Spelled
It was a peaceful night at Alfea until Musa was awoken by a sudden clap of thunder. She quickly sat up in bed when she heard the sound and saw the bright flashes of lightning lighting up the sky and the rain pounded against the window, making it sound as if there was a hurricane outside her window. Musa, who was never the biggest fan of storms like this, quickly grabbed her phone and wrapped herself up in her blanket.
After erecting a sound barrier around her bed, Musa quickly dialed Daniel's number hoping he was awake. When she was younger, she lived in the castle like most princesses, but one night there was a horrible storm outside and when she went to run into the comfort of her parent's room, she took a wrong turn in the castle. At the time she was just three and finding herself alone in a dark place during a storm was enough to scare the living crap out of her. She cried for most of the night, but her cries were muffled by the storm and the blanket she kept around her that night, finally a few hours later, he mother sensed something wrong and was horrified to find her room empty. The entire castle was in panic when Musa wasn't in her room and in a matter of seconds the entire Harmonic secret service was scouring the castle and she was found a few minutes later huddled in a coat closet scared to death.
Since then, Musa was terrified of thunderstorms, although she never told anyone. She would usually sit in her room and put up a sound barrier and try her best to get back to sleep, but tonight she was awake and she felt very uneasy. "Hello," Daniel said sleepily.
"Hey, it's storming here," Was all Musa had to say and Daniel understood completely. He stayed on the phone with her until she nodded off.
The next morning, Musa is a little irritable with the lack of sleep, not to mention she overslept. After running through the room trying to get dressed on time, Musa saw her friends walking around the quad. Crap, I missed potions, again. She thought to herself as she caught up with the girls that were walking through the quad probably getting ready for lunch since Musa overslept into the afternoon.
"Hey, Musa," Flora said.
"Hey, guys what's up," Musa asked as she walked along with the girls in no certain direction.
"Bloom was just telling us about this dream she had last night, she was changing from her Winx form and everything, it was something I've never seen before," Flora explained.
"Yeah," Bloom said and then continued. "It was weird, in the dream there was a voice telling me that it was time for me to begin my journey, it was the same voice that led us out of the fire, I'm sure of it,"
"Boring change of topic," Stella murmured as she walked ahead of the pack and whispered rude comments about Bloom's story under her breath. An act that didn't go unnoticed by the musical princess, expect Musa decided to listen to Bloom instead of giving Stella the attention she wanted.
"What did she look like," Techna asked. As Bloom began to explain what the woman in her dream looked like, Techna pulled out a psychic beetle that would help pick up things from Bloom's subconscious that she didn't remember. Finally, after a few minutes of explaining, the beetle managed to create an image of the woman from Bloom's dreams.
"I still don't know how you did that," Bloom began excitedly. "But, that' her! I've defiantly seen that face somewhere before. I know, she's one of the nymphs on the façade on town hall,"
"Okay!" Stella interrupted as she turned around finally facing the rest of the girls. "Enough with your silly dream,"
"Why do you keep interrupting me today?" Bloom yelled obviously getting angry with the constant remarks Stella was making while Bloom was trying to figure out her dream.
"Maybe because I'm tired of you always stealing the stage! It's always me, me, me, with you. I'm the little earth girl, look at me I have powers, look at me I have no clue how to control them!"
"That's not funny," Bloom pointed out trying to keep her temper under control.
"Everyone has weird dreams, who cares?"
"This is important, Stella!" Bloom said clearly getting angry as she balled up her fist.
"Important to you, you, you," Stella complained.
"Stella, what in the world is your problem?" Techna asked being very put off by the whole situation. Musa was also getting pretty angry at Stella's attention tantrum.
"Nothing, I'm simply telling it how it is as Musa would say Stella said. "I'm just keeping it real,"
Suddenly the two got into all out screaming fight and stomped off in opposite directions. Later that day, Techna and Flora were in Musa's room's doing some homework when Stella came traipsing in and she was not exactly welcome after the first few words came out of her mouth.
"Hey Flora, you know what would look really cute on you!" Stella said as she walked into the room and sat on Flora's bed. "A fashion sense, my dear, did you ever think of that?"
"That's not very nice," Flora said with her pleasant voice in tact.
"Don't give me tude, it's just constructive criticism," Stella shot back causing Flora's optimistic disposition to deteriorate quickly.
"Are you kidding, you're the one with the attitude!"
"Stella, you're tude's outta control," Musa pointed out as she continued to work on the potions homework that she had due the next day.
"Uh, don't dis me because you got dissed girl,"
"No I didn't," Musa said casually standing up going to get the paper she had just printed. She figured Stella was having some tantrum because she felt like she was getting enough attention and she was not going to indulge her need for it.
