To everyone who is reading this story I am sorry that it has taken so long to update. Writers block showed its ugly head for this chapter, hopefully it will not take as long to update the next chapter. I also wanted to thank chrissiemusa for the help with the end of the chapter.
Chapter 5
Stella and Brandon appeared on Solaria not far from the castle. Stella looked down in her left hand at the small ring that Ms. Faragonda had given her. She remembered what the headmistress had told her and the others.
"Do not lose these rings." Ms. Faragonda said as she handed out the rings to everyone, "you will need them to communicate with the guardians of the items that you are going to collect."
The ring that Stella had in her hand was a simple silver ring with a small crystal imbedded in it. She turned to see that Brandon was also looking at the ring in her hand.
"Do you have any idea where we need to go?" Brandon asked.
"I think it is the cave near the castle." Stella explained, "It was one that my father told me never to go to because of the guardian."
"Then lead the way," Brandon responded.
Stella started to flap her wings to lift up off of the ground and began to fly off toward the cave that she was talking about. As she was flying Stella could not help but look down at Brandon keeping up with her. She then turned her vision to the direction that she was flying. When they arrived at the cave Stella landed next to Brandon before looking into the darkness of the cave.
"I hate caves." Stella complained as she looked into the darkness.
"I know but we need to do this to help Roxy." Brandon said.
Stella nodded her head before both entered. They walked through tunnel after tunnel searching for any sign of the crystal that they were looking for. When they entered into a large cavern the ring began to glow.
"Stella look the ring is glowing," Brandon said when he noticed the ring in Stella's hand.
She looked down at the ring to see it glow a pale orange color. As Stella began to raise her vision something it the shadows moving caught her attention. She shot a blast of magical energy into the darkness trying to see what was moving. As the blast hit the wall of the cave a large burst of light filled the room revealing a knight that looked like it was made out of crystal standing near the wall.
"What is that thing?" Brandon asked.
"I don't know," Stella responded as the knight removed its sword from it's sheathe.
The knight charged toward Brandon swinging its sword. He rolled to his left to avoid the swing. The knight then turned and swung the sword at Stella, she flew up into the air to avoid the sword. Stella then shot a blast of magic at the knight causing an explosion.
As the smoke cleared from around where the knight was standing Brandon and Stella noticed that it had vanished.
"Where is it?" Stella asked.
"Argh!" Brandon called out.
Stella turned to see that the knight was standing behind Brandon with its sword pointed toward the ground with drops of blood falling off of the tip of the sword. She saw a large gash along Brandon's back with blood freely flowing.
"Get away from Brandon!" Stella yelled as she shot another blast of energy at the knight.
The knight looked up at Stella to see that magical blast heading right toward it. The impact pushed the knight away from Brandon. Stella quickly flew down and landed next to the wounded specialist before turning to glare at the creature that had hurt the man she loved.
Stella shot another blast of energy at the knight to only watch as it moved to the right to avoid the blast. She watched in horror as the knight closed the gap and raised its sword above to cut her in two. As the sword came down the sight of a green broadsword was all that Stella saw in front of her eyes.
"Don't just stand there," Brandon yelled as he guarded Stella.
The knight took a step back from Brandon before charging with its right shoulder. Both Brandon and Stella could hear a loud snapping sound when the knights shoulder made contact with Brandon left shoulder. A few seconds later his entire arm became limp.
Stella started to shot blast after blast at the knight and watched as it avoided every attack as it made its way toward her. When it reached her it garbed her by the neck and pushed her back into the wall behind.
Stella began to struggle as she could feel the grip of the hand around her neck begin to tighten causing her to begin to see blackness in the corner of her eyes.
"Get your hands off of her!" Brandon yelled as he charged the knight.
Brandon slammed his sword down on the knight's arm with all the power that he had in his left arm. The knight let go of Stella's neck letting her slide down the side of the cavern leaving a small amount of blood where she had hit. After releasing her, the knight turned to look at Brandon as Stella began to cough.
The knight raised its sword high above its head as Brandon continued to swing with his one arm trying to damage the creature in any way possible. Stella turned to see the Knight turn the tip of the sword toward Brandon and move the sword down toward him.
Stella tried to stand up as the knight drove the blade down. A bloodcurdling scream caused Stella to stand up as quickly as she could. She sent a blast of energy toward the knight causing it to move away from Brandon.
"Brandon!" Stella yelled when she saw him.
