Mummies Unraveled

Bloom's following her instincts, and with the spell she made up shortly after getting the Gem of Courage they never lead her wrong. She heads down a corridor, then takes a sharp left and goes to the room it takes her to, then finds the hidden room with a little intuition - and there's a book that looks like Flora designed it sitting on a pedestal!

That's got to be Eldora's diary!

Bloom quickly grabs it and stuffs it into her hidden bag, then turns around when she hears three sets of footsteps behind her. "Well, I was wondering when you'd show up."

She turns around to see the three girls they took with on the trip - the Trix in disguise. They play an innocent act, trying to get Bloom to say she's found the diary - Bloom walks over casually, then suddenly picks Icy up by the throat and slams her into the wall. "You…you know…"

"Knew, actually. Little tip," she grabs Stormy by the throat as she charges up a spell and holds her next to her sister, "next time you plan a sneak attack, don't do it while I can hear you. Now, Darcy, take the disguise spell off."

It melts away in an instant, even as Icy and Stormy keep clawing at her hands to get her to let them go. Bloom instantly spells Darcy to the wall, tying her to it with some fire chains and doing the same with her sisters.

Darcy says "You don't have the diary."

"Says who? You three should know by now that I'm full of surprises."

Icy chokes out "Why'd you…let us…come?"

"Because I thought it'd be fun to see just how long you'd wait before doing something stupid. Because I thought I'd have some fun while keeping you from doing anything. And because if you didn't get to come, you'd have had Selina summon something far sooner. You think I can't sense her magic right now? Or hear the slow shuffling and sounds of something trailing along the floor?"

Icy starts trying to freeze the chains when Bloom pushes her sunglasses up to her forehead, reminding them of exactly why they're so scared of her now and why they should be. Darcy stammers "Y-y-you wouldn't-"

"Kill someone? You mean like Tritannus? News flash, ladies, Tritannus wasn't the first being I've ever killed, and he likely won't be the last. You think you know me? Know I would or wouldn't kill you? I let you underestimate me from the very beginning, got a feel for how powerful you were the night we met. I've been doing magic since I was five years old, ladies. You never knew a thing about me from the very beginning, and you still don't know enough. Get this through your heads: you will never beat me in a straight fight, you will never win."

They suddenly hear a moan, and all four turn to look at the mummy standing in the doorway. Bloom smirks, and sarcastically says "Well, let's see what all those bandages are hiding!" She snaps her fingers, and the nearest bandage starts getting magically pulled towards her - turns out there's nothing but dust under the wrappings. Bloom smirks, having figured that anything that smells as old as these things has to have rotted away by now, and asks "Seriously? Mummies? I think your running out of ideas. Now, why don't you three run off for a bedtime story or whatever?"

Icy glares at Bloom, and says "I swear I'm going to freeze you solid and throw you into Omega!"

"Right, like they did with you three. How long did it take you to get out of there?"

Darcy quickly says "You don't have the book. The diary."

Bloom holds up her hand and makes an illusion of the book, asking "You mean this diary? Oh, and what exactly did you do to the real girls we were taking with? Turn them to frogs or something?" She lets the illusion disappear when she sees the looks on their faces, and says "You did turn them to frogs. Well, looks like Roxy and I have three amphibians to find after we get back to Magix." She shrugs and leaves the room, casually looking back over her shoulder and saying "Oh, and I'd get out of those pretty quick if I were you. Just a hunch, but I don't think the mummies know who they should and shouldn't attack."

She walks away casually, whistling even, and the three witch-sisters start struggling like mad to get out of the bonds. Finally, Icy yells "Selina! Tell me you can hear me!"

Yes, Icy. If Bloom is so dangerous, why did you corner her?

"Just get us out of here! And tell the mummies not to attack us!"

Sorry, but I can't help with that second part. I ordered them to rise, not to attack the Winx and leave you three alone - it would have been suspicious, I'd think.

Darcy yells "Bloom already knew we were here! She heard us planning it apparently!"

Really? That's news to me.

Stormy says "Us to, but can you get over here and get us out of these chains? She did not exactly make them painless!"

Selina appears out of nowhere, and starts yanking at the chains - it doesn't work, it does give her burns on her hands though. A bucket of water just turns to steam, they really can't get out of these chains! Finally, they just teleport back to Cloudtower to work on them - and Selina has to find a new legend to summon, because the mummies are pathetic with how easily they're beaten.

In the library, Bloom teleports back to the entrance hall of the library - only to find there are about a dozen mummies shuffling around - and getting spun around and turned into piles of wrappings as the fight goes on. Daphne asks "Did you find the Diary?"

"Yeah, and three wanna-be fairies. Turns out we've got to go looking for three frogs after this adventure is over."

All the girls gasp, and Daphne asks "My students…"

"Weren't your students here, Daph. It was the Trix."

When the last mummy is beaten, Bloom suddenly gets a very, very bad feeling that something is happening at the surface.

When they teleport up there, the ruins they arrived in are engulfed in a massive sandstorm - and it sure doesn't feel natural. There's a massive negative energy in the sand, and Bloom can just make out the figure in the middle of it - the fact that he's glowing bright red doesn't help matters.

Daphne yells "That must be Set! The Egyptian God of Evil! He's supposed to control the desert itself!"

Bloom yells "I'm gonna kill you, Selina!"

This guy's power feels similar to the Aether's, dangerous and deadly and like it wants to eat her away from the inside out. Suddenly, Stella points to the sky and asks "Can Set also do that?!"

When they look up, Bloom grins and says "No, but some friendlier gods can!"

The Bifrost touches down a few feet away, leaving Thor, Loki, and Hela in its wake.

AN: I know, really long break between chapters. SORRY! Got a few things to work on for classes - but, I wanted to say happy Spring Break everyone! Hope nobody went crazy waiting for this next chapter, really hope nobody gave up on the story. Been working out new ways for Selina to try and kill Bloom - like it's worked so well this far for anyone - and I think I have something good! No spoilers, sorry 'bout that. Anyway, I'm also working on a spin-off of my Harry Potter and Winx Club crossover - still killing time 'til the next Avengers movie. Going to go crazy waiting otherwise. Because, everyone, this is what I happen to love doing. So, I can assure you I won't give up on the story, it WILL be completed eventually, etc. Please review, maybe make a suggestion if you want to see Selina throw something at Bloom at random times. Enjoy! More updates coming! Happy Spring Break!