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Hey everybody, Pixel here, back again to bring you the least chapter of Fox Among Fairies! And this one took its time to write since I was experiencing Writer's Block for a bit. A whole week to write!
I see y'all enjoyed the last chapter and that makes me feel better about myself and motivated on writing more chapters. So, thank you for continuing to read
And thanks to you all for letting me take that much-needed break two weeks ago. I really appreciate the support from you all. I love you guys. You all make me want to continue fanfic writing
Now, let's read the last chapter's review and reply to them:
Guest: While a funny way on regaining his memories, it feels like lazy writing and throws out all the plans I'm making on him gaining them again
leblanq: Okay bro, answer me this. if you had a massive head injury and lost all your memories of who you are and how to use your powers, would you still be able to use them on the first try without even knowing on how to do it?
Dude, it takes years and years for humans to learn things and if the brain takes a big hit, it'll have an effect on us that will cause us to lose those memories and we'll have to relearn how to do these things all over again.
And also, do you honestly think that Faragonda would know where Naruto's home universe really is or how to use Chakra since A: the multiverse has a large collection of different universes in a single bubble and it would be hard for them to track down his without some sure-fire way on tracking it like him using his chakra and them pinpointing the universe that has either the same being at Naruto's level of Chakra or using a spell that'll teleport them?
Davidab931: I'm glad you like the YOLO moment, it was actually inspired by the airplane jumping scenes from Aquaman. Who his first date will be is a secret I'm keeping to myself until I see that it would be the right time but you can try and leave your guess as to who could it be
Dragonmasterlex: You may have given me a great idea for season 2. Oh the fun I'll have~
Seros109: Maybe it is his brain slowly healing, maybe it's not. You'll have to wait and see if it is. I'll try and give the story more freedom in the scenes and in the character interactions.
Monsterfox96: Thanks for liking the chapter and sorry for the mistake. Won't happen again but I can't really promise that since it's a given that mistakes will be made while writing
kynan99: Thank you for supporting the story.
GREAT CELESTIAL-DRAGON: Yeah man. I really hate having to come up with a new way to end the chapter but as I said before, I will not ever do that again. It's a low blow to writers out there and I hate doing that.
DemonAvenger: Yeah, I'm glad you liked the chapter man. Sorry for the mistakes, I didn't give the chapter to my beta to edit it since I gave him the time off and did it myself but didn't see that mistake dude. Sorry. And your idea on Stella hanging out or going on a date with Naruto…that's…actually a good idea for a later chapter. I have some planning to do
MarauderPrime12: Thank you for the love
NaruLemon Stories: Thank you for the love and I will stay safe. You too
Jebest4781: Thank you. I'm glad you enjoyed the chapter
davidteague3950: Yes. you're right actually. Looking back, I realize that there was no way that the professor would have known there was a Troll in the woods with his students and that they had to face it without the use of their powers since he told them that if he senses them using their powers, it was an automatic fail
Chapter was beta'd by: Wolfdrake29
Fox Among Fairies
Chapter 6: A Date To Disaster
"What?" That was what Naruto had uttered as we return back to where we left our young fairies-in-training and human with the girls now having named their little group: Winx Club and Naruto just found out that he was in it as well, much to his surprise and confusion. The others see his dumbfounded expression
"Is something wrong Naruto?" Flora asks seeing Naruto frown a bit
"N-No. Nothing's wrong. I'm just…surprised by this Bloom. You want me to be in your club?" Naruto asks, honestly surprise
"Yeah, is something wrong with that?" Musa asks
"It's just I'm not a fairy…" Naruto says
"You don't have to be a fairy to be a Winx Club member Naruto. Besides, you have helped and saved our butts before and I think that should be enough for you to be a founding member with us." Bloom says, trying to convince the blonde in joining them but...
"But I'm not a fairy though…" Naruto says again as he really didn't really want to be a part of this. No offense to the girls, he loves hanging out with them since they've accepted him but he really didn't want to intrude in their fun all the time. The girls look at one another as they thought about how to convince Naruto in joining the club. And that was when Stella gained an idea on how to convince the male blonde
"Ok then…you could be the first male and only human in the Winx Club. Plus, you are like Alfea's very own Specialist since you do use your own weapons just like the guys at Red Fountain use when they fight." Stella says which causes Naruto and the others to actually think about her words and found actually irony in them, seeing that he was Alfea's secret student and that he uses melee weapons instead of traditional magic spells just like the Specialists at Red Fountain do as Naruto starts to chuckle at the thought
"Hahahaha, okay when you actually put it like that and think about it. It is kind of funny and ironic at the same time." Naruto laughs while shaking his head. He turns to the girls
"Alright, you win girls. It does sound pretty cool, so I'll be honored to be a Winx Club member." Naruto says as he gives at a foxy smile which causes them to smile too. Bloom jumps and claps her hands
"Alright! And with that, the Winx Club is officially born!" Bloom cheers as magic particles spark from her handclap as everyone just cheers and laughs with her as this would be the day known to them only where bonds and trust will form and flourish as the years go by
[Universe 21458: Magic Dimension-Magix]
[Date: 231 August: Wednesday]
[Alfea-Kitchen]
[Evening. Time: 18:45 p.m.]
