(Binary Galaxy)

It had been an entire day since Techna had last been able to open her eyes. For the sleeping draught Sky had given her the night before had been powerful. So much so that she still felt the effects of it. The extreme need to sleep almost prevailed over the urge to think calmly and figure things out… But then, this was Techna, so she forced herself to think.

Something had happened while she was out cold, and she knew it too, but the knowledge abandoned her. All she knew was that she had heard some very interesting sounds; because for all of the sleeping draught's power, it could not by any means whatsoever keep her from hearing the things that she should not, would not, and never would want to hear again .

Techna had suspected Sky of horrid things ever since the day they had found Bloom crying her eyes out in the bedroom portion of the tower. Techna realized that Bloom was not one to be a cry baby. She herself had never seen Bloom cry before, and the tears in themselves should have been marked as the first universal wonder. And so, she thought she finally knew their cause.

Sky, was her only thought… Though at least she knew he was under spell. It was clear as all day that the fool was under some wretched witch on witch thing. But then, Sky had not been her boyfriend, and Bloom had a tendency to be blind about such things when she was mad.

She was then hit by the urge to know what the spell was, she had her assumptions… Obedience spell; no doubt, Techna thought to herself. But who would do such a thing to a king? For no one could be that stupid. With that thought another started forming at the back of her mind and everything suddenly became clear.

It had to be one of the remaining royal family…No one else could ever get that close! And I know that obedience spells don't work very well… He's probably been under it for a month… He must have escaped its power at least once by now! But how? She stopped to think for a second then she realized what could have let him escape, for he had to have escaped its grasp. Love… The thought of love would of done it for me… For love, as I very well know, can break through any spell. He must of come to her, and Bloom, with her: "I can give no one a second chance" thing didn't believe him. That or she didn't even let him stay in her presence long enough to get the words out. She must of saw him as the same old Sky who had broken her heart and is now too much a fool herself to come and save the only people that ever really loved her. Along with the man that deep down inside, under that spell loves her himself. As she lifted her head from the groggy sleep she thought one more thing. We're doomed!

That was when it all started coming back, what she had heard during her slumber. A loud thud as a person hit the floor, the yelling of the name of the dangerous herb harmoine, and the last shuddering breath of someone she thought she knew. It hit her then, Sky had killed Musa!

As she started shaking with fear as if she had been in one of the tundra realms and had had hypothermia for a week; the very person she now hated, whether or not he had a spell on him or not, at the moment, walked into the room.

"How dare you?" Techna screamed. "How dare you take your friend's life like that!"

Sky shot a glare at her and then snapped at the chance to tell her off. "For one, she is not my friend. And if she ever was, those memories do not occur to me now. And for two, killing her automatically gives me, the victor, all power of her now heirless, and king-less planet!"

"Bloom will come! I've got no doubt!" She snarled.

"That blithering fool!" He questioned. "She's been no help to her friends once during this half-year! Why would she come now?"

"Because she could never let her friend's kingdom fall into the hands of an idiot such as yourself!"

"And what if I said she was dead?" The thought had not yet occurred to Techna, but now that it did she knew she had just been lied to.

"You lie!" She retorted fiercely.

"Ha! So you are as smart as you seem! I did lie about that, but trust me. She will be dead soon enough!" Sky was now trembling with anger. His eyes flashing between two colors.

"You couldn't send her to her grave without her getting vengeance even if you did have the guts to try!" Techna said, hoping she was right.

"If I were in your position, I'd watch my mouth!" Techna started shaking herself.

"The Hell you would! You'd be crying for your mother! And what need do I have to be afraid of you? You're nothing but a coward who thinks you must solve everything with war!"

"That may be so," he said, unscathed by her little insult. "But look around you my dear! I've had four victories so far! What can stop me?" He snickered.

With that Techna gave an effervescent grin and said mockingly: "Bloom."

(Vitalion)

Bloom was in a dark room; the tower in which she and Julian had spent the last twenty-one days and nights together; finishing the potion that could save lives. The one made of harmoine... And up to this point Bloom had not known what the herb's deadly powers could do, beyond creating a vile stench when you were trying to transform its abilities to good. Nor had she wished to know.

It was with that that her fate had been decided... She would realize that whether or not she wanted to sit and pretend that the planets weren't being destroyed was not her choice. For now, it had been decided for her, by the one man that had ever had the power to destroy her heart. The fact that Julian now could did not occur to her until it was too late... But I'll save that for later.

