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Dedication: hansbmd (I just read 1 of your fanfics and it's great!)

O.k, so Chapter 3…Chapter 3

"Musa?"

"Leave me alone!"

"Musa, I need to talk to you!"

"Riven, I said leave me alone! Anyway, why would I want to talk to you?"

"Come on Musa, be reasonable, I didn't think that you'd want to-"

"Oh you didn't think! But that's your problem Riven, isn't it, you can't think because you haven't got a brain! Even the maggots in your skull are stupid! So leave me alone!"

Riven turned away from the door and sighed. Okay, so it might have been better to ask Musa if she wanted to come and see his parents- okay, pretend that they had a relationship, but it was right up Stella's street, wasn't it? And Stella flirted with guys all the time, and Brandon didn't mind. Scowling, he slouched back to Red Fountain.

Inside the dormitory, Musa was fuming. She had really thought that she and Riven had a good thing going. Well… not that either of that had admitted yet that they liked the other, but still… a good thing going. Musa got up, and walked over to Tecna's desk. There was a framed picture of Timmy and Tecna together, holding hands and smiling shyly up at the camera. They were fine together. Flora and Helia were really sweet as a couple and Stella positively drooled over Brandon. So why was it her who had a relationship that was falling to bits? Well, perhaps it wasn't all Riven's fault. She had- no, it was all his fault, and until he said sorry he wasn't going to get a word out of her.

"Let me go!"

"Ooooh, look, the little girls are getting cross, oooh, we're so scared, not!" sneered Icey sarcastically as Layla and Tecna tried to break free.

"I said, let me-" There was a sharp slapping noise and Tecna fell silent. Layla tried to look at her friend, but Icey pulled her arms taut, making it impossible to check if Tecna was all right.

"Okay, witches, what do you want?"

"Well, nothing from you…"

"Oh, I get it, you want the dragon flame. I'm guessing we're the bait?"

"Right and wrong, for once. I'm surprised your brains can actually put two and two together. Unfortunately for you, this time you've made five. First we want your powers, and then we're waiting for your friends, especially that stupid little music fairy to come and search for you. We have a score to settle with her."

The three witches pushed Tecna and Layla into an iron cage, and locked them in.

"Hah! You think iron's going to stop us from getting out? You're dead meat, witches!"

"Wrong again. But I'm not going to tell you why. It will be fun to watch you both suffer."

The witches left the shack, and Layla rushed over to where Tecna was lying on the floor.

"Tecna? Tecna are you all right?"

There was no answer. Tecna was unconscious.

"Hey Riven! Where've you been?"

"Nowhere."

"Come on, Riven, have you been seeing someone special?" Brandon probed.

"No one special."

"Fine, fine. Well, we're going to invite the girls to a picnic thing. Can you ask Layla as well as Musa to come?"

Who said I would invite Musa? "Whatever." "Great. Bye!" Back in the shack, Layla was becoming frantic, when her phone went off. Her phone. She had forgotten about her phone! "Hello?" "Layla? It's Riven. Picnic today. Are you coming?" "HELP!" Layla shrieked as Icey, Darcy and Stormy walked in. "Huh?" "HELP!" "Hmmm, what have we here? A distress signal. Lucky we're here to answer it!"

"Please…no…." whispered Layla weakly, as the witches grabbed Layla's phone and hung up.

"Perhaps you would benefit from a little alone time too…" sneered Darcy, and the witches dragged the unconscious Tecna away, leaving Layla, Princess of Andros, the girl who never wanted to be alone, all by herself.