Andros in Danger

It's about a month after Faragonda was saved, and over twice as long since Bloom was kidnapped, nearly as long for her time in Cloudtower.

Saladine comes into Mrs. Faragonda's office late that night, and tells her that the Omega portal is about to give.

It is reaching its breaking point - and nobody, not even Valtor, will be safe if it breaks.

Faragonda wakes up the Winx - who finally managed to get Stella to stop talking.

She has had fits of nonstop talking ever since Mrs. Faragonda was saved, but now she wants to find Bloom - a lot.

They all decided to believe that Bloom was alive and alright - and Stella went along with it.

She doesn't handle worry well, and defaults to nonstop chatter when it is bad.

When the rest of them get to Faragonda's office, Aisha is practically in tears.

She got there before the others, and has already been told about the situation.

The five fairies get permission from Faragonda to go to Andros this time, and Techna makes another passage to Andros.

They don't have Bloom, but they also don't have any time to look for her.

Faragonda has tried an endless amount of spells to even see how she is doing - with no results.


In truth, Bloom is miserable - she has a laugh or two at the Trix's expense, but she has been miserable and going stir crazy ever since they shoved her in the five-by-five cell.

That's five steps by the way, she can only go five steps from flat against one wall to the other.

The walls are covered in writing now, song lyrics that she remembers.

She can hardly remember how it feels to be happy - much less in love - anymore.

She remembers what Mrs. Faragonda told her about Pyros, but her escape route is not quite finished yet.

She still has more spells to take off the stone she is working on, and with the Trix on guard duty constantly - or worse, Valtor - she does not get much time to work.

She has an idea for the skeleton, and has been hiding the bones in the straw little by little.

She said she has been using them to make food to eat using her magic - but she has been subsisting on her magic.

She learned the symbol for illusion the year before - and she knows just how useful symbols can be.

They have the effect of whatever they represent, so the symbol for illusions would generate a never-ending illusion - until it was discovered.


The Winx land on Andros, in the palace terrace, as a guard gives Aisha's father a report on how many monsters are coming from the portal.

Aisha says "Well, it looks like we came here just in time!"

Aisha and her mother hug, but her father seems beaten.

When he says that she and her friends should go back to Alfea, she says they will when they can all say they did everything in their power to save Andros.


In her cell, Bloom has a feeling that everything is going to fall apart.

She can't do anything though - she can't get out, and she has no control over sending her consciousness out of her body yet - so she can only wait for Valtor and the Trix to come down and either gloat or rage at her.

She gets the feeling it will be more gloating than raging - she has a very bad feeling in the pit of her stomach.

In Griffin's old office, the Trix and Valtor are watching the portal on Andros continue to spit out monsters.

They suggest that the portal should be closed before it sends out all the monsters and they come after the four of them - but Valtor says "Yes, I suppose that could happen - but there's no turning back now. What's done is done."

When all three witches gasp, he says "Hey, relax. Your talking to the guy who has all of Andros' most powerful magic - which means my power is greater than ever. So let them destroy all of Magix - we'll still be protected. Now, what do you say we go pay Bloom a visit and give her an update on the rest of the universe?"

They all walk down to the dungeons, the Trix chattering about what Bloom's reaction will be.


Meanwhile on Andros, the fight is going badly - and long.

More and more monsters keep pouring out of the portal, and the mermaid army is hard-pressed to keep them at bay.

The Winx join the fight, and slowly turn the tide - and then Aisha's father shows up to help.

He saves Aisha just before one of the monsters can finish her.

He tells her to wait for an elder named Teboc the Wise to show up - he may know a way to stop the portal.

Techna shows up with him seconds after Aisha's father leaves to keep fighting - and he has a scroll that can stop the portal.

Techna and Aisha help him get to the portal, and he has them converge all their power on it as he reads.

But the scroll is snatched away by a gust of wind, and is lost.

Aisha tries to stop the portal by actually going inside, but is rejected.


Bloom is watching, and tries to blast Valtor and the Trix from the corridor all the way back to Omega, but it still doesn't work.

They all smirk at her reaction, and Valtor says that maybe they should leave.

"No, I'm watching."

She continues to stare at her friends like it could be the last time she'll ever see them again - which it might well be.

She would go into the portal in a heartbeat - but she doesn't have that option - all she can do is stare as Techna walks forward.

She starts whispering "Oh no, Techna what are you doing? You don't have Enchantix yet, and you're not strong enough."

All five stare - four in shock and one in absolute horror - as Techna walks into the portal.

They watch Techna earn her Enchantix and close the portal by literally bending it back on itself.

Bloom smiles triumphantly at the dumbstruck witches and wizard, until Techna falls into Omega as the rock formation shuts.

She starts crying, and reaches for the bars automatically and gets electrocuted and slammed against the wall.

Then she loses it completely, screaming "I swear you will pay for this! You are all of you murderers and monsters straight from hell itself!"

She is glowing bright orange now, and lets loose a dragon made of fire.

It comes far too close to breaking the spells on the door for Valtor and the Trix's liking, but it bounces back and slams Bloom into the wall, passes through her, and knocks her out.

Darcy says "Well, that was close."

Stormy agrees "Too close. I actually thought she was going to break that door."

Valtor says "At least she's out cold."

They all look in at Bloom's unconscious form, laying where it fell to the bench, then off that to the floor.

Icy says "Ok, even in here it is a terrible idea to get her mad. But we've been putting her through hell the whole time we've had her, and now she breaks?"

Valtor says "You just need to know which buttons to press. Let's go ladies, before she wakes up and decides to attack again."


*Hours Later*

When Bloom does wake up, she starts crying heartbrokenly, and after a minute sits down, and with a furious concentration, breaks the last spells on the stone she was working on.

She smiles grimly to herself, then sets to work on the skeleton that she hid in the straw. She can cry when she is out of this living hell - for now, she has work to do.


AN: I'm bringing Techna back as soon as possible - and Bloom's getting out of this living hell soon. What do you think she has planned for that skeleton? Keep reading and find out, more coming soon.