Chapter 3
As the car entered the city of Gardena Corvetta looked over at the passenger in the car who had been quietly crying most of the trip.
"Nikea are you ok?" Corvetta asked.
Nikea did not answer she just continued to cry.
"Listen I know that you must be mad at me for not trying to save Isaac." Corvetta said, "I was just following what he had told us to do."
Corvetta just continued to drive quietly. After a few minutes Corvetta pulled to the curb so whe could talk to Nikea.
"So where are your friends at?" Corvetta asked as she looked over at Nikea.
Nikea looked at Corvetta with tears filling her eyes and could not speak.
"Just point the way to where I need to take you." Corvetta said.
"Is that Nikea?" A woman asked as she came out of a store.
"Do you know her?" Corvetta asked the woman.
"Yes she is friends with my daughter Bloom, my name is Vanessa." Vanessa said.
"Does this Bloom happen to know someone named Flora?" Corvetta asked.
"Yes they work together at a shop called Love and Pets." Vanessa said, "Is she ok?"
"I'm not sure, I was just told to get her to her friend Flora." Covetta said.
"Give me a few minutes to close up my shop and I will take you to them." Vanessa said with a smile.
"Thank you." Corvetta said.
After a few minutes Vanessa came back to the car and climbed in the back seat.
"I'm sorry I never got you name." Vanessa said.
"It's Corvetta." Corvetta said, "So which way do I go?"
Vanessa guided the car right to the shop which had a line of people standing outside. After finding a parking spot near by Corvetta went around to the passenger side and help Nikea get out of the car.
As they entered the shop it was as busy inside as it was outside.
"Welcome to love and pets." Someone said, "Wait is that Nikea?"
The orange hair girl ran over to Corvetta and looked at the crying girl.
"What did you do to her?" The orange hair girl asked with anger in her voice.
"Bloom she did nothing to her, Nikea was like that when they pulled up outside the flower shop." Vanessa said.
Bloom looked over to see her mom stand next to Corvetta.
"Ok bring her back here and tell me what happened." Bloom said as she headed to the back of the shop.
After placing Nikea in a chair Corvetta took a set next to her.
"My name is Corvetta and I meet Nikea and Isaac last night." Corvetta said.
"Where is Isaac?" A girl with blonde hair asked as she walked by.
"Were not sure, let me explain what happened." Corvetta said.
Corvetta explained what had transpired over the past night and the morning how both Nikea and Isaac had gotten into the garage and stayed the night also recounting the story that Isaac and Nikea had told her the night before. Then what had happened that day where they had gotten back after getting something to eat and found Lutina waiting inside the living area of the garage. How Isaac had told Covetta to take Nikea and bring her here and how the last thing they had seen was Isaac being dragged out of the burning building by Lutina.
"Stella go and tell the other to close up now." Bloom said as she turned toward the blonde girl.
"Want me to have Tecna get a hold of the guys while were at it?" Stella asked.
"Good idea." Bloom said.
A few minutes later all of the customers were being led out of the store and being apologized to for having to close early. After everyone had left the other three girls walked over and saw Nikea still crying.
"Bloom is she going to be ok?" A girl with honey color hair and jade eyes asked.
"I hope so Flora." Bloom said with sadness in her voice.
"So who is she?" A girl with blackish blue hair asked.
"My name is Corvetta what's yours?" Corvetta said with anger in her voice.
"I'm Layla and that is Musa." An African-American girl said.
"Nice to meet you." Musa said with a bit of anger in her voice.
A few minutes later the door opened and the specialists entered. Each on gave a look over at Corvetta before looking at Nikea.
An African-American man stepped forward and looked at Corvetta.
"Let me introduce you to everyone that you don't know yet, my name is Nabu." Nabu said with a smile on his face, "These are Riven, Brandon, Helia, and Timmy."
Each specialist waved as their name was said.
"My name is Corvetta." Corvetta said as she looked back to Nikea.
Corvetta stood up and walked to the other side of the store to look outside. A few moments later Flora walked up next to her.
"I know that she had to hate me for not going to try to save Isaac." Corvetta said as she looked back at Nikea.
"She might be mad right now but you did the right thing." Flora said, "But she has never been able to hold a grudge."
"Thanks for letting me know that about her." Corvetta said as she continued to look outside.
"Can I ask you why you weren't surprised when Isaac and Nikea told you about everything that had happened to them?" Flora asked.
"I know that most people would have thought that they were crazy just from the story it is just that I could see in there eyes that they believed what they were telling me." Corvetta said as she looked over at Flora.
"They were telling the truth you see all of us here have powers each one different but magic none the less." Flora said.
"So what powers do you have if you're telling the truth?" Corvetta asked.
