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Also, sadly enough, I do not own Disney's ideas nor do I own Iginio Straffi's brilliant tv-series.
Thunderbolts and Lightning
Everyone looked up to the sky.
"There appears to be a storm coming." Timmy said, as he looked up. "But it was said to be a quiet night. I don't understand."
"You can't control the weather Tim" Roy said, while he patted the boy on his back.
"Come on, help us clean up before everything will go wasted by the rain."
Helia joined his brothers in the cleanup. But the wind wasn't exactly in their favour. It kept blowing over the things they had just cleaned up and was picking up speed fast.
One of the tent poles suddenly sprang loose and the tent started to loosen at the other places too, leaving the guests in it to scream in fear.
"EVERYONE calm down!" Helia tried to yell over the wind. But the rumble from the thunder above them made it impossible.
He looked around to see how everyone was doing. But it was getting really dark to see.
Suddenly a light filled the sky for a few seconds, making everyone in the tent scream louder, and they started to run towards the parking spot a bit further away.
Helia sighed, he knew it was useless to stop them. He loved nature but he knew how cruel it could be. He knew the weather would not let up soon, so instead he turned to look for his brothers.
He saw that they had loaded up all of the electrical equipment into the nearby truck and saw his grandfather get into it, together with a servant. They drove away when another flash made him look up. This one was really, really close.
He felt better though that almost everyone got away safely.
Sky came running to his side. His hand almost in front of his face to try and keep the wind away.
"Helia, we really must go now, it's getting danger-" He dodged an incoming tree branch that had gotten loose due to the heavy wind.
"Yeah, I can tell." He also dodged something, but it was a flying fork. Whoa, dangerous.
They ran towards his other brothers, who'm were waiting at the side of the clearing, there was a small road that would lead to the cars waiting for them.
Helia joined his brothers last in line and was about to follow them out, until a lightning bolt fell straight out of the sky, blinding them all for a few seconds. They rubbed their eyes and heard something else other than wind. Smelled it too... Fire.
Helia opened his eyes and turned around to look behind him. The lightning had hit one of the tent poles standing up and made the tent catch fire. The dry tent went up in flames faster than he had ever seen. No thanks to the strong wind, the fire started to spread towards the nearby tree branches and trees.
"Oh No..." He whispered in disbelief.
"HELIA, we really must go! NOW." It was Riven this time who tried to get above the sound. But it sounded no more than a whisper to him.
Suddenly he hear something else. He listened carefully. What was that?
A howl? A whine? He couldn't quite grasp it. Until dawned to him. It was Artu!
He darted towards the tent as fast as he could.
"Helia! No! Where are you going?!" Brandon yelled after him in a state of panic.
"Artu!" Helia turned towards his brothers a second to yell: "She's trapped! She needs help! Go on ahead!"
He turned towards the tent again and ran as fast as he could.
"Are you CRAZY?!" Brandon replied as he stepped forwards, ready to follow his youngest brother, when all of a sudden they heard something crack slowly. Brandon looked up just in time to see a huge tree fall down on top of him. He felt something pull on his collar and suddenly got pulled backwards with a lot of force.
The tree landed right in front of his feet and was burning brightly. Gasping for breath and rubbing his neck he looked up. He was surrounded by his brothers, Sky was sitting next to him still holding his collar, out of breath and Timmy was holding him by his arm. Riven was looking at the 7 foot (about 2,1 m) high burning roadblock with worried eyes and Roy seemed to be looking for something.
"We godda go guys." Riven said, surprisingly calm turning to his brothers.
"There ain't no way I'm leaving him behind!" an angry Sky rose from his position and put a step closer to Riven.
"I don't think he meant it like that." Roy replied, stopping his search for a second and looked at them.
"We need to find something to stop the fire. Or at least something to open the roadblock for him to get trough." Timmy added pensively. "What I don't understand is, why the fire isn't spreading towards the other trees, it stays in the clearing."
They all looked at Timmy surprised and then to the clearing. Timmy was right. But that didn't matter now.
"Sorry, you are right." Sky apologised.
And with that, they ran towards the cars, hoping to find some help.