[A few days later…]
A few days have passed since the eventful field trip into the Black-swamp Forest, meeting with the Specialists, dealing with the runaway troll, and the founding of the Winx Club where we once again find ourselves at Alfea with the time of day currently being evening as we find our young fairies-in-training in school's kitchen, peeling potatoes for the evening's dinner as it was a custom for all of the students to assist in making the evening's dinner every two weeks in the month
And where was Naruto you might ask? He was currently helping the head chef with something and the two had to step out for a bit for this task.
As Bloom, Musa, Flora, and Tecna were busy peeling the many potatoes, the Earth fairy couldn't help but find this task annoying and odd
"Aw, I hate doing kitchen duties. I just don't get it." Bloom says while peeling away with Musa standing beside her
"What is it that you don't get Bloom?" Musa asks with Bloom placing her peeled vegetable down into the bowl with the others as she turns to the rest
"Why would a school filled with magical fairies and teachers can't use magic to help cook dinner?" Bloom asks as she takes off her apron
"And how would you fix that Bloom?" Flora asks as Bloom walks over to the door and starts to float with the use of her magic
"That's easy. All you have to do is wave the magic wand, snap your fingers, wiggle your nose a couple of times, and ta-da! Everything is ready without you lifting a knife." Bloom says as she lands down on the ground, not noticing the door behind her had opened during her explanation
"However, home-cooked and handmade meals tasted a lot better than magic-made meals. And are much healthier. Trust me, I know from experience." A man walks into the kitchen with Naruto right behind him, carrying a box of pasta with him
This man was a paunchy man with blue-black hair. He had a thin, handlebar mustache and a goatee. He wore a white chef hat and a white chef coat with yellow buttons. And had a white apron and a red ascot on. He also wore dark blue pants with horizontal and vertical black stripes, giving the pants a plaid-like appearance.
This man was known as Sfoglia. The head chef of Alfea
"Plus, there was an incident years ago with students using magic to cook that night's dinner for them instead. That plan went bad quickly as the magic spell they used made things go too fast and destroyed the kitchen and that evening's dinner with the rest of the school going hungry that night and the following day. So, that's why the students today aren't allowed to use magic to cook anything here. 'Cause, it'll just bring havoc to the place." Naruto says, remembering a story Sfoglia told him years ago when he started helping him in the kitchen. Bloom looks at the two with a nervous expression, knowing she got caught trying to use the easy way
"Ahahaha…hi Master Sfoglia and Naruto." Bloom greets Sfoglia just walking around the kitchen while Naruto just places the box he was carrying down and hands Kiko a carrot.
"How is the side dish coming along?" Sfoglia asks as he walks over to the three other fairies to check on how they were doing
"We're almost finished sir." Musa says as she finishes peeling a potato. Sfoglia looks at the peeled potato and takes it from her and sees an issue with this one and the others they were peeling
"These potatoes are too small. Take off less skin." Sfoglia says with him putting the potato into the bowl of the other peeled ones. He then takes around and sees another issue, he was five pans with omelets frying and no one was looking after them
"And what about the omelets? Don't forget to flip them and don't let them burn!" Sfoglia yells at the girls, causing them to flinch and drop their peelers
"Y-Yes sir!" The girls stutter and run to the pans
"Cooking is an art young ladies. You have to be patient with this art if you want your masterpiece to be perfect." Sfoglia says before turning to Naruto, who had put on an apron and was washing his hands. "Naruto my boy, can you please help them flip the omelets while I look at the boiling potatoes." Sfoglia says as Naruto turns to him and nods
"Sure Master Sfoglia." Naruto says as he goes over to the girls and takes hold of one of the pans
"When I've graduated from here. I'm definitely ordering take-out every night." Musa says
"And get fat? Trust me Musa, while this seems like a pain in doing every week. It does teach you to learn on being dependent on your own self and not on other things to help you every time." Naruto says as Musa thought about what he said about getting fat from eating takeout and saw that he had a point
"…Point made…" Musa says as Sfoglia returns to them
"Alright. Now, let us see you flip these omelets." Sfoglia says as the teens start to prepare their omelets for the flip. Naruto starts his first and flips the omelet in the air before it successfully lands back onto the pan on the other side. Flora does her after him and she too successfully does her flip as well. Tecna was next and flips her but when it landed back onto the pan, it didn't flip onto the other side, causing her to do it again until it lands on the uncooked side. Musa does her flip but when she does it, she used a bit too much force into the flip, making the omelets stay in the air a bit longer than the others once it falls back down to the ground, Musa catches it but a bit of it was on the side of the pan, nearly slipping on the floor. It was Bloom's turn and she does her flip too much, causing the omelets to hit the ceiling. Everyone turns to her as she sheepishly smiles and looks up to see the omelets slide off the ceiling and land on the spinning fan just above them.
