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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

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Fox Among Fairies

Chapter 7: Ring Recovery Mission


[Universe 21458: Magic Dimension-Magix]

[Date: 24 August: Thrusday]

[Alfea-Hallways]

[Time: 15:35 p.m., Afternoon]


It was the next day following the encounters with the Witches and we find our fairies minus Bloom and the resident human, Naruto, as they were walking through the halls of Alfea

"Man, those witches really played us good…" Musa groans, she was still reeling in the defeat they suffered by the witches when Naruto made the sacrifice on Stella's ring for her life

"Yeah, but at least we really safe, especially Stella." Flora says as she turns to said blonde girl and rubs her back

"We have to the ring back." Tecna says

"Yeah but how? We can't just wait for them to show up and beat them for it. That is if they would ever show up again. Now that they have my ring since that is what they were after this whole time." Stella says, throwing her hands in the air

"But we have to at least try something, Right? I mean, who knows what they're doing with your ring?" Musa asks, the others just sigh as one of them notices Bloom wasn't with them

"Say, where's Bloom?" Flora asks

"Bloom's at the library. She thinks one of the books there could have some information on Stella's ring we could use in thinking about getting it back." Stella says, remembering Bloom heading to the library when class was over. The girls nodded as Musa then wanted to know where their fellow male Winx member was

"And-" Musa was about to speak but stops as she looks around and saw no one was around them nor listening to their conversation. "And Naruto? Where's he at?"

"Oh, he said that he had something to do. He said we could call him if we've got anything that needs his help." Flora explains

"Okay." Musa says as they head to their dorm.


[With Naruto]


We move away from the girls to the tunnels and to Naruto's room where the sounds of grunts, pants, and fists connecting to something could be heard from the outside. Inside the room, Naruto in at the garage bay, near his bike as he was in his gym clothes and had black hand wraps on his hands as he was viciously striking a beat-up and barely hanging punching bag. He was profoundly sweating with the sweat coursing off his arms, legs, and face and pooling on the floor but he didn't care about it as he is deeply concentrating on his workout as he was thinking about something…

Or…was he?

As he continues striking the bag, images start to flash in his mind. Images that he wasn't familiar with along with voices he wasn't too familiar with as well

"Demon brat!"

"Loser!"

"Clanless freak!"

"Fox bastard."

"Naruto-Baka!"

"Why can't I play with him?"

"No, you can dear. Never associate with that…thing again."

Naruto unconsciously starts to punch the bag harder and harder with each blow to it, totally unaware that a strange light blue and dark red aura was starting to surge and swirl around him, causing the sweat on his skin and on the floor to evaporate

"Get out of here demon. I don't need you in my store!"

"Die freak!"

"This is revenge for what you did to my family!"

"You destroyed our village fox! So, I'll destroy everything you hold dear!"

"Look, it's that 'child'."

"Why would the Hokage let him in the academy. Shouldn't he remain weak so he doesn't gain more strength?"

"You as Hokage?! Ha, don't make me laugh!"

The strange blue and red aura surging off and around Naruto started to intensify as he was striking the punching bag more and more intensely. One last image appears in his mind and it was one of him, being impaled by someone else who had red irises as the lighting was shocking throughout his body and right lung

"Listen Dobe, you're just a stepping stone in my goal for power in killing my brother. For a time, I did see you as a friend, more like a brother. But this is where our bond cuts, and this is for power. And for me to potent this power, I need to sever our ties, permanently. So, die for me Naruto!" A voice shouts as a sound that is reminiscent of many birds chirping went off in his mind before total darkness filled his mind

When the sound appeared in his mind, Naruto's eyes open snaps and throws one last heavy right hook onto the punching bag, when the punch connected with the bag, it implodes on impact and is sent flying across the room until it hits the wall, just by his tools as the punching bag created a spider-web-like crack onto the wall upon collision. It stays in place for a brief moment until it slides off the wall and onto the floor to a stop with the sand inside the bag sipping out of a hole that was made on the opposite side of the bag

Naruto looks at the bag with wide eyes while the wrapping on his right hand was torn and falling apart onto the ground as he pants, in shock at what he had just done, the blue and red energy dissipated, not that caught his attention. He slowly looks down to his right hand and opens it as it was shaking, not from pain but from something else

"H-How'd I do that…?" Naruto asks no one but himself with his pants slowly calming down. He closes his hand while taking deep breathes

'What's happening to me…?' Naruto thought, trying to think of any possible solution to answer how he destroyed his punching bag as only one answer stood out in his mind from the words for Faragonda

'Was that…my…?' Naruto thought. Before he could think on anymore, a ring went off and filled the room. Naruto looks around and sees his cell phone vibrating by the tool rack and ringing. He goes over to it and picks it up, he looks at the screen and sees Stella's name on the caller ID. Without no hesitant, he answers the call

"Hey Stella, what's up?" Naruto asks as he grabs a tower and wraps the remaining sweat off his face

["Naruto, come to our dorm. Bloom said she found some info on my ring. And it sounds pretty important."] Stella says, piquing Naruto's interest

"Okay, I'll be up there in a few. I just need to…" Naruto stops speaking as he turns around and sees the sand on the floor and the crack on the wall as a piece of brick came off "Clean up. I'll see you guys up there."

