Winx Club Episode Dialogue (c) Iginio Straffi And Rainbow S.r.l
Chapter Nine: Betrayed
A few weeks after I got the job at the dollar store, I was beginning to enjoy it despite the fact that I wasn't able to display my technical knowledge. My supervisor watched me throughout the previous weeks and he as time went by he was very impressed with my organizational skills and eye for detail, as well as how I was able to get more done within the time I had. I did get five minute breaks, and at first I insisted that I didn't need them, until the man that hired me said that it would be a good opportunity for me to improve on social skills, by conversing with my other coworkers. I continued to be slightly stand-offish during my break, until some of the others began talking to me and we ended up getting into good conversations.
Also in the past few weeks, I've received more confidential phone calls and emails from the Techno Magic Society about their next meetings and upcoming events. The thing about the society was that no one that knew you was to know you were a part of it, and if they saw you as a member during one of the events, they weren't supposed to address you. This was to make sure that no one tried to get into the Society through other members due to a previous friendship with them, special exceptions and whatnot. As I myself had experienced, the Techno Magic Society was only for the most knowledgeable experts in technology from all over the Magical Dimension, it took a lot to be accepted into their ranks and it was truly a privilege considering my age and lack of real life exposure.
I ended up crossing paths with Elyssa a couple times after I first met her at the Magix Mall on the Day of the Rose. She was asking me more about what Zenith was like, and I didn't know how to answer her question since I myself had never been outside the walls of Tonson's building. For reasons beyond me, she found my style of dress inspiring and I just told her that the colour of my hair was naturally magenta. Zenithians as well as some other realms have uncommon natural hair colours. Elyssa was saying that her next performance was in a couple weeks so she could prepare her new song and the choreography for the show. She had already written the song and just needed more details from me for inspiration. I felt honoured that I was the inspiration for her next performance, was it what I had said about expressing who she was? I didn't know I could change a person's mind this much in so little time.
It was morning, and the Winx and I were out to the quad getting some fresh air, it rained last night, so there were puddles of water everywhere we looked.
"Okay Bloom, was this dream more of a nightmare than any of the dreams you usually have?" I inquired as we continued walking around the moist ground. Ever since the Day of the Rose, Bloom started having strange dreams, and that night she asked me to keep notes and details of the dreams to analyze them. She had a feeling that they meant something to uncovering her past, and just because my past was horrifying and lonely, didn't mean that I wasn't going to deny her any help in finding out about hers, as long as it didn't involve going back to Cloudtower again of course.
"No, it wasn't a nightmare," She answered, "it wasn't really a dream either, I don't know." Bloom's rabbit, Kiko, joined us on our walk, he was hopping ahead of us, looking at his reflection in the puddles with curious eyes.
"Try to give me more details." I pressed, holding my ladybug scanner in my hand, beginning to open it up as Bloom tried to recall last night's dream..
"It's hard to explain," Bloom admitted, "it was a lot more vivid than a dream."
"Mmm, plastic cognitive projection, with physiochemical resonance." I began thinking while I allowed my bug scanner to roam free around Bloom's head to track her thoughts and the details she described to me. With the descriptions she gave me before, and the image she had in her head, my ladybug would be able to give me a projection of what the woman in her dreams looked like
"There were colours everywhere, and I saw a face, and this beautiful woman-" Bloom continued until I interrupted her with my commands to my ladybug scanner as it continued flying around her.
"Psycho-plasmatic evanescence apparition, level twenty-six." I continued my orders to my scanner for the image I wanted my device to show Bloom.
"Hey, Tecna, will you please stop cutting in with that thing." Musa insisted with a bit of irritation to her tone.
"It's okay, Musa," Bloom told her, "Tecna's been keeping a log of my dreams, to analyze them."
"If you slept hooked to an electro mind reader, I could." I reminded Bloom of the offer I gave her when she first asked me to help her analyze her dreams. The first time I offered the electro mind-reader, she had refused and preferred I stick to using my ladybug scanner instead.
"I get it," She sighed before looking ahead at Stella, "and by the way I'd appreciate it if you'd stop coming into my room at night."
"So what, I woke you up, that's all." Stella answered her request quite arrogantly.
"I processed all the data from my dream probe, and there's a strong possibility that that was a psycho-magic message." I continued telling Bloom after my ladybug had returned to me with all the information I needed.
"You mean the woman was trying to communicate with me?" Bloom asked.
"Through your dream, yes," I clarified, "from the memory waves she left in your cortex, I cam up with this. So what do you think, is this her?" I asked as a holographic image of what the woman in Bloom's dream was supposed to look like according to her memory, appeared from my device.
"Wow, Tecna, you're a true blue techno wizard!" Bloom gasped in amazement, I've always known wizards to be beings of evil nature, I never knew of one that was on the side of good, so even if Bloom didn't mean it, I took a bit of offence to her compliment.
