An: I'm warning you now some pretty dark stuff happens in this chapter… Aly's tortured as Jones wants a way to emotionally break the Winx Club… instead of physically… Stormy is a sociopath… or is she… Jade sees a familiar face… nearly tearing her in two for her feelings for Makoto… also a tribunal for Jade's actions against the conduits… has a unanimous agreement… against the broken faerie… and the Winx Club well they meet the BOBS just as the band of Seven are ready to attack them… Again more Reviews the faster I write…

It played across the dark hair, so carefully bound to the top of the ring with cord. It reflected in the huge manacles that gripped the faeries limbs so tightly that the fingers and toes were pale, as the heart fought to pump blood to them.

It reflected across the tightness of the muscles of the young woman stretched with such little give on the frame that her skin was smooth, flawless, without a single ripple. The athletic frame and smooth firm breasts down to the well-defined thighs, covered with a lightweight shift of white cotton.

It reflected in the blue eyes that blinked as Aly awakened and her eyelids fluttered open. A low groan echoed around the room, followed by an intake of breath at the cold touch of the manacles.

"Wha… wh… where am I?" Aly slurred, blinking as her vision cleared. "What the hell? Hey!"

Jones grinned at the younger faerie standing by her side was Stormy who was also smirking at the chained up faerie…

Aly glared at them, but couldn't quite hide the hint of fear in her eyes. "What do you want," she snarled at the two.

"Look the pixies trying to scare us…" Stormy laughed cruelly, "It's time to make the pixie scream…"

"Not going to happen," Aly shot to the two…

"Oh, you really are. See, I'm pretty much a sociopath, okay? Courtesy of, well, pretty much you, and some other bad shit that I've seen. So, this is how it's gonna work. Your going to scream for us and to do this my mistress brought some Earth tools… primitive but effective…" Smiling grimly, Stormy yanked the cover off a large tray next to the chair, revealing numerous medical instruments and other things. There was a sleek black paddle, a coiled whip with tiny metal barbs, a poker that would be heated up later, numerous knives and daggers.

"Fuck you!" Aly snarled at the two.

Jones backhanded her, and then knelt down in front of her. "I'm not in a good mood, Aly. I am very, very close to losing my temper and ripping you to shreds with my bare hands. So I suggest you co-operate. After all I just lost my plaything…"

"Screw you," she repeated quietly, glaring into her eyes. Jones stood up.

"Stormy my dear, would you please help me untie her? I want her hung from the ceiling."

"Yes, ma'am."

Ten minutes later, Aly was dangling from the ceiling in her underwear. Jones picked up a scalpel and drew it across her stomach, not quite hard enough to draw blood.

"When I get free I am going to do to you what Jade did last time. I am going to-"

Jones made one quick slice down her stomach and she screamed as blood welled up and dribbled down her abdomen, gleaming cherry-read in the harsh fluorescent lighting.

"I'm warning you," Jones said quietly. "One more word about that incident and I will do much worse."

"When I get free I am going to do to you sicko's what should have been done much sooner."

"That was a threat wasn't it mistress, and that's against the rules." Stormy made a slice, parallel to the first. "So, what else are you going to say?"

"Fuck you!"

"Your decision," Jones shrugged, and made another cut, this time horizontal and going through the other two, just below the ribs. She screamed again, jerking at the chains that held her. "What else do you plan to say?"

"You filthy little slut!"

Another slice, this time just above her belly button, making a grid of cuts. "Do you really want me to play noughts and crosses on your chest, Aly?" Jones sighed.

Aly was panting, trying to think through the pain, but stubbornly refusing to break. "Screw you!"

Jones had cut a deep cross in the upper right corner of the grid. "Hmm, Stormy, it's your turn. Where do you want to go?"

Stormy grimaced, but answered in a casual voice, "Bottom left corner."

"Alright. Aly, how do we get to Bloom?"

"You disgusting freak, you… shoulda been… drowned at… birth!"

Stormy cut a large circle in the bottom right corner, and listened to her victim scream. Some distant part of her mind thought absently that she should feel bad about torturing someone, but it was just a quiet whisper. She hadn't been lying when she said she was a sociopath. At sometime in the future, she might have nightmares about this incident, but they would be forgotten in the light of day, because it was necessary, and she would do it again if she had to.

