Spells and Louds
Chapter 99: Fall in Magix
(Somewhere on the far side of the forest near Alfea)
A Battlecruiser enters the atmosphere and sends out a Dropship and lands towards an imperial outpost that is neighboring the college.
When they land the heroes meet up with the Headmistress of the school. Miss Faragonda.
"Greetings, you must be the Royal Defenders and the Guardian" said Miss Faragonda.
"That we are" replied Neil. "So what's the situation ma'am?" asked Lincoln and Linka.
They follow her to an imperial transport.
"A massive flow of energy has been detected somewhere in the forest, Hollow has already been sent there with the Winx fairies, his forces are amongst them as well" replied Miss Faragonda.
Gyro touches the ground and also feels it. "Whatever is in that forest is powerful and hungry!"
"Our Battlecruiser will stay here and keep the school safe, in case something evil magic comes" said Linka.
Sounds like cool plan sis" said Luna.
"Thank you. You all have to rendezvous with Hollow and the others, we don't know what it is and neither does Hollow. But it feels ancient" said Miss Faragonda.
"Understood" replied Leon.
They all board an imperial transport and take off, but they are escorted by other imperial transports and AT haulers.
"Looks like Hollow is deploying the forest guard" said Sergei. "That is a lot of Walkers" said Jordan.
(Forward Imperial Forest outpost)
They land on the tarmac and spot Hollow himself waiting with Musa already in her Bloomix form.
"Glad you all made it, now we can get this show on the road" said Hollow.
"So, where are your other friends?" asked Leni in annoyance.
"They're also in a transport nearby. We told them to wait for you guys" replied Musa.
"I can't believe we gotta team up with them" said Lori in annoyance.
Hollow sighs. "Look, I know there are some complications between all of you and the rest of the Winx, but let's not have that on our minds, what we're up against seems to be more powerful than anything I have ever felt."
"Well, have you deployed any recon?" asked Lincoln.
"I did and they got this" Hollow shows them a giant hole sticking out of the ground near a mountain range.
"They calculated the hole to be as wide as Alfea College itself and this is where it gets scary" said Hollow.
They look to the footage and they spot a giant zerg-like tentacle coming out of the ground and destroying the scout drones.
"What the heck was that?!" asked Sam. "It almost looked Zerg in origin" said Martin.
"Whatever it is, does not want nay guests" said Dana.
Musa then rewinds, pause and zooms in and shows them something. "Take a look guys."
They all look closely, near the hole were three figures, Icy, Stormy and Darcy. The Trix!
"So, the Trix are behind this" said gyro. "We believe so, they must've gotten that creature from the Legendarium" said Hollow.
"And that hole is getting bigger, I think it's either tunneling or whatever is down there is growing up fast" said Musa.
"Have you contacted Zagara or any of the Zerg swarm?" asked Becky.
"We tried, but all of our communications are down. The creature is emitting an energy pulse that's damaging our dimensional communications towers. We were able to get a message to the Guardian via magical visions and it is not easy doing that?" replied Hollow.
"So, an unknown zerg-like monster, summoned by the Trix and we have no clue what it does" said Neil.
"Well, have you tried bombing it?" asked Timmy.
"Tried that, didn't work. It detects nearby aircraft and instantly wipes them out with its tentacles" replied Hollow. "Bombarding didn't work either, the hole kept it safe and secure."
"We believe the weakness is inside the hole" said Musa.
"That's why we're planning on dropping explosives into the hole and then detonating them, perhaps it will die from that" said Hollow.
"What kind of charges are you using?" asked Sergei.
"High explosive Ion fusion bombs" replied Hollow.
"Sounds like a plan, is there anything else we should know?" asked Leni.
"Well, it turns out it can sense anything nearing its lair and will lash out with its giant tentacles" said Musa.
"The plan is to send my ground forces of Shore Troopers and AT-ACT's as a diversion, while we get in there via clone was class transports and drop near the hole, some of us have to fight off any remaining tentacles guarding, then we drop the charges into the Zerg's lair and blow it to smithereens!" replied Hollow.
"Whoa! Now that is a plan!" said Neil.
"You can count on us!" said Pyrrha. "Let's go and liquidate that thing!" said Penny.
They all lock and load and board the Clone wars transports, at the same time they spot AT-ACT walkers and shore trooper's marching into the woods, towards the beast.
