Witches United: The Next Generation

Chapter 6: New guardians, New worlds

It had now been 16 years since Cornelia Halliwell had her youngest daughter Jasmine. The girl was similar in appearance to her mother with long blonde hair and a fair complexion the only thing she seemed to gain from her father was her green eyes.

These 15 years had been entertaining for the Halliwell's first off Chris had bought and begun running two more night clubs and even owned a successful hotel in Hawaii. Cornelia herself was still on the modelling circuit but now she served as a designer over being a model: the change happened 5 years ago when her oldest son Orion (he was 15 at the time) was put in hospital after a car accident and she was stuck in Milan for fashion week. She felt helpless and when she finally managed to get to her son she collapsed at seeing him hooked up to wires his chest barely rising.

Upon seeing her baby in danger Cornelia made the life altering choice. Luckily for the family everything worked out fine and Orion was soon out of hospital and his father healed his injuries.

The memory was painful for Cornelia to recall but since then many good things had happened however this moment was the greatest.

She was back in Kandrakar after so long and as she entered the mystic realm she smiled remembering the many times her and her friends had fought alongside each other defending this place.

With her was her daughter Jasmine for a reason Cornelia had figured out when Yan-Lin had requested her presence in Kandrakar. The new guardians were going to be chosen.

Jasmine Halliwell was not a naive child her parents had made sure of that telling her all about magic and even teaching her a little. However that had stopped 5 years ago when her father had a vision of some kind and refused to teach his girls anymore magic.

Her mother however did not stop telling the girls tales of Guardians, telling them that one day one of them may become the next Earth guardian.

Jasmine was sure her sister Haley was going to be the guardian but when Yan-Lin called her mother and requested Jasmine, she was proven wrong.

Now she was in Kandrakar, alone with her mother - no non guardians were ever allowed to cross the veil into Kandrakar so her siblings and father had stayed behind. She walked with her mother down a never ending hall (or so it seemed)

Eventually they reached a room, or chamber and judging by the vines covering the limestone walls it was quite old. At the centre of this room stood an old woman.

Cornelia smiled and greeted the woman as Yan-Lin the oracle of Kandrakar. Then out of nowhere 4 more women and their daughters appeared and upon seeing her mother each of the women ran up to the blonde fashionista and they embraced each other.

The 5 girls just stood awkwardly by themselves until their mothers began introducing them.

"Jasmine honey, these are my best friends and the other guardians" her mother spoke as she introduced her daughter to her friends.

"This," Cornelia said as she introduced a young Asian woman and her slightly shorter daughter, "is Hay-Lin and her daughter Melody".

"Hi Jasmine it is wonderful to see you after so long! Last time I saw you, you were so small and adorable but now you're a beautiful young woman!" The one called Hay-Lin exclaimed.

"MOM!" Melody screamed. Jasmine turned to the girl and saw she had her mother's hair and complexion but had larger brown eyes.

After that Jasmine was introduced to the previous water guardian Irma and her daughter Abigail (she was like an exact replica of her mother besides her longer and straighter hair); next was the fire guardian Taranee and her daughter Kendra (she was paler than her mother and slightly taller but her hair was much shorter); finally there was a young platinum blonde girl named Isabelle and her red haired mother, the previous leader of the guardians, Will.

All the girls exchanged pleasantries and were about to ask more about each other when Yan-Lin cleared her throat.

"It is time to start the ceremony"

So there they were the 5 new guardians of Kandrakar. Before them was a pedestal and on it sat a Dias that was made of what looked to be black marble. On it were 6 designs each more unusual than the last.

"Well the time has finally come to pass the torch from one set of guardians to the next..." Yan-Lin began.

"You know I don't remember having to go through this when we were told to be guardians." Irma commented to her friends: they all stood to the side watching the ceremony.

"Grandma said something about how this was how guardians were once formerly introduced and that tradition was important now especially since we became the source of our own powers and our girls would inherit their powers from us." Hay-Lin whispered as her grandma continued her speech.

"Well I don't see why they even have to become guardians! There aren't any threats to Earth or Meridian ever since Phobos and Nerissa were sealed away." Taranee whispered.

"Well maybe it's something like with Earth Mother or the Source. Besides I think the girls are excited about their powers..." Will stated. Suddenly a harsh throat clearing disrupted the women.

"Ladies, when you're done maybe you could pay attention and call forth the aura meres?" Yan Lin quipped. The past guardians simply looked down whilst their daughters giggled.

