Musa was making her way back down to the dining hall, with Icy behind her. She knew her friends would still be there eating and chatting away. She had to tell them about her uh… new plan. She didn't even want to know what Faragonda would say, but she knew that this plan would work, hopefully.
She finally came to the door and opened it. Her friends could tell her attitude was better, which made them smile. Then, they saw Icy walk right up next to her in the door way. Their smiles turned into surprise and they immediately jumped onto the table, changed into their Enchantix, and got into a battle stance. The guys drew out their swords and also stood in a battle stance.
"Musa! Get down! Icy is right behind you!" yelled Bloom as she started to make a ball of fire in her hands. Icy simply rolled her eyes and looked at Musa. Musa just shrugged and replied.
"I didn't exactly tell them about it yet," she said.
"Musa! Icy is next to you! Why aren't you fighting her?" Stella asked as she took out her scepter. But before Musa could answer her, Stella kept on talking. "Is she holding you hostage Musa? How did you get out of the cuffs witch?"
"Ok, that's enough. Everyone un-winx yourselves and power down, Icy is not going to hurt me," Musa said while holding up her hands as the others lowered theirs hands full of their power. Now everyone was confused, even Musa's servants. Icy just stood there with an annoyed expression on her face.
"Now, if I can have everyone not freak out with what I am about to tell you," she said with the others still in their Enchantix and even more confused. Being the smart one, Tecna could see where this was going and made a shock expression of disbelief. "Now I have decided that Icy is going to be working with us when…" She was cut off by the uproar of thousands of voices going off at once.
"What? Are you crazy?"
"Are you insane?"
"It is illogical to be working with her."
"I really don't think it is a good idea."
"That's just dumb!"
Musa just let them talk and blurt out what they wanted to say for a while, until she could get a word in. Icy looked back and forth at the people who were talking.
"Musa, Icy has been out enemy for years. You can't just become friends with someone in one day after you have been hating each other for so long," Stella said getting down from the table and walking closer to Musa.
"Yeah, and how can we trust her?" asked Layla.
"Can I just get one word in? Look, Icy had agreed to help us defeat the Three Brothers and I think she would make a great contribution to the team," Musa said.
"But it's Icy," Tecna said.
"Yeah, don't you think I know that? But Icy knows what Kurt is like, which could help us know his weaknesses, or better yet defeat him once and for all," Musa replied.
"I think it is way too risky. What if she turns against us?" asked Layla.
"Because she will be risking way too much if she does," Musa said simply looking at Icy who nodded.
"How much is she paying you Icy?" Stella asked sarcastically. Icy, at this point, was filled to the top with annoyance.
"Look princess, I am helping you whether you like it or not. So just get over it, get over yourself," Icy said. Wrong thing to say.
"Excuse me? Listen Icy, no one calls me princess unless my Father or my boyfriend calls me it. Second, I am not going to get over it! You helping us is like me helping Kurt or something!"
"Well I guess you better go help Kurt then, because I am here to stay. I am not risking my freedom over anything," she said. Another wrong thing to say.
"Her freedom?" asked Tecna.
"You are just going to let her go? After all she has done to us?" asked Stella.
"Guys, guys, calm down. I am sure Musa has a good reason for all of this. Now, Musa, could you explain the whole situation?" Flora said calmly. You could always trust Flora for anything.
"Thank you Flora. Look, Icy is helping us… end of story, but to bribe her I had to use the only thing that she would actually care about. If her freedom is involved with this, then I know we can trust her. She is not going to betray us when her freedom is on the line." Icy gave them a "well, she is right" look and then turned to Musa again.
"Now I know you guys don't like it, but it is the only chance we've got. My planet is in danger, I had to get risky, and if that meant Icy being one of us for a couple of days then I had to do it," Musa paused for a little while. "Kurt will strike again soon, and with Icy here, it is different. She can really help us, she can really make a difference. I know that I am risking a lot with Icy being here, but it can't get any worse then my planet being destroyed forever. So, will you take the chance with me?"
