Chapter Four: "A Bug Problem?"
Bloom had found herself enjoying Professor Palladium's class. Nonetheless, the girl had generally enjoyed all seven classes but in particular Palladium's class was her favorite one by far. Her least favourite class was the Magical Theory that one simply bored her and most of the fairies in the class and it was complicated to add on it (even History of Magic was slightly more interesting than Magical Theory).
Surely but slowly Bloom had began to improve in her magic (especially after the incident involving her lost memories). So far Marion could easily tell that her daughter was skilled in defense against the dark arts magic with her deflecting each spell that headed her way—using a shielding charm, or counter spell that dissolved the spell entirely—though as Faragonda had stated that Bloom's Enchantix was incomplete and therefore it had been difficult for the girl to cast spells without facing any consequences in return.
Marion was thankful that Faragonda had informed all the professors and staff members of Alfea about Bloom's situation and each member had took it into consideration, allowing the girl to be at ease in their classes.
"As of this year, you'll be learning how to make a healing potion that designed in treating fairies wings. . ." the professor explained, though the elf had easily spotted a brunet girl who had her hand raised in the air.
"Yes, Iris?"
"But doesn't fairy dust heal a fairy's wings?" Iris questioned, since it had been one of the most enhanced features that a girl would get after becoming a full-fledged fairy and most girls within the class had roughly the same idea.
Palladium smiled.
"Well, it's a yes and no. Depending on the circumstances of a fairy's level. A fairy dust could be used for a minor fairy's wings but not a full-fledged, as the wings become difficult to treat with simple fairy dust. Anyways, you'll all be heading out to the Black Mud Swamp to gather those particular ingredients to make the potion. . . "
Bloom had easily seen the face Luna had made as her nose scrunched up in absolute distaste upon the professor mentioning Black Mud Swamp.
"Ugh. I thought we were done with the whole going down to the muddy swamp." Luna had disliked the idea of getting herself dirty in the swamp, as it didn't do her any justice in wanting to shine in her most wonderful designer outfit. But then again, they were most likely going to be wearing those ridiculous uniforms that was specially designed for outdoors activities. Luna detested those ugly khaki shorts and button up shirts. It was unappealing to the eyes.
"Uh, Luna, you do know that it's part of our graduation requirement right?" Niobe whispered into the blond's ear.
The blond only groaned in response as she had assumed it would be the first two years while being at Alfea—not until their graduating year. The moon fairy had scowled. She wasn't exactly planning to get filthy just because they needed to find specific plant ingredients in order to brew the Fairy's Webbed Healing Potion from a swamp.
Bloom had wrote down the notes into her notebook, as the professor continued to explain the importance of the potion that they were required to make (and it would be included in their final exam at the end of the year).
Marion glanced at her Bloom who appeared to be quite interested in the lesson.
It had been a fascinating lesson about how to treat a fairy's wings, and all about the consequences if it had gone untreated, and not to mention how equally dangerous it can be for a fairy to have her wings being completely plucked off.
Marion had shuddered horrifyingly.
Although, she was aware of such consequences from a young age in which she had been told by her beloved mother. It was one of the most critical things a young fairy had to know as she was growing up. The importance of a fairy's wings in which contributed to a fairy's health and magic.
Marion couldn't help herself but to fantasize her future-self about her family? What kind of woman would she be like by then or what kind of mother would she be?
Would she be an overprotective, kind, doting, and caring mother? Would she be an amazing, loving, queen to her people? What kind of wife would she be to Oritel? What kind of husband would he be to her?
Marion could easily see in Oritel's brown eyes that he would be an overprotective man towards his family given from the way he acted at the boutique shop when the girls had been in search of their perfect gowns to wear to the Solarian Sun Ball.
There were endless possibilities. . . endless scenarios. . . and all that resided in Bloom. What a beautiful name? Had she given her that name or was it possibly Oritel's idea? It was such a fitting and lovely name for her youngest daughter.
Bloom's bright face turned directly at her with a smile. "I'm actually looking forward to this. It might be fun and—"
"But the major question is: would the boys be there?" Luna chimed in, having a dreamy look in her dark blue eyes.
