Chapter 6
(Musa's POV)
I don't know how long she's been gone for but we've been arguing for the whole time she has been gone for with Helia. This argument is currently between me, Riven, Tecna and Timmy. "Why did you have to say that you idiot?" I yell at Riven again. "Because you would be a much better singer." He replies. I blush. He's so romatic. I kiss him lightly. "Musa seriously Flora and Helia have been gone for two hours!" Tecna shouts. She never looses her temper! Especially not with me I'm one of her closest friends! "What is going on down here?" Bloom asks. Bloom, Sky, Nabu, Aisha, Brandon and Stella appear at the bottom of the stairs. "Nothing." Riven answers firmly. "Nothing?" Nabu asks. "You've been yelling for two hours!" Brandon says. "You think that's nothing?" Stella asks us irritated. "Well it is." I reply. "No it's not." Tecna says. Timmy explains the whole story. "They've been gone for two hours so far." Timmy concludes. "How is that nothing?" Aisha yells at me and Riven. "Specialists lets go they might need our help." Sky says. All the guys including Riven follow him to the door but the door opens first. Helia walks in with Flora in front of him.
Flora's face is pale and tear stained and Helia looks mad!
(Aisha's POV)
"Flora what happened?" Bloom asks. "If this is about what I said to you then you're really over reacting." Riven snaps. "Riven!" Stella says pushing him. Everyone apart from Musa and Riven glares at Riven. Flora simply gets up and leaves. "Helia where did you go?" Timmy asks him. He sighs. "Red Fountain." He answers. I run to Flora's room. I don't bother knocking I just run straight in. I close the door gently behind me. Flora is laying on her bed in tears. "Flora what happened at Red Fountain?" I ask her. "I-I went and I t-talked to my fa-father." She says between tears. I hug her tightly and she stops crying. "Thanks Aisha." She thanks me. I smile. "What are friends for?" I ask smiling. "Hey Aisha do you think I could do a solo performance tomorrow for one song?" She suddenly asks me. Trust me that surprised me a lot. She has stage fright but maybe she's getting over it! "Sure." I answer. "Sorry was I interrupting?" Helia asks as he enters the room. "Not at all." I reply as I leave the room. I walk straight over to Riven. I push him roughly. "You're a real idiot!" I growl. "Aisha calm down we need to find out what's wrong with Flora first." Bloom tell me. "I already know." I say surprising everyone. "What happened?" Nabu asks me. "She went and spoke to her father and I can tell things ere rough and Riven just had to go and make things worse." I say. "Hey, he didn't know." Musa says in his defence. "Well it was pretty obvious she was upset!" Tecna points out standing up. Soon all of us were yelling and fighting and the guys had to calm us down.
(Flora's POV)
"Sorry was I interrupting?" Helia asks as he stands in the doorway. "Not at all." Aisha assures him as she leaves. Helia gently closes the door. He sits next to me. "You okay?" He asks me. I nod wiping away the last few tears. He kisses my forehead. "That was bad in there." He says. "That's an understatement." I reply sighing. He wraps an arm around me and I rest my head on his shoulder. He smiles and gently plays with my hair. I hear shouting. "Helia is that because of me?" I ask slightly upset. "No." He assures me. "We should calm them though." I say. He nods and we go to the living room. The guys are holding the girls keeping them from arguing. "How rough could it really have been?" I hear Riven ask. Everyone falls silent seeing me and Helia appear. He said that at the wrong time. Helia looks mad. "Calm don." I whisper to Helia. "Giant vines!" I say as huge vines wrap around Riven. The guys let go of the girls and everyone stares in shock. "Flora stop it your over reacting!" Musa shouts. "You want to know how rough it was?" I ask them all. "Flora you don't have to." Bloom says. "No I do." I reply. I pull my hair off my face and roll my sleeves up. There are cuts all up my arms and a huge cut down my face. They all gasp. "What happened?" Stella asks.
-Flashback-
"Why did you do it?" I ask my father as I sit down opposite him. He glares at me. We're the only two in here. There are people monitoring everything though. "Because I wanted to." He replies shrugging. I glare at him. "How many people have you done it too?" I ask him. He laughs. "I've lost count, you know thye don't always find the bodies." He laughs. "Your a monster." I say. "Your only just figuring that out? Your my daughter after all so doesn't that mean you are a monster as well?" he asks. I freeze. He's right. That means we're a like. "I'm nothing like you." I tell him firmly. "And I never will." I add. He growls. I feel something hit my face. It wasn't his hand. I look to see him holding his chair. Doesn't he ever give it a rest? He kicks me again. "Giant vines." I see wrapping him in vines. I get hit by a dark orb he'd already made. The doors open. Specialists come and take him away while Helia and another Specialist come over to me. Helia picks me up. Helia carries me to what I assume is his room at the school as the guys are with the girls still. He lays me on his bed.