The Winx looked at each other; Musa was right, if her planet was at risk then it had to be the only thing that they could possibly do. Bloom nodded to the others that she had agreed with Musa, and gradually so did the others.
"Ok, we are in Musa," Bloom said.
"But this still doesn't mean we trust her! And this doesn't consider us friends," said Stella.
"Trust me, I would rather die than that happening to me," sneered Icy. Musa was just happy that they were getting along, somewhat. Then something occurred to her.
"If I thought your guys' reactions were bad, how am I going to break the news to Ms. F?" Musa asked.
"You don't have too." A voice came from behind them.
"I heard the whole the whole thing," Faragonda said as appeared along with Griffin and Saladin. Musa looked nauseous for a second.
"Oh, hey Ms. Faragonda, what's up?" she said weakly as she put her hand behind her head.
"Musa, I can't chose how I feel about this situation. It is your decision, your plan, you make it happen. If you think it is right to do this, then you follow through with it."
"Can I still have you opinion?" she asked.
"My opinion? Of course I think it is a risky move, but for the sake of the planet… I think it is a great plan." Musa smiled.
"Thanks Ms. F, I really appreciate it," Musa said. Icy finally sighed to herself, at least she was on good terms with these people.
"So, can I get some food around here? I am starving," said Icy.
MMMMM
Kurt was sleeping in his bed, just simply relaxing while classical music was being played. His blinds were shut and his face was buried into his pillows. The last thing he wanted right now was to be disturbed, and he knew that wasn't going to last long. It was almost the afternoon, and he knew his brothers were going to get angry. Then, finally, he heard several knocks at the door.
"Kurt! Come on! We have to go to Melody, now!" Alain yelled.
"Yeah, how long are you going to sleep for? We really need to get going! Icy might really need our help!" Kusac yelled as well. Kurt groaned, of course he didn't want to go, he could care less of what happened to that pathetic witch.
"Kurt, if you don't open this door, I am going to knock it down!" Kusac yelled again. Yeah right, as if they were going to knock it down. What are they going to do, kick it down?
Just then, Kusac and Alain swung their legs right into the door, making it fall to the ground. Kurt immediately got up.
"What the hell did you do that for?" Kurt screamed.
"Um, hello, you weren't getting up! You were just laying there as if you don't care at all!" said Alain.
"That's because I really don't care at all!" Kurt replied as he slammed his head back into the pillows.
"Come on Kurt, Icy really might need our help, she's always been there for us," said Kusac as he started to open the blinds to reveal the sun.
"Yeah, when was that? When she wasn't doing her nails?" Kurt said sarcastically.
"Seriously Kurt, Darcy and Stormy are getting worried, we should really…" Alain was cut off.
"So that is what this is about. Your girlfriends are worried. You are not worried at all; it's just them, not you. If they weren't here with us, you wouldn't have the slightest care in the world," Kurt started as he raised his head up to look them in the eyes. "If they weren't here, then everything would be so much easier!"
"Well sorry that it was your idea in the first place that we brought them with us…" Kusac was cut off.
"Oh enough with that stupid story! You looked in the computer and saw their faces and thought they were attractive! I would have rather chosen warlocks, not witches! I could have cared less who we brought with us, but no, you had to get witches!"
"Well sorry if you didn't find the perfect girl for you when we were there! Icy was fine for you!" yelled Alain.
"Oh don't get me started with her! She is a loser, a magical being that would have never found her place in life if wasn't for me! And all three of them are just a waste of time!" yelled Kurt.
"Still, don't you feel bad that she got captured there? Darcy is worried about her! I can't let her down that way!" yelled Kusac.
"Please! I should have left Darcy and Stormy at Melody like I did with Icy!" screamed Kurt. Then there was silence, an astonished silence. Kurt shut up for a while, realizing what he had just said.
"You left her there? On purpose?" Alain said in shock.
"Are you insane Kurt? You are blowing up the planet! You would just let her die there?" Kusac yelled.
"You two are morons! I am not really going to blow up the planet!" Kurt screamed. There was another long pause.
"Excuse me? What do you mean you are not going to blow up the planet!" said Alain.
