I've resurrected from the dead!

Disclaimer: I do not own the Winx Club or any of it's characters. You should know who I own. Last chapter for Astra's saga.


Chapter 9: Redemption, Saga 1

Right as the witches teleported a creek came from the boy's dorm room. It was Seth. The dorms didn't have any bathrooms but at least there were some in the halls. A few minutes later he walked in, ungracefully. He tripped over a nearby chest and hit the ground hard.

"Ow! I never trip! There is usually a..." He mumbled while looking by Astra's bed. He then made a shocked face.

"Light. Carby. Where is he?" He dashed over to the lights and switched them on. "Astra! Wake up! Someone pet-napped Carby!"

"What?" Astra asked groggily. He was temporarily blinded by a sudden flash of light. His vision mended yet was blinded again. "Oh, jeez man. Put some pants on."

Seth did wake up at the middle of the night to go to the bathroom. Anyone at that time would most likely would be wearing boxers. The thief slipped into his room to change. This work up Spectus in the progress.

"What's the problem?" Spectus asked slowly with his head out the door.

"We think someone took Carby."

"Just wonderful. What are we going to do?"

"What's to worry? You guys can probably take down any threat."

"Probably, but we may need help."

"It's three in the morning, I'm tired. Who's going to help?"

"Someone here."

"They will help." Seth said coming out of his room with a pants on. "I know robberies. This has obvious signs to the culprit. First off, everyone, and I mean everyone likes Carby. The teachers don't mind even when he follows Astra to class."

"True." The summoner said.

"So, it's obvious who would steal it."

"Witches." Spectus said sternly.

Seth's eyes began rapidly targeting several areas. Scans of DNA and magical paw prints were left in places. "Apparently, they were looking for something. Striking in the belly of the beast is quite stupid. Looks like there was little struggle. Small trail was left and teeth marks are on Astra's blanket. Also looks like they were thinking of taking the book. They didn't, yet they stole the staff.

Astra's head spun to the location of his staff. Nothing was there. His facade slowly altered has he made an angry twitch with his eyebrow. He shot up from his bed instantly.

"I want my staff. Ok. Let's put on some clothes and find out more on the witches. Seth, get into the computer lab and use the DNA scanner to find out about those girls."

"Can do." The thief said creeping outside.

"Spectus, equip yourself. Without my staff, all I can do is use blink traps. I've only learned how to fight with staves and that particular staff lets me control my summoning."

"No problem. Just promise to learn how to use another weapon in case of emergency." Spectus equipped himself in his checkered armor, a warhammer, and zircon chain.

"What is the chain for?"

"Bribery."

Once he left, Astra shifted his eyes. He moved the security camera to the wall and lifted his bed. A small silver tile was seen with a number lock and handle. The tile moved open with a few turns clockwise, counterclockwise, and a twist of the handle. A jagged flame-shaped topaz was the treasure inside. Astra pocketed it. He then fixed the room to how it was minutes ago.

Meanwhile...The spectral warrior crept to a nearby dorm. He knocked on it softly, trying not to wake anyone. No response. He knocked a little harder. A voice grunted and footsteps were made. A teenager in red hair opened the door. It was Vern.

"It's three in the morning, this better be important." Vern said angrily.

"Is thievery a good enough reason?" Spectus asked smugly.

"No." Vern slammed the door.

"C'mon man, it was witches." Spectus said creaking the door open.

"Those three senior witches from late spring?"

"Yes."

"Who cares? Not me."

"We need someone of your skills to help us. Besides, think of all the benefits."

"Hmm..." Vern did like attention. A good fight with those criminal witches could give him some credit with Troja. It worked for Spectus. And his roommate was able to get a book from the vault. "What's in it for me?"

"This." Spectus pulled out the silver chain from his room. "This special chain can be useful for weapons like lances. Just attach it to your gauntlet and weapon and you got a retractable weapon. Good for pinning people against walls and stuff."

"...Deal." Both warriors shook hands. After five minutes Vern was ready for battle. They walked backed to the thief's and summoner's room, who were both waiting eagerly for their roommate to get back.

"Good, your back." Seth said. "And you got Vern. Wait, what about your roommate?"

"No idea, my roommate may be watching the vault."

"Anyway, what did you find out about those witches?"

"Here's what I found." Seth pulled out a rather long sheet of paper from his cloak. "The witches are Icy, Stormy, and Darcy. Triplets apart of the coven Trix."

