Layla spotted the man with Bloom and felt her anger build and began to worry for her friends safety.
"Bloom that's the man who caused all of this!" Layla yelled.
Bloom turned back to the man, what Layla said was causing her anger to rise bit by bit. Her hybrid aura flared.
"It seems there is some differences between our powers, your dark powers aren't one with the dragon flame like mine." Valtor observed.
"You know you should join me, succubuses are not very viewed by others, and most races would just kill you on sight." Valtor said.
However, what the dark wizard hadn't counted on was that Bloom subconsciously remembered what he did and that, that subconscious memory made her laugh in her mind at this. Her mind instinctively tapped into the necklace to give more sexual energy for battle.
The energy coursed through her veins and left a sweet taste in her mouth, her anger joined with her dark magic, and she was soon hovering above the ground.
"I don't care what some people would do, those I care for accept me and that's all I need...besides even if they didn't it would be a cold day in hell before I join you Valtor" Bloom screamed as her dark power began to radiate off of her along with her anger, Valtor frowned, he could feel her rage and doubted it was due to what he was doing on Andros and was only further confused by the strength of her dark powers, he had been prepared to face the light powers of the dragon fire not the dark side of it. Bloom blasted him with a beam of dark purple energy, Valtor caught the attack but was gradually been pushed back.
'She's stronger than I thought she'd be...this going to be fun' Valtor thought to himself as he grew a dark and cocky smirk, Valtor managed to deflect the attack. It took some energy to do so though.
"I must say your stronger then I was lead to believe" Valtor confessed. Since the others were dealing with the Trix Layla was able to leave the group and fly towards Valtor.
"What have you done!" Layla screamed. Valtor turned to the princess Andros. Valtor began to consider that it might be time to leave after all he was only there to escape from the Omega dimension so his business is finished there. But before he does leave he might as well leave a little thank you present for allowing him to escape.
"We will meet again Bloom but first" Valtor declared before turning back to Layla, he raised his hand and fired a curse at her. Hearing this the Winx turned to Layla as the Trix took their leave with Valtor. Bloom ran towards Layla, being a succubus she sensed dark magic around her eyes.
"Layla are you ok?" Bloom asked, more than concerned for her friend.
"I'm blind." The dark skinned princess gasped out her voice filled to the rim with fear.
Bloom's eyes widened at hearing this and had to fight back her rage so not to be fully engulfed by it like she was in her first year at Alfea.
"That bastard will pay for this" Bloom muttered darkly, her eyes glowing purple slightly, Bloom took a cleansing breath she couldn't help her friend when she was too angry to even concentrate.
'Now let's see…a spell that takes away sight...what is it Vanessa said about these types of spells?' Bloom thought to herself as she racked her brain for the slightest hint at what she had to do...
'Think Bloom damn it think...Darcy used an almost identical spell on me last year' Bloom thought to herself but she could see this spell was different, she could sense it and it was far more powerful than the one used on her.
Bloom wondered what could be done. Vanessa told her that some dark magic couldn't be removed without magic of equal or greater power. However, there was always a way to remove curses for fairies as she learned in Cloud Tower, Bloom continued to rack her brains, as they headed back to the beach when Roxy saw something in the waves.
"Hey look" Roxy yelled as she pointed in the direction of what she saw, everyone but Layla who was still blind looked to see a mermaid come from the water.
"Layla" the mermaid greeted. Even though the fairy of waves was blind she recognized the voice.
"Cousin Tressa." Layla greeted, since she was unable to see she had to feel around for her cousin.
"What happened to you?" The mermaid princess asked.
"Valtor put a curse on me and now I'm blind" Layla responded, her eyes dropping out of habit as tear slid down her cheek before dropping into the water.
"Oh" Tressa sighed, she'd been hoping to gain her cousins help only to find she would be unable to help without her sight, it would be suicide, Bloom felt the mermaids depression.
"There's something you're not telling us Tressa what is it?" Bloom asked, Tressa floated back a bit in surprise, surprised that Bloom knew there was more to this and that something else had happened without her even hinting at it.
"You forgot I'm a succubus didn't you" Bloom dead panned, Tressa sighed when Bloom pointed this out.
"I need your help...my mother she's gone and when I went to find her I found her crown outside the kraken's lair" Tressa explained.
This wasn't a good thing to here for Layla, neither was it good for the others but Layla took it the hardest since Tressa's mother was her family.
"We have to help her, even if I'm blind." Layla stated strongly, her aunt was the queen of Andros' underwater kingdom. Roxy turned to her friends.
"So we are going underwater, then we may need a way to actually breathe." Roxy pointed out.
