Whoo! after almost, what, TWO WEEKS?f
well, i've finally finished up the third chapter.
sigh, at the rate i'm going, i'm gonna lose my whole audience before this thing ends T-T
by the way, i've got some pretty approving reviews for the Nymphs (thank you xxxMusarockz ;) but i'm sure they're still a bit confusing, so if you look at the end of the story, there will be a mild description of them that might or might not have been picked up on in the last chapter, so it'll still be a surprise XD
but enough rambling, enjoy the show!
Disclaimer: I do not own Winx Club, but i do own Mahoney, Knighta and Dottania
Chapter 3-I'll Always Love You
The moment Riven threw the lantern (1) the Winx club instantly went into action. Using their magic and weapons, they blasted at the worms, but only to guide their attention toward the glowing light wandering toward the hole.
The worms, with far more excitement then they had expected, dove right into the crater without a second glance. When all of them had slithered their way in, the girls (minus Musa) gathered over the hole, linked hands, and with a great surge of convergence energy, shot straight into the hole.
The moment impact was made, a geyser of sparkles shot up into the sky, illuminating the battle field. All was silent...for a full two seconds, before the entire Cloud Tower campus erupted with cheers, both outside and in since the witches had ran to their windows, coming out of hiding, when the eruption sounded.
But one scream rained out on the others, cutting the celebration in half. It was not one of happiness as much as it was one of horrific grief.
"NOOOOO!"
All eyes (outside) turned to its source. Up on one of the out walks, high above the ground was Musa. She had one knee up on the rail and her wings were beating hard for her to take off right into the hole. But Mahoney, who had woken up only a few moments ago, had her long, tanned arms wrapped around her tightly. Musa was struggling and thrashing around as rivers of tears came streaming down her face, but the Nymph held on. The girls were about to fly up and ask what was the matter, when Musa let out another wail.
"RIIIIVEEEEN!"
As the weeping fairy of music slipped off the rail and into her guardian's motherly arms, the rest of the Winx club turned their horrified eyes toward the hole. All was deathly silent as everyone tried to comprehend what had just happened. What they had just let happen.
"Do you mean...Riven was...in the..." Helia couldn't even form a proper question. Beside him, Flora suddenly burst into tears of her own, covering her face with her hands.
Out of instinct, Helia immediately ran to her and held her in his arms. She grabbed at the sleeves of his uniform "what have we done?" she whispered. Before he could even answer, she yanked him closer to her and screamed "WHAT HAVE WE DONE?"
That seemed to be all it took. Tecna ran crying into Timmy's waiting arms. Stella and Bloom collapsed against their partners and Layla slowly slumped to the ground, hair covering her face while Nabu bent down and hugged her.
Dottania flew up to the tower and joined her Nymphet sister in comforting the hysterical princess of the Harmonic Nebula.
"I don't understand" Tecna whimpered through her sobs "why did he jump? He could have just thrown the lantern! It's COMPLETELY ILLOGICAL!" she screamed.
"Tecna, the light wouldn't have been enough" Timmy tried to comfort her, though his own glasses were beginning to fog (2) with repressed tears.
"Yeah, I mean the light just...got their attention" Brandon explained, gently rubbing Stella's back.
"It was...what was attached to it that they really wanted" Sky added, squeezing Bloom tighter.
"Riven knew that" Helia concluded "That's why he..."
"...sacrificed himself" Knighta finished, walking up to the group. His face remained as staccotic as always, barley showing any emotion, but his pale gold eyes, the color of a guardian Nymph, showed great sorrow for losing one of his students.
"Master Riven was only doing what he believed was beneficial" he continued. As a 19 year boy raised in medieval times before his death, he spoke properly and addressed people by their status.
His words, however, did little to comfort the group. When Layla felt Nabu's embrace go from hugging her to pressing against her, she changed their position to where she was holding him as he grieved for his best friend.
High above their heads, the other three girls were crying too. Musa was holding onto Mahoney's tank top for dear life while she in turn cried into her hair. Behind Musa, Dotty had her face buried into her back, her long, curly blond hair falling as a curtain around her small body.
Suddenly, in a burst of wild anguish, Musa ripped herself from both girls and with one powerful blast of energy, teleported herself away (3).
"Musa!" Stella called out to her, about to stop her, when Brandon suddenly reached out and grabbed her wrist.
"Let her go Stel. She's...hurting. Alot" he whispered
Stella looked at him for a moment before falling back into his arms. "We didn't mean to" she whimpered into his chest, "we didn't know that he-"
"Of course you didn't, Cupcake" Brandon told her, rubbing her back soothingly, "he didn't want you to know. We would have stopped him if we had."
"Stupid, Stupid, STUPID!" Musa screamed as she shot another burst of energy at the bolder before her.
"How could you? How could you go and do it?" she shouted shooting wave after wave at the stone. The ground shook dangerously and small bits of rock rained down on her with each blast but she was beyond caring. "You promised me we would be TOGETHER FOREVER!"
With her biggest blast yet she fired at the boulder and in a great explosion of dust it was gone, nothin but pebbles remained and they rained down and pelted Musa all over like hail stones.
