Hey guys... I'm not going to make excuses. There cannot be an excuse for such a delay. I just... didn't feel inspired for this story. So I did the unthinkable... I made myself plotline. Of course this story is being co-written with Skylar Sparks, so there will be changes, but at least I now can move onward without worry.

Oh and Knight7572, to your review on Flaming Wishes. Please keep up with story before reviewing. Thank you.

I woke up hearing beautiful singing of birds outside the cave. It was marvelous. Strong and nicely shaped walls made their little tweets echo almost infinitely, creating huge choir or various sounds all over the place. Water rushing into the pond, its drops giving it nice beats, as if in rhythm. Then… singing. Deep in within it all, wind carried beautiful soft voice, singing melody in same rhythm. Sweet music filled my ears and was reaching down, deeper into my heart. It was all so… enchanting.

I lied there, with closed eyes and only listened. I didn't want to move an inch. Blanket covering my body would make slight noise and all harmony would disappear. Even my breath was shallow and slow, so it wouldn't disturb this concert. I don't know how long I've been there like that, just listening.

And then… I heard another voice. As my ears were so tensed up to listen to birds and mysterious voice, I heard another sound, or more like voice. It was faint, almost too faint to hear, but it was there. My name… it was calling my name. I heard it over and over, breaking delicate balance of melody around. It was then, that I realized who that voice belonged to. It was none other than Sky. Not thinking about disturbing the concert around me, I shot out of bed and ran to the entrance.

I quickly got out and stopped on top of small rock, sticking from ground. I heard it louder. It was Sky, not too far from here, and in distance I heard other voices. Musa, Aisha, Brandon… I heard them all, but… I couldn't see them. As a matter of fact… I knew exactly where they were… without having any visual contact, and sounds were next to non-existent. How come? It's almost as if…

Terrible thought came to my mind. I feared to look, but I knew I had to. What if it's true? What if my deepest fears were true? I looked down. There… I saw it. My hands… scaly, with diamond claws. Bring blue wings coming down from my forehand, extending above me. I moved familiar muscles, hoping I wouldn't feel them… but they all were there. Dorsal wing, tail, wings… I was wyvern once again.

"Why fear so much?" I quickly turned to see friendly face of my Great-grandmother, Mirkaria "This form was yours ever since your birth, was it not?"

She saw my expression… cold… fearsome "Don't tell me you don't want to be a wyvern anymore?"

"I don't…" I replied, tears building up in my eyes.

"Do you have any idea what it means? To be Blue Wyvern?" She asked me, stepping forward. I could say she had much hatred in her "Don't you see why you were so weak? You fought yourself."

"What do you mean?" I asked back. I must admit I was confused.

"You really don't know anything." She puffed "And you call yourself Blue Wyvern?! You don't even know true meaning of being one."

"Fine." I snapped back "Then how about you tell me!"

She seemed really annoyed and angry "Take this." She threw at me… or more like into me… some amulet. It was small golden dragon with blue eyes, spreading its wings.

"What is this?" I asked letting the amulet hang in front of my face. It was really beautiful.

"This amulet will hide your presence." She explained rather unpleasantly.

"What are you talking about? I don't need it, I can transform."

"Oh really?" she gave me the most mischievous smirk I've ever seen "Try it."

She was right. No matter how much I concentrated, my dragon parts stayed there, unchanged. I was panicking. Was I actually stuck in this form? What the hell happened to me? I wasn't even supposed to be a wyvern anymore.

"You are a wyvern." Mirkaria spoke proudly, yet coldly "You are the essence of water, do not ever forget that."

"Essence of water?" I gave her pretty confused look "I don't get it."

"You will." She said, this time with a smile as she put her hand on my shoulder "For now, go and find others. I don't know where they are hiding, but I know where one should be. When you can, go to Alfea. You will meet someone. Follow him and he will lead you to one."

"How do you…?" I wanted to ask something, but as I blinked… she was gone. Just like that, no wind that she would fly away, not any noises of sneaking away. In just a blink of an eye… she just wasn't there.

I wanted to call her name, but… I couldn't. Voices were entering my ears, calling out my name. Winx, Specialists and even… 3 more voices… mom, dad and Daphne. Did they come to look for me? Oh no, I mustn't let them see me like this. I don't want to have anything to do with wyvern problems anymore. I lived months normally, like any child my age. Those were best months of my life. Screw wyverns, screw Mirkaria and Mir'suria. I maybe cannot transform into human form anymore, but I do have this amulet. I won't let anyone know.

I put it on and truly, in split second. I was human again. Just like that, I was normal girl again. Although my senses were still sharp and I could hear even distant voices from far away, pinpointing their location to an inch. Now that is something I could live with. And best part… I wasn't weak at all, nor did I feel like transforming. I didn't even sense the beast inside me fighting me. I guess that amulet must be some kind of restrain that keeps dragon DNA in check.

I don't care about some fate and fights… I just want to return to my friends and family… and just live.

I headed out, happy to be finally free, but having my strength… I knew all I needed and could live happily.

I ran into the woods "Bloom!"

Suddenly, all voices stopped, listening to hear me as I yelled again. My voice was echoing from distant hill and rocks. I was running forward, looking for them, yelling their names… but… deeper I got… harder it was to determine their location. With my sense it was easy to say some general direction, but… in this forest, that absorbed every sound… it was getting harder and harder. Denser the vegetation, more spread and silenced the voices of my family and friends.

