Okay I know it's been a long time since I updated, but I have a valid reason. Classes started at school and as a college freshman I feel it's my duty to do everything my parents wouldn't let me do at home, so partying and being a bit mischievous has taken priority over the story. But I promise I am working on it!

The Frozen Palace

Musa stared down the cliff in disbelief; she waited as patiently hoping she would be able to hear a thud or a cry for help from Bloom, but nothing yet. That meant that Bloom was probably still falling. Trying again to focus on the task at hand, Musa closed her eyes and listened again for sounds waves. Just as she began to pick up a few sounds waves, Musa's ears picked up a less desirable sound.

"Oh my god! Do you think she's okay?" Stella screamed as if the girls she was addressing were down the abyss along with Bloom.

"I couldn't hear anything," Musa said with some agitation. "Aren't you cold?" Musa asked densely wondering how Stella could possibly be okay wearing just her Winx outfit. (1) The teachers and Palladium had warned them time and time again before they left to be careful about the cold and yet Stella was just fine in her Winx form.

"Not really," Stella said with a shrug. "I guess when I'm in my Winx form, it gets the brute of the weather,"

"Then why didn't we transform and come here?" Flora pointed out, walking around in all the extra clothing added a good amount of wait to their packs and it would have been nice to know that she could have bypassed all of that.

"dunno,"

"It's because nobody is really sure if dead planets will drain one of their power," Techna snapped in an irritated tone. "That could go down for miles," Techna stated drawing their attention back to what had just happened as she pulled out her trusty palm sized computer. "I am trying to do a scan but my processor cannot even sort all the information I am getting from the planet, let alone see the depth,"

"I'll try," Musa said and then looked straight to Stella. "I just need some quiet,"

Stella threw her arms up in surrender and Musa continued. She pushed sound waves down into the canyon hoping for some resonance or something that would help her make some indication on whether their friend had a chance at surviving or not. But she couldn't get a read on anything, it was like the walls were absorbing all of her magic, hopefully it was just sound waves cause if it were her actual magic being absorbed, Bloom had a very slim chance at survival.

"I can't get anything," Musa sighed glumly, she really thought that she might be able to pick up something or other from all of this.

"Check this out," Techna said as she continued to type on her ridiculously small laptop. "The Sparx army created many underground passage ways before the siege, it was a way for them to maneuver in an out of the castle without being seen to protect the royal family,"

"Okay, what about them?" Stella asked densely.

"Well," Techna continued after the interruption. The tunnels were located all throughout the capital city and there are even more concentrated around the castle. In fact there is a whole underground network of them with small base areas, but they all eventually lead up to the castle,"

"And that means…"

"I have found some of them under the ground we're standing at and that would probably mean that when the fissure was created…"

"The tunnels were opened…" Musa finished finally understanding where Techna was going with this. "That means Bloom would most likely take one of them since it was the only direction she could go,"

"Precisely and since they all lead up to the castle in the capital city," Techna said with some excitement. "We need to get to the castle and then we can find Bloom, get her power back,"

"And go back to Magix, where we can't be turned into very pretty icicles," Stella finished proudly, finally catching onto what they were getting at.

"Yeah, but there's just one problem," Flora pointed forward, her back facing where the girls were looking as she gazed at the scene behind them with fear. "I think we have some more company,"

Musa turned to see that the creature they thought had left after creating the massive rupture in the earth, had returned to undoubtedly push the rest of the fairies down the canyon and face the same fate that Bloom had faced. "We can't keep fighting this thing,"

"Our best chance for survival would be to seek cover," Techna said as she began to type profusely into her lap top. "I can't find any-,"

Whatever the fairy was about to saw was cut off by Musa grabbing her arm as she ran, sometimes Techna really needed to put down the computer and focus on what was going on around her instead of punching it all into her database. Musa followed as Flora and Stella ran behind what looked like a frozen bush.

They waited a few seconds and the footsteps of the beast got louder and louder…it was getting close. "What do we do?" Flora whispered, they had all just run for cover with no real plan in mind, not that they had the time to even think it over.

