Ugh, just watched The Mystery of the Abyss on Netflix- so crap.

There wasn't even a mystery in the Abyss. It was just 'Where's this pearl then? Oh here it is. Cool.'

The other guys weren't in it- literally just Sky.

I'm not a fan of the plots of the other two movies (they were alright), but they were absolutely beautifully animated- this was full of shit, and it looked like shit.

Why did Stella keep trying to crack one-liners that just didn't work? After anything bad happened she'd just be all like 'ugh, when will there be time for shopping?' and there were a bunch others then made you think '… that didn't make sense, did it?'

The voice acting for most of the characters was really bad, they sounded okay but some of the line reading was so off. Bloom was okay though, as was Flora (Flora had next to no lines, but you know she's my fave)

That song at the end was cringe-central. The idea was fun, but the song itself was so bad ('You're the one' would have been way better) the Tritannus-Trix rap (uggggggggh), the badly animated dancing. The only other good thing I can say is that the Winx's hair when they were on stage was super cute, they all looked pretty… Well, when ignoring the super awkward, off-time dancing.

Made of Stone

It was getting a bit too close for comfort now.

Flora was sitting in the back seat of a black Bentley with dark windows. The army was a nice idea- definitely the kind of girl Flora wanted to be, but she hadn't actually thought about whether it was the girl she could be. She had spent the last couple of months reading through all of the combat paperwork that her mum had from her days in the GDF, it was completely different to being in the army. It looked twice as dangerous, but twice as cool.

Would she really be able to be successful with this? Or would she leave halfway through in disgrace?

"We're here, Miss Linphea. The driver put the handbrake on and turned around to look at the shivering girl."

"O-oh, cool." she snapped back to reality. He opened the door for her and grabbed her bag. Flora looked at the warehouse they had arrived at- they were in the middle of nowhere.

"This isn't it." the driver said as though he had read her mind, this is where you'll be sleeping with all the other trainees, and the training rooms are downstairs."

"Oh, I see." Flora observed her surroundings, "Why is it so quiet?"

"I was asked to bring you in early so the trainers can talk to you- everyone else has already been through an intensive endurance test and they want to see what level you're at."

"… Intensive? Endurance?... Oh dear god." Flora sighed. Why did she want to do this again?

"So this is the girl!" A man with tanned skin, brown hair with a small beard and black clothes with lots of ornamental chains came out of the warehouse. He walked straight up to Flora and gave her a tight hug- Flora couldn't bring herself to react. "Flora Linphea. Wow." He sighed, "You know, I was trained up by your father- a few years ago now- man, he was a tough one…" the man laughed wistfully. "My name is Anagan, I'm the senior trainer here."

"It's nice to meet you," Flora shook his hand politely.

"Well. Enough chit-chat, it's time to see what you can do."

~.~.~

The warehouse was full of beds. As soon you walked in, beds. They walked a bit further in to be greeted with the showers in the next room. Anagan walked Flora to her bed and she dropped her bag on it.

"What do you think? Luxury, right?" Anagan laughed, "I know it's not what you're used to, but you'll get used to it. Give it a couple of weeks."

"I'm more nervous about sharing a room with everyone else." Flora sighed, "I didn't really realise how hard they must have worked."

"Everything gets better with time." Anagan said, trying to sound encouraging. He had a bad feeling that people were going to go out of their way to make things hard for her, but he didn't want to say.

"So. Where do we train?" she asked.

"Ah! Well, let me take you to the lifts."

The lifts were in a small room in the back corner of the warehouse. They walked into one of the three- it was so shiny and silver, like it had never been used. There were three buttons on the wall.

"Number three is this floor, number two is one floor down- the cafeteria and number one is the training room- it's a long way down." Anagan clicked '1' on the wall and the lift smoothly descended. It took about five minutes to get all the way down- he wasn't kidding about it being a long way.

The doors opened to a huge room with incredibly high ceilings. They had everything you could need to train up a living weapon- climbing walls that reached all the way to the top of the room, rows of running machines, punching bags, and of course, target practice for guns.

"Wow." Flora gushed, looking over everything, "This is intense."

"Isn't it?" Hen smiled and brought her over to a board with twenty names listed, and Flora's was right at the bottom. "Right, this is the progress board. Anyone with their name at the bottom has to climb back up to the warehouse- on that climbing wall."

