Chapter 7: Arrival On Omega
Back in Omega, Tecna struggled as much as she could inside her chains, she was full of determination, but also fear. In the distance she could faintly hear the convicts talking, probably talking about what to do to her. Her chains were so tight that if she moved too much, which she was doing, they would dig into her wrists. The pain that they gave was intense and it didn't help how Tecna wouldn't stop trying to set herself free.
"We should be arriving at Omega in fifteen minutes", Brandon informed everyone. "We could've been there fifteen minutes ago if you'd let me fly!" Timmy unexpectedly snapped. "Timmy..." Flora began sympathetically. Nobody else said anything, they didn't want to get into a pointless argument that would be guiltily apologised for later. Ten minutes slowly ticked by. Then, the slight impact of the ship landing woke the passengers up from their daydream. Once everybody was out the ship, nobody wasted any time, Timmy, Sky, Helia and the Winx began to search for the nearest entrance. "Riven, I've finished locking the ship. Are you coming with me to catch up with the others?" Brandon asked his short-tempered friend. Riven just huffed in response before running to catch up with the rest of the group with Brandon following.
'Hey guys! I've found an entrance!", Stella yelled. They all crowded around a wide, deep, jagged hole in the ground. All they could see through the gap was endless tunnels, shelf-like-paths, sharp stalagmites, stalactites and terrifyingly deep looking holes. "I guess this is our entrance then" Bloom said nervously, before looking at Sky. "Okay everybody", Sky started "Let's go. Helia, do you have the rope?". Helia nodded in reply before wrapping it around a few rocks near the hole. One by one, the group slid down the rope. "Brrr… it's freezing down here. They clearly haven't improved their heating!" Stella joked but nobody else found it funny. Bloom then noticed that the cliff they were standing on formed a kind of path, an unsteady one, but a path. The group stared at the scene around them, this place brought back too many memories of the last time they were on this planet of ice. Stella gulped nervously as Musa bravely stepped forwards to begin their mission to save Tecna.
Eventually after a long time spent wriggling and pulling at chains, the brittle links snapped. Tecna huddled into herself to try to gain more body-heat before gazing around to see if the coast was clear, unfortunately a convict saw that she was free...