W.I.T.C.H. Au

By: FunahoMisaki

A/N: I own nothing and read last chapter.)

It was now time for the fight and Nerissa and her little attack dogs were waiting on the second story for Will and the other Guardians to show up for the battle.

"Where are they?" Nerissa growled as she looked at the front entrance where they were sure to come in at.

"Turn around and see." Will called, causing Nerissa to whip around only to be knocked back by a blast of lightning to the shoulder.

"Resorting to cheap shots now?" Nerissa demanded righting herself in mid-air and glaring at Will who was smirking at her now.

"We only vowed not to run away, we didn't vow to fight face to face." Will said smirking while Nerissa looked but couldn't find the other four Guardians at all.

"What did your friends and boy toy abandon you?" Nerissa sneered at the Guardian leader who didn't lose her smirk at all.

"No. Matt is currently somewhere safe being briefed and getting a bit of training along with Caleb. The other girls…I don't know where they are." Will said telling the complete truth. She had no clue where they hid themselves in the building. They had finally let Matt and Caleb in on the secret and while Matt was sent to Hay-lin's Tribe due to his ability to fly, Caleb was in Cornelia's Tribe due to his strength and fighting prowess. Taranee's boyfriend Nigel had already been in on the secret and was part of Irma's squad due to his rebellious fun loving nature. He was number 5 codenamed 'Waterfall'. Matt's codename was 'Dark Angel' and Caleb was 'Rebel Cavern' due to the fact that he's a rebel leader and that the rebels usually used caverns in their attacks or retreats.

"Hmph how do you expect to beat all five of us on your own?" Nerissa said confidently and being confused when Will smirked.

"I never said I was on my own. I just said that I didn't know where they were." Will said smirking, watching as a fire ball knocked Halinor out, a well thrown rock knocked Kadma unconscious, a blast of water tossed Cassidy off of the railing and into the air, and a small tornado threw Yan-lin at Nerissa.

"You should know better than to think she was alone Nerissa. We never leave each other out to dry." Taranee said smirking as Cornelia used her telekinesis to move Kadma and Halinor to a safe spot out of the way. Will didn't want them hurt any more than they needed to be, the plan had been to knock them out of the fight before it began and then to just kick the other threes butts using their switch strategy.

"Guardians attack!" Nerissa and Will ordered in the same moment causing the five current Guardians to rush the three still conscious former Guardians. At first they were paired up element to element with Taranee and Cornelia keeping an eye on Halinor and Kadma. After five minutes of this when it looked like they were about to lose again Will finally smirked.

"Guardians! Shuffle!" Will ordered confusing Nerissa who was then blown away by a tornado to the face courtesy of Hay-lin while Will zapped Cassidy and Irma took over watching over Halinor so that Cornelia could tie up Yan-lin with some trees. Irma busted out laughing her butt off when some of the Water Tribe hidden throughout the building turned on the speakers and started playing the Cupid Shuffle.

"Air Tribe take the unconscious two and put them under watch by Fire and Earth Tribe." Will ordered as she continued to attack Cassidy before suddenly changing course and blasting Yan-lin in the side.

"Understood!" Several teens in dark purple ninja like outfits, Hay-lin's elite stealth team, said appearing out of nowhere it seemed as two of the guys in the group picked the unconscious women up and vanished with them, freeing Taranee and Irma up to get back in the fight.

"What in the universe?!" Nerissa asked shocked and causing Will to smirk, quickly blasting Nerissa in the side as the Guardians shuffled around again. Right now Cornelia and Taranee were tag teaming Yan-lin while Irma and Will took on Cassidy, and Hay-lin was beating Nerissas butt.

"You might need a new dance partner." Nerissa snarled at Hay-lin as the faux sun behind the black haired former leader light up and rotated slightly.

"What?! Where did that Eric boy go?!" Nerissa asked surprised when no one was visible on the 'sun'.

"Air Tribe members rescued him earlier when some of the members from each of our Tribes were checking this place over and setting it up for the fight. He was tended to by Life Tribe members and freed of your spell Nerissa. Water Tribe members also disabled the traps you had made." Will said smirking as she blasted Cassidy then blasted Nerissa again while the woman was distracted.

"Tribes? What are you talking about?" Nerissa asked in rage as she whirled around to face Will who threw up a barrier to block the lightning blast from the older lady.

"Not like you'll ever find out!" Irma said slamming a torrent of Water into Nerissa's back before spinning around and dousing Yan-lin in water too.

"Sorry Nerissa but the Tribes are invite only and you're not. Invited!" Will said as she, Irma and Taranee launched a blast at her at the exact same time. Cornelia wrapped Yan-lin in vines while Cassidy was trapped in a hurricane.

