to time... By the way, do you also use your powers for yourown interests?"

"Well..." Isa said. "When I'm alone I use them to clean fast."

"Bewitching performances." He said smiling. "See, guardians are not so different from me."

"Don't compare us to you." Isa said. "We don't try to rule over worlds and dimensions, but... well, sometimes we use our powers for ourown venefit, that's true. But we never use them for hurting people!"

They kept on walking and went into a "videogames parlour" where she showed him how to play videogames.

"Hey! That's funny!" he said when she showed him a machine where you wore a helmet that made you go into virtual 3D adventures. "Can I use it?"

"As long as it lastes unless you got killed." Isa said smiling.

Suddely she felt something, it was as if somewhere were spying them.

"If you are trying to locate that weird sensation I should tell you they have been following us all the time since the departmentstores." Phobos said without taking the helmet out and shutting to virtual imaginary enemis.

"You know who they are?" Isa asked him.

"Nop." He said. "I just have felt two people following us and staring at our movements. Oh... can I play one more?" he said smiling as a little kid as he asked for more money.

"Oh, I got an idea." Isa said smiling as she saw a virtual game room. "This way." She said pulling from his arm to make him follow her.

"Er... what's this?" he said as he was given a plastic one piece suit to wear and a helmet.

"Paintball fight." Isa explained him as she put the robes on over herown ones. "You wear this so as not to endirt your robes and then you are given a paintballs weapon. You have to shoot at the rest of people in."

"I think I understand what you meant." He said smiling evilly as he zipped the robes and holded his hair into the helmet.

They put on the visors of their helmets and went out to be given a pair of guns to shoot at the rest.

There were just four more people there.

"Team game?" Isa said laying her shootgun over her shoulder. "Two people each team?"

"Great." Girl voice said from inside one helmet.

"Yeah, agree." A girl and a guy said from other two helmets.

"Ok, I go with her." Phobos said.

"We two." The second and third voices said.

"Yep, and us two." The first girl who seemed shorter than the other girl said.

"Ok, ready..." Isa said.

"Steady..." the guy said.

"Go!" the other guy said high.

They all began running oposite directions. Isa loaded her gun and showed Phobos how to do it for him to do.

The enemys were two couples, boy and girl each. One cuple, had a shorter than average girl and the other girl was also short comparing her to her mate. They should be about Isabelle's age. The guys seemed also not too elder than her, but also about her heigh, a bit more, of course.

Phobos was moving fast, he seemed to know exactly what to do and left Isabelle alone. It was pretty clear he didn't knew what team spirit meant. About the rest, the girl with the short female mate was caring about her, but more as... respectful, the other one seemed more caring as love feeling. In any case the other teams were more joined than Phobos-Isabelle.

It was funny while they were playing. Isabelle managed to soon caught the girls and one guy, and Phobos... he was really good. Though, of course, he was a great strategy man who worked alone. He caught the enemys once and again and he was caught twice till the end of the game.

Anyway, a team of two is better than a team of one and one. The teams managed to catch her unaware four times until the end. But that was not so easy. She also was a good warrior and difficult to catch. She hided and avoided the paint bullets easily.

After a while, she managed to get herself to the back of one of the female players who were not very good. She shoot and hitted her on the helmet which was inmediatly cleant and the visor was lifted unwantedly revealing part of a face Isabelle recognised.

"Will?" she said confused.

"Oh, so... hi!" she said embarrashed.

Isa then jumped down the place where she had got to shoot her and vanished from sight. She kept on aiming at the other team, if the girl whose partner acted so lovely towards her was Will then it was obvious the male member of the team was Matt.

She hitted him once and after a while again. She also hitted the short girl some times, and her male mate seemed to want to "kill" Phobos.

"Will, not nasty tricks." Isabelle said when she saw how Will was about charming her weapon to hit Phobos too.

She then shoted at her and got her.

When the game ended she took her helmet out looking at the couples.

"Will, what are you doing here?" she asked.

"We were thinking about hanging out on a date." Matt said. "And as she had never been here I thought it would be a good surprise."

"It seems someone doesn't trust me too much." Phobos said. "And look who we have over here." He said taking the short girl's hand and taking her helmet out.

"hey! What are you doing?!" Elyon said. "We were getting fun!"

"Ok, don't tell me." Isabelle said. "The other is Cedric."

"Er... no." Will said. "In fact we met on the way." She said as Caleb took his helmet out.

"That's too much." Isabelle said going serious. "C'mon Phobos, change yourself and lets go."

"You shouldn't spy." Phobos said. "I would have told you about when we reached home, Caleb." He added trying to make him a bit angry.

"Phobos!" Isa told him off as she began taking off the painted clothes. "Move. Drop it, ok?"

"Isa." Will said. "We were just... trying to help."

"I told you I didn't need help." Isa said sighing. "I don't need help with a human guy. And why did Caleb and Elyon had to came too?"

