As I have now seen all of Winx season 4 (in Italian, which I don't understand, but I more or less got the gist of it), I've decided to disregard it. A, don't want to deal with fairies of the Earth (and with a seventh Winx member, there would be expectation for Roxy's kid, which I don't want to deal with). B, something tragic happens that would really affect what I currently have, so it would only annoy me to have that happen because it would disrupt this story. Anyway, hope this can bring all my fans back. I know, not as exciting as the last chapter, but still, it's important.
Previously on Vixen:
Kaida yelled. "Sparkle of the Dragon!"
Gorgo smiled gleefully, skillfully spun around the attack, and appeared inches from Kaida, wrapping his hands around her wrists. She screamed in pain, and felt her power drain. When Gorgo released her, she was in human form again and began to fall. Cicada caught her just before she hit the ground.
"Charmix!" Angel yelled, the dragon pin forming on her chest and a fireball bag at her side. "Take this, Gorgo! Fire of the Dragon!"
Once again, Gorgo dodged, but when he grabbed Angel's wrists, he was the one who yelled and was shocked off, falling back to the ground.
They all turned to Kaida. She was sobbing on Cicada's shoulders. Trend looked at the three girls. "She's tried to transform, but she can't. She can't even do a simple spell. Her magic... it's all gone."
Episode 12: Collide (1)
"She's wearing me out," Trick said, wiping imaginary sweat off her forehead. "I've used all my best material, and I've gotten nothing from her."
"Do you think she'll be okay?" Trend asked.
"No," Emerald snapped. "Her magic was her pride. If my magic was gone, I can still go on because I've got my hero training. Trend has fashion, Angel has her princess duties, Cicada her family, but Kaida..."
"It is what she thinks her father loves her for," Cicada said. "Without it, she doesn't know how she can get ahead in life."
"That's just ridiculous," Trend said. "She's so smart."
"But life for someone born outside of a palace is hard, Trend," Avery said.
"I'm going to talk to her," Trend said after a second more of waiting.
"But she..." Emerald tried to stop her, but Trend pushed in.
"Kaida," Trend said.
Kaida lifted her head for a second, but then went back to crying in her pillow.
"Oh, please, get up," Trend said. "You can't stay in here forever, Sweetie."
"Yes I can," Kaida said. "Until Griselda expels me, I'm not moving."
"At least she got Kaida to talk," Zing commented as the others watched from a crack in the door.
Trend put a hand on Kaida's back and said, "No, honey, you can't." Her hand glowed for a moment.
Kaida sat up and nodded. "I guess so," Kaida said.
"Go clean up and we'll all go down to dinner," Trend said. Kaida nodded and stood up, walking to the bathroom.
"Wha... How did you do that?" Avery asked, suspicious.
"My charming personality and pure reason," Trend with with a sparkling smile. Emerald, Cicada, Avery, Zing, and Trick all lowered their eyes at her. "And a small cheering charm."
"You used a cheering charm!" Avery hissed. "Those are difficult!"
"Not for me," Trend said. "I'm cheerful. And I'm from Popularis. Those factors make them easier for me to cast. Plus, I had a lot of practice over the summer on Marvel."
Avery frowned at that, but Cicada, Emerald, and the Pixies found Trend's reasoning good enough. "I'd appreciate if you didn't test your magic on my boyfriend."
"My brother," Trend reminded her. "Blood runs deeper than water, or whatever."
"It's blood runs thicker than water, Trend," Emerald said.
Trend rolled her eyes. "I added a whatever. Plus, he needed it and it was your fault, Avery."
"Shut up!" Avery snapped.
"What's wrong?" Kaida asked, walking back in the room, cleaned up. She didn't look happy, but was at least leveled out. Because the others were so used to her tears and sobs the last few days, all annoyance with Trend's methods were washed away.
"More of Princess's fashion babble," Avery said quickly. "Getting on my nerves." With that, she stomped into her room.
"Does that mean she won't be joining us for dinner?" Trend asked and received a slap on the back of her head from Cicada.