"I'd rather be called a fairy," I told her simply, "but thanks anyway."
"Now that I get a better look at her, I'm sure I seen her somewhere. Of course, I remember now..," Bloom continued to ponder until a few seconds later, she gasped as she remembered where she saw the womens, "It was in Magix, in the main square. She wasn't walking about, but she was looking at me, from the facade of a tall building." She suddenly began staring into space, most likely trying to bring up what she witnessed before.
"Uh, now I get it," Stella interrupted, breaking the redhead from her thoughts, "I was indigestion!"
"My stomach is perfectly fine, Stella!" Bloom insisted sharply, obviously irritated by the fact that she interrupted her when she was in deep concentration. Furthermore my ladybug scanner couldn't get a good reading on Bloom's thoughts once they weren't as clear in her mind.
"I meant mental indigestion," Stella clarified," you've got too much on your plate, what with
exams coming up you've got a lot to study. Plus you being an Earthling, your brain isn't use to working so hard, know what I mean?"
"No, I don't!" Bloom snapped, at the Solarian princess's comment, I could see Bloom's face fall with every word, and she began to get really ticked off by the time she heard it all. Musa, Flora and I only stood there steering clear of the argument. I had nothing to say at this point but I did have every intention of continuing to help Bloom analyze her dreams. Perhaps it was better to do it when it's just the two of us, nothing to disturb or discourage her.
"Listen, you had a dream, that's all." Stella shot back
"It wasn't just a dream!" Bloom yelled, clenching her fists at her sides with frustration and anger.
"Bloom, boom, boom, Bloom." The blonde princess continued mocking her, now I didn't understand what she was trying to emphasize, at this point she was being just plain rude. I had given up trying to get a reading on Bloom's thoughts and memories of her dreams because Stella had interrupted, and I know Bloom did the same.
"Uh... are you being poetic or sarcastic?" I asked Stella, I was only assuming it was the second one, and to tell the truth I was actually hesitant to open my mouth and ask.
"Boom, Tecna, that's what you hear when a balloon bursts," Stella explained, "or when you blow things or of proportion."
"Are you saying I'm making things up?" Bloom asked defensively, "Well I'm not, okay. First, I was just hearing her voice but last night I saw her!"
"Boom!" was Stella's only response. Yes, I definitely think Bloom and I should do our dream analysis privately from now on, that is, if she still believed her dreams meant as much as they did prior to this argument.
"I did, she was real!" Bloom continued, snapping right in Stella's face before storming off as in frustration, "And I'll prove it to you!" Kiko only followed her back inside the school for fairies and leaving Flora, Musa and I completely stunned. We just stared at Stella with disbelief.
"What, what did I say?" She asked us, "Why the long faces? What?"
"You know damn well what you did!" Musa shouted, "This might not be important to you, but because Bloom has no memory of her origins or even why she's a fairy, this means a lot to her! And to have you tell her that she's blowing things out of proportion is not cool! So you know exactly why she's pissed off!"
"And wonder she wanted to come to me privately for help analyzing the dreams she's been having!" I added, "it's because of responses like yours that she knows she can only count on certain people for this type of thing."
"Are you girls freaking serious right now?" Stella snapped, "You're honestly taking Bloom's side?"
"How immature are you that you think this is about taking sides?" Flora piped in, and we suddenly turned shocked by what just came out of her mouth, "You fail to remember that Bloom wants to understand the world of magic on her own, and to talk down to her like she knows absolutely nothing and might never will is totally discouraging. You pretty much just called her a moron. What kind of friend are you?" Stella just stood speechless, even in the little amount of time we had known Flora had we ever heard her say such things. The nature loving fairy was not one to say anything bad about anyone, so when she surprises us, we could tell she meant business. The Solarian Princess had nothing more to say, so she turned to go back into the school without a word.
Timmy's Point of View
It had been a while since I seen Tecna, the last time I seen her was before the Day of the Rose and I even promised her I'd give her the video game I was currently playing. If General Tyler ever knew I wasn't doing my job as a secret agent very well he'd fire me right on the spot. I had to see her again, but my studies were interfering with any chance of that happening, and the fact that I was so socially inept that even sending her a text or email was hopeless. This was one of those times when I'd agree if Riven told me to grow a pair, but none of the others had no idea why I ever wanted to talk to Tecna either than just to become friends. I was sitting at my computer, hard at work typing a report for the following Monday, when Sky and Brandon entered my bedroom and took me by surprise.
"Hey, Timmy, we need to go into Magix today, do you want to come with us?" Brandon offered while plopping down on his bed for a moment.
"Of course he does, anything to get him out of his room." Sky answered for me with a chuckle, "The last time talking to Tecna didn't scare you that bad, did it?"
