I know it's later than I had promised but it wasn't my fault. As you may know TTigerZ who beta this story was ill for awhile last month . The good new is that the next chapter is already Beta'd so it won't be long before it is published.
On an other note, please review after reading the chapter.
Disclaimer : I don't own WITCH or Winx ( I do own the new Winx transformation but unless I decide it otherwise I won't show it or even say its name before it show up in story, that would be a spoiler . I can give spoiler but you have to merit it )
Warning : As you may have seen the last chapter some scene can be graphic . It is still tame here but I prefer to say it.
Company of Shadowed Light
Chapter 2 :Meeting: The Red and The Black
Ogron, leader of the Wizards of the Black Circle, glowered. They had been hunting for years, capturing fairy after fairy, but they still didn't have all of them. They were still lacking one for them to have the ultimate power.
They'd been searching for her on every continent but the only lead they had found was that she might be near America's West coast. A lead which had been all but confirmed when they felt numerous magic signals in that region some days ago.
Now they had narrowed it down to two possibilities. One led to Bloom, a fairy found almost 4 years ago in Gardenia. But she wasn't on Earth now. They had a hunch she had been sent to the magical dimension, but they still didn't know where to exactly as the dimension was big.
The second lead that they were now following, had picked up just now and led to Heatherfield.
And so they were making their way to Heatherfield.
As they flew to the town and Gantlos was trying to pinpoint the location, Ogron wondered how they had missed such a strong power. The only possibility was that she had been somewhere else or under the protection of a border they hadn't felt. Which meant someone stronger than them was protecting her.
But whatever it had been, now she was in a place they could pick her, and finally reclaim absolute power as Earth, centre of Dimensions, would be theirs.
"Gantlos, did you find her?" He asked as his blond companion flew next to him when they finally got into view of the city. Even so energy was his specialty, Ogron had to admit Gantlos was by far the best at tracking magical energy. Once he had found a trail he never let it go.
"Yes, but it's weird, I can feel two magic sources and one is almost as strong as yours." He answered.
"Well, maybe there are two, it isn't impossible. Imagine they are sisters." Dunman remarked, flying in his raptor form.
"I guess it's possible. But I don't want to take any chance." Ogron thought out loud "We will take them both on at the same time. I go this way for the strongest with Anagan. Dunman go with Gantlos to catch the other one."
"... They had to be at two different corners of the city." Dunman muttered as he looked towards his destination.
"Are you sure? We don't even know where she is. And they emit strange power for fairies." Gantlos said, worried for some reason he couldn't phantom yet.
" Yes, I feel it too. But I can also feel the energy emitted by the city itself. It's the same feeling as Gardenia, this city is magic." The others nodded, he was their leader for so many years that they knew there wasn't any need to contest his decisions.
"Ok, but still take care. Your prey is the one I can feel is the most tied to Earth, so it's probably her." Gantlos continued as they finally touched down in a deserted park
"Thank for the tip. We will meet back here once we have captured our preys." He said, waving to his long time friend while he made his way to the power he could sense.
"Should I go ahead?" Anagan asked with a smirk.
"No." Ogron stopped his overexcited brother. "You heard Gantlos right. She is almost as strong as me." He looked around, taking in the layout of the modern city. It was so different from the town he had made his first arms.
He then looked down at his black leather vest and pants before shrugging. They had changed their outfit multiple times to fit with the passage of time, but he always found it destabilizing. "We are on her turf. If she gets away she would manage to hide before I can find her back and I would have to ask Gantlos to track her again. The only reason I can pick her general position is because she is using her power right now."
"Ok boss." The Black Wizard said as he walked behind him.
As they walked down the street, he noticed a strange thing. Even so it was early night there was no light out in the street. As far as he knew it was the weekend and people should be around, he should be hearing the stupid laughter of children running around and see people out to ready for their date.
"It's too calm." Anagan said, speaking his thoughts.
Instead of everything all he could see were people lining the walls, he could see silhouettes lightened by candles inside the houses. But no one seemed to want to be out. The city was like they had already conquered it. They were afraid of something.
And as he turned a corner to the street that would lead him to his target he thought he understood what.
Numerous shops had been broken in and he could see two gangs fighting one against another, using firearms and blades alike.
