Zeref meets the Trix
All they saw for the first attack was a black blur. When they finally caught up with the black blur, Zeref had the palm of his hand knocked against the gut of Bloom. This sent her flying across the Alfea courtyard, slamming into a wall. The members of the Winx Club didn't even have time to transform before their leader was attacked. Immediately the Winx retreated so that they could transform. In order to stall him, Flora, who was at least smart enough to come already transformed, used her 'summer thunder' and her 'winter rose' to bind Zeref and put up a protective wall of thorns between them and the wizard. This proved to be futile however, as they heard "death predation." Then all of the vines and such that were there just died as though they were rotten.
"That should not be possible, nobody has that power." Flora exclaimed, horrified that her plants were so easily killed off as if death itself went through them. This however did give the rest of Winx the time they needed to change into their Believix forms. These forms were unamusing to Zeref as they showed him no real power. All it showed him was bright, shiny, and unnecessary costume changes.
Musa was the first to attack with her 'harmonic attack' causing huge sound waves to blast Zeref. While he was still in the air from the attack, he placed his right palm on the ground and simply using that alone he was able to inhumanly recover. Just as Bloom herself recovered from her crash she immediately transformed into Believix and used her speedix wings and went full speed force into Zeref. That was her plan anyway. What actually happened was as soon as she was close enough Zeref jumped over her and slammed his feet down onto her back and wings. Trying to use her 'solar storm' to force him off bloom Stella watched as her own attack exploded. When the dust settled however, Bloom was the one who had been attacked. Turns out, when Zeref saw that an attack was coming, he lifted Bloom up so she would get hit instead of him. Horrified by this Flora shouted, "you monster."
"How am I the monster when it was your friends attack that attacked her?"Zeref asked, knowing the answer they would give.
"Because you used her like a shield, showing us that you are nothing more than a coward." Flora screamed, madder than she ever thought she could get. Just as Zeref predicted they would react. Though he didn't expect the nature fairy to be so mad.
"Wrong, when an enemy has a comrade, you wait for them to get off or away from them. The last thing you should do is attack the enemy that is so close to a comrade that they could easily us your comrade as a shield." The Winx couldn't believe their ears, is this wizard actually lecturing them on how to battle. "I am curious, who taught you to fight and do battle? That should have been within the first five or ten lessons."
Stella was quite pissed herself, she practically screamed her response with some venom for good measure. "Listen mister tall dark and creepy, nobody taught us because nobody had to. We are natural born protectors of our elements. If we did need training then we sure as hell are not going to get it from you." The Winx were all cheering in agreement. Except for Flora who just tried her best to use more of her vines to sneak up on Zeref.
Zeref was now serious in his tone with no soul in his eyes. "You should always train for greater threats than yourselves. I never said I was training you and I never said that you didn't have some good instincts. However, you should always be prepared for your own defeat." As soon as he said that, he killed the vines that were trying to sneak up on him before pointing at Flora. "You, you seemed like you were smart enough. You at least had the good sense to come out already transformed. However you seem to not understand what happened to your earlier plants. If you continue to use living things against me, then that shows me you hold no respect for death. And if you do not have respect for death, then by Ankhseram, I will give you the punishment he has aloud me to give to the one person that I felt deserved it." This made the Winx all shudder at, not only the implication, but also the seriousness of what was just said.
Barely being able to get her breath at the threat, no more like a promise at what he will do, Flora tried her best to speak. "What is this punishment you had in mind. Because my mind is thinking that you would torture me, or steal my power."
"Nothing so warm and soft would be done to you. You would simply wish for someone to torture you. You would beg to die, as well as beg for someone to not die. On the other hand, you will also not care." Zeref said coldly, not even looking away when Tecna began to talk.
"What you are describing sounds impossible. There is no magic anywhere in any dimension that could be so contradictory." This only earned a look from Zeref that could only be described as dead.
