Disclaimer: I do not own Winx Club that is quite obvious.
I just uploaded chapter 8. And website issues again. It says that I haven't updated when I have. So I won't blame if it doesn't get any reviews. But hey if you are reading this please review chapter 8 if you haven't. Ever since I rewrote chapter 3 this story has been full of website issues. Alright the first part was still part of the AN was written when I started writing this chapter. However I edited this part simply because I was too optimistic. Anyway this story is going to continue and Bloom will find herself having to do things with Trix. You'll see in this chapter. Anyway below there are four goals I'm hoping to reach soon and I at release of this chapter I have reached 2 of them.
1: 10k+ views (almost done probably way before this one is even uploaded) (update passed good thank you so much)
2: 30+ reviews (only 4 more to go. Come on lets go.)
3: 40k+ words. (Yep this chapter was enough to hit this goal nice. It's important because 40k+ is a filter in fanfiction. So this story will pass this important filter.)
4: 10+ chapters. (Only one more to go)
Anyway I really hope this story will pass all these goals by the time of chapter 10. But I need you to pass the first two and I'll pass the next two. Anyway enough about that. Lets just head straight to the story. Oh almost forgot. Did I tell you that I do not own winx club?
It had been a month and to my delight I never got a call from the Trix. Maybe they just forgot about me. Well since I haven't gotten a call from them I just lived like I normally would. For the first two weeks since I met them, I refused to leave Cloud Tower out of fear. Eventually Mirta and Lucy convinced me to go out.
Right now we were in the restaurant Mirta and Lucy preffered to go to. My restaurant adventures ended because of the Trix and I don't think I will leave this safe haven for a long time. We were all eating our own foods. In between our conversation Lucy excused herself outside to smoke.
Yeah it turned out she was a smoker. Mirta told me Lucy did it to seem cool at first. Now she is too addicted to stop it even though, she says she can stop if she wants to. There isn't anything cool about addiction and health effects. But I did find out that unlike in Earth cancer is cured much easier here. Along with the other possible health effects. Still while the chance of dying is much smaller than on Earth. By smoking Lucy is still putting herself to an early grave.
I feel like that is one of the biggests problems with her. She does stupid things just so she can fit in with rest of these witches. That's why she probably hung out with the Trix last year and cheated to win miss Magix.
But part of me can understand why she started smoking. I have actually smoked once. Back in Earth when I was 7 or 8, I was surrounded by a group of teenagers. They wouldn't let me pass without smoking. So me being just a small afraid little girl I took the cigarette and smoked it. I coughed immetiadely and the teens laughed at me and left me alone.
Ever since then I promised to never start that and I did hold it. In fact I'm around so few cigarettes that even now when I'm around Lucy just after she smoked. I will begin coughing, because I'm not used to being around smokers.
Just as Lucy came back smelling like cigarettes my phone began ringing. And to my fear when I looked at the phone it said unknown caller.
"I have to take this." I said and stood up from the table. I made my way to a part of the restaurant where I wouldn't disturb the other diners and reluctently pressed the green button.
I begged that the voice on the other line would just be a telephone salesman. But with my luck that is never the thing. "It's been too long hasn't it?" The all to familiar Ice witches voice came from the other line.
Icy's pov.
"Icy I'm bored." Stormy grunted.
It had been some time since we started working for Darkar. The day after we joined him we quit our jobs. Well if you mean by quitting completely trashing his restaurant and crushing his dreams in the process.
Right now we had mostly done small tasks for him. The biggest being when we went to Red Fountain to steal their piece of the codex. While they were having a schoolwide celebration, Darkar created a huge monster as a distraction. We sneaked in and were so close to stealing it, when Darkar for some reason called us back. It infuriated us.
But it doesn't matter. Because we'll get those four pieces of the codex. And while in Darkars dreams he has the ultimate power while we do his dirty work as his personal witches. But when the day comes, once he opens the portal to the realix with his shadownfire, we'll betray him. Then we'll unlock the ultimate power and rule the whole known universe. But that plan had a problem. Because our powers are not enough to unlock the ultimate power.
