Chapter 8: secret revealed
Helias Pov
I watched in horror, as my beloved lay limp in the grass, I ran as quickly as my legs could carry me to where she lay. She was so cold, "we need to get her back to Alfea, NOW" I yelled to my friends. I was ready to head to the ship when a little pixie, Chatta, hovered in front of me blocking my path.
"I have to tell you all something, but I promised Flora I wouldn't, but she is getting worse" I looked at Chatta she had tears streaming down her cheeks, 'why is she crying?' I thought. She took my silence as a sign for her to carry on. "When we found Flora she was unconscious in the forest, we brought her back here as soon as we could. When she finally woke up she winced in pain, I asked her where it hurt and saw a cut on her arm" her tears were floating rapidly making it hard to understand her. "She told me that when she was kidnapped by the Trix Icy used a new spell on her" before she could finish Musa asked, "what spell? Is she going to be ok?" I was wondering this myself.
Chatta took a deep breath "it was the spell of the cursed ice shards, a four stage curse" everyone was silent as she continued "the first stage is feeling weak, the second is the cut gets deeper, the third is a deep slumber and the last is…is…. DEATH"
She whispered the last word. 'Flora why didn't you tell us we could have helped, wait what was that first stage?'
"Chatta the first stage is being weak right?" she nodded my face fell "she has already reached stage 1" there were cries and sobs heard coming from everyone especially me, 'how could I let my girlfriend get into this? Why didn't she tell me? Do I mean nothing to her?'
We walked towards the ship heading back to Alfea, 'why keep this from me Flora? I thought you loved me?' I thought as I looked at her unconscious form in my arms.
Alfea
Flora Pov
I awoke in my bed at Alfea; I could hear voices coming from the lounge. I weakly got out of bed holding onto objects for support as I walked. I slowly opened the door a crack, I could make out the winx and the specialists along with…Mrs Faragonda. 'Wait why is she here?' I couldn't help but feel intrigued. I quietly opened the door. Everyone turned to face me as I blushed from all the stares.
"Flora we need to speak to you NOW" Mrs Faragonda said with a stern voice pointing to the sofa. I cautiously moved towards where she pointed and sat down. "There is something you aren't telling us, isn't there?" I nervously replied "no, everything's fine". Mrs F sighed and said, "we know about the curse Flora and we know you didn't want to burden us but they are all your friends whether you like it or not they will be there for you". I could feel the tears welling up in my eyes as I looked down at the ground in shame. "Flora why didn't you tell us?" exclaimed Stella in a hurt voice.
I was bombarded by questions I couldn't answer any in time. "Do you not care about us?" "I thought we were friends but obviously not" "Flora I thought you loved me but I can see that you don't when you lied to me" Helias voice made my heart sting. "I wish I hadn't met you," said Helia who immediately covered his mouth regretting what he said, the tears started to fall freely now from my eyes. 'I lied to protect them all they don't need to be burdened with me' I thought as I had enough of their comments.
I got up off the sofa weakly and stumbled towards my room but before closing the door I said, "don't worry you wont have to put up with me for much longer and Helia you don't have a girlfriend anymore seeing as you never wanted me in the first place". I closed and locked the door, hearing faint murmurs I put my ear to the door. "Why is it always Flora? She is so weak" "we always have to save her but she never saves us" "she is too insecure" I had enough of them, 'it took me getting a deadly curse to see them in the true light for who they really are' I sobbed into my hands as I realised I have no friends anymore and I'm cursed.
Grabbing a bag and stuffing all my clothes into it and gabbing a piece of paper and pen tears streaming as I wrote two letters. Placing them on my bed once I finished I opened the balcony doors and grabbed my bags "Enchantix" I yelled as I transformed and flew through the open door, Alfea becoming a dot on the horizon.
No Pov
The winx and specialists heard someone yell "enchantix"; it came from Flora and Blooms room. They rushed into the room to find it empty; they searched around for any sign of Flora. Nothing, until Bloom said "I found two letters" holding up the letters and handing one to Helia she continued "one for us winx and one for Helia". Helia took the letter from Bloom quickly. "Read the letter out loud Bloom" she sighed and read the letter out….
"Dear Winx and specialists,
I left so you don't have to watch as the weak nature fairy you think I am dies, it was nice believing you guys were my friends but unfortunately I know now that you aren't, I don't think that you will miss me and if you haven't figured out by now but I heard what you all said about me. My final words alive to you are that I wished you had been real friends.
Sincerely, the fairy of nature Flora."
They all burst into tears as Bloom finished the letter. "We are her friends, we were so mean especially when she is facing this and now she is all alone somewhere, weak and fragile" Aisha sobbed into Nabus chest.
"We need to find her and prove to her that we are her friends," exclaimed Tecna checking her digimap to see where she could locate Flora. Throughout the whole conversation a certain blue haired specialist, holding the letter in his hands he carefully opened the envelope.
Helias Pov
I took the letter out of the envelope smelling the ever so familiar scent of Floras perfume. I began to read the letter,
"Dear Helia,
Even though you didn't want me as your girlfriend I don't want your last memory of me to be when we were fighting so I wanted to say I'm sorry for not telling you, I didn't want to burden you all I care about you all too much. I love you Helia even though you don't love me, you are my one and only love and always will be. Never forget me.
Yours sincerely Flora"
As I read it I started to sob to myself trying to make sure the girls and guys didn't see. ' Flora I do love you I don't know why I said those horrible things' I gave up and started to cry, everyone turned to me and kept quiet until Timmy exclaimed "we need to find her now, we all said things that we didn't mean and we don't want her to leave us all with a bad thought of us" I nodded at Timmy's words, bringing up a digital screen with a map of the forest and Lynthea thinking that they would be the most likely places Flora would go to. With that we all started to plan our mission, but I had the same thought in my mind 'Flora please be alive when we find you and please forgive me'.