Verboten
Chapter 24
Monday, October 12, 2009
Disclaimer: I do not own the Winx Club.
Fore Note: I don't have anything to actually say. Hmm, wow.
The night was windy, a sure sign of what was to come in the coming months on Earth. Autumn was slowly and subtly gliding its way across the Earth to cover its inhabitants in its golden glow as humans revelled in the last glorious days of summer before school and work officially kicked in for everyone and they soon have to retreat to their homes. The sky was dotted with white clouds occasionally hiding the moon and stars were visible but only the brightest of them could be seen from the light pollution.
In a quaint town by the western shore of Italy, the darkened town was lit with only the lights of streetlamps, neon signs and cars. This was quaint little Follonica known for its pristine beaches and clean seawater. Follonica, a Tuscan touristic town often visited by Italians themselves.
Vacation season was almost over and most of the hotels were starting to decrease in population quickly much to the advantage of Andy who easily got a room for both Bloom and him. In their room on the second floor of the hotel Parrini, Andy knelt down at Bloom's feet as she sat on a chaise. The musician held her hands firmly in his, believing that this would open her up to tell him what had happened.
Inside, he wanted to believe dearly that whatever she had done was a reversible mistake. Something that could be replaced or paid for, no matter the amount. He wanted to believe that whatever Bloom had done, no matter how much damage, she had done it with the best intentions in her heart. He wanted to believe that she had done the right thing.
The Bloom he knew was not evil.
"I think I killed someone," she whimpered. "I didn't mean to. I thought it was the right thing. I didn't think something like that could happen," she babbled with teary eyes. "And now Sky wants to kill me! I really didn't mean it, Andy! I swear! You believe me, right? Right?"
Andy froze. "How—who did you kill…?"
"I-I…Roxy…"
ROXY? Andy's mind reeled and he began to recount every memory he had of the pink-haired girl. What the hell did Roxy have to do with anything?
Bloom eyes shed new tears and she fell off of her chair and into Andy's embrace. She cried into his shoulder and held him tightly. "I didn't mean to! Oh God, Andy, I'm so sorry! I didn't mean to get you involve! I never meant to—"
"Then what does Sky have to do with this?" Andy disentangled her from him and held her by the shoulders away from him. He wanted to ask "Who is Sky?" but he held his tongue.
"We came back to Gardenia to find somebody…and that somebody was Roxy. Some—bad people were after her and we were supposed to protect her," she said in broken sentences. "Instead, I ended up giving her something that almost killed her! I didn't mean to. It's just I didn't know!" Bloom trembled with her lips moving as if she wanted to say more and Andy brought her into his embrace again. "I didn't think Sky would kill me! Andy, I don't wanna die!"
Andy pulled her against him and ran a soothing hand up and down her back. He sat with his back to the bed and his chin on her head as she cried into his chest. The musician swallowed hard and tried to understand.
Memories of the guys at bar fighting and on the beach during their breaks; the robbery; the way they dealt with Klaus's injuries; the way they treated the robbers with militaristic indifference after they were disarmed.
The way Sky threw that knife and his calm face after the fact. That man was not normal; maybe not even human. There was no way in hell that he was a regular Greek exchange student. Not with the way they fought. That man knew how to fight for someone so young. There was no way that this guy had anything resembling a normal childhood. Sky's very presence screamed a certain plastic quality about how he acted and the military precision that he and his friends acted with proved that something was up. If Helia was capable of breaking a man's arm and Nabu was able to sneak in undetected to help Riven fight, then what were the others capable of?
What were highly skilled and knowledgeable men doing working at a bar? Or even in Gardenia? And what did Roxy have to do with all of this?
Bloom held him tightly and he cooed soothing syllabic sounds into her hair like he would to a baby.
"Bloom, tell me what exactly happened. I don't know what Roxy has to do with anything but I'm not going to let you die."
-
It was an hour later, almost around midnight when Andy tried to get her to speak. He had no choice, he had to. He needed the answers so he could try to plan out what was going to happen tomorrow. This was after he had sobered her up and urged her in the direction of the bathroom to clean up.
