We were sneaking through the tunnels underneath Cloud Tower. I never got around to asking what we were doing but there wasn't a point in asking now. I would know soon enough and I couldn't turn back if I wanted to.
"Tecna's anti-detection spell should keep the witches from keeping an eye on us." Bloom said.
"We've been sneaking around for a while, do you think they don't know already?" I asked and everyone shrugged, mostly ignoring me. I suppose everyone was still mad about my thoughts. They'll have to deal with it.
I was feeling a little better. Passing out let me sleep for a bit, so I got some energy back. Only enough to change for that small amount of time though.
"There's a monster ahead, but it can't see us." Knut said. He found a secret passage that lead to the Trix's room. We all followed him and they trio wasn't there.
"They could be in the faculty lounge." Stella said. Bloom looked into the hallway and saw several monsters walking around.
"We can sneak through the kitchen." Knut said. "There's a passage through the mirror door."
"Mirror doors are often traps." Sky said. "I'll go first." I cut off his walking and walked ahead of him. "Or not." I wasn't going to have him walk into a trap after how far he's come.
"We should split up into groups to search the passages." Sky said. "I'll go with Bloom, Stella and Knut."
"Looks like we're going the other way." I said, walking off in the other direction, not waiting for the others. I wonder if they can tell how unhappy I am at the moment. Probably.
We didn't get very far in the tunnel when we heard a loud crash. I turned and ran in between Brandon and Riven, to get to the other passage. I could hear them running behind me. We got to a door just in time to see Griffin putting a detention barrier on the Trix and telling us that it won't hold very long.
We left them in the room and we followed Miss Griffin and all the other witches through the halls of Cloud Tower to get to the top.
"Are we going to be okay?" One of the witches asked.
"Well, we still don't have the Dragon Fire and that's the only reason we came all this way." Stella complained.
"We'll be able to take it back when Fargonda, Saladin and myself combine our powers." Griffin said.
"Or you could let me do it." I said.
...
We all got back to Alfea after a long discussion and a minor dilemma with the buggies. Bloom and Sky stayed behind to fend them off.
We were walking through the field. Faragonda walked up to Griffin, talking about some sorority shit that I didn't care for and I walked off with Riven seeming as we were both kind of hurt no one noticed we were back.
Well, they may have noticed, but they didn't care.
We talked about nothing until night fall. It wasn't one of those careless conversations, just a relaxing one that got your mind off of the bullshit going on around you. It was the best conversation I've ever had.
It was amazing while it lasted, because once daylight left, flying leeches and stingrays swooped in with bug soldiers and giant soldiers came attacking on the ground. One of them knocked Flora down, not yet transformed. I blasted the leech and everyone transformed excluding me.
Stella preformed a relocation spell as a giant soldier was about to smash them and Flora used a wine wrap on it. Tecna and Musa blasted a second giant soldier, but they remaining parts turned into four regular bug soldiers while the soldier in the vine wrap escapes from its grip.
Riven got up from where he was sitting and ran to help Brandon. They both attacked one bug soldier but it kept repairing itself. I couldn't hear what Riven was saying but I could tell it was a battle strategy because not even a second later, the monster was down. But it got back up.
"I don't know what to do." I said to myself. I felt useless. I didn't have enough energy but if I took it from anyone else, they'd be useless. The witches weren't actually doing much. "I'll just borrow some of that." I focused my energy on their powers and within seconds some of them were on the ground, drained of almost all of their energy.
Only a few people to stop and look at them before returning to their battle. Every witch that was standing on the wall, was now on the ground, sleeping as peacefully as they could for now.
I transformed into my Enchantix again, but it was different this time. My green skirt was black and shorter than before, my green ankle boots were knee-high and black. My pendant that sat on my chest, was still in its shape but the surrounding clothing was black and stuck to me unlike my original green lace. My angelic wings were almost demonic in a way, they folded neatly but feathers were replaced by lace and webs, white replaced by black. My hair was in its normal shape (like sailor moon minus the bangs- they were like emo swoopy haha) and it went to mid-thigh, curling slightly at the end.
The power that radiated from me wasn't its normal green and teal, it was purple and black. My emerald eyes were blazing.
I got a few glances before everyone stopped for at least two seconds to understand what just happened.
