Hello! I know I don't usually put notes in the chapters but I felt that this time it was called for because I have been bouncing off the walls with happiness at the reviews! Just to keep things interesting I wanted to give you guys a heads up about the rest of the story. It won't end like you think it will, it will be such a huge shock I have it all planned out in detail; just have to write the chapters. It also gives an opening to a sequel, so enjoy!

Chapter Twelve: Betraying the Betrayer

The two Armies Clashed together, like two trains meeting in a high speed, head on collision. The screams of pain and fear of getting killed, too many people in one space, all breathing the same air was suffocating. The girls had connected and attacked the Specialists, somehow the area they fought in wasn't as crowded, the fighters around them gave them a wide berth to fight in, no one wanted to be involved with what was going on with the twelve warriors.

As expected each girl charged and attacked their guy. The girls were like robots in battle, just move without thinking and keep swinging. The guys were surprised that the girls had such skill and strength that matched their own, that they could become this deadly in only two years, they hadn't expected them to have learned so much and it pained them greatly to have to fight them.

The emotions were running high and it didn't help when you knew you were about to kill the person in front of you.

They all clustered together and fought bravely. Musa was giving it her all, over the past she had had a lot of fights with Riven and at times, yes, she did want to scream and attack him but never to this extent.

She swung her two Samurai swords and they connected heavily with Riven's sword, pushing her back slightly because of the weight, he definitely beat her in bulk. She moved mechanically and fast, each hit with the sword she felt herself get the upper hand even more until in a slight slip of Riven's sword she saw her opening and went for it, she planted her left sword heavily in the ground and punched him right in the mouth and loosened his grip, she swung her left hand again and was able to take the whole sword away and with her whole body, kick him right in the gut sending him to the floor, one sword in her right hand she held it high and quick, ready to swing the finishing blow.

And she paused.

Of course she paused! Who wouldn't?

Musa loved Riven with her heart and soul but her alliance was to Valtor and she was having her own inner battle on whether to strike or not. Duty or heart?

Damn it! Why do I have to love him so damn much?!

Musa went through all of this in one second, while Riven was still under the impression that he was going to die. So it was a shock to him when Musa dropped her sword, grabbed him by the collar and kissed him passionately.

Stella who was right near Musa, fighting off Brandon, paused as she caught sight of this "What in the hell?" Only goddamn Musa and Riven would pause mid battle and kiss! This is her problem, she never follows orders. Now I'm having doubts! Musa!

After an eternity Musa pulled back from the kiss and stared at the beyond shocked Riven "I know you won't kill me and I know that I could very well kill you" She let go of him with a jerk and picked up her swords, and for a sickening moment Riven thought he was a goner...again. But Musa just smiled "But I'll have to find you first" and with that she turned and ran into the pilling crowd of violence and fought her way out of sight.

Though the corner of everyone's eyes they saw this. The other five pairs briefly mused over this while fighting and in the midst of battle when for a small moment each of the pair's eyes met, an understanding was made. Each girl turned and ran away, while the guys ran in the other direction. If they couldn't find each other they wouldn't have to kill one another.

Then when bad guys and good guys alike were falling, a huge explosion sounded at the side of the hall and the entire wall crumbled to bits, falling and letting the two armies run outside and encounter each other in more of a spaced out place. It also gave the people who were losing hope to dash into the woods and escape.

Flora looked over at Musa who just shrugged and smiled sheepishly "We needed the room"

The fight raged on and it looked like Valtor and his assassins would be the victor, fairies and Red fountain guys started to flee on Miss Faragonda's orders. Tearing away from their opponents and bolting for the surrounding woods, leaving the monsters to chase after them. The Winx Club however avoided the woods altogether, if that was the way the good guys were getting out then they had no problem letting them go without a fight, at least they wouldn't have to kill the Specialists.

The battle area was emptying and any good guys left over were ordered to be taken to the prison cells. The injured were not given the luxury of going to the infirmary and the Winx Club just looked the other way.

