Lost and Found

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Chapter 2: Redemption and Revenge

A month had gone by since that wonderful Halloween night when Lily had returned to them, and a lot had happened.

They had switched sides pretty quickly, and without anyone to do his dirty work, Darkar was left to the mercy of the Winx. After that, Griffin (surprisingly enough) had let them return to Cloud Tower to finish their senior year.

Lily had even been allowed into a couple of first-year classes, despite her young age. As it was, the earth fairies she had been imprisoned with had been teaching her the entire time she was there and they were apparently a vengeful lot. Some of them, Lily had said, had even turned to dark magic, which was a benefit to her, as now, she knew more about magic than some of the freshmen.

It appeared they were being given a second chance, something they never thought possible after what they'd done.

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The library was a busy place that night, full of young witches studying. Among these witchlings, were Darcy, Stormy and Lily. They were sitting around a circular table, researching for the projects they'd been given, and had been since just after dinner.

Stormy groaned a slammed her book closed. "Anyone wanna go for walk?"

"I'll come!" Lily offered. "I need a break to."

Darcy leaned back in her seat. "Ok. Then go see where Icy's at while your at it."

After dinner, Icy, who had claimed to be in desperate need of a bath had gone back to their room to do just that. She had said she would join them after, but that was the thing with Icy. She would often say one thing and than privately change her mind and do another without mentioning it to the rest of them, leaving them to wonder where she had gone off to.

"Yeah sure. Come on Lily!" Stormy replied.

The two sisters headed out, leaving the third to study in peace. They walked through the winding corridors of the castle, chatting happily about pointless things like how professor Ediltrude had been in an exceptionally bad mood that day, which was then countered by the fact that she always in a bad mood and that she must really hate her job if she was always so grumpy.

When they eventually ended up at their door Stormy pulled out her key from her pocket and unlocked it.

They had gotten their old room back as apparently it was left empty because the students were afraid they had cursed it when they left or something. It was down the senior wing, which meant they had their own bathroom, but there were only three beds so they had to drag one in from a room down the hall that also had three beds but only two occupants, so now it was more crowded and chaotic than ever.

"Hey!" Stormy yelped as she tripped over something that had been left on floor.

The room was pitch black as there were no windows and Icy had apparently left the lights off. Odd. If it were Darcy, she wouldn't be surprised, that one liked to sit in the dark, but Icy preferred to see what she was doing.

"Get the lights would you, sister?" Stormy huffed.

"I'm trying - oh, got it!" Lily exclaimed.

As the lights flickered on, they found the room to be empty and quiet. The bathroom door was closed and light filtered from the space underneath.

"Huh. She can't still be in the bath." Said Stormy. "It's been over two hours!"

"Maybe she fell asleep?" Lily walked over to the door and knocked. "Hey, Icy?"

No answer.

"Icy?" She tried again. "You still in there?"

Silence.

Stormy joined her. "Icy?" She called.

Still nothing.

Lily frowned, opened the door a crack and peaked in.

"Ic-ICY!" she let out an ear-piercing scream and stumbled back into Stormy, who was standing behind her. The door swung open and Stormy to screamed at what she saw.

Icy was laying in the bathtub, covered in blood. It stained her white hair and turned the water red. She was deathly pale and unmoving. They couldn't even tell if she was breathing.

Stormy didn't know what to do, her mind had gone blank, and Lily was in flat out hysterics. Also, by this point the noise had attracted the attention of their neighbors, who were pounding on the door, wondering what was going on. When they didn't answer, someone used magic to unlock it, obviously thinking, by the sound of the scream, that someone was being murdered. They too panicked at the sight of the crime scene that was now the sisters' bathroom.

"What the hell?!" Someone exclaimed.

"What's going on?" A witch near the back of crowd called.

"Someone call 911!" Someone else yelled.

"What about ? Someone call her!" Another witch called.

Phones were being whipped out, and numbers dialled.

"L-Lily do remember how to use the ear?" Stormy's voice shook.

Lily nodded.

"Call Darcy. Tell her to get up here, ASAP!"

Stormy, finally able to move, ran to Icy, and Lily stumbled to the wall, where she pressed her hand to it and whispered. "Exclamo!"

"Icy? Icy answer me!" Stormy tried desperately.

She fumbled with her sisters wrist, desperately searching for a pulse. It was faint but there.

"It's not working!" Lily cried frantically.

"You have to calm down." Stormy advised. "Focus on Darcy."

Stormy grabbed a towel and pressed it to what appeared to a stab wound in her elder sister's chest, dangerously close to her heart.