"Ha ha, very funny, guys." I had to join in the laughter, I knew it was only light hearted teasing, it was one of the hints that I was part of the group, "Sure I'll go." This was another chance for me to finally do my job as a Fairy Protection Program secret agent, I had to stop losing my focus when I was around Tecna, if I did come across her on our way to Magix, my only mission should be to keep in contact with her, become her friend, gain her trust and use that as a means to protect her. I was leaving my feelings out of this and as Riven would tell me, I want to finally man up. I grabbed the video game I talked about with Tecna the last time I saw her, and hopefully I could get her to message me about it when she started playing.
Tecna's Point of View
After Flora surprised us, I could tell that it only made Stella even more angry than she already was. There was just no getting to her head, and knowing that, I decided to look for Bloom. She was on her way to the library when I finally caught up with her.
"Bloom?" I called, slightly hesitant as I didn't know how she would react to me approaching her while she was still very angry with Stella.
"Oh, hi Tecna," She turned to look me square in the eyes, "I want you to be honest with me, do you think I'm blowing my dreams out of proportion too?"
"No," I answered her sincerely, "in fact I wanted to come to find you to see if you still wanted my help analyzing your dreams, if so I think it's better if we do it alone."
"Thanks to your help and what the woman's told me in the dreams, I have enough information to do some research in the library. I have a name now, I think she said her name is Daphne, and that's what I'm going to start with." Bloom insisted, "But thank you for all your help Tecna, and for still believing in my dreams with me even if no one else does. If I need more dreams analyzed, I know who to go to."
"Musa, Flora and I believe that these dreams are more than what they seem, they are definitely a key to your past, and your identity." I reassured her, "I'm not sure what Stella's problem is, she of all people should be the most supportive, you two are like best friends. Anyway, I hope you find the answers you're looking for." And she once again thanked me, rushing off in the direction of Alfea's library.
Flora decided to stay with Musa and I in our bedroom while things cooled off between Bloom and Stella. She was quietly talking to me while Musa studied at her desk at the other side of the room.
"I hope we're not distracting you, Musa." Flora replied kindly, "if so we cam talk somewhere else."
"Don't worry about it, Flora, you're fine." Musa assured her softly as she continued to bury her face back in her book. Suddenly there was a loud knock and the blonde princess of Solaria burst in through the door.
"Okay, Flora, how the Oblivion can you call me immature? " She shouted furiously, marching right over to the nature fairy, "Bloom's the one making a big deal out of her dreams!"
"Stella, I thought that this discussion was over, Tecna is helping Bloom analyze her dreams, it's pretty clear that they are a magical form of communication for this woman. As I said, you don't realize just how important this is to her."
"I don't understand, I didn't say anything wrong," Stella protested, "I just made an innocent
remark, that's all." If she wants to insist that everything she's said up to this point has been innocent, she is definitely delusional.
"Right, define innocent." Flora replied sarcastically, normally she wasn't one to be sarcastic but I suppose the negative vibes were getting to her.
"Follow your plants example and be quiet, all right!" Stella shot back, had she just thought about what to say this whole time just to get back at Flora for what she said earlier? This was getting out of hand, and I had to applaud Flora for being the mature one and standing up for herself, and for Bloom.
"My plants know better than to speak before thinking!" Flora responded, although her voice was quiet and even, she still kept calm no matter how mad she was. Just then we could hear Musa mumble some choice words under her breath, the blonde Princess of Solaria and the nature loving fairy from Lynphea turned in her direction with looks of surprise on their faces
"Don't you start, Musa, or else I-" Stella threatened arrogantly, standing up to stare her straight in the eyes.
"Or else what?" She answered her defiantly.
"Or else I'll start talking about something else," Stella continued as Musa sat back down at her desk, " like boys, for instance." I still continued combing my hair as I listened to this conversation. Stella was being seriously difficult today, first, she upsets Bloom, then she goes for Flora, and now she's I had no idea what Stella's problem was today, she was seriously trying to get a rise out of anyone she came across, this was no way to get attention. I was almost ready to leave, but it was my room as much as it was Musa's.
"Boring," Was Musa's response to Stella's threat, "now if you'll excuse me, I've got stuff to read for tomorrow, and this is my room!
"Aw come on Musa, close that book and spill the beans," Stella pressed, by now the Solarian princess was sitting right on Musa's work desk, "like, we all know that whenever she see Timmy, our friend Tecna blushes from head to toe-" my eyes widened at her statement, and I instantly stopped combing my hair.
"What?" I shouted as I stood up with fists clenched, interrupting Stella furiously, "That is not true!"
"And it's obvious that Bloom has a soft spot for Brandon, as for me, I admit I do find Sky kind of cute, but that's it. Now let's talk about Riven... Riven, mmm?" Stella continued, the way she said Riven's name while looking her in the eyes sounded seductive, so that she could tempt Musa into talking about her feelings.
"I've got to study!" Musa insisted irritably, once again burying her face in her textbook.