Stella who had just finished off another foe to look around and see that no more were lurking about she held onto her spear that was planted in the ground and breathed hard, the girls had never been in a battle like this before and it was something that would haunt them for a very long time.

Stella spotted Bloom and Musa sitting on a stone bench a little away from everything, looking deep in thought. Stella pulled out her spear and started to weave through the lying bodies and stumbling survivors over to where they were and sat next down on the ground next to them.

"Is it over?" Stella asked after a moment of silence.

"I hope so" Bloom answered as she looked down at her sword "Valtor will be upset that the Specialists escaped"

"I don't think he's too concerned about them. The people that escaped will most likely try to attack again, Valtor will just send us out and I don't think we can pull the same trick twice" Musa said while staring off in the direction of the trees.

"Why didn't you kill Riven?" Stella asked, always the one to ask the inappropriate.

Musa didn't look fazed by the question, she didn't even flinch "I love him but..." she groaned and put her face in her hands "We seriously need to discuss what side we're on. We can't keep saving the Specialists from us and keep working for Valtor it doesn't work like that"

Stella stood up and started pacing in front of the girls "The way I see it is that we're still on Valtor's side as long as we're wearing the bracelets. But we're also on the guy's side because we love them. But that just makes things difficult, so we have to pick a side. And honestly...both are starting to really suck!"

Musa and Bloom laughed at this "Agreed"

...

Three days past and not really anything exciting happened. The school had been taken over with more monsters that Valtor created and Valtor mostly was too busy figuring out which planet he wanted to take first, so really the girls were stuck doing...nothing.

They took up residence in a nice dorm in the main school building. It was large with nice furnishings and the girls took up most of their time here. When they weren't in that room they were wandering the broken and empty halls of Alfea and training with their weapons, after three days of this they were getting frustrated.

"How long does it take to assemble an army and march it on the nearest planet, come on Valtor! Move it!" Stella yelled from the couch where she was busy trying to get the black out of her nails and paint them red, she wasn't succeeding.

Techna was in a nearby armchair reading, she glanced up from her book "We'll march when we march Stella, these things take time" Stella looked unconvinced and threw the bottle of nail polish across the room into a nearby trashcan.

"Too much time if you ask me. Ugh and we aren't even allowed to leave the school! You know what I want to do? Go shopping! I haven't done that in years, there was no time after we came back with reporters on our asses and now Valtor won't let us leave Alfea, it sucks!"

The sound of the door shutting alerted them that Bloom was walking in the door. She had her sword in hand and was looking sad and bored at the same time.

"Oh I agree!" she said as she flopped down next to Stella on the couch "I'm gonna go talk to Valtor about some stuff, you want to come?"

"Oh god, he's the only thing worse than all this waiting around, it's all business and crap. You'll die of boredom right where you stand" Stella said as she played with a lock of her long golden hair.

Bloom smiled "I'll risk it" with that she stood and walked out the door with her sword still in hand, nobody really went without their weapons these days, too much risk of being attacked.

Once she was gone Stella turned to Techna "What's wrong with Bloom? She seems really sad"

"She's still taking her parents death pretty hard, even when evil she loves them. Just like we love...other people" Techna paused and stared off into space of a second and then snapped back to reality "She just needs some time to sort it out, she'll be fine"

Stella shrugged her shoulders and stared at the door.

She'll also want revenge on Icy for killing them. Too bad their not here.

...

Icy was here! Icy is here! Icy is going to die! Bloom had just walked down the hall where she had heard that familiar laugh of her enemy.

She had gripped her sword and backed up against the wall. She was pretty sure that Icy wasn't alone. But it also wouldn't take long for Bloom to run back to Stella and Techna and get them out here...but then she might lose Icy.

Bloom closed her eyes for a moment and calmed down, she needed to think clearly. She opened them and slowly looked around the corner.

No freaking way! Valtor you bastard!

There he stood. Not a metre from Icy and he did nothing. Not attack her, not kill her, nothing! What the hell is going on?! It can't be what it looks like! But...maybe it is.