"We wait and if it finds us, we run," Musa said. They were already pretty drained from the walk through the snow and fighting the monster that they couldn't beat before probably wouldn't end too well anyway, so it was probably best to avoid the situation all together.

The footsteps got dangerously close and then finally came to a halt. Musa's heart began to race when she saw the large shadow creep across the bright snow. Turn around, turn around, turn around Musa kept repeating to herself, and as if the beast had read her mind and sympathized with her pleas, the footsteps began once again, expect this time in a opposite direction. Musa gave a sigh of relief and a relaxed breath.

"Is it gone yet?" Flora questioned a few seconds later as Stella poked her head out from behind the fallen ice to see if the snow monster had left the area.

"Yeah I think so," Stella continued to look for a few more seconds and then turned to the rest of the girls with a look of concern. "Let's find Bloom,"

"We've got to move quickly, the avalanche covered the chiasm completely," Techna stated. The avalanche was caused solely by the monster and it was the avalanche that covered Musa in almost ten feet of snow earlier that day.

"Hey it's cool, I've got an energy sensing spell," Musa said. Musa used the same type of spell she had used earlier to see how deep the canyon was that Bloom fell into. This time she needed to pinpoint exactly where the sound waves bounced back from so that she could find the castle, since it was the only structure that hadn't been flattened by massive earthquakes and snowfall. And since they were close to the palace, this spell was perfect.

Focusing her energy, Musa sent out as many waves as she could into the surrounding area. She wasn't sure if they had lost their direction in the battle with the abdominal snowman so she sent waves out in every direction. "The bounce back is coming from over there," Flora announced.

"That's right, under all that ice," Musa looked carefully at the structure and aside from the mountains that had passed earlier; this was the tallest structure she had seen on the planet. This could be it. "That looks like a castle, doesn't it?"

"Yeah, she's gotta be in there, she is the princess," Stella said happily. "All tunnels lead to the castle. All we need to do is find the royal receiving room and I'll flash my all access all castles pass," Stella said referring to a card that most royals had that basically identified them as first class citizens. It was something used to get into the VIP rooms of all the chicest restaurants and clubs, and it did also work for castles, but usually the royal family would know if you were coming so the card was hardly ever used to get into a castle.

Not that it would be any use here since the castle was in ruins and there was nobody here to be working in the royal receiving room anyway. Stella was so dumb sometimes.

"Does it work when the castle is as frozen as the moons of Jupiter?" Techna asked seeing the many layers of ice that were covering the castle.

"That's when you need a little sun power!" Stella said excitedly as she threw her ring into the air and caught it as it fell, back in it's scepter form, Stella held it as Stella began to gather her power. "Defrosting castles is like dressing for winter weather, you must do it in layers,"

"Nice one," Musa said as the Solarian princess defrosted the entire castle in a few waves of her scepter.

"The winters in Solaria are infrequent but rough, I've had to defrost many a royal residence, but it looks like this one might be tough," Stella said as they all looked at the castle that still had many layers of ice still on it.

"Well that's what fifteen years of deep freeze will do to a place," Musa noted.

"Maybe if I use a power squared function to amplify your powers, it may help to defrost the castle a bit faster," Techna said as Stella launched another attack. It was working a lot better this time; Musa began to notice a lot of water beginning to run past her boots.

Finally the entire castle was finally beginning to open up, but when Musa walked up to the main doors, they were still frozen shut. "It was no good, the doors won't open," Musa said through clenched teeth as she tried her hardest to pry the doors open.

"Fine, I'll just try harder," Stella said determinedly as she summoned another wave of hear.

"Stella I wouldn't heat this place up too much," Techna warned. "Since the entire planet is ice, it could cause –,"

All of a sudden the ground began to shake ice again, before Techna could finish her warning, they all felt violent tremors rock the ground. "Oops… I think I may have over done it a bit," Stella said as she bit down on her finger. They walked over to where the original fissure was formed when they saw massive amounts of ice falling down in that area. Then, Musa heard a faint scream and she ran over there as quick as she could.

"Oh do you think so," Techna asked sarcastically as she and the other two fairies followed Musa over to where she was standing, looking down at Bloom happily.

"Are you okay?" Musa called down.

