A/N: When ever you see "Elyon/Will", it means that it's Elyon glamoured as Will.
Chapter 28:
Three days later, which was Wednesday, and just as our young heroes figured, the Dark Guardians were no where to be seen for those days. But Elyon's idea for glamouring herself as Will was working fine. She made sure to get up and leave Will's place, each morning, before Susan could start a conversation. As for herself, her parents called the school on Monday and said that they had to leave town and take care of something important. So, she was in the clear. But she, like the others were worried about Will. They had no idea what she was going through or if she was okay. As for Will, well... Let's go back to Monday.
Flashback, Monday morning...
There Will was taking a bath in the tub that Cassidy filled with warm water for her to get cleaned up in. She had transformed back to her normal self, knowing that the Dark Guardians weren't going to harm her, seeing as they needed her alive to give them the Heart of Kandrakar. So, she was safe.
For the moment.
'I have to admit.', Will thought to herself as she got out of the tub and wrapped a towel around herself. 'Cassidy knows how to draw a warm bath.'
Once she dried herself off, she got dressed in the clothes she had on. Cassidy and Halinor used their powers to steam clean her clothes. Why they did it, she'll never know. But she wasn't going to look a gift horse in the mouth. Once dressed, she rang the bell, Halinor left for her to ring when she was dressed. A few minutes later, Cassidy and Yan Lin teleported into the room. Cassidy teleport away with the tub, leaving Yan Lin, who had a tray of food for Will to eat.
"Why feed me?", Will asked. "Not to mention clean my clothes and let me take a bath?"
"We have our reasons.", Yan Lin said as she placed the tray of food on a table that had a chair with it.
"And that is?", Will said asked as she sat at the small table.
"Sorry.", Yan Lin said with a sly smile. "That's our secret. See ya!", she said before teleporting out of the room.
"Well, that's just great!", Will said before eating some of the food. "Mmmm! Not bad!", she said as she continued her meal.
In another part of the lair, where the other Dark Guardians were, Yan Lin appeared and sat in one of the chairs that was there.
"She's starting to question our motives.", she said with a smirk.
"Figures.", Nerissa said. "She's a smart one. I'll give her that."
"So, when do we start getting to her?", Cassidy asked.
"Soon.", Joe said.
"I say we start today.", Kadma suggested.
"I agree.", Halinor said. "I know that the Oralce is searching for her as we speak."
"And it'll only be a matter of time before he finds her and send the Guardians and their allies after her.", Nerissa said.
"Then I'd better get started.", Angelo said. "I'll start after she has her lunch. She'll need a full stomach for what I've got planned.", he said with a sly grin.
Later that day, on Earth, I.T.C.H. and the others were eating Lunch while thinking of places where the Dark Guardians were with Will.
"How about Zamballa?", Cornelia questioned.
"Maybe.", Elyon/Will, who was still glamoured as Will said. "I went there the other day to warn Ironwood of what happened. She said that she'll have her people searching the land to see if they are there. She'll contact us if they find anything."
"I even have some of our soldiers looking for them on Metamoor.", Caleb replied. "Drake is leading the search due to his tracking skills."
"Well, that's two worlds on the look out.", Irma said.
"Don't forget that the Oracle and his council are searching every other world that we haven't been to yet.", Hay Lin replied.
"While we're sitting here waiting for any word.", Matt said.
"Then let's continue training to fignt them for when we do have to fight them.", Peter suggested. "We almost had them last time."
"If they didn't have that power boost, they'd be in Kandrakar right now locked up until they were back to their normal selves.", Nigel said.
"Then we work on a better plan of attack.", Caleb said. "During my days as a rebel, there were times that Phobos was a step ahead of us. So we worked on better plans to stop whatever he had planned."
"Then that's what we'll do.", Cornelia said. "We work on a plan or two to capture them."
"We got nothing else to do.", Eric said. "I say let's do it."
"It sure beats doing nothing.", Elyon/Will said.
"But let's not forget to keep an eye out for the Dark Guardians.", Hay Lin said. "They may be cocky and try and spy on us like before."
"Hay Lin's right.", Matt said. "We have to be careful."
Nodding in agreenment, the others went back to eatting their lunches with a new focus. To get stronger and have a plan or two defeat the Dark Guardians. Meanwhile, on Gardania, Will had just finished eating the lunch that was made for her and had just used the bathroom that was connected to the room she was in. As she looked out the locked window to the room, she saw that Nolan's lair was carved out of a mountain. And that she was up really high.
"The perfect hidding place.", she said as she went to sit on the bed.
"That was Nolan's plan.", came a familiar voice.
Will turned to see Angelo sitting in one of the chairs in the room, looking at her with a smile.
"What's up, Will?", Angelo asked with a smile.
"Nothing much.", Will said as she crossed her legs while checking her fingernails actting as if nothing was wrong. "Just being held captive by the former Guardians, my best friend and his grandfather. "So, what brings you here?"