After being almost blown away by the strong winds they barely got to hold on to the leaves that where still hanging on the branch.
When the lightning had hit, they knew something was terribly wrong. Lightning never hit this close to their borders. Their mothers magic forbade it unless a higher force was at work. But they didn't have much time to think about it more, when the fire started to spread. They were forced to let go of the leaves and hide behind a fallen tree.
"Did you see if everyone got away in time?" Layla asked patting some small twigs off of her sleeves.
"I think so, I don't think I-" But before Stella could finish that sentence, they heard a howl.
It was really close and they rose up to see where it came from. They gasped when they saw the burning tent, and something move inside it.
"ARTU!" Roxy yelled before she wanted to fly over to her beloved companion.
"No wait!" Musa put a hand on Roxy's arm. "Look!" She pointed towards the burning tent, making everyone look surprised.
"Helia?!" Flora exclaimed with worry. "What is he doing? I thought they had left!"
They watched how Helia reached the tent and looked around. He grabbed a bottle of water that was lying nearby and ripped off his sleeves with his teeth. He sprinkled the water all over the ripped cloths and bound then over his hands. He sprinkled the rest over his body and started moving items to try to get inside.
"We have to help him!" Flora was panicking now. She needed to do something, fast . Or she would lose her newly found hero before he even got to know her.
"I know!" Roxy yelled in frustration, as she watched the boy risk his life for her companion. "But what?!"
They watched as Helia had finally reached an opening into the tent and took a deep breath. He opened the flap and went inside.
As quickly as he went in, he came out again. He was covered in black smudges everywhere and was carrying a white wolf in his arms.
He looked around in panic and ran towards the exit he came from, only to realise it was blocked.
He cursed under his breath and looked around once more. He was surrounded by fire. There was nowhere to go.
He buried his head into the fur of the animal, hiding his look of despair. She smelled like burned hair. Which brought him back to his senses.
He took the bottle of water he had put in his back pocket and sprinkled the rest over the animal. It seemed to like the feeling because it didn't shake it off.
"No need for both of us to burn." He said with a sad smile to the animal.
It looked at him with sad eyes and licked his hand, for that was the only thing she could reach.
"Well now." He sighed as he looked at the sky. " Are you ready?" He looked down again at the wolf.
"He's not going to-, Is he?" Roxy held her hands together and didn't believe her own eyes. He was going to give his life for the sake of her wolf. Never had she had seen such kindness from a human.
Everyone else was just staring in disbelief at the whole thing.
All of a sudden he threw the animal high in the sky, it had clearly understood his meaning and jumped at the last minute out of his arms, making it possible to reach the top of the fallen tree. It touched the tree for a small second and jumped to the other side with a whine.
Once out of view, Helia realised he was holding his breath and only released it when he heard a howl coming from the other side of the branch.
Roxy gasped at his throw and yelled the wolfs name, before speeding off towards the fallen tree. The wind was helping her, for once.
Flora was tired of doing nothing when she saw him throwing the wolf. She flew without thinking out of the branch. She heard her sisters calling her name but she didn't care. She had to do something. The strong wind had caught her by surprise but she wouldn't lose to it. At first it seemed like she could push trough but she proved to be too small for it and got blown back again.
Layla was quick enough to catch her and bring her back to their hiding place.
She shook her head silently towards the light haired brunette. "We're too small." She said sadly.
Flora refused to let this end like this. She looked at her sisters, who looked at her in dispair. It all seemed so hopeless..
Flora hit the tree branch with all the force she could muster. Something. There must be something.
"Your spell." Someone had said. Quietly, like they didn't want to be heard.
She looked up to see it came from Chatta, who was hovering next to her head.
"Your spell." She repeated.
Her spell? "But, I can't reach him to make him smaller..." she replied hopelessly to her pixie.
Chatta smiled at this, with a little gleam in her eyes. "Not him." She said pointing at the clearing. "You!" She now pointed to Flora.
"Me?" She said confused. The others also looked at each other just as confused as Flora.
