Updated: 6/10/2011
I know it's been a while, but I've been wrapping up my other fanfics, which isn't to say I haven't been working on this one. I have been, I've even begun working on the sequel... If I ever get that far. Please review. I want this chapter to get a whopping 2 reviews, so that I'm at least even reviews to chapters... I wouldn't mind to have a larger ratio of reviews to chapter.
Previously on Vixen:
Angel and the girls defeated Gaea, only to discover that she was a victim herself. Now the girls are on the lookout for the next element, which may have been connected to the flooding of Magix at the Day of the Rose festival.
Episode 11: Spiderwebs (1)
The sun wasn't even visible, just a few rays of light, when everyone at Alfea was woken by a shrill scream.
"AAAAHHHHHHHH!"
Those closest to the scream all awoke with a start and quickly ran to see why she was screaming... All but the screamer's roommate that is.
"Kaida, quiet it down, would you?" Cicada said. "Your screaming is scaring my insects."
"Get it off me, Cicky!" Kaida yelled. "Get it off, get it off, get it OFF! Please, Cicky, tell your mantis to get off me!" There were practically tears rolling down Kaida's face.
The door flung open and four more girls were in the doorway, but stopped, seeing that there were insects crawling all over the room. "Eww!" Trend shrieked and jumped backwards, sending herself, Angel, Emerald, and Avery all to the ground outside the room.
Cicada opened one eye, and her antennae grew from her hair. "How'd you get out, Maddie?"
"I don't care!" Kaida yelled. "Get it off me!"
"Come here, Maddie," Cicada said. However, unlike when Cicada usually told her insects to do something, Maddie simply stayed on Kaida's chest, then crawled closer to Kaida's face.
"What's up with you, Cicada?" Emerald asked, transformed and flying in the room. None of the other three dared to enter.
"I think I'm sick," Cicada said. She coughed a few times. "My communication with them is on the fritz."
"I don't care," Kaida sobbed. "Get it off me."
Emerald created a small cage of Emerald and caught Maddie in it. She then dropped the bug into her jar and sealed it tightly. Looking at the other jars, Emerald sighed. She could only see one spider that had not escaped. "How come all the jars are opened?" Emerald asked as she sealed the one jar that still had a spider in it.
"I guess I forgot to close them, I was in such a fog last night," Cicada said. She pushed herself into a sitting position, then sneezed so hard that she fall back down.
Kaida, who had jumped off her bed and into the common room as soon as the praying mantis was off her, was shaking from the terror of the experience. Suddenly, Trend shrieked and took three clumsy steps away from Kaida before falling to her rear. "There are ants in your hair, Kaida."
"What!" Kaida shrieked as she felt one ant crawl onto her face. "Get them off!"
"Eww, not me!" Trend shook her head.
"I am not taking care of all these insects!" Emerald yelled from inside the bedroom still. She came out with a butterfly sitting on the top of her head. "It had better not be laying eggs up there, is all I have to say."
"Here," Avery approached Kaida very carefully. She used some energy to pull all the ants out of the short girl's hair and held them in an energy sphere. Emerald created a small emerald container and Avery dropped all the ants in it.
"If there are anymore ants on me, they're dying in the shower, Cicky," Kaida yelled to her roommate before disappearing to the shower.
"What's up with Kaida's nickname for Cicada?" Trend asked Emerald when she emerged once more from the bug-infested room.
"I'm more interested in how Cicada got so sick overnight," Angel said. "We should get her to the infirmary."
"Um… you can take care of that," Trend said. "I'm not going near the insects."
Emerald, Avery, and Angel all sighed in annoyance. "I'll make a stretcher, but someone else has to get her on it," Emerald said. A moment later, a green stretcher formed and solidified.
Avery sighed. She carefully used her magic to levitate Cicada to the stretcher. Angel took over pushing it toward the infirmary. "Trend, you stay here and wait for Kaida to finish her shower, okay?"
"Rightio," Trend nodded and took a seat on a couch. She snapped her fingers and the bug-infested room closed immediately.
"This is odd," Ophelia said after checking out Cicada. "She has all the symptoms of Dragonlaria, but, that can only be contracted near the water."
"Cicada hasn't been near the water recently," Angel said. "She'll get better, right?"
"Only if we get the antidote," Ophelia said. "We don't keep any here because it's so rare. I'll call the Magix hospital…"
A few minutes later, Ophelia and Faragonda came and saw the three girls. "It seems that there have been an unusual number of cases of Dragonlaria all over Magix and the antidotes have run out."
"What!" Angel yelled. "But what about Cicada?"
"I'm telling you girls because I'm going to trust you to go out to the Sea of the Dragon and collect the ingredients needed to create the antidote," Faragonda said.
"We'll get it," Emerald ensured the women.
"How will we get there?" Avery asked.
"I've done this a few times girls," Palladium said to the five well members of Vixen twenty minutes later as they stood in the Virtual Reality Chamber. "Instead of simulating a planet, this will actually send you straight to where you need to be. Don't worry about getting back because Prince Charm's team is getting ready to fly there right as we speak, but they won't arrive for another few hours. By then, you should have most of the ingredients, but we need you to move quickly."
"Yes, Uncle Pal," Avery nodded. Palladium activated the chamber and the girls were sent to the Sea of the Dragon, a planet of mostly water. They landed on a small island.
"Okay, let's see what we need," Kaida said looking at the list of ingredients. "We need scales of a blue water dragon, water webbing of a pink water spider, which is actually more of an orange color, but it looks pinkish when it's under water—"
"Kaida, the ingredients," Angel reminded the girl.
"Oh, right," Kaida looked back at the list. "And crystallized coral."
"Well, I guess the first step is to transform into our Winx," Angel said. "So, let's go Vixen!"
