Chapter 5 – The meeting.
Not long after Floxy had left the Molly Moo, Caramel came out of the kitchen holding two glasses of juice. It was usually Martino's job to handle the drinks, but she hadn't seen him since he fled from serving Arsenio. With the drinks in her hands, she made her way to the table of Lucas and Sapphire. It looked like both of them were having a good time talking with eachother. Once she had put the drinks down, she planned on making her way to the kitchen (she had so much work to do for Arsenio!), but Sapphire grabbed her arm and wouldn't let go. ''Is Floxy still in the kitchen?'' she asked. She was wondering where he'd been for so long, and why he wasn't back yet. Caramel shook her head. ''He left'' was what she answered. ''What? Why?'' Sapphire sounded disappointed. 'Are you seriously asking that?' was what Caramel wanted to say, but luckily knew how to contain herself. Everything seemed to annoy her so easily. It was all Arsenio's fault. ''You should ask him yourself'' was what she finally replied. She'd rather not interfere with their problem, she already had enough problems of her own to deal with. Sapphire shove her chair out of the way. ''Fine''. Before she could go after Floxy however, Lucas grabbed ahold of her hand. ''Where are you going? You can't just leave''. Sapphire tried to pull her hand loose. ''I'm going to Floxy. I can't leave him alone right now''. She was determined to go to him, no matter what happened. ''To him? Why do you want him when you can get someone who's much better? For example… me''. A grin formed on his face. ''What?'' Sapphire wasn't sure if she had heard him correctly. Lucas pretended to sigh in response. ''I told you to pick me, instead of that ugly loser. I'm way more handsome'' he repeated himself. Sapphire was speechless, and thus stared at him for a few seconds. Then, all of a sudden, picked up her drinking glass from the table. For a moment it looked as if she was going to drink from it, yet she turned to look at Caramel. ''I'm sorry, Caramel, but…'' In less than a second she had already splashed the juice in Lucas' face. ''That 'ugly loser' you're talking about, is the love of my life''. Sapphire stared at him angrily. ''I'm gone'' she stated, then proceeded to leave the Molly Moo. Lucas, who tried to clean himself with a few napkins, stared after her angrily. ''You'll regret this…'' he murmured. Caramel, who was still standing beside the table, tried her best not to burst into laughter. It didn't really help much though. After all, he got what he deserved. Lucas now turned to look at Caramel, still angry. ''And you will too!'' he stood up from the table. Caramel waved at him while he was walking towards the exit. ''And don't come back here ever again!'' she yelled after him. She would finally be able to finish that cake now. She hoped Arsenio's payment would be worth her suffering for all of this.
Not much later Sapphire arrived at Rex and Floxy's house. Rex opened the door after she rang the bell. ''What are you doing here?'' he asked, but Sapphire had already walked past him. ''Where's Floxy?'' she asked when she didn't see him in the living room. Rex had crossed his arms and didn't say anything. After all, she hadn't answered him either. This made Sapphire walk up to him. ''WHERE. IS. FLOXY?'' she yelled loudly in his ear. ''Hey!'' Rex looked at her angrily. ''That wasn't neccesary!'' he snapped at her. Sapphire shrugged. ''I thought you'd became deaf and couldn't hear me anymore''. ''That doesn't make any s—'' Rex began, but changed his mind. He knew asking her these questions wouldn't help. ''Well? Where's Floxy?'' Sapphire repeated once again. ''Úpstairs'' Rex replied. ''Which you could've come up with yourself'' he added in an obtuse way. Sapphire chose to ignore the rest of his sentence and went upstairs.
