So last we left Musa, she had just ended things with Daniel (FINALLY!) and she was back to sulking about Riven and her ex. And then there was what this chapter will focus on a lot – karen's betrayal.

Now you didn't think I'd let her get away with what she did? No, no, no… I have plans for her. ;)

Any who – here we go!

Witch Trap

Musa trudged herself along the pavement of Alfea as she made her way to her dorm room on the way back from class. She had been quiet since she got back to Alfea and she knew that her friends were beginning to notice. She had been avoiding all calls from her ex since she was not at all interested in what he had to say. Daniel had probably called a further of 20 times everyday, but Musa refused to budge on her stand of not talking to him. And even though she did want to talk to someone, it was too hard to even bring up.

Bloom was now off on a date with Brandon while Techna and Flora stayed after class with Stella to try to convince Miss Faragonda to let Stella have some type of extra credit so she could bring up her grade, since she had to make up a few tests that day. It had been three days since spring break ended and Musa had done well to avoid any questions that anyone posed about how her break went. She didn't feel like talking about it, all she wanted to do was forget. Forget that it ever happened that she dated him, that she was betrayed, even though she knew it would be pretty impossible since her friends from both parts of her life would bring it up and make her face it.

But that wasn't Musa's main area of concern. She has been thinking about the first dance practice that dance team had and she still couldn't come to grips with the idea of Karen stabbing her in the back like that, sure all the signs pointed to Karen being the one who let Musa's secret getting loose, but she still didn't know if she should believe it. Maybe it was just her way of holding onto something since there was nothing really left. Whatever she was feeling, she was in no way ready to deal with it, so she simply put on a brave face and tried to go about her day like normal.

It seemed to be working pretty well. She knew that she wasn't being much like herself, she was a lot quieter and she didn't engage in anything but school work and other monotonous chores that would occupy her mind for a little, although it didn't work very well. She found herself, more often than not, replaying that night over and over again. As if it were some type of horror movie that she couldn't stop watching. But, she hadn't had any major emotional upsets, nothing to cause to feel what she knew she should be feeling. Well at least not until she heard an all too familiar voice shout her name from across the quad. "Musa sweetie!"

Musa turned to see Karen dismissing the girls she was talking to and walk over to her with a confident smile painted all over her face. "Karen…" Musa said still not sure if she should give Karen the benefit of the doubt. After everything that happened between Karen and Leslie, Musa didn't want to do anymore damage by falsely accusing her, but all that past drama did give her motive to do something like this to her. But, then of coarse, it wasn't Musa who started the all out war against her, so why would Karen have an issue with Musa on her own?

"So how was your break!" Karen said excitedly through a fake smile as she hugged Musa.

"Not that great," Musa answered honestly, she knew that Karen was out of the inner circle, but had she really not heard about what happened? Even her Aunt Galiena knew what was going on. "Just glad to be back, I guess"

"Oh, I know," Karen replied with what was so obviously fake sympathy. "I heard about what happened between you and Daniel,"

"Well why did you ask how my break was if you already knew," Musa snapped angrily. Karen was obviously trying to piss Musa off with her annoying happy disposition.

"Don't snap at me," Karen said in a tone mocking strictness with a hint of happiness sprinkled in that was meant to further anger Musa. "Just because your boyfriend cheated on you,"

"At least I had one," Musa shot back, now convinced that Karen was indeed the one who opened her big mouth and started all the problems that she was now encountering. "I mean one that was dating me for a reason other than pissing off his ex. But hey, the universe needs cheap skanks like you,"

"You know what I still can't grasp," Karen said with an innocent voice as she put her finger to her cheek as if she were deep in thought. "Is how Daniel found out that you were not exactly being completely honest with him? I mean it's rather perplexing don't you think?"

"You know what Karen," Musa said walking up to Karen so that they were face to face and so the she had a more intimidating air about her, since she was in pigtails she hardly looked menacing. She wasn't going to let Karen get the best of her, that was what she wanted. Musa had heard Leslie and the twins tell her over and over again that if she did want revenge on Karen for what she did, she would have to take a different route, one that bypassed a head on head confrontation. "How about you worry about getting someone that may actually like you, and I'll worry about the rest,"

"Oh wait that was me…and sorry I have embellished a bit," Karen continued ignoring all of the comments that Musa made, but Musa could tell that her comments didn't complete go over her head, she could tell that they did phase her a bit. Even though ever fiber in her body was telling her to kick Karen's ass, she knew that wouldn't end well, so she swallowed the anger and turned on her heels and walked away. This could be settled another way. "And I wonder who called Laurie and gave her the idea to… well you know what they did," Karen continued trying to get a reaction out of Musa.

