AN: Thanks again to everyone who has reviewed etc. sorry for the slight delay in the latest chapter (writers block is a pain) but I hope you like the latest instalment and that no one fell off that cliff-hanger from the last chapter. Anyway enjoy and please continue to tell me what you think :)

Chapter 10

This Can't Be The End

"GET DOWN!" Musa screamed making the others hit the deck before a bright purple bolt of lightning smashed the glass they had been standing in front of and shot through the other side of the ship. "What the hell was that?" Riven yelled as Timmy tried to gain control of the ship which was now hurtling out of the sky. "Timmy!"

"I can't control it anymore!" He yelled as the ship tossed and turned and its final engine collapsed, another blast sending the group to the ground then nothing. The screams faded and what filled that void were the occasional sparks from the ships damaged engine, metal crushing against each other, and the hope that they had all survived the crash.

Brandon was the first to wake up. He opened his eyes and sat up, looking around as he did. The ship had been blown to smithereens, the ruins all still smouldering with the flames igniting the grass surrounding their previous pride and joy. Luckily they had landed inside the country and not a city or village, the results would have been far worse. Standing to his feet Brandon put his hand to his head, taking it back to see that the stinging sensation had been caused by a cut, now spilling blood down the side of his face but not into his eyes.

He heard a moan coming from his left and turned to see Sky lying on his front, his eyes slowly twitching. "Sky!" Brandon yelled, kneeling next to his friend. "Sky, wake up for me." His eyes finally awoke with a shake and Brandon helped him to sit up. After a quick check over the two realised that Sky's upper arm had been cut rather deeply, making his blue heroes uniform turn purple, but overall he was fine. "Sky I need you to help me," he explained before the two began walking over the wreak, identifying any survivors. "Bloom!" Sky called, cupping his hands around his mouth.

"Stella! Flora! Anyone!" Brandon followed when he looked up and saw Timmy, lying like a ragdoll over the edge of the clothes line to dry. "Timmy," Brandon encouraged making the red-headed specialist look down. "Are you okay?" Brandon asked as Timmy climbed down.

"Yeah," Timmy sighed. "But where are the others?" He asked.

"We are trying to find them." The three boys continued to search, each of them hoping desperately that they would all be okay. Then as Sky passed the ship he peered inside through the hull and smoke. "Brandon!" He yelled. "I found Stella!"

Brandon ran so quickly that when he finally reached the ship it was hard for him to stop. Carefully he moved into the crumbling ship and took her in his arms, taking her outside to some fresh air. Sky joined Timmy while Brandon tapped Stella's face lightly with his hands, making her wake up and begin coughing the smoke from her lungs.

Meanwhile Layla had finally awoken and started her own search. That was when she saw Nabu still inside the ship. "Nabu!" She yelled though the smoke was too thick for her to see through. Transforming into her enchantix she used a morphix shield around herself to enter the ship and took Nabu's arm over her shoulder to lead him out, luckily he was still conscious. "What happened?" He asked, sitting up to look his girlfriend in the eye.

"It doesn't matter," Layla hugged him tightly in her arms "as long as you're safe."

"It doesn't matter," the familiar voice of Icy the witch, cackling above them began, making all of those below turn to face her floating form "because there is no way you are going to save Musa."Layla flew into the air to be level with Icy, forcing herself to not wipe the witches smirk right off her face with a morphix blast.

"Yes there is," Layla said proudly "we will save Musa."

"Then where is she?" Icy smirked. Layla looked around. She saw Sky, Brandon, Nabu, Timmy and an unconscious Stella, but where were Flora, Musa, Riven, Helia, Tecna and Bloom. "I see that you can't find her or a few of your other friends anywhere."

"WHERE ARE THEY?" Layla screamed throwing a morphix ball of energy to Icy. Icy just brushed it off to the side. "I am sure that my sisters will have taken care of them by now."

"What do you mean?" Layla asked again, trying to attack several times but Icy just kept on picking her attacks off like they were stray pieces of hair on her outfit. "TELL ME WHERE THEY ARE?"

"YOU WILL JOIN THEM SOON ENOUGH," Icy screamed as a large cage made of dark ice was encased around her and fell to the ground over her other friends. "Or maybe we will just leave you hear for the next..." Icy pretended to think for a moment "seven or so days."

"NO!" Sky yelled. "You can't do that. You know Musa will die by then."

"I am well aware," Icy smiled. "But don't worry, we will make sure it is as painless for her as we can make it," she laughed. "But you on the other hand...you are a very different story."

Flora opened her eyes and placed a hand to her head as she looked around, kneeling next to her on the right was Bloom and on the left was Helia. "What happened?" she asked making Helia hug her in his arms.

"Thank heavens you're awake."

"Where are we?" Flora asked when Bloom shrugged her shoulders. "We're not really all that sure," she explained as Helia helped Flora to sit up. "But I assume still in Quantum somewhere, maybe inside that large castle we saw on the way through."

"What about the others?" Flora asked again, realising immediately that the other girls were now missing and that their ship crashed, a bump on Helia's forehead and the bruising to her wrist testament to the fact. Truth be told she was really worried about Musa and where she was. If Musa had gotten too badly hurt during the accident then the chances of her being okay were far less than their own, they were all healthy, Musa was terminally ill. "What if something happened to them?"

