Chapter 12

Earth

Flora eventually graduates from Alfea, after the summer, her and the Winx become teachers rather than students. On the first day of school Flora gets attacked by a group of men who call themselves The Wizards of the Black Circle. The fairies find out that the wizards are in search of the last earth fairy, in order to protect this fairy, the Winx have to go to Gardenia, Bloom's home. In Gardenia, the fairies try many jobs to help Blooms adoptive parents with hosting their visit. But not one job works out, in their last job at a toy factory, Flora gives some cute little stuffed animals life. The Winx decide to open up a pet shop for these cute little creatures. The Winx have no idea that their boyfriends, the specialists, are constantly watching over them, Welcome to season four.

"This medicine should help your special little kitty with her cold" Flora said kindly, handing a little girl a bag.

"Thank you nice lady!" the little girl said while pulling her mom to Blooms check out desk.

Flora sighed and plopped herself into a chair. She was tiered and hadn't heard from Helia in weeks. She watched and waited as Bloom kindly walked the customers out and closed shop.

"Wow, I'm beat" Musa said, leaving her station.

"No kidding! The costumers were pretty rough today." Tecna said.

Stella started making big hand motions "Yeah! I've never worked so much in my life! I think I'm going to be faint." She said. Everyone rolled their eyes.

Flora stood up, "I'll be right back" she said and everyone looked at her

"Where are you going?" Layla asked

"Just a walk…" Flora said . Everyone looked at her, then at Bloom.

"Do you want me to come? It's not very safe to go out by yourself with the Wizar-" Bloom started

"- No! I'll be fine thanks" Flora said and walked out the door before anyone could protest, or make her change her mind.

She walked into the town and looked around, I know what I want to do, but I don't know where to go… She thought.

Meanwhile…

Helia was watching the Winx with the specialists from a distance, one second, Flora was talking to the Winx and the next second she was gone, as if she had disappeared.

"Huh, I'm going to go look for Flora" Helia said and everyone looked at him.

"Well… Alright, but don't blow our cover!" Sky said and then hesitated. "Riven… Why don't you go with him? To make sure he doesn't blow it."

"Alright, it's not like anything is happening around here" Riven grumbled.

Helia frowned, he didn't need any help, but he wanted to find Flora, it was too dangerous for her to be out by herself when the Wizards are after them.

"Alright then" He said "Let's go"

"Excuse me, sir?" Flora asked an old man.

"Yes miss how may I help you?" The man said kindly, Flora's face turned red.

"Well I'm afraid I'm sort of lost, could you point the way to Gardenia Park from here?" She said

"Oh yes, just turn around and go left at the first stop light, if you go straight, you could see it from there" He said.

"Thank you, sir." Flora said

"Any time miss, and may I add, you are quite pretty." The man said, and walked away.

Flora smiled, what a kind man. She thought and walked in the direction pointed out. I can't believe I got lost, I must've made the wrong turn somewhere… she thought. She turned to the left and saw the opening to the park. How could I have missed that? She thought and walked into the park. She walked around for a while then found a grassy place to rest.

Helia, on the other hand, didn't know where to hide this time. He looked around until he saw a bunch of tall trees, not far from where she was laying.

"Come on Riven" Helia said and made sure she wasn't paying attention as they quietly made their way to the trees.

But Flora felt watched. She had for a while and it was beginning to creep her out. She sat up and turned around. She saw a bunch of trees and someone who looked familiar.

"Helia?" Flora called, about to get to her feet, but when she blinked, he was gone. She turned around and watched the sun set. Then, she pulled out her phone and dialed a number. It rang a few times until she got an answer.

"Hey this is Helia, sorry I can't get to the phone right now, but-" Flora hung up there. She sighed.

"Flora!" She heard someone call. Only to see Layla running up to her.

"Layla! I'm sorry, did I take that long?" Flora asked.

"Not at all! Bloom just wants to show us some cool restaurant. I think it's called the Groovy Smoothie. It sounds kind of dumb but you know Bloom." Layla said.

Flora sighed, and looked at the stars one last time.

"Okay then, we should go change." She said, realizing she was still in her work clothes.

Layla smiled at her "I know that look. You miss Helia, don't you?" She asked as they walked back to the shop/ their home (To those who might have been wondering).