He remained here, looking for a while and finally the law officers arrived. They were not numerous, but armed as if there was a war going on. Which could as well be the case.
They didn't even get a summation before firing their rifles at the gangs. Most started to flee, but some remained. He saw that those all had a three winged blazer on them.
"You there, go away, this is not the moment to be out. Only the 'Dark Angels' are mad enough to fight against the army." He heard a man shouting behind him before a gun fire echoed, spilling blood on his coat.
"You shouldn't have done that." Ogron scowled, turning to the man who had fired hidden behind a corner. He was a blond man, as tall as him with an eye lost by what he could identify as scar given by magic.
"I Saved that boy the suffering." The man said, still hidden " I know you magic-type. Nobody believed me when I said that this city has been invaded by magic. But I know what burned my eye. That girl isn't normal. And neither are you." The man said before running down the street.
"Anagan, after him." Ogron ordered. What the man had said had picked his interest. Humans from Earth shouldn't know about magic, but that one knew, and despised it.
"Yes boss." Anagan answered with an amused grin. One minute later he was back, the man in his hands. "Here he is."
"Good. So, how do you know we are Wizards?" Ogron started to ask.
"I don't know what species you belong, but that monster left me a gift before I could flee. My burned eye can see magic." Ogron looked at the man and in fact he could sense some magic energy in it. But it was dark. Was the last fairy on Earth a dark Fairy, it would be ironic.
"What happened to this city? Last time I checked it was pretty peaceful." Albeit it had been almost 50 years ago. But the change was drastic.
"As if you didn't know. The whole world has heard about what happened here." The police officer said in disgust.
"Well, we don't really take in the happening of the world." Anagan answered for him."Now answer." Energy gathered in his hand.
The man looked around, seeming to ponder his options before finally starting to talk "I'll die whatever happens but here it is..." The man made him the long count of all strangeness and atrocities that had happened from the last 2 years to the last two months, the rhythm of them upping gradually until it drove the city into chaos topping when the Mayor had been found out burned and frozen to death at the same time in the middle of the park.
Before that there were already riots of citizens asking for more means to stop the gradually upping violence. But even when the state had finally started to intervene nothing changed.
People who had tried to move out had been found out dead, their cars burned. Now the civilians passed their time closed in their homes where electricity had been robbed.
During the day things were calm most of the time, even if some fights would start because of the nerves. Even the schools were still open. But once the sun started to disappear you had to be inside if you wanted to evade the gang fights or worse, be attacked by the "Fallen angel", as the ones who had seen her called her.
"The fallen angel hum... Why call the fairy like that?" Ogron asked, feeling he was touching the important part.
"Remember when I said that it started with the disappearance of one girl, and the death of another? They are the ones who gave me that scar. And the supposedly dead one has black wings." This was it for Ogron. They had finally found the last fairy on Earth he was sure of it.
"I would say, Jackpot !" He clamoured out in evil joy lashing out a shock wave which took out all the armed men that had circled them while the cop talked. "Let him go now. We have to find this Will Vandom."
Elyon was having the time of her life. If she knew it would be so fun she would have done it earlier. Well, she had done it, she did it every day, in fact. But with that one it was was in the Grumper's home. Her parents were sleeping in the room next door, they wouldn't wake up.
"Bess, are you alright?" She asked with the stolen voice.
The voiceless girl squirmed under her touch.
"..." She tried to say what Elyon knew as a no. Bess was afraid of the figure she had taken even more that she was of Elyon herself. After all she knew it detail by detail.
"Good, I wouldn't want the one who killed me to be in good condition." She said, touching the scar Will had made Bess while cutting her throat. She still didn't know how Will had made her survive, but she guessed that, as she had said, it was for her to find out.
She had tried it on the people they had captured here or in Meridian as a mean to train, but she always killed them or fried their brains.
But here Bess was still alive, her screams only heard by Elyon, Will, and Taranee if she ever passed near.
"How was it to be the centre of attention like we always wanted? I could see it from where I was. " Elyon continued, flashing the image of the journalists through Bess's mind. She tried to hide herself behind her hand, but Elyon took her by the right thumb.