"You got so dissed by Riven, it's not only embarrassing its like tragic and pathetic," Stella said so casually as if she were discussing the weather. Musa didn't look back at Stella, but she was clearly upset. It had been a week since the day of the rose and Musa had found out about Darcy and Riven. She was trying as hard as she could to push past it, but still she felt so hurt and humiliated, especially since she sorta knew that her friends knew that she was crushing on Riven.
"Please, what's pathetic is you thinking you can come into my room and think you can act like your all that," Musa said effectively covering the hurt in her voice that had surfaced when the thought of Riven came to mind.
"Fret not, it's not like your totally hopeless, look at Techna, she chooses clothes based on their fire proofing qualities and yet Timmy still crushes on her," Stella said now dragging the final member of the Winx club into this argument.
"Hey!" Techna shouted dropping the brush she was using to fix her hair. "I like my clothes,"
"Musa, just get rid of those pigtails, acquire some better denim and don't forget make up, the right mascara can do wonders," Stella continued to taunt and Musa's patience was beginning to wear thin. "Even get Riven to call…ooh Riven…"
Musa stuffed a book in front of her face and tried desperately to make it seem like she didn't care, but Stella's unrelenting taunting was making her more upset than angry. "So who cares!"
"Of coarse he might be with Darcy," Stella continued almost knowing how to hurt the person she called a friend.
"That is enough!" Flora spoke up having just about enough of what Stella had to say.
"What's the big deal, Musa knows they're together," And then Musa snapped. She had been trying very hard all morning to keep her mouth shut about Stella's antics, even ignoring her hurtful words, but it was clear Stella was poking around for a reaction. And if she wanted one, she was going to get one.
"Shut it before I shut it for you," Musa threatened about ready to pummel Stella to the ground and pull out the hair she was so proud of. Nobody would have spoken to her like this if she was back home, there her friends were always there for her and they never taunted her. The strength of her voice alone was enough to push Stella off her seat in on a dresser. "Got it!"
"I'm just saying, if you'd see Riven with Darcy you would not like him so much, he clearly likes her a lot more than you,"
"So what!" Musa yelled unable to hold back the tears of angry and hurt. She could feel them beginning to collect along her eyelids. "I don't care what they do, I'm over him!"
With that Musa ran out of the room angrier than she had ever been in her life. She ran straight from the room into the next bus that was headed for Magix. She couldn't be in that room anymore and she was seriously considering leaving Alfea. Once on the empty bus bound for Magix, Musa called up the one person she knew would help her support her no matter what.
"Hello?" A voice said on the other end of the phone, just hearing the sound of his voice managed to calm Musa down a good amount.
"I think I'm gonna come home," Musa said sadly leaning her head back against with window of the bus and trying to keep herself from crying. She had already teared up when she was running out of the room and she didn't want to start sobbing on the phone, no matter how upset she was.
"Wait what! Baby what happened?" Daniel asked very concerned, he could tell Musa's shaky voice meant that she was just crying. "What's going on,"
"It was a mistake for me to come out here, I mean I was happy back home and I just –" Musa stopped again when her vice cracked with emotion as she gathered herself as she felt tears forming in the corners of her eyes. "I might just grab a flight outta here be home by tonight, I'm on my way to Magix right now," Musa said after a few seconds.
"Hold on," Daniel said calmly trying to get a scope on the situation. "You're going a little fast here, I mean I would love to have you home but, you can't just leave,"
"Why not,"
"Because I know you and you always see things through to the end," Daniel encouraged. "What happened? You'll feel better after you talk about it,"
"God it's just," Musa said before pausing, she couldn't very well explain exactly what happened that morning and how upset she got over Stella's taunting. "I don't fit in here, I mean back a Devon I was happy and everyone was nice and it was good,"
"And at Alfea," Daniel said trying to get more out of her.
"I thought some of the girls at Devon were bitches," Musa spat out angrily as she thought of everything she heard Stella say to her. "But, I actually thought this girl was my friend and she just talked to me like I was her biggest nemesis, I mean she was like horrible,"
"So," Daniel said not accepting that as a valid excuse to leave. "So maybe she's not who you thought she was, deal with it. You are too strong to let some girl step all over you,"
"Daniel I'm not in the mood to be lectured," She spat, she didn't really want to think rationally, she knew there was a high possibility that Stella was under a spell, but she wanted to be angry at her. Probably because it would keep her from thinking about Riven and Darcy or the fact that the guy that loved her wasn't the one she was thinking about.
"Too bad," He continued but this time softened his tone, knowing that Musa was strong but just a little emotional right now. "Baby, chances are she will be apologizing the second you guys talk again. Why don't you take some time to cool off,"
"I hate it when you make sense,"
"Yeah, I know. But I mean it, look I have to go, but promise you're gonna cool off and then call me later okay?" Daniel asked over some background noise.
