Chapter 9
Running through the streets of Magix Flora was getting scared that she would not find Miele. Turning down one of the side streets she would continue to run into people as she searched for her missing sister. "Miele where are you?" Flora yelled as she continued to run down the street.
Nearing a small flower garden in the park Flora saw a young girl wearing a white dress with her orange hair up in a ponytail. Rushing over to the young girl she quickly turned her around and wrapped her into a tight hug.
"Miele, I finally found you," Flora said with tears slowly flowing from her eyes, "You don't know how scared you made me. Where did you go? Why did you leave Alfea?"
"Excuse me miss." The young girl said as she pulled away from Flora, "My name is Claire not Miele."
Flora looked down to see a puzzled look in the brown eyes of the young girl. "I…I'm sorry." Flora said as she took a step away from Claire, before turning away from the young girl and running off.
"She was really weird." Claire said as she watched Flora running off into the distance.
Turning the corner Flora leaned against a nearby wall, images of the worst flashing through her mind. She imagined Miele hurt, or bruised, lost and alone, crying and finally heard her yelling her name. It rolled through her skull as tears filled her eyes and she slid down the wall. "Where are you?" She asked, placing both hands to her eyes to cover her face. "Where are you?" beep, beep. The familiar ring of her phone sounded and she wiped some tears from her eyes as she slowly pushed herself to her feet. "I'm sorry to whoever called but I don't have time to talk."
Flora rushed out of the park into the main city of Magix as she continued to look for her sister. The fear of not knowing where her sister was was breaking the flower fairies heart. Walking down a dark street Flora walked by a building with the words Dragon Fang high above the doors. She could see a pair of large men standing outside the door making sure that no one tried to break in while the club was closed.
"Excuse me," Flora said to one of the two people.
"Move along," One of the two men said.
"I…I just need a little help to find my sister." Flora replied.
"We told you to move along." The other man said, "So move along before we fucking make you move along."
A loud bang made Flora jump as she peered through the side alley at a man wiping the dust from his hands, a large old rug now towering from below on an angle. With another warning glance from the men she walked down the street further and bumped into someone. Something hit the cement and she bent down to pick up her phone before apologizing and continuing on her way. Turning it on to make sure that it wasn't broken she saw ten missed calls from Helia and quickly checked her voice mail.
"Flora where are you? Miele was taken from your room and is now here at the hospital. Call me as soon as you get this message." Her eyes widened and Flora transformed as quickly as she could before she flew to the hospital, hoping that her sister was all right.
Landing outside the park Icy walked in and walked to an empty area before sitting on a lone bench. Taking a few deep breaths Icy leaned back and looked up into the sky. Placing her hand over her eyes she shook her head before a small chuckle escaped from her lips. "I can't believe that she told me to take that stupid little pixie back to Alfea."
"And I knew that you never would." A voice said from somewhere.
Quickly standing to her feet Icy looked around to see that no one was around. Slowly sitting back on the bench Icy took another deep breath. "Why am I jumping at a voice inside my head?" Icy quietly asked herself, "This stupid girl is just one fairy nothing more. When I return back to that stupid club I am going to beat the sense back into Darcy and then we can beat that idiot pixie."
Unknown to Icy standing in the shade of trees Tamara was standing with a smile on her face. "Time to pay for what you did to Miele," she whispered as she raised her left hand toward the witch of ice.
"Time to go back and the kill that girl," Icy said with a smile on her face as she stood up.
Walking a few steps away from the bench Icy tripped on something causing her to fall face first on the ground before feeling a stinging sensation in her legs. Looking at both legs she could see a pair of thorn covered vines slowly wrapping around her. As they continued to climb up her legs the vines continued to increase in tightness.
"What's going on?" Icy questioned as she turned her hands toward the vines to freeze them.
Before the energy in her hands could be released two more vines quickly grew out of the ground and wrapped around the witches arms. Icy could feel the thorns digging into the flesh of her arms as they were pulled in tightly against her body causing her to lose the energy that had started to build in them.
"You should have listened to me." Tamara said as she slowly walked out of the shadow of the trees.
"Let me go." Icy yelled out.
"Why would I want to do that?" Tamara asked as she tilted her head.
The sight before Icy blurred as the vines began to move. She screamed out in pain as her back collided with one of the trees. Tamara's tongue tutted over Icy's scream as a large piece of back pierced through her back. "You hurt Miele, so I have to hurt you," she explained simply before smiling and walking around the tree, as a large pool of crimson red began to spread below the ice witch.