"I can't believe they gave you with my right thumb, you're my twin, but still." She touched her own right hand, without a thumb in the form she had chosen. It was impractical, but it really added to the game. "You're the one who stole it from me, as I was begging even." She had mastered that mocked anger.
...
'Please stop' Bess tried to roar, even so she knew she had no voice. Somehow she knew that her sister understood, she always understood.
"Stop what? I have nothing left to do, you know." Her sister answered in her low angered voice.
'I had no choice, please.' Bess pleaded again. She still remembered the first time her sister came back. She had been overjoyed, believing that it truly had been a nightmare and that she had just woken up.
"You had a choice, you could have not done it. We could have found a mean to get out together!" Her sister howled. She didn't know and Bess didn't want her to know. It was truly her fault. If only she hadn't been in love with that monster.
She had loved Nigel. That was why she had accepted to follow him downtown.
"I wanted to protect you, and that's how you repaid me!" Her sister had followed her out of concern, and had also gotten captured by those three. Two of them were supposed to be dead, but instead they were there waiting for her. And like vengeful spirits they had tortured her. The only thing that hadn't been done to her was physical rape. Elyon had proposed it, but Will had refused, saying it was the only evil she wouldn't do, except if it was with someone who merited it.
'I thought you had betrayed me, I was scared.' She continued. After three days without sleep they let her out of her prison, just to see her sister in the arms of the man who had put her in there.
"And you think I wasn't. They made me the same thing they did to you! and showed it to me at night!" Courtney shouted again.
'I know, they told me... but... I was so angry, and so tired.' Bess continued, taking her head in her arm as her headache came back. It was a good sign she knew. After that day she would often get a crippling headache just before passing out. And if she passed out she would not see the ghost.
"So tired... that you cut each part of my body with a scissor?" Courtney asked once again, the jigsaw mark appearing on the body.
' I... You cut my finger first.' Bess tried to defend herself, not wanting to confront reality.
"You know well that it was an accident. It was your own scissor that did it." Bess heard the sound of a metallic object falling. She squirmed once more. If she could flee or cry, she would. But she had already lost all the tears in her body and there was no fleeing from a ghost, her lack of voice was the proof as she couldn't flee Will.
'I'm... sorry. I don't know why I did... It was as if..' The headache was nearing the breaking point.
"You didn't control yourself fully." Another voice than her sister's said before she passed out, all she could see was red. Followed by a chilling laughter.
She believed the headache would free her, but she was wrong. As she slept she dreamt about that last night once again. She tried to stop herself, but there was no changing the past.
When she woke up, she could feel a cold object in her hand and had a metallic object in her hand. She also felt sticky. She tentatively got up, but slid on a liquid at her feet.
She got her eyes up... and screeched in a noiseless but deep despair.
...
Elyon couldn't get the smirk from her face as she heard the scream in her mind while she closed the door of the apartment. It had truly been wonderful. She couldn't thank Will enough for the idea. She was surprised she hadn't done it herself. It was rare for her to let them have the best of the fun.
It could only mean that what she was doing to Uriah was worse... But what could it be ?
After all, she was sure that only Will would do that to someone she had already forced to be unable to let go of her life.
Yes, she had done it. But she was a victim to Will's darkness too... ' humpf'
She couldn't even think about that lie without laughing. She had given in willingly and she knew it. Will had just sped up the process and given advantages. Whatever happen she would never regret what she was now thanks to her, she didn't even need the shackles that was the vow to follow her.
She didn't get a lot of time to bask in the still crying mind of Bess before she got hit by a dark wave to the side.
"Who dares?" She shouted as her hand were already alight in the light of Meridian.
"We are the Wizards of The Black Circle and you are going to die." Another man's voice came from behind her and tried to lash out at her from the side but she created a shield which stopped the black and purple figure.
"Not today, sorry. If I died without her accord, my queen would kill me." She flew up.
"Tch, so strong without wings... And her magic hurt me. Are you sure we didn't get the stronger one Gantlos?" The one which had attacked her said as he transformed, going after her.
"Yes, she is weaker that the one Ogron went after. But she might be a witch. Either way we must make sure." The one with the cowboy cap, just identified as Gantlos answered, he seemed to be the leader of those two. But he gave off a feeling much like hers, the one of the second. There was someone higher up and from what she had heard he was probably going to attack Will.