"Okay," Musa said dejectedly as she saw the city come into view. "Where are you by the way, it sounds like you're on a jet,"
"Going to Crescendo to see my dad, I'll tell you about it later," Daniel lied. "Call me later okay baby? And you'll be fine I promise,"
"Thanks, bye Daniel," Musa said feeling a little better. She did feel a little bit of a release after talking to Daniel, probably because he could always tell how she was feeling, sometimes before she could. Musa walked off the bus and the second she looked around MAgix she thought to the day of the rose when Riven had the accident. Ever since then he was with Darcy and all of a sudden, the heartbreak from earlier was back.
"She's buggin' if she think's I care about Riven," Musa humphed angrily as she walked through Magix.
Musa did as Daniel advised and let herself cool down for awhile, she was the type of person to get really angry in the heat of the moment and do something she might regret later, like leave Magix and go back to Devon. She continued down Magix kicking a soda can that was sitting on the side of the road. Letting her mind get immersed in the sound that the can made every time it hit the ground, Musa could feel herself beginning to calm down.
She made her way down the different streets of Magix, not realizing where she was. Finally she came across a place she had only seen once before, btu knew it was someplace that she shouldn't have been.
"Eww witches," Musa said as she came across Hex Café. She looked around and it was waal-to-wall witches. She was ready to leave when her hearing picked up on none other than Riven's voice. "Oh that witch," Musa said angrily as she peaked though a window into the café to see Riven and Darcy seat comfortably drinking something that did not look age appropriate. Although she could not hear through the glass, she could read the body language pretty well. Musa saw Darcy reach over and begin to caress Riven's hand and she had enough. Just as she pulled herself away from the window, she heard a familiar voice behind her.
"No wonder it reeks of loser,"
"If it isn't the one with the pigtails," Stormy taunted as she leaned against the wall of the café. After seeing Riven practically eating out of Darcy's hand.
"Bug off perm head," Musa said noting the ridiculous creature that she called hair sitting at the top of her head. She had enough time to clear her head and maybe it was time to go back to Alfea, especially since these witches weren't making her day any brighter. "Go back to your psychwa –, "
"I don't think so," Icy said putting up her arm against the wall, delaying the princess's departure. "Where do you think you're going?"
"Back to civilization," Musa spat out not in the mood to deal with anyone let alone the witches.
"No you're not," Icy said grabbing hold of Musa's wrist and pressing into with a great deal of force, it was clear that they were not going to make this easy for him. "Not until you explain what you're doing on our territory,"
"Please, don't make me laugh" Musa said sarcastically. "I go wherever I want,"
"You don't come onto Cloud Tower turf," Stormy began. "And if you do, you don't get to leave,"
"That's right, not until we're done with you," Icy warned.
"You don't want to get into it with me witch," Musa said turning to Icy with fire in her eyes, not realizing that she was letting her mouth get away from her again. Musa was never one to keep what she felt to herself, which was bad in many situations, especially royal parties, and this situation.
"You're not in the Harmonic realm anymore, princess," Icy snapped angrily. "And your daddy and his hip hop palace guards aren't here to protect you anymore."
"Complexion smear, warts adhere," Musa said angrily unable to think of a better spell. God you couldn't have thought of anything better than that! Musa thought angrily to herself. "It worked!"
"How dare you? My flawless face," Icy gasped.
"Wow this must be the single most disgusting wart I've ever seen," Stormy said pointing out the wart sounding like an annoying younger sister, which she was.
"Nobody asked you," Icy said as she pushed Stormy away.
"I warned you, I told you to leave me alone," Musa pointed out regretting the running her big mouth. She knew pretty well that she was not strong enough to take the both of the witches on at once.
"Wart, gross and gory, return my face to it's glory," Icy said and with a snap of her fingertips, Musa's spell was reversed. "All gone. Now what should I do to this pigtailed pixie to teach her to show some respect."
"Let's mess her up," Stormy said maliciously.
"Yeah, yeah," Musa said challenging Icy. "You're good at trash talking; let's see what you got,"
"I will," Icy noted calmly. "In fact the entire Cloud Tower senior class is here and I'm going to make an example out of you,"
"What are we gonna rumble now?" Musa mocked not putting her thoughts through a filter before she let them spill out of her mouth. Were they really gonna just start a fight in the middle of the street? What, were they gonna break out in song and dance too, singing about how hard life is? "You do realize just how stupid you all sound,"
"We'll see how much you wanna talk back after we're done with you," Icy said ready to fire an attack, but just before she could Musa summoned a quick burst of energy and fired before she could. The attack was small, but it was just enough to push Icy over the edge and really piss her off.