"Look its her!" Flora said happily as Bloom climbed up the side of the some fallen ice and looked up to see her friends staring down at her.

"Hi!" Stella said as if they were back in the Alfea quad and nothing had happened.

"I am so happy to see you guys, come down her and check out my palace!" Bloom said happily knowing full well that there wasn't much palace left but she finally found her roots and everyone could see how happy she was.

Musa looked around the partially frozen castle and tried to imagine what it would have looked like before the witches destroyed it. It would have been amazing, from the looks of it, they were in the dining room, it was in shambles, but there were still remnants of tapestries on the walls and ice covered painting that had fallen onto the floor, while the dining table itself looked as if it were frozen in time. It was set perfectly still, after 15 years the ice froze around it and kept it the same as it must have been on the day the castle was attacked.

"Let's try to melt the rest of the castle," Stella said as they glanced around the palace. She flew up in air and continued to use Techna's help to melt the castle until the entire place had finally thawed.

"You did it!" Flora exclaimed as Stella flew back down towards her friends and stood back in the palace. It didn't look much better now that it was unfrozen, in fact it was worse. At least when it was frozen it had a sparkling look to it, now you could see the destruction perfectly.

"They really destroyed everything, didn't they?" Bloom said sadly looking around.

"Yeah, but maybe not the dragon fire," Musa said as she leant a supportive hand on Bloom's shoulder. "I have this feeling that it's still here,"

"You really think –," Bloom began as she raised her sad blue eyes to look at Musa.

"Yeah I do," Musa encouraged as she and Bloom began to look around the castle once again. They looked at the hallway and Musa could see Bloom's eyes fill with emotion as she looked saw the place where she once lived once again, this time it was in shambles.

"Hey look at this, we found an undamaged area," Techna called out. Bloom and Musa turned around to see Techna standing above and looking out at what looked like the bottom floor of the castle.

"It must have been protected by some really powerful magic, like the dragonfire," Flora said as the girls all looked at the hallway below. This is probably where the royal family had sought shelter from the attack, since Bloom had been taken to earth unharmed; she was probably taken from a place that was protected from the witches. But, that didn't give them any hint as to where Bloom's really parents were, if they were still alive.

"Maybe you were right Musa," Bloom began. "And it's time I find the dragonfire and get my powers back,"

The girls jumped down onto the lower level and walked down the undamaged hallway. It looked like any other castle hallway, crown moldings and marble floors. It was dusty and cold, but for a place that had been in deep freeze for 15 years, it looked like it was in relatively good condition. "Let's hope nothing's lurking down here," Musa said as she jumped down onto the lower level following everyone else.

"Are we sure that it's safe down here?" Flora asked cautiously as they made their way through hallways.

"Yeah, I mean we already ran into a few snags here," Musa added. "Maybe we should run a scan or something,"

"I already did," Techna said as she brought up a virtual diagram of the castle. "I don't detect any other life forms inside the castle walls,"

"I swear I heard voices before," Bloom admitted. Musa listened closely, if Bloom was hearing something then it made complete sense that Musa could hear them too, since her hearing was a lot better than anyone else's. But, no matter how hard she tried, she couldn't hear a thing, except for subtle sounds of the ice melting from the walls.

"They were probably trapped voices from the past," Stella said dismissing Bloom's fears. Just then Musa and the rest of the girls began to hear a voice calling for Bloom, it sounded a lot like something straight out of a horror movie. "That didn't sound like a trapped voice,"

"I think I know that voice," Bloom said, not fearing it as the other girls were. "I think I know that voice,"

"What's going on here Techna?" Flora asked hoping that the digital fairy could make some sense out of this, since she was usually the one to make sense of things like this.

"From my scan there isn't anyone in here but us,"

"Welcome Bloom," Said the same mysterious voice as before as a bright light began to shine through the part of the hallway that they had yet to explore. "I have been waiting for you,"

"Daphne…" Bloom said as if she had met her before. Musa remembered Bloom talking about the mysterious nymph that would call out to her in the middle of the night whilst she dreamt, and she had even seen a picture of her that Bloom managed to get from some of the books in the Alfea library. She was not dressed as elaborately in the photos, but now she was dressed in a luminescent fabric with some sort of mask on her face.

