Sparx of Hope

Musa laid in her bed, her body turned so that she was looking out the window. Half of the room had been destroyed; luckily it was most of the common room so nobody's personal belongings were injured. But, her window was broken on one side so there was a board on half the window and the original glass on the other half.

The rest of the room was pretty much the same, non of the rot monsters had made it in here after Professor Palladium put an anti-dark magic spell on the East Wing during it's evacuation. Techna was one her bed sleeping soundly and Musa was sure many of her other friends had given in to the pull of sleep, but she couldn't.

The army of decay had retreated hours ago, yet Musa was unable to get a moment's rest. Her mind was all over the place and when she managed to clear her mind for a single moment, something else popped up the caused her to worry even more.

The army of decay was going to attack again, that was certain. But, Musa had almost come to grips with that. She had gotten to know the witches over the past year, no matter how much she detested the idea, and she knew that this was just a minor battle in their plan. And this was a plan for total universal domination. It should have been worrying her, but she knew they would have to fight again and she was almost confident that they would be able to handle themselves. And yet she wasn't able to get any inner peace

Something else was bothering her and for the life of her, she couldn't figure it out. Musa went through a mental checklist several times over and it was fruitless effort. She had managed to get over all the drama in her life; her group of friends at both Alfea and Devon Prep were all fine. She had close friends that would support her and she even got her best friend back a little over a day ago. She should have been happy. But then, Musa was facing the chance of being pulled from Alfea, but she figured after fighting for the school would maybe get Faragonda on her side then maybe she could take her side on this one. Not that she ever wanted her father to find out that she had fought evil forces when she came here to learn.

Her father would have a fit and immediately pull her out of Alfea and after some of the stunts she had pulled with some of her friends at Devon, she could be facing private tutors and being a prisoner in her own palace. Musa laid on her bed, with the moon light lighting up her pale face and tried to tell herself that it was that that was scaring her, but it wasn't. As awful as it sounded, she really wasn't looking that far into the future right now.

She was worried about her friends at Red Fountain; she wondered how Sky, Brandon and Timmy were fairing. Not many of the girls even knew that Ref fountain was attacked, but Ali knew everyone and everything, so Musa found out early. Stella and Bloom may have been on the outs with them, but Musa truly believed that they were good guys, and their constant attempts at apologizing showed it. And she knew what it was to apologize to someone and mean it, so she had forgiven their lying, but she didn't dare talk to them until Stella and Bloom figured out how they felt about everything. Musa had figured that the boys would be fine, if fairies that weren't trained in this sort of thing were okay, then she was sure that second year heroes could handle themselves.

And then Musa began thinking about the missing hero in the group. Was Riven there fighting along side his classmates, at a school that he had a hand in destroying? By being with Darcy he had chosen sides and it didn't seem right that he would be fighting alongside his classmates that had honor and loyalty, while he was a traitor in every way. Musa tried to keep her mind fixated on the anger she had towards him. She tried to convince herself that her anger was the reason she couldn't sleep, but at that moment she figured out what had been keeping her up and it wasn't just that night. It had been looming over her for awhile.

Musa turned to her other side, putting her back to the window and her arms around herself. Pushing some unwanted thoughts away, Musa closed her eyes and prayed to get some sleep since she was absolutely exhausted.

It was only when she managed to begin to drift off to sleep when she heard a loud knock on the door. Musa groaned loudly and covered her head with a pillow, she had finally fallen asleep and she wasn't going to get up for anything. There was another knock at the common room door that was then answered by Stella. With a sign of relief that it was nothing major, since she didn't hear the princess of Solaria freaking out, Musa closed her eyes once more and tried to catch up on some well deserved sleep only to be shaken awake once again.

"Musa let's go," Techna said loudly. Apparently she had told Musa to get up five times, but Musa kept ignoring her. "Miss Faragonda needs us in her office now,"

"W – What?" Musa stammered as her mind began waking up in an attempt to catch up with her body. "What's going on?"