"Caleb asked me to come." Elyon said. "I have took a day off the trone to come here and remember old times. But he asked me... he seemed worried." Elyon said softly. "That guy is really dangerous and tricky."

"That guy is your brother." Isa said. "And I think he is not so evil as you all think." She added sadly.

"Cause you..." Will said.

"Dare to say I love him and you are a dead girl." Isa advised her. "I don't love anyone, right? It's just... I think he is not so evil and I want to give him a chance."

"Isa..." Elyon said holding her hands sadly. "He has been given many chances. And he has never changed. He is not going to change."

"Well, I believe people can change." Isa said releasing her hands. "I have seen it, he is not that evil. There are lot of humans that are more evil than him."

"Ok." Will said. "I supose we should begin trusting him too. Just a bit."

"It'll be enough if you begin by forgetting about his past." Isa said smiling softly. "And begin judging him from 0. Fair and square."

"We'll try." Will said. "I mean... I'll try and speak to the rest, but don't expect too much."

"Ok." Isa said smiling. "NO, if you don't mind, I have a date to keep on with."

"And all for saving us." Will said. "The less we can do is to keep an eye on him."

"Will, Elyon... everything is going to be right." She said. "Don't worry, he is human now. He is not having a chance agaist me."

"Ok." Elyon said. "But please, be careful. He is not as nice as you can think."

"He has changed." Isa said. "Or begining to."

"Isabelle." Phobos said. "Didn't you want to leave?"

"Yep, let's move." Isa said. "And stop following us or this would not be a date."

"What?" Phobos said, then wearing an evil face. "Then we will have to repeat it other day..."

"That's what you'd wish." Isa said making him move.

When they left, the other four stayed there.

"C'mon, they will get lost." Caleb said.

"Caleb wait." Will said. "We have to leave them go."

"Yep, here on earth you date when you are just two." Elyon said. "If she promised him to date him, and she breaks her word then she will have to go out with him another day."

"But..." Caleb said looking them get lost in the crowd of people outside in the street.

"Mate, the girls are right." Matt said. "I don't enjoy the idea either, but we can't keep on chasing them."

"Will, would you take Matt to the Goldeen on your first date if you had money?" Elyon said smiling.

"Well..." Will said sweating as she remembered their first date. Then she saw Elyone smiling and realised what she meant. "I know what you mean."

"What are you speaking about?" Caleb asked.

"You don't go on Goldeen on your first date if you like the one you are dating." Elyon said. "You have nothing to fear. I think she knows exactly what she is doing."

"Yep." Will said. "That's not a couple date. That's just... friends."

Caleb then sighed inside himself and looked with a serious face the door where they had left.

After that stop Isabelle and Phobos went to the cinema, where she bought a big box of popcorn just for him. He tried to eat all of once and she holded his hand before he could and shook her head, he then began picking one by one as the film began and she eated one after another slowly.

As she saw the film Phobos went a bit bored, then when the true film began he payed attention. It was an action one, with strategys and lots of shoots and fights. He seemed to like and Isa smiled when she saw him so concentrated on something. Then she took a popcorn and threw it to his head.

He looked around to find the source of the popcorn and realised she was smiling. Then he raised an eyebrow and turned back to the film.

After a cuple of seconds another one hitted his head again and this time he saw Isa laughing as she eated a cuple of popcorns.

Then he smiled as took the idea and soon Isa was hitten with one popcorn.

They kept on with the jocke till the usher came and "politely" asked them to leave.

"Ushers have gone too boring lately." Isa said putting her arms behind her head.

"That was fun." He said after they left the room. "Didn't knew humans could be so rudly funny."

"Humans are better than what you think." Isa said smiling. "And... if you could go friends with the guardians... you could do this more often."

"And why don't you drop that school thing and do this all the time?" he asked.

"I don't like it either, but we have to go in order to graduate and get a job." Isa said. "Studies mean work, and work means money. If you have money you wave lot of things." She explained.

"Then if I become chairman soon... I can rule over this also soon!" he said smiling evilly.

"I'm afraid that becoming that is not that easy mate." Isa said smiling. "You have to study economy at university and then begin improbing at the bussines you are working at."

"Damn... this is all that difficult?" he asked.

"Sometimes." Isa said laughing. "All that is valuable is difficult to get. That makes it even more special."

"Humm... valuable and difficult." He said thinking.

"Don't think anything evil." Isa said. "Now you were begining to be nice I would not like to send you back Kandrakar." She added jocking. "I really trust you. Yet I'm not really fond of third chances."

"I know." Phobos said. "Cedric told me about you when you fell for him. You used to first kill then ask. No second chances."

"Well, everyone can develop." Isa said. "That's why I quitted doing it."

"I don't understand it..." he said. "You can read thought people's feelings and hearts, you are wishe and you have most of the qualities a leader should have. Then why Will was the one having the heart of Kandrakar."

"She is better than me being a leader." Isa said as they sat down on a park bench. "Furthermore I refused to take it. The Oracle first asked me of having it and I didn't want to have it. I didn't liked it, I am more likeable to be... darkness and light guardian."