["Alright, see in a few."] Stella says as the call ended. Naruto places the phone in his pocket before running his hand through his wet hair and lets out a deep sigh right as he looks up to the ceiling before raising his right hand to his face and staring at it

"I really need to see Nurse and ask her what's wrong with me…" Naruto says, letting out another sigh. He then goes to the bathroom to quickly shower before going to see the girls


[A few minutes later]

[At the Winx' Dorm]


"So, what did you want to tell us Bloom?" Naruto asks, he was in his casual wear and was with the girls in Bloom's and Flora's shared room as he was leaning on the wall

"I got some information on Stella's ring that could give us some clues on why the witches wanted it so badly." Bloom says, sitting on the side of her bed

"Okay tell us." Tecna says as she said on one of the desks with Musa sitting on a chair by the desk

"The Ring of Solaria, also known as the Sword of Solaris, is a part of the royal bloodline of Solaria as it has been passed down throughout generations to the crowded Princess. Meaning Stella as its true user." Bloom says, pointing to Stella who was standing next to Flora

"Well duh, of course, I'm its true possessor. I could have told you this myself. The Sword of Solaria has been a part of my family well forever now." Stella says

"But that still doesn't explain why the witches were so determined to get it." Musa says

"Well, it is an important and valuable object in Magix. Maybe they want to use it for spells?" Flora says while Stella shakes her head no

"That's not going to work well for them. You have to be blood-related to my family for the scepter or married into the royal family to be able to properly wield the Sword Ring. The best they can do with it is make the ring change into its true form and vice versa." Stella says

"The Trix aren't ordinary criminals, that could be something bigger here but we're missing it." Tecna says, causing Bloom to be confused about the name

"Uh…excuse me. But I think I'm missing something here. Just who are the Trix?" Bloom asks as Musa and Naruto giggle/chuckle a little about the name

"Oh, that's the nickname me and Whiskers here came up of our three 'favorite' witches. Seeing that they are a trio and witches. A fitting name really." Musa says, Naruto calms down and adopts a serious expression

"But Tecna's right. There could be something we're missing here. Bloom, got any more info you have on the ring?" Naruto asks

"Oh, right. While I was reading about the ring's history in the book I read in the library. I did find something that caught my attention. According to legend, the Sword of Solaris was created a long time ago, no one really knows when. It was sculpted out of a stone embowered in the Spring of Light which still flows today. And it was one of the many gifts made from the Great Sacred Fire." Bloom says, with Stella whistling. Impressed by Bloom's knowledge

"Wow, you know more about my ring than I do. And here I thought that the history of Solaria was ultra-boring." Stella says as Musa looks at him with a grin

"Let me guess, you weren't paying any attention to any history lessons you got back home?" Musa asks as Stella just blushes embarrassedly and turns away

"…maybe…" Stella says, causing the others to laugh a bit which makes her laugh as well, finding it funny

"So, what exactly is the Scared Fire." Tecna asks, after everyone calms down from laughing

"Excellent question miss Tecna. I'm very glad you brought up such a question." Bloom says as she was mimicking Griselda, causing the others to laugh at how well Bloom did her impression.

"I know a little on the Sacred Fire, I read a book on Maigx's history a few years ago when I first got here. The legend on it states that there used to be a powerful mythical being called: The Great Dragon, which created the entire Magix we know today, it did so when it first sparked the Sacred Fire. It was like the Magix's big bang." Naruto says, amazing the girls with his knowledge

"Wow, that's pretty cool." Musa whistles, impressed as Naruto sheepishly smile while rubbing the back of his head

"Yeah, Aunty did make me be knowlegdeable on things." Naruto says

"Did the dragon exist for real or is it just a mythical symbol?" Flora asks with Naruto shrugging his shoulders

"That really isn't much information on the Great Dragon or on the Sacred Flame other than what Bloom and I just told. It's more like represents an ideal, like the embodiment of Good versus Evil in Magix and that jazz. Besides, it's a legend and myth." Naruto says

"Is there any more info on it?" Bloom asks and Naruto shakes his head

"All that I do know besides what I said is the fact that Great Dragon chose to rest on some now baron planet." Naruto says

"What planet is that?" Flora asks

"Some planet called: Domino." Naruto says with the girls raising their eyebrows, never once hearing the planet before while one of them felt something to that name. but what?