We need something stronger, which lead us back to the dragonfire. That would be enough to unlock it. But we wouldn't be working for Darkar if we'd have it. So we have been looking for alternatives with no luck. Perhaps stealing that spoiled solaria princesses ring and corrupting it, would be enough to unlock it. But I doubt it.
But now we had nothing to do. Darkar hadn't given us a task in 4 days. And we were bored.
"Why don't we give that pixie that is a witch call?" Stormy suggested and caught my interest. Darkar and that happened so closely that we ignored the firstie. But now that we have nothing to do, we can have fun with her.
"Unless Darcy has an another date with that loser Riven. Then I don't see any problem with it." I said to both Stormy and Darcy.
"Why not. I don't have anything with him for tonight." Darcy said waving her arm.
Stormy was still annoyed that they were together. "You know that once we steal the codex from red fountain, you have to break up with him." Stormy pointed out.
"I don't see why I have to do that." Darcy answered with frustration in her voice.
"Yes you will." I ordered her. "You can have your fun with him for now. But when the day comes, you will break up with him and no buts." I ordered her and she looked somewhat saddened by the fact. I didn't care. The moment that loser was out of her life the better.
"Now why don't we give that firstie a call." I annouced to both of them."
Bloom's pov.
I gulped hard when I heard her voice. I had been too optimistic these past few weeks. "What do you want?" I asked her cutting right into the chase. I wanted to get through whatever she would thorw at me as quickly as possible.
"Not much of a chit chatter? Whatever." Icy said on the other line. "I'll text you the location of this shop. Meet us there. And you better not be late." She emphasized the last sentance. "Or else I'll have to make you an example of what happens when you don't do as we say." She said and hung up.
Very quickly I got a text message from her with the address off the shop. It was a short walking distance from me. But looking at Mirta and Lucy I didn't want to just leave them just now. I texted Icy that I'll be there in 10 to 15 minutes. I then went to hang out with Mirta and Lucy for a short time.
"Sorry about that. But I have to go soon." I told them.
"Who was that? And why do you need to leave soon?" Mirta asked rather confused. Not that I blamed her. I didn't hang out with anyone other than her or Lucy. So the chance of someone calling me and me having to leave was quite small.
So I did something I feel, I have been getting too good at. I lied. "It's a friend I know." I said that sentance bitterly. I don't see me and Icy ever being friends. "And I really have to see her soon."
"I haven't seen you with anyone else." Lucy pointed out.
"You don't think I haven't made other friends?" I gaslighted them. But they dropped the subject after that. They continued to talk to each other, while I was just watching the clock instead of joining the conversation. Great my plan was to lie to Icy that it would take me some time to get there so I can hang out with those two for a little bit more. Yet I'm not using any of it to actually do that.
Eventually it was time to go. I ran to the cafe pretending that it was very far away when it was not. Icy and the rest of the Trix were already waiting for me there. "Almost late. And here I thought we were going to make you an example of what we are going to do today." She said looking at her phone with an annoyed expression.
Ignoring her I sat down at their table. "So what are we going to do?" I asked them.
"Depends. We might end up doing absolutely nothing or we are going to teach you a very important lesson about being a witch." Icy answered me taking her eyes off her phone.
"Can you elaborate?" I asked them confused.
She pointed at a pedestrian crossing where the block started. "See that crossing there?" She asked and I nodded. "That is the unofficial line to where the Alfea fairies allowed zone starts. Any Alfea fairy dumb enough to cross that line is considered fair game. And now we are just waiting for one to do exactly that." She explained and I gulped remembering the first meeting I had with them. Expect this time I was going to help them to fight a fairy for no reason.
"And how can you determine if it's a fairy or a witch?" I asked her.
"Trust me it's very easy to see which is which. You'll see when it happens."
