I wish other ppl would review this sometime, it shows me if anyone's actually reading it, but I guess I'll hafta take what I can get. XD Well, hope you like it!
'What's that?' asked Tecna curiously, starting to walk over.
The girl shivered, and braced herself for more pain.
'I think there's someone over there.' said Bloom, following Tecna. The others slowly walked over.
'Hello?' Bloom called softly, walking closer, Tecna close at her side. The girl cringed.
'She looks hurt.' Flora said, walking up to where Bloom and Tecna stood. The girl whimpered, and tried to curl up tighter to shield herself from the fairies. 'It's ok, we're not going to hurt you.' Flora said in a soothing tone. The girl shivered convulsively one last time and then passed out.
'She's covered in blood!' Mirta said in shock, bending over to look at the still form closer.
'What did those witches do to her?' Musa' s voice held untellable hatred for the Trix sisters.
'Well we can't just leave her here!' Stella's voice held her usual annoying quality that booked no argument, even if anyone had wanted to argue.
'How are we going to get her back to Alfea?' Tecna asked, peering around Stella.
'Why don't we take turns carrying her?' Astra suggested. 'She doesn't look very heavy, knowing them they probably starved her too.' Everyone stared at Astra, startled, the girl for the moment forgotten.
'You've seen the witches before?' Stella asked incredulously. Astra flashed her a grin.
'We've met.' She said emotionlessly. 'You were there too, Stella, but I doubt you'd remember.'
'What happened?' Stella asked, still shocked.
Astra gently lifted the girl's still form and carefully slung her over her shoulder. 'I think we have more important matters to deal with right now, but I'll explain when we get back to Alfea.' Stella didn't seem all that convinced, but subsided. After a few seconds of walking, she suddenly stopped.
'Oh no!' Stella exclaimed in a tragic tone. 'I forgot the flip weed!' she promptly ran back to get some, and returned with her backpack that she had brought looking a lot fuller. Astra rolled her eyes at her sister's vain interest in makeup, especially when someone's life was on the line. Even if it WAS someone they didn't know.
The group trudged on in silence, with Astra occasionally shifting to make carrying the girl more comfortable. When they reached a clearing, she let the girl slid to the ground and sat down with her back to a tree.
'Hey! Are you coming or not?' Stella snapped, shutting up when she saw the exhaustion on her sister's face.
'Ya, I'm coming.' Astra said, hauling herself to her feet. 'I think someone else should take a turn carrying her though.' Astra said, gesturing to the girl. 'How 'bout you, Stell?' Astra said, addressing Stella with the nickname she had devised for her sister when both were small.
'I am royalty!' Stella said stiffly. Many a person would have found this attitude not much better than that of the Trix, but the others were not fooled. They knew Stella to well, and had long since realized that she would let nothing damage her pride, especially in her heritage.
'I'll take her,' Flora said in her usual quiet voice, walking over and picking the girl up in much the same fashion that Astra had.
'Thanx!' Astra said, a purely jovial smile on her face as she walked up to the other girls, Flora close behind. As by some unspoken agreement, Flora switched with Musa at the next glade a while away, then Musa with Tecna, Tecna with Mirta, and Mirta with Bloom. By that time, they were almost at Alfea; the castle was visible between the trees, and the towers stretched up to touch the sky, the sun's rays barely peeking out from behind it.
'Oh no, everyone will be up!' Flora said concernedly.
'We have to hurry!' Astra said worriedly, she'd expected that they'd be back long before this.
'Ya, or Miz G's gonna give us weeks worth of detention!' Musa started to walk faster, nearly breaking into a run.
'Do you think they're up yet?' Mirta asked worriedly, starting to run. Musa followed her lead, and soon everyone had upped their pace from a steady walk to a worried sprint.
'My calculations suggest that the headmistress and Ms. Griselda wake at approximately… 7:45!' Tecna exclaimed, shocking her into running faster.
