Sorry for the wait, took a break to work on my Timmy-centric story; Absolute Zero.

Then I wrote an American McGee's Alice story.

Finally been working on a Doctor Who/Winx Club crossover. I didn't forget this story, just needed a break to unleash my creativity.

Chapter 10: Blurred Vision

The air was cool, and there was a crisp breeze passing over Lake Roccaluce. The park was nearly desolate except for two figures. The wind howled and blew the girls magenta hair in every direction, while the boy had a maroon hood pulled over his head. This was not Tecna's most ideal weather to have their escape on, but as long as the escape happened she did not care. It was nearly night time, and Aisha was nowhere to be seen. Her nervousness was peaking, what if something happened to Aisha? What if she was potentially in danger now? The questions felt endless, and none of them put her at ease.

All they did was make her want to pace.

Valtor took notice to her anxious pacing. "I'm sure Aisha will be here soon. You shouldn't worry yourself like this."

"It's not just that Valtor," she bit her lip nervously, "Its Musa."

The fight replayed constantly in her mind. The last time she remembered Musa being that upset was when they were in the pens together in Domino, and back then she was absolutely furious with her. She only wished this time Musa would have just listened to her, because maybe if she did she would understand that there was no way she could have kept the cure with her. Of course Musa was choosing to not listen to her anymore. Ever since that night her apartment had been deserted, she didn't reply to messages, and no one else had seen her. It seemed Musa escaped from the city altogether, but it wasn't possible…

"I don't want to leave her behind either Tecna," Valtor explained calmly, "But we can't wait for her to show herself again. She's choosing to shun herself away like this, so there's nothing we can do at this point."

"Imagine how upset she'll be when she realizes I abandoned her," she felt salty tears well up in her eyes and flow down her flawless cheeks. "This isn't logical, I can't let this happen. I have to find Musa." What kind of friend was she to leave Musa in Magix with all the other Fairies with lesions? She already caused enough damage to their roller coaster of a friendship, and leaving her certainly wouldn't help. First she betrayed her, then she destroyed her Domino home, and then she apparently didn't share the cure with her. It just seemed they were destined to fight all the time.

Valtor firmly grasped her shoulders. "You can't do this; no one knows where she is. As far as we know she may have escaped all on her own! Get a hold of yourself Tecna."

She brushed away the trickle of tears, knowing Valtor was right. There wasn't time for a search party to commence. There was nothing else she could do for Musa at this point. Maybe, just maybe she could come back for her after finding out where Sparx was. That is, if she ever finds Sparx. She gazed at him. "I…okay."

Tecna suddenly gazed beyond Valtor's stare, and saw five dimly illuminated objects rise above the tree line horizon. The objects made no sound that Tecna could detect, and the balloons gracefully glided down a few feet in front of the startled Valtor and Tecna. One of the balloons carried Galatea, Andy, and Nova with survival gear slung over their shoulders in backpacks, and each holding a hoverboard. The three Pixies smiled, and Tecna smiled back. She owed a debt to the three for helping creating a diversion for the Witches, helping Sparx smuggle supplies, and of course for recently bringing her the Fairy Encyclopedia. She only hoped helping them escape would be worth everything they did for her.

In three other balloons she saw them filled with gorgeous people from Magix, all smiling and all carried survival gear. Few guys without the capability to fly carried hoverboards in their hands. Tecna couldn't believe how many people were willing to leave the city life, how many people wanted to live out in the wild; free. In one of the balloons she saw Stella and Brandon together. Tecna exchanged small smiles with her old friend Stella. She was happy knowing Stella was finally going to make her escape.

Finally Aisha leapt out of a balloon shared with a few other pretty runaways. She wore the biggest smile, but Tecna could tell behind her grin that she was just as worried as she was. There was still that chance that things wouldn't go according to plan. After all the work they did to get to this point, she would not accept any kind of failure that easily.

Aisha approached her as they shared a nervous glance. "No Musa?"

"No Musa."

