The last chapter. Meh.
Flora gasped as Aisha grabbed her wrist and tugged, following her up into the air, high above where they had been hovering. The nature fairy watched, paling dramatically, as a large, white, reptilian tail slammed into the air where she had just been seconds ago. The brunette shook her head, trying to regain her nerves. She chewed on her lower lip as she hovered in the air, cursing mentally.
Tecna zipped over, looking frantic, probably because she had lost one of her devices, because Flora only saw one of them hanging off her belt. "Are you two okay?" she asked, worry seeping into her tone. Suddenly, she seemed to realize the loss of one of the machines and she threw her hands into the air. "Great!" she yelled, sounding angry. "I've lost the tracker! Now we'll never find Bloom!"
"There's no time to be talking about that!" Aisha yelled, drawing their attention.
Flora's gaze returned to the snake and she unconsciously flew back as the tail started to rise again. "Aisha's right," she agreed. "We need to get away from that thing before it kills us."
Tecna shook her head. "No time. We have to take it down. With its size and power it could crush us, and possibly the ship too if we move back the way we came. We need to perform a Convergence spell - it's the only thing that could possibly hurt it." There was a glow of light, and Tecna's Charmix appeared on her outfit. She raised her hands and called out her spell. "Digital Blast!" The energy that emitted was glowing even brighter than it usually did -perhaps it was because of the Charmix?
"Nature Dust!" Flora shouted out, adding her power to the Convergence spell.
"Enchantix Morphix!" Aisha yelled, sending her power to the spell.
The Convergence spell coalesced in the air, sparking with the combined energies of technology, nature and the waves. The spell resonated in the air, and Flora could feel the energy echoing in her bones. She shuddered, but didn't let her hold on the spell go just yet. Both she and Aisha looked over at Tecna, who was struggling to control the massive power of the Convergence in relation to her Charmix-powered magic.
"Tecna!" Flora shouted. "We need to let go of the spell!"
"Flora's right," added Aisha, who had a bead of sweat rolling down her brow as she focused on containing the energy. "We need to release it. You can't take much more of our Enchantix magic."
"I can do it," Tecna insisted, panting from exertion. She glared at the sparkling sphere of magic in front of them. "Ready..."
The frost snake reared, and charged at them.
Tecna's grip on the spell loosened. "Now!"
The Convergence slammed into the frost snake, exploding into purple, green and pink sparks, but the creature barely looked affected by the spell. Flora was placing her bet on the Convergence magic not being from fairies all the same level. The snake hissed at them, shaking its head vigorously. It made a sound that Flora couldn't distinguish, and then it lunged once more. Flora looked up, down, then both sides, but she couldn't find a way to escape. Just behind her was a thick icicle wall, and to her left and right were Tecna and Aisha, both of whom were stuck staring at the snake in surprise. The nature fairy gulped and braced herself for the impact... except it never came.
Her green eyes cracked open, and found the snake missing half of its side, melted off into a puddle of water. Her line of vision went all over the place, and finally, she saw a pale green and blue dress, matched with long, vibrant red hair... Bloom.
The fire fairy had her gloved hand out, and the palm had smoke slowly wafting from the centre. Bloom looked stunned when she saw them, and instantly took to the air from the ledge she had been hiding behind, flying over to them. "Flora?" she asked, her voice soft, like she didn't want to believe it. "Aisha? Tecna? Girls?" Her hands reached out to cup the side of Flora's face, and Flora's hand reached up to tightly grip her friend. "It really is you. I-I can't believe it... It really is you!"
"It's me, Bloom," Flora affirmed, her voice cracking as she threw her arms around Bloom's shoulders. "I missed you." Flora forgot everything else and started to sob into the other girl's shoulder. "Bloom!" Suddenly, she felt Bloom's arms wrap around her too, and then another two pairs of arms surround both of them. It was Aisha and Tecna, she was sure of it. After what seemed like forever, Flora finally sniffed and pulled herself away from her friend. "By the Dragon, Bloom," Flora whispered. "I thought you were gone for good."