"Get her witches," Icy said calmly as all the witches got up and began to chase the musical fairy. The chase was more than what Musa was expecting, but she did mouth off a great deal to the witches. All the sounds around her drowned out as Musa began to run as fast as she could. She never imagines she would ever get herself into this kind of situation. She kept running until she felt short bursts of magical attacks hitting her feet, she then saw that the witches were not only chasing her they were firing attacks at her as well. "Dance pixie, dance,"
Musa ran and turned a corner hoping to head them off the witches and just as she raised her head, she saw Riven standing right in the ally way she was running. Thank god! Musa thought the second she saw him. Surely he would help her, since he seemed to be pretty good at it before. "Riven, You have to help me." Musa begged quickly but her hopeful mood was sufficiently squashed when she saw the dead look in his eyes, she had made enough eye contact with him to know that his eyes were hiding a lot of emotion, but today they were completely blank. Then. Musa saw a malicious look on his face form.
"I don't think so," Riven said as casually as if he were saying hello. It looked like he didn't even care that she was going to get ambushed by a bunch of witches. "I'm with Darcy now."
Musa felt even worse that she had earlier that day, she knew about Riven and Darcy, but was he really willing to let her get hurt? For that witch! She looked one last time at the eyes that once made her heart race and her stomach do back flips, now all that happened was massive amounts of anger coursed through her, wanting to rip into him but knowing she had to leave, Musa pushed back the anger and pain and continued on her way. Without the help of Riven. "You're a two faced playa!" she yelled as she ran by.
Musa continued running fighting off everything she was feelings. As if what happened this morning wasn't bad enough, but now the guy she had been crushing on for months just threw her to the wolves. "Oh man!" Musa said realizing she had run into a dead end. Crap! Musa thought realizing that she was not only trapped, but Brian was right when he told her to watch her mouth, she had just gotten into a big spat and if she had left her mouth shut, it probably wouldn't be so bad. Btu those witches did deserve it, she had never been treated so rudely in her life. "I've gotta try an invisibility spell, quick!"
"Too late, no spell can help you know," Musa heard Icy's voice spit out maliciously. She turned to see Icy and Stormy descend from flying and they were standing in front of the other witches from the café that were after her. Musa, who had given leaving Magix some thought before but dismissed the idea after she had calmed down, wanted nothing more than to leave and go back home. Where she was safe, loved and happy. She had never had these types of problems there and there was a strong possibility that she would leave for awhile, granted she live.
"It's like they say on the last page of every fairy tale – the end" Icy said beginning to conjure the attack. "I'm afraid there will be no happily ever after for you," Icy finished. Then, Musa began to feel the ground underneath her shake a bit, she thought it was just Icy's attack but then wall behind her collapsed. It startled Musa to say the least, but she was happy to see a Red Fountain craft landing, finally some real heroes.
"Musa!" Yelled Bloom as she and the rest of the Winx Club and the guys exited the ship. Musa ran to them quickly, never so happy to see them in her life. When all seemed lost, they had all pulled through and it was enough to make her aching heart feel a little better.
"Guys!" Musa yelled happily as she ran to them.
"Who invited you?" Icy said rudely. "This event is R.S.V.P. only,"
"RSVP this," Bloom said ready to throw an attack at Icy, but stopped when she saw a former ally approaching. It looked as if she wasn't sure if she should continue with the attack or not.
"Brandon!" Riven yelled as he made his way through the witches and approached his former friends. Anger pulsed though Musa's body when she saw his face again. How could he! He was supposed to be a hero and here he was abandoning his old friends and aiding in attacking her. That was what was really bothering her, she really thought she and Riven had something going on between them and as if finding out he and Darcy were together wasn't a slap in the face, but now he was trying to help Darcy get rid of her.
"You're hanging out with this crowd now?" Brandon said coldly matching Riven's tone, it was obvious that all the guys were not happy with Riven's actions towards Musa and the rest of their group.
"Yeah. This crowd is much more happening then you could ever hope to be," Riven shot back coldly with anger Musa had never seen before, maybe this was the real Riven and if it was, Musa was glad to have someone else. "They're true friends."
"You've lost your mind and now you're going to lose this fight!"
"Bring it, tough guy,"
Suddenly, as if Brandon and Riven had initiated a confrontation between both sides, all the senior witches began to charge at the fairies. "You're not going anywhere," Brandon said throwing his sword's blade downward on the ground as it lit a glowing shield up. "Got it," he said almost smugly when he saw the witches look frazzled by the defensive maneuver.
"You're really starting to make me mad," Icy said as bits of ice and snow began to fall as Icy levitated up into the air, Musa had seen many of Icy's attacks, but none had ever been directed straight at her, until now. She quickly moved out of the way and back over to her friends.
"Hey girls," Bloom said nervously as the witches began to conjure their attacks. "Let's go!" right after Bloom's command, all the girls transformed to their Winx forms, a feat Musa didn't have enough time for before. Just as they finished transforming Musa saw Techna and Stella attacked simultaneously, both attacks looked severe and it was enough to knock Techna out. Timmy went to Techna and Musa looked over to Stella, a horrified look painted her face when she looked to Stella, sure that she was pinned up against the wall with the car.
