For a moment, there was silence, as scattered students, firemen, and policemen, who a moment ago had been trying to make some distance between them and the site, suddenly stopped at the silence and turned to look.
Screaming, Icy pulled herself up, and the witnesses resumed their running, deciding that hanging around had been a bad idea, because now they were seeing things, they HAD to be seeing things…even as Icy stood up, her now Icy visage alight with rage.
"GOD DAMN YOU!" she screamed, as she slammed her hands together, and ice gushed forth from them, aiming right at Bloom and showing an Incapacitator wouldn't work she could still generate Icy, but Icy was there, as she flew between Icy and her friends and countered with a two-handed Dragonfire blast. The twin blasts slammed into each other and a war of dominance raged for a few seconds before the blasts finally just detonated in the middle, throwing Bloom backwards and sending her down in a heap with her friends while Icy was pushed back herself. Bloom scrambled back up, at the ready, even as Icy looked at the still living faerie, and her rage grew ever deeper, even as the ice on and around her torso and head leapt higher and fiercer to reflect her anger.
"I will freeze your life, and everything in it." Icy said, and then she coiled in on herself and vanished in a wisp of smoke.
Silence.
And Bloom collapsed, utterly exhausted, as she returned to normal. She coughed violently and for a moment was worried she was going to vomit, but she didn't. A small comfort.
"Nice going Bloom… Icy won't be back…!" Jade sent.
As Bloom gazed bleary eyed at the spot where Icy had been, and at the ruins around her, and she wondered if she had accomplished anything at all today.
Except the fact that when Icy showed up again, she'd be madder then ever.
"ALY!" Stella screamed.
And then fire lines were roping around her and pulling her back, even as Jade leapt over her still dodging the blasts Jones was throwing, the lines that had yanked her away withdrawing back into her palms as she thrust her arms up.
"MOVE STELLA!" she yelled at Stella, not pointing out that the Tendrils had already moved her, as she slammed her arms down and several dozen thin lines fired out from her palms and rammed into the glass block with immense force, shattering the heavy cube into a thousand pieces and freeing Aly in amongst a storm of jagged chunks, chunks of glass which were promptly seized by black energy and pulled away as the strands wrapped around Aly and pulled her from the hole, as Aly found that air was hers again and she spat out a wad of lumpy glass and inhaled, and inhaled, as Jade pulled her out and placed her on the ground, as she grabbed her throat and took in great gasping breaths.
"Aly!" Stella said, as Flora floated down in front of her, as Aly continued to gasp for air. Jade glanced at her.
"Injuries?"
"Not that I can see, but her predicament makes me worry about one possibility. Aly, relax." Jade said. Aly was barely aware of what Jade was saying: she was too busy taking joy in the simple pleasure of breathing.
So she was greatly shocked as the tendrils shot out again, flowed into her mouth, and extended strands that pushed themselves into her lungs and stomach.
Aly froze in utter alarm at this. True, it wasn't painful: it felt like she had taken a very deep breath and that her stomach was suddenly full…but at the same time, there was a terrible sense of alien violation as the Tendrils briefly probed every corner of her abdomen and lungs, feeling around like gentle but still clutching fingers…and then they were pulling out, the gold energy withdrawing itself back out of her mouth and into Jade's palm, and then Aly exhaled the breath she had just taken, making a noise that she couldn't believe what had happened.
"Gastric system and airway are clear of glass." Jade said dodging another blast from Jones.
"Guh-hu!" Aly gasped, still taking in deep breaths and unable to properly speak. "Wha-thu! Yu-duh uh!"
"Aly, I know it wasn't exactly pleasant, possibly on the level of desecration of your body…but believe me, you should be very grateful that I had the foresight to check that there wasn't a tiny shard of glass that would punch a hole in one of your lungs or pass its way through your digestive system making tiny cuts all the way and setting you up for peritonis." Jade said. She looked at Aly's eyes. "Burst blood vassals in the orbital sacs. Think I can fix that?"
"Easily." Aly said as Jade healed her eyes.
"Now be careful rookie," Jade said
"Didn't you get blown up in the kitchen?"
"I am not so easy to kill." Jade replied matter of factly.