It was okay. She liked this kind of pain. Physical, heal-in-a-few-weeks pain. She could handle that. What she couldn't handle was that giant hunk of lead slowly forming in her chest. With a sudden lack of energy, Musa dropped to her knees, staring down at her bruised and scratched legs.
"how could you go and... go and..." unable to finish, she burst into another round of tears and lay, head pressed down on her knees while her wings drooped behind her.
"How could he go and kill himself?"
At the sound of the sneering voice, Musa leapt from the ground and turned to find none other than the Trix sisters standing petulantly behind her.
"Oh, poor puppy dog. He really was far too... noble" Icy smirked cruelly.
"Yeah, you must be so sad Darcy. Your little pet's been put down" Stormy snicker at her sister.
"Oh, that's okay. I'm sure I could pick another one up from the pound. Maybe one not so stupid at to let himself be blasted to smithereens by some stupid pixies he called his friends" Darcy shrugged in reply.
"Hey, maybe there's a two-for-one. Seems like poor Musa here will be needing a replacement too." Icy pointed out. With that, all three witches burst into gales of cruel laughter.
They were so preoccupied, they didn't even notice as the ground began to shiver beneath them, the pebbles around the stone-dirt area beginning to levitate, and they certainly didn't notice the sudden shadow of death that began lurking across the ground radiating off the fairy across from them as her eyes began to blow a brilliant red.
They didn't see it, but they certainly heard it.
"I don't get it. Where could she have gone?" Bloom cried as they scanned the vast wasteland that was the Cloud Tower campus. The things that went on in that school was so horrible, even the grass didn't want to hang around. Dottania had stayed behind to tell the witches and Miss Griffin (whenever she and the other teachers returned from the council meeting) what had gone on.
The rest of Winx club had been searching for their lost friend for quite some time, but they had no luck. It was as if she had vanished.
"Don't worry Bloom I'm sure we'll find he-" Sky was suddenly cut off by something. The most horrible sound they had ever heard.
It was as if someone had thrown on a CD but twisted and warped it. It was loud, it was fast, and it was screeching so horribly it cracked the ground beneath their feet. Instantly, they threw their hands to their ears in a desperate attempt to save their hearing, but it still didn't completely block the horrifying sound.
"What in Magix is that?" Layla shouted, trying to be heard by the group standing no more than three feet from her.
"I don't know" Tecna confessed "but according to my readings, if it doesn't stop soon, it could tear the entire campus apart, not to mention the rest of the schools and maybe even Magix city!"
The group looked at each other with sad, regretful faces, before forcibly pulling their hands from their ears and following Tecna and Timmy as they tracked down the sound. As much as they knew Musa needed them, they had a duty to perform. Saving Magix came before friends' emotions.
Not one of the fairies, heroes, or Nymphs could believe what they were witnessing. They had traced the sound to a deserted area alongside the forbidden forest and found the source as one of the most gruesome sights they had ever seen.
Musa. Beating the living daylights out of the Trix sisters.
Stormy and Darcy both lay in a bloody mess. Stormy was smashed headfirst into a nearby boulder and Darcy lay in a ditch in the shape of her own body.
Icy was not as fortunate. She remained fixed in Musa's fisted hand, limped and bruised beyond belief as Musa continuously hit her with blast after blast of magical energy. With every contact, a piercing note rang through the air, the source of the noises.
"Musa! Musa, stop it!" Flora cried to her friend.
"You're killing her!" Sky informed her, but she refused to listen. She simply continued to blast the life from the powerful witch.
Mahoney, back in her guardian form, ran up behind her and grabbed hold of her arms. When even she couldn't hold her back, Knighta and Brandon joined her in pinning Musa's limbs while Layla pried Icy from her fingers.
"NO! LET ME GO! THEY DESERVE THIS!" Musa continued to cry while she fought with all her strength to escape her friends clutches and finish off the witches. They would pay for what they said. What they did. It was they who had taken Riven away from her, now she was going to return the favor. Take their lives from them.
Flora crouched down beside Icy, desperately running her fingers across the Trix leader's throat. She breathed a sigh of relief when she felt the flustered pulse. After prying Stormy from the rock and Darcy from the pit, she checked them too, also confirming that they were alive.
By now, Musa had calmed down with a little help from Knighta's magic of emotions, and was released. Now that the overbearing rage had melted from her, she took a good look at the Trix sisters and visibly shivered with disgust. Had she really done that to them?
Nabu suddenly approached her. "We went into the hole and... found these." He held the finds out to her. on one arm was drapped a half-destroyed, light blue cape with a magenta-gemmed clasp (4) and a purple meteor hammer. And resting in his outstretched palms was a perfectly intact magenta saber.
Why was that the only thing not damaged? Oh, that's right. He dropped that on the Cloud Tower walkway when he caught her. It had probably still been there the whole time. Mahoney must have found it. It was one of the last things he had touched before...
In a flash, Musa ripped the sword from Nabu's hands and with another burst of magic, teleported herself again.