"Stella!" Musa yelled as she began to run toward Stella and was suddenly stopped by Darcy who quickly fired an attack at her. The attack was one she had been hit with before and it was hardly one of Darcy's best, even Musa knew that. The purple waves hit Musa twice before she flew up into the air to gain an upper hand. But, when Musa looked back down at the ground to find Darcy, Darcy disappeared for a second and then reappeared in front of her and attacked her head on.
Without a second thought, Darcy began to attack Musa with everything she had and Musa tired as hard as she could to fight back, but she was new at. Although, the anger she had towards Darcy was enough to make her forget all about that and make her want to just kill that witch. Musa had never felt so much anger well up inside in her entire life, it was a combination of the lack of sleep, missing home, and heartache that made her feel weak and at the same the sheer fury from all of that kept her fighting under conditions in which she would normally buckled under.
"Now me, myself and I and the rest of us, are going to finish you off," Darcy saud as if she knew she would be winning the fight, and even though she was a lot more experienced than Musa, Muse believed that she had a chance. The witch used her magic to conjure up clones of herself that surrounded Musa and simultaneously got ready for an attack. By the look in Darcy's eye, Musa could tell that this fight was more then just picking on fairies, Darcy had some type of vendetta towards her, but why her in particular?
"I got you Musa!" Sky yelled out as he swung the sword in his hand through one of the multiplies. Musa looked around her to see all the multiples fading and it looked as if he had even managed to hit the original Darcy since right after the attack her magic seem to fail her and she collapsed to the ground. Musa wanted to go over there and kick her around and get some anger out, even if it was a low blow, that witch deserved it.
"No we got you," Sky turned around to see the Cloud Tower witches that had followed the Trix here, standing behind his with smug looks on their faces. Musa sat up on the side walk after falling to the ground from Darcy's attack before she fell, and when she looked up she saw the predicament Sky was in.
"Prince Sky!" she yelled worriedly. What was it with these witches? Was the only way they wanted to fight unfair. It was at least 30 against 8. But, leave it to them to play dirty.
"I'm okay," Sky assured Musa, even though she didn't buy it; she took it since she needed to keep fighting.
"Good assist." Musa thanked sounding a bit like Sky himself. "Thanks."
"Go get Stella," Sky said still looking up at the sky as if nothing was going on around them.
Musa did as Sky asked and ran as quickly as she could over to where she had seen Stella get hit. The car that Icy used to worsen the blow was still there and Stella was nowhere to be found, so that meant she was probably still pinned. Musa couldn't help but panic when she realized that the care was on fire as well. "Stella!" she yelled frantically as she approached the car.
"Musa," Stella screamed in agony from behind the car. "I'm pinned, I can't move my wing," Musa said nothing else, but she gathered all the energy she could and put her back against the wall and used her legs to push forward and the wall as support. She managed to move the vehicle enough for Stella's wing to get loose and once it was, Musa slowly and carefully maneuvered her out of the fire. Forgetting all about the reason she had come to Magix that day.
"Thanks for the save, you rock," Stella said weakly as Musa out of the fire. Almost immediately Stella began to regain her vitality. Just like music helped heal Musa, the sun was a type of power booster for Stella, and a good thing too, since it looked like the Winx Club had their hands full.
"You got it," Musa said cautiously letting go of her hoping she could stand on her own. But, it looked like Stella was alright enough to fight on her own and when he knew that, she felt a lot better and got a second wind for battle.
"Let's go," Stella said flying up, Musa was about to follow and she ran up to begin flying but was stopped by a growling Darcy. Musa knew that she had gotten lucky with Sky helping her out last time and she was exhausted, but she needed to keep fighting. She refused to lose the likes of her.
Darcy however looked as if she wasn't going to give Musa a chance to get a single shot in. Her eyes began to glow and suddenly the cars behind her began to levitate. "This is a fun game, it's called crash test fairy,"
Musa tried to escape the cars that were beginning to surround her so she could run away and geta better vantage point on Darcy, but every which direction she turned, the cars bumped her until she suffered a major blow from behind and fell to the ground, hitting the pavement hard. "Haha I win!" Darcy cackled as she looked to the suffering fairy on the ground and it was the last thing Musa heard before losing consciousness.
When Musa finally came to, all she could feel at first was a sharp pain in her ankle and looked up to see Bloom letting out a ridiculous amount of power. Her mind still hazy from the fall, she looked around to see many of the witches beginning to retreat. Then, Bloom's power became so overwhelming that it blew Icy, Darcy and Stormy straight out of the sky.