The woman was a wreck. She needed her own sense of privacy and a way for her to collect herself so Andy relegated her to the bathroom as he tried to deal with his own confusion.
Being part of an attempted robbery, or witness to it, was a strange and definitely frightening experience. For once in his life, Andy thought he was going to die. That's it. It's the end.
Everything had happened so fast that he wondered if it had actually happened at all. He had been far from the action but his view on the stage was perfect. He had not notice the robbers until it was too late and they had fired a magazine into the ceiling. With his heart pounding against his ribcage, instinct told him to stop singing and get down on the ground, as low as possible. So he dropped his guitar and jumped off the stage, obscuring himself behind a table while Marc and Rio ran behind the speakers or curtains.
The sound of bullets flying through air rung in the air as some of the men tried to corral him with some patrons and Sky into the corner of the room near the stage stairs.
"Hands in the air! Do as I say and no one gets hurt!" the apparent leader said and then barked some more orders to his men.
"Move it!" one of the robbers growled and pointed a gun at him and then to the corner of the stage with other patrons.
Trembling, Andy moved over slowly with his hands in the air and not turning his back to the man. Andy had found himself in a group of patrons and waiters including Jenny and Sky. Jenny sat huddled deep in the corner behind Sky's back. Sky was tensely kneeling on one knee and his hands levelled with his face to show that he had no weapons. (Which later turned out to be a lie.)
The man was insane! He was bravely or stupidly staring down the barrel of one of the masked robbers as if he were studying it. What the hell?! He had on a straight face, no fear or panic showing. Sky was the image of calm and collected as he took in the situation, looking at the patrons who were corralled into his corner and the person who had forced them there.
Sky even threw reassuring words over his shoulder to a panic-stricken Jenny, a girl with a purple bob and green eyes wearing a pink shirt with denim shorts, who was hyperventilating and hiccupping. "Jenny, just close your eyes, okay? Everything is going to be fine," he had said gently.
A bullet ripped through the air and Andy turned to see Klaus drop to the ground. Andy's heart froze as Roxy screamed. Death seemed more then imminent.
Andy had wanted to close his eyes himself hoping for the nightmare to be over and almost did had it not been for his curiosity. For some stupid reason, there had been some type of argument near Roxy and the cash register. Something to do with Helia not complying about turning around. In end, he was glad that he had not closed his eyes as he saw Helia throw a pot of presumably boiling water and leaping over the counter at the robber.
He wasn't sure what had happened but he was sort of glad that it did. Bullets rip through the air again. Somehow Riven appeared out of nowhere dropping from the ceiling rafters to knock out a pair of unknowing robbers over the head with well-aimed kicks and then Andy knew he was done for.
Closing his eyes, not wanting to see Riven riddled with bullets, magazines were emptied into Riven's body yet there had not been sort of yell of pain or anything. In fact, it sounded like bullets had hit the walls and ceiling instead.
Then there was a scream, a woman's, and Andy forced his eyes opened as he saw a patron in a white dress perform a well executed flying roundhouse kick to two robbers who fell easily like dolls. Shit, that was Asta, Andy realised latently.
Then he saw Sky running to a near by table, picking up an empty serving tray and throwing it at a masked robber's head right between the eyes and apparently knocking him out cold. Then he saw him shove a hand into his back pocket and draw out a thin but long switchblade. Sky wore a still calm but intent expression that scared Andy. How could he be so calm?! Using his thumb to slide out the shiny black blade, Sky threw it at one crawling robber who screamed in pain as the knife dug itself into his back.
The robber that had corralled them was on the ground in his own puddle of blood and Andy averted his eyes.
Brandon was standing near the door of bar armed with two filched guns aimed at Asta and Andy's heart raced at the sight. Asta herself was surrounded by moaning robbers. There were more robbers scattered on the floor, one with a wooden handled steak knife in his back and some clutching their legs. In the middle of the room, Riven stood apparently unharmed with Nabu in fighting stances and breathing heavily. The redhead was supposed to be freaking dead. What the hell had happened?!
One man screamed profanities at Helia as the artist who sat on the robber's chest and pressed some pressure point on the man's apparently useless arm. The man screamed again to then become quiet and start whimpering in some unknown pain.
