Chapter Thirteen

Will had just finished telling her mother, about how her and the others had become guardians. "Hold on a minute, Will." said Susan interrupting her daughter. "Mrs. Lin knew about this, and never told me?"

Will silently sighed to herself. "Yes Mom, Mrs. Lin knows all about us since one she is a former guardian, and two she was the one who told me and my friends about our powers as well as showing us the Heart of Kandrakar."

"This Heart of Kandrakar. Is it that strange pink gem I have seen you wearing?" asked Susan. Will simply nodded. "So, what happened after you and your friends found out you was guardians, and had magical powers?"

Will told her mother that, she and the others had practiced with using their powers for the next couple of days after school. She then started to tell her mother about her being kidnapped by Cedric, but hesitated. Susan noticing the hesitation, asked her what was wrong. Will sighed at this. "I'm not sure if I should tell you what happened to me or not, Mom, since I know it is going to upset you." said Will.

"Will, I want to know everything that has happened to you." said Susan. Will sighed once more, but told her mother that she had been kidnapped by Cedric. Just as Will had expected, Susan didn't take that information well. "You was kidnapped?! And no one told me?!"

"Mom, please calm down." said Will. "The reason you wasn't told about it, was mostly because I was only gone for maybe a hour."

"That's no excuse, Will." said Susan. "Since you was kidnapped, I should have been told no matter what." Susan then took a few deep breaths, and asked Will if she had been hurt while she was kidnapped.

"No mom, I wasn't hurt in any way." said Will. "My friends came and rescued me, before anything could be done to me."

Susan gave a sigh of relief at this news. She then asked. "Have you been in any other dangerous situations, like this one?" Will started to tell her mother no, but figured that she needed to know the full truth. Will nodded her head. "Will, please tell me everything." Will nodded again, and began her tale where she had left off.
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While Will was telling Susan everything about being a guardian, Misao and The Oracle were still walking along the hallway. Misao however, was lost in her thoughts. 'What am I going to do about mom? I know she won't stop going after Will, just because I stopped her once. Then there is that matter all together. She did say I would regret interfering in her plans, so that means she is bound to come after me at some point.'

Though she didn't realize it, The Oracle knew about Misao's inner turmoil. Continuing to walk next to Misao, the Oracle calmly asked her what was wrong. Misao turned her attention towards him, and started to once again tell him that nothing was wrong. The Oracle however, cut her off. "Misao, please don't lie to me again."

Misao looked down at the floor. "I am sorry, Oracle." The Oracle coming to a stop, placed his hand on top of her arm, and told her that it was alright. He then once again asked her what was wrong? Misao sighed. "I am worried about Will, Oracle. For as long as my mother is free, Will is never going to be safe."

"That may be true, Misao, but you will be there to protect her if the need arises." said The Oracle.

"I don't know about that, Oracle." said Misao. The Oracle asked her what she meant. "My Mother swore that I was going to regret getting in her way, when she tried to get Will to join her back on earth. If it wasn't for me having the Heart of Kandrakar, and it putting a protective barrier around me and the girls I probably wouldn't be here talking to you."

"Misao, are you afraid of your mother?" asked The Oracle.

Misao started to tell him that she wasn't afraid of anything. However, the image of her mother blasting her off the side of the cliff with Cassidy, flashed into her mind and she nodded. "Yes Oracle, I am afraid. Mom has already tried to kill me once before, and she has bound to have gotten stronger since then. How can I even come close to fighting her, when I only have the same powers that she has?"

The Oracle sighed to himself. 'I really hoped it wouldn't come to this, but maybe it is time for it to happen.' Looking back at Misao, he asked her to follow him. As he turned away from her, and started off down the hallway again, Misao asked him where they was going. "I believe it is time, that I unlocked your full powers, Misao."

"What do you mean, Oracle?" asked Misao.

Continuing to walk, the Oracle said. "Misao, I had to lock your full powers away when you was still a child, because they were to strong for you to control. That is also the reason why your mother tried to kill you. For even though you didn't have full control over your powers, your mother saw you as a threat to her."

"But Oracle, why would mom try and kill me if I only have the same powers as her?" asked Misao. "Surely, my ability with quintessence is not stronger then hers."

"You would be correct, Misao, if the powers of quintessence was all you had." said the Oracle. "While you got the powers of quintessence from your mother, you also got the powers that your father has and thus they increased your powers over quintessence which caused me to seal them away."

"Oracle, do you know who my father is?" asked Misao. The Oracle told her that he did. "Then who is he? And what powers did I get from him?"

The Oracle let out a sad sigh, and coming to a stop turned so he was facing Misao. "I am sorry Misao, but it is not yet time for you to be given that information."

