Chapter 2
As they neared the planet they could see fires burning. Aisha turned to see the sadness in Flora's eyes before turning to look back at the destruction happening right before everyone. Timmy and Helia guided the ship down to a clearing that was not far from a small house. After landing the ship Flora quickly got up and exited. She took of as quickly as her legs could take her toward the house. The others arrived at the house a few moments after Flora had rushed inside.
As they entered the house everyone could hear a young girl sobbing in one of the other rooms. Bloom and the other girls slowly walked down the hall of the house in the direction of the sobbing until they reached a slightly opened door. Bloom quietly knocked on the door before she opened it slowly. When the door was opened they could see that Flora had a small girl wrapped up in her arms.
"Don't worry Miele I'm here to stop whoever attacked our home," Flora said as she comforted the young girl.
A few moments later Flora lifted her little sister up off of the floor and carried her into the hallway. The group followed Flora out into the hallway to see her walking into a room farther down the hall. When she reemerged from the room that she had just entered with her sister they could see some anger in her eyes.
"Is Miele ok Flora?" Stella asked as she looked at her friend.
"She will be," Flora said quietly, "She's just scared."
Bloom turned to look at Sky, when he saw her face he just nodded his head.
"Okay guys we are going to make sure the others that live around here are safe," Sky said as he turned to look at Helia, "Helia I want you to stay here to protect Miele."
"Okay Sky," Helia said before he turned to look at Flora, "Do you girls have any idea where to find this guy that is attacking your home planet?"
"No but I have a feeling I know where to go and start to look for him." Flora said with anger in her voice.
"Then let's get going." Aisha said.
The girls rushed off toward the direction of one of the larger fires that could be seen from off planet. When they neared the fire they found many people trying to put the flames out to save the buildings nearby. One of the young women nearby noticed the people coming toward the flames and ran over to where they were.
The young woman had braided red hair that reached the middle of the back and red eyes. She was wearing a crimson sleeveless midriff bearing shirt she also had on a pair of translucent red unattached sleeves and red pants, on her feet was a pair red sandals.
"Flora I'm happy that you're here." The young woman said.
"Hello Tethys," Flora said, "Do you know where that person that did this go to?"
"I heard that he went into the dark forest," Tethys said as she looked at Flora, "Is everything alright?"
"Yes, were here to stop that person," Flora said, "Thank you for letting me know where to find the one responsible for all of this," Flora turned to look at the others, "You heard where we will find this person lets get going."
The girls nodded before following Flora in the direction of the Dark Forest. After reaching the forest the girls made their way inside until they reached a fork in the road.
"Since you know this place better then any of us which way do we go?" Tecna asked.
"There are buildings in both directions that he could be hiding in." Flora said.
"Okay then lets split up," Bloom said, "Aisha, Stella and Tecna you three go to the one on the left, while me Flora and Musa take the one on the right. If you don't find him there head back to the other building."
The girls all nodded before taking off in the direction of the building that they were going to go and investigate. After running a bit farther into the forest Bloom, Musa, and Flora arrived at the building that they were heading to.
The building that they were looking at was a dilapidated structure made out of stone. Parts of the walls were still standing but with holes large enough to look through, when Musa glanced through one of the holes she could see that the roof of the building had collapsed. She move a bit to her right to get a better look into the building and took a quick step back from the hole.
"Is everything ok Musa?" Bloom asked as she placed her hand on her friend's right shoulder.
"There's someone in there," Musa said as she looked at the other two girls, "He's wearing a robe that is coving his face so I can't see who it is, but the person turned to look at me and had glowing red eyes."
"Do you think he saw you?" Bloom asked as she tried to spy into the building.
Before Musa could answer the doors to the building slowly creaked open. The three girls looked over at the door and could feel a dark energy coming from inside.
"Looks like, he must have seen me and is inviting us in." Musa said.
"Let's just be careful." Bloom said as the three of them made their way slowly toward the now opened door.
After making it inside the building the girls saw a man sitting in a chair wearing a blood red robe that covered his head, he looked at the three girls with his glowing red eyes. The robe was decorated with a black outline around the edges and had white sleeves.
"Are you the one that attacked Linphea?" Musa asked the robed man.
The person sitting looked directly at Musa with his glowing eyes. While looking at her he nodded his head without saying a word.
"Why would you attack my home planet?" Flora yelled out with anger in her voice.
The person in the robe stood up from where he was sitting and brushed himself off. After he was done he looked at the three girls standing in front of him and created a ball of black energy in his hand before shooting it at Bloom. She jumped to her left to avoid the attack.
"Girls it's time." Bloom said as she pushed herself up off of the ground.
"Enchantix!" All three girls yelled.
Each girl began to glow as they started to transform, but before they fully transformed the robed man shot three blasts of energy at the girls knocking them back into the wall behind them. When they hit the wall, chains formed around each girl's arms and legs trapping them against the wall.
"Now that I have three fairies trapped I can proceed with my plan." The robed man said.
"What are you planning?" Bloom yelled.
The man in the robe walked over and placed his hand under Bloom's chin lifting it up slightly to get a better look at her face. After moving it from left to right he walked back to the stairs and bent down. A few moments later he walked back over to the girls holding a white Scimitar in his right hand and a small glass vial in his left hand. After walking back over to Bloom he looked at her with his glowing red eyes before making a cut small on her right hand. After making sure to place the vial under her hand to catch some of the drizzling crimson liquid he proceeded to do the same with Musa and Flora.
"Now that I have the power of three fairies I can complete my mission." The robed man said as he walked away from the girls.
