It's been 21 hours since I put out the 4th chapter. One new favorite/follow and over hundred or so new views. Unfortunately, no reviews at all. Maybe it will get I don't know, but if I do not end up getting any reviews for any future chapters, I'm not sure will I continue this story. I also uploaded same day the chapter 4 for split second (a Bakugan story I made). Got about the same reaction but unlike this I won't stop making it. The reason is that this story will be long about 30+ chapters once it is finally someday hopefully finished. Split second if I do the easier shorter version will be 10 chapters but if people like it much, I will make it a 15-chapter story. That's something that is possible to do even if not that many people read the story. If people do not read this story, then I will not be bothered to do a 30+ chapter story. Maybe I might shorten the chapters and end the story sooner to give this a somewhat of an ending but not the real one that I have planned. So, if you want me to continue this story make sure to review as that really motivates me. Now that this is said let's get to chapter 6 which will be here reviews or not.
We were on our way to the amphitheater where Griffin would make her announcement. I had no idea what it was going to be about, but it seems that Mirta does and she seems to be annoyed at it.
Lucy went to the amphitheater as soon as lunch ended so she would be waiting for us there. Whatever the announcement was going to be about Lucy seemed to be very excited about it.
Then suddenly, a spell was thrown towards us. Mirta barely dodged it falling in the process while I dodged it relatively easily. I looked around to see who threw that spell at us and found the culprit. A witch who is either a 2nd or a 3rd year who looked at us with menace.
She throws another spell which we both dodge easily.
"Back off!" I yelled as I threw a bit of fire at her which she dodged.
She ignored everything I just said to her and throws a spell at Mirta who uses her magic to counter her spell. I saw an opening and threw a small fireball at her which then lights up her jeans. She was able quickly with her magic to put out the fire I caused.
"I'm not targeting you. I'm targeting her." She says pointing at Mirta. "Well I'm not going to let you attack her either." I stated to her.
She just scoffs at it. "And tell me. Why are you helping this loser?" She asked me. "Because she is my friend." I simply respond and she begins laughing. "A friend with Mirta ha. That is the best joke I have heard this year." I can see Mirta get visibly angry and sad at the same time because of her statement.
She then finally stops laughing. "You serious?" She asked me which I angrily nod wanting to get away from her. "You are a first year, right?" She asks me which to I nod again. She then begins to walk towards me and points at Mirta.
"You probably didn't know that Mirta is the biggest loser in Cloud Tower. No witch with any self-respect would hang out with her." I was starting to get really pissed at how she was talking about my friend. "My advice to you would be to stop associating with her." She said to me and then walks off.
I look at Mirta and she was clearly hurt from what she said to her.
She gets up from the ground and we quietly begin to walk towards the amphitheater. Just as we are at the doors, she stops me. "Look Bloom I should have told you something before we became friends." She said not looking at me in the eyes.
"Because I want fairies and witches to get along people consider me to be weird and a loser. And by being friends with me you are losing your social standing in Cloud Tower." I remember that before classes started, I could approach other witches. However now they seem to ignore me. Is it because I'm hanging out with Mirta?
"So, I do not blame you if you want to stop being friends now." She said to me now looking at me in the eyes where I could see her watery eyes.
I put my hands on her shoulders and look at her in the eyes. "Mirta I don't care if it hurts my standing here or not. But I'm not going to abandon you." I say to her. Who cares if other witches do not want to be around me because I'm with Mirta. If they can't be with me because of her well, they wouldn't have ever been real friends. I'll rather be the loser witch with a real friend than the popular witch with no real friends.
"Thank you." She says as she hugs me. It's quite weird hugging her considering I have only known her for 3 days. But considering at how she is treated now she deserves all the care she gets. "Now let's go and see what Griffin has to say." I say to her as we finally make our way to the amphitheater.
The theatre was large with arena like seating and in the middle, there is a throne like chair, which is where Griffin would most likely be.
It seemed that Lucy had already reserved spots for us as we make our way to them. I could hear some chatter from the 2nd and 3rd years at how excited they were about this while other first years just talked about how creepy Griffin looked.
We both made our way toward the seats where Lucy had reserved spots for us and sat down next to her. Griffin then appeared and sat down on her chair.
