Before I get started with this chapter, best I give a few notes.

First off, most of us know about Flora's new boyfriend, Helia. The biggest problem I had with this, was the fact of his delay in the series. Around Tvtome while it existed before most of us expected Helia to appear in the first episode. There was a particular screencap with them staring at each other and Flora holding a note. Unfortunately though to most of our dismay, they decided to focus on Lord Darkar and the Pixies from the get go. So I had to wait awhile to get a good idea on Helia's character. Other than that, a problem I have with the couple is it's rushed speed.

Learning about this too put a big dent into some of the ideas I was planning. I'll respect the pairing but it seems kind of odd. I'm in a conflict to see what I'll do to the fic. Especially what to do with Spectus and Fel.

Now, this particular chapter will spark the 2nd saga in the fic. But this one shall differ from the other, for there will be a wider focus on multiple people. Not to mention how I can mend the previous relationship I had planned before hand. Also, since Helia is added to the fic, so will all elements of Season Two shall be added. Which shouldn't be too hard. (Good thing the pixies are one-dimensional. ;) Anyway, enjoy the The Secret School now amped and compatible with Season 2!

Disclaimer: I do not own the Winx Club or any of the characters, rights, etc... I do own the Aspus School, it's community, and all other elements I have added.

Chapter 11: Discovery, Saga 2


"Really?"

"Absolutely."

"Sweet! Can't believe your doing this!"

"Nothing I couldn't do for my own daughter." The voice said.

"Thanks pops! Later."

"See you in a few."

Musa smiled as she placed the phone back on the stand. After all of the time at Alfea, she could finally see her father again. She rushed out the door to tell the girls the good news.

"Hey peeps!" Everyone turned to Musa's door. "My dad just called on the phone and we all can go to his new concert in Magix! He said he'll be paying and I'll get to sing again!"

"Excellent! All right! Splendid! Sweet." Said the many responses of all of the Winx Club."

"And he scored us some extra tickets for the Red Fountain guys to come along." The girls grinned roguishly at the idea. "We just have to go in about an hour."

"I'll tell Flora the news. She hasn't waken up yet." Bloom said. The fire fairy walked into her bedroom. Kiko of course was sleeping comfortably but a purple haired pixie laid sleeping next to him. She continued into Flora's room. "Flora! Good news!"

Flora tilted her head slowly and coughed meekly. Her face was red, turning her tan skin into a vermilion. The blanket wrapped around her body was wrinkled and out of balance, possibly from the suffering. Bloom walked closer to her friend. "Uhh...Hi Sweetie."

"Flora? Are you ok?"

"No. I feel horribly sick." She wisped out as she coughed again.

"This doesn't look good, I'll get the others." And Bloom just did that. The others entered the room. Musa turned on the lights as they entered.

"Oh no, oh no!" Stella complained.

"This doesn't look very good." Tecna added.

"I'll see what the problem is!" A pixie hovered around by Tecna. Most of her clothes had an aquamarine color, as did her hair and eyes. She had one a gold visor with purple on the side. She began to place a green line by Flora's feet and slowly move it upward.

"I'll assist you." The technological fairy said as she scanned the flower fairy. The beam rose up Flora's body, then stopping as it reached her head. The duo examined all internal systems of the fairy, hoping things were alright. A ding, pitched through the room.

"Oh dear!" the pixie said.

"This is not good..." Tecna backed up.

"What is it?"

"Flora has contracted a terrible disease, known as Peragas."

"What does that do?" Bloom asked.

"Peragas is an interesting disease. It's usually obtained through an oriphus of the face and spreads to the body. It's symptoms are coughing, sneezing, high fever, sweating, dizziness, weakness, and a sapping of magical essence from the mouth. And, it's...uncureable."

"This is terrible!" A second voice said. Hovering by Flora's bedside was another pixie. Sporting a shimmering, golden olive top, skirt, and boots to match. She had orange hair, with two long strands, standing but then going down on each side.

"Luckily, the disease only lasts one day." Sighs of relief followed. "The peculiar thing about this is that Peragas comes more commonly from a potion."

"What are we going to do? This is my dad, I can't miss this opportunity." Musa said.

"We shouldn't have to worry." Stella said. "Flora should be fine, I mean, we don't have to worry about any attacks."

"Not true." The digital fairy interrupted. "Seth told me that witches have attacked his school vault after it was discovered. And any witch would easily take advantage of a incapacitated fairy."

"We're going to need defense." Tecna's pixie said.