Marion quirked a red brow at Luna. "Is that all what you have on you mind Luna? And besides why would the boys be there anyways? We'd just seen them a couple of days ago."
The girl had pushed her long blond hair aside, fiddling with a few strands of her hair. "Well, that's because every time when we're involved in nature the guys naturally happen to be there is all."
"What makes you say that they'll be there this time?" Niobe chipped into the conversation.
The air was extremely thick with humid causing a few girls to be annoyed by the intense heat for their skin complexion. Sure most would enjoy this weather if they were sunbathing at the sandy beach, getting a perfect shade of a sun kissed tan unlike this very mucky place that was filled with undesirable stench that reeked of bursting gases.
The swamp was overgrown with thick green, to yellowish vines that were wrapped around the trees and its branches as for the plants, it had seemed to be drowned by the high water levels. Bubbling gases were rising to the surface, releasing a dreadful stench that made one's sick to their stomach.
"Ugh! Eww! I think a bug bit me on my arm!" Luna groaned—feeling entirely squeamish—despite the fact that this wasn't her first time doing an outdoor activity especially the previous years at Alfea. The girl would never get accustomed to the idea of being in place that would get her dirty or being surrounded by disgusting bugs.
"That's to be expected Luna. You should really know that by now and I really don't think anyone wants to hear anymore of your meaningless complaint about the swamp," Samara reprimanded.
The girl hadn't wanted to hear anymore of the blond's complaint of this place, even though she would rather be somewhere else as well, but Samara had managed to remain calm about it. It was pointless to make a scene about the issue, not worth it to fail this class that's required for a fairy to graduate from Alfea.
Luna glared at Samara.
Professor Palladium continued to explain the exercise to the fairies.
"Of course, the Specialist will be assisting you in this as I do trust you're all mature adults to make the right choices. And also let this be a lesson of a trust exercise as well," the professor beamed broadly. "And one more thing: no magic only under necessary circumstances."
The blond wiggled her brows at Niobe as if I-told-you-so expression as Niobe shook her head, as if trying to stifle in her laughter. At the far edge of her dark blue eyes, the girl had spotted the Specialist who were navigate their way towards the group of girls.
Luna had waved her hand in the air in order to draw Radius attention to her.
"Oh Radius!"
Bloom glanced at her notes.
There was something familiar crawling up her neck, but a bit fuzzy in her mind, as if she knew where exactly they should begin to proceed into the swamp, but it wouldn't come to the surface of her mind.
"This is the only potion that you'll not be preforming on the end of the year Exam, but you'll be understanding how essential it is in contributing to a fairy's wings. As you can see this plant that has the specific ingredient to brew the Fairy's Webbed Potion, as this rare plant hadn't existed in about thirteen years—the magic essence had completely died out many years ago and never grew again. . ." the male's voice had rung through Bloom's mind—in which had belonged to a professor who had explained about the phenomenal abilities of the plant that would be able to cure a full fledge fairy's wings.
Bloom had wondered if this specific plant even had existed in this timeline before it had completely withered away (in her own timeline) without having a chance to regrow once more.
A small delicate had was placed on the girl's shoulders, nearly startling her from her own inner thoughts. Marion's piercing green eyes had met Bloom's bright blue eyes. "Getting a head start Bloom?"
Bloom nodded. "But I don't know where we should even begin? Do you have any ideas?"
"No, but we'll figure out as we walk through the swamp, you know we'll be following the Voice of Nature that'll guide us to our destination."
"Yes and hopefully we get this done quickly. I mean, I don't mind getting dirty, but the bugs though. I think a few bit me on my thighs I just don't to end up with so many bug bites," Bloom said, a little annoyed by the way she had to ward off the bugs despite spraying an insect replant on her pale exposed skin that were slowly forming into tiny red bumps.
Marion let out a small laugh. "Now that I can definitely agree on, Bloom."
Deep within the swamp an unknown figure stood, lingering in the shadows, carefully not making a single sound that would direct all attention on her as the witch had swept her hands over the magical sphere carefully watching the final years students of both Alfea and Red-Fountain proceeding into the swamp.
