Lost Library
A few days later, Bloom's finally convinced her friends to lay off on keeping an eye on her for any more signs of her magic being low - she's convinced it was also fueled by guilt, despite the fact that she says they couldn't have known something would happen other than them getting their powers again.
She's in her room, drawing, when she hears Stella shout "Get out of my boutique!"
When she comes running out, there's a bunch of bugs flying and crawling down the stairs and into Flora's plants. They start swarming towards her and Ember, until Bloom starts channeling Pyros and they fly way the heck back.
Flora asks "Isn't it great, meeting all these new friends? Oh, Bloom, your scaring them!"
Bloom stares at her disbelievingly, and then the rest of the girls come in and immediately get swarmed by bugs - they head over by Bloom, seeing as she's got a bubble of clear space all around her thanks to her connection to Pyros.
Bloom says "Flora, having new friends is one thing. Turning our apartment into a bug-house is another!"
"What's wrong with living peacefully with nature?"
Musa says "Nothing, except we're not in nature at the moment - we're in our apartment! And Grizelda will have a fit if she sees them!"
Flora sighs, and says "Alright. The smell of a Treeman's Orchid will lure them back to their natural habitats." When she conjures one up, everyone gets why it'd send the bugs running - it stinks worse than a Corpse Flower on Earth! It must be the Magix equivalent, very pretty but smells disgusting.
When the bugs are all gone, Bloom makes the plant disappear and starts opening windows. Roxy walks in, and immediately asks "What is that smell?"
Bloom calls back "The Magix version of a Corpse Flower. Don't ask why we needed it."
Roxy says "Done. What I actually came in here for was some help. I can't break the spell the Trix used on Mrs. Griffin!" She's still in Roxy's arms, still a bird, and still looking sad and desperate.
Flora says "Come with me." She gets a bottle of a potion she made and starts shaking it up, saying "To nullify a transformation spell, we need a potion! I made this one using extracts from some of my plants' immune systems. Here, try this."
She uses a dropper to get some of the potion in Griffin's beak, and she starts glowing brightly before the light suddenly breaks - it nearly worked, but it wasn't enough.
Bloom says "Maybe professor Palladium can help." She picks up Mrs. Griffin, and Ember climbs up onto her shoulders and sniffs at the bird sympathetically - and then everyone jumps four feet in the air when Grizelda slams the door open and says the girls are wanted in the History of Magic classroom.
Mrs. Faragonda and Daphne have a name for Selina's magical book - the Legendarium, it supposedly holds every story and legend in existence.
Bloom says "Well, now we know for sure where she's getting all these monsters and legends. Next step, figure out how to destroy it."
"I'm afraid you already tried that, and with disastrous results."
Aisha asks "So how do we stop it from being used?"
Daphne says "The Legendarium is indestructible, but it wasn't always in the wrong hands. From what I've read, it was guarded by a Fairy Godmother named Eldora, kept in the Secret Library of Alexandria. She supposedly wrote everything she knew of the Legendarium in a dairy she left in the library, including how to lock it forever."
Bloom says "Well, looks like we're off to Alexandria then!"
Bloom focuses, and hears talking in the background - in some familiar voices, looks like she's back to listening in on her enemies' plans.
In Cloudtower, the Trix and Selina are using Griffin's crystal orb to see the conversation happening. Daphne is saying how they can pretend that her class is going on a study-abroad trip to Earth, and Bloom comments that she always wanted to travel.
Darcy says "Ha, a study-abroad trip? What a lame disguise!"
Icy says "There's no fooling us. We'll attack them before they can even find the library."
Selina says "A sneak attack, I like it."
Icy orders "You're not going anywhere, Selina. I need you to stay here and use Griffin's crystal orb to keep an eye on things."
Stormy says "Time to go fairy-hunting, sisters!"
Time to go fairy-hunting, sisters!
Bloom smirks, these three wouldn't know fairy-hunting if a manual floated up in front of them and read itself to them - amateurs, really. At least the Wizards never planned anything that she heard because they were scrying her.
Hm, looks like I can mess with them for a bit.
She might not be evil, but nobody said she should be nice to her enemies when they're tagging along to ruin their mission.
When they get to the courtyard, Stella gives them new outfits for Alexandria - and there's about a dozen different preservation spells on Bloom's, to give the fabric a chance of surviving the adventure.
The guys suddenly show up in the Owl, and they take one look at their girlfriends and look like their brains have stopped working. Timmy recovers first, and soon the rest of the guys manage to get their legs working enough to get down the stairs.