"You dare think you know more about my world's culture then that of it's own people. There is a curse that not even the public knows of it's existence." Zeref began explaining, turning his eyes coal black and taking a sadder tone. "It is known as the 'Ankhseram Curse', also known as the 'Curse of Contradiction. With this curse, the more you love and cherish life, the more you rob others of theirs. You will have no control over your power and will beg for death, but it will not come. On the other hand, if you show that you do not care for life and show you have no respect for the very precious of all things, then you will control the power. This outcome is not desirable either, because of the fact that you will be deemed a heartless and evil person. You will be a continued contradiction, a constant, a fact, an immortal."
This horrified the girls, not only did this person talk with the years of Ms. Faragonda, but he also talked as though he actually is going through this himself. The nature fairy felt for him now. To go through all of that. "Were you alone in this or did you have others?" Is all she could ask.
Stella screamed to get their attention. Tears now in her eyes, she waited until everyone stopped talking before she spoke. "Do you not get it? He is evil, he is working with the Trix. You said it yourself Tecna. There is no such curse in existence. Why would he tell us this? He must be lying to get our sympathy. He isn't immortal, he is just a foe that we must defeat." Her voice turned into a soft cry full of tears. As well as anger at what she was feeling. Grief stricken at what she caught the last of out of the corner of her eye. "Have you not noticed something going on with the boys? They are all dead. While this Zeref guy kept us busy, that Acnologia guy has killed all of our boyfriends." They all stopped what they were now thinking. They all felt around for their boyfriends, and felt nothing. They turned to the battlefield over at the boys. They hoped Stella was wrong, they hoped that what they felt was wrong. What they saw forced all of their brains to shut down. They couldn't move, not a single thought was aloud to reach their brain.
To the Start of the battle.
As soon as Zeref lept, Acnologia lept as well. He was so fast that nobody could react. Instantly he was in the air over top of them, his jaws were puffed and completely full of breath. The last thing they heard before the attack was "Roar of the Apocalyptic dragon!" The blast made a huge crater in the ground. This however was bad for the boys. The roar would have been a merciful death.
The boys lay barely conscious in the crater, helpless as Acnologia landed gracefully in the crater, not even caring what Zeref was doing. Acnologia began to walk slowly towards the one known as Timmy, if he remembered right. Upon his approach, the dragon flipped the boy on his back from where he was on his stomach. The others could only watch in horror as Acnologia ripped a claw into the boy's chest cavity. While the hand was still in him, the dragon leaned into the boy to say something into his ear. "This is how you attack someone a sneaky, dorky, son of a bitch." On that note, he ripped the heart out of the boys chest, only for him to immediately pound it into Timmy's dead face.
In a fit of rage, Riven got straight up and lunged a blade in the shape of a pirate's cutlass for Acnologia, only for his blade to be stopped with one hand on the blade. As soon as Riven got over his shock, Acnologia took it as a sign to rip the sword from the boy's hands and slam it into the left side of his neck. While the blood was gushing from Riven's neck Acnologia jumped behind the boy, all while he was still holding on to the sword. He used the sword and sliced diagonal straight through his torso. While his body was still up, Acnologia used the sword to chop off Riven's head, grabbing it with his other hand while the body fell in a pile of dead flesh. Acnologia took the sword and stabbed through the body before he slammed the head onto the hilt.
Now that only three of them were left, they tried their best to stay calm, but the sight of their friends kept bringing forth anger. The next words by Acnologia only made them lose control. "They were weak. You should have picked a better team than a dork and a dumb hot head." Sky, Brandon, and even Helia lost it. They all used everything they had learned at Red Fountain only for it to be useless. Helia used his cords to wrap around the brute while Sky and Brandon charged. To Acnologia's shock, he found that the wires were quite tough, even for him.
However he was still able to use his feet, sadly for the specialists. The dragon jumped up and twist in mid air to where he was upside down and slammed both of his feet on the heads of Sky and Brandon calling out, "talons of the apocalyptic dragon." Recovering from falling on his head by using the force of the kicks to do a 180 in to air. This surprised Helia enough to where Acnologia could rip his wires out of Helia's grasp. Unfortunately for the dark haired boy, his wires were attached to his gloves and he went with them to the dragon's grasp. Using Helia's own wires against him, Acnologia rapped the wire around Helia's neck. Forcing the wires into his two hand and stringing him up, the now monster in the eyes of the remaining specialists, he pulled on the wires until eventually Helia's head popped off of his body.
