Chapter 25:

Days passed and things were going as Irma, Hay Lin, and Cornelia had planned. For the next three days of Irma's detention, Hay Lin and Cornelia along with the guys and Elyon headed to Metamoor to work on the things they talked about doing. And once Irma was finished her detention, she headed out to school, where Elyon was waiting for her and took her to Metamoor to join with the others for their secret training. As for Will and Taranee, they spent time studying and doing homework. There was one time when Will tried to talk to Matt, when she went to the pet shop. But Matt told her that he needed some space. And as much as it hurt her, Will gave it to him.

But what none of them knew was that they were being watched by the Dark Guardians. It was either Joe at a small size or Yan Lin being invisable. As bad as the Dark Guardians wanted to attack their enemies, they kept their cool and waited. The time to strike was coming. They just needed to wait for all the players to be where they wanted them to be to cause more pain for them. Soon, it was Saturday and Matt's parents decided to let Matt off of his punishment. Once that happened, Matt decided to go talk to Will about all that's happened between them. So, he called her and asked her to meet him at the park. Waisting no time, Will left her home and teleported to the park where she found Matt sitting on a bench. She calmly walked up to the bench and sat next to Matt.

"Hey.", Will said.

"Hey.", Matt said.

"So, you wanted to talk?", Will asked hoping not to start an argument.

"Yeah.", Matt said. "For the last few days, I've been thinking of why this all happened. Did I do something wrong? Did you like Neil before you started liking me? Were you getting bored with me? But then, I realised that I did nothing wrong. Once the happened, I began to wonder if our relationship is worth saving."

"I'm so sorry, Matt.", Will said as her eyes began to water. "It was wrong of me to do what I did. And if I could go back and change what happened, I would. But I can't. All, I can do is say I'm sorry and hope you'll forgive me."

"To be honest, Will, I don't know what to think.", Matt said. "I need some more time to think about all of this."

"I... I understand.", Will said sadly holding back her tears.

"Aaaaaaaaaw! Poor babies!", came a voice from behind them.

Hearing that voice, Will and Matt jumped up from the bench and turned around to see Nerissa and Cassidy standing a few feet from them.

"What do you two want?", Will snapped ready to fight the two Dark Guardians.

"Now is that any way to treat an old friend?", Cassidy questioned.

"You're not our friend!", Matt yelled. "At least not the friend we used to know!"

"Not that just hurts, Matt.", Cassidy said pretending the her feelings were hurt.

"The truth hurts.", Will said.

"Well, here's some truth for you.", Nerissa said with a smirk. "You and your fellow Guardians aren't as united as you think you are!"

"What did you do to them?", Will questioned in a demanding voice.

"We did nothing to them.", Cassidy said. "It's what you drove them and your other friends into doing."

"What are you talking about?", Matt asked.

"Why don't you ask them and find out.", Nerissa said. "That is, if you know where they all are.", she said before she and Cassidy teleported away.

"What are they up to?", Will questioned.

"Try calling the girls.", Matt said.

"Right.", Will said as she began to contact the girl telepathiclly.

'Girls? Can you hear me?', Will called out to he fellow Guardians telepathiclly.

'Will? What's wrong?', Taranee replied back.

'I need you in the park! Now!', Will said.

Suddenly, Taranee teleported in front of Will and Matt.

"What happened?", Taranee asked.

"We just had a run-in with Cassidy and Nerissa!", Will explained. "Any idea where the others are?"

"No idea.", Taranee said. "I was able to sense them earlier today but now, I got nothing."

"Where are they?, Will questioned wondering where the others were.

"Why not check the Heart of Kandrakar.", Matt suggested.

"Worth a shot.", Will said as she pulled out the Heart. "Show me where the others are.", she said while gazing into the small pink orb, where an image of the palace they used as their HQ appeared. "They're... On Metamoor?"

"What are they doing there?", Taranee questioned.

"I don't know.", Will said as she head behind some trees with Taranee and Matt right behind her. "But I intend to find out!", she said as she opened a fold and went through it with Taranee and Matt right behind her.

Watching them go through the fold was Yan Lin, who was invisable. A smirk grew on her face as the fold closed.

"Now the fun begins.", Yan Lin said as she teleported away.

Once through the fold, Will, Taranee and Matt saw that they were at the front doors of their HQ.