Techna goes over to Daphne while the others are talking, and asks where the other girls going with them are. They run in just then, and the girl with brown hair in a bun says "Sorry we're late, our bad."
Techna says "Let's try to stay on schedule. We've got forty-eight hours to travel, and we're already fifty six seconds past when we should have left."
The girl with brown hair looks slightly taken aback, but her orange-haired friend angrily mutters "Are you kidding-" the blue haired one puts a hand on her arm, saying "Quiet."
When they get to Alexandria, Icy's thinking maybe this wasn't the best of ideas - she feels like she's getting heat stroke, and being near the living furnace that is Bloom doesn't help matters in the slightest.
They're just lucky Darcy's disguise spell shields their magic trails from the Winx, but it means they can't use any magic without being discovered.
Daphne's talking about how the library is hidden so well that only this Eldora woman and a few others know of its location, and Stormy mutters "I don't know how much more of this I can take."
Icy breathes out "You don't know the half of it."
They've been going for maybe twenty minutes, it feels like as many hours to her. Stella's complaining about her feet and the heat - Icy thinks there's no possible way she's got anything on her when it comes to complaints about the heat.
Bloom puts a hand on Stella's shoulder for a minute, and then Stella says "Thanks, Bloom. You have no idea how much that helps."
Darcy mutters "Tell me she didn't just suck the heat from Stella."
Icy groans "I'd ask her to do that for me, except it'd give us away…"
When they get up on weather balloons, it's somehow even hotter than down below - and the Trix are convinced Bloom knows it's them, because she's in the same balloon as them. They also swear she's ramping up the heat coming off her even more - she's freaking evil!
They haven't turned her evil ever since Darkar did and Stormy's nerves got temporarily friend so badly by Dark Bloom, but this fairy is easily the worst one to get on the bad side of. She knows how to draw out an unofficial punishment/torture for sneaking onto the trip, that's for sure. It also means they can't do anything to make the trip more interesting - or even let Icy cool herself off with a little magic.
Bloom's practically a living furnace on overdrive, despite the fact that she's not actually using much if any magic, and Icy couldn't be happier when Flora uses her magic and senses many plants underground - it means they can get out of the hot air balloon and away from Bloom and her endless heat, she's basically a walking, talking heat wave!
When they get into the tunnel, Icy immediately sighs in relief to be out of the sun and in a relatively cool spot - this is so not her greatest idea ever. They played it extremely safe, putting on a sugary-sweet act because the girl that's capable of handling all three of them at once was not a foot away from them for a whole hour and they really didn't want to find her knife anywhere but in its sheath. Even now she's got that accursed belt on, she just keeps changing the color to match whatever Stella has her wearing - they're betting the same thing goes for the jacket she usually wears, because she hardly ever goes anywhere without it.
Stella suddenly screams "NOT AGAIN WITH THE SPIDERS!" and backs into a wall covered in ancient hieroglyphics. She presses a hidden plate in the wall, and the door slides open with a grinding sound.
When they get inside, there's got to be a million books on the shelves they can see easily - looks like this diary is going to be harder to find than they thought. Daphne and Bloom look ecstatic though, they're in what can only be described as a dream for the two bookfairies.
Bloom says "I'll find the diary."
Daphne says "We'll keep the cover going."
Musa sarcastically says "Studying abroad. Let's start looking around, girls."
The Trix are wondering how exactly Bloom's going to find the diary on her own in what must be a complete maze of passages and corridors - she uses an intuition spell. She closes her eyes for a moment, then opens them with a confident smile and takes off running in a direction.
Stella mutters "She's got to teach us that spell at some point. Made-up by her or not."
Musa says "No kidding. That spell never leads her wrong."
Of course, this would be the perfect opportunity for a monster to attack - so, a bunch of mummies trailing their wrappings appear out of nowhere and attack.
AN: here's a joke, what happens when two people with ice and fire powers share a hot air balloon in the middle of the desert? One of them melts, the other is fine! I so love making the Trix pay for these kinds of plans! It's so much fun! Same with Bloom knotting their tentacles together, couldn't stop laughing the whole way through writing it! As for my recent lack of updating, so very sorry about that. school picked up speed again, and I've been really into Guild Wars 2 lately. along with working on some ideas that are actually panning out - I like to make sure they won't fizzle before I post them, so the stories won't turn into those abandoned, half-finished works that you so desperately want to be updated. One of my pet peeves, when a story that really has you just stops and is abandoned. Enjoy, more updates coming in the future! Will try to update more, never abandoning this story! I've already written so much it'd be a crime to just stop now. Review if you have suggestions!