The two remaining specialists had no tricks left. Nobody has ever beaten them to this extent before. They only hoped that the girls were not watching this as they tried to get the courage for one last attack. Raising his sword and shield, Sky planned on using it as defense as Brandon used his broadsword to use as offence. They tried to follow through with that plan as Acnologia was distracted with Helia's body, they lunged at him. They hoped he would punch the shield and wouldn't be able to defend when the broadsword came down upon his head. That hoped proved to be false however, as Sky watch as the best disappeared out of view from them both, only to turn up behind Brandon with a claw ready to impale the brunette in the back. Sky tried to swing his shield behind Brandon to stop the incoming claw, but none came for Brandon. Instead it was Sky whose head was impaled by the claw. "That was what is referred to as a double bluff during combat. You should not have tried to battle your superiors, boy." Acnologia growled these words. Showing how disappointed he was in the lack of challenge.
Brandon couldn't help, he was frozen fear. This fear turned to despair as he turned his head and saw that Stella had just turned her head for a quick check on the boys. Her eyes full of horror at what she was seeing. Then Brandon felt nothing, his life was ended by Acnologia who stabbed his hands into the boy. Using that as a stepping stone he tore the boy in half with a quick ripping motion.
Now we are here.
There was no talking from the girls. No consolment, no thought, no motion, no anything. They stood there with horror and despair on their faces. Zeref took this as a sign to motion the Trix to come out of the ship. As soon as they did, the look they had was that of horrified mixed with impressed. "You know now is the time for us to put that plan of ours into action." Zeref said in an attempt to break everyone's thoughts. His answer was a nod from frightened women.
FLASHBACK
While on board the ship to Alfea, Zeref was thinking on what it is that he could do to the Winx Club when an idea struck him. "Hey, Icy"
"Yeah, what is it? Do you want more information on the Winx," Icy asked.
"No, this pertains to you. Instead of just beating them into submission like you plan to have us do. Why don't we convert them." Zeref was met by puzzled stairs before he explained. "What would you say if I told you that I could get into their heads if they were weak enough, and corrupt them."
"What do you mean by corrupt?" Stormy said in quite a confused tone.
"He means by breaking their minds first, Zeref can actually go into their minds and rewrite them. Make it so they think whatever we want them to. It is a genius plan really." Darcy explained, and complimenting while she could.
"Precisely, I am able to have Acnologia break their minds by killing their boyfriends. While they are distracted with me, he will kill them and break their minds once they realize just what has happened while they were preoccupied with me. This means that I can then enter them and make them think whatever we want. Theoretically this would mean that you could have five slaves." Zeref said with such a brilliant tone, Darcy thought.
Icy heard five when she remembered telling him about six girls. "Hold on you said we would get five when they are six. Am I correct in assuming that this means you want a slave."
"No I don't want a slave, however the guild has gotten pretty big as of late. So in I would like to do something for them for helping me out by having one the girls as a barmaid. Will that be a problem?" Zeref said all innocently and sweet. Which Darcy thought that was kind of cute.
"Actually that won't be a problem. I say we do it. And when you do, make them our slaves, but also make them worship us. Make them think we are goddesses to them." Icy said with an evil smile before she realized something. "Wait, I thought you said you were not allowed to kill."
Zeref chuckled a little. "I did, but seeing as how Acnologia is not a member of any guild at the moment, he is able. Why do you think I brought him along?"
"You are a sneaky little immortal. Do you know that," Darcy said.
"Yes I do in fact," Zeref said.
FLASHBACK END
"So, who would you like to take back to your guild?" Darcy asked as though she was actually curious.
"I do think that I will take Flora with me. I think that it would be fun to have a nature fairy as a barmaid. Should I start?" Zeref asked before getting a quick nod of confirmation from the Trix.