"I don't quite get why Gorgo stole Kaida's powers," Angel said. "Why he didn't go after Emerald, Cicada, or Trend, or why he was unable to steal my powers." She was in a meeting with Griselda and Saladin relating the events from Camelot again. This time, however, they were getting perspectives from Charm and Maggie as well.
"I have a theory," Maggie said. "I totally forgot about figuring this out after I woke from fighting him. I think he can only steal powers while the user uses his or her power source. When my friends and I used convergence, he cast a spell that prevented us from stopping out attacks as he picked us off one by one. I barely broke the spell on time."
"Charm?" Saladin turned to him.
"I did use my deep Morfix powers," he confirmed. "That's when he stole my powers. Yeah."
"But that doesn't explain me," Angel said. "I used my Dragon Fire, but he couldn't take my powers."
"Kaida used her Dragon Spark, correct?" Griselda asked.
"Yes," Angel said.
"And you called upon your Charmix?" Griselda continued on.
"Yes..." Angel said, understanding coming to her eyes.
"A Charmix is required to fight him properly," Maggie said. "Wait, you have your Charmix already?" Angel nodded. "How?"
"Telling Avery to kill her," Charm mumbled.
"No!" Angel said "From my friendship with Avery. I couldn't fight her even after she attacked me... of course, she had lost her memory at the time and was being controlled by Gorgo. She broke free since then."
"Anyway, that is so cool," Maggie said. "I wish I had my Charmix, especially now."
"I couldn't be more happy about it now," Angel said. She stood up. "I have to tell the girls what we learned."
"Professor Saladin," Charm said. "I hope this isn't an inappropriate suggestion, but I'd like to take my team out on a tracking mission to find Gorgo."
"Yes, I think that would be very appropriate," Saladin said. "He might be relaxed now after his recent attack against the girls. He won't be expecting to be tracked. If nothing, you can maybe learn his objectives and reasoning for stealing powers."
It was about an hour later, after the Charm and his team had taken off, that Mech and Emerald, and a few other Red Fountain Specialists stood in the Alfea main lecture hall on stage. A bunch of Alfea fairies from all grades sat before them.
"We're dividing you all into groups," Emerald announced. "Some with Mech, some with me, etc." She divided the girls into six groups the quickest way, and then they all split up into groups. She, of course, was leading all the Vixen girls. Mech had ended up with both Celeste and Violet, even though they were supposed to be with Prince Zeph.
Emerald and Mech both took their groups outside. Emerald pushed a large bin of wooden swords to the girls and each took one.
"I know, you don't really want to learn how to fight without magic, but it may be necessary," Mech said loudly.
"Now, Mech and I are going to show you a few examples of maneuvers that may come in very handy should you be faced with Gorgo and have no choice but to use a physical weapon."
"What, sticky webbing isn't enough?" Cicada asked.
"Not any more," Mech said. He grabbed his phanto-blade and smiled at Cicada. "How about, you shoot some at me."
Cicada laughed. "If you're so insistent," she said. "Going Vixen!" She transformed into her Winx form. "Take this, Mech!" she yelled, shooting some of her sticky webbing at him. Mech drew and activated his phanto-blade and with a few quick slashes, the webbing fell by the wayside.
"Now, just think what an experienced fighter with magic can do if I can do that," Mech said.
"Granted, there are other reasons that you may need to use a weapon," Emerald said. "Especially against Gorgo." She didn't want to mention the power drain in front of Kaida.
"So, everyone, divide into pairs and do as we do," Emerald said. She and Mech stood ready to battle.
The two began to teach all the girls general basics when fighting with swords. It was a long and difficult task, especially when girls were afraid to strike or to be struck. "Is it this difficult in your basics class at Red Fountain?" Emerald asked Mech.
"Not even close."
"Why are we starting here?" Trine asked as the five boys in Charm's team were clearing debris from the cave that they knew Gorgo had been working from earlier in the year. "He's clearly left."
"Well, he's not on Camelot anymore," Marvel said. "This is the only solid lead we can find."