She grinned. "Witch... well that would be a good joke. But I have no wings." She hurled twin rays of light to each of her foes. The first one hit the wing of the Metamorph while a shock wave stopped the other.
"So you're not a fairy... We must get rid of her and go after the other one." The crow screeched before making a turn in the sky. He was weak but was slowly getting annoying.
"Now would you tell me what you want with Will?" She asked as she moved to dodge another black wave, but was struck by the follow-up punch as the man jumped high. "Ouch, you would hit a frail girl like me " She got her dagger out and slashed at his arm while creating another shield to block another attack from his stooge.
"You're not frail girl, witch. And I see you're not a stupid do gooder. What would you say working for us, I'm sure Ogron would like to have a witch with us." The man said as he got down."As long as you obey, you could have a part of our power once we have Earth in our hands."
"I'm sorry, I already have another allegiance. And I prefer to be on the winning side." She healed the gash which had opened on her cheek. "And I know that your friends are attacking Will, so you are not on it." She landed on a building to save a part of her power and fired a wicked light chain around her, whipping the two to the ground.
"Will, I suppose that's the name of the one on the other side of the city. She has no chance against Ogron." The cowboy man sneered as he got up flinging his fist to the ground. Suddenly the building cracked and started to collapse. Elyon got back into the air thinking it was a good thing that it wasn't the building Bess was in, she wouldn't want her to get out of it so easily. But while she was distracted a wolf like creature jumped at her and ditched her into the next building. ' Ugh ' she bit her lips.
"If you don't come with us then you just have to die." The wolf sneered.
"We will see." Light exploded from her body forcing the wolf to close his eyes so that she could go back into the air. "But I doubt you Wizards have enough power to defeat her if she uses her power."
A little earlier, on the other side of the city, Uriah was shivering as he got in the basement of the Dark Angel's HQ. If his father learned he was here he would probably ground him, or kill him. But it would be worse if he didn't come. Will was past scary. He didn't know what the hell she was but he knew one thing, she wasn't a ghost. Ghost weren't that real.
She had boarded him the morning of the day Bess had been released. In fact, he was the one who had let her there under her order.
*He was going to school when she appeared in the corner of one of his personal shortcut. He had first thought she was just someone who looked like her, but when she called him he recognized her irritating voice.
'Uriah'
He immediately started to run, but was blinded by a blue light before finding himself in an underground hideout, a black blade pointed at his throat.
"So you're the next victim... I'm surprised she even wants to waste her time with you." He heard the voice of his former friend Nigel.
He didn't know how she had done that, but he knew it was her.*
Then he had been forced to look at what happened to Bess and Courtney before driving the delirious Bess in front of the school. Contrary to those two poor girls he could get in and out, albeit only by that portal she created.
He was a known delinquent so him not going to school wasn't strange. It had permitted her to make him come whenever she wanted.
She did so every day to make him do stupid chores around the city.
He had seen more bodies than he remembered talking to people, each of them a reminder that she could do whatever she wanted with his life. He was the only one in town who really knew what had hit the city, why and how. She had taken all her time to explain him, even making him see some of the worst images.
Yet he couldn't tell anyone or he would die even more gruesomely than Courtney had.
Of course he wasn't unharmed himself. She had not touched his face or arms, but the rest of his body had been cut, punched, choked, burned or frozen each time he slipped a little on her stupid order or when one of those nutcases wanted to pass some nerves. He was also forced to serve as a training partner (read punch bag) for her gang.
Today she had sent him to take photos to extort the chief of a budding group of 'auto-defence'. He had managed to take them, but had been really afraid of being discovered more than once as to enter he had to join them.
What had him so frighten was not what they would do to him, but what would his punishment be if he failed.
On his road back there was an altercation between the Dark Angels (DA) and another gang, but he had not remained there. He couldn't be late.
Once in front of the door of the main room he sighed, looking at the mirror.
Once, he had thought he was someone important, his father was a lawyer and he had always commended, if not respect at least fright. But now he knew the truth, he was a filthy coward, a worm. He had numerous occasions to warn the others, tell the truth, save a life. He even heard about the plan to stop the citizens from going out, but he did nothing.
And once more he was about to help her destroy a life, just to save his.