"That's a great outfit…" Stella said in awe of the nymph that was calling out for her best friend.

"Please, we must hurry," she said as she flashed in and out of the darkness, almost as if she were a hologram or something. "Follow me,"

"She's the one from my dreams," Bloom said.

"Maybe she's like your fairy godmother or something," Stella whispered as Daphne got further down the hallway and the girls began to follow.

Daphne led them down a long hallway and explained that even though the dragonfire itself wasn't hidden on Sparx, she still had a lot to see here. The nymph led them to the royal treasury, which technically meant that everything in there belonged to her.

Musa looked around the room, it was filled with sparkling jewels and other expensive things, it looked like everything was thrown in her on random since there were heaps of jewels just lying on the floor, there was no particular order to them and it didn't look like there was much security once you got into the room, the only major obstacle was getting in. This was probably the only place that would have been a safe place to keep the family's heirlooms and jewels during the attack.

Musa had never actually seen her royal treasury room, even though she was the next to inherit it. It was custom for the heir to not see the room until they were taking the throne, but since Bloom was the only left of her people, it made sense that she should see it. The funny thing was she had seen the Crescendian treasury vault, it was when she and Daniel were exploring his castle in the capital city. The two always managed to get themselves in trouble doing that kind of thing and just a second after they managed to get into the vault, their nannies pulled them away and put them straight back in the play room.

Musa smiled at the memory and looked to her phone, which had been going off non stop for the past couple of minutes, she knew who it was and Musa knew Stella was right when she silenced it once again. For some reason she just couldn't seem to get herself to talk to Daniel, even though they had become friends once again. She told herself that it was because she was on a dangerous mission and that if he found out he would only worry and freak out, but there was a different reason.

"Whoa, this is all mine," Bloom said snapping Musa out of her thoughts.

"Looks like Bloom is going to be living large," Musa said silencing her phone and shoving it back into her pocket, she was going to deal with one dilemma at a time.

"Yeah this is my kind of room," Stella said in excitement as she gazed at all the jewels in the room. Musa continued to look around the room and watched as Bloom walked up to a pedestal and saw her crown. It looked nothing like the kind Musa had ever seen before, it was very simple, while hers was very elaborate with opulent jewels and intricate design and really weighed down her head when she wore it. But of coarse the people Sparx were known to lead more simple lives, it even showed in their royalty and the way they chose to live.

As Bloom looked over the crown, Daphne began to fill them all in on why Bloom was taken to earth. She was taken there for her own protection during the attack on Sparx and it was her destiny to come back to Sparx and reclaim her planet, how she was going to do that, especially now, was still a huge mystery.

"I just can't believe this," Bloom said through tears that came streaming down her face. "I messed everything up," the truth was that Bloom really had messed everything up, now the entire fate of the universe was in jeopardy because Bloom hadn't made the best decisions, not that Musa was blaming her, but there was a certain amount of validity to what Bloom was crying about.

Daphne then told Bloom not to worry and that if she looked for the Dragonfire she would find it, and then she disappeared. All in all they had come to Sparx and found out absolutely nothing. Musa couldn't help but be a little angry at the situation. They had walked miles in the snow since the crack of dawn to find the castle, they ran into the abominable snowman, and then when they finally managed to track down Daphne and get a little information, they found out that the Dragonfire wasn't even on Sparx. Forcing her tired legs to keep going, Musa kept walking towards the exit of the castle when she realized that they had absolutely no way to get home.

"Guys, how exactly are we supposed to get back to Alfea?" Musa asked. The trans -dimensional portal was a one way thing and Faragonda gave them all the details they needed expect of coarse how to get back to Alfea. Musa had thought of this earlier, but she figured that if they tried some type of power convergence that they could get off the planet on their own and hopefully land on a neighboring one, but that was assuming Bloom was going to get her powers back since convergence hardly ever worked when one person wasn't contributing magic.

