Chapter 19

It Gets Worse

The next morning, Timmy woke up to hear Tecna calling his and Musa's names. She sounded scared, lost, as if she was trying to find them in a dark forest. At once he hurried to her side; he noticed her beautiful teal eyes had gone entirely white. Timmy gasped in instant fear; he guessed that her sudden sickness had caused her to lose her sight.

"I'm here Tecna." he placed his hand on hers. She saw nothing, but she could hear everything around her.

"I can't see a thing." she told him. He held her close in his arms; he would give up anything in the realms for her to see again.

"Don't worry, I'll be your eyes." he replied gently.

Timmy turned around and noticed Tecna's round device on the night stand. He hated to use her things without asking, and never did, but this was an emergency. He used it to scan her bandaged scratch, the results looked horrifying. The potion that was in the scratch had spread and it was giving her these symptoms, in fact, there were four stages of them, dizziness, loss of sight, loss of voice and finally... Timmy gasped in worry as he read the last symptom, rapid changes of body temperature. This meant she would feel extremely hot one minute, and cold the next. He put the device back on the stand as it was before, then he hugged Tecna tight, he was not about to let her go again.

Just then the rest of the girls came in and, all except Musa; were shocked to see Timmy had snuck out at four in the morning.

"Timmy, what are you doing here?" Stella asked.

"Uh, guys, that was my fault. I called him last night, I had to. Tecna's arm was seriously scratched, there was blood on her bed sheets, and.., promise you won't laugh but I kind of... have a fear of it." Musa explained.

"Girls, no time to talk, look at her eyes!" Layla pointed out. All the girls gasped as the saw Tecna's eyes.

"It'll get a lot worse too. She'll lose her voice next, and then... her body temperature will change rapidly, hot to cold and then hot again. I'm worried that the Technolord may still be alive and somehow scratched her in her sleep last night, he's after her again." Timmy added.

"But we used convergence to beat him." Flora replied.

"I think the convergence only pushed him over the chasm, but shouldn't the techno lava have finished him off?" Bloom asked.

"I read somewhere that techno lava only takes away his power temporarily, but he's probably gotten more powerful." Tecna answered quietly, unsure of where everyone was.

"We have to see Ms. Feragonda about this." insisted Musa.

As Timmy guided Tecna out of bed and down the hall, he muttered to himself in concern for her, "What has he done to you?" He followed the others to the headmistress's office.

Chapter 20

Explanations

As they arrived at Ms. Feragonda's office, Flora knocked on the door.

"Why are you here so early in the morning?" Ms Feragonda asked.

"We think the Technolord is still alive, after the other girls used convergence to try and defeat him. And I'm worried that he might be after Tecna again. Look!" Timmy explained as he guided Tecna into the room.

"Oh my, how did this happen?" Ms Feragonda looked at her white eyes and bandaged scratch.

"I used her scanner to investigate that scratch, it turns out some creature summoned by the Technolord had scratched her in her sleep last night. There are some traces of the creature's potion in the cut, which caused the dizziness last night and the blindness now. There are worse things coming too." Timmy explained quietly to Ms Feragonda.

"Well some students noticed you sneaking around campus at four a.m. last night, Saladen will hear about this, after these symptoms go away." she added. Suddenly, Professor Saladen appeared on her holo-phone.

"Timmy, you'll be doing stable duty for a week. But that's not important now. You can stay at Alfea again until things are back to normal. This is the last time." he ordered.

"You might as well punish me too; I'm the one who called him that early." Musa added

"If Musa said that, then your punishment is lifted for half the week, Ms. Feragonda will find a punishment for you Musa."

"Man, it was for a friend!" Musa pouted

"Thank you anyway Musa, but now... I won't let Tecna down this time, and if I do, I am not worthy enough for her."

"I can't believe you would say that! You are completely worthy." Tecna was stunned at what she heard. Although she couldn't see, the words he said were crystal clear.

"I know you think I am, but if I let you go again, the guilt will stay with me forever." he told her.

"Well I think she should eat something, its ten thirty and she hasn't had breakfast." Ms Feragonda suggested. They went to the cafeteria and ate, Tecna tried not to mess up, but she couldn't see where everything was. Everything she did was so difficult to accomplish, but, her friends and Timmy helped her through.