"Young witches I know your first day of school is full of troublemaking. And now an exciting announcement." Is it just me or is Griffin encouraging troublemaking? "We will kick off the year with a schoolwide competition, which will be wicked." Witches around us including Lucy started to cheer. The only ones not cheering was Mirta who seemed to be annoyed and me because I was somewhat confused.
"The objective is simple and cruel, which is to sabotage Alfea's precious back to school dance." Oh no. So this is the event from the Trix's perspective. The event where the seeds that I was not a fairy were first planted. The event where I almost died by the doing of the Trix. And now I'm seeing it unfolding from the other side.
"You are all welcomed to suggest ideas. And the winners will receive a gift card." No thanks Griffin I won't risk the Winx finding me out for a gift card.
"It's up to you to turn their celebration into a catastrophe. I encourage you to be as witchy as possible." By now Mirta seemed beyond annoyed clearly having the same opinion on ruining Alfea's party while Lucy seemingly couldn't wait to start her plan. "Your proposals should be double spaced and bound. May the worst witch win." Griffin said finishing her speech with a grin.
"Maybe we would be invited to their party or have our own version with Red fountain if we didn't ruin their part all the time." Mirta had started this rant ever since we left the amphitheater. I do agree with her points, but even I'm getting annoyed at her rant.
Lucy ignored her rant and was just kept thinking of ideas how to ruin their party. I personally just used this time to study for the next classes.
Mirta finally seemed to end her rant and she picked up a book and began to read it as well.
It became quiet for about 30 minutes. Every now and then Lucy would tell one of her ideas on how to ruin their party. They were all terrible and either me and Mirta would point out one of the plans flaws and Lucy would then just start thinking of a new one.
Mirta read a book about potions while I read a book about history so I can catch up with the others. While I was slightly behind potions also it was nowhere near the levels I was when it came to history. In terms of potions I'm almost at the level of your average witch here. In terms of history I'm at the level of a someone who just started their first year in magical primary school. Perhaps I can ask for specialized classes.
"And then I will turn their food to bugs, which will cause everyone to freak out." Lucy said as she was explaining an another of her "great" ideas. Mirta simply shook her head at the plan and continued to read her book while I facepalmed at it.
This one caused her to become angry. "Again! And what's wrong with this one?" She asked me frustrated that her 5th idea was being rejected again.
"Well for one how are you going to get close enough to their food? Anybody can clearly see that you are a witch who is just going to ruin their party. And the problem with using a disguise spell is that your spell wouldn't be powerful enough to turn all of their food to bugs. Because keeping your disguise spell takes so much magic." I explained to her pointing out her first major flaw.
Lucy seemingly understood the flaw but that didn't mean she was going to admit her plan was terrible. "Well I'll disguise myself without magic. There is nothing that new clothes, hair dye and makeup cannot solve." I took a good look at her and yeah that might work out. With her hair dyed to light green, wearing a dress that a fairy would wear and finally enough makeup most people wouldn't notice her.
"Then that takes me to the other flaw. Do you think that few bugs will ruin their party? Sure, it might mean no food, but the bugs would be defeated easily and the party would go on as normal. And I'm sure that another witch will present a much better idea to Griffin." Lucy seemed to be demoralized by this. That wasn't what I meant to do but it seemed I did that. Her demoralization soon turned to anger again.
"Well if you are so good then tell me a better idea!" She yelled at me frustrated. I was silenced by that. "I-i..." I tried to say something but couldn't. It seemed that Lucy caught me off guard.
Mirta stopped reading her book and looked at us. "Hey if Bloom doesn't want to she doesn't have to. Besides they have never accepted first year's suggestions." Thank god that Mirta found a way for me to avoid making a plan.
"Like Mirta said they wouldn't even accept mine." I told her to make her not press on the subject anymore. "Well that doesn't stop you from making an idea." Lucy replied.
Mirta seemed to be annoyed by what Lucy was doing and came to defend me again. "Hey Lucy, it's clear that she doesn't want to make one so just leave her alone." Mirta told Lucy who just seemed to ignore her.
"Bloom just tell me what a better idea would be, and I'll leave you alone. You don't have to give it to Griffin." Well it wasn't like I was going to actually do it so what was the worst that could happen? I let my imagination roam free thinking of all the times when I wanted to ruin Mitzi's parties during my year in Earth. First of all, I have to know the rules.
I wasn't sure if I should ask them this or not but I'm going to anyway. "Didn't the Trix do this last year?" I ask them to, which both of them nod. "But they also failed at it." Mirta explained probably thinking I didn't know that.
