Love Strikes Young
Vanessa and Mike were waiting on the living room couch.
"Do you think they made it alright?" Vanessa asked.
Mike held her hand for reassurance. "I'm sure they'll be fine." He said. "Tecna will call us if anything goes wrong." Vanessa nodded. "I hope you're right."
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Stormy marched to a group of guards. They were the closest, so she decided she would inform them.
"Hey, listen up!" She barked. All five guards straightened upon her order.
"Yes ma'am!" They all said in unison. Stormy stood in front of them. "We have four girls coming soon, so I want the five of you to inform the rest. These four girls are coming because they want to take back what we took, but we can't have that. Don't let your guard down, and keep an eye out for them." With that she left, and the five guards took off in different directions.
One guard, the one who went left, smiled at the news Stormy had given them. If only he could find those four girls before any of the other guards could. His fast walk turned into a run, and he turned the corner and into his own room. In his room, he walked up to his bed, lifted the mattress, and took out his tracker from underneath. He quickly turned it on, and set it to track any trace of magical power. Looking at it, he ran out of the room.
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The girls were already in. They had used their magic to weaken the lock on the door leading inside. It was a strong lock, but with their powers combined, it was no match. As soon as they were in, Tecna quickly scanned the whole area. "Okay, here." Tecna said, printing out the scanning and handing it to Musa. "Avoid the traps, alarms, and cameras. I don't know where they have Bloom locked up, so you will have to find that out." Musa and Stella nodded and were about to leave when Tecna said, "One more thing, I'm thinking we might need the extra power, so we should try to transform."
They all nodded. "Right." Then they all tried to transform. During the extra time they had, they all secretly practiced their powers and now they could transform without fault. In four flashes of colored light, what were once four normal human girls were now four powerful fairies.
"I wonder if Bloom can transform like this." Stella said, smiling, and looking at the new accessories around her wrists.
"Probably," Musa said, jumping in the air, floating. "Let's go!"
Stella followed Musa as they flew down the corridor.
"Take care!" Flora called after them.
"We should get going too." Tecna said, looking down at her own copy of the place. "The dungeon where Sky is being held is this way." She pointed, and they both went the opposite way Musa and Stella had gone.
They had only turned the corner when they bumped into him.
"Ouch!" All three of them said.
Getting up, Tecna and Flora realized that he was one of the guards. Getting ready, they prepared to fight.
He looked down at his tracker. So that's how he found us, Tecna thought. Then he smiled and said, "Don't worry, I'm not here to fight. I'm here to help. The person you are looking for isn't in the same room. She was moved into a different room."
Tecna looked at him through narrowed eyes. "This is a trap. It's obvious."
The guard shook his head. "It's not, I swear. My name is Helia, I am guard here, but I'm not working for those witches."
Flora spoke up. "Even if you don't work for them, you can tell us who they are. We don't know who took Bloom, or why."
"I don't think we can trust him, Flora." Tecna said.
"Follow me. I'll take you to where your friend is and on the way, I'll fill you in. All I can say that it is not a trap." Helia said, starting to walk away. Flora followed him.
"Wait!" Tecna said, grabbing Flora's hand. "What are you doing?"
Flora turned to her friend. "C'mon, Tecna, we don't have any other choice." Helia was getting out of sight. "Hurry!" Flora took Tecna along with her and she hurried after him.
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"This isn't getting us anywhere." Stella sighed. "Where are we, anyway?"
Musa looked down at the scanning she got from Tecna. "Well, this thing says we're in one of the basements."
"And how did we get here?"
"No clue."
Stella sighed.
Beep!
"What was that?"
"Chill, Stella. Its Tecna calling." Musa took out the small phone that was connected to her skirt. "Hey, what's up? Something wrong?" Musa said into the phone.
"Not exactly. Apparently one of the guards is helping us…it's a long story. I'm sending you a scan of where we are. Catch up to us." Tecna hung up. A small and thin piece of paper was printed and Musa looked through it.