"It's my turn to fight." My voice boomed through the sky.
I flicked my wrist and all the students were shoved against a wall, forced to stand there and watch.
I started to fly up, almost to the height of the school so I could see all the monsters. I raised my arms up. A fire started on the ground where they stood, vines from the fields moved in and kept the monsters put, they couldn't move. It almost rained but I took the water from the clouds and surrounded every one in their own bubble. Lightning flashed in the sky and thunder rumbled as the ground shook.
I brought my arms down and lightning struck all the monsters at once, their shrieks sounding like mumbles in the bubbles. They all poofed into the air, vanishing. The bubble they were trapped in was pushed through the forest and back to Cloud Tower.
I touched the ground, making sure I was okay to transform back to my normal self. As I did, I fell to my knees, looked over at Faragonda and saluted her before passing out again.
...
I can honestly say that I had the best sleep last night. It was better than it has been in a long time, and I couldn't figure out why until I opened my eyes and saw someone's arm around me. I turned slightly and saw Riven staring at me.
"Good morning sleeping beauty." He smirked.
"You're such a dope." I laughed. "What are you doing?" I asked.
"I'm making sure you sleep okay, Faragonda's orders." He replied.
"Well, I'm not complaining about her orders or your methods." I smiled and laid my head back down, ready to pass out again.
"Are you up for walking around some?" He asked.
"Tired of me already?"
"No, I thoroughly enjoyed watching you sleep." He said. "But we should go see the others. I think they want to talk to you."
"What if I don't want to talk to them?" I asked.
"Then you don't have to."
"We should though."
"Your decision." I groaned and started to move but he held me down. "I think you should know something first."
"What's that?"
"I like you. It isn't like any like before. I've liked people, but not like this." He said. I giggled.
"Five likes in one phrase." I laughed again. "I like you too." I said before kissing his cheek. "But that can stay between us for now." I got up and made sure I looked decent enough to walk around outside. I turned and I saw him watching me and smiling. I smiled at him and turned back around to what I was doing.
...
We walked outside and over to Stella and Brandon who were having a quite cute conversation. "What if we don't survive another attack?" Stella asked.
"Don't worry. I'm here to protect you." He smiled. Stella laughed a little before saying, "It'll be me who protects you."
"I won't be a squire forever." He said.
"Does that mean you'll become a knight or a man at arms?" She asked.
"Yeah."
"Don't worry about it Brandon, it doesn't matter to me. Look at my parents, The king and queen of Solaria, getting a divorce." He smiled at her slightly before hugging her.
"That was the best thing you could have said." He smiled again and she smiled with him.
We walked up to them and watched as Musa walked up to them along with Timmy.
"Faragonda called an assembly." Timmy said and we all followed him to the entrance of Alfea.
"You all fought bravely, but the war is not over. We have to muster up everything we have." Faragonda started.
"I know we can win if we all work together." Griffin said before the Army of Decay came swarming back onto Alfea grounds.
A soldier tried to crush Timmy but Riven slices it. Brandon caught a ride on a flying stingray and it knocked him down but he still sliced it. One of the towers of Alfea were knocked down from a King Kong wannabe soldier.
Flying leeches and stingrays are swarming us and Stella teleports us behind them. Musa gathers us behind her protective disco ball, sending a blast from it to destroy several of them.
Musa and Tecna blast more soldiers to the ground. "Focus all of your powers into one single attack." Faragonda yelled at us.
"Unite your powers with the fairies to attack." Griffin yelled. Our powers started to form a large orange bubble. It grew until it surrounded Alfea, destroying all the monsters that were on Alfea grounds.
Another wave of attacks finished, but how many more did we really have to go through?
...
We retracted to our room since Alfea was quiet for now. I didn't know how long we had until they came at us full force but we were going to be ready no matter what.
"I don't know if I can change her back." Flora whined.
"You should just give up." Stella said.
"Yeah, turning Mirta back is impossible." Musa agreed.
"If we put her in a nice sunny pumpkin patch, she'd be around friends." Stella said, kind of tearing up.
"She's already around friends." I said. "It's not impossible. She has the right spell, but they aren't trying hard enough. They have doubts about it working, they have to fully believe it will." I said before winking at Flora, giving her the heads up to try it again. She tried again after smiling back and I had to see what was going through her head.