"I am the Fairy of Nature." Flora said with a smile, "Stella has the powers of the sun and the moon, Layla can use a substance called Morphix, Musa can control sound, Tecna has powers over technology, and Bloom has the Dragon Fire."
"What about Nikea?" Corvetta asked.
"She can control water." Helia said as he walked over to join the two girls.
"So how are you going to stop this Lutina person?" Corvetta asked, "She defeated those two so easily."
"The same way we have defeated evil before." Flora said, "With our friendship and teamwork."
"Do you think that will be enough?" Corvetta asked.
"Only time will tell." Helia said.
All three walked back to the group of people in the back of the store. When Nikea looked up and saw Corvetta anger started to fill her eyes.
"Why didn't you even try and go to help Isaac?" Nikea yelled.
"He told us to get out of there." Corvetta said as she looked at Nikea.
"I know but you could have at least gone and picked him up before we left." Nikea yelled with anger in her voice.
"Yeah and what would that have done maybe she would have gotten us also." Corvetta yelled.
"Stop it you two, I don't want to see a fight break out." Flora yelled as she stepped between the two girls.
"I'm sorry Flora it's just we don't even know if Isaac is alive or not." Nikea said with tears filling her eyes again.
"I see that you made it to your friends." A voice said with laughter.
Nikea and Corvetta started to look around everywhere.
"Who's there?" Flora asked.
"Someone that you all still can not beat." The voice said.
"It's Lutina." Nikea said with some fear in her voice.
"Where are you Lutina?" Bloom asked.
"I'm right here." Lutina said as she stepped out of Bloom's shadow on the wall.
"Where's Isaac?" Riven asked while he stared right at Lutina.
"Wouldn't you like to know?" Lutina said with sarcasm in her voice.
"Are you here for a fight?" Layla asked.
"No I am not here to fight you, as you can see I can get to you at any time." Lutina said as she looked right at Layla.
"Then what are you here for?" Timmy asked.
"I just wanted to see the people that defeated Deathscythe up close and personal." Lutina said.
Lutina turned and looked Nikea right in the eyes with an expressionless face.
"I see that you still have not fully recovered from my attack." Lutina said, "I told you that you could not hope to beat me."
Nikea just stared right at Lutina with anger in her eyes.
"Ok I will leave you all now." Lutina said before laughing.
She slowly walked past Helia and rubbed her hand under his chin as she went by.
"You are my next target my dear." Lutina said as she disappeared in his shadow.
"That was creepy." Musa said after a few moments of silence.
"You're telling me she gave me goosebumps when she touched me." Helia said.
"So what's the plan?" Nabu asked.
"I think we should go and see if we can find out anything at Alfea about Lutina." Bloom said.
"What about her?" Riven asked looking at Corvetta.
"What about me?" Corvetta asked.
"I don't think we should leave her alone but she will be stopped by the magical barrier around Magix" Bloom said, "so I guess that we go there and then split into two groups one stays with Corvetta while the other goes to Alfea to see if they can find out any information."
"You want me to get a hold of Sky and let him know what has happened?" Brandon asked.
Bloom shook her head. The specialists agreed that they would head back to their place and get the transporter that they had there. While they were there Brandon would call Sky and inform him about everything that was happing. After about an hour the specialists returned to the store.
"I let Sky know what's happened and he told me he would meet us at Alfea." Brandon said.
"Ok, then I guess that it's time to go." Bloom said as she looked over at Timmy.
After Timmy had inputted the coordinates a portal opened and Corvetta stood there looking at it.
"Is that thing safe?" Corvetta asked.
"Yeah it's safe; it is how the specialists got here." Stella said as she placed her hand on Corvetta's left shoulder.
After a few moments of hesitation Corvetta walked through the portal and ended up in a forested area. After everyone had emerged from the portal they gathered into a small circle.
"So what way do we head?" Corvetta asked.
"The school is that way." Stella pointed "But."
Corvetta began to walk in the way that Stella had pointed but before going to far she turned around and looked at everyone.
"Didn't she say she was from Earth?" Layla asked.
"Yeah she did." Bloom said.
"Then why didn't the barrier stop her?" Musa asked.
"Are you all coming?" Corvetta yelled back at everyone.
"I don't know, will ask Ms. Faragonda when we get there." Flora said before running to catch up to Corvetta.
After walking for a little way everyone could see the school coming into view with three people standing outside.
"Welcome back everyone." An elderly woman said, "And who is this?"
"Hi Ms. Faragonda, this is Corvetta." Helia said.
"It's nice to meet you dear." Ms Faragonda said with a smile on her face, "So where do you come from?"
"I'm from Earth." Corvetta said.
"Let's go to my office I want to talk to you all about Corvetta, Roxy you and Sky come with us." Ms. Faragonda said.
