A/N: Thanks so much everyone for the reviews. Here is the chapter you've all been waiting for where we catch up with Flora and Helia. Please enjoy.

All errors are mine, if you see one let me know, I edited this late at night so there are probably a few that snuck in there.

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Chapter 11

Lair of No End

A single water droplet fell from above inside a dark cavern, its fall into the puddle below documented by a ray band of sound that echoed through the tunnel. Slowly the wave grew louder and louder before entering Tecna's ears. She felt cold. Admittedly it wasn't as cold as the other realms of Doomsday or Omega, in comparison to them it was relatively warm, but the cool breeze blew through her hair and made her spine shiver.

Her eyes opened to search for her location. It looked like a deep cave but she saw no outward light. Judging by the draft of air her thoughts were correct, there was some form of entrance and exit to cause it, but exactly where they were located was still a mystery. Tecna lifted herself off the ground immediately feeling the repercussions of the beasts attack. Her fists were sore from her struggle and so were her ribs but nothing was broken which was a blessing at least.

Looking around she saw nothing particularly interesting but did notice that it was lighter down here than she would have expected it to be, telling her that it was probably day light outside. Though there wasn't a lot of visibility.

It was then that she noticed something when peering through the veil of darkness, a figure, sitting against the cave. It was someone she never thought she'd see again. Tecna lifted her handheld and used its light to illuminate the space. "FLORA!" Tecna shrieked, rushing to her side and kneeling.

"Flora," she called, placing two fingers against the pulse point in her neck. She had a few scratches and bruises over her arms and legs but nothing else that appeared to be terribly wrong.

Flora's eyes suddenly snapped open and she lunged forwards, pinning whatever it was above her to the floor with a thud. "Tecna," she sighed, looking to her winded friend who smiled. Her grasp released and Tecna's arms flew around Flora as she got to her knees; tears appearing in Flora's own eyes. "You have no idea how good it is to see you. Are you okay?"

"Yeah," Flora replied softly as Tecna leant back to look her in the eyes. "What are you doing here?"

"Everyone thinks you're dead," Tecna answered and Flora's hands clapped over her mouth. "Faragonda told us when we got back to Alfea that Miele had been kidnapped and that you and Helia had gone to find out who did it. But, no one has heard from you since and now they have labelled you as M.I.A and presumed dead."

Flora didn't say a word; she just sat back on her feet in silence as Tecna took a hand in hers. "The search teams downgraded their team from a rescue mission to a recovery one. But we had to come and find you ourselves, to make sure that you are okay." Flora lifted her gaze from the floor and back to Tecna, obviously tired tears slid down her cheeks and Tecna held her close to her chest once more.

"I'm s-sorry that I d-didn't tell you about M-Miele," she sobbed.

"Shh, it's okay," Tecna hushed, straightening the girl's hair with her hand for an additional level of support. "Everyone was so busy and-"

"It's okay," Tecna smiled, leaning back as Flora wiped the water from her eyes, a headache forming behind them quickly. "Now let's get you out of here."

"But we need to find Helia." Flora remembered.

"Helia is here too?"

"We were both attacked by that beast. I forgot that Linphea at night is more dangerous. We were both brought here."

"But we can find a way out of here right?" Tecna started, getting to her feet and looking around the walls and entrances. She heard no response to her question and prompted an answer, "right?"

"I don't think we can." Tecna stopped searching and turned to her exhausted friend. "When we were separated I tried to find him, tried to find a way out but he wasn't answering any of my calls. After a day or two I was exhausted and just stopped. This cave is one of the largest underground mazes in the magical dimension. People get lost in its walls and never return."

"Do you know where he might be? Or how to navigate this place?" Tecna asked

"I was hoping that you did," Flora admitted. "I thought you could use your powers of navigation to help us find him and get out of here."

Tecna didn't respond, instead she took a seat on the other side of the cave, her back against the wall and she looked to the floor with her head in her hands. "What's wrong?" Flora asked.

"I can't use my winx," Tecna replied. "If I could then I wouldn't be down here with you. Something is wrong with my power and I don't know what."

"We'll find out what it is but what are we going to do?" Flora asked before walking to the nearby dropping water and making it fall into her mouth where she took a gulp or two. Judging by the crumbs on the floor Flora must have had some sort of food supply but she was beginning to look awfully thin without the right nourishment.

"We have to get out of here…can't you listen to the voice of nature to help us find our way?"

"I might be able to," Flora answered, "but I have been down here for a week now and haven't been strong enough to make contact."

"What about if we tried to contact the girls? I am sure they are looking for us still; maybe we can call out to Musa. Her sonic ears should hear us."

"But the sound would have to be something big and loud to get through this labyrinth of tunnels."

Tecna started to think, "at least we are in a cave, the sound waves should travel through the tunnel growing in volume as they move," she explained "but what sound can we make loud enough for it to travel that far."

"Did you bring anything with you?" Flora asked. Tecna felt around her pockets but there was nothing but her handheld. "Maybe we can use this. I could find some music or something to use."