And then Sky said something about not being exciting enough and everything had happened in a blur as Sky asked patrons to stay and calm down as they called the police.
-
As soon as Bloom got out of the bathroom, Andy went in and showered. It had been an awkward ordeal seeing as they only had the clothes that they had on their backs. For a bit of time, Andy spent it staring at the soap that Bloom had used. The soap was soap. It was not perfumed or anything. It was just that it had been used by Bloom. Where did that put him between Sky and Bloom's supposed relationship? Was he reading into it too much?
Andy told himself that they would have to do something about clothes later. Starting or picking up from their conversation from before, Andy and Bloom sat on chaises around a table beside the balcony door. Bloom stared at the knots in the table while Andy looked at her intently. The room was lit but outside was a portrait of darkness making Andy feel like they were the only people in the world.
Surprisingly, Bloom started. "I came back to—Gardenia because we had to find Roxy and protect her," she said in a stiff voice.
Andy cut in. "Who is 'we?'"
"Me, the girls, the guys and Sky's people."
Something was definitely up with Sky.
"How is Sky a part of this?" he asked.
Bloom's mouth froze as she fell into a reverie. "It all started…four years ago just before I left."
The same time when she left for Greece?
"I met Stella in the park and…she was in trouble. A tro—somebody was after her and I came across the fight…"
Andy sensed that she was still withholding information judging from her mishaps. Her words were carefully chosen. A tro-what?
"Stella said I had—talent and she introduced to me to some people to help me realise it." Bloom seemed to be deliberately replacing some words as she went on.
"And these people were…?"
"Sky, Timmy, Riven and Brandon."
"What about Helia and Nabu?"
"They weren't there then. The night that the guys came over, my house was attacked by the same—people who were after Stella."
"Why Stella?"
"She had a—valuable item. After the attack, they convinced me and my parents that it would be better if I left with them because I had—talent." Bloom immediately covered her mouth and started to hiccup again.
"They didn't force you, did they?!" Andy said in alarm. "What did they threaten you with?!" he almost screamed.
"No, nothing, no threats. It's just—Sky…he was so…he was so different…he had been Brandon at the time. Oh God, he had lied to me and I was so mad…I-I…"
"What?!"
"Brandon and Sky had switched identities to keep Sky safe. Sky is…he is a—very—important person that must not die."
"So then, who is Sky? Is your boyfriend, the blond one I mean, is he Brandon or Sky?"
"He's Sky."
"What happened after that?"
-
"I left with Stella to go back with her to school. There were three schools, each with different—missions. These were schools for people with special talents. Alfea, Cloud Tower and Red Fountain. I went to Alfea with Stella and met the other girls. The boys went to Red Fountain."
Bloom painted a world straight from a book. There had been Alfea, a school for girls with talent and an inclination towards the good and moral; Cloud Tower, another girls' school with darker intentions churning out some very nasty-sounding women and lastly, Red Fountain, a boys' school, by Andy's definition that spit out cold and heartless mercenaries like Sky. These three schools had all bordered a lake in some nameless region that he assumed to be Greece and they had worked together to find some type of unity.
Bloom did not go into detail about what they taught at those schools except for Red Fountain, which she easily supplied. Andy filled in the rest with his imagination. If Red Fountain was a military school of sorts, he could only imagine what the two other schools were. Maybe Cloud Tower was a school that turned out merciless spies or killers and Alfea was like that too. He had no clue and did not want to know as Bloom had a hard time just broaching the subject.
Apparently, students from Cloud Tower were the least liked of three schools and often caused trouble.
"Those witches! I hated them so much because they-they did all sorts of horrible things to me!" Bloom whimpered tearfully. "And-and th-then there was gr-graduation… Everyone graduated except for me because I did-didn't meet th-the—standards. That's when I came back last summer for a bit…"
"And you left a little before Christmas," he finished. "I'm sorry that I didn't get to you earlier. I had no idea that you were in this kind of trouble," he said in earnest. "If I had known—"
"It's okay…" she said in a quiet voice forgiving him.