"That guy doesn't even look at you, huh?" Stella resumed taunting her.
"Stella!" Flora interrupted her, "Stop it!" I was sitting on my bed silently, but just as irritated as everyone else in the room, I didn't even want to be a part of this argument at all.
"Chill Flora, I was just asking her-." She protested innocently.
"What did I just say, I don't care about stupid boys!" Musa snapped furiously, making Stella fall to the floor.
"It was just a joke," Stella waved her arms in the air while laying on the floor with her blonde hair spread everywhere, "and anyway, since the Day of the Rose, the only one Riven cares about is Darcy, of course you didn't know that, you weren't with us." I could only see so much, but I immediately knew she was about to burst into tears when Stella gave her this new information. Despite Riven's arrogance and the fact that Musa insisted she didn't want to waste her time trying to talk to him, it was clear to me that she still had feelings for him. It definitely showed within that split second.
"Yeah, well, what does it matter to me, huh?" Musa asked defiantly, trying desperately to hold the tears in, "It doesn't matter one bit!" Unfortunately she couldn't keep them in any longer, and ran out of the room crying. By now Stella turned around and was now laying on her stomach with her legs in the air. Flora and I walked toward her, and looked down at her with very angry expressions on our faces.
"Why are you all looking at me like that?" Stella asked, "What did I say?"
"Stella!" Flora and I shouted in unison.
"Now we have to go find Musa!" Flora lectured her, "I am sick and tired of you upsetting everyone you talk to today. I want you to go find her and apologize!"
"You guys just don't know how to take a joke." Stella only huffed, getting off of the ground and heading towards the door.
"That was no joke, you know Musa's feelings for Riven are a very sensitive topic for her!" Flora continued to scold Stella, "You should've never told her what happened on the Day of the Rose." Knowing Flora was right, the Princess of Solaria she sighed and walked out of our door.
Timmy's Point of View
At this point on our trip to Magix, we were flying over Alfea in another one of Red Fountain'sOwls, I was manning the controls with Sky, and Brandon was hovering over us, and he happened to notice the video game hidden by my feet.
"Hey Timmy, why'd you bring your video game, you don't need to bring it back do you?" He asked me.
"No, I actually mentioned it to Tecna and if we just happened to come across the girls, it would be the perfect opportunity for me to finally lend it to her." I explained casually, it sounded like an innocent enough reason, and it was the truth.
"Nice!" Sky began cheering, "Stepping up to the plate and making a move. Way to grow some man cherries dude." I just chuckled slightly, they didn't even know the whole reason behind my interest in Tecna, they didn't need to, as long as I could convince them that I was actually trying to talk to a girl, that was good enough for me. Brandon suddenly turned to the ship's monitors, looking off into space as if they were watching for something to happen.
"Speaking of which, I wonder if the girls could use our help." He thought, "it's almost like I can sense it."
"All right, we're head over to Alfea, and if your gut feeling isn't right and the girls don't need our help, then you can stop worrying." I suggested as I began to manoeuvre the ship toward the school for fairies. Once we got closer, yet managed to stay out of sight, we waited a few minutes watching for them to come out. It felt almost as if we were stalking them, and I guess we were if I was being literal. I was prepared for Brandon to have this intuition that the girls might need us, and, sure enough Bloom, Stella, Flora and Tecna walked out from the main doors and ran towards the wing shaped gates of the school. I could tell they were having a discussion, but we couldn't hear a word.
"Do you think we could turn on the long range hearing device, Timmy?" Sky suggested.
"I don't know if that's a good idea, what if they see the ship?" I thought worriedly, it wasn't that I was just nervous that they would see us, I was also worried about what they would think knowing we were eavesdropping on their conversation and spying on them.
"Don't worry about it, we're out of sight, no one can see us. If they are having a normalconversation and nothing is wrong, then we'll leave." Brandon reassured me, "But I'm telling you they need our help."
"Fine." I sighed in defeat, pressing in a code in the control panel, and a small earpiece appeared above the controls. Now we could hear anything within thirty meters, and it did not sound good.
"So does anyone know what bus Musa took?" We heard Bloom ask.
"No, sorry, I don't." Stella answered, the tone in her voice sounded upset, what was going on with Musa that left Alfea by herself. The girls must've gotten into an argument base on what we were hearing.
"Guys, I think something's happened, let's try and get closer without being seen." Sky insisted in a low voice. I hesitated to move the Owl closer to the wing shaped gates of Alfea while continuing to listen to their conversation.
"Congratulations, Stella, Musa's gone and you don't know which bus she took!" Flora spoke up with some sarcasm. Something told me that I didn't not want to be around for what had just occurred, and I was glad it was over now.
"The only bus that stops here is the one from Magix." Stella explained in an irritated tone, I'm it's that exact vibe that's just so intimidating about girls, "It's a no brainer, Flora."