"Miss Faragonda wants to see us in her office," Techna repeated once again.

"Why?"

"We don't know," Techna said as she threw some clothes at Musa. "Get dressed,"

The girls walked over to Miss Faragonda's office that happened to be on the other side of the quad, it gave them the opportunity to see what had happened to their beloved school. It was still really early in the morning and they couldn't see much, but Musa looked in horror to see the once immaculate campus was now littered with broken glass and fallen pillars. Parts of the school were still too dangerous to go to since some of the foundation was shaky after the attack, luckily they were classrooms so all the girls got to sleep in their own room, at least for one more night.

"This is awful," Musa said as they walked past the debris and through a cracked corridor.

"Those witches are so toast," Stella promised.

"Let's hope so, I don't think we can survive too many more of these attacks,"

"Don't say that," Flora commanded sternly. "This is our school and we can't let the witches destroy it,"

Miss Faragonda's office managed to stay relatively the same. There were a few cracks in the wall and one of the windows was taken out, but there was no serious damage. "I hope you girls have managed to get some rest after last night's attack," She said as the five filed into her room, Griselda at her right hand like normal, but Griselda left just as she began to address the girls, it made sense since all the teachers were on high alert and they were constantly running checks of the school.

"I have called you all in here to discuss something of importance. I am afraid our little victory will not last long, Red Fountain is going to try to draw the next wave of attacks," Miss Faragonda began. She had a very worried look on her face and the bags under her eyes were a clear indicator that she was having trouble sleeping as well.

"Oh no, they are!" Stella said in a worried voice which was odd since she had made a point to act as if she didn't care about anything on the other side of the enchanted forest, but everyone knew it was just an act.

"But it is only a diversion, once Red Fountain falls, the witches will turn their attention back to Alfea. Their forces will crash upon our walls, but an Alfea girl never gives up no matter how slim the hope, and you Bloom hold the key to what little hope we have," She continued as she looked over to Bloom and pulled the attention to her.

"Uhh… I do," Bloom asked nervously. "But, what is it?"

"If one candle is used to light another, the fire passes on but the original flame still glows," Faragonda began not telling them what she was thinking just yet, she was trying to get them to figure it out on their own. "They can take your fire from you but they can't take your ability to burn,"

Faragonda began to conjure a scene in front of them. It was the desolate planet of Sparx, Musa remembered it from when Bloom was sent their through magical reality, except now it was covered in snow. (1) The castle was now a literal ice cube. "You are still the last heir to the royal family of Sparx, you are the only one that can use the dragonfire to it's full potential.

"But the witches have it now," Flora pointed out.

"Not all of it," Faragonda corrected. "In it's day, Sparx was the greatest of all planets and the dragonfire was the source of it's life. But when that flame was extinguished, the planet was cast into an eternal winter (2)"

"So since I'm the heir I can go there and relight the flame and absorb the power back?" Bloom asked. "Is that what you're saying?"

"This will be a dangerous mission,"

"Yeah, but we'll be with you Bloom," Musa said sure that Bloom wouldn't be sent alone.

"That's right you can always count on us," Flora reassured.

"We've always got your back," Stella added.

"Thanks guys," Bloom said as she became teary eyed. (3)

"I have arranged for you girls to go to Sparks via virtual reality," Faragonda informed. "While Palladium set up I want you girls to get some rest, you have a couple hours before you will depart and you will need all of your energy to survive in Sparks on your own,"

"I hope the boys will be alright," Flora said as the girls walked back into their dorm room after their meeting with Miss Faragonda. They were told to try to get some rest since it was going to be a long mission. "They had to battle a lot longer than we did yesterday,"

Musa walked into the dorm and laid down on one of the couches in the common room with her arms wrapped around herself, attempting and failing to get any sleep, she was a little bit zoned out since she was getting pretty worried about going to Sparx, it was a dead planet and she wasn't exactly looking forward to trekking through the snow. Back in the capital city of the Harmonic Nebular, snow was really uncommon and it was one thing Musa was really thankful for. Musa was never a fan of the cold, which was why she usually preferred to go on trips to a beach rather than a ski chalet.

