Witches United: Beginning of the Next Generation
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Chapter 3: The Battle to End the War
Chris and Cornelia orbed into the midst of the heated battle. They looked all around them and saw hoards of demons surrounding their friends.
Taranee was shooting fireballs from her hands at demons lunging at her from all sides. Irma and Hay-Lin were grouped together in a no better position than Taranee. Cornelia watched her friends fight and noticed that they must have been doing this for a long time as they seemed completely exhausted. She turned behind her and saw Chris watch this massacre with as much horror and awe as she was feeling.
Suddenly from out of nowhere an energy ball came flying towards Cornelia, she saw it coming but was caught in a state of shock. Unfortunately Chris was in the same state and he found himself unable to protect her from her impending death, it was as if his mother had frozen him in this spot with her powers. He looked on unable to move when all of a sudden a sword came out of nowhere and deflected the attack sending it out into the open plains. At the hilt of the sword was a hand and attached to that hand was Caleb – he had seen Cornelia and Chris orb in and saw the demon launch an attack from behind Cornelia. Seeing his beloved in trouble he rushed to her aid and luckily had gotten there just in time. He looked over Cornelia to make sure she wasn't hurt in any way.
Then he turned his attention towards Chris glaring menacingly at him.
"What the hell Chris? Were you just going to stand there and let Cornelia DIE!?" Caleb screamed at Chris, who still looked completely dumbfounded.
Cornelia – who had come out of her stupor – watched the horrified look pass across Chris's face as Caleb's words sank in.
"Caleb, stop it! He was in shock, we both were… Otherwise don't you think I would have defended myself?" Cornelia stated adding in the last part when she realised Caleb had yelled at Chris for not PROTECTING her. Like she needed protecting, she was an all powerful Guardian with the power over the Earth!
"Look Cornelia I didn't mean to insinuate -"
"Can you two talk later? Get Chris out of his shock and help us fight?" Will's voice screamed from off in the distance. "Cornelia, think you could wipe some of these guys out with an earthquake or something?"
"Right... Got it Will" Cornelia looked one last time at Caleb then at Chris – who had finally broken out of his trance – and flew up into the air.
From their she gathered the positions of Melinda, Wyatt and Will and went about lifting the ground beneath the group of demon's surrounding Will and sent them off into the distance. Once freed from her circle Will flew up to join Cornelia and then proceeded to shoot lighting down at the groups of demons surrounding Irma and Hay-Lin whilst Cornelia broke Taranee out of her trap. When all 5 girls grouped together in the air they concocted a scheme to try and gather Caleb, Wyatt, Melinda and Chris together into one spot then launch a mass attack to vanquish all the demons in their current vicinity.
"Ok so Taranee and Hay-Lin you guys go and get Wyatt, Irma and I will break Melinda and Caleb out of there trap. Cornelia you go help Chris out. Everyone try and group up near that large rock over there," Will pointed towards a large monolith about 20 kilometres north of them, "got it?"
Everyone nodded and went off to rescue their new found friends.
Taranee and Hay-Lin managed to fly over to Wyatt who was wiping out wave after wave of demons with a wave of golden light. Taranee looked down and saw a set of demons creeping up behind Wyatt whilst he was distracted with the demons in front of him. She looked to Hay-Lin and saw that she too had seen them, they then both proceeded to fly down to the group.
"Hey demons you know it ain't nice to attack someone from behind!" Hay-Lin said from behind the demons. They turned around to look at her and then they sneered and one spoke, he had a slightly disfigured face that looked sort of like a bulldog on Botox. His voice was no better as it sounded like the deep barking of a seal. Hay-Lin forced herself to keep a straight face as the demon spoke.
"Look-y here boys it's a little fairy! What you going to do fairy? Sprinkle us with some pixie dust?" The demon hoard then chuckled all at once. Then from above the group came a second voice.