"Yeah, but she could've got off anywhere." Flora told her worriedly. By now we were close enough to them to just jump from the ship, and now we had enough information to know they could use our assistance. And right on cue, we jumped from the ship without hesitation, at least Sky did anyway.
"Do you need a prince, my princesses?" The Prince of Eraklyon asked the four fairies as Brandon and I followed his lead, "Hi." The Princess of Solaria suddenly turned around to see him, her face lighting up with the surprise.
"Sky!" Her eyes widened at the very sight of him, and standing right beside her was Tecna. This was my chance, I pushed all emotion to the back of my mind and focused on my main objective, to gain Tecna's trust and friendship in order to serve my purpose as a secret agent to protect her.
"Yes, we all saw him, we know his name." She sighed, I heard just as much irritation in her voice than everyone else, it made me a little nervous," No need to yell."
"Hi Tecna." Despite me nervousness, I addressed her while jumping down from the Owl, and Brandon jumped right down on the other side of Sky. I think I must have taken her by surprise.
"Hi Bloom," Brandon began, "we saw you at the bus stop and we thought maybe you needed a ride."
"Hi Brandon, actually you guys are showing up just in time." She admitted softly, I could tell every since she met him that there might be something between those two.
"Riven's not with you?" Flora inquired.
"Riven.., after what happened at the Rose ball, he's out of the group." Sky explained.
"He decided to join another squad of Specialists," I added, "which is fine by us."
"We've got to find Musa, she went to Magix and-" Bloom began worriedly, only to be interrupted by Brandon.
"Well, then, get in," he insisted, "that's where we're going, you can fill us in on the way. Come on!" So the girls followed us onto the Owl, talking some seats at the back on a couple of crates. Once we were airborne again, Brandon joined the girls at the back of the ship while Sky and I drove.
"So, what happened to Musa, why did she run off?" He asked.
"Well, I kind of... upset her by tempting her to talk about Riven." Stella confessed with a sigh, "And I told her that he was only interested in Darcy after the Day of the Rose."
"That's pretty bad, Stella." Brandon told her.
"I know, I've already got a lecture from the girls and I feel guilty enough as it is." The Solarian princess resumed pouting in the back of the ship. Tecna decided to sit with me at the front, which was perfect, unfortunately now our mission was to locate Musa, and my personal mission to befriend Tecna would have to wait. Sky and I had a digital map ready for when we reached Magix, and it would tell us where exactly Musa was. It took us about ten minutes before we reached downtown, and Brandon watched the monitor carefully before he spotted something.
"I see a red light, that has to be Musa!" he shouted, and everyone huddled around to see what was going on, "but she's being chased by a group of Cloudtower witches."
"Well at least it's good that we found her." Flora replied with a sigh of relief, "Now we have to deal with the witches that are after her."
"There she is, they're after her and she's stuck in a dead end!" Brandon continued the girls gasped with worry, "We're going to have to move quickly." And at his command, I moved the ship down to where we saw Musa. In front of the group of witches, the two notorious witches Icy and Stormy hovered down, completely surrounding Musa. I had no other options if I was going to be able to get Musa out of there, some damage had to be done. Fortunately the buildings around this area were all old and abandoned, so no charges for vandalism would be laid against Red Fountain.
"All right, I'm going to have to bust down this wall." I told the rest of the group, and in a matter of minutes, the wall blocking Musa's escape was destroyed. I touched down, and we ran out to get her. After the dust settled, the witches looked astonished, and Musa turned to see the Red Fountain ship, and our group standing there waiting for action.
Tecna's Point of View
I stood behind Sky and Brandon, knowing it would come to having to transform. When I know Musa left Alfea on her own, I didn't expect her to be targeted by a large gang of Cloudtower witches. Mrs. Faragonda was definitely right when she warned us to stay away from them. I wasn't ready for a full-out battle, and I didn't think I would ever be, however I would try my best and stand my ground in the face of danger for a friend.
"Guys!" Musa shouted in great relief.
"Musa!" we called to her as she ran to us as the remainder of the wall collapsed beside us. Brandon chuckled just a little, preparing for a fight, when suddenly we all saw their old teammate run up to the upcoming battle.
"Brandon!" Riven shouted, the he ordered a witch to move out of his way, "Now.., let's see if you're going to be tough.., with me too." Then, Riven drew his sword and was ready to go head to head with the blonde squire. I didn't know what the rivalry was between Brandon and Riven, it was definitely more than just friendly competition.
"You want to play rough, huh?" Brandon drew his blue sword, ready to take him on, "Well, if that's what you want!" At that moment, he ran up to Riven, swords slashing against each other as the two fought it out.