"Help me you fool!" Nerissa ordered as Cornelia wrapped her in vines as well.

"How mistress?" Yan-lin asked struggling against the vines.

"Kadma dispatch these vines!" Nerissa ordered earning snickers from everyone except herself and her thralls.

"Sorry Kadma's still unconscious." Taranee said while smirking.

"Hey you could always give them back their free will." Cornelia said using her telekinesis to throw Yan-lin and Marissa against a wall.

"But then my grandma would never do your dirty work." Hay-lin said glaring at Nerissa as she used a tornado to blow Cassidy to just in front of them as well.

"Not Yan-lin. Not any of them!" Irma said glaring as well as the W.I.T.C.H. girls hovered over Nerissa.

"A bit of catch 22 huh? Kick butt warriors or butt kicked slaves. You're call Nerissa." Will said smirking. She knew her enemy. She made it a point to always know her enemies inside out and how they worked. If she was right then…

"I can admit when I've miscalculated. Congratulations W.I.T.C.H. this battle goes to you but the war… is far from over." Nerissa said swiping the seal in front of her and creating a fold. Bingo.

"We made a vow. No running." Will said causing Nerissa to smirk.

"You made that vow not I!" Nerissa said, obviously forgetting that she did indeed vow not to run away.

"Actually you did. You swore on your seal not to run away and if you broke that vow like you're doing now, the rest of your little band will be hooked up to the Heart of Kandrakar and freed from your service." Taranee said smirking as Nerissa entered the fold.

"Thanks for the extra help in kicking your butt grandma!" Irma yelled through the fold at Nerissa, earning a scream of rage from her as the fold closed and a bright pink light flashed from the Heart.

"You just couldn't resist could you Irma?" Hay-lin asked snickering as she and the others landed on the ground, all of them smirking or snickering at their victory.

"Hey I called her an old hag when she was still in her mage disguise, I think I can call her grandma when she's in her teenager disguise." Irma said flippantly while Cassidy and Yan-lin's Altermere groaned slightly.

"These two are waking up Ma'ams!" An Earth Tribe boy, codenamed 'Rocky' cause of his speech impediment as a joke, called referring to Halinor and Kadma, all four of the former Guardians still in Guardian form and still teenaged.

"These two as well. Get Life Tribe medics over here to look these two over and begin relocating to base! Put them in spare bedrooms in the Life Tribe compound for now!" Will ordered causing all the soldiers to salute and begin carrying out orders. Loading the slowly coming around women into the bed of some trucks the W.I.T.C.H. girls sat in the back of the truck with them or flew overhead but out of sight as they all moved back to the compound. A good many of the soldiers lived on their own and stayed at the compound near full time while some of them had to go back to their homes for the night.

"Ugh. Wh-What happened? Where am I?" Halinor asked rubbing her head as she slowly sat up and looked around the room she was in about thirty minutes later. It was a dark pink light purple colored room that had a large queen style bed in it with two dressers and a large closest on the far wall and a bathroom attached via another door.
"One of the rooms in the compound." Will said calmly as Kadma slowly came too next to Halinor.

"Will! Wait! Where's Nerissa? What happened?" Halinor asked sitting straight up alarmed while Kadma sat up at Halinors voice, instantly awake and alarmed as well.

"We managed to force her into a retreat after setting up a deal. She swore on her seal that if she lost the fight or ran away then you two, Cassidy, and Yan-lin's Altermere would be hooked up to the Heart of Kandrakar and be given your free will back. If we had lost or run away then me and the other current Guardians would be enslaved to her. A pretty fair deal since we used the same strategy against her that she used against Kadma. Feed her ego a bit till she gets overconfident then trap her in a corner." Will said shrugging her shoulders as the two women looked at her.

"Cassidy and Yan-lin's…Altermere? Where are they?" Halinor asked looking around slightly for her friend or her friends Altermere, which was as good as a twin of the person copied.

"They were put in separate rooms and according to the reports I've been given they woke up five minutes ago and have since been brief and led to the mess hall for some food before I go there with you two and give you all the same offer. Both were tended to by the best of our medics and completely recovered from any damage taken during their enthrallment, same with you two." Will said calmly and collectedly and causing the two to stare at her. Was this really the same girl that they first met?

"What offer is that?" Kadma asked eyeing the red head warily. The red talked as if she were a soldier or in an army of some kind and it made Kadma wary.

"That comes later but first I have a question of my own I want you two to answer." Will asked causing the two to blink and look at her curiously.

"What question is that child?" Halinor asked kindly as she looked at the red head in front of her. Will locked eyes with the both of them before asking something that made both of them looked at her shocked.

"Why didn't either of you tell me that I was your granddaughter through my mom?"