"And what are we hoping to find here?" Trine asked.
"Anything that can give us any clue to what he is up to," Charm said. "Anything that can be used to track him with. Learn more about who he is and how he got his powers."
"Yeah, Kaida did all that for us already," Trine said.
"Are you going to ask her about him right now?" Brandon asked. "After what happened to her?"
"What is she going to do to me?"
"It isn't her that I would worry about," Chase said. "Her friends would be the ones to tear you limb from limb."
"Chase hardly knows them and he already picked that up" Brandon said. "And weren't you just bragging the other night about how well you understand girls?"
"If he did he'd get that Celeste has no interest in him," Marvel said.
Trine mumbled something unintelligible. "Look, can't we just blast all these rocks? This is taking too long."
"No, we can't blast them," Charm said. "It might cause a cave-in somewhere deeper, but this is taking too long."
"You're just saying that because you can't use your powers to clear the entrance," Trine said.
"I can," Chase said. "It won't be quick, but it will be quicker than doing this by hand." He held out his hand, which began to glow a bit. "Step back." The others all stepped back. The rocks all began to wiggle and glow and then they floated up and stacked neatly on the sides.
"How strong are your powers?" Marvel asked as he turned on a flashlight.
"Not very," Chase said. "I have a few powers, but not much I can do with them."
"So, why did you transfer to Red Fountain if you have powers?" Charm asked.
"Same reason you started out at Red Fountain to begin with," Chase said. "I want to focus more on my hero work. It was my mother who wanted me to be a wizard."
"And it has nothing to do with a flower loving brunette with a penchant for being sweet?" Marvel asked.
Chase faltered and the rocks all dropped a few inches. "I have no idea what you mean?" Chase said slowly. His cheeks reddened a bit.
"Just keep up with the rocks," Charm said. "This isn't a chat session, it's a mission."
"Very good Avery," Emerald said as Avery and Cicada 'battled' it out.
"It's not exactly fair," Cicada said. "She uses a sword with her power."
"I've never been trained to use it," Avery said. "It comes naturally to me."
"Well, I was not meant to be a swordsman," Angel said. She had several bruises on her arms from having been hit by Trend.
"Nor was I," Trend said. "My fingers are cramping and I broke a nail."
"Just be glad you haven't broken any of my bones," Angel said. "You're actually doing very well."
"How about we switch partners around," Emerald said. "Cicada and Kaida, Trend and Avery, Angel and-"
"I'll take her on," Violet's voice broke through the small group.
Angel frowned. "Fine," she said. "Bring it on Freshman."
"Oh brother, she did not just do that," Celeste said, coming up to the group as Angel and Violet both stood ready to battle.
"Remember this is just a friendly training session," Mech said, not that either Angel or Violet were listening.
"Hope you don't have a date with Brandon tonight because you're not gonna look so princessy when this is over," Violet said.
"At least I have a boyfriend," Angel said.
The next second, both girls charged at one another and their practice swords were flying through the air. Angel hit Violet's arm, but Violet countered pushing Angel back and swinging her sword low, hitting Angel's stomach. Angel coughed, and while she did, Violet swung again, aiming for Angel's neck.
Violet's practice sword hit a real phantoblade before it could hit Angel again. Mech was frowning at her. "Not the place or the way to work out any issues you two have."
"Angel, are you okay?" Celeste was the first at her side.
Angel had fallen to her knees and was bent over, clutching her stomach. It was evident that she was in a lot of pain as a few tears dripped from her eyes.
"I'm fine," Angel choked out after a moment, before pushing herself to her feet. She narrowed her eyes at Violet, who now had a small smirk on her face. "Going Vixen!" she yelled, and before anyone could stop her, she was transformed and was hovering above everyone else. "You think you can take me in a real battle, Flower Girl?"
"Angel, don't be stupid," Avery said.
"Too late for that," Violet said. She yelled, and a moment later, she had transformed into her Winx as well. "Bring it."
Before anyone else could move, the two were both firing their strongest attacks at one another.
