The girls wake up one day and Bloom is gone. The next day, three broken and bloody girls arrive at the gates of Alfea—the Trix. Has Bloom really gone evil, and why? And are the Trix really good?
The Winx girls were back from summer vacation, a bit dejected. They hadn't found any information on Bloom's birth parents. Bloom was almost manic in her search before the others reminded her they had to get back to Alfea. She finally relented, but had been silent the journey through. The girls weren't in the happiest of moods either.
None of them had seen The Specialists all summer, Bloom's constant whining about everything was getting on their nerves more then usual, and they had spent an entire summer searching with no result. They had a sleepover that night, hoping it would bring them back together again. Bloom begged out and spent the night in her and Flora's room, not coming out at all. That morning, Flora came, frantically and half dressed, to Stella's room. "Stella, sweetie, have you seen Bloom?"
"No," Stella replied, "she's in you guy's room, right?" By the tone of her voice it seemed she had a pretty good idea that Bloom was not in her room, but when Flora informed her that she wasn't, she screamed anyway. Tecna, Musa, and Layla came running.
"What's wrong?" Layla asked.
"Bloom isn't here!" Flora explained. "Oh dear, dear, dear. Where could she be?"
"Well, why don't we ask Mrs. F first." Tecna offered. "She might have been sent on a mission.." They nodded and went to Mrs. Faragonda's office. When informed that Bloom was not, in fact, on a mission, they decided to go to Magix and then Red Fountain, to see if Bloom was visiting Sky.
As they opened the gate, Musa pointed. "Look, guys, people are coming." Two figures, covered in blood, were staggering towards the front gate. As the first one drew near, she whispered, "Please...please help me..." before collapsing. The other one had collapsed at the edge of the forest. The girl could have been a fairy or a witch, she had long, ice blue hair hanging loose around her shoulders.
She wore a black turtleneck midriff, dark blue miniskirt, and black boots, all bloody and ripped. In her arms she half carried, half dragged a girl with deep, purple-gray hair in spiraling curls, who wore a dark red halter crop top and a denim skirt.
"Tecna, can you do a search on the blue one?" asked Musa. Tecna nodded, pulling out her PBA. The ladybug lookalike scanned the girl's body. When it flew back into the PBA and Tecna began to read, she just about dropped the device.
"Who are they, Tecna?" Stella asked. Layla and Musa were looking at her, while Flora had started to pull the blue haired girl off of the purple haired one. "This is all highly illogical, but..." Tecna started. "They're Icy, Darcy, and Stormy." - "That's Icy." Stella said, pointing to the blue haired one, "And that must be Stormy. The one over there must be Darcy."
Flora let out a shriek and dropped Stormy's wrist, while she was checking for a pulse, and skittered back on her knees. Tecna kept reading. "Icy...doesn't mean to attack us. She...wants our...help?"
"What do you mean?" asked Stella. Tecna frowned.
"I'll put up a holographic image of her memory. It will show what happened as soon as she reached the forest." A picture popped up. It showed Icy, Darcy, and Stormy staggering through the forest. Icy seemed to be doing the best out of all of them, and Stormy turned towards her sisters.
"Ice? Darcy?" Stormy's voice sounded high and scared. "I think I'm gonna..." Before she could finish the sentence, her knees buckled and she hit the ground. "Stormy..." Icy half cried. She fell to her knees and tried to pull Stormy up, swaying as she dragged her sister towards the entrance. "Darcy..." Darcy was looking fit to collapse herself. "No, Darcy, you have to keep going! I can't carry both of you!"
As the image faded and Darcy fell, then Icy, Tecna looked down at the witches', but Flora was already pulling Stormy up and beginning to drag her towards the gates. "Come on." she said. "They need help. If we bring them to Ophelia, they might get thrown out."
"You're right, Flo." Musa replied. "If they want to hurt us, be can take 'em."
"I don't know, guys. What if they have something to do with Bloom not showing up?" Layla replied. Tecna nodded. "Normally, logic would induce me to agree with Layla. However, my PBA says they need our help." Musa had already grasped Icy around the waist and was starting to drag her up from the ground. Layla, seeing she was defeated, began to fly to retrieve Darcy.
"We'll have to sneak them in." decided Stella. "That's my department!" Waving her hands, the Trix were transformed into Musa, Layla, and Flora. "Why don't you guys try an invisibility spell? We can pretend the witches are you guys!"
"I guess it's worth a try." Flora said, disappearing. Musa nodded, and she and Layla disappeared as well. The girls began walking slowly towards the exit, trying to make it seem they weren't holding up "Musa", "Layla", and "Flora" while the actual fairies trailed behind them. After they had gotten into their dorm room, the Winx lay the Trix down onto Tecna, Musa, and Bloom's beds. Icy's eyes flew open and she gasped, sitting up.
