Probably going to be somewhat a long chapter - with a faster pace.
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Stormy heard the sound of dust in front of her. She looked at Darcy, who was opposite her. Then she caught her eyes on Violet, who was behind Darcy.
"Look out!" Stormy screamed, pointing in Violet's direction.
Darcy turned around and looked up to see Violet get ready for an attack. With no time to think, Darcy directed a light purple and lunar beam at Violet, which pushed her off the veranda. On Stormy's side, Seth used his wind to push Stormy off the veranda, although Darcy caught her on time. Stormy then used her electricity on Seth but it was backfired by Violet's electromagnetic shield.
The fighting continued for quite a while, with both sides hurling attacks at each other and shielding themselves from ones. Until finally, after approximately half an hour at attacking each other, both sides were exhausted, barely catching their breath.
"I think... that should... be enough for one day cousin." Violet aired out through her heavy breathing.
"Indeed it is, and I think you should all stop for one day. What even went on here?" All five of them turned around to find Queen Refia, looking displeased yet smug at them.
"Fight went on...?" Seth sheepishly replied, wondering if he should've said that.
"Come on Seth, I'm not stupid. I know a fight went on," she then targeted her eyes on the Trix and started to walk towards them, stopping just in front of Icy, "and I suppose you three are the Trix - 'most feared villains I've heard."
"And I suppose you're the Queen, by the looks of how you're dressed," Icy glared at the Queen, "and seeing you're the Queen, and that you're most likely related to those two," Icy pointed at Seth and Violet who were still recovering, " I would like you, as the Queen, to tell them that we're not related to them and that they should never come close to us again. That includes you, seeing as apparently, you're our aunt."
"Icy? Are you sure about that?"
"Yes. Why shouldn't I? You have no relation with us?"
"Actually Icy, I've been watching you and your sisters, and... I was going to ask if you wanted to join forces with us?"
"For what!?" the witch was irritated now.
"You see, this planet is -"
"Yeah, yeah whatever! What about the dragon flame?" Violet interrupted. She covered her mouth as soon as she finished her sentence. She wasn't meant to say that - at least not here. Not where the Trix were. Violet looked around her and saw displeased faces all around her, especially coming from her mother and the Trix.
"Yeah..." Icy darted at the Queen with her eyes, "what about the dragon flame?"
Queen Refia only sighed, and without another word, she made an orange dragon appear in her hands, before changing the colour of the dragon to purple-black and then extinguishing it. Everyone, especially the Trix, was in awe.
"Is that-?" Seth started.
"The dragon flame!" Icy went closer to the Queen, "and it's ours. Give it." Icy held out her hands, which was only met by a manic laugh from the Queen and from Violet and Seth alike.
"You naive witch. Haven't you learnt from your time with Valtor? The Ancestral Witches? Darkar? Do you think that I'm going to give you something so priceless that easily?"
"No. I don't. But I do want you to know that we were the first one to trace and get the dragon flame that was rightfully ours and that our Ancestral Witches tried to retrieve so long ago. So I want what was ours. And I want it now." Again, a chorus of laughs replied to her words. Icy was shocked - no one disrespected the Trix like this - she was even surprised someone - or even three people - had the balls to do so.
"Is that what you think little girl?" The Queen laughed through tears of joy, " You three are not even related to the Ancestral Witches - nor that dragon flame! I can't believe that those three made you all believe that!" The Queen laughed some more, Violet and Seth joining in.
Anger poured over Icy - "little girl" was an insult gone too far. No one - no one had ever mocked her - or the Trix that much before. But there was also a sudden wave of confusion too. They weren't related to the Ancestral Witches? Nonsense - she thought. They were raised by the Ancestral Witches themselves! They've been with them their whole lives - the closest they had to parents. But was there that chance, that slight chance, that everything that she had been told had been all a lie? Those three were laughing hysterically at her claims - one's even rolling on the floor - and one of those three laughing was a Queen - royalty. And royalty was always right. They could never lie - or could they? She couldn't be a Queen. Heck, she didn't know what planet she was even on. All she knew that she was somewhere and it was morning. But she still questioned herself and was confused as ever.
The laughing roared even further and disturbed her thoughts. Her confusion and loss soon morphed to anger. In spite of this, she unconsciously made a flame appear in her hand, much to the surprise of Darcy and Stormy, and threw it at the Queen, who it hit, and a black cloud appeared. All of a sudden, all of the laughter ceased.
"What did you do?" Violet said in disbelief.
"Did what she deserved," Icy replied. Her two sister were still in shock.
"How did you make that flame appear?" Darcy asked.
"What flame?" Icy queried. She was blind to her own actions.
"The one you just threw at my mother!" Seth exclaimed.
"Flame or no flame, I did what I had to do. You should not have laughed at us."
"And you shouldn't have done what you did."
The cloud disappeared again. It had turned out that the Queen didn't seem to be affected one bit, not even looking shocked - much to Icy's disappointment. All she did was dust off her dress then turned to her children.
