It had been a couple of days since Helia had made up with his friends and he had been getting back into the habit of being a hero in training. He was getting some help from Timmy to catch up on the lessons he had missed the first few weeks before his return to the school. He had just left Timmy after going over a old battle tactics assignment when he walked passed the elevator and had to back track when he heard banging coming from inside. As he walked over the doors suddenly opened and none other than Sky came flying out and straight onto the ground. Sky lifted himself onto his knees grumbling incoherently. Sky looked up to see Helia extend his hand to him.
"Thanks Helia." Sky said appreciatively to his newest squad member and roomate.
"No problem. Is something wrong?" Helia asked cautiously.
Sky sighed before answering. "It's just Bloom I want to go steady with her so I called her and asked her to meet me here later so we could talk and she got all defensive and brought up Diaspro. The call didn't go as well as I expected. I just hope she calms down by the time she gets here." Helia had heard all about the day of the royals and Brandon and Sky switching identities so he wasn't entirely confused by this. The only thing that he didn't understood was why Bloom thought Diaspro had anything to do with this. Sky was clearly head over heels for the girl. If he was being honest Sky's feelings for Bloom were as obvious, as the other guys constantly pointed out, as his were for Flora.
"Don't worry Sky I'm sure everything will turn out all right. It's clear she loves you and she wouldn't be getting so defensive over Diaspro unless she was worried about losing you."
"Thanks Helia." Sky nodded to the other specialist. "I'm gonna go take a walk before she gets here and think out what I'm going to say to her."
Helia smiled to his friend. "I'm heading back to the dorm to work on a drawing I've been working on." Helia turned and started wallking away when he suddenly stopped again when Sky started saying something.
"Let me guess, is it another picture of Flora." hearing this Helia whipped around to face him with a shocked look on his face. It was true that he had found himself sketching Flora quite often recently, but it was hard not to when she was on his mind so much. The question was though how did Sky know that.
Seeing the unspoken question on his face Sky answered with a smirk. "Riven might have found a couple of picture when was looking for his phone in your room, and when I say looking for hhis phone I mean he was snooping. Don't worry we told him it was an invasion of privacy and not to do it again. Not that he'll actually listen to us but you'll get used to it, he does it to all of us."
Without another word Sky walked out of the building and onto the grounds. Helia stood there for another moment before turning and continuing his walk to the dorm room. Upon entering the dorm he walked into his and Riven's shared room and sat down at his desk. He wasn't planning on it but with Flora stuck in his head once again he took out a pen and started writing. His trash bin was soon filling up with crumpled papers when he didn't feel he was getting the poem right.
Helia was just about to start again when there was a loud explosion and the school shook. 'What he?' Helia stood and rushed over to the window where he saw what appeared to be a mayhem globe attacking the school. Helia recalled going over it in one of his classes but never expected to actually see one.
Helia quickly changed into his uniform and rushed out of the room. As he made his way to the control tower to see what he could do he heard a familiar voice call his name.
"Helia!"
Helia stopped and turned to See Flora, Bloom, and Tecna running over to him. "What's going on?" Bloom asked.
"There's a mayhem globe attacking the school. I'm on my way to the control tower now if you girls want to help." As Helia said this his eyes never strayed far from the fairy of Nature.
"Of course. Let's go!" Bloom said and the four of them now rushed up the school to the control room.
"Codatorta sir, I found Flora, Bloom, and Tecna and thought they could help."
"For sure!" The verbal response came from Timmy who turned to smile at the girls before looking nack to the monitors in front of him while Codatorta simply nodded his head.
Timmy then went on to update the girls and Helia on the whereabouts of their friends. "Sky and Brandon are both in ships directly attacking the mayhem globe and last I saw Riven he was-" Timmy was cut off by the door opening again to reveal Riven himself. "-right here." Timmy finished.
Riven ignored him and went on to seak to Codatorta "The guards have all been sent to the Veritoss chamber and are on guard now." Codatorta again nodded his understanding and went on to give out orders over the mic set to students throughout the building. "Keep after that thing and don't let it get into the school. First one to stop that thing gets to skip final exams!"
Codatorta now turned to those in the room with him. "Here's the situation. We don't know who sent this thing but it has to be kept away from the school."
Brandon's voice suddenly came in over the speakers "Codatorta the mayhem globe is leaving the immediate area. What do we do?"
Codatorta punched down on the speaker button. "Go after it and get that globe!" The screens then showed several aircrafts in pursuit of the disapearing globe.
Just as the ships went out of sight another alarm dstarted going off on the control pad. Timmy assessed the problem and reported back. "Three intruders just broke into the north wing!"