"I can see the light in you, but you don't seemhave much darkness in you." He said softly looking at her.

"Cause you have still not seen me any angry yet." Isa said. "I can be really dark sometimes."

"You don't seem so." He said then.

"I'm overall a warrior before a guardian." She then answered. "I have learnt to control myself quite well."

"Say what you want." He said. "I have myown believes."

"Well, don't doubt that if you put a finger out of the line I would be forced to turn light into shadows. And I can assure you that you would not like to see me that cross."

"Humm... and I supose bad people make you go cross?" he said looking to the other side of the road they were walking next to.

"Sometimes, why?" she asked.

"Over there." He said pointing to the direction he had been looking at.

There she saw it, a pair of muggers attacking a defenceless woman and playing with her as if she was a bitch.

That made her go angry, her face stopped smiling and she looked at them without moving.

"Phobos, mind bringing me a coke?" she said softly. "Lot of ice, please."

"Are you going to drink it or throw it to them." She said softly.

"Perhaps we will need the ice, and I'm thirsty." She said looking at him still a bit serious.

"Ok." He said. "But do not start the party without me."

"Sorry." She said making her knuckles crunch. "But I prefer you not seing me fight them."

Phobos took a bit long to find what she had asked him for, well, not long to find it, but long to get it. There was a middle queue waiting to be served so he had to wait, getting impatient.

When he went out, suddely he saw one of the muggers fly out of the alley and he ran, when he arrived he saw Isabelle sitting over a garbage bin smiling and the other two muggers at the ground, crouching with their hands tied at their backs.

"Didn't I told you not to start the party without me?" he said handing her the coke.

"Sorry." She said smiling mildly. "I did nothing, they began hitting themselves."

"Sure..." Phobos said.

Suddely he saw his mother in front of him, a cuple of seconds and she disappeared.

"That's cheating." He just said.

"Well, I supose you would not expect a poor and defenceless girl as me to fight such big thugs, did you?" she said jocking as she took some ices out of her coke to put it on the muggers' eyes. "C'mon, police should be on the way. I called them to ask them to remove the garbage here."

"I supose they will wish not to have tried to rob that poor... lady?" Phobos said.

"Well, technically I just... hitted them a cuple of times." Isa said going red. "So they will not remember much of me when they wake up."

That same night, when they were back home, she cooked dinner for them all. Anyway, while she was doing it, Caleb got in the kitchen.

"Did you got fun?" he asked sitting down on the little table there.

"Kinda of." She said smiling. "The date went no so bad. He was even nice."

"I can't believe that roach as nice." Caleb said. "But at least you came on one piece."

"I told you, he would never be able to do any harm on me." She said stiring the pan softly. "We went... having meal at Goldeen's, then... walking a bit... to the paintball... but of course you already knew it. You guys followed us to spy."

"Hey! That was not spying, that was... bodyguarding." He then said. "That's what I was told to do. Furthermore... we were all worried."

"Why worried?" Isa said cooking. "I already told you all I could handle with it all. And now, I'm again free." She said smiling.

"Oh, I nearly forgot..." Caleb told her. "Matt gave me that for you." He said pointing to a cd. "He said something about you likeing it."

"What is it?" Isa asked cleaning her hands. "Cobalt blue? I don't know that band. Could you get in my room and getting the cd-player and the speakers please?"

"The what?" he asked then.

"Ok, I get them and you stir this please." She said handing him a wooden scoop.

She went up to take the things and then she realised there was a little Hi-Fi on the livingroom so she ran downstairs.

She then got caught by Phobos who was going out of the shower wearing the pijama and a towel trying to dry his hair.

"oops, sorry." Isa said smiling. "Dinner will be ready soon."

Then she ran to the livingroom and put the cd on the cd boot of the hi-fi to press the play buttom and begin listening Matt's voice comming out.

"That's matt!!" Isa said laughing. "Wow! He soulds pretty well!"

"Well, I knew he was musician." Caleb said.

"And a silly guy." Phobos said sitting down on the sofa. "Such... nosy thing!"

"That's not noise!" Isa said laughing. "I love that ritm, that's energicing!"

"Ok..." Caleb said. "Why does this smell like that?"

"Stir!" she said moving his hand. "Ok, go to the living room and begin laying the table, please. We are having dinner."

While she ended up cooking dinner and some meal for Caleb having meal the following day if he wanted too as Phobos and her were eating at school, Caleb and him chatted about the afternoon.

When Isa came out, Caleb was angry again with Phobos.

That night, she allowed the guys to leave soon and she stayed to clean the kitchen and livingroom. While she was doing it, she heard more of Matt's songs. Then she began singing, she had been singing with her sister Karmilla on private partyes and she had a great voice, furthermore, she used to train from time to time with her after ending her warrior training at Basilide's gardens so she also knew how to dance.

Doing that she began relaxing from the day and making her energys rise fast and fast.