That was probably the best moment of her day, seeing Darcy fall to the ground and hearing the smack she made against the pavement. Knowing how cruel she was for thinking this, Musa was really hoping that Darcy didn't walk away from the fall. She couldn't help but bask in their defeat; the moment was great until she saw Riven go to Darcy. She knew he would since he had made it clear that he was no longer on their side, but it hurt to see him tending for the woman responsible for all the pain she had just gone through, well most of it.
"Darcy!" Riven cried out as she hit the ground. He was so willing to help the likes of Darcy, but he couldn't even manage to help her. "Babe, come on,"
The fight was over and it looked like the victory went to the Winx Club. Musa rubbed her head as she looked up to see Brandon going to tend to Bloom since she had practically collapsed from the sheer intensity of power she had let loose. Musa then looked up to see Sky and Stella walking toward her. "Oh my god Musa are you aright!" Stella cried out as she ran over to her fallen friend.
"Yeah, I am," Musa lied ignoring the pain in her ankle. But, Sky didn't buy it. When Musa turned to get up, he made her sit back down.
"You took a pretty hard fall back there," He pointed out giving her a knowing look.
"My ankle hurts a little, but I'm sure I can walk on it," Musa assured. She pulled herself up and after taking a few steps, the wounded ankle gave way and she was about to fall when Sky swiftly caught her. "Okay, maybe I need help,"
"Stella help me out," Sky asked and Stella did as she was told as the two helped her onto the ship. Musa was feeling a million different things at that moment, but most of it was warmth in her heart. Riven may not have been who she thought, but the Winx Club and the guys were true friends. Here were Sky and Stella, a couple which seemed to get too wrapped up in each other to notice anyone else, focusing on her; it was nice to know she was cared for considering everything that happened today.
Musa felt humiliated. She had never felt so helpless and stupid in her life. She had run out of Alfea in tears after Stella basically announced that everyone knew Musa had a crush on Riven. Then, she was basically thrown around like an idiot by a bunch of witches and the only reason she had gotten out of there relatively unharmed was because her friends needed to bail her out of the mess. Not to mention Riven would have rather been the one hurting her than saving her or even being of some assistance. So to sum up, everyone knew her secret and what made it worse was that they all got to see her get publicly rejected. "Hey Musa, is your ankle okay?" Flora asked.
"Yeah, it's fine," Musa said looking up from the crate she was sitting on. It was pretty quiet on the ship since nobody really wanted to talk about what had just gone on.
"Ms. Faragonda is not gonna be happy about this," Stella pointed out, the spell she was under began to wear off and she had time to explain to Musa that she was under a spell and she didn't mean anything she had said. Musa accepted the apology and tried to think about something else.
"You guys can't tell Ms. F about this," Musa began. She was so angry earlier, that she was ready to leave Magix and go back home and still that seemed like a nice option. She had been made a fool of and running away was the easy way out, but Daniel was right, she had to stick it out, plus with friends here to back her up she would be alright. Now if only she could heal her wounded pride. "If word ever got back to my dad, I would be out of Alfea in a second and stuck at the palace 24/7 with round the clock security watching my every move,"
"But your ankle, we have to go to Ophelia and she will make us –," Bloom began as she drank some vile substance called heroes brew. Sky had told Musa to drink some but the smell of it was enough to make her gag, but it did seem to help Bloom.
"A healing spell should do the trick," Musa insisted. No matter how badly she felt right now, she knew it would get better and what would she be if she left Alfea now? She'd be making no one proud and she'd be back home under the watchful eye of the Harmonic secret service, Alfea was a much better option. "It's not the bad,"
"Are you sure? I really think we should get you and Bloom into Ophelia's," Flora insisted with a worried look on her face.
"No I'm fine," Bloom said perking up, she had a loose of power for a quick second but she was recovering. And it seemed like she had simply overexerted himself during the street brawl.
"Me too," Musa repeated for probably the hundredth time. She thought it best not to tell anyone back home about this little incident, they would all worry not to mention she would get a million 'I told you so's' from Brian. Plus they would all worry, especially Daniel. So it was best to keep the incident to herself, plus no need on reliving the humiliating event.
"Sorry about making you guys come all the way to Magix and having to –," Musa began and looked at the ground. Today was bad and she had just realized that it was her fault that the whole big incident occurred. The girls could have been injured and they guys could have been too, and the only reason they were there was to get her out of trouble.
"Don't Musa," Stella interrupted. "It was my fault to begin with, that is the last time I tell a senior that her hair is frizzy and her shoes don't match her skirt. I mean come on who wear's plaid anymore? And braids with frizzy hair? She looked like Pippy Longstockings, I mean I was doing that girl a favor…" Stella began to drift off of topic when she noticed the looks on everyone's face and realized that she was doing that. "Anyway, it was totally and completely my fault, sorry Musa," Musa nodded and was about to say it was fine when Timmy interrupted her before she could get a word out of her mouth.