"Since they did that as a group in this case all three of us would ruin their party." I knew that there was no way that Mirta would do and neither would I but again this is just a fun way to think what we could do. "Well I think we should use both of your powers to make it truly work." I explain to her as I think of ways to make the thing work.
"Can you make insects bigger?" I ask Lucy who simply nods at me. That was all I needed to make my idea. "Well we need to get some bugs that can fly that sting as well. Probably wasps. We'll sneak the wasps to Alfea with us." That would be phase 1 of the plan.
I turned to look at Lucy. "You make the wasps huge as big as you can make them." I could see a smirk creeping in Lucy's face it was clear she was beginning to like this idea. "But the fairies would notice them before anything can happen." Mirta pointed out.
"That is where you come in. Once we release the giant wasps you use your illusion magic to create an illusion that they are something beautiful. Like butterflies. The fairies and the red fountain boys will look at the butterflies in awe." Mirta seemed intrigued at the idea but seemingly lost interest when I started to mention Alfea and Red fountain. It was clear she didn't like the whole idea.
"Once the 'butterflies' are close enough you drop the spells revealing what they really are, which will cause chaos and lots of stings." I explained the final part of my plan.
However, Lucy didn't seem to be happy about something in this. "And what would you do?" She asks me pointing out I'm doing nothing in this whole plan. "Simple I'll disguise myself as a fairy and lock the doors so no one can escape the wasps." I explain. It was simple but my part would need not that much magic use because of inexperience.
Mirta went back to her book once I finished my explanation. "I have to admit it's a much better idea than the one I had." Lucy admitted.
"Well it's a fun thought experiment."
For the past hours I had been reading. I haven't paid much attention to what has happened in the room. Mirta seemed to go from reading a book about potions to practicing potion making while Lucy just seemed to be daydreaming of something.
I had read enough of schoolbooks for this day and I'm getting bored. Besides it's not like I can't read them the next day. But for now, I wanted to hang out with my friends in Magix for rest of the day instead of just sitting here and reading books.
"Wanna hang out and perhaps eat something in Magix?" I asked both Mirta and Lucy. "Yeah sure I can go. Just let me finish this potion." Mirta said as she added another ingredient to her mix of whatever.
I turned to Lucy then. "Sorry Bloom but not today." She answered, which was disappointing. "Why?" I asked.
"Because I don't want to go today okay." Well looks like we are not going. I don't want to go with just Mirta, and I think Mirta thinks the same way.
Looking around there wasn't that much to do in the room other than to read books. I did bring my stereo system with me but Mirta probably won't like me using it now since she needs to focus now. I guess I could go to the library maybe meet other witches. But they would probably be mean to me since I'm Mirta's friend.
All I could do was sigh as I had to say I was bored. I cannot use my phone to call my parents as it's too 'ancient' to be any use here. The nearest phone booths are quite a distance away so I cannot do that. I probably should get a new phone here so I can talk to my parents more often.
I needed to do something, and it seems that it is reading my old fantasy storybooks as there is nothing else to do.
Before I could dig out my old storybook a knock on our door interrupted it. Lucy went to see who it was, and it was one of the professors.
"Griffin wants to see you in her office. All of you." She said pointing at all of us.
Mirta and I looked at each other confused. Why would Griffin want us in her office? Have we done something wrong or what?
We didn't question as we followed the professor who led us to Griffin's office. On our way there we could see some witches giving us death stares. By the time we got to her office we were really confused at what was going on.
The professor opened the door to Griffin's office. "Come on in." Griffin said motioning us to go forward. We did until we stood next to her desk.
"Have a seat. Zarathurstra you can go now." The professor then left the office leaving us alone.
The office was still creepy as ever with the crystal ball being the only non-dark object in the whole room. Griffin's style was certainly about as witchy as you can go. The offices dark atmosphere certainly didn't help the fact that I had no idea why I was here.
"I have to say I'm impressed." Griffin started looking at Lucy. "Many proposals were given to me. But the one you gave to me has to be the most witchy made this year."
Mirta and I looked at each other when we realized why we were here. Lucy gave Griffin a plan to ruin Alfea's party that included both me and Mirta without asking our permission.