"I think a different question is in order, just for variety. What do we break up the Winx Club?" Jones said in a bored tone.

"Screw… you."

Jones cut a cross into the centre square. "Stormy, your move."

"Middle left." Stormy said flashing her dagger.

"Okay. Aly, how do we get to Bloom?"

"I'm not… telling you… anything!"

Stormy shrugged and cut another circle into her stomach. She noted that her stomach was so covered in blood it was hard to tell where the cuts were, and grabbed a wet cloth from the tray to wipe at her chest. The cloth had been dipped in salt water, so Aly screamed again as the salt touched her wounds.

"How can we get to Bloom," Jones repeated in that deadly quiet voice.

Stormy by now was having serious trouble keeping a blank face as she watched Jones uncaringly cut into someone's skin, but knew that any sign of weakness would not help. Later, she could throw up and scream and curse, but for now, she had to just watch. She thought absently that she was becoming like… Darcy. She wasn't quite the sociopath that Darcy was, but this level of harsh violence didn't upset her as much as it used to. That was a very troubling thought.

Stormy was snapped out of her musings as Jones cut another cross into Aly's stomach, in the middle bottom square. She asked for her move, and she told her middle right. She asked Aly the question again, got another insult in response, and Stormy was forced to cut another circle.

Jones asked again, got denied an answer, and cut a cross in the top middle, making it three in a row. Still smiling that grim smile, she drew the scalpel down her stomach, running it through the three crosses.

Aly screamed, straining against the chains. Sweat beaded her forehead, and blood dripped onto the ground in a steady rhythm. Her abdomen was a mask of red, shining brightly in the lights.

Jones pressed the flat side of the scalpel against one of the crosses, coating it in blood, and then held it against her cheek.

"One more time, Aly, how do we break Bloom?"

A broken, sobbing sound escaped her throat, and Stormy knew that she had started to break. "Emotionally, hurt her emotionally."

Stormy glanced at Jones, and the succubus nodded. Jones didn't notice how Stormy had one hand pressed to her stomach, or that her skin was unnaturally pale and her eyes too bright. She turned back to Aly, pleased to see her trembling in her bonds.

"Good girl. So how I can't get into the pixies head so how do we break her?"

"I won't… dammit, you can do what you want to me, but I won't tell you that."

"We'll see. Let's try an easier question. How can I break their spirits or even yet divide them?"

"No…" The protest was weak and feeble, and she closed her eyes against the pain she knew was coming. She wasn't disappointed, and she screamed when she felt Jones draw the scalpel slowly down her back.

"Try again, Faerie."

"…. They are… already… broke… broken…"

"Good girl. Why?"

"… Jade."

"What do you mean?"

She got no answer, so she drew another long cut down her back.

"… Jade's… past."

"Elaborate."

"No." This time the answer was firm and strong.

Jones frowned when she saw that the bleeding from the cuts on her stomach had already started to slow. She should not have been healing that fast… Jade… somehow the pixie had given the younger faerie a tinge of her power…

"Hmm. Question for later. Back to Jade, I want all the details."

"No!"

Jones put the bloody scalpel back on the tray and debated on what to use, before finally picking up the whip. She uncoiled it and let her see how the light glinted off the metal barbs before walking around to her back. She measured the distance, swung back, and then snapped the whip. The metal barbs dug into his skin, tearing at the flesh, and the whip cut the skin, leaving an angry red line behind. Aly screamed, hands clenching around the chains.

"Wrong answer. Tell me everything about the Winx Club."

"No!"

Jones whipped her twice more, not giving her a respite between the lashes. Small droplets of blood splashed against her skin from the metal barbs, but she didn't care or even notice. She wanted answers and she was going to get them, whatever she had to do she couldn't even get into this pixies mind.

"Tell me about Winx Club."

"Fuck… you."

Jones lashed her three more times with the whip, ignoring her screams and whimpers, and then pressed close to her ruined back, putting her mouth next to her ear.

"Tell me."

"They're my only friends, you bastard," Aly whispered. "They're actually my best friends, and I won't let you hurt them. So when I get out of this I am going to hurt you, because I really want to." She couldn't break she had to hang on.

Stormy forced a nasty smile at the faerie, "Aww she wants to protect her loser friends, lets make her scream."

