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 happened in either of them!!)
Chapter 18: Back together.
It was just a day since the five main guardians were back together. Now they were waiting at the airport again.
First one arriving was Phobos, who seemed to have missed his guardian too much even when Hai Lin seemed not so evil towards him yet still a bit suspicious.
The next one was Caleb with Elyon, who appeared on a corner by doing a portal with Caleb's seal. And in the end arrived the rest of guardians with Peter.
They didn't go too happy when they saw Phobos there.
"Wow, the rat has come." Irma said sarcastically. "I thought you had no good feelings towards anyone."
"I suppose in the deeps you have been missing her, hum?" Hai Lin asked in fun.
Then Phobos looked at them, the Chinese one was right, he had missed her. The house was so empty without her or the Caleb servant that he had gone to spend some days with Cedric.
"I have not miss her much." He then said. "But she is friend so… isn't this what friends do here?"
That answer made them all go confused.
"Flight from Paris will be landing at gate 302." The girl from the loudspeakers said.
"When will it land?" Cornelia asked then.
"Don't know." Elyon said.
"I'll ask the loudspeakers." Will said.
After a little while, the loudspeaker she was being asking to answered her.
"Flight from Paris will be landing at gate 302 on five minutes." It said. "Or at least that's what the operating centre said."
"Did you hear?" She said. "Let's look for the gate."
Five minutes later, they saw the plane landing on the airport tracks and another minute later, people began going out the gate. She came out looking a bit sleepy.
"Wow!" she said when she saw them. "What a great welcome!"
"Just formalities." Irma said.
"Welcome back." Elyon said smiling.
"Your majesty." Isa said lowering her head softly so as to appear normality at the airport. "I would bow but we are on a human packed place."
The girls then laughed.
"No friends call me that." She said smiling. "I prefer being called Elyon if you don't mind. Here on earth I'm just Elyon Portrait."
"Sure, yo… Elyon." Isa said smiling.
"Didn't you bring some presents?" Irma asked.
"They are on my baggage." She said smiling as she took an extra-bag while Caleb took the rest.
"Allow me." Phobos said taking the bag she was holding.
"I can carry them." I said realising I had been taken all my bags but for the rugsack I always carried with me on my back.
"Gentlemen don't allow women carrying any weight." Caleb said. "But I didn't know he was one."
"Ok, then… thanks guys." Isa said smiling.
"What have you brought us, what have you brought us…?!" Hai Lin asked fast.
"Some little things." Isa said smiling.
"Well, that's good." Cornelia said. "Cause all of us have brought little things for all."
"Well, then I suggest giving them at our house." Isa said smiling. "If you guys don't mind, of course."
"I don't mind." Caleb said.
"Nor do me." Phobos said. "Do I have other choice?" he added sighing.
Then they went to Isa's place on Phobos car and Peter's one.
"The truth is I brought not important things, but my sister insisted into giving some things for each…" Isa added opening the bag she had taken last.
Then the bag seemed to burst and packets began falling down.
"Wow!" Irma said.
"What did you brought?" Caleb said. "The whole shop?"
"Hey!" Isa said. "Don't tell me off! Karma was the one stuffing my bags with all that!"
"You girls certainly buy too much things." Peter said sitting on the sofa with Phobos and Caleb who had turned TV. on and were looking to some kind of adds channel. "Guys, why don't we see the Sports one? The Raptors are playing against the bulls!"
"But this is fun!" Phobos said.
"Vow." Isa said handing packets to the rest of guardians and putting Orube's apart too. "If it was for him, Phobos would spend the whole day looking at that silly advertisement channel."
"That's not true!" he said. "I also like the news!"
"Phobos, basket is also fun." Caleb said. "Yet of course, such a guy as you would never appreciate it."
Then something hit his neck. He held it and saw a packet well wrapped on a paper bag where his name was written.
"Is that for me?" he asked.
"Yes, and… here is for Phobos, this for you Peter… Orube's… Matt's… Joel's…" she said. "Ah, and this… for the evil human: Cedric!" she said kidding as she took a little plastic bag she had handed to all and which contained an standard signed pack of Karmilla's concert the band had signed for her friends.
"You bought all of this?" Peter asked.
"Some." She said "Most of them were things hotels and shops give my sister and me for being her sister…"
"A true Prada's young line dress!!" Cornelia said.
"And soaps and bathing products from best hotels in Europe!!" Irma said.
"I love this pair of sun glasses!!" Hai Lin said happy.
"And look at this coco wax for surf boards!!" Peter said astonished. "O'Neill one!"
"Where did you buy these cute things?" Taranee asked as she showed all her earrings?
"Cornelia's dress was a gift from Paris designers in Spain." She began. "I was given all that bathing stuff on all the hotels so as Irma is like water I thought she would love them so I picked one of each for her. I got Taranee's things on Nothing Hill's street market, Peter's wax on an Italian shop… Caleb's sweater on Portobello's street market…" she said counting the things. "And the bag is a deluxe pack from my sister's. Specially made for friends and top fans… She also bought some clothing for me as her welcoming present."
