All's Fair in Love and War
Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters and no money as been made out of this.
Chapter 2
The windows of Cloud Tower trembled with the strom outside. All witches were in a complete hurry to pack everything for the trip. It was the last night they would spend in the castel in the next weeks.
They would leave at four a.m.. Cloud Tower was the furthest school from the Red Fountain, where they would finally leave. Everywhere, witches run from room to room, asking friends if they could place some of their clother in their luggage. Miss Griffin made all the teatchers go from room to room to check if everything was ready, too.
The older witches who owned brooms had placed them all in the entrance to be taken still that night to Red Fountain. The next day they would go by bus to Alfea, where they would catch up with the fairies.
The Trix's room was completely chaotic. Dracy was placing her bags outside the door, everything already donne. Stormy was on top of her luggage trying to close it at full force. In her fury, she had almost burned one of Icy's books, wich caused the room to end up half frozen. Icy was still packing. Half of her bags were full of books, the other half empty.
"Are you sure you need all of those Icy?" Darcy sat on her bed, flipping trhough the pages of one of the books she had grabed.
"Nope. But I can't take risks!" the blond witch waved her hand and her clothes went flying in her bag.
"Yeah... Who knows what we will get, spending so much time around fairies!" Stormy conjured some rope and started to tie it up around her luggage.
"Exacly! At least we will visit some interesting places."
"Sure, Darcy. Interesting places full of fairies!"
"Oh, shut up Icy!"
"Girls? I severything ready?" their potions teatcher was pecking on the door.
"Almost, Miss Sligg." Stormy answered, finally donne with her bag.
"Remember to turn on your alarms. We won't wait for anyone." With that, she was gonne.
"Gives me the creeps, that one." Stormy jumped to her bed.
"Adam gives me the creeps too." Darcy jumped to Stormy's bed, half-smashing her.
"Oh, shut up! You're just jealous because he is hotter than Vlad!" the curly haired witch punched her sister's arm.
"Is not!"
"It is!"
"Is not!"
"It is!"
"Can't we agree that they are bothe hedious?" Icy jumped to Stormy's bed, completely smashing them.
"Oh, shut up!" Darcy pushed Icy off of her, making her fall flat on the ground. "Excited to go back home?"
"I was there just a few months ago, so no, not really. But I do miss Pluto."
"Yeah, imagine how many fairies we can scare with your dog!"
"I agree, sister! And just wait until the Winx find out who you are! Principly Stella!" Darcy had a wicked smirk.
"God, you're more excited about me going home than me!" Icy stood up and finished packing her things by shrinking some of her bags.
"Who hears you might think you don't love us!" Stormy threw a pillow at her head. "Now give that back 'cause I'm donne fucking around and I'm gonna sleep!"
With that, the three witches finished packing and went to bed. Next day would be terrible for the ones who like to sleep, so they would have a moody Icy all over. And that was exacly what hapenned. At six a.m. The bus fully of half assleep witches arrived at Alfea, where soon the fairies also entered the bus.
The Winx were extremely excited. All but Stella. She was just as moody as Icy. Bloom couldn't wait to finally start this trip. She still didn't know a lot about the magical dimensions, and this was the perfect opurtunity.
They entered the bus and sat in pairs. Musa slept on Tecna's shoulder, who seemed to be video chatting with Timmy, Flora and Layla wispered excitedly, and Stella tried to convince Bloom doing something she was severily against.
"I don't know. They woke up earlier than us... She won't be in a good mood."
"Oh, come on! What better way to find out if they are princess or royals or whatever than to start by sitting next to them? Icy is sitting alone, so what's the problem?"
"Then why don't you go?"
"Because I need my beauty sleep."
"Fine."
Bloom slowly aproached the sleeping blond. Her head was resting against the window, her hair not tied up in a ponytail like usual but left free above her shoulder, her mouth slightly open, snoring. Icy had headphones, wich was great, because like that Bloom coud sit next to her without waking her up. Or so she thought.