"Right we're all set grandma! Just tell us what to do!" Hay-Lin spoke her face a scarlet red after being told off - god how she hated being on this end of the discipline.

"Well now girls, because you are now the source of your own powers you must conjure the aura meres from within you and impart some of your power into them. Luba will show you how."

Once the powers were sealed in 5 aura meres, now sitting on a bench beside the older guardians, Yan Lin was ready to start and then everything went black.

"Grandma is this supposed to happen?" Hay Lin asked a midst the dark.

"No Hay Lin, it is not! Something is wrong… quickly transform!" Yan Lin screeched.

Will looked around her and then clutched onto the heart of Kandrakar and called for the guardians to unite.

In a flash they transformed but then just as suddenly they reverted back.

"What happened?" Taranee asked panicking.
"I don't know" Will replied just as panicked then the girls heard laughter.

"Still a great leader I see Will!" Called a voice that sounded awfully familiar.
"Who are you?" Cornelia asked as a shadow emerged from the clearing darkness.
"I can't believe you've already forgotten!" The figure sighed. "And to think I once wanted to be with you! Maybe this will clear it up."

The shadowed figure waved its hand and all the darkness was gone revealing the intruder. Once his features came into the light the girls couldn't help but gasp.
"C...c...Caleb?" Cornelia exclaimed.
"So now you remember. Too bad I don't answer to that name anymore; you may call me Shadow Lord." Caleb exclaimed an evil smirk gracing his face.
"What are you on about Caleb? Is this a joke? Where have you been all this time?" Cornelia questioned stepping closer to her ex-lover.
Suddenly she heard her daughter cry out and stopped moving.

A charge of black electricity zapped just missing her foot. She glanced up and saw Caleb's fingers pointed at that spot.
"I wouldn't come any closer if I were you." He then turned his attention towards Jasmine.
"So I see you moved on Cornelia and this is your daughter? Who's the daddy? No wait let me guess Chris?" Caleb chortled seeing Cornelia's eyes grow larger her fear evident and increasing with each step Caleb took.

He then looked at the other girls and with a flick of his wrist brought all 5 guardians to be, together by the aura meres trapped in a giant dark bubble and with another wrist flick did the same to the guardians, Yan Lin and Luba.

"NOO" Their mother's screamed in unison.
"Looks like I have prisoners now!" Caleb laughed.
"Caleb why are you doing this? We're friends!" Hay Lin exclaimed.
"Oh are we really now? So then why was I left abandoned by my friends in the shadow realm?" Caleb queried.
"We tried looking we swear! But we couldn't trace you at all!" Will spoke calmly worried for the safety of Isabelle.
"Humph, well it doesn't matter now and besides if I hadn't been in there I wouldn't have been given these powers by the Shadow Beast in return for loyalty towards him." Caleb then smirked and turned his attention to the two other figures that arrived.
"Ahhh there here!"

The being from the shadows then appeared one was in a cloak but the other was a young black haired girl with purple eyes -Cornelia noted that she seemed around Jasmine's age.

"My love" Caleb said as he knelt before the person in the cloak. The figure extended its hand and Caleb kissed it and then it spoke in a feminine yet powerful voice.
"Well Caleb I see you went to work quickly." The cloaked women spoke she then lowered her hood and the group could not hold back yet another gasp.

Standing before them in a black hooded cape was Melinda Halliwell. But something was different about her - her skin was paler and her eyes where just dark orbs her purple irises the only defining feature. In fact now they noticed Caleb's eyes were the same but the young girl only had the purple irises.

Melinda turned to them and spat with venom two words "Hello traitors". She then walked forward towards Yan Lin standing in front of her and smirking at the old woman's defiant expression.
"Oracle Yan Lin it is an honour to meet you again after so long but rest assured it is not you I want it is the Dias. Oh and the aura meres of course." Melinda spoke.
"You know that evil hearts cannot touch the Dias. Especially those that have been corrupted as yours are!" Yan Lin stated calmly.
"Oh yes I know that is why I have my daughter here," she gestured to the girl beside her; "she does not have a corrupt heart and so may touch the Dias freely. And her grandmother was a guardian so she may take the aura meres freely as well." Melinda spoke proudly, a devilish grin on her lips.
"Wait if her grandmother was a guardian then that means..." Irma trailed off.
"Yes Irma, Lorelai is mine and Melinda's daughter. Did you think you were the only ones to have children in all this time?" Caleb laughed loudly at his ex-friends astonished faces.