He opened the door. "I'm back Will." He said before getting shocked. "YAAAH!" He screamed, no matter how many times it happened it still hurt like hell.
"It's my Queen for you, worm." She said, temporally halting the electric arcs.
"Yes.. Please spare my life, My Queen." He pleaded.
"Do you have what I asked?" She asked as she tended her hand to him. He searched for the camera in his pocket and gave it to her. She didn't even had it in hand that he felt his lower body freezing. He looked at her questioningly, but before he uttered a word he could see she was hopping mad at him
"Idiot, you killed it. I gave it to you and now it doesn't work anymore." He was wide-eyed, how could he have... the lightning just now.
" But... it's not me." He started before understanding his error as the ice took his hand. "Please."He pleaded once more before the ice finished encasing his body, yet he was still alive and the cold was burning his skin.
...
"You know he is right, it wasn't his fault." Nigel remarked, getting out of his corner.
Will smirked back at him that same smirk she got the day he had started being her knight. "It's his fault for being stupid and blowing the chance I gave him. As for the camera, do you really think I would give him my camera and risk it like that. I already protected it against my power." The camera lighted back
"Miss Will, I was happy about being of service but this boy. Please don't let me be used by an idiot like him anymore, he doesn't know how to take good photos." The electronic voice came out.
Now Nigel understood. She was marvelously devious. At first it had made him feel bad, but now he admired her.
"So you had finally decided to get rid of this filth." Nigel said as he tapped the new ice sculpture.
"Yes. I let him numerous chances to become entertaining by betraying me and trying to be a hero, or becoming wicked like you. But no, he remained the worm he was, it was time I got rid of him." She said as she seated back. Then she turned her camera. "I'm sorry Charlie. But I suppose you took the right photo."
"Of course miss Will, you know we would do anything for you." The camera answered.
Will grinned "Yes, I know." She was about to ask and see the compromising shot when she felt a large mass of energies building up behind the hall.
"Nigel, we have some visitors, and they use magic." She said monotone sending back the camera wherever it was she hid her precious things. Nigel just nodded, calling for the armour she had offered him for his submission.
BOOM ' Ahhh' Screams came from the other side the wall, he unsheathed his black sword.
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" Idiot scum." Ogron said as he got rid of the small fry with a shock wave. "I can't believe that last fairy on earth would be here."
"Yet there is at least a strong magical being here. Even I can sense her from here." Anagan said as he ran to the door "Can I?"
"Of course." Ogron smirked. Whatever she tried there was no way she could defeat the two of them.
Anagan opened the door with a magically enhanced kick "Hello, is Will Vandom here?" He joked cheerfully. Ogron heard the noise of breaking ice but didn't care.
"Who asks for her?" A young man's voice said menacingly. It made him laugh. He was probably her main tug.
"We, the Wizards of the Black Circle." He answered. He then saw a boy in a black armour, with a golden sign he didn't recognize but felt he should on its centre.
"State your business or die. Our Queen doesn't like it when she is interrupted. " He pointed his sword at Anagan who charged a black ray at him. The boy blocked it with his sword, but the strength was too great and he was sent backward knocked out cold.
"Now that's done..." Anagan couldn't finish his words that Ogron felt big energy budding and saw his brother struck by a blue lightning, he too blacked out.
"As he was saying, now that the small fries are out, what do you want with me?" He heard a feminine voice coming, yet he couldn't see from where. 'So lightning and sound magic... not that I really care but that a pretty rare combination for a fairy'
"Nothing really, just your power." Ogron said as he was trying to locate her, he felt the energy behind him and jumped, taking her hand. "Miss Vandom I presume?" The girl had blood red short hair and a fearless dark brown glare. She wore an opalescent black robe and had three black birdlike wings on her back 'Strange, but then again, she is a dark fairy, they always go distorted after a while. I already saw sky fairies with such wings.'
He was about to do her in when she disappeared from his arm and he was sent to the other side of the room by a strong wind. He quickly dissipated it, but it had hurt.
"I had forgotten, I'm not immune to dark magic." he muttered as the girl stood in front of him, lighting crackling on her hand.
"That's stupid. If you're a bad guy you should know another will come for you." She snarled, firing the energy at him.
He laughed.