"We're landing in Alfea's quad," Timmy announced as the ship landed on the grass. The doors opened and Musa stood trying to walk on her ankle, but again it would not hold her weight so Sky and Brandon promptly helped her off the ship. They both got under her arm and even though she was rather light, they both aided in carrying her since then they would have a smaller chance of actually dropping her and hurting her even more.
"Guy's im fine, really," Musa insisted as they helped her without listening to her stubborn attempts at resisting their aid. Musa did not want one of the teachers to see her hurt or anyone else for that matter and if she walked around being practically carried by them then it would look a bit suspicious. But Musa gave up resisting when Stella hit her in the back of the head and said 'deal with it'. They were all on the grass on the quad ready to go inside to the girls' dorm when Musa heard a very familiar voice.
"Musa! What the hell happened?" Daniel asked as he ran to her side. Musa lifted her face to meet Daniel's concerned gaze and he heart nearly stopped. For a second she had no idea what was going on. One second she was standing trying to convince everyone that she was alright and the next she looks up to see her boyfriend running up to her. Musa, still unable to get a coherent word out of her mouth, looked around at everyone's faces and they looked just as surprised as she felt.
"Daniel," Musa spat out after a few seconds of sheer confusion. "I um, yeah well I – I.. I'm fine," She said finally after a few seconds of uttering a bunch of incoherent sentences that made her sound as if she were a crazy person. "What are you doing here?" Musa asked finally as she saw Nate emerge from the school as well, everyone still I a bit of confusion. She carefully hopped out of Sky and Brandon's aid and into Daniel's arms, not realizing or being able to together the situation. That was when she remembered that Nate was planning on coming to Magix to visit her, but he never mentioned bringing along her boyfriend.
"We came to see you," Daniel said in the same worried voice as he put one arm around her waist and gave her a quick peck on the lips. Musa looked around right after and saw everyone of her friends in absolute shock. "What happened?"
"What the hell Musa?" Nate said when he got up to Musa. He gave her a quick look and asked the same question Daniel had been asking for the past however long it had been, Musa's mind was still reeling.
"I'm fine," She said and then turned to her friends. "Guys, this is Nate, one of my best friends from back home." She began and saw some less confused faces, but it was clear that everyone wanted to know who the guy that just kissed her was. After today Musa wasn't even sure if she should mention she had a boyfriend until much later, it had already been so long and now it was going to seem like she was hiding something, which she was, but it was clear that everyone knew about her crush on Riven. But what was she going to say now? She was sure none of her friends would rat her out to Daniel, but if she casually forgot to mention he was her boyfriend, the topic of Riven might accidentally slip out, so it was best to get everything out in the open and move on from this whole thing. "And this is Daniel, my boyfriend,"
As predicted, everyone looked shocked. They looked at Musa with the same face of suspicion and utter confusion as she had thought they would. Finally after a few seconds, Stella spoke up realizing the what was going on and by the look on Musa's face she was begging for some help. "Oh you're Daniel!" Stella exclaimed happily. "Musa has told us a lot about you, and you too Nate,"
Musa, who was not expecting that type of response, quickly warmed to the façade that Stella was building to keep her out of trouble and eventually all the girls caught on and acted like they had known about Daniel for as long as they had known Musa, the three boys however were now even more confused. "Daniel, Nate, this is Flora, Techna, Bloom, Stella, Sky, Timmy and Brandon," Musa said feeling a lot worse that her friends were now lieing for her.
"Hey, I'm Daniel," Daniel said still wondering why Musa was limping around.
"Nate," Nate said curtly as he looked around at the people and wondered why Daniel had seemed so worried about these guys. They all seemed to be drooling over different girls and none of them were Musa so it looked like there was nothing going on here.
"We'll explain everything as soon as we get changed," Stella insisted. "You boys can wait out here and get to know each other and us girls are gonna go upstairs, give Musa a healing spell and be back down in a flash," Stella said quickly ushering al the girls inside, going so far as to basically rip Musa from Daniel's arms and practically carry her upstairs.
"Okay, explain Missy!" Stella said with her arms folded as soon as the girls got upstairs and into her room. They had first given Musa a healing spell to make the pain in her foot go away and they didn't ask any questions till the spell began to take effect, suffice to say it was awkwardly quiet during that time. Musa sat on the side of her bed looking at the floor not sure of what to say, the truth would be best, but still the truth didn't sound so great. The girls surrounded her expecting an answer, but the musical princess remained silent. "Well…"
"Okay okay," Musa began as she looked up at all her friends. "Daniel is my boyfriend, has been for almost a year, and when I started at Alfea we were kinda on shaky ground and I didn't want to tell everyone about him just yet,"
"And then…" Flora encouraged.
