Chapter 3

"You want us to what?", Icy fumed. "It's not our style, but don't worry, master. We'll make it our style", Stormy laughed cruelly, her lips set in an evil sneer.

"It'll be done, master", Darcy simply said.

"Excellent. I shall wait for a few weeks. By then, the seed I implanted into the fairy will take effect. She will slowly become evil. She herself will destroy Magix. Then she will return here, where I shall take possession of the evil dragon flame", Darkar said in his scary voice.

Icy glared at her sisters, "Why did you agree to his stupid job? Now we have to dig the bed of some lake".

Darcy shook her head and sighed, "You don't really get it, do you? I know what Darkar is after. In ancient times, there was a mirror that could show you your dreams and could let you live them in this parallel dimension it created. But when people misused it, the mirror was drowned to the bottom of Lake Glass. This mirror could help Darkar create his own world with his own ways".

"But it wouldn't be real, would it?", Stormy interrupted. "That's the thing, he has probably figured out a way to make that into reality. Then, with Bloom serving him, he'll be the ruler of all the worlds", Darcy finished.

"Not if we use the mirror before he does", Icy said and the three sisters joined in vicious laughter.

"I've heard so many great things about you, professor. It's a pleasure to meet you", Bloom said as Avalon and she were walking down the corridor.

"The pleasure is mine, Bloom", Avalon said, smiling down at her. Avalon was actually a master of spells so he was immortal. He didn't really have an age so he could look however he wanted; he looked as old as Bloom was at the moment; blue hair, blue eyes, tall and muscular; he was really good looking. And he was the best of the best in sensing energy. He had promised Bloom that he would help her remember her family.

All the students at Alfea were so spell bound by Avalon; especially Bloom.

One day, he took class at the meadow; when the students arrived, they saw he had a huge mirror behind him.

"This was the mirror that was sealed in Lake Glass", he went on to explain to them the history of the mirror.

"Now, who wants to give it a try?", he asked, teasingly. Musa raised her hand and was allowed to step into the mirror.

"Wow", she whispered. The others could see her dreams from outside. She was standing there, alone and it was dark. It was also very scary, but then her mother came to her and held her hand and told her that everything would be fine.

Musa stepped out, waving to her mother. All the other students applauded.

Then, Avalon allowed many students to try it out.

Altogether it was a fun afternoon.

Bloom went into Avalon's office for a private session. He stood before her, sensing all her energy; feeling the light in her and the dark.

Wait….. the dark? That was not possible. He frowned and looked harder and he saw it plainly; there was dark energy inside Bloom!

How could this be? Unless…

Bloom was a spy!

Darkar's spy.

Avalon opened his eyes and glared at Bloom and grabbed her hand. He pulled her to Feragonda's office. "You spy", he snarled at the frightened girl.

He told Feragonda what he had seen and she was inclined to disagree with him. She laughed it off. But he knew what he had seen.

Maybe Bloom didn't know she was sent as a spy.

Whatever it is, I'll get to the bottom of it, he thought.