"Damn," Aisha muttered, "I don't like having to leave someone behind, but what other choice do we have? You don't even want to know what I went through to get these hot air balloons. There may be a problem though…" Tecna kept silent and listened in. "All the balloons have trackers in them, so we won't be able to ride the balloons as far as we would like. We'll have to jump out at the other side of the river's edge. Then we'll let the balloons drift off and let the wardens have fun retrieving them."

"But won't the wardens be mad with us?" Tecna asked.

"The wardens are the least of my worries," Aisha brushed her curly hair to the side, "Besides; we aren't coming back to the city anyway."

"Fair point," Tecna commented. She let Aisha go back to organizing, and all the citizens preparing to leave were now organized into a circle. As much as Tecna wanted to say something to everyone; about how dangerous the wild could be, how everyone needs to stick together no matter what, and of course the fact that no had any idea how long they would be roaming the wild, she couldn't. Aisha seemed stern, as if she had something planned to say to everyone.

"Ladies and gentlemen, Pixies and Fairies, I present you the way of escape from this plastic city of Magix," Aisha pointed towards the balloons. "We all may come from different backgrounds and ages, but tonight, we all share something in common. Tonight we all share a want; a want to find Sparx and to find freedom in the process. The Witches have controlled us for far too long, and now, we finally fight back. By joining the rebellion we will fight back in the only way that will truly harm the Witches. For once we will be the ones to outthink them, and we will not be conformed subjects of the Witches."

Tecna heard the group erupt into cheers and claps. "Way to motivate Aisha," Tecna thought to herself.

"Now, onto a few more serious matters," Aisha began, "First, I want to remind everyone that we are leaving Magix, forever. I want everyone to be committed to leaving the city. This is not a camping trip, and there is no way to predict what obstacles we may run into. Anyone who doesn't think they can handle the wild should leave." Some on the more beautiful members of the group shared nervous glances and gulps, but no one dared to say a thing. "No comments? Good. Second on the agenda has to do with what we'll be doing once we reach the other side of the river. As I'm sure most of you have heard, the balloons are tracked, so we will have to ditch them. About two-thirds of the way across the river is a calm in the powerful winds, which should provide the least amount of turbulence and the easiest route towards the ground when you jump out."

Some voices erupted out of the group. "Wait, what do you mean we're jumping out? I don't have a lot of practice with my wings!"

"What happens if we jump before or after the calm?"

Even her old friend Nova burst out with a question. "Is it safe for the Pixies to jump out with hoverboards?"

"Stop! We don't have a lot of time to waste on this side of the river for questions," Aisha raised her voice as she spoke over everyone else, "Hoverboards, magic, and wings will provide a…somewhat safe way to the ground. Just remember that if you don't have magic or wings; you're going to need a hoverboard and crash bracelets. Now, if you jump out of the balloons at the wrong time there is no telling what will happen. These winds will overpower you, and there is no telling how far or where they will blow you. You could be blown way off course, but as long as you all listen to me everyone should be fine."

Valtor decided to add his two cents, which relieved Tecna because she was starting to get worried about Aisha's commanding tone of voice. "If anything happens, go to Gardenia." Valtor's voice relieved some tension amongst the group with his much calmer voice. "Now, let's get out of this damned city," he urged the group, which caused all of them to spring into action and to jump into a hot air balloon. A person with some sort of magical abilities was designated to each balloon to control it.

Before entering all girls transformed into sparkling fairy forms.

Tecna and Valtor jumped into a hot air balloon with Aisha. The two of them found a survival bag for each of them, as if they were waiting just for them. Aisha spoke up as she set the balloon in motion into the air. "Figured you two would have forgotten your gear, so I thought I would prepare ahead."

"Thanks," Valtor slung the bag over his shoulder, "We owe you one." Tecna grabbed her bag and materialized it so it would fit into her pocket. The three figures rose into the night air, with four other dimly illuminated balloons floating nearby. The Pixies seemed to keep more of a serious tone, but the Fairies seemed to have more fun out of the whole experience.

"We'll be back Musa, I promise," Tecna told herself.