"Now to find out what's going on.", Will said as they opened the doors to their palace HQ.

Once they did, they saw the other Guardians along with the guys and Elyon doing what looked like training. Caleb was helping Peter, Nigel, and Eric with their fighting skills while Cornelia, Hay Lin, and Irma were woriking on their powers against Elyon, who was taking them on to help them train.

"Okay.", Taranee said amazed at what they all were doing. "So didn't see happening. The girls are even in their Guardian forms!"

"I wonder what brought this on?", Matt questioned.

"Guardians, unite!", Will shouted as she held up the Heart of Kandrakar to transform herself and Taranee as well as get the attention of the others.

Once transformed, Will flew up to the other girls, who saw that she didn't look to happy.

"Care to explain all of this?", Will asked.

"Um... Well, we all figured that we could use some training.", Hay Lin said. "So, here we are."

"And you didn't tell me and Taranee, why?", Will questioned.

"Cause we wanted to show you two that just because we're not as smart as Taranee, we can pull or own weight.", Irma said.

"So, we came up with some training ideas and manuvers.", Cornelia said as they all landed where the others were standing. "The manuver we haven't worked on yet, seeing as they call on the five of us to do."

"Some even require Matt.", Peter said.

"And how long have you all been doing this secret training?", Taranee asked with a raised eyebrow.

"For the last few days.", Nigel replied.

"We even learned to transform a bit faster just in case if you're not around.", Hay Lin said to Will.

"So, in other words, you all were sneaking behind me and Taranee's back and doing all of this!", Will said.

"First off, we were giving you, your space after what happened between you and Matt!", Irma said. "We were going to wait until Matt came back to school before we told you about all of this."

"And before you ask, Taranee, we didn't tell you because we wanted to work out most of the things we planned out on our own.", Cornelia said.

"We have a few of our ideas working out pretty well.", Elyon said.

"But when it comes to the manuvers we made up, they could use a little work.", Eric said.

"And who's idea was it to do all of this?", Taranee asked.

"Well, Peter gave me the idea to do this.", Irma said. "But it was Cornelia who kept it going."

"Wow!", Matt said earning a look from Will. "What? It's impressive!"

"You have to admit, Will. Even after all that's happen, everyone is working together to get stronger.", Caleb said. "And now that you're here, we can really get to work."

"You could of told me about this earlier!", Will said getting everyone's attention. "But instead you pull this! How can we be united as Guardians, when you three pull this kind of stunt?", she questioned Irma, Cornelia, and Hay Lin.

"Calm down, Will.", Elyon said. "This was something they had to do for themselves. They didn't mean you any harm."

"And who asked you to but in?", Will snapped at Elyon. "Don't you have a kingdom to run, Your Majesty?"

"Okay. First off, this place IS apart of my kingdom!", Elyon said. "Second, I suggest you get over your little temper tantrum and pull yourself together, before you lose a friend or two!"

"With friends like you, who needs enemies?", Will snapped. "We're supposed to be working together! Not doing the crap you all pulled!"

"Easy there, Will.", Taranee said. "Like you said. We have to work together before something bad happens."

"Look at what we have here!", came a familiar voice that got the attention of the others. "W.I.T.C.H. & friends fighting among themselves!"

Everyone looked up to see Yan Lin in her Dark Guardian form floating in the air with a smirk on her face.

"If I said it once, I've said it a thousand times.", she said with a smirk. "Harmony is the key to your power.", she said as the rest of C.H.Y.K.N. appeared next to her.

"I see no harmony here.", Cassidy said. "Just a little Keeper throwing a tantrum."

"It's a bit sad when you thik about it.", Halinor said as Angelo and Joe appeared in front of the young heroes.

"Very sad.", Joe said. "I say we put them put out of their misery and kick their butts and take the Heart for Nolan."

"Works for me.", Kadma said.

"May I suggest we work together and beat them.", Matt said as he transformed. "We can work out any problems we have later!"

"Fine!", Will said as she powered Irma, Hay Lin and Cornelia up to full power. "But this is far from over!"

"Oh brother.", Caleb said as he readied he staff.

Both sides then charged at each other ready to fight. Making the first move, Joe grew thirty feet and swatted at those that couldn't fly, knocking them back a few feet! But Caleb and Peter saw the move coming and jumped over Joe's swinging arm, only to be attacked by Angelo who did a jumping roundhouse kick, knocking them down.

