W.I.T.C.H. Au

By: FunahoMisaki

A/N: I own nothing and read last chapter.)

It had been one week since then and Nerissa had been quiet as the school shunned her as a whole. There might not be that many students in the Army but there were enough to start rumors, and they were the ones liked or trusted enough by the other students to accept the rumors as being most to all truthful.

Today was dodge ball day in gym class and Will had been chosen as one of the captains, with Nerissa as the other one much to everyone's simultaneous thrill and horror. This was going to be a slaughter, and not in Nerissa's favor.

"Since this is your first time playing at the school, call it Stacey." The gym coach, one of the few teachers in the Army, a member of Earth Tribe codenamed Iron, said reaching her hands into her pockets to find a coin and causing Nerissa to smirk at Will smugly.

"Tails." Nerissa said causing the woman to nod and pull out a coin from her right pocket before immediately flipping it, watching as it hit the ground and bounced a minute.

"Heads. Will gets right side and first pick. Stacey on the left." The coach said causing Nerissa to growl slightly. The coach smirked as she picked up the coin, the black haired wannabe never thought to see if there was a tails on it. She had two coins, one in each pocket, one was a double sided tails coin in her left pocket and the other was a double sided head coin in her right pocket.

Just cause she couldn't openly show favor for Will and the other 'Soldiers' didn't mean that she couldn't pull sneaky tricks like that. Boy would the stealth and traps squad be proud.

"Hay-lin." Will said immediately. Hay-lin squealed as she nearly flew over to Wills side of the court.

"Irma." Nerissa called, causing Irma to groan and trudge her way over to Nerissa's side.

"Cornelia." Will said causing the blond to swish her hair over her shoulders and walk towards Will.

"Taranee." Nerissa said earning a 'why me' from the glasses wearing pyro which got the smart girl a few sympathetic pats on the back from the other 'soldiers' nearby.

"Nigel." Will said causing him to grin apologetically at Taranee and join Will. Taranee sighed but smiled and nodded to show that there would be no hard feelings.

"Matt." Nerissa said causing Will to shrug as her fake boyfriend joined the old hags side. Honestly they only dated to keep the guys, and some girls, off of Will's back and the girls, and some guys, off of the fledgling rock star's back. It was more for convenience than anything else and they had both agreed to cut it off with no hard feelings if they ever met someone else that they'd like better.

After about five minutes more, the teams were all set. Out of the formers, Nerissa had Cassidy and Yannie on her side while Will had her grandmothers…Nerissa also had almost all civilians while Will had several Army members in her team, especially Earth and Air tribe members.

"Fastest to the front. Grab the balls and toss them either at the team if you can make the shot, or hand em to the strongest." Will ordered her side quietly, causing the Air Tribe members to move towards the front where the balls were with nods of the head or murmured agreements to the order. Nerissa was trying to give orders to her side but most of the 'soldiers' that she did pick just ignored her which made most of the other students ignore her as well.

"Ready?" Iron asked looking at both Captains and causing the two to nod, Nerissa glaring darkly at Will as she did so while Will smirked slightly.

"Play ball!" Iron said jumping out the way as she blew the whistle, in an instant the Air Tribe members on Will's team were already grabbing the balls and either lobbing them at the other team or tossing them towards the Earth Tribe members. Before long the only one left on the opposing team was Nerissa while Will still had most of her team left, the Guardians and other 'soldiers' on Nerissa's team letting themselves get hit on purpose so they wouldn't have to be on her team anymore.

"She's mine. Arm me." Will said calmly, coldly, as she held out one hand while staring at Nerissa who was trying to come up with battle plans but couldn't think of anything that would work as she stared down the fifteen or so teens grinning savagely at her.

"Nighty night Nerissa." Will said with a vicious smirk as a ball was placed in her hand, pulling her arm back she threw it fast and hard right at Nerissa. Her aim was true as per usual as the ball slammed into Nerissa's stomach, knocking her backwards and the air out of her since Will threw the ball with all of her might outside of Guardian form. If one listened closely they would have sworn they heard a rib or two crack if not outright break from the hit.

It wouldn't be until later that they learned that Will had broken three of Nerissa's ribs with that shot and two more were cracked. Irma and Cassidy would be cracking up about that for weeks after the fact. Nerissa would be in the hospital struggling to maintain her disguise for three weeks until her ribs were healed enough for her to return to class but not participate in PE.

Nerissa tried to lodge a complaint against Will for 'excessive force' in a 'friendly game'… but the rest of the class and Iron vouched for the red head saying that although Will wanted to be the one to take out Nerissa she only threw the ball normally. She didn't throw it any harder than she ever did.

Needless to say that one girls accusation against about thirty students and one teachers defense of the accused… yeah Nerissa was almost literally laughed out of Knickerbockers office much to her outrage. She was especially pissed off about the fact that they literally laughed when she stormed out of the room. No seriously, she could hear them all bust out laughing as soon as she crossed the threshold.

"Well that was fun." Will said with a snicker as she watched Nerissa storm off like a spoiled child not getting her way.

"I can't believe she actually thought that would work." Iron said shaking her head in the negative although she was grinning slightly as well.

"Honestly I went to school with Nerissa. How did she ever think trying to disguise herself as 'Stacey' was a good idea while I was principal?" Knickerbocker asked with a smirk, she knew all about the Guardians. Cassidy had been horrible at keeping secrets in their youth, and besides…she was a member of the Fire Tribe in the Army, rank three codename 'Flare Storm'.

She had been relieved to see her old friends again, and a bit jealous of their returned youth…but as soon as she heard about Nerissa invading her school…well let's just say that Katherine Knickerbocker knew how to hold a grudge for a long time.

Especially against the woman who knew who her husband was and still slept with him because she felt like it.