Chapter 2: Powerless
"People are still talking about the Omega thing?" Musa gasped. Tecna just finished telling her friends about her day. She left out the part about the necklace... just to keep the conversation short.
Tecna nodded sadly, "More than before. It's really spread."
"Lucky. I would do anything to be that popular," Stella frowned.
"Not everyone likes fame Stella," Layla replied to Stella.
"Make all of it go away!" Tecna buried her head in her pillow.
"At least they aren't spreading mean rumours," Flora said.
"But that's what it feels like. It feels like some nasty rumour," Tecna tightened her grip on the bed sheets, becoming more furious with everything.
"But it's not," Stella sighed.
"Listen, when we get to classes tomorrow you'll forget all about it. Remember we're having a training exercise with Faragonda tomorrow," Musa said.
"She says we need to be ready for Valtor," Stella rolled her eyes; "I think we are."
"We aren't ready Stella..." Layla said.
"She's right though," Bloom sighed.
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The next morning Tecna walked very slowly to her class. She walked cautiously, trying to avoid stares.
"Why me..." Tecna sighed. "When is it going to pass over?"
"Obviously not soon enough," a voice said behind her. Tecna immediately knew it was Musa.
"Was I talking out loud?!" Tecna quickly covered her mouth with her hand.
Musa nodded, "But it's early so everyone's tired. No one's paying attention."
A few minutes later they were standing on the Alfea grounds with the rest of the Winx Club girls.
"I'm nervous," Flora said. "What if I get hurt?"
"You aren't going to get hurt," Layla reassured.
"No one knows for sure," Stella shrugged.
"You aren't helping Stella!" Layla sighed.
"Just saying," Stella replied.
"So how has your morning been Tec?" Musa asked.
"Fine, no one's drawn attention to me yet. Thank Magix for that," Tecna replied with a small smile on her face.
"We don't want you to disappear," Musa joked.
"Yeah because if you did, the whole realm will know and go out looking for you," Stella added.
Tecna took a deep breath, "What am I going to do?" She said quietly to herself. While the other girls were talking with each other, she fiddled with the necklace Timmy found. It felt a lot heavier than it did yesterday, but Tecna shrugged thinking she was losing her marbles.
"Good morning girls," Ms. Faragonda said. Tecna tucked the necklace underneath her shirt and faced Ms.F.
"Good morning Faragonda," she said in unison with the other girls.
"As you girls know, Valtor and the Trix are still on the merge. From what I think, they will come to Magix again," she calmly said to them. "Since you all have earned your Enchantix, it's time for you to put it to the test." She waved her arms and it front of them stood six Valtor's.
"Now let's see how each of you can handle being one on one," Faragonda snapped her fingers and the Valtor's began to move.
Each of the girls prepared by transforming into Enchantix mode. Tecna however felt strange, every time she tried to transform nothing would happen. The Valtor came closer to her and began shooting at her.
"What's going on? Why can't I transform?!" she ducked and avoided his shots. She watched out of the corner of her eye as each of the girls struggled with battling the fake Valtor's. Tecna got up and tried transforming again, but nothing would happen. Not even some sparkles or glimmering light to show she had some power in her.
She suddenly felt a huge jolt of energy hit her from behind. Tecna hit the school wall hard. She fell limp to the ground and then darkness came over her. Tecna knew she was going into unconsciousness.
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Timmy ran through the school, trying to find the nurses office. He turned one last corner, and there stood the Winx girls except Tecna standing outside the door.
"What happened?" Timmy panted. He practically sprinted his way through the school. Hearing the call from Musa, saying Tecna was hurt. He didn't waste any time getting to her.
"Is she alright? Did Valtor attack?" Timmy panicked.
"We don't know yet. We all were in a training exercise to prepare us for Valtor..." Bloom said.
"I think she just got shot backwards into the school wall, and was knocked unconscious," Musa said.
"We all already saw her. The nurse said she has a couple bruises but that is," Layla added.
"Can I go see her?" Timmy bit his lip.
They all nodded yes.
Timmy opened the door quietly and slipped into the room. There, across the room under the window light, was where she lay.
So yeah, Tecna is powerless.