Her thoughts clouded mine and I saw her and Mirta reaching for each other, on the verge of connecting and everything went white. The light blinded me from inside my head and I looked at Flora who seemed drained but was more focused on Mirta than her own mind. When she looked at the spot Mirta's pumpkin self was sitting, she sighed sadly, noting she was gone.
"Where did she go?" Stella asked.
"I'm over here." Mirta said. I turned my head and saw Mirta standing at the opposite end of the room, waving in her human form. Flora ran up to her and engulfed her in a hug which she gladly returned. "I think it worked because we tried harder this time." She told Flora.
Flora nodded and looked at me and smiled. "Thank you Lita."
"Oh, no problem." I said, shrugging it off but fully knowing I felt good about helping.
Stella smiled at the cuteness of it all, and almost cried at the sight. She couldn't take it anymore and almost went out on the balcony but saw Riven instead. "Hey guys, I see a pouty looking guy standing out there." Stella said and she winked at me.
"Why are you looking at me like that?" I asked.
"Well, you see, that's Riven and I think you two should chat it up more." Stella said. I smiled at her boldness.
"Very well played Stella. I can't tell at all what you're trying to do." I laughed.
"It just looked like something's on his mind and I think you should go see what it is." She replied.
"I don't think so." I laughed before walking into my room. I shut the door behind me and teleported outside under the balcony. I whispered to Riven and he looked up and smirked.
"I was wondering if someone would tell you I was down here." He said.
"Stella has a way with words." I laughed. "Why are you down here anyways?" I asked.
"I wanted to make sure you understood what I was saying earlier and not think I'm crazy." He replied.
"Refresh my memory on what you said." I smirked at him.
"I like you." He sighed. "Damn, that was still hard to tell you the second time." He laughed. "They don't teach us how to do that stuff at Red Fountain." I smiled at him and hugged him.
"I think you did just fine." He hugged back. "But, like I said, we should keep this between us for now in case you decide to change your mind." I laughed.
"That won't be a problem." He said, pulling back from the hug, watching me.
"I think I can trust you on that." I smiled. "You did save my life more than once." He smiled too.
It wasn't a sad or sympathetic smile. It wasn't a sadistic smile. It wasn't a half smile or a fake smile. It was more than a smirk and much more than the word 'like' can comprehend.
It was a smile of pure happiness.
...
We were all sitting outside of Alfea, by we, I mean Flora, Musa, Tecna, Mirta, Stella and I. I looked up and saw Riven, Brandon, Treyce and Timmy walking towards us. I couldn't help but stare at Riven as he walked up and I'm sure Brandon saw me watch him.
Even though he was in uniform, I could still make out all of his features. His braud shoulders, his collar bone stuck out just a little bit. His chest was toned and he was on the verge of an eight-pack. His arms were muscular but not to the gross size of bulging and veins popping out of them. I had to look, because if I could see all of that, maybe I could make out more. I looked just a little bit under the waist line and other than seeing the lines that made his 'V', I definitely saw more than I had figured I would.
I blushed and turned my head away from the group. I could feel eyes on me, from six people to be exact, and my face went hot again.
Hopefully, Riven didn't catch on to what I was looking at. I smiled to myself before making my face go straight again and turning back to the group.
"We're worried about Sky and Bloom." Brandon said.
"We all are." Stella replied to him. "I wonder if they're alright." She said glumly.
I looked below the horizon of the trees and saw undines coming onto Alfea grounds. I got up and ran to Daisy, an old friend of mine. Faragonda was walking up to us.
"Daisy, what are you doing here?" I asked.
"We came to war you all that the witches are coming to Alfea from the Invisible Road." She said.
"They're coming?" Faragonda said. Daisy nodded.
"With the Army of Decay?" I asked and she nodded again.
"Go rest inside, you had a long journey here." Faragonda said and Daisy said thank you and went inside with the others. "Warn the students." She told me before walking off.
I ran back to the group. "They're coming, full force. Witches, Army and all." I said and they all nodded, ready for a fight that was coming.
...
The sky was turning purple from the lack of sunshine. The clouds drifted away from the school, leaving the school open to the stars. It was a sight to look forward to after all of this was over.