They fly past every soldier entering the forest, then they hear large roaring sounds.
Up ahead they spot the imperial forest divisions already near the hole and are trying to hold off the tentacles.
"Looks like its working. It doesn't even know we're coming" said Linka.
But then they're transports are hit and they start to go down. "Everybody hang on!" yelled the pilot.
But instead of crashing hard they all land onto piles of snow. Luna, Dana and Lincoln blast the ground during the fall.
"Nice save guys!" said Timmy. The heroes, Winx and some soldiers board out of the wrecked transports and join the fight.
But then the Winx club and Hollow are blocked by the Trix. "Not so fast Winx!" yelled Stormy.
"God these girls just get annoying!" said Hollow.
The heroes want to help, but their occupied by the army of tentacles and massive roaring sounds.
The Winx engage against the Trix. But the ground starts to shake and coming out were brood wars class Zerglings.
"What the hell?! Zerglings?!" yelled Neil as he impales one with his mace.
Ice casts an ice wall and flies off. "That's right, this creature is called the ancient devouring maw. A beast of ancient power!"
"That explains why we haven't heard of it!" said Leon.
"But I don't get it? It's not a magical creature, why was it in the legendarium?" asked Jordan.
"That's because it was exiled there by the ancient Xel'naga!" said Silena who flies out of nowhere.
Sirena smiles deviously while holding the legendarium book. Seeing her did not make Bloom comfortable.
"Now that all of you are here, we can finish you all off!" said Darcy. "Attack!" yelled Sirena.
All of the Zerglings screech and start charging. Then the Specialists from Red Fountain college arrive and aid them in battle, but they were not alone.
The Battlecruiser Aegis might not be able to join the fight, but it doesn't mean it's air force can't help.
"Alright guys! We stand our ground! And charge!" yelled Lincoln. The heroes, Empire, Terran aircraft and Specialists all charge forward and engage the Brood wars Zerglings.
Meanwhile the Winx are trying to fight off the Trix, but they notice someone was missing. Hollow!
Hollow is using his light saber to pave his way towards the giant hole. He finally makes it and tosses all of the charges into it.
Then Hollow gets knocked away by a large tentacle. Hollow gets up and grabs his light sabre. When he looks in front of him, it was Icy.
"Well, well. If it isn't the reject ice princess!" said Hollow menacingly.
"You think you're so superior with your precious little empire! You're going to pay for aiding these fairies in defeating Tritanus!" said Icy.
"Then let it be finished!" Hollow and Icy charge at each other. Light saber versus Ice swords.
Hollow splits his light saber into two to even the odds. Icy and Hollow are both clashing near the hole, almost looks like a Star Wars scene.
Musa sees this and tries to help, but she's blocked off by Darcy and her copies. "Where do you think you're going fairy?!" said Darcy.
Musa then pulls out two Demon hunter war glaives, which were given from Hollow who got them from Illidan Stormrage.
"Come on copy cat!" yelled Musa as she lunges forward.
The rest of the Winx also fight off Stormy and Silena, but then some younger witches from Cloud Tower arrive and aid in attacking the Winx.
Hollow and Icy continue battling each other, they fight furiously and viciously. Hollow is able to use the force and give her a nice big push. Icy takes to the skies and assaults him with a hailstorm of ice. Hollow spins his light saber to deflect.
The heroes see the conflict happening between Hollow and Icy. "We gotta get up there and help them!" said Linka.
Luna then summons Lucius and becomes Lucified, she then hovers and vaporizes each zergling in her path.
"Everyone! Rally to Luna and push forward!" yelled Lincoln.
Icy charges at Hollow with her ice sword, but Hollow dodges and throws his light saber at her.
Icy dodges and throws an ice spear at him. Hollow deflects it and calls back his light saber and coes back to melee against Icy.
Hollow knocks Icy down, but she leg sweeps him and she tries to pin him with her ice sword. Hollow grabs her sword and shatters it and head butts her.
He keeps punching her in the face and then kicks her in the gut. Icy then collapses to the ground and sees the approaching Sith.
Hollow stands in front of her with his light sabre ready to strike. "You are nothing like the ancestral witches!" said Hollow.
But then as if everything went slow. Hollow, feels pain.
