I am trying something different and I hope that you all like it. All of this will be in Flora's POV (unless noted otherwise but as far as I can see it will be in Flora's POV).

I was walking along the forest of Alfea thinking to myself about what would happen if I had just left and never came back. What if I had never become a Winx? I love my friends but sometimes, I would just like to have a normal day without fighting the evils of the magical universe and risking my life in the process. What would happen if I died? What would happen to my family?

I looked around me and saw the sun peering through the treetops and heard the birds chirping softly in the warm spring day. I walked further into the woods when I stopped in my tracks when I saw a man sitting on a boulder in a small clearing. But it was not any man, it was Helia Saladin.

Helia Saladin was a year older than I was but was in the same year in school as me due to a hiatus of heroics trading in a sword for an art brush. Despite his artistic nature, he did not speak much both intriguing me and annoying me. I have tried to talk to him along with the other girls and he only speaks in poetry and mystic phrases. Did he mean to come off so pretentiously?

Although his personality was a hard nut to crack, he had a certain air about him that made his prudishness seem so appropriate and dare I say, sexy? The way his long hair swept over his face made him that much more mysterious but his solid frame made him seem so familiar. Helia is a puzzle that I am determined to solve.

I watched him as he meditated and the sun hit his pale face making him shine. His breathing was methodical and his chest rose and fell in a pattern that hypnotized me, forbidding me to move.

My trance was only broken when Helia spoke.

"Is there anything that I can help you with?" Helia asked as he still sat on the rock with his eyes closed.

Did I need anything? Was he seriously asking me that?

"No, I was just walking and came across you sitting here."

"Okay then, I will see you later then." Helia said.

"Don't leave on my account."

"Oh, I would assume that you would leave."

That smug little...Did he really think that I was going to leave?

"Why would you assume something like that?" I asked with annoyance present in my voice. I hope that he picked up on my surprise to his assumption that I would just leave.

"Well, I was here first." How could he have replied so calmly?

"You are on Alfea's grounds. I have more of a right to be here as you." I crossed my arms and cocked my hip to one side as my eyes narrowed as I watched him to continue to meditate.

"I suppose that you are right."

Of course I was right.

"But you are going to leave first anyways. You must continue on your walk." Helia smiled as he replied. Was he wanting to annoy me? Was he so set on having the last word? Not today.

"That is where you are wrong. Now move." I said in a sudden burst of confidence. I normally would not be this forward, especially with Helia.

Helia was broken out of his meditation as his blue eyes stared at me in confusion.

"What?"

"You heard me, move. I am coming up." I said as I motioned to the top of the boulder and pulled myself up to join him on top.

Helia huffed and moved over from his spot to reluctantly make room for me. Helia resumed his meditation as I sat so close that our thighs were touching. Normally, I would have jumped out of my skin to be close to him but now, I was so set on being the last man, well woman, standing. I was not leaving until he did and I was dead set on staying here until he left.

We sat there next to each other for what seemed like hours. Did he always meditate this long? I grew more and more tired as the time passed on and my back began to ache. How could he do this every day?

"You can leave if you would like." I heard him say from the corner of his delicate mouth.

"Shh, I am meditating." I smirked.

"Come on, I have been done for about two hours now."

"Why didn't you leave?"

"I didn't want to lose."

"I thought that you weren't competitive."

"I could say the same about you, Ms. Linphea."

I turned my head and saw that his eyes were still closed which gave me time to blush and recompose myself. I both hated and loved the way that he called me Ms. Linphea. It felt formal but the formality made me feel like I was nothing more than just an acquaintance despite sharing the same group of friends. Then again, we never really talk outside of group settings.

"Why don't we call it a truce and leave together." Helia suggested.

"Fine. Together then we jump off the rock." I resigned.

"Alright." Helia grabbed my hand and we both fell off the rock together.

As we reached the ground, I snatched away my hand. I didn't mean for it to be so harsh but I knew that if my hand were to linger a moment more in his soft and strong hands that it would have caused for questions. He would think that I liked him. I was fascinated by him but he annoyed me too much for me to like him.

"Well, Ms. Linphea. I should be going before the other Specialists call a search party."

"Yes, I should go to before the girls get worried." I gave him a small smile which he returned before he turned around and started to walk in the direction of Red Fountain.

I started to walk away but as I turned, I heard a voice call out to me. The voice of nature. She only called to me only when it was important. Soon a large gust of wind came to the clearing and started to envelop my body and I felt that I was being sucked into a vacuum. I heard the voice of nature get louder and louder but it was not so much of a voice rather than a piercing scream. The wind howled around me and I grabbed my ears and bent down to shield myself from the wind and the screams.

Soon, another voice joined that of mother natures and slowly turned my head around to see Helia walking towards me.

"Flora, are you alright?" he asked as if he could not see my condition but I suppose that he could not hear the screaming but he could feel the wind as he made his way through it.

"Helia, help me." I sighed. I didn't want him to think that I was helpless but I could not handle the screams that filled my ears and the pressure of the wind on my body.

I suddenly felt his arms around my body and his body covering my own to give me slight reprieve from the strong winds. His body was strong and warm, nothing that I would have expected from his cool and calm demeanor. The fact that he came to me was also surprising. Why would he do a thing like that? Everything about him confused me and if I were to begin getting to the heart of Helia, I had no idea where I would start. Nothing made sense.

"What is going on?" I heard Helia ask but the screams filled me so much that I thought that I was descending into madness. I could not handle it anymore and I felt the the screams grow louder and louder. The wind picked up one last time and I felt Helia's grip on me tighten.

Then after a few seconds it stopped. I slowly opened my eyes and I realized that we were not in the clearing anymore. Nothing was the same other than Helia crouched above me.

"What? Where are we?"

Where are Flora and Helia? What happened? I hope that you enjoyed this beginning and I hope to post the last chapter of Promises soon. I just have way too many ideas in my head and I want to get them all down.