"Sounds good to me," Flora sighed as she placed her hand to her head, stumbling slightly. Tecna walked over to steady her.

"Are you okay?"

"Yeah," Flora nodded, "just tired and worried about Miele."

"We will get out of here and find her I promise you," Tecna smiled. "Now let's make some noise."

The next morning Bloom opened her eyes and looked at her sleeping friends. "Girls wake up."

Each aroused with ease as they sat and looked at their surroundings, the forest was calm again. They couldn't believe that it had been so bad before. Birds sang in the trees, bugs buzzed and came to life; it was a complete contrast to what it had been just eight hours ago.

"Let's get going," Musa ordered, transforming into her Enchantix as the others followed and flew over the forest below.

"I don't get it!" Stella yelled. "Where were we last night? The forest looks totally different during the day."

"I know," Anne sighed. "It's strange, I thought we were in that direction." She pointed.

"No, we were over there," Stella pointed in the opposite direction, "I remember that tree."

"How can you remember a tree, Stella? They all look the same to me." Musa laughed

"Well I'm not sure where we are." Bloom sighed, stopping herself mid-flight. "This isn't right, what is wrong with us? We came here to help find Flora and Helia and instead we lost Tecna."

"I know your frustrated, Bloom," Layla commented, "we all are, but we need to stay focused. Let's try and-"

"Stop!" Musa yelled, holding her hand in the air.

"What is it Musa?" Stella asked and she was quickly shushed silent.

"Can anyone else hear that?" She asked. The other girls stopped flying as she waited and listened further. They couldn't hear a thing. "We can't hear anything Musa why what is it"

"It's that way; we need to go that way." Musa pointed forwards and started to fly, "I think I can hear something." The others hadn't moved and she stopped and turned to them. "Just trust me."

Brandon and Timmy stood under Red Fountain, its floating umbrella shape protecting them from the suns harsh rays. They had been told to check the perimeter during their lunch breaks in order to keep the central shaft secure. They had known several students to sneak out without permission during the day and during classes but it felt ridiculous to be where they were. They themselves used to sneak out a lot to see the girls, and they never did anything wrong, well at least not entirely wrong.

"I am so sick of this!" Riven yelled kicking the ground. "I mean I knew that we would be busy these days as teachers but this is insane. I mean look at what we are doing with our free time now, standing outside watching the grounds I mean no one is going to show up any..." He stopped as they looked to the path.

Walking towards them was a man. Brandon and Timmy both stepped forwards, wondering what the cloaked stranger wanted. "Brandon," Timmy began, noticing a small red headed girl being dragged behind him against her will, her muffled yells stopped by a piece of thick tape that covered her mouth, "is that Miele?"

"Flora's sister?" Brandon asked.

"Yeah," Timmy sighed when suddenly he was hit by a dark purple lightning bolt which sent him flying.

"Timmy!" Brandon yelled when the man held up his hand to attack him too. Suddenly Riven appeared in front of him and used his shield, making the strike bounce back.

"Just hurry up and get Miele back," Riven told his fellow colleague as the attack. "Look I don't know who you are but you better let her go!" They heard a chuckle. "What's so funny?!"

The chuckle continued as the very scared Miele whimpered, tears streaming from her eyes as his grip on her arm increased. She looked tired, her body weak and thin.

Timmy got back to his feet and stood next to the others, Riven still slightly in front. "You better let her go!"

"Or what?!" The stranger taunted. "What are you possibly going to do?"

Brandon removed his sword and activated the blade. "You asked for it."

Tecna had her volume on full blast and had managed to wire both of their phone speakers to the central hand held to try and amplify the sound.

Flora was slumped against the cave wall, gasping for breath to try and regain some form of strength. She had used the very last of her magic to conjure a trumpet flower which magnified the sound tenfold from Tecna's device through the cave, nearly deafening both of them.

Suddenly the screen went black and the music stopped. "No!" Tecna yelled. "Please don't die now!" It was no use, the battery was dead and now they had no way to escape from this hell. The trumpet flower withered and died, without Flora's magic to help channel into it, it had only lasted for a good twenty or so minutes before it died all together and vanished into dust.

"Now what are we going to do?" Tecna asked, making Flora lift her weak head and look through the slits of her barely open eyes.

"I'm sure Musa would have heard it," she spoke softly. "We just have to wait." Her eyes finally closed and Tecna walked over to sit by her side, she checked that she was still breathing and hoped that she was right. If there was ever a time for Musa's enhanced hearing abilities to work, it was now.

"Here," Musa landed, the others quickly following. "The sound came from in there." She pointed into the dark cave that made them all shiver. None of them liked dark places and Stella especially hated it. She bit her bottom lip nervously, anticipating the moment that just one of the other girls told them to go in.

"How deep do you think it is?" Layla asked, leaning her head inside and looking around. It was pitch black. "It looks like it goes on for miles."

"We should stay together." Bloom noted. "Can you hear any voices Musa?" Musa closed her eyes and concentrated on the cave but she couldn't hear anything. "No; nothing, but maybe when we go deeper."