Misao really wanted to know who her father was, but she also knew that the Oracle had to have a very good reason for not telling her. With a sigh she nodded to him, then asked. "Oracle, how much will my powers over quintessence increase, once you have unlocked my locked powers?"

The Oracle sent her a smile, and simply told her that she would be a match for her mother. He then turned away from her, and headed off down the hallway again. Misao wondered what exactly he had meant by that, and took off after him.
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A couple of hours after he had lead Misao into another room, The Oracle made his way back out of said room with a glance back at Misao who was now asleep. 'I'm sorry I had to do that to you Misao, but you needed to rest for awhile so your body can adjust to your new powers.' Closing the door behind him, the Oracle started off down the hallway heading back towards the room he had left Will and her mother in.

A few minutes later, the Oracle stopped at the rooms door and knocked upon it. Hearing Susan call out come in, The Oracle opened the door and made his way into the room. Susan started to get to her feet when she saw who it was, but The Oracle raised his hand and told her that she could remain seated. Closing the door behind him, The Oracle then made his way across the room and soon stopped next to Will's bed. "How are you feeling, young guardian?"

"I'm doing okay, Oracle." said Will.

"And how has your explanation on being a guardian, been going?" asked the Oracle.

Will looked over at her mother, then back to the Oracle. "Mom seems to have a basic understanding of everything, but I am not sure if she really believes everything that I have told her."

The Oracle nodded to this, then turned his attention towards Susan. "I'll take over the explanation, young guardian. This way, I can show your mother what all has happened as well as answer any questions that she might have."

"There is one question that I would like to ask now." said Susan. The Oracle nodded to her, and asked her what she wanted to ask. "I am wondering what possessed you to choose my daughter for such a dangerous task? After all, based on what she has told me so far she was only thirteen when she first became a guardian."

Instead of answering Susan's question, The Oracle turned his attention back to Will. "Maybe it would be best to show your mother, what happens when you become a guardian." He then held his hand out towards Will, and upon opening his hand revealed the Heart of Kandrakar to her. Will looked at the heart, but made no movement to take it from him. With a sigh, she told him that she wasn't worthy of having it anymore. "And why do you think this, young guardian?"

Will focused her attention upon the Oracle, and told him on how Luba had shown up and demanded that the heart be returned to her. "She said it was done on your orders, Oracle." said Will. The Oracle told her that it wasn't possible for Luba to do what was done. "Mrs. Lin said the same thing. She told us that Luba was unable to leave Kandrakar, unless you was with her, Oracle. If Luba was to do so, she would die."

"That is correct, young guardian." said the Oracle. "Due to the aurameres needing her full concentration, Luba in unable to leave without someone there to help her control her powers."

Will then told him on how she had used the heart on Luba, and nothing happened. "If it wasn't Luba that I gave the Heart of Kandrakar too, then who was it?" The Oracle let out a deep sigh filled with disappointment, then told Will that it was Misao who had taken the Heart of Kandrakar from her. "Mrs. Mikachi? Why would she have taken it?"

"She took it, because of my orders to watch over you and the other guardians." said the Oracle. "She knew that something would happen to you, and even though she shouldn't have interfered she took the heart from you so she would be better prepared, for when the time came to help you when it mattered most."

Will then asked the most important question of all, in her opinion. "Is Nerissa, Mrs. Mikachi's mother?" The Oracle nodded his head yes. "Then, should we really be trusting Mrs. Mikachi? I mean if she is Nerissa's daughter, what is to keep her from becoming like her mother?" This earned Will a disapproving look from Susan, but before she could say anything about it the Oracle informed Will that Misao, would never join her mother. "Then what I heard at the lake is true, isn't it? Nerissa really did try to kill her own daughter?" The Oracle gave a sad sigh, and nodded. "How can anyone be that cruel?"

"That is a question that not even I can answer, young guardian." said The Oracle.

Will then looked back down at the Heart of Kandrakar. "Oracle, do you really think I am worthy of being the keeper of the heart?"

"That is something that only you alone can answer, young guardian." said the Oracle. "But do remember, that it was the Heart of Kandrakar that choose you to be it's keeper." Will nodded to this, and told him that she remembered. Will then took a deep breath, and lifted her arm. Turning her hand so her palm was facing upwards, she gave the Oracle a nod. The Oracle returned the nod, and placed the heart into Will's hand.

Closing her hand around the heart, Will noticed that it felt slightly warm. "Oracle, the heart feels warm. Is this normal?" The Oracle gave her a curious look, but told her that he didn't have any knowledge of anything like that happening before. Opening her hand, Will looked at the heart but didn't see any difference in it, but she did notice that the warm feeling she felt was still there. Shrugging her shoulders, she brushed it off as nothing important and turned to face her mother. "Mom, I hope this doesn't shock you too much but I agree with the oracle, that it would probably be best to show you my guardian form." Will then held the heart out in front of her. "Guardians Unite!"

