(Bloom POV)
"Flora… Flora, please just listen to me I am really sorry." I yell in the dark. I hear the clack of high heeled shoes on the coble stone. I catch up to her and she turns around with tear stained cheeks.
"For what ruining my big news or being a terrible friend for the past years." She says searching my eyes and I bow my head.
"Flora, look I'm sorry-" She cuts me off.
"Are you… I tried for two long years to contact you but you only came to me when you needed help. We were so close that year we taught at Alfea and then you all of a sudden just left, up and vanished. You didn't even try to make an effort to stay in touch."
"That's not true, I came to your wedding and I really did try to stay in touch it's not that easy when you live in a cave."
"So once, you came for my wedding. What about my birthday party or Stella's or Musa's. The balls that I always got you invited to. You never showed up."
"Where did this come from- Look, Flo , I am not going to fight with you, calm down this isn't good for the baby… just sit down for a bit." I say soothingly.
"No, I just want to go home." She says while crying. I nod. She takes out her phone while still crying and finding it hard to catch her breathe
"Flora, just relax and sit down, I'll call Heila to pick you up." I gesture and she looks sceptical but then reaches out and hands me the phone. She sits down on the nearest bench, right near her favourite Sunabeam roses and fiddles with her hands.
I turn around and am about to make the call but someone is standing inches away from my face.
"King Miler-" I try to form the words before I am cut off by a sharp pinch of the skin in my neck. He is injecting me with something. He removes the needle and I instantly feel drowsy.
"Have a nice sleep Bloom" He whispers and moves past me. And I turn around with much effort. Two guards with dark brown amour roughly take Flora by her forearms.
"What is this-" Flora's voice becomes muffled my the guards hands, and so does her screams. I find some energy to move forward.
"Wait!" I yell weakly and King Miler looks at me and slaps me across the face, and thats all it takes to fall into the bushes, hitting my head on the ground in the processes. Although through the leaves I can see them dragging away Flora. But I can't do anything, what are they-
"Bloom-Bloom wake up…come on" Someone is yelling in my face and shaking me, I don't like the gesture. I open my eyes slowly letting some light in. I make out Stella's face. I squint and try to get up. Stella helps me to sit up, my legs stretched out in front of me. I am on the floor of the meeting room, the cold marble makes me shiver.
"What the fu-" I start to say, before Stella intervenes.
"Hey are you okay, do you need some ice or something" Stella says and I look her in the eye, trying to piece things together. I keep waking up in strange places. But then the dream, or more like memory comes flooding back.
"Flora" I say hoarsely, my eyes widen.
Stella looks up at Brandon , everyone has gathered around in a circle around me.
"Sweetie I know, we are going to find her-" Stella says softly and squeezing my hand.
"No, No I know what happened" I say , I feel really drowsy, my head is pounding and my ears slightly ringing.
"Honey, you hit your head badly do you want to lie down-" Stella persists and I shake my head.
"No! I know who took who, he took her last night." I say more strongly and Stella looks at me confused.
"Okay, what are you talking about?" Stella shakes her head now. I frantically try to get up but I am swaying in the process.
"Whoa, Okay Bloom take it easy, you were out for a few minutes" Brandon says and puts his hand under my arms and helps me up.
Layla pulls out a chair and I managed to sit in it with the help of the table. Easing myself, I look over to Heila who keeps his distance. Wait , why did Heila hit me… Oh… because Sky is an idiot, I remember.
"Bloom, you said he took her, who?" Stella sits on the chair beside me and speaks to me gently.
"I was with Flora at the gardens last night, we were fighting…" I drift off and collect my memory's again" Then I was about to call Heila with Flo's phone and then he injected me with this thing and then the guards took Flora and he slapped me and I fell in the bushes and they took her away."
"Bloom who was it?" Musa comes across the room.
"King Miler" I say loudly and look up at very confused faces. Sky I see standing a good distance from Heila, glares at me
"He wouldn't do that." Sky says sternly eyeing me with a dangerous look.
" Well he did, I have the bump to prove it." I say.
"And the mark on her neck" Tecna says and I feel a finger touch the side of my neck and I yelp from the pain.
"Sorry" Techna whispers.
"He wouldn't do that, you must have seen someone else" Sky repeats and keeps his gaze on me.
"Then why did I find this in the gardens when I woke up in the fricking rose bushes this morning." I say and reach into my pockets and pull out the raven feather. King Miler has a robe that is made of these feathers. Sky's eyes widen, and he knows that evidence doesn't lie.
"So, that could be a feather from someone else." Sky defends.
"Who else do you know who wears a robe like this… I told you what King Miler does Sky, and that why we have to stop him before he does something to Flora-"
"Fine" Sky finishes the conversation. We glare at each other for a minute. He then shakes his head with a helpless laugh and walks out of the room. My angry fires up and I want to storm after him but Stella shove me back into my seat.
"Ah, no you don't, I am surprised you didn't slip into a coma with that fall." Stella says with a nervous laugh. I roll my eyes. Heilia then comes closer to me and has a very apologetic look on his face . I speak up before he can say anything.
"Don't Heilia, we don't have time for that and I deserve it after what I did yesterday and not being able to stop that psych path." I say sternly.
"Bloom none of his is your fault." Musa says softly.
"Its doesn't matter who's fault it is, we are going to Bentonon right now." Stella announces and we all nod and I get up from my seat a little too quickly. I sway when I see black dots dance around my vision.
"Hang on, who's said you going." Stella says and I manage to move before she can push me back into my seat again.
"Of course I am going, I'm fine." I protest and shuffle on my feet again, I feel dizzy.
"Bloom sit down-"Stella says calmly.
"I am going!" I scream and walk by myself out of the castle, with my backpack. I go back to the gardens and search though the bushes until I find a familiar phone with a floral case. Flora's Phone.
"Bloom?"
I nearly fall and hit my head again. I get out of the bushes and whip my head around.
"Nabu?, ah hey, I wasn't expecting to see you here."
"I just checking to see if you're alright, and I guess you figured out what happened last night." Nabu sounds concerned.
"You were there…" I realize.
"Yes, but after I followed King Miler and his guards. They took her to the palace, keeping her in this weird dungeon, or more like room. The walls a basically windows so it's filled with light."
"But that doesn't make sense…" I think to myself, if they wanted to make Flora weak they would keep her in a dark room. With now natural light, she can't live without it, she is the nature fairy after all. Then the most dreadful tough hits me.
"Nabu, did you hear about anything else about what they wanted from her." I ask frantically.
"Just something King Miler said, It needs to be done tomorrow, tomorrow or it's too late. But what does that have to do with anything."
"He's sacrificing her…" I whisper, processing everything. "I need to go now."
"Bloom you're still hurt" Nabu follows me but I just shake my head.
"It doesn't matter, he's going to kill her, there's no stopping me."