"I admit it's stupid. But as you see I usually don't need it." He threw the lightning he had absorbed back at her.
She backed down but didn't fall.
"But I see you're not bad yourself."
She looked at him, surprised and, was it interest? "So you can absorb energy. Let's see what you can do. It makes a long time since I fought with someone who could take me on.."
He felt like there was something unsaid, but those sparkling black wings were like hypnosis to his eyes. 'Once I have her, I'll finally have the ultimate power of Earth.'
"Just give up, last fairy of Earth. Just stand here and let us get your power." He boasted.
"I'll come with you." She said giving out her hand.
For a moment he stood there, dumbfounded. She was coming just like that? He was no fool, he knew she was up to something. But at the same time he couldn't let go of such an opportunity.
He took her hand before transporting to their meeting point along with Anagan. Gantlos was already probably finished with his prey and they would start immediately after Anagan got up.
"Now, this takes me back. But it's a better place to fight." She said, taking the air.
He should have known, fairies didn't like to fight underground, and sky ones liked it even less . He had let his over confidence take the better out of him.
Yet she didn't flee so he just had to beat her.
"Oh, and I'm not a fairy. I may have been one, once. Or something like that. But now I'm much better." She snickered.
How was it possible? She had the wings and he could feel the Earth power from her, she had to be lying.
"Then what are you? You have wings and the power of Earth." He roared, jumping and launching two balls of pure dark energy at her. She dodged the first one, but took the second on the side. She fell to the ground, but once more she didn't look hurt. Her outfit wasn't even scratched.
"That's normal. I'm the source of magic of this world." She said matter of factly as a lightning storm was sent at him.
He was so shocked that he almost forgot he could take it on easily by absorbing it. Only his instinct permitted him to do so, giving him a lot more power he thought she could send in one go.
"What?" He gasped as the storm finally settle into him. "If you're not a fairy then how are you the source of power ?" He challenged, sending back the storm to her which she dodged easily by flying high. He tried to jump over her, but fell down as roots coiled around his legs. 'How does she have that power?... Don't tell me she is serious. I can beat her but it might take too much time. And what is Gantlos doing?'
"That's for me to know, and for you to find. You seem to be intelligent, so you should find an answer." She said getting back down.
He growled and started chaining energy balls. She managed to dodge, but she could not reply. He would lure her into a trap. 'Gantlos, where are you? The one I have isn't the one we are searching for.'
'I... I know... The one I have here sort of said it to me...' Gantlos answered hurriedly. He sounded like he had problems too.
'I gather yours is not the one either.' Ogron sent back.
'No... But we might need your help. I lured her back to the park with Dunman's help. She works for someone named Will.'
'Good, I'm there with this Will here. We will finish the both of them together. Then we go to Magix. If she is not, then it must be Bloom and that's where she must be. Even if it's once more a void trail the Winx will lead us to the good one trying to protect her.' He heard the telltale of Gantlos using is seismic power and grinned.
"Look like your time is out. So now tell me what you meant with the source of power." He commanded.
"Well, I guess you're right. Now is not the time to play anymore." She shrugged and sent him a ray of pure black flames crackling with the energy that made him shiver.
"You think you can beat me with that?" He said as he started to absorb it. He felt its power making him stronger, but it wasn't the feeling he was used to, there was something foreign to it. And it didn't seem to stop either. How much power did she have?
While they remained at a stalemate like that he received good news from Gantlos. 'We managed to knock her out. She isn't dead but we can come to help you. I can feel her power crushing me from here.' Ogron was about to deny but he suddenly felt a power he didn't think possible crush him.
"I don't think, I know." She cackled.
He tried to use the power he had stolen but it didn't obey him and he felt like he burned from the inside.
With a push of power he was sent crashing to the other side of the park.
'I need that power.' He thought as the wall of a house fell down on him.
Slowly he stood up. He hadn't been so defeated since... since he became a wizard.
Was she really the source of power of Earth as she claimed ?
If so, then he had to find the last fairy even more. That way he would probably steal that power from her.
"Aaaaah!" He was getting back to find her when he heard two screams he knew.
He transported to the source and found Dunman in his Tiger form slumped down next to a girl in a Red-robe."Take them and come back when you're stronger. Maybe you'll be entertaining me again." He heard from above. He looked and saw her fling the limp body of Gantlos.