"What happened? Why did you leave again?"
"Sky had been gone for some kind of training and I thought that…he-he was cheating on me and-and I…it wasn't true! God, I was so stupid! How could I think of such things?!" Bloom berated herself. "We left because I we had found out something. My…sister, she found me…and…"
"Your sister?! You have sister?!"
Andy was dumbstruck. He had figuratively been hit by the train. Bloom had a sister? He knew that she was adopted but she had a sister? And her sister had found her?
"Oh! I-I found her in the first year at Alfea—" she babbled.
"Omigod, Bloom! WILL YOU LISTEN TO YOURSELF?! You found a sister! Your sister! God, why didn't you tell me this?! I feel like such a dumbass! Like—frig! CONGRATULATIONS!!!"
Then it was Bloom's turn to look dumbstruck and then she started to cry again. "Oh God, you're…thank you, Andy. Thank you," she whispered quietly. "Thank you."
"What's her name?"
"Dafne," she said in a reverent voice.
Just out of sheer joy for Bloom, Andy got up, stepped around the table and pulled Bloom into a hug. For the first time in a long twenty-four hours, Bloom smiled in her tears.
-
Andy handed her a box of tissues and the garbage can she cleaned herself up. Andy sat on the edge of the bed while Bloom in her chaise. She was smiling! Smiling! Albeit, she was teary and with a sniff in her nose but smiling!
"And then I found my parents," she said after clearing her noise.
"They're alive?!"
"Yes."
"But then, how come you were left in a burning building in Gardenia?"
"I…I don't know." Immediately, Bloom's heartbroken face came back. "I haven't gotten the chance to ask them…I haven't seen them since I found them."
Andy cut in. "I think you've told me enough for tonight, Bloom. Let's go to sleep," he said after reading the clock. It was almost two in the morning. Suddenly, the situation of everything caught up in Andy's mind. Sky wanted Bloom dead. They needed to get an early start tomorrow.
"Um, how do we…?" Bloom cut in staring at the bed. The only bed.
It was a queen and could easily fit them both but the implications…
"We'll sleep with out backs to each other," he compromised.
She nodded warily.
The awkwardness was back again. Why hadn't they ordered a cot earlier?
"I'll go turn off the lights. You get into bed." He turned the lights off and went into the bathroom to take a leak and let Bloom settled into the bed. He did it more for the latter as well as to let the idea sink in.
Just before turning off the bathroom light, he stared into the room at Bloom with a sense of uncertainty. What would tomorrow bring? He knew that she had not told the entire truth. The Bloom he knew could not have lied for her life but this was a new Bloom, a Bloom who was engaged for some goddamn reason and then hunted down by her would-be husband.
Turning off the light, he silently crept into bed and turned his back to her like promised.
He still needed answers.
-
"This Earth food is disgusting," Asta remarked at her half-eaten hamburger in yellow wrapping. "I don't understand how understand how these people can eat these things. It practically has no nutritional value!" the witch scoffed the burger and tossed it back into the paper bag. "I can already feel my body suffering from all the excess fat."
Tecna rolled her eyes and bit into her own burger. Her computer sensors immediately told her that it had very little nutritional value as Asta said; at least any nutritional value for their bodies. Who knew what Earth humans needed to subsist? They had driven by a restaurant called MacDonald's and ordered something simple: two BigMac trios as soon as they saw that Bloom and Andy were going nowhere at the diner they ate.
It was dark in the car and both women stared at the hotel that the fairy princess and the musician had chosen to spend the night in. They had killed the lights in the car but left the engine running to provide some warmth. Personally, Tecna would have confronted them right now but apparently Sky, via Asta, had different plans.
The technology fairy had taken to occasionally taking peeks at the witch, not really wanting to admit to herself that she was staring. This witch was more than she appeared on the surface.
She just did not understand her. She did not act like witch. She didn't graduate university, she joined the military, she did not show the classic tendencies of witches, she did not try to bewitch her and she did not wear dark clothes least of all. Not that it was a mandatory but it made it much easier to recognise her. She obviously had a stigma against fairies and she had a sort of dark serious personality. She looked witchy enough but she did not quite act like one.