Inside my head I begged for no fairy would be foolish enough to enter. But Icy was unfortunately proven right in just six minutes. A girl crossed that line. I could immediately tell from her appearance that the girl that walked over the line was a fairy and not a witch. She seemed like a first year who just started Alfea this year. Off course she wouldn't know about this unwritten rule and now she would learn it the hard way.
Icy looked at the fairy like a predator would look at a prey. "Looks like a pixie has lost her way." Icy said getting up. "Come lets teach her a lesson." She said and despite all of my morality telling me to not do this I followed her like a lapdog.
"How are we going to trap her?" Stormy asked Icy.
"Simple we have to box her and force her into one of those alleys. Then no one will protect her from what we are going to do." And just like that all 3 of the Trix began chasing the girl who had no idea what was soon about to happen to her.
The Trix set themselves up to a nice position. Stormy was going to box her in from the right while Darcy would create and illusion of herself that she was in front of the poor fairy. And finally me and Icy were behind her. Stormy started by throwing a small blast near the poor fairy startling her. She immediately started to run forwards only to be met by the Darcy illusion who looked like she was about to cast a spell.
She then ran towards my direction. Icy sent out an ice beam to the ground, which formed small ice spikes in front of her. This one caused the girl to run to the only direction without a member of Trix chasing her. Unfortunately for the poor fairy that lead to exactly where the Trix wanted her to be. The alley. The girl realized too late she was trapped and the only thing she could do was turn to look at her attackers. And disgustingly I was one of them.
The poor fairy looked absolutely panicked. "I-i can do this. All I have to do is cast the spell and get out." She said to herself trying to reassure herself but it was quite obvious that she was failing in this part.
Stormy started the attack on this poor fairy with a twister. The fairy didn't have any time to react and the twister threw her violently to the concrete wall behind her. She got up weakly. "You give me no choice witches. Magic.." Darcy interrupted her before she could begin her transformation.
"That's not going to happen." She said and began her spell. The fairy was holding her head while screaming at Darcy's psychological attack. I couldn't watch this anymore. Just being next to the Trix made me so ashamed of myself. How could I stoop this low?
Darcy eventually stopped her spell and the poor fairy collapsed to the ground. She looked already beaten enough but knowing the Trix, this was going just the beginning of her misfortune.
"Now I think it's time for our lesson." Icy said turning to me. "Unless you want to be join this pathetic pixie here. I suggest to follow the example Stormy and Darcy said." She said looking at the fairy who was struggling to get up.
"Now do it!" The Ice witch commanded in the most fearsome voice she could muster. And despite my entire moral compass telling this was wrong, I still did it.
I sent a fireball at the fairy. The fireball wasn't meant to hurt, which it didn't. Instead all of the fairy's clothes were engulffed in fire leaving her with only her underwear. It was humiliating for her. But at least I didn't have to physically hurt her. I hoped that this was it and this nightmare could end.
Unfortunately Icy wasn't satisfied with just humiliating.
"More!" Icy commanded and just like a trained dog I sent an another fireball at the fairy. And this time it hurt her.
I had to turn away when I heard the fairy's scream of pain as the fireball made contact with her leg. Why are the Trix forcing me to do this? How can they be so sick to enjoy forcing me to hurt this fairy who did nothing else than be at the wrong place at the wrong time. No wonder why Alfea has a rule forbidding their students from even meeting with Cloudtower witches.
Turning my head back around I got to see the nasty burn the fairy had on her leg. With magic it could be easily healed. That didn't mean it wouldn't hurt. And looking at the pained expression on the fairy's face I can see it definitely did.
"That's more like it. Now do that to her face." As soon as those words came out of her mouth the fairy rolled so that I couldn't send a fireball to her head.
"If you think that's gonna be enough pixie you are dead wrong." Stormy said and walked towards the fallen fairy. She lifted the fairy up and held her head directly for me so that I could send a fireball to her.
"Come on do it!" Icy ordered.
"Show us that you are a real witch." Darcy said.
A thought came into my mind. I can just send the fireball at Stromy. Sure the Trix will probably kick my ass and humiliate me. But that way I can do the right thing and now go forward with this. That way I can prove when I said to Faragonda I wouldn't become like the Trix I meant it.