Ogron caught him. He wasn't dead, but they would need more time than he had first thought before they could go to Magix.
He would take that time to do research.
"And as a thank for your information I'll tell you what you are wondering. I'm the heart of Earth." Thunder was heard as she said the last word and he could swear he felt the ground tremble. "Now go, before I change my mind."
Ogron chose to do so. He would come back when the time was right. Now they weren't strong enough to take on this unknown threat.
...
Elyon woke up and opened her eyes. "What just happened here? Who were those men?" She asked as Will healed the gash on the back of her head.
"Nothing, just the passport to my next toys." Will snickered.
"And that means?" Elyon cocked her head to the side as she wept her favorite Blood-red robe from dust.
Will was somewhat proud of her. She was nowhere as strong as her, but had taken on two Wizard as strong as the Guardians.
Will took Elyon's head in her right hand and then whispered seductively. "It means, my little princess, that it's time to move out, the preliminaries are finished." She slightly kissed her ear, making the younger girl blush. Which in turn made Will laugh. She took every little pleasure she could and teasing Elyon was really great.
She got up, taking Elyon with her. "Go fetch Nigel and wait me outside the city. We are moving." Elyon immediately opened a fold.
She turned to her just before entering, beaming like a child. "And where are we going next, My Queen?" Elyon asked, waiting eagerly. It seemed she too had loved the little workout.
Will, frowned, thinking about it. Then she remembered one of Ogron thought. They were hunting the fairy because they were the Guardians of Earth's magic. Maybe using her power as Heart of Earth she could..."... Just wait for me. I have some research to do."
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"Here I am." Will said as she got out of the fold from Candracar as the Sun was going up, a cage in hand.
"So. My Queen, where are we going after that day of waiting?" Nigel asked, seated on the carcass of one of the cars that had tried to get out. That absolute territory spell Elyon had found in Meridian's legacies had really been put to funny use. Still, they had been faithful and really didn't bulge from here, she could see it from the numerous new explosion marks.
"Gardenia. I have a new recruit to find there." She said beaming. The two there were wide-eyed "After I play with her mind a little of course. Just as you are the lost queen of Meridian Elyon, the girl fairy we will be searching is the lost fairy Princess of Earth, as well as the last fairy on Earth not a prisoner of those men that attacked us yesterday."
They were still wearing questioning looks. "Why are you looking at me like that, do I still have a leaf on my forehead?" She asked them. "Or maybe you're asking why I took her with me?"
"No, And I wouldn't question why you would take the pet out... You're My Queen too." Elyon squirmed "I just wondered, how do you know so much about that fairy."
"Let say that she is already mine by magic, so I have a particular tie that permitted me to... see her life more in deft. The Water and Fire Guardian power were just meant to be used together." Her two followers grinned mischievously. They were probably anticipating the spectacle that would be the girl's fall.
"So Gardenia? How much do you bet that we will find more resistances there?" Nigel asked.
"That's again a sucker bet Nigel, We already know the Wizards are searching her." Elyon answered.
"And I thought I was forgetting something, Thanks for reminding me Elyon." Will said as she opened a short-range fold to Gardenia. Before going through it she let five little spheres out of her hand.
In Gardenia lived a girl named Roxy. She had dark pink long hair that ended in a lighter tone of blond. She lived in the outskirts of the town with her father and her dog Artu. She was quite lonely, but she lived by. At age of 17 she still went to high school, but now the holiday had come by so she had to pass the time. Most of the time she just helped at the bar her father owned but when she had time she either made friendship with lost animals in the park or watched TV.
Today Roxy was once more passionately looking the news. She had never liked being inside very much and preferred to go out, even if she didn't really had friend apart from her dog. But each time there was news about Heatherfield she always stopped everything she did.
She was afraid of what was happening there.
Not long ago the city had been one of those cities where nothing happened. She hadn't even known that there was such a city not so far away. Then, one day, a girl a little older than her had been found in front of her school, scared and without anything but her sister's cut hand. Her throat mutilated so that she couldn't talk anymore.
From then on there hadn't been a day without a new about a crime from there.