"Off course!" Flora yelled happily! "Chatta you're a genius!" She had hugged the little pixie so tight, the others were afraid she would squish her.
"Spell?" Tecna asked her curiously.
"Yes" Flora turned to her sisters. "But I'm going to need your help." She gestured all of them before she took Tecna's hands.
"We're going to have to be quick now, you remember Widgets class of enlarging items?" She asked quickly.
They slowly nodded in union.
"Well, I'm going to ask you to do that to me." She said quietly but had a determined look on her face, squishing Tecna's hands softly.
"Are you out of your mind? So much could go wrong!" Layla yelled in panic, grabbing Flora's arm.
"We can't use it on living objects!" Bloom put her hand in front of her mouth in disbelief.
"I've never even used it out of class!" Musa bit her thumb nail in confusion.
Stella and Tecna looked at each other pensively.
"Please!" Flora begged them."It's the only way I can think of!" She looked at the boy whom had now fallen onto his knees. He started coughing. The fire was really reaching high degrees now and she knew the water on his body had dried up. She knew smoke started filling his lunges as he closed his eyes.
She gasped and put her hand in front of her mouth.
"We can do it. And we must." Flora looked to her side to see who had said that. Tecna smiled to her and patted her other hand.
"If we all work together it should be possible, with all the magic we have." Tecna turned to her other sisters determent. Stella nodded with her eyes closed.
Flora could only stare at her sister and felt so much love towards her she could never express.
"Flora, If this works, you'll only have a few minutes because the spell will be unbalanced." It was Stella's turn to explain things. "So show me, that your love for this man will prevail." She had smiled.
Flora nodded to her oldest sister and turned to look at the others. They looked unsure but the heroic actions of the boy had changed their mind about everything. They would help her save him.
They had formed a circle around their youngest sister and started chanting.
Flora thanked her sisters with a soft smile on their face.
Stella opened one eye to smile at her and closed it again. Her serious face taking over.
Flora glanced at Helia again just in time to see him falling down fully. She gasped. She would never make it. She was getting to scared, now, really hoping this would work.
A light made her look in front of her again. Her 5 sisters had their hands in front of them and had opened their eyes. A small ball of light was in front of them, growing bigger by the second.
"Are you ready?" Musa asked a little unsure.
Flora nodded. "Yes" He voice sounded more determent than she was really feeling, but she knew she had no choice anymore.
All 5 balls started growing brighter and came closer to her. Flora closed her eyes when the balls hit her, making her feel all fuzzy inside. She didn't feel any different to be honest, just a little light headed? She opened her eyes to see if anything had changed. She didn't see anyone anymore.
"Girls?" she asked unsure.
"Over here!" She got as a reply, when she saw Layla land on her shoulder. She was as big as her hand now.
"It worked!" Flora felt so relieved as if years had fallen of her shoulder.
"Go get him, tiger." Stella winked at her younger, yet now bigger sister.
Flora nodded and looked at the clearing, her eyes searching for the boy who'm had been so heroic. When she saw him lying down a little further, near the fallen tree, she wasted no time anymore and shot out towards him.
The wind was not a problem anymore, sure, it was annoying, but she didn't care. She lifted her hands when she got close to the line of fire (which was a few steps) and plants came out of the ground, making a way through the fire. She knew this was only for a few seconds, but it was enough for her to fly though without getting herself caught in the flames.
She reached him without further problems and kneeled besides him. She turned him around so he could face her. Putting his head into her lap. He was barely breathing and coughed once.
She felt relieved, he was still alive. She looked around looking for an exit. She couldn't do the plant thing again, because she knew she wouldn't go fast enough when she carried him.
She lifted his arm and put it around her shoulder and put her other arm around his waist. She rose to stand on her feet. These humans where heavy!
She looked up at the big tree. She wondered if she could fly with him next to her. Only one way to find out. She pushed herself up from the ground and surely enough, it was working.
She mustered all the strength she had and flew up higher and higher. Just high enough to reach the top of the branch. "Just a little bit further." She breathed out loud.
She put her foot on the top of the tree to help boost her across the tree. Once across she let herself glide down to the bottom of the other side. In the glide, she tried to get at much distance as she could from them and the tree.
