THE WAIT IS OVER

Chapter 11 – Letters and Lies

Red fountain

"Hey, guys it looks like we're dateless tonight!" Sky announced as closed his phone,"the girls are going to Gardenia."

"Going where?" Riven sneers revoltingly.

"Bloom's home realm." Brandon interjected. Before Sky went on a tare.

"Ohhh...whatever" Riven went back to polishing his helmet, just as Helia walked in.

"What's going on?" He asked looking from Sky and Brandon to riven sitting cross legged on his bed.

"The girls are going on a trip." Sky replied tearing his eyes from Riven.

"Oh" was all he said before he flopped down on his bed. "Well, I'm gonna go for a walk through the forest. So, if my uncle asks 'I'm running 20 miles around Black Mud Swamp.' Got it?" He inquired.

"Got it!" They answered as Helia stripped off his uniform and all but climbed into his civilian clothes.

"Catch you later!" He said as he fled the overly-testosterone driven room. And made his way down the steps head towards the woods.

Alfea

"FLORA!" Chatta roared, for such a tiny person, she could really make a lot of noise.

"Yes, Chatta?" Flora asked as the pixie came to float beside her.

"Why are still here? The others are going to Earth with Bloom. You and Tecna are the only ones still here! Why?!" the pixie babbled.

"Tecna and I still have some classes that we need to attend." Flora answered, "Besides, Layla really needed to get away for a little while." Chatta nodded her head, "Now, I've got a Natural Spell Casting class with Wizgiz, see ya." Flora said heading towards the forest for class.

I'm glad she finally got the whole helia subject. Seeing as I haven't seen him since class Tuesday afternoon.

Flashback

"Alright since everyone thought I was kidding around about your essays. You'll each give the name of the last user of your weapon. If you can not, I will have you each after till your assignment is completed. Any questions?" She observed no raised hands and sighed, "Very well...Timmy!" "Artemis the great was the last known user of a sai." He tried not to stumble over his as, the girl he knew as a kind and soft spoken. Now looked as if she was about to breathe fire even a dragon would fear.

"Correct..." She said with no more feeling then a school teacher hoping he would get it wrong and was disappointed that he didn't. But the others had groaned added more fuel to the fire burning behind her green eyes. "Riven!"

He jolt out of his slumber with the sharp snap of her voice "ahhhh, dragon's breathe..." He answered stupidly not having caught the question. "Incorrect, I'll see you after classes are finished bring any research material you might need." "Aaa ahhhh, why?" He inquire not sure what made such a patient fairy turn into a bloodthirsty harpy. "Ask someone who was awake!" She snapped making him flinch. "Brandon!" She barked. The poor guy looked as if he was about meld with the floor, when he shook his head vigorously. She looked about to scream. "Sky!" She shouted losing her cool. "Andra Regulus was the last katana user ever recorded." "Correct!" She replied then turned her eyes upon Helia. All she did was raise an elegant eyebrow at him. "The former user of the Bo is actually unknown due to the fact that he lived far away from the prying eyes of society. Where the user chose to master his craft. Even after his death historian we're unable to identify the man from his few possession. Still today no one knows who the man was." The room was silent for so long Helia feared he had gotten it wrong, till Flora started to clap and taking point from her the rest the of the class joined in. "That was indeed the hardest weapon to research. I'm glad you didn't give up and took an alternate route and focused on the legend and lore of your weapon instead of hard facts. Good work!" She admonition as she patted him on the shoulder. Helia's ears turned a furiously brilliant red. That went unnoticed by her but had caused Riven to roar in a fit of laughter.

End of Flashback

Flora took out the letter from inside and turned it over in her hands before shoving it roughly back into the book. Just as Flora was about to pass through a near by clearing some movement from the corner of her eye caught her attention her turned to see what and jumped as it was Helia meditating. She dropped her books, as she neatly bent down to scoop up her books.

Helia broke from his meditation. Having heard a noise he was unsure of what it was only to find flora collecting her books. "Sorry I didn't mean to startle you..." Helia said shyly as he picked up her copy of "Magix's plants and creatures: natives and otherwise" "You didn't some much as, you surprised me." She stuttered out stumbling over each word. "Still..." Helia said then froze he clutched the book in his hand, only just realizing that he also held a lover's note in his hand. He hearted rate pulsed uncontrollably at the thought of who had given her it and if he was too late... "Thanks." Flora quickly snatched the envelope from his hand and roughly crammed it into the book. "Look like you've got to a secret admirer." Helia teased half heartedly. With her mind somewhere else it took a moment for Flora to register what he had said. When finally click into place, she replied with a terse denial "No, not mine. Girl in my potions class dropped it. She's in my next class so I figured I give it to her then." Helia wasn't completely green when it came to interrogation tactics and knew when someone was lying. Flora was defiantly lying, and very poorly but what he didn't know. Was it really hers? Or was it from her? Did she have a crush? "I heard your friends went to Earth today." He blurted out before he drove himself crazy with those unanswered questions spinning out of control.

"Yeah, Bloom needed to talk to her parents and the rest wanted to get away from school for little while." Flora replied dusting some dirt off her books.

"Well, the guys are all dateless tonight so we were all going into Magix for some pizza. If you want...you could join us. We could always use buffer to keep Sky from bludgeoning Riven."

Flora chuckled, "There's no way to stop Riven."

"Still you would keep us from being. tossed out of the pizzeria." Helia huffed remembering the French fry war Riven start at White Horse, and ended up getting tossed out for two weeks.

"Are you sure the guys won't mind?" She asked.

"Absolutely!" After I tell them that we're getting pizza tonight, he thought. "It beats eating alone."

"I guess, than if they won't mind..." She hesitates a second , but than "Count me in!" She said with such fierce determination that left Helia no doubt that she would.

"Great, I'll give the guys a heads up!" He said as he strolled in the direction of the R.F. campus.

"Ok...bye!" She shouted at his retreating back. He gave, what seemed like a careless wave, but was near bursting at the seams with unbridled joy. And being one not to show his dealt hand, he made quick tracks to where he stashed his leva bike.

He was quickly discerning the best way to tell the guys that they were going for pizza with Flora.