Chapter 10
Lacus tried to slowly open her eyes but the light that invaded them made her close them again. Using her hand she blocked some of the suns rays and allowed her vision to focus slightly when she saw two shadowy figures and crawled back as fast as her bruised body could make her.
"Lacus calm down it's us," A familiar voice said.
A few moments later Lacus's vision cleared to reveal Bloom and Musa standing near her. She quickly looked to her left and then right to see that who ever attacked her was gone. She then noticed a flash of red not far away. She quickly crawled over to find the pendant lying on the ground where Innis had thrown it down.
"Is everything okay Lacus?" Musa asked when she saw her clutch onto something in her hands.
Lacus turned to look at Bloom and Musa with tears in her eyes as she revealed the pendant that it had been broken into two pieces. Bloom looked over to see Musa with a shocked face as she slowly dropped to her knees.
"What happened?" Bloom asked as she turned her vision back toward the pink haired girl.
"I came to the park and sat near a tree to gather my thoughts after what happened at the flower shop," Lacus said as she looked over at Musa, "While I was sitting there someone started to laugh. Whoever it was appeared out of nowhere and attacked me." A few tears started to slip from Lacus's eyes as she continued, "He cut off the pendant with one of his attacks and grabbed a hold of it. I tried to get it back but what ever I tried was not working. All of the sudden I felt… I don't know how to explain it but a light over took me and I was floating above him."
"You gained your Winx Lacus," Bloom explained.
"My Winx?" Lacus asked.
"You're a fairy now." Musa said with sadness in her voice.
"What happened after you transformed?" Bloom asked.
"I tried to attack Innis, I think he said his name was but before I could something hit me in the back and I fell from the air to the ground," Lacus explained, "I don't know what happened after that but I vaguely remember hearing the name Endymion."
"Who is Endymion?" Musa asked as she looked at Lacus.
"I don't know." Lacus said as she shook her head, "But how did you find me so fast? I know that I could not have been unconscious for that long."
"While we were at the flower shop I felt something that sent a tingle up my spine." Bloom answered, "It came from the direction of the park. And we rushed here as fast as we could."
'Should I tell them that I know what the power was?' Bloom thought to herself.
"Is everything alright Bloom?" Musa asked as she looked over at her friend.
"Yeah just something on my mind," Bloom responded, "Let's get back, and inform Ms. Faragonda and the others what happened. Maybe she might know who this Endymion is."
"Let's hope so," Musa said as she started to stand up.
"You know we should probably go and see Vanessa before we go," Musa suggested and Bloom nodded in agreement.
Together they helped Lacus down a few streets before arriving at the shop.
"Oh my, what happened?" Vanessa fussed, bringing out a chair for Lacus to take a seat on.
"She was attacked by a couple of bad guys," Bloom explained. "We are going back to Alfea to tell Ms. Faragonda about what happened so we can try and find out who they were."
"Sounds like the best thing to do," Vanessa agreed. "Are you sure you're okay?" She asked, kneeling before Lacus who offered a small smile.
"Yeah I'll be okay."
Suddenly a bright light filled the room, as a circular portal appeared on the far wall between the roses and orchids. Stella stepped through and into the room, the portal remaining circling behind her.
"Hey what's with all the long faces?"
Musa helped Lacus up to her feet before both girls walked through the portal. Stella looked at the two as they passed by without making a sound.
"It's a long story," Bloom said as she walked toward the portal, "I'll explain everything when we get back."
After exiting the portal the four girls arrived in the quad where Layla and the others were waiting. Lacus looked around and noticed something off in the distance. Before she could open her mouth to ask what it was Bloom interrupted her.
"Girls where is Ms. Faragonda?" Bloom asked.
"She is in a meeting right now and wanted to be informed when you three arrived," Flora answered.
"I'm sorry about ruining the surprise but we need to go to her office," Bloom replied.
"What surprise?" Lacus asked.
"We'll show you later," Tecna said as the girls made their way toward the school.
When the girls reached the office they saw Ms. Griselda sitting at the desk near the large blue doors. Bloom walked over and knocked before she opened one of the doors to enter the headmistress's office.
"Girls Ms. Faragonda is in a meeting you'll have to wait till she is finished," Griselda said as she stood up from the chair that she was sitting on.
"Sorry but this can't wait," Musa said.