"I'm sure they'll be fine," Stella said lacking her usual confidence, as if she were worried.

"I dunno, you seemed kinda worried about the boys in Faragonda's office," Techna said. It wasn't exactly a shrewd observation since she had practically screamed when she heard Red Fountain would take the next wave of attacks, but none the less, Stella gave herself away right then and there.

"Yeah, maybe about a certain hero in training," Musa pressed on, just hiding a smiling as she rejoined the conversation. "Name begins with a 'B' and ends with an 'andon'"

"Please!" Stella said as she turned away from the girls. "Like I could ever care for a squire,"

"Stella, you don't mean that," Musa said trying to keep her patience with Stella since she had a way of making Musa angry. And on big way was by belittling a person because of their rank, she got enough of that at home.

"Yes I do, could you imagine a princess and a squire!" Stella said with utter disgust. "I'm ashamed just thinking about it,"

"Stella!" Musa yelled having it up to her neck in Stella's crap. She didn't know if it was the frustration with everything being so unsure in her life or the fact that Stella was acting like an absolute spoiled bitch that caused the outburst, but Musa was tired and sleep deprived, making her a lot less patient.

"How about you cut the princess crap and get real, Brandon is one of the nicest guys you have ever met and he's totally into you and you have the audacity to stand here and refuse him because he's not a prince, you don't see me hanging onto Daniel because he's a prince and we'd look all 'perfect' together. Well get over it you spoiled little princess and realize that you are letting something great go," she finished letting out all the anger she seemed to have at everything going on in her life and after a second she wished she could take it back.

"He lied to me –,"

"That's not at all what this is about, I could understand you not getting over that," Musa snapped. "You're so worried about what others will think that you're going to let yourself be unhappy,"

"Hmm…sounds familiar!" Stella snapped as she stood up to face the screaming blue haired fairy. "How else do I know that is denying their feelings about someone cause they're embarrassed?"

"Stop denying the real reason you don't want to forgive Brandon!" Musa said sliding past Stella's comment, although it clearly hit especially since she was trying to hard to keep her feelings under lock and key, not to mention she really wasn't sure what was going on with her.

"As soon as you stop denying that you have feelings for –," Stella said before she got cut off.

"I swear to god if you even say it, I will –,"

"Lie to us and say you don't,"

"I don't!"

"Really?" Stella questioned. "Daniel said you pushed him away, and how exactly did you do that?" Stella said shooting back with an aire of sarcasm about her. "Oh right! It was when you ignored him when you were too caught up in your little fantasies about Riven!"

"Sounds like someone is changing the subject," Musa pointed out.

"And it sounds like someone is in denial,"

"You don't want to be with Brandon because you think if he's not a prince you two won't be perfect, god forbid," Musa spat out. "Even though you probably will be if you step off the pedestal you only think you're on,"

While the two princesses battled it out, Bloom, Flora and Techna sat on the couch watching wide eyed, too scared to get up. Musa and Stella were the two most temperamental of the bunch and it was easy to set them off. Stella tended to speak her mind without thinking and Musa threw her whole self into whatever she did and she had a short fuse. These two in one room could either end very well or very badly.

"And you like Riven and you have yet to get over Daniel, so get off your high horse missy," Stella said with remarkable insight, she managed to figure out what Musa couldn't.

"No I don't," Musa said loudly unable to come up with anything else.

"Then why haven't you talked to Daniel since you got back? You talk to Nate every ten seconds, but you can't talk to your best friend once in three days? What exactly are you avoiding?" Stella drilled on. "It couldn't be that

"Alright smart ass," Musa shot back sarcastically. "Riddle me this, if you are so over Brandon then why have you turned down the other guys that have asked you out since you two split? Hmm? What exactly are you avoiding? Stella was pretty good at hiding her feelings, but the look that hit her face was undeniable. "That's what I thought," Musa said as she crossed her.