"Well it's nice knowing all this and all but I'd really like to get my ring back." Stella says

"Yeah, and I say we should be the ones to get it back." Tenca says, causing Musa to dramatically gasp

"Tecna, I thought you were the logical one out of all of us here?" Musa says

"Sorry, but even since I've been hanging around you guys, I've been getting more out of control with my emotions." Tenca says with a small blush on her cheeks

"But Tecna, we're not soldiers. How can we go and get the ring back from Icy, Darcy, and Stormy, three of Cloud Tower's best and most experienced witches today?" Flora asks, knowing how strong the Trix are

"By taking them by surprise. They came to our home last time so we'll do the same." Bloom says, grinning

"Yes! The old sneak and take move!" Stella yells, now with a determined and excited look on her face

"But how are we gonna here over there? We can't exactly get walk into Cloud Tower." Tenca says and that was when Naruto knew of one way to the Trix

"I know of a way." Naruto says, gaining the girls' attention. He gets off the wall and walks toward his hatch

"I'll be back here tonight when the school's all asleep. That's when we head to Cloud Tower and strike. I'll see you all later." Naruto says, leaving the room through his hatch. The girls look at the hatch until one of them spoke

"Is it just me or did Naruto seem odd?" Bloom says, making the others look at her

"Odd how? He's the oddest guy I've ever met." Tenca says

"Yeah but that's usual. Today, however, it was different. It's like he was acting strange." Bloom says

"Maybe he was tired? He did say he was working out before he came here." Musa says

"I don't know. Maybe I'm just exaggerating a bit." Bloom says, she looks at the clock and sees that they had a few hours till Naruto would return

"Well, looks like we've got time to kill before Naruto gets back. I'm gonna go and go back to the library. I wanna know more about The Great Dragon and Dimono." Bloom says as she gets up from her bed and exits the dorm, leaving the others as they went to their rooms to do something while they wait


[Time: 21:50 p.m.]

[A few hours later]


Night time falls upon Magix as rain fell from the dark sky as everyone in Alfea were asleep in their dorms, all except for The Winx. The girls were waiting for Naruto as he said he'd be back at this time. They were in the common room, right where his hatch was

"You think he's coming?" Musa asks

"He will. He is the one that told us to be ready." Stella says as she and the others look at the hatch. Moments passed and a knock came from the hatch. Bloom goes over to it and sees Naruto on the ladder, wearing a black version of his casual wear

"You guys ready?" Naruto asks with the girls nodding

"Alright, now follow me down here." Naruto says as he goes down the ladder, one by one, the girls enter the hatch and descend into the hole where Naruto was waiting for them with flashlights in hand

"Alright, let's get going. It's gonna take us a while to get there." Naruto says as he hands the girls the flashlights and starts leading them down through the tunnels.

After about 1 and a half hours, of traversing through the tunnels. Flora asks the question that has been in her mind since the beginning

"Where are we going?" Flora asks

"To Cloud Tower. This is the only way to get into it without tripping any of its defense. And this tunnel will lead directly under the castle" Naruto says as he turns on a corner and leads the girls down another tunnel

"How do you know that and how did you even know about these?" Stella asks

"These tunnels were originally made for the students and teachers of Alfea, Red Fountain, and Cloud Tower to use and take refuges should any of the schools be attacked. I know these tunnels because for one, I use them all the time when I want to move around Alfea without being spotted by the students there and the second thing is I use them to sneak into the other schools." Naruto says, causing the girls to look at them when he said to sneak into the other schools

"To sneak into the other schools? Why would you do that?" Tecna asks

"To pull pranks there." Naruto says, making the girls curious about what he meant by that

"Pranks?" Musa asks with Naruto nodding. Stella start to remember something she heard last year when some girls were talking about a prank

"Wait…it was you who pulled the Pink fog at Cloud Tower a few years back!" Stella yells as Naruto grins and nods

"Yep, one of my finest work. Took a lot of timing and planning to pull for too. But it was worth it when I saw the results. Maybe I should get back into it." Naruto says

"Wow, must have been something big."

"Yeah, it was." Naruto says. They walk a bit more until they reach a wall.

"Great, a dead-end." Tenca says

"Did we go the wrong way?" Flora asks as Naruto just shakes his head

"Nope, this is the way in." Naruto says. He walks to the wall and taps onto it in a rhythm. He stops the tapping as the wall starts to shake until it goes up, opening the way into Cloud Tower

"And here we are, Cloud Tower." Naruto says as they exit the tunnel and enter the school with the entrance closing behind them

"Nice one Naruto." Bloom says, making the blonde smile

"So, now what do we do?" Stella asks, seeing the maze of multiple flights of stairs in front of them, leading to different sections of the school

"I guess we could use our abilities in tracking down the Trix." Bloom suggests but just before any of them were about to use their powers, they hear a very familiar voice shouting

"Was that?" Musa asks, Flora looks up to where the voice was shouting and saw Icy, Darcy, and Stormy in their causal wear at the top of the staircase, waiting for someone

"Icy. And she's not alone." Flora says, pointing to the top as the rest see the Trix. They saw the Orge from before appearing to the Trix and see them walking down the stairs, The Winx quickly take cover and see the Trix walk past them and to a hallway, leading to who knows where. As soon as they see that the Trix and co were out of hearing range, the Winx step out of their hiding spots

"Looks like they're going somewhere else." Tecna says

"And I think that didn't have my ring with them. It wasn't on any of their fingers." Stella says

"Meaning it could be in their room." Flora says. Bloom turns to Naruto

"Naruto, did you know where the students here sleep?" the redhead asks with the whiskered blonde shaking his head no