"What Tecna say?" Stella asked.
"We gotta catch up to her and Flora. It's this way, c'mon!" They both flew off.
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"How could they stoop so low?" Questioned Flora. "Just to get a hold of Bloom's special power." Flora walked to the right of Helia, and Tecna walked to the left of him.
Helia nodded. "They are evil. I know that. But there wasn't anything I could do, even if I was able to get your friend out, I wouldn't know where to take her. So I had to wait for someone to come get her. I did the same thing for Prince Sky, but no one did come for him."
"He's a prince?" Tecna asked.
Helia nodded again. "Yes. But I don't think he knows it. And I was never able to get close enough to him to tell him anything. But now, I can fix all of it by taking you two to your friend. But I should warn you. The three sisters are very powerful."
"Don't worry, we can with two others and it's five against three." Tecna said.
"Make that four against three." Helia said.
"What? You're not going to help us?" Flora asked, astounded.
"I can't, I'll be too busy preparing your getaway vehicle. Those three can appear from one place to another very fast, but they can't enter rooms like that yet, so you'll need a vehicle, and a driver. That'll be me." Helia explained.
"Never thought of that." Tecna said. "Fine, you pass."
Helia smiled but then stopped moving. Tecna and Flora stopped with him.
"What's wrong?" They both asked.
"Get ready." Helia said, taking out a glove and slipping his hand in. "They are coming."
Flora and Tecna got into a fighting position. They waited. What they saw completely surprised them.
"Ahhh! Fly faster!"
"I'm flying as fast as I can!"
They ran into Stella and Musa.
"Stella, Musa! You made it!" Flora exclaimed happily.
"Yeah, sure, run—or fly, or, whatever, just move!" Stella said quickly. She tried to fly past, but Tecna stopped her. "Just a minute, where are you going?" She demanded.
"We're trying to fly away from—"
"Too late!" Musa pointed.
Hundreds of ice crabs came around the corner and surrounded them.
"It's the Ice Crabs! Be careful—don't let them touch you!" Helia said, laser stings came out his glove. He used them to slash the floor to make the Ice Crabs back off.
"Why not? Wait a minute, who are you?" Stella asked.
"I'll tell you who I am later. As for these creatures, one touch can ... you." Helia responded, still fending off the little monsters.
"What?" Stella cried in horror.
"Stella, Musa, what did you do?" Tecna asked, trying her magic again and blasting the Ice Crabs in a shower of green light.
"We didn't see the trap that held those things!" Musa called back, flying upwards to avoid a jumping Ice Crab. The Ice Crabs started to climb on the walls, blocking the way to fly out.
"You four go ahead!" Helia said, slashing a clear path for them. "I'll take care of them. The room where they have your friend is straight ahead! Once you come to a path that leads left, go down that hallway!"
"Okay, thanks!" Tecna said, flying down the path quickly with the rest right behind her.
The path closed again as the Ice Crabs surrounded Helia. He tried his best to fend away the little beasts with his laser string glove. His wrapped one of the laser strings around an Ice Crab and threw it against the wall, but more came. "There's too many." Helia said to himself. "How am I going to get through this?" The Ice Crabs started to close in on him. Soon there would be no way out. He would be completely surrounded by them.
"Watch it!" A voice said. A flash of green, and most of the Ice Crabs were destroyed.
A male stood in front of Helia. A green phantoblade was in his hands.
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Instead of heading back to Red Fountain, Brandon retraced his steps and went back to Alfea. He suddenly had a thought.
"Great. Thanks for your help. It means a lot."
"Your welcome. But we haven't even started yet."
"Yeah I know, but thanks for agreeing to help."
"Sure. So let's start."
He asked for Layla again, and they again, took up Ms. Faragonda's office.
"Wait up. Tell me again how you are gonna do this?"
"I still have the mirror from the last time we used the spell. We said that you wanted to talk to the girl we met before, right?"