"It would be easier if he answered his phone once in a while." Flora said, sighing.

"Yeah, Nabu doesn't answer either, or call for that matter." Layla said.

Helia, a couple feet away, was having a hard time hearing this. The specialists decided not to call, just in case they gave away too much. But he didn't want her thinking he was ignoring her.

"Relax Helia" Riven said "You'll get to talk to her sooner or later."

"I would've figured as much." Helia mumbled Riven smirked.

The girls were approaching the shop. The lights were still on so they knew the rest of the Winx were waiting. They entered and saw everyone starring at them. Flora's face turned red.

"Sorry for making you wait" She said nervously.

"NEXT TIME would you care to TELL US how long you'll take! We were worried sick!" Stella snapped

Worried? About me? Flora thought and glanced at Layla, who shrugged.

"I'm sorry. I'll call or something next time. If there is one, that is. I was just in the park" Flora said Gee, they're like my parents. She thought.

"It's not that, Flora, it's just the wizards, we just want to make sure everyone is alright all the time. You know? It'd be like this for anyone." Bloom said

Flora nodded and glanced at Layla again, who pulled her arm and they ran upstairs to change. Flora put on her pink dress with flowers on it. She had grown pretty fond of the dress. She fixed her hair and ran downstairs, grabbing her purse and following the others out the door.

The smoothie place everyone talked about was actually pretty cool. The theme of it, fruit, was very detailed. There was a girl with long purple hair there, working as a waitress, and a man with brown hair creating the smoothies. Flora stared at the girl with purple hair a moment to long, Flora had a feeling she had something to do with her life. But she couldn't be too sure. She noticed Musa, Bloom, and Tecna starring at her, too.

A guy their age with black hair, and a few of his friends walked up to them.

"Bloom?" The guy asked.

"No way? Andy! Long time no see!" Bloom said standing up and giving him a hug.

"No kidding! How are you? What brings you back to Gardenia?" The guy, Andy, asked.

"Well my friends and I here" Bloom said, pointing to the rest of the Winx, "Just opened our own pet shop. We're trying to bring the magic back into the world" She said.

Flora raised her eyebrows, did Bloom just give away to much? Isn't it her that said not to use magic on earth, and what about Sky? Is she even cautious about that? Flora sighed and took a drink of her smoothie. Love you like a sister, Bloom, but you will never learn. She thought.

Stella cleared her throat to

"Oh!" Bloom said and gave Andy a wide smile "Andy these are my friends: Stella, Flora, Layla, Musa, and Tecna. Girls, this is my ex-boyfriend Andy." She said.

"Nice to meet you, Andy" Stella said a little too kindly.

"You too, I must admit, Bloom, you and your friends are very pretty." Andy said

"Are you going to stay and watch us perform?" he asked.

"Thanks! And you have a band?" Bloom asked.

"Yep! We play here every night at 9." Andy said cheerfully.

"Oh, then, we'd love to watch you play." She said

"Bloom" Flora whispered "Shouldn't we be looking for the last earth fairy? We need to find them before the wizards do."

"I guess you're right, Flora." Bloom sighed, "On second thought, Andy, We can't tonight we're busy. But tomorrow night we definitely will!"

"Alright. Have a good night ladies." Andy said and walked off with his friends.

Flora heard them mumbling some things, but she was more, or less, afraid to figure out what they were.

Helia and the specialists were only a couple tables away. Sky and Brandon were about to explode with anger of those guys talking to them. Timmy, Riven, Helia, and Nabu just figured they were just friends, until they walked away and said something about them. Helia didn't care until he heard one of them saying something like.

"You can have Bloom, but the one with brown hair is all mine"

That made Helia want to punch him. But he couldn't blow his cover, and he knew Brandon and Sky were thinking the same things. Helia noticed it was silent over where the girls were, and when he looked over at their table, they were gone. We lost them, again? He thought.

Flora and the Winx suddenly felt an orb of magic energy. But it wasn't the Wizards, it was a pure kind, like the kind they feel when they, a fairy, cast spells. They had transformed and flew around Gardenia, looking for anything suspicious, nothing. No one, they didn't have any hint of a clue.