Although her dark gaze focused on a particular group and at particular Specialist for that matter.
A sinister smile tugged at the woman's lips despite the dark shadows covering most of her facial dark witch had summoned her most prized little insects—the insects were out of the job she'd commanded them to do towards the young foolish fairies.
The cloaked witch had spun on her heels—dark eyes narrowing at the wizard who stood before her, arms crossed. The man had appeared to be unamused by the whole situation.
The red-blond haired man had been quite silent for the past couple of days and (secretly the woman had knew exactly what was going on through Valtor's mind—still dwelling about the redhead girl with bright blue eyes. Her presence just stirred something and the wizard couldn't exactly speculate on what it is exactly?
Bloom. That was indeed a beautiful name.
"Still being obsessed with that redhead girl with blue eyes?" the witch pressed her lips together, though her tone of voice was sharp enough that it could slice right through the blade.
Valtor had been rambling about 'Bloom' lately to her and frankly it'd been getting on her damned nerves. "That fairy is nothing but trouble and anyways you need to focus on our task. They won't be too pleased if you somehow messed this up! Think of the consequences!"
Valtor narrowed his eyes.
He knew what the woman was referring to.
As in the Ancestral Witches—his mothers who had created him from the dark void when the spark of the Dragon Flame had fallen into the darkness. . . they were the ones responsible for his existence and therefore had raised him to become a tyranny and ruthless wizard.
Feeling love, compassion, generosity, or kindness was a great weakness that would lead him to his downfall. It was absolute foolishness and it was one of the critical things his dear mothers had warned him about. It would only corrupt him from being the greatest and powerful dark wizard of all time in the Magical Universe.
Perhaps, that girl Bloom may be some sort of key to his ultimate triumph.
But of course he had to figure out who Bloom was exactly and why her magic was indistinguishable to his very own dark magic that was linked to the Dragon Flame, but the darker aspect of it. Something definitely wasn't right and he could sense that in the very core of his magic. Something was off about that girl. And nothing was going to prevent Valtor from doing so until he uncovered Bloom's mysterious identity.
"You know that girl—Bloom—she does have the source of the Dragon Flame inside her, which is utterly peculiar don't you think?"
The witch's eyes had widen in surprise. It was fairly rare for anyone outside of the Domino Royal Bloodline to inherited such magic? It was only passed down in the royal family—and present day wielder of such magic was Oritel.
"But that's impossible! Only the Royal Family of Domino (besides you of course) posses such powerful magic. It's why we're here! To target Crown Prince Oritel and his love interest Marion, who by the way also has extraordinary magical abilities for an average citizen of Domino!" the woman hissed, stating each word syllable by syllable.
Valtor quirked a brow and stoked his chin, his cold grey-blue eyes being calculative over the thought of seeing how close Marion, Oritel, and Bloom were. Another puzzling mystery to add on. Never in his life that in which the wizard knew of Oritel and Marion were friends with that girl, perhaps, even closer than simply being friends.
"Now that you mention it, it was quite odd to see how Oritel and Marion had behaved around the girl. I'm thinking that there has to be some sort of link that somehow connects the three of them in a way that I not even sure what it is. Hmm. . . this is really interesting. . . perhaps I should keep tabs on the girl." Valtor lips had turned into a twisted smile, almost creepy in a way.
Valtor had a scheming revenge in mind.
If he needed to uncover Bloom's secret, he had to let the girl to fully gain her trust in him. A brilliant idea crossed his brain, if one thing he knew for certain: was that most girls would fall for mister prince charming who would save them from grave danger.
Every princess needed a prince charming in her life.
So why not be that golden prince charming?
Valtor had swatted the bug with his hand—already annoyed by Mandragora's magic that revolved around nasty insects and dreadful creatures. So all what he needed to do was to pretend to be a handsome prince charming. No fairy would suspect anything from him, but rather would fall for him in a single heartbeat.
