A/N: Here's the next chapter. Sorry it's so late. :(

Disclaimer: If I owned Winx Club, it probably wouldn't have gotten past the fist season. People would've hated all my cliffhangers and stopped watching lol.

Trapped

Jason PoV

I stared uninterestedly at the ceiling as the two trolls outside my cell bickered about something I didn't care about. I'd been stuck in this dank, dark place for who knows how long, I'd missed my almost-girlfriend's birthday and the only reason I hadn't gone absolutely bonkers was because I wasn't the only prisoner. Though she wasn't in a cell, the small pre-teen girl was as much a prisoner as I was. I thought back to my first week here and the first day I'd met Rayne.

FLASHBACK

"Hey you! Wake up!"

I glared at the evil looking woman who brought me here. As usual, she made me sick to look at. Her hair was stringy and white and her blue eyes were pale and sick looking. She may have been good-looking about twenty years ago but those days were long gone.

"About time," she snarled angrily and I quickly looked down. My dad always said that you should never look an angry woman in the eyes. They can smell fear.

Or maybe that was wild animals. Whatever. Same difference with this wacko.

"I see you're going to be difficult Silas."

Never going to understand why she keeps calling me that. Although it did sound familiar…

"No matter. Once your mother comes for you, I'll have my bait for that dratted Winx Cub!"

My mom? My dad was the one with the high-tech gadgets. This lady, as I suspected after the first time she called me Silas, is cracked.

Crazy lady smirked at me from behind the bars. "Bloom won't stand for Roxy being imprisoned!"

Okay, I know I know those names. Bloom is Shiloh's mom and Roxy was at Cayan's parent's dinner… Wait a minute…Silas was one of those kids that got lost. She thought that was me? I mean, okay, we both have black hair but after that the similarities stop. I'm at least four years older, if not more, three feet taller and my eyes are gray, not freaking purple.

This lady is completely nuts.

She was sweeping out of the room, cackling like a maniac. I started pacing my cell and looking for things I could use as a weapon. Maybe if I pried a stone from the cobbled floor.

I was concentrating so hard I didn't notice immediately that it had gotten very quiet. I looked to the door and saw bright green eyes peering at me through the bars.

"…Hi?"

"Hello. Who are you?"

I raised an eyebrow. "Not Silas."

The eyes rolled. "I figured. He's supposed to be my age. You're like eighteen."

"Seventeen," I corrected automatically.

The eyes backed up a little and I saw that they belong to a girl with white and pale skin.

"I'm sorry you got sucked into this. Mom's trying to capture the queen of Tir Nan Og."

"That's your mom? Really?"

"Sadly, yes."

"I'm sorry."

"I'm used to it. Mom's deluded."

"Why am I not surprised?"

I studied her closely and she did look like psycho-witch. "What's your name?"

She grinned at me. "Not Silas!"

I chuckled. This kid was already growing on me. "Smart aleck. Name's Jason."

"I'm Rayne," she said shyly getting closer to the door and peeking over the edge.

"You're a pretty special kid Rayne."

She beamed. "Thanks!" Her smile faltered. "I still can't let you out. Mom would kill me."

"She's Mother of the Year," I muttered and peered out the window. The trolls were fast asleep, still standing at their posts. "Did you do that?"

"Uh-huh," she said, nodding. "I can't do it for very long though."

My brain started working in overtime. "Hey Rayne. How about we make a deal?"

She tilted her head to the side. She reminded me of the Alfea girls. Weird when her mom reminded me of Cloud Tower witches. "What deal?"

"You bring me my backpack and let me out and I'll take you with me back to Red Fountain."

Her eyes lit up. "Is that by Alfea?"

"Yeah. Do you want to go there?"

She nodded eagerly, but looked a bit troubled. "My mom's a witch. Will they let me in?"

"Let me see what else you can do besides that helpful little sleep spell."

She stepped back and rubbed her hands together, then blew on them. When her tiny hands cupped the air in front of her, a small ball of flame.

I applauded softly. "Nice. I'm no magician, but my friend Logan's magic feels like yours, warm and friendly. I think in a couple years they'd let you in."

She looked excited about that. "Where would I be before then?"

I hadn't thought about that. "How about with me?"

Well, my mom did always want a little girl. Rayne looked delighted. "So you'd be my papa?"

I snorted. "Um no. How about you're big brother?"

She laughed. "Okay, Big Brother!"

I smiled in spite of myself. The trolls started to stir and I shooed Rayne away. "You should scram. Looks like they're waking up."

She hurried to the other door and saluted me before disappearing.

FLASHBACK END

That was a long time ago. Rayne's mom hadn't taken my watch, so I knew that I'd been here for at least a month. Rayne herself popped in every once in a while to update me on the search for my stuff.

I heard the trolls grow quiet and it was comfortably warm in the cell now.

"Hey Rayne."

"Hi Brother!" She dimpled at me and I met her at the bars. "I've looked everywhere except my mom's lair. So it's probably there."

I frowned. "If you're going to get in serious trouble, I don't want you to go in there."

She deflated a bit. "But then we won't be able to get out!"

"I don't want you to get hurt."

She pouted. "But…"

"Promise you won't go in there. We don't know what your mother might do if she catches you."

She looked at me and I saw a steely determination that made my stomach drop. "I can't promise. I'm going right now. Be back soon!"

She ran out the door. "No, Rayne, wait," I hissed, but shut up because the trolls were waking up.

I slumped against the door and clenched my fist. I hoped, for Rayne's sake and my own, that she didn't get caught.

Diana PoV

The girls and I walked into Magix Pizza Palace and were shown to a corner booth in the back. Sage and the guys were sitting there and I was pretty sure that was the prince of Melody sitting awkwardly next to a rumpled Logan.

"Spill. What was with the 911?" Cayan asked, frowning ferociously at Logan. Guess they were still fighting.

He didn't look up but answered bluntly, "I found Jason."

Harmony was slowly clenching her fists and I huffed. "About time. Man, my mom was right: being a teenage fairy at Alfea brings nothing but drama."

"So what's the plan?" asked Shiloh, ignoring me completely.

"Search and rescue. Saladin has restricted our entire school to looking for Jason, but they're giving up hope," my twin explained.

Sage added, "Papa said we could take one of the ships if we want to look for him, but he didn't sound to hopeful either."

"Artemis didn't tell him that I had located Jason in the Dark Forest behind Cloud Tower," interrupted Logan, looking up.

I gasped. "Logan what is up with that eye?"

He chuckled humorlessly. "You're gentle brother bruised it with his brutal fist."

"For locking himself up in his room and not telling anyone what he was doing for a month," said Allegro, brushing some of his hair out of his face. It just flopped back. "It was epic."

"Do you know where in the forest?" interrupted Harmony. There was an impatient edge to her voice.

Logan winced. "No, not really…"

"Well that narrows it down," I muttered.

"Well what are we waiting for? We'd best get started," said Shiloh.

We all stood up and headed for Red Fountain.

A/N: See you next week!