Author's Notes: I lied, I'm going to call Mirta, Mirta now. In a few days, I'll go back and change the other chapters, so Mirta is Mirta. Once again, out of character actions in this chapter. I'm sorry that it took so long to get this chapter up, I have a whole list of excuses, but I won't bore you with them.
In less than five minutes after arriving into the library, all hell had broken loose. Lucy had ran in, freaked as if she had survived some cruel type of torture that Stella had researched with Bloom.
"What happened?" Mirta asked, worry ringing in her voice.
"The Trix are here." Lucy said, clearly forcing herself to keep calm.
Stella lost the details of what had happened. Questions and comments were being shouted louder and louder so they could be heard over the massing din. She understood the basics of it, the Trix were in the building and looking for the Codex, they had ran into Lucy and attacked her. Lucy got away, and was still freaked by her encounter with the evil trio.
"So now what?" a somewhat cool headed Ash asked.
Stella was unsure what bugged her about the question, was it either her increasing dislike of Ash, or was it something about the way the phrase was said that made it seem knife-like.
If Bloom felt that way, she did not show it, "I think the best thing to do would be to spilt up and look the second floor hallway and the areas around it. About four to five people per group. It's small; but there would be enough to hold them off in case, gods forbid, something goes wrong and we would be able to cover more ground that way." Bloom commanded with ease.
Stella admired her friend's natural charisma, when Bloom was not complaining about how much her life sucked at the moment. Generally speaking most people who find out that they have magical powers and get to train with them are pretty happy; as are people who find out they are the heir to a kingdom. Well, it must have been upsetting for Bloom to know that she is the one of the only people from her birth world, Domino that still lives. Stella's mind wandered back to the present when she noticed people clumping together and voices of students were added into the din.
Initially the groups seemed to be cliques witches hangout with the witches that they always had. Bloom, would have none of that and told people to spilt up based on magical abilities, if possible, have one fairy, a witch who could sense things, a witch who could cast high level magic, and a witch who could use telepathy, or a similar form of communication incase something went wrong.
Stella ended up in a group with Isra, Ash, and a girl called Skuld. Stella was the fairy of the group, so of course she ended up in one of the seven groups that had fairies attached to it. Isra, and other Solarian witches, had a form of heat vision that could be accessed when concentrating. Stella wondered to herself if she had that ability tucked down within her. Ash was apparently could use telepathy and mind reading. Stella had heard Mirta whisper to Bloom that if mind attacks were not strictly forbidden at Cloudtower, many people would be the constant victim of her bulling. Skuld was a quiet girl, who apparently had strong powers.
The foursome walked out of the library ahead of everyone else. They were to look in the third floor hallway, above the area of the library. Ash led the way, walking as if the universe where her bitch. Stella had done and seen many gaits like it. She felt a bit self-conscience for a moment, and then shrugged it off. It did not matter how much her gait looked or did not look like Ash's.
After a few minutes of walking, Ash clearly became the dominate one of the group, walking ahead of everyone else. Stella walked behind Ash, and Isra stood at her side. Skuld, walked slowly behind them.
"Keep up!" Ash shouted from ahead.
Skuld instantly rushed up to Stella and Isra. Her actions made Stella wonder if the girl was really as powerful as she thought. Why would she follow someone like Ash? The foursome began the stairs to the next floor to scout for the Trix.
"Wait!" Isra said.
Ash turned around. "What?" she growled.
Isra stepped back after hearing Ash's reply.
"Were not the only ones here," Isra responded.
"So the Trix are here?" Stella stated rather than asked.
Isra nodded at Stella, "I think so, I can see their bodies heats. Two are normal, while the other is cold, I'm guessing the cold one is Icy. I haven't sensed a body temperature that low since the Trix attended here last year."
"Are you sure?" Ash responded in an out of character tone.
Isra nodded.
"So, should we start looking for the others and tell them we've found the Trix?" Stella asked the group.
"Its no use" Skuld said pointing towards a window, "Even if we run, I think the Trix will be able to fight us."
The other girls of the group followed Skuld's finger tips. In front of their faces stood the Trix.
"Shit" Stella cursed. This was not going to plan.
"Well, well, look what we have here. Three witches and a fairy, they must be lost," said Icy's cold and familiar voice.