"Ahahah…whoops…I'm so sorry, I have no idea how it happened."
"Well, what are you waiting for? Somebody turn off the fan." Sfoglia commands as Flora runs to the wall, where the control switch was located
"I got it." Flora says. She flicks the switch to one side, thinking that was how the fan would turn off but instead, the fan started going faster
"C'mon down little omelet, don't be afraid. Trust me, no one's gonna eat you." Musa says as Bloom laughs at her joke
"Especially now thanks to all the dust and germs up there." Naruto says. Sfoglia was gritting his teeth in anger from this mistake
"I said, turn it off!" Sfoglia yells but his yell sounded like an opera singer's voice as they were hitting the high note. Flora flicks the switch to the other side, causing the fan to come to a complete stop with the omelet getting sent flying across the air with the teens watching it fly. The omelet then lands and hits Sfoglia right on his head, covering him in egg
"Well, that's one way for getting your eggs on the fly…" Naruto jokes, causing the girls to barely hold back their giggles while Chef Sfoglia was wiping the egg meal off of his face
"MMM, I'll have a word with the Head Mistress about granting you girls a permanent ban from kitchen duties. Oh, you young fairies cause more trouble than help. And now, I must go and get cleaned up before serving time. So, while I am away, I'm leaving Naruto in charge and don't cause any more mess. My boy, please look over things for me?" Sfoglia says as Naruto nods
"You got it Master Sfoglia." Naruto says and with that, the chef walks out of the kitchen to go get cleaned up. The blonde turns to the girls
"Alright ladies. Let's get this finished and ready. And remember, don't take too much skin off the potatoes." Naruto says with the girls nodding
"Okay." The girls say as they walk back to their stations and start peeling the potatoes once more but with extra care. Naruto goes over to the pans to check over the omelets and saw that they were doing okay, so he lowers the heat on the oven and let them set.
"Hey Flora, how's the roast doing?" Naruto asks with the Nature lover going over to the stove and opening it and seeing that the roast was doing okay
"Everything is okay here." Flora says as Naruto smiles and gives her and thumbs up
"Sweet." Naruto says
As they continue doing their tasks, the door widely swings open and Stella walks in, looking rather excited and happy
"Guys, do I got some pretty wild news for ya?!" Stella yells with Tecna turning to her with an unamused expression
"We know, you managed to dodge kitchen duty again. Congratulations Stella…" Tecna says as she resumes peeling
"Oh but I've got a perfect and valid reason for that you know." Stella says, causing the girls and Naruto to turn to her
"And what is it?" Musa asks
"I'm going out tonight. I've got a date." Stella declares as everyone else just looked deadpanned at this. This was the reason she skipped out on kitchen duty?
"Oh, that sure is a valid reason indeed Stella." Bloom says
"I received an invitation. Guess who from?" Musa asks, curious about this
"Alright, I'll bite. From who?" Musa asks as Stella pulls out a note from her skirt and shows it to them
"Prince Sky! Can you believe it?" Stella asks as everyone saw the written note
"Wait, the brunette in the Specialists? He sent you an invite?" Naruto asks, remembering the fellow as Stella nods
"And it's an invitation to the Black Lagoon. It's an exclusive club where the royal and the famous are only let in." Stella says, reading the note. Naruto stops his task for a moment and thought about what the place Stella just said
"The Black Lagoon? Never heard of a club or place like that before and I know Magix city like the back of my hand." Naruto says as he starts thinking about this place as he's never seen or heard of a place like that before from his trips around Magix
"Must be a new place then." Bloom suggests as Naruto nods slowly
"Could be…" Naruto says as he thinks on this and found it to be a bit fishy but dismissed the idea that maybe it was a new place that may have just opened up
"Yeah, but I have no idea what to wear tonight? I'm so confused about what to pick. Could you guys help me pick something out?"
"Sure, we'd love to help you find a dress for your date." Bloom says as she turns to Naruto "hey Naruto, could you do us a favor and look over things for us while we quickly help Stella with getting ready for her date." Bloom says as Naruto just gives her a thumbs up
"Of course, you guys can go and help Stella and find what dress she could wear for the date." Naruto says as the girls thank him and exit the kitchen. Naruto looks around and saw that there were still some potatoes that needed to be peeled and chopped, so he goes over to one of the stations and grabs a peeler, and starts peeling one of the potatoes as he felt something eerily wrong with Stella and her date with Sky
"Something about this doesn't feel right to me at all on this whole thing. I mean, they recently just met and now the guy wants to meet up with Stella on a date. I didn't take him for a guy who'd immediately ask a girl he just met out on a date, especially with him being a prince. And the place's name. The Black Lagoon…even that's sending chills down my spine." Naruto mutters to himself as he tries to shake this feeling off and try to force on his task while thinking he was being paranoid over nothing
As he was peeling away and time passes, an awful smell hit his nose, causing him to stop what he was doing
"What's that? Smells like…smoke!" Naruto yells as he turns and sees one of the omelets was on fire. He quickly drops everything in his hands and runs over to the stove. He turns off the heat and grabs over mitts before taking the flaming pan to one of the kitchen sinks before dossing the flame with water, extinguishing it
"Man, that was close…" Naruto sighs
"I see that you took care of that quickly and safely." Naruto hears a voice speak behind him and he turns around to see Griselda standing there.