"This plan is complicated and really tests your powers. If you can pull this one off, I'll be very impressed with you and it certainly will affect your grades in a positive manner." She said Looking at Mirta and Lucy. "The question is can you." She then started to look at me. I knew what she meant by that. Can I do this despite me being in Alfea.
"Who would have thought of using Mirta your illusion powers to cover up giant wasps. That is something that really takes some imagination." I turned my head to look at Lucy with an angry expression. Not only did she bring me and Mirta into this without asking us she used MY plan. I wanted to say no to this whole thing in front of Griffin, but I knew I couldn't. So, I just kept my mouth shut.
"The fairies will not know what hit them. You can go now." She said motioning us to leave her office. Both Mirta and Lucy left but I stayed. This was one of the only opportunities I had to ask about my history situation.
Griffin noticed me and spoke up. "Bloom you should start preparing with your friends."
"I know but I have to talk to you about my history situation." I replied to her. "Well what about it?" She asked me.
"As you know I am from Earth. In Earth I haven't been taught your history at all, which means I'm severely behind the other students since it is expected here that I have learned much of your history from previous grades. It also makes learning history that they've been teaching here much harder. Because from what I learned from Earth's history is that usually behind a historical event is another event that happened much before that. And because I do not know about what happened before I'm really going to have trouble learning it here. And self-teaching history takes much longer than self-teaching hexes." I explained to her.
She seemed to understand my whole problem. "I can talk to Saloda about your situation. I'm sure we'll get something done. But let's do it after you have ruined Alfea's party." Did she just indirectly say that if I don't ruin Alfea's party that she will not help me with my situation?
"Now go on." She said hushing me to leave her office. Before I left her office, I turned to look at her. "By the way. The plan to ruin Alfea's party was made by me not Lucy." I told her.
"Figures. It seemed strange for Lucy to come up with such a plan." She said before I left her office.
When I left the office, I saw Mirta and Lucy arguing. I hid behind a corner so they wouldn't see me.
"I can't believe you just did that Lucy! Using Bloom's plan like that without her permission!" Mirta yelled at Lucy clearly angry from the whole situation.
Looking around I quickly hid behind a corner so neither Mirta nor Lucy would see me. I know it's wrong to watch something like this and not stopping them by announcing my presence. But my curiosity got the better of me.
"Bloom wanted to be a part of it! The only one that didn't want to participate was you!" Lucy yelled back to her.
Mirta just rolled her eyes at the Lucy's argument. "Are you blind!? Bloom clearly didn't want to be a part of it! And even if she wanted to you still would have needed to ask me!"
"And are you going to back down now!?" Lucy asked with a hurt voice. Mirta just shook her head. "The only reason why I'm not backing down is because I know it'll hurt my grades if I do." Mirta explained. Other than peer pressure that was the only reason why I'll do this as well and seems that Mirta will do the same.
"But that doesn't mean this is ok. This is against everything that I stand for!" Mirta yelled at Lucy who just rolled her eyes. "Oh yeah that stupid fairy witch relations you always talk about. How often do I have to repeat that it's just a fantasy!" After that it seemed that everything went silent. Neither Mirta nor Lucy spoke a word.
Was this the tension I felt around them? Has Mirta's opinions on witch fairy relation caused a falling out with her friend?
"You promised me." Mirta who sounded like she was on the verge of crying said. "You promised me you wouldn't do this again." She said with her first tear coming out of her eye.
"Did you lie to me when you said that!?" Mirta asked Lucy who just looked away in shame. "Did you mean any of the words you said that day?" Mirta asked coming closer to Lucy.
"Y-yes I meant that!" Lucy cried back on the verge of crying as well.
"Well why don't you act like you me-mean it." Mirta said as she began to cry. Lucy then hugged Mirta. "I'm sorry." She said to her. "I'm so sorry that I said those things. And I'll make sure to never do this again." Lucy said to Mirta who was still crying.
"Shhh shhh. Don't cry. I don't want to see you cry." Lucy said to Mirta. Who then stopped crying. "Just one more chance please." Lucy begged of her to which Mirta nodded. "Alright Lucy. One more chance to prove you actually meant what you said."
Lucy then released Mirta from her hug. I waited for 30 seconds not wanting to ruin the moment.
Then I stepped out of the corner to reveal myself and acted as if I hadn't seen anything. "There you are Bloom. What kept you so long?" Mirta asked me. She tried to pretend as well that the argument hadn't happened, but it was clear that she had been crying.