"Good idea, Digit." Bloom said. She pulled out her cell phone. "Stella, you call Red Fountain. Tecna, you analyze Flora's disease more. Musa, go tell Faragonda about witches."

"What are you going to do Bloom?"

"I'm gonna call Aspus." The girls scrambled to their tasks. Bloom began to dial.

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At Aspus.

Ding!

"Okay students, have an enjoyable weekend." The teacher said.

The students stretched as the walked or limped back into their dorms. Spectus pressed against his back, aligning his spine thusly. Seth wiped the sweat from his forehead. They each stopped at their door.

"Remind me not to duel Vern again." Spectus groaned.

"Hehe, no way. I'd rather have an easy battle against Akira again." Seth chuckled.

"There's a huge difference between fighting an experienced spear wielder and a vertically challenged engineering genius."

"Eh, this is exactly why the battles are randomly chosen."

Something began to clatter in Spectus's leggings. The clatter and tone motioned in the sense of synthesizers booming loudly. He quickly pulled the phone and placed it to his ear.

"Hello?"

"Hi Spectus, it's Bloom."

"Oh, hey."

"Listen, we have a bit of a problem. Musa's dad got us some tickets. But Flora has a disease and she can't go."

Spectus blinked. "Really?"

"Yeah. So, we were wondering if you could help her while we go to the stadium."

"My pleasure Bloom. Bye." Spectus closed his phone.

"What'd Bloom want from you?"

"Flora's sick and asked for us to defend her."

"And you said yes! Spectus, I know you like Flora, but you can't pull this chivalrous crap all semester."

"I know she likes me back, so I want to be around her as much as I can. The fact that it's good-hearted is just coincidence."

"Sure and so has everything else that has happened to them."

"Shut up. Let's just get Astra."

As they opened the door, the summoner or his pet were not in the bed. Both pondered on what Astra would be doing gone. Seth simply shrugged it off and went into his room. Spectus walked to his room, but caught a glimpse in his eye. It was a goldenrod note. The warrior picked it up and read it promptly.

"Dear Spectus and Seth:

I've been thinking a lot about what happened yesterday with Carby and those witches. I decided that now is the time to build on my defense. And the best way to do that is to get a new weapon. I read of a special mace I learned about from the book. It's on planet Andros, and I can simply retrieve it from one of their many sunken temples. It can accelerate my casting skills. This shouldn't take very long. I'll be back by the end of the weekend.

Your comrade,
Astra Citare"

"What about his classes?" Spectus wondered. He then looked down further.

"PS: I know your thinking of it, but I already told Troja and the others about this, so my classes are covered."

"Oh... Hey Seth! Astra went off to get something, so we'll have to do this alone!"

"Damn. Ok, getting my aketon back on."

Back at Alfea, ten minutes later...

Most of the girls were ready for the concert. Stella, Bloom, Tecna, and Musa were in their going-out clothes, basically ready for any social event possible. Everyone was still huddled around Flora's bed though. Peragas seems paralyzing despite the fact it'll only last for one day. A knocking was heard at the door. Bloom opened it, revealing Spectus and Seth.

"Hey Bloom." The spectral warrior said.

"Hey guys, come in." The fire fairy greeted.

"So, how's Flora?"

"Follow me." The three walked into Flora's room. At this point she was simply resting, but with a struggled facade. She still gave off a hot aura from her disease. Bloom pointed at her, and the two warriors kneeled by her bedside.

"Oh damn..." Spectus said.

"Poor Flora." The thief said looking down. "What's the disease?"

"Peragas."

"Odd, that's suppose to be a potion induced spell used to weaken enemies."

"That's what I thought!" Digit said. "This is illogical!"

"Indeed." Her bonded fairy said.

"What's the commotion about?" A voice said. The Aspus students turned to see another fairy. This one was wearing a purple half shirt with blue circle on it. Her hair was long and brown, with two long cinnamon colored streaks by the hanging past the sides of her face, matching her skin tone. She was also wearing a pair of forest jean shorts and long light purple socks. "I heard about a..."

She suddenly stopped looking at one of the members. "The Silent Shadow."

"Well...if it isn't Princess Layla." Seth said.

"I'd figure with your rep, you'd be arrested for coming to Magix."

"You would, but I'm not."

"Layla?" Musa asked. "How do you know this guy?"

"He has stolen from my royal palace."

"Ah yes..." The rogue thought. "The enchant of water manipulation."

