W.I.T.C.H.y Dragons

By: Sayaalv

(A/N: I don't own and this is pretty much an AU of Cassidy S. Waters old story Dragons in our Mist. Used with her permission. OOC and some Femslash definitely.)

"That new counselor guy gives me the chills for some reason and it's not because his office is so cold." Will Vandom says to her friends while rubbing her arms slightly after meeting the new counselor for the first time.

"You're not the only one Will. He's giving me the creeps too. There's just something about him that makes me wary and cautious when I'm around him." Cassidy Wolfgang said patting her friend and fellow red head on the shoulder in comfort as she too shivered at the thought of the new Guidance Counselor. The creepy black haired man had weapons decorating his walls and always seemed to have this strange gleam in his eyes whenever he saw the two red heads. The guy's name was William White, or that's what he claimed since neither of the two red heads was buying it in the slightest.

"Why do you think he's so interested in our families and home lives? I mean it's not exactly a secret that I'm adopted but I don't know who my birth parents are so why would he bother asking?" Will asks confused at the man's attitude during his questionnaire of the younger of the two red heads.

"I don't know but hey! Don't forget that we can always look you up under the family tree thing for Life Science! That can show us your birth parents and adopted ones!" Cassidy said trying to cheer the other red head up and get their minds off of the strange man.

"Really? I had forgotten about that! I want to see if my real parents are still alive and ask why they gave me up if they are." Will said her eyes lighting up at the thought of finding her true parents and escaping Susan and Tony Vandom, not that she voiced that last bit aloud or in her mind for fear of someone overhearing and putting pieces together.

"Come on don't be so down in the dumps Will! They might not have given you up! You could have been kidnapped or something for all we know." Irma said trying to cheer her leader and friend up with her optimistic opinion. Being the daughter of a cop, Irma knew that this was an entirely likely possibility.

"Yeah. Irma's right, for once. You could've been kidnapped as a baby and your parents might be looking for you as we speak." Tarannee said having come out of her shell during the whole Guardian business and knowing that this was possible just as well as Irma did, her judge for a mother often told her of some of the kidnapping cases that she had to listen too sometimes.

"Someone call the news! Irma was actually right about something!" Cornelia teased trying to get Wills mind off of her parents, adoptive and not, and if doing so happened to mean she could poke fun at Irma who was she to pass this up?

"Hey! I resent that remark!" Irma exclaimed knowing full well what Cornelia was doing and easily playing along with it.

"No Irma, you resemble the remark." Hay-lin said giggling as she caught onto and went along with Cornelia's plan as well while Irma pouted before turning to a snickering Will and Cassidy.

"Will! They're being mean to me! Make them stop!" Irma said pouting at her leader and friend playfully.

"Cornelia, Hay-lin stop making fun of Irma. Irma stop with the pouting, it only works on Arnold. You're not helping with the snickering Tarannee." Will said patiently and sounding more like a mother talking to four young children than one friend speaking to four others of the same or a slightly younger age.

"I swear Cassidy. It's like I'm the only one here who acts my age half the time." Will commented to her fellow red head who snorted in amusement at this.

"Funny. Halinor and Kadma said the same thing once or twice back when the five of us were Guardians." Cassidy said grinning in remembrance of the two women who she knew back when she was alive the first time around.

"Why do I have no trouble believing that?" Will asked rhetorically before raising a hand to silence her friends when they opened their mouths.

"That was a rhetorical question by the way." Will told them causing them to close their mouths with either sheepish grins or small pouts on their faces.

"No fun Will." Irma said pouting again like a child that's just been told to sit in the time out square.

"Toddlers! I'm working with Toddlers here!" Will exclaimed throwing her hands up in exasperation and causing Cassidy to cackle at her fellow red head.

"Oh stop cackling Cassidy, you were just as bad as Irma is back in those days. Will, you're parents had to go out of town for a business trip so you're staying at the apartment with me for the next week, alright?" Kadma Starlighter, the former Guardian of Earth and former Queen of Zamballa, asked walking up to the group of six on the street with a shopping bag on her arm.