Bloom observed the two talking for moment longer.

Wow, I really feel like I should have seen this one coming. Why is Icy here? We can't join forces with her and her sisters! No way will I agree to that. She killed my parents!

Icy then disappeared into a puff of white smoke. Bloom didn't feel like she had let her enemy go, she was too angry at Valtor to care where she went. Bloom tore around the corner and marched right up to Valtor.

"What the hell is she doing here?!"

Valtor looked unsurprised to see Bloom; he probably knew she had been there from the started "We need those three girls to help us take over planets Bloom. We can't be picky when we're so close to our first attack"

This made Bloom pause and forget her anger, she had been curious as to when they would make their move "Already? We're taking a planet already? It's only been three days, this planet could have ally's that would come to their aid and..." she looked at Valtor while talking and the anger came back "We don't need her! Me and the girls are fine by ourselves!"

Valtor took a step forward and he looked...slightly pissed. Bloom was shocked, this is the first time Valtor has shown this emotion "The way you girls were fine about letting the Specialists escape!" Crap! "If you girls aren't strong enough to take them out by yourselves then I'll send Icy to do it for you!" Double Crap!

Valtor seemed to be getting angrier, Bloom started to regret yelling at him "Valtor do you know all the stuff she's done to us in the past!? She's so...evil!" Valtor raises an eyebrow "You know what I mean! Just because I'm evil too doesn't mean I'm going to be her friend or work with her!"

Valtor took another step causing Bloom to step back as well; she was surprised when her back came in contact with the stone wall.

"Bloom, you need to let it go. You're an assassin, my assassin and you have to behave like one!" taking another step.

He yelled...Valtor never yells. Get out now! Bloom swallowed and dared not glance away from Valtor; he was almost a foot from her.

"Let. It. Go. Bloom. Everything you have against Icy. Hurting you, your friends, and your parents" That hit a nerve and Bloom closed her eyes to keep from screaming in his face.

"I can't do that, my parents...It hurts too much to forgive her" She said through clenched teeth.

Valtor sighed "Their dead Bloom. Move on" He leaned right into her face and fixed her with a stern glare "Soon"

With that Valtor turned and walked away.

Wait...What?! The sound of her sword hitting the ground sounded loudly in the room.

Bloom opened her eyes "How do you know my parents are dead?" she whispered, the terrible truth dawning on her.

Valtor stopped walking, he didn't turn around but Bloom could see his back tense, this time she said it with more force "How did you know my parents are dead, Valtor?"

Valtor turned around slowly, a blank look on his face, that expression said it all.

"Oh god!" Bloom put her hand over her mouth and really leaned back into the wall, not having the strength to stand up straight "This isn't the first time Icy has worked for you, she's been working for you all along! Y-you told her to go to earth where you knew I'd be!" Bloom pointed at Valtor, becoming louder and angry again "And you told her to kill my parents and kidnap me!" Bloom walked forward, the anger driving her forward.

She stopped in front of him, he still hadn't moved away when she walked forward "Why?" She whispered, tears of sorrow about her parents coming to her eyes, she hadn't cried since that night with sky.

Valtor paused for a long time, when he spoke he was calm "In order to make you evil, I needed your spirits broken. Icy killed your parents and then the girls were arrested"

Bloom nodded "You sent the letters or was that Icy? No I don't care, you both just the same anyway. And so when you made us evil, you got us to steal the book!" Bloom stepped forward and pushed Valtor, he barely moved an inch, and she just needed to hurt someone.

"Why didn't you just ask?!" Bloom yelled, shoving him again. Faster than she could imagine Valtor snatched her wrists up, making her flinch.

"Because you would never have betrayed the Specialists when you were the way you were! Do you think if I hadn't made you fully evil that you would have stolen the book and killed all those people like you were told?!" with that her threw her hands away, making her stumble back.

Bloom knew the answer. No, she never would have done that.