"You dodge one attack to get hit by another.", Angelo said with a smirk. "Priceless!"

"We may be down, but not out!", Peter said as he and Caleb got to their feet

"Same goes for us!", Eric said as he and Nigel got to their feet.

"Looks like they've gotten stronger.", Joe said.

"Don't forget about us!", Elyon said as she and Matt flew towards Joe, who was still thirty feet tall.

"Oh please!", Joe said as he quickly reached up and grabbed Matt with his left hand. "Don't make me laugh!", he said as she hit Elyon with the back of his left hand sending her flying towards the ground.

"Well, that was fast.", Angelo said as Caleb and the guys surrounded Angelo. "Really guys? Come on."

"Get him!", Caleb said as they charged at Angelo.

As for Joe, he still had Matt in his hand, when Matt blasted Joe's hand, with his eyebeams.

"Argh!", Joe yelled as he let Matt go.

"You shouldn't take things that don't belong to you!", Matt teased as he hovered in the air.

"Big talk for one who's going down!", Joe said as he did a sonic clap at Matt who was sent falling to the ground.

"Oh, yeah! That hurt!", Matt said as he got to his feet in time to see Joe bringing his fist down at him. "Whoa!", he yelled as he jumpd out of the way of the attack. "He's fast for a guy so big!"

Matt then took to the sky to get some distance from Joe who was still coming at him in full force. Meanwhile, W.I.T.C.H. and C.H.Y.K.N. were fighting each other element to element.

"Must we do this?", Kadma questioned as she blasted Cornelia with a telekinetic blast. "I'll just kick your butt like the last time we went at it one-on-one!"

"Not this time!", Cornelia said as Elyon flew up and hit Kadma with an energy blast. "This time, we're ready for you guys! Thanks, Elyon!"

"No problem.", Elyon said before flying off to help Will, who was fighting Nerissa.

"Somebody is mad.", Nerissa said as she easily dodged one of Will's lightning bolts gracefully. "You know, the madder you get, the slopper you'll become."

"I don't need advice from you on how to fight!", Will said as she fired another bolt of lightning at Nerissa, who dodged it easily.

"You sure?", Nerissa questioned. "Cause you sure do need a few lessons."

"That's it!", Will snapped as she formed a ball of lightning. "Take this!", she yelled as she threw the lightning ball at Nerissa.

"Now that's big!", Nerissa said as the attack came flying at her. "Lucky for me, I know how to handle it."

Once it was close enough, Nerissa hands were charged with electricity when she caught the attack, surprising Will. Nerissa then looked at Will with a smirk as she threw the attack back at her. Will braced herself for the incoming attack, when and energy ball came from out of no where and sent the attack flying off in another direction. Both Will and Nerissa looked to see Elyon flying towards them at full speed.

"Elyon?", Will questioned as the young queen trapped Nerissa in an energy bubble.

"Guess all that training paid off.", Elyon said as she sent the trapped Nerissa falling to the ground. "I suggest you go help Irma. I'm going to help Hay Lin.", she said as she flew towards the battle between the two Air Guardians.

"Um... Yeah. Sure.", Will said as she flew to help Irma, who was fighting Cassidy. "I guess their training is paying off."

As that was going on, Taranee was doing battle with Halinor, who was giving Taranee a hard time.

"For someone so smart, you're not doing so good in this fight.", Halinor said as had Taranee surrounded in a ring of fire. "I'm tired of this fight!", she said as she turned the ring of fire into a ball of fire trapping Taranee inside. "I'd try and hold my breath if I were you. The air inside there is quickly fading."

"Then maybe I should take your breath away.", Cornelia said as she flew towards Halinor.

"Let's see what you got!", Halinor said as she flew at Cornelia.

"Okay.", Cornelia said as she formed a telekinetic bubble around Halinor's head.

Once that happened, Halinor began to fire fireballs at Cornelia to take her down so the bubble would fade away. But Cornelia was able to dodged the attacks due to her skills as an ice skater. Soon, Halinor began to get dizzy due to the lack of air. Seeing this, Cornelia hit her with a telekinetic blast sending Halinor flying towards one of the towers of their HQ. Halinor was knocked out on impact as she was sent falling to the ground. Thinking quickly, Cornelia took the bubble telekinetic bubble around her head away and then used the same power to slow Halinor's fall to the ground. Cornelia then saw the ball of fire, Taranee was trapped in fade off. She then saw Taranee begin to fall.

