Chapter 7:chatta knows
At Alfea
Mrs Faragonda had just finished magic messaging Digit, she was walking towards the all too familiar winx club dorm, 'those girls have fought so many battles and have so much stress' she thought as she reached up to knock on the door.
After knocking three times, footsteps could be heard coming from the other side of the door. The door was flung open by Stella, "flora where have you been? Opps sorry Mrs F, I thought you were Flora" Stella said as she giggled from her mistake. "I guessed that Stella, could I come in? I need to talk to all of you" she kept a serious face, as Stella moved to the side to let her in.
Walking into the lounge area Mrs Faragonda saw all the winx and the specialists all sat around talking until they saw her in the room. "Good your all here" she started "I just got off the magic messenger with Digit, you all need to head to pixie village now" she was interrupted before she could explain why. "What's happened? Are they ok?" exclaimed the fairies "yes they are fine but its not them that need your help" she stopped as she saw the confused faces of the 11 teenagers, before continuing "its Flora she was found unconscious in the forest a couple hours ago, Digit saws she hasn't awoken yet" their faces fell and Helia was the first to his feet heading straight for the door, "what are we waiting for?" With that they all headed for the Red Fountain ship that the boys had arrived in.
Back in pixie village
Floras Pov
I was still feeling weak but I couldn't let Chatta see that. I smiled weakly at her as she flew into my open arms, "Flora I was so worried" she said still in my arms, I don't want to worry her or anybody. I moved a bit so I could get comfortable but as I did I grazed my cut from Icys ice shard. I winced at the sudden pain. 'Ouch' I thought.
I looked at Chatta to see her looking back at me with an 'Are you ok? Where does it hurt?' look on her face. Before I could answer she lifted up my sleeve to reveal a large cut on my arm, 'wait it's gotten bigger that's not a good sign'. She gasped and asked, "How did you get this?" I thought for a moment 'should I tell her she? Yeah I should I need to tell someone because Icys curse was obviously real'. I sighed and looked anywhere but directly at her, I took a deep breath before I explained how I got it.
She was silent the whole time I was talking. "So that's how I got it, but you have to promise me you wont tell anyone Chatta, I don't want to burden anyone its my problem and mine alone" she looked at me stunned before hugging me tightly, well as tight as a little pixie like her could muster.
We hugged each other for a few minutes until we felt a sudden strong wind, we both looked up to see a Red Fountain ship landing a few metres away from us.
I glanced at Chatta and whispered, "Can you help me stand up? I'm still too weak." She nodded but then gasped "wait you said the first stage was feeling weak, that means you only have two more stages then…death" she said the last word so pain filled that it made me cry. I nodded and wiped the tears from my eyes "Flora you have to tell them they are your friends" pointing towards the winx and specialists running towards us.
"I cant I don't want to burden them Chatta" I said stumbling into the tree behind me, leaning on it for support. "Flora-" she was cut off by eleven arms enveloping us both into group hugs. I wasn't ready for them to let go of the embrace as I stumbled but was kept up by Helia. I smiled weakly at him, he had worry and relief mixed into his facial features.
"Flower I was so worried what happened?" Chatta was about to tell them about the curse when I stopped her she gave me a glare saying 'you better tell them' I sighed and mouthed 'sorry' to her as I lied to my friends saying "I guess I tripped and hit my head, don't worry" I could tell that he didn't believe me but he let it go. I hate lying to anyone, especially HIM.
I wriggled out of his grasp and started to make my way towards the ship but the feeling I had before of being too weak washed over me as I collapsed again. 'Oh great how am I going to hide it from them now?' I thought as I saw Helia running towards me before my mind was overtaken by darkness. Black was all I saw now.