I didn't want to press on that, so I just pretended I didn't see anything. "Just had a little talk with Griffin about my education." I half lied to her.
"We need to start the preparations of the plan." Lucy said as we walked to our room.
"I'm going to source us some wasps." Lucy said. We were right now in our room now making our preparations. "Question is how many?" She asked us.
"We need enough to cause some chaos. One wasp will not do that. I think 20 is enough." I suggested but Mirta shook her head. "There is no way I can create an illusion of 20 large butterflies." I didn't take that into account. There needs to be enough that Mirta can actually handle it.
"How about just 15 wasps. Can you handle that?" Lucy asked Mirta who again shook her head. "Not even close. I think 5 is a good number." Mirta suggested but Lucy shook her head at that. "Five is simply too few." She explained. It was true I couldn't imagine 5 giant wasps causing chaos.
I needed to get the magical number. Now compromise would suggest that 10 would be the magical number but when you consider Mirta's abilities it won't be possible. She may be able to use the illusion for 3 seconds but after that she has to drop it.
Perhaps 8? That might be something that Mirta can handle. "What about 8?" I asked her and she shook her head again. "Look I cannot do more than 5. If you want me to do more, you need to reduce the size of them." She explained.
Maybe I'm thinking this the wrong way. If you cannot solve it by simply finding the right number, there must be another way. Then a 'lightbulb' appeared on top of my head.
"Get 10 Lucy. We'll release 5 wasps that Mirta uses illusions on while we keep the rest five hidden. And when Mirta drops the illusion then we'll release the other 5." I explained to them and it seemed that both Mirta and Lucy liked the plan.
Lucy then left the room and went to source the wasps leaving me and Mirta alone.
Now the other preparation needed to happen. I needed to make myself look like I am just one of the fairies going to the party.
Shopping? Well no. First of all, with my luck I'd probably bump into Stella while trying to buy a dress. Second reason simple money. Third and final reason I already have a dress.
I started digging the closet. Going through all my outfits that I had, which were the old outfit I wore as a fairy (and also on Earth), the witch outfit that was a bit too much, bunch of spare clothing, even some childhood clothing that was too small and then finally in the bottom the thing that I was looking for. It was the dress that I bought last year for the party.
'80 percent off and 90 percent perfect.' That was my comment on it a year ago.
The long blue dress was certainly out of fashion a year ago. It is still off course I can't wear this one even now.
"Mirta." I called her name. "What is it?" She asked me. "Can you hand me scissors." I asked her and she nods and starts to dig through a cabinet.
Had the Trix not ruined the party I could have improved the dress and used it in at the party. But I was too busy being defrosted and then treated for being encased in ice for the rest of the party. Had I been a fairy and been able to transform that may not have been the case.
Mirta then hands me the scissors. "Hey Mirta." I call her as she was going back to her bed. "Can you imagine a whole school of magic but no scissors?" She just looks at me confused. Well off course she wouldn't get it.
Then it was finally time to turn this bargain bin dress into something that I could wear at the party.
"Let's do some magic with these scissors." I said to myself as I began cutting the dress.
After some cutting, I was finally happy with the end result.
I putted the modified dress on to see what it looked like. Well it wasn't a dress anymore to be exact. It was a two-piece outfit. The upper part was a crop top with detached sleeves that had long strings flowing from them. The lower part was a simple pencil dress. In my opinion it looked like something I could bring to a party. Well this blue two piece one is much better than that bargain bin blue dress.
But I need to get someone else's opinion as well. "Mirta come check this out!" I called her as she began walking towards me. "Well what do you think? Do I pass?" I asked her while twirling around with my outfit.
"Wow. You look amazing." Mirta commented. It felt nice getting such a compliment even if it was from a friend. "Thanks. But do I pass?" I asked her. That was after all the million-dollar question. "Absolutely. Nobody at the party will be able to recognize that you are a witch." She said. I knew that when that I didn't look like your average witch. Was it because I wasn't raised like the witches? Probably but it could be another reason.
"Well let's wait for Lucy to come and then we are set." I told Mirta who seemed to become slightly nervous about the fact that soon we would be doing this.
"Why didn't I wear sandals!"
We were walking through the tunnel that would lead us to Alfea. And guess who was wearing high heels. If you guessed me, you would be right. And trust me wearing high heels in an uneven ground is not nice. Off course Mirta with her sneakers and Lucy with her boots had nothing to worry about. But I was constantly afraid that I'm going to trip.
