Riven spent most of his summer before his second year at Red Fountain in a drunken stupor, moving from random friends' houses to another. He was still determined to go back to Red Fountain though and show up all of the other guys there like Brandon who thought that they were so great.

He worked out every day and had gotten significantly bigger muscles, despite how horribly he ate and the toll that the drugs were starting to take on his body. The only thing that he regretted was ever going to Matt for help in the first place.

One day during the summer he had came to Riven and tried to get him to come back to stay with him, but Riven just shrugged him off and completely avoided him for the rest of the summer. He could not forgive him for not trying to save his mother, and did not believe that he truly loved her like he claimed.

"Riven, don't leave already!" The one girl whined from the bed as he got up to start getting dressed.

"I'm going to be late if I don't." Riven said.

The other girl in the bed turned over to protest his leaving as well. Last night he went to a huge party that his friends held to celebrate his last night there and he ended up getting extremely drunk again.

"But please Rivvey" The other girl said.

"Nahh, it was fun while it lasted but I really do have to go" Riven said. He quickly got dressed and grabbed his back that had the few clothes he owned in it. He had to catch a bus to get back to the teleporting station to get to Magix.


As soon as Riven got on campus, he could already tell who the new freshman were since they had tons of bags and their nervous parents were standing behind them. He couldn't wait to get away from all of their unnecessary emotions. He never understood why everyone else had anxieties about leaving, being away from parents was the ultimate freedom to him. All he wanted to do was find his friends from last year to figure out when the first school party was.

After roaming around a bit and finding out that there was indeed a party that night, he finally went to get his room assignment and found the room. Timmy of course was already there and had all of his computer stuff set up.

"Hey Timeister!" Riven said as he opened the door.

"Riven! How was your summer?!" Timmy said, excited to see him.

"Decent, didn't really do much. How was yours?" Riven said. He put his bag down on the top bunk and sat down on their couch with a bottle of beer.

"I worked on this program that-" Timmy began to say when Riven interrupted him "Sorry Timmy but anything you say I am not going to understand so you might as well not even try to explain".

Timmy smiled at him. Even though most people would be offended by this, he wasn't since he know Riven didn't really mean anything by it, he was just being honest.

"I see that you haven't given up the drinking either" Timmy replied.

"Nope. How am I supposed to get through this semester without a little bit of fun?" Riven said as he flipped through the channels on the television.

"By Studying and working hard! Beer alone won't do the trick you know" Timmy said.

"Yeah yeah I know, I work hard! I worked out all summer!" Riven said, standing up and showing off his muscles to Timmy. Just then Sky walked in.

"Woah there mister muscles! Nice to see you had a great summer. But we have to go on our first mission."

"And what would that be?" Riven responded, going over to his bag to get out his uniform.

"We have to transport a Troll"

"Then let's do this!"


"I can't believe that you crashed the ship" Riven said as he got out of the wreck.

"Well maybe if you wouldn't have been distracting me" Brandon began to say back.

"Guys, don't start fighting now! We need to get our act together so we can get the ship running again! Timmy, how are things looking?" Sky said.

"Uhh Guys, we have a bigger problem here, the Troll got out!" Timmy yelled.

Just then a bunch of fairies came running through the clearing and gasped at the sight.

"We heard the crash and came to see if we could help!" The cute red haired one said. Riven recognized the blond haired one as Stella, the Princess of solaria who spoke next.

"What happened Sky?" she said.

"Well, we uhhh crashed and had a bit of trouble" Brandon responded, clearly trying to cover up the fact that they lost a troll. For once, Riven agreed with him since he didn't want these inexperienced fairies tagging along with them.

"We don't need your help, we are fine" Riven said. He then looked at them all and noticed the dark blue haired girl with short pigtails. He automatically recognized her as the girl from the concert almost a year ago now that he watched on tv. He remembered being so infatuated with her and couldn't believe he was standing only a few feet away from her now.

Of course, he still didn't want her or the girls' help since he doubted they had strong powers at all, they were only freshman. But he did feel anxious now with her around and then he realized that she looked at him and saw that he was staring at her. She blushed and seemed happy but he was embarrassed and turned away.

"What about the Troll Guys!" Timmy yelled.

"You lost a troll?" the short pink haired girl yelled.