Musa stops fighting and yells his name and tries to fight forward. The Winx see this and are shocked, even Sirena was stunned.
The heroes attack with all their might as they try and reach the hole.
Icy smiles and gets up, Hollow looks at his chest and sees an Ice spear had pierced through him.
Behind Hollow an ice spike was forged from the ground. When Icy was down she was able to use her hand to summon it from behind.
Hollow drops his light saber as Icy pulls the ice spike away and looks to the Sith Lord.
"And you said you were the powerful one" said Icy with an evil smirk. She then pushes Hollow into the hole and he disappears into the darkness.
Darkness was all he sees. It surrounds Hollow's vision, all he could see was blackness. But then he reaches out and grabs a flare, he lights it up and looks around as he lies down.
He spots a giant overmind like head with no eyes at all and tentacles coming out of it.
Hollow sees the ground starting to shake. He looks to see all of the explosives everywhere and glowing red, saying they are ready to detonate.
Hollow is now lying on a pool of blood, his blood.
Then he hears a voice, he looks up and sees the top of the hole and looking down is Musa trying to fight off the rest of the tentacles, Hollow deactivates his helmet.
The Trix, the young witches and Silena have retreated, but Sirena was thinking, that all of this felt wrong.
Everyone is at the top of the hole and are battling the Zerglings and the tentacles.
Then Hollow hears what's in Musa's thoughts. 'I'm not letting you die! I lost Riven and now I'm not losing you! You are not walking away from what we started!'
Hollow smiled as if he felt touched by this. So he uses his powers to speak to her.
'Musa' she looks down and sees the red flare and a bleeding Hollow.
So she uses her thoughts to speak to him. 'Hollow?! Hang on! We're coming to get you!'
'No, it seems it's not possible. This creature is going to keep fighting, and if we don't stop it. it will destroy all things around it' said Hollow.
Then Hollow pulls out the detonator. 'No! No! Don't you dare! You're coming back with us!' said Musa.
'Please, I cannot let you get hurt, I made a promise to Riven to keep you safe, no matter the cost' said Hollow.
'No! You made me a promise that you would never leave me! You promised!' said Musa as tears run down her face.
'Please my love. No more tears. My end is not truly the end of all things, I know that we will meet again and I will always keep my promise to never leave your side, even in death' said Hollow with tears of his own.
'B-But, Hollow' Musa then drops her glaives and cries. While everyone is battling in slow motion.
'Do not let evil win! Fight the Trix, defeat Acheron and destroy the Legendarium!' said Hollow. Then he speaks. "I love you Musa."
Musa drops to her knees and cries. "We will meet again Hollow, my love."
Hollow smiles. 'Guardian!' Gyro stops fighting and looks to the hole. 'Everyone' they all look.
'Go, now. Before it's too late' said Hollow. They all look confused. 'No sacrifice, no victory' said Hollow.
Some of them start to tear up. 'And Neil' Neil looks around for the voice of Hollow. 'I'll see you soon my friend'
And one last message to all of them through their thoughts. 'Live another day.'
Gyro then slams his staff and they mass teleport to a nearby transport ship. Some of them try to pry the doors open but all they can do is watch from the windows as the creature's tentacles head back into the hole.
Hollow sees the tentacles coming towards him. Hollows grabs onto the musical note shaped necklace from Musa and smiles with tears. 'Finally! I am one with the force and the force is with me' he presses the button and the entire area is engulfed in Ion blasts and blue fire.
The Ancient Maw screeches in pain as its body burns from the flames. All of the tentacles start to fall apart and disintegrate.
And the hole in the ground detonates like a nuclear bomb.
Musa goes down to her knees and cries, so does Neil and his kids. All of the others don't know what else to do, they just look towards the giant mushroom cloud.
Gyro looks to the distance and then goes to Musa and gives her back the Demon hunter war glaives. Musa looks to the glaives and holds them.
Gyro helps her up. "Live another day." The last words that Hollow said to them.
Musa looks to the demon hunter glaives that start to glow green and purple. She then looks to the distance.
All of them look to the devastation on the horizon.
"And we will keep fighting, till the Trix are no more, till we destroy the Legendarium!"
To be continued ….
We lost a great hero/villain, even though he wasn't even a villain anymore. But now they must continue their battle against the Trix or will they? Leave a review.