"Oh, hey aunty. What's up?" Naruto asks as he goes over to the oven and switches it off before the roast would burn
"I came to oversee how the girls were doing in assisting Master Chef Sfoglia with tonight's dinner. Where is he?" asks, seeing the chef wasn't there with them while casting a spell to clear away the remaining lingering smoke in the air
"Oh, Super-Chef Sfogila had to stand out to go and get cleaned up after a little mishap with dinner happened." Naruto explains as he goes over to the other pans and switches off their hotplates while checking on the omelets. Griselda nods and notices one more missing piece
"And the girls? Where are they?" Griselda asks as Naruto freezes as he didn't know what to do. The girls said they'd be back quickly but they won't be back yet
"Oh…well…they uh…" Naruto, stutters, struggling to find the right words to use in lying to his aunt on the whereabouts of the girls. And as if the universe was screwing with him tonight, Bloom, Musa, and Tecna burst through the door in a panic frenzy
"Naruto, we smelled something burning from our room! Did something happen?!" Bloom yells but…
"Yes, something has happened indeed and you girls are involved in it." Griselda says, causing the girls to freeze. They slowly turn to their left and sees Griselda was glancing at them with a fierce frown and had her hands on her hips while Naruto was behind her, slapping his forehead as he cursed the timing on this
"Your reliability is starting to wither away girls." Griselda says, authority in her tone, which causes the girls and Naruto to flinch at
"Now tell me, what was your reason for leaving the kitchen to one person to operate and nearly spoil this evening's dinner?" Griselda asks as the girls look at each other for anything excuse to use before turning to Naruto and seeing him shrugging his shoulders
"Well?" Griselda asks as Bloom swallows the lump in her throat
"Well…uh…Miss Griselda, you see…the reason we had to leave…was…" Bloom was trying to find any excuse for her to use in this situation and try and save them from getting into trouble but…
"I'm coming girls!" Flora's voice could be heard yelling just outside the kitchen right before the door was open wide and the Nature fairy stumbles in, holding a fire extinguisher in her hands. She stumbles and falls to the ground with the fire extinguisher hitting the floor, causing it to go off and fly around the room, spraying everyone with its dry powder, with Griselda being the one getting the most on herself. Once the girls saw the state Griselda was in, they used everything in their willpower to hold back their laughter but a few giggles escaped their lips as the teacher wiped herself with a napkin as she turns to the girls
"No one speaks of this. And get back to work!" Griselda yells and leaves the kitchen and everyone else lets out their geld breathes
"Man, I thought we'd be in for it." Musa says as she wipes a bead of sweat from her forehead while Naruto shook his head
"We got off lucky. If the kitchen wasn't being attended to and the dinner had burned, we'd be in a whole lot of trouble…" Naruto says as he shivers at the last time he got into big trouble and Griselda punished him. The girls see Naruto shiver and they too shiver and thought what Naruto did to force Griselda to punish him and make him like this. After regaining his composer, Naruto turns to the girls
"Okay girls. Let's finish up here and get things ready for tonight." Naruto says as the girls nod and wear their aprons again as they start to dish up the omelets while Naruto was taking the roast out of the stove
"So, did you guys help Stella with her dressing issue?" Naruto asks with the girls nodding
"Yep, she's already dressed and ready to go to the Black Lagoon. And she gave me this for safekeeping." Bloom says as she goes to her left pocket and pulls out the ring of Solaria, much to Naruto's shock
"Her ring? Why would she give that to you?" Naruto asks
"She said it was too much and that she didn't need it for her date with Sky." Bloom explains and Naruto thought over and saw the point that Stella made.
"I can see the point that." Naruto says. The Winx then start to dish up the meals on the many plates and saw that they held a long night ahead for them
[Alfea-Winx's Dorm]
[Time: 22:30 p.m.]
And the night was long for them. After having been served the evening's delicious meal, the girls and Naruto were later punished by Griselda for not eating the dinner and having them wash all of the plates, glasses, and utensils by hand and pack them back into their correct places without the use of magic or fast skills.
The girls and Naruto enter the girls' dorm as this was the quickest way down to his tunnels, all exhausted, both physically and mentally
"I'm exhausted…" Bloom exclaims as she yawns with Flora yawning as well.