"Nothing much.", Angelo said. "I just want to talk."
"Let me guess.", Will said. "You want me to give Nolan the Heart."
"Oh we can talk about that anytime.", Angelo said with the wave of his hand. "I want to talk about something else."
"Such as?", Will questioned with a raised eyebrow.
"Well, if by some chance that you get rescued by your friends, and that's a big IF, what do you plan on doing about Matt?", Angelo questioned.
"What's that suppose to mean?", Will questioned with a rasied eyebrow.
"Are you kidding me?", Angelo questioned. "After the whole Neil thing, do you think that Matt will want to be with you?"
"That's between me and Matt!", Will snapped as she glared at Angelo.
"Relax, Will.", Angelo said. "You're to tense. I mean the worse that'll happen is Matt breaking up with you."
Will's glare slowly turned into a sad look. She knew that there was a chance of Matt breaking up with her. But hearing someone else say it, made it really sink in. Seeing this, Angelo knew he hit a nerve.
"I'm sorry, Will, but let's be honest. If it were Matt who did what you did, you'd be just as upset as he was when he found out about it all.", Angelo said.
"Shut up!", Will said in a soft voice as her eyes began to water.
"Why?", Angelo questioned. "I'm only speaking the truth."
"I said shut up!", Will said as she glared at Angelo as tears began to run down her face.
"Temper, temper.", Angelo said with a smile. "You have no one to blame but yourself for what you did."
"Shtu up, shut up, SHUT UP!", Will screamed with a tear streaked face as she threw a pillow at Angelo, who dodged it with a tilt of his head.
"That's my cue to leave.", Angelo said with a smile. "I'll come back when you're in a better mood.", he said before teleporting away leaving Will alone.
All alone, Will began to cry as she curled up on the bed, holding her knees to her chest thinking about losing Matt when all of this was over.
"I'm sorry, Matt.", Will cried. "I'm so sorry. Please forgive me."
As for Angelo, he had teleported into another room in the lair where the other Dark Guardians were watching what just happened in a viewing pool that they had made using their combined powers. Angelo walked up tothe pool to see Will curled up crying on the bed.
"Not bad, Angelo.", Halinor said with a smirk. "You get her upset and then leave her alone to think about what you said with no one to comfort her."
"They say that the truth hurts.", Angelo said. "Looks like they were right.", he said with a smirk.
"But you know that she'll recover from this.", Cassidy said.
"Oh, but I'm not done yet, Baby.", Angelo said. "When I'm done with her, she'll be more than happy to have me hold her close to give her comfort."
"You're bad.", Yan Lin said in a soft and sexy tone as she playfully slapped his arm.
"I know.", he said still smirking.
Later that day, on Earth, I.T.C.H. and the others went over to the Vander's apartment building home to see if John had heard anything from Joe, Kadma, or Angelo.
"I'm sorry, kids.", John said with a tiring sigh as he sat in a chair. "But I haven't heard from any of them. I've even been searching the city for any traces of them. Not to mention calling the rest of the family and warning them about what happened just in case if they were to go to them."
"Aw, man!", Irma said as she sat on one of the couches there. "Where are they?"
"Don't worry. We'll find them and rescue Will.", Peter said as she sat next to his girlfriend and held her hand bringing a small smile to her face before she kissed his cheek.
"But until then we train and get stronger.", Elyon/Will said. "And hopefully, we'll be able to stop Nolan from doing whatever he has planned."
"Here's hoping.", Cornelia said.
"If you need anything, I'll help as best as I can.", John said as he stood up.
"Thanks.", Caleb said as he shook John's hand.
The teens then left to go do some training on Metamoor.
"Good luck, kids.", John said as he sat back in his chair. "Please Lord. Watch over all of them. And please bring Will, Angelo, my parents and their friends back safe and sound.", he prayed as he looked up towards the ceiling.
The next day, on Gardania, Will wasn't in the mood to talk to anyone after what happened yesterday. She simply took her bath, ate her breakfast, did some working out as best she could in the room, and ate her lunch when it was brought to her. The reason for her current mood was because of the nightmare she had last night. At first, it was a happy dream in which she was rescued by the others and the Dark Guardians were captured and being held until they were freed from Nolan's hold.
But then that's when things went bad.
The Oracle accused Will of being a bad leader for getting captured and then stripped W.I.T.C.H. of their Guardian title and gave the Heart to the Dark Guardians making them stronger. W.I.T.C.H. was then banished from Kandrakar and sent flying through a fold to Earth with their others. Once the fold closed, Will looked to see the others glaring at her and blaming her for being a bad leader and calling her names. All but Matt walk away from her. Thinking that Matt still cared for her, Will reaches out to him only for him to slap her hand away. He then yells at her for disrespecting him by flirting with Neil and going to the movies with him and then blames her for him being turned into Shagon by Nerissa while transforming into his Regent form. He then tells Will goodbye before blasting her with hus eyebeams.