As she was leaning in the back of the chair, the ice witch openned her eyes and looked at her half assleep. If it was anyone else, Bloom would have found the way Icy rubbed her eyes cute, but since they had never really gotten along, she restrained herself from doing so.
"What are you doing?" Icy covered her mouth has a yawn escaped.
"I was just... uhm... sitting, but if it bothe-"
"Nah, it's fine. Do as you want." Icy closed her eyes again and turned to the side.
Bloom was quite surprised with the reaction of the witch. She hadn't been rude or made any nasty coment like usual. And Stormy and Darcy were sitting right behind them, so if she did something that would accept Icy she would be traped with them. But if she really wanted to know more about who they were, she had to engage Icy in conversation. On the other side...
"Did you see that? A fairy sat next to the Trix and Icy didn't do anything!"
"I know! It's so weird! Maybe Ice has gonne soft?"
Two of the witches in the sits of the front were whispering between eachother, atracting attention to them. More heads turned to see if it really was true, if a fairy and a witch were sitting together without killing eachother. It seemed like they had never seen it before. Stella was making signs, probably trying to tell her to talk to Icy, Flora and Tecna shaking their heads. It was obvious they thought it was a very bad idea.
Sudendly a scream came from the front. The two witches were soaked and shivering. Bloom looked to the side only to see Icy smiling.
"Girls, please be quiet. We are about to start the jorney, and it will only take an hour. Miss Griffin and Miss Faragonda are already waiting for us in Red Fountain." Griselda sat in the front and the bus stated moving.
"Excited to go home?" C'mon Bloom, you can do this! I hope...
"I suppose." Why is she trying to make conversation? Can't she see I'm sleeping? I should show her who she is dea- uh, it's too early to be mean.
"I am. Since I discovered I have another familly things have been like crazy. Principly since I have a sister." Bloom looked at the witch, who seemed to be sligthly more awake. "I feel bad for you're parents."
"Why?! What do you know?!" suddendly the witch seemed much more atentive to their conversation.
"I was just saying that with three daughters it might be difficult to manage..." Why did she reacted like that?
"Oh, okay..." Of course she doesn't know. There is no way she would. Wait... "Who has three daughters?" Icy turned to her, both curious and trying to distract the fairy from her litle slip.
"Ah... you're mother?" Icy only raised an eyebrow. "You know, with you, Stormy and Darcy?"
"Talking about us, sis?"
Stormy and Darcy had stood up from their sits and were looking down at them. As an oposite to Icy, they were very much awake.
"Yes, Icy. What were you and your knew friend talking about?" Stormy pocked Icy in the ear.
"Don't you have anything else to do?" Icy slaped her hand away.
"We could allways study, but then we wouldn't have anything to do during the rest of the trip." Darcy said, sliping throught the pages of a book.
"Hey, that's mine!" Icy grabed the book and stuffed it inside her bag.
"You have to study?" One thing was to see the witches acting normal behind some bushes, other was to watch them at close range.
"The same way you'll have to study what you fairies call dark magic or 'witch magic', we will have to study 'fairy magic'." Icy glared at her siters.
"It's not like that. We will learn some stuff, and there will be a pratical test, but it doesn't even count for our final mark. Icy is the only one who actually cares."
"I can't let such a test to degrade my reputation! You know that very well, Darcy!"
"More important, why are you talking to a fairy? Could it be that Icy is i-"
"Such up!" Icy glared at Stormy. "And at least she doesn't annoy me as much as you too."
"Girls, grab your things. We have arrived and we will get into the aeroplanes. Please don't forget to cheack wich one is yours."
The four of them stood up, as well as the other girls. Not only Stella seemed excited to get to Bloom, but also the other Winx were quite curious to know what hapenned.
Bloom saw Icy walk away from the bus along with the other witches. The reaction she had had when they talked about her parents really was somethig to think about... Maybe Stella was right and there was something they were hiding.