"Tecna" Musa said

"Yeah?" Tecna asked

"Is there any way you could track down the energy, or something, of the fairy with one of your gadgets?" Musa asked

"If I could do that, we would've found her a long time ago. If she uses her energy again, I can download it to my computer and track her." Tecna said

"So, why don't we sit down for a minute and have Tecna ready, then we can wait and see if she uses it again. I don't want to be a pessimist here but I don't think we'll be able to find her before the wizards do if we keep searching for a needle in a haystack." Stella said.

Flora nodded "She's partly right, about Tecna, but don't worry Stella I'm sure we'll find her before the wizards do." She said.

So the Winx landed and prepared themselves for something, anything. As soon as they get a signal, they would take off. They waited for a good couple minutes when they heard a sound. Then they felt kind of watched.

"Did you hear that?" Bloom whispered.

"What do you think it was?" Musa whispered.

"I don't know but I'm about to find out." Layla said

"I'll come with you" Flora mumbled and they flew off as fast as they could.

"Do you see anything?" Flora asked

"No not… Wait, do you see that light?" Layla asked

Flora looked down It looks like people holding…. A flashlight? Are those who we're looking for? Maybe they saw us flying and wanted to check it out, but either way.

"Do you want to check it out?" Flora asked

"Lets transform first. So we don't freak them out." Layla said.

Flora and Layla landed a few feet away from the group of… Boys?... and de-transformed. They walked up to them and Flora looked at Layla, the closer they got, the more familiar the boys looked.

"Where did Flora and Layla go?" a voice that made Flora want to melt said.

Flora raised her eyebrows at Layla, and Layla kept her eyes on them and cleared her throat.

"Can we help you?" She said loudly with her arms crossed. All the guys turned around.

"Busted…." Brandon said.

"Oh my gosh!" Flora whispered.

"Okay, listen, we know what you're going to say but-" Sky began but Flora interrupted him.

"Helia!" She said and ran to him. She gave him a hug and kiss on the cheek.

"I missed you! Why didn't you answer my calls?" Flora said.

Helia picked her up and twirled her "You have no idea how much I wanted to! But I didn't want you to find out about us." Helia said and kissed her forehead "You never thought I'd leave you alone on a completely different planet with crazed Wizards did you?"

Flora smiled when Riven cleared his throat. They both looked up and Flora blushed, she totally forgot there was six other people here. But Layla and Nabu were practically doing the same thing. Helia wrapped his arm around Flora's waist.

"Sorry Riven." He said.

"Well." Riven began "Now that our covers blown, I don't see why I can't go see Musa now." He said.

Timmy sighed "Well, it is only these two that know. Can you girls keep a secret?" he asked.

"What" Riven snapped "You mean we have to keep hiding in the shadows and scratching a post to find a decent job?"

"Yes. That's exactly what I mean, these two might be excited about us being here but, knowing everyone else, they will just freak out on us." He said as harshly as Flora's ever heard him talk.

"Woah Timmy, my friend, don't get too worked up about it. They'll find out sooner or later. Just keep a positive mind and be optimistic. Maybe they'll be happy?" Nabu said nicely.

"Well for now, Helia and Nabu can visit Flora and Layla any time they want. But no one else, we want to stay out of their way as long as possible, just like Saladan's orders." Timmy said

"You two should be getting back" Sky said.

"Promise you'll visit?" Flora asked Helia

"I'm always there" Helia said and hugged her.

Layla and Flora transformed and flew back to the girls.

"You guys took a while, so what was it?" Bloom asked.

"Just some kids walking by. Nothing to be worried about." Layla said, and Flora smiled and nodded in agreement, she's a horrible liar.

"Alright if you say so." Musa said. Then they felt the rush of energy.

"Tecna?" Bloom yelled.

"Got it! It's coming from that way! Follow me!" Tecna said. And the girls flew off..

So what will happen now? Will the girls find the last fairy? What about Flora and Helia? In which direction are they heading right now? Will he keep his promise? Will Andy and his friends ruin things for Bloom and Sky? Find out in the next chapter!

Author's note: Sadly, I do not own Winx Club. Thank you so much for reading this chapter! The next one will be published September 5th. Please rate and message me if you have any advice! I love you all! You keep this story going!