Julian had left her earlier that morning to go down to his room and sleep on an actual bed for the first time in, as I've said before, twenty-one days.

"Ok then," Bloom had replied to his request for a nap, not thinking that by any way possible she would just get the scare and surprise of her life.

The instant the prince had left the room her head started aching and her temples started to throb in a warning that was very familiar to her now a days.

With that she got up cautiously and walked to the window, she stuck her head through the small opening that was barely big enough for her to squeeze through. Then she stepped out onto a balcony that she had secretly been using for these exact purposes.

Now she used a simple spell that could only be mastered by the keeper of the Dragon Fire, to turn her vision into that of an eagle's and let the warning magic that gave her these headaches that she so readily despised; point her head in the correct direction and focus her gaze.

"No, it can't be!" She said to herself. "The Binary Galaxy has fallen as well!"

Too bad for her that this was not what her senses meant her to see.

Her magic whipped her gaze over to the right and down a bit then focused. For a second she wasn't sure what she was seeing. Then she noticed that the grass was stained blood red and hundreds of soldiers dressed in the Binary Galaxy's royal colors were strewn across it. It was shortly after that, that she noticed a slight variation in the color of red on the field by the means of a small patch of red fabric on a slim body that had black hair and pigtails.

"Musa," Bloom breathed.

For there was Musa, turned on her stomach so her head was facing down and all you could see was her back as she lay there… lifeless.

"Dear God no!" Bloom screamed in her panic. "No Musa! You can't be dead! No!" Her scream pierced the air again and was shortly followed by the sound of hundreds of windows shattering at once.

"I must go to her! I must!" Bloom said in a relatively lower voice.

With that she wriggled back into the tower through the window and just as fast started running down the stairs. The sound of her heels echoed behind her like two angry dogs who wouldn't give up the chase.

She shot through the door at the base of the steps and went through the halls to her room like a flash of lightning.

As she was about to slam the door to her room; Julian shot around the corner as well, having been rudely awakened from his nap by the sound of the glass in his window shattering.

"Bloom? What in the world...?" He was yet again rudely cut off as she slammed the door behind her, for she had been twenty yards ahead of him. She also had the advantage of her step being quickened by years of extreme training. Along with that he heard the door lock.

Inside the room Bloom was frantically searching through her wardrobe for her Sparian clothes. (FYI: the red dress)

Finding the dress she was looking for she quickly slipped it over her head, the fabric momentarily catching on the arm band that held the Dragon insignia until she furiously pulled it down, tied the laces in the back and slipped her crown on her head. Also binding the laces on attached to her five inch heals. She also produced her red scarf and hung it around her shoulders. Last but not least she put on the arm band's matching Golden Dragon insignia that she wore around her neck as a choker.

With that done she walked to the door, said a little enchantment that would form an invisible wall around her so that no one could stop her until it was way too late and stepped through the door.

Outside the room Julian heard the bolt click open again. Having been terrified out of his wits that something was wrong, he opened the door wildly and was surprised when he saw Bloom dressed the way she did when she was leaving something, or some-place, for a dangerous destination. The way she dressed now told anyone and everyone who she was and that they better not mess with her.

"Are you leaving?" He said, knowing full well the answer.

She didn't even answer him, instead ran right past him and up to the tower.

He followed as closely as he could but was still left far behind. Once he got up to the top of the tower she was nowhere in sight. But that just told him where she was. He ran over to the tiny window she used for seeing-magic and wriggled through.

As he got to the balcony beyond the window, she was already standing on the railing, ready to jump off.

"No Bloom!" Julian shouted, thinking she was trying to do something quite different.

He ran to her again and was then suddenly rammed back against the tower wall by powerful magic as Bloom jumped off the tower.

He was aghast for a moment then walked over to the edge himself and looked down. Suddenly a fire red colored hawk shot past his face with fire trailing behind it the entire way.

Bloom had turned into an animal? This was a new one even by him. And he thought he'd seen everything up till that moment.

Where is she going? He thought to himself as his gaze followed her upwards until she left Vitalion's atmosphere.

Bloom didn't like to talk when she wasn't human, though she very well could...

What have I done? She thought to herself as she flew away from the only safety she'd known for a half-year.

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