"Of course I'm not! Do you really think I would let a whole civilization, that could be my slaves, go to waste?" Kurt asked them as if they were the dumbest people ever. The other two were shocked.
"Then what the hell are you doing? What is really going on? Why did we plant those stupid spells into the ground if they weren't even going to blow up the planet in the first place? Why waste so much time?" said Kusac, lowering his voice a little.
"Oh my, it is the most easiest plan anyone could ever think of, and yet people still don't understand why it is so effective. Blackmail brothers, blackmail," Kurt said with a lower voice this time. The other two were still confused, so Kurt pressed on.
"I'll start from the beginning. Icy gave me the idea to blow up the planet, which of course I was never really going to do. But why not fake blowing up the planet, or in other words… pretend that we were," Kurt said finally giving his plan to his brothers.
"But why put Icy on Melody?" Alain asked.
"I am getting to that. So of course, needed to show all of you that we actually were going to blow up the planet, by sticking the spells into the ground. All of you believed what my plans were, including Icy, who was the key player out of my plan." The brothers starred at him, as if he were a god, as if he were a genius.
"So I waited for Faragonda to arrive at the scene when we were talking to Musa, and when she came, that was when we left. But, as you know now, I kicked Icy right into the bubbles Faragonda was shooting out, so she could be left behind."
"And then what?" Kusac asked, being very intrigued.
"Well, knowing Icy, she was bound to spill the plans that I was planning to blow up Melody, some how or another. Then that meant Musa would freak out and try to do anything she could to stop what was going to happen, but as if she would ever have the slightest idea of what to do."
"So is that it? What is our next step?" Alain asked.
"The next step is to go to Melody and use blackmail."
"How?" asked Kusac.
"I am going to tell her that she has to surrender Melody to me or I will blow up the planet. Knowing Musa, her people mean the most to her, so she will surrender whether or not she likes it. Melody will be ours and so will the universe. Easy as that."
"Wow Kurt, you're a genius, I would have never thought of that," Alain said. Kurt smirked at his brothers, that they finally understood his true plan.
"Yes, well, now will you let me sleep? This kind of process takes time and I don't want to rush to Melody to have it all ruined in the end. This is our last shot; if this doesn't work, then it proves that Musa has won. If this doesn't work, then we have failed."
"But what about Icy? What are we supposed to tell Darcy and Stormy?" asked Kusac.
"Please, the worst thing Icy is going through is being stuck in a jail cell that smells like feet. Just make some thing up, you two are smart, I am sure you can think of some thing. Now shut my blinds and let me go back to sleep," Kurt said as he buried his head into the pillows once again.
Kusac and Alain said a spell to fix Kurt's door and left the room. They definitely didn't see that coming. They walked down a few other halls when they saw Darcy and Stormy.
"Are we leaving soon? Where's Kurt?" asked Stormy. The brothers had to think, and fast.
"Oh, uh, Kurt, well um, Kurt… is uh, coming up with a new plan," Alain said weakly.
"Plan? A new plan for what?" asked Darcy suspiciously.
"A new plan to…to save Icy!" Kusac finished. Darcy and Stormy were a little relieved.
"Uh yeah! Kurt said that because Musa knows that we can get to Melody without being detected by her shield, so it will be harder for us to get through," said Alain.
"Yeah, so he is coming up with a plan so we won't find even more trouble when we get to Melody," said Kusac.
"And what if something happens to Icy in the meantime?" said Stormy
"Well Kurt says the worst thing that could happen to her, is just being stuck in a jail cell. Nothing major," said Alain. Darcy and Stormy exchanged worried looks and then looked at their boyfriends.
"Ok, we trust you. But tell Kurt to make up his plan fast; we don't wait to wait too long," said Darcy.
"Don't worry, he's a fast thinker when it comes to his plans. I am sure it won't be too long," said Kusac. The girls nodded their heads, as Kusac and Alain kissed them. Then, Darcy and Stormy spun around and headed back to heir rooms.
"I don't know how much longer we can keep this up Kusac. Kurt said he would take his time, and who knows how long that will be," said Alain.