"Fire of the Dragon!" Angel yelled, a large dragon-shaped flame attack heading toward Violet.
"Black Rose Shield!" Violet yelled and a flower shaped shield blocked the majority of Angel's attack. "Thorn whip!" A long black vine appeared and Violet cracked it in the air a few times before snapping it at Angel. Angel dodged the first few times, but Violet eventually hit her and managed to wrap it around Angel's ankle. She then threw Angel to the floor.
Angel was quickly back in the air. "Charmix!" she yelled. After her Charmix was up, she once again fired at Violet. "Fire of the Dragon!"
This time there was no way for Violet to dodge. She was hit and thrown to the ground. However, she didn't seem ready to give up quite yet. She pushed herself to her feet. "You think that's all I have?"
"I know it's all you have, Witch," Angel said.
Violet laughed. She stood up again and yelled, her power increasing slightly. Suddenly, she began to waiver between being a fairy and a witch. All the other girls gasped and backed away. When Violet was finished, she was in her witch transformation. "Let's see who really is stronger."
When they charged this time, they both hit an energy wall that sprang up between them. They looked to see who had created it and spotted Head Mistress Griselda.
"You two, return to your human forms and report to my office immediately!" she said in a low voice. "Professor Avalon will accompany you."
Once the Red Fountain Specialists were in the cave, they were disappointed to see that only a few things were left in the cave. A few herbs, what seemed to be a scrying bowl, and a cloak that seemed to have a few holes in it.
As they were leaving, Brandon stopped.
"What's up?" Charm asked.
Brandon didn't say anything as he bent down and picked up a picture. It was of the six Vixen girls. Kaida, Avery, and Angel were circled while Emerald, Trend, and Cicada were crossed out.
"What do you suppose this is about?" Brandon asked.
"Maybe it's whose power he plans to steal," Chase said.
"But why only these three?" Charm asked. "If he gets Angel's power, what is the use of Kaida's?"
"There is something about Kaida that is different from Angel's power," Trine said. "Something almost electrical."
"Anyway, he'll steal any powers he can," Marvel said. "He wiped Beta academy. Plenty of them are only half as powerful as Trend or Cicada, and Emerald is just as strong as Kaida, if not stronger."
"Maybe there is something important about them," Brandon said.
"Let's take it to Saladin and let him decide," Chase said.
"You're right," Charm said.
"You're lucky I don't suspend either of you," Griselda said. "In fact, you're far luckier that I don't just expel you outright."
"What are you going to do to us?" Angel asked.
"I'm suspending your powers," Griselda said. "Until I feel that I can trust you two to not destroy one another."
"How are we supposed to practice in class if we don't have magic?" Violet asked.
"How am I supposed to defeat Gorgo?" Angel asked.
"You will observe, Violet," Griselda said. "As for you, Angel, you have delusions of grandeur if you think you are ready to take on Gorgo and win at this point."
"He can't steal my powers!" Angel argued.
"But he is stronger than you alone are," Griselda said.
"Well, at least this double ensures that he can't steal your powers if you can't use them," Violet said with a smug grin.
Angel frowned as Griselda waved her hands and both girls magic left them and filled up two small orbs on Griselda's desk. With another wave of the head mistress's hand, the orbs disappeared. "For safety I have placed them into a different dimension that only I can find them. You two are now dismissed until I figure out the rest of your punishment."
"The rest of our punishment?" Angel asked, her eyes wide.
"A suspension of powers isn't a full punishment, Angel," Griselda said.
As the two girls were heading toward the dorms, Angel turned to Violet. "Don't you dare tell my parents about this."
"Why not?" Violet asked. "It's not like your mother was a saint when she went here.
Angel didn't respond to Violet's comment. She just huffed past the younger girl and into her dorm suite.
Next time on Vixen:
On the twenty-fifth anniversary of the restoration of Sparks, the kingdom is holding a huge celebration. However, due to Kaida's condition, she is moving back home. While Kaida and Cicada are on Draco, Gorgo attacks the moon in an attempt to steal a second Vixen's powers.
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