A/N: Hey there. I hope you enjoyed Christmas! I am so sorry for taking so long (again)! But all the holiday stuff, and the writers block I was suffering from made it nearly impossible to update earlier. Well, it's a bit longer than the other chapters and I hope you like it.

Sky POV

Now they're gone. Gone to save my girlfriend, while I had to sit there, waiting. Although it was all my fault. I felt awful.
Everyone, except for Layla, who was resting, was risking their lives because of me.
But at least I finally was alone with Bloom.

I didn't know if she could hear me, but I hoped and so I started talking to her softly, while I stroke her hair.

"Hey, honey. Don't give up. I am sure they'll come back and know how to heal you, so keep fighting. Well, no don't fight. Rest and save your powers.

You know. I am sorry. I am sorry for pulling you into this. I am sorry that you have to suffer like this, because of me. And most of all I am sorry for hurting you a while ago. I didn't know what I was doing when I announced that I loved Diaspro. I am so so sorry for ruining what could have been our perfect evening.
But I will make it up to you. As soon as you are awake I will introduce you to my planet- no the whole world.
Everyone is supposed to see, what a wonderful, beautiful girl you are. You shall become princess of Sparx and Eraklyon. You shall be at my side as long as I live, and I promise I will never let you down again.

I still hate myself for having been such a jerk, but you can be sure that from now on I'll have your back and I hope I'll also have your heart."

If I hadn't known better, I could have sworn that a single tear rolled down her cheek.
I definitely had imagined Bloom's first real visit on Eraklyon much differently.

We would land on the other sides of the woods, take a romantic walk through the wonderful garden. Then I would show her my home, give her half an hour to get ready and then I would have introduced her to my parents. Officially. I would have made clear, that Bloom was the only girl for me, and that I didn't care, what they thought of her, although they just could love her.
How could you not love such a wonderful person?

Suddenly all my feelings came up, like... feeling puke.

"You know. Thank you for not giving up on me, when I was under Valtor's spell and Thank you for forgiving me just like that. You may think, you're not much of a princess, but I want you to know that I certainly do think you are."

And as I saw her lying in my bed, I could easily imagine living with her.

I heard someone walking through the portal and when I turned around I saw Layla. She still was stumbling and had scratches everywhere, but, obviously, it could be worse.

"Thank you Sky. I know that you tried and I really appreciate that."
"Every time Layla, but you know that you should thank Bloom."
"I know. That's why I'm here," she whispered.

Musa POV

Miss Faragonda transported us to Aegrota and I really didn't know what expected us. It was terrible. I almost couldn't see my own hands, because there was no proper source of light and a dark fog was covering the whole planet.

We walked forward and after a few minutes my head ached terribly.
"Do you feel that, Riven?"
"No. What should I feel? Are you okay," he asked worried.
"The pain. This planet is the planet of pain and it makes my head ache. Probably because it can feel my magic."

"Do you wanna go back?"
"No. I can't. I must try everything to save Bloom."

Then suddenly we heard a load roaring sound behind us and when we turned around we stared into the face of a monster. It had the shape of a human, but it didn't seem human at all. It was dark and hard to see. The only thing we could see properly was slightly glowing the sword he was holding in its hand.

It hit the ground with the sword and a wave of pain hit me. I screamed loudly and Riven called my name. He sounded like he was going to cry.

He rushed to my side, but a little before he reached me the monster hit him with its sword. He screamed even louder than me, although he wasn't bleeding.
He isn't injured. He shouldn't be in pain. It is just in his mind.
I realized, that I could stop everything. The pain this sword caused wasn't real, but it was dark magic, that made us believe that we were in pain. I used my fairydust and spread it over Riven. He immediately stopped screaming and just rubbed his temples.
"Riven. This pain isn't real. You just imagine it!"
Obviously he understood, because he got his own sword out and stood up, although the monster hit him again.
"Not this time, you freak!"
"Bass waves," I shouted and started my attack, which ripped the monster off its feet.
"Violin clef!"
I captured the monster and know we came out on top, so Riven placed his sword right next to the monster's face and I took aim on his head, ready to attack.
"Now tell us," Riven said harshly, "what is the most powerful spell, that this planet contains?"

Helia POV

"This is horrible. The little piece of nature there was, has been destructed by the fights," Flora said. She sounded scared and was shivering hardly, so I took her into my arms.

"Calm down Flora. Let's just concentrate on out mission okay?"
She nestled up against my chest and sighed heavily, but then she walked towards the darkness.

Then the earth began to shake, but it sounded like footsteps. Footsteps of the big monster, that stood behind us, but suddenly it disappeared.

"Where has it gone," Flora asked anxiously.

As we looked around to search for the monster Flora fell down on her knees, held her head in her hand and screamed.

"Helia! It is in me!" She looked like her body was controlled by the monster and I tried to help her, but it didn't work.