"D-Darcy something's wrong. You-you need to come back to the room. Now." Lily's voice wavered.

"What-" The elder sister started.

"J-just come. Hurry."

"I'm on my way." And the call ended, leaving poor Lily standing there, traumatized and shaking like a leaf, tears filling her eyes.

"What's going on here?" Someone questioned out in the hall.

It was professor Ediltrude. This prompted the gossip to start up again.

"Someone killed Icy!"

"There's a killer loose in the school!"

"Somebody's out to get the trix!"

"What if they want us to?"

"Are you sure she's dead?"

"Oh dragon! She's not moving!"

"Out of my way!" Ediltrude yelled as she pushed her way through the crowd.

Just as she made it through and into the room, Darcy teleported in, looking breathless. "What's wrong Lily?" She questioned.

"I-Icy. . ." She whimpered.

Darcy looked over to Stormy who was still in the bathroom. She gasped. "Oh gods. Stormy, what happened!?"

"I-I don't know!" The storm witch cried.

And then there were three traumatized sisters, a panicked professor and a flustered and confused headmistress who had just been dragged halfway across the castle by a hysterical witchling babbling something about dead people and the Trix sisters.

At first she had thought those three were at it again, but that was before she saw the crime scene that was their dorm room.

Stormy and Lily had exclaimed that they'd found Icy like this and that they had no idea what had happened.

Darcy, on the other hand had just teleported in after receiving a hysterical call from Lily, and was just as confused as the headmistress herself.

Ediltrude who had arrived on the scene at the same time as Darcy, had determined that Icy was alive, but barely, and that several students had spammed 911 in a panic, and that emergency responders were en route.

Emergency responders indeed. No sooner had those words escaped the professor's mouth than a flustered witch came running into the room followed by paramedics and police officers, who immediately started asking questions. That only seemed to worsen the situation, as Lily was in no state to be interrogated and Stormy got defensive, which she tended to do when she was panicked. Darcy, who held Lily close in an effort to comfort her, was no help at all, as for once in her life she was clueless.

As the officers continued questioning the remaining three sisters, the Headmistress pulled Ediltrude aside.

"We need to put the school into lockdown. No one is allowed in or out. You know the drill." She said. "Also find Zarathustra, tell her what's going on, send her to notify the guard."

"Of course, Headmistress." Ediltrude nodded and hurried off, clearing away the crowd in the process, leaving only a couple of curious onlookers peeking out the door across the hall.

sighed. "How did this happen?"

Never in the history of the school had a student been murdered on campus. Not even when said student also happened to be a former warlord with realms worth of enemies. Not that they'd ever had former warlords attending the school before, but still, it was troubling.

"It's very strange. There's no sign of forced entry, but there's also no traces of magic other than that of an ice witch, which I assume is the victim, judging by her appearance." The officer looked at the sisters for confirmation.

Darcy nodded. "That would be correct."

"What are you suggesting?" Stormy's eyes widened. "That she did it to herself?!"

"I'm sorry to say it's certainly a possibility-" The officer started.

"No-NO! She wouldn't do that! Not now!" Stormy exclaimed tearfully.

Darcy pulled her close. "It's okay. We know that." She whispered, before continuing to the others. "She's right. Icy would never leave us like that. Especially Lily. She'd never hurt Lily like that. Ever."

"Well. . ." the officer said. It was going to be a long night.

Darcy cut him off. "No. Lily's return changed everything. When she disappeared, Icy went to a dark place. She loves her more than anything and blamed herself when we lost her, but when she returned, it was like someone hit a light switch. For all of us."

"Huh." The officer scribbled something on his notepad.

"We are all each other has!" Stormy cried. "Don't you see? We need each other! Don't you remember what happened when Lily was gone? We tore the world apart! Icy knows we'd lose it again if we lost her!"

Before anymore could be said the paramedics came out with Icy on a stretcher. She looked far from good.

Stormy made a strangled sound, while Lily buried her face in Darcy's shirt. "She'll be okay right? Tell me she'll be okay!" She pleaded.

The paramedic shook his head."it's impossible to tell, but I promise she's in good hands."

The sisters didn't reply, just moved to follow them out. Before they could get far, Griffen stopped them.

"I'm afraid I can't let you leave. The schools in lockdown, and the culprit may still be here, after you. I want you to stay in your room until morning, and don't wander off alone." She said.

"But-"

"No buts. I know this is hard. You may go in the morning. For now, sit tight."

But that was easier said than done, especially when your eldest sister, the glue that held the family together, was fighting for her life.

Will Icy be okay? Who did this? Does it have something to do with Lily's kidnappers and their parents killers?

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