In the morning Musa is the Hephaestus cabin with Malcolm and Leo. They are giving her the mini cameras that she can use for them to see as she goes back into Arachne's lair, so they can see what she can or notice anything she doesn't. Even when she goes down to Tartarus. "Alright, this is everything you need." Leo says handing her the one camera Musa is going to place on herself when transforms into her enchantix.
"Thanks you two." Musa tells one of her fellow Seven and her uncle.
"I have everything set up, in the Big House and on Olympus so the gods and goddesses can watch over this." Musa nods. She places her bag full of ambrosia and nectar over her shoulder. Chiron is at the beach waiting for her so she can teleport to the realm of Rome; normally they would do the teleportation on Half-Blood Hill but with school starting up at Alfea, Red Fountain, and Cloud Tower they don't want to run the risk of any of Flora and Musa's friends catching them on top of the hill before teleporting. Sure the Mist can cover anything godly for them, but seeing Musa teleport Musa isn't sure how they can cover that.
For a brief moment Musa thinks about going to her friends and using the Mist to temporarily wipe their memories of her and Flora so they don't worry about them but she has chosen against it. It won't be fair to them, especially when they come back and Musa has to remove the Mist from their minds and they are confused as to why they forgot Musa and Flora, not to mention they would have to come up with a cover story as to why they were gone from Alfea and why they are back, not that they couldn't, it's just that she knows that their friends will get curious as to why and would start digging into it and before they know it they could stumble into their demigod lives. Musa just can't risk it.
Heading towards the beach with Malcolm and Leo in tow Chiron is standing off to the side to make room for Musa. Stopping in front of her life-long teacher he gently places a hand on her shoulder. "May the gods bless you on your journey Musa."
"Thank you Chiron, thank you gods!" Musa then takes a few steps away from Chiron as he lifts his hand and uses it to teleport Musa to Rome.
Musa waves goodbye to them as she starts to disappear in the portal and leave camp.
"What do mean they aren't coming back!" the entire Winx Club shouts along with the Specialists.
"I'm sorry, but Flora and Musa have had things come up with Melody and Linphea that they need to take care, especially as future guardians." States Faragonda.
"When are they coming back?" Layla wonders.
"I have no idea. When they come back they will explain everything, but for now they are not attending Alfea. But since third years must earn their enchantix I have no doubt that they will and will be able to continue their studies when they come back."
If they come back, Stella thinks unsure if she will ever see two of her best friends again.
"Now, don't worry too much as I am sure they will explain everything upon their return. You all are dismissed.
As the five Specialists and four Winx girls leave, Timmy and Tecna in the front along with Digit as they start looking up reports of any incidents on Linphea and Melody, or anything in the Harmonic Nebula. They find nothing.
"Just because there aren't any reports, doesn't mean that something isn't happening." Brandon reminds them. "After all they could have thought it was something smaller and their realms probably want to deal with it internally before they release something and start asking for help."
"That could be true. But who wants to attack Linphea and Melody? Someone from the realms that went evil? Someone who has a grudge against Flora and Musa?"
"The only ones who may hold grudges against them are Icy, Darcy, and Stormy and they've been split up. Icy got sent to Pyros while Darcy and Stormy are in the Omega Dimension." Bloom counters.
"Maybe they're facing someone from their lives before Alfea, or someone who has a grudge against their parents." Stella continues.
"But who could hate them?" Layla interjects. "Flora is literally the sweetest person out there and Musa has music for everyone. And besides their parents, Musa's parents were musicians at one point and her dad is still hard working man, while Flora's are just simple farmers on Linphea. I don't think anyone could hate their parents."
"Still," Stella continues. "We don't have any idea what their lives were like before Alfea, if they had any bullies, or people who just didn't like them for no reason."
As Timmy. Tecna, and Digit continue looking into anything about Linphea and the Harmonic Nebula as the five behind them continue to figure out who could be attacking their friends homes and why, in the very back is Helia and Riven. The two Specialists are having a hard time figuring out why their girlfriends didn't contact them, true they could be so busy that they haven't gotten the chance, or their phones may have been destroyed. There is a third option though, one neither wants to think about.
Flora and Musa could be dead or turned into some sort of statues being held who-knows-where and it sucks because the people who were attacking their realms could not be anymore because they got what they wanted.
To them, the statue scenario is what most likely happened. After all, wouldn't Linphea and Melody come out and say that through a tragic loss they lost their Guardian Fairies?
As the group continues to walk Alfea's halls it is becoming hard not to think about what the year is going to be like, especially without Flora and Musa. They hope to hear news soon, good or bad or somewhere in between. Hopefully good.
They hope that Musa and Flora are safe and that whatever is going on they will comeback and tell them why they couldn't tell them they weren't comeback at the very start of the school year and the adventures they are having.