"Fairy dust? Afraid we're fresh out but will a firestorm do?" Taranee spoke as her glasses shined from the light of her flaming fists. Hay-Lin simply looked up at her friend and smirked. Taranee smirked as well before shooting down a flamethrower onto the demon group. They were shocked at first and then they began to attack back shooting out energy balls but these were deflected by a large gust of wind. They turned their heads and saw Hay-Lin with hollowed out cheeks and her arms seeming to paint the air. They didn't realise that she was bending the air current she had created and had merged it with Taranee's flamethrower to create a fire tornado.
The demons tried as they might but were unable to escape. At that moment Wyatt appeared,
"Hey girls, I see you're having fun need any help?" He said whilst smirking
"Nope we got this Wyatt!" Hay-Lin stated and at that moment she and Taranee increased their power and the flaming tornado collapsed in on itself instantly vanquishing the demons.
"Alright now that that's done lets head for that plateau up there." Taranee pointed out the monolith Will had mentioned before.
"Ok lets got then." Wyatt said as he, Taranee and Hay-Lin headed off towards the monolith.
"Hey Wyatt, why don't you just orb over there?" Hay-Lin said looking at Wyatt confused
The blonde white lighter simply shook his head, "Can't, I think that's how they knew we were coming they sensed my orbs – some demons can do that if they're powerful enough. So guess I'm gonna walk." With that he began walking towards the rock off into the horizon with Taranee and Hay-Lin following in tow.
Meanwhile, Irma and Will were with Melinda and Caleb as they finished off the last of the demons. Irma soaked them all with her water geyser, which like Taranee's fire originated from her arms. Afterwards Will sent out a lighting pulse and shocked all the demons.
Caleb slashed at a group of demons whilst Melinda fought them hand to hand. Suddenly a large energy ball came from a demon, flying towards her. She held out her hand and caught it mid-air, then proceeded to crush it in her hands. She then smirked and unleashed a barrage of energy balls from her hands at the demons surrounding her and Caleb.
Once all the demons had been vanquished everyone in the group stared at Melinda.
"What? Do I have demon blood on my face or something?" She stated looking into a pool of water by her foot for any signs of the messy battle the four had just ended.
"No! That's not it, it's just…" Will began
Irma filled in where will had trailed off, "WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT?"
"Hmm… What?" Melinda looked at her comrades and wondered what had gotten them so flustered.
"That!" Caleb said pointing to the raven haired girl's hand, "You shot energy balls from your hands!"
"Oh… that! It's my power, Wyatt has his almighty twice blessed thing, Chris got Telekinesis and I got this chameleon ability." Upon seeing the dumfounded looks of the other she continued, "Basically I can mimic any powers used on me by simply touching either the power's source or the power itself."
The others nodded and then Caleb spoke up, "Why didn't you tell us that before?"
"Well I was afraid you might avoid me, most other magical creatures do." She looked down at the ground and the group all felt empathy for the girl – a power like that could leave one feeling very alone. "Anyways, didn't want a cutie like you thinking I was a freak." Melinda said as she pointed a finger into Caleb's chest.
Caleb blushed and proceeded to stutter out something that sounded like, 'I would never thin you were a freak'. This odd behaviour of Caleb's reminded Will and Irma of how he had acted around Cornelia, before they started dating: they both smiled and chuckled a little.
"Anyway what do we do now?" Melinda said as she walked away from Caleb who looked a little disappointed to lose her touch.
"Well the plan is to meet up on that rock over there…" Irma said as she pointed to a large flat boulder about 20 km from their current location
"Well then let's go already." Melinda said as she began to walk in the direction of the rock, Will and Irma followed by a still blushing Caleb.
It was only then he realised that Cornelia wasn't here, "Hey wait, where's Cornelia?"
About 7 km away from where Will and Irma had joined Caleb and Melinda, Cornelia and Chris were still fighting off a large set of demons.
Chris used his telekinesis to group the demons into a large herd. They were about to scramble when they realised that the ground they were on was sinking.