What was so hard to understand then?!
She was a witch. It was not a hard concept to understand! She had battled hundreds of them at various times, whether they were under Valtor's spell, the Trix themselves or just trying to harass them.
It's just…
It's just…?
Tecna leaned back into her seat and covered her eyes with a hand. She just didn't understand. She wanted something that she could understand, something she could grasp.
Asta fiddled with some features on her cell phone and the radio. Tecna had realised earlier that this was no ordinary Earth car but one modified with advance technology that was clearly from off the planet.
"This is Stryker to crew, do you copy, over?" the witch said mechanically to her phone like it was a walkie-talkie. Upon further inspection, Tecna noticed that the phone was connected to the radio by a thin wire.
"Crew to Stryker, we copy. We're sending you a list of operatives now, over."
"Who am I talking to now?"
"Silversun Gentledew, ma'am."
Tecna quirked an eye at the name and thought no more as she saw a blue holographic window pop up on the dashboard with a list of names. Both women scanned it quickly but Tecna's eyes came to a stop at Timmy's name.
"Timmy's here…?" she whispered.
"Of course, do you want to talk to him?" Asta offered nonchalantly.
"Uh…yes…please."
"As soon as I'm finish then. Silver, what is your location and what is the status on that return car?"
"We're on the outskirts of Punta Ala." Another blue screen appeared on the dashboard with a map that had two blinking locations. "Your return car should be coming in a few minutes, ma'am." The voice was female and had a very girlish child-like quality. She sounded so happy and full of energy despite the hour.
"Has Sky contacted you about any plans?"
"No, ma'am. He is giving you full control since he's back at the warehouse No eyes, you see."
"Good. Is anyone coming to relieve me?"
"Yes, ma'am."
Asta continued to talk into the phone in a sort of bored tone for a few minutes. Tecna tried to listen but the conversation soon jumped into another language, some guttural Eraklyon dialect that Tecna did not know.
"Silver, please get Timmy. Tecna wants to speak to him for a bit."
"Yes, ma'am."
There was some type of babbling as Silver seemed to look for Timmy across the airwaves that made Tecna smile. "Truck two, please put Timmy on the radio. Why are you eating?!"
"Because we're hungry and we have nothing to do!" Then there was more babbling and finally, a familiar voice. Tecna's heart accelerated a little.
"This is Timmy to Asta, do you copy, over?" There was a sigh in the end.
"Asta to Timmy, we copy, over."
"Good. I'm handing you to Tecna now."
"Sure."
Asta handed her the wired cell phone. Strangely enough, she then stepped out of the car and slammed the door closed. She jumped onto the car hood and sat cross-legged to stare at the hotel. There was only one room lit in the hotel and she stared at intently as two people seemed to be discussing at the balcony window.
"Tecna?"
"Yeah, it's me. Are you okay? How did you end up there?" he asked sounding tired. There was the sound of other people talking in the background.
"I'm fine. Tired, but fine." She held the cell phone close to her. "I…I want to go home, Timmy," she said all of sudden. Yes, that was what she definitely wanted.
"Don't worry, as soon as Bloom is caught and this mess is over, you can go home."
"But I want you to come with me!"
"I wish, Tecna, but I have a job to do." He sounded a little distant. Maybe it was because he was talking to her through a device and not in person.
"I know."
There was silence for a moment between them except for Timmy's background noise.
"He bought the shop," Timmy said. He meant Sky.
"I thought as much… Was it this afternoon?"
"Just before dinner. I'm so sorry about everything."
There was silence again as Tecna tried to think of what to say. Instead, Timmy started.
"Would you…would you like to meet my parents, Tecna?" he said in slightly broken words.
The fairy straightened in her seat while her stomach did a flip-flop. Something inside lit up at the prospect. She held the cell phone tightly. "Meet…your parents?!"
"Well, yeah," he said brashly, "Seeing as I've met yours and all. I know they're no king and queen but I—"
"Yes, of course I would like to meet them!" Tecna almost yelled and immediately became red when Asta turned to stare at her through the tinted window. Timmy offering her to meet his family was definitely something big. "But when…?"
