Irma : Now, what would the this chapter bring up to.
Me : You'll soon find out.
Will : Just let us finish this fight, and please be hurry.
Me : Aren't we in a hurry. Anyway, the disclaimer.
Will : Right, storyLover58 does not own W.I.T.C.H., or any other things.
Me : Now on with the story...
Chapter 17 : The Result
The guardians, Regents and Elyon were battling with the king of Medimn, who came to take over Meridian. The heroes were doing their best to avoid him from taking over Meridian after taking out his army. But now, things just got even more complicated, as the king was powerful. 'Will, watch out!' Matt cried out. Will managed to dodge a boulder that was falling onto her in time.
'Thanks Matt,' Will said before she shot a lightning bolt at the king.
'This is getting boring, I thought you guardians were all powerful in the legends, but I guess legends were just legends,' the king stated as he dodge a boulder.
'Why he can keep on dodging our attacks without any problem,' Cornelia asked out of impatient.
'I guess I can answer that for you since you managed to take out my army,' the king said before taking out a heart, that almost look the same as the former jewel of the heart of Meridian. 'This heart gives me the power to see what attack would come in the next few seconds, it also gives me the power to copy any other powers and it can reveal any invisible beings,' the king explained. 'But unfortunately for me, I only can use its beam and its power to see the future.'
'Unlucky for you, but lucky for us,' Will said as she shot another lightning, but the king managed to dodge it again.
'Man that is so annoying,' Hay Lin snapped.
'I told you, you can't touch me! I can see through your attack,' the king said as he dodged a fireball from Taranee.
'Then how 'bout this!' Hay Lin said before she conjured up a tornado. The guardians and Regents quickly got out of the way, but the king just smirk before he too got out of the way. The tornado created a fog full of dust, which made it harder to see anything.
'Great, we can't hit the king, now we can't see!' Cornelia said sarcastically.
'Sorry about that Corny,' Hay Lin apologised as she blew the dust away. Once the dust had settled, the guardians, Regents and Elyon noticed that the king had disappeared.
'Where'd he go?' Taranee asked.
'I have a bad feeling about this,' Will stated.
'Me too,' Matt agreed.
'Taranee, you better contact Irma about this. Tell her to be more careful with the king, we don't want any suspicion from him with Irma,' Will stated as Taranee nodded.
Taranee then concentrated to contact Irma who was in Medimn. She managed to contact her before telling her about what had happened. 'Irma, you need to be careful around the palace now, we have a bad feeling about this,' Taranee explained.
'Gotcha T, by the way, how's Stephen?' Irma asked, wondering how's her boyfriend doing.
'Lets just say that he was worried about you earlier, but he's alright,' Taranee stated as Irma sigh.
'Tell him that once this is over, we will head to the movies, I always wanted to watch the new movie,' Irma said as Taranee smiled.
'You just don't know when to quit joking, aren't you,' Taranee said.
'Hey, that's why I'm unbearable with Corny,' Irma joked.
'Hey!' Cornelia interrupted.
'Well, good luck on your job,' Taranee said as she cut the mental link with Irma.
'So, how'd it go?' Will asked.
'Fine, and tell Stephen about the whole movie thing,' Taranee said as Will look at her puzzled.
'What?' Will asked.
'He'll know,' Taranee replied before they all went back to the palace when something hit Will's mind.
'You guys head back first, me and Taranee will head to the cave that we checked earlier to search for anything that we missed,' Will explained. Everybody, except for Will and Taranee, headed back to the palace.
Will and Taranee flew towards the cave that they suspected that Zarla used to hide. As they entered the cave, they noticed that the place looks the same as before after they left the place. 'Look for anything unusual,' Will stated.
'Why did we come back here?' Taranee asked in a confused way.
'What Irma told us about that mirror thing, I remembered don't seeing any mirror,' Will stated.
'Now that you said, me neither,' Taranee agreed before they both went to search for this specific mirror. They went through each room, looking for the mirror that Irma told them about it earlier.
It took them half an hour before they meet back at the main room. 'Well, I think that Irma is lying,' Will said when she lean against a wall. Out of a sudden, the wall began to move. Will then fell down with a yelp as she landed on the ground.
'Well, I think we could say we miss something,' Taranee said as she helped Will up.
'What kind of room is this?' Will asked as the room was dark and spooky.
'Let me lit up the place,' Taranee said before she create a ball of fire around her hand. It lit up the whole room. Will and Taranee notice that the whole was filled with books, shelves, scrolls and a table. They were in a secret library, which they all missed when they search the place before.
'Now, lets begin,' Will said before they both went to look for any clues for the location of Zarla. Taranee took a glimpse of a book on the table. She sat on the chair before turning the pages of the book. She went through the book until she found something. She was shocked as she called out to Will. 'Will, you have to see this,' Taranee said. Will hurriedly stood beside Taranee, wondering what was wrong when she look at the book.
'Is that the mirror that Irma told us about?' Will asked when she took a look at the mirror that was in the picture in the book.
'I think it is. When I was telling Irma to be careful when I notice a mirror in her memory. I think it looks like this one in the picture,' Taranee explained.
'Taranee, you need to have warrant to look through other people memories next time,' Will joked. 'Anyway, we better tell the others about this.' Taranee nodded before taking the book with them before leaving the cave towards the palace.
In Medimn, Irma was just finishing her bathe again, since she went to cleaning out the stables and brushing the horses. 'Now for some R and R,' Irma said as she lay in the bathtub. Suddenly, the jewel began to emit a bright light, which caught her attention. 'Now what's wrong,' Irma stated out of annoyance as she took the heart. She then saw the king of Medimn, walking towards her bedroom. She wondered when did the heart managed to warn her like that, but she had to get into some clothes before the king came in.