"Ugh...what kind of incompetent moron would give them rhyming, stupid names like that?" Astra interrupted.

"Let me continue. Anyway, they tried the whole world domination thing in Magix using the Army of Decay, it failed though, due to the Alfea fairy Bloom having the rare power of the Dragon Fire. They used fake transcripts to get into Cloud Tower, basically staying there for four years. Various attacks to those five fairies who discovered this school caused their expulsion."

"Ironic..." Spectus said.

"So, it seems like they want revenge or to take over Magix again."

"Looks like they want to attack us due to the books. And Astra dumping one of them..."

"When did that happen?" The spear-wielding warrior asked.

"A few hours ago. The one in maroon seduced him and touched his crotch." Seth said.

"Wow and you rejected that? Your such a fag." Vern taunted. Astra clenched his fist and green flickered in the room.

"I'm tired of people judging my sexuality from that lousy experience..."

"No problem. We won't say anything else about it." At that moment Seth leaned over to his roommate. "He's going to be regretting this for the rest of his life."

"Seriously. You just better not move from the room."

"Agreed."

Astra looked blankly at his roommates. Obviously, they were never going to forget it. He broke his silence: "Seth, do you have an information for where these witches live?"

"No. But my eye can track where they are. They're about one miles west-north-west."

"Then let's go!" Vern said. Though the second he took a step, he got stabbed by multiple energy spikes that launched from all sides of the room. He collapsed. He got back up and grumbled. They walked out in the hallway. Luckily there, Vern got his revenge.

A small piece of terrain silently slid downward. Right where Astra was about to step with his left foot. Once it connected, Astra plummeted to the ground. His forehead hitting the green carpet first. The summoner struggled up holding his head.

"You do that again and I'll kill you." Astra threatened.

"I'm sooooo scared." Vern said sardonically.

"You had to bribe him, didn't you?"

"He's the strongest guy I could think of. And closest."

A good forty-five minutes later, the Aspus students were at Cloud Tower. The rogue's eye pointed eastward at a nearby pillar. There was a door. Once they reached it, Spectus focused some of his energy of the ground. Four pieces of earth collided against the door, breaking it.

"Knock, knock." Spectus said nonchalantly. He was stormed by the three witches. It was a standoff. Witches in the air versus warriors on land. Astra broke the silence.

"Where's my pet and weapon."

"Oh, you want those?" The ice witch taunted. Stormy pulled out the staff from her back. Icy moved sideways and Carby was stuck in an interesting trap. Three circular rings were entangling the pet, glowing a dim blue and spinning slowly. "It's called the mortal coil. It's gonna crush that furry little thing to death."

"Why would you have a grudge against my pet?"

"It's cute. I despise cute."

"Cause your not cute yourself?" Seth joked. Icy got angry, Darcy made a small smirk. "Wait a second, don't we have one of those in our Stimulative Defense class?

"Yeah, but the bed of spikes is much worse." Spectus threw in.

"Anyway, give us access to the books and apologize to me! And your pet is safe." Stormy demanded.

"Like I'm going to do that. Empty threats will never work."

"Fine. Your pet dies." Icy smiled.

"Go ahead."

Icy look startled for a second. Did he really mean it? "I...I will!"

"Then do it." He replied bluntly

Everyone was gaping at Astra. How can anyone just brush off a life just like that? Even the witches were surprised that death was not an important factor to this man. The three warrior then looked at Carby's impending doom. As the coils constricted smaller and smaller. Until...

CRACK!

The coils disappeared and Carby's limp body slid to the ground. A small thud proved that the body was completely limp. The men just got angry, as the witches looked at the body. Even when they tried taking over Magix, death never seemed to happen. Now that it has, is it worth it? The somber tone was then followed by another noise. Laughter.

The owner was actually cackling menacingly at the fatality. Everyone glared at him the second sound came from his mouth. Once the laughing faded, Spectus grabbed him by the cloth on his shirt.

"How could you do such a thing! Carby was your pet!"

"You think I'm not smart enough to know that?" Astra said pushing him off. He pulled out the jagged gem in his pocket. "I can resurrect him with this."

"Well, I guess if you don't care your pet, maybe you'll care more about this!" Stormy threw the staff in the area. Without warning, she shot two lightning bolts out of her hands and at the staff. It hit the ground smoldering and broken into three pieces. The summoner suddenly broke inside. He dropped his gem and fell on his knees.

"Not...my...staff!"

