(Bloom POV)
"Stella don't, I should have told him myself … Now girls" I force a smile" What's up?"
"Well, we came to put your mind at ease" Musa says as I approach the group again, still a little frustrated and shaky from mine and Sky's arguments.
"Well, It seems that it wasn't Valtor responsible for the destruction on the museum" Tecna states as I sit on the front steps of my house next to Layla.
"Girls, we both knew Valtor, and he moves like a ghost, he would leave no evidence of ever being there." I say with a sigh my problems dawning on me again.
"Well, Plan B then" Layla says getting up and all the girls assemble in front of me.
"And that's…" I say
"We go to the Museum and see for ourselves"
When we get to the Magix city it's crowed and a busy Friday night. People crowd the foot paths, wobbly and drunk. Stella, of course knew it was late night shopping, meaning more people to blend in with. We got a bite to eat before going to the museum, or what's left of it. Although it seems the Magic council guard had beat us to it and was standing in front creating a perimeter of five guards.
I had only been to the museum once, at a Realms History trip in Junior year. But know the golden and white building which is now burnt black and is crumbling at all sides.
"So what's the plan?" I ask, after all it was the girl's idea.
"Musa and Layla will distract the guards, we will enter through the staff entrance At the back." Tecna answers as we hide behind some bushes at the far end of the park across from the ruins. We all agree on the plan before Musa and Layla head out of the bushes, I don't know what they were planning on doing and I guess I will never know because Flora is already pulling me away.
I find it strange there is no guards at the dainty back staff entrance. The four of us race to the steel door and after a few tugs get it open. The bricks around it have crumbled and are black as coal.
"So, what are we looking for, I thought most things were destroyed by the fire" Stella asks no one in particular as we turn the corner of the Gimenia Firefly exhibit. The museum is nothing but scraps and ash with a few salvable pieces like chairs and cushions.
"Well, we look for anything that could establish that Valtor was here." Tecna reply's and she takes out a micro lady bug with emerald eyes. She lifts it up in her hand like you do when setting a bird free , it begins to hover in the air." This should do any finger, footprint and blood scans, but it might not be that effective because this place was burnt out."
The little bug shoots one light beam towards the ground and starts buzzing around the place, shining its light through the halls. We seem to trail it around the halls of the museum, but there is no sign of anything that would be suspicious.
"Maybe we should be looking for something else than, you guys could be right, Valtor could not be responsible for this. Fire has to start somewhere" I state as I kick over a piece of rubble.
" So your saying that if it necessarily wasn't someone's power it was a power of what…an object?" Flora asks coming closer to me from the long echoing corridors.
"Well I can program my little friend here, Bugite 4.6 to find a source reference of the fire." Tecna adds, whipping out here phone and tapping away at the screen. The silver floating bug comes back and its light flashing in and out before reprograming itself. It then zooms down a corridor we just past. We all look at each other before we are running to catch up.
"You couldn't have made it a fraction bit slower Tec" Stella huffs out before we skid around a corner.
"Sorry, all work on it" Tecna huffs back before the bug slows down in a drab dark corridor. The walls seem to be lined with peeling velvet and cracks that have formed in the stone. The Bugite turns in a doorway that at the top reads ORIGIN HISTORY ARTIFACTS and under that in small lettering THE PIECES THAT CREATED OUR DIMENSION OF MAGIC . We walk in and find it like most of the exhibits we pass, a bunch of broken stuff and rumble. I look up and see the night sky, the roof half collapsed on itself. Out of all the places, it the worst affected by the fire.
Tecna's Bugite flies over some pieces of rubble. It lands on a large piece and like a real insect crawls over it and pokes at a gap in the debris.
"What's it doing?" Stella whispers.
"I think its found something" Flora says and by lifting her hands she magically moves that piece of rubble with the bug flying off it as she does so. With a crash the rock lands on another pile to my left.
I walk over to the bigger gap now in the mound of debris and find something very familiar and I realize it to be the necklace. It is a long thick silver chain that carries a beautiful stone sapphire about the size of a toddlers fist. I am about to pick it up but stop myself.
"Bloom, what is it?" Flora asks as she approaches closer behind me.
"It's the necklace of Dinah, can you do me a favour and pick it up" I say and step back as Flora picks up the piece of jewellery. She holds it by the chain and lifts it to inspect it in the moon light.
"The necklace of Dinah, how do you know that?" Stella asks as she also gazes at the gem.
"Well, that's the necklace that use to hold the Dragon fire , well one of them." I fact.
"So why the name 'of Dinah'? " Flora asks as she finally takes her eyes of the necklace. I am about to reply with my knowledge when Tecna reads off her phone.
"The Necklace of Dinah is of the pieces of the Jewellery pairings of the first King and Queen of Sparks. The other necklace, Necklace of Enmity also including the Necklace of Dinah were believed to be made from the great dragon itself, from the stones of its nest. These stones enabled the King ,Enmity and his wife Dinah to contain the dragon fire in them. It was believed that the dragon fire was only aloud in one host stone at a time so when the other owner needed the power it was sent to the opposite stone creating a portal to transfer the power to one gem to the other." Tecna finishes and looks up.
"Yep, that about sums it up, okay lets go" I start for the door , knowing the questions that will follow.
"How did you know about these stones- Hang on does this have to do with the research on restoring Sparks." Stella says loudly making me cringe and face them again.
"Maybe, maybe not" I play.
"Bloom." Stella says more sternly.
"Maybe someone went looking for the Necklace of Enmity, and maybe after a 4 month search she found this piece of Jewellery … and maybe when she touched it , it caused the other one to activate and burn down a museum…maybe" I say cautiously and fearful, realizing in the end , Uther was right I might have burnt down this historical building, but not on purpose as Uther would love to think.
"Bloom!" They yell in unison, and I cringe, feeling guilty.
"Look, I had no intention of doing this" I say spreading my arms out at the destruction" I only realized now okay, somehow- like Tecna says it's a portal and my power transfered here in that necklace, but I summed it back because technically it belongs to me, not the stone anymore."
"Fine, Lets take this and get out of here… and let's not speak of this again." Tecna adds as we all head back the way we came.
After we explain everything to Layla and Musa at a coffee shop down town at midnight the girls go on debating about something a rather when Flora pulls me a side.
"Ah, Bloom have you thought about taking the Job yet, at Alfea?"
"Oh ,well…." I say , hesitating I guess it slipped my mind." I don't know Flo-"
"Bloom, I understand but, I think from what your resent investigations have caused, I think you should slow down your research for the time being. So Faragonda is having an interview with me tomorrow about the job and I think you should come talk to her to, just to see your options." Flora says kindly. I weigh my own options knowing she's right, I am responsible for the burning down of the museum and I do want to teach. Beside there has to be some info on Sparks in Alfea … and I need a job.
"Okay, I will, thanks Flo" I say with a reassuring smile and the rest of the night we talk about whatever we want and I let my troubles disappear into the night with my friends at my side.