"She is not the only one that I am going to hurt." Icy spat as she looked at Tamara.
Icy twisted her arm to grab onto one of the vines causing a large thorn to dig into the palm of her hand. A smile appeared on her face as she could feel the vines around her start to become ice cold and brittle. A few seconds later Icy's vision blurred again as she fell to the ground free from the vines that were imprisoning her.
The witch of Icy slowly began to stand up only to feel vines slowly wrapping around her legs again. Shooting blasts of ice a small smile appeared on her face as each vine froze before shattering into small shards of ice.
"You should not have done that." Tamara said with anger in her voice.
"Why not?" Icy asked with a sarcastic voice before sending a few shards of ice at the fairy before her.
Caught slightly off guard Tamara managed to catch the three shards with her bare hands before melting them with fire. She smirked before spinning, using fire to scorch the ground just enough to melt the surrounding snow, allowing her access to her vines again. Running forwards she shot a fire attack straight at Icy's chest, sending the witch into a new tree where a new wave of thorns; with twice the strength as before, wrapped her arms to her body from her knees to her neck. She didn't dare move as pain slowly filled all her senses and every breath caused her skin to bleed. "You really didn't think that you could beat me, did you?"
"Yeah, I did." Icy smiled before spitting blood onto Tamara's shirt.
Tamara smirked, walking to the witch and leaning close to her face, watching the witch struggle to look her in the eye. "Such a pathetic witch…but so beautiful, it's a waste really."
Tamara cupped her hand around Icy's chin lifting the witch's vision to look directly into her eyes. A smile appeared on her face as she saw the defiant pale blue irises.
"What the fuck are you doing?" Icy asked as she tried to pull free of Tamara's hand.
"Not much," Tamara replied with a seductive voice, "I just thought that you were really beautiful."
The witch was surprised as Tamara's lips touched her own but that disappeared when all she felt was pain. An unusual warmth filled her chest, something that the ice witch hadn't felt for a long time. Suddenly her lips felt warm and she stopped her breathing, her heart beat faster and faster making her body began to shake violently against her restraints.
The witch's eyes opened wide and Tamara smiled, continuing the assault when she felt it, the cold breath from the witch pass from her lungs and into her own.
She parted and watched as the witches head fell forward.
"Such a shame," she sighed, "But a necessary sacrifice."
"Where do you think you're going?" Icy asked with a weak voice, "We're not done yet."
"Yes, we are." Tamara replied before snapping her fingers.
The witch's eyes grew wide as she felt the thorns from the vines extend through her flesh. A blood curdling scream was heard throughout the entire park as Tamara slowly walked away from Icy's body.
Flora's feet pounded against the hallway as she rushed down the hallway to Miele's room, panic filling her chest. She saw Helia standing outside and increased her pace. "Helia, where is she?"
"She's being checked out right now." Helia replied.
"Wha…what happened to her?" Flora asked with a worried voice, "How did she end up here?"
"The doctor thinks that she has a sprained arm." Helia answered as he wrapped his arms around Flora, "And she just showed up here a little while ago."
"What the hell are you doing back here?" A voice yelled from the distance.
Both Flora and Helia turned their visions down the hall to see Stella standing at the other end of the hall. The sun fairy quickly moved down the hall and punched Flora in the face knocking her to the floor.
"I…I thought that I told you to never come back." Stella said with anger in her voice.
"Miele is here hurt." Flora said as she looked up with blood running from her nose.
"So now you hurt your own little sister." Stella yelled, "You're such a monster, get out of here. She does not need to see you ever again."
"Stella Flora did not." Helia began.
"Why are you trying to defend this bitch?" Stella yelled as she turned to look at Helia, "She has killed one of her childhood friends, she has hurt Brandon and Sky, and now she has hurt her own sister." Stella turned her vision back toward Flora, "If you do not get out of here now I will make you pay for everything that you have done." Stella turned to leave before looking over her shoulder, "The only reason that I am letting you go right now and not attacking you is because Bloom asked me not to."
"Let me help you," Helia sighed, leaning down and wrapping his arms around Flora before helping her to her feet. She looked into his blue eyes seeing love still in them while still pinching the bridge of her nose. "I'm sorry she did that."