The witches watched them for a few seconds before deciding to charge after us on the command of a random witch, as they ran passed Icy and Stormy at full speed. Though unexpectedly, green flames emerged from the ground, they came from from Sky's sword, stopping the witches in their tracks from coming any further towards our group. He chuckled confidently as they looked in his direction, realizing what just occurred. They had no idea what to do for a minute before the entire area began to get increasingly cold, and I could only assume it was coming from none other than Icy.
"What's going on?" One of the other witches asked. Icy was beginning to get furious with every passing second, and Stormy was quickly losing her temper as she suddenly raised her arms and shot lightning towards the sky. This was going to get ugly, from the looks of the situation, I cam only estimate the outcome would not turn out in our favour. I looked up at the sky and began to wonder rather I was ready to face the Trix yet, even in our combined team efforts, but they had numerous other witches on their side, giving them quite an advantage.
"Oh, this looks bad, let's transform." Bloom suggested, and in an instant, we transformed, I was a little worried about what would happen once we completed our transformation, and to be honest, I was slightly cared. Once our transformation was finished, we stood our ground, waiting for the first move to attack. However, an attack from Stormy caught me right off guard as I was hit from behind, I flew backwards, letting out a surprised scream, and I hit my head hard on the pavement before blacking out entirely...
Timmy's Point of View
This was my moment, I know it would come eventually, a time when I would have to protect Tecna from any dangers. I didn't know why, but those answers would soon come to me. I watched her fly backward from Stormy's sudden attack and hit the ground, and without hesitation I sprinted into action, running towards her as I realized she was now unconscious.
"Tecna, Tecna are you okay?" I asked, carefully lifting her head from its uncomfortable position leaning backward when she fell, as I expected, there was no response, and that's when I knew my chance had come. I had to use the First Aid training, I learned from my first years in the Fairy Protection Program, but it was dangerous for me to do it in the middle of a battle, and this was the very first time I was ever able to touch a girl, or ever be this close to one. I turned for a second to watch the battle rage on without me and Tecna participating, I could tell she wasn't coming out of unconsciousness any time soon. If I couldn't do anything else for the moment, I just had to watch her, to monitor her and make sure that no one takes advantage of her vulnerable state. I was hesitant to do anything else, but I knew I had to at least do something instead of staring pathetically at her while she could be in serious pain.
"Come on, Timmy, you're blowing your mission, do something you pathetic piece of crap!" I thought to myself as my hands began to sweat. The young fairy that I was assigned to protect was lying unconscious right in front of me, and I was too much of a wuss to do anything about it. I breathed in heavily, lying her down gently on the pavement so she was in a better position when she came to, her legs were still upright from when she was knocked out, so I assumed that she wasn't hurt in that particular area. The most likely place she could've gotten hurt was her neck and back. I knew I couldn't do a full inspection right in the middle of the fight, but I also knew that just placing her in a better position wasn't good enough. Why in the Magical Dimension was I so nervous, so unsure of myself? I had a plan, I had the knowledge and the training to know what to do when I see someone unconscious and potentially injured. Was it because I was tending to a woman, I didn't think I'd be in this situation, I've always thought I'd be more of a behind the scenes secret agent, making sure to do my job without being noticed. In a couple seconds I managed to gather myself, and tried hard to picture being in training back at Red Fountain. I nervously felt the back of her neck, making sure I didn't do any more damage if she was actually injured in that spot, luckily, as I moved my fingers gently, I could feel no broken bones. Though I was still panicked, knowing that Tecna was still not moving an inch since she was knocked out, once I know she was okay for the moment, I turned back to watch Bloom and Stormy go at it, Flora was on the ground, so I just assumed Bloom was trying to help her out. She attacked Stormy, hitting her in the side of her hip, and burning her skirt in the process, making the witch of storms even more pissed off than she already was. She began to conjure up wind as leaves began to blow, the last thing I needed was for any of the witches to attack while Tecna was still unconscious, I had no way of defending her while she was in this condition, so it would just made me look cowardice, so much for growing a pair of man cherries, Sky. Now that I knew what was going on around us, I back at Tecna, who was still motionless.
"Tecna..," I breathed nervously, "come on, please wake up." Suddenly I heard a gust of wind from a short distance away, and I snapped my head to see Icy, she had an evil grin on her face as she extended an arm, and ice crawled along the ground toward Tecna's legs. They were quickly being incased in ice, and I lifted her head again so the ice wouldn't bury her completely.
"Oh crap, now I'm screwed." I thought to myself, the one chance I had to prove that I could be a FPP secret agent, and I end up allowing the fairy I was assigned to be frozen in ice within the first two months of my mission. I watched Icy carefully to make sure she didn't make any sudden moves that would finish both me and Tecna off for good. A part of me didn't want Tecna to wake up at the moment, but another part of me wished she would. The one time I forgot my laser gun in the Owl, I would've had more of a chance if I had it, but I didn't expect there to be a full out battle awaiting us when we found Musa. I continued to look down at Tecna while I still supported her head with my arm, I trying so hard not to be nervous, I had no magic, no weapon in hand, and I had an obligation to prevent any other harm from getting to Tecna. After a year at Red Fountain, you'd think I'd know how to handle situations like these, but we did not cover how to fight against a magical opponent without a weapon in Red Fountain's defence classes yet, but I wasn't going to roll over and quit, not when I had my manhood and dignity to prove.