Soon they all made it to the edge of the river; the city starting to disappear behind them. The wind viciously picked up, but the balloons surprisingly stayed on target. Tecna assumed because magic was guiding the vessels that it overpowered the guidance of the wind no matter how strong it was. She gazed next to her to see Valtor sharing a small smile with her, while Aisha was fully determined on guiding their balloon.

Valtor had a small grimace of pain. "Headache again?" She asked. Seeing that he was possibly having a headache again worried her; that problem was supposed to be solved after their visit to the hospital. It didn't make sense to Tecna. They told her he was fine, they told her he would never suffer any more headaches.

"N-no…just nervousness I think. I've never been this far out of the city in a long time," she followed his gaze to the city behind them, "It feels odd, but it's a relief." The defined building soon became nothing but an illuminating blur, and the few lights still on at Alfea soon vanished out of existence. Some fireworks burst above Magix, causing the blurred city to randomly pop into an array of colours. The city she once loved was now a fuel for her hatred. She hated Magix; hated how plastic it was, how everyone living there was essentially built to look and think the same, and of course the entire city was a product of the Witches for conformity.

"Strange, isn't it?" Aisha joined their gaze, and Tecna listened in, "The city we all thought we were so big in being the Winx Club has turned into nothing but a bright blur. When you enter the wild you realize that you don't have much of a significance on the world. Everyone in Magix is so identical that they blur just like the city does now."

The wind howled through her magenta hair and she pushed it out of her face. Did she really not have any significance? Tecna thought for sure she did; she was the kindling to this escape after all. There wasn't a sole in Magix that didn't know her name, so she had to have some significance, but did it really matter? Did it truly matter that a bunch of brainless bimbos knew her name? The world was so much grander than the city, making even the city itself become insignificant. In the same aspect the Sparx runaways were invisible, yet they had a huge significance on Magix, and even on the people outside of the glamour city.

Tecna realized she had way more significance and purpose to Sparx, than to Magix. Out in the wild she could flourish with rebellion with thinking minds, but in the city she was just another body in the blur. She couldn't believe at one point she wanted to run away from the wild and her past, but now all she wanted to do was reconnect with that past.

More importantly it would mean reconnecting with Timmy, but she wasn't sure how she felt about seeing him now. She had Valtor now, so how could she possibly say that she was dating the more visually pleasing boy? Would he understand, or would be feel dumped? What worried her most was how she would react to his Pixie face again. She realized now that the night outside Solarian mansion he kept himself purposefully concealed away to avoid her from seeing his face. Would she be happy to see his old familiar face again, or would she be disgusted?

He was an ugly Pixie and she was a beautiful Fairy; they were not destined to interact with each other. But maybe with her altered brain…maybe things would end up differently.

"Two minutes until the calm, everyone wait for my signal," Aisha voice knocked Tecna back into reality. Aisha looked at her. "You ready?"

"As ready as I'll ever be," she gave sympathetic smiles to Aisha and Valtor. "Can't believe I'm finally going back to Sparx…"

Aisha replied back. "That is, if we find them. I'm thinking we should start our search in Gardenia, and see if they have left any clues for us to follow them. That, or I'm hoping we will run into Timmy or Riven."

"One can only hope," Valtor added, "I can't imagine they've been returning back to Gardenia. Tecna, do you have any idea why they left in the first place?"

"At first I thought they were captured by the Witches," she explained, "But I'm starting to think they just left for their own safety. Of course they illogically left without a trace, so now we're stuck in this predicament."

"We'll find them, I'm sure of it," Aisha replied as she opened up the latch on the balloon. The wicker basket opened up like a gate and Aisha stood precariously on the edge. She raised her voice as all the other nearby balloons did the same. "Is everyone ready?" She paused as she received thumbs up from almost every basket. Tecna suddenly noticed the wind die down. "Okay everyone, now!"

Tecna watched as Aisha created a board out of her morphix, and she jumped down into the darkness below. Soon she watched other figures follow, soon almost all the balloons were deserted. Valtor gave Tecna a small peck on the cheek before he used his magic to slow his fall to the ground. Tecna then noticed her old friend Stella and Brandon standing nervously and hesitant in the balloon next to hers. Both looked like they didn't want to jump.