Just then Musa stopped her pace and turned with her anger increasing exponentially with every passing second and every step she took close to that manipulative liar. "You want to start war with me Karen!" Musa said as she walked back up to Karen and got back in her face. "Because we both know who will win, I mean if I recall, it was you that was blacklisted. If you want history to repeat itself, I'll be more than happy to do it,"

"Don't test me Musa," Karen said as a sly smile formed along her lips. "You wouldn't want to call some witches here to kick your ass again would you? Hey, I can even call another guy you have a crush on and he can help in kicking your ass, I mean that would also be another repeat of history, wouldn't it b – ,"

Before Karen could continue, Musa stopped her by giving her a loud slap on the face, her last fiber of patience had snapped and she was going to settle this here and now. The slap was one that caught the attention of almost everyone in the quad. There was a lot of pain in her memories with the break up, but that day in Magix with Riven and the witches was something that she couldn't relive and recalling the memory brought back pain she didn't even know she still felt. Karen stepped back, reeling from the fact that Musa actually hit her and looked at Musa for a second. Musa, still fuming with anger, took the opportunity to literally pummel Karen to the ground, hitting her on the way down. "You stupid little bitch! I am going to kill you!"

"You don't want to take me Musa!" Karen said finally getting her sense back when she began to go on the offensive by rolling over and pinning her to the ground. "Your friends aren't here to do the dirty work Musa, you're gonna have to take me on your own,"

"Don't worry, I'm perfectly capable!" Musa said through clenched teeth and pulled the best cat fight move out there and pulled hard on Karen's hair until she was back on top and she then began hitting her when she had the opportunity. "You are going to pay for this, you stupid slut!"

"Musa!" Stella shrieked as she, Flora and Techna came across the scene. Musa could only imagine what she looked like from another point of view. True she was the assailant, but Karen was in no way the victim here. "Musa Dannington! Get off of her now!" Stella commanded, this time she sounded more motherly than anything.

Stella's commands proved to be very ineffective since the two kept fighting each other until they were literally pulled out of the gift by Miss Faragonda and Griselda. The two disciplinarians pulled the two apart until they were a safe distance from each other and right when Faragonda was ready to ask what exactly was going on, Musa finally caught her breath and screamed back at Karen.

"I didn't do anything to you!" Musa screamed pulling against Stella and Techna, who were now acting as her restraints. Everything she was feelings, the hurt and embarrassment from remembering that day in Magix, the pain from her break up with Daniel and the sting of the betrayal that Karen was guilty off. Musa felt stupid and sick and sad and angry, all at the same time and keeping it pent up only lasted for so long. She could no longer hold in everything that was going on. "I never did anything and you pulled this crap! You ruined everything. I didn't deserve that you, - you stupid bitch!" Musa said as tears began to fall from her eyes, as if this scene wasn't embarrassing enough, little did she know that the tears made her look innocent from an outside point of view, as if she were the victim, and from a certain point of view, she was.

"You just sat back and let your stupid friends destroy my reputation," Karen screamed as she struggled against the magical restraints that Griselda had summoned. "They ruined everything for me and you just sat back and let it happen! Well princess, everyone gets what they deserve and I don't care how innocent you try to be, you deserve this! Next time you'll think twice before you –,"

"That's quite enough," Miss Faragonda interrupted as she stood in between the girls with a stern look on her face. She dismissed the girls that had crowed around the two and watched as they fought. "I am very disappointed in the two of you, you are Alfea girls and Alfea girls do not behave this way! Now what is going on?"

"Nothing,' Karen said curtly. Musa was not going to go cry to Miss Faragonda either, she wanted to finish this, but it would have to be done another way.

"Well, what about you Princess Musa," Griselda asked. "Do you have anything to say?"

"No," Musa said as she pulled her arms away from Stella and Techna's hold.

"Karen, this isn't the first time you have needed disciple action, but Musa, we expected more from you," Miss Faragonda continued and walked over to Musa with a sympathetic look on her face. "Is there anything you would like to talk about?"