"Same…I'm heading to my bed and passing out. I'll see you all in the morning." Flora says
"Night Flora." Naruto says as Flora waves goodbye to him
"Goodnight guys…" Flora yawns out as she enters her and Bloom's room to head to bed. As he stretches and yawns too. He notices Musa and Tecna were talking together and saw that the music lover had a frown on her face
"What's wrong Musa?" Naruto asks with the girl in question turning to him
"I'm bored and jealous of Stella that she skipped out on the kitchen and is out on the town. I wanna go out too. With or without a date." Musa says as she pouts and crosses her arms over her chest
"Well, it would be better if someone were to ask you out." Bloom says as Tecna scoffs at that logic
"I really don't see the point in dating." Tecna says as she found dating illogical
"Well, you should try it out anyway. It's fun." Bloom says with Tecna just crossing her arms
"I still don't get it, I mean." Tecna says
"Then you've got nothing to lose at all. But just try it out and who knows. Maybe you'll actually enjoy it." Musa says as Tecna starts to think about the idea of dating but she had no idea who to do it with.
"Naruto. Have you been on a date before?" Bloom asks as the blonde just smiles and shakes his head
"Nope. Seeing that I'm not supposed to be known to the outside world at all. The purpose of me going on a date is never going to happen but maybe I did go on one in my old life but I'll never know it. Given my condition and all." Naruto says as the girls understand him. He then lets out a yawn and rubs his eyes, now feeling his exhaustion settling in
"Guess my plans on fixing my bike tonight are out the window…" Naruto says while rubbing his eyes. He goes to the center of the hallway and kicks on the floor, causing a hatch to open up
"Night Girls…I'll see y'all later." Naruto yawns out as he goes into the hatch and slowly goes down into the tunnel.
"Goodnight/Night Naruto." Naruto hears the girls say as the hatch closes as he heads through the tunnel, to his room so he could get some rest.
[The Next Day]
Classes had just ended and Naruto, walking through his tunnels, was heading to the girls' dorm to see if they wanted to hang out since it was his day off from work and his bike was nearly repaired as he needed it for an upcoming event later in the month. He walks for a little bit more until he reaches the ladder to the hatch door where the girls' dorm lay. He climbs up it and reaches the hatch and was about to open it when he hears someone knock onto it rapidly. He quickly opens it and he sees Bloom above him
"Hey Bloom, what's going on?" Naruto asks with Bloom looking at him with a worried expression
"I was about to come looking for you. We need your help." Bloom says
"What's wrong?" Naruto asks. He enters the dorm and saw the others were there as well but not Stella and he gets surprised as he sees the whole room was trashed and the balcony window was broken
"Whoa, what happened?" Naruto asks, seeing the damage
"It was Stella, something definitely wrong with her." Flora says. Naruto looks around and turns back to the girls
"Tell me everything." Naruto says as the girls start telling him about her strange attitude change from this morning all the way up to her not showing up to class and her altercation with Bloom to her disappearance
"So, you're telling me that Stella been acting weird this morning and you think that her date with Sky must have done something weird to her to make her like this?" Naruto asks
"Yeah, we think that could be the case." Tecna says. Naruto nods and turns to Bloom
"What do you think Bloom? You were the one she interacted with last before vanished through the window." Naruto says as Bloom looks at everyone
"I don't think Sky could be the problem here. when I met her here, she was acting all…evil and sinister. It felt like she was unrecognizable with how she was acting." Bloom says
"What I don't really get is why was she so obsessed with her ring?" Musa asks as Naruto remembers something from the night before. He turns to Bloom
"Didn't you say that Stella gave you her ring just before going on to that date?" Naruto asks with Bloom nodding and pulls out the ring from her pocket and shows it to everyone
"Yeah, she did." Bloom
"You think she could have lost her memories? Could something have happened during the date to make her confused?" Flora asks
"Even if that would be the case, we can't let anyone know about this. If this gets out to any of the teachers, Stella's gonna get into deep heat." Bloom says. Naruto and Musa walk away from them and look around the room for anything they could use to start
"That's going to be hard, since it won't take them long to figure out that Stella's gone." Tecna says
"And hard on us to find her quick. She's not answering her phone. Where do we start?" Flora asks
"From the beginning. We start by going to the person who asked Stella out in the first place. Prince Sky of " Musa says as the other turn around and sees her and Naruto holding a note, the same note from last night. Bloom walks over and takes the note from them
"Alright, guess we're heading to Red Fountain." Bloom says and everyone nods
"I'll go get a hoodie, a cap, and my mask to disguise myself. I'll meet you at the gate." Naruto says as the girls nod. They leave the dorm with Naruto going back into the tunnels to go get his disguise
[Universe 21458: Magic Dimension-Magix]
[Red Fountain Entrance]
[15:35 p.m.]