As the girls entered the office they saw a girl with powder purple hair sitting in one of the chairs near the desk, as they walked closer toward the desk the girl looked at them with her violet eyes. Lacus smiled when she saw who was sitting in the chair.
"Girls it is nice to see you but what was so important that you had to interrupt my meeting?" Ms. Faragonda asked.
"I'm sorry but Lacus was attacked when we were on Earth," Bloom said.
"Okay, tell me exactly what happened." Ms. Faragonda said as she sat back in her chair.
"While we were at the flower shop I thought that I saw someone that I knew from my universe." Lacus started, "But it was not him. After that person left Bloom's mom told me that I could take a break and I asked if there was anywhere I could be alone for a while."
"I told her to go to the park that I first ran into Stella at and found out that I was a fairy," Bloom added.
"While I was there a person named Innis attacked me and stole the pendant that Musa had given me," Lacus continued with the story, "From what Musa and Bloom told me during that time I transformed for the first time but was hit by something that knocked me out of the sky."
Ms. Faragonda saw Bloom move slightly in the chair that she was sitting in.
"Before I passed out that person came over and gave me a message that Endymion said hi," Lacus said, "The others found me not long after that and we found the pendant broken."
"Do you have the pendant with you?" Ms. Faragonda asked.
"Yes," Lacus replied as she sat the two pieces of the pendant on Ms. Faragonda's desk.
Ms. Faragonda picked up the two pieces and began to examine them.
"Musa, what do you know about this pendant?" Ms. Faragonda asked as she looked at the music fairy before laying the pendant back on the hardwood.
"Not much just that it had belonged to my mother," Musa answered with a puzzled face, "Why do you ask?"
"This is called the Heart of Music," Ms. Faragonda replied as she passed her hand over the broken piece of jewelry, "It is one of a set of four pendants that were used to seal away someone."
The two pieces of the pendant began to glow a light shade of green as the headmistress's hands passed over, a few seconds later a bright flash of light filled the room causing the girls to cover their eyes. When the light faded everyone could see that the pendant pieces had become one again.
"Thank you Ms. Faragonda," Musa said.
"You're welcome my dear," The headmistress replied.
"Do you know who they sealed away?" Bloom asked.
"I am sorry but no." The headmistress answered.
"Ms. Faragonda, do you know who this Endymion is?" Flora asked,
"That is why I had called Serra here," Ms. Faragonda answered as she turned to look at the young cleric, "He is who attacked your home realm of Frelia."
"So he is the one that sent those people after us," Serra said with sadness, "If we only had the magic to have summoned who we were trying to call."
"What do you mean?" Bloom asked as she looked over at the purple haired girl.
"You remember that I had told you that we all have weak magical powers?" Serra asked as she watched the girls nod their heads, "Being a cleric I knew of a prophecy that no one else knew of. After we had all escaped from the church that I was studying at, we ended up in a forest. I told the other three about the prophecy and we tried to summon who it mentioned."
"Would you tell us the prophecy my dear?" Ms. Faragonda asked.
Serra nodded her head before she began, "The songstress will arrive from a faraway land with a knight, they will fight with the fairies and heroes of light, the angel will appear, the enemy of times past will be revived, and the lost lineage of fire will be revealed."
"What does that mean?" Stella asked.
"If she knew you wouldn't have to ask," Layla retorted.
"Girls I need to do some research on this prophecy," Ms. Faragonda said as she looked at everyone in the room, "I will inform you of what I find out."
"Thank you Ms. Faragonda," Bloom replied.
Everyone made their way to the door, as Bloom reached for the handed Ms. Faragonda opened her mouth.
"Bloom would you wait one minute I have something that I want to ask you," Ms. Faragonda said.
"Yes ma'am." Bloom replied.
Each girl gave Bloom a reassuring smile as they passed by her out the door. Bloom then turned to look at the headmistress and walked back to the chair sitting next to the desk. After sitting down Bloom looked at Ms. Faragonda as she watched the headmistress sit back in her chair.
"Do not worry dear," Ms. Faragonda said with a smile on her face, "You are not in trouble. I just wanted to ask you something in private."
"What is it Ms. Faragonda?" Bloom asked.
"When Lacus explained what happened in the park at Gardenia you fidgeted slightly," Ms. Faragonda said, "I was just wondering do you know something else that would be relevant to all of this?"