"Any way we are wasting time, Lorelai go and gather the aura meres and bring them to me." Melinda commanded of her daughter.

Lorelai stepped forth only to have the ground below her begin to shake. She looked around panicked. Her father and mother stood their ground and then Caleb began to get impatient.
"Hurry up Lorelai!" Caleb screamed at his daughter.

Lorelai kept going forth despite the shaking and then she touched the centre aura mere - the aura mere of quintessence and the heart. Her finger tips just touched the orb when a light began to shine and then her father's dark bubbles broke and the 5 soon to be guardians rushed forth but just before they got to the Dias the light intensified and forced Caleb and Melinda out of Kandrakar. The girls got to the Dias with all 6 girls touching it at once.

Suddenly each of the aura meres burst and a blinding flash could be seen and when it cleared Caleb's magic had fully worn off and the girls were freed but they did not move because just where the Dias had sat there was nothing. The girls had all disappeared along with the Dias and the aura meres.

Meanwhile on a magical planet 6 young girls were celebrating their victory and fulfilment of their quest. It had taken them some time but now they had achieved their goal and attained the magical fairy form of Sirenix.

However of the 6 Winx Club girls there was one who was not so happy. Bloom had been upset since hearing that her sister Daphne had been captured by the girl's new enemy Tritannus and he had used her knowledge of the Sirenix form to give identical powers to the 3 evil witches collectively known as the Trix.

The young red head sighed – even though her boyfriend Sky had gotten his memory back and they were happily enjoying the renewed vibrancy that brought to their relationship; she still worried for her sister.

"We will find her you know Bloom…" Came the voice of a young blonde fairy, and the princess of Solaria – Stella.

Bloom turned around to see all her friends standing grouped together, their faces showing their empathy for the young dragon fire keeper's plight. The red head sighed once again and then spoke to her friends, "I know we will guys, but still I'm worried about what Tritannus will do with her now that the Trix have their own Sirenix…"

The girl's all grouped around the young fairy and then Musa looked up and saw a mystical sight in the sky.

"Hey guys!" She exclaimed leaving the group for the balcony outside their room. "Look at that!"

The girls followed the musical fairy and all stood together on the balcony and looked up at the sky to see a meteor shower gracing the night sky.

"How beautiful!" The fairy of nature, Flora exclaimed.

"It's magical!" Said the fairy of the waves, Aisha.

"It is wondrous but my star charts showed no indication of a meteor shower tonight…" The technology fairy, Techna stated and then proceeded to take out a small mobile like device to re-check her facts.

"Oh Techna, who cares if it was predicted… it's still beautiful, just enjoy it already!" Stella exclaimed taking away her friend's palm computer.

This naturally started an argument between the two and the other 4 fairies averted their eyes from the mystical skies to sort out the problem.

However, in a grotto hidden away in a forest sat the Trix and they too caught the night show.

"Uggh… it's so happy and pretty. I hope someone gets hit with one!" Sighed the witch with wild frizzy hair, her name was Stormy.

"That would at least be one good thing to come out of this…" Exclaimed the tallest of the 3, Darcy. She then turned her gaze to their final member, the mistress of the ice – Icy.

However upon finding the girl gazing lovingly into the lake she gagged and left her sister witch to be with her evil boyfriend Tritannus.

Icy however did not ignore the meteor shower and in fact was talking about the romance and evil of the entire thing with a hideous fish tailed creature – in other words Tritannus.

Even though no-one in their entire dimension knew it – they were all seeing the same meteor shower at the same time. From the castle of Domino to the Oceans of Andros everybody marvelled at the beauty of the sky that night.

If only they knew what it would mean for their entire universe and the impacts of that shower that would show themselves only 2 weeks later.

A/N: Ok just a quick disclaimer – do not own these characters (besides the new guardians and the Shadow Beast). Also I know my updates have been really slow lately but expect them to pick up because I am officially on break so can spend more time on my fanfiction stories.

This particular chapter is dedicated to my reviewer Charmed Aura… thank you so much for the review and I hope this is living up to your expectations :)

OH also do note that this story is listed as a Charmed – WITCH fanfic but will be WITCH x a lot of other things as well with a special Charmed Legacy also thrown in: though I may develop that into its own story… not sure yet. This particular Winx cross-over set is placed after S5 E13. Also sorry this chapter is so short I just think the rest of the content deserves its own chapter...

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