"Musa!" Stella yelled and went to her friend. "We've all been waiting for you! You've been asleep for days"
"What happened?" Musa asked.
"Musa's awake!" Bloom said happily.
"We're very happy to see that you're conscious again." Tecna said.
"It's only been a few days without you Musa, but we still missed you." Flora said.
Musa looked around and smiled seeing all of her friends. She tried to go to hug them but then remembered she couldn't move. She looked. There was a single pink ribbon tied to her wrist. There was another one on her other wrist. Musa did not smile any more. She knew what they were for and she also remembered some of what happened. She had attacked her friends and then the senior witches. Where was the darkness? It wasn't there right now. But Musa couldn't remember what happened to those witches or why she was here.
Musa looked at her friends. She could ask them. But their smiles were at least a little fake. They might really be happy to see her, but they still didn't trust her. So she couldn't trust them either.
"So Musa, what happened when you went out of Alfea?" Stella asked. She was trying to be sly to interrogate her.
Musa didn't know all of what happened to her and what she did know she didn't know why it happened. Stella herself had laughed when Musa tried to explain the darkness. Musa did not what to be made a fool of again. "Nothing! Nothing happened!" she shouted.
"Well, um, we'll just give you a little time to get used to being awake again." Bloom said. They tried to be subtle about it, but it was obvious they had run away, scared of Musa.
Musa cried. She couldn't move her arms so she couldn't wipe her tears she just cried. She couldn't even trust herself, she thought, so how could she expect even her friends to trust her.
"Musa." someone whispered. Musa looked up and saw Mirta looking at her. "Don't cry, Musa. I know what you're going through"
"You have no idea." Musa said.
"Yes, I do." Mirta said. She untied the ribbons from Musa's wrists and Musa could move again.
Musa wiped her tears and stopped crying. "How could you know? And what happened to me anyway"
"Um, it's kind of hard to explain. When I heard the story Icy, Darcy, and Stormy told after they brought you here"
"What? Why would they bring me here? Where is here"
"This is the building for demon possession. They brought you here to get you away from them, I guess. But what's wrong with you, it isn't a normal possession. It can't be expelled, ever "How would you know!" Musa shouted. This darkness sometimes controlled her, but there had to be some way to get rid of it. If it was just a demon possession, she could get rid of it easily.
"I know all about it because I have the same thing inside me, Musa"
"I don't anything about what you're talking about, Mirta, but what's wrong with me is totally different"
"No, it's not. I've felt the darkness from you a long time, but I thought I was wrong. You're royalty, aren't you"
"What? What do you mean by darkness"
"It's not always there. But when it is, it wraps around my heart, my mind, and even"
"That's enough! I don't want to hear anymore!" Musa yelled. She ran away, as if she could run away from the darkness and it would never return. She ran out of the room, down the halls, until she found a window that would open. She jumped out of the window, then used her winx to fly away.
"Musa!" Musa's four best friends all shouted as they saw her. She was gone before they could reach her.
"How did she get out?" Stella asked.
"Musa! Wait! You need to hear about this!" Mirta shouted out the window.
"You let her out!" Stella exclaimed.
"I did, but you have to understand why." Mirta said.
"I understand that it was a very foolish thing for you to do, Mirta. We will have to report you for this." Tecna said.
"Guys, let's just see if we can get Musa back ourselves!" Bloom shouted.
"Bloom's right." Flora said.
"Let's go!" Stella said.
To be continued