"Hang in there, Tecna." I begged her quietly, if anything I would hope that hearing my voice would help her come out of unconsciousness.
"How cute, frozen love birds." Icy laughed, then suddenly she shot yet another powerful attack of ice directly at us, and I knew this was going to be it.
"No!" I shouted, closing me eyes for the final impact, when suddenly, I could see a blur of orange jump right in the line of fire. It was Stella, and she used a shield to block the ice from reaching us. I heaved a great sigh as I watched the Princess of Solaria.
"Pathetic." Icy scoffed, trying to fight off Stella, although I will admit she was right. This was pretty weak, having a fairy fight my battles for me, at this rate Riven would probably post this all over the internet if he still attended Red Fountain, I'm just thanking the Great Dragon he switched squads by now. The ice that Tecna was half frozen in began to melt under Stella's sun powers, however Icy was still going strong, and they fought with their powers for a couple minutes before we all saw something bright and colourful out of the corner of our eyes. It was Bloom. Her sudden outburst of magic power distracted Icy long enough for Stella to finally accomplish unfreezing a little bit of the ice surrounding Tecna.
"Who is this?" Icy asked in surprise, stopping her attempts to freeze us, obviously she had more important things to do that deal with a helpless Specialist, an unconscious technology fairy and a fairy of the sun and moon that looked to be an equal match for her. She opened a clenched fist to reveal something in her hand, it was telling her something crucial about Bloom's power, something we had yet to discover for ourselves, eventually.
"Could she be...? Oh, it's her!" the ice witch continued with pure astonishment as she observed the magical object in her hand. Stella and I watched as Bloom's magic exploded with a hot and powerful force that no one had ever seen before. With the heat it emitted, the ice along the side of the road instantly melted, setting Tecna completely free from her frozen prison, and I was relieved as well. The power shot all three witches from out of the sky, and abruptly made Brandon and Riven stop their fight, the light could be seen from at least a twenty mile radius. The Trix ended up falling to the ground one by one, and when Darcy fell, Riven was right by her side to assist her. All the other witches that were involved running away from the battle scene, and the three witches soon followed. Brandon and Sky looked stunned, and as Bloom's powers faded away, she collapsed on the pavement and Brandon went to help her up. I still stared blankly at Tecna, who, despite all the commotion, was still unconscious and motionless. Now I could put all that I had learned in First Aid to use as I began feeling around her arms, legs and the sides of her stomach for anything broken due to impact, and thankfully there was no injuries to take into account. Stella and Sky walked over to us while Brandon was talking Bloom back to the Owl.
"Thanks a lot for the help, Stella," I told her, "you saved our asses back there."
"Yeah, well I've been acting like a total bitch today, it's the least of many things I could do to make it up to everyone." The blonde sighed shamefully, then suddenly I heard a groan from behind me, and turned my attention to Tecna.
Tecna's Point of View
I began to open my eyes slowly to see three faces looking down at me, Stella, Sky, and Timmy, I groaned painfully and squinted my eyes to block the light out.
"Tecna, Tecna are you okay?" Timmy asked me, after I slowly opened my eyes. I realized I was still lying on the pavement where I had fallen.
"I... think so..." I began to answer his question and lift myself off the ground, "My head feels like I'm trying to load a webpage with too little bandwidth." I know I made no sense to him at the moment, and with Stella staring right at me, I was surprised she didn't make a snide remark.
"Hold on, Tecna, I'll help you get back to the ship." He insisted, this caused me to blush slightly, and yes, I will admit that Stella was definitely right, I did blush around Timmy.
"Oh, I knew it!" And just like that, I spoke too soon, Stella noticed my cheeks turning pink as he gave me a shoulder to lean on, "I told you, Tecna!"
"Told her what?" Timmy asked.
"Stella, I don't think now is the best time, Tecna took quite a blow." Sky warned her as Timmy assisted me to my feet, swinging my arm around him shoulder and walking me back. Once we were onboard, he sat me down in the passenger seat beside him, and I rested my head on the back of it.
"What happened?" I asked everyone.
"Just your typical battle between us and the Trix, except we were getting our asses handed to us on a silver platter." Stella informed me, trying very hard to be quiet enough so my head wouldn't hurt.
"Where's Bloom?" I inquired.
"In the back with Brandon, she's a little weak from the amount of power she used all at once." Sky explained.
"She single-handedly stopped the entire battle with one burst of energy." Flora added.
"That doesn't seem logical." I responded softly to her statement.