She set him down slowly and lied him down with his back to the ground. She fell to her knees next to him and put her hands on the ground. She was panting due to the effort.
"Flora!"
She looked up to see her sisters (and pixie) fly towards her with a smile on their face.
"You did it!" Bloom yelled happily.
"Yes, but barely." She replied with a sigh.
"Is he okay?" Layla was hovering above his face looking at him intently.
She finally got a chance to look at him. He was in really bad shape. His shirt was burned in certain places and his pants wasn't any different. He had a few dark smudges on his face and his hair was singed in some places.
"I don't know... Look, he's breathing!" She reached for his face when she said this, to feel his slow breath upon her hand. She smiled.
"Thank you, Everyone. It's all thanks to you." She looked at her sisters, whom were hovering above the boy. They simply smiled at her.
Flora felt a water drop fall upon her hand. She looked up at the sky and so did the others.
Soft rain started falling from the heavens. She smiled at the cool water landing down her face. The forest would be saved.
"We must keep him from the rain, though." Layla had said.
Flora looked down towards her. Only to see she started raising a small morphix bubble around them to keep out the rain.
"If only there was something we could do to help him heal." She said sadly, as she brushed one of his bangs out of his face. He didn't react to her touch, telling her he still wasn't conscious.
"You know... you can right?" It was Musa who'm had said this.
Flora looked at her in surprise as she landed on her right shoulder.
"We learned about it in Widgits class too, don't you remember?" she added.
Flora gave her a puzzling look.
"A fairy song can have healing powers if the connection is strong enough. " She repeated in a voice that sounded remarkably like their teacher. It made her chuckle but it also made her think.
"Well, a fairies tears too, but I don't think you are much in a crying mood?" She asked questioningly.
They both looked at the boy. Who'm still seemed to be in pain, because he was pulling a face that resembled that.
"But I don't even know him." Flora was still looking at the boy. "And I can't sing." She added with a pained face towards her blue haired sister.
Musa only looked angry at that statement and Flora recalled all of the singing lessons and pains she had to endure to prepare for the preparation of the festival.
"I think it will work, and you still owe us a song though." Bloom was flying in front her face now and gave her a wink.
Flora could only smile at that. She heard the sound of rain falling on the bubble and closed her eyes listening to it.
"I'll help you out." Musa magically made a small flute appear out of nowhere and held it in front of her.
She looked at the boy once more and put his head on her lap with a small blush. She breathed in deeply before she started humming the beginnings of a song and as soon as Musa joined in she started singing.
As she did, she started glowing a little. She put her hand on his cheek and soon after, he started glowing too. She slowly saw the smudges from his face disappearing and his hair was growing longer again from where it had been burned. His breathing was also growing more steady.
Flora however didn't really noticed the changes anymore. She didn't even notice the cloths around his hands had disappeared and reattached itself again on his ripped sleeve. Even his pants showed no burned marks on it anymore. She was so focussed on his face, she was rubbing his cheek with her thumb and even dared to touch his under lip. She even forgot what she was singing.
Stella took Blooms unexpecting arm in hers and started waving a hand in front of her face as if it was too hot. This was too much for her loving heart to take!
Helia heard a soft sound that grew louder as he tried to pay attention to it. It sounded pleasant to his ears at first, before her realised it was beautiful.
He felt a warm sensation inside of him as he awoke. He didn't open his eyes immediately. He felt himself growing stronger and the pain in his body was disappearing.
He felt his head was resting on something soft, as did his cheek. Moaning in effort, he tried to open his eyes. He put his hand on the soft spot on his cheek, only to feel that a hand was already present.
He slowly opened his eyes, curious as to whom it belonged.
As he opened them he felt a little surprised. An angel was sitting next to him. No, he was on her lap!
She was bathed in a soft glow as she was singing to him. Her light brown hair waving up as he felt the warmth go through his body. Behind her blonde bangs, her green eyes where sparkling in the glow and her slightly flustered cheeks seemed to make her even more beautiful.
He wanted to speak to her, but he was afraid to interrupt her song. Was he in heaven?