Taking a few more deep breaths, Aly tried to stand up, and stumbled a bit. Jade caught her.
"Hold it kid. Just rest a few more seconds."
"No…Stormy and Jones…"
"Our companions are surely…"
And then with a loud yell, Makoto came flying past them and went crashing down into the small hole that had been made when Jade had freed Aly from her prison of Glass that Stormy had made. Jade's eyes darted to it. So did Aly's, as she heard mad laughter and looked off in the distance to see Stormy and Jones raining fireballs or lightning bolts down on Amity Alfea.
Her eyes glowed green.
"I'll rest when I'm DEAD!" Aly yelled, shoving Jade away as she went Winx, and she flew up into the air and back after Stormy.
Jade smiled slightly before launching herself at Jones
Koby didn't exactly share Jade's high hopes, as at the moment he was frantically trying to dodge Hyo's huge swinging swords, the master of the blades having constructed another physical sword when he had gone to work for Jones.
"Silly Boy! You cannot run forever! I, Hyo, will squash you! But this is really annoying! Stand still, so I can smack your ass!" Hyo said: he STILL hadn't mastered the exact use of slang, so in the way of the truly hopeless, he was trying to correct that deficiency by using it more then ever. And his mangling this time offended Koby.
"YOU WILL NOT TOUCH ME, BUT I WILL REACH OUT AND TOUCH YOU!" Koby screamed, as he charged up and barraged Hyo with a sword barrage, the silver projectiles slamming into the demon and making him recoil under the impacts. Growling, he thrust out his sword, and it extended on a piston and lanced at Koby, who dodged easily and introduced Hyo to more hits, and his failed offensive move left him even more open as he stumbled back.
And then Koby screamed as a powerful impact, accompanied by a held guitar jam, slammed into his back and sent him crashing into the ground.
"YEAHHHH!" Curran whooped, as she swung down, her arm still in the air from her guitar stroke. "What's mah name, roadkill?"
"Curran! Curran!" Hyo chanted, with about 70 strategy and 30 real admiration, as Curran closed her eyes and smiled as she felt her hair blaze up. Ah, it was good to be worshipped again, and when Jones had conquered the realms she'd make sure she had a stadium of people and creatures devoted to nothing but saying her name, even as Hyo ran in to finish his job, swinging up a massive sword and slamming it down, palm first, squashing Koby like she was a mosquito.
"Yes! I have burned his back burner! I am safe!" Hyo said.
And then his eyes widened as his sword was suddenly forced up.
"We…are not playing… baseball …" Koby said, his voice under strain as he brought his massive strength to bear and forced the sword up with his. "But…if you wish to…"
And then Koby screamed again as another blast slammed into his back, sending him flying out from under Hyo's sword and tumbling along the ground.
"A good hunter picks his moments." Another band of seven said, his name Anatsu, as his arm cannon returned to his gauntlet. "Ah, an sword boy. That will be a fine collectible."
"Ow this hurts this hurts a lot ow ow ow…." Koby said as he bounced along, and then a hand caught her, a black energy hand.
"Ah! You have returned!" Koby said as he finally collected himself. "We have new trouble. What do we do Dani?"
"Less talky, talky, more thrashy, thrashy." Dani said, as she sized the three demons up, "That big bastard's the one that threw me. I want him!" Cyborg said, charging.
"I get the swordsman and the instrument playing one for my soon to come victory." Koby said, flying up.
"Ok fine, We'll take the…" Ivy began, and then she yelped as a net suddenly flew out of nowhere and wrapped around her, tying her up in a tight bundle as she fell to the ground, Dani's eyes darting to her.
"Argh! There's some kind of mental dampener in this thing! I can't…concentrate…!" Ivy cursed as the net glowed green faintly.
Though she wouldn't be happy, as she turned her eyes to Anatsu
"BIG mistake."
Laughing, Jones rained hell down on the Alfea school, pleased as she watched the faeries frantically scramble away like the ants they were. The only downer was that the demons were running as well, but one thing at a time.
"All right! Double generation elimination bonus! Fifty thousand points!" Jones said, as she formed another dark fireball and launched it down, aiming for the leprechaun and his father.