"Sorry, I don't know. I've only sunk around the kitchen and potion labs here for the Prank. Not the rooms. But I think I can use my magical sensing to track the ring down. If it has Stella's signature on it, then it'll be easy to find it. Stella, can you come over here?" Naruto asks, causing the Blonde princess to get confused but complies with his request

"Okay." Stella says. She walks over to him and just when she was in front of him, he places his right hand on her shoulder, causing her to blush at the unexpected action

"If your ring still has your magic in it, I can sense it but if it's too small. It'll be hard, so, I'm going to use you as an emitter, using your connection to the ring and see where it is. You ready?" Naruto asks

"Y-Yeah." Stella says. Naruto takes a deep breath and closes his eyes as the world around him goes silent and dark. He starts seeing Stella as a bright star in the darkness and starts using her light to look for her ring, he then starts to see a thin line connected to Stella's star. With his eyes still closes, Naruto turns his head, following the line and see it was leading to a set of stairs. Until the line led to the top of the staircase, at the position where the Trix were standing. He continues to follow the rope down a hallway until the line stops at a door. He knew that this was the Trix's dorm.

Knowing this, Naruto opens his eyes and looks at the girls

"I found it. Come on. I'll lead us there." Naruto says. He leads the girls to where he sensed the ring and they reached the dorm room of the Trix. Naruto reaches for the door handle and opens the door, they enter the room and see it was just an ordinary room, if you don't count on the voodoo dolls, severed heads, and other weird and sinister items in the room.

"So this is the room" Bloom says as Musa pinches her nose shut, upon smelling an awful odor in the room

"Yeah, and thanks to this smell in here, I think their ogre bodyguard life here too."

"Let's just busy. Stella's ring is in here but it may be in some box or something."

"Plus we really don't have a lot of time as the witches could come back at any moments

"Then what are we waiting for?" Naruto says. They split up and start looking in the different spots in the room, cabinets, the bookshelf, the beds, the closer, and even the upper level of the room.

"Hey, look at what I found." Tenca says as she pulls a doll with pins stabbed into its chest "Creepy much?" Musa pops her head out from a walk-in closet, holding a metal stick

"You think that's creepy? Check this out." Musa says, she waves the stick a bit before spikes shot out of the stick, startling her

"Where could they have put the ring? You said that they didn't have it on their fingers Stella." Flora says, looking through some of the draws

"Yeah, plus where would they go at this time of night?" Stella says as she opens a container but an awful smell came out of the container and causes her to cringe at the smell.

Naruto was at the upper level of the room, looking at some of the things there for the ring. He goes over to the desk where a computer was and saw notes and books on the desk. He picks some of the notes up and reads it and he starts to frown at what he was reading

'What the? Information about the…The Ring of Solaria and the Great Dragon Why are the witches so interested in ancient history? Is that why they wanted Stella's ring? What are they really after here?' Naruto thought as he looks over the notes a bit more, trying to figure out what the witches were planning

"Hey! I found it!" Naruto was drawn out from his investigation and goes over the railing to look down and sees Bloom and Stella, standing near some mess and sees Stella holding her ring

"Hello little one. Did you miss Mama?" Stella says, slipping the ring back onto her right ring finger.

"You found it?" Naruto asks, coming down from the upper level after putting the notes into his hoodie's pocket

"Yep, it was in this pile of mess." Bloom says

"Great. Can we go now? I don't wanna be here any longer." Tecna says, knowing that they could be discovered anytime now. they head to the balcony window so they could fly out of the castle but Tecna couldn't open it. After a little while, Tenca gives up

"Either the lock's broken or there could be a magical spell on it." Tenca says

"Meaning we've got to go back to the tunnel entrance." Bloom says. Stella walks to the door and peaks out of it, to see if there was someone in the hallway but saw no one

"Coast is clear. Let's go." Stella says as the Winx slowly and quietly exits the room and traverses through the hallway. Just when they reach a corner, one of them hears something approaching them

"You guys hear there?" Flora asks, Stella peaks around the corner and her eyes widen as she sees the Trix and their ogre walking toward them

"Yeah, what is that?" Musa

"It's the Trix and their ogre!" Stella quietly yelps, causing the others to panic. Looking around, Naruto spots a door just behind them, he goes to it and gets surprised when he opens it fairly easily.

"Quick girls, in here." Naruto tells the girls and they all rush into the room before closing it, just in time as the Trix and their ogre walk past the room and seemingly not noticing them.

Inside the mysterious room, the Winx all let out sighs of relief for avoiding the Trix

"That was a close call…" Naruto sighs with the other agreeing

"Yeah…" Musa says. Tenca looks at the room and her eyebrow raises in confusion

"Where are we?" Tenca asks, causing the others to look around and see that they were in a room that was filled with various books, items, and weapons scattered around the large room

"What is this place?" Flora asks as the group started walking around the room. Naruto looks around in one of the bookshelves and notices a book that looked eerily the same as one of the books back at Alfea. His eyes widen as he realizes where they were

"This is Cloud Tower's archives. This is where they keep all their most important files and artifacts. Everything in here is priceless." Naruto says with the girls gasping in amazement at the place

"Whoa, so this is the archives." Musa says as the girls and Naruto start exploring the room. Flora and Musa looked at some of the various strange artifacts while Bloom and Tenca were looking at the many books in the various sheaves. Naruto was looking at the artifacts and the different types of weapons. Stella was walking around, not really paying attention to her surroundings as she unknowingly walks through a cobweb. Feeling the silk on her skin, she yelps before tripping over something and falling on her butt, causing dust to pick up.

