Chapter 13: Game of Soap
Mal was changed into her normal look and explained to Mirta the reason she went through the look to keep the Trix from finding out she was among the others they have a feud with the Trix. "Ok, the thing is no one knows my name but Mal so to make certain the Trix know nothing about it. The less, the better." She said, as they get closer to the school using the bus for the ride.
"Guess that sort of make sense, and any of these friends of yours I should know?" She remembered her saying the names of some but nothing else.
"Well, the girls for starters; Stella is a major princess in fashion." Remembering her first time meeting her and the two were almost at each other like a pair of cats. "Another is Bloom, think you might get along with her well, she's somewhat of a newbie around here. Musa likes music, guess it goes with her name and also their techno wiz, Tecna."
"Really? She has a name like that?" Mirta wondered and not want to bring it up.
"Yeah, strange but don't say anything that might be offensive and there's Flora, possibly the mature of the group who loves plants and a nature fairy." Mal says when the bus parks outside Alfea, allowing them to step out the buss to make their way to the school. "Huh, they weren't kiddin that the place seems empty." But confused as to why the Winx Club were here and no one else.
Mirta had no idea but didn't say anything since she had no idea what to say but followed Mal, she was nervous of meeting the Fairies and hopes to make a good impression, also these other friends she mentioned but curious to know who they were. She sees someone coming and sees a girl with pigtails.
"Hey, Musa." Mal called out to the Music Fairy who sees her.
"So you did show up, was beginning to wonder if you didn't show up." She opens the door for the girls to step out, noticing the dark red haired girl who was Mal.
Mal noticed there were no sign of the boys, until several Wind Riders showed up seconds afterwards. The Specialists slowed down the acceleration and driven with them were Ben and Taren without their own.
Stella was most happy to see them, mostly Sky. "You guys sure didn't waste your time. Great to see you!" Rushes over to Sky who removes his helmet.
He smiles at her warmly. "Hey you know us, when it comes to partying, the Specialists take matters very serious."
Taren climbs off his after given a ride from the prince. "Remind me to get into lessons to ride my own, these things are fast."
"Provided we can and if you keep it in one piece." Ben teases him, only for Taren to be annoyed by his response.
"Haha, very funny." Taren replied sarcastically. Hoping no one heard him until he sees the girls, Mal and a girl with a pumpkin on her shirt. She noticed him looking at her and hid behind Mal, being nervous. "Hey."
Mal rolled her eyes and crossed her arms over her chest before looking at him. "She hasn't even introduced herself and you already made her speechless, a growing impression on any girl we meet."
"Huh? Me, what did I do?" Taren was unsure what she meant by that, causing Brandon, Stella and Ben over a fellow redhead's attraction to him.
Mal stepped aside to reveal Mirta behind her. "This is Mirta my roommate." Introducing to her friend to the rest.
Mirta sheepishly waved her hand to them. "Uh, hi, nice to meet you. Sorry about that just a little nervous." She said.
Flora smiled and walked over to her. "Hello there, it's nice to meet you and its fine, we're all friendly here." Extending her hand out to her, Mirta accepted the offer and softly shook her hand.
"Sorry, just being from Cloud Tower I thought fairies wouldn't like witches."
Stella shrugged her shoulders. "Well there are some we met, but since Mal is considered one, I see no problem."
"And I'm surprised Mal was willing to have a roommate." Taren whispered to Ben.
Mal heard something from him and narrowed her eyes. "You said something."
"Nothing!"
Both Ben and Bloom chuckled, but glad she made a friend in Cloud Tower.
"Ok, now we know who your friend is, aren't we supposed to have a party?" Riven cuts in their conversation and was eager to have some fun.
Timmy turned to his teammate to remind him of why they were also here. "Don't you remember our deal after losing to Macbeth? We promised to do some cleaning."
"Uh, what's all this?" Mal asked when she heard him about some deal.
Taren looked at her in confusion. "Didn't Ben tell you?" The boys turned to the prince who chuckled nervously. "You didn't tell her, did you? Really? You pulled the shortest straw… and also because she'll lash out on me if I give the bad news." Explains his reasons while Mal acts innocent.
Ben went silent and scratches the back of his head when being nervous. The Winx Club were curious to know what they were talking about. "Uh, well... I've never gotten the chance to mention it. You see the bet made by Macbeth if the Specialists could beat him, they won't get punished from the mission a few days ago about losing the Troll."
"Yeah, and if we loose we share the cleaning with the girls." Brandon said.
Mal rolled her eyes and knew there was a catch if Macbeth was involved. "And let me guess, you guys lost to him? But I don't see how you could've gotten in serious trouble. Well Stella I could believe after hearing that lab accident."
"Hey!"
"Um, the thing is since we got into trouble, Faragonda stripped us of our magic to clean up the school." Bloom explained to her and feeling uneasy.
