Chapter Four – Fall of the Great
An eerie feeling settled in Faragonda's stomach, and prevented her from falling asleep. She couldn't explain why, but she had felt a strong urge to protect both Bloom and Phoenix during their battle and the feeling wouldn't go away anymore.
That's why she had ordered the Winx to transfer Bloom to her apartment, so she had the fairy closer to her and she could keep an eye on her. She also knew the other Winx to be very competent fairies, so she had asked them to keep an eye on Bloom as well.
Phoenix was another matter. She had almost pressed Saladin into accepting the boy as a student of Red Fountain and placing him in the same unit as Prince Sky, Brandon, Riven and Timmy.
She had wondered how to convince the boy that becoming a student of Red Fountain was the best thing for him to do, but to her surprise he had immediately agreed on staying.
Faragonda didn't understand. Bloom was the most powerful fairy in all of Magix, and Phoenix had demonstrated a great deal of power and skill. What in the world could cause this feeling to plague her so? Surely there was nothing that could harm these two?
Suddenly, the eerie feeling intensified. Faragonda jumped out of bed and ran to her office. She was just about to contact Saladin when the headmaster of Red Fountain ran into her office too.
"You felt it as well," she stated and he nodded. The two looked at each other and saw on each other's faces that they were thinking the same thing. Faragonda sat down behind her desk and Saladin went to stand behind her.
Both of them had one thing on their minds: Griffin. They were both convinced that the headmistress of Cloud Tower must have had the eerie felling as well, and that the three of them needed to uncover what had caused it.
But before Faragonda could contact Griffin, Griffin contacted Faragonda. "Faragonda, Saladin! I need your help!" Saladin and Faragonda were both surprised to see Cloud Tower's headmistress as dishevelled as she was.
"I don't have time to explain, but meet me at Lake Roccalucci. It's an emergency. Come quickly!" Griffin disappeared, and Faragonda and Saladin looked at each other. Both nodded at the same time, and they hurried to meet Griffin at Lake Roccalucci.
When Faragonda and Saladin arrived at Lake Roccalucci, they saw Griffin sitting atop one of the rocks in the middle of the Lake. Both, however, felt something was amiss with Cloud Tower's headmistress.
The stood at the shores of the Lake, and were torn between calling out to the witch and flying towards her when Griffin suddenly stood up. "Thank you both for coming," she said, but her voice sounded hollow and cold.
"You said it was an emergency. And we wanted to talk to you too," Saladin answered. "We both had this strange feeling tonight, and we were wondering if you had had it as well."
"No, I haven't had a strange feeling tonight. But I think what I want to discuss with the two of you has everything to do with your strange feeling." Suddenly Griffin flew towards them.
"I have experienced something else tonight, something more amazing than I had ever thought possible. I met a power so great, so wonderful, that the Dragon Flame is nothing compared to it. Let me introduce you to that power."
Suddenly Griffin shot two orbs of pitch-black energy towards them. Saladin was caught completely by surprise and was flung backward by the orb. Faragonda however had been on her toes since they had arrived, and she dodged the attack.
She flew upwards, like Phoenix had done in the afternoon, and unleashed her attack when Griffin changed flight angle to come after her. Cloud Tower's headmistress landed hard onto the ground and Faragonda went to check on Saladin.
Suddenly she saw a shadow come out of Griffin and the headmistress of Cloud Tower looked around, seeming a little confused. Saladin also started regaining consciousness.
The shadow flew slightly away and became human-shaped, but did not solidify. "You are a worthy opponent, Ms. Faragonda," the shadow said and Faragonda shivered. It's voice was cold and hollow, but also evil and ruthless.
Griffin crawled towards her and Saladin. "Be careful! When it possessed me, I sensed a few things off of it. It's really ancient, really powerful and it wants revenge. And I don't think we can stop it."
"But what is it?" Griffin couldn't answer Saladin's question, she hadn't sensed that much while being possessed. But the shadow answered for her. "Do you not recognize me, Mr. Saladin? I am Chaos, Darkness, Evil. Plain and simple."
"What do you want?" The shadow intensified, and three headmasters believed they could see glowing red eyes. "As I told Mr. Griffin here, I want your help. Power is one thing, but skill is another. I have power, and a lot of it. But what I want to do requires not only power, but extreme skill. Skill that the three of you possess."