"No," Musa repeated looking towards the ground.

"Fine then, I assume this little tussle is now over with," Griselda said to the two girls, I expect both of you in detention tomorrow and we will discuss your punishment there. "You two should go see the nurse about those cuts and scrapes," With that Griselda and Faragonda walked away and Musa felt even worse about everything and on top of that she was probably going to have detention for the rest of the year.

"Musa are you okay," Flora cooed as she walked over to Musa. But, Musa didn't answer, instead she began walking back to her dorm room, for the threat of crying again was imminent. Her friends let her walk away and be alone for a few minutes, and then they would grill her about what was going on.

"Oh and Musa sweetie!" Karen called back after Griselda and Faragonda were out of earshot. "Give Daniel my love... or now that's he's single, I guess I'll just give it to him myself," Karen said with a maniacal laugh that followed, knowing that this was hurting Musa. "We both know how much he loves that,"

"Go ahead Karen. Knock yourself out and don't worry," Musa shouted back as she walked back to her dorm, she didn't turn around but she composed herself enough to get the last word in. "This isn't over,"

The second Musa shut the door to her bedroom, she fell to pieces. Everything that she had been holding in since she left home had come to the surface and now there was no way she was holding it in anymore. She crawled into her bed and cried angry tears into her pillow until she couldn't cry anymore. Her mind kept cycling everything that Karen had said and it wasn't that the truth hurt, because Musa knew all the information that Karen had screamed at her. It was the pain that her words brought back, when she thought about, Karen must have been feeling a similar feeling, not that Musa cared.

Musa then sat up in her bed and looked in the mirror that was straight across from her bed. She looked to the side of her face and realized that she was bleeding on her forehead right by her hair line. It wasn't too big of a cut, probably one she earned when she scrapped her head against the hard pavement part of the quad.

Everything had indeed changed; it was what Musa feared the most about her breakup. Daniel, her oldest friend in the world had become an enemy, along with Karen, both people she thought she could trust. And even though this wasn't her fault, she felt like an idiot for letting it all happen. She laid in her bed alone for the next twenty minutes until she heard a knock at the door. "Musa…it's us, can we come in?" Said Flora's voice sweetly from the other side of the door.

Musa really didn't want to explain what happened, because in order to explain what happened in the quad today she would have to rehash the entire break up plus stuff that happened in the past between her and Karen. But, there was no way she was getting out of this since everyone witnessed what happened and besides, she did want to talk to someone and who better than her friends. "Yeah, come in," Musa said as she sat up in her bed.

The girls, with the exception of Bloom who was still out with Brandon, entered the room and sat on the sides of her bed with Musa in the middle. "So you wanna fill us in on the whole fighting thing?" Stella blurt out straight outta the gate, it was pretty velar that they all wanted to know what was going on especially since Musa was fighting someone that was supposed to be her friend. "And what about Daniel being sing –,"

"I'll explain," Musa said after taking a deep breath as she got ready to talk about everything she had been keeping in. "Okay, so when I went home for spring break…"

Ten minutes later, Musa finished explaining what happened between her and Daniel and this time she didn't leave any details out. She told them how Daniel found out about how she had feelings for Riven and that he cheated on her. And even thought she was reluctant to share at first, it was very cleansing. Musa felt a lot better after she got it all off her chest, enough time had passed so she wasn't feeling the blind anger she felt when she and Daniel had just broken up, now she could be more objective.

"Oh, that explains why you haven't exactly been yourself lately," Stella pointed out. "And wow Karen is a super bitch,"

"Yeah," Musa said sadly, it would take some time before she felt like she was back to her old self and even though she was wishing everything could just go back to the way things were before everything happened, she knew it never would. "So, it's pretty much over,"

"Well," Stella thought out loud. "Is that really a bad thing, I mean, okay don't hit me," Stella said in a half joking tone. Musa gave her a wry look and then Stella continued. "I mean it, I bruise like a peach,"

"Stella…"

"Okay but you can't deny that you weren't really in the relationship 100 percent,"

"What! Yes I was," Musa defended hearing the same argument her friends gave her back at home. Why was this so hard to comprehend?

"So you can honestly say that you are completely over Riven?" Stella questioned.