'Then we're too late!' Bloom cried, running as hard as she could with the girl still slung over her shoulder.
'They might still be in bed!' Stella suggested hopefully, but the words didn't hold much promise, even to her.
The seven fairies burst into the clearing, the gate lying tempting close. They finally reached it, not so much as stopping to catch a breath as they hurried up to the school.
Tecna cautiously opened the door of the school, peeing around. After deducing that no one was there, she pulled it open wider. 'It's all clear!' she called out softly.
The six behind her crept into the school. Tecna shut the door as quietly as she could manage, and hurried after them. It seemed to take a lifetime to get up to the dormitory, and when they finally reached it, they separated into their various rooms, no words exchanged, not even hopes that they might've gone unnoticed or excuses to keep them from getting severely punished. Astra followed Bloom and Stella into their room.
Stella promptly lay down on her bed and fell asleep, while Astra did the same on the floor. Bloom distinctly got the impression that Astra was much different from her sister, despite outside appearances. Stella would have balked at the prospect of not having a cozy bed to sleep on, but Astra just took it as if nothing was more natural. She yawned, and shrugged it off. Time enough to ponder that later. Right now she needed sleep.
Bloom moved the girl off her back and laid her down on her bed, certain that she would not take to the floor as easily as Astra had, especially after the witches had been so cruel to her. She took one of her blankets and curled up with it on the floor, her last coherent thought about how much trouble they would be in for missing the first day of classes…
'Is everything here?' Icy asked Stormy, who had been inspecting the dormitory to see if anything had been left behind.
'All but one.' Said Darcy, walking out of the closet. The other two looked in her in confusion, till realisation dawned.
'THE GIRL WAS LEFT BEHIND?' Icy demanded angrily, slamming her fists down on the table in closest proximity to her.
'There was a loophole in the spell.' Darcy said, skilfully concealing her anger, though it burned as bright as Icy' s, if not brighter. 'It was only to take what we had brought, the girl we took when we were already there.'
'We must get her back.' Icy stated, her words acidic.
'To do that, we need the Dragon Fire, and to get the Dragon Fire, we need the wolves, at least to be able to implement my plan.' Darcy was clearly trying to calm Icy down, the lust for power had clouded their vision before, never would they be so distracted again. 'They were powerful before, but now that they have both solarian brats…' Darcy shrugged. 'Their power when combined is far from being the equal of the Dragon Fire, but is almost if not equal to our power.
'What exactly is the situation?' Icy' s voice was cool now, the acidic quality gone. Darcy had really been getting on her nerves, in revealing her intelligence, and by the fact that she disagreed with some plans of Icy' s that would never have been brought into question the previous year. Though annoyed, she also had to grudgingly agree that they had a good start, and had not failed as yet other than their loss of the girl.
'Little Stella's power is that of the sun (I know it says sun and moon, but she only ever uses the sun, so I'm using this to my own purposes…) while her sister Astra' s is that of the moon. When combined…' Darcy shrugged, leaving her sisters to wonder.
'I see.' Icy said, fully taking in the implications of the problem. 'If we separated them…' a plan began to formulate in her mind, making her suppress her enjoyment of her momentary superiority over Darcy. 'And somehow get rid of the Earth girl…'
'Then the others would be powerless to stop us!' Stormy exclaimed, catching the thread of the plan.
'Exactly.' Icy grinned wickedly. She needed the superiority over her sisters in order to suit her own purposes, unknown to all but herself, and Darcy was not going to take it from her.
Stormy glared at Icy, unseen to neither of the other two witches. Let those two think she was deaf and dumb. Well, she would know differently, and by the time they figured it out…
So all is not well even within the seemingly tight knit group of the Trix sisters… a mutiny (I don't know what other term to use...)is brewing and only time will tell who will come out on top… They probably wouldn't actually do this, but who knows! It's not really twisting their natures that much, they're wicked enough (shrugs) well! Hope you like it! I'll post more later! XD
Alora Darkmoon