High heels aside it was quite nice to go through it. Just simply because had I been a fairy this is where I along with the Winx would have gone through to get back Stella's ring. Off course I couldn't risk getting not being able to enter Cloud Tower, so I never went.
"Are you sure this will work?" Mirta asks uncertain about the whole thing. "If you or Bloom don't mess your parts up then it will." Lucy replied while carrying a container that held the 10 wasps inside.
"Me failing the illusions or Bloom failing to lock the doors won't make any difference if you fail to make the wasps grow large enough in the first place." Mirta replied to Lucy as we were nearing the end of the tunnel.
One small staircase later and we are in the dark empty halls of Alfea. I remember this hall. It was where I discovered that the Trix were planning to ruin the party last year.
We go towards the nearest door, which reveals the busy party. The red fountain boys and the Alfea fairies are celebrating with each other inside the ballroom. A wave of nostalgia hits me just be watching it going on. The memory from my fairy days was not fun to be exact. It still is one of the few things that reminds me of when I was a 'fairy'.
'Had I been a fairy I would be there right now dancing with Brandon but no instead I'm a witch who is going to ruin their fun.' I though as I sighed at the reality.
Lucy has a mischievous look on her face as she sees her 'victims' just before all hell is going to break loose. While Mirta has a look of envy on her face. Almost as if she wants to be one of the fairies there.
"Let's go over the plan again." I announce to both Mirta and Lucy. "I'm going to go inside the ballroom and one by one will lock the doors expect this one. Once I have locked almost all of them, I will give you the sign to indicate that you should start making the wasps bigger. Then I'm going to give you another sign to indicate that it's time to release the wasps. You will release the first five wasps and Then Mirta will create an illusion that the wasps are butterflies and once the so-called butterflies are close enough Mirta will drop the illusion. And once Mirta drops the illusion you release the other five wasps. Once that happens, we'll bail." I explained her the long plan.
Once both of them understood what the plan was, I went to the ballroom.
Few heads turned to see me. I was nervous that some of them recognized me, but they all seemed to be first years and then just turned to chatting with each other. I gave a sigh of relief that the Winx or the Specialists hadn't noticed me.
I try to act as natural as possible while looking around if I see the Winx or the Specialists. I can't see them now as I make my way to the first door.
Looking around if any of the staff are looking at me and it seems like that's not the case. Then I notice a problem. The problem is that the door can only be locked by a key. A key that I don't have. I can assume that maybe the staff have one. But there is no way that I can steal one from them.
I start to panic but before I do, I remember something. I'm a witch so just use magic. So, I tried a spell that would lock the door. It turns out that the doors are protected with spells that make it impossible for a first-year witch like me to lock them.
Looks like the plan has started to form some cracks. If I cannot lock these doors, then the fairies can escape the wasps and the whole plan is ruined. Should I just let that happen? Then I'm not going to hurt Lucy's and Mirta's grades yet not ruin the fairies party. The 'fairy' me would certainly like that.
I shook my head at that. I would at least need to get the approval of the others for that. One of the doors was slightly opened, which was the door where I left.
While walking towards the door I was all of a sudden stopped. Turning around to see who it was, I was greeted by blond hair and blue eyes.
"Brandon?" I asked the blond who was smiling. I could already feel myself blushing. I knew I had a crush on him despite trying to keep him out of my mind ever since that revelation.
"Bloom what are you doing here?" He asked me friendly. 'What should I tell him' I thought. I certainly couldn't tell him that I'm a witch that is trying to ruin this party. But I knew I couldn't lie to his face. "W-well what does it look like?" I ask him to avoid lying to me.
He just smiled at that. "You know. You still owe me a dance from last year." He told me.
"Did I?" I ask confused because I couldn't remember that. "Yeah. Last year I asked you for a dance and you said yes and then just went right past me." Did he actually remember that? I'm kind of touched. I was rude to him walking just past him after saying yes but I had a good reason and he seems to know it as well.
"So, shall we?" He says as he puts his hands to a dance position. I glance at the door where Mirta and Lucy are. I know I should just go there now but I can't. It is the crush on him, but I couldn't resist him as I take his arms.
So, we begin to dance with the other fairies and specialists. I'm really nervous as I'm looking around everywhere to see if the Winx or the specialists are near.