The group of Specialist and Fairies continued to navigate through the muddy swamp that appeared to be devoid of most life forms except for the occasional killer frogs and the vegetations. Even some of the vegetations had seemed to have lacked life force. The water levels were excessively and taking over most of the wildlife.
Luna stared at muddy pond. No. There was simply no way in dragons she was going to walk through the mucky pond. Nope. Not a chance. Luna stared unbelievingly with her dark blue eyes in horror.
"We're walking through that?" the blond fairy moaned.
"Unless you have another brilliant idea without the use of magic then let us hear it?" Niobe said, glancing back at the girl who refused anything to do with stepping into the murky water that dragons knows what was swimming in that dreadful water. "Anyways didn't you always said that mud is good for your skin's complexion?"
Luna had closed her mouth like a fish with nothing to comment back. The girl stepped into the pond with utmost displeasure (and disgust had shown on her pale face). "Eww! Gross! Guys I think something's crawling on my legs!" Luna had speed up her pace—catching up to the rest of the girls and boys who were leading the way.
"Fairies." Radius looked amused by Luna's reaction and chuckled—though the girl gave him a deathly glare.
Bloom had glanced all around, seeing patches of golden sunlight stream through the openings—in which the vines and large sized plants hadn't covered. She squinted her eyes. As if something had flashed in front of her blue eyes—almost like a translucent memory that was lost long ago and in the next second it had vanished.
It had something to do with the troll that escaped the Red-Fountain's malfunctioned spacecraft as it had wondered off into the swamp. There had been a group of boys—a blond specialist with deep blue eyes had approached her.
"There's nothing to worry about Bloom. We could handle the escaped troll and why don't you girls return back to your assigned exercise," Sky grabbed Bloom's hands into his own as the boy's deep blue eyes had shinned. He didn't want her to get injured by the troll again, not like what had happened back on Earth.
A girl with two pigtails had frowned and looked irritated from the way the fairy had her arms crossed glaring at a particular magenta-haired specialist. "I can't believe you guys let the troll escape!"
"We didn't let it escape for your information Musa!" Riven hissed.
"Technically, it had been a mechanical failure from the spacecraft," Timmy adjusted his glasses on the bridge of his long nose, as he reassured the young fairies of the problem that they could solve on their own.
"Sky. . ." Bloom muttered, her brows knitted together as if trying to remember who this blond-haired specialist was and what he meant to her as Sky held her hands into his own—reassuring her of the problem the boys could fix.
"Who's Sky, Bloom? Do you know that boy?" Marion questioned.
"Oh. He was that cute blond specialist that held my hands once in this place. I think the Red-Fountain's ship malfunctioned or something that they ended up crashing into the swamp and a troll escaped at the time. That's about it from what I could remember," Bloom said smiling.
"That's great Bloom, at least some parts of your memory is coming back to you. So Sky huh?" Marion grinned playfully, over hearing her daughter's memory. It had excited her to hear some of her daughter's tale.
"I think, we're just friends, mum. Friends do hold each other's hands right?" Bloom gazed at her mother for an advice.
"I would think so Bloom. Defiantly friends."
Erendor had walked up next to Oritel with a large grin on his face. "You know if I were you, I'd be pretty involved in hearing a daughter discuss a certain boy with her mother."
"What are you egging on ab—" Oritel's brown eyes had widen, instantly realizing where this conversation was headed as Erendor looked quite cocky.
"NO! Wait! Girls now let's have a talk about this. . ."
Erendor had watched as Oritel had sped up his pace, trying to reach Marion and Bloom, as the young man chuckled upon watching his best-friend's behavior.
Who knew that Oritel would highly overreact to hearing the news of his daughter potentially having a close male friend? Could that male friend of hers be a boyfriend? He could simply imagine Oritel fainting or having fits about his daughter dating or something? Perhaps he would be an overprotective father?
Erendor appeared to be highly fascinated—gazing at Samara. "This will certainly be interesting. Let's see how many times I could provoke Oritel for all the times he had pranked me."
"Lets not speak of it now darling as I do enjoy your company," Samara had clung her arm in Erendor's, enjoying his presence, though she could see the light blush spread across the Specialist's face.