"No we need her alive…" Jones snarled, "Oh and all I have to do is set another plan into motion and she can watch each of the Winx Clubs painful death… I was going to let them live… to bad for you I'm going to have to call up the band of Seven…"

Aly's eyes opened slightly.

"Yes the most dangerous demons of all time… Jade my dear old friend… barely managed to get out of a fight with her life… it's a pity that the Starseeds took her I hear that Curran is itching for another fight with her…" Jones said laughing as she left the room.

Stormy glanced at Aly whose eyes were lifeless, "I'm going to kill you… if you succeed… I will kill you… with no regrets and I will enjoy it…" Aly said to Stormy who smirked at the faerie.

"Keep on dreaming. By the time we're finished I'll be in control of the gryphons power…" Stormy said as she left the room on route to the nearest bathroom.

Jade glanced at the magical cuffs she had around her wrists and feet, she could have busted out of them by now… but she made no move to she just stared at her bonds. She was still in the blood torn clothes she had used to battle the conduit… her face looked a lot older than she really was… her eyes were empty…

Outside her cell was two Starseeds who were glaring at her half expecting her to come smashing out of her bonds and attacking them brutally.

"I heard she beat our top mathematical conduit," she heard a starseed mutter to his partner.

"She doesn't look so tough, I could take her," the other one boasted.

"They say she beat that Darcy…" the other one muttered.

"Yeah right… no way I mean the chick that beat Darcy had a healing factor… look she has a scar," the one starseed pointed to her scarred eyes.

"Yeah I guess your right… from the tales I've heard this Jade person could easily have busted out of those bonds and killed us… if she wanted to… so what's the council of elders want with her…"

"Hears she's going to be put on trial… for the killing of a conduit," the other one shrugged and they continued to stare at Jade.

"Yeah and Джем, is going to be defending her…"

"Yeah well we all know that he's in love with her it's some of that stupid affection he picked up in the realms, and to think he used to be the most feared starseed here…"

"I used to be," a new voice said from the doorway… it was so familiar to her… "I must speak to my client, I'll deal with you later," the voice sounded powerful one commanding respect, but Jade kept on staring at her cuffs, she heard the other starseeds leave. Leaving her with the starseed.

"Jade, I expected you to have broken out of these bonds by now and have half the Starseed colony chasing your ass down the hallways." Jade didn't look up at the starseed.

"Go away I can defend myself," Jade whispered at him… her memories continued to turn over in her head as she watched, Remy and Yusuke, and Jem die in her head.

"You always could, and that usually landed us running for our lives," Jade glanced up at the man and her mouth dropped, there stood more or less Jem Kinlin the man she assumed dead… assumed her ass he had died in her arms of a broken neck.

Of course he stood there hotter than ever in Jade's opinion, with his long black and silver streaked hair, and the most amazing pair of silver eyes that seemed to pierce Jades soul, and the tattoo under his right eye just made the look complete. And the wings that extended out of his back was the colour of black with silver undertones.

"What's wrong with people these days, they don't seem to have the decency to stay dead so I can mourn and if they are alive they decide not to call me… leave a message anything to say I'm alright…" Jade began to rant only to be silenced by a kiss from Jem on the lips.

It felt so good but yet so bad a the same time, it was the kiss she had been yearning for when Jem was still alive but now that he was gone… Jade pushed him back with a slight hint of remorse.

"Now's not the time," she told him, not wanting to bring Makoto into this just yet,

Jem looked slightly disappointed, "Yeah your being tried for the murder of our only conduit and stealing his power well you did so technically your guilty… but the conduit was under the influence the of demon magic so I might get you out of the death penalty…"

"Death penalty…" Jade said.

"Yeah that's the penalty for killing a conduit, don't worry I'll get you out of here, and then you can stay with me," Jem smiled at her.

"Jem let them… everywhere I go people die, it's become a curse one which I can no longer carry… after you and Yusuke died I had Remy to lean on slightly but he left me… I knew we wouldn't remain close friends forever but… still it was nice… you guys carried me more than you knew… when you two died I swore to myself no one would ever get caught crossfire… and then Remy died… Jones killed him… and I was to slow again… all the power in the world was at my fingertips and I was to slow to react… again another person I cared about was killed in front of me. Remember my first pet,"

"You mean the dragon you named Bonzai… that you treated better than you treated us… when you were 8… what ever happened to him?"