"Taranee!", Cornelia shouted as she flew towards her friend.

Thankfully she got to her in time as she hoisted Taranee's arm over her shoulder.

"You okay?", Cornelia asked as they slowly landed.

"Y-Yeah.", Taranee said with a small smile. "Thanks."

"No problem.", Cornelia said returning the smile.

As for Hay Lin, she was doing her best to fend off her grandmother, who was showing her a thing or two with her powers.

"Come now, grand-daughter!", Yan Lin said as she was flying around Hay Lin while invisable. "I know you can do better than this!", she said as she struck her from behind.

'Where is she?', Hay Lin thought to herself as she was hit in the stomach by an invisable Yan Lin.

"Ooof!", Hay Lin grunted from the blow as she held her stomach. "That smarts!"

"Oh there's plenty more where that came from, grand-daughter!", Yan Lin said as she flew towards Hay Lin for one more strike.

But suddenly, Elyon appeared in front of Hay Lin and formed a protective energy bubble around the both of them.

"See how you like this!", Elyon said as she release a flash of bright light that hit Yan Lin, blinding her a bit.

Once that happened, Yan Lin lost her concentration and became visable! Seeing this, Elyon dropped the energy bubble, allowing Hay Lin to fly towards Yan Lin and grab her feet and spin her around and send her crashing to the ground.

"Sorry, Grandma!", Hay Lin said as Yan Lin fell into the water fountain in the courtyard of their HQ.

"Now all that's left is Cassidy, Angelo, and Joe.", Elyon said.

"I can take care of Joe!", Hay Lin said as she and Elyon flew towards the Dark Guardian in question.

Meanwhile, Angelo was giving the boys a hard time. No matter how hard they tried, he was to fast for them. And he wasn't using his speed much. Nor his powers of the earth. He was mostly using his fighting skills he learnt over the years. It was either a kick to Nigel, or flipping Eric over his shoulder, followed by a punch to Peter and a a elbow in Caleb's gut! Out of all of the guys, Caleb was able to give Angelo a run for his money, but in the end, even he was beaten.

"Come on, fellas!", Angelo said while cracking his knuckles. "I know you can do better than this! I'm barely using my powers here!"

"We can.", Petere said with a smirk. "We were just stalling for time!"

"Time for what?", Angelo questioned with a raised eyebrow.

Suddenly, a thing of vines shot up from the ground and wrapped themselves around Angelo causing him to fall to the ground.

"That!", Caleb said with a smirk as Cornelia along with Taranee walked up to the guys who were getting to their feet.

"Not so fast now! Are you Speedy?", Cornelia questioned with a smirk as she made more vine wrap around Angelo.

She then used her telekinetic powers to move Kadma, Yan Lin, Nerissa, and Halior next to Angelo. Each were tied up in strong vines. Elyon then formed an energy bubble around them.

"That should keep them from teleporting away.", Elyon said.

"You okay?", Taranee asked Nigel as she walked up to her boyfriend.

"I've been better.", Nigel said as Taranee gently touched the side of his face. "How about you?"

"I'm okay.", Taranee said with a smile. "I'm just glad Cornelia was there to help, when she did."

"That was part of our training.", Eric said. "The key was Elyon. "With her powers, we figured that she could help one of you and them go help someone else, while the one she helped goes and helps another one of you."

"And it's working so far.", Caleb said as Cornelia stood next to him. "All that's left is Joe and Cassidy."

"Then let's end this fast!", Taranee said as she fired a fireball at Joe's back while he was fighting Matt.

Once the attack hit, Joe let out a scream of pain, befroe turning to see Taranee fire another firball at him. He was able to block that attack, only to be hit by one of Matt's and Elyon's energy beams.

"Ganging up on me, huh?", Joe questioned with a smirk. "Let's see what you got!"

"Gladly!", Hay Lin said as she formed an air funnel around Joe's head.

At the same time, Cassidy and Irma were going at it with either streams of water or powerful waterballs being fired at each other.