Niobe came to a halt—everything had grown silent, not even a single buzzing from insects that had roamed the air awhile ago. A faint mist had rose in mid-air despite the sun blazing brightly in the blue skies. Something was defiantly off. An omniscient sensation lingered in the gloomy swamp.
It was eerie.
"Is it me or has everything gone silent around here?" Niobe asked, observing the area. Not a single ribbiting sound was heard as if the creatures of the swamp had mysteriously gone noiseless except for the sound of their own as they walked through the swamp.
"Now that you mention it, it has gone awfully quite around here," Marion had noted, her big green eyes glancing all around the area.
Luna's shriek had pierced through the silence air upon a dark creature lunging at her from between the shadows as Radius had easily drawn out his blade, slicing the creatures long thinly arms that was about to grab the moon fairy.
"Are you alright Luna?" Radius asked, helping her up to her feet.
"Yes. But what in the heck are those creatures!" Luna yelled a bit too loudly, as if trying to recompose herself from the nasty shock.
Bloom looked around to see many bright red eyes gleam in the mist that was hung over them. There many of them and it had appeared to the girl that these creatures had been watching them for awhile.
"Look! There's more of them in the shadows!"
Alec and Oritel had drawn closer to Marion and Bloom, shielding the girls from unknown bug like creatures with their swords drawn out and their eyes had narrowed, carefully observing the creatures' movements.
"It looks like we weren't completely alone," Teredor remarked, also protecting his beloved Niobe from those nasty bug-like creatures.
A unknown figure had emerged from the mist with a hunting laugh that echoed loudly within the swamp. Thousands of tiny insects had swarmed in the air—taking a form of a woman with large wings that had resembled an insect.
Luna's face had gone deathly green—the girl was absolutely disgusted that nearly made her want to vomit in her place. "That's disgusting!"
A dangerous smile played the woman's lips.
"Why hello fairies and specialists!" the woman crooned delightedly in a sinister way. Her dark eyes had darted between Oritel and Marion and the mysterious redheaded girl. They were her main source of target. The witch had to get the job done and please her mistresses!
Mandragora had to eliminate the crown prince and the girl the Dominian Prince happened to be in love with. Then her eyes had fallen on the girl with red-hair and bright blue eyes—Bloom—the girl that Valtor rambled on to her lately.
"Creatures! Attack!" Mandragora screeched loudly—pointing her fingers directly at the group.
The girls had glanced at one another—as if sharing the same thought and nodded.
"Go Winx!"
Luna's outfit had shimmered and morphed into a dazzling pale blue mini halter top, with a figure-clinging skirt and high pale yellow boots that reached her knees level. Her hair was let down in curls. A pair of small pale yellow wings had sprouted from her back in the shape of crescent moons.
Marion had felt the magic washed over herself, a wonderful sensation as her clothes morphed into her primary Winx form—into a sparkling strapless ivory green dress, with a lighter green gloves and pale yellow tights, with a pair of green boots that reached the ankles. Her redhead hair was tied back into a ponytail as small green wings had appeared.
Niobe too was transformed into her fairy form. The dark-skinned fairy had wore a purple turtle neck with a pair of matching tight shorts. Dark green boots was up to her ankles with a pair of dark green wings. Her teal eyes were ignited with absolute fury towards the creatures.
"Bubbles of Morphix!" Niobe exclaimed, trapping the creatures within the purple fluids—not allowing the bugs to wreck even more chaos.
Samara was dressed in a tight emerald glittering jumpsuit with a sheer mini-skirt that reached mid-thigh. Her dark red-hair had fallen to her shoulders with a small golden tiara atop her head and with matching golden earnings. Small yellow wings appeared matching her knee length high-heeled boots.
The fairy had conjured a bright golden gemstone from beneath the ground, piercing the huge monstrous bug directly in the center of the chest—dark green oozing down the once gleaming gemstone.
Samara scrunched her nose upwards in utter revulsion.
Bloom was about to morph into her Enchantix form, but was unexpectedly pinned to the muddy ground—mud had splattered all over her. A large fouling creature whose breath reeked of death and its red eyes blazing with much fury and delight over pinning a young fairy.