"It's… it's…" Irma said about fainting as she held a signed CD on her hands.
"Why does my pack have two?" Peter asked.
"Yours and Matt's." Isa said smiling. "I met another good European band who seemed to have gone friends with my sister's one so their youngest was about our age and… well, he gave me four as present."
"But all this stuff cost quite a lot!" Cornelia said with her eyes wide open.
"Just forget them, right?" Isa said softly. "Who wants something for eating?"
"I think she is trying to change topic..." Irma muttered when Isabel left for the kitchen.
"Have you come across that conclusion on your own Holmes?" Cornelia asked her.
"Phobos, have you allowed our fridge to go empty?" Isa asked putting her head out the kitchen. "Don't tell me we have to go back to 'Fridge isn't filled himself by magic' chapter?"
"I have not been here since you two left." He said serious. "And I have never gone shopping that."
"Then ask the snake to tell you how to do it." Irma said ironically.
"Isa, allow us to pay for some pizzas for all." Will said smiling. "At least that's the less we can do after all those things…"
"Yeah, you look tired." Hai Lin said a bit worried.
"Seats on tourist-class are not very comfortable." Cornelia said.
"I came on business-class." Isa said softly going red. "My sister's manager pays for it on my visiting those trips."
"What?!" all of them said astonished.
"Then why did you went tired?" Peter said.
"I couldn't sleep much last nights." She said. "My sister's tours are full of craze and parties."
"I can imagine." Irma said dramatically. "Massages, parties till late, no parents telling you off…"
"She trying to fill my bed with men…" Isa said. "But that's something I don't want to speak about right now, please…"
"Ok, I have an idea." Taranee said. "Why don't you go up and have a hot bath while we begin cleaning this a bit?"
"I can't do it." She just said. "Phobos and Caleb were the ones on charge of cleaning it while I was away."
"Caleb was with me at meridian." Elyon said.
"And I have been away at Cedric's while you two were missing." Phobos said.
"C'mon." Peter said pushing me to the stairs. "Go upstairs, relax and we will clean all this for you."
That was what finally she did. While she was up, Peter was sent to buy some pizzas so as the rest of the remaining ones knew about the guardians powers, they united to clean it all faster.
So, when Isa went back down wearing a pair of old jeans and a loose t-shirt she used to be at home, they were all ready to have dinner while Caleb had taken some dishes he had laid on the table for them all to have pizza and a drink there.
It's been about three weeks since they were all together there, two and six days since the light and darkness guardian left on her summer holydays. And he had surprisingly missed her too much. While they were having dinner, they had some fun, and even the evil but powerless Phobos, who had finally managed to pass his year with just dropping natural sciences and French who he would pass if he did a little work to hand on the return, seemed to be having fun with those gang of people younger than him on about three to four years.
Perhaps he could think that his female housemate would be a fool to trust such an evil guy, but he had not done anything too evil lately before they all separated for beginning their summer separated. Now they were all together, guardians, a common human and the evil prince having pizza together.
Could things go better?
"Oh, I nearly forgot." Petter suddenly said. "We, and I mean Matt, Joel, some other friends and me, were planning to do a little trip to the beach for some summer surfing and fun."
Obviously things could always go better.
"I've been on the beach for two weeks." Irma said. "And that was no fun."
"Well… we thought that with girls would be funnier." He said.
"Count on us." Will, Cornelia and Isa said at once holding by their shoulders, and then laughing.
"What do you say Elyon?" Caleb said.
"It's long since I don't go to the beach." Elyon said smiling.
"I suppose you can count on me too, bro." Taranee said smiling too.
"Well, I'll scarify myself." Irma said.
"Caleb? Phobos?" Isa asked them.
"I'm going too." Caleb said. "I suppose beach can be fun."
"I bet he wants to protect Elyon and Isa." Taranee said with her mind powers.
"Poor of him." Isa said with the same way and smiling in fun. "He still doesn't want to know I can defend myself pretty well on human ways too."
"Hey, if you are going count me too." Phobos said. "I don't want to stay another week here alone with Cedric. He is always complaining about being humans!"
"Humans?" Petter said confused.
"He meant from Heatherfield…" Taranee said embarrassed.
"Yes." Hai Lin said. "They are immigrants."
"Europeans." Caleb said trying to help.
"Ok, so settled then?" Petter said deciding to ignore that confusing fact. "I'll tell the rest to keep on looking a good place."
"And where were you planning to spend night at?" Will asked.
"I bet tents, as always." Taranee thought.
"Tents, that's the usual thing to do when you go with lot of people." Peter said smiling.
"I'm allergic to sleeping sacks." Cornelia said.
"Vows for tents?" Will asked.
All but for Phobos and Cornelia raised their hands.
"Ok." Cornelia said lifting her hand. "If you want to go so madly I suppose I could sleep on one too."
"I suppose you don't mean me also on one of those…" Phobos said.
"Tents." Caleb said. "One of those cloths you sleep under inside a weird kind of sack."
"Sacks!" Phobos said. "Don't count on me!"
"He also comes." Isa said smiling when the rest were leaving and he was having a long bath. "Leave it to me." She added winking.