In actual fact Cornelia had lifted up the ground around the demons trapping them in a bowl like crater. Then she and Chris used their combined telekinetic powers to lift up a large cactus patch and throw it into the crater. Cornelia then used her chlorokinesis to increase the growth of the cacti until they were so large that the needles looked like enormous spikes: these where then used at ammo to impale the demons and vanquish them once and for all.
Once the last demon was vanquished Chris looked up at her and then faced away.
Cornelia was puzzled by this action and voiced her concern, "What's wrong Chris?" She approached him and placed her hand on his shoulder. Chris simple shrugged her off and asked where they were meeting the others. Cornelia pointed off into the distance at the large monolith and Chris began walking towards it, leaving Cornelia alone and wondering what had happened.
She then realised that Chris was getting way ahead of her so she flew up ahead of him and cut him off.
"Chris what's wrong?" Cornelia said looking at Chris with real worry. Chris simply mumbled his reply of 'Nothing' and proceeded to walk around her.
This got Cornelia angry. Chris kept walking until a large rock landed right in front of him. He turned around to see Cornelia with her arms around her chest and her face contorted in anger.
"Cornelia, move the boulder we need to meet up with the others!" Chris stated. Upon seeing the blonde wasn't going to fulfil his request he attempted to walk around the boulder only to find another next to it.
"Seriously Cornelia, stop it!"
"No! Not until you tell me what's wrong? Did I do something? Because we were doing just fine until the battle…" She then moved closer to Chris. "What's wrong?" At this point her body and Chris's were pretty much one.
Chris then looked at the blonde, sighed and moved back. He turned around and then mumbled, "Icouldn'tprotectyou"
Cornelia however couldn't hear him as he spoke so softly that a simple breeze rushing by had drowned out his words. Hence, she questioned him again this time moving closer to him.
"What?"
"I couldn't protect you!" Chris turned around and Cornelia could see his face was red and his eyes held tears he had yet to shed.
"What? What do you mean you couldn't protect me?" Cornelia questioned her palm now coming to touch Chris's cheek.
He initially nuzzled into her touch but then pulled her hand down and turned around. "When that energy ball was flying towards you, I couldn't move. I wanted to! I wanted to protect you but my body was held in place by fear or something. Then when Caleb said you could have died I realised that I had almost lost you!" He turned back around to face Cornelia and his cheeks were wet with tears he had finally shed.
"I could've lost you! I couldn't handle it, I know we've only known each other for a few weeks now but I honestly don't think I could live without you. I-I love you Cornelia!" Chris exclaimed and he searched the blonde's face for any response as she just stood still.
He then turned around and began walking. This snapped Cornelia out of her trance and she ran after him.
"Chris! Chris, wait!" Chris stopped moving and Cornelia managed to catch up to him.
She then turned him around, "Chris, you can't just say you love me and then walk away!"
"Well I just figured you didn't feel the same. Besides I guess it's expected, I mean, why would you love someone who couldn't even protect you from a simple energy ball?"
Cornelia looked at the brunette and then hugged him. This surprised Chris but nevertheless he hugged the blonde back.
"Chris, you were in shock. We both were and I have powers of my own so I don't need you to protect me," Cornelia then lifted Chris's chin and kissed him, "And finally, I don't know if I love you but I'm willing to try!"
Chris's eyes light up at the words the blonde had just uttered and he proceeded to kiss her with full vigour and desire, Cornelia replied by returning this kiss with one that communicated her care for the boy and her desire to really give this a shot.
They broke the kiss apart and grinned at each other as Chris reminded Cornelia that they should meet up with the others. They then proceeded to walk towards the monolith just ahead of them with their hands intertwined.
An hour had passed and Cornelia and Chris were just coming upon the monolith when they saw a bright red head off in the distance. Cornelia instantly recognised her friend Will's hair and called out to them.
"Hey guys… we're over here!" Cornelia yelled cupping her hands to her mouth to increase the projection of her voice.
Will had heard a voice in the distance and immediately turned to find Cornelia waving her arm asking them to come over to them.
"Hey guys look its Chris and Cornelia!" Will exclaimed as the groups began moving closer to one another.