"Oh darkness. Oh, darkness. I have to—see the Win—Bloom—" Flora sat down on the edge of Tecna's bed and smiled at the witch. "It's okay, sweetie. You're at Alfea now. What about Bloom?"
"Where are Darcy and Stormy?" Icy questioned. "Where are they?" she tried to sit up but was held back by Flora. "It's okay. Darcy and Stormy are with you. Darcy's over there." she pointed to Musa's bed. At this, Icy seemed to relax a little.
"What about Bloom?" Musa asked the question Flora had. Icy looked confused for a moment, then nodded. "Yes. Bloom. She..." she put her hand to her mouth to cough, and when she drew it away, it was spattered with blood. "Gooey-gumdrops. She needs help! I wish Bloom were here." Flora said offhandedly. Icy looked stunned. "Don't!" She fell back onto the bed, shuddering. "We need to try and make sure that no one sees them. There'd be questions raised for sure." Tecna said.
"True," Stella remarked, "At the moment it doesn't look good for the Trix. For all we know they could be suffering from shopping exhaustion, like we thought Layla was."
"You mean you thought Layla was." replied Flora, giggling. Layla rolled her eyes and Musa shook her head. "We can't go to class today. And you know the whole sickness thing won't work again. Remember what happened last time?"
"What happened last time?" a voice came from the doorway. In flew Digit, Chatta, and Amoree. Chatta flew right into the side of Flora's head. "Oh my goodness are you helping them? That's a very nice thing to do, Flora. So nice it deserves a cheer. One two three everybody cheer with me go Flora go Flora GOOOO FLOOOORRRAAA!"
Flora clapped her hand over the pixie's mouth. "Shhh. It's a secret, sweetie. Don't tell anyone, and don't be so loud."
"Alright. I will try to shout quietly." whispered Chatta loudly. Digit looked at her small computer and shook her head. "Would someone logically explain to me why we have our three oldest enemies in here?"
"Shhh! My PBA says she's coming to." Tecna said, checking the witches' vitals. Icy's eyes fluttered open and Flora walked over to her bed. "Bloom..." she whispered. Seeming to gather her thoughts, she said, "Bloom...attacked us."
Chapter 2
"What?" Flora cried. Icy held up a hand. "Pixie. Let me finish. Baltor, Darcy, Stormy, and I were all hiding in a cave where magic cannot work. We turned it into a living space. Bloom flew in, and we began to fight, but she was stringer then ever and took us out easily. Then, she didn't just leave it at that. She kept hitting us, even after we were down. Then she took Baltor's hand and walked off."
"Baltor survived?"
"Bloom joined him?"
"Why?"
"Because he has information about her parents. That's what she said. He cast a spell as she was taking his Dragon Fire. It changed her mind, but she didn't know it. She thought she had done it. The plan was for him to lie low for a while, then for us to be released from Lighthaven and join him."
"I believe them." Stella said quietly. Everyone turned to look at her. She sighed. "Last year, she had bought two dolls from a store in Magix. She called them Oritel and Miriam and she was giving them voices and making them move, and she talked to them.
"I asked her what she was doing and she asked me not to tell anyone, said they were silly, and threw them away. But it still felt weird." She took a deep breath before continuing. "And I thought...maybe something wasn't right with Bloom, but it never happened again, so..."
Tecna shook her head. "She really, really wanted to find her parents. When Oritel and Miriam... Didn't turn up, it was heartbreaking for her."
"We need to get Bloom." Musa said.
"We need to tell Mrs. Faragonda." countered Tecna.
"We need to call the Specialists." Stella replied.
"We need to take care of Icy, Darcy, and Stormy." Flora argued softly.
"We need to— Wait, why should we call the Specialists?" Layla asked. Stella shrugged, looking sheepish. "Sky should know his girlfriend joined Baltor."
"Sky broke the spell before. It's only logical to assume he can again." Tecna offered. Icy, looking up at them, frowned. "That's the thing, ner—Uh, Tecna. There is no spell."
"Icy has a good point." said Musa, nodding. "If she went of her own free will then there would be no spell to break. Maybe Sky can convince her to come back, though."
"Well, it's settled then. I'll call Brandon and get the guys to come over." Stella announced, pulling out her phone. She didn't look nearly as excited about it as usual.
"Yes, but we can't tell them we've got the Trix. I'm not sure they'd understand." cautioned Musa.
"Hey, Brandon? Yes, yes, it's nice to hear you too, snookums, but can the Specialists get over here? Like, now? Make sure Sky comes. I don't care if he's in twenty royal meetings over the computer. Get over here!" Stella's voice was getting shrill. "Yes, I love you too, dawling." Stella hung up and put her phone on the bedside table. Bloom's cellphone rang as well and Stella picked it up.