"Who cares if it doesn't sound logical to you," Stella stated quite abruptly, "most of us saw it first hand, it might not have made sense but it happened." The rest of the girls and Sky went to the back of the ship, and I continued to rest a bit more in the seat beside Timmy. After about fifteen minutes or so, I was able to sit up straight, and I could hear everyone talking in the back of the aircraft.
"How are you feeling?" I heard Brandon ask Bloom from where she was sitting on one of the cargo crates.
"Much better," her answer sounded tired and was quick, "thanks."
"Oh well, with such love and care, how could you not." Stella interrupted, she and Flora were sitting on a crate beside Musa, who was sitting on one by herself across from the redhead. Sky was standing next to her.
"Oh please, Stella." Flora huffed, still very irritated from the argument before, obviously she knew Stella was going to start something once more.
"And how about you, Musa?" Sky asked the music fairy.
"Everything's okay now Sky." She reassured him. The ship had taken off ten minutes ago, and we were about to reach Alfea any time, and just as expected, Timmy turned to the back of the ship to inform Brandon of our arrival.
"We're approaching Alfea, Brandon." He told him, I was strong enough to get out of my seat and join the group, I wasn't too weak now, but I just couldn't but my finger on why I was knocked out so easily.
"Are you sure you can walk back, Bloom?" Brandon asked her with concern in his voice, "You still look weak to me."
"Yes, yes, it's better if no one sees us coming with you guys." Bloom insisted as I made my way to the back of the ship.
"Uh, I still don't understand how you managed to single-handedly beat three witches." I interrupted him curiously, perhaps Bloom had discovered something new about her powers that she was still learning how to use,
"I don't either." Bloom admitted, even stunned by her own actions, it was a mystery for all of us.
"Well, if nothing else, I have learned something important today." Musa chimed in, her voice still very exhausted, just like the rest of us.
"You finally discovered that I'm always right, is that it?" Stella guessed, I didn't understand her, one minute she was trying to be sincere and nice and the next she was as arrogant and self absorbed as the day I met her.
"No, never stick around where witches like to hang out." Musa clarified, completely disregarding how boastful Stella was.
"Musa, you got to admit I was right about you and Riven," the Solarian princess pressed.
"Even so, I saw him in action today and I think he's lost every bit of charm he ever possessed."Musa confessed, "One thing's for sure, I don't ever want to see him again, he's become a real jerk!"
"Oh, you admit it!" Stella pointed directly to her with a slight satisfied chuckle..
"Admit what?" Musa asked defensively, "I didn't say anything."
"Yes, yes, I was right, I was right about you, and I was right about Tecna," she pointed to me next, "and about Bloom."
"About me, what about me?" Bloom questioned, obviously being taken by surprise as she was distracted with her own thoughts.
"You know, you and-" Stella continued until Flora cut her off before she could say another word.
"Oh, um, nobody, right Stella?" Flora reminded her in a very sweet and soft voice, though the underlying intention was pretty clear to the Princess of Solaria.
"Uh, yes, right." Stella chuckled nervously, seeing who she was about to mention was right in front of her, "I think I better shut up now." We all began laughing as Stella finally sat down next to Flora again. Minutes later, we touched down at Alfea's gates and the girls and I were about to off the ship when someone stopped me in my tracks.
"Tecna wait," I suddenly heard Timmy shout from behind me, and I turned abruptly to face him, "I remembered the video game I mentioned a couple weeks ago, I thought I'd get a chance to lend it to you." This was kind of a surprise, why would Timmy have the video game on the ship unless he was actually expecting to see me today in order to give it to me. It didn't matter though, from what it looked like it was a fun game and I couldn't wait to try it.
"Thanks." I answered him hesitantly, taking the case from his hands as he headed back into the ship.
"Let me know if you like it, you can PM me if you have any questions about the game." He insisted, waving to me as he left my field of view. As the Red Fountain ship took off, the girls and I headed straight into Alfea.
Everyone except for Stella was in the common room that night, when suddenly, we heard an ear piercing scream coming from the bathroom.
"No wonder I was such a bitch today!" I heard Stella shout, and I few minutes later, she came out of the bathroom with another skirt on, "And my skirt is totally ruined!"
"Let me guess," Musa began, "a woman's favourite time of the month."
"Mm hmm," Stella sighed, "I'm so sorry girls."
"It happens to all of us, Stella, no need for apologies." Bloom reassured her.
"Though it is a good explanation as to your mood swings today." I added softly.
"Yeah, well, I'm going to take a shower and go to bed early." Stella replied, "See you girls in the morning."
"Night Stella." We called back in response, I was one of the girls who wasn't upset by Stella today, however I was still a little woozy from being knock out in battle, and now I must admit that Stella was right about how I felt around Timmy, I did blush for some illogical reason. Now the next challenge I would have to face would be midterms, that was one obstacle I knew I was going to overcome successfully.