"Yes Ms. Faragonda," Bloom spoke after taking a deep breath, "Lacus asked how me and Musa found her so fast after she had been attacked. I told her that I had felt something that sent a tingle down my spine, what it was that I had felt was a power that I recognized."
"What power was this?" Ms. Faragonda asked as she looked at the fairy sitting in front of her.
"Someone used the Dragon's Flame to attack Lacus." Bloom replied.
A gasp was heard coming from the headmistress's mouth after hearing what Bloom had just said.
"How is this possible?" Bloom asked, "I thought that Valtor was the only other person that had the ability to use my powers because of the Ancestral Witches."
"I do not know but if I find anything out I will let you know." Ms. Faragonda answered, "I will also leave it up to you if you want to tell the others about what happened."
"Thank you ma'am," Bloom said.
"You can go." Ms. Faragonda replied.
Bloom nodded her head before making her way out of the office. Ms. Faragonda walked over to the window and looked outside.
"I have a bad felling about all of this." She said to herself.
After telling Serra their goodbye and watching her head off to the room that she was staying in the girls started to make their way back to the dorm to rest after everything that had been told to them. As they walked down on of the halls Lacus stopped and turned around to look at the other girls.
"Okay now what is this surprise that you had for me?" Lacus asked.
"You girls head back to the dorm and I'll take Lacus out to it." Flora responded.
"Are you sure Flora?" Stella asked.
Flora just nodded her head before she started to head back toward the quad with Lacus following. When they reached the door Flora guided Lacus to a part of the quad where a small fence was, in side Lacus could see a lot of pale blue roses inside the garden in front of her.
The two girls walked into the garden and found a small bench inside. They sat down and Lacus looked around at all of the flowers.
"These flowers are beautiful," Lacus said as she looked around, "is this the surprise that you were talking about?"
"This is a remembrance garden." Flora replied.
"What is a remembrance for?" Lacus asked as she turned to look at Flora.
"Go take a look at the plaque over there." Flora said as she pointed toward the one side of the garden against the wall of the school.
Lacus stood up and walked over to where Flora had pointed toward. It took her seconds to find the plaque that Flora was talking about and when she finished reading it tears began to slowly fall from her eyes. She turned around and looked at Flora before the strength in her legs failed her. Flora quickly moved over and helped Lacus back to the bench.
"Are you alright?" Flora asked.
"Yes," Lacus replied, "It is just so overwhelming that you would do this. You hardly know me."
"Yeah but friendship isn't based on the time spent with a person," Flora explained.
"Very true," called out a small voice from behind making Flora turn around.
"Chatta!" She exclaimed, holding her hands out for the pixie to come into her embrace. "It's so good to see you sweetie, what are you doing here?"
"We wanted to come and see the flowers; some of them came from near Pixie Village you know."
"Yes I do," Flora replied, "I wanted to get some Linphean roses but they were out of season right now. But what do you mean by we?"
A small giggle was heard causing both Flora to look up into a nearby tree. They saw a pixie with a pale skin tone and silver hair that was tied into a ponytail with a white ribbon that reached the middle of her back. She was wearing a light blue kimono with dark blue flowers embroidered on it with gold outlines and a gold wrap around her waist. She turned her head to show that she had a smile on her face and opened her light blue eyes.
"Well hello I'm Flora," the fairy of nature said as she turned to look at her friend, "And this is Lacus."
"It's a pleasure to meet you," the pixie spoke confidently as Lacus laughed ever so slightly.
Lacus turned to the other shy looking pixie who hadn't spoken much when she felt a warmth brewing inside her chest. She couldn't blink and wasn't sure why but it was like she knew who this pixie was without even saying hello. The cheeks of the pixie began to change to a slight shade of red as she looked down at Lacus. Flora and Chatta looked between the two, with confusion on their faces.
"Uh, what's wrong Harmony?" Chatta asked the other pixie, who shook her head and released a beaming smile.
"I just found my bonded fairy."
"I'm your bonded fairy?" Lacus asked looking at the pixie that had just flown over to her.
"Yes," Harmony said, "Let me reintroduce myself," A small smile grew on the pixie's face, "I am Harmony the pixie of peace."
"Hello Harmony my name is Lacus Clyne," Lacus said with a smile on her face.
"I am so happy for you Lacus," Flora said as she wrapped her into a hug, "We should go introduce Harmony to the others."
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