"Hey guys!" Cornelia said as she rushed towards the group and hugged her friends, Caleb inclusive. The Halliwell siblings did the same all just happy that each other was ok.
"So have you guys seen Taranee and Hay-Lin yet?" Irma asked worried about her missing friends.
"No, we haven't but don't worry Irma I'm sure they're fine Wyatt is with them and nothing can take him down. Well except for maybe Chris and me, but otherwise nothing!" Melinda said reassuring the water guardian.
Just then they saw a flash of fire up ahead in a cave and they heard a familiar giggle.
"Hey that's Hay-Lin!" Will said as the group rushed towards the cave.
When they finally got there they found their missing companions all cosied up by a warm fire. Hay-Lin heard the footsteps of her friends at the cave entrance and looked up to see them come into the light of the fire.
"Hey guys! You're ok, I'm so relieved!" Hay-Lin said as she embraced Irma, Will and Cornelia and then moved on to embrace Chris, Melinda and Caleb. The former two were a little shocked by the action but did not resist.
After they had all said their hello's and made sure each other was ok the group sat around the fire and discussed the next plan of action.
"So the demons can sense orbs huh? I guess that's how they knew we were coming but it still doesn't explain that message you said you got from Taranee, Cornelia…" Caleb said after Wyatt had informed him of his theory on the orb-sensing demons.
"Actually it is possible that someone with immense power had been tapping into Taranee's mind and used her telepathy to trick the rest of us." Chris said point blank as the group turned from facing him to looking at Taranee.
"Hey don't look at me I have no clue what he's on about." Taranee said as she held her arms up in surrender.
"Come on T think, has your mind felt more full or something?" Melinda questioned the young fire-wielder.
"Well… now that you mention it I think I did sense something or someone else in my head the other day but I just passed it off as stress." Taranee said thinking back to about 3 days before the attack when she had suddenly felt a presence surrounding her.
"Well that confirms it. Someone knew Taranee had telepathy and used a spell of their own magic to intercept it and mess with our war plan." Wyatt stated looking to the ground in deep thought.
"It must have been Nerissa. But wait! If she knew about the plan does that mean Matt and the other reagents are… I mean are they…" Will trailed off with worry for her purple haired boyfriend and his animal companions.
"That's my theory as to why they didn't complete their end of the plan and why they haven't contacted us since they left." Caleb said from his position near the cave entrance.
"Well we have to save them! We can't just leave Matt and Napoleon and Mr Huggles to die!" Will screamed at Caleb
"We're not going to! We're going into the main base to get them out." Caleb stated turning to the group and giving them the basic outline.
"Ok so we send Irma and Hay-Lin in to find out exactly where they're keeping Matt and the others locked up. Melinda can you mimic Hay-Lin's invisibility?" Caleb asked the young brunette.
Melinda simple nodded, "Yep I think that can be arranged."
"Ok then you go with Irma and Hay-Lin, help them find the reagents. Wyatt since you say you can suppress whatever it is that's trying to get into Taranee's head, you two will go in once Melinda gives you the signal that they've found their targets. Both of you will attack the demon camp and cause a distraction." The blonde boy and mocha skinned girl nodded their acceptance of their roles.
"Ok then Will and I will help you both out with the distraction once we're done helping Melinda and the others break the reagents out. Finally, Cornelia! You and Chris will go to the outer rim of the base and trap everyone inside removing any unwanted demons and then Chris you cast that repellent spell and make sure it's only us, Nerissa and the Source in the camp!" Caleb looked at his blonde ex and the brunette boy standing next to her. They confirmed his orders with a nod. Caleb however had spaced out as he saw the two holding hands.
A/N: OK so I know I said that this was the last prequel chapter but I was writing this one and it kind-a became way too long for just one chapter and so I'm adding another chapter for this prequel set and that means Chapter 5 will be the beginning of the story.
Also I'm sorry for the long time between updates but have been busy with life in general but I will work as fast as possible to get the next chapter up.
Oh and please guys if you're reading this Review and tell me how you think this is panning out.