Boots clicking on the floor made Bloom look sideways to see Stella, Techna, Flora, Layla and Musa entering the room, they looked weary and confused.

"What's with all the yelling?" Musa asked as she glanced between the two of them, standing close together. Bloom didn't answer but looked back up at Valtor.

"What happened?" Stella asked

Valtor didn't look away from Bloom "Nothing"

After a long awkward silence Flora stepped forward "Umm Valtor, I was wondering, what are we going to do with all the fairies we captured?" trying to break the silence.

"Go down to the cells and kill them" Valtor's voice was blunt; this made the girls take a step back with the shock of it. Valtor looked over to Flora who had her mouth slightly open and eyes wide "Go!"

Flora stumbled back and backed out of the room, the others trailing behind with lots of glances at Bloom. Once gone the two looked at each other for a long time and that silence was broken when Bloom fired a fire bolt at Valtor.

He countered it with a quick lightning bolt back at her, which she quickly dodged. Her wings coming out of her back, she flew toward him, striking out with her fists. But problem was that the two were so evenly matched, they knew each other's moves to well.

Bloom had just connected her fist with his jaw when she felt a horrifying sting in her left hip, stumbling back and looking down she saw her bloom oozing out of her. She looked back up to see bloom dripping down Valtor's mouth; at least she had hit him.

They both breathed heavily and stood two metres apart, glaring.

"How could you, you bastard!" A tear escaped Bloom's eye and she screamed at him.

Valtor's hand shot out and black smoke engulfed Bloom, she coughed and yelled in pain as something hit the back of her legs. She hit the stone floor and coughed some more.

When the smoke cleared she saw Valtor standing over her. That had not been something that he had taught them, power wielding jerk! This was also painfully familiar to the first time he killed her by putting a bullet in her head.

"You won't be able to move until the smoke is out of your system" He leaned down so that his face was near hers again "You're angry, I know. I also know how you girls feel about the Specialists but Bloom; your feelings aren't going to stop me from hunting them down. You're evil now, you don't want to be good again and you also don't want to kill them. So I'll do it for you"

"What about the deal? You still going to let me kill you, because it starting to sound really good." Bloom whispered with defiance in her eyes.

Valtor smiled "Oh yes that good old deal. I have a confession, I didn't tell you the whole story about why I killed and made you evil, there's more. I could have found a way to make all this reality some other way but I chose to make you evil instead and not just for the book and do you know why?"

Bloom stared at him, not able to answer.

Valtor smiled and leaned down and whispered in her ear. Bloom's eyes went wide and she gasped when she heard what he said.

No...It can't be! Bloom was in so much shock that she was barely even aware that Valtor leaned over her and kissed her. After a moment he pulled back smiled and walked away.

Bloom was left on the floor to think and wait for her body to start moving again. Oh god...there's no other way...

...

The girls all gathered outside the cell area, they had been standing there for a while. Valtor had told them to kill innocent people and they didn't want to do that. Three days ago when the battle had gone down the girls had only hurt and knocked unconscious their opponents but never killed them.

"I don't want too!" Stella cried as she leaned against the wall, throwing her hands up in protest.

They all looked to see Bloom marching down the hall toward them, she looked pale and freaked out and she had bloom pumping out of her hip.

"Oh my god! Bloom!" Flora ran up to her "What happened?" Bloom ignored her question "Have you guys killed them yet?"

"No, we were just kinda stalling" Musa said coming forward as did the other girls "What's going on?"

Bloom paused for a moment; she looked like she was going to cry "Listen, you guys trust me right? If I asked you to do something you'd do it without asking any questions because you trust me to know that it was best for us right?"

"Yes" they all answered without hesitation.

Bloom nodded "Good "

Stella walked forward and put her hands on Bloom's shoulders "Bloom please tell us what's wrong, you look...terrified. Is there something you want to tell us?"

Bloom paused for the longest moment. I can't tell them, it would kill them.

"We're leaving" her black wings sprung from her back in an explosion of black feathers.

"Now"