"Oh no," Techna said stopping in her tracks in the middle of the castle. "I have no idea, we can't get back through a portal and we would need more magic to do a convergence, we have no type of transportation and the gravitation field here is much too high to try to fly against…"

"Okay calm down," Flora said to Techna as she and the rest of the girls continued on their way out of the castle and Techna trailed along behind them. "We will find a way,"

"Yeah, I'm sure Miss F wouldn't leave us high and dry," Stella said not seeming to be at all worried about how they were going to be getting back to Alfea. "I mean she's probably gonna send someone to pick us up,"

"To a place where not even the dumbest risk takers will go," Musa pointed out. There was a reason this was called a dead planet, nobody wanted to try to endure all the different types of obstacles that came along with getting to Sparx, the girls were lucky to be able to use the portal, since one of those types of portals is very uncommon and Alfea's is one of a kind. "I don't think so,"

"Well that's what we have heroes in training for," Stella said. "They need some preparation for their dangerous mission and we need a ride back to Alfea, win – win, maybe we could even get some hot seniors to pick us up. Have you guys seen Jason Warren recently, I mean he has such a hot body and I think I've seen him stealing a few glances over to you, Mu -," (2)

"We'll figure something out," Bloom reassured the girls as she cut Stella off, there was no need to go off on a tangent about how hot Jason Warren looked in his uniform or anything like that. "Daphne said that if I look for my powers that I should find them, so I guess all I have to do is look,"

"So where are you supposed to look for it?" Stella questioned.

"I dunno, but I'll find it," Bloom answered determinedly even though she didn't have the slightest clue as to where to look. "I know I will,"

"Off topic I know, but what about the fabulous jewelry," Stella ventured.

"I think Stella has an eye on a few things in there," Musa teased.

"What? You know I can't get into my treasury until coronation," Stella said to Musa. "Besides, there isn't anything you saw that you might want in there?"

"Okay, after I reclaim the throne you can take your pick," Bloom said knowing how unlikely the chances were for her to actually get Sparx back up to it's former glory, but still with all the optimism in the universe. "But for now, let's go pay a visit to those witches,"

The girls agreed and then looked at each other with the same question in their minds, how exactly were they going to get off the planet? Before they could even begin to contemplate how they were going to leave, they heard a familiar roar from the hills where they had fought the snow monster.

"Uh no," Stella said in a near panic. Musa looked to see the monster along with a million other creatures surrounding it. "It looks like Mr. Abominable brought his possy,"

"Those are ice crabs," Bloom yelled in the same panicked voice, the . "They can freeze fairies,"

"Then let's make crab cakes, I know a great recipe," Stella said trying to psyche up the girls, but it only made Musa feel a little embarrassed for Stella. Did she really just say that? "Let's get cooking girls!" Yeah….not one of her best pep talks.

The girls transformed into their Winx and once Musa was transformed she realized that she wasn't really that cold. She flew up in the air and got a bird's eye view of the situation and saw what they were up against and it wasn't good, especially since one bite from those crabs would freeze a fairy in a matter of seconds.

"First you have to crush them," Stella yelled from a few feet away. Hopefully they would be as easy to crush as

"I can handle that," Musa assured. "With a sonic blast," Musa summoned her power and threw a powerful attack straight at all the crabs. Doing an air attack was probably the safest thing she could do since getting in contact with the crabs was very dangerous. Musa watched proudly as the sound waves carried the crabs straight off their feet, making them lose all the control they had on the situation.

"I'll take care of the rest," Flora said straight after Musa knocked the crabs off their feet. "Terradactal vines," She shouted as vines came through the snow and began to crush the small crabs into tiny little ice cubes. "They're ready Stella! Turn on the heat," Flora called for he next phase of their attack.

Stella nodded and began to spin her scepter and radiate heat from it. "Time to melt some ice cubes," Stella slammed her scepter into the ground and the heat melted the crabs. Musa let out a quick laugh of happiness only to stop when she saw more of them coming from the horizon.

"No way there's more of them!" Stella groaned loudly.

Techna then tried her hand at getting rid of them by doing some deletion spell. "Off they go, to the big recycling bin in the sky," She said proudly, but, after she finished flying over the icy crustaceans and succeeded in defeating a few of them, she looked up and saw what everyone else was staring at.