"Alright you two," Flora said jumping into the argument trying to split up the warring fairies. "Calm down and go to your rooms, then when you're calm I want you girls to apologize to each other,"

Both fairies shot an angry look to Flora, who was so bold as to interrupt one of their epic arguments, and then stopped their arguing right there, but they were far from coming to an agreement about apologizing.

Musa walked to her room and went into bed, trying desperately to get some sleep, but nothing could put her mind at ease. There was way too much going on right now.

The two hours they were given to prepare themselves flew by without Musa even knowing and when she got up to go to the Magical Reality Chamber room it was still as dark as it was when she woke up earlier and when they went to sleep the night before. Stella and Bloom had gone ahead already and Flora and Techna had stayed behind to walk over to the chamber with Musa.

Musa made her way downstairs, following Techna and Flora's lead, and over to the quad. As the trio made their way through some of the debris and rubble, Musa heard her name being called from behind her. She turned to see Ali running towards her. "I'll catch up," Musa said to Techna and Flora, they nodded and continued on their way to the chamber.

"What's up Ali?" Musa asked as the fairy ran up to her and then doubled over in an attempt to catch her breath. It was as if she had run a mile or something, surely she didn't take her morning run today.

"So I took my morning run early today," Ali said between breathes. Of coarse she did Musa thought to herself, Ali never ceased to amaze, the entire realm was in a panic about the Trix and the fate of the magical universe as they knew it, and Ali decided to go for a leisurely run in the middle of a full on war. "Over to Magix,"

"Ali we are on high alert! How did you even get off of campus?" Musa scolded. She could have run into the Trix and been killed. Or some of those monsters, she codl take on a few sure, but more then ten and that girl would have been out in two seconds. This girl never thought things through! And how did she even get to Magix? Getting off the campus had to be damn near impossible since the teachers put up a barrier, how did she sneak off? "And Magix! Last I heard the city –,"

"Magix is like a wasteland," Ali interrupted talking a mile a minute, with an unnatural amount of hype for so early in the morning and after running back from Magix. Of coarse she was one of those crazy people who got all excited and happy after running…freak. "I mean wasteland, it was like walking through some crazy horror movie, actually it was like walking through the house of wax, you know the one where everyone is like frozen, but they're wax so they can't be frozen and –,"

"Ali," Musa said snapping her finger in front of Ali's face trying to get the girl to focus. "Can we focus here?"

"Sorry," Ali said in the same quick pace. "Anyway, I went over to Magix since we still need this,"

Musa looked at the white folder that was in her hand, which she was now waving in front of her face. There was no way that Ali had just run to Magix to get the file from the police chief. "You went for this! Ali! This is not nearly as important as what else is going on…." Musa yelled as she looked through the file, it was impressive, but none the less, it was stupid to go just for this. "I mean…wow this is…great," She said becoming a little distracted.

"Isn't it perfect? The entire station was empty, which is odd because the police should be the ones all over this whole witch invasion thing, (4) Ali said. "Luckily he left these on his desk, guess all that donation money didn't go to waste,"

"Yeah, I mean this is perfect for Karen,"

"I know and now we can use it –,"

"But no!" Musa said snapping out of the day dream she was having about ruining Karen. "You shouldn't have left Alfea for this, you could have been hurt,"

"But I wasn't…" Ali reminded. "So stop being such a bore, besides where do you think you're going?" Ali said as she tapped the nap sack that Musa had flung over her shoulder. "We aren't planning on leaving Alfea now are we?"

"No, Miss Faragonda wants us to go to Sparx with Bloom to help her get back her powers," Musa explained. "Apparently that's the only way she can get her power back,"

"Sparx is a dead planet, you could get killed," Ali stated. "And you were lecturing me!"

"Miss F knows about this and besides there will be five of us," Musa pointed out. "If anyone attacks us, we'll have a team, you on the other hand, went alone,"

"Whatever go to your silly mission," Ali said. "I'll hold down the fort and collect all the juicy gossip, I'm sure there will be a lot to say when you get back!"

