She slid on a purple sweater and a mini skirt, she didn't care what anyone else says about it. She ate breakfast with the others before climbing into the car, it was a few hours drive wasn't very good for the charade that the two put up. When the car arrived, the two were about to let it all fly when the car made it to the shrine.
To be truthful, what Stormy was expecting was some kind of hoaxy fairy-like love everybody, but within these terms religion. But as her eyes came upon a Torii, her breath slowed down while her mind reared up the memories of her childhood.
"Please come here," her father said as he lead her up the steps of the local shrine. "You shouldn't be playing where the gods sleep, there are many guardians that will protect them from anything and might mistake you for a intruder and attack you."
"Daddy, they're scary." Stormy said as she run up to her father, within the shade of the trees creatures moved about and watched her.
"Don't worry, they don't mean it; they have to do their duty." He smiled at them, the creatures disappeared.
"Are you alright?" Stormy shook out of her foggy mind, Vanessa was about to snap her fingers but stoped. "You kind of blanked out there, are you alright."
"I'm fine, it's just this place reminds me of something from my childhood."
"Are you going to be alright?" Bloom asked, the witch was a little taken back from the concern from her arch nemesis.
"I'm be fine." Why was she so nice to me? Stormy watched Bloom turn and bow to the Torii before entering the sacred site. Behind the building, the Jinja, she could see a small graveyard. Bowing to the Torii herself Stormy wonder up to the entrance of the building. There was a sign on the door that said what time the priest would be back, near the door was a machine; a large red box that had Omikuji written on it.
Stormy stood there, she remember always getting these things. These pieces of paper that would tell one's personal fortune, maybe it would be fun to get one today. Going back to the car, she fished out a dollar that no one would really miss before going back to the machine. With a twist of the knob her fortune came out. What it read made Stormy blush, this can't be true.
She was gleefully treating her poor plants, trimming, feeding them and everything else she couldn't do with just half of her power. It was a deal she and the dean had made, her powers and a good word to the board to keep her here while she go and get Bloom back.
That should be a simple task.
"Hey, Flora." Stella had enter the room, she was a little taken back by the now near tropical atmosphere. "What happen here? Did a floral shop puke in here?"
"Stella, I really like it if you wouldn't insult my plants like that," Flora said. "They are very sensitive, you know."
"Um, yeah." Stella shifted, Flora was back to her shy self and that was setting off some kind of suspicion in her. "You look better, and how did you manage to take care of your plants so well?"
"I found a very useful potion in garden class," Flora lifted up a bottle. "It helps very much, well enough of this I have to prune some leaves." Flora turn to an area while picking up a pair of shearing scissors, ignoring Stella who was waiting for an explanation. Stella was getting a feeling this wasn't done by a single potion, plus there was little homework around. The past few days it was everywhere, she maybe not Techna but Stella could tell there was something off here.
"What's up," Stella walk up behind the flower girl. "This couldn't have happen over night unless..." That's when it finally hit her, she didn't know what to think or why would Flora have her full power back. "You manage to break the punishment seal!"
"What! No, that's not it I just stayed up all night." Flora spun around to face Stella, she was nervous and now in a state of panic. "I had to or else I would have lost everything."
"Right, and I am princess of limburger," Stella mocked. "The other say you went to see Faragonda, and now you have full power so I want to know what happened?"
"Nothing, she wanted to know what happen to Bloom."
"If you guys got something bad going for Bloom," Stella said in a cold tone. "The school board and tarnished rep is going to be the least of your worries." With that she left, leaving Flora a little nervous. But soon she shook it off, she should get ready for her trip soon.
It ends here, than the trail would grow cold. Well at least what Darcy calls cold, she couldn't care about the fact there was a teleportation station behind her. All that matter was getting the dragon's fire (which too disappear around here too, she still couldn't quite figure it out.)
She turn around to see a poster to visit paradise by dashboard lights, she raised a brow as her crystal swung around than pointed towards the building. Darcy kept wondering why is Stormy and Bloom's trail overlapping each other? Than she realized, they probably became lovers and left.
Well, that's a fine little problem we have now. She put her crystal away, trying to figure how to use this to her advantage; if I told Icy this should would flip out and so would mom, but that wouldn't get me anywhere. But those two really care about her, maybe if I were to find a way to hold Stormy at bay I can get both the other two crystals and the Dragon's fire. I just need a partner, someone who hates Bloom's guts.
She knew with a little research she'll find someone, the little fire fairy had a habit of making enemies very quick.
Bloom came back, she left her parents alone at her grandfather's grave because she figured they need more time for respectful reflections. She was surprised to find Stormy standing by the Torii looking a bit down, it was very bizarre to see her in a different mood than grumpy or P.O..
"Stormy?"
"Yeah, what?"
"I know you don't like me, hell. You might loath my very existence,"Bloom was very uncomfortable with this situation, she was trying to comfort a person that try to kill her and her friends many times. "And we fought on our way here I was wondering what is wrong?"
Stormy was silent, her eyes cast downward before giving a reply. "My mother died when I was young, she was buried in a place like this. My father took me to her grave once in a while."
"I.. Didn't know that," Bloom was a bit heard this information. "What happened to her?"
"She died during her duty to Sparx," Stormy sighed. "She's pretty famous too, on the side of Magix's city hall mural."
"Oh..." What! Wait! Daphne is on....
A Jinja is a Shinto shrine that often houses a sacred place or item, a Torii is the entrance to the Jinja. And I'll explain why Bloom's parents have gone to a Jinja later, still working out some "bugs" in my theory.
Oh, and I don't know when I'll update Icy/Bloom story; I don't want to get my stories screwed up n.n.