Naruto was in his disguise, standing near the entrance to Red Fountain while waiting for the girls to come out and see if they got anything from the Prince. He hears footsteps approaching and see the girls walking out of the academy but with an unhappy expression
"Did he say anything that could be the cause of Stella's weird mood?" Naruto asks as the girls just shake their heads no
"No, he said he never went out last night." Bloom says
"What?" Naruto utters, confused
"Apparently he was here the whole time, working out until 9 o'clock before collapsing in his bed. And he said he never wrote the note and that he never went to Magix at all last night or the week." Musa says as Naruto lets out a deep sigh
"Great…well that was a bust. Guess we got to go to Magix next. Since that where the next location is…" Naruto says. The Winx head down the path towards the bus stop as they stood there, waiting for the bus to Magix
"You think that she could be there." Tecna asks
"Remember, she said that the Black Lagoon was in the city and that is our best and only lead left." Naruto says
"But you said that you've never heard of it until last night and you've been around Magix. How are we going to find her if we don't where to even look?" Musa asks with the bus arrives, they board it as its heads off to the city
"I got this. We can use my data program and search up the Black Lagoon on it. it should give us our answer in a flash." Tecna says. She uses a spell to conger a map of Magix and types the name Black Lagoon on it and waits as the spell was locating the place but to her and the rest's surprise, the map didn't find it
"Strange, my data isn't picking up anything." Tecna says, shutting her spell off as the others just get discouraged
"Now what?" Musa asks as the bus arrives at the city and they exit it. Naruto thinks about something until he realizes something that he can do and felt like an idiot for not thinking about it sooner
"Oh my god! I'm an idiot!" Naruto yells as he slams his head on a building wall. Startling the girls with his yelling and actions
"Whoa, what's wrong Naruto?" Bloom asks concerned as Naruto just rubs his forehead and turns to them
"I forgot that I can sense magic presence and I memorized all your girls. If I concentrate hard enough, I could just locate Stella's Magic presence and we'll find out where she is." Naruto explains as the girls now realize that was how he tracked them down the night they met in the alleyway on the first night of the school year
"So, can you do it here?" Tecna asks as Naruto nods
"Yeah, just let me make the sense flow into me and I can track her from here." Naruto says. He takes in a deep breath and releases it before closing his eyes and starts feeling all the magical presence within the city and around it, some were big while most were small. He felt Hank's even but he was looking for Stella's which to him, felt like it was a sun and moon shining
"Got anything?" Bloom asks as Naruto started to focus a bit more before he felt something
"I…I think I sense her but she feels like she's far from us, not too far away from where we are but…her magic feels faint…like really faint and…being blocked by something." Naruto describes
"But do you know where she is?" Flora asks. Naruto doesn't answer but he reopens his eyes and turns to the girls and points down the main road
"It was hard…but I found her. She's just outside the city. We've got to go down this road and we'll be there." Naruto says
"Well, what are we waiting for? Let's go find our friend." Bloom says with Naruto leading them to where he was seeing Stella
[45 minutes later.]
The Winx arrive at an abandoned clearing where they find a cottage in the middle of the clearing
"Are you sure this is the place? Something about this place is giving me the chills." Musa says
"Yes, everything here feels cold and dead." Flora asks, feeling the same eerie aura around them. Naruto closes his eyes and starts sensing Stella in the cottage but her magic was really faint but…he senses something else in there
"Stella's in there but…" Naruto says but stops as he glares at the building upon sensing what else was in the cottage
"But what?" Musa asks. Naruto doesn't answer and instead just rolls up his sleeves and flips his cap backward before pulling out his katana from his magical seal
"We're not alone." Naruto just says before kicking the door down and walks in
"Alright, I know you're in here! Come out or I'll cut through everything till I find you!" Naruto yells. The others walk into the cottage when the door suddenly shuts close and locks
"Well, look who's here." A voice spoke from the shadows behind them. The five turn and see Stella walk out of the shadows with a smug yet sinister look on her face
"My friends." Stella says as Naruto points his blade at her
"Where's Stella?" Naruto asks, causing the girls to look at him in confusion while 'Stella' looked surprised
"What are you talking about? I'm right here." 'Stella' says
"Nice try faker, but I can sense magical presence and I know how Stella's is. And yours isn't close to it at all. Yours is all dark and noisy with no harmony or rhythm. So I'll ask again. Where. Is. Stella?" Naruto growls out. The faker flinches before she starts to fade away, only to reveal Darcy in her place
"Darcy! You were faking as Stella so you could get her ring!" Bloom yells, now connecting the dots
"Tell us where the real Stella is!" Naruto yells
"Like I'll ever tell you!" Darcy yells as she floats above our heroes and congers up some magic from her hands and shoots blasts at the five. The Winx jump away from the blast and take cover with the use of the cottage. Bloom and Flora were hiding behind a support beam, Naruto behind a wall, and Tecna and Musa behind a table. Musa looks over to the rest and quickly notices the support beam Bloom and Flora were hiding behind was crumbling away fast
"Their cover not gonna long much longer." Musa says with Tecna noticing to
"You're right, I'll go over and provide a shield for them. MAGIC WINX!" Tenca says, transforming into her fairy form and flying over to them. She quickly congers up a shield and rushes over to the two, providing them the much need cover as they run from the pillar and take cover with Musa. Naruto, jumps from his cover and rushes toward the girls, Darcy then opens fire on him but using his acrobatic skills and swordsmanship skills, Naruto evades the blasts by flipping, jumping, and using his sword to deflect the blasts away from him.