"Ascot killed him right in front of me… much like the way you three died… and now I realize that the cause is me… maybe if I died than maybe people wouldn't be getting killed half the time…"

"That's bull shit and you know it… you fight to protect the ones you love… you were chosen for this job…"

"I didn't ask to be what I am… I never did… but I've taken it without complaint… but more and more people are dying around me… Jem… I give up…" the slap across her cheek came to quickly for her to put up a block for it.

"Who the hell are you?" Jem snarled at her, "Jade would never give up…"

Tears were now freely falling from Jades face, as she stared at her bonds, "She's gone Jem… Jem please just leave," she pleaded.

"Fine then I'll see you at the hearing then… but before I do that…" Jem shot a golden glow at Jade, which hit her straight on sending her back. "That's a possibility of your future, Jade… of course it's just a possibility… that's all life is possibilities." With that the starseed left the room.

Jade shuddered violently, and hang her head lower trying to shield her self from anyone who could see the tears…

"Makoto stop blithering, we'll find her…" Dani snapped at Makoto, who looked at her worry seemed etched in his face.

"Yeah and Aly too…" Bloom said with a shiver, "Who are you anyway?"

"We're the BOBS, I'm Calbolt, that's Dani, Koby, Ivy and the triplets," Calbolt said pointing to each of them.

"Yeah we're Jades new team," the triplets said together.

"But Jades with us," Tecna said glaring at them.

"Nah she drafted to our team," Koby said with a grin.

"Yeah something about us being totally more understanding or something like that?" Calbolt shot the girls a wicked grin.

Musa was quiet for a second, "Well you can't really blame her… but we need to focus right now we need to find Aly and Jade… Aly first because I believe Jade will be alright…"

"No she won't," Makoto said finally speaking.

"What do you mean?" Bloom said cautiously,

"You're her cousin," Dani said shooting Bloom a dirty look, "Could you not see Jade's been emotionally broken… could you not see that she's given up… which makes her quite dangerous… to herself…"

"Jade wouldn't kill herself," Bloom shot at Dani who smirked.

"See I told you the pixies don't learn anything important school like the history of magical creatures…" Dani said to the triplets.

"The starseeds will kill her Bloom… they will hold a trial somewhere and they will find her guilty…" Ivy said.

"Yeah and Jade will not put up a fight… they will kill her…" the triplets said in union.

"Serves her right," Stella muttered under her breath, but unfortunately most of the BOBS heard and scowled viciously at the Solarian princess.

"Serves her right for what…" Makoto growled at her his voice suddenly dangerous… "For caring about you… did you know that Darcy had infected the phoenix force when she absorbed it… creating a dark version of the phoenix a one that Jade battled silently without complaint for a few months hoping that you wouldn't see her when she lost control… but when you did you didn't stand by her like she hoped you would… instead you turned against her,"

"She sent a 15 year old child to her death," Stella said angrily.

"Not really Jade performed a spell which allowed Aly to have most of her healing factor… she didn't expect Aly to win against Stormy… just endure but she couldn't do that now could she… and now Jones has her…" Ivy said with a grimace.

"Jones? But doesn't Jade have her under her control?" Flora questioned.

"Didn't she tell you that Jones had asked to be set free and Jade had said yes? Jones is a half demon… that half is what controlling her right now…" Makoto said loftily.

"Well it explains the whole old friend comment," Musa said.

"So what are we going to do now we need to get to Aly and Jade…" Bloom said slightly scared.

"We don't even know where to search and plus Jones would have put up blocking spells so we couldn't find Aly…"

"The starseeds are on Earth," Dani supplied.

"Earth is a big place, well we can try to scry for her right," Bloom said.

"As for Aly?" Flora asked.

"We can scry for her to… of course if we find her then it we know it'll be a trap…" Dani said.

"So what are we waiting for… we must go…"

"And help Aly how cute," Jones said appearing in front of them floating on a cushion of air.

"You… you were Jades friend… how could you…" Bloom yelled in outrage.