"Whose rule is that?" Flora narrowed her eyes.

"My rule." Anagan smirked.

"Oh."

"Okay! One hour on the running machine- full speed. Starting off easy." Anagan rubbed his hands together and gestured towards the treadmills. Flora sighed deeply. This is what she wanted; now she had to pay the price.

~.~.~

"Nice shower?" Anagan said from the bed opposite Flora's- she had just appeared from the showers in just a towel.

"Oh. Err… Yeah. Do you mind…?" Flora blushed violently.

"You're going to be changing in front of nineteen other people- I'm the least of your worries." he smirked, "Anyway, uniform." he threw some clothes on to her bed- some black spandex leggings, a red tank top and a spandex jacket with the GDF logo- an embroidery of a globe in gold with the letters 'G.D.F.' inside it. She slipped it on and tied her hair back.

"You're not bad." He stated. Flora snapped her head around.

"What's that supposed to mean?"

"I mean in training!" he shot up his hands defensively, "You're on the same level as most of the other applicants. I didn't think you'd be quite up to that point yet."

"My parents have a gym they never use."

"I see." Anagan looked at his watch and stood up. "People should start arriving now- just stay here and… Look cool?" he shrugged. Flora laughed. He opened the door, and like clockwork a car was pulling up.

"Punctuality. I like that." Anagan muttered. A girl with short black hair a porcelain skin stepped out and pulled her bag out of the boot, she was wearing huge headphones. "Girl number two has arrived!" He announced, showing her in. She didn't seem to notice anyone had said anything. "Your bed is next to Flora over there-," He said a little bit louder. She seemed to register the sentence and dropped her suitcase beside Flora's and sat down on the bed, finally removing her headphones.

"Nerves." she smiled, "Music calms me down. I wouldn't have been able to come into the building if I wasn't listening to my music."

"Well that's a huge weakness you're admitting to your head trainer, and another trainee." Anagan raised and eyebrow and gestured to Flora.

"You would have found out sooner or later." she shrugged.

"I'm going to go look out for other arrivals. You two- get to know each other." he left, leaving the two girls alone.

"I'm Musa, by the way."

"Nice to meet you, I'm Flora." Flora smiled sweetly.

"Flora Linphea?" she said, suddenly sounding interested.

"Uh… Yes?"

"I've heard all about you!"

"Who from?"

"My dad's uncle's step son's friend's dad works for the GDF as a secretery, that's how I managed to get through the admission's process. I thought I got it easy, and that's when he told me about you."

"I was told other applicants had to work hard to get here, but I wasn't told how much harder. The majority of the admissions process has been done without me. I only just realised that other people may not take kindly to me." Flora sighed. Musa bit her lip.

"I didn't mean to make you feel like that- I don't even know you! As long as the trainers don't give you any special treatment, you should be fine! Besides, you have me now." she smiled.

"I do?"

"You do." she nodded, "I mean, as long as you've got me."

"… Sure, why the hell not?" Flora laughed. "So do you know anything about the other applicants."

"Well… There's Bloom Domino, she's been groomed for this very program since birth, practically anyway… Erm… Timmy, he specializes in computer hacking, so he might have some trouble with the physical side. Oh, and Layla, I heard that she got full marks on all her endurance tests- she's good. But honestly, I don't think anyone has worked harder than Helia." she rambled.

"Who's Helia?"

"I read on the screenshot of the system that my dad's uncle's step son's friend's dad sent me that he has a background of poverty, and applied for a fully paid scholarship for this system six times."

"Is that even possible to get?"

"It must be- because he finally has it. Some of the stuff he had to do though… I wouldn't be able to do if I was training for ten years."

"Great." Flora huffed, pulling her knees into her chest and resting her head on them, "I have a feeling he might resent me- oh and look!" she pointed to the bed opposite her with the name card 'Helia' resting on it. "It gets better."

"Oh calm down, he'll get over the fact that he's not you." Musa had started to put on the uniform that was sitting on her pillow- identical to Flora's.

"Any one else I should worry about?"

"You don't have to worry about anyone! We're all training to be on the same team here." Musa smiled, "Oh, but you might want to watch out for Darcy."