"Okay, what's the plan girls? Seeing that that wasn't really Stella." Naruto asks as a blast went over his head, barely hitting him
"Guess we have no other choice; we have to fight hoping that Darcy will tell us where Stella is." Bloom says as she turns to the girls "Ready girls?" Bloom asks with them nods
"MAGIC WINX!" The trio yells and transforms into their fairy form, Naruto uses the magic in his sword and the blade catches fire, ready to use one of his techniques if needed. Darcy sees this and stops blasting her magic as she lands back on the floor
"Looks like I'm outnumbered. Sisters!" Darcy yells and two flashes of light blue and dark purple appear in the room Icy and Stormy appear next to their sister after the flashes subside
"Icy and Stormy." Flora says
"Nice for you to finally join us. Now, tell us where Stella really is or you'll be in for one serious ass-kicking." Bloom says. Icy just smirks and points up
"Look up." Icy says, causing the Winx to look up and see Stella suspended in the air as she was bonded by six rings of light around her body
"Let her go!" Naruto shouts as he takes a step toward the witches but Icy just snaps her fingers and Stella starts screaming from pain, causing the blonde to stop
"Ah ah ah. Don't take another step close little boy. Or else your friend might die from my ice binds squeezing her too much. Even the slightest touch from them and cause intense pain" Icy says as she snaps her fingers again and the binds around Stella shrink in size around her, causing Stella to scream once again from the pain before stopping. Naruto grits his teeth while clenching his katana's handle
"What do you want?" Naruto growls out, causing the Trix to smirk at this
"We'll let her go. Only if you give us the Ring of Solaria. We know one of you has it. She told us everything. So, the ring or Stella's life. It's your decision." Icy says. Naruto started thinking on the situation
"As if we'll listen to you blackmailers. It's five to three." Bloom says, with fire starting to gather in her hands
"Yeah, so get ready for the beating of your lives." Musa says. Naruto continues to be silent and looked at Stella and saw that she had an expression of pain and discomfort as the binds were starting to crush her. He made his decision with his bangs shadowing his eyes
"Bloom…give me the ring…" Naruto says, causing the girls to turn to him in shock
"What!? But if we do, then who knows what they'll do with it." Bloom says, Naruto just turns to her and looks at her with a serious expression
"Just…give it to me…" Naruto says. Bloom sees his expression and tone and knew that Naruto was serious about this. So…she only had one thing left to do
"Alright." Bloom says as she drops out of her fairy form and hands Naruto the ring
"And drop the sword and your fairy forms too. We don't want you to get any ideas." Icy says. Naruto drops and kicks his sword behind him while the other girls drop out of their fairy forms. The male blonde walks over to Icy and tosses the ring to her as it transforms into its scepter form. Icy catches it, smirks triumphantly, and snaps her fingers, causing the binds holding Stella to disappear and the princess to fall. Naruto runs and catches her then turns to glare at the Trix
"Sisters, we have the scepter. Now our goal is nearly in our grapes. Let's go." Icy says with the other two nodding. They group together and disappear in a flash
After seeing the Trix had left, Naruto looks down at Stella and see her hugging him
"Are you okay?" Naruto asks but he didn't get a response from her, instead, he hears her crying
"I-I-I'm so sorry. I tried to fight back b-b-b-but they overpowered me and tied me to these b-b-b-binds. I'm so stupid for thinking that Sky wanted to date me." Stella says. Naruto felt bad for her, seeing that she was played and was tortured by the Trix. He starts to rub her back while holding her tightly
"It's okay. It's okay. You didn't know. You were tricked. But everything will be alright, I can promise that to you, so don't cry okay? You're too cute to cry." Naruto says as he pulls her face up from his chest and wipes the tears off her cheeks. Stella did blush from this but she did start to feel a bit better
"Thank you, Naruto." Stella says, burying her head onto Naruto's chest with the rest going over to them to see if Stella was alright
[A few minutes later]
The Winx were outside of the cottage, standing on a bridge that was at the clearing, feeling dumb and defeated with themselves after the loss of Stella's ring. And the blonde herself, was wearing Naruto's hoodie after he offered her, seeing that she was trapped by magic ice bindings for who knows how long
"It was a trap all along…man they got us good." Musa says, feeling utterly worthless after losing at the hands of the Trix. Tecna turns and glares at Naruto
"I don't see why you did that. We could have beaten them, we outnumbered them three to five." Tecna says, Naruto turns to her and just stares at her with a neutral expression
"I couldn't take a risk that big, they had Stella in binds and we saw what those binds could do, they would have squeezed Stella to death if we attacked first. Me giving up the ring was the best option we had." Naruto says but that didn't give Tecna the answer she wanted
"But who were you to decide that for us? You aren't the boss for us. You don't even have magic of your own!" Tecna yells, making the other girls gasp at her words
"Tecna!" Flora shouts, about to scold her when they felt a pulse of emotion coming from Naruto.