Until I could hear them all, well and loud… but with no direction. Trees of all kinds and shapes were all around, muffling and deflecting every sound. I heard Bloom yelling my name, but it was coming from everywhere. Trees spread the sound so well that I could no longer tell the direction, let alone distance. Maybe if I got higher…

Thick trees were towering above me and every single one of them could serve me well, but climbing it… that was something else. I picked one that seemed to have most branches and all of them seemed strong enough to carry me. So I jumped on first one. It was quite easy to pull myself up. With my power back, it was like nothing. Then second one, third, fourth. I was climbing it with ease.

But as all who climb trees know, the higher you get, the thinner branches get. As I was climbing, I was noticing that branches begin bending under my weight. I was trying to stay as close to center as possible, but there were branches on which I had to jump a little further from stem and as I was climbing up, branches were bending more and more.

I was almost above other trees, on top or crown, when I began hearing cracking noises. Branches were becoming too thin, too young. I couldn't get any higher, not without ever increasing risk of falling down from god knows how high. From that height, I yelled again "BLOOM!" I yelled on top of my lungs.

From lush forests I saw red light take off. I knew it was my big sister, in her fairy form, flying up to me. In my excitement… I did quite a mistake. I tried to stand up, as I was in crouching position. But… I did it too fast and pressure was too much for branch I was standing on. It broke.

By instinct, I tried to catch the branch, even though it was hanging on what little of bark remained. That of course wasn't enough for me to hang on. Bark broke and I was falling down together with branch. You can imagine I was hitting stuff on my way down. Maybe that's what saved me. As I was falling, my back, shoulders, arms and legs, even head, got major hits from all kinds of stuff. Oddly enough, ground was the softest thing I hit on my way down. It was covered in grass and moss, which kinda softened the impact.

But I knew I had quite some injuries. I couldn't move. I was conscious, barely, but conscious. My body hurt all over. At least that was a good sign, I still had feeling in them, so spine wasn't cut. My ears couldn't hear worried voices of my friends and family. Just ringing, infernal sound that meant my brain probably got some major concussion. Then it dawned on me. What if that amulet suppresses my regeneration too?

I felt cold… but warmth on my right arm. Blood? I must've been bleeding.

Then again, no wander given the height. But I couldn't think straight. My head was hurting with each thought. Every heartbeat of my heart was tearing my forehead. But it was a good sign, as long as my heart was beating strong and true, I was alive.

Light… I saw light. Was I dying? No, this was real. It was Bloom, landing next to me. I heard her speak, but it was muffled, distant. Then warmth… light intensified. She was most certainly healing me. I must admit it was a good feeling. Her energy, warm and pleasant was entering my body, sealing my wounds. My hearing was also getting better. Ringing was getting weaker and I could finally recognize her voice, but words were still as if muffled, but I knew for sure it was her.

I was losing consciousness. My wounds were healing, accepting Bloom's energy, but I was still getting weaker every minute. Before I fell asleep, I managed to say only one thing "I… I'm… sorry."

Then, I went limp, asleep, exhausted and wounded.

When I woke up again, I immediately had that familiar feeling. I was sitting somewhere, on more like… on someone's lap. I felt soft pressure on top of my head, they were resting their head on mine. Arms wrapped around me in a gentle hug. I was sitting sideways to their body, my ear pressed on chest. Definitely a girl. I knew already that it was Bloom. Just the scent was too familiar. In my ear, her heartbeat. Heart that was so strong and yet so fragile. I loved these moments. Waking up to gentle embrace of your loving big sister. Hearing beating of her strong heart, her arms protecting from world outside.

"Bloom, we must keep an eye on her." This voice belonged to Daphne. She must've been close.

"I know." Bloom replied, lifting her head. I didn't move, I didn't want to give up this feeling that easily "But I'm sure she had a reason to run off like that."

"She got almost killed."

"No." Bloom replied. Her voice was so soft and loving "She fell from tree when she tried to find us. I saw her."

"Still…" Daphne continued "she is no longer a wyvern. If she's not responsible enough to know her true limits now that she should stay in palace."

She was right. I fell and got hurt because I didn't know my limits. I tried to get higher and higher until it got dangerous. I was sure in my strength and agility, but she was right. With this amulet on, I maybe had physical strength and senses of a wyvern, but now I know… I cannot regenerate anymore. Maybe it is the amulet, I don't know, but I am no longer virtually immortal. I was just a normal girl that was stronger and sharper than average humans of fairies. I had to be careful.

But it still hurt. Hearing my own big sister say I am too irresponsible to be trusted with her own life… I knew she was right, but it still hurt.

I felt a tear leave my eye. Suddenly Bloom moved her hand and whipped it off, speaking "Don't be sad. You just need to find out your new limits."

I opened my eyes only to see we were in Bloom's room on Domino palace. Bloom was sitting in window frame. So you would understand, window frames in this palace were really thick, so she could easily sit there with me in her arms, while I was facing the inside. Daphne was sitting on Bloom's bed, looking at us.

I couldn't say anything. After all, I did hurt myself pretty badly. I made them worry, stayed overnight out of their reach or without any word. It was my fault "I'm sorry."

"Mira." Bloom was gently running her fingers through my hair "Why did you run off like that? We were really worried."

"I found her." I replied softly. I was still kinda soft and sleepy "She was there."

"Who?" Daphne asked.

"Mirkaria." I replied, smiling.

Bloom and Daphne exchanged worried looks before Bloom spoke again "You went to find her? Mira… she's dangerous. She's a traitor."

"No…" I spoke again, beginning to fall asleep again "She… she is… innocent."

"Shh…" Bloom hushed and pulled me closer "Take your time. You can sleep now."

Her heart filled my hearing again. It's beating was like a lullaby. I cannot explain it… I just loved being in her embrace. And like that… I fell asleep.