Kadma AU

By: Sayaalv

(A/N: I don't own and how would things be different if Will had known Kadma as a child? What are the secrets Will has been keeping from her friends? Vanders men stolen from Lexvan with permission. Read and see.

Wilhelma 'Will' Vandom, Guardian Leader, Keeper of the Heart of Kandrakar, and Quintessence Guardian, was desperately thinking of a way to get the Queen and Keeper of the Heart of Zamballa and Former Earth Guardian Kadma to listen to her and release her and her friend and fellow Guardian Irma from the purple bubble prison when a memory flew through her head, and the heads of the other W.I.T.C.H. girls thanks to their telepathic link.

'You meanies leave us alone! You can't take Angelo from me. He gave me a ring and Grandpa Joe said that that means that we're married and no one can take me from my husband, whatever that word means.' A seven year old Will said glaring at two masked men who were trying to kidnap her and her 'husband' seven year old Angelo Vanders. Angelo had black skin and hair but warm hazel eyes and was standing in front of Will protectively.

'All bad men go away!' Will shouted when one of the men slapped her and tried to grab her from Angelo, causing flames to spring up around the two would be kidnappers just as one pulled out a knife and stabbed her in the stomach with it as it melted. Two women ran onto the scene then and screamed Wills name as she collapsed with the melted metal still inside her stomach and Angelo holding onto her protectively.

'Kat, call 911! It's okay Will. Grandma is here. See. I'm right here and your 'Grandma Kitty' is right there. You're going to be okay.' A slightly younger version of the former Guardian of Fire, Halinor, said cooing softly to the red haired girl just as she passed out.

"GRANDMA KITTY!" Will yelled at the top of her voice just as Kadma was about to fly away on a giant purple leaf. Kadma stopped in mid-flight and slowly turned back to the purple bubble with Will and Irma in it with shock shown clearly on her face.

"How do you?" Kadma trailed off staring at Will as if she had just now noticed her while the red head was staring at Kadma hopefully.

"Your name is Kadma Vanders! You have a husband named Joe, and had two sons named Raymond and John. You have a grandson named Angelo and are best friends with Halinor Durano, the former Guardian of Fire! Halinor had a daughter named Susan Durano who later got married to Tony Vandom and had one daughter, me, Wilhelma 'Will' Vandom who would punch anyone outside of family who called me by my full name. For my seventh birthday Angelo gave me a plastic ring with a frog on it and said that Grandpa Joe told him that if he gave me a ring that meant we would be married forever and no one could take him from me or me from him. A few days later me and Angelo were playing in the woods behind your house on Earth when two men tried to kidnap us. We ran for it after I bit one of the men. They tried to grab us again but I accidently used the powers I inherited from Grandma Hali to burn both of them alive, just before one of them stabbed me in the stomach with a melting blade causing the melted metal to flow inside of my body. At the hospital I had to have multiple surgeries but they couldn't get all of the metal out since some of it infused with my internal organs, making them and my bones harder to break and damage. I was kidnapped and used as a science experiment while in the hospital by several crazy men who made it so that my bones and all internal organs are coated with a rare, virtually indestructible metal that will grow as I do. They also injected me with many serums that made my tears and blood turn into rare gem stones should I ever cry or bleed. I was rescued when I managed to accidently contact you and Grandma Hali through the inherited Telepathy and you two destroyed the building and beat the hell out of the scientists for doing that to me. Soon afterwards Grandma Hali had to go back to what I now recognize as Kandrakar for something or another and you had to come back here to Zamballa due to something." Will told the woman who now had tears in her eyes. Kadma got rid of the bubble prison and hugged Will tightly, earning a hug back from the red haired teenager that was covered in mud. Neither of the two seemed to care much about the mud that was now coating them both at the moment however.

"It's so good to see you again Will but what's going on? Why did you attack Zamballa?" Kadma asked holding Will out at arm's length to get a good look at the younger girl while Irma was merely standing there confused.