"Don't you think I know that?" Naruto quietly says, the girls turn to him and see he was looking at Tecna as he had a furious expression on his face and see him gripping onto the wooden railing of the bridge and see it start to crack
"You think I don't know that!? I'm human, okay. I get it, I'm a human in a world filled with magical beings that could and can kill me without wasting breaking a sweat! I know that compare to you all, I'm probably the strongest since I've got these two pools of mass energy in me but I don't have a single clue on how to access them thanks to me losing my memories of how to even access them or do anything I knew when I knew who the hell I really am. Trust me, I've tried for nearly two and a half years now, trying to pull at least one of them out but I got nothing besides getting knocked out for some weird reason before hearing a voice and before I could find that voice, I wake up in the nurse's office! I have to use a fucking sword to fight and I had to come up with ways in fighting just so I can survive!" Naruto shouts right before punching the railing of the bridge and taking it to clean off as it soars through the clearing, disappearing into the sky. He takes deep breaths to calm down as the girls didn't know what to do, this was probably the first time they've seen Naruto this angry and upset before. After taking one last deep breath, Naruto turns to Tecna as his eyes were dull and emotionless
"So yeah, I gave the enemy want they used and I may have doomed us all in doing so but I couldn't let Stella die if I could do anything to stop it. So there, criticize me all you like and if you have anything else to say to me. Say it now…'cause sooner or later, I'm gonna die or I'll be discovered and then be killed all because of these damn pools in me…and I honestly don't care anymore…" Naruto says as he places his head down while tears were starting to fall. He was just about to break down when he felt two arms wrap around his waist from behind, he looks over his shoulder and sees red hair flowing in the wind behind him
"Naruto. You're not just some ordinary human. You're you. You're someone that we've seen pull off some incredible things that none of us could dream of doing. You've saved me and the girls multiple times, me and Stella back on Earth when we met, at that alleyway when we first came to Magix and Alfea, and helped us out before, even when you had no reason to. You're an amazing person and I know that one day you'll regain your memories. And even if you don't, we'll always be there for you. You're one of us, a Winx member and once a Winx, always a Winx." Bloom says as Naruto turns to Flora, Musa, and Stella and sees them smile and nod to Bloom's words
"Yeah, you're one fun and awesome dude to be around with and I don't think I'd wanna see you like this." Musa says
"Yes, you're like a bright sun. you're always positive and cheerful. Please don't let that cloud of doubt and negativity affect you Naruto. It really doesn't suit you." Flora says
"Yeah, plus I'd think Alfea would be a lot boring if you weren't around it. As Musa said, you're fun to be around and I think I speak for the girls that we wouldn't trade you for anyone else and we'll protect you from anything that wants to harm you or take you away." Stella says
Naruto couldn't help but feel warm and happy upon hearing the words for the girls and saw that they meant them. He wipes his tears away and turns to face them as he smiles
"Thank you guys. Didn't know I needed that but I'm glad I got it from you all. Thank you for you." Naruto says with a bright smile which the girls copied
"Naruto…" Naruto and the girls turn to Tecna who had her head down while rubbing her arm
"I…I'm so sorry for saying that to you. I went too far and crossed a line that I shouldn't have. I guess let my emotions take control and just let me say something offensive to you without realizing it until it was too late. I really didn't mean to say that. I'm truly sorry…" Tecna says, feeling ashamed for saying hurtful things to Naruto. The whisker faced blonde moves to her and just places his hand on her head, causing the Tech fairy to look up and see him smile at her
"It's fine. It was in the heat and I forgive you Tecna. I'm also sorry too for blowing up at you all that. Guess today wasn't our day huh?" Naruto says as Tecna just lets out a soft chuckle and smiles
"Yeah. And thank you." Tecna says. Naruto nods and turns back to the others
"These witches have won the battle, but the war isn't far from over yet. We'll get Stella's ring back. By any means. Right?" Naruto asks while punching his fist into his other hand with him having a grin. The girls start feeling determined, knowing that there was still a chance to strike back at the Trix
"Right!" The girls yell in unity with Naruto nodding
"Now let's go and get something to eat. I'm starving." Naruto says
"I could kill for some pizza right now." Bloom says which causes the others to turn to her with confused expressions
"What's pizza?" Flora asks, making Bloom's eyes open snap and turn to her
"Wait? You guys never had pizza before?!" Bloom asks as everyone else just shakes their heads no
"No, what is it?" Stella asks
"Well…" Bloom then starts explaining what Pizza really is as the group walk out of the clearing and head to the city
While the Winx have lost a battle with the Trix, they've learned a bit more from themselves and learn that they can start trusting each other, and learn to grow with one another and the girls learn more of Naruto and his inner thoughts and now plan on learning more from him while also planning on finding a way in restoring his memories.
To Be Continued…
The Trix have gotten Stella's ring and who knows just what they are planning on doing with it. But the Winx aren't giving up just yet as they are going to find a way on regaining The Ring of Solaria but how will they do that? Only time will tell…
And you'll find that out in the next chapter of: Fox Among Fairies!
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