Alright, I have made another story in which mystery and surprise doesn't even know where to turn! I have not forgotten about POWER (a new generation story), but I also like to write another story. I have had this idea for a while, but wasn't going to publish it until March or April, but I felt like doing it now, so I hope people like it.
In this story, fate and destiny twist together in a combined compact against Will and Cornelia, who start to ride in a nonstop roller coaster in the past to change the future. But there is a force that is against the two Guardians, something that might not only be deadly to the women, but change their entire lives, the good and the bad.
Disclaimer: I do not own W.i.t.c.h. or any of it's characters. All the other characters I have made up. There are going to be flashbacks in this story to what happened in years before and the events during this chapter. This story will mainly only be from Will and Cornelia's POV.
Chapter 1: The Accident
Will's POV
"Will, hey Will! Behind you!" Irma yelled. Will looked behind her just in time to see one of Phobos's soldiers aiming at her with a sword. Will dodged him and kicked the sword out of his hand and knocked him to the ground.
"Thanks Irma!" Will cried as she got in a sword battle with two more guards. She swung the sword above her head once and they both fell down instantly in cries of pain. She turned around to see Irma shooting a blast of water that was practically drowning a group of men. Caleb was bringing down the soldiers fast with Cornelia shaking the ground and opening a wide, jagged hole near him for the creatures to be swallowed into the earth.
Swords clashed and desperate cries were screaming everywhere. Will couldn't see Taranee or Hay Lin, but she only hoped that they were fighting Phobos's army without a problem out of her sight. Cornelia became surrounded by some more guards and Will sent out a pink energy blast that sent them falling to the ground in shock.
"Alright, where's Hay Lin? I just saw Taranee helping out the rebels on the other side of the castle!" Cornelia called out, spreading vines in the air that caught a soldier trying to attack her in mid-leap."
"I don't know!" Will cried out. Pain shot out through her shoulder and she looked to her side to see a fresh wound with blood dripping to the ground. Another attack made her way and she brought up a force field and shot another bolt of electricity at the ones attacking her. who fell to the ground, howling in pain.
Wincing, Will ran to help Caleb who was having trouble battling a group of monsters.
"Need some help?" Will asked as she wiped out a few of them with a shot of magic.
"Yeah, thanks, Will." he responded gratefully. He wiped his brow and went straight back to trying to fight the soldiers. Will finally saw Hay Lin flying above her and she landed next to Will and sent a few more guards spinning in a tornado.
"Is everything alright here?" she asked.
"Too many of the rebels are going down. Phobos's army is so large, I don't think we can take them." Will answered back. Irma kicked two guys from the army down into the hole Cornelia had made as Hay Lin and Will continued talking between their battle.
"At this rate, there won't be any survivors!" Irma shouted. "We need to call this back."
"No! What about Elyon? We can't let her brother kill her!" Cornelia screamed. Cornelia gasped and ducked as one guard leaped and ended up jumping over her and into the hole.
"Bye bye now. Have a nice trip!" Irma said with a wave of her hand.
"We don't even know if she's already dead." Will yelled sadly. She felt another cut on her leg and noticed that Hay Lin was sporting a bloody lip and the other two were covered in casualties.
"We need to pull back before we all are dead!" Will continued. Hay Lin nodded.
"Taranee was in a bind over there. I need to go back and help her." she took off and flew over to the other side to fill in Taranee on the news.
"I need to go and try to find her." Cornelia cried. She suddenly got surrounded by more soldiers and Irma ran to help.
"No, you stay and help the rest of the rebels. I'll go!" Will called out. She started running as fast as her strong legs could carry her. Soldiers and rebels were going down left and right. Will maneuvered herself around fallen bodies and near the castle. She heard someone calling her name from far away and turned.
"Will! I can't manage to contact Elyon! Do you think Phobos got her?" Taranee asked.
"I'm on it!" Will shouted. She jumped up and started running up the stairs. A painful blast knocked her backward and into the trunk of a tree. Her head seared with pain and her eyes watered but she opened them anyway. Phobos was walking down the steps with triumph and walked up near Will, crouching on the ground in pain. He lifted her by the throat and, gasping for breath, Will stared at him.