"Yes!" Musa repeated with an exasperated sigh. She knew she was lying but sy was still not going to admit that she still had feelings for Riven, she had enough crap to deal with and dealing with Riven was not her idea of something she wanted to do. He had rejected her, hurt her and basically made her a laughing stock at Cloud Tower. She was never going to forgive Riven for the way he had betrayed her and his own friends. "I had a crush on him and now it's over,"

"Musa we believe you," Flora said noticing that Musa was getting a little upset. There was enough that had gone on today and there was no need to rehash old arguments. "Stella is just trying to make you feel better,"

"Look, I'm fine okay," Musa insisted. "I just need some time to think things through,"

"If you want to talk about something else, that's fine," Techna insisted.

"Too bad there weren't guys there, someone could have benefited from the attack," Stella said trying to lighten the mood. "I mean a chick fight is totally wasted in a school of all girls, I'm sure some guys would have gotten a kick out of it,"

"I don't think that's helping,"

"Hey we can talk about how we're gonna get back at Karen," Stella suggested. But Musa was far ahead of her, she may not have thought her plan through completely, but she knew she knew how to get started. "We have to get her back somehow,"

"I understand that we broke up and I'm dealing with that," Musa began. "But we used to be so close, Daniel and I. But now it's like everyone I know has been split down the middle, and I know that this is causing a rift with all my friends back home. I just really want things to go back to the way they were.

"Right now you can't see too objectively because of everything that has happened," Techna reasoned. "But with time I am sure you will be able to find a middle ground, maybe it wont be exactly as you hoped, but it will happen,"

"Yeah sweetie, don't worry about it right now," Flora said in an attempt to comfort Musa. "You will bounce back from this,"

"I know," Musa said mustering some courage and strength. "I just want some time alone for now though,"

"Okay, if you ever need to talk about anything, at all, you know I love talking, Stella said as she walked out the girls with a wink. "I'm a good at listening too, just thought I should mention that," Musa laughed a bit, for the first time since the break up and nodded. The girls nodded as well and left the room to give Musa some time to think, but Musa was not going to think about the break up or her fear of loosing her friends in the midst of it, instead she was focused on one thing.

Revenge. It was the one thing in the universe that drove even the most docile of people to violence, the most level headed to insanity and it drove the nicest to become as treacherous as those they were betrayed by. Musa had time to think about and when she thought about it, the more guilt became associated with Karen. Sure Musa and Daniel's relationship was rocky ever since she came to Alfea, but it could have ended on much better terms. There was no doubt in her mind that some of Daniel's actions were a direct result of Musa's dishonesty, but there was still the matter of getting even with Karen. Sure it was immature, but she was a woman scorned and being rational just wasn't in her mindset right now.

After a few minutes alone wallowing in her anger in her room, Musa got up and began to do a few things that she needed to finish for school. Later that day, Musa went over to Ali Larson's room. Ali was the only other freshman who made the dance team and she and Musa had become good friends over the course of the year and even though Musa wasn't feeling particularly trusting, she needed Ali's help. "Hey Musa, are you okay? I saw what happened earlier…you know in the quad," Said the petite brunette when she opened the door and gestured for Musa to come in.

"Yeah…about that," Musa began when she sat down on a chair that was placed next to Ali's desk. "I need your help to –,"

"Get back at Karen?" Ali finished with a knowing smile on her face and Musa looked a bit surprised that Ali knew what she wanted. Just as she was about to ask how Ali answered the question for her. "I managed to catch what the two of you were screaming at each other while you had that little chick fight. But I have to say, I'm kind of honored that you are coming to me for this, how sweet!"

"Oh well I guess I should explain," Musa said. Ali knew about Daniel since she had also seen him come and visit that one day when he came to Magix when Musa had her run in with the witches, but she hadn't learned too much about the breakup. But, the fight that Musa got into with Karen probably cleared things up.

"No need," Ali said putting her hand up in order to stop Musa from going any further. "I find that plots for revenge go over a lot better when you don't over think why you're doing it,"

"So you're going to just help me without any convincing or explanation," Musa asked skeptically. She was not in a trusting place right now so the whole idea seemed suspicious, but Ali had nothing against her and they had become god friends, not to mention Musa had helped Ali a lot in dance practice.