"I know Alain, I know, but we have to trust Kurt now. We can't keep barging into his room and insist that we leave. We are just going to have to keep coming up with excuses, until we actually do leave," replied Kusac.
"Ok Kusac, I'll try," said Alain.
UUUUU
Stormy was in Darcy's room sitting on her bed. They were talking for some time now
"They lied to us. They lied right to our faces. I can't believe this," said Stormy.
"Yeah, well they should learn not to yell so loud when we were standing right outside the doorway," said Darcy looking out the window.
"They aren't even going to blow up the planet, it was just a waste of time, all for nothing," said Stormy, looking down. "Stupid Kurt, leaving Icy. She was just all apart of his plans, and who knows… we might have been next." Darcy turned to look at Stormy and Stormy looked back.
"When we get to Melody, we get Icy and we run. We are going to run as far away as possible from this place. Somewhere where they will never find us. Don't think of Alain at all, we just run. Is that understood?" said Darcy.
"Yeah, it is for the best. They won't win anyway…Musa will."
SSSSS
It was getting colder outside. The clouds were heavy and it looked like the rain was about to fall any minute. It was supposed to rain for a while, so it made the clouds look darker. Icy was leaning against a pillar, watching the others train hard and fast. Surprisingly, they were improving, way faster than Faragonda had expected. Was it their determination? It had to be.
Faragonda and Griffin were just throwing spells and beams left and right at the girls, while Saladin and Cordatorta were training the guys. The guys were sweating, which made the girls glance over to look at them a lot.
"You are doing very well girls, keep it up," said Faragonda as she kept throwing spells. "Musa, join us. See if they can do it with three people." And with that, Musa flipped over and started to attack them. It was definitely harder with Musa there, but the girls kept trying.
Then Bloom blocked an attack and sent another one right at Griffin. It hit her square in the chest and she fell to the floor. Everyone else stopped what they were doing and went to her aid. Musa helped her up; they thought Griffin would be angry, but instead she smiled.
"I was wondering when the Dragon Fire was going to unleash itself from being contained all those years. I guess our training is working Faragonda," she said.
"Yes, indeed it is. I am most impress with you girls, all of you. Only after a couple of days you show improvement. I am very proud, so that means you might actually defeat the witches."
The girls all smiled, and Musa smiled at her friends. She couldn't wait to battle Kurt with them along her side. It would be just like the old times, well before when they were dead. Then she remembered something.
"Uh, Ms. Faragonda, shouldn't we teach them how to cope from getting hit with the beams?"
"Oh yes, that would be a good idea," Faragonda replied.
"Uh, what beams Ms. F?" Flora asked. The girls were confused on what beams they were talking about, but Tecna got the idea.
"The beams we were attacked with the first night we battled the Brothers. They slowly diminished our Winx so we got weaker. I think it would be very wise if we learned how to restrain ourselves from being sucked dry again," said Tecna. The other girls nodded
"Well Griffin will teach you how to do that. It is dark magic that they use, so it will be easier for her to teach it to you," said Faragonda. Musa looked at a very bored Icy leaning against a wall. Musa ran over to her and grabbed her arm.
"I think Icy could help us too. She knows how the Brothers use it," Musa said.
"Excuse me?" said Icy.
"Well I think it would be a lot easier if you show us how they do it," said Musa looking at Icy. Icy thought about it; she would be able to hurt them in the process, which made her laugh a little, and you have got to admit, that is some fun right there. Icy smirked.
"Ok I'll teach it to you, but this is going to take a lot of practice and some getting used to. Understood?" Icy said with an evil smile. Musa noticed her smile and chuckled to herself. She knew Icy was bored, so she thought she would have some fun, even if she was attacking her friends. The girls were a little scared, but they had to do it or otherwise they didn't stand a chance against them.
"Shall we begin?"
Another chapter completed! So you have finally figured out Kurt's real plan. I told you his plan wasn't that extreme, just something simple. What will Darcy and Stormy think of Icy working with them? What will the Brothers think? Will Musa finally win the battle against the Three Brothers? Find out next chapter! R&R please!!!