"Give me the Heart of Candracar, Guardian." he hissed. "The Light of Meridian will never lighten up this world. Surrender now before everything gets even worse for you."
Will spat in his face.
"It already has." she gasped. "You won't ever get the Heart."
Phobos sneered.
"Then you've already lost."
20 years later...
"Mom? Hellooo? You still alive?"
"Will lifted her head tiredly from her desk. The computer was still on with the article she was writing still showing. She couldn't have been asleep that long.
"Huh? Oh yeah." Will responded with a wide yawn. She rubbed her eyes and stretched herself back in her chair before turning to her daughter, standing in the doorway of Will's study with her backpack still on.
"I think you're being overworked." Crystal said, eying her mother's tired eyes and the file on the computer. Will gave a dry laugh.
"Oh you think so, do you?" Crystal gave a bright smile.
"Yeah! I think you should come out and make me some cookies or something. That'll make you feel better."
Will laughed, for real this time, and got up and walked her 12-year old through the door.
"Are you sure that it will make me feel better? Won't eating cookies be for your purpose?"
"Come on, don't start thinking about me now. Making cookies will be good for you." Crystal replied with a sly smile. Will rolled her eyes and shook her head as she turned on the oven and grabbed a cookie sheet. Crystal lifted her backpack onto the table and sat down in a chair.
"Did you have fun at school?" Will asked, breaking the dough and putting each piece on the sheet with a spoon. Crystal stared at her with a dumbstruck look.
"Fun? At school! You don't seem to remember school much, do you?"
Will looked at Crystal and grinned.
"What would I do without you here to make me laugh?"
"You would die, of course. Just like I will die if you don't finish those cookies quicker!" Crystal exclaimed.
"Hold your horses! You don't want them undercooked. In the meantime, you can do your homework."
"What homework?" Crystal asked, her brown eyes wide and innocent. Will gave her a pointed look and she sighed.
"Okay, I'll do it now." Crystal dug into her back and brought out her math book.
"Could you-"
"Any subject but math." Will responded as if she knew what Crystal was going to ask. "I could barely get through school enough as it is and I wouldn't like to repeat the terror of Algebra and Geometry." Crystal smiled in spite of her disappointment and started working. Will stared at her and smiled.
She's everything that I could have ever hoped for, Will thought dreamily. Crystal was Will's only family now and she was grateful for every moment she spent with the little girl, or almost teenager, she had to remind herself. She was a blazing image of her mother: scrawny legs and long, red hair flowing down her back with Will's amazing deep, brown eyes. Her personality wasn't exactly Will's though. She was very outgoing and easily laid back, but with Will's stubbornness at times and hot temper. Crystal had much of her dad in her. Just the thought of Matt filled her with tears.
"Are you thinking about dad again?" Cystal asked softly. Will quickly wiped her tears, but couldn't turn to face her daughter.
"Not a day goes by when I don't think of him." Will forced herself to say. "I don't even know if he's alive or..." She trailed away and checked on the cookies, which were just about done.
"I wish I could remember him. Is he, was he nice?" Will walked forward and hugged Crystal, stroking her hair.
"Yes, he was, and he loved us both very much." They sat there in silence for a while until Will caught the hint of something burning.
"The cookies!" they both yelped. Will ran and through open the oven and grabbed a mitt to take them out. They weren't black, but they weren't the golden brown on the package either.
"Well, I never was much of a cook." Will responded embarrassingly. Crystal giggled and took one anyway.
"They're alright. I've had worse at Aunt Irma's."
Will smiled and remembered each of Crystal's aunts. There was Cornelia, Taranee, Hay Lin, and Irma, her best friends and former Guardians of the Veil.
They had all grown up and gone through their own lives, but the five continued to stay close together. Cornelia had gotten married to a guy named David and had twin daughters, Cristi and Cynthia, who were both 13, and an infant, Kevin, who was 1. Cornelia and David had been a bit rocky lately and Will wondered often how their lives would be. Taranee, however, was happily married with Travis and had two kids: Jacob, who was 14, and Sarah, who was 10. Irma was single after too many bad relationships and had adopted a little boy from China, Kenny; 5 while Hay Lin got married last year to a man named James and recently had a baby girl, Taylor. All five of the girls had made their families into one huge one! They all knew each other and loved being together on holidays, along with the rest of the girls' and husbands' parents and cousins. Everything was perfect until a tragedy hit them: Matt had disappeared after planning to go to the movies with Travis, who was his best friend. He never showed up. He was gone and that left Will to raise her 3-year old daughter all by herself.