"Yippy, now I'll rush back!" Musa said mocking enthusiasm and left with a wave.

"Be careful!" Ali shouted with a hint of concern in her voice. Musa turned and nodded before she began sprinting over to the chamber in the hopes that she wouldn't get in trouble for being late.

Luckily, she got there right as she walked in the door; she managed to catch the introduction. "Now girls, I have reprogrammed the Magical Reality Chamber to create a trans-dimensional corridor that will transport all of you to Sparx. This is not virtual reality, dangers you will face will be most formidable. There will be many creatures, the kind that inhabited dead planets and many we know nothing about."

Musa began to get really nervous, they had never really been in this deep before, if this was his idea of a pep talk, he was crashing in burning. "Now stand still for me," Suddenly a few silver orbs levitated over in front of each of the girls. "Before we send you, we have to suit you up in the appropriate attire. You see the weather on Sparx is quite brutal and open toe shoes and bare midriffs simply will not due,"

The new outfits they got were pretty cute. Blue coats and winter pants with white trim, it was snug and it would keep the cold out, hopefully making the mission more tolerable. "Remember the fate of the universe hangs on your success, we're counting on all of you, good luck," With that a bight light shown in front of all of them and the next thing Musa knew, she was looking at a snowy landscape.

"So are we here?" Stella asked. Sparx wasn't like Musa had imagined. She was thinking she would see flat land with snow and that's about it. But there was a really beautiful sky, it showed no planets and stars, if this weren't a dead planet, it would probably be a great place to live.

"No Stella, the white stuff and the frigid temperature are just your imagination," Musa snapped.

"No, we are not doing this again," Flora said strictly, shutting the two up. "This is such a desolate place,"

"Eternal winters will do that to a place," Stella said regaining her normal cheeriness, making Musa feel even worse about everything she had said to Stella.

"Okay, we need to figure out where the palace used to be," Bloom said redirecting their focus back to the mission.

"Leave that to me," Techna assured. "I'll use my navi system," She said as she opened her palm and revealed a virtual map of the entire landscape of the planet, featuring elevations and everything. "Okay we go north,"

"That's easy, we just go towards the moon," Stella pointed. The girls began to follow the moon, unsure of how far they were going to have to go until they actually made it to the palace.

Musa was beginning to get tired, so she did what she always did when she needed some motivation. She put her headphones on and turned on her ipod, the girls were told to conserve as much energy as they could, so they tried to hold back on the talking as much as possible.

Just as a new song began to play, Stella began to slow down until she was walking next to Musa, a few strides behind Bloom, Techna and Flora.

"I'm sorry, I know you were just trying to make me do what's best for my relationship with Brandon," Stella said apologetically to Musa as she lifted her eyes from her ipod to look at the blonde fairy, she shut off her ipod and began to listen to what she had to say. "It was low to drag Daniel and Riven into it, I know that you're –"

"It's okay Stella, I shouldn't have yelled," Musa said getting up and looking at Stella as the two trudged through the snow.

"You know it's okay," Stella began as Musa put away her musical device and pulled the ear buds out of her ears and looking over to Stella. "We all fall for the wrong guys,"

Musa would have denied everything, but it was useless. She knew everyone knew about her secret and now it would be pathetic if she kept denying it. Maybe putting her pride aside would finally help her deal with this and if not she could try to act like she was over it. "I doubt anyone ever imagined it would be this bad, I mean joining the crazy witch trio bent on universal domination,"

"I once dated a guy who wore plaid shorts," Stella offered trying to make Musa feel better. Musa looked over to her and smiled knowing Stella was only trying to make her feel better and no matter what she did, Stella really did have Musa's best interest at heart.

"You wild child," Musa said with a laugh.