She quickly got out of the tub before putting on the bathroom robe. She then grab her maids clothes before she went to put them on. Just as she went to the door, the king burst open the door. 'Aliria, I need you to follow me to somewhere private,' the king said.
'Er... Sure,' Irma said, wondering what was wrong. She remembered what Taranee told her earlier, she needed to be careful around the king, so she followed him towards a private place. As she walking down the hallway, the king turned one of the handle that holds the candle, clockwise. Before Irma knew it, the wall began to open up. As the wall opened up, it lead towards a dark tunnel. Irma wondered where it could lead before she and the king went into the tunnel. She hoped that this tunnel doesn't lead to one of the rebels base, which could end up pretty badly.
Irma was getting nervous about this, wondering whether the king found out that she was a look a like with the real Aliria back at the Silver Dragon. She then mustered up some courage before asking the king. 'Where are we going?' she asked.
'You'll see,' the king replied before there was a door at the end of the tunnel. The king then opened it before a light blinded she slowly opened her eyes, she was both shocked and surprised as she widened her eyes.
Back in Meridian, Will and Taranee told the rest of the girls and Regents about what they found. 'I can't believe that there was a secret library in that cave,' Cornelia commented.
'Neither did us,' Taranee stated.
'Now, the mirror that you told us about, how did it look like?' Hay Lin asked as she pointed at the book that Will was holding.
'Oh, right,' Will then opened the book before showing them a picture of the mirror that she and Taranee found out.
'Whoa, now that is one beautiful mirror,' Cornelia said as she admired that mirror in the picture.
'Beautiful or not, I have a bad feeling about this mirror,' Will said as she look into the book.
'The description about this mirror is that, the mirror is a dark magic that can clone anybody that touches the mirror. It can copy the person's personality, powers and voice. But it had one thing difference between the real and the copy, the copy will be the opposite of the good or evil,' Taranee explained what the book said.
'What do you mean opposite of good or evil,' Cornelia asked, not figuring out what it was saying.
'I think it means by when the person is good, the copy of him or her will be opposite of that,' Will explained.
'You mean like mirror version of that person, but on another side?' Elyon asked.
'Exactly,' Taranee confirmed.
'Which means, if Irma touch it... oh no...' Will said before stopping halfway. She then realised why did the mirror disappeared when she read the last paragraph of the text.
'What's wrong Will?' Cornelia asked.
'The book says that if the person did touch it, the mirror will disappear to another world,' Will explained.
'So?' Hay Lin asked, not getting it.
'So, it means that if Irma said that there's a mirror but we don't seem to find, then that could only mean one thing,' Taranee said before Will continued.
'The is another Irma on the loose!' Will said out of shocked, as well as the rest of the group.
'You mean that there is a dark Irma on the loose?!' Elyon asked out loudly.
'Great, I can't stand one Irma, but two?!' Cornelia said out of exasperation.
'Did it said anything on how to reverse it?' Hay Lin asked.
'I don't think so, the next page has been rip off,' Taranee said as she noticed some remains of the next page that was thorn away.
'We better find this dark Irma, or things would get much worse,' Will said as she was getting worried.
'Hey, if we found her, then maybe we can find Zarla,' Elyon said as she realised it.
'Yeah, then that could make things even easier for us to capture not one, but two baddies,' Hay Lin said.
'Should we tell Irma about this?' Taranee asked.
'I don't think it will be a good idea. Since we, I mean the army of Medimn, brought her there and asked her to be our insider, which won't be a good thing for her, I thing it's best we leave her out of this. And besides, if she found out that there is two of her out there, excluding Aliria back on Earth, then she would go all crazy,' Will said as Taranee nodded. She understood what she meant as Irma had enough problems to stay as a insider of the palace as a maid.
'I think we need to get some rest, my body is exhausted,' Cornelia said as she sat on the fountain side, getting some rest.
'Good point,' Will said before opening a fold back to Heatherfield. The girls and Regents then went through it before Will looked back at Elyon. 'If anything bad happens, call us,' Will said.
'Yeah, we will,' Elyon said before Will left the palace before the fold closes up.
Meantime, Zarla and Irma finally found the perfect place to plant their trap. 'This will be perfect for our little surprise,' Irma said as Zarla was looking at her awkwardly.
'What do you mean, little surprise?' Zarla asked.
'You'll see,' Irma said before she told Zarla about her little "surprise" she had in store for the guardians.
Back in Medimn, Irma was looking in awe as she was looking at some pictures of Aliria when she was young. And she was between her father and her mother. Irma the noticed that the father look some what familiar. 'What is all this?' Irma asked.
'You still haven't figure it out yet?' the king asked as Irma shook her head no. 'Aliria...' the king started which caught Irma's attention.
'Yeah? What is it?' Irma asked.
'You should know that, I'm your father,' the king said, which shocked Irma. She knew that she had a dad back in Heatherfield but once the king that he was the father of Aliria, she was completely in shocked mode. She couldn't even say anything as she was staring at the king. She had to tell Aliria and the girls about this, but she doesn't understand one thing, if Aliria was the king daughter, then why was she the maid. And why the king is the evil while Aliria is the good. She needed some answers, and she need them now.
Sorry for the two week long wait. But I have a great news, I finally finish my exams! Yippy! Anyway, ah-hem, I have been thinking of the plot for this chapter for quite sometime, but I finally got it here. And I even have one more great news, I'm going to take my driving lessons. Wish me luck when I get to take the test. And please leave some reviews please, thanks. And if you're wondering will I be able to update another chapter when I'm taking my test, I will be able to cause I got two weeks of school holiday. Yay for holiday.