No instead like a coward with tears in my eyes I sent the fireball straight at the poor fairy's face.
The fireball was quick, painful and brief. In a few seconds half of the girls face had a burn scar. Stormy then let the girl go who collapsed on the concrete pavement.
"I think we have had enough for today." Icy said and froze the girl in a big chunk of ice that reminded awfully much of the way she froze me back in the back to school party in Alfea. Icy turned to look at me with an unreadable expression. "This is your first step into becoming a real witch. See you later."
She, Stormy and Darcy then teleported away to who knows where. Leaving me alone with my tears. I can't believe I just did that to someone. I mean I scarred her. Sure with magic it can be removed but to think if I did that to someone in Earth they would have to live with that burn for the rest of their lives.
If this is what being a 'real witch' is all about then I want nothing to do with it. But it's too late and all because of an accidental meeting in a restaurant. I should have just left.
But that's enough what ifs for today. The thing is that I can't leave this girl here. I just can't. I have to at least help her get back to Alfea. Because if I leave her there she might be there for who knows how long. Worst case scenario nobody discovers her until she has already died.
I set off to the nearest clothing store. I bought a pair of sweatpants that were on sale. And a T-shirt that was also on sale. I had to give that fairy something to wear once I would release her from her icy prison. The last thing she needed was the humiliation of walking in public while only wearing her underwear.
Nervously I made my way back to the alley where the poor fairy was frozen in ice. Luckily for me, no police was there to investigate the ice formation that had a fairy trapped inside. Perhaps people didn't notice it? No they couldn't be that blind couldn't they? Or did they not just care that someone was frozen in ice. Is it such a normal occurrence here?
Well whatever reason it is it's a good thing for me. Last thing I want to happen is to get the police involved.
I took a deep breath before I placed my hands to the ice. I started heating up my hands feeling as the ice began to melt. It took quite long for the ice to start to melt enough for any progress to be made. Credit where credit is do. Icy certainly knows how to make strong ice formations.
The fairy was eventually freed. She was in a bad condition. The combination of the freezing and our attacks had put her into very bad condition. I took hold of the girl and she was cold as ice and was shivering like crazy. I could emphasize with her as this is exactly what happened to me last year during the party.
I placed my hands on the fairy and began to heat up my hands. She looked very afraid at this thinking that I would attack her again. However as shivering slowed down she relaxed a bit. Eventually she began looking much better as the heat began flowing through her.
She had gotten back enough strength to stand up. She looked me in the eyes with mixture of anger and fear. Ignoring that I took the clothes I just bought and gave them to her.
"Here. I know they're not much but It's better than walking back to Alfea with just your underwear." She seemed to be suspicious but she took the clothes and began dressing in them.
"Why are your helping me?" She asked me looking at me suspiciously and fearfully. "You attacked me after all." She pointed out.
I sighed. "Look not all witches are bad and hate fairies. Trust me I know some good ones. In fact I like to think I'm one of them." I told her.
"Yeah right." She scoffed. "You attacking me clearly proves how much you don't want to attack fairies." She answered sarcastically.
"I didn't want to. Those 3 other girls blackmailed me into doing it. If I hadn't done it to you they would have done it to me." I explained her. It also felt that I was trying to justify it to myself as well.
"Well witch. You should probably stand up to them or tell the police. Because what you are doing is criminal." She answered to me with voice full of bitterness and venom. I tried my best to ignore the guilty feeling and just help her get to a safer area.
After that we then walked to the "fairies allowed area" without saying anything to each other. Once she was in an area where she wouldn't be attacked I left her alone as she clearly looked like she wanted just that.
I sighed trying to ignore the horrible feeling and went to the nearest bus stop which would take me to Cloud Tower. The horrible feeling never left and tears were trying to come. For the duration of the journey I managed to hold back the tears. But holding them back became even harder as I reached cloud tower. Walking it's halls was bad enough considering most people here would congratulate me for what I did instead of look at me with disgust like they should.
