This is an edited chapter. I changed their outfits a bit, because I read the rest of the comics and realized that the generations don't wear the same things. The new parts look like this.
Disclaimer- W.I.T.C.H. is not mine. Too bad, cause it is an awesome idea.
Chapter Two-Discovery
"What is that?" Kelsey asked, studying her computer screen. It looked like a house, but then why was it on this video site?
Then a bomb exploded on the screen. Lacey and Kelsey watched it openmouthed at first, and then lost control. They were hysterical.
"Shut up…" came Mandy's groan from the couch. "It's 3 o'clock in the morning!"
This only caused the laughter to get louder. Hayleigh stood up and whacked both of them with her pillow. "I'm tired!" she complained.
Kelsey rubbed her head. "One more!" she promised. "But…" she hesitated. "You all have to watch it with us!"
Hayleigh sighed. "Alright, fine!" She walked back to the couch and shook Julia awake. The girl yawned widely, and her rosy cheeks were paler than usual, but she stood up and joined her friends in front of the computer screen. Mandy was already sitting in a chair she had pulled over from the table.
Kelsey scrolled down the list of videos. Half of them were in different languages! But she soon saw one that caught her attention and nudged Lacey.
"How about that one?" The video she had pointed to showed a picture of five bubble-type things with little colorful shapes in the middle. It was labeled 'Candracar'.
"Candracar?" Lacey said confused. "What's that?"
Kelsey shrugged, and clicked on the video. The familiar black screen appeared, and the title 'Candracar' again. But there was no names listed. The video started right away.
A voice boomed through the basement. It was cold and expressionless, as if it were reciting a picture book and not the shocking things it was expressing.
"It had been 70 years since the most famous Guardians defeated Prince Phobos and placed the Light of Meridian on the throne of Metamoore, restoring order there once and for all. Or so they thought.
The Light of Meridian has been missing for over 50 years. Three groups of Guardians have tried and failed to unite and find her. A new evil is abroad, and the world of Metamoore is losing hope. The Veil has been recreated, but the lack of sufficient power in the Guardians has made it weak. And Nerissa, the evil ex-Guardian, has gathered her own and Phobos's supporters and seized the throne.
But there is hope. The time has come to pass on Guardianship to a new group. If all goes well, peace will be restored. But if not, both worlds will be destroyed. They are the last hope."
It echoed around the stunned faces of the five girls. But it wasn't finished yet.
Hayleigh gasped as her drawings came to life. There was that necklace, and four bubbles bearing the symbols she had drawn. They rotated around the medallion as if it were the sun. But where was the fifth symbol? Her question was soon to be answered. But what the voice would say next would create more questions than she had ever had before.
The first bubble, the turquoise one, floated to rest in front of a very surprised Mandy. Her face, which had been tired, lit up for a moment as the little orb cast a warm glow over her.
"To you, Mandy," the voice said, "The power of water, fluid and unmanageable." One of her hands rose shakily. A stream of water shot out, hitting Julia. Strangely enough, she remained dry.
The second bubble, the orange one, hovered over to Lacey. Her face also lit up, and her eyes widened.
"The difficult power of fire." The rug beneath her feet burst into flames, and everyone else leapt back in surprise. But the flames fizzled out a second, leaving no sign that they had ever been there.
The third bubble, green in color, came to rest in front of Kelsey. She looked like Matt had popped out of the ceiling and surprised her with a kiss. The happiness was quickly replaced by shock, however, when a vine burst from the floor and wrapped around her leg.
"The firm power of earth," the voice stated calmly.
"Ahhh!" she cried, pulling the vine away. The floor sucked it back up again, and the hole sealed as if it had never been there.
The forth, light blue orb belonged to Julia. As it came to her and made her pretty face glow, a previously nonexistent wind blew her hair back. The papers on the desk ruffled in this breeze.
"The power of air, light and free."
Hayleigh's question was now to be answered. The hot pink parentheses appeared inside the necklace's empty glass orb, which now flared with fire of the same color. As it floated toward her, hovering above her outstretched palms, the charm shot out rays of the same fire that filled it. Hayleigh's golden hair floated around her head like a halo, her eyes expanded and sparkled with the light from the medallion, and a beautiful smile formed on her lips.
"And the Keeper of the Heart of Candracar, the leader of them all." With this last sentence, the voice fell silent and the screen turned black again. Each girl's bubble, and in Hayleigh's case the Heart of Candracar, floated to rest on her heart. With a final eerie note, each sent a beam of light into the center of their tight circle, and then disappeared.
With that, the girls regained their senses, and their surprise.
"What was that?" Lacey asked hesitantly. She looked scared.
Before anyone could answer her, if anyone could, Kelsey's mom appeared at the foot of the stairs.