"This place is giving me the creeps." Stella says, staring to remove the cobwebs

"I wonder what's in all these books." Tenca asks as Bloom walks over to a bookshelf

"Only one way to find out." Bloom says as she pulls out a large book and places it on a stone desk. She opens the book which causes dust to come out right before a burst of magical energy flashes out of the book, causing the group to close their eyes right as the flash fades and they open their eyes again


[At the time Bloom opens the book]

[In another location inside Cloud Tower]

In a dark office, a woman sat by her desk, reading some reports. She was a very tall woman with pale greenish-white skin, and had a hooked nose. She had purple hair that was pulled up into a shape similar to that of pointy hats worn by fairy tale witches, with two lighter purple strands on either side. She also wore heavy make-up around her eyes.

She wore an ankle-length dark purple dress with a high collar and dark purple shoes.

This was Headwitchstress Griffin, the most powerful witch within Cloud Tower currently.

She was reading her reports when a crystal ball beside her on her desk started to flash, alerting her. She goes to the ball to see what was wrong

"An intruder alert in the archives? Let us see who it is." Griffin says as she waves her hand to the ball and a live link to the archives appears, showing her the Winx

"Ah, it would appear the fairies of Alfea and a boy are the intruders. While the girls look like they're just first-year students, the boy doesn't look to be a fairy(1) nor a Red Fountain specialist due to his clothing but he could be a specialist-in-training. Perhaps I should send a message to Faragonda and Saladin on this. But in the meantime, let me greet our guests properly to Cloud Tower" Griffin says, smirking as she shots a magical blast into the crystal ball to teleport it to the room


[Back with our heroes]


The Winx were continuing to look around the room, looking at the books as they noticed something for each of them

"Hey, check this out. This book is about a fairy named Rosepetal Lilyjewel." Flora says, picking out a book from a shelf. Musa goes over to another shelf and picks one book out and reads the cover

"This one's about a witch named Abagail. Just saying that name gives me goosebumps." Musa says while shivering. She places the book back into it place

"Just imagine, all the history and recordings of every Fairy and Witch that ever existed here in one place." Bloom says, amazed at this but she begins to think about something

"That's really fascinating Bloom but I think we should get out of here before we get caught by someone." Tenca says with Naruto agreeing

"Yeah, sooner or later, someone's going to feel your magical presence and catch us." Naruto says, placing a book back. Bloom then turns to them and puts her hands together at them

"Oh please guys, just a little bit longer. If all history of fairies is here, then there's got to be one of me somewhere in here. If I can find out, maybe I can find out more about who I am. Please. This could be my only chance." Bloom pleads with them. Naruto and Tecna look at her pleading before turning to each other and sigh

"Alright, but we have to be quick on this. Everyone, look for a book with Bloom's name on it. It should be a fresher one than the rest here since she's still new." Naruto

"Thank you guys." Bloom thanks them. The group start looking for a book that looked new and had Bloom's name on it. After a few moments

"I found it!" Musa yells, the rest go to her at the back of the room and they see her, standing in front of a large colored book with Bloom's name written in gold on the cover

"This got to be it." Bloom says. She goes over to the book and was about to open it when Tecna stops her

"Wait, maybe you shouldn't read it. Maybe it has your future in it." Tenca says

"What's wrong with knowing your future. That way, you'll know what's going to happen." Stella says, not seeing what's the big deal in that

"That's the problem, knowing in one's future can lead to unpleasant ends. If I were you, I wouldn't open that book. But it's your choice." Tenca says as Bloom looks at the book and slowly nods, understanding what Tenca was saying

"Okay…" Bloom says, but soon, she felt something from the book. A pull that was calling only her to come to it and read it

"But…I have to know where my powers came from. That's all." Bloom says as she slowly and shakenly draws her hand closer to the book. Just when she was about to touch it, tentacles shot out from the book and wrap around Bloom's arm, startling her and the others.

Acting fast, Naruto grabs one of the weapons that was near the book which was a black and purple tanto dagger, and cuts the tentacles, freeing Bloom. Soon, the book briefly transforms into a monster that laughed at them before returning back to the book's original shape and design

"T-The book…it-" Bloom was speaking before Naruto grabs her, interrupting her as he discards the dagger

"Bloom, that book doesn't want to be read. I think that's our cue to leave. C'mon!" Naruto yells, dragging Bloom along as he and the others rush towards the exit. Just as they reach it, the door suddenly changes into a wall, merging with the one it was in. Naruto goes to the door and taps on it, feeling that it was real

"Not to state obvious but we're trapped." Naruto says

"There got to be a way out." Bloom says, Tenca backs up a bit and points her finger like a gun at the door

"Let's try a little magic blast!" Tenca yells, firing a blast of her magic to the door with the magical blast hitting its target, causing dust and smoke to fill the room as it implodes. Once the dust and smoke clear away, the group look at the door and see it was perfectly fine

"Damnit, not a dent to it." Tenca says, frustrated at this. Naruto pats her shoulder as he looks at the door

"Let me try." Naruto says, rolling out his sleeve and equipping his katana. He rushes to the door and his blade catches a blaze. He arcs the blade up in the air, right by the door

"Fire Art: Flame Strike!" Naruto yells as he slashes at the door. The attack creates a large slash onto the door but it remained intact.