"That's fine with me Ms. Starlighter." Will said respectfully, inwardly whooping and cheering at the fact that she wouldn't be around her adoptive parents for a whole week.

"How many times do I have to tell you Will? It's just Kadma." Kadma said sounding both amused and exasperated with the red heads continued formalities and politeness while there was a light laughter from behind her.

"Come now Kat. You've told her more than twenty times in the last week alone, she hasn't stopped with the formalities yet and she probably won't stop now." Halinor Durano, the former Fire Guardian and a member of the Council of Kandrakar, said giggling softly at the continued argument between the two very similar girls, their physical similarities were few but when Wills temper got the best of her you would swear you were staring at Kadma.

"I swear she's more polite and formal than you were back in those days Hali." Kadma said with a fond shake of her head while Will smiled slightly at Halinor in greeting, Halinor returning the smile almost instantly and much brighter too.

"Nice to see you again Ms. Durano. The Oracle approved of you living on Earth then?" Will asked politely while Halinor and Kadma blushed slightly and moved a little closer together subtly since only Will had known about Halinor planning to move to Earth, should she get the Oracles permission of course.

"It's nice to see you too Will and please do start calling me by my first name whenever you feel comfortable doing so. Yes, the Oracle has allowed me to stay on Earth as long as I come when summoned so as to vote on Kandrakar matters and such. Kat has graciously allowed me to stay with her while on Earth so I hope you don't mind having to stay with me and this old woman for a week." Halinor said grinning slightly at Will with a cheeky wink and grin while Cassidy was trying to hide her snickers and failing horribly.

"Hey! Who're you calling old!? You're the same age as me in case you've forgotten." Kadma yelped in protest as she gave Halinor a playful glare while Cassidy and the younger Guardians looked on in amusement.

"Actually Kat, you're a full two years and three months older than me. We were in the same grade only because I skipped fourth and sixth grade remember?" Halinor rebuked causing Kadma to pout at her like a little kid would. Kadma began to grumble something about pyromaniac smartass blonds, causing Will to smile while the others snickered and/or laughed.
"What's wrong with being a pyro?" Will and Halinor ask in eerie harmony as they both tilt their heads to the side curiously, making everyone blink at how alike the two were right at that moment.

"Nothing." Kadma said sighing and still staring at the two girls' incredulously.

"Dear lord above. That's freaky. Give Will blond hair and she'd be Halis daughter!" Cassidy exclaimed causing the two mentioned to blink and turn to look at each other curiously at the same time, freaking the others, except a startled Kadma, out even more.

"Huh. Rain Drop was right about something for once. You two have the same body shape, skin tone, and most of the same bone structure but different colored eyes and hair not to mention different facial structures." Kadma said looking the two over and analyzing the almost disturbing likeness between the two.

"Kat's right. Hey Will? Stand by Kat for a second would ya?" Cassidy asked looking Will and Halinor over as well before getting a devious smirk as she looked over at Kadma.

"Um okay?" Will asked more than said as she moved to stand beside Kadma confused by the strangish request.

"I thought so. Will and Kat have the same eye color and facial structure. Just add a dash of black to Wills skin tone and either give her blond or black hair and she'd look like a perfect mixture of Kat and Hali with Halis genes being the most dominate." Cassidy said analyzing the two with an artist's eye as they stood by one another blinking in confusion and a little shock.

"Aw. She could pass as the two of yous daughter if it weren't for her hair and skin color." Cassidy said teasing her friends and fellow red head all three of whom were exchanging looks and Kadma and Halinor were blushing slightly.

"Ah there you are Ms. Vandom! I forgot to ask you a few questions and hope you won't mind answering them for me now?" A tall muscular black haired man who was none other than the proclaimed 'William White' asked walking up to the group with a smile on his face that seemed slightly strained to the girls.

