Chapter 16: Palladix
Layla's POV:
"…and this is the end of your classess, but you can't go as of yet. We still want to see all of your transformations." Anna tells us while clearing the board filled with so much knowledge.
We had seven hours of classes and we have crammed in so much information, I can barely remember any of it. On the plus side, I got to see Lady Zhalia go all batshit psycho on Riven and Nabu. She truly was a version of hell itself.
The teachers were not quite what I had expected. Anna was more carefree yet authoritative than she normally was. Uhira-sama turned out to be quite short tempered. Lord Fred was a comedian, Lady Zhalia and Lady Aria were insanely amusing. Tsar Vlad was scarier than I expected and I never really understood Raja Pratap, he was very quiet and shy for someone his size.
Flora returned with the second in commands and this was the first time seeing all of them. Apart from Alex I didn't know anyone else. I had seen some of them occasionally, but that was it.
"We shall head over to the ground so that we can see your transformations and give suitable gifts." Alex told us with a smile.
"We get presents." Stella exclaims.
I roll my eyes at her and look to see that everyone else is either laughing or doing what I'm doing, giving her the 'be serious' look.
"It is not the time to laugh and joke around dumbasses. You know it's your own home planets at stake." Lady Zhalia explains quite harshly.
I had to agree with her. So far what I have heard about her is that she is rude and aggressive and cold hearted, but I just think she is very sensible and likes to be bold and badass.
"All the girls have gotten their transformations, and all the men will be gifted with weapons suited for their range of skills. This has been chosen by all of us, so please use it wisely." Fred explains.
"What about our enemies?" My handsome fiancé questions.
"You need to tell us about their weaknesses and their strengths and how we are supposed to fight them." The fool also called Riven continues.
"We have time for such explanations when we are dropping you fools back. Now we do as my dear sister says." Lady Zhalia states glaring at Riven.
He shuts up and turns red looking at the floor.
I had to control my laughter or I would be rolling on the floor. I could see that a lot of the other girls especially Stella, where dying trying to control their laughter.
"Come now, let's go outside." Lady Aria tells us joyfully skipping out of the class.
We all got up and left the class room like grade school children. We walked out to the centre yard which was empty, like the rest of the campus. It was a plain grass land with no trees or bushes or plants, the wind was gentle as it blew around the field. The teachers stood in front of us while we all stood huddles in a group together. They looked like army sergeants to say the least by the way they were poised.
Lady Anna snapped her fingers and a table materialized behind her. It had a white cloth and over it was a number of colored sticks, but they were beautiful, carved and radiated power. There were also a few chains on them, but I could not see anything else properly.
"Riven come forward." Lady Aria calls him sweetly, a little too sweetly for him.
He steps forward with a smile on his face, a very smug smile. I felt like hitting him.
"Riven do not smile like that, I feel like beating you up. You don't have any right to be smug in front of us." Lady Zhalia retorted as though she read my mind.
God I love this woman.
Riven on the other hand immediately stopped smiling and I saw the lot of us trying to control our laughter.
"This is for you Riven." Lady Aria handed him a purple stick from the table.
The look on Riven's face was priceless. This time Musa and Lady Zhalia burst out laughing.
"Umm thanks for a stick?" Riven asks.
"Hahahaha well it does look like a stick but they are weapons." Lady Aria giggled and told him.
"They are the same as the weapons you have used on my planet. You need to bond with the weapon and the weapon will give you power. Feel the energy in the 'stick' you will be able to transform it into a weapon." Lady Zhalia explained nicely for once.
"Oh cool" Riven said ready to try and unleash whatever it held.
"Not now dog. After the women transform and if you have time, maybe you can try out your new gadgets. It takes up a lot of residual energy." Lady Zhalia told him.
He had a look of plain confusion on his face, so it wasn't hard to realize that he wasn't listening to class whatsoever. If he did, he would know that residual energy was the energy from the planet or magic or any other form of energy which was used and no longer required.
"Okay, moving on. Nabu this is for you. Same instructions as Riven. Try it out later, we don't really have time." Uhira-sama states.
He gives Nabu a deep green colored rod.
"What will it be?"
"It will be a spear that magnifies your magic." Lady Aria exclaims like a kid while I see Lady Zhalia roll her eyes at her sisters' stupidity.
Nabu smiles and looks longingly at it and then looks at me. He loves staffs and spears, his joy makes me happy.
"Timmy for vous." Says Lord Fred
Timmy steps forward letting go off Tecna's hand.
Lord Fred had a weird way of speaking where he mixed up words from his home planet and English, but I did learn that vous means you after a while.
He handed Timmy a rod which was broader and a little more flattened. It was silver in color, Timmy regarded it with great care in his hand and gripped and ungripped it carefully.
"It is a gun when transformed." Uhira-sama tells him while his face lights up.
"Sky." Raja Pratap calls him. Curtly, to the point and hands him a red rod.
"Umm thanks. What will it be?"
"Sword." Another short, straight to the point reply.
Sky grins and walks back to Bloom while rotating his new stick around.
"Brandon, this is for you." Tsar Vlad states while he hands a light brown stick to him. "Before you ask, the weapon given to you is a type of sword as well, different compared to Sky's as yours is more like a katana."
"A katana? What's that?" Brandon implores while he shifter his stick from one hand to the next.
"It is a type of sword, relax." Uhira-sama clarifies.
"And last but not least, Helia. This is for you." Lady Anna calls him and gives him a black colored rod which is thinner than the rest. "You can figure out what it is later, but I know you will like it. It's wicked cool."
He smiles back at her and walks towards Flora.
"Okay listen up fools, the weapons given to you are extremely powerful. They have a lot of hidden secrets. As you grow in strength so does your weapon, so the more you unlock about it. The first form is the basic weapon form and its last form is an animalistic weapon. Name your weapons, they won't be happy if you don't." Lady Zhalia starts.
"Name their weapons? Why? Why won't they be happy?" Timmy asks.
"They are made out of the souls that have given their lives for protection, they want to find peace for everyone, therefore they will change their weapon-ly self as they please. So you have to bond with it. With them, have fun." Anna explains with a dangerous glint in her eyes.
All the men look at their rods thoughtfully and observe it carefully.
"I have a name for mine" Nabu whispers in my ear with a breathtaking smile on his face,
"Okay now for the beautiful women, here are necklaces for you." Lady Aria tells us with a smile.
She snaps her fingers and I feel something tingle around my neck. I look down to see a raindrop necklace, it was beautiful. The pendant looked like it was a drop from the ocean itself wrapped around my neck on a sea green chain.
Stella had an orange sun for a pendant hanging on a chain which was dark as night. Bloom had a small flame pendant hanging around a chain that looked like molten lava. Musa had a musical note hanging on a chain that looked like blowing wind. Tecna had a pendant which looked like a microchip on a wire like chain. Flora had a flower with creepers forming her chain.
"These chains are to make sure that you have your powers under control. In Magix your powers would be dangerous enough. It will also help us keep in contact with each other." Anna explained.
"Okay now for you girls to finally show each other what you have been dying to show." Tsar Vlad states.
"We can transform? In front of everyone." Musa asks slightly embarrassed.
Lady Zhalia sighs and Lady Aria nods her head gleefully.
Nabu and the other guys step back to give us our space, while the teachers and second in commands watch us expectantly.
We all step around Bloom, ready to transform. I can feel the power coursing through my veins, I am ready. I am strong.
"Winx PALLADIX!" Bloom exclaims.
"NOOOO!" I hear Anna scream while my power overtakes me for the transformation.