Bloom let out a high-pitched scream. The girl couldn't move her limbs at all. Drool had slobbered all over her face and chest. Her face had turned a horrible shade of green.
"Bloom!" Oritel, Marion, and Alec cried out.
The three of them rushed to Bloom's aid. Marion's hands had bursted into series of bright flames, directly blasting the creature who pinned her daughter to the ground without having a chance for her to transform into a fairy. The flame had went right though the creature as if unaffected by the heat—the area dissolving into tiny bugs and it had reformed back again.
Marion stared in horror.
How was she going to get rid of this nasty bug away from her daughter?
Oritel and Alec had stabbed lunged their blade towards the creature's back, but unfortunately it had gone right through the creature—instantly dissolving into tiny insects.
Suddenly a flash of golden light had whirled through the air at full speed directly hitting the creature before it had the chance to pierce its fangs into Bloom's soft flesh. The creature hissed in agony, releasing its grip from the young redheaded princess as it had burst, all of its green goo splattered on the young fairies and specialists.
A young wizard had stepped into the light, his long platinum hair catched the slight breeze, his amber eyes glowed under the scant of sunlight. He wore pale grey robes and his face was sharp. He was holding out a magical arrow in his hands, glancing over where he'd hit the creature.
The platinum-haired wizard had approached Bloom, his gaze had soften on the girl as the man had leaned his hand out to the girl to help the fairy on her feet again after the creature had assaulted her.
"Are you alright, girl?" he asked softly.
Bloom gave a nod, a bright blush ran across her face. "I'm alright now, thanks for saving my life."
"No problem. I wouldn't want a beautiful girl such as yourself to get injuries by those beasts. Here let me help you with that," the man had wiped the goo off Bloom's face, admiring her bright blue eyes.
"You have lovely eyes, fairy."
(Bloom blushed again, more intensely).
"Ahem!" Oritel coughed, trying to catch his daughter's attention to him and not to the unknown wizard who just happened to appear out of nowhere. Literally. It had irritated to see the man touching Bloom's face like that, wiping the goo off her cheeks.
"Oh sorry Oritel," Bloom muttered, as she headed off to Oritel, Marion, and Alec who was helping removing the slimy goo from his little sister's wings.
Oritel casted a glare at the unknown wizard who looked highly confused as to why Oritel had given him that look before turning back to his daughter. "That wizard was trying to hit on you Bloom. And frankly, I don't like it."
Bloom rolled her eyes.
It was one of the most ridiculous things he told her.
"He wasn't trying to hit on me. He was just helping out," Bloom explained.
"If he was helping out he wouldn't have commented on your eyes or caress your cheeks like that," Oritel pointed out.
"But—"
"There's nothing to argue about young lady. I saw what I saw and there's no convincing me it's otherwise."
Bloom scoffed and headed off to Marion and Alec. "Need some help?"
"I think we're good here. Got most of the goo out of your wings Marion. And by the way Bloom I do agree with Oritel that man was trying to check you out and I do find that a bit disturbing. . . "
"Not you too!" the redhead fairy exasperated.
More bugs creatures were reforming into their original shape and they were multiplying rapidly. Erendor was slicing his way through the large bugs furiously.
The Solarian Prince wasn't even sure how to defeat them for that matter as they kept reforming from dark magic. This was turning out to be quite a bugging problem—these bugs couldn't be exterminated no matter what attempts they had tried. It'd seemed the creatures were growing stronger and more aggressively against their enemies.
"Um. . . guys there's so many of them! How do we exactly defeat these icky creatures?" Luna exclaimed frustratedly.
"So the better question is: who is that woman and what does she exactly want?" Niobe said.
Two magical arrows had hit the creatures that stood before Luna and Niobe and easily had disintegrated not reforming back.
"Damn you to Obsidian!" the woman hissed in pure anger.
"Sounds like someone's not having her day!" Radius snickered.
"Be gone you foul woman!" the platinum-haired wizard had stepped forward, glaring at the woman as the man summoned his magic that shinned brightly in the misty swamp. Many bug creatures hissed upon the radiating magic the wizard had called upon in order to extinguish the dark creatures, as they swarmed back to the witch's side.
