Author's note
Sorry it took so long to get this chapter up, had a MAJOR case of writers' block. Song bits by The GGGG's with their song 'Now I can be the real me'
Chapter 9 – Mayhem and Magical Weapons
Red Fountain Defensive Offensive Classroom
"Alright everyone takes a seat," Flora said as she walked into the classroom and with flick of her wrist all but seven desks disappeared and in the center a long ornate oak table appeared, "Today, will be dedicated to weaponry connectivity."
The guys looked from one to the other looking for some sign that they knew what she was talking about. With that she begun with, "Weaponry connectivity, is when an ancient weapon shows has special spiritual connection with its wielder. You don't get to choice of the weapon; it choices you. The weapon will choose you based your personality." She went and sat on her desk crossing her legs at her ankles.
"As Helia demonstrated during your evaluation," She reached her hand out and a weapon flew into her from the table without her casting a single spell, "Helia come here." She called, if I didn't know any better I would say he was blushing, Helia came to a stop about a yard in front of her. She handed him the weapon that had flown to her, it was the very Bō that he had used in their first class. "I'm not very surprised that the Bō has chosen you, Helia." He took the Bō in his hands. "It's an offensive and defensive weapon; acting as a shield and a sword."
With a wave of her hand as if to ask him to demonstrate; to whom he proceed to do by twirling the Bō around his body end with a Crack to the floor. "More like a cheerleader with a baton than a Hero with a weapon" Riven mocked next to the two guys she didn't know but had passed the evaluation.
"Alright, Helia good job now you can go to your seat of choice. Riven come forth and place your hand above the table and a weapon shot up from the table. Ironical, the weapon that chose him was one of discipline not action, "Now this does surprise me!" She laughed only to have Helia join in while everyone else looked confused.
"WHAT!" Riven bellowed turning red in the face.
Helia answered before Flora could, "You do know the name of the weapon you're holding right?" Riven just continued to glare at them, "They're called nunchakus. They're about discipline because they're more dangerous to the user then to your opponent and even more difficult to master without long hours of dedication." Helia said simply.
"It's a slow process," She waved her hand again to have him try to use the nunchakus, to which end with him smacking himself in the face with them and then his nether region. All the guys winced and even Flora flinched, "Ahhhemm," She coughed, "Take a seat , you know what," She grabbed a note pad and scribbled something down then handed it to him, "Infirmary, like now." She said all but holding the door open for him.
Next was Timmy and to everyone's great surprise the weapon that picked him was the Sai. Many jaws dropped at the sight of the three prong blades. "WOW!" was all she said and waved him forward to demonstrate.
Not the smoothest demonstration, but better then Riven's, she thought as Timmy nearly stabbed himself in the foot. The rest of the demonstrations were less eventful.
Brandon – Short sword
Helia - Bō
Riven – nunchaku
Sky – katana
Senior (Adrian) – yumi (Long-bow)
Sophomore (Mica) –kusarigama (chain-sickle)
Timmy - Sai
She marked each hero off in her head, "Alright boys now that each of you have been chosen by your weapon, I expect you to have a twelve page essay about the name, history and origins of said weapon along with the names of three previous users; a brief of each," She said getting wide-eye looks from everyone, "You have two weeks to complete your assignment."
"AAAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWEEEEEE!" they whined.
Ding Dong Ding Dong
"I'll see ya Thursday!" She said as the guys filed out of the door only to have Sky approach her while she stuffed her thing into her backpack.
"Do know if Bloom is coming over so we can talk?" He questioned her.
"Yes, Tecna and Me are going to walk over with her she's a little nervous." She answered adding, "you know better than to break her heart again…right?"
"Yes and thank you, Flora," Sky said shuffling his feet, "You're doing well… professor." He ruffled her hair then fled the room leaving only Helia and Flora.
"He's right you know." Helia said as he finished collecting his stuff waiting for an opening to talk to her, "You're a great teacher," He smirked as he grabbed up her pack to escort her out. "Just need to work on the homework thing." He joked as they walked the halls of Red Fountain.
"OH, did I not give you guys enough to do, that you guys need more work?" She replied in deadpan. Causing Helia to freeze in place and Flora to continue on for a few yards before turning around and grinned then dashed off as Helia gave chase to her.