"What mission?" Musa yelled.
"You will see." The man said as he sat the vial down on the ground.
The man raised his hands toward the sky and a fierce wind blew through the openings of the building, each girl began to struggle to free themselves when they felt the dark energy growing around them. As they tried to free themselves Flora looked over at the man to see a black energy surrounding both of his hands as he lowered them, he then bent down and grabbed the vial before turning to look at the three girls still chained to the wall.
"Per tribus et legare vis tibi," The man began as the vial began to glow in his hands, "Quod vires flamma, flower, and music in unam societatem."
"Stop this!" Bloom yelled barely being able to her herself over the wind.
"Voco, vocare foras lux et tenebrae super virtutibus exterminatore," The man continued to chant, "De vita in manibus universi. Ex tribus est unus!"
After finishing the chant the vial began to float up into the air before it began to glow brighter. A few moments later the vial exploded with a massive amount of light forcing everyone to close their eyes. Flora was the first to be able to open her eyes and when she did she saw the silhouette of a fairy floating where the vial had been. Before the vision of the fairy became any clearer Flora could see a pair of fireballs flying from the fairies hands toward her two friends. The impact of the fireballs into Musa and Bloom sent them flying backward through the wall that they were chained to.
"Bloom, Musa." Flora called out as she tried to turn to see if her friends were ok.
"Oh don't worry they will be alright." A voice said causing Flora to turn her head back toward where the fairy was.
When her vision finally turned upon the other girl Flora was shocked at what she saw. The fairy floating in front of her had long honey colored hair up into elegant pigtails; she had a tan skin completion and looked at Flora with a single jade colored left eye and a cyan colored right eye. She was wearing a high waist, hip length frock that was magenta colored with violet trimming, on her arms were a pair of pink shoulder length translucent gloves. Her large butterfly wings were golden with a purple edge around them, on her feet were a pair of cyan barefoot sandals, she was also wearing two sets of blue, heart shaped barrettes on either side of her head in addition to earrings of the same color and shape.
"Who are you?" Flora asked as she looked at the girl floating in front of her.
"I am the one that was created from the three of you," The girl said, "You can call me Tamara." Tamara smiled at Flora, "Now what is your name?"
"Her name is Flora." The man with the robe said weakly.
"I didn't ask you." Tamara yelled as she grabbed the man with the robe by the neck with her right hand.
She lifted him up off of the ground causing the hood of the robe to fall from his head.
"Palladium!" Flora yelled when she noticed who the man was.
"So you know this man." Tamara said as she turned to look at Flora.
"Yes he had gone missing while he was here on Linphea." Flora said.
"So do you care about him?" Tamara asked as she grabbed Palladium's right arm with her left hand and let go of his neck.
"He is one of my Professors!" Flora yelled, "I care for all of them."
"That's too bad." Tamara said as she grabbed onto the same arm with her other hand.
Tamara flew higher into the air before letting go of Palladium's arm letting him fall down to the ground below. Flora flinched when she heard a snap as he hit the ground. Tamara then floated back down to the ground landing with both feet on Palladium's chest. As she stood there she turned to look at Flora with a smile on her face before she began to jump on his chest, after a few jumps Flora could hear a few snaps happening each time that Tamara landed on Palladium's chest. Palladium looked over at Flora with before he began to cough sending blood falling to the floor from his mouth.
Tamara jumped off of Palladium's chest onto the ground; she walked over near his head and looked down at the man laying below her before she smiled at him. As he looked at her he watched as she slowly placed her foot over his throat. He could feel the pressure as she began to put more weight on his neck. Palladium tried to reach up with his arms to remove her foot from his neck but they would not move.
"Stop it your going to kill him!" Flora yelled as she watched helplessly chained to the wall.
Tamara turned to look at Flora as she applied more pressure onto Palladium's neck causing him to begin to gasp for air. After a few more moments of standing on Palladium's neck both people could hear a sickening snap as her foot finally crushed Palladium's throat. A smile began to grow on Tamara's foot as she lifted her foot off of his throat. She walked over next to Flora as she looked at the shocked look on the nature fairies face.
"Why did you do that?" Flora asked as Tamara neared her.
"I did it because he answered a question that I asked you Flora." Tamara said as she placed her right hand on Flora's chin.
"Get away from me." Flora said as she tried to pull away from Tamara.
"I just need some information," Tamara said as she clutched her fingers around Flora's jaw, "Leach Seed."
After a few seconds Tamara released her grip on Flora's jaw.
"Thanks for the memories," Tamara said as she looked at the fairy hanging in front of her, "But now I can't let you remember me for now."
Tamara cupped Flora's chin forcing her to look directly at her. She then placed her lips on top of Flora's lips before placing her right hand onto Flora's forehead.
"Now my dear this is all going to seem like a dream to you," Tamara said after removing her lips from Flora's, "Dreaming Song."
Tamara took a step back away from Flora and watched as she slowly closed her eyes. She floated up into the air a few feet away from Flora and snapped her fingers causing the chains to disappear letting Flora collapse down to the floor below where she was just hanging.
"We will see each other again my dear Flora." Tamara said as she flew up out of the building.
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Translation of the Latin in the chapter:
Per tribus et legare vis tibi, (With the power of three I bequeath thee)
Quod vires flamma, flower, and music in unam societatem. (The powers of Flame, Flower, and Music join into one)
Voco, vocare foras lux et tenebrae super virtutibus exterminatore (I call on the powers of light and darkness to summon forth the destroyer)
De vita in manibus universi. Ex tribus est unus! (The life of the universe is now in her hands. From three comes one!)