[In Trill's memory, baby Elyon is crying]
QWQueen Weira
Ugh! The brat never stops crying! Where's Trill?!
[She hands Elyon to Zadan]
ZZadan
I bet you once change it.
QWQueen Weira
I am Queen! You are Consort! NOW!
[Zadan takes baby Elyon and present Elyon gasps, past Trill appears]
QWQueen Weira
Do not make me wait again, Trill! Or you'll force me into another punishment.
No! Your Highness. No! Please!
[Young Phobos appears]
Must I listen to that incessant wailing?
QWQueen Weira
No, my precious pet.
[She hugs him]
QWQueen Weira
Well...take it away!
[Zadan hands baby Elyon to past Trill and she walks off]
QWQueen Weira
She keeps the peasants happy...but you, my son [hands him her jewel] are the true heir to my heart.
Wow! What else don't I know about you, grandma?
Oh, lots of things. So many things. [She laughs]
[Yan Lin creates two small spheres from her hand]
Folding is for [she gestures from one sphere to the other] crossing between worlds.
[She makes the sphere on her right hand side disappear]
Teletransporting is for the fast break within a world.
And any Guardian can do it?
Sure! With a decade of practice. Otherwise, you materialise inside solid rock, or glacier or mud wrestling match. Ugh! I was grubby for weeks!
Fine, fine! But you know how! You can get the guys.
I'm not hooked into an auramere. Teletransporting drains my life force.
Oh! Blunk can only fold somewhere he's been before. He can get Irma, but...Wait! I'm hooked into an auramere, borrow life force from me. Enough to get Cornelia and Taranee.
[Yan Lin nods, they hold hands and a blue light appears from Hay Lin and transfers to Yan Lin. Hay Lin faints and Blunk catches her]
[quietly, croaky] Ugh, I'm fine. You go. You too, Blunk. I'll try Will again. As soon as I catch my breath.
[Blunk creates a fold and goes through, Yan Lin teletransports. Hay Lin sits down and sighs]
Ah, we only... beat Phobos!
Actually, Hay Lin beat him.
Where's that coming from?
What? No! Well actually... I did see this realy cute- The point is, this was the first time it was up to me. Everyone was spread out and-
And you gathered them here.
You think needing help is bad? Working together you find true power, in others and in yourself.
You are a jewel, grandaughter. In the rough perhaps, but a jewel all the same, and someday I won't be the only one to see. [They hug. Cornelia and Will high-five each other. Irma and Taranee hug]
Hi. Hate to spoil the greeting card moment, but, how do we all get back?!
[Hay Lin shrugs]
[In the palace, Elyon, Elborn and Miriadel are eating. Trill is feeding Blunk and notices the necklace to create folds]
Oh! This trinket is...Queen Elyon what is wrong?
How could you all lie to me about my birth parents.
How can you say such a thing?!
Weira and Zadan were horrible people. They didn't love me!
Your mother loved you! She gave you that jewel! [notices the jewel sparkle]
Take it back! I don't want it!
[She rips the necklace off, throws it, Trill catches it, laughs villainously and transforms into Nerissa. She floats over to the trio, Elyon tries to use her powers, to no avail]
My powers! What have you done?
This jewel, a true jewel from Weira's crown, has been draining your power for months. That's why I gave it to you.
You lie! The real Trill gave me that. Where is she?
There is no Trill. There never was. I have served you as I served Phobos and the rebellion, in humility, waiting for this day. When the gem pulsed this mornng I knew my time had come. No more need for knights or vengeance. All that remained was to convince you to give it to me willingly. [Her hair raises up] Which is why I fed you false visions of your parents.
[She walks up to her, hands held out and walks into the jewel]
The Heart... of Meridian... is mine!
[She cackles and teletransports away]
[In the palace, Caleb, Elborn, Miriadel, Blunk and The Mage are there]
I don't understand. Elyon's gone?!
Captured by a sorceress, hiding in our midst...Trill.
[Miriadel cries]
You mean she was posing as Trill?
It seems there never was a Trill. People who've known her for years can't recall her history, family, or even where she lives.
But she helped the rebellion!
She may have had her own reasons for toppling Phobos or her need to get close to our daughter, to the Queen. She took Elyon and her power. All of it!
So we fetch some power players of our own, the Guardians.
[Blunk gets the tooth necklace out]
No! Stop! Your tooth...did Trill touch it?
[Blunk nods, as the Mage touches it, it glows a white light. As she removes her hand, her ring glows white]
It is as I feared, Trill, uh, the sorceress, also touched my ring. She cursed our talismans. Whom so ever touches it to fold, will be destroyed.
Aargh! [He quickly rips the necklace off] Blunk too pretty to be destroyed!
Wait! Then how do we get to Earth?
I will try to counteract the spell.
[She walks away. In another hall, The Mage transforms into Nerissa]
[Will. Irma, Cornelia and Hay Lin are in the basement of the Silver Dragon. Cornelia is sitting on a chair, Irma - lying on her back, with her head over the bed, Will is sitting on the bed, with her back rested on the wall, as is Hay Lin, who is writing in a notebook]
Is anyone else worried that we haven't heard from Elyon or Caleb in, I don't know, weeks?!