"Whenever I get a break from this mission, if that ever happens. It might be for only a couple of days and I need to make a few calls in advance…"
-
Asta sat on the hood of the car staring at the hotel Bloom and Andy were staying at. There was only one window lit and it was definitely those two's. Asta ignored the excitement Tecna was radiating from her being. Her empathic abilities to see and feel other people's feelings were always an annoyance but she learned to ignore the 'emotional noise' over the years. At the moment, the noise was down to only a quiet hum in the background of her mind and she supposed that this was because almost everyone was asleep.
As usual, her mind drifted back to Roxy in the warehouse's MIR hooked up to all sorts of life-preserving machines. She could see the fairy in her mind's eye being watched over by Artos and her serene face betraying no evidence of what had happened to her. What was she going to do about her? Roxy would be of no use to her if she could not do anything at all.
Asta ran a hand through her long dark hair as it fluttered in the wind. It was no use since her hair would not stay put behind her ear but she did it anyways.
She would have to intervene in Roxy's recovery and help Chandra and Artos. There was no doubt in her mind that Chandra would have come to her in the end but timing was important and who knew what would happen once Roxy awoke.
Asta looked up at the lit window where Andy and Bloom's figures were gone and then the light went off. Just then Tecna's car arrived and parked right beside hers. It was black and sleek, apparently called a Ferrari on Earth and definitely made for speed.
The witch knocked on the glass of the front window and pointed to the other car. With a sullen look, the tech fairy put Asta's cell phone done and stepped out of the car. Asta watched her awkwardly step around the car as someone else stepped out of the Ferrari's passenger side to take Tecna's place. It was Helia who wore a midnight blue jumpsuit with his messy hair in a tight ponytail that pulled his bangs out of his face.
The two quietly exchanged greetings and nodded. Then Tecna's escort car left and the two conspirators were left alone in that lonely parking lot to talk.
-
Helia sat on the car hood beside Asta.
"Asta, are you sure about what you're doing?" he said yawning.
"Yes." Inwardly, she wasn't too sure. There were always doubts but those could be dealt with later.
"But isn't it a little too suddenly? You only came up with this plan a few weeks ago."
"I'm not expecting to see the results tomorrow or next month. You know what they say; the world wasn't made in a day. This will take time."
"But this could be years from now."
"I have time, Helia."
"And what about Sky?" Helia said in a deadly voice.
Asta bit her lip. Sky was definitely an obstacle. "I can guilt trip him."
"With what? 'Oh, hey, I know something that will make you so immensely guilty that it'll incapacitate you.' That will so go over well with him considering what he has become," he said drily. "What can you possibly hold over that stony heart of his?"
"Helia, no matter how tough, emotionless and monotone Sky is, the man had grown up with emotions. He might not have been born with them but he did learn them."
"Which brings us back to the power versus emotion argument all over again, doesn't it? God, this is high school philosophy class all over again. Why does everything come back to high school?"
"You don't like seeing me?" Asta turned her head slightly to him and brought her knees to her chest.
"Not when you and Flora are in the vicinity. I know something bad is going to happen! I just know it!"
"Helia, I've never talked to her! Ever! I'm doing this for the good of the people."
"I know you are but I don't Flora caught in the crossfire, Asta," the artist said in a quiet tone.
"You love her very much, don't you?"
"Every single bit of her."
"But how much does she love of you, Helia? How much does she know of you? How much does she have of you? She's completely enthralled with you. You almost own her."
"In truth…not much more than the front I've put up these years."
"That's dangerous, Helia. We live a web of lies." Asta raised a glowing purple hand and used a finger to draw words into existence. She wrote 'lies,' 'deceit' and 'forbidden' in the air.
"It is our way of life. It's the reason why we never mate or marry with someone outside the web. You have to tell her," Asta said harshly almost reprimanding him. "If only so she lives."
He cringed. "So what is it that you know that will break Sky?"
"I've figured out something that he does not know."
"Which is…?"
"You know…" she said leaving it hanging.
"I know lots of things, Asta. You need to be more detailed."
