A/N: Hi guys, this is a fanfiction based a year after the second season of the tv series.

A couple of small little things before you read my story.
1) This is mainly a WillxCaleb fic so for this story to work you must imagine that Cornelia and Caleb broke up and so did Matt and Will (although amicably).
2) Will discovered her powers in the same way as the TV series, except she was saving Caleb instead of Matt.
3) All the other pairings are the same.

Chapter 1

Elyon was worried. As she watched her people dance, sing and be jovial, she could see that one of her closest friends was not enjoying the party as much as she should. In fact, it looked like Will would rather be anywhere else than where she was right now, which was strange, as the celebrations were in name of her and the other Guardians – it had been a year since Nerissa's and Phobos' iconic defeat.

Elyon had noticed that the leader of the Guardians had been quieter and more withdrawn lately, perhaps not unusual since everyone was revising for their upcoming exams, but definitely not welcome. Elyon liked to see the girls as often as possible, so they organised a bi-monthly outing in either Meridian or Heatherfield where they could all get together and just chat like normal teenagers. However, it seemed to Elyon, that Will was not her usual self the last time she saw her and she certainly wasn't herself tonight.

The Queen did wonder if Will's strange behaviour could be accounted for the fact that her and Matt had split up after Will discovered that he and Cornelia were in love and wanted to be together. It had been rather controversial at the time; Will had been on Matt's phone when a text from Cornelia came through. The text was rather flirty and when Will confronted Matt, he told her everything – from how he and Cornelia had been in love for months to the dirty business of Cornelia breaking up with Caleb just the day before. Will had said that there were no hard feelings, she even gave them her blessing, but Elyon couldn't think of any other reason why the red head was so out of sorts. The young Queen had spoken to Caleb about it, asking him how he was affected by the break-up between him and Cornelia but even he, who was rather heart-broken when it first happened, said that he was over it because he knew that Cornelia wasn't 'the one'.

That left her with a conundrum. Should she confront Will about her odd behaviour or should she stop being such a busy body? Elyon was distressed about the situation, but, as she thought of the red head's fiery temper, she reasoned that there probably wasn't anything wrong. Nobody who ever troubled Will would ever trouble her again, Will always made sure of that. With that thought in mind, the young Queen went to greet some more of her guests.

How wrong she was though because, in fact, there was something wrong with the Guardian Leader, something very very wrong.

"I'm so glad that we can be together like this." Cornelia said into the muscular chest of her boyfriend, who she was currently dancing with, "Pretending to not feel something for you was so hard."

"I know what you mean, and I love that Will and Caleb accept us, that we can still all be friends and comrades." Replied Matt, who was staring lovingly at his girlfriend. The lovers had been terrified that their positions as both protectors of the Universe and friends would be damaged by their relationship, when it actually made the bond between the group evolve and grow to new strengths.

It had been a precarious time for all individuals involved; everyone on tenterhooks as to when one of the parties would explode and start shouting or screaming at someone to give them answers, but it never came. Instead, Will and Cornelia had never been closer which in turn made the whole atmosphere become much calmer and nicer to be in for the girls and their significant others.

It was a bit if an odd response from Will, who had previously stated that her and Matt were in it for the long haul but if she was asked what she thought of the whole situation, you could hear her say, "Matt and I weren't going to get married, have loads of kids and a dog. I can see that he and Cornelia are perfect for each other and I want them to be happy. I haven't loved Matt like how you should love your boyfriend for a long time but instead, I love him like a brother and so when he told me about him and Cornelia, I was so ecstatic for them that I recommended a great pizza place so that he could take her out on their first official date."

For Caleb, it was harder to accept the news, he had loved Cornelia. Maybe he wasn't in love with her, but he had certainly thought that she was something special. Once he came round to the idea, Matt and Caleb got back into their usual workout routines where they would spar, practise with weapons and talk about guy stuff.

"Awh, look at those two! Aren't they just the sweetest thing." Exclaimed Hay Lin.

"Yeah, if by sweetest you mean the taste of each other's saliva. Then sure, that's sweet. Sweet and tasty!" Came the deadpan response of Irma as she squirmed at the public displays of affection that her friends were giving each other.

Taranee, who had overhead the two girls, came back with her own response. "It's just because you're jealous Irma. You want someone to share saliva with too!" At that, Irma blushed and her two friends both giggled at the sight of Irma trying to think of a quick witted remark to that one. Unfortunately for her, she couldn't come up with anything and so by the time the three of them were joined by Cornelia, Matt, Caleb and Elyon, all three girls were laughing so hard they had unshed tears in their eyes.

"What are you laughing about?" Asked the very confused Cornelia. She was used to the girls antics but she didn't see anything that could be remotely humorous, let alone downright hilarious.

Through her laughter, Taranee was able to say, "It...haha...It...haha...it's nothing. Just something that I said about Irma!"
"I'd leave them to it, if I were you." Responded Matt, he was also used to the jokes that the girls had between themselves; it could be quite funny seeing all five of them rolling on the floor of the Silver Dragon and having to quickly make themselves presentable before Yan Lin comes in to see what all the noise was about.

Suddenly, however, the girls were sobered of their laughter by an ear-piercing scream so full of despair and terror that the whole of the Meridian was deafened by the silence that followed.