"Don't worry," Bloom said trying to calm Flora down by placing a hand on her shoulder. "They will be okay. They are strong and we will get out of here all we need to do is figure out a way to do it." A laugh, a laugh that could have stopped the entire world in one move suddenly sounded from above as clouds filled the small and confined dark room. The room that was perfectly round with no possible escape route to be seen and only one single window at the top to give them light.

Everyone looked above them to see Stormy smiling again, her eyes were a bright yellow, her power was strong. Bloom could already sense that the Witches had taken their powers to the next level and had a feeling that Leon may have been behind it.

Stormy descended from above with her usual smirk, waiting for the questions she knew would follow. "Where are the others?" Flora began.

"You better tell us where they are you witch!" Bloom yelled when Stormy just began laughing.

"I wouldn't be worried about that," Stormy smiled evilly "just look," she clicked her fingers, making a hole in the wall so they could see beyond the stone, outside the sun was setting, the first day was done and the second would begin. "No," Bloom sighed. "It can't be the second day yet."

"Actually," Stormy began. "It can. Your little pixie friend is going to die in less than 6 days. But of course, the spell is easy enough to become more aggressive."

"What!" Yelled Helia. "What do you mean more aggressive?"

"I mean" Stormy began, loving the desperate and pleading eyes of those below her. Each of them with a thousand burning questions they needed the answers too. She loved the thought of telling them their friend's fate and then watching as they cried...but what else would you expect from a member of the Trix?

"Master Leon can simply increase the aggressiveness of his spell and kill Musa within say, two more days rather than a week." Floras eyes began to fill with the tears Stormy most enjoyed. While watching Helia take hold of his precious girlfriend she caught Bloom running at her with a ball of fire in her hand. Bloom fired at her but Stormy just caught it in her hand. "What," Stormy smiled looking to the disappointed face of Bloom when she realised that her effort was in vain. "You thought that we would let you win easily this time? No. We learned some new skills from Master Leon and to be quite frank we are sick of losing," Stormy shut her hand to extinguish the fireball and looked to them.

"Now," her hand rose and chains appeared around there legs. Dark heavy chains that prevented flying in all its forms and made their legs tired and heavy. "These chains are made with dark magic. They will only grow stronger with every attack you use against them so please don't waste your time." And in a puff of smoke Stormy disappeared.

Meanwhile Riven woke up and found himself inside a room identical to the one Helia and the others were in. Round, stone walls, dark and dank with only one window at the top level. Judging by the orange glow shining through the sun was setting and that only meant one thing. They had been unconscious for quite a while.

Turning around he saw Musa lying knocked out on the floor and immediately hastened to her side. "Musa," he sighed taking her into his arms. "Musa wake up!" Tecna heard the sound of Riven's frantic voice and her eyes opened. She stood to her feet but felt a dull ache coming from her ankle and realised that it must have been from the crash. Her eyes turned down to Musa and just as she made her way to her side her eyes finally opened, making Riven release a breath he forgot he was holding. "Where are we?" She asked. Riven looked around, Tecna noticing that he had a few scratches on his neck and his head. "I'm pretty sure we are in Castle Revelation," he answered. "It's one of the oldest castles inside the countryside, I used to come and train here as a kid but these rooms had doors, I guess Leon and the witches changed them around a little." When suddenly the room went much darker than before. "And the specialist is the winner!" She joked, laughing throatily before landing on the cobblestone below her watching Riven help Musa to get feet.

"Well would you look at that," she smirked. "Riven leaves me and then falls in love with the terminal pixie, how tragic."

"Shut up Darcy!" Riven yelled. "What do you want?"

"Where are the others?" Asked Tecna. Darcy just laughed at their faces.

"That is none of your concern," she replied. "You should be more worried about that Virus of yours Musa and not your little friends."

"My friends are more important to me than my life."

"Is that so?" Darcy said stepping forward to Musa and looking her deep in the eyes. "We will soon see."

"Get away from her," Riven said standing between Darcy and Musa. "You know we will win," he said as Musa stood over by Tecna and helped her support her weight onto her shoulder.

"Riven you really are sad now aren't you. You know if you weren't so annoying I might consider taking you back."

"Never," Riven was ready to kill this witch as soon as possible but the last thing he wanted was one of Darcy's attacks to miss him and hit either of the girls. These witches weren't stupid and now they had learnt new tricks from there master they were more powerful than ever before. Darcy rose her hand as Riven took some steps back, shielding the other girls with his body. "These should hold you." the same chains that had been used on Bloom, Flora and Helia appeared around there legs. "They grow stronger the more you try to escape so I suggest you stay still until we decide what to do with you."

"And what are you going to do?" Tecna asked

"We could always kill you right now but what would the fun be?" she smirked. "Of course we could do anything to you all but you know what. There is always the option or letting you rot in here," she smiled. Riven began running to Darcy, his fist ready to punch her face into the dirt but she disappeared, his chains making him fall to the ground with a echoing bang. She appeared behind him. "See you all soon," and with that she disappeared into the night.

"What are we going to do?" Tecna asked, sitting down with Musa by her side.

"We will think of something," Musa replied "we have to think of something."

"Musa," Tecna sighed, her eyed filling with tears at the realisation that three of them were here and they had no idea about whether the others had survived. "I don't want...this to be the end."

"Neither do I," Musa hugged Tecna, offering all the comfort she had. She wanted to find the spell and have her friends help her but it seemed that nothing would happen to plan on this trip. What the witches had in store for them they weren't sure but what they did know was that if they didn't get the spell and get out of there as quickly as possible Musa would die and possibly all of them with her.