"And if you want Daniel," Stella said. "That's okay too, I mean if you can forgive him as a friends then…"

"I don't think so," Musa said, still unsure of how she was feeling about the prince of Crescendo. She smiled and then the two caught up with the other three fairies in their pack. And just as she thought of Daniel, the phone that she had forgotten that she stuffed in her pocket began to ring. She pulled it out and saw that it was Daniel calling. She couldn't get herself to pick it up, telling herself that it was the cold temperatures and howling wind that made her not want to pick up, but it wasn't.

Damn it…Stella's right. Musa thought as she followed the girls along a steep hill. They went for miles when they came across a huge cliff, there was land on the other side, but the length between the two cliffs was way too long to jump and nobody wanted to change into their Winx, for the fear their wings might just freeze.

"So should we scale down the one side and the go up the next?" Musa asked when they got to the cliff as she looked down at the fall.

"I don't think we'll have to climb back up," Techna informed. "If we climb down, well be at the same elevation as the castle, it will actually save some time. We just walk through the small canyon and then we can make it to the palace safely,"

"Yeah but we have to climb down!" Stella said looking at the drop.

"Just get out your ice pike Stella," Musa said as she and the rest of the girls began to prepare to climb down. Musa stuck a long rod into the ground and tied her cable to it and then dropped the other end down the side of the cliff. "This is just like walking.., it's just sideways,"

The girls began their way down and when Musa had managed to get about twenty feet down she noticed that Bloom, Techna and Flora were all at her side, but Stella had yet to start climbing down.

"Stella get down here!" Bloom demanded.

"I think I'll just wait here…" Stella called back nervously.

"Don't be ridiculous, we may need you later," Techna said as she moved downward slowly.

"If you do just give me a call and send up a flare," Stella said pulling out her cell phone. "I'll just call a jet and meet you over by the palace,"

"Get your ass down here!" Musa yelled as stuck her pike deep into the wall of the canyon and stopped to look up at Stella. "Or you can deal with anything that decides to attack you up there,"

"I think I can handle myself,"

"Okay, but one swipe at your face you might have to get you nose done," Musa said then turning her voice becoming quiet. "…again," Stella said nothing; she simply stuck a pole into the ground just as her friends did and threw a cable down the canyon. The girls smiled as they saw the blonde began to climb down as well, complaining as she made her way down with every step.

Musa jumped down off the side of the cliff wall and began to look at the height that she had just climbed down from with pride. She had never done something like this before. Unfortunately, there was very little time to celebrate, as soon as Stella made her footing on the ground, they began walking towards the palace once again.

"Something is wrong," Flora said as the wind began to pick up. It was freezing cold and with the wind, it felt like their faces were being whipped with cold belts of ice. "I'm getting a strange cry from the voice of nature,"

"Yeah me too," Musa said turning her face away from the wind in an attempt to shield herself. She could pick up on subtle voice and although she wasn't very in touch with nature, it's cry was so loud that she could also pick up on it. "The temperature is dropping by the second,"

"Oh my god, I'm freezing," Bloom said barely keeping the panic out of her voice. All the girls were beginning to feel like Musa had before the trip, like they were getting in way too deep.

"Just find your warm inner place and keep walking," Flora said optimistically.

"You find your warm inner place," Stella complained. "I would like a blanket," she continued only to be rewarded with a punishing push and hard look from Musa.

"I can't see a thing, I think my eyes are frozen," Bloom said. The visibility had become awful as well, the snow was flying into the air and it was like walking through fog; cold, dense, icy fog.

"Come on girls, forward march!" Techna said trying to keep up morale.

"Can we please stop for a second!" Musa said finally. She was trying to keep her mouth shut for awhile, only because it would conserve energy.

"Yeah I agree with Musa, can we please take a break," Flora asked, she had been trying to encourage everyone, but even she was at her wit's end.

"Come on girls, we need to keep going," Bloom said trying to convince everyone to keep going.

"Yes girls I agree with Bloom, sitting down in this type of weather and in this temperature is extremely dangerous," Techna said, stopping to rest wasn't the best idea unless they had some protection.