As Susan watched, Will was incased in a ball of pink light. A few moments later, the ball of light was gone and in Will's place was a much older girl, wearing a bluish green outfit, What stood out the most, was the wings upon the girls back. "Will, is that really you?" asked Susan not believing what she was seeing.

"Yea mom, it's me." said Will.

Susan then got to her feet, and made her way to stand next to the bed. She then looked her daughter up and down. "I will admit Will, that this is a lot more then I expected."

"Mom, are you going to make me stop being a guardian?" asked Will figuring she should get this question out of the way.
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While all of this was going on with Will, Susan, and the Oracle, back in the room Misao had been left in, Misao was slightly tossing and turning in her sleep.

Reason for this, was that she was getting fragmented images that something was happening or going to happen. However, since the images were only fragments of people she wasn't able to make out what was going on. She did however see Jason, and he appeared to be in some kind of danger. But again, she wasn't able to make out what was going on.

Managing to cancel the sleep spell the Oracle had placed on her, Misao opened her eyes and pushed herself up into a sitting position. "What is happening? I know I saw Jason, but everything else is so fragmented." Turning so her legs dangled off the side of the bed, she then slid off of the bed and onto her feet. Her legs buckled slightly, but since she was still close to the bed she was able to stop herself from falling. "The Oracle may not like me leaving, but I have to make sure Jason is okay."

Once she was steady enough to stand, Misao moved away from the bed to the center of the small room. "Now then, what did the Oracle say I needed to do to make a portal?" After a few minutes of recalling what she had been told, Misao raised her hands up in front of her and closed her eyes. She then began to focus on what she needed. A few moments later, she slowly opened her eyes to find a portal in front of her. "I did it!" She quickly covered her mouth, hoping that no one had heard her. When the door to her room didn't open, Misao let out a sigh of relief. "Now to find out if Jason, is all right." Without any form of hesitation, Misao stepped into the portal and vanished. The portal closed a few moments later.
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Back in Will's room, Will was waiting for her mother's answer to the question that she had asked. Will's attention was drawn to the Oracle, as he suddenly turned away from the bed. "Oracle, what's wrong?" The Oracle simply told her that he needed to check on something, and made his way across the room to the door. Pulling the door open a few moments later, he quickly made his way out of the room and headed off down the hallway. 'Something must be really wrong, for the Oracle to look that worried.'

Will then turned so she was sitting on the side of the bed. As she slid off of it and onto her feet, Susan asked her what she was doing? "I don't know what it is, Mom, but something has the Oracle really worried. I am going to go see what is going on?"

Reaching across the bed, Susan grabbed Will's arm. "Will, I think you should stay here."

Will sighed at this. "Mom, I know you worry about me, but this is who I am." Gently pulling her arm out of Susan's grip, Will took off across the room and soon made her way out of the room.

A short time later, Will came to a stop when she saw the Oracle standing a short distance away from her, talking to Luba and some of the other members of the council. Will wasn't yet close enough to hear what was being said, but saw several of the council members point down the hallway. A few moments later, with the Oracle leading them everyone headed off in the direction that the council members had pointed in.

Deciding that she needed to know what was going on, Will took off after them. After several minutes of walking, she was forced to come to another stop when she found everyone standing outside of a different room. This time however, she was close enough to hear what was being said. "I told you this was a bad idea to unlock her full powers, Oracle." said Luba. "Now look what has happened? She has disappeared!"

"She has to have a valid reason for leaving, Luba." said The Oracle.

"A valid reason for leaving!?" shouted Luba. "What reason could she possibly have for leaving, except to go after Nerissa?!"

Will then heard another voice. "Oracle, should we go after her?"

"No Tibor." said the Oracle. "All we can do is hope that she has gone elsewhere, and not after Nerissa."

"But Oracle, what if Misao has indeed gone after her mother?" asked Tibor.

Will didn't hear the Oracle's reply, but based on the gasps she heard from the others around him, something told her that it wasn't a good answer.

End of Chapter Thirteen

Bold Numbers:

1. I think this one, had to do with Misao's powers and her father. It may be easy to guess who her father is, but then again maybe it won't.

2. This one deals with what Misao did. I found on a wiki a list of the powers that Will has, and one of them is the means to open and close portals. Now, I am pretty sure that it is only by using the Heart of Kandrakar, that she is able to do this. However, I decided to have Misao have the ability without the need for the heart, due to her powers.