Winx club Eternix Part 1
Chapter 12: Roxy's Heartache
During an Alfea parent-teacher festival, Lamont sneaks into the library to find a way to break the bind curse. Roxy finds out his plot and Lilith comes to spill out his secret. Icy finds out the reason why the Winx are attending Cloud Tower and the voices in her head tell her to meet someone at some time.
"Welcome parents to the parent-teacher festival in Alfea." Ms. Faragonda greets the parents in the main dining hall. This is Alfea's first parent-teacher conference and it is Alfea's job to make the parents as comfortable as possible to null the yells of poor grades and unsatisfactory behavior that the teachers tell the student's parents. Ms. Griselda likes that the most, believing that a proper punishment will discipline these girls to become proper, smart and decisive fairies. Ms. Griselda scans the room for the parents of misbehaving students when she spots Lilith and her father, the King of Sogno, "Hello, there," Ms. Griselda introduces herself. "I'm the disciplinary vice-principal of Alfea, Ms. Griselda."
"Hello Ms. Griselda. By your approach, it sounds like you don't have good news." He looks coldly at his daughter. Lilith glances over at Ms. Faragonda talking to Roxy's parents. Their smiling faces make Lilith sick.
"You will get wrinkles if you put your face like that, mutt." Lamont says.
"You should be at Red Fountain, loser. Father didn't invite you to come."
"And why would I come for you or father." He aloofly shoves his hands in his pockets. "I came for Roxy. Just her and only her…"
"How many times are you going to try, Lamont? You really are pathetic trying to convince a half-wit to remove your bind. Live with it and move on with your life." Lamont walks away from his family into the shadows. He skips classes to get a chance to convince Roxy to lead him to the library. He wants to remove the curse on him and Roxy is his key to get inside. He goes towards Roxy when he sees her by herself. "Roxy," He yells
"Lamont, what are you doing here?"
"I have a day off and my family is here to see Lilith so they wanted me to come."
"How long are you planning on staying?"
Lamont moves closer to her. "How long do you want me to stay?"
Roxy giggles. "I want you to meet my parents before we go." She drags him over to her mother and father. "This is my dad, Klaus and this is my mother, Morgana."
"It's nice to meet you both." Lamont notices that Roxy calls her father "dad", she must have a close relationship with him, he thinks.
"Who are you?" Klaus demands. For the first time in years, Lamont feels a chill up his spine. He doesn't believe an earth native with no powers can ever scare him.
"Don't frighten the boy Klaus," Morgana says. "He's one of Roxy's friends."
"You don't need any 'male friends'."
"Dad," Roxy yells. The father and daughter begin to bicker while the mother quietly tries to end it. For a moment, Lamont softens. It makes him happy to see a family bicker and argue in a friendly and funny tone. He looks over at his father who is yelling at Lilith in front of everyone. Roxy's father makes the same expression and has the same tone his father conveys; probably cares about her way more than his father will ever care about him. Lamont eyes turn grey and his eyebrows arc in anger. Morgana notices and touches his shoulder. "Are you feeling ill?"
"What?" When she tells him about his eyes, he blinks twice and his eyes turn back hazel. Roxy hastily departs from her parents and pulls Lamont with her. "You saw your father?"
Lamont eyes widen. "Yeah…. You don't need to worry about that." Lamont tries to keep his face hidden when he passes by his father while Roxy leads him to her room.
"I can't get much sleep lately. I've been studying so hard now." Roxy lies down on her bed.
"You should really give me a tour of Alfea." Lamont really needs to get to the library. When Roxy refuses and instead want to hang out alone with Lamont, he gets irritated and persist to ask for a tour more. "Lamont, why are you so eager?"
"I just want to know more about this place."
"I don't know much about Alfea. I still have to use a map to get to where I'm going."
"Really," Lamont smiles darkly. "You told me that you have trouble sleeping. Maybe I can help out." Lamont slips his hands over Roxy's eyes and whispers a spell and she quickly nods off to sleep. Lamont grabs her map of Alfea and leaves the room.
"We don't need any magic to use a watcher or the eye." Icy says. "All we need now are the rooms the pixies are staying at!"
"Forget a look-a-around," Darcy says, "I have a charm that can find them. I just need something they touch." They both look at their younger sister Stormy to find something of theirs. Stormy rolls her eyes and goes to the last class they are in, Hex and Curses 201, and finds a brush with blond hair on it. She grabs it and quickly runs back to her sisters. "I got Stella's hairbrush from a class she was in."
"How can you tell?" Icy turns over the brush incrust with the words "Property of Stella" on it. Darcy places the charm on the brush. The color of the charm changes from clear to bright yellow. "It has some of her essences. This and the map to the school will help us find them." The crystal makes a sharp landing on the map. Icy sends the watcher's to the location on the map. "They will never know!" Icy says.
For a while, the watcher's eye is dark with no picture. Finally the Winx girls appear laughing and having a good time. Stella looks through her stuff while to other girls get ready for bed. "Have you seen my brush?" The Trix start to smiles.
"No Stel," Musa says. "You know I haven't written in this diary yet. I'm not in the mood to. Anyone else wrote in it?" Everyone but Bloom and Tecna say no. "I'm pretty use to writing in journals." Bloom says.
"I would rather use a digital computer diary, but this is what I got."
"I thought about writing song and other music memo inside, but I'm too distracted. At most, I only have about half a page written."
"I wrote in my journal," Flora adds. "But I only wrote hints to garden techniques."
"I wrote about different new workouts for different types of body sections." Aisha says.
"I didn't write a thing. It's covered in dust. I can't think of anything but about the Eternix thing." Darcy looks at her sisters, Eternix…. She thinks. Icy gives her a note pad and paper.
"Stel, you should be quiet."
"Musa, no one is going to hear us. It's like one in the morning."
"At that means it's time to go to sleep." Bloom throws a pillow at Stella. Let's go to sleep!"
"Eternix huh," Icy says crossing her arms.
Roxy wakes up from her long beauty sleep and finds Lilith over her. "Get up!" Lilith orders.
"What do you want, Lilith."
"Lamont hasn't left Alfea. I can sense him very close around here."
"Are you crazy?" Roxy points to the alarm clock. "It's one o' clock." Roxy looks at the time again. "It's one o'clock?"
Lilith picks her up. Roxy nearly falls over on her. "He placed a deep sleep spell on you. I can find him with my artifact. Roxy, he's up to something, please follow me." Roxy leaves the room with Lilith. Lilith leads Roxy into the library."I don't see anyone. What if he isn't here?" Roxy says.
"He is," Lilith points out at a pile of books around the floor, leading up to more books on a table and a silhouette of a guy leaving through books. "Lamont, what are you doing here?"
"Lilith," Lamont turns around and sees his sister and Roxy. "Roxy…..I—"
"Lamont, What are you doing here. What's going on?"
"Lamont has been kicked out of his mage school because of a prank the played on his teachers. Since then, he has been sent to Red Fountain to finish his schooling." Lilith walks over to Lamont. "He has a bind on him that blocks most of his powers."
"Lamont….You lied to me!"
"Roxy, would you ever want to get to know me if you knew about this. I like you, Roxy"
"Save it. He has a thing for using girls for fun, but in your case it's different because he uses you for an excuse to come to Alfea and use the library."
"I guess caught him before we did." Ms. Faragonda says entering the library with Mr. Coratorda. "His father warned us that he might do something like this. Mr. Coratorda, you can take you disciplinary action now. He takes a hold of Lamont's arm and pulls him away. Roxy, not even getting any truth from Lamont, cries and collapses in the library while Ms. Faragonda comforts her.