Once upstairs, Sapphire knocked on the door of Floxy's room. ''Floxy! Open up!'' she yelled. No response. ''I'll kick in the door if you don't open it!'' she tried afterwards, even though she didn't sound so sure. ''You're not able to!'' she heard from across the door. Sapphire wanted to counter that, but she knew as well as he did that he was telling the truth. She sighed. ''Just… please open the door! We need to talk!'' It was silent for a moment, then the door opened. ''What's there to talk about?'' he asked. ''It was obvious you were enjoying the company of Lucas more than you do with me'' he added. ''What were you doing with that guy anyway? Do you like him or something?'' Sapphire was shocked. ''What?! Of course not! I just wanted to thank him…'' ''By taking him out to dinner!'' Floxy crossed his arms while finishing the sentence for her. ''That's not true! It's only the Molly Moo…'' ''Molly Moo or something else, I don't like it when you go out to dinner with other guys without me knowing'' Floxy remarked. He was still angry about it. ''I… I didn't mean it that way…!'' Sapphire gazed down at the ground. ''You're the only one for me and you always will be!'' ''Why don't you say that to Lucas'' Floxy replied, throwing the door shut. Sapphire wasn't sure what to say now, she felt defeated. ''And?'' Rex asked when she was finally coming downstairs again, even though the answer to that was written on her face. He didn't even let her speak. ''I knew it wouldn't help''. ''Mind your own business!'' Sapphire growled, leaving the house. The only choice she had now was going back to the Molly Moo. Maybe Caramel could help her, and if not, at least she had someone to talk to.
Arsenio had just left the Molly Moo, and Caramel was looking after him until he was gone. She was so tired! At least he had paid her well… it made her hard work worth it. ''Caramel!'' All of a sudden she heard a voice call her name. She knew it was Sapphire, though she was too tired to answer right now. ''I need your help!'' Sapphire continued. Caramel turned around to face Sapphire, now irritated. ''What is it now?! I've just finished baking a whole cake to get Arsenio to leave, and I'm sick of it!'' she snapped. Sapphire stared shockingly at Caramel. She wasn't expecting this kind of reply. Caramel sighed deeply. ''I'm sorry. I didn't mean it that way. I'm just tired. You also left your bag here''. Normally she would've used magic to make the bag appear in front of them but she was too tired for that now. Instead, Sapphire did the work. ''Thanks'' she inspected her bag, looking if everything was as she'd left it, but… ''My necklace! It's not in here!'' She kept searching her bag in an attempt to find it. ''Are you sure you haven't left it at home?'' Sapphire shook her head at Caramel's question. ''I'm sure I had it with me…'' Without her necklace, she wouldn't be able to use her spiritual powers. Caramel tried to help her with searching, but with no results. ''I might know a spell…'' She said while thinking about it. She had used it previously when Martino couldn't find some of his stuff once again. Caramel directed her hands at the bag, but nothing seemed to happen. ''Caramel… it's not working'' Sapphire remarked laconically once she saw nothing happened. ''I can see that''. Caramel answered with an irritated look. She tried something different, but it still wasn't working. ''My magic isn't working anymore!'' she desperately let out. ''Let me try''. Sapphire now tried to cast a simple spell, but it didn't work either. More pixies in the area seemed to have trouble, some of them couldn't fly anymore either. ''There might be something wrong with the tree of life!'' Caramel grabbed Sapphire –who protested- by her arm, and ran while dragging her with her out of the Molly Moo. She had to know what was happening!
A big machine stood next to the tree of life. Sapphire was looking at it with big eyes full of surprise. ''What… is this thing?'' Caramel wasn't sure either, but it was pointed at the tree of life, and was attempting to suck all of the power out of the tree. ''It's taking our magic! We need to stop it!'' she gasped. She went up to the machine and tried to touch it, but a sudden voice halted her. ''What are you doing there?'' She turned around. Standing behind her was Vikus. ''I… er… just wanted to take a better look at this machine'' she stammered. She took a step back. Vikus however, was only coming closer. ''Hmm? I suppose you weren't trying to ruin my plans then?'' He wasn't believing her in the slighest. Caramel shook her head anyway. ''Of course not!'' Vikus grinned. ''Good, as you won't be able to stop them anyway. Not a single one of you pixies will have any power once my machine is done. You will all be powerless''. ''But why?!'' Both Sapphire and Caramel couldn't believe their ears. ''Easy! So I will be the most powerful being in this town!'' Vikus laughed slyly. ''I can't believe everyone bought my story so easily. Although… if no one will have magic, then you will have your equal rights…'' ''You won't get away with this!'' Sapphire stared at him angrily. ''I won't? Well I think I will. But leave now, before I will lock you two up!'' Sapphire opened her mouth to reply back but Caramel stopped her in time. ''Let's go. We can't stop him right now''. Sapphire knew she was right, yet it still annoyed her.