"Look there's more!" Flora called out. Musa landed back on the ground and looked out onto the horizon and saw hundred more of the crabs coming right at them, full speed.

"There are too many of them, come on girls, follow me," Techna shouted and began flying away. "Let's see if we can find cover in the castle,"

The girls ran into the castle as quickly as they could. Once inside Musa ran to one of the large gates and began to push it closed as quickly as she could. With the help of Bloom and Flora, they closed the gates right before the crabs could go in and follow them. "Okay , I think we need to attack from above," Stella said once the gates closed and they were safety inside the castle. "They wont be able to get us from up their, we'll have the advantage,"

Musa and the girls nodded and flew straight up, and thorough one of the broken windows, this way they could get the crabs and retreat back into the castle if they ran into any more problems. Unfortunately, the crabs were skilled climbers as well. Leaving Bloom on the ground to go fight the crab menace, Musa looked around almost angry to see that they were going to have a lot f trouble winning this one. "They're everywhere!" Musa complained loudly looking all around her. "They can climb completely vertical surfaces,"

"Musa, try a sound barrier!" Bloom shouted in an attempt to help since she was not really doing much else.

"Good idea!" Musa said as she erected a sound barrier, she hardly ever used these, except for when she was listening to loud music and she didn't want to bother anyone else, or when she was practicing a song. But, this did make some sense since the barrier did also work as a protection of some kind.

Magically summoning the flute she had been practicing on earlier that year, Musa began to play the notes to around barrier spell and as soon as the sound filled the air, the barrier went up and began to knock the crabs right off their feet the second they tried to pass. In combination with Musa's attack, Stella sent out a solar beam that shot any crabs that even tired to sneak past the barrier Musa put up, but there was only so long that she could keep playing the flute until she needed a break.

After a few more attempts at lowering the number of crabs that were coming their way, Musa looked around and realized there was absolutely no use. They were far too great in number to pick off one by one and all the attacks they were dishing out didn't even seem to phase the massive crowd of them. "No amount of music can handle that,"

"What about a harmonic distortion attack," Musa said to Stella as she thought about what she would have to do in order to pull it off. In theory it was a incredibly powerful attack, it not only drained the energy of the opponent but it threw it back at them almost ten fold. But the catch was, Musa had to be dangerously close and not move for a few seconds to summon it, which proved very dangerous in some situations.

"No you'd have to get too close," Stella warned.

Just as she said that, the two princesses look to their side and saw the snow monster that seemed to be responsible for this whole situation, coming straight towards them. With a blood curdling roar, the beast approached the fairies, who were almost frozen in fear.

It attacked with an attack Musa had never felt before, but all she could feel was a deadly chill and before she knew it she flew right out of the sky and hit the ground hard. Upon opening her eyes, Musa saw Flora and Techna putting up a shield, but it took her a few seconds to get back to her senses. And after their shield fell, the fairies had no other choice but to run and fly back into the castle, hopefully to safety.

Musa and the girls managed to fight off as many as they could as they ran through the unfamiliar halls of the Sparx royal palace, but they all ended up in one corridor, completely cornered in every direction by the crabs coming straight at them. "Here they come!" Bloom yelled.

Musa's mind was racing trying to find a way to maybe get out of this mess, but there was nothing. Flroa used her ivy vines to create a temporary door, but they would chew through that in a few minutes. As Musa thought of what she might be able to do, she felt a sudden pain in her ankle. Looking down she saw blood soaking the bottom part of her pants. She wasn't sure where it could have happened, but the pain was setting in and it was becoming a little difficult to stand.

"Ouch," She said to herself quickly as she touched the part of her leg and saw that it was indeed blob coming from it. She wouldn't tell the girls until they were all out of danger, there was no need to put any extra stress on anyone.

Just as suspected, the pint sized creatures began to attack and it was looking bad, especially for Bloom who had no way to protect herself since her powers were gone. As Musa fought off, but when Musa heard Stella scream she turned to see a crab running at her and she was miraculously saved by Sky.