"Well why not?" Ali said with a perky smile. "Besides you may have just started hating Karen, but let me tell you she's not exactly the nicest person in the world,"

"It's good to have an ally,"

"I'm not sure if you know this, but not many of the other girls on the team like her that much either. Oh and about the whole explanation thing, when people tend to think about it and rationalize and they either get angrier or let it go," Ali reasoned as she took a seat on the edge of her bed and looked to Musa and continued. "It's no fun when you loose your motive for revenge and when people get too angry they tend to go over the top. So this is pretty much a happy medium,"

"You've done this before?" Musa questioned a little surprised at Ali's know how on the subject. She was reminding her a lot of the twins by how nonchalantly she was discussing the plan.

"You could say that,"

"Good, I'm going to need some know how on this," Musa admitted. Karen was right; Musa really couldn't do this on her own since she had absolutely no experience. She had seen her friends do this sort of thing a million times, but she usually saw them in the planning stages and then the final result, but everything that went on in the middle was pretty much a mystery. "I'm not good with the whole plotting against someone thing. And I have no idea where to begin,"

"I do," Ali said after a few moments of silence. "Remember when Ms. Faragonda pulled you two apart?"

"Yeah," Musa said not wanting to recall the event.

"Well, she said she was disappointed in you and – ,"

"And she said that this isn't the first time that Karen needed disciple action," Musa finished for her, still not sure where she was going with this.

"So we start at her records," Ali said connecting the dots. "

"You'd be surprised how easy it is to mess with records," Ali said as she flipped through her dorm directory and then looked up at Musa's inquiring face. "I'm assuming,"

"Oh to get the correct record you need her ID number," Musa said when she looked at the directory that Ali was flipping though and she then began to connect the dots on her own. "And dorm rooms are arranged by ID numbers so you look in the directory,"

"And we are just a hop, skip and a jump away from her ID number," Ali said with a sly smile. "And her entire record from 1st grade to her latest academic boo-boo,"

"And with that, we'll have any leverage we need," Musa said confidently. "But we don't really have much to do with the information when we get it and how are we gonna get it?"

"Well, leave getting it to me," Ali insisted. "My dad just donated three new computer labs at Magix University and a whole knew potions lab, so I can get the university to call in to Alfea and get the academic records of some students and disciplinary records might be a little harder. But, unlike you I happen to be on Griselda's good side. I'll figure it out,"

"If I may," Musa asked still a little shell shocked that Ali had so much planned in the time that Musa had brought up the subject. "How about we use the dance team, I mean figure something out to, I dunno - ,"

"Oust her," Ali finished when she noticed how uncomfortable Musa felt with the idea of doing something like that. But, she also knew that Musa would never exact her revenge if she started feeling guilty now, and there was still much to be done. "Okay stop over thinking this, this is the girl that played a huge part in breaking up you and Daniel. A relationship that went far beyond dating, you guys were best friends before that and god knows if you'll ever get it back. She deserves this. And to pull something like this off, we're gonna have to get very buddy-buddy with some senior fairies, particularly ones on the team,"

"Yeah you're right," Musa said when she thought about how much Karen had messed up her entire world. She needed to pay for this, not just so Musa could feel like they were even and so Musa could maybe move on from this whole ordeal. "Let's take the bitch down,"

"That's my girl," Ali said with a laugh as she and Musa began to talk and work out the details as to what they were going to do. It took a few hours to finally figure out what they wanted to do and a few more hours to figure out how they were going to do this. Musa and Ali had worked it out so that they could both benefit from the uprising, she wanted to make sure that Ali got something for all the effort she was putting into this.

Much later that night, Musa snuck quietly into her dorm room after hours of scheming with Ali. With a yawn she quietly shut the door and began walking toward her room when she heard a tapping at the window, when she walked over, she didn't see anyone at the common balcony. But, when she looked over to the side of te window she saw Bloom walk out onto the balcony that was on her room. She then saw Brandon sitting on his leva bike offering his hand out to Bloom to help her on.

"Aww," Musa said happily unable to look away from the budding relationship. They were just so adorable! But then that caused the memories of Daniel to come flooding back. She tried not to think about him, but she did, every day. He was always doing hopelessly romantic things like that and no matter how much Musa told him not to do things that sappy, he would because he knew that a part of Musa loved the attention.