"Just wait till I get a hold of you," Helia shouted as he playfully chased her, quickly gaining ground just as they made it through the front entrance before Flora burst in to her Winx and flew off with a wave good-bye.
She's something else he thought as he watched her return to Alfea.
He sure is not what he seems Flora thought as looked back at Red Fountain to see him watching her fly away.
Three Hour Later In Black Mud-Swamp Forest
"Are you sure he's not going want to break up with me?"
"Yes," Flora said in no uncertain terms, "He knows what kind of wrath he would be welcoming if he did." Tecna nodded agreeing.
"it would illogical for him to want to break-up with you face to face," Tecna analyzed, "Everyone in Magix knows how dangerously powerful you are, Sky know form firsthand experience," Bloom blushed scarlet, "I could have sworn that Stella told me that when you two first met you blasted off his feet thinking he and the rest of the guys were in league with knut and the ogre." Flora giggles while bloom rolls her eyes at her friends.
"Okay maybe I'm overreacting just a bit," Bloom said turn as red as her hair.
"A BIT!" Flora raises an eyebrow.
"Okay a lot but…
CABOOM!
"What was that?"
"It's coming from Red Fountain!" Tecna shouted pointing at a cloud of smoke just above the tree line.
"Let's go!" Flora shouted above the rumbling
Red Fountain Campus
CCCAAAABOOOOMMMMM!
That one really rocked this world, Flora thought as the girls morph and flew to Red fountain landing in the middle of the quad to be greeted by the sight of Helia racing towards them.
"I saw you, fly in," Helia reported, "the guys are already trying to lure the mayhem globe away from the school to prevent more damage but aren't have much lucky, Come on," He waved to them to follow quickly, " I'll take you to Cordatorta, so you can get a n incline of what's going on."
The four of them race through Red fountain till they reached the central control center. "Get that thing away from the school. First to destroy that thing gets to skip final exams this semester." Cordatorta roared into the head set as they entered the control center.
"Cordatorta , I've brought Bloom, Tecna and Flora in case they could." Helia informed Cordatorta.
"Hey Girls," Timmy greeted from his position in front of several monitor screens. "The Globe is heading northwest twelve clicks ahead of you." He reported into the headset to the other Heroes trying top rein in the mayhem globe.
"Thank you ladies but as you can see have it all under control…"
Hey, the sensors in the South corridor are going into a major melt down. The readings are off the chart with dark magic. There seems to three of them… A OH!"
"The Trix!" Bloom growled
"The South corridor is a direct path to the…" Cordatorta explained.
"CODEX!" The Girl shouted as they headed for the door with Riven and Helia in tow.
"We're coming with you,"Riven said Helia only nodded as they waited for the elevator. Then the doors finial opened to a staggering Sky, it only took a minute of Bloom and sky staring at each other before, "No time for lover's quarrels." Riven interrupted pushing him the side and boarding the elevator followed by the rest, it was a light fit for the six.
"Brandon's gone to head them off in the gym that's where we're to meet up with him," Helia relayed Timmy's instructions from his ear piece.
Suddenly the elevator stops "looks like this is our stop," Riven said, the boys got to work on the door and within minutes the door was being pried opened, "Ladies first," Riven waved them towards the open door. One after another the girls dropped into the elevator shaft and morphed in mid-fall while the boys propelled downward; coming to jumping through an open latch. They continued to race through the school at break-neck speed; till they came to a pair of heavy steel doors
"On the count of three." Sky said.
"Wait is that one, two, three then go or one, two, go." Riven joked, Bloom, Flora, Sky, Helia and Tecna head slapped him, "Okay got IT!" he rubbed his head.
They open the door then suddenly Brandon gets thrown through the now opened doors and is slammed into the opposite wall and crumpled. "Let's go" they dashed in with each specialist covering a Winx Girl; sky covered Bloom, Riven backed Flora while Helia covers Tecna.
"Well, well looks like the pathetic fairies have finial joined the fray," Icy sneered with her ice blue psychotic eyes.
"AAAWWE, they brought along the Losers boys," Stormy jeered, "this is gonna fun destroying them."
"I couldn't agree more but we can't forget why we're here," Darcy said not taking her eyes off of Flora and Riven "Then again with our new gloomix powers this will be a piece of cake."