"Not at all sir. What are the questions?" Will asked stiffly and formally as she tensed at the sight of the man that gave her and Cassidy the creeps. Halinor and Kadma picked up on her subtle tensing as well as Cassidy's and tensed as well, not knowing why this guys seemed to make the two red heads wary but not caring either way.

"What do you like to do in your spare time?" White asked pulling out a notepad to take down Wills answers on.

"I practice dancing and take care of animals sir." Will answered truthfully since that was what she did whenever there was no homework or Guardian business that needed to be done. Her friends looked a little surprised at this as did Mr. White while Kadma and Halinor didn't so much as blink, having seen Will practicing before as well as taking care of a lost baby fox.

"Oh really? What kind of dancing and animals?" Mr. White asked jotting something down on his notepad quickly before glancing back up at Will curiously, a not so unknown glint in his eyes.

"Anything that comes to my mind and mainly dogs, cats, and the occasional fox but I take care of just about any animal that needs help." Will said with a light shrug of her tense shoulders while her friends looked even more shocked.

"Really? Interesting. Are you part of a dancing group or anything?" Mr. White said his eyes gleaming wildly at the new information and causing Will and the other four to tense further while I.T.C.H. was merely watching everything curiously.

"No sir. I was thinking of starting one but have not gotten around to it yet due to getting side-tracked a lot of the time." Will answered easily and earning more surprised looks from her friends.

"Really now? Are you planning of entering the school talent show tomorrow in order to show your talents?" Mr. White asked with an evil gleam in his eyes that had Halinor growling low in her throat protectively.

"I was thinking about it." Will answered promptly and curtly, no longer bothering to try and be polite about anything anymore.

"Alright. Any medical conditions or allergies?" Mr. White asked writing something else down on his notepad.

"I'm allergic to jerks and idiots as well as arrogant people." Will said her face dead serious while Halinor and Cassidy were snorting in amusement and Kadma blinked slightly and looked at Will oddly for a moment.

"O-okay?" Mr. White said blinking as he couldn't tell if the hazel eyed red head was joking or not as he scribbled something down.

"Any past skin conditions, mental issues, or emotional issues?" Mr. White asked looking Will over analytically.

"Not really no." Will answered deadpanned and without a hint of emotion on her face other than annoyance.

"Okay then. I think that about covers it except for one question. Which subjects would you say you like the best?" Mr. White asked jotting down more notes while the girls were looking at Will curious as to how she would answer it.

"PE and music." Will answered short, sweet and to the point while Kadma raised an eyebrow and Halinor was beaming at Will.

"Thank you and see you at school tomorrow." Mr. White said raising a hand in farewell while Will merely nodded to show that she had heard him.

"Geez. That guy is really interested in you for some reason. He didn't ask me any of those questions during his questionnaire but looked like he didn't care whether I called him out on it or not. You cold Will?" Cassidy said glaring at White's back before noticing that her fellow red head was rubbing her arms while Cornelia and Taranee instantly offered the hazel eyed girl their coats.

"Thanks but no thanks girls. That guy just gave me the goosebumps. There is definitely something not right about him if he's so focused on just one student out of hundreds." Will said giving her fire and earth empowered friends a brief smile before frowning at Whites back as he disappeared down the street.

"Maybe he'll be a new Guardian enemy and is trying to find out who the Guardians are one person at a time?" Hay-lin offered frowning while Will thought about it for a moment before shaking her head in the negative.

"No. If that were true then he'd widen his search and ask more invasive and subtle questions. He is looking for someone in particular for reasons I think are less than innocent but who and why I don't know. He's definitely after a girl our age though and apparently I'm his first suspect for some reason or another. For now we just play it cool and let's see where it goes. He does anything he shouldn't and we'll either set Irmas dad and Taranees parents onto him or we'll grab him ourselves if he's not from Earth." Will said causing the younger girls to snicker since they knew that a few worried words from Taranee to Theresa Cook about the new counselor and he'd be in a maximum security prison so fast it'd leave even Hay-lin in the dust. Little did the girls know just how much White would deserve the prison sentence.