Irma : Wait, why is it like those movie scene where the villians would reveal that their the heroes father?
Me : It's all part of the story.
Cornelia : Hey, Irma, now you can be the princess of the castle, like those fairy tale.
Irma : Very funny, Corny. Remind me who's doing all the hard work and all of the battles when I could just relax.
Me : Okay, seriously, stop with the staring daggers and arguments. Remember Corny, you came here for the disclaimer, not making remarks.
Cornelia : Hmph! Fine, storyLover58 does not own W.I.T.C.H., or anything else that involves it.
Me : Now, lets get this story on the road...
Chapter 18 : Aliria's Father
Irma didn't expect the king to be Aliria's father, as she was just standing there, looking at the king. Irma returned to reality before asking a question that's really making her even curious. 'So, if your my dad,' Irma started, trying not to hesitate after knowing that the king was her "father", she needs to put up a straight face, like any daughters would do. 'Then could I know your name?' Irma asked, wondering what was the king's name.
'Sorry Aliria, but not even my own daughter must know my name. Now, back to the subject,' the king said before taking out a picture that looks like a painting.
'What is that?' Irma wanted to asked, but she kept it in her mind. Instead, she went through what Aliria would say, 'Is... that... me?' Irma asked, pointing at the young girl that was in the picture.
'Yes, Aliria, that is you,' the king replied. Irma just stared at it as she wondered whether she should tell the others about this, or wait. 'Can I ask you a favour?' the king asked, which caught Irma's attention.
'Yeah?' Irma asked.
'Would you follow by my side to rule the dimension,' the king said, which surprised Irma. He may be kind in heart towards his daughter, but not towards the rest of the other dimension.
'I have to say no. By the way, if I'm your daughter, why am I threated as a maid?' Irma asked, wondering why. The king took a deep breath before he explained to Irma.
'The reason is simple, to hide the fact that I even had a child, let alone a princess. And even so, they think you're just a maid, which they figured you couldn't be a princess,' he explained.
'And why are you so pissed off with the guardians?' Irma asked, before realising what she just asked.
'That... well... it's... complicated,' the king said with a little hesitation in his voice.
'Uh huh, looks like you have a grudge against them, aren't you?' Irma asked, trying to force some answers out without letting the king know about it.
'You can say that.'
'Well, it seems you wanted them out of the way, am I right?'
'Look, if you think I wanted those blasted guardians out of my way, then yes! Because the prophecy in one of the secret books stated that five guardians would bring peace to the world, which it could only mean that I will be out into prison and somebody else would take the throne,' the king explained, which Irma was staring at him.
'Man, it's like fighting with Phobos all over again. But with me being a spy of course,' Irma thought as she took a seat on a chair that was in the secret room. 'Why don't you just stop then? Then they won't bother you,' Irma suggested.
'Ha! And why would I do that? I want to rule the whole dimension, I even heard a place called Kandrakar,' the king stated, which shocked Irma.
'How'd he know about that place? Did he planning to take over Kandrakar too!?' Irma thought as she was getting a little worried about it. She knew in the pass, Phobos and Nerissa tried to take over Kandrakar, and so does Cedric. Remembering it gave her chills as she remembered how he'd grew into a huge snake before attacking their home world. 'Why do you want to take over Kandrakar anyway?' Irma asked.
'Easy, to take over the other dimension without any problem. But the world that I would have problem is Earth that I heard about. My spies told me that they use those some kind of carriage that doesn't even use steam. They told me that it uses some sort of motor or some kind. So, it really tells me that the technology over there is much more greater than ours,' the king explained, which Irma knew what he was talking about.
'Right, much more greater. Anyway, can we get out of here? I'm getting hungry,' Irma asked as her stomach began to rumble. The king then opened back the door way before Irma got out of the room. The king then closed the door before they both head into the dining hall, while Irma was wondering whether she should tell the others about this right now, or wait until it was night time.
Meanwhile, in Heatherfield, the girls and Regents were in the basement of the Silver Dragon, back to their normal form. 'So, we can't say that the next attack would be easy, since we now know that the king is as powerful as Phobos and Nerissa,' Will explained.
'And we have Zarla and an evil Irma on the loose,' Taranee added.
'Great, just great, this is getting fun every second,' Cornelia said sarcastically.
'Hey, cheer up Corny. Besides, Irma is doing worse than you, I think,' Hay Lin said.
'Talking about her, how's she doing right now?' Aliria asked as she was beside Will.
'We don't know yet. But we will head there once it is night time to tell her about what we found,' Will stated.
'And maybe, she could tell us more about this king,' Yan Lin added as she decended the stairs.
'Got those stuff I asked?' Will said.