"I can put up a sun shield," Stella offered. "It'll keep us warm and we can take a break for awhile. Look over in that clearing there are some rocks, we can sit on them and get some energy back,"

"Putting up a shield will drain some of your power and your energy," Techna pointed out.

"Yeah and taking the break will help me regain some," Stella argued. "Besides we all need a break,"

Bloom and Techna nodded and the girls walked over to the spot Stella had suggested and sat down. Stella put up a shield and Musa laid out and felt the rock beneath her heat up. Closing her eyes, Musa let her exhausted body rest for awhile, a smile spread across her face as the tension in her legs began to fade away. Knowing she couldn't fall asleep, Musa tried to think of something that would keep her awake, since everyone was quiet probably because they were too tired to talk, and the only thing that Musa could think of was how much she wanted to sleep.

"So you guys think we're anywhere close to the palace?" Musa asked when she sat up on the rock and looked at her friends, all of which looked as if they had just run a marathon, that's what a whole day of trekking through the snow does to you.

"I think so, if we get back up in an hour we can make it there by sun down," Techna said opening up her palm once again looking at the map that she had opened up the day before. "So we have one hour,"

"Truth or dare?" Stella asked as she turned to Musa.

"Are you kidding?" Musa's eyes narrowed looking at the Solarian princess to see if she as being serious. "We are on a dead planet with the fate of the universe hanging in the balance. And you want to play truth or dare?"

"Kinda…"

"You realize we can only do truth since we're in a protective bubble that if we leave we'll probably die," Bloom pointed out from next to Stella, the two were seated at the base of rock that Musa had laid down on.

"My point exactly,"

"isn't this just like what you were trying to do when we were in black mud swamp?" Flora asked vaguely remembering this game.

"First time or second?"

"First," Flora answered.

"Yup!" Stella said excitedly, she was getting her energy back.

"Why is it that you must know everyone's business," Musa mused.

"Because I'm a gossip," Stella said through a frustrated moan. ""How do you guys not know this already?"

"You really need a hobby," Musa pointed out.

"I have shopping," Stella said in her defense. "Besides what hobbies do you have?"

"Dance, singing, I enjoy reading," Musa said. "But don't worry shopping is a hobby," Musa said after seeing Stella's crestfallen face.

"I know that, so what can we do?" Stella complained once again.

"How about we rest for awhile?" Bloom asked not wanting to play this game either.

"Or we can talk about what we plan to do when we get back to Alfea, an army is ready to attack and a plan would be good," Techna said trying to stay on point, they needed to start thinking about what they were going to do when they faced the army of decay once again.

"No! That's too depressing!" Stella whined. "I mean you guys don't think anything bad will happen…do you?"

"Well it's a very real possibility," Techna answered logically.

"But, we can do this," Musa said right as Flora was going to start her 'stay happy' speech. "I mean sure none of us have ever faced something like this and we may become very stylishly dressed icicles here on this dead planet, but…." Musa stopped when she realized she didn't have anything too helpful to day. "I really don't know where I was going with this,"

"We can do this you guys," Bloom said as she got up. "I think we've rested enough, I mean we need to get to the castle before dark, it will probably be safer there,"

The girls nodded and stood up as Stella dropped her warm barrier and the harsh winds began to blow against them once again.

"I can't take it anymore!" Flora said after hours more of walking through the snow.

"What happened to your warm inner place?" Musa asked with a slight smile. She didn't know why, but she was suddenly starting to feel more energized. Maybe it was the sleep deprivation, but she was also starting to feel more optimistic about the cloud looming over her.

"It froze over,"

"We should be pretty close, shouldn't we?" Stella asked after a couple more minutes of silence. They had now been walking for almost 10 hours and Techna had told them that the palace was only a day's hike away. "Maybe it's just beyond that hill," Stella said since everywhere else she looked didn't have anything on it's horizon.

Just as Stella finished saying it they began to feel a huge trembling in the ground. Before Musa could even begin thinking that there was an earthquake, a giant beast began to rise up and the hill that Stella had seen turned out to be a creature and not a land formation. It looked like the abominable snow man from the old story books that Musa used to read. And in the face of the beast all the girls could do for a few seconds was stare in absolute awe.