Spectus and Seth jumped sideways for cover holding Vern with them. Astra slowly trembled in anger. Shaking his head and tightening his muscles. Tears were slowly forming, rolling down his cheek. No one could see it though because his face was aimed at the ground.

"It's just a staff..." Vern said.

"That's not just a staff, it's a staff with a special signa." Spectus said. "I believe he told me once that his staff is a family heirloom/weapon of destruction. It has great power, but broken or without a member of the bloodline, it's a useless piece of wood. Sort of like the Princess of Solaria's scepter/ring. One more thing. Astra has never shouted or raised her voice. Ever.

"I say, we cut the chitchat and dramatics and just fight them." The thief said giving into his blood lust.

"Agreed."

Spectus, Seth and Vern dashed toward the witches. They jumped toward the witches expecting retaliation. The weather witch formed a small cyclone taking the warriors airborne. Soon the hit the ground flat on their stomachs. The witches laughed as they were down and one was in a pool of his own self-despair.

The thief and two warriors stood up. Seth whispered and held his daggers close. "Divine Enchantment." The daggers strengthened in a bright shimmer. Light particles swirled around the daggers, stopping while going into weapon.

"Guys, I need you to distract them." The summoner spoke up. "I'm going to summon something. Without my staff though it'll take awhile to summon anything."

"No problem."Each fighter lunged at their own witch. Spectus tackled Icy, Vern arose over Stormy and Seth dashed to Darcy. Astra slowly concentrated his energy. Wind slowly revolved around one area, making the fighter's cloth shuffle up and down. A black, pale circle formed on the ground.

The tundra witch blasted Spectus off by shooting a barrage of ice crystals from her cloak. She charged up her hands, preparing a large blast. The warrior merely retaliated by placing the opposite side in front of him. Icy hurled an dragon made of icy at him, but Spectus continued standing still. It contacted, but the dragon ricocheted sideways. Nearly blasting Darcy.

"Next time, be aware of friendly fire." Darcy scowled.

"That's impossible! It's a full moon and you blocked with just gems!"

"True. But these are more than gems, their augmentations. Sapphires have power against ice." Icy just stood in disbelief. "They can also let me do this!" Spectus jumped high in the air. His weapon was held in a classic vertical slash stance. Heading toward the ground the sharp metal collided against the terrain by the witch's feet. Cracks split instantly and blue flames rose. The impact shot Icy back far and singeing her boots. He continued his pursuit blasting her with lightning bolts from the sky. She hovered out of the way, still dodging the attacks.

They wisped by Stormy and Vern. Both we exchanging energy blasts from the earth and limbs. The lightning witch made a whirlwind as barrier against the blasts. It moved slowly toward Vern keeping it's motion. But Vern got an idea. He looked at the impending magic attack, a wall of Cloud Tower, his equipment, and the ground.

He disarmed the chain on his gauntlet and multi-spiked trident. The whirlwind absorbed the polearm and link of gems. Vern quickly carved a piece of land with his hand. A beam shot from a 45 degree angle. In went inside the whirlwind but hit the chain. It bounced off the chain and impacting Stormy. She flew back a few feet making the wind disappear. Another beam shot the witch toward the warrior. Running, he reequipped his weapons and kicked Stormy into a nearby pillar of the school of Dark Arts. He threw the trident at Stormy with breakneck speed in a similar style of a olympic javelin thrower. It grazed her thigh, but was still hurt. She grinned through the pain, holding her wound.

The thief charged at the darkness witch without warning. He light shining from his daggers seemed to give Seth the advantage. Darcy protected herself by using a darkness shield against the sweeping strikes. He made a sharp thrust in the center, causing the shield to shatter and make Darcy fall down. She counted putting her fingers on her temples. A bright purple flash arose, revealing clones of the darkness witch. This didn't matter to Seth. His left eye blinked and a small aiming trigger appeared in the front of his eye, aiming at the southeast witch. Seth made a kidney shot toward that clone but it was blocked. Darcy panicked with a darkness shield blocking her kidney. Leaving the enemies to stare at each other.

"Too bad I have to do this. You're kind of cute."

Darcy was the shot stiff. Completely stunned. But it was interrupted as something trickled by her arm. Blood. Shocking pain arose afterwards and left a deep gash on her arm. She fell on her back, on her arm.

"Cheap shot." She said coldly.

"Not necessarily." Seth said putting his daggers away. "You are rather attractive. You just need to act calmer around random situations."