Faragonda was giving us another one of her pep talks. I love her, but these were getting old. I stood in the back, away from the group. I was closer to the entrance and I could hear the stomping of monsters. I turned and saw Icy, Stormy and Darcy bickering only slightly on top of three decayed thrones.
Faragonda alerted everyone of their presence and when they monsters went to swoop in, she and Griffin put up a sheild the surrounded the school, keeping them out.
I transformed into my regular winx and watched as everyone else did the same.
"Lita, you have more power, use it." Faragonda yelled and I looked at her. I couldn't disappoint everyone after everything I've done.
I transformed again into my Enchantix.
Stormy used lightning to break the shield and everyone attacked. The witches didn't even flinch.
Flora attacked Stormy but she caught her power in her hand. "What's this? A joke? How pathetic." She said. "Having the Dragon Fire rules." Of course, with their luck, Bloom flies in and declares she's the one with the Dragon Fire, not them.
She blast's Icy's throne and Icy tells the others to take care of us, she has Bloom.
Flora attacked Stormy and Darcy again, blowing them away. "Still think it's pathetic, Stormy?" Hell, I love Flora.
Stormy sends an electirc twister towards Stella, Tecna, Flora, Musa and I. Tecna sheilds us from it and Stella blasts a sunburst at the witches. Flora shoots ninja daisies at them and Musa uses some weirdo music move. I think she was trying to make them deaf, and it was working because I was going deaf too.
Tecna charged straight for Stormy, blasting her away. Darcy tried to blast Flora and Musa but looked around nervously, unable to find them. "Don't mess with my friends." I said before electrocuting her.
Stormy forms into a powerful tornado, sucking Flora in. Stella grabbed her hand and Musa and Tecna held on to Stella. I stopped her tornado, considering we have pretty much the same power, and I caught the four girls in a cloud and set them on the ground. I looked at Stormy and made her form into another tornado, spinning her out of control. The winds of it started to rip trees from their roots and even I had to hold myself back from getting sucked in. Darcy was sucked in and after three or four seconds, I let it stop and they both fell to the ground, Stormy about to throw up everything in her stomach.
Faragonda and Griffin form a metal dungeon around them, making all of their monsters dissapear. I looked over at Bloom and Icy. I could see Bloom inside an ice mountain. I flew towards them at full speed. I hate to interfere but at the moment, that's all I could do.
I kicked Icy in the rib then spun and kicked her in the face, making her fall to the ground. Lightning surrounded the mountain. It cracked and Bloom flew out of it. Bloom fainted and was falling towards the water. I grabbed her with it and set her on dry land.
I looked at Icy who was flying back up to me and I engulfed her in waves of water. A water dragon formed and started flying around Icy, suffocating her. She could have turned it to ice if she could find enough breath to calm herself down.
Lightning shocked the water dragon, Icy's screams sounding like hissing through the waves. The water fell and I grabbed Icy, taking her with me to Bloom.
Yes, she was still breathing.
It's sunny again, the night passed by in what seemed like minutes. Bloom stood up and walked over to me and hugged me. "Thank you." She said. I nodded at her, out of breath.
She picked up Icy for me and walked over to the group, I followed her.
I looked at all of the happy couples. Musa and Treyce, Bloom and Sky, Stella and Brandon. Hell, even Timmy and Tecna. Flora was the only one that didn't have a guy there but I had a feeling he would show up soon.
Riven walked over to me and didn't make a move to hug me, but he smirked. "I see your keeping to our small deal." I laughed and he shrugged.
"You did good." He said.
"You did better." I said before hugging him. I could feel people watching us but I could hear them gasp slightly when he hugged back. He was almost a foot taller than me and I could feel him snuggle into the nape of my neck.
It was definitely something to look forward to all the time.
We all sat around the headmasters. "I'm sorry for letting them into Cloud Tower. I should have known their transcripts were fake. I'm thinking of retiring after this year." Griffin said.
"Well, I don't agree with all of your teachings, but you can't quit. We can all agree that you're the best in your field." Faragonda said.
"Well, I do like my job." She said.
"All you have to do is change security and the admission process." I said and everyone laughed at least a little.
