Chapter 22
"Remind me to buy you dinner"
"Take this you disgusting monster!" Flora yelled while pulverizing one of the giant beasts attacking her beloved school.
A battle was raging around her. The specialists, the fairies and the witches, who had arrived with Stella and Brandon an hour ago, were working together to fight of this dark army. These things were everywhere. When you took out one of them another one would come and take his place.
After finishing this monster, a flying one came and dived in her direction, it tried to bite off her head. However she ducked in time avoiding the worst. She threw magical seeds to the ground, enormous weeds grew and grabbed instantly the weird looking bird. The thing was crushed in the plant's strong grip. She pumped her fist in the air in victory. But her joy was short-lived because not far from her, Musa was being surrounded by two ugly bug faces. She quickly flew in her friend's direction.
So the battle went on. Spells and screams echoed across the battlefield. Swarms of dark bugs blasted through the gates. Most would drop from the skies. They would be shot or sliced and come back again unscathed. It was a real nightmare. And it felt like it had been going on for hours and it probably had. And Bloom and Sky missing wasn't helping her to focus at all. While fighting back to back with Musa she spotted Darkell a few feet away from them. He was helping out some students by paralyzing the monsters with his runes.
However his attention was mostly focused on his task; he didn't notice a flying creature flying with his claws drawn in his direction. So she ran as fast as she could. Yelling his name as loud as she could.
"DIMITRI!"
At the sound of his name , he turned around. And raised an eyebrow in confusion when he saw her sprinting in his direction.
"What areā¦" However she tackled him to the ground before he could finish his sentence. While they were falling he felt something sharp scratch him from the top of his cheek to his forehead. They both landed in a heap on the floor. Blood was trickling down from his forehead and Flora was still clinging tightly to him while laying on top of him. He could hear both their hearts beating really fast from the shock. Flora kept her head buried in his shirt. There was no space between their bodies. He was still in shock. This girl who was centuries younger than him had just saved his ass. His appreciation for her bravery and kindness had tripled.
He saw their attacker being destroyed by a spell not too far away from them. Now that the thing was gone, he felt it was time for them to stand up. Even though he really didn't want to let go of the really hot girl laying on top of him.
"Hey Flora, it's gone now. We need to get up, another one might attack any minute now." He whispered in her ear while rubbing soothing circles on her back. He heard her answer him with weak "okay" and they both were back on their feet.
"Oh and Flora? Remind me to buy you dinner when all of this is over ." His words made her blush instantly. But it left as quickly as it came when she saw that he was hurt.
"Oh my, you're bleeding!" she cried in shock. She grabbed his hand and started pulling him in the building's direction. Luckily for them, things were starting to calm down again. The number of monsters still standing had decreased. A small group was finishing off what was left of them. Flora led him up the stairs to her apartment.
Huh, a few centuries ago, a beautiful girl taking me to her private quarters would have ended with both of us in bed and good fun night for both of us . How things had changed. A lot.
He thought to himself.
He sat on a stool in the kitchen while Flora rummaged through the cupboards. She came back with some magical healing cream. She carefully applied some on his wound and in a matter of seconds it closed itself leaving only a small scar in its place.
"Thanks, and not just for the healing cream.." he told her. She smiled back at him, she knew that he was also thanking her for earlier. She went to put back the little bottle in its place,
He looked around a bit. The other girls were probably still outside talking with the boys. His eyes fell on the lonely pumpkin sitting on the kitchen's counter. The vegetable started glowing and sparkling in front of him.
"Um, Flora. I think your friend is trying to tell you something." At his words, the flower fairy ran to her cursed friend's side. Dimitri saw her close her eyes in concentration and place both her hands on the pumpkin. A lot of light was emanating from both of them.
While that was happening the door behind them opened and Stella, Musa and Tecna came in. He placed a finger over his lips telling them not to interrupt their friend's concentration. They all watched attentively what Flora was doing. A gold light surrounded her. Her hair was flying all over the place and she kept her eyes closed. He couldn't help but think that right now she was really hot.
A powerful link of magic appeared between the fairy and the pumpkin-witch. And a few seconds later, the latter disappeared leaving behind a small golden cloud.
"Wow Flora, It seems like you pulverized her to dust, I didn't know you had it in you." He said half joking half serious. Flora was quick to reply.
"l did no such thing ! ... i hope... "
"Of course you didn't, silly." A sweet voice spoke up behind them.
They all turned around in one synchronized movement. Flora squealed in joy. And ran to hug the young girl.
"We did it!"
The other girls jumped and went to congratulate Flora and meet Mirta.
This scene was getting a bit too sentimental for Dimitri's liking. He sighed and waited for it to pass while at the same time watching his little flower fairy smile and laugh in joy.
