A/N: As I promised, this is a sequel to my fanfiction 'Icy's Ice Cream Scoop'.
"Hello, what can I get for you?" Darcy stepped out from a rack of cursed earrings toward the door where a customer had looked unsure if he had come to the right shop. Darcy's shop wasn't too crowded, but people often came here to sort their needs.
"Do you have a set of crisscrossing red necklaces that can make someone fall into a deep sleep?" he asked.
Darcy beamed with pleasure; this was a specialty for her. "Of course, come this way for a selection of jewels to make one fall into a deep, dreamless sleep…"
She walked through the hangings and dark smoke curling from the pots with deep rich smells that made her feel at home…
"Darcy! Are you paying attention! Let's go!" a loud voice broke through her dream. The shop lurched, and Darcy was thrown into reality. She scowled up at Icy, who was now once again the lead of the Trix. Darcy rolled her eyes and followed her sisters. They had just teleported into the forest of Cloudtower, where the thick, black smoke they had spotted spiraled from a crack. Icy smoothed the uneven ground with ice and the smoke stopped at once.
"Glad that's over," muttered Stormy. "I hate the disgusting smell of burning, even though something burning down's interesting to watch."
"Shh!" Icy demanded. "I heard something!" she turned and sent a hurling wind of cold ice toward the trees, and there was a pause, and a raccoon encased in ice fell out from behind the tree.
"False alarm," Darcy laughed as she peered down at the frozen raccoon. "Better unfreeze it, Icy, or they'll know we were here."
Icy waved her hands at the raccoon, a pool of water fell around its feet and it scampered off.
Stormy shrugged and walked back a few meters, realized they weren't following her, but looking at something in the sky.
"The sky's all dark and strange," observed Icy.
"Ha, are you kidding? This is much better than the cheery forest with its green-"
Darcy blinked up and held out a hand to silence Stormy. The birds disappeared, flapping away, and torrent of rain splashed on them, drenching them. Thunder boomed and the atmosphere was thick with cold air.
"Stormy, did you do that?" Icy asked, sounding a bit nervous, even for her.
Stormy choked on her words, shook her wet, clinging hair impatiently, gagged, and clutched her throat.
"I think it's time to leave," suggested Darcy. Icy stared skeptically at the sky, and then smiled.
"What are we waiting for?" she asked. Then the three girls turned into shadows and faded.
They reappeared full and whole back at Cloudtower, soaked and annoyed. The witches were still eating spoonfuls wide without talking.
"Gosh, that's all they do?" Stormy asked. She wanted to see something more excited.
"Stop gawking and get going," Icy said in an irritated tone.
Darcy was watching her hands while she walked up the stairs. She was reminded of her dream in the forest. If Icy could manage an ice-cream job without Valtor knowing, she could manage a job as well…
Stormy had made a joke about her wanting to open a jewelry shop of her own. Darcy smiled at the thought, then her smile vanished knowing that she could never manage to get what she wanted- it was impossible.
She found it hard taking in that Icy had got her way again.
Well at least she got me out of the Omega Dimension, she thought bitterly.
And if she could find the right disguise, proper shop in Magix, and just the right spells and stones, she'd be able to open the shop in a matter of two days…
"What is up with you both?" she heard Icy say. "You keep on daydreaming ever since I've come back, it's like you've changed into different people or something."
"Well, we need a healthy dressed snack and then we'll be able to move," Stormy complained. "Whenever I'm near those witches under Valtor's spell I feel like I've lost my appetite."
Darcy snorted and banged open the door of their room. It was cold and unusually bright. The sky was a glowing white, and the usual dark corners of the room were lit.
"I feel like eating isn't the worst part, Stormy," Darcy said. "We haven't been paying attention, and it looks like we should follow Valtor around from now on."
A/N: I know it didn't have much, but Stormy's joke caused Darcy to start dreaming. What do you think Darcy will do, follow her dream and open a shop? Please review!