The knight's sword had gone through Brandon's left shoulder, it continued down through his left leg. Stella moved as fast as she could over to him when she saw him cough up blood.
"Brandon," Stella called out again as she touched his shoulder.
"Stella," Brandon said weakly as he turned to look at her slowly.
Brandon was the first to see that the ring that Stella was carrying was now glowing, a dark shade of orange.
"The ring," Brandon said causing Stella to look down at the ring.
Before Stella could pull the ring out the fist of the knight sent her flying away. She turned her face back toward Brandon when he screamed out in pain again, to see the knight removing the sword from his shoulder and leg. She watched as the knight lifted the sword high into the air. Stella quickly removed the ring and started to concentrate her magic into it.
'Please let this work.' Stella thought as a large blast of energy was released from the ring.
The magic hit the knight sending it flying into the side of the cavern. Felling drained of magic Stella made her way over to where Brandon was kneeling on the floor with a puddle of blood below him.
"Brandon are you okay?" Stella asked when she arrived at his side.
Brandon lifted his head to say something when Stella could see complete fear in his eyes. She turned to see that the knight was standing right behind her. She knew that she had no magic left to defend her or Brandon and was ready to die at his side.
They were both shocked when the knight knelled down before both of them.
"Thou hast past thy test," The knight said.
"What test?" Stella asked.
"Thy test was to have thy courage to use all thou magic through the ring," Was the knight's response, "Thy, has earned this."
The knight put his right hand out before him and a flash of magic caused Stella and Brandon to cover their eyes. When the light dissipated they both looked to see a pure white crystal in the knight's hand.
"This is the Pure Moon Crystal that thou have been searching for," The knight said as he bowed his head.
"Thanks." Brandon said as he placed his hand out to receive the crystal.
"Let's get back," Stella said as she helped Brandon up off of the ground, "Winx Zoomix."
The knight silently knelt as the two people disappeared from the cavern.
Stella and Brandon both appeared in one of the hallways of Alfea to see Layla pounding on a door.
"Layla is everything alright?" Stella asked as both her and Brandon made their ways over to where she was.
"Brandon you look like shit." Layla said when she looked over at the two people moving toward her.
Before anyone could say anything a blast of green magical energy blasted through the door right into Brandon's chest sending him into the wall behind him. As he slid down the wall both Layla and Stella could see that he was having, a hard time breathing.
"Not again." Layla commented.
"What do you mean again?" Stella asked as she made her way over to Brandon only to see Roxy running out of the room that the magic blast come from.
"I'll tell you when we get Brandon to the infirmary." Layla answered.
Stella nodded her head as she and Layla carefully lifted Brandon up off of the floor. He winced when Stella touched the side of his chest. After making their way to the infirmary nurse Ophelia told them to place Brandon onto one of the beds so she could examine him.
"Now spill," Stella said as she looked at her friend.
"After you all left I went to check in on Roxy," Layla started, "When I got there she had disappeared, while I was looking for her I ran into Mirta and Alice and asked if they would help me find her. They agreed to help." Stella could hear sadness in Layla's voice as she continued with her story, "Mirta was the first to find her and the same thing happened to her, she was blasted into a wall and broke her arm," A few tears began to flow from Layla's eyes as she finished, "Alice were not sure if she is going to survive."
"What do you mean?" Stella asked.
"The blast that hit Alice sent her flying through one of the windows two stories below to the ground." Layla said as she looked to the floor of the infirmary.
Stella was shocked when she heard what had happened. Before she could say anything a pink haired fairy appeared at the door of the room.
"Is Brandon alright?" Roxy asked.
"He has a few broken ribs," Nurse Ophelia answered, "One of them pierced his left lung."
"How dare you show your face!" Stella screamed, walking forwards but Layla stepped in front of her, tears fell from Roxy's eyes.
"I'm sorry, I… I didn't mean to do it."
"What about Mirta and Alice then, huh? They were just trying to help you."
"I'm s-sorry," she cried turning around and running down the hallway. Layla rolled her eyes and threw her hands down in frustration, resisting the urge to slap Stella across the face. "Way to go Stella now I have to try and find her again!"
"She hurt Brandon!"
"She's not in control of her emotions," Layla snapped as Stella crossed her arms. "I know you're upset because she hurt Brandon but if we don't fix this soon she's just going to get worse."
"I know," Stella replied. "Well I better go and see Tecna and Timmy to give them this," she held up the crystal between her thumb and forefinger before walking out the door.
"Yeah, and I'll try and find Roxy…again."
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