And her eyes widened as a gold plasma blast flew in from the side and knocked the ball of dark flame away and into the distance, where it quickly poofed out when it got too far away from it's maker.
"TILT!"
Jade's foot slammed across Jones face, sending her reeling across the sky, as Jade flipped over, ready, as Jones righted herself, staring at Jade in disbelief, which was quickly replaced by renewed rage.
"Shouldn't you be choking to death on glass?" Stormy asked.
"CHOKE ON THIS!" Aly yelled as she fired a powerful windblast. Stormy moved long before it hit, her body zipping immediately to the side, leaving that purple trail of her form, as she zapped around Aly and…
Found the teen faerie doing a backwards flip in mid-air, as she rammed her left leg out and right into her face as she tried to swoop in and blast him with another explosion blow. She recoiled back, and then stared at Aly in shock, shock that increased when blood began running from her nose. She reached up and brought her fingers to the organ, staring once more at the blood.
"Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice…I forget the next part." Aly said, shrugging.
Stormy blinked.
And then she threw her head back and screamed, screamed even louder then she had the last couple of times, as Aly slammed her hands over his ears and still felt the primal cry of wrath and agony drilling into her head as windows shattered for a block around and all the dogs began howling, and then she flew at Aly at super high speed, smashing her fist across her face.
Aly repaid her in turn, slamming her knee into her gut and then smashing a right hook across her visage. Stormy reeled back and slashed out another lightning kick, but Aly dodged, and then she flipped up, smacking Stormy under the chin with her toe and sending her spinning back.
Stormy screamed and fired twin lightning blasts from her hands: Aly brought up her hands and formed two shields that the blasts flew into, detonating into an electrical cloud as the shock wave pushed Aly back.
Then Stormy flew from the cloud, shrieking, as she brought back her hands and claws of lightning a foot long formed on her fingers, claws she slashed at Aly's eyes, claws Aly stopped an inch from said eyes by grabbing her wrist, even as Stormy bore down on her and the two crashed down into the street.
And Dani thrust out her arm, and shadow swirled out from the forearm and formed into her own cannon, a cannon seven times bigger then Anatsu's, as Anatsu stopped his firing process to gap at it.
"Mine's bigger." Dani said.
And then the shadow flew from her other hand, smashing Anatsu's arm cannon and then lashing to the side and taking the hunting demon in the chest, knocking him down.
"And you should know that size doesn't matter." Dani said, as she withdrew the decoy cannon and the attack strand into her form, as she ran up to Anatsu's prone body. "That's it? Too weak!"
Anatsu's leg lashed out, smashing Dani across the face, and sending her bouncing along the ground, coming to rest near Ivy.
"I deserved that." Dani said, and flipped up.
Just in time to see the net come coiling around her, encasing her own form and wrapping her up as tightly as Ivy.
"Heyyyyyyy!" Hyo said as Musa approached him. "My little sister hip hopper! You remember me, Hyo! What's the nizzle my shizzle fo fizzle? I mean, con-drizzle my izzle, nizzle!"
"What the FIZZUCK are you saying?" Musa yelled.
"Hey man, I'm just trying to hip to your jive, music girl! Check out my suit, it's greasy sweet!"
"First of all, I have no idea what you're saying, and second of all…" Musa said, and then she fired a sonic blast at the demon.
"Hey! Bad manners my bi…"
"DON'T! EVEN! SAY! IT!" Musa yelled.
"Ok, fine! I, Hyo will just catch you on the flip side, dudette meister! NOT!" Hyo said, and then his sword snapped open, revealing missile launchers.
"Oh shit." Musa said.
The missiles launched out, and Musa vanished in explosions.
"Ha ha! I pity da fool, that doesn't respect the great Hyo!"
"What are you doing back, dipstick?" Curran said as Stella flew up. "Didn't my last performance show you, you aren't fit to thrash in my mosh pit?"
"We can hardly find a reason to be afraid of you, nor your inadvertent rhyming nor the pre-packaged glossy slick soulless junk you call music!" Tecna said.
"Oh, the sting!" Curran said, clutching her heart. "Forget it girlie. I do what I love, and as it is said, 'Art is long, and critics are but the insects of the day!'. Randall Jarrell." Curran said, as she adjusted her dial. "Now if you're done hating, COME ON FEEL MY NOISE!"