Back to Spectus and Icy, they were firing icy blasts at each other. She shot a rather like spear like icicle at him, but he easily dodged it. Without hesitation, he snapped both fingers with each hand. The ends of Icy's cloak were ablaze. She simply tensed up, landed on the ground and froze her apparel from more fire.

"It's ready." Astra said.

"Girls, we aren't doing so well." The self-proclaimed leader said.

"Ya think?" Stormy retorted. "I say we keep fighting. It's full moon!"

"You won't be fighting for long!" said a voice in the air. Everyone looked up, seeing Vern. He did a front-flip and focused his trident straight down. "Dragonfall!" He shouted. Once the spear contacted, black rocks shot out of the ground. They entangled each witch and lodged them in the terrain. It was one sided now.

"Perfect." The summoner said. Large footsteps and a menacing growl followed. all the warriors looked behind them, seeing a recurring nightmare. The Rinomour was alive again. This monstrosity looked at the three morsels stuck inside the ground. The witches' facades each fell as despair was consuming them.

Taking the opportunity, Astra lifted the body, staff and gem of his beloved pet. He walked slowly southeast back to his own school. The others followed, keeping their distance. They all felt like giving the summoner some space. Something like the Rinomour would decimate the witches with no problem.

A few minutes passed. As the Rinomour looked down on the midnight snacks it was about to devour. It started by coughing poison onto it's prey. Leaving the witches stunned and slightly sick. Icy struggled, seeing if she could break free. Her magic suddenly grew and exploded as it froze the terrain by her sisters. They all broke free, looking ready to take the monster down.

"Ice Prism!" Shouted Icy as she blasted the ground the Rinomour was standing on. Large, rectangular ice crystals surrounded the beast. It easily tore through the ice but the ground started to shake. Darcy channeled her magic into her heel as it was embedded in the ground. The monster fell into the crack and the witches hovered over the small chasm and began blasting multicolored shots. A small grunt echoed. It was followed suddenly by a stream of acid. All the witches dodged it, but some of it flew and singed through Icy's suit.

"I'm tired of people burning my clothes!" She said angrily. She focus her power to a large ice spear and tossed it at the beast. It pierced into the skull of the Rinomour, due to the lack of power it contained. Darcy and Stormy followed up with blasts at the icicle. It shattered, impairing all thought of the monster's brain. The beast collapsed and faded away.

The three witches went back to the ground and walked back to their hideout. The incredible amount of magic used couldn't allow them to teleport. But far behind them, a shadow figure was following them. It was completely disguised under darkness except for blonde hair.

Forty-Five minutes later at Aspus.

"What's wrong with me." The evoker thought to himself. "Sacrificing a cherished pet just to prove myself? I should of been in that mortal coil. Hopefully, the Rinomour will redeem for what I have done. Carby...I'm sorry." Deep sighing filled the room. Only mattering to Astra because Seth was dead asleep. Spectus creaked open the dorm room.

"Astra?"

"What?"

"Surprise." Spectus pulled out the staff almost good as new. Tight strands of linen were on the parts where Stormy shot it. Astra grabbed weapon, yet not believing this was happening.

"How? Why? I thought you were a blacksmith."

"Iron is incased inside the pole. Extra durability. The mahogany will be mended completely in a week. The terra essence I added needs time to work it's magic."

"Thank you. I'm in your debt, Id...I mean Spectus. Gonna take awhile for me to get used to that." Astra said nervously. Spectus just smiled and grinned while walking to bed. Astra seemed happy now.

The said fighter pulled out his topaz and held it net to his pet. It gleamed magnificently starting to connect with the deceased. A white, concentrated piece of energy held Carby up and blinked. It was gone, but Carby was standing. Astra lifted Carby, giving him gentle embrace as he wrapped his arms around his pet. The summoner turned off the light and crawled into bed.

He smiled and slept like a baby the rest of the night with his pet once against in his arms.


Yes, it is done. I hope this will keep people happy because this is just step one for me getting on the right track. And leave a small cliffhanger. I decided to shorten the witches' battle with the Rinomour.

Also, I feel like expressing a random rant. What is with Winx Club and all these crossovers? I really have no idea why this show has so many crossovers nor see how are there crossover possibilities. Especially since most of the crossovers are anime. I really don't like crossovers, but there are few exceptions. I'm also not sure why people don't just post the crossovers in the Cartoon Crossovers section. Oh well, that's just me.