"Okay so maybe I had a small crush on Riven," Musa said looking up knowing that all the girls already knew about it so there was no need to deny that she did have some feelings for Riven. "But trust me I am over it and any residual feeling I may have had, today had cured me of, I swear," Musa assured as she went on. "I didn't want you guys to think I was a bad person because Daniel is such a sweet boyfriend and I felt so horrible about –,"
"Hey," Bloom interrupted sympathetically. "We would never think you were a bad person, everyone gets a crush on the wrong person every now and then,"
"Yeah I mean if I were judged solely on the guys I've liked in the past…" Stella began. "Well I would have a very bad rep,"
"Sorry I made you guys lie about knowing him," Musa said standing up and feeling a lot less pain in her foot. "I don't want him to know anything about this little lapse in judgment, it would hurt him and I'm over it. I just want to go on like none of that ever happened,"
"Don't worry about it," Flora encouraged.
"Yeah, what are friends for?" Techna agreed. The girls were now caught up on everything and Musa felt a huge weight was lifted from her shoulders. Finally, she didn't have to feel like she was constantly lying to her friends and there was nothing left to feel guilty about. Except there was that twig of jealously that she couldn't seem to run away from, but for now she excused it as anger she had towards Riven for being such an ass to her earlier that day.
The girls all went to their rooms to get changed and meet the boys back downstairs and Musa had made sure to wear not only the necklace Daniel had given her, but also the bracelet. She had always worn the necklace, but the bracelet was a bit much, but she wanted Daniel to know that she was his.
"We hope you boys weren't waiting too long," Stella said as all the girls walked out of the school and walked over to their respective guys, except of coarse Flora who stood in the middle looking a bit uncomfortable.
"It was really nice meeting you girls, but would you mind if I stole Musa for the night?" Daniel asked as he put his arms around Musa. Nate was only able to hang out for a little while, his father was in town and his relationship with his dad was very similar to the relationship that Daniel had with his father. So he had talked to Musa for a bit and promised to swing by in the morning to say goodbye when he was on his way home and so he was gone. Daniel had been getting to know Sky, Timmy and Brandon and he felt a lot better about their relationship with Musa since they were all crushing on her friends instead of her. When Musa thought about it, Daniel had picked a great day to stop by since if he had come earlier in the year he might have seen something he needed to worry about.
"Oh please take her, she's been nothing but annoying all day!" Stella teased as Musa gave her a hard look. She laughed at the comment and began to walk over to the car that was waiting for them, leaving her friends behind for the night and going back to the place where she was just humiliated. But she felt a lot better about it since she was with Daniel.
"Wow, that place was good," Daniel said as he opened the door to his suite in the Palace Hotel and ushered Musa in. he and Musa had just gone to a restaurant that Penelope Yuki had recommended that they go to. "So are you ever gonna tell me what happened today?"
"What?" Musa asked sounding confused even though she knew what he was talking about. Musa walked around the palatial hotel suite and look a seat on the comfy oversized leather couch. She would expect Daniel to stay in a place like this, a suite entirely too big for just on person, he hardly needed all that space. Even though Musa was not so big on the whole spending money because you had a lot thing, she loved Daniel for it.
"We managed to talk about everything that was going on in the universe and you casually left out why you came back to Alfea limping and why you called me earlier today in tears and know everything's fine," Daniel pointed out as he walked over to the couch and sat next to her.
"That's where you were!" Musa said just remembering that she heard a lot of background noise when she called him earlier that day. He was probably just getting on the jet while it was taking off.
"Stop changing the subject,"
"Stella was under a spell and she said some stuff that made me very angry," Musa explained. "And then I ran into some witches and I may have mouthed off a bit, we got in a spat and I fell," Musa said oversimplifying the entire situation knowing that Daniel would not be very happy to find out about the extent of the seriousness that was involved with the street fight.
Daniel laughed for a second not realizing the gravity of the situation that his girlfriend was in and took the remote and turned on a movie. She then rested her head on his chest and thought about how crazy she was to want Riven. She could have someone who cared and loved her and she wanted someone who was willing to harm her. Daniel was always a constant in her life, he would never hurt her. He was there when she needed to call him in the middle of the night and if she asked him to pick up in the middle of the night and bring her something she needed or if she needed him, he would do it without question. Riven, on the other hand, carelessly tossed her aside to be with some slutty witch on a power trip. She was still so angry about today and everything that happened, but being with Daniel was making her feel a lot better. "How about a movie,"
"Sounds good," Musa answered as she quickly got up and shut off the lights and walked back onto the couch and into Daniel's embrace.
"I love you Daniel," Musa said before pulling him into a passionate kiss. She still was not sure if the feelings were true, but it felt so nice to be cared for. And she was never going to let someone stupid like Riven and or something stupid like a crush ruin something good. If she ever had to choose between the two, the better choice was so obvious.
Okay so that is how I brought Daniel into the storyline, Hmm Musa said 'I love you' but me thinks she only said it cause she was upset about Riven. Hmm…
xoxo,
princessm