This time, they didn't try to go after her again. Instead, the boys picked up the beaten Trix, wrapping their capes around them to slow the bleeding and proceeded to walk back to the ship they'd arrived in, Knighta following after them. The girls stayed and turned to Stella as she pulled out her Solaria ring. And with a simple spell they zapped themselves back to Alfea, hoping Musa was there.
Musa opened her eyes as the sparkles of magic from teleportation faded. The first thing she felt against her skin was the pelting of heavy rain. She looked around and found herself exactly where she had been aiming for: her mother's grave.
Musa stared down at the tombstone, written in the Harmonic Nebula's native language. Two sticks of incense were placed in the dirt, but the rain had doused them. Musa effortlessly changed from her fairy form and looked down at the incense.
"Hey mom" she quietly greeted them, hoping her mother could hear, " I know I haven't visited in a while but this is kinda important." She proceeded to tell the tombstone all that had happened and by the time she was finished, new tears were streaming down her face and the rain had soaked her through but she didn't care.
"I guess...now I know" she admitted, voice quaking as she held back her sobs, "why dad was...always so...miserable...This is what it feels like to lose the one you...Th-the one you...the..."
Musa couldn't finish as she, for the fifth time that day, broke down and cried. She clenched the purple saber in her fists till her knuckles turned white, pressing the handle into her cheek as if it were Riven's hand, cupping her face as he always had when she cried to him.
But this sword, nothing more than a piece of metal, wouldn't kiss away the tears with soft, warm lips. Wouldn't hold her with strong arms and rock her back and forth like a small child. Wouldn't whisper comforting words to her and let her use his shirt as a tissue.
No, this sword wasn't Riven.
Musa fell to her knees, not caring how the wet mud soaked and probably stained her pants. Gripping the handle even tighter if possible, she raised it above her head, blade pointed down.
"Goodbye Riven. I'll always love you!"
With that, Musa plunged the sword deep into the earth, right beside her mother's grave and continued to hold onto the handle as she cried out her broken heart.
When the rain finally stopped pouring, the Grave yard was empty. Nothing but tombstones covered the floating patches of dirt.
On one small island however, was a rather big tombstone and beside it, shining brilliantly in the sunlight, was a long, Magenta saber.
Tiny white pebbles circled the base of the sword and, sitting infront of it, was a large stone, magically engraved with the words:
Riven of Red Fountain
A Loyal Team mate, A Best Friend, A Dear Man
Goodbye My Love
there, all done (for now) ;) for those of you who might be thinking otherwise, no this is NOT the end. this whole thing is full of drama. here's a few more thing from the story (1) the winx club didn't know that riven had JUMPED into the hole, they thought he had just thrown he lantern in. that's why they lasted it to smithereens wth him still inside. (2) from what i've seen, peoples glasses tend to fog up when they cry. i don't know why, but they do. kinda weird =-O (3) i'm sure that fairies can teleport themselves on their own i mean they can't ALWAYS depend on stella's solaria ring' can they? (4) i don't know what that gemstone thing is on the specialists cape, but i think it's used to hold the cape on. i once read in the Fanfic "memory box" by
here;s a short description of the Nimphs" Mahoney normal form: mahoney is pretty tanned skin (sorta like Nabu) with dark brown hair in a bob cut held with a buterfly hair clip. she wears a blue, green, and white stripped tanktop and dark blue capris with strap-up brown sandals Guardian form: her Guardian form is like fairy form. her hair is pulled up into a curly bun with beads hanging from the base. kinda like tecna's enchantix, ladybug wings cross her chest, showing her stomach. her shirt is made of buterfly wings with jewel beetle shells on each wing. her wings are also twice as big as nowmal enchantix wings (you can imagine the pattern as you want ;) Dottania aka Dotty normal form: dotty has very white skin, not as much as musa's but closer to stella's. her hair is a dark blond (darker than stella's) and very wavy reaching almost to her hips. she wears a lolita styled dress (like chimera's from season two) but black skirt and sleeves and blue shirt with blue slippers. guardian form: her guardian form is a model of more traditional witch outfits (since she's half witch), a long black dress wih puffy white fure across the hem, sleeves, and collar. it buttons across the stomach and chest with strings that tie across the opening, revealing a deep blue inner gown. she also wears a pointy witches hat with more fur around the rim. also, which is rare for any witch, she actually rides a broom stick instead of normal flying. Knighta normal: knighta is not as tan as mahoney but not as pale as dotty. his hair is a dark red with orange and yellow highlights. his hair style is like timmy's but sticks up in the front. he wears a button up black vest over a white long sleaved dress shirt. his pants are dark black jeens and gray shoes.
guardian form: his guardian form looks alot like the specialists outfit, except the blue is replaced with black and the white with light gray. he also doesn't wear a cape. hia gloves, unlike the specialists, has black palms with a thin gray material around his fingers. in the middle of his chest is a dark red gem alot lke the ones specialists us to hold on their capes.
well, that's about all i want to say this chapter. i'm seriously exhausted.
no wait! there IS one more thing i wanted to say...
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