"We did not lose a Troll, we just temporarily misplaced it" Riven retorted.

"We want to help!" The red haired girl said.

"We would love that, but I think you girls need to stick to your mission, just so you don't get in trouble" Brandon said.

"Are you sure? We don't mind helping, do we girls?" Bloom said. All of the girls nodded in approval, but the guys wouldn't have it.

"Why don't you girls go back to your little nature lesson while us real hero's take care of this."

"Fine, no reason for the 'tude dude." Musa said.

"See you later guys, have fun finding that troll, Riven!" Stella yelled in a sarcastic tone.

"Nice way of handling that, Riven" Brandon said.

"Why don't you just fucking shut up Brandon, this is your fault in the first place".

"If I didn't have a reputation to uphold, I would beat your ass right now." Brandon replied.

"Yeah right, I'd like to see you try" Riven responded, getting closer to him.

"Guys! Stop it! Let's just find the Troll okay?" Sky said, getting between them. He could already tell that this semester was going to be hard for their group since they were already fighting.

The guys then began searching the swamp, tracking the troll's footprints, but continued to fight throughout their whole mission. Eventually, they found themselves wrapped up in vines and slowly being suffocated.

Riven kept moving around and felt the grip of the vines getting tighter and tighter until all of a sudden they lessened. As he came back to noticing his surroundings, he noticed that the girls from before were around them.

"Just a bunch of stupid plants huh?" Stella said.

"We would have gotten out of it" Riven sulked, determined to make himself seem awesome in front of Musa.

"Let's just work together from now on okay? We can do this faster and safer that way!" Bloom said.

"Good idea" Brandon said.

The groups combined and they started to work together. The whole time Riven kept an eye on Musa, making sure she was safe but was also conscious of his actions and was trying to make himself seem interesting to her. He still didn't know what it was about her, but he just wanted to be around her and for her to like him.

In fact, he made sure he was close to her when they had to carefully cross a pond, so he could be the one to help her across.

"You just need to go like this" Riven pointed out to her, which came out more harsh than he had meant it to.

"Yeah okay, I get it" Musa said as she began to jump. She slipped once and he caught her, but she didn't seem grateful and his whole idea seemed to be a disaster. When he went for a last big jump, he all of a sudden slipped on the bank and was falling into the swampy waters.

"Riven! C'mon guys help!" Timmy said as he went to try and pull Riven out. However, seeing as he was half the size of Riven, there was no possible way he would be able to help. Then the pink haired girl ran up behind him and began to pull. Sky ran up too and with all of their effort they pulled him out.

"Are you okay" Bloom asked.

"I'm fine" Riven said in a harsh tone. He felt completely stupid and was also slightly hurt by the fact that Musa didn't seem to care that he was in danger for a while there. All he wanted was for her to notice him, and it didn't really seem like she was.

"You sure?" Brandon asked as he offered his hand. Riven refused it and used the ground to get up. He was covered in mud and felt disgusting, but just wanted to get the mission over with.

They continued on through the swamp quietly, when they suddenly heard a roar and ran towards it. However they didn't see anything and the footprints stopped.

"There has been dark magic used here!" the pink haired girl exclaimed which checking some kind of device.

"Look! A feather, girls we all know who is being stalked by a feathered duck like this" Bloom said.

"The Trix!" replied Stella.

"So that's just it then, some random bitches made the troll disappear?" Riven asked, annoyed that they had spent all day on this when he should be in his dorm relaxing.

"They are witches, jeeze. We don't like them but there is no need for the name calling" Bloom responded. Riven rolled his eyes and held his tongue, he was not in the mood for another argument.

"Cordatorta is going to kill us, this was our first solo mission and we clearly failed" Sky said in a disappointed voice.

"It's okay Sky, I'm sure its not all bad" Stella said in a soothing voice that made Riven sick.

"Nothing we can do now, we need to get back to Red Fountain before it's too late." Riven said, trying to hurry the rest of the team up.

"He's right, let's head back. See you another time girls!" Sky said. As they parted and were walking back to their broken ship, Timmy mutter "What a lousy start to the semester. This is my first failed grade!" in a panicky voice.

"Yeah, some semester this is probably going to be" Riven replied. He was not looking forward to working with Brandon for the rest of this semester and also having to deal with these girls that looked like had intentions of sticking around.