"The Trix stole the Ring of Solaria by making a fake love letter made by Sky which until I found out too late and one of them took my appearance." Stella chuckled nervously. "So in order to get it back we snuck into their school."
Mal and Mirta shared a look and beginning to get the idea, Mal didn't know whether to believe her or not. But best to keep it between them for now and move on to another conversation. "Uh, really? That's… actually new."
Mal didn't want to admit it, but was surprised the girls had done something like that and get in trouble. Could understand their determination since the ring is important to them to keep safe and maybe find out where the Dragon Flame is. No doubt Macbeth found out about it and must've thought it was dangerous and stupid to do something like that if Tezzeret had spies over there without Griffin knowing.
"I had this idea and thought with your help we could get this place cleaned up faster and have a party." Bloom suggested as they walk into the school hall. "I thought maybe make the chores more fun with a little touch."
Musa nodded her head in agreement. "We thought why not make a race or game to make it fun."
Out of nowhere Genie appeared and dressed up as a hockey player with a Mighty Duck mask. "Sorry about that. Just been watching the big game and rooting for Ducks."
The startled Mirta gasped and lost her footing, landing on her butt when she saw a blue man pop out. "Wha-who… how did-"
Mal shook her head and face-palmed when Genie showed up. "Uh, well it was bound to happen sooner or later. Mirta this is Genie. Genie, Mirta."
"He can be a bit… odd but you get use to it." Flora assured her.
"Wanna see some neat tricks? I can throw my voice." When he reached for his mouth, he literally pulled it off without any harm to him and threw it like a boomerang. Spinning all over the place until returning to Genie but failed to catch his mouth/voice until it hit against the all and landed on the floor. "Catching it is another matter." He picks it up and slaps it back on his face, giving a wide smile on his face.
Instead of being freaked out like she was before, Mirta was actually amazed to see it. "Wow, that's amazing, all I could do is some illusions." She gave them a demonstration by making another replica of herself beside her and then changed to make another Genie who started the mirror gag.
Genie pulled out his tongue to make funny noises, bunny ears and pulls his nose which caused everyone but Riven to laugh until she called it off. "Ooh, I like her."
"Wow, neat trick." Bloom found it a relief to meet another witch that doesn't hate them. Mirta being nervous around them reminded of her when she first arrived in Alfea.
"Ok, now that we all know her so can we get this over with and have a party like you said?" Riven called for their attention and not liking the idea of doing chores instead of having fun.
Taren was thinking of what they can do then do their chores and have a fun night. And he might have the idea for one. "So, to make something fun for all of us, how about a game we do like hockey to do this fast with all of us?"
Bloom liked the idea and smiled brightly. "That's a great idea!"
"What's hockey?" Flora asked her when not familiar with the Earth game since the Keybladers and Bloom know more about it.
"It's a sports game for two teams to play against each other and have to use certain type of sticks to pass the puck." Bloom explained what she knew about it. "You know like how Genie was dressed like one."
"Oh!" It started to make sense to them. "Hey, why not make a team against boys vs girls? That'll be fun."
"I'll think I'll pass on this, sports isn't really my strong interest." Tecna declined the offer.
Ben shrugged his shoulders. "No worries, anyone want in?"
"Me." Taren offered.
"Sure, sounds fun." Brandon joined in after giving some thought.
"Eh, why not." Prince Sky shrugged his shoulders.
"Bring it." Riven became interested.
Mal thought it seems fun and could give a shot. "Ok, I'll go with the girls on the team and whoop your ass." Smirking at them.
Stella gave a bright smile. "Great, the buckets are filled and by the side so you can use them." Pointed towards the buckets and mops for them to use.
"I'll pass them over to you guys." Taren volunteered to pass them over to get started, he went for the buckets to hand out to them but what he didn't notice was the pink bird in a white shirt from earlier that was helping him out. "Thanks." The bird nodded and gave him the last bucket full of water, waving at him in a friendly manner.
He gave one to Ben who nodded until both froze for a moment and noticed the bird just out of nowhere. Not seemed to be bothered by their confused faces and swapped his clothes for a pair of swim shorts, flippers and goggles. Before they knew what happened, the little fella recently climbed up on Taren's head to perform a dive, held his nose and jumped into the bucket, they looked in it and no sign of the strange bird.
"...Ben... did you...?" Taren asked him as he was uncertain what just happened.
"Let's just keep this to ourselves for now." Ben thought it be a good idea
Taren instantly nodded his head to go along with it. "Agreed." But still, they had the same idea that this bird could have been the one Riven mentioned and feels like he's seen it somewhere before.
"Hey, what's taking you guys?" The two heard Timmy calling out to them while they were getting themselves ready. They positioned the buckets on opposite sides to make the goals while Bloom explained about the game.
"So we each have to gain a score while cleaning up by passing something like a ball or something to hit the goal."
"How about soup? Need something on our feed to avoid slipping." Musa gave thought and tossed it to the floor where as Genie appears as a referee with a whistle and gave them special type of brushes for their feet to avoid falling over.