Stella said nothing, but tried to let the positive energy of her Winx flow through her body. She squeezed her eyelids shut and tried to think of something upbeat. If her mother and father got back together she would be happy. Stella held the thought for a few seconds before she felt reality knock her over.
Stella did not fully understand what had happened, she only felt the ground beneath her give way her body flying backwards head first into the wall. Pain surged through her thin frame.
"Stella!" Isra said with concern.
Stella moaned a response to the group. She heard one of the Trix laugh, Stella looked up to see a large blast of dark energy coming towards her. Stella closed her eyes, waiting for the inevitable pain. Instead of pain, she heard a moan. Stella shot her eyes open, Isra lay in a heap a few feet in front of her.
"Isra," Stella asked as she tried to push herself up.
Ash came over to the two. "Are you two okay?" she asked, again out of her queen bee character.
"I think I will be," Stella responded.
Isra said nothing in response.
"Isra?" Ash asked.
No response.
"Fairies can heal, right?" Ash asked Stella.
"Enchantix fairies, yes. I can't." Stella stated, fear and adrenaline pulsing through her.
"Shit!" Ash cussed.
"Call Bloom, or someone who you know that can help." Stella stated, feeling anger rise in her.
"I'm trying. It's hard to focus." Ash said.
A moan came from one of the Trix. Skuld had hit Darcy with a ball of energy. Skuld smiled at the fallen member of the Trix, her spell wasn't too deadly, Darcy would recover consciousness in about ten minutes.
"Are you guys okay?" Skuld asked her voice barely audible from the distance.
Instead of focusing on happy thoughts that weren't there, Stella focused on the negative, on vengeance. Making the Trix pay for everything they had put herself, her friends and anyone else through. Stella felt her fists clench and felt the dark embrace her.
The saying, "know ones enemies" popped into her mind briefly. She had figured out another reason why Miss. Fargonda sent them here. Witches used the darkness inside them, they released it in self defense. They walked the fine line of good and evil. Getting training that the Trix had had at some point would be helpful to them during a fight. Stella would make sure she knew every once of it.
An orange light embraced her and she felt herself, the angry lioness within her roar.
Stella concentrated on the dark thoughts, unleashing the lioness. She screamed as she let out an attack of glaring light and heat towards the Trix.
"The Codex is not yours to take. It is not Darkar's to take. It is not anyone's to take. It is to remain here." Stella screeched, closing in on the Trix.
Stormy aimed an attack at the screeching fairy. Stella jumped out of the way, a near by wall taking the hit instead.
Stormy growled at the hovering girl. Stella smirked at her.
"Try again." She dared the witch, hovering in the same place.
Stormy took up the challenge and another blast was aimed at her. Stella dodged it again.
"You really have gotten rusty, Stormy." Stella commented casually, her tone nearly the opposite of her screeches moments before.
The Trix reclaimed their motive to attack. Three attacks loaded off within milliseconds of each other. The angles of the attacks were similar, but not the same. The three blasts closed in on Stella. Stella cried out in pain and everything went black.
Stella opened her eyes; Bloom and Ash were standing above her, both looking worried.
"What happened?" Stella asked as soon as she gained enough consciousness to form words.
"You entered into a blessed form." Ash replied.
"A what?" Stella was confused, she had not heard the term before.
"A witch's equivalent of a fairy form." Ash explained.
Stella nodded and looked at the ceiling.
"You got hit by the three of their attacks, right after another. You blacked out." Ash continued.
"Ash had contacted most of us via telepathy and we came. The Trix managed to get the Codex and well... it's not a big deal" Bloom said forlornly.
Stella had an eerie feeling that Bloom was withholding information from her.
"Where's Isra?" She asked.
Bloom and Ash looked at each.
"She, well, she didn't make it." Ash started to say, salty tears coming down her face.
Stella's heart sank. She knew what happened, but it didn't make sense. Isra couldn't be.
"She died, Stella," Bloom clarified, "when she was hit by the attack, she broke her neck."
Stella felt herself sink, "No, I don't believe you… You're lying."
"I wish we were" Ash responded, "I was so cruel to her… to everyone here"
Stella lifted up with the back of her arms. Isra had to be here.
"Stella! Lay down, your still not better." Bloom said, pushing her friend back onto the hospital bed.
Stella fell back into the bed. She could see many people in the hospital, none of them were Isra.
Isra was dead.