'Yeah, here you go Will,' Yan Lin said before passing it to Will. It was some cloths for Aliria, the shirt is jsut an ordinary t-shirt that is orange in colour, a pair of dark blue jeans, a pair of white sneakers and a couple hair clips. Will and Cornelia went to help Aliria to get dress while Cornelia helped to do her hair. She needed to make sure that Aliria doesn't look like Irma, or there would be mayhem during school time.
Afterabout half hour, the three girls came out of the bathroom before Aliria revealed herseld. 'So, what do you think?' Aliria asked. Her hair was now shorter then Irma, but longer than Will's, and Cornelia even put some clips at the front to make sure that she doesn't look a bit like Irma.
'Wow, you don't look like Irma,' Hay Lin commented as she gave her a thumbs up.
'Thanks, I hope you guys would take me back to Medimn,' Aliria said as she looked down. Will understood what she meant as she gave her a warm smile, cheering her up.
'C'mon, we better head hime before heading out to Medimn,' Taranee said.
'Yeah, see ya Aliria,' Cornelia said before she head up the stairs. Will and Taranee then followed suit after saying goodbyes to Yan Lin, Aliria and Hay Lin.
Time has passed as the girls were having their dinner, as well as Aliria after Hay Lin handed her some food. They waited till midnight, as tomorrow wasn't school day for them either. Will was laying in her bed, thinking of what would happen if they went to Medimn. She hoped that Irma was alright and nothing bad happens when they got there.
Back in Medimn, Irma just finished her dinner with the king. She felt weird having a dinner with the king, since he was evil after all. As she walked down the hallway, she had a feeling that her friends would come. If they did come, she could tell them about what she had found out. And what's more, she needs to make sure that she must play as a princess. She hoped she doesn't goof off or Cornelia would gave her a lecture type or talked about it over and over again when she had got out of the palace. When she looked out the window, she wondered when would they come as she needed to tell about Aliria's father was the king.
Now, back to Heatherfield, Will managed to slip out of her bedroom window before she headed to the park as a rendezvous. She made sure that it was midnight also, as she flew above the city, she noticed that Matt was flying right below her, with Mr Huggles in his normal form in his arms. Will quickly flew beside him before saying, 'Fancy meeting you here.'
This had started Matt, almost dropping Mr Huggles as he gave Will a glare, but with the mask on, Will can't tell anything. 'Don't do that. You almost made me drop Mr Huggles,' Matt said, which Will just gave him a sad face.
'Sorry 'bout that Matt, but where's Napolean?' Will asked.
'He said that he will follow Cornelia to the park,' Matt said as they flew closer to the park.
At the park, Taranee and Hay Lin were waiting for the rest of the group to arrive when Taranee spotted Will and Matt were in the sky. 'Well, look at those two love birds,' Taranee remarked as Will and Matt landed on the ground before Matt let Mr Huggles down. It then transformed itself into Khor, and right at that rime, Cornelia and Napolean arrived.
'What took you guys so long?' Hay Lin asked.
'Don't ask me,' Napolean said.
'Hey, it's so not my fault that my sister was having my brush,' Cornelia said as she was still mad at her sister for taking it.
'Anyway, we better get into form as needed to head to the palace. Napolean, you and Mr Huggles will head into the rebels hideout, just to make sure that they have found out anything about the king,' Will said. Will then took out the Heart of Kandrakar before transforming the others into their guardian form. Will then created a fold to Medimn before they all went through it.
In Medimn, the guardians and Matt flew towards the palace while Mr Huggles and Napolean went into the rebels hideout. Along the way, Will noticed that the plants around them was starting to die, and she doesn't know why. 'Cornelia, can you check the ground, I have a bad feeling about this,' Will asked as Cornelia nodded. She went down towards the ground before landing. She placed the palm of her hand of the ground before concentrating ont it. She could hear the ground and the plants talking to her as she listened.
Will and the others were waiting for Cornelia to return, as Will needed to find out what happened to the plants around them. When she spotted Cornelia was flying towards them, she hoped that it would be good news or something else. 'So, what did it say?' Will asked.
'Not good, the plants are dying for no apparent reason,' Cornelia said.
'Then this could be bad. Maybe they didn't get enough nutrients?' Hay Lin asked while joking.
'Anyway, we can't bother those first. Right now, we need to find Irma and tell her what we found out,' Will said, returning to what they came for.
'And asking her about what she'd found,' Taranee continued. They all then headed towards the palace while hiding in the dark to avoid any attention from the guards. As they approached the walls, Will spotted an opening on the wall on the ground. 'This way,' she whispered to them. They all followed her down towards the hole she pointed. They all understood what she meant as they all landed in front of the hole.
'Looks like it leads to a barn,' Matt said.
'Good, but first,' Will said before transforming them back to normal.
