A/N: The plot twist really isn't working so I'm excluding it. Sorry... :'(

Back at Alfea, in the dorm, I received a call on my phone. Thinking it was probably my parents, I didn't bother looking at the ID. That was a terrible mistake.

"Hello?" I answered.

"Hey, Bloom. How are you?" Sky. I suddenly became very angry.

"What are you doing?! I thought I told you never to contact me again!" I screeched.

"I know. But this is important! Please, just hear me out." He sounded desperate. I clicked my tongue impatiently.

"Fine. Go ahead." I heard him take a deep breath.

"Diaspro requests a meeting with you." He began.

"Wait, what?Why?!"

"I have no idea, Bloom. She won't say."

"Have you even bothered to ask her?" I asked, fierce again.

"Yeah, I have, I swear."

"When?" I asked.

"Tomorrow morning."

"OK. Whereabouts?"

"Eraklyon Palace. I'm about to head there now."

"From Red Fountain? You're skipping class?" I asked.

"Father got me special permission and you have permission as well."

"Very well. I'll be there early. And remember, this is us having a civilised conversation with each other. We're not friends. I still am mad at you."

"OK, OK, fine! Goodbye, Bloom." I hung up with an answer.

"Who was that, sweetie?" Flora asked, looking up from watering her plants.

"The Isis Princess wants a meeting with me."

"I'm surprised you didn't blow your head of at her."

"Oh, that was Sky. And I would have blown my head off at him if he didn't tell me it was important."

"Fair enough." She set her watering can down and sat at my desk. "How did you earn your Enchantix? I thought you were the last survivor of Sparx."

"Baltor is from Sparx because he was created from the Dragon Fire, I guess." I shrugged. "Where are the others?"

"They went to find the boys."

"Why didn't you go?

"Faragonda needs me to do something for her later and if I went, I wouldn't get back in time."

"Ah. I hate to leave you on your own but I have a 'scheduled' meeting with Baltor."

"Go ahead. I've got my plants for company." She stroked a leaf and it nestled at her touch.

"Ha ha! OK. If you're sure. I'll see you later."

"Be back before five because the girls wanted a slumber party."

"K. Bye!"

"Bye Bloom!" I waved and she waved back.

On the way to Cloud Tower, I heard a yell. It was a female, judging by the high pitch of the scream. It was coming from behind the bushes. I went to go check it out. There, lying unconscious on the ground was Stella.

I didn't know what to do. Should I help her? Should I leave her? I decided to leave her, she had ganged up on me with my enemy. I walked on; with tons if guilt weighing me down.

I reached the school and once inside, I received unusual glares and glances from passing Cloud Tower students. I knocked on the door of the office. The door opened - probably Baltor and his magic - and I walked in. "Hello, Bloom!"

"Hey, Baltor." I said, feeling something was off about the place today.

"You OK, love?"

"Huh?" I shook out my stupor and glanced around. "Yeah. Diaspro wants a meeting with me tomorrow." He raised an eyebrow.

"Why?" I sat on the arm of the chair.

"Apparently, she hasn't told Sky."

"Why does the Eraklyonese Prince need to know if it's a meeting with the Isis Princess?" He asked incredulously.

"Sky was the person who called." I stood up and started pacing the room.

"Ah. Did you, when you were on your way here, hear a scream, by any chance?"

"Yeah, I did. It was Stella. She was unconscious."

"Did you help her?"

"No. I don't need to. We're on different sides if the game now." While most of thethe guilt had left me, only a teeny tiny bit remained. The rest was filled in with confidence.

"Good girl. I don't think we'll ever see that friendly face of hers again." He mused. My phone rang again. This time I did look at the caller ID. Brandon.

"Hello? Brandon?"

"What the hell did you do to my Stella?!" He yelled. It was obvious he was heard in the room as well. Baltor flinched. Wierd, he seemed to be getting more and more apprehensive every day.

"Excuse me?" I couldn't believe I was hearing this.

"I repeat: what the hell did you do to my Stella?!" His voice became a low and menacing growl.

"I didn't do anything to 'your Stella"! She was the one who calls me a traitor and then goes and joins the enemy herself! Don't start blaming me for your problems!" I retort.

"Then explain why she isn't talking to me?"

"She likes Lysthenstyne. She said so."

"When?!"

"Actually, he called her his Beautiful Sunshine Star and I guess that sparked something inside of her. So you can go off and stop blaming me!"

"I'm not blaming you."

"You did at first."

"OK, OK, I did then. But now I'm blaming the guy."

"Good. I blame him too. If he wasn't so power hungry, I wouldn't have got involved in this and Stella wouldn't have turned evil."

"She's not evil! She's just... emotionally incorrect." He got weaker by the end.

"Hey, I'm sure she'll come round soon enough. Literally."

"Huh?"

"I found her lying unconscious behind the big bush across from CT."

"OK. I'll go check it out. Thanks, Bloom." We hung off. Baltor was shaking.

"Baltor? You OK?" No response. "Baltor!" I went over to him and held his shoulders.

"Bloom... he's coming to get you..." he whispered in a ghostly voice.

"What? Who's coming to get me?" I asked, going round the front of him. His eyeballs were red instead of their usual beautiful gold.

"He's coming to get you..."

"Who is?! Baltor!" I shook him.

"Prince... Eraklyon..." Sky. That filthy scumbag. What had he done to Baltor? Baltor shook himself and was brought about of his stupor.

"That was awkward!" He replied in his normal tone.

"What happened?"

"I just saw a vision of Sky yelling and using a whip on a redhead."

"Redhead..." I paled. "Sky, I hate you! Why are you doing this to me?"

"I don't know what's going on, sweetheart, but I one thing I do know is that whatever happens I'll be by your side all the way." He stood up and pulled me into an embrace.

"I love you."

"I love you, too, Bloom." I caught a glimpse of the clock. Five ten. Shit. I wrenched myself out of his grip.

"I need to get going. I'll see you later."

"Aww. Why?"

"I told Flora I'd be back before five and it's kinda time."

"OK. Bye, love. And don't worry about Sky. You'll be fine. I believe in you. Now you have believe in yourself." I smiled at him.

"Thanks, honey. Bye!"

At Alfea, everyone was in their pyjamas. I used magic to change into mine and joined in.

A/N: I think this was a sort of a filler chapter. Real action in the next chapter.

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