"We didn't. Nerissa escaped and is using a glamour to look like us, as in me and my friends the new Guardians of the Infinite Dimensions. She managed to somehow enthrall Grandma Hali a few days ago, before I remembered that she's my grandmother on my mom's side since she hasn't been to see me or mom in more than five years and I had a small case of amnesia that only affected my younger years for some reason." Will explained to the Queen who looked worried at this and instantly began looking her over.

"What? Amnesia? Let me see your head. Are you okay? Does it hurt?" Kadma asked looking Will over for any head injuries in the way only a mother or grandmother could.

"I'm fine, I got the wound about six years ago, yes amnesia, and it doesn't hurt anymore unless I try to force myself to remember." Will answered with a small smile tugging at her lips while Irma looked at Will shocked, never hearing the red haired leader speaking about her past before and just now realizing that could be because Will didn't even know her own past.

"That's alright little one. Let's go get your friends rounded up before taking on Nerissa and freeing your grandma Hali. Then what do you say we go back to Earth for a short while and you introduce me to all of your little friends and we can go see the boys again?" Kadma said kissing Wills forehead, causing the red head to give her a beaming smile that Irma had never seen on her leaders face before.

"Hey Will! No sign of Grandmas old friend yet!" Hay-lin reported as she and Yan-lin walked up with a frown on their faces until they caught sight of Kadma and Will.

"You found her and didn't let us know? Meanie." Hay-lin said pouting playfully at the red head who looked torn between apologetic and sheepish.

"Sorry Hay-hay." Will apologized, stealing Irmas nickname for the Air Guardian who merely grinned and waved her off before looking at an amused and confused looking Kadma warily.

"She isn't going to scream 'Defilers! Get them!' and try to kill us is she?" Hay-lin asked eyeing Kadma warily and earning a snort of amusement from Yan-lin and Irma while Will looked at Hay-lin with fond exasperation.

"Nah. She knows that we're not the ones causing chaos here now. I just took a bit of a mud bath and a little time in a purple prison bubble before she believed me. Where are the others? We're gonna round em up and knock Nerissa a good one upside her evil old head, see if we can't knock some sense into her." Will said explaining why she was covered in mud and causing Kadma to snort in amusement behind one dark hand before apologizing and using her powers to get the mud off of Will and herself.

"Tara went after Ember while Corny and Caleb went to try and let Ms. Kadma know that we weren't the ones wreaking havoc on her home. I think Blunk went after Tara, something about her smelling nice." Hay-lin reported before yelping and covering her ears suddenly with Yan-lin not a split second behind.

"DON'T CALL ME CORNY!" The voice of the current Earth Guardian, Cornelia Hale, roared from somewhere off to the right.

"I swear she has a sixth sense for that." Will said hiding a grin behind her hand while Irma was snickering and Kadma raised an eyebrow at Yan-lin curiously.

"Think of your reaction whenever Cass called you 'Kill joy Kadma' or Nerissa when called 'Prissy Rissy'." Yan-lin told her old friend with a snicker, earning a nod and glare from the other woman.

"Grandma told me of some of those times. I really liked the story about how you recruited her and the two of you pranked the heck out of Aunty Rissa and Aunty Cass." Will said snickering while Kadma and Yan-lin looked as if they were hit upside the heads with some boulders.

"What?" Will asked blinking as everyone there looked at her strangely.

"Aunty Rissa and Aunty Cass? Do you mean Nerissa and Cassidy, as in the Nerissa that's trying to take over the known universe and the Cassidy that she killed forty years ago?" Yan-lin asked looking at Will with one eyebrow raised.