'Good point,' Matt agreed before turning back to normal. They all then went through the hole before they all hid behind the barn. Taranee then spotted some clothes that's on the clothes line. She quickly grab a few of them before handing them to the girls and Matt. Matt took one look at the clothes before he rejected them. 'No way am I wearing that!' Matt complaint as Taranee realised that she gave Matt a dress.
'Sorry Matt, but that's all I have,' Taranee said as she handed back to Matt, but he spotted something else on the line. He went to grab it before realising that it is a cloak.
'Well, I think this will do,' Matt said as he put it on. After the girls put on their dresses, they quickly sneak towards the palace. As they nearing the palace, Will suddenly noticed somebody on the balcony of the palace.
'Wait, that looks like, Irma?' Will asked as she noticed that Irma was on the balcony, looking up into the sky.
'So, how are we going to get in there without being spotted. Even if we tried to take some flowers in and said it is for the king, who would believe us when it's midnight,' Cornelia said.
'Good point, well, we better transform back,' Will said as she noticed that her plan had failed a little. She took out the Heart before transforming them into guardian form. Matt later tranform into Shagon form before they all flew up towards the balcony.
Up in the balcony, Irma was wondering when would her friends would come. Should she escaped now to find them or wait for them to come. She doesn't need to wait long when she noticed that Will was now in front of her. 'Hey Will, fancy seeing you here,' Irma said as she didn't expect her friends would come by.
'Irma, we got something to tell you about what we found,' Will said before Cornelia interrupted.
'And you could say that we aren't happy about you being stubborn,' Cornelia complaint.
'About what?' Irma asked.
'We found out that there is another you, Irma,' Will said, but Irma didn't respond, thinking it was a joke.
'Nice guys, but seriously, what's the problem?' Irma asked. But she then noticed their faces before realising that their serious. 'It's a joke, right?' Irma asked.
'No Irma, and Corny's right, you should had listened to us. Now we need to look for your evil side back in Meridian,' Will said.
'But I didn't do anything wrong,' Irma protested.
'I think you did. Remember the mirror you told us about?' Taranee asked. Irma nodded before Taranee handed Irma the book she brought along. She showed Irma the page where they found out about the mirror. Irma then realised she made a really bad mistake which would not end well.
'Great, now there's another me, that is evil, in Meridian,' Irma said.
'Anyway, did you found out anything about the king?' Will asked, changing the subject.
'Yeah, and you couldn't believe this,' Irma started.
'Believe what?' Hay Lin asked.
'The king is Aliria's...' before Irma could finished, she heard her door banging.
'Aliria? Are you in there? There is something I wanted to show you,' the king called out from the other side of the door.
'Yeah, just give me a minute,' Irma replied before looking back at the others. 'You guys better hide. I don't think the king would be happy to see you guys,' Irma stated as Will nodded.
'Wait, what are you going to tell us about Aliria?' Cornelia asked.
'No time, the king is about to come in,' Will said before she dragged Cornelia down the balcony before hiding behind a barn.
Irma was heading towards the door before opening it. The king was happy to see her, which gave Irma the creeps as the king smile was a little weird. Irma then noticed something behind the king. 'What are you hiding from me?' Irma asked.
'You'll see,' the king said before he entered the bedroom. Irma closed the door before the king took a seat on the bed. As Irma sat beside him, which a normal daughter would do, as she wanted to know what was the king hiding. 'Now, close you eyes,' the king said, which Irma did as she was told. She felt something was put on her head, something like a metal or some sort.
'Now open them,' the king said as Irma opened her eyes. When she realised what was on top of her head, she was surprised.
'Wow,' Irma said as she looked at herself in the mirror. She was wearing a crown, which she never wore before.
'What do you think?' the king asked.
'I like it,' Irma relied as the king smiled.
'C'mon, you better head to bed,' the king said as he got up.
'Alright,' Irma said before the king left her bedroom. When Irma went to eavesdrop on the door, waiting for the king to walk down the halls as far as possible till she can't hear his footsteps, she quickly went back to the balcony to call out to her friends.
'Guys, are you there?' Irma asked as quietly as possible. Luckily for her, Hay Lin heard her called them before they all landed on the balcony. Cornelia then noticed the tiara on Irma's head, which she doesn't get it.
'Irma what is that on your head?' Will asked as she pointed at the tiara.
'That is the reason why I wanted to tell you about. The king is Aliria's father,' Irma said, which shocked the girls and Matt. They didn't expect the king to be Aliria's father. They need more explanation, and they needed Irma to search even deeper.
Well, that's it for this chapter. Hope you guys give me some reviews. Anyway, I kinda gotten a little lazy since I watch a few game walkthroughs, like "Split/Second", "Sly Cooper" and "The Last Of Us". And I even watch Fairy Tail to pass the time, and to keep me busy. But I'll try to continue with my story, cause I never grew tired of them. Till the next chapter. ;)