Saladin walked up talking about the Council. I looked up at the mention of anything to do with my father. "They're going to fund to restore Red Fountain." He said.
Knut is walking around the group and Bloom and Stella both try and get him to ask what he wants. He walked up to Griffin. "Alfea is so nice. I'd kind of maybe like to stay here." He stuttered.
"I'm okay with that." She said. "It would be a nice intercultural experience."
"You've done a nice job helping us, Knut." Musa said. "Hey Mirta, I heard you were going to be attending Alfea next year." Musa said to Mirta.
Mirta was sitting next to Lucy, she turned and told Lucy she'd be at Alfea next year.
"That's disgusting." Lucy said. "Witches don't hang out with fairies." She said.
"Can we still stay in touch?" Mirta asked, the sadness dripping from her voice.
"No, you're nothing but a loser." Lucy said before trying to walk away. We were on our way to the quad so I was already standing, so I got in her way.
"That was rude." I said. I got in her face, big time. "Do you really think that witches are losers for talking to fairies? Because the last thing I recall, is you pathetic witches running to us for help. That makes YOU a loser, not her. Maybe next time we'll let the witches handle you instead of helping you because you and your egotistical self can't take a fucking hint that maybe we want to be decent with you. Not cool, not friends, but not complete enemies. Just decent. But trust me, you're on the VERY top of my list to get their face beat in because you can't take a nice gesture. We just took down Stormy, Darcy AND Icy. What could you do? Call someone a loser and hope to hurt their feelings." I stepped back, waiting to see what she'd do. She looked like she was about to cry and she almost hit me with a dark energy ball, but I blocked it.
"If that's the best you can do, get the hell out of my face." I said and she ran off.
"Wow." Mirta said. "You're almost half a foot shorter than she is and you still managed to make her cry." She hugged me.
Flora walked up. "Making someone cry isn't always right, but this time it was. Mirta, you know you're amazing."
"Thank you." She said to us both.
We turned and saw Griffin open a portal back to Cloud Tower, Lucy was the first to step through. She opened another portal to Do-Gooders' Boot Camp. They witches are taken through in straight-jackets and crowns.
Icy glared back at all of us, before walking into the portal. Pepe followed her, yelling 'mama' the whole way. Kiko looked devistated and Bloom comforted him.
...
It was ten minutes or so later when Griselda called all of us. Faragonda started talking. "You all did wonderfully against the Trix sisters. Because of how well you did, there will be no final exams this year." Everyone cheered. "I think it's time to party." She said before walking away.
...
I was walking up the aisles when I walked by the teacher table. Saladin was talking about how he liked 'milkshake's. He may like milkshakes but that wasn't one. That was more alcoholic than I've seen since I've been here.
Wizgiz was drunk too, he spilled his 'milkshake' all over Griselda who just laughed it off. There was something totally wrong with this but what else can you do to calm your nerves so I laughed it off and continued walking.
I sat down at our table. Our, meaning Winx Club, Specialists, Knut and Mirta. Bloom raises her glass. "I propose a toast to friends."
"To princesses." Brandon said, looking at Stella.
"Let's toast to non-royalty people too. We can not forget about them, 'cause, you know, they can be pretty cute." Stella said.
"How about a toast to Bloom?" Tecna said. Stella mentions how Bloom couldn't even use her wings when she first got to Alfea, and how she saved all of Magix today.
"And another toast to Lita." Sky said. "Without her, who knows what this year would have been like."
"Definitely not thrilling at all." Riven whispered in my ear and I could feel my face go hot and I looked at Stella and Brandon who both winked.
"I say we toast to us all." I said. Everyone nodded in agreement and laughed, toasting.
"We're all going to be sophomres next year." Flora said. "That will be even more exciting that this year." Everyone agreed happily and I walked off, tired from the long day.
I could hear Riven's thoughts as he followed me. "You know I can tell when you're around, right?" I asked.
"Yes." He said. I turned and he took my face, cupping it in his hand. "You know I can't take this any longer, right?" He asked. I nodded as my face flushed. He leaned in and the taste of peppermint lingered on his mouth as I tasted it, his lips slowly but passionately crashing into mine. He held my face with one hand and my waist with the other as I leaned into the kiss, escalating it more.
It was the best night of my life yet.