Will wakes up in a cold sweat, screaming from her nightmare. Once she sees that it was only a very bad dream, she curls up in the bed crying herself to sleep. Which brings her to now, where she's sitting in a chair hoping that the others would find her soon.
"Thinking hard or hardly thinking?", questioned the voice of someone that Will didn't want to see or talk to right now.
"Go away, Angelo.", Will said as she looked in another direction.
"Awwww. Don't tell me that you're still mad from yesterday.", Angelo said while taking a seat in the other chair that was in the room. "I only said what might happen between you and Matt. Well, what's most likely to happen. And then there's the way you yelled at Irma, Hay Lin, Cornelia and the others for the extra training they've been doing. I mean they were only trying to make themselves stronger to fight me and the other Dark Guardians. But then again, you were always quick to anger when we were kids. I guess somethings never change, huh?"
She was going to say something but didn't. For deep down, Will knew that Angelo was right. She did Matt wrong, and yelled at her friends instead of being impressed with what they were doing. She knew that right then and there that she had to make things right with them. If she got the chance that is.
"I'll make things rigth with all of them.", Will said looking at Angelo.
"That is if they're willing to listen to you.", Angelo said. "But then again, you all have been through a lot. I mean you even trusted their boyfriend enough to tell them about all your little adventures. I mean you've only known them for a few years, where as you've known me since you were four. But that's in the past. Let's talk about now. If you were to defeat Nolan and free me and the others from his hold, would you trust us enough to keep our powers."
"That would be up to the Oralce to decide.", Will said.
"Oh please!", Angelo said. "You know that if you had your way, Nerissa would be locked up and she and the rest of us would be stripped of our powers! You just don't want to admit it because we're friends."
"That's not true!", Will said.
"Oh really?", Angelo questioned as he got up and walked up to her and bent down so that they were face to face with Will holding her knees to her chest. "Tell me that to my face."
"I... I wouldn't... "
Try as she may, Will couldn't sit there and say it. For she knew that there was a part of her that was afriad that even if they were to be freed of Nolan's hold, they may turn bad and have yo fight them again.
"Just as I thought.", Angelo said. "You couldn't trust me with your secret back then and you wouldn't trust me with the powers me and my fellow Dark Guardians have now because of your distrust of Nerissa. I'm so out of here.", he said as he turned and walked away from Will who's eyes began to water. "But before I leave, I want you to think about something. If you wouldn't trust me and the other Dark Guardians with the powers we have now because of your distrust of Nerissa, then who's to say that you truly trust your beloved Matt seeing as he still has his Shagon form when he goes Regent? Think about that.", he said before teleporting away.
Hearing that struck Will big time as she burst into tears crying. For deep down inside, there was a part of her that was afraid that Matt would lose control and Shagon would come back and use the Heart of Earth's power to attack her and her friends and family. She just never told anyone about it. Not even her fellow Guardians or the Oracle. She was afraid that she'd lose Matt if he were to find out. A fear that was lingering around her heart and mind right now. As for Angelo, he was now in the same room where the other Dark Guardians were watching the whole thing in their viewing pool.
"Did you all enjoy the show?", Angelo asked as he walked up to them.
"Not bad, boy.", Joe said. "I think you broke her good."
"Oh! I have one more thing to hit her with.", Angelo said. "After that, will come the comfort she'll need. And if done right, she'll want nothing to do with the Haert and gladly give it to Nolan."
"What else do you have to hit her with?", Nerissa questioned. "You used her boyfriend, her friends, her temper and her lack of trust in you and her boyfriend. What else is there?"
"The two people that matter most to her.", Angelo said with a smirk.
"Oooooooh!", Nerissa said figuring things out. "Not bad."
"You are bad.", Yan Lin said with a sly smile.
"And clever.", Halinor said smirking.
"That's my grandson.", Kadma said. "He takes after us well, Joe."
"Very well.", Joe said.
"My bpyfriend.", Cassidy said wrapping her arms around his neck. "The sinister genuis."
"I have my moments.", Angelo said as he wrapped his arms around Cassidy's waist before they shared a loving kiss.
Watching this from his crystal ball was Nolan, who was very impressed with how things were going.
"I chose well, when I picked young Angelo as one of my Dark Guardians.", he said with a smirk. "He has proven to be one of the Keeper's greatest weaknesses. It'll only be a matter of time before she gives me the Heart willingly. And all of the Known Worlds will be mine!", he said followed by a sinister laugh that echoed through his tower in the castle he lived in.
A/N: Boy! Is Angelo a bad guy or what? Looks like he's close to breaking Will. And after what happened before she got captured, it's getting easier and easier to do. Can the Oracle find Will in time. And if he does, can I.T.C.H. and the others mount a rescue to save her? Only time will tell.
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