"I can heal you." He tells me. I shake my head. "No if I show the others this I won't ave to tell them." I reply. He places a gentle hand on my forehead. Gold magic comes from him and heals me, well stops the pain anyway. "You have magic?" I ask confused. "Yeah I get it from my uncle, Saladin, who runs the school but I don't usually use it or tell anyone about it." Helia explains. I smile and hug him. I feel tears run down my face thinking about what happened with my father. "Flora you okay?" He asks me. I nod. Suddenly a short man with long hair like Helia's apart from it's grey walks in. He has a staff with a dragons head on. "Ah, you must be Flora." He says. I nod. "I'm Saladin and I see you've met my nephew." Saladin says. I blush a little and Helia laughs taking my hand in his. "She's my girlfriend actually Uncle." Helia says awkwardly. Saladin looks at me. "How come you haven't healed her?" He asks Helia. "She didn't want me to." Helia explains. "I'll leave you two to it, and Helia you can at least help her get cleaned up." Saladin says leaving the room. I laugh a little and so does Helia. "Your uncle is nice." I tell him. "Stay." He says firmly. He goes to the bathroom and comes back with some tissues, a funny coloured liquid and a glass of water. He puts the liquid on the tissue and dabs it on my cuts. I flinch a bit. "Sorry." He apologizes. Once it's done he hands me the glass of water. "Drink it." He says gently as he kisses my forehead and goes to put everything away. I drink it and we spend about an hour there before we leave. We go into the forest and just sit there. That's when I break. I start crying so much. Helia ends up picking me up and just holding me and comforting me as I cry into his chest. We're there for an hour as well before leaving.
-End of Flashback-
"My Father." I reply simply. "You okay Flora?" Tecna asks me placing a hand on my shoulder. I smile drying my eyes before the tears came out a nod. "I'm fine." I assure them rolling my sleeves down again. "Well I'm off to bed." I say realising Riven and speed walking to my room to avoid further questions. "You shouldn't have said anything." I hear Sky tell Riven and then all of them going to bed. The guys following the girls. Helia carefully creeps in closing the door gently behind him. He sits down next to me and picks me up. "Helia what are you doing?" I ask. He ignores me and carries me into the bathroom next to my room. Luckily the other had already had showers and are in their rooms probably asleep or talking to the guys. He locks the bathroom door. "Helia?" I ask as he places me on top of the toilet seat. He kisses me softly. "My flower I need to heal yo." He whispers. I shake my head. "Flora, my flower, I know that those cuts up your arms weren't from your father." He whispers. Tears run down my face which he wipes away. "Please let me." Helia begs kissing my forehead. I sigh and nod. "Okay you can." I say giving in. He places one hand over the cut down my face. I flinch. "Sorry." He apologizes as he heals it. There's no trace of it every being there! He takes both my wrists in each of his hands. I flinch but don't say anything, luckily he didn't see though. He heals them and then sighs with relief. "Have a shower." He says. "I'll use another bathroom." He adds. I nod. I wait for him to leave before locking the door and taking a nice warm shower. I get changed into a pastel pink short nightdress with pastel green edges and straps.
I walk back in to my room to see Helia with pyjama bottoms on and a random T-shirt. I look out the window only to see Icy. "Helia watch out." I tell him pulling him out the way. Something is different about him. He pulls his hand back and pushes me against the wall. "I'd stay but that spell to freeze his heart has worked wonders, have fun!" Icy laughs. I'd go after he but I have more important things to worry about now. Getting Helia back to normal for one. I run out my room and straight to Bloom's. Helia runs after me. I bang my fists on the door finding it locked. "Flora what is it?" Bloom asks opening the door. "Vine shield!" I say shielding us from the gold magic from Helia. "What's happening?" Sky asks hearing the sounds and seeing me use magic. By now tears are pouring down my face. "Icy froze Helia's heart he has no clue what he's doing." I cry. "So she's forcing him to attack us." Bloom adds. I pull down the vines and run to the others. "Oh Flora we were going to wait until-" Aisha starts as she opens the door but is interrupted by me explaining. "Piff please get Helia asleep!" Aisha calls. A pixie comes out from behind her! It's a baby! Pixie? When did that happen? I assume it's name is Piff. Piff uses magic to make Helia sleep. I can't help but breathe a sigh of relief. I walk over to him and kneel down next to him. I just stare. I feel tears filling my eyes. "Flora it'll be fine." I hear Timmy assure me. "Here I can help him." Nabu says trying his magic. "This is powerful, I'm sorry Flora I don't know how to melt it fire won't work either so Bloom don't even try." Nabu says as he sighs. I feel a tear run down my face followed by another and another and another. They fall on to Helia. He starts glowing slightly around the area his heart is. It's a pale green. His eyes open. "Please tell me didn't do that?" He asks groaning slightly. I hug him tightly and the others grin. "Wait I really acted like a monster?" he asks. "It was Icy she put a spell on you." Brandon explains. Helia looks at me. I try to hide it but I fail. "Yeah but I don't know if I hurt any of you." Helia replies. "You didn't though." Musa points out. It's good for her to be back to herself, for now at least until Riven says something. "What about what I've done to Flora?" He asks wiping away some of the blood running down my forehead. He goes into my room and grabs his stuff returning back with it all packed in a bag. Is he leaving? "Helia?" I ask weakly as tears run down my face.