He got the answer soon. As he heard his name being called by someone else. It seemed far away, but his angel had heard it too, because she stopped singing and looked the other way, was that panic on her face?
He wanted to say something to her, but as soon as he had opened his mouth to speak, she had disappeared. Without even a poof! He felt instantly awaken as his head hit the ground in a rather rough way and rain fell on his face, giving him a much needed cold shower.
"uugh" He moaned as he sat up, he was rubbing the back of his head.
He heard his name again and saw his oldest brother run to him. He was soaked from head to toe and was holding an axe in his hand. He was followed by his other brothers and... Artu?!
The wolf easily passed Sky and ran towards him. She pounced him back down as soon as she got close and tried to lick his face.
Helia just laughed it off as he tried his hardest to keep the animal away from his face and to keep sitting up. He patted her on her head in reply. "Good to see you are safe." He said as he put his forehead against hers.
His brothers had caught up to the fast wolf they all seemed to be panting due to the effort.
Sky kneeled next to him and put his axe down on the ground. "Dude! Are you okay?" he asked as he put his hand on Helia's shoulder.
"Yes, Sky, thank you." Helia smiled at him.
Sky just sat down in relief and looked up in the air panting.
"But why though." Helia looked at his red haired brother as he pondered about the answer.
"Not that it's not good off course..." He added in reply to his brother's angry stares, he waved his hands in front of him. After all, he was the second in line to dash after Sky as soon as they had found the axe. "But how did you make it across, that." He pointed at the huge tree still lying behind his youngest brother.
"I..." Helia started. "I don't know." He looked up at Riven with questioning eyes.
"One minute I feel like I'm about to die and the fire is all around me and the next I wake up here, startled by the rain that suddenly fell down my face." He pulled up his knees and rested his arms on it pensively.
"Don't you remember anything?" Roy bowed down over him. He was standing on the exact same spot the girl was sitting. The girl.
"I remember... an angel?" He said a little unsure not looking up.
"An angel?" Timmy looked at his brothers questioningly. They too seemed to not understand where this was coming from. But they allowed him to continue.
"Yes, she was here, she was beautiful. And... she was singing." He felt a little blood rush to his face, he tried to not let the blush get to its destination. The effort gave him a headache and he felt himself get a little dizzy. He put his hand to his forehead followed up by an "urgh".
Brandon just chuckled a little. "I think you just hit your head to hard, man!" He bowed down in front of him and offered a hand.
Helia looked at the hand pensively before taking it with a smile. "Yeah, probably." He stumbled a little while getting up. He allowed Roy and Sky grab his arms as he was about to fall back. Maybe he did hit his head he thought as his brothers helped him walk towards the car. He looked back one more time. He tried to remember how the girl looked like, but every time he tried, she got more blurry.
He knew one thing though. As the image of the angel was disappearing from his mind, he still would remember the last lyrics of the song she was singing. He had never heard the song before and It felt as if they were directed to and for him alone.
"I wish I could be part of your world too..." He whispered with a sad smile.
"Go Artu, Follow them, and report back to me as soon as you can." The guard patted the snout of her companion as it left the bush they were hiding in and watched her follow the group of men.
She turned to the sisters. "I can't believe how lucky you were no one saw you! But that was way too dangerous! What were you thinking?!"
The sisters seemed to not really mind the guards yelling because they were too exhausted to even reply. They were all sitting on the ground, drained of their magic. Flora however seemed to sit on a leaf, watching the road not even paying attention to the lecture. She had was holding her legs towards her body with her hands lazily.
"I'm happy the spell wore of when it did though, a few seconds longer and Flora would have been seen. That was some amazing magic." Roxy added, making the sisters look at her hopefully.
Roxy was the one that pushed them all into the bush as soon as the boys were coming back. She was riding Artu the whole time to see if she could help in some way with the boys, so she knew they were coming. She didn't have time to be shocked at Flora's size because she had turned back as soon as she had set eyes on her.
"Listen" She said to the sisters. "We'll tell no one about what happened today. The queen must never know about this. You know of nothing, I know of nothing. And it will be our little secret."