Roxy didn't know how the journalist did. No one seemed to be able to enter there anymore due to traps put by the gangs that reigned in the city. Even the army had a hard time entering into that accident field. As for electricity it was said to be more than sparse. Nevertheless, there was more news each day and each time she looked at it fascinated.
She had a strange impression, like something was calling her there. If not for her survival instinct she would probably have gone to see the cursed town.
But it was more that the city that she was searching. She was searching someone. At first she didn't know who but making her own search over the internet she had found her. Will Vandom. A girl supposed to be dead 1 year and a half ago. She had never seen it in reality, but her face had become far too familiar to her mind.
She had those dreams about her, dressed as a dark angel, who happened to be the name of the main gang in Heatherfield. A girl with black wings and blood red hair. In her dream the girl reached out to her when everything crumbled around her. She was afraid, but at the same time in admiration. She had blood on her own hands and took the one given to her before everything turned to black. It was there that she generally woke up.
She had talked about it to her father when it had started around last Halloween, which made it even creepier if she were to be asked, but all he did was dismissing her. Even the school's doctor just said it was normal. But she knew it was not. She had that dream one night out of two.
After her search she had even tried to call the mother of that girl, but she had moved out recently without letting any addresses.
And the other dreams weren't free either. They were about a faceless woman she thought she could remember having seen long ago. She was lost in a forest and the woman guided her to a lake, calling her name. When she reached after a long march and finally found her, she asked her who she was, but the women just said she would soon know. She also warned her about something, but Roxy never heard what before opening her eyes, hearing an estranged laugh.
Roxy got back from her dreamscape as news of Heatherfield finally came. She was in for a shock.
"How is that possible?" Roxy gasped. 'Heatherfield, the city that chaos claimed from the world at the end.' was the title as image passed, not needing any words.
The city was now underwater. This morning an earthquake had taken the city as its epicentre and the city had come aflame. Later it had been struck by the strongest storm remembered in history of the region.
Till here she could believe, it could be really bad luck. But the towns next to it like Rockhaven from where the first journalist was sending the image, had been almost spared. They were some crack in the walls, the roads were wet and she could see that some flowers had been taken by the wind, but nowhere near what had razed the city of Heatherfield to the ground.
It was like God had chosen to end this city and unleashed the elements against it, while protecting its neighbour.
Roxy shivered. Whatever her dreams were about, it would start soon. She could feel it in her very being.
"Roxy, please stop looking those depressing news issues and come help me in the shop." The man, her father called her. She cut the TV and got up.
"Dad. What can you tell me about mother?" She asked without knowing what. It had just come to her mind like that.
Her father fixed her. He wouldn't say it, but she could see the anger in his eyes. "Nothing. I really loved her, but she left me with you one month after your birth, without letting even a note. I don't want you to think about her, now come help me to the shop. For once that your dog has stopped yapping he can come."
It was true. Usually Artu would always be asking to go out around this time, but here he was fixed looking at the now turned off TV. Had he seen something? "Whatever happens, everything's going to be alright Artu." She said, as much for him as for her. She then took him by the collar to put on the leash as they were going out. She didn't like to do that, but it was the law and with Heatherfield being near the officers had become zealots.
As she got out, carrying one of her father's cases, she felt a pull on her heart. 'Where are you?... What do you want from me?'
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For: *sigh* I guess that I should cut the chapter here .
Yan Lin : Please tell the author what you think of this chapter and the story in the review, He is opened to any constructive comments.
FoR: Thank you Yan, but... What are you doing here ? Weren't you dead and frozen back on Domino ?
Yan Lin : Did you think I wouldn't find a mean to veil on my grand daughter ?
FoR : Well, I don't mind . It's not like you had any other thing to do.
Yan Lin: *sigh* True.
( Looking around ) I wonder Where they are though, I didn't see anyone I knew.
FoR : It depend on who you are asking for. But the answer to both are in the next chapter
Yan Lin : *gasp* You mean that big thing over there ?
FoR ( Grin ) : Yep
Yan Lin: Please, don't be too harsh on my little Hay.
FoR ( Trying to be serious ): I'll try.
( Turn toward the screen ) See you in " Chapter 2 Bis : Meeting : Old and New Threats .", The Guardians will be lost in space and the Winx will get back to school .