Back at the Molly Moo Caramel and Sapphire were sitting at a table. Both of them felt defeated. How would they be able to stop Vikus? All of a sudden, Sapphire looked up from her thoughts. ''I've got an idea! We should hold a meeting!'' ''A meeting?'' Caramel wasn't sure of it. Sapphire nodded. ''Yes! Tomorrow evening, at my house! Be sure to bring as many people as possible!'' Caramel wanted to protest but Sapphire had already ran off. She sighed. Well, it was worth a try…
The next day. The evening clock showed it to be exactly 8 p.m. It was already dark outside. Sapphire was waiting impatiently in her villa, sitting on the couch with Lucas. It had been difficult for her to get him to come after yesterday, but he was necessary for what she had planned. ''Everyone's late!'' she grumbled. Lucas didn't answer. He was enjoying himself with the big television hanging on the wall of the living room of the villa. Suddenly the bell rang. ''I'll open it!'' Sapphire jumped up from the couch to open the front door. Lucas wouldn't have offered to help anyway, but still. ''Oh… hi, Caramel'' she answered, disappointed, once she saw Caramel standing in front of her. ''What's wrong? Did you expect someone else?'' Caramel asked, hearing the disappointment in Sapphire's voice. ''No… Yes… well, maybe…'' Sapphire hesitated. ''I was hoping I could've been alone with…'' She didn't finish her sentence, as Caramel had looked past her and interupted her. ''Lucas? I thought you disliked him? Did you change your mind?'' Caramel couldn't be angry at her friend for it. ''I'll understand, don't worry. I mean, he's handsome, and he might have some good features about him…'' she started. She wanted to give him a chance for her friend. Sapphire finally was able to defend herself. ''Lucas? What? No! I'm talking about Floxy!'' Sapphire sounded irritated. ''Floxy? But he isn't even here''. Caramel didn't understand what Sapphire was trying to say. ''Whatever! You won't understand anything!'' Sapphire went back inside the living room, and fell down on the couch angrily, as far away from Lucas as possible on purpose. Maybe it was stupid of her to think Floxy would come. They had a fight after all. But still, somewhere deep within, she hoped he'd show up and forgive her. Caramel sighed while watching Sapphire.
Everyone had finally arrived after a while. ''Is this everyone?'' Sapphire asked while looking around. She had expected a bit more. In front of her were standing: Caramel, Rex, Floxy, Amore, Robinson, Cherie, Morfo, and Pam. ''Well… everyone was busy'' Caramel said. ''I thought you only wanted acquaintances?'' Sapphire sighed. ''Fine then…'' Everyone sat down in the living room. ''Vikus took away all of the magic in the city'' she began. ''We decided to meet up today to stop his plans!'' ''That guy stole my idea about ruling over the city!'' Rex grunted. Everyone ignored him. ''But what's there to do about it? He has been chosen after all…'' Robinson said. Sapphire shook her head. This was where the information she had learned about Lucas when talking would be useful. She pointed at him. ''This is Lucas. He is Nymphea's son, and thus should be the proper successor!'' ''Nymphea has a son?!'' Amore yelled in surprise. The others were just as surprised as she was. ''Gross… I see a lot of things I didn't want to know now…'' Rex remarked, which resulted in Morfo shivering. ''Doesn't matter! The point to it is that he is the rightful successor!'' Sapphire continued. ''And why didn't he participate earlier then?'' Floxy responded. He had been looking disapproving at Lucas all the time, he still didn't trust him. Lucas pretended to sigh deeply. ''I was out of town. I came back on the day the elections were held. On top of that, I wasn't interested anyway, until Vikus stole our powers that is''. Sapphire looked around her. ''We can use Lucas to take back the power! Does anyone have any ideas?'' In the meantime, Pam nudged Cherie. ''Don't you think Lucas looks really handsome?'' she whispered to her. ''Yeah…'' Cherie nodded absently. ''Well, there's no magic, so we can't do anything'' Morfo said. ''Wrong''. Rex grinned. Everyone stared at him, not understanding what he was saying. ''One of us still has some powers''. Still no one understood. He pointed at