[yawns] Not really. Caleb knew I was travelling and Meridian is definitely a roaming charge.
Besides, we've kicked enough bad guy booty to earn our vacation.
But vacation's over! School starts tomorrow.
[They all sigh. Taranee enters holding a laptop]
Hey, guys. Isn't it great? I thought summer would never end. And, in honour of school, I have completed my first assignment.
Oh, can I hurt her? Please.
[typing] Welcome to Taranee's handy dandy guide to... [The Four Dragons and the nymph, which is the dragons of the Guardians' powers appears on the screen] ...Quintessece.
[They all crowd round the screen]
Quintessence?! That's the word that hag used to attack us!
But, what does it have to do with the legend of the Four Dragons? That's about our powers!
Right! Each of the dragons controlled one of the four ancient elements. :[She points to each dragon, as she says the elements that they control] Earth. Air. Fire. Water. [She points to the nymph, in the middle of the screen] But the nymph, Xin Jing, had a power too.
Oh, an X Factor, like Cafeteria Mystery Meal.
[Typing and saying aloud each syllable as she types it] Quin-tessence. The fifth element.
[The scene changes to one of Nerissa standing atop a hill in Meridian, under a red sky]
[voiceover] The Ancient Sages described it as exactly [shot of Nerissa summoning Quintessence from lightning] like electricity. They believed it could be found in lightning, but [Nerissa shoots a lightning bolt at the ground] they also called it "the stuff of life", like bio-electricity. [Farm men charge at Nerissa.] [Back to the girls]
Quintessence has the power to make things come alive.
Kinda like Doctor Frankenstein!
Kinda like me. Throwing lightning bolts, talking toasters. My powers sound exactly like Quintessence.
The fifth Guardian gets the fifth element. Makes sense.
[Scene changes to Nerissa standing atop the hill, laughing and casting lightning bolts at the farm men]
[voiceover] What doesn't make sense is that the sorceress [Nerissa holds up the Heart of Meridian and it emits a shock wave which makes the farm men's tools attack them] has the same powers. Only hers are the extra strong version.
[Scene shifts back to the girls, and as the camera zooms out, we can see Yan Lin listening to the conversation]
What's her connection to the Guardians? What's her connection to me?
It's worse. That hag is Nerissa.
OHThe Oracle, Halinor, Althor
[shocked] No!
You are absolutely certain?
[Yan Lin nods]
Okay, see I didn't bring my who's who from Kandrakar, so Nerissa is...?
As you know, you are not the first Guardians. Decades ago there were five others. Cassidy, Halinor, Yan Lin, Kadma... and Nerissa.
They were C.H.Y.K.N.? Wow, I'm so glad we're W.I.T.C.H.
[voiceover] [as the camera pans across W.I.T.C.H, the scene transitions to one showing the former Guardians] Nerissa led the Guardians as Keeper of the Heart of Kandrakar, as you do Will. But I sensed [Nerissa holds up the Heart and sees it glow through a shot of her eye] the power of the Heart was corrupting Nerissa. To save her soul, [The Heart is shown floating and given to Cassidy] I took the Heart from her and gave it to Cassidy. [Nerissa, shocked, walks away] But Nerissa became obsessed with her lost power. [Nerissa and Cassidy are atop Mount Thanos] After begging and pleading, she demanded Cassidy return the Heart. Cassidy refused.
[Nerissa casts a lightning bolt at the cliff, and Cassidy falls to her death, Nerissa is shocked by her actions]
[voiceover] [Nerissa runs across the cold of the mountain] Devastated, Nerissa fled. [An energy cell appears around Nerissa in a cave inside Mount Thanos] But I imprisoned her. [scene shows Yan Lin, The Oracle and Halinor standing outside her cell] Hoping that she would redeem herself [Nerissa lifts her head up] by facing her guilt. I fear [Nerissa's youthful face changes into the old Nerissa] I may have aired.
[The scene transitions to present day, in Kandrakar]
When Phobos' reign on Meridian forced us to raise the Veil, we could no longer watch over her.
She must have escaped, and gone into hiding.
On Meridian. Perhaps a portal opened on Mount Thanos, allowing her escape.
Nerissa is a greater threat now, than she was then. Every world has a source of mystic energy, like the Heart of Kandrakar. Elyon was the Heart of Meridian. With her power, Nerissa's might equals the five of yours...combined.
Right! Cause otherwise, way too easy.
At least, she doesn't know we're on to her. If we head to Meridian now, we can still take her down.
[about attacking Nerissa] Why isn't this working?
She's got the Heart of Meridian!
Which is equal to the Heart of Kandrakar.
[panicking] So we're tied?
YLYan Lin, Halinor
Nerissa!
Stay out of this, old fools!
Or you'll destroy us, like you destroyed Cassidy?
Does her memory mean so little to you?
You've no idea what she meant to me! This is not over! [She teletransports]
[sighs] That's what I was afraid of.