Icy turned around and saw Bloom looking at her. Thinking back to their conversation, it was very likely that she would try to get some more information. But she would know it anyway, if she waited. Bloom seemed to have caught her eye and was smiling at her. Would it be that bad if she was to befriend a fairy? Probably, yes. It wouldn't take long to all Cloud Tower to know. But Bloom was a princess, and it could benefit her family's businesses. Bessides, she was kind of pretty and not as anoying as Icy had previously thought. So she smirked back.
"So, how did it go?! You seemed to be getting along." Stella locked her arms together as they walked to the entry.
"She isn't as bad as I thought... And she is giding something! You should have seen the way she freacked out when I talked about her parents!"
"Are you really considering that they are princesses?" Flora looked at Mirta and Musa waiting for support.
"Well, there is that legend... "
"Oh, c'mon Mirta. It's very unlikely for them to be royals, much less princesses. Besides, 99 % of the legends are lies." Techna distributed their tickets.
"Fairies used to be legends for me until I met Stella. I'm in the third aeroplane."
"Second. And can we not talk about this? You have been obsessed with the Trix." Lyla said.
"Hey look! The Speacialists!"
"Hey there babe." Rivan kissed Musa softly.
"So, in wich aeroplane are you?" Stella clinged to Brandon's arm, the previous matter forgoten.
"We asked to be in the same as you of course! And I did what you asked Techna." Timmy pushed is glasses up.
"What is that?" Bloom hoped it had something to do with the Trix. She was so curious.
"Techna wanted to know if there had been any recently discovered planet. And no, there haven't. Why did you want to know?" Sky huged Bloom from behind, making her smile.
"Some people think that the Trix are from an unknown planet and descendents from a dark royal familly know one has ever heard of."
"You mean the legend of the Ancestral Witches? I thought it was just a story to scare litle kids who didn't behave..." Helia looked at Flora like she had said the weirdest thing.
"I agree with Helia. I heard that they have an apartement in Magix, so it's very unlikely." it was obvious Lyla was ansious to be with Nabo, but since he wasn't part of the schools, the boy would only meet them there.
"And I've met their mother. She is a healer and works in a private clinic." Riven's words kind of destroyed their theory.
"But Icy seemed like she was hiding something!" Bloom had seen the way the witch acted, at it wasn't normal. Not at all.
"But where would they get all the money for the dresses?" Stella was just as sure as Bloom.
"Dresses? What dresses?" Brandon picked up Stella's many bags and they started walking to the plane.
"They bought expensive dresses in a shop and now these two are obssessed."
"Well, it seems like a mistery, Techna! How exciting!"
"You can't really be thinking about helping them, are you Timmy?"
"Well, what can I say, Riven? It might be fun."
The place was full of people. And not only students. Teatchers were running around trying to make sure everything was ready and everyone inside the planes. The witches sat in a corner, most of them assleep. Icy seemed to be finally fully awake, since she seemed to be cursing some distracted teatcher. Wich actually didn't really seem as a good idea, but Icy would allways be Icy, she supposed.
Entering their respectvie planes, none of them was quite sure what to expect of the trip. Icy was still worried about her slip, but it really didn't make sense. She had nothing to be embaressed of, so why was she scared? She was used to fake people trying to take advantaje of her age, so why? It would be a shock, but Darcy and Stormy had allways supportaed her. And she also had Sebastian, Tanaka, Madame Red and all the others so...
Bloom was getting more curious by the moment. In the beginning it was just an assumption, but after today... Icy had a secret. Looking out the window as they were taking off, she wondered if it was wrong to try to discover a secret that seemed to be very private. Okay, it wasn't right at all. They didn't have anything to do with it, and if Icy wanted to keep it a secret of course they shouldn't even think about it! What had they been thinking?! They were going to expose someone's personal life! But the way Icy reacted... She really seemed worried, scared maybe? Maybe she could help her... The witch had been kind of nice... Wich was also strange... But only time would tell.
To be continued...
A.N.: Hey everyone! Sorry I'm so late with the update! But don't worry because I won't stop until I finish this story. Anyway, I hope you liked this chapter. Tell me about your opinion and any sugestion. See you soon. Adeus.