"So that's why you study in enchanting." Spectus said. "I never thought of why a thief would study on enchanting instead of things like combat skills or subtlety.

"My father taught me that whenever you obtain a great power, you should use it to it's full potential."

"I'll cut you a deal thief. I overheard about Flora's problem. Since you look like a nice guy and is willing to protect her, I'll let you keep the enchant."

"Whew, that's good. I still haven't mastered how to use it."

"But, you must return it by the end of the term."

"Fair enough princess." Seth and Layla shook hands with the deal. They both smiled.

"So...back to main topic." Spectus reminded.

"Right. Other than me and Seth, is anyone else going to help defend? Astra is off on Layla's home planet for some mace."

"I'm sure one of the guys at Red Fountain will help. Infact..." Stella looked out the window. The red triangular shop landed outside of Alfea's gates. "They're here!" She confirmed.

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Outside of Aspus Mountain, Fel was walking confidently to his new hideout. The recent encounter with the witches had tingled his senses as he would be able to gain power from perilous sources. He stretched his arms, then pointed to the small door of the house of his last victim.

"Ah yes...here we are." He twisted the doorknob and lifted the door open with his foot. "Ladies? Are you still here?"

"Yeah, we are." Came from the sound of Icy's voice.

"Excellent." Fel went down the stairs to meet with his three powerful friends. "How are you three doing?"

"Fine."

"Unconfortable." Said Stormy.

"Have important news." The tundra witch informed. Fel raised an eyebrow. "We were recently contacted by a friend."

"A friend, eh?" Fel grinned. "What kind?"

"Let's just say, a powerful, old friend."

"I'm interested. Where does he live?"

"Oh, you'll see."

At that moment, Darcy placed a blindfold around his eyes. Fel slipped his sword from his side and sliced around his back. He gripped it tightly and pointed it forward.

"What are you planning?"

"Our friend doesn't want you to see the way. He figured a surprise would make this a much better visit."

Fel put the sword back by his waist. "Sounds interesting. Take me to him." The witches walked out of their hideout and lead Fel to his destination.

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"We're here!" Shouted Sky as he walked through the door. Riven, Brandon and Timmy followed.

"Hey Sky!" Bloom said enthusiastically looking at her boyfriend.

"Hiya Shnookums!" Stella said happily as she saw Brandon.

"Nice to see you Stel." The two hugged.

"Sheesh." Seth said from across the room. He glanced over to his roommate. "I don't know why, but Fairies and Specialists always seem to pair up. It seems like there is some weird ratio that some amount of fairies will fall for some amount of specialists."

"It's probably due to their amount of romantics." Spectus said. The thief nodded in agreement. "Such as me."

Seth sighed. "Dude, understand that since you have not confessed anything to Flora, she technically is up for grabs." Spectus had the look of eviscerating him with the scythe he brought along. "Meaning, she could have a boyfriend already, or might get one before the chance of you confessing."

"Impossible. Flora is probably one for me. She recognizes my concerns."

"I'm just saying this because I don't want you to get hurt. Do you want to end up as one of those unaccomplished men that can't progress in life due to 'the women I could have screwed.' You can't let others, or their ideas, control your life."

"That's a horrible thing to say."

"Possibly, but it is telling the truth. And if people don't understand the truth, then they let their fantasies control them. And living in a fantasy world will sooner or later come crashing down in a deadly way."

"So, what will you do if your struck by love?"

"First off, if a cupid exits, he's getting stabbed in the back. Second, I'll embrace it depending on how positively or negatively effects me. And if the women is an annoying girly-girl or blatant, self-hating feminist."

Spectus thought over Seth's ideas for that second. He had the right idea of women being a plus or minus in any relationship. Flora did also give the impression of a high maintenance women.. He never saw her in battle. But her kindness and beauty seemed to have overpassed any of those flaws. His devotion however...has not been fully acknowledged. Flora would still care for his actions. That is what a companion would do. And she never thought against him.

"Seth, you make a good argument. But I'll still stick to my principals of Flora's affection."

"I'm glad you would admit that."

"Oh wow!" Said a voice from the cracks. Through the cracks of a door, Chatta was listening perfectly to the warriors debate. "This'll be an amusing story for Flora. I know it's important for her to know about this boy!"

In the mean time everyone was dressed and ready to go to the concert. Each fairy had their pixie with them and the specialists were prepared. Spectus and Seth were sitting near Flora's door vigilantly. Riven, Timmy, Sky and Brandon each looked at each other.

"Who's going to stay?" Seth asked.

