Magix In Danger
The Creatures of the Dark swarm Cloudtower, and chase after Knut, who decides it's time to break from the Trix.
He goes and hides in Red Fountain, and explains what happened at Cloudtower.
In the middle of the conversation though, a holo-image of the Trix appears.
Saladine banishes the image, but not before they say they will destroy Red Fountain completely.
Then next morning, every student in Red Fountain is ready for a fight.
They will fight to protect their school from the Creatures of the Dark, and the Trix.
Saladine gives a speech about how they must not fail, and then the Trix arrive with part of their army.
While the boys are all fighting, and fighting hard, but futilely, Saladine does an incantation and banishes the creatures from his school.
It works, but only for a moment, because they reform.
Icy makes an ice dragon, and wraps it around the school, freezing it solid.
Then the top half of the school cleaves off cleanly!
The school is lost, so they retreat to Alfea - which hasn't been attacked yet.
*Cloudtower Dungeons*
Riven wakes up in a dank cell, in the first corridor of the dungeon.
When he gets up, a voice calls "Hey, kiddo. Over here!"
He recognizes that voice, and it doesn't belong down here!
"Mrs. Griffin! What are you doing down here?"
"Paying the price for my arrogance and stupidity. I should have seen earlier that the Trix are truly dangerous, and now all are in danger because of me."
"It's not your fault, none of us could have seen this coming - least of all me."
Riven looks down, and sees something that gives him hope: a little piece of stiff wire, bent into a lock pick.
He picks it up, and frees himself in seconds.
When he goes to free Mrs. Griffin though, she tells him not to waste his time.
"The Trix put some spells on the lock, if picking it would do the trick my powers would have gotten me out long before now. But there may still be hope yet."
In the cell with her, are three other witches mixing something bright green in a bucket.
They all suddenly hear a slithering creeping noise, and a lot of it.
When Riven asks what is making it, Mrs. Griffin sounds afraid, saying "It's the Creatures of the Dark! Go!"
"But you-"
"You can do nothing for me! Go!"
Riven turns and bolts when he sees the tide of dark purple bug-things after him.
He makes it to a high window before being cornered.
He is surrounded, and only has one real option: jump.
*Alfea, Mrs. Faragonda's Office*
Sky suddenly gets a weird feeling, the feeling that Riven's in trouble.
Bloom notices, but he says its nothing.
Mrs. Faragonda agrees with Bloom's idea: getting the Dragon Flame back.
Bloom thinks it is in Cloudtower somewhere, but Sky thinks the whole idea is crazy - especially since she doesn't have her powers.
Growing up somewhere that revolved around battle gave Bloom a good idea of strategy, but Bloom doesn't say this.
Instead she says that keeping the Dragon Flame there is the only thing that makes sense - and that she is going no matter what.
Stella immediately says she will go where Bloom goes.
When it is pointed out that they have no way to get to Cloudtower, Bloom suggests having Knut lead them through ancient tunnels that connect all three schools.
Sky agrees, and Brandon goes as well, to stay with Stella.
Knut tries to lead them through the tunnels using his excellent sense of smell, but the tunnels are old and full of smells.
In a half hour, they face over a dozen near-death experiences, every corner has a new danger.
They lean against a wall while Stella complains - not without good reason - and then it crumbles and they fall into Cloudtower's garbage dump!
Knut is stuck in garbage, and they pull him out.
Just then, giant bug-things crawl out of the garbage: dump roaches!
Knut explains that they live in the garbage dump and eat the garbage there, though they are more than happy to snack on people for a change.
Bloom finds a long metal rod, and swings it at the big bugs, hitting any in front of her.
Knut says "For a fairy without powers, you pack quite a punch!"
Bloom grins, but loses it when a huge purple roach charges.
Before anyone can react, a stranger in a patch robe jumps onto it, and stings it with a gun.
The bugs all retreat and everyone's safe, but they don't know who it is that just saved them.
Bloom recognized his voice, but she doesn't know from where, until he pulls his hood down: its Riven!
He hit a wall, and slid down it, landing in the dump.
He tells them everything: how Darcy betrayed him, how he ended up at Cloudtower's dump, and apologizes for how he acted - and betraying them to a witch who was nothing but trouble.
They forgive him, and Knut has found the way to Cloudtower!
They make it into the school with no trouble, but the Trix know they are here - a magical eye-construct showed them.
The guys go into the dungeons with Knut to free Mrs. Griffin, while Bloom and Stella go to find the Dragon Flame.
They find a set of doors elaborately decorated with flames, an obvious place to keep a flame-based power.
They open the doors, and to Bloom's relief, there is a pedestal with a flame burning on it.
She goes to touch it, but it freezes just before she can.
The Trix step out of the shadows, Icy saying "Hahahaha, you lose Bloom. That's not the Dragon Flame."
Before they can do anything though, a bright green light explodes behind them, and the three witches are slammed into a wall hard enough to leave impressions of their bodies.
The boys got Mrs. Griffin, who says "Good evening, girls." and walks forward, still glowing bright green.
Icy states the obvious - they got her out of the dungeon - but then Mrs. Griffin makes a double wall of magic.
The Trix are cut off for the moment, but to be safe Mrs. Griffin summons granite stalagmites to cover the room, making it impossible to cross.
She does the same for the room outside the door, to further delay the Trix.
Bloom notices that doing the magic seems hard for Mrs. Griffin, but maybe it is the spell itself that is hard, Bloom doesn't know.
Being the Holder of the Dragon Flame has some benefits apparently, such as harder magic being easier for her than most.
Icy froze the wall in a second, but they are already trapped behind hundreds of hard, sharp granite spikes coming from the walls, floor, and ceiling.
Stormy asks "How are going to get out of here?"
She has a point, because Dragon Flame or not, even magic is not going to get them out fast.
Icy says "You think a little granite is going to stop me? Watch and learn, sister."
She makes a ball of ice-white power in her hands, and throws it at a stalactite.
It breaks, but there is almost no change in their problem - it's going to be a long time before they get out.
Mrs. Griffin gathers the rest of the witches at the windswept terrace, and makes a wormhole to Alfea.
The students float up into the wormhole fast, but not fast enough.
The Creatures of the Dark march up the steps, in many forms.
There are big headless ones with huge, thick arms, and bug-ish ones with claws and tube-like noses with wriggly tongue-sucker-things coming out of it, and flying creatures that are something like bat-bug-things.
AN: Uh-oh, they're stuck. Unless someone does something, everyone might end up as those bugs' snack before the invasion. Read to find out what happens next!