"Just relax." Brandon tries to reassure me just thinking I'm nervous to dance with him. Maybe it was also that as I feel a blush forming.
Over time I not looking around nearly as much. I'm just focused on looking at his eyes.
'Don't get used to this Bloom. You know that he is going to leave you when he finds out what I really am.' I try to tell myself. But I just find it so hard to resist.
"So, you are now back in Alfea?" Brandon asks me. I slightly flinch at the question. "W-what?" I just blurt out.
We are doing to dance when suddenly, I see one of the other specialists and force ourselves to turn around. "Well there were lots of rumors why you left. The most popular one being that your grades were too bad, so you had to leave. But now you are here so does it mean that you are back in Alfea?" Was it that big of a deal when I left? Luckily it seems that no one knows the truth about why I left.
"W-well I did leave Alfea and went back to Earth, where I studied magic all the time. Now I'm back at magical dimension to study magic." It wasn't technically a lie, but it wasn't the truth either. I didn't mention where I would be studying magic, but he most likely thinks it's Alfea.
"Well that's great. I hope that I'll see you again sometimes." He replies to me and all I can do is give him an uncertain smile. We wouldn't meet each other after this I just knew it. And if we do then he'll find out the truth.
The dance finally ended as we let go. However, before he can invite me for another dance I run off to the direction of the door where Mirta and Lucy are.
Once I finally open the door, I'm greeted by two angry looking witches. "You just wanted to be with the specialists didn't you." Lucy accused me while Mirta remained quiet.
I could tell that the battle to try to convince her that I'm not is lost. Besides I could have just told Brandon no, but I didn't.
"There is a problem with the plan." I say switching the topic. "The Alfea's doors are controlled with too advanced magic. There is no way I can lock them." I explain to them as they look at each other.
"That would ruin the plan." Lucy replied with a concerned voice. "What are we going to do?" Mirta asks us the question. Honestly, I have no idea.
We just stood there for a minute. None of us having any ideas. All the while the part was going on as normal, but we knew that we would soon run out of time.
Then all of a sudden Lucy seemed to have an idea.
"You are the witch of fire, right?" She asked me and I just nodded at her not sure at what she was getting at. "Just light a fire and that'll keep everyone from running away." Both me and Mirta just looked at her stunned. That sounded like the most dangerous idea ever.
"Lucy we are not supposed to kill anyone." Mirta pointed out. "Our Plan is not to burn the school down." I added. Lucy shook her head at that. "I didn't mean it that way." She started to explain. "You just need to do a very low powered fire in front of the entrances. It cannot cause a fire or anything like that, but it needs to be visible enough to scare everyone away." She explained. "But can you do it?" She asked me.
Thinking of my magical capabilities and powers I wasn't sure. "Maybe. I think I can hold on for some time. But how am I going to get in? Once I put the flames out everyone will panic."
Lucy then turned to Mirta. "Smile. Mirta will create illusions of the flames for enough time so you can get back in." she explained and Mirta protested immediately. "There is no way I can do that illusion and the wasp illusion."
"We'll have to decrease the number of wasps pretending to be butterflies. 3 should be enough." I suggested and Mirta replied with a very uncertain look. "So, we are set?" Lucy asked and I nodded and Mirta nodded uncertainly.
"Start making the wasps bigger already. I'm going to give you a sign when to release them." I told them as I went back to the party.
While in the party I made sure to avoid Brandon or any of the other specialists or the Winx. I must have looked paranoid as I looked around everywhere. When I made to one of the exits, I made a motion which caused magic to be released to the ground.
This magic is the first phase of the spell. It could be compared to putting gasoline to the ground. I then made my way to the exit next to it and did the same thing and again and again until I had done it to all of them.
While doing it I tried to look as natural as possible, but I don't know how well I pulled it off. Did I look nervous perhaps suspicious? Then I made my way to as center as possible while still avoiding the Specialists and the Winx. And it seemed timing was on my side as two red fountain boys were carrying a chest. I could remember from last year that they were now giving them their gifts.
"We brought you gifts." One of the Red Fountain boys said as he opened the chest. This was it. I raised my hand so Mirta and Lucy would see it and did the sign.
Then 3 giant beautiful butterflies came through the door. They were bigger than a person. In fact they were almost twice as big as a person. I couldn't help but be impressed at how big Lucy had made them.