Sapphire ''I'm talking about our 'ghost speaker' over here''. ''Uh, I'm not a 'ghost speaker', but a medium'' Sapphire answered in return. Rex pretended not to hear. ''She can just send angry spirits to Vikus!'' Sapphire sighed deeply. This was the dumbest idea she had heard in ages. ''I can't! And besides… I lost my necklace. My powers aren't working'' she protested. Morfo agreed. ''She won't! She's scared to death for ghosts. I know, as I've been locked up with her somewhere once, and I saw then. Also, when I saved her from the ghost, she ki—'' He didn't get any further than that, as Sapphire shove her hand in front of his mouth. ''Don't tell!'' she whispered, after which Morfo nodded, but once she had turned around he quickly yelled: ''Sapphire kissed me on my cheek!'' Rex started to laugh hysterically and Sapphire's face turned bright red. Quickly, she looked if Floxy had heard it. They didn't have a relationship back then, but she still didn't want him to hear it. From a little distance, Floxy was busy talking with Caramel, he hadn't heard a thing apparently. ''Are you sure if—'' he began, but once he saw Sapphire walking up to them quit talking. Caramel also looked up. ''What are you guys talking about?'' she asked. None of them answered. ''Is it about me?'' she continued curiously. ''Er… yes, but you can't know yet'' Caramel replied. 'Why?' was what Sapphire wanted to walk, but all of a sudden Cherie came their way. Everyone on the meeting was distracted by now. No one seemed to take it seriously anymore. ''Caramel, can I talk with you for a moment?'' she asked nervously. She already dragged Caramel towards the kitchen before she could even answer.
Sapphire decided to go after them. Once inside of the kitchen she pretended to get something to drink. It was her house. ''What did you want to tell me?'' asked Caramel sweetly, who had sit down at the kitchen table along with Cherie. She looked at Sapphire, warning her not to say anything, but Sapphire pretended not to notice anything. Cherie hadn't even noticed Sapphire coming into the kitchen. She stared down at the floor nervously. ''Remember when I was in a relationship with your brother, Martino?'' Caramel nodded. ''Yes. Unfortunately that didn't end very well..'' Cherie sighed. ''Caramel, I…'' she hesitated. She wasn't sure how to bring this. ''I've done a test…'' she finally began. She looked up at Caramel, slightly panicking. ''I think I'm pregnant''. Sapphire, who had just taken a sip of her drink, spat everything out again once she heard what Cherie had just said. Caramel couldn't believe it either. ''Everyone has something nice except for me!'' Sapphire complained jealously, while walking up to them. Cherie stared at Sapphire, she had only noticed her just now. ''One gets pregnant, the other marries… while I only have fights!'' ''Who's getting married?'' Cherie asked surprised, she was distracted for a moment. ''Me… Rex asked me to marry him'' Caramel said. For a moment a smile formed on her face while talking about it. ''But haven't you heard the new rules?'' ''What new rules?'' Sapphire and Caramel asked at the same time. ''Vikus declared you are only able to marry someone from your own species'' Cherie replied. Caramel stared at her in shock.
A/N: I'm finally up to date with the story! It might take me a little longer to update now, as I'm still writing chapter 6. But in the meantime, I'm also planning to write up some short stories. They will be about different relationships, one chapter per story, and I will also explain the death of Lenny in more detail! It will contain different stories which don't fit into my future story. I will be uploading it on both Wattpad and Fanfiction, and will be translating it to an english version!
Also, I had this idea to do a Q&A chapter in the meantime! Feel free to send me questions in a Private Message, and I will do my best to answer them! You can send in multiple questions for me/the writer or any character in the story (and I will do my best to answer them in character!). It can be anything, doesn't necessairily have to relate to the story in any way. If there's anything you've been meaning to ask or if you've been wondering about certain things in the story, feel free to ask! I'd love to do a Q&A chapter!:)