"Looks like someone's been training!", Cassidy said as she dodged a waterball Irma fired at her.

"It does a body good!", Irma said as she sent a stream of water at Cassidfy, who did a loop to dodge it.

"True.", Cassidy said. "But I can do something, you can't do."

"Oh yeah? What's that?", Irma questioned.

"This!", Cassidy said as she fired a beam of ice at Irma.

"Crap!", Irma snapped as her arms and legs were frozed in blocks of ice allowing her to still fly.

"Now let's see how long you can fly with all that icy weight pulling you down!", Cassidy said with a smirk.

Suddenly, Casssiy felt soneone's hand on her shoulder. She looked behind her to see that it was Will. Before she could do anything, Will gave her a powerful jolt of electricity making Cassidy scream out in pain before blacking out. Will then grabbed Cassidy's right wrist before she fell to the ground and flew towards Irma and blasted the ice off her arms and legs with a small thing of lightning.

"Thanks.", Irma said breathing a sigh of relief. "That ice was heavy!"

"No problem.", Will said. "Now let's go help the others!", she said as she flew to where the others were.

"This should be fun.", Irma said as followed Will.

As for Joe, he had a hard time breathing as he dropped to one knee gasping for air, from the air funnel Hay Lin was using on him. Seeing this, Matt and Elyon combined their powers to form an energy ball. Taranee added to the attack with some fire. And finally, Cornelia sent it flying at Joe with her telekinesis!

"Yeah!", eveyone cheered as the attack it it's mark knocking Joe out.

Once Joe hit the ground, he shrunk back down to normal, which allowed Cornelia to wrap him in vines and move him next to the other Dark Guardians, allowing Elyon to trap him in an energy bubble.

"Now all that's left is Cassidy.", Nigel said.

"And here she is.", Will said as she and Irma landed with a knocked out Cassidy.

"Alright!, Matt said. "Now we just have to find a way to bring them back to normal."

"Maybe the Oracle can help.", Hay Lin said as Cornelia wrapped Cassidy in a thing of vines followed by Elyon trapping her in an energy bubble.

"But it's to risky bring them all to Kandrakar.", Taranee said.

"So, the question is, who do we take to Kandrakar?", Caleb questioned.

"Anyone but Halinor and Cassidy.", Cornelia suggested. "Who knows how strong their mental powers really are."

"Good point.", Will said. "I say we take Angelo. Out of all of the Dark Guardians, he's the youngest when it comes to wielding powers this strong."

"Which would make going in his head a whole lot easier.", Irma said.

"So, why can't Taranee go in his head?", Nigel asked.

"I'm not that strong yet.", Taranee said. "In time, I will be. But for now, I only have a telepathic link with W.I.T.C.H."

"Now that's just sad."

Everyone turned to see Angelo sitting up in his energy bubble.

"From what Cassidy told me, Halinor could read other peoples' minds when she was your age, T.", he said with a smirk. "I guess you all aren't as strong as you thought you were."

"If that's the case, then why are we standing and you all are trapped in your bubble prison?", Nigel bragged as he knocked on the bubble Angelo was trapped in.

"Well, we just wanted to see if all that training you planned on doing had really paid off.", Nerissa said as she sat up in her bubble.

"And I must say that it has paid off quite a bit.", Yan Lin said doing the same.

"And how did you know about the training they had planned?", Will questioned.

"Well, growing small does have it's advantage.", Joe said with a smirk as he sat up in his bubble.

"So, you knew?", Irma questioned with a glare.

"It's known as knowing your enemy.", Halinor said as she came to. "To bad you don't know us that well."

"We may not know you well, but in the end we still defeated you.", Will said.

"About that.", Nerissa said as she began to glow along with the other Dark Guardians.

"What's going on?", Matt questioned.

"You sure they can't teleport out of those bubbles, Elyon?", Taranee asked.

"Positive.", Elyon said. "They don't have the power to do so."

"Wanna bet?", Cassidy asked with a smirk before she and the other Dark Guardians teleported out of their bubbles.

A/N: Well, after an argument between friends and a fight with the Dark Guarduians, it seems that the Dark Guarduians have gotten away. What will our heroes do now? Can they pull it together to help the Dark Guarduians be their good selves again? Or will the Dark Guarduians defeat our heroes and take the Heart for Nolan?

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