"And you killed Remy you bitch," Flora yelled as both she and Bloom went Winx…

Jones sighed, "The power I wield is way more powerful than a faeries whose power comes and goes depending on her mood… as for Remy… I thought you were dating that Helias dude… oh well it's a pity… I really liked Remy… anyway I could rant on how you are going to die, which you will but of course there is a need for me to offer you a chance to save your lives and Aly's… if you all can survive the attack of the Band of Seven than I will return to Aly…"

"That's sick," Makoto snarled at her.

"You must be Makoto… Jades new boy toy…" Jones grinned at him, "I knew that she had good taste in guys but you, you put all the guys in Red fountain to shame," Jones licked her lips. "And you you're a…" a punch across the face sent Jones flying.

"Achmed what took you so long its been dark for over two hours," Calbolt said unimpressed.

"I was hungry," the vampire said simply, "So what I miss,"

"Nothing much, Jades a conduit… Aly got captured by that crazy chick over there… Jade got captured by a group of deranged Starseeds… and we found out that the Winx Club are a bunch of assholes," Jessie said.

"Yeah and now they're on our hit list," Daria said.

"Yeah and the succubus over there well she's making us fight the Band of Seven," Ellie said.

"So where do we find this band of Seven," Bloom asked Jones who rubbed her jaw.

"You won't find them… they'll find you," Jones glared at Achmed and disappeared.

"Well what do we do now?" Stella asked no one in particular.

"We search for this band of Seven," Bloom said, "If we don't we'll be sitting ducks…"

"And Jade?" Makoto, Musa and Tecna said in union.

"Let's pray that she lives its way to late to help her now… she's on her own," Bloom said slight remorse in her eyes.

Jade's eyes were dead absolutely and completely lifeless as she was pushed and shoved to where the tribunal was being held.

"Don't make us move you girly," A huge guard said pushing her roughly causing Jade to tumble slightly.

She was roughly dumped in a seat beside Jem who grimaced when he saw her and turned away.

An ancient looking man walked in and Jade was dragged up roughly by a guard, as everyone rose to greet the judge, again she was forced back down.

"Jade Halva," for an old man this guy had a deep voice, "You have been charged with the killing of one of our most sacred allies a mathematical conduit…" the judge droned on for a minute, "How do you plead?"

"Guilty," Jade said quickly, before Jem could intervene, "I plead guilty… no matter which way you look at the facts I killed the conduit for its power."

There was a murmur in the courts as the judge looked bewildered, "You do know the penalty is death right?"

"Yes I do and I don't change my answer… please you'd be doing the realms a great favour by giving me the full penalty for my crimes…" Jade said strongly and her eyes pleaded the judge.

"Well, then I pass down the full law of the starseeds on this youth does anyone object…" the judge looked at the other Elders which Jade hadn't noticed before. No one objected. "Than for the first time ever pass down a unanimous, judgement on the girl." With that Jade was dragged across the room which glowed underneath and drew out a distant memory from her mind causing everyone to stop and stare, it was Jade when she was battling the conduit.

She stood fully erect, her eyes focused on the conduit, a small graceful smile on her face. "You see the blood on my clothes… you know the pain I'm feeling… the fight still on so my life's on the line… but still to give up to you… concede defeat… well that isn't an option…" Jade grinned at the conduit and rushed in for an attack.., right before the memory cut of.

Jade stared at the image of herself and a spark of life flashed in her eyes… before quickly dying down again. She licked her chapped lips and stared at Jem who had anger written all over his features mixed with worry.

Jade was shoved to her knees her neck was bared as her executioner raised an ancient looking sword was raised… Jade closed her eyes as her life flashed before her eyes… and the sword went down…

Jones looked at the Band of Seven… each had there own specialty to the bring to the field… each a vicious killer… each enjoyed torturing there enemies… each a demon… "Look I don't care what you do with the others I just want this one alive… with as many bones as possible intact… she's going to be my new toy…" Jones said grinning at the manacled faerie who tried to scream through the gag Jones had put in to shut her up…

"So can we go now," the shortest member said with a cold grin, one that was hidden slightly under a mask.

"Yes Koumori… go and destroy the Winx Club," Jones said with a dangerous grin.

An: I think I sort of rushed Jades trial scene… oh well… I left a cliff-hanger… the next chapter… The 2 members of the band of Seven attack and Icy, and Darcy have there fun with Aly… and the conclusion or beginning of the starseed plot.