Chapter 13 - Invitation and Irritation

Alfea

"So how was it?" Stella asked cornering her just as she stepped through the doorway.

"It was nice, we danced and ate then we went home, Stella, nothing special." Flora answered toeing off her now acheingly sore sandals.

"Riven behaved himself?" Musa asked as she joined them.

"No, more than usual." Was Flora's reply.

"That's not saying much for improvement" Musa told her frowning.

"It's Riven, Musa. His idea of impressing a girl is showing up late in his uniform with an excuse ready for why he doesn't want to go anywhere." Stella countered.

"He's not that bad..." Musa defended but Stella just raised a brow, "ok, he that bad and sometimes worse." Musa winced, "But he can come up with some awesome ideas for dates." She defended dreamily, "I remember when he surprised me with..." She suddenly realized everyone's eyes were watching her intently "Nevermind..." She said suddenly and bolted for her room. The door snapped closed behind her.

"We'll talk later." Stella said as she followed Musa's example and to her room. Not if I can help it.

Next Day

"Alright, ladies, we have some special guests... I'd like to welcome, Red Fountain's advance chemistry class. They will joining us today as we will be combining Magic with Science!" Pro. Paladiam said as he summoned a list from his desk and began to call off names;

"Daniela, your partner will be Maxam. Rachel, Mica will assist you. Andrea, how about Lance." He continued to call off names when he finial got to the last name, " Flora ' you will be parterned with...Drav?" He paused waiting to be corrected but the Specialist just nodded allowing the Professor to continued, "now that you each have a partner , your assignment is to construct a locater spell by merging science and fairy magic. You will have till Friday to complete the project. Now, than let's break into groups." He clapped his hands together.

Flora was a bit hesitant, Drav gave off a powerful Alpha male aura. He made her extremely nervous unlike Helia, who had the inapt ability to ease her mind and soothe her worries. While Drav seemed perfectly polite when he took her hand and kissed it in the same fashion as Helia but unlike Helia. Drav's lips lingered a bit longer than was polite of new acquits, before saying " Its an honor to be partnered with one of the Winx girls, I saw you in combat last year. Your were truly magnificent." Flora blushed a crimson scarlet that she was surprised that she didn't combust.

"Thank you but it was more than my friends doing the fighting..." she blushed, "Anyhow, we should get to work. Let's start with the basic of a locater spell. Such direction and mapping,"

"That's where I come in I can have a M.G.P.S. built by Tuesday morning, we can have your nature ability linked with the device as a sort of verbal guide so you don't need to keep looking at the screen to see your location and it can warn you away from areas where a eminent threat may lay in wait. What do you think?"

"I think its doable." She replied, "While you work on the locater, I can have the spell ready by the time your finished. We can meet at Red Fountain on Tuesday, I have a class to teacher over there about mid-afternoon."

"That sound just fine, which room are you in?" Drav asked.

"305."

"Great, I'll see you than." He said as the bell rang.

Tuesday at Red Fountain - Flight Deck

"Guys!" Timmy shouted as he came running through all the activety, a flyer clutched in his hand.

"What, Mainframe?!" Riven replied as he changed converter belts. While, Sky and Brandon held the blast proof cover and Helia sat on a roller stool handing him the tools.

"They just announced the annual Hercules Ball!" Timmy cheered.

"Yes!" Brandon and Sky shouted.

"Oh... just great." Riven mumbled.

"Whats the Hercules Ball?" Helia asked looking from each teammate.

"Its the equivalent oof the Alfea Mixer but more formal. Ya, know tuxedos and ballgowns. But its guys asked the girls." Riven said filling him in, "Its a huge pain cause if you don't want to go but a girl you've been flirting with wants to go, you run the risk of insulting her by not going or you just go to make her happy..." Riven let's out a sigh.

"I see you learnt from last years mistakes, you put allot of thought into it." Brandon inquired.

"I saw them post it two days ago..."

Riven was cut off by Helia shouting, "TWO DAYS AGO! The dance is Saturday!" Helia finally had a reason to asked Flora out and have her comfortable since her friends were going to be there, "Why didn't you say so sooner!?" Helia asked freaking out that he might be too late.

"I did. Told Musa about it and she said that she was the DJ. I'm going, just to keep guys from making a pass at her." Riven scouled.

"Why didn't you tell US sooner?!" Helia shouted.

"Why would i?" Riven returned and went back to his work, as the rest stared between the two specialists, all unwilling try and break the building tension. The guys went back to work in muted silence.

Defensive Offensive

"Alright, everyone today will be used asked a study hall. For those didn't hand in their research assignment." Flora said asked the class finally settled down,"Those have completed their assignment may help someone else or work on assignments from a another class." a small portion of the class cheered while the rest groaned. Oddly enough Helia seemed to be little out of it. As he was writing something into his notebook. It worried Flora, she knew all her friends had been invitation to the ball at Red Fountain, yet she waited for a certain someone to ask her. But nothing, Flora let out a quiet sigh and went back to grading papers, while she waited for Drav to show up. Thirty minutes passed, then forty.

It was thirty minutes before class ended, when he finally showed up. Most of the guys had finished their assignments and were helping Riven. Drav knocked on the door frame. She could tell that they didn't care for Drav's presents by the way they all went stiff. At the sight of him leaning against the door frame.

"Hello, Gorgeous." He purred, Helia's head snapped up at the tone of his voice, "Sorry, I got held up with talking to one of my instructers. Here's my part of the locater spell." He walked over and laid what looked like a cellphone on the deck. Then, perched himself on a corner of the desk. "Now where's yours?"

"Right, here..." she waved her hands over the cellphone, and spoke, "locatius amorius trackius tracius..." as a green light engulfed the phone than vanished.

"Impressive..." he murmered.

"Thanks..." Flora replied.

"Ya know we should probably test it out," he said picking the phone, "locate Ms. Faragonda."

"Ms. Faragonda can be found in Headmistress office." An automated voice replied, a roar of applause broke out in the class except for Brandon, Sky, Timmy, Riven and oddly Helia.

Just as she was about to ask what was wrong, Drav leaned over the desk and asked,"There's a dance going on here on Saturday, would you go with me as my date?", there was several loud snaps. She turned to see that all the guys had snapped their pencils in half.

"I'll have to think about it." Flora replied not quite sure why she was hesitating, maybe it could be how Sky and the guys reacted to his invite that made her uneasy.

"Okay, but don't think about it too long." He said slyly and strode from the room.

She waited a moment then asked, "Alright, what's wrong with him?"

Everyone said the same word..., "NOTHING!" But Helia stared at the blackboard (Chalk board for those to young to remember) seeing nothing at all.

"I see..." was all she said.

To Be Continued

What will Flora's answer be to Drav?

Will Helia pluck up the courage to ask Flora?

Who will she choose or will she have to?

Next time in Dances and Dates...