"Yep. I accidently fell into a fold to Meridian once and Cassidys spirit showed up and guided me towards the Mage and told her to remove the disguise. Remember that week on Earth that I went missing just after the science experimentation and had Grandma nearly burning everyones hair off in her worry, let alone how you, mom, and Angelo were handling it? I was getting trained by Aunty Rissa and Aunty Cass on Meridian. Aunty Rissa acted like she had split personality. One side wanted to bring Cass back and make her an enslaved thrall while the other wanted to bring her back and be friends with the rest of you again. Aunty Cass told me that some evil dude took over her body which is where the corruption came from before he used Aunty Rissas powers to kill Aunty Cass. Then Aunty Rissas good side realized the evil dude inside her wanted to kill me and take my powers as her own while good Aunty Rissa wanted to help one of her friends granddaughter and managed to find a fold to send me back to Earth. Don't know why but it just came back to me a moment ago." Will explained shrugging and earning strange looks from everyone that heard her before getting a hug from Kadma.

"We'll cross that bridge when we come to it but for now let's try to round up the rest of your little friends and get your grandmother out from under Rissas thumb." Kadma said shaking her head as she kissed Wills forehead again and began to levitate all the gathered Guardians and friends onto her giant purple leaf.

"Still love the color purple Grandma kitty?" Will asked teasingly and earning a fond smile back from the woman as they sat comfortably on the leaf.

"Do you still love frogs, kiddo?" Kadma asked right back and caused Hay-lin, Yan-lin, Cornelia, and Irma to snort while Caleb merely snickered.

"You bet she does! You should see her room back at her and Ms. Vandoms apartment. It's covered in nothing but frogs!" Irma exclaimed having hung out at Wills place more than once when her parents were out of town for something, for some reason Irmas baby brother, Chris, and Cornelias little sister, Lillian, loved being around Will and especially loved it when she babysat them so they often spent a lot of time around Wills apartment.

"I bet, but why are you living in an apartment kiddo? Halinor has a house on Earth in several different cities and countries, and I know for a fact that she especially has one in Heatherfield due to that being our hometown. You know she'd want you and little Susan to live in it." Kadma asked furrowing her brow as she looked at Will confusedly.

"Well Grandmas house is kinda too large for just two people and besides. If anyone saw me living in it who's to say they won't try to be my friend just to come over and check it out? I'd rather live in an apartment building and have real friends than live there and have fake ones." Will said shaking her head while Kadma nodded sympathetically and the others merely looked confused before a flash of light caught Wills eyes.

"Oi Tara! Get your butt over here now or you're running my training course for a week!" Will yelled, earning a loud fearful yelp before there was a flash of green as the dark skinned fire wielder appeared right next to Will with wide panicked eyes.

"Okay Grandma Kitty! That's the whole gang besides Blunk who should be here in a minute! Can we go knock some sense into Grandma Hali and Aunty Rissa now?" Will asked grinning at an amused and curious looking Kadma while Taranee was giving the red head some weird looks.

"Sure thing kiddo. We just need to get her out in the open first." Kadma said looking at Will and hiding a smile behind one hand as she remembered the exercises that the red head had started on when she was little and saw Angelo training with his Uncle John. Apparently the red head had kept up with and improved her exercises so much so that her fellow guardians went pale at just the thought of going through them.

"Leave that to me." Will said and Kadma paled at the purely demonic smile that Will had on her face at that moment.

"Dear Oracle. Last time I saw that smirk was on Halinors face just before she burned off all of Phobos's hair and brought down half of his castle and we still don't know how she did it!" Yan-lin said paling as well when she saw the smile on the red heads face while the newer Guardians looked torn between amused, scared, and confused.

"Grandma made Phobos bald?" Will asked looking between Yan-lin and Kadma curiously and not having heard of this story before.

"Sure did, it was funnier than hell too. Especially the look on his face when he realized what she had done, I swear me and Cass broke three ribs each trying to hold back our laughter before saying 'screw it' and laughing in Phobos's face. I'll tell you the full story later kiddo." Kadma said doing her best not to snicker at the reminder while Yan-lin wasn't even trying to hold back her snickers and the other current Guardians were snickering and snorting as well.