Musa is standing in front of a small sewer in Rome, a sewer that she entered years ago as she went to go and face her grandmother's arch rival and the mother of all of Athena's children's' fear (along with Musa's). Musa shudders at the memory of being down there with Arachne and sends a silent prayer to all the gods and goddesses, major and minor, Roman and Greek, that Arachne will not be down there this time. When she is done, Musa takes a deep breath before transforming and shrinking down. Her bag and the mini camera she has shrink with her and she places it on the strap of her enchantix shirt as she flies down the small sewer hole and follows the path she took just four years ago that led her to Arachne's lair.
Because Musa has passed all these traps years and is fully transformed it doesn't take her long to get back to the lair. "Can you guys hear me?" She asks speaking to the camera.
"We can hear you loud and clear!" Chatta announces. "I still can't believe that you wouldn't let Tune and me come with you!"
Musa sighs thinking about the night before, when she reached her bunk in Cabin Six with Tune and Chatta on her bed, Tune was getting ready for bed while Chatta had been shaking with excitement asking if she and Tune could accompany Musa on her journey; Musa told her 'no' as she wanted them back at camp in case anything happens, like Flora, Thalia, Hazel, Jason, and Nico suddenly popping up at Camp Half-Blood, Camp Jupiter, or on Olympus.
Looking around the tavern Musa sees the spider-webbed portraits Arachne has made. The one from Flora's eleventieth birthday, the day they defeated Kronos, and Clarisse had thrown her, Flora, and Tyson into the lake, with the help of fellow campers, but not before Tyson and Musa were able to get Clarisse, Malcolm, Katie, and the Stoll brothers in with them too. Flora had created an air bubble around them as Flora hadn't learned any underwater breathing spells yet, so the bubble provided air for the non-Poseidon descendand children. One of Musa with her parents before her mom got ill from a manticore sting, another of Musa holding up the entire magic dimension before Flora took over and then it went back to Atlas, another of Musa hanging out with Mrs. O'Leary, Musa isn't sure if it's from the summer Flora got her, or the summer after they defeated Kronos and Mrs. O'Leary was kind of making a mess in Flora's cabin as Flora was trying to clean, Musa found it funny while Flora didn't. Flora then told Musa to try it for a week, Musa took it on. After the week was up Musa finally understood Flora's frustration and Tyson took her out while Nico and Musa joked about stressing Flora out when they went to her cabin to get her they noticed she was missing. Musa went to check Rachel's cave only to find out Flora wasn't there, not even Flora's usual welcome home plants didn't decorate the place. Musa then went to Chiron as Nico Iris-messaged Alyssa, Flora's mom, to see where she was. Chiron didn't know and neither did Alyssa or Rhodos (Flora's stepfather).
From that moment one every chance a camper got they were looking for Flora, along with the Hunters of Artemis. Flora's parents worried but Musa told them not to worry too much and thta they will find her. For a moment Musa had thought that Poseidon may have lost one of his greatest items and asked Flora to search for it, after all she did it with Zeus's bolt and Hades's keys. Once Poseidon found out he sent out all of his sea warriors to look for her, no such luck. It also didn't help that Poseidon had to call off the search because Olympus was closing and Zeus didn't want the gods and goddesses interacting with the demigods.
As she continues to look around, Musa notices that there are some new weaved pictures. One of her and talking to Riven when the witches tried to take over Magix, from this past year's end of the year dance when she was helping Riven dance. One from when she got her Charmix. Feeling her heart beat rapidly in her chest Musa wonders if Arachne is here now, which wouldn't help since Musa is flying and Arachne can capture her in her spider webbing and hold her prisoner, maybe even allow her little spider children to feast on the music fairy.
"Do you guys see anything?" Musa wonders.
"Negatory," Leo claims over the mic.
Musa then flies over and stands on the ground that is over the entrance to Tartarus. "Well, then it looks like I'm going down. Musa flies up before flying down into the dark abyss. She tries to fly against the wind that Tartarus is creating but it is no use and she ends up deforming and is back in her regular clothes, screaming as she falls.
"Musa, is everything alright?" Malcolm shouts with worry.
"Not exactly," she says catching the camera in her hand then placing it on her ear as it transforms into a one-ear headset. "The winds of Tartarus are making it hard for me to stay in my fairy form, and I don't know any spells that will exactly make this a safe landing."
The last she was falling into Tartarus, Flora was with her and used her nature magic to make a giant vine come up and bring them to the very bottom of the abyss, the problem was, the closer they got the harder it was for Flora to keep control and they had to fall the last remaining five feet which was a hard landing, now falling into Tartarus by who knows how many feet, this landing is going to hurt more.