"Darcy?"

"Nasty piece of work- completed her admissions while in jail for conspiracy to murder. The guy she wanted to murder? The physical education teacher who gave her a B."

"She sounds delightful." Flora winced.

The doors opened again, a tall, thin blonde girl burst in- dressed head to toe in designer gear, she whipped off her sunglasses and looked the room up and down.

"So I guess room service is out of the question."

"Why haven't any guys arrived yet?" Anagan edged behind the blonde and scratched the back of his neck. "Girls- this is Stella of the Solaria family." the Solaria family were very well known- Radius Solaria owned several companies.

"Yes, yes, which one's mine?" Stella snapped impatiently.

"The bed opposite the girl with the black hair there- please put on your uniform and get acquainted with these two, I'll be outside." Anagan left, and Stella daintily put her bag on the bed opposite Musa's. She picked up the uniform in disgust and looked back at Flora and Musa.

"I bloody well hope this hasn't been worn before." she spat.

"They get them new." Musa assured her. "I'm Musa and this is Flora,"

"Nice to meet you dawlings." she fell on to her bed, "So this is exciting, huh?"

"Finally some men!" Anagan burst back in, showing in two well-built guys. Flora didn't really pay any attention to what they looked like until she realised that one of them had set their bag on the bed opposite her, and had sat down.

She looked up at his face- he didn't look like he had finally succeeded in anything, but he did look happy to be there. He was good looking too- a sharp jawline and piercing blue eyes. Hey seemed to notice her staring and gave her a slight smile, making her blush instantly, and turn away. She looked back at Anagan- from where she was sitting it looked like he had narrowed his eyes but that couldn't have been right.

"Hey girls, I'm Sky and this is Helia." the blonde guy said from the closest bed to the showers.

"I'm Stella Solaria, and this is Misa and Florence."

"… Musa and Flora." Flora corrected.

"It's nice to meet you girls." Helia said politely.

"So man, you happy to be hear or what?" Sky ran up to Helia and ruffled his hair.

"It still feels pretty unreal," he laughed, "I feel like it's all over, even though it's just beginning."

"That's a weird way to talk about a room full of beds." Anagan said coldly. Sky stopped what rubbing Helia's head and looked back at the trainer.

"This guy has worked hard to be here- that's some welcoming attitude you've got there." Sky snapped.

"Sky, it's fine, calm down." Helia sighed and started to get into his uniform.

"I going to go outside and see if anyone else- at least I won't have to witness indecency there." Anagan slammed the door behind him. A topless Helia looked around at everyone and raised his eyebrows.

"The hell was that about?"

"He didn't seem so worried about indecency when I was changing." Flora muttered. Everyone turned and looked at her.

"… Well, maybe it's because I'm not a beautiful girl, like yourself." Helia smiled at her.

"Mmm, not even a day has gone by and you already have yourself some admirers Flora," Stella rested her chin in her palms and winked.

"Oh come on," Helia laughed, "I was just stating a fact- Flora's beautiful, you all are, but I know nothing about her… Yet."

"Well what about Anagan?" Stella raised an eyebrow. "He doesn't seem to think that way,"

"No way." Flora said quickly, "He must be, what, thirty years older than me?"

"Well, how did he greet you?"

"With a hug… A tight hug." Flora said quietly.

"There you go! He greeted me with a slap on the back!" Stella exclaimed.

"He pulled off my headphones."

"He slapped me on the ass." Sky said sadly.

"He had better not go easy on you." Stella sighed, "So why did you let him watch you undress?"

"I didn't let him watch me undress!" Flora exclaimed defensively, "He told me not to be embarrassed because I'd be changing in front of nineteen other people any way, so I turned around and assumed he did too."

"Of course he didn't turn around. Are you an actual idiot?" Stella said.

"Okay, that's enough torturing poor Flora." Helia fell on to his bed, now in his uniform.

Flora sighed. She couldn't tell whether this was going well or not.

~A/N~

So I'm getting some fairly positive reviews for this story so far, something that came up was that Flora seemed pretty OOC- which is fine but her regular personality show through in later chapters

Also the whole fighting and guns thing- srsly guys, if the Winx club didn't have magic powers lord knows they'd be fighting off terrorists with machine guns.

So tell me what you think!