He knew her the best out of anyone in her life and yet he was capable of hurting her so much and it killed her when she reminded herself of that. Musa sighed at the thought of what she had but she tried not to feel bad for herself and instead be happy for Bloom. Besides someone around here should have a decent love life and it was clear that Musa wasn't going to be the one who did. She looked at the two talking and then went back to her room to get some sleep. Sure it was past curfew and if Bloom got caught she would be in huge trouble, but Musa wasn't about to stand in the way of those two.

The next morning however, Musa sort of wished she had stood in the way of those two lovebirds. "What do you mean she never came home, I mean are you sure she didn't leave early this morning," Techna asked sternly and loudly enough to wake up a slumbering Musa.

"What's up guys," Musa asked still very groggy from waking up. She sat up in bed to see Flora standing in front of the door and Techna at her desk, both with very strict looks on their faces. "Seriously, I can't guess this early in the morning,"

"Bloom wasn't in our room when I woke up," Flora answered.

"Maybe she went for a jog or something," Musa answered before remembering that she had seen Bloom and Brandon ride off into the night the night before. "Oh wait..." Musa said as she began to wake up and her memory began to run like normal

"What?" Techna asked anxiously. "Do you know something?"

"I saw her getting onto Brandon's leva bike last night," Musa admitted now wishing that she had stopped Bloom, she was surely going to get in trouble for not stopping her from going out. She was after all talking to Techna and Flora, maybe with Stella she would have some room to slid, but here, not so much. "I figured I would let her go I mean what's the harm?"

"The harm is she didn't come home!" Techna practically yelled. "She hasn't called, we have no idea where she is,"

"Maybe she didn't wake up yet," Musa spat out in her defense and then realized what she was implying. But, the last time she didn't come home at night it was still pretty innocent. "I didn't mean it like that but even if something happened…nevermind,"

"Okay we should call Brandon," Techna said sternly, obviously not very amused by Musa's innuendo. "Flora you go see if Stella knows anything,"

"Phone's ringing," Musa said as she switched her cell phone onto speaker phone. She had decided to do that as soon as possible so she didn't have to endure the lectre she was probably going to get from Techna, but since they found out about her break up, her fiends had been super nice to her, which helped a lot in this situation.

"Hello?" answered a groggy Brandon, it was pretty obvious that they were the ones who had woken him up, meaning if Bloom was with him, she was probably sleeping as well.

"Brandon do you know where Bloom is?" Musa said getting right to the point.

"W – W- What?" He stuttered, Musa wasn't sure if it was from waking up or if he felt uncomfortable about saying something.

"Oh god she's there isn't she," Techna said disappointedly.

"Wait….what?" Brandon asked.

"Ignore her, do you know where Bloom is?" Musa asked seriously. "I mean I saw the two of you sneaking off from Bloom's balcony last night, and from there we haven't seen Bloom since. So can you fill in the blanks,"

"We went to Cloud Tower to read this book that the witches –,"

"You took her to Cloud Tower!" Techna yelled once again and this time stood up and walked over to Musa.

"Yeah, that and it's not exactly a hot spot for dates…" Musa added

"She wanted to see a book that was supposed to be about her, anyway she didn't really like what she read and she got pretty upset, so she decided to walk back to Alfea cause she wanted to be alone," Brandon said finally without being interrupted by one of the fairies.

"So she's somewhere between here and Cloud Tower, hopefully I mean something could have happened," Musa summed up.

"Sorry girls I –,"

"Don't worry we'll get her," Musa reassured knowing that if she kept giving Brandon a hard time he would actually feel horrible and there was no need to freak out or panic until they looked at every possibility as to where Bloom would be. Musa hung up the phone and turned around to see Techna sitting on her bed with an impatient look, and Musa began to explain. "Okay, so they went to Cloud Tower last night to look for some book, apparently Bloom didn't like what she read and asked to walk home alone,"

"And he just let her go! Ugh, whatever, we need to go talk to Stella and Flora," Techna said as she stood up and she and Musa walked out of the room and over to Stella's room.

"We just talked to Brandon," Techna said as she and Musa opened the door to Stella's room and walked in. "She walked home last night,"

"From Cloud Tower," Musa added ominously as she sat down on the floor. There was definitely a need for concern since Bloom and the rest of the Winx Club weren't exactly buddy-buddy with the witches and witches all together didn't like fairies.