And Curran slammed her hand across the guitar cords and sent off another fierce wave of force, and as Stella dodged and countered with Sun blasts. Curran did likewise as she continued jamming on her guitar and sending more blasts of power at Stella and Tecna.
"Critics! 'Venomous serpents who delight in hissing!' W.B Daniel! 'Serpents who feed on filth and venom!' Voltaire! 'This wretched race of hungry alligators!' Shakespeare! Or was it Bacon? Or maybe it was…" Curran trailed off… as she looked at all the shocked readers who had just been watching her fire off philosophy. "What? You think I can't read? You think there's a lot to do in the Underworld?"
"You crave entertainment?" Tecna asked as she flew in close and fired off another score of digital bolts. Curran just smirked as she twisted her dial and then thrust her fingers down. A shield formed around her that the Digital bolts exploded on, and then Curran raised her hand and thrashed the cords again, and the shield expanded rapidly and smacked Stella and Tecna, sending them tumbling off.
"'Oh God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths, to steal away their brains!' Now THAT was Shakespeare! OH YEAH!" Curran said as she again adjusted her dial. "Now to pay tribute to a rock god: SLASH!"
And Curran began jamming rapidly on her guitar, and lines of energy began firing out from her and at the girls, who were dodging rapidly from the huge onslaught and Stella shrieked as one of the lines caught her on the arm and sliced her open, blood spilling out.
A line of twisting, thrashing black and red force was zapping back and forth across the Alfean school, smashing through burning school, as Jade and Jones exchanged blows, neither able to get through the other's guard. They crashed through the side of a house and then went straight up, Jade using shields and intangibility to go through the barriers and Jones just exploding/melting her way through as they two exploded from the roof and fought into the sky.
Jade finally got her guard broken and Jones pummelled her, forgetting her dark flames in her mad rage as she slammed punch after punch into Jade's face and chest, even as their forms continued to go up into the sky, Jones finally zapping back and drawing back her leg for an explosion kick. Jade blocked the blow with a shield and then blasted Jones in the face with her fire breath, sending her recoiling back…and slashing her foot up, catching Jade on her chin and knocking her back…and then she had zapped above her and fired down, smashing her foot into her chest and driving them down through the roof of still standing Alfean roof. The two recovered in a split second and resumed their furious war of blows, once again not able to get through each other's guard. This time, Jade claimed the advantage, as she ducked her head to the side as Jones's dark fire-encased fist slammed into the stone fireplace and blew a large hole in it, and then Jade slammed her palm into Jones sternum and let loose with a point back fire blast that sent her flying backwards. She crashed out through another wall, and as the house structure fell around her, Jade flew in and punched her across the face, sending her flying across the street and smashing into the front of Alfea, which collapsed from the impact.
Jade stopped them, staring at her hands. What was going on? In her Winx form, she'd been made stronger, faster, tougher…but never like this…she had never done anything like this. Was she high on adrenaline? Did her body even PRODUCE adrenaline in this state? Could she…and then she recalled she still had a fight to win as the wreckage shifted and then blasted off Jones, who looked at Jade with murder in her eyes, or even more intense murder.
"I HATE YOU!" Jones screamed, and thrust back her hand. A giant limb of dark flame appeared behind her, and Jade flew up as Jones slammed her hand forward and the gigantic fist vaporized the house they had just been in. Jade thought of all the memories that Jones had just destroyed, and she found more strength as she thrust her hands down and fired a barrage of fire blasts, explosions erupting around Jones…and then she was flying up at her, slamming her palms together and firing a huge dark flaming arrow at Jade. Jade spun away to the side, only to find Jones blurring her way over there and smashing a flaming chop across Jades face, sending her spinning across the stratosphere.
"NOW BURN!" Jones screamed, and then she began firing black fireballs at Jade, dozens, hundreds, as she vanished into an explosion of heat that could rival a star.
Jones grinned ferociously.
And then Jade flew out of the explosions, her intangible form immune to the flames even as she turned tangible and slammed both her fists into Jones's chest, sending the two warriors flailing across the sky again.