"Well than," Icy " Ice Barrage!" she shot hail the size of her fist at Bloom and Sky only to be countered by Tecna's Digital Deletion. As Tecna left herself wide open Stormy attempted to strike her with a Lightening Storm only once again to have to have the attack to be deflected by Flora's Venus Fly Trap.
Now I can be who I am
Now I can stand up for everyone to see
Takin this life in my hands
Now I can be,
Now I can be the real me
It only took a minute for the guys to realize that the girl had gained control over the situation and ran back to check Brandon only Icy shoot Ice blades at their backs, Helia quickly pulled out phanto- Bō that Timmy had designed for him, and shattered the ice.
Free of defenseless finally
And I'm somehow safer than I've ever felt
You, dare to be you
Now I know I don't have to be someone else
When I'm with you I am just myself
"Who's the new Guys?" Darcy leered as she managed to blast through Flora and Tecna's shield, "He's hot in a moody darkness kind of way!" She shot Riven a glance, "better then the last Hero I hooked up with." She cackled
Now I can be who I am
Now I can stand up for everyone to see
Takin this life in my hands
Now I can be,
Now I can be the real me
"Sorry, Darcy, you're so not his type," Riven shot back, With her momentarily distracted Flora hit her from behind, "Ivy Constrictor!" Vines sprouted from the ground in a fury of green limbs just barely grazing her ankle-boots before grabbing her about the waist then started to swing her around like a Darcy rag-doll. The guys chuckled, before a scream rented the air, "LOOK OUT FLORA!"
Walls you can build them all around
But you've show'd me I've got nothing here to hide
Before Flora knew what had happened both Icy and Stormy had struck her with Icy blast and a bolt of burgundy red lightening, first there was a brief shock before pain began to rack through her body rendering her limp then a dark fog flooded her vision.
Now I can be who I am
Now I stand up for everyone to see
Takin his life in my hands
Now I can be,
Now I can be the real me
Ten Minutes Later
"Flora…."
"Flora…"
"FLORA!" The darkness that had obscured her vision started to fade into a blurry mess of light all the while a figure started to come into focus, it didn't take her long to realize who the fuzzy blur was. Helia. "There you are, Flora." Suddenly everything came into a sharp focus and Helia was leaning over her flushed with a mix of fear and ticking rage. "You should get up slowly you took one heck of a beating." He said as helped steadily to bring into a sitting position.
"What happened?" She said as looked around the room that looked like a bomb went off repeatedly. There were chunks of on concrete missing from the ceiling and walls while large splinters of wood lay everywhere.
"Your friend Bloom, is one scary girl, ya know that, right," Helia said as she turned her attention back to him, "when you went down it was like the gloves were off, Bloom started blasting them with everything she had. They gave up try to blast her took off for the codex chamber and from what is telling they got what they came for."
"Crap! Is everyone ok?" She inquired.
"Yeah, it was touch and go with Sky but everything is fine. He finial swallowed pride asked Bloom to be his girlfriend, at that point I came back here to check-up on you. You were out cold cocked last time we saw you." He said crouching in front of her. "How's your head? You seem to all but bash it into the wall when you collapsed."
Flora probed throw her hair gentle till she came to a large bump that felt like the size of a dragon's egg on pyros, "Got a pretty nice lump that just needs a little ice, but other than that I'm fine. I better get the girl and get back to Alfea before Griselda put up a barrier." She slowly got to her feet and brushed the dust from her clothes.
"I'll show the way."
"No, need I'll let nature be my guide." She said as heard a faint whisper that made her want to go forward and turn left at the tenth doorway. "Better go check up on your classmates."
"yeah, I guess. I'll see you around, Flora." Helia turned and walked away with a confidence that wasn't there when they first met and she had feeling he was going to get even more confident before the year was up.
That boy is trouble with a capital 'T', she thought as he disappeared down the corridor.
That girl is trouble with a Capital 'T', he thought as he left her alone in the now destroyed gym.
In the chapter Helia and the guys crash the girls' girl night.
Will they get caught? Will the guys hear some of the girls secrets?
Or will they hear things they would very much want to forget?
Or will the guys be fooled?
Find out in the Next chapter!