The girls gasped knowing who it was that sent the globe and just broke in. Codatorta started speaking before any of the fairies could "There's a direct path there to the Veritoss chamber!"
There was no doubt now what the Trix were after. Flora, Bloom, and Tecna all shouted at once their realization. "The codex!" With that they turned and ran to the door with Riven and Helia to get to the chamber. Tecna stopped just long enough to turn to Timmy "Be careful okay Timmy?"
"I will and you be careful too Tecna." Never taking his eyes off the control panel he was typing away on.
Just as they were about to exit the door opened and Sky walked in. He and Bloom just stared at each other for a moment and Helia waws about too say something before Riven cut in. "We don't have time for your lovers spat right now. We need to get tot eh Codex, the Trix are in the school and are heading there now." Sky looked to Riven for a second and Helia thought they might start arguing but Sky ignored Riven's first comment and replied "I'll go with you."
Sky and Riven both looked to Helia and they all nodded at each other before leading the girls out of the room and across the school. They made it out of the building and onto the grounds before finally spotting the Trix and continuing after them. As they ran off two other students Helia had yet to remeber the names of ran over to them and clling out to Riven tossed him his phantom blade.
Riven called to the one that had thrown him the sword to follow him up a nearby staircase after the witches. The others having still been heading to the chamber had to turn back and run after them. By te time they got up there Helia saw the student that had went with Riven crouched behind the railing and Riven leaning against the wall of the building with the wind knocked out of him.
The witches took that moment to fly off, Sky then contacted Brandon through their squads communicator adn told him where the witches were heading and that he had to get there now. By this point Riven had gotten up and, minus the two that had met up with them on the quad and Riven himself who was still out of it from the impact his head had taken, they all ran off again to meet up with Brandon.
They got there in time to see Darcy attack Brandon and making him fall to the ground. "Stop!" Sky yelled, causing the laughing witches to turn to them. "Well well, what do we have here. Looks like there's a new loser for us to destroy now ladies." Icy said as she spotted Helia, he simply gave her a cold stare filled with determination.
"Magic Winx!" came three voices next to Helia. In a flash of light the girls were now in their fairy forms and flew up to meet the Trix. The witches merely sneered at them before Icy spoke up again. "Alright Darcy, show them your new powers." With a sadistic chuckle Stormy flew forward, avoiding the attack Tecna sent at her and sending back one of her own making them all drop to the ground. Helia was the first to get back up and tried to grab her with his laser string gloves but she just manged to dodge it. "Nice try loser!" and the storm witch flew off after her sisters.
"They're heading to the basement." Helia called as e went to check on Tecna who had yet to get up, having been hit the hardest. "Are you alright?" Tecna nodded eher ehad trying to pull herself up. Out of the corner of his eye Helia watched as Flora flew off with Bloom as Sky ran beside them. He just heard her voice bfore she was out of ear shot. "Hey does Helia go to Red Fountain now?" Helia couldn't be sure but he really hoped he wasn't imagining the excitement he heard in her voice. Sky's louder voice was also heard, "Yeah Saladin got him to transfer in." with that they were gone.
At this point Tecna had righted herslef and was sanding next to Helia looking at him when he turned back to her. "Are you sure it was because of Saladin that you transfered?" She asked with a knowing tone but her expression gave nothing away.
Helia stuttered as a slight blush made it's way to his face, unsure of what to say. Luckily she didn't leave him stuttering for long. "Don't worry, according to my calculations there's a very good chance you two will end up being perfect for her" Her breaking the silence didn't do much to help Helia's embarassment at the fact that he was that obvious to a girl he had hardly spoken too, and likey the rest of Flora's friends as well.
"I'm feeling better now so I'm going to go catch up with the others." The next thing Helia knew the fairy of technology was gone and a heartbeat later Timmy ran into the room. "Helia! Codatorta sent me, he said he could handle the control room. Where are the others?"
Helia snapped out of the stupor he had been in and answered Timmy. "Flora, Bloom and Sky went ahead to catch up to the witches, Tecna was hit by Stormy and stayed back but she just went after them." As he said this he nd timmy had started running down the hall to catch up to the others themselves.
They reached the room right before the Veritoss chamber and saw Flora slumped against the wall with her arms crossed over her stomache, the others no where in sight. The two heores immediately ran over to her and dropped to the ground on either side of the fairy.
"Flora are you okay?" Helia asked, concern evident in his voice. Timmy was just as worried as the poet. "What happened?"