"Yeah. I realized that she had to have something to do with it. I remembered that I found the cloth at the Black Mud Swamp, and I thought: What would a human girl be doing here?"
Layla nodded. "Makes sense." The mirror was in front of her, and it started to glow. When the glow didn't fade, Layla frowned. "No one must be there to answer it. Either that, or she threw the mirror away."
"What can you do?" Brandon asked.
"Well…" Trailing off, Layla put her hand over the mirror. Both her hand and the mirror glowed. When both glows faded, Layla removed her hand, and they could both see a clear image: An empty room. "Yup, no one's there." Layla said. "I don't care," Brandon said. "Can you track this location? I wanna speak to this girl no matter what." Layla nodded and soon had the location.
"Great. Thanks again." Brandon said. He headed out.
Outside Alfea, he got on his levabike and zoomed to the location. The location was far; even on his top speed it took time to get there.
Eventually he arrived at the place and got off his bike. "This place…seems normal." He said. But he had a suspicion. "How do I get in, now?" He asked himself. "Well, I'll just go through the front door!" He jammed his sword right into the lock. When he pulled his sword out, the lock came with it, opening the door. "Man, didn't think that would work." Brandon said. "What a cheap lock." He went though the door and entered the place. "Now…which room is it?" Brandon asked himself. He found himself wandering down the a hallway when he heard someone say, "There's too many…how am I going to get through this?" He figured someone was in trouble, so he raised his sword and turned the corner, jumping in the air to attack by surprise. But what he saw surprised him. Hundreds of ice crabs. But he couldn't stop his attack, so he might as well pull through with it. He called a warning, "Watch it!" and he slashed at most of the ice crabs that were in the way. He turned to the guy behind him. "You okay?" The guy seemed surprised that he was even there, but he nodded anyway. "Let's take these things out and then talk." Brandon said. The other guy seemed to agree and they fought off the monsters.
Finally it was over. The Ice Crabs were defeated. "So…now that's it's over…we can start…with your name?" Brandon said, huffing from the previous battle.
"Yeah…my name is Helia." Helia said, almost out of breath himself.
"Cool…I'm Brandon." Brandon responded.
After they had caught their breath, Helia asked, "What brings you here? I know you are not from here."
"Yeah…actually, I'm here looking for a girl, I think she lives here or something. Do you know anything about her?" Brandon asked.
"I might…can you describe her?" Helia replied.
"Well, when I first saw her, I didn't get a good look at her. She had red hair, that's all I know." Brandon responded.
"So, you're here looking for her too? To help her?" Helia asked.
"I don't get where you're going at. My business with her if no friendly matter." Brandon confirmed.
"Why isn't it?" Helia asked.
"I think she may have something to do with the kidnapping of a young prince." Brandon responded.
Helia eyes grew wide at the word 'prince.' Could it be…"What's the prince's name?" He asked.
"He's Prince Sky."
It is! "You're the one who is looking for Prince Sky!" Helia burst out.
Brandon stepped back a little. "Whoa. Uh, yeah, why? Hey wait a minute. I told you who I am. Just who are you?" He demanded.
"Okay, I'll start from the beginning." Helia said. "Prince Sky is here, he is being held captive by three witch sisters who want to take the Sapphire Power from him. I was working here as a guard before they had kidnapped him. It was innocent guard work for me, but when they brought young Prince Sky here, I decided to turn against them so I did some spy work and found out everything—why they wanted Sky, what are they planning with him and more. I want to alert the King and Queen about their missing son, but before I had the chance, I was caught. Instead of killing me though, they said I could be useful in the future, so they erased my memory. But what they don't know is that I escaped that. But because that happened, I couldn't leave. They always had a sharp eye on me, but they are busy now, so I can help. Later on, they brought Bloom, a girl from Earth said to have very strong power. Again, I found out more, being careful not to raise the suspicion of the three witches. I knew she came from Earth, but the three of them still had me on tight watch. But Bloom's four friends have come, and now that you are here, I'll take you to Prince Sky."
