Another week when by before any of the girls woke up.
Layla was the first. "Wh…what happened? Where am I?"
"Layla, my love! You're finally awake!" Nabu jumped out of his seat and hugged her. Layla laughed and hugged him back.
"It's good to see you too Nabu."
Soon everyone else started waking up.
Helia walked in to see all the girls were up and the boys with relieved looks on their faces. "Glad to see all you girls are finally awake. You all had us very worried." Helia smiled. He was very worried about his friends, relieved to see they all looked fully recovered.
"Now that everyone has recovered, what do we do know?" Stella asked, she was lying on the bed with her head resting in Brandon's lap.
"Now, we finally talk about what happened in the prince's realm." Faragonda said as she walked in. "I am glad to see you girls are feeling better. Now I do not expect to talk today since you have only been awake for a few hours. But I want to see all of you first thing tomorrow morning, until then get some rest." Faragonda walked out of the room.
"I don't know about you guys, but I'm dying to get out of here." Musa said.
"Well what does everyone want to do?" Layla asked.
"I don't know, but nothing to exciting. You girls need to rest." Sky mentioned.
"I know! Lets go to the movies. All we do is sit. Technically that's resting." Bloom suggested.
Everyone agreed. The girls went up to their rooms to change. Once they changed the group was ready to go.
"You coming, man?" Riven asked Helia as they headed to the boys' hover bikes.
"No. I'm good. You guys go on without me. Have some well deserve fun with your girls."
"You sure dude?"
"Yeah, I'm fine."
"Don't worry Helia. We are going to get Flora back." Riven put his hand on Helia's shoulder to reassure him.
"Thanks Riven. I needed to hear that. You better get going or you will miss the movie."
Riven waved goodbye and got on his bike. With Musa sitting behind him, he took off.
Helia watched till the bikes were out of his sight. Then he headed to Alfea's garden. It was starting to get dark but Helia didn't care. In the past two weeks he had been spending a lot of time in the garden. Even without light Helia knew where everything was. He even knew how to get though the maze in the dark.
Soon he came to the heart of the maze. It was now Helia's favorite place. It felt the most like Flora and it was also very private. He didn't have to worry about the people who were constantly looking at him with pity and asking if he was okay. He would say that he was alright, but of course he wasn't even close to that. The truth was he was falling apart. He couldn't eat, could barely fall asleep, all he could do was think of Flora. Helia lay down on his favorite bench and closed his eyes. With the scent of roses around him and thoughts of Flora, Helia fell asleep.
"Come on Helia, time to wake up." Helia woke up to Riven shaking him. "Everyone is looking for you man. We got to go talk to Ms. F now."
Helia got up and followed Riven, until he got lost and Helia had to lead.
Once everyone knew where Helia was, they all headed to Faragonda's office. It was a tight squeeze but everybody managed to fit in.
"Okay so someone tell me what exactly happened down in the prince's realm and why Flora is not here." Faragonda said sitting in her chair.
The group went on to tell her about everything that happened.
"Basically Ms. F, we went down to rescue Flora. We had to go up against a huge army of the prince's minions. Helia went to confront the prince. Then Flora comes flying up next to the prince, exclaiming that he is her love and her fiancé. We all had to fight her. She is now super powerful and we were barely able to get out." Bloom summed everything up.
Faragonda was silent for a moment. Thinking very intently before saying anything. "I was worried something like this was going to happen. I believe that the prince has put some kind of spell on Flora making her fall in love with him."
"But why? Why can't he just extract the power Oenothera from Flora?"
"It's not that simple Stella. You see the ultimate power is not just something you can take. The Oenothera is a part of Flora, it is something that she was born with." Faragonda explained.
"So how is the prince going to get the Oenothera?"
"I believe, Layla, that the prince shall marry Flora to gain control of the power." Everyone was silent. Faragonda continued. "Once the prince is married to Flora then they will have the ability to share their magical abilities, including the Oenothera power. Now, Helia, since he is your cousin, what do you think?"
"Hey wait a second." Tecna interrupted before Helia could respond. "Helia how come you never mentioned to any of us that the prince was your cousin?"
"Yeah Helia, how come?" Musa chimed in.
"I didn't want to tell you cause I did not want to associate myself with him. My cousin is pure evil simple as that. Telling you guys about my relation to Orion was not going to change anything, so why mention it."
"Helia is right. It is not your places to judge him. He has carried this burden his whole life and if he does not want to acknowledge the relation he has with the prince then so be it."
"Thank you Ms. Faragonda." Faragonda just nodded. "I agree with Ms. F that Orion is going to marry Flora. I saw the diamond ring she wore on her finger. He is going to go through with the plan if we don't stop him."
"Ms. F what happened once Orion marries Flora. Will she turn back to her normal self again?" Brandon asked.
"I am afraid but if Orion marries her that she will remain evil forever. There will be no way of changing her back." No one made a sound. "Now we can not let that happen. So as soon as you guys are able to go. We shall once again try to get Flora back."
"We are ready!" Sky said as he stood up. Everybody else stood up as well ready to go get their friend back.