"I thought so too," Bloom admitted, her voice a faint whisper. She looked tired, like she had been in this form for all the time she had been in here. Her face was gaunt, and her healthy complexion had turned pale and sickly. Still, the glow of Enchantix looked like it had been sustaining her, so the fire fairy didn't look like she had been tossed into one of the darkest dungeons in Linphea for over a month. "The Omega Dimension is freezing here, and the snakes are almost always around. I can't even rest for a minute because they destroy anything that's not encased in ice." The fairy shook her head, and promptly yawned, leaning heavily against Flora.
"Bloom?" The whispered name came from Stella, Flora guessed, recognizing the voice of Musa and the sound of Sky's muttered 'Bloom?' quickly. "Bloom!" A blur of yellow, orange and pink whirred past the nature fairy and barrelled into the tired fire fairy, sending her back into the air as Stella hugged the living daylights out of her.
"Stel-ah!" Bloom forced out. "I need eh-r!" A laugh broke free from her when the blonde fairy released her and immediately apologized like crazy. "It's okay, Stella," the redhead assured with a little chuckle. "I'm fine. I just- look out!" Bloom shot into the air, but only Tecna followed her.
Flora's brow furrowed slightly until she saw the white tail slamming towards them again. Her lips parted to scream as she raised her hand, trying to cast a spell in her shock. Green and pink sparkles left her hand, but no attack really formed, due to the shock overriding her mind and disabling her capability to think properly. She struggled for a while, the name of her spell on the tip of her tongue until a green barrier, shaped almost identically to Tecna's appeared in front of the group of startled fairies and Specialists.
"M-mother?" Tecna's wary question was followed by Flora's hand dropping to her side in temporary relief, and the nature fairy turned to look at the direction where the barrier originated from. Indeed, Tecna's blue-haired mother stood there, in an Enchantix state that had large pale blue wings and a form-fitting pale blue dress. The green energy flowed directly from her palm, and behind her, with his hands on her shoulder, was Tecna's father.
Magnethia turned towards the Winx, mainly towards Tecna though, and opened her mouth, like she wanted to say something to her. Electronio noted his spouse's mistake when the snake reared up and slammed its half-melted body against the green barrier. Magnethia stumbled, disrupting her spell, and shattering the protective barrier like glass on stone. The backlash from the spell made her fairy form fade out like a program with a glitch, and the woman staggered back into her husband's arms.
The snake apparently knew that it was the best chance for it to attack, and it swiped forward at the couple, the tail lashing out like a giant, deadly whip.
Electronio pushed his wife behind him, arms held out.
Flora prepared to cast her spell to grow vines forth, but then she saw Musa throwing one of her stronger attacks towards the snake, the spell doing absolutely nothing to it. Her gaze shifted to Bloom, who had her spell charged up in her hands, crackling with luminescent red energy. "Dragon Fury!" she roared out, casting her fiery attack at the ice-based snake. It hissed in pain, the top half of it melted away completely, which unfortunately left the bottom half of the reptilian ice creature limp in the air, and the ice plummeted down... right on top of Magnethia and Electronio.
"Mother! Father!" Tecna yelled, and dived towards them, her wings beating hard to propel her form through the air. She shoved both of them out of the way, just in time for the tail to smash down onto her head. Except it didn't. After a beat, the pink-haired fairy shot up through the tail, a beam of energy blasting a hole through the solid ice which to give her a pathway to exit through. Her hair was just slightly longer, and her wings larger, her outfit and wings predominately purple and violet. Her Enchantix!
"Tecna!" shouted the orange-haired specialist, who shot right up to his girlfriend and hugged her tightly. "You did it!"
Flora blinked when she saw all the other girls find their respective other, except for Aisha though, who looked content standing there and watching the girls. Helia's strong arms wrapped around her and she smiled brightly. Out of the corner of her green eyes, she saw Sky pull Bloom into a kiss, and the red head reciprocated with a giggle.
After saying farewell to Tecna's parents on Zenith, where they had stopped to drop off the duo, Bloom sighed in relief and melted into the chair on the ship. The rest of the girls were excitedly talking about Tecna's Enchantix as well as the frost snake in the Omega Dimension, which left her to her peace and quiet. Her blue eyes fluttered shut as she started nodding off. Her last thoughts before she finally claimed some well-deserved rest were, Everything is just the way it should be.
Of course she wouldn't be saying that later, when Faragonda unveiled the legend of the Water Stars, but for now, let's just leave her to her rest, shall we?
And we're done with this story. Yay?