"When..." this was harder than it seemed. She had just seen her nieces for the first time in years, knowing that Icy had the powers of her sister. And she wished and prayed that it was false because it would be like fighting her sister on that same fatal day again. Icy had too much of her sister in her. Personality-wise and feature-wise. And she hated her sister right down to the core. She had hoped that it would be one of the younger siblings, but if it were to be Icy, so be it. "you were fighting with the Trix, did Icy display any more of 'those powers'?" She asked her two children, hoping they would give an answer.
"First of all, her ice appeared gold and blue. Then she somehow levitated off the ground using the wind - then she used that same wind she was controlling to control my wind and push me over." That is all Seth said.
Queen Refia glanced at Icy. Glanced at her out of pure hatred and jealousy for a good few minutes. She then clapped her hands a few times, and a huge army, around two hundred to three hundred and fifty soldiers, coated with midnight blue and dark purple armour and uniform appeared. Each soldier had a black staff in their hands. Violet and Seth got closer to their mother, sinisterly giggling.
"Finish them off for me, will you? And bring them back to me when you're done." The army replied "Yes Queen" at the same time. The army quickly started encircling the Trix, forming a magic orb around them so they wouldn't escape, whilst Queen Refia, Violet and Seth disappeared to who knows where. Leaving the Trix to deal with the army.
The Winx have been searching for Bloom for an hour straight, with no luck. Everywhere they looked had no trace of Bloom around it. It was just past 3 am. Another hour and the teachers would start to wake up. Another hour after that it would be sunrise. Everyone was exhausted and just wanted to go back to sleep.
Stella and Musa were searching for Bloom in the senior section of the student dormitories, not necessarily looking in the dorms themselves, but around the corridor. Sometime later, they passed through Roxy's dorm - Roxy came out at that same moment.
"Hey - what are you guys up to?" This startled Stella and Musa, as they turned around to see a concerned Roxy.
"Looking for Bloom - why are you awake?"
"Well Musa, I heard a lot of chatter in the corridors and I'm quite a light sleeper. So I went to see what was going on. Why's Bloom so important - she would be back by the morning... right?" Roxy had a little doubt in her voice.
"I wish that were true. But our powers stopped working, so something about Bloom was not right." Roxy looked really concerned.
"Do you want me to help you?" Roxy asked.
"Of course. The more the merrier. And we could use some help right now." Stella replied.
Roxy put on some bunny slippers and went out of her dorm, careful not to slam the door so she wouldn't wake up anyone else.
"So, where else should we look?" Roxy asked. At that moment, Musa got a text from Tecna.
"Guys, it's from Tecna. She said that we have to come down to the library ASAP."
The three of them rushed down to the library, only to find it in complete disarray. The whole place had been turned upside down. Almost every one of the 200,000 books has been removed of its respective shelf. The whole room was in darkness, and the light couldn't be switched on during the night unless it was a teacher. What made the situation worse was that their powers had stopped working and it would be a really good time for them. The three of them barely found Aisha, Flora and Tecna waiting for them, hadn't it been a dim blue light.
"What's that?" Stella asked, pointing at the blue light.
"I don't know. But it seems like a portal - to where I don't know. But looking at the place, it is most likely that Bloom would've gone through here. It's also likely that she was really dedicated to finding it." The six of them looked at the state of the dark library.
"Well, let's go and save her!" Stella went up closer to the light but was stopped by Aisha.
"I don't think so. We have no powers, and we don't even know where that portal leads us to. It looks rather unusual. And even if we did save Bloom, how will we get back out again? It looks rather risky."
"We have Roxy." Roxy only waved at them, catching everyone's attention.
"Yeah, but that's just one person. What about if we were attacked? Roxy couldn't handle it alone."
"I could try and handle it alone. And besides, I've worked to get my Butterflix. I think I'll be fine."
"You have Butterflix?" Flora asked.
"I've kind of progressed during the last few months."
"Still, the risk of going in there is too much. We might not even get through alive."
"But this is Bloom. This is our friend. We need to save her." Stella argued.
"And besides, we would've never started to look for her if she wasn't our friend. And remember when Tecna was missing? We didn't lose hope in her. We continued looking for her, and she turned out fine." Tecna smiled at that statement. "So we shouldn't lose hope in Bloom either," Flora said. The others found it encouraging and look determined to go into the portal to find her. Even if they were about to die.
Aisha finally gave in, "Fine. Let's go, Winx!", she finished off with determination in her voice. All of the Winx reached their hands into the blue light, ready to go in. But before one of them could touch it, the light disappeared like lightning.
"Whe- where did it go?" Stella looked baffled.
"And I would like to know what happened with my library." The librarian walked in with Faragonda, Griselda and Daphne side by side. The lights switched on as the librarian said those words, which made the Winx turn to face their direction.
"My office. Now." Faragonda ordered them like they were still freshmen. The Winx couldn't argue with her. All they did was stare at each other briefly, before following the four to Faragonda's office.
I was going to add Roxy and Daphne in later on in the story - but this works too.
I am going to be focusing on this story a lot more now. I feel more motivated into updating this story than my other ones (doesn't mean that I won't update my other ones, just less frequently than this one). If you want to check my other stories, you can always click on my profile.
I hope the next chapter will be up soon.
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