Thorne pulled the flower close to her and smelled the sweet nectar that filled it. She held it to her lips letting the nectar flow from the petals into her mouth. She drank every drop of nectar the flower produce. Thorne could feel the magical energy enter her body, her powers pulsing and growing strong.
She grabbed her phone from the bed and dialed the number. It rang once and they answered.
"It's been done. Shall we commence with the final phase of the plan?" She asked them.
"Yes. Now that poor little flora is powerless it will only be a matter of time. The next 24 hours are critical. If that flower dies then she will regain her powers along with yours. Do you understand that?" they asked her.
"Yes. I shall protect the plant." She said.
"Good." They hung up and Thorne turned her attention to the flower. She cast a protection spell around it before going to see her poor, defenseless, powerless cousin in the infirmary.
"Flora! Flora, what's wrong?" Bloom tried to ask her roommate and friend.
"Miss Faragonda what do we do?" Musa asked.
"We have to find whatever drained her powers and destroy within the next 24 hours or Flora with die.' She spoke sternly. Stella whipped out her phone and called the boys to let them know of the current predicament they were in.
"What do you mean she will die?" Tecna asked.
"A fairies life is connected to their powers. If a fairy loses her powers and is unable to retrieve them within 24 hours, then they die." She told the girls. They couldn't believe what they were hearing, they had to help flora, but not a single one of them had any clue as to what was causing this.
"Oh my god, cousin! What's happened to you?" Thorne spoke as she entered the room and saw Flora.
"Thorne, now is not the best time for visitors. Please return to your room." Miss Faragonda asked her.
"But Flora's family. Please let me stay with my cousin." Thorne asked.
"I guess since she's family it'll be alright." Thorne took a chair from by the door and put it by the bed.
"Girls, come over here." Tecna spoke quietly not wanting Thorne to hear her.
"What is it Tecna?" Bloom asked.
"Thorne had something to do with this. I have a feeling that if we can get into her room, we will find whatever it is that drained Flora. let's tell Miss Faragonda. She'll listen to us." Tecna suggested to her friends.
"Good idea. I never liked her and ever since she got here it's as if she had been trying to take over Flora's life." Stella said.
"Miss F, can we talk to you outside please?" Musa asked the elder.
"Girls what is the meaning of this?" she asked them.
"We have reason to believe that Thorne is behind all this." Bloom told her. Before Faragonda could respond the boys appeared from down the hall, clearly out of breath from all the running.
"Where's Flora?" Helia asked, a worried expression on his face.
"inside." Stella told him. he left to be by her side while they continued with conversation with Faragonda.
"Girls, what has brought you to this conclusion?" Faragonda asked them.
The girls explained the interest in Helia, how she dyed her hair to look like flora and the sneaky behavior. Before Miss Faragonda could dignify any of that with a response a loud explosion was heard from outside.
The Trix were destroying the school.
"Come on. We have to stop them." The girls ran off while Faragonda held the boys back as a second line of defense should the girls need help. As they ran outside, they were stopped in their tracks by none other than Thorne. She flew to the front of the group (Think of her winx outfit to look exactly like floras but in black and silver) and began to laugh.
"Thorne, let us go!" Bloom shouted.
"I don't think so and don't even think you transform and break your way out. Now that I control both the powers of life and death, I am strong than all of you." She spoke a smirk on her face.
"I knew it. You're the one who drained Flora of her powers." Tecna said to her.
"Yup thanks to the Trix." She laughed menacingly at them.
"What would you want to team up with a bunch of witches for?" Stella asked struggling to move.
"I wanted to get rid of Flora and they want to get rid of you. With someone of the inside I could report your every move to them and they provided me with the key to destroying my cousin. Now you girls should get some sleep." She zapped the girls draining the energy from them, until they collapsed to the ground. The boys, having managed to escape from Faragonda found the girls and carried them to the infirmary.
"Girls!" Miss Faragonda exclaimed as she saw them enter the infirmary in the boys arms.
"Thorne. She did this to us." Bloom weakly told them.
"She has Flora's powers too.' Stella managed to whisper.
"You girls are in no condition to fight her. And you boys will be of no match against her. our only hope is to find the object she used to drain flora of her magic. If we destroy that then Flora will regain her powers along with Thorne's. here is the key. One of you boys needs to go to her room and search. The rest of you must stay here. She'll keep her guard down if she thinks we aren't planning anything." Faragonda explained.
"I'll go." Helia grabbed the key and left for Thorne's room. What he didn't was of the surprise that awaited him there.