Holding back the tears for the long journey of reaching my room was almost impossible. But I just prevailed this challenge and made my way to my room. Still holding back the tears I limped all the way to my bed and finally could let the tears come rolling down.
'WHY!? WHY!? Am I such a coward?' I thought to myself in between sobs. 'Why can't I do the right thing!?'
The crying became more intense every second and more and more thoughts like these were creeping in.
'Why couldn't I just have said no and just taken whatever the Trix were going to throw at me? Why did I have to hurt someone else because I didn't want to be hurt by them?'
All of this because I'm afraid that they will expose my secret. I have stooped so low. And to think just a moment before I was criticizing Lucy for being a smoker. What I did is million times worse than smoking.
Eventually Lucy and Mirta entered the room laughing talking fondly about something they had been doing while I was out to hurt that innocent fairy. They noticed my state and their faces were immediately filled with worry.
"What happened?" Mirta asked rushing to comfort me. I refused her efforts because I don't deserve that. Not after doing something that only a monster would do. "Does this have to do with that person that called you?" Mirta asked me.
"It's nothing." I lied to her. I couldn't bear telling her or Lucy the truth of what I did.
Lucy didn't buy my lie at all. "Come on Bloom. Obviously there is something wrong. Why else would you be this crying mess?"
"Just tell us. Did that caller do something to you? We're here to help?" Mirta asked in the most sisterly comforting tone that I had ever heard. Something that I didn't deserve.
And I could feel the pressure to come clean right there. But the pressure morphed into something ugly. Pent up energy and fears. Morphed into rage that was getting directed to them instead to the Trix. It kept bubbling and bubbling. And then I snapped.
"THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH ME AND THIS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE CALLER!" I shouted at them leaving them there standing baffled. As soon as those words came out of my mouth I felt guilt. Same kind of guilt I felt when I sent the fireball straight at that fairy's face. First I attack a fairy and now I'm shouting at my friends who are just trying to help me.
Hanging my head in shame I said. "Sorry I didn't mean to.. It's just.. It's just.. Today's been a really bad day and I don't want to talk about it."
They left me alone after that letting me go back to my thoughts.
I started to think what my friends former and current would think about me if they knew this. Lucy might congratulate me or be neutral about this. Maybe she can have sympathy for me as she knows how it feels like to be used by the Trix. Mirta would never be able to look at me the same way again if she would know this. The winx would already be wary of me just for sake of being a witch and I wouldn't blame them. If they heard of this they would think of me as a monster. Same thing with my parents. They would take me off of Cloud Tower as soon as they can if they ever hear what I did to that fairy. This confirming their theories that being around these witches is no good and I shouldn't be around magic.
These thoughts continued as the night came and it was hard getting sleep. But eventually I did fall asleep.
While crying myself until it's sweet release came.
As you can see the story is taking a bit of a dark turn. Don't worry too much this is about as bad as it gets. Most of the story will be like the rest of the chapters but this won't be the only dark chapter. Anyway as you can see Bloom has found herself in a very bad situation. Can she get out of it or will she embrace the Trix's teaching and become Darkars pawn? Well you'll see in future chapter.s Anyway I probably will edit the original AN as I have been way too optimistic. How did I think I was going to get this released A WEEK after chapter 8. School has started and because of that I would say expect a chapter every 1-2 months. Also if the fact that I made Lucy a smoker bothers you don't worry. It's gonna be somewhat of a plotpoint that is going to involve Lucy and Gloomix. Anyway hopefully you enjoyed this chapter and didn't think the somewhat dark turn wasn't too distasteful. Now I'll respond to the reviews.
Luiz4200: I responded to you by PM and you read it so I have really nothing to respond to you here. Other than good to see you are still reading the story. I thought you stopped reading this after chapter 6 but nice to see I was wrong.
vlad767: I responded to Luiz by PM so this was little unnecesary. But good to see you got weren't confused about why the Trix were in the position they were. I hope most people understand why and weren't confused.
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