"Yeah," Galatea agreed, her own hearing was nowhere near as honed as Musa's was but she had heard the bizarre music the closer they got to the cave. "You might want to go first Stella or Bloom; you can help illuminate our way."

"Okay," Stella stepped forward apprehensively, creating a ball of light in her hand and holding it forwards, her arm visibly shaking as she took a few deep breaths. "Here we go."

Brandon's eyes flickered open. His body ached from head to toe and when he lifted his head to try and looked around it hurt too much and he lowered it back to the earth. The smell of smoke filled his lungs and he coughed before looking up at Red Fountain to see a huge gaping hole where the ships hold once was. He rolled his head tot h right and saw Coda Torta lying on the ground. "Coda Torta," he called from where he lay, "wake up." He didn't respond and the schools alarm entered his ears, blaring loudly from the central column as panic red lights flashed along the edges and hundreds of voices came from inside.

In the corner of his eyes he saw something orange heading his way when Timmy limped and fell to his knees at his side. "Brandon," he spoke, clearly exhausted. "Hey, you okay?"

"Yeah," he sighed, feeling Timmy carefully lift him to a sitting position. "What happened?" Brandon grimaced.

"I don't know," Timmy replied.

"They stole our ship, that's what happened." Riven's announced behind the two, walking in front of them, one large gash over his arm which lead blood lines down his uniform and to the ground below. His other hand was over it to try and stem the flow. Timmy looked to the hole again and couldn't believe it.

As quickly as they could they ran down the corridors. Riven at the front still holding his arm while Timmy limped behind with Brandon. "Hey, you two!" Riven pointed and the two young men stopped and saluted.

"Yes sir?"

"Bring Professor Coda Torta to the first aid bay for checking over by the doctor."

"Yes sir." They both raced off, their capes following quickly behind. Finally reaching the office Riven took hold of the microphone from the headmaster's main desk.

"Attention all students, remain calm, we have a situation. Senior students form a perimeter around the school's base, check for any debris and keep the entrances secure. Third year students guard the ship yard, make sure that no one or nothing gets out of there. Second years and first year specialists, report to the main arena for check off. Remain calm; remember you are specialists who aren't afraid. Get to it!"

With the students addressed Timmy contacted Faragonda to explain the situation and their attack before she told them that Saladin had contacted her and he was on his way back.

Suddenly Kylar raced into the room. "Anything else you need guys?" He asked, shrugging off the formality of him actually being their student.

"Yes," Timmy explained, "follow me we need to start trying to track that ship." The two left quickly leaving Riven and Brandon behind the headmaster's desk, catching their breath and their wits.

"We have to tell the girls," Brandon sighed and Riven nodded before taking out his mobile phone and ringing it. It rang once, then twice and then cut out to nothing but a message from Musa's service provider about trying again later. "Her phones not off but it's not working either."

Brandon took out his own phone and rang Stella, receiving the same message. "Nothing."

"How do we tell them?"

"Maybe I can help," a small voice spoke as it flew through the door and around Riven's body before landing on the desk.

"Livvy." Brandon smiled at the small pixie. "We need you to find the girls on Linphea and tell them that Red Fountain was attacked, we are okay though, and someone had Miele and took one of our inter-dimensional ships. They need to get here to help us find out who it was."

"Uh that's a bit long for me to remember," Livvy replied, scratching her head with her tiny hands. "You know I am no good at remembering messages that long?"

"Okay uh," Brandon stuttered, trying to think when Riven resisted the urge to face palm.

"A man with Flora's sister Miele arrived at Red Fountain, attacked and stole a ship, come quickly."

Livvy smiled before writing it down. "I should be able to remember that." The pixie was about to speed off before she stopped and looked to them both rather sheepishly. "Where were the girls again?"

Riven shook his head while Brandon answered her, "Linphea, please hurry."

"On my way," the pixie flew into the distance.

"You sure she'll be able to do it right?" Riven asked, raising one eyebrow questioningly into the air. Brandon shrugged his aching shoulders. "Let's hope so."

Stella walked through tunnel after tunnel with Musa by her side and the other girls behind them. Musa's ears constantly strained to hear any sound. Bloom brought up the back of the group with a ball of flame.

Layla used her morphix to create a purple buddle before she stuck it to the walls as a marker every turn, keeping track of their progress and how they needed to return.

"Can you hear anything yet Musa?" Stella asked. "This place gives me the creeps."

"Nothing yet," she replied. "HELLO! TECNA CAN YOU HEAR ME!" The music fairies voice echoed off the walls. They all waited for a response but nothing returned.

"Well where do we go now?" Galatea asked as they reached a T intersection.

"Try that way," Layla suggested as Stella turned to the left. Bloom followed the girls when she looked to the right, the light of her flame sliding down the corridor.

"Stop girls," she commanded and they did before turning. "I think I saw something."

"Careful Bloom." Anne urged as the dragon fire fairy stepped away from them.

Blooms eyes searched the darkness for anything unusual, praying that it wasn't a beast or creature that could pounce at her from the dark. Finally at the end of the corridor, she turned to see… "Helia!"

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