"Maybe we should split up," Emerald said when all the girls were hovering above their island. "You know, that way we can look faster."
"But how will we know if anyone finds any of the ingredients?" Avery asked. "We could all come back with Dragon scales and then we're still down two ingredients and an excessive amount of scales."
"And it's too dangerous to split up here," Kaida said.
"Well, how about two teams," Trend said. "Angel and me will be one team. And you three will be another team. And I can create three colored ribbons, one representing each ingredient. And, if we find the ingredient, we give a few tugs on that colored ribbon. And if we get into trouble, we tug on all three ribbons, and to find one another, just follow the ribbon."
The girls all looked at one another. "That works," Angel said. "Okay, let's go."
Trend and Angel were looking down at the water, but they could only see their reflections. "How are we supposed to find anything if we can only see our reflections?" Angel asked.
"I don't know," Trend said. "But does my hair look fly away?"
Angel chose to ignore Trend's question. "Just keep…" Angel stopped when she saw something in the water. "What was that?"
"Um… a fish?" Trend questioned.
"No, it looked more like a dragon," Angel said. She lowered herself so that she was hovering just above the water. Suddenly, however, a huge splash soaked her when Nethuns jumped out of the water.
"Hello girls," he said with a laughed, then dove at Angel, pushing her under the water with him, where he would be fine, but she wouldn't be able to breathe.
"Angel!" Trend yelled. She held tightly to all three ribbons and gave several mighty tugs before letting them go. Trend then shot several ribbons into the water, catching Angel and pulling her back out.
"Okay, that's crystallized coral," Avery said emerging from under water with several transparent pieces of coral. "That would be the white ribbon."
Emerald nodded and was about the tug the white ribbon, when all three pulled her so harshly that she lost grip. "Oh no, the girls are in trouble."
"That's what happens when you leave princesses alone together," Avery said as the three girls began following the ribbons to the other two Vixen girls.
Angel and Trend were back to back; a sphere of water surrounded them and was closing in. Nethuns stood on the water surface laughing. "What do you think you're doing?" Avery yelled when the other three arrived.
"I think I'm about to defeat the silly fairies called Vixen in one sweep of the arm," Nethuns said with a laugh. "I am Nethuns, king of all water. You will now learn that when you mess with boiling water, you drown."
"Yeah, uh, hello. Corny statement of the year," Emerald said with an eyebrow lifted in the air.
"You must think you're hot stuff, huh?" Avery said with a laugh. "With all this talk about boiling water."
"And king of the water?" Emerald picked up where Avery left off. "Can't be a king without a queen, and, I can tell you do not have a queen."
"Not only is he ugly, Em," Avery was back at it. "But he's got delusions of grandeur and he smells like a fish."
"Hey, what are you two trying to pull?" Nethuns yelled.
"This," Kaida yelled and blasted Nethuns from behind where he hadn't noticed her as Avery and Emerald were making fun of him. As her colorful blasts hit him, his concentration was broken and the sphere around Trend and Angel, which had stopped shrinking when Emerald and Avery began making fun of him, disappeared.
"Thanks," Angel said gratefully as she and Trend spread apart.
"Now, let's teach this guy a lesson," Trend said and the five girl surrounded Nethuns. Each shot an attack at him, but he turned into water and dropped into the ocean before the attacks could hit him.
"Gaea already tried to pull this," Avery said and punched the water with energy. However, Nethuns wasn't expelled from the water as they imagined he would. Instead, Avery was pulled under.
"Avery!" the girls yelled and all dove in and grabbed her wrist and pulled her out.
"What do we do to beat this guy?" Trend asked.
"I say we try to outrun him," Kaida said. "We're on his turf, there is water all around us and we still need two ingredients."
"Wait…" Avery said looking around. "We're not getting attacked anymore."
"Why not?" Angel asked. "He was more or less winning."
"I say we take this chance without question," Emerald said.
"And if it's a trap?" Kaida asked. "Making us let our guard down?"
"It's either a trap or not," Emerald said. "But we still need two more ingredients and we won't get them by fighting Nethuns."
"Emerald's right," Angel said. "But this time, let's stick together."
As the five girls flew off, Nethuns kept his eyes on one. The fire of Angel's Dragon Fire did not hurt him, Avery's Excalibur energy was useless, Trend's powers of fashion did nothing, and Emerald never even got a shot at him. But when Kaida got him from behind, not only did the surprise get to him, but it actually hurt him a lot. There was something about her that Nethuns not only feared, but was attracted to.
"You girls have the ingredients yet?" Charm asked as the boys' ship approached an island the girls were on.
"Just barely," Trend said as the girls flew to the opened hatch and walked on.
"Good, because Cicada's going to need to get better soon," Marvel said. "Her powers are going haywire. The witches of Cloud Tower are ready to call an exterminator."
"Feeling better, Cicada?" Angel asked after Cicada had been given the antidote and had some rest.
"Oh, tons," Cicada said.
"Good," Trend said with a smile. "Now I hate to bother you so soon after you woke, but tell all the bugs all over campus to go away and get all your bugs back into their jars."
Cicada looked around to see that there were insects everywhere. "Sorry," Cicada said and her antennae popped up. Immediately, the insects all began to return to the forest just outside Alfea.
"Oh, yeah, one more thing," Kaida said.
"What's up this time?"
"If I ever wake up with an insect on me, I will blow it up," Kaida said. "Understood?"
Cicada simply nodded with her eyes wide.
Next time on Vixen:
Nethuns manages to threaten Angel, Trend, Emerald, and Cicada to stand back while he attacks their school, but Avery will not stand down, no matter what he throws at her. Also, why does Nethuns kiss Kaida and where is she as her friends worry for their school?
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