"You idiot, you know what it is." Asta casted her eyes to her shoes. She hiccupped nervously and played with her hair.
"But he must know already!" Helia said in alarm.
"No, he doesn't, Helia. No, he doesn't." Her voice took on a choky quality as she hiccupped. "I don't know why but just doesn't know."
"What do you mean 'no, he doesn't?!' Asta, this is serious! You can't hold that over him! How can he not know?!"
"He wasn't there to receive the news and Samara gave me specific instructions not to tell him an-and he still doesn't know!" she sobbed. "Three months, Helia! And he still doesn't know!"
"Asta, you can't use that. That will only get him angry," he said in a frustrated tone.
"No, it will only weaken him, Helia. Look at the state that Roxy is in. She is not going to wake up from this ordeal like nothing ever happened. It will weaken him and he will not be able to stand in the way."
"But how, Asta? I don't see how that is going to stop him."
"It will, I promise."
"But for the good of the people?"
"For the good of the people."
Helia was silent for a long time staring at the stars above him. "Get in the car and go to sleep, Asta. We have a long day tomorrow."
Latter Note: Hmm, what do I say? I feel like so much is coming to a climax. Before continuing, realise that this is my opinion based on episodes one through fourteen.
FOR ANYONE WHO HAS NOT SEEN THE EPISODES POSTED BY BANJOGATE ON YOUTUBE AND YOU HAPPENS TO BE READING MY FANFICTION JUST BECAUSE IT IS ABOUT SEASON FOUR, I AM GOING TO SAY SOME VERY NASTY THINGS.
First of all, BLOOM LIED! (in my fic) And Andy ate it all up! (Well, Bloom withheld information.) He seems likely to do that to me but he is after all, unaware of the entire situation.
Actually, I think that Andy capitalising on Bloom's family 'reunion' is something to note overall. This girl has gone through Shadowhaunt, Omega and Obsidian and back to find and reunite her family and friends and yet I feel that SHE IS A SPOILED UNGRATEFUL BITCH. She does not always realise the value of the things (or the show producers don't).
She went from being the adopted daughter of plain Earth parents through the entire magical universe to find out what had happened to her planet and parents and suddenly this. I don't like the way she acts in season four. It's like Oritel and Miriam had never existed. The events of Obsidian never happened and Sky never proposed to her.
On the contrary, the producers could be doing this for the benefit of the 4kids dubbers who have not released the movie in North America. Therefore officially and technically, since the movie was never released here in N.A., Sky had never proposed to Bloom in the 4kids continuity.
HOWEVER, prior to the end of season three, during one of the girls pyjama parties, 4kids's Flora did foreshadow the fact that Bloom was going to say 'I do' to a certain somebody. Episode 17 of season three. Go to this video to see what I mean: www. youtube .com/watch?v=55bJYVBw56w&feature=related
Back to my rant, and then we have Andy come in and flirts with her still like nothing happened and she DOES NOTHING! Hello! At least say "Andy, stop. I'm engaged."
The scene I'm referring to is when Andy, Marc and Rio find the girls' loft and helps them to paint. (Episode 6 of season four) Accidentally, Andy gets paint on Bloom's cheek and he wipes it off of her with his hand saying "You'll have to take care of your clothes but I'll take care of your beautiful face." Anyone who has not seen the episode can tell that this is really wrong.
And then BAM—Sky and all the boys are standing at the opened door! (Might I add, they looked really hot in this scene compared to the other scenes they've been animated in.) Judging from Sky's reaction, he saw everything.
Then Andy goes on completely unaware of everything; poor Andy! Of course, being a nice guy and all, he tries to make friends with them and invites them to help paint which Sky (and the gang) readily refuses and leaves.
Holy fuck, she didn't even try to resist his freaking advances and even STELLA of all people got the clue that maybe Andy was still in love with her. Fuck, does Bloom really want/love Sky? She's such a whore in season four.
There's my rant for this chapter and season four in general.
OH, OH! Season four picks up back tomorrow in Italy!!!
Back to the story, Timmy is moving full speed ahead with his relationship with Tecna and Asta and Helia discuss the plan. Buh-bye!
- Kiku