"Crap. I got a scratch but it's still standing." Naruto says while extinguishing his flame

"At this rate, we'll get caught." Flora says

"How about some Magic Conversation? Maybe with our power combined, we could blast through the door

"That might work. But we have to do this quick." Naruto says as he steps back from the girls so they could transform

"He's right girls. Let's transform. Magic Winx!" Bloom yells and the girls transform into their fairy forms

"Everybody ready?" Bloom asks as the girls nod and starts gathering their magic together. Naruto stood next to them and was about to use his flame art when he thought of something else to use

'Maybe I should use another art this time, so it'll cut through the wall easier.' Naruto thought, his blade stops heating up, and instead, the dust around him started to circle around him as his and the girls' hair moved when wind started to arc off Naruto's blade and around him

"Fire!" Bloom yells as the girls blast their magic to the door with Naruto arcing his katana in the air

"Wind Art: Razor Edge!" Naruto yells as he swings the sword downwards, creating a wind-magic powered arc to shoot out of his sword and travel with the girls' blasts. The attacks impact with the door and cause a massive explosion with the wind attack blowing smoke and dust, forcing our heroes to close their eyes. Once the dust and smoke started to clear away, our heroes open their eyes0 once more and see that their attacks had finally opened the door

"Let's go!" Musa shouts as the group rush out of the room and starts running through the hallways.

As they run, Stella turns to Naruto

"Naruto, what was that new move? Never seen you use that one before." Stella asks as Naruto turns to her

"Oh, that one was one of my other sword techniques I created. Remember my sword was made to absorb magical energy from the surroundings and sort it in the blade for me to use at any moment. The ruins engraved onto the blade act as an elemental enforcer. With them, I wield and use the elements to my will." Naruto says

"That's really cool." Stella says, smiling at him and causing her fellow blonde to blush and sheepishly smile

"T-Thanks." Naruto says

The group ran down the many hallways for minutes until Tenca noticed something.

"Everyone stop!" Tenca yells, forcing everyone to stop

"What? What's wrong?" Musa asks, panting

"We're running in a circle. We've passed that shield before." Tecna says

"What? Are you serious?" Flora asks with Tenca regrettably nodding

"Yeah, I have a photographic memory. I can see things in great detail." Tenca answers

"Great, that's no end to this place. So, now what?" Musa asks with no one knowing what to do. Just then Naruto started to hear something

"Do you guys hear something?" Naruto asks, with the girls now hearing something coming towards them. They turn to the left, where the source and see an army of…

"G-G-G-Giant Spiders!" Stella screams as the group spots the army of arachnoids crawling on the wall towards them. They turn back around and were about to run for it when they see more arachnoids approaching them

"There's more behind us!" Musa yells with them backing up into the middle of the hall

"What are we going to do?" Flora asks, Naruto springs into action and releases another Razor Edge attack to the arachnoids, slicing through most of them while pushing the others back. Seeing that Naruto had granted them a short window, the girls quickly cast a magical barrier around them. The arachnoids get back up and crawl towards the barrier and leap onto it, but on the touch of it, they instantly catch ablaze and melt into a pile of ashes on the ground in front of the barrier

"Ha! How do you lie burning ya damn eight-legged freaks!" Stella yells, seeing one of her most dislikeable things alive burn to death, which brought joy to her. While Naruto whistles and turns to her

"Damn Stella, didn't take you as a sadist." Naruto quips as the girls profoundly blush with Stella's blush being the most noticeable

"W-W-W-What are you talking about!? I'm not a sadist! I-I-I-I just hate spiders!" Stella stutters as Naruto just smirks

"I don't know, most people don't know or aren't aware of kinks they could have until something pushes them in discovering them. And I think this is that moment for you." Naruto says as Stella lowers her head to make sure her blush and embarrassed expression was not seen

"P-P-Please stop…" Stella says. The mood was awkward but it'd soon change as the burnt spiders soon regenerated and were started to advance to the barrier but this time, instead of burning to death, they were unaffected by the barrier's effect and the group have started to notice this

"Uh oh...they're starting to break into the barrier." Bloom says

"Anyone else got any idea on dealing with these pests?" Musa asks

"I've got one." Flora winks as she lowers her hands and starts flapping her wings "Follow me, girls!" Flora says as she takes off to the ceiling, with the other girls following her, just before she was about to take off, Musa turns to Naruto and holds her hand out to him

"Grab on Naruto. I'll carry you up." Musa says with the blonde holding her hand. She takes off and the two join the rest just above the spiders

"So, what's the plan Flora?" Stella asks

"Whenever that's a pest problem back home in my realm. We use a spell to help us deal with it." Flora says and turns below to the spiders. She holds her hand out and blows out green magical dust from it and onto the ground. Suddenly, something emerges from the ground under the spiders and grows larger and larger until it towers over the spider.