Musa, who was in the air at this point, stopped for a second in shock as she saw the hero nonchalantly say hello to Bloom as if they had just run into each other on the streets of Magix. And then, upon hearing two crashes through the glass ceiling, Brandon and Timmy made their entrance. The musical princess smiled happy as she looked at the scene, not only were her friends okay, both fairies and heroes, but she knew this was probably going to lead to their group becoming a group once again.

"Don't worry girls we're here," Brandon said with might as he began to slice through ice crabs, and if Musa was correct, glancing at Stella every chance he could.

"We'll get you out of this," Sky added as he ran to help his comrades. Musa took that as an excuse to rest since she was very tired. Besides, they could more than handle themselves, they did have the whole day to rest while she and the rest of the Winx Club were walking all around this freezer of a planet.

"Did you hear that?" Musa said to Techna as the guys continued to fight the crabs. She swore she had heard that all too familiar growl once again.

Techna nodded and then addressed the others, with a certain amount of fear that she couldn't seem to shake from her voice. "Did anyone hear that?"

"What?" Brandon asked breathlessly as he looked up the digital fairy.

The growl came once again, except this time a lot louder. Musa looked up the see the giant eye of the snow monster peering down at them. A sudden panic erupted between everyone until Stella finally broke the clamoring. "Don't worry boys, we're here, well save you," Stella mocked as she flew up through the ceiling that the boys came down from.

Musa and the rest of the girls followed, except for Bloom of coarse who had managed to get rather close to Sky in a matter of minutes. And this time there were finally able to take the monster down. They cheered happily and flew back to the ground as they watched the boys and Bloom exit the castle.

"See told you they'd send boys," Stella said to Musa as they walked back to the ship.

"And these boys, how convenient?" Musa said with a smirk forming on her face, but it was covering up a twig of pain she always seemed to feel when she walked out in front of the Red Fountain space craft. Her getting over Riven's betrayal was long overdue, but no matter how much she told herself not to care, she couldn't just brush him away so easily. Remembering back to when she had seen him in Magix that day she visited her aunt, he seemed different and for some reason Musa didn't want to believe that it was him who had been the one who had chosen to change.

Maybe it was just her being in denial, but she wanted to think that maybe Riven was doing this for another reason and that maybe his betrayal wasn't really what it seemed. But what else could it possibly be? Pushing away the unwanted thoughts, Musa sat in her seat and smiled at Stella. "Maybe you should go talk to him,"

"Maybe you should pick up when Daniel calls," Stella said looking down at Musa's phone with a raised eyebrow. "You don't need supersonic hearing to pick up on the constant beeps that thing is making. It's him isn't it?"

"We're not doing this again," Musa warned knowing that going down the 'who messed up more in their relationship' road since it only seemed to lead to an argument. And Musa really didn't want to argue in front of the guys since she had a tendency to slip out little secrets that they didn't need to know when she was angry. "Just talk to him," Musa pressed on and this time, instead of fighting Musa on the subject, Stella simply nodded and walked up to Brandon.

"So what do you say Stella…friends," Brandon said with open arms, clearly having no interest in being 'just friends' with Stella. They walked up to him and the squad ship that was waiting for them and Stella gave a slight giggle before addressing Brandon with a hard look.

"Okay!" Stella said happily before composing herself, it was clear that she was going to forgive him, but she would make him work for it first.

A few minutes later they all boarded the ship and Musa played the flute for awhile, it tended to relax her when she had a lot on her mind. She should have been a lot more calm, but going back to Magix just mean facing issues she wasn't ready to. Trying to keep the thoughts out of her mind, Musa kept playing her flute before falling asleep.

She was finally able to get some sleep and for the time being, some peace of mind.

One of my favorite relationships is between Stella and Musa. They grew up in pretty similar circles, being princesses and everything, but they are so completely different and I wanted to explore that a bit more. Which is why I have a lot of small conversations between the two, I feel like they would be the two that were always at odds, but still really close.

1 .I never understood why they made a big deal about getting dressed all warm if they could get into their Winx and be just fine. This is my little explanation for that.

2 .A little allusion to my other fic 'mind games' which I will be updating soon…hopefully.

The next few chapters are the ones I've been looking forward too!

xoxo,
princessm