Then a few shrieks from Stella were heard. "Okay that's not a hill," Stella shouted when she managed to get some sort of grip. They stood still for a few more seconds not sure if the beast would attack them or not and then it let out a huge roar and raised it's arms furiously from under the snow, so much snow in fact that it covered all five girls from head to two in the frozen water crystals. Musa quickly poked her head out from under the blanket of snow that was on top of her to see that the bear like monster was not going to let them pass.

"Everyone okay?" Bloom asked when she poked her head out from the snow. Everyone nodded and looked up to see that the ice monster wasn't quite through with them.

"Run!" Techna yelled. Scrambling to her feet, Musa and Flora began to run as Stella and Techna followed with Bloom close behind. They went back behind a few hills that they had crossed on their way over to the spot where they were just attacked. The beast's towering height made it even harder to hide since with one swipe of it's hand it could make an avalanche of snow fall on you.

Musa ran as fast as her legs would allow, but the ice monster was gaining on all of them and he was doing it fast, the best course of action was to go in separate directions so that he would target one while the others could figure something out.

Unfortunately for the musical princess, the monster had chosen her.

Running as fast as she could, Musa tried desperately to out run what was chasing her, but she was no match for the monster, it was able to throw mounds of snow hundreds of feet ahead of it and Musa was no match for that. Unable to out run it, Musa was thrown off her feet as she felt an enormous amount of pressure pushing down on to her body. The snow had covered her a few feet under the surface and she had slammed her head on something. Musa didn't know how long it was that she was lying, buried in the snow, but just as her vision began going to black, she heard a voice.

"Musa, Musa…. Musa!" A panicked voice cried, it sounded like Flora. She could feel some of the snow being thrown off of her, but she could get her head to stop spinning, let alone answer the panicked fairies cries. "Wake up Musa!"

After a few more second of being shaken like a bottle of ketchup from a frantic Flora and panicked Techna, Musa opened her eyes with a dazed look. For a second she couldn't remember what was going on. "What…." Was all she managed to say before she felt a sudden onset of dizziness and nausea.

"Can you get up?" Techna asked quickly. "We need to find Bloom and Stella,"

Musa got up as quick as possible and shook off the fall the best she could, fighting the dizziness that was now overcoming her, she ran alongside Techna and Flora over to where Bloom and Stella's footprints led. They finally came across the two to see the monster slamming a block of ice into the ground that immediately caused an enormous shake as a fissure began to form right underneath their feet.

Everyone but Bloom was on one side of it and before Bloom could make any attempt at jumping across, the fissure became too large and she was leaning precariously on the edge. "Bloom!" Stella cried out as the red head tried to get a footing on the ground, but only became more unsteady.

"No!" Musa yelled when Bloom lost her balance and fell into the dark abyss. All that could be heard was a scream echoing through the walls of the fissure.

"That could be bottomless!" Flora cried.

"What do we do!" Stella asked panicked.

"I dunno…." Musa said grimly as she turned when she heard something behind her. Bloom had just fallen into a dark abyss and the ice monster wasn't quite finished with them.

Looking to her friends for some guidance, Musa saw nothing but panic. The mission was heading south and it was heading south fast.

1.How exactly is that possible? If Bloom is the last of the people of Sparx and the lost flame means that the planet is in eternal winter then how is it that when Bloom was taken there during 'Magical Reality Check' she was fine wearing low rise jeans and belly shirt. This hardly makes any sense since she would have frozen her ass off if it were the Sparx that was taken over by the witches all those years ago….

2. Same rant as before, these producers made and oppsie

3. This girl cries way too much. Just saying.

4. Where are the police in all of this! They are the ones that are supposed to be protecting the citizens of Magix and they are nowhere to be found and instead a bunch of teenagers and their teachers are fighting the ultimate evil.

The next episode – The Frozen Palace

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princessm