Remesu had unleashed his powerful magic upon the wicked witch—many of her dark creatures were disintegrating into nothing but dust that swept through the air.
Remesu Spellbinder beamed proudly for his accomplishment.
Everything was going according to his plan.
He promised Mandragora that this wasn't going to be the last time she was going to get her hands on Crown Prince Oritel. Nope. This had just been a mere façade. Soon enough everything will fall into their diabolical plan in no time. First he had to gain not only Bloom's trust but everyone else's too.
Samara gazed at the man with a sharp look. "So who are you exactly?"
"I'm Remesu Spellbinder, a wizard, from Andros. I actually been trying to haunt down this witch for quite some time now. She's a powerful and dangerous witch, causing all sorts of mayhem and chaos all across the realms. . . I'll tell that woman is a servant of the Ancestral Witches—" everyone's eyes had widen in horror and some had shuddered over the fact of not realizing who was the witch they had been dealing with, "—of course you've heard of them."
"The Ancestress," Marion had whispered in fear, as she grabbed a hold of Bloom's hand for comfort.
Bloom heard of those witches from before but couldn't place where exactly. These witches had seemed to be feared by most people all across the Magical Universe.
Oritel's expression had darkened.
Remesu's amber eyes had met Bloom's bright blue eyes and he gave her a brilliant smile though he instantly had noticed how Oritel threw a dirty look at him for staring at the redhead girl. Why was the prince acting so overly protectively of her?
"Perhaps I'll be seeing you sometime around, girl." Remesu waved to Bloom before vanishing not allowing anyone to question him even further.
Erendor leaned in to Oritel. "Dude, he's hitting on your daughter? What are you going to do about? Not to mention that Bloom's a little—"
"Don't continue that sentence Erendor and are you literally being on first name basis with that guy? We hardly know that wizard. And for the fact he's trying to hit on my daughter. . . oh yup I'm officially keeping my daughter away from all men," Oritel said irritably.
"Oh someone's being an overprotective father. Or maybe getting a little jealous that she's getting a little attention?" Radius smirked.
The brunet prince's face grew hot and a deep shade of red. "I'm not jealous but overprotective of her Radius. She's my kid after all."
"A kid who wants to start dating, exploring her boundaries, you know what I mean. Falling in love with a guy. Getting married to him. Having lots of cute babies together—" Radius smiled broadly as Oritel's face turned scarlet—almost like a tomato. Oritel did not want to hear any of that kind revolving around his own child. No father would like to imagine that one day that their child would leave the family nest and to start their very own lives. Nope. None of it.
Radius had enjoyed teasing his best-friend.
"Why would you tell me these things Radius? Now it's all stuck in my head. The unimaginable imagery? Dragons why?" Oritel groaned glumly.
"Ya, right. I doubt she would be happy with your decision Oritel. But I'm just gonna wish you some good luck with that," Erendor snorted, patting Oritel on his shoulder as if trying to make the man feel better.
Teredor walked up to the guys to see Oritel looking dispirited. "What's going on? Why does Oritel look so—"
"So depressed is because we're teasing him about his daughter! He's so over protective now! You've grown into a softie for her!" Erendor and Radius chuckled enjoying such a scene.
Author's Note
I didn't think I was updating this anytime soon, but lets say I had lots of inspiration for this chapter! Hopefully my creativity wouldn't die down after this lol! Anyways, Valtor is under a different identity entirely that he goes by Remesu Spellbinder as he tries to figure out Bloom's secret for obvious reasons!
BellChocolate: Yes the shopping scene was pretty hilarious to me! His friends are easily noticing how over protective he's become and possibility of becoming a softie (only to Marion and Bloom that is). :)
mimisvpor: Oritel and Marion co-parents is one of my highlights of the week too! But of course the three of them will face difficult obstacles in their path so yay! :)
mercan. melike. 2001: well you're going to wait to find out if things will turn out the same or not or if the future timeline would change. There will be hints in the future chapters! :)
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