Flora grimaced before looking up at them, "Stormy got me with a lightning bolt" she grunted out "The others went ahead to protect the codex, you should go help them."
Timmy looked at her again. "We can't just leave you here Flora." Flora was about to argue when Helia spoke up first. "Timmy you go help the others and I'll stay here with Flora." Timmy and Helia had a silent conversation before Timmy quickly checked Flora over to make sure she had no vital injuries and then ran off.
After the two watched Timmy's retreating back Helia help Flora lean up more comfortably against the wall and checked her over himself.
After a few minutes when Flora was able to move her arms away from their protective place against her stomache and her breathing was starting to even out she looked up at Helia and he took in a breath when his eyes me hers. "So you're back at Red Fountain for good now?" She asked curiously, as if she didn't really believe it when Sky had told her. Helia smiled down at her. "Yeah I'm back for good."
"What made you change your mind?" She asked, the differece between her asking and everyone else who had asked him was that she truly didn't seem to have any idea behind his reasoning. Before Helia could give her some type of answer Tecna came rushing back into the room.
They were immediately on alert when they saw the panicked look on her face. Helia helped Flora up as she questioend her friend. "Tecna what happened?"
"The witches got the codex and cast some sort of sleeping spell on Sky, we can't wake him up!" Tecna was frantic with worry and when she saw that they understood what was happening and would follow she ran off again. Helia and Flora just behind her, with Helia helping Flora who wasn't quite recovered from Stormy's attack yet.
They met up with the others and saw Bloom kneeling over and uncoscious Sky. Flora rushed over and kneeled on the ground next to Bloom and grabbed Sky's wrist.
"Oh no, I can't find a pulse!" Flora said with her eyes starting to tear up, as did Tecna's and Bloom's, Timmy and Helia looked both solemn and at a loss for what they could do.
Bloom choked out through her tears. "No he can't go, he can't! Wake up Sky please! I need you, I really really need you. Please Sky come back." at this point Timmy and Helia were getting misty eyed as they got closer to the fairies and their squadmate, Helia putting a comforting hand on Flora's shoulder as she started to shake slightly with her tears.
Suddenly Tecna, Flora, Helia, and Timmy looked up to see Blooms hair floating around her and a faint glow surrounded her. They were too shocked to say anything as the keeper of the Dragon's flame held onto Sky and he started to glow too.
After a few endless seconds the glow died away and another breath later Sky opened his eyes, eliciting a gasp from everyone in the room except Bloom who had yet to open her eyes. When she did Bloom threw herself into Sky's arms. Helia watched on, giving Flora's shoulder a slight squeeze as she turned to smile up at him before she went to hug Tecna in relief.
Flora and Tecna separated as Timmy said "You saved him Bloom."
Flora added in "Thank goodness Sky, we thought we lost you." relief clear in her voice. Helia took a moment to realize just how close Flora was to the rest of his new squad, after seeing the look in her eyes when she saw Sky was okay and a few stories he had heard it was obvious the boys thought of her as a little sister and she thought of them as brothers.
As Helia let his thoughts take over he vaguely heard Sky asking Bloom to officially be his girlfriend along with her confirmation, bringing a smile to his and everyone elses faces.
Timmy, thinking rationally as always, broke everyone from the stupor that had fallen over them. "I hate to be the one to break up this moment but we have to inform Codatorta of what happened and then I think we should head up to the infirmary."
Sky pulled himself and Bloom up. "Timmy's right, what happened to the witches anyway?" Sky asked already dreading the answer.
Tecna went to stand with Timmy as Helia casually stepped closer to Flora, not wanting her to be too far incase the witches decided to come back and attack again. "The witches got away with the codex." She said placing a hand on Timmy's arm as he looked to the ground. This seemed to confuse Sky, Helia, and Flora but they chose not to say anything, figuring they would be brought up to date later.
The group started walking back to the control tower, with Sky leaning slightly on Bloom, when Helia noticed Flora flinch as she started walking. "What's wrong Flora?" he asked, catching the others attention who turned back to look at their friend concerned. Flora's cheeks flushed in embarrassment and tried playing it off not wanting the attention on her when her firends had been hurt just as bad if not worse. "It's nothing I'm just still a bit sore now that the adrenaline of everything is gone."
Without a word Helia wrapping his arm around her to help her walk like he had before, not noticing her face turn even darker at the contact, while the others smirked at the pair.
When they reached the control tower they saw both Codatorta and Saladin talking as they looked at the control pad, "The boys say the mayhem globe just disappeared sir." Codatorta informed the headmaster. They looked up when they heard the door closing and turned to face the teens.