"A spider's worst natural enemy. A Beautiful Spider Eater." Flora says with a giant Spider Eater being the thing she summoned as it starts devouring and stomping the spiders like there's no tomorrow.

"Whoa. Who knew Pros. Palladium's lessons would come in handy?" Stella says, amazed by this

"Was there any doubt?" Flora asks

The Winx watch the Spider Eater continue eating and stomping the Spiders until there were no more living spiders and the Spider Eater explodes into magical sparks. The Winx land back onto the floor and see the crushed remains of the spiders

"Well, that was easy." Musa says, setting Naruto back to the floor

"Yeah, but I get the feeling that things are not over." Bloom says. Stella just walks in front of them and stands by the remains

"Oh c'mon guys. Let's not sell ourselves short. We dealt with the problem efficiently and we didn't get hurt whatsoever." Stella proudly says. Totally unaware that the remains of the spiders have morphed into sludge and were starting to gather together in front of the Winx

"Uh…Stella. Not to rain on your parade but maybe it's time we leave…now!" Naruto yells, causing Stella to look and see a red, monstrous sludge monster before her. They quick run down the hall with the sludge monster giving chase

"C'mon, let's fly out of here and create some distance from that thing." Bloom suggests with most of the girls agree but…

"But what about Naruto?" Flora asks, knowing that the only human among them can't fly

"I can keep up with you guys, just fly!" Naruto shouts as the girls were reluctant at first but they soon took off and were fly at their current top speed. They look down to see how Naruto was doing and to their shock, he was not only keeping up with them but was actually starting to move ahead

"How do we get out of here?" Musa asks, turning from her shock to the sludge monster and seeing it was still chasing them

"We can try and backtrack ourselves and see if we can get back to the way we came." Naruto says

"Good idea." Bloom says

They start to turn the hallways, backtracking their way and it looked like they were making progress, just when they took another turn, something unexpected happened.

"It's a dead-end." Bloom yells as they come to a stop at a wall with a strange door in front of them

"This wasn't here the first time." Tenca says, knowing that this dead-end wasn't here when they first ran down this hallway. Soon, the group hear the sludge monster approaching them, and fast

"What are we going to do now?" Flora asks

"We don't have any other choice but to face him." Naruto says. All of them turn around and wait for the monster as they ready their attacks. Moments pass and the sludge monster appears and they took the shot

"Fire!" Naruto yells as they all fire their attacks onto it, causing it to explode into a ball of flames with the hall filling in smoke. The smoke clears away and we see them standing behind a green shield, made by Tecna to protect them from the backlash. She drops the shield and sees that the monster had been defeated

"Well, that's taken care of." Musa says as Naruto reseals his blade away back into his arm ruin

"We've still got a problem." Stella says, pointing to the door behind them. Naruto walks up to it and kicks it in, forces the door to open

"Not anymore we don't. Whoa…" Naruto says as he looks into the room, the girls look at the room and see it was filled with strange items, unorganized and laying around in the room

"What is this place?" Bloom asks

"I've heard about these rooms, but I never thought they'd be real." Stella says,

"What rooms?" Bloom asks

"Witches are really messy people. Instead of organizing their library or cataloging their stuff, they just chuck away their things like this room." Stella says as they enter the room and close the door, unaware of it locking

"What an eerie silence. It's like there's no life in this place. I have a bad feeling about this." Musa says as she looks around a bit. She soon hears something crawling at her and looks down. She sees something she dislikes. A large insect crawling toward her

"A bacilli monster!" Musa yells in fright. She backed away from it while shivering. Stella runs up to her with Musa hiding behind her

"Don't worry. I'll take care of it. Sun Shower!" Stella yells as she fires a bright magic blast around the room, forcing everyone to close their eyes to the light. Soon, the blast ends and everyone opens their eyes and see the damage the stack did to the room. Items were destroyed and damaged while the wall had holes in it and some fire was burning

"W-Where did it go?" Musa asks, Stella looks around a bit and sees the burnt, twitching form of the insect

"Hahaha, got burnt by the sun. Next time, think about you try and sneak up on my friend again." Stella triumphantly says. But the small fire that was made from her attack soon combined and set a flame on the rest of the items in the room

"Whoa, whoa. The fire's growing!" Naruto shouts as the fire was growing at a rapid rate. The group back up from the flame and found themselves in the middle of the room with the fire surrounding them

"Nice going Stella." Musa says, glaring at the Princess as Stella rubs the back of her head

"Sorry…" Stella says. The group soon start to cough as the smoke in the room was making its way into their lungs

"The smoke. It's so tight I can't breathe properly." Flora says, starting to feel light-headed