"All by herself," Stella exclaimed

"She could be stuck in the dark forest, she could be lost we have to find her, before something awful happens," Musa said. The girls rushed down to the quad and looked around for a bit to see if maybe she had come back

"How are we going to find her?" Techna asked in an exasperated tone. They had all searched around the school and there was no luck. And now the possibility that something really bad happened to their friend was pretty immanent.

"We're all going to have to work together," Flora said "We're gonna have to use everyone's powers so let's go," And then she transformed into her Winx form and then the rest of the girls followed suit. "Floral navigator," Flora yelled after she finished transforming. Then, particles that looked almost like pollen flew into the air and then they formed an arrow on the ground that pointed east. "Alright, we need to go east, she's defiantly in that direction,"

"I'll bounce some sound waves to probe the area," Musa said, Flora's spell was good, but it only gave them a direction, but hopefully probing the area with some hypersensitive sound waves would help give a more pin pointed area. Musa gathered her energy and sent out sounds waves into the direction that Flora's pollen arrow pointed to. She concentrated for awhile and then finally felt a bit of resonance, which meant that she had found Bloom. "I got a reading," Musa announced finally.

"Great, air sync it over to me, I'll analyze it," Techna said, all Musa had right now was one specified area where Bloom was, but it would only help if Musa was going it alone, but since she was working with the girls on this one, they would need a more accurate measure. "I found her! Bloom is exactly…here," Techna said when she opened up her palm and showed the girls a virtual map of the forest and finally stopped at a location that looked like a clearing in the trees. "I'll get the coordinates,"

"Ooh la la," Stella said happily as she flew into the air. "Those things are very helpful, but we need the most important part, I'm or coarse referring to what I am going to contribute, you see,"

"What is, don't keep us in suspense," Techna said sarcastically as Musa rolled her eyes. If there was one person in their group with way too much of an ego, it was the solarian princess, who always felt the need to top everyone, not that anyone cared or really paid much attention to her anyway.

"It's the guiding light," Stella said as she flew up in the air. "this will guide us to her exact location,"

"You know that's exactly what Flora, Techna and I just did…right," Musa said pointing out the obvious, but Stella wasn't even listening.

The four fairies then flew up into the air and used Stella's guiding light in combination with the information that Techna, Musa and Flora processed as guides. It was a lot of flying, since getting to the darker areas of the forest took awhile since it was so secluded, but finally they were getting close. "Hey let's take it by foot now," Musa said when she looked around the area and noticed that the clearing was coming up. "We're close,"

"How do you know?" Flora asked.

"The sound waves I sent out at Alfea are coming back to me at a faster pace," Musa said looking in different direction trying to figure out where the sound waves were coming back to her fastest. "Meaning we're getting close, hey do you hear that," Musa said picking up on voices that sounded like they were arguing.

"No…" Stella replied.

"Listen," Musa commanded and as they walked closed they all began to hear very familiar voices, and one that wasn't so familiar. "It's Bloom and the witches," Musa finished and they immediately flew into the air to see what was going on, naturally when the Trix were involved it couldn't be anything good. They quickly flew behind Musa until they came upon the scene.

Bloom was in a clearing with some other girl, she had scarlet red hair and was a gangly little thing, Musa really couldn't tell if she was a witch or not. The gothic highlights made her think that maybe she was a witch, but then she wasn't threatening Bloom, so maybe she wasn't? All of a sudden the witches put Bloom and Mirta were incased in an ice block and the Winx Club was ready for a battle in a second.

"Stella, Icy's hand," Musa said drawing attention to the militant witch right as Icy was going to fire an attack towards the ice block.

"Ooh freeze them in an ice coffin," Stella said when she shot a sun beam straight at Icy's hand to prevent her from attacking the two incapacitated girls inside the ice block. "Has anyone told you you're predictable? You need to majorly update your attack collection" Then, Stella proceeded to unfreeze the ice coffin and free Bloom and that other girl.

"Oh you stupid fairies," Icy said among other things that Musa was hardly listening to. She was far more focused on Darcy. This was the first time since that fateful day in Magix that she actually had the chance to get back at the witch. The Trix had attacked them before, but it was during Magical Reality class and they attacked Bloom and left after she defeated them. Musa was so ready to get back at that skanky witch and the events that unfolded earlier that morning with Karen had Musa ready to fight. "You are so over,"

"You're over!" Spat out the girl who was beside Bloom. Seriously…who is this girl! Musa thought, she was obviously on their side since she had just shot a really pathetic excuse for a come back at the witches.