"Sir" greeted Helia, Riven, and Sky. "At ease boys." Saladin dismissed their formal behavior, more concerned with what had happened and the well being of his students.
As squad leader Sky took it upon himself to inform the two of the situation. "The Trix broke in and stole the codex sir, they got away." The group of teens looked down in shame at their defeat but Saladin would have none of it. "Don't look so defeated,what's done is done. The Trix may have the first piece but we'll just have to work harder to protect the other three pieces of he codex. Now I want you all to head down to the infirmary immediately. Girls, I'll call headmistress Faragonda and inform her of what happened here and ask her to send over some potions. It looks like we'll need them."
"Thank you sir." Flora said sweet as ever but a bit embarrassed that Helia's grandfather seeing her leaning on his grandson even if he was the only thing keeping her standing at the moment.
Saladin smiled at the girl before shooing them off to get themselves check over and so he could make his call.
As they entered the infirmary they saw one male and two female nurses rushing around to several students laying on various beds, including Brandon and Sky. Before they could walk any further into the room one of the nurses came over to see what they needed.
"Who's hurt and what happened?"
When nobody said anything Helia decided to be spokesperson. "Sky was hit with a thousand year sleeping spell but Bloom was able to wake him, Tecna was hit by one of Darcy's spells and Flora was struck by lightning."
The three he had indicated were then rushed to beds next to Riven and Brandon. They were lined up Brandon, Riven, Flora, Sky, Tecna. Tecna was quickly checked and told that she was fine, only after insisting this herself but the nurses wouldn't listen until they checked her over themselves. Sky was also determined to be fine, no trace of the curse in his system. Saladin had been right however when he said they would need potions because Flora was going to need a healing potion after her attack and not getting it treated soon enough added onto the stress they had all gone through.
The nurse checking her had just finished explaining this to her, and the 7 others who all had her rapt attention, when the door burst open and Layla, Stella, and Musa ran in. The girls immediately ran to Flora to check on her, not even realizing that Brandon and Riven were still sitting on beds as well.
"Are you okay?"
"What happened?"
"Why didn't you call us?"
The three of them all demanded replies at once and Flora blinked owlishly at them before even registering what they said. "I'll be fine I just need a healing potion, the Trix attacked Red Fountain and took the codex, and we didn't call you because there wasn't time we were just kind of thrown into everything." The three worried friends took this moment to take some deep breaths and calm themselves.
When they were relaxed after seeing that Flora would be okay Layla pulled out the potions they had been sent with, handing them over to a nurse who went to go sort them, and Musa and Stella, realizing their boyfriends were also here, rushed to them and started questioning them while Layla stayed at the girl who quickly became her best friend's bedside. Riven had a minor concussion and Brandon was suffering slight vertigo and both would be in the infirmary for observation before getting released in the morning.
A nurse came back over and handed Flora a vial with a light blue colored potion inside, instructing her to drink it. She did as told and a few minutes later the pain she had been feeling started to go away and within a few more minutes was gone entirely. After checking her one more time she was told she could leave and the girls could all go back to Alfea whenever they were ready.
The eleven friends talked a bit longer before the girls decided they should go before it got dark. Timmy offered to fly them back to the school in the Owl but they girls insisted they could fly and that the boys probably had to go over what had happened that day just as they were sure to do when they got back. Unable to argue with this they agreed to let the girls fly back without much argument.
Flora trailed the group as they headed out the door after saying goodbye only to be stopped by a hand taking hold of her arm. She turned around to see Sky behind her and the other guys looking her way as well. "Are you sure you're okay?" Sky asked seriously the others also waiting for an answer.
Flora smile at them touched by their concern. "I'm sure I'm fine. I'll see you guys later and feel better you two." with one more smile at the boys that she cared so much about, one of them in a very different way than the rest though she didn't realize just how much yet, she left to catch up with the rest of the Winx Club
Sky turned back to the others. "Well Timmy, Helia, and I better go find Saladin to give him a debriefing. We'll stop by later." the last part directed to the two bedridden specialists. With quick goodbyes the three left and trekked to the headmasters office.
They walked in silence for a few minutes but, as Helia had been learning lately, silences don't typically last long with this group. "So Helia I couldn't help but notice that you didn't seem to leave Flora's side since we caught up with her after Stormy attacked her." Helia looked over to his glasses wearing teammate as the prince of Eraklyon smirked.
"That's right Helia I did happen to notice that you were awfully close to her, even when you weren't helping her walk." Sky's smirk widened as he said this and he and Timmy started to laugh as Sky clapped him on the back just before they made it to Saladin's office.