"And the fire's blocking the only way out. We're trapped again…" Tenca says, seeing the irony

"If we don't find a way out in time. We're going to suffocate to death or get burned alive. Whatever kills us first." Naruto says, looking for a way out

Bloom was thinking and blaming herself as she got her friends into this mess for wanting to find out about her past and now her curiously was going to kill them. However, she starts to hear a voice within her mind. Bloom looks around to see who spoke but she found no one, she hears the voice again and her eyes glaze as if she was in a trance. Bloom starts walking towards the fire as the rest were alerted by this and see her walk up to the firewall. She continues to walk and the fire strangely parts ways for her as she continues to walk until stops at a wall with a painting on it. She touches the paint and it opens up to reveal a tunnel that seemed to lead the way out. The others go over to her and see Bloom was in a trance

"Bloom? Are you okay?" Naruto asks as he places his hand on her shoulder, causing Bloom to snap out of her trace and regain her senses

"W-What? What just happened?" Bloom asks, seeming that she didn't remember anything

"What do you mean? Don't you know what you did?" Stella asks as Bloom shakes her head no. Musa turns around and sees the fire was growing larger and larger and was heading towards them

"Can we talk about this later? Cause, can we get out of here!?" Musa yells, the rest turn and see the fire approaching them

"You're right. Ladies first!" Naruto yells as the girls jump into the tunnel first and he follows. They slide down the tunnel with the fire closely following them. Bloom exits the tunnel and lands on the ground and sees that she was back in the underground tunnels. She looks up and sees Tenca shoot out of the exit shot and land on her, with Stella, Musa, Flora, and Naruto landing as well with the fire shooting out, missing them. The group groans from the landing and crashes into one another as the girls power down back to their civilian forms

"Not our best landing." Bloom groans as they get off one another

"Yeah…but mission accomplished." Stella says, holding her hand out and flashing the Sword Ring. Naruto gets up and dusts himself off smoke, smog, and dirt

"Good. Now, let's get out of here before anything else tries to do something." Naruto says with the girls nodding

"Good idea." The girls say. They start walking through the tunnel back to Alfea. On the way, Naruto turns to Bloom

"Hey, Bloom." Naruto says, making Bloom turn to him

"Yeah, what's up?" Bloom asks

"I've got to ask; how'd you do that? Making the fire move from you and know where the exit shoot was?" Naruto asks, drawing everyone else as they were thinking the same thing. Bloom just doesn't know what to say as she lets out a sigh and looks up to the stone ceiling

"I…actually don't know what you're talking about. I don't remember anything until you touched me."

"Then what do you remember?" Musa asks

"All I remember was hearing this voice in my head. It was telling me how to get to safety

"Really? You hear a voice in your head?" Naruto asks, interested in this

"Yeah, it was a sweet, kind voice that spoke to me through the flame. It felt like I've known that voice forever." Bloom says, Naruto took this and felt like he needed to speak with someone about his situation too

"Well, whatever it was. It got us out a hotspot, that's for sure." Stella jokes as Musa discreetly gags at the poor joke

"Stella, you're so funny. I busted my gut." Tenca sarcastically says,

"But hey, our plan worked. We got my ring back and the Witches don't know a thing." Stella says, looking at her ring

"But I'm still curious, why did they want with your ring?" Naruto asks, remembering the notes and books on the Great Dragon back in their room. Stella just shrugs her shoulders

"Who knows. But we got them. The Winx's have got the power!" Stella proudly yells, feeling triumphant about their victory.


Another 1 and a half traversing through the tunnels. Our heroes return home and see it was sunrise showing them that they were at Cloud Tower all night.

"I can't wait to get some rest…" Flora says, now starting to feel the exhaustion (a/n: It's 5 o'clock in the morning here in South Africa and I've been up all night. I'm clocking out too…)

"You can say that again. I'm so tired I don't think I can make it through the day." Bloom says, feeling equally exhausted

"Yeah, I think it's time to cash in on our sick day." Musa says

"I'm going marry my bed today…" Naruto tiredly says, causing the girls to laugh. As they were about to part easy…

"Ahmm." The six stopped walking and turn to the source of a cough and see Griselda, standing behind them with her arms crossed and having a frown on her face

"Obviously, you all like to break the rules. You six are in big trouble." Griselda says

"Aunty? What's wrong? What's going on?" Naruto asks, only to feel his arms and legs get bonded by something. He looks down and sees magical binds wrap around him and saw they look familiar. He looks around and sees Faragonda, with her hands glowing with magic as she was the one binding him and the girls, and see her having a frown on her face as well

"Girls…Naruto…in my office. Now." Faragonda says, causing the six teens to feel fear, with Naruto globing the lump in his throat, he knew he was in a deep mess as he's only seen his Granny like this a few times before.


To Be Continued…


The Break-In Recovery mission was touch and go but the Winx success in it and reclaim Stella's Ring but It would appear that they've been caught. What punishment will fall our heroes and what is Naruto going to do with this knowledge on the Trix and about Bloom's voice situation?

And you'll find that out in the next chapter of: Fox Among Fairies!


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