"Girls," she said sternly. "It's time to go to sleep. You have midterms this week." She turned and walked back up the stairs. Hayleigh was the first to recover. She lay down on the couch, but did not close her eyes. Instead she stared up at the ceiling.
Her friends joined her, curling up in the various places they had scattered their sleeping bags.
"Did you just see…" she asked finally, "what I did?"
No one answered for a minute. Then…
"I wish I didn't," Kelsey said. "But yes."
Lacey nodded in agreement and Julia said, "Me too." But Mandy was stubborn, as always.
"I think we are way too tired. Powers? Guardians? Candracar? Someone has a few screws loose."
"But Mandy!" Hayleigh protested. "We have proof. That this is all true!"
"We do?" Mandy asked skeptically.
"The Heart of Candracar is still with me. I feel it." Then she sat up and cupped her hands.
The orb appeared, floating easily above her hands. She smiled, although her new power scared her. "Look Mandy. You have power over water now."
Mandy responded by covering her head with a pillow. Hayleigh shrugged and held up the Heart to inspect it further.
"What do you think it does?" she asked quietly. No one answered. No one could answer.
But suddenly Hayleigh cried out. "Guardians unite!"
The Heart of Candracar began to float above their heads. The teardrops separated from it and flew towards the girls whose magic they represented. Hayleigh felt herself being lifted into the air. She felt warm energy all around her, as she watched her friends.
Julia looked as if in the middle of a gentle warm tornado. She had thrown back her head in happy laughter and her now longer hair was swirling around her. Mandy's power made a watery globe around her. Hayleigh saw her face change from stubborn to commanding in an instant. Kelsey was surrounded by vine-like green light. Her face was surprised but glowing with excitement. Lacey's firepower spun around her, her face determined.
But then Hayleigh couldn't watch anymore. Her own transformation was beginning. She curled up in a ball and hugged her knees involuntarily. She felt her limbs lengthening, her face maturing, and her hair growing longer. Then she was free.
"What just happened?" she asked her friends. Then she looked at them.
Julia's hair had remained at its longer length and her eyes were brighter. She wore a turquoise shirt, with triangular straps held by brassy buttons, and purple capri pants. Under those were blue and green striped tights and short purple boots.
Mandy's hair was beautifully curled, and longer than it had previously been. Her freckles had faded, and the expression on her face read 'leader'. Her clothes had also been exchanged for a turquoise halter top and purple shorts, with striped knee socks and purple Mary Janes.
Kelsey was already pretty, the one all the boys went after. But she looked happier, and older. She wore a turquoise tube-top and a short, spiky-hemmed purple skirt. She also wore the striped tights, and purple boots slightly higher than Mandy's.
Lacey's usually thick, frizzy hair was silky and smooth, letting its beautiful auburn color shine through. It was longer, and in slightly looser curls. Her outfit consisted of a purple top with one short sleeve and one spaghetti strap and turquoise skirt with striped tights and chunky purple boots.
The girls stood still for a minute, gaping. Finally,
"Does anyone have a mirror?" Lacey asked. "If you guys look like that, what do I look like?"
Kelsey nodded mutely and pointed down the hall to the bathroom. Hayleigh arrived first, and froze in the doorway.
"Oh my…" Her hair fell to her waist in loose curls. Her face was the same as she would imagine it would look like in a few years, with plumped up cheekbones and no freckles. And her figure was definitely matured also.
But the coolest was the clothes. She was wearing a purple shirt with one bell-sleeve and one spaghetti strap and a turquoise miniskirt. Her newly long and muscular legs were covered with striped tights. Her slippers had turned into purple boots.
There was one part, however, that everyone had overlooked so far. Well, almost everyone.
"We have wings!" Julia exclaimed.
And they did. Beautiful multicolored wings had sprouted effortlessly from their backs. They seemed to be made of light and cloud rather than flesh and bone.
The moment was interrupted by footsteps on the stairs. Hayleigh whirled to face her friends, eyes wide with fear.
"What do we do?" she whispered urgently.
Mandy sniffed. "Well, leader, I thought you had all the answers.
Hayleigh glared at her and was about to make an angry retort, but Lacey grabbed her arm.
"We have to change back!"
Hayleigh nodded. But how to change back? In desperation, she closed her eyes and begged the stupid crystal to do something.
Feeling somewhat different, Hayleigh opened one eye hesitantly. Then she sighed with relief. They were normal again. And Mrs. Coaern had just appeared once again at the foot of the stairs.
"Girls. Bedtime," she said strictly. Then she stood there until each girl was in her sleeping back with her eyes closed.
"Goodnight." Kelsey's mom walked upstairs.
Needless to say, it took a long time for anyone to sleep that night.
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