"Flora Enchantix," she moaned and transformed. Then she took all her power to keep control over herself and pollinated herself with her fairy dust and the monster jumped out of her, but it wasn't defeated. It groaned and became material again.

I tried to catch it with my strings, but it easily got free and Flora was still to weak to fight, but it didn't even seem to notice her.

It tried to hit me with it fists and pushed me more and more into the darkness,but I managed to avoid it.

One time, though, it hit me and I kept laying on the ground, because I couldn't afford the power to turn around, but it turned around to face Flora. She tried to crawl away from the monster, but it was too fast. Neither her nor I could stand up, so I was pretty sure we were done for.

I whispered "Flora" just before the monster lifted its fist, to hit Flora, but before it could finish I saw something blue shimmer and heard someone groaning.

"Sorry to frustrate your plans, but you won't beat us today." I knew that voice.

"S- Sky?"
"Hey Helia. I couldn't stand just sitting around and obviously that was a good decision."
"Be careful! That monster can posses peoples bodies! And Flora isn't strong enough to use her fairy dust again already," I warned him.

"I'm doing my best! You can count on that!"
He put the hits of the monster away with his sword as he kept standing protectively in front of Flora.

Slowly I regained my power and stood up again. I had to help Sky, but I didn't know how, because I was pretty sure that we didn't have a big chance.

That thing could dematerialize every minute, but at least it didn't squash Flora already.

Maybe we could use the fact, that it can dematerialize, because I have a way to force him to, but what should we do then? We would need Flora to build a cell of ivy, golden pollen and fairy dust, but she still was very weak.

"Flora how are you feeling?"
"Weak, but okay."
"Do you think you could combine some of your attacks to build a cage?"
"I could try, just tell me when!"
So that settled it. The monsters pressure on the sword became to big, so Sky rolled away under the enormous arm, but he didn't fail protecting Flora, but he wouldn't have had to anyway, because in that moment I captivated the monster again and, as I had planned, it vanished.
"Ivy, pollen and fairy dust NOW Flora!"
She did as she was told and captured the monster inside her cage. It obviously suffered, but I actually didn't care.
All I cared about Flora, who had fallen down into Sky's arms.
"Thank you Sky; I owe you one," I told him.

"Wait. Am I missing something or is it my girlfriend you're risking your lives for? Obviously I owed you one."
He smiled and took Flora.

"She's alright, but weakened by the triple attack."
"I'll carry her," I said, already walking into the direction, where I suspected the center of this horrible world.

Brandon POV

Obviously we were transported right into the darkest place there was to be found, because Stella not just couldn't use her powers, but fainted as soon as her feet touched the ground. I was still dizzy from the flashing in on this planet, so I fell to the ground with Stella as I tried to catch her.

I stood up again and wanted to start walking, but Tecna suddenly spoke up.

"Wait. Stella will be awake any minute and I can sense something in the direction you were just walking. Let's wait until she's on her feet again."
And Tecna was right. Not half a minute later Stella's eyelids fluttered.

It took a few minutes until she didn't feel numb anymore, but then we started our walk towards the unknown power source.

After we walked some time a dim light reached us.
"How could there be light in such a dimension," Timmy asked.

"And it makes me feel so warm inside," Stella whispered and suddenly started running.

"Stella wait! What are you doing?"

My heart missed some beats when I heard Stella scream.

Tecna, Timmy and I rushed to her and she looked pretty shocked, although she didn't look hurt and I couldn't spot a monster.

But what I could spot was the source of light, which was now laying on the floor in front of us.

Stella went down on her knees and I thought she fainted again, but she took the hand of the girl sending the light.

She looked pretty hurt. Her body was laced with scratches and wounds. Her long, light blond hair was very dirty and her clothes had holes. She was very pale and just looked horrible.

"Luce (spoken: Lutshe)," Stella cried. "Luce, talk to me!"
"Luce? You know that girl," Tecna asked.
"Yes. This is Luce, the guardian fairy of Solaria. Or at least she was. She disappeared and now I found her. She is the fairy of the inner light and can reach every person's heart."
"She won't be for long, if we don't get her out of here soon," Tecna stated and didn't seem to regret it, although Stella shot her a very sad glance.

"But how should we get out of here? I can't use my powers," Stella asked.

"Maybe you are. You didn't try yet," I suggested.

And she realized I was right, she just had to try and it worked. Or at least she transformed.

Stella wanted to bring us back to Alfea when a bunch of little creepy animals attacked us.

"Stella. Bring Luce back to Alfea. You and her can't stay here any longer. You can come back for us later," Timmy shouted.
She shot me a very worried glance, just before she disappeared with Luce on her arms.
"I hope it worked," I whispered, took my sword out and got ready to fight.

Whoa. I always close stories as soon as I see a new character, that doesn't appear in the original story, but please bear with be, because she's rather a means to an end than a real new character. ;)
So I hope you liked it and if/if not just tell me. Okay?
Thank you! :D

~~ Moni-neechan