"Not sure." Sky said. "What would be the best way to decide?"

"Drawing straws?" Timmy suggesting.

"That'll work." Riven agreed. He took off his cape and picked four random strings from the material. He began to mix them around in his hand. He placed his hand out in a fist, revealing four strings. "Ok, person with the long string loses." The other three warriors reached for their strings. Riven opened his hand, it was long. "Me and my bright ideas." He groaned.

"Sorry dude." Brandon said.

"We'll bring you something nice." Sky assured.

"Hey, wait a second...where's Helia?"

"He had to work on an extra credit assignment in Arms Mastery class." Timmy said.

"Figures. You can't really defeat a bunch of enemies with a glove with a whip coming out of it."

"Better tell Musa before we leave..."

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"Where are we going?" Fel asked slightly irritated.

"You'll see when we take off your blindfold. Now keep quiet." Stormy said.

"Shouldn't be too hard to figure out. Let me think...I'm going upward, and I feel a familiar sense of energy."

"Keep quiet." Icy commanded. "He asked that we keep this a surprise."

"Fine, fine. No need to be pushy. It just seems like we're going through plenty of trouble just for this person. I feel as though I should know about him by now though."

"That's enough!" Stormy outbursted.

"Stormy. Calm down." Darcy obliged. "You say anything else Fel may go rogue on us."

"Thank you."

"Ok guys, we're ready to go!" Musa cheered. "Sorry you can't come with us Riven. But, I guess that's what being a specialist is all about."

"Yeah..." Riven nodded. He sat by Spectus and Seth.

"Wait a second." Seth said standing up from his seat. "Who are they?" He pointed at the hovering pixies above them.

"Where are my manners?" Said the pixie by Musa. Her hair was thistle going in several locks on both sides of her head, with a teal bow in the back. She wore a long teal petticoat, with thistle to match underneath. She had pink marks and lipstick and pale, dark blue eyes. "I'm Tune, pixie of manners." She bowed.

"Nice to meet you." Seth said.

"You can call me Lockette." The said pixie hovering by Bloom spoke. Her hair was fairly simple, bowl shaped and fuchsia, with orange butterfly shaped clip in her hair. The clip matched with her dress which had small cream colored belt around her waist. She had cream colored gloves as well. "I'm the pixies of portals."

"Hello." Spectus greeted.

"I'm Amore, the pixie of love." The pixie next to Stella was wearing a pink, thin toga with a ruffled collar. Her hair was cardinal, in several streaks with two lighter toned streaks by her face. She was decorated with flowers on her toga and hair, and had some green cloth in her hair shooting from the side.

"Figures..." Seth thought.

"And this is Piff." Layla held out. She had similar skin and hair style to Layla, yet she wore a pair of pink and linen pajamas with a matching cap covering up most of her hair. "She's a baby, so she can't really speak."

"Thanks for telling us that."

"Your welcome!" Stella replied." Let's go! Don't want to be late!" The fairies and the specialists left to go off to their concert.

"What are we gonna do now?" Riven asked.

"I don't know." Seth looked around the dorm. "They have a TV or something?"

"I think so." Riven decided to help Seth.

Spectus leaned in close to Flora's door. "Oh Flora...you wonder nature diety you..."

"Found it!" Seth shouted. "I'll set it up by the door." Riven walked back over to Spectus.

"I feel that you were missing from my life. My school restricted me from female interaction, but because of you, I feel freed from that prison. It's amazing that this all happened not to long ago. All I can think about is how you've helped me. I never really appreciated it that much until now. I have no idea if I'll be able to be without you...you just have such a wonderful soul. And you can always depend on me for whatever you may need."

"You know..." Riven interjected. "She has a boyfriend."

Spectus blinked at that moment. "What?"

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"Ok! We're here!" Icy tore off the blindfold from Fel's head.

"Excellent." He blinked slowly from the sudden light change. Yet the atmosphere was quiet dark itself. The warlock moved his body slowly, relaxing his muscles. This place he was at, although mysterious, seemed very correlative. His powers felt swirling around his whole being as though he could control the whole area. He looked around, seeing a large abyss concealing water in a deep sulfured color. His exact ground however was covered in pillars and in a deep burgundy. He looked at the witches, they were kneeled down.

"Welcome ladies. It has been awhile." Said a voice.

It entered through the shadows giving a powerful, menacing aura. At that moment, Fel laid instantly to his knees at the force by him.

For before him, was the Shadow Phoenix.


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