"Stella?" Tecna shouted to her in her balloon, "What are you guys doing? We have to jump, now!"

"We can't," she shouted back and peered nervously over the edge.

"Sure you can," she explained, "Your wings can easily guide you to the bottom, and Brandon, you have a hoverboard. The crash bracelets will help you land safely…"

Stella looked nervously at Brandon, and then back to Tecna. Her wings beat nervously. "I don't think I want to leave Magix."

"What do you mean? Don't you realize the vapid, manipulative, and boring life you'll live in Magix? We all should be living in the wild. We've been waiting for this."

"Maybe I don't want to… Maybe I really like the life I've been living in Magix, even if there is no real purpose to it. I like my fashion, my parties, and the people I've met," she looked at Brandon, "I thought I was ready to leave, and I thought my doubt would go away when I reached the river…but it hasn't."

"Stella…"

"We just got caught up into the hype. I really didn't think we would make it this far," she replied softly. "You and Musa have been out in the wild before, and Valtor and Aisha always talked about escaping. I'm…different from you guys."

"No one is forcing you to go Stella," she replied calmly, "It's your life, and you should live it the way you want. I just thought that this would have been the best option for us to be together again like we used to be. I thought we could go back to acting like the Pixies we used to be, but I guess we'll be parting ways again…Are you sure Stella?" Tecna finally realized that she and Stella had become two different people since the operation.

"Yeah, we're staying back," Brandon finally piped in, "But we can still help you guys. We'll take this balloon as far as we can, and when the wardens come to get us we'll stall them as long as we can."

"Besides," Stella looked lovingly at her boyfriend, "This is kind of romantic, don't you think?"

"Okay okay, I get it. You aren't coming," Tecna rolled her eyes, "You be careful you guys. If the Witches try and talk information out of you…"

"We know nothing," Brandon replied.

"And you be careful too Tec," Stella replied as she started to urge her balloon farther from her old friend, "You never know what you'll find in the wild Tecna."

Tecna finally urged herself to look back down at the ground, and suddenly the wind picked up again with brute force. "Oh no, I missed the calm," she worriedly looked around. The wardens would surely be there soon, and the balloon took forever to land. She really had one option, and even though it worried her, she was known for taking risks. Tecna knew the more she thought about how dangerous this could be, the more she would resist jumping.

"You can do this," Tecna told herself as she hurdled herself out of the balloon and into the void below.

Soon after jumping Tecna expanded her wings to stabilize herself. She tried to fly against the strong winds that were now pushing her in all directions except the direction she wanted to go, but the wind was unforgiving. Tecna watched as Gardenia in the distance was soon vanishing, and soon she found herself surrounded by nothing but darkness. She used all her strength and magic to try and fly against the winds and back towards Gardenia, but there was no use. It was like trying to fly into a wall. The debris flying into her face didn't help either.

By her calculations she was probably kilometers away from where she should have ended up, and the wind still continued to hurdle her off course. She soon found herself being pushed over endless forests, and to Tecna's shock something opened up in the ground. She couldn't really make out exactly what it was, but it looked like a decently sized chasm about one hundred meters long, fifty meters wide by her approximation. How deep—still unknown. Tecna didn't really want to find out.

To her dismay that was exactly where the wind was pushing her. Tecna tried her absolute hardest to prevent herself from falling down it, but the wind was relentless to her. The wind seemed to grab her and throw her directly down into the unknown hole. She felt her body collide with one side of the sharp and rocky chasm, and that's when she heard the crack. One small look back and she saw that one of her glimmering wings now cracked. The crack reached from the top of her wing all the way down to her back.

The pain of cracking one of her wings shot up her, and it was unbearable. Her body now wanted to go into unconsciousness; the pain was so bad. She tried to use her wings and last of her strength to fly back up, but now she was plummeting down into the abyss with no way of slowing herself.

She only hoped this fall would not be a bone shattering or life ending one.

Thanks for being patient with this story! Next chapter: What, or who will Tecna encounter in deep chasm?