Category: Winx Club
Rating: T
Couples: none
Warnings: Major AU, Blood, Character Death
Chapter: 6
Copyright: © characters and places by Iginio; © Plot and OC by me
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There was only silence as even the footsteps of the three faded, leaving Bloom anxiously waiting beside Darkar for their return. She suddenly realized that she had watched Faragonda's brother walk right past her to his dead.
"Do you know why he did this?" She in the end whispered, glancing at the Shadow Phoenix.
"No." He curtly answered. "I have no idea, and by now he's beyond the reach of any power to ask."
"Oh…" Bloom turned away, looking at the ground.
"There is nothing you can do, Bloom." He pointed out. "The man has been dead for ages now. And any excuse he could have head ceased to have value the moment he started to celebrate after each exam, the amount of food and wine he used equivalent to the amount of corpses now added to the pile."
"It's just… I really want to know why he did all that." She looked down the hallway. "There has to be some reason as to WHY he cursed that man, WHY he killed all these students."
"If there ever was one, he took it to his grave." Darkar reached with his claw to her. "Do you feel that?"
"Something… malevolent has awoken." Bloom shivered as the very atmosphere started to change, even here, still quite a way from the room where the scrolls were kept.
"The curse was activated." A small shiver laced his words and Bloom could feel her heart start thundering and her breath racing past her lips as the silence remained unbroken.
She jumped back against the wall when a terrible scream echoed between the stone walls. Even Darkar made an unsure step back, as running footsteps came closer.
The students came back, but there were only two now: the one with the light-blue hair was not among them.
Something heavy hit the ground, making the earth tremble. The girl tripped, falling to the ground. Tears streamed down her face as she struggled back to her feet. The boy shot back to help her, turning his back to Bloom. Dark-red tainted the tunic he was wearing, as if something had been splattered on it.
Something crashed into a far-away wall, causing both to look up in horror. The boy pulled the girl up, pushing her to where Bloom was standing.
"Run!" He ordered, pulling his sword.
"He'll kill you!" She answered, pulling at his arm. "You can't stay back!"
"I just slow you down. Transform and go!" He pushed her again.
In the end it did not matter what she did: Bloom screamed when the wall to their right shattered. The boy got propelled against the wall with a sickening sound, bones breaking under the force of the impact. The girl was frozen as the dust settled. She came face to face with an abomination even Hell would turn down: it was a chimera of sorts, but not the classical version. Instead the heads were vaguely humanoid, one only a skull with traces of rotting flesh, the other with teeth as deathly as those of sharks. The body looked like that of a crocodile with lion's legs and the tail was an assortment of snake and dragon-heads, some of which even breathed fire.
The girl ran, leaving the boy on the ground. She ran straight through Darkar, transforming a bit behind him. The chimera-thing watched as she took to the skies, where she hoped that she would be protected by being so high.
Perhaps in frustration the chimera turned on itself, ripping open its own sides with its many tails and sharp claws. The stench of its foul blood hit Bloom square in the face, causing her to very nearly empty her stomach from what little she had eaten the last few days.
The horrible sound of ripping flesh drowned the soft tinkling of the fairy-wings. Leathery wings, the skins ripped apart in places, tore from the open wounds. Glistening in what light there was, it spread them and took flight as well.
The fairy screamed, diving to the ground in a futile attempt to escape. She came perhaps half-way to the door before it overtook her. His two heads each took hold of a leg and pulled. One leg came off and the fairy fell to the floor. Shock and pain caused her to return to normal as she tried to crawl to safety.
A red hand blocked the sight at the last moment, but Bloom was certain she'd forever be haunted by the screams. Until they were abruptly cut off by the sound of snapping bone.
"I want to get out." She whimpered, pressing her hands against her ears. "Please, get me out of here."
Darkar did not react, watching as the chimera turned to the boy who had somehow managed to get to his feet. He looked up uncomprehendingly as the claws ripped apart his body, yet his hand clung to the wall for a bit longer, before getting swiped down by one of the many tails.
As the last of the three participants died, the curse lifted, leaving a man in its' wake. He was splattered in blood and other things, wide white eyes looking out over the corpses he had created. Tears cleaned a small part of the face, leaving tracks in the blood-red.