They all nodded towards Roxy and turned to Flora in union to see how she was doing.
Flora was still staring at the road. She had seen the boy look back at her and hoped he would see her, but it was in vain. She was now watching an empty road and started humming the ending to the song she didn't get to finish.
"UGH! I really hate those stupid pixies! They keep ruining everything!" a pair of brown eyes reflected on a glass orb that was showing Flora sitting on the leaf.
"No kidding, they totally made my storm look like a useless prank." A pair of dark blue eyes joined her in the orb.
The brown ones left as did the owner. She started pacing around, her brown long hair moving around as she did.
The dark blue ones also left the orb only leaving the little fairy in it, and a light blue pair of eyes.
"Chill Darcy, you'll knock over bottles when you wave your hair like that." The curly purple haired woman had said. She was the owner of the dark blue pair of eyes.
"Chill?" Darcy turned towards the purple haired women, she was wearing gloves that had almost the same colour as the purple haired ones hair. She pointed one of them. "If you had gone and conjured up that storm of yours sooner, Stormy, it would have worked! But no! You needed to give them time to escape!"
"Hey! It takes up time to do that when you are so far away! And I didn't see you do anything today!" Stormy retorted, crossing her arms.
Darcy only replied to that with an angry face.
"Will you two be quiet! I'm trying to think." Someone had said. It was not a question.
"Icy?" Stormy asked to the owner of the light blue pair of eyes.
Icy, who was sitting quietly on her chair next to the orb had her arms and her legs crossed. She had closed her eyes to think.
She suddenly started laughing really hard. Her tight white ponytail bouncing as she did.
Darcy and Stormy looked at each other questioningly wondering if their oldest sister had finally lost her mind.
"What is so funny?" Darcy asked her, as she sat down again to the chair right of Icy.
Icy just kept on laughing. It wasn't a pleasant laugh.
When Stormy had sat down again as well, her laugh faded.
"She in love." Icy had said with her mouth into a sneer.
The other two simply looked at her and then to the orb, it was showing how the little fairy stood up and joined her sisters to go home.
So? They wanted to say. But Icy all ready answered that.
"With a human." She had said.
It dawned to them and they started laughing as well.
"Their precious mother is going to have a field day when she finds out" Stormy hiccupped between her laughs.
Icy simply smiled at this.
Darcy stopped laughing all of a sudden and had her mouth into a smile as well. "How are we going to tell her?" She sounded excited.
"We aren't." Icy simply said, as she stood up and walked towards her book, which was on a bookstand.
Stormy stopped laughing and looked Darcy questioningly.
"Why not?" Stormy got up from her chair and followed her.
"Because we are going to try it differently this time, besides, with their stupid principles and honesty, she will find out soon enough." Icy absent mindedly opened her book of spells and flipped through the pages, as if looking for something.
Darcy had to nod at this. "But, what are we going to do then?"
Icy turned towards her and smiled, but it was an evil smile, full of venom. "We are going to..." she thought again for a second. "Help them." she ended. As she turned her heel and took a few potions from one of her shelves, which was her whole room, because it was made out of shelves. Her potion room.
"HELP THEM?!" Darcy and Stormy had said in union. Now they knew Icy had lost her mind.
"Are you feeling all right?" Darcy quickly stood up from her seat to quick walk towards were Icy was standing, Stormy was just frozen on the spot next to the potion book.
"Oh yes, quite." Icy simply replied as she pushed a few bottles into Darcy's arms. She herself took one and walked towards her cattle. She quietly opened one of the bottles and emptied it fully into the pot.
"What are you making?" Darcy asked as she smelled something horrible come out of it. She had followed her towards the cattle.
Stormy had also come closer and stared into the pot.
Icy took one of the bottles out of Darcy's arms and let a few drops of it fall into her brew. A hiss came out of it and dark grey smoke came out. Icy turned towards her evil sisters as she brought up her evil smile again. Smoke had filled the room again and soon only her bright blue eyes were visible. They showed joy in them.
"Faragonda's Demise."
Godda love the Trix.
See you next time!
~K