The 'butterflies' flew closer and closer towards the students who watched the butterflies in awe. The staff had mixture of looks of confusion and awe as they saw the butterflies.
They got closer and closer until one of the students tried to touch them. Then the illusion dropped revealing the wasp. The wasps were slightly smaller than the butterflies but looked 10 times more scary.
Once the students saw them panic started. They began screaming and started to run to different directions. The 3 wasps were joined by 7 others. As some of the braver students either pulled weapons out or transformed.
Before anybody made it out of the door, I started the second phase of the spell, which could be compared to lighting the gasoline. In front of every single exit a barrier made out of fire appeared. The fire wasn't actually that hot. It was only as hot as a hot cup of coffee. But it looked very dangerous, which caused everyone stopped dead in their tracks as they realized they were trapped.
The wasps wreaked havoc as they began to sting the students with the fairies spells and specialists weapons having little effect on them. Soon I lost focus on what was going on as I was soon running out of energy to keep up the demanding spell. In the worst-case scenario, I lose control of the spell and then the fire becomes a real one.
I just stood in the middle of it absolutely frozen as I tried to keep up the spell. Screams were heard around me and then a buzzing sound. In my frozen state I could only look up and see one of the Lucy's creations ready to sting me.
Mentally I braced myself for the worst but that never came. Instead I felt tackled to the ground and the wasp just barely missed me. Opening my eyes, I could see who my savior was, and it was Brandon.
"Don't worry Bloom I'll protect you!" He said as he pulled out his sword and prepared to attack the giant wasp. Looking around I could see that in front of the exits there still were the fire barriers and I could feel that it wasn't my doing. That meant that Mirta had started her illusion and I had few seconds to make it there before she couldn't hold it any longer.
So, I began running. "Bloom stay here!" I could hear Brandon's voice, but I just ignored it. Trying to make it through the panicked fairies and red fountain boys while avoiding the wasps was difficult but I finally made it to the right door.
Because everyone was so panicked nobody saw me just going through the 'fire'. When I made it inside, I could see Mirta trying desperately to hold on to the illusion.
"There you are!" Lucy exclaimed.
Before we could have any sort of a conversation Mirta collapsed. It seemed that the magical exhaustion of keeping up the illusions was just too much for her. The 'flames' went out and we could hear the screams as the panicked partygoers were nearing the exits and we had little time act.
"Come on let's carry her out." Lucy said as she began carrying Mirta by her right arm and I by her left arm.
We made it just to the staircase as we heard the panicked crowd enter the hall. Once we made it to the tunnel, we let out a sigh of relief.
"Looks like we made it." Lucy told me while still carrying the unconscious Mirta.
"Seems like it." I replied to her.
We walked a few minutes more with Lucy holding the flashlight with her other arm while carrying Mirta with the other. "You can't deny that this was fun." she tells me.
"Other than Mirta losing her consciousness it was fun. As long as no one got killed or badly hurt during that party." I reply truthfully to her. Despite not liking the idea this was truly a fun journey.
Ok finally the chapter is made. This has to be one of the longest chapters I have ever made at least long enough for me to consider splitting this into two. So, don't get used to chapters like these. The next chapters are going to be your standard 1500-2500-word chapters. Now I know I missed the last weeks deadline, but I hope the gasp one-week wait was worth this chapter. Hopefully this turned out well and you enjoyed this long chapter. I know I originally said no BloomxSky but as you can see that might change. But at most it will still be very light even compared to the show. Now from my AN at the beginning you can tell when I started to write this. It was a day after I released chapter 4 and back then it seemed to get no interest and I was afraid that this story might turn out dead. But it seems that enough people still care for this, so I'll update this one. Also, a bit of a Laserdisc update. The player I bought is broken and now I need to possibly return it. Why is everything going wrong between me and Laserdiscs?
Now I will make the 7th chapter still but after that I'll might take a break. You see past the 7th chapter I have to take cannon into account. And to do that I'll need to watch all season 1 and 2 episodes of Winx Club. So, after 7th chapter there will be a bit of a delay but hopefully not a too long delay.
Hivedragon (c5): Saloda does have passion for history. I guess he didn't show it that well in the chapters. And as you can see I did take little tips from this review on Bloom's situation with history.
Luiz4200 (c5): I guess I can see the similarities between Saloda and Snape.
Anyway viva out