"Don't be," Flora replied. "She's angry, better that she punched me then someone else."
"We better get you checked out," Helia replied, watching her left eye slowly start to bruise before leading her to the nurse's station.
After having her nose bleed stopped tears started to flow from Flora's eyes.
"Is everything okay Flora?" Helia asked as he wrapped his arm around her shoulders.
"I…I think I should go." Flora replied with sadness in her voice, "I don't wan…want to cause any more problems."
"But what about Miele?"
"I…I can't take her with me," Flora said as she looked to the ground, "I can't have her living like that." She turned to look at Helia with compassion in her eyes. "Please take care of her." Slowly standing to her feet as the tears continued to flow, "And tell the girls goodbye and that I love them all."
Before Helia could say a thing he watched as Flora ran out the door of the hospital.
"How dare that bitch come back here," Stella said as she entered into Brandon's room.
"Who came back here?" Sky asked.
"Flora," Stella replied with anger in her voice, "Now she has hurt her own sister."
"That can't be," Bloom said with a shocked voice, "She would never hurt Miele."
"It's true but I gave her what she deserved," Stella replied, punching a fist into her open hand.
"What did you do?" Bloom yelled.
"Don't worry, I just gave her what she needed, a good punch in the face."
Brandon began to move in his bed, when Stella saw this she quickly rushed to Brandon's side pushing Bloom out of her way. "Brandon everything is okay, she will never hurt you again." Stella said as she wrapped her hands around the young Specialist's hands.
"You…you're not Flora," he called out as sweat began to form on the brow of his forehead.
"What is he talking about?" Sky asked and Stella shook her head. "I have no idea…what does he mean she wasn't Flora?"
"Sta…Stay away from me." Brandon yelled as Stella tightened her grip on his hands.
"Calm down Brandon." Stella pleaded as he began to toss violently.
"Get…get away from me." Brandon yelled out as his eyes shot open before he sat up.
"Brandon!" Stella yelled as she wrapped her arms around him.
Everyone could see the young Specialist wince in pain from his girlfriend's hug.
"Don't worry honey," Stella said quietly. "I will never let Flora place another hand on you ever again."
"It wasn't Flora that did this." Brandon replied with pain in his voice.
"Of course it was," Stella said. "You're just in shock and are not thinking clearly."
"No I am thinking clearly." Brandon said as he slowly lifted his hand to his head.
"Brandon obviously you're not thinking clearly," Sky replied from where he was standing, "You know as well as we do that she would be the only one that could get close enough to you to do what she did."
"Brandon's right," a small voice began, making everyone in the room turn to see Miele and Helia. "It wasn't Flora."
"Yes it was dear she's the one who hurt you."
"No Icy did…" Miele replied, becoming visibly upset and Stella stormed out when Bloom asked her to keep her opinions to herself. With Stella gone Miele continued.
"What happened, Miele?" Sky ushered.
"I was taken from Flora's room, by the witch with cloud like hair and was taken to this place in Magix."
"What place?" Helia asked, kneeling next to the little one, knowing that she was referring to Stormy.
"I think it was a club, and when we got there this other woman got mad. She looked like Flora but she wasn't her. She was really strong and powerful and she beat the witches and told them to take me back…Icy was the one who hurt me. She might have looked like Flora, but that was definitely not her."
"You have got to be kidding me." Stella replied as she re-entered the room, "Brandon is still not healed enough to remember what happened, and Miele is so traumatized that she is coming up with a story that would make it seem like her sister did not do that to her." Stella was pointing at the wrapped right arm on the little girl.
"Stella tell me this," Helia said as he turned his vision toward the Sun fairy, "If Flora is the type of monster that you are making her seem would she ask me to make sure that Miele is alright?" He stood up and took a step toward the blonde standing in the doorway. "And would she tell me to tell you all goodbye and that she loves you all with tears in her eyes?"
"I…She." Stella stuttered trying to figure out what to say.
"Listen Stella," Bloom said. "Let's go get the other girls and find Flora so we can find out what is going on with this person that looks like her."
"So you believe that there is a second person that looks just like Flora?" Stella questioned.
"I am not sure," Bloom replied, "But I would rather believe that my friend did not do all of this then think that she did." Bloom walked out of the room before Stella turned to look at her friend.
"Fine," Stella said. "But if we find out that Flora really did all of this then I will make her pay for what she did to Brandon and her own sister."
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