"Oh please, this isn't even a contest," Stormy said and flew straight up into the air at the Winx Club ready for an attack. She summoned two tornados that began to encircle the girls. Musa could feel herself being pulled towards the center, but she flew back until she felt Stella's back against hers.

"Stay together," Musa said. The point of the tornados was to split them up and instead of fighting them as a unit, Stormy could take out one at a time, which would probably be a lot easier. "We need to stay together," She repeated.

Musa could feel her powers slipping, the wind was way too strong and she could barely lift her hands, so summoning an attack was out of the question. This wasn't the best feelings, especially not now. She had been feeling so powerless, like she couldn't control anything that was happening in her life, and now she couldn't even control the outcome of a simple fight with the witches. And, maybe if she hadn't told the girls to stay together than they wouldn't have been stuck in the hold in the first place.

Just then Musa looked up and saw a huge scorpion appear in front of the witches and suddenly the restraints that were holding her back fell and she could finally summon some attack and start fighting back. Musa looked down and saw that the girl Bloom was talking to helped them. But she was simply Okay, all witches aren't bad Musa thought as she zeroed in on Darcy and got ready to take her revenge.

But, before she could, Icy put a spell on Mirta and turned her into a pumpkin, which in turn angered Bloom and that led to Bloom taking the lead on kicking some witch ass.

Once back at the dorms, the girls had decided to hang out in the common room after they tried for hours to find a spell that might break the spell on Mirta. But, Flora and Techna had to get started on a project together and Stella had received a call from Sky which left Musa and Bloom. "So, um…Stella filled me in on what happened," Bloom said out of random during a conversation with Musa that was originally about the upcoming project that the girls had to do for defense against the dark arts class. (1)

"Oh about Daniel," Musa said suddenly feeling uncomfortable. She didn't know why, but she had explained what happened so many times that it defeated the original idea of not thinking about the break up. "Yeah that sucked… Did you hear what happened this morning?" Musa said not sure as to what else she should say, yeah she was upset, but she didn't want to keep going into this, she wanted to get over it and move on.

"Yeah, Stella told me about that too. Are you okay?" Bloom asked with a genuine look of concern on her face. "I mean if you want to talk about anything or anything like that, I'm here,"

"Thanks, but I'm okay" Musa said trying not to laugh since she had been hearing that all day and ever since it happened. "But you missed quite a show, I won!"

"Well, yeah," Bloom agreed as her tone lightened to match Musa's. "Karen is no match for…well anyone over the age of 10,"

"So true," Musa said with a laugh and then glanced at the clock to see it was time to go see Ali about her plan. "I should go, I have to talk to Ali, but we can chat about kicking Karen's ass later,"

Bloom then went to her room and Musa went to go talk to Ali about the details of their little plot. "So, turns out getting someone's records isn't all too hard around here," Ali said when she opened the door and invited Musa into her room. "Don't ask what I did, but they are right her and I think you should see them,"

"Great," Musa said as she sat down on the same chair she had sat on earlier that day. "So is there anything good?"

"I think you should see for yourself," Ali said with a devious smile. "Oh and I went to the library and picked up this, it's the handbook on what activities are offered here and what you need to do to participate,"

Musa took the and flipped through as a smile began to form across her face. "Oh this is perfect," Musa said and continued to look through. "Wow…perfect,"

"Isn't it!"

"Yeah, it's like she's asking us to ruin her,"

"Whether she asks or not," Ali said looking through the file once again. "Bitch is going down,"

Musa looked up and laughed when she saw the confident look on Ali's face as she thought about the hell they were going to unleash upon Karen. And for the first time since the break up, Musa was feeling better.

1. Yet another reference to my favorite wizards over at Hogwarts….

A catfight with Karen, then a plot to take her down and of course we still have to deal with all that post-break up awkwardness, like the first time they see each other after the whole ordeal. Then there is dealing with the aftermath of everything that happened between Musa and her aunt. But, we can't forget the witches, and I'm gonna throw Riven in the mix – just because I can.

Next up – Pushing the evelope

xoxo,
princessm