Disclaimer: Does not own WITCH

A/N: Shorter chapter today. Just Finished rereading to the end of Teach 2b witch arc. And started 100%, sad to see the switch to stand alone stories. Also heard about the end of witch, hopefully it will restart buy the time I manage to read the end. And Hopefully back in it's saga format.

Love is a Hearts Child: 3 – Two Halves of Dark Hearts

Chapter 7

Everyone present turned to stare at Irma. "Where?" Caleb and Will both shouted in unison. "Where the collector hid his collection. It's hidden on Meridian." Irma replied, it hadn't really come to as a surprise to Cedric. Where else would someone with a collection of highly magical items hide it, but on his home world. "And I know what we might have to face going there." Cedric said holding up the book he had found. "Between this book and the other we will be able to know most of the collector's collection." Cedric added.

'Magical Items of the Light Collection by The Collector.' The cover read is quite elaborate gold script. "Then let get going. We have to save Brigitte. Irma where is she?" Hay Lin asked. "I can't describe it, but I can lead us there. It's through the underground that the rebels used to use." Irma explained. "Lead the way Irma, guard with me." Elyon ordered loudly a few nearby guard heading over.

"No Elyon" Will interrupted. "You have to stay here, the collector is dangerous and meridian can't risk anything happening to you. Plus your guards will be a liability, the collector could possess them and we probably have a greater resistance then they do." Will explained. "Me and the girls will go and deal with him and get my daughter back." Will added making a move to walk away.

Will was blocked from leaving by two men standing in the way. "You are not going without me Will." Caleb said. "and you ain't leaving me either." Steven added looking over at Irma and smiling. "I have my own grievances with the collector." Steven continued. "I'm sorry Caleb, Steven but you can't go. You've both been controlled by the collector before. He never possessed us, and I think it's because he can't." Taranee explained stepping up next to Will. "Will!" Caleb exclaimed about to complain. "No." Will said back pushing passed. The other girls following. "Irma you can't let them leave us behind." Steven tried to appeal, but the girls kept on walking. Only Taranee stopped to take the second book by the collector off Cedric, adding it to the first.

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"Did we really have to leave behind? What if we need help?" Hay Lin asked Taranee and Will. "Yeah Brigitte is Caleb daughter to Will." Cornelia said agreeing with Hay Lin. "No Will's right, Caleb doesn't have any powers, and we can't trust Steven." Irma said moving to the head of the group to lead the way to where they need to go once they had left the castle.

"Irma I can't believe you'd say that. I thought you and Steven were getting on." Hay Lin was shocked. "He has the collector powers, we have no idea if that means he can be influenced by him." Will agreed with Irma. "I'm not going to risk being stabbed from behind, if that happens then how will I save Brigitte." Will explained.

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The girls walked, climbed down one of the entrances to Meridian underground and carried on following Irma. It was a long walk. "Found anything of note in those booksTaranee?" Cornelia asked. "No, nothing that seems to really be important. Couple magical items about making bodies though, and moving consciousness's. So we could see that he has a real body this time round. Few things about calling back spirit. Basically loads of thing that scream of raising the dead." Taranee explained. "Make sense, we know that he wanted to bring back his wife." Cornelia responded.

"We're here." Irma said breaking into Taranee's and Cornelia's conversation. The girls stood before a seemingly random stretch of one of the tunnel walls. "I know how to let us in, is everyone ready?" Irma asked looking around at the other. "Cosmic."
"Let me just put these books down somewhere. Okay Ready." "I'm ready too."
"Open it Irma, I can't stand the thought of Brigitte being in the collector hands."

Irma reached out a hand at the wall and pressed a combination of bricks and then the wall vanished and became an archway. "Looks dark in there." Hay Lin pointed out. "Taranee gives us some light." Will ordered, and Taranee did so. Taranee stepped through the archway, followed by Hay Lin, Cornelia and Irma. Suddenly the light Taranee provided disappeared. "What on…" Cornelia started to say as power left them, before darkness around them became unconsciousness.

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Taranee opened her eyes and wasn't pleased to the sight she saw. She was locked in some kind of cell. It didn't look like she was on Meridian anymore. The cell she was in lacked the old fashion brick work construction that Meridian had. It was much to modern, concrete she was sure of it. A sheet of solid steel, acted as a door. Taranee called up here powers, readying herself to burn the door down. Taranee tried to call out to the other with her mind, also nothing. "Will. Irma. Corny. Hay Lin. Are any of you out there?" She cried.
"Taranee good to hear you're finally up to." Hay Lin voice was muffled by the surrounding wall, and Taranee was sure she was also shouting. "What about the others?" Taranee asked. "I'm here, but neither of us have heard Irma or Will yet. I guess they must be asleep still, or hopefully they got away from what ever happened." Cornelia joined the conversation. She was quieter then Hay Lin, probably in a cell further over.

"Do either of you know what happened?" Taranee asked, she couldn't remember a thing. "All I remember is our powers disappearing and then waking up here." Cornelia replied. "Yeah, how did the collector know we were coming?" Hay Lin asked in return. We should have realized it was a trap, Taranee thought to herself, but we were so concerned with finding Brigitte as soon as possible that we didn't even give it a moments through. "It doesn't matter right now Hay Lin. We need to think of a way out" Taranee replied.

"Don't worry Taranee I've already thought of that. I've been up hours already. I think we still have a little power in us, I've been slowly weakening the stone around the door to my cell. Eventually I should be able to kick it down." Cornelia explained, now that she mentioned it Cornelia sounded tired. Taranee tried to call up fire again and a single tiny flame appeared on one of her fingers. It was small pitiful, but it would do the job. "Then I'll try burning myself out. Whoever out first frees Hay Lin. Then we try to find Will and free her so we can easily break Irma out." Taranee ordered bring her flaming finger at the hinges of the metal door. This was going to take a long time.