Brandon couldn't believe it. Sky was being held captive here? "I'll get the rest from you later, right now, take me to him!"
Helia nodded, and ran down the hall, with Brandon right behind him. "He is in the same room as the girl you were looking for, Bloom."
"So she's innocent." Brandon said, speeding up.
"Yeah, come on, this way!" Helia made a sharp left turn down the hallway leading to another hallway. "It should be right down this hallway!"
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"It should be here!" Tecna said, knocking the door open.
"Bloom!" They all said. For the first time in months, the four girls saw their best friend.
"Bloom!" They said again, heading for her. They stopped however, when they saw the three witch sisters.
"What? How did they get in here?" Icy demanded, angrily.
"That's for us to know, and for you three to never find out!" Musa called out.
"And we're here to take Bloom back!" Stella said.
"You're gonna have to go past us, first, little pixies." Darcy said, standing in front of them, with Icy and Stormy beside her.
"You guys asked for it!" Musa said, jumping forward and blasting, they rest following her and doing to same thing.
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Sky is…
Bloom wasn't aware of anything. Only of what had happened. Bloom rushed to Sky's side to see the damage. He had managed to dodge most of the spikes, but two of them had hit him right in the chest. But that wasn't all. He also wasn't breathing.
Sky is…dead?
Tears started to form in Bloom's eyes. He leaned her head against his bleeding chest and cried.
"No."
Bloom's head shot up. A voice in her head? She heard this voice before.
Who are you?
"I told you, Bloom. I am your guide."
Are you the same person who was in my dream? "Yes." Why can't I see you? I can only hear you. "Because the last time we met, I was in your dreams. You're awake now. I now have the power to enter your mind when you are awake." But why are you here? This isn't a good time! Sky is dead! "No, he isn't." What do you mean? Yes he is! Look at him! Bloom started to cry again.
"I see him. Bloom, you have just about ended your journey."
What do you mean? You said something about a journey last time, but what does it mean? And if I am almost done, when did I start? "Everyone starts their own journey when they are born. But it takes time for each person to realize his or her own journey. You only realized your journey near the end." Who are you? I mean, do you have a name? "Yes, my name is Daphne." Daphne…who are you to me? Why are you my guide? "I told her before, Bloom, that I was there when you were born. I was chosen to be your guide. I am going to have to tell you everything later. Right now, I think you want to help your friend."
Bloom look at Sky's face. He's more than a friend…I'm sure of it. But it doesn't matter anymore. Nothing can help him anymore. Bloom started to cry again.
"Save your tears, he's not dead."
How can you tell? I mean, he's not breathing. "Do you really want to help him, Bloom?" Of course! "How much?" More than the whole universe. "Then listen carefully. His wounds are fatal, but he isn't dead yet. It's true, he isn't breathing, but that only means that you have limited time to save him. Everyone can live without air for a certain amount of time. Check his heart beat to reassure yourself."
Bloom leaned her head against his chest again and listened. It was very faint, but it was there. She didn't feel it last time because she was crying.
But, what do I do?
"Use your magic to save him. Use your magic to heal him. Use the Dragon Fire." But I don't know how! And I remember now. Those three took my magic. "Didn't I tell you before, Bloom? The fire burns within you—no one else. No one can take it from you. It lasts forever within you until the day you die. Search for it deep within your heart. You'll find it. I will meet you when this is all over."
Bloom felt the spirit of her guide disappear for her body. Bloom stood, and put her hands out in front of her. "The fire within me…"
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Well…it seemed like a good place to end a chapter...
Um…well, a-anyway, I'm not so sure if I liked the outcome of this chapter, but it should get better in my next chapter. Right now, I just wanna get over with it. XD Oh, just a reminder…this story is kinda like the whole first season—my way. Remember that. M-y-w-a-y… Well, I think that's it…bye? Oh, the next chapter I will work on one week from today! Bye-bye!