"Yeah, I bet you have. Don't let Irma hear that I said that."
It started getting darker. Hay Lin, Taranee, and Irma had all come over to go to Crystals's concert that night. They were helping her get ready while Will furiously tried to finish her article to send it to her boss before her deadline that night, so that she could go see her daughter perform. Will smiled as she attached it to an email and sent it to the office. Now, that was one less thing that she had to worry about. Will did her hair and put on some make up and shoes before making her way into the living room where Irma sat on the couch, trying to calm down a petrified Crystal.
"Don't worry, you'll sing fine. Thank goodness you got you father's talent for singing." Irma said soothingly.
"And exactly what is that supposed to mean, Irma?" Will asked with a smiled and leaned in on the couch. Irma turned around in surprise.
"Uh, nothing Will." she responded and gave a wink to Cystal who giggled right back.
"Where are the other two?" Will asked, checking her watch. Irma looked a little uncomfortable.
"Well, they're trying to calm Corny down, aren't they. Don't you know what happened?"
Will frowned.
"What? No, I haven't heard anything about Cornelia since yesterday."
"Well, the police just caught David driving with beer in his car. They followed him to his house. David went in and hit Cristi and Cornelia started to scream when the cops came in and took him away under the charges of child abuse and driving under the influence."
"Oh my God." Will whispered. Irma shook her head.
"Cornelia's in a right state. She was on her way to take the kids to the concert before this happened. I'm sorry that she can't come Crystal."
"I understand." Crystal responded with a nod. Hay Lin and Taranee came in looking very sad.
"Cornelia is filing for a divorce." Taranee said sadly. "It looks like we're falling apart all over again."
"Can you believe it? David?" Hay Lin asked. Will shrugged. The fact was that she could believe it.
"Oh and your boss called. I'm sorry Crystal, but I think your mom has to go to work." Taranee said with an even more horrible feeling of sadness passing her face. Will groaned and Crystal's head snapped in her direction.
"You can't come! Why can't you tell him you'll go tomorrow or something?" Crystal asked, hurt etching on every inch of her face.
"I'm sorry sweetie, but a job doesn't work that way." Will responded. Crystal glared at her and started to get angry.
"This is the one time that I really need you and you won't be there."
"I'm sorry, I really am, Crystal. Don't you think I want to go with you?" Will asked.
"Yeah, of course you're sorry. You always are." Crystal said with grumpiness and disappointment. Will sighed and looked at her friends for any help.
"I've got my video camera." Taranee added helpfully. "Your mom will definitely be able to see it."
"It's not the same!"
"Hey." Will said softly. She bent down and held Crystal's arms.
"I will be there. I won't be in the audience, but I'll hear you from wherever I am. Just sing and I'll hear you, okay? I'll always come to you and listen." Will smiled and tried to get her to break. She finally did and gave a small smile too.
"Okay. I'll try to sing."
"That's the spirit! Now, we need to get going. Have fun at work, Will!" Hay Lin chirped. They started to walk through the door. Will felt weird, like she was being left behind.
"Bye, good luck! Have fun you guys!" Will said as she ran up to hug each of them. Irma smirked back at her as usual.
"You just make sure that you don't kill yourself with working so hard at whatever it is you work at." Irma said with a wink. "We'll be fine. We'll always follow your orders Miss Leader." Irma added in a whisper.
"See you later Will!" Hay Lin and Taranee called out as Hay Lin got into the driver's seat and Taranee next to her in the passenger's.
"Bye! Love you, Mom!" Crystal cried out.
And those were the last words she heard before they sped away to Crystal's school for the concert. Before Will got into her car and drove to her office. Before Cornelia called a couple of hours later, choked up with tears.
Before the accident.
Okay, I'm gonna get seriously hated for killing them, especially after what I did in Whispers From the Past, but oh well. This is going to get a lot better and I hope you enjoyed the first chapter! Please review for me to continue!