Faragonda was about to say something when the shadow continued. "Don't fool yourself, Ms. Faragonda. I want your help and I will have it, willingly or not. And Ms. Griffin can attest that when I want something, I get it. But I'm not fooling myself either. I know how you people think. You're the good guys, you'd never help me willingly."
The shadow intensified even more. "So this is what's going to happen. You three will amuse me, trying to stop me from taking from you what I desire and matching my power with your skill. And when I'm done playing I will take from you what I want."
The shadow shot forward, but Faragonda erected a powerful force field which threw it back. Saladin got up and aimed his staff at it before firing a ray of purple light. The shadow shortly lost its human shape, but then it tore itself away from Saladin's attack and sped towards Red Fountain's headmaster.
Griffin extended her hands, which emitted green light, and around Saladin a tower of fire appeared. The shadow immediately changed course towards Griffin, but was struck by the waves of green light Faragonda was emitting just before it reached the witch and was thrown backwards.
Saladin shot another ray of purple light at the shadow, but it dodged Saladin's attack and shot upwards. As it sped back down, Griffin erected a force field and the shadow was flung back again.
It suddenly flew at double-speed towards Griffin, surprising both her and Saladin. Faragonda however aimed a shower of green light-particles at Cloud Tower's headmistress and flung the witch out of the way.
But in the blink of an eye the shadow changed its course again and before anyone could do anything it entered Saladin. Both Faragonda and Griffin could do nothing but watch as Red Fountain's headmaster started screaming, red light coming from his eyes, and was lifted off of the ground.
Suddenly a red light shot from Saladin's mouth and spiralled around him before shooting towards Griffin and Faragonda. Saladin fell to the ground, unconscious. Griffin and Faragonda huddled together as the light approached them and joined powers to erect a force field bubble.
The red light bounced off of the force field and backed away slightly before becoming human-shaped. "Yes, indeed Saladin is great and wise. Let us now see how you fare against my power combined with his skill!"
Immediately the light split into two, one of its branches shooting towards Faragonda while the other headed towards Griffin. Faragonda emitted waves of green light to ward of the red light, while Griffin raised a wall of earth.
Unfortunately, neither effort was good enough. The light punched right through Griffin's wall of earth and caught Faragonda by surprise, entering Alfea's headmistress' body from her back.
With Faragonda's attack on the other branch of the light gone, it took its chance and entered Griffin. The excruciating pain stopped both headmistresses from thinking straight, but both felt this was nothing compared to what was awaiting them.
It should have been heaven to them when a dark light shot from their bodies and the pain stopped, but they knew that their troubles had just started. Slowly, both of them got up.
The dark lights that had shot out of their bodies merged and took human shape before solidifying. Griffin and Faragonda were both shocked. The body the light had become was that of a young man. But that's not what shocked them. This young man had pitch-black hair and pitch-black eyes, but in everything else he looked exactly like Phoenix.
"Wake up, Saladin," he said tauntingly and shot an orb of dark purple light at Red Fountain's headmaster. Only seconds after the orb entered Saladin he woke up, asking what had happened.
"What has happened, Saladin, is that I know am the ultimate power in the magic dimension. I have no equal, no-one to stop me," the Phoenix look-a-like said. "What are you?" He laughed at Saladin's question. "Don't you know it yet, Saladin? I'm Chaos!"
Suddenly Chaos' hands started to emit a dark purple light and his three adversaries suddenly found themselves in cages. "You may think you have won, Chaos, but you haven't! Phoenix will stop you," Faragonda said right before Chaos moved his arm and the cages plunged into the Lake.
T.B.C.
Thank you to those who reviewed. I would once again like to state that any discrepansies between this story and what you've seen on the show is due to the network in my stupid-ass country translating the show instead of just putting up subtitles.
I would once again like to apologize for this, though it isn't my fault exactly...So just to be clear:
Bloom, Stella, Flora, Techna and Musa are the Winx
Icy, Darcy and Stormy are the Trix (they will be making an appearance soon)
Bloom's power is the Dragon Flame
If there's anything you don't get, please review and ask me about it and I will explain; of course, you can also review if you don't have any questions...:)