"Here I can use my morfix to allow us to breathe under water." Layla proposed. After a couple minutes of swimming they came across a few things.
"Is it me or is the coral trying to attack us?" Musa asked growing confused and worried. Bloom sensed the spell in place. Flora was about to some nature magic on the coral, until Roxy stopped her.
"Flora wait this coral's an animal" Roxy explained briefly, before using one of her own spells, however, even though her spell affected it but something wasn't right.
"Ok I'm out of ideas." Roxy said in a defeated sigh.
"Whatever cursed it was very powerful." Techna stated.
The coral continued to try and get a grip on them, Bloom could feel the magic that coursed through them, it was neither good nor evil, wasn't light or dark it was just indifferent, they simply existed and did as nature intended without outside influence, which meant they acted on instinct.
"I have an idea, go ahead, I'll catch up with you later, I think I can get them to back off" Bloom stated, her friends did as she said having no time to argue, Bloom turned to face the coral and stopped, the coral began to wrap around her wrists, her waist and ankles, Bloom closed her eyes and focused on the powers within her, for within her was the soul of a demon and the heart and power of the most powerful dragon to ever roam the universe, she let her magics both light and dark merge at her very core before spreading it throughout her body, a powerful aura surrounded them, the coral sensed the danger and began to uncoil and move away from Bloom, seeing her as their predator instead of prey, once they were gone Bloom swam after her friends.
When the Winx one again reunited with Bloom soon found the makeshift cages made within the cave. As they swam though the place they came to the cage with the mermaid queen just as she let out a sigh.
"Auntie Ligea." Layla gasped at hearing her voice.
The mermaid queen saw Layla and the Winx. However, the one that got most of her attention was Bloom.
"A succubus? I never thought I would see one of you as a fairy." The mermaid queen said. She saw her daughter and her niece. Something was off about her eyes. Roxy had felt an animal inside the cave along with them, she felt the creatures mind and was more than surprised by what she felt as it seemed the creature only hate and anger and acted on pure instinct.
'I hope is not the kraken.' Roxy thought to herself beginning to grow more and more worried. The mermaid princess looked very ashamed about something.
Bloom noticed Tressa's expression as did her mother, they were about to comment on it when, Bloom sensed another presence, she span round to see the kraken in all its horror and unholy glory.
"Don't make any sudden movements" Ligea warned, the Kraken would protect its lair from anything it saw as a threat and would constantly keep an eye out for movement in case food would happen to come too close to its lair, none of them moved, the Winx kept glancing back and forth for any or caverns they could use to escape once they freed the queen, Bloom, however, had kept constant eye contact with the beast, it was like she seeing into its very soul, it was twisted, dark, without mercy, pure instinct, one of the many ultimate predators, the beast appeared to keep eye contact with Bloom as if deciding if she was a threat or prey.
Since do to the nature of Bloom's powers she could present a threat to the krakken which would mean it would fight until either she left or died or it died in order to protect it's territory and if she wasn't a threat then the hunt would begin.
Roxy being the fairy of animals could understand animals. Most seemed to be able to think. This one however, reminded her of a few encounters when she started out with magic some animals where hard to influence with magic. The hardest seemed to be squids are simple animals, like coral and sponges all instinct though she could feel some intelligence but totally over powered and driven by instinct.
The kraken seemed more or less fixated on Bloom. Roxy took a gamble. She used her power to create second kraken, a fake one to distract it, the kraken spotted the duplicate kraken. Roxy tried to use what magic she had over the kraken to insight its territorial nature. The others looked surprised but the kraken that just appeared swam away the other kraken swam after it. Bloom turned to Roxy.
"Thanks Roxy for that." She gasped out.
"Yeah but the spell won't hold him off for long." Roxy explained briefly.
The mermaid queen turned to Layla and looked her over.
"Layla what had happened to your eyes?" she asked with a worried tone.
"I was cursed and turned blind" Layla explained briefly fighting back another tear.
"Listen my sceptre has the power to heal any wound and break any curse but it requires sun light to work and I'm afraid we don't have much time before the sun sets" Ligea stated.
"Then we better get going" Bloom stated, before giving the lock to the queens cell a powerful blast, however, she put a bit too much power in and instead of destroying the lock, she destroyed the cell door, Bloom lightly blushed "Well that's one way to open the door" Stella laughed. The group took off, knowing they didn't have much time until the kraken got wise and came after them and they didn't have much time to undo Layla's curse and what's worse was Bloom could feel the curse's energy and she worried that it could be permanent if it wasn't broken soon. However, little did they know, Roxy could sense her kraken was beginning to fade out of existence and it wouldn't take long for the real Kraken to figure out it's a fake and come back after them and that it wouldn't take long for it to catch up to them.