"Now before we do this, lets go over the ground rules. Rule number one, no touching of the hair or the face-Oh wait that's Ron Burgundy." Smacking his face with his hand and continued. "No using mops for dirty tricks, or mess someone's face the one who get a score wins." Giving out the simple rules to the teens as the girls form a team: Bloom, Stella, Flora, Musa and Mal. Tecna didn't join and decided to watch alongside Timmy. Mirta thought to watch and maybe have a go when they have the chance another time.
Mal stood to the centre and with Genie and Brandon, both keeping a close as the Squire knew she can be crafty sometimes from what Taren warned him about her.
"Ready to get your butts kicked?" Mal taunted him.
The blonde smirked. "Not if we beat you first."
Genie stood between and blew the whistle before dropping the soap between them, instantly sweeping the brushes to get it until Mal managed to snag it and slide passed him and laughed with the soapy floor giving her a boost to build up speed "Too slow!"
Brandon chased after her alongside Riven to try trapping her. "Hey, Stella!" Mal called out and passed the soap with her brush to the side and blew her tongue out to them.
"Thanks. Nice try boys!" She took the rules like a game and needed to keep the boys away from it. "First round goes to the Winx!" Proclaims and determined to get a score.
Taren, Ben and Riven were closing in on her fast, thinking quick she started mopping fast, wide and wet before they get close. "Hope you like a bubble bath!" Making more bubbles then ever and blew it around to confuse them when they fell into the huge bubbles blind, the sound of painful groans and mops hitting the floor.
Genie winced and watched. "Oooh, talk about a clean trick."
Already in range and struck a goal and no one protecting the goal, Stella took her chance and hit it. "Yes!"
"Two rounds to go and the Winx are already one point ahead!" Genie exclaimed.
The bubbles cleared up to reveal Ben on the floor with Riven and Taren on top of him as they try to get up. "Can't believe we fell for that." Ben muttered.
"If I knew I was gonna get a bath, I would've given this a pass." Riven complains as they hand out the mobs.
Taren slowly got up with the mop to use to help him stand. "Next one will be ours!"
Starting a next round Musa takes the chance and passes it to Bloom who slipped passed and was about to get a score until Brandon snuck up. "Thanks!" The blonde chuckled and blocked her attempts to get it as he passed the soap over to Taren.
"Oh, you are so on!" She grins and chases after them as they passed it each turn to confuse her, but Bloom started building up the speed and almost caught it when Brandon suddenly stopped and instantly passed it to Riven.
"This round goes to the boys!" Riven declares and points his thumb to his chest.
Bloom turned to them and smiled. "Not bad, you guys are getting good."
Brandon nodded. "Yeah, this is much fun actually."
"Next time we get the chance to visit Earth, should show you the hockey games." Taren said while they have some spare time.
Mirta, Tecna and Timmy were having a good entertainment and cheering for their respective teams, obviously Mirta was rooting for her friend. Bloom's pet bunny cheered for Bloom, but noticed the red/pink feathered bird sat next to him eating popcorn while watching the game without everyone knowing.
Genie appears in the middle. "Alright, this is the last round and the team with the most scores is the winner."
Musa took her turn to take it and with Ben on the opposite, now tied and want to win the game.
"Alright? Everyone set? GO!" Drops the soap and both wrestled over it with their mops until Musa managed to snare it and passed it to Stella who rushed passed them. She already got Riven and Brandon coming up and needed to pass it over. "Heads up, Flora!" She passed it over to Flora who was just ahead.
Flora smiled and managed dodge the two, slowly getting the hang of it by thinking she was skating. She took the chance to dodge them and head to the boys' goal and keeping the soap moving with her brush from what Bloom told them. "Ok, here goes." She spotted Musa but was blocked by Ben and spotted Stella and Bloom ahead of Brandon, but realised someone was missing.
"Think fast!" So fast and unable to respond when Taren snuck up behind her and tries to steal it from her.
"Oh no you don't!" She blocks his path and gave a mocking smile to him, making him trying to get it while keeping it away until one of her teammates were open.
Ben tries to catch up but Mal blocked his path. "Not so fast, have to pass me first." Smirks at him, which he did as well, both now trying to outmanoeuvre the other and yet couldn't help but enjoying themselves.
Bloom was open and decided to help Flora, giving her the signal while Taren was distracted. Taren sees her and now trying to get the soap from her, however Flora gave a strong thrust and sent it away for him to reach. But as he was about to go after it, he sees a large puddle and bubbles before Bloom and thinks she might need to slow down.
"Bloom, slow down!"
Flora noticed as well. "Look out!"
Bloom didn't know what they meant until she realised what until too late. "Wha- WHAAOOH!" Flaying her arms about and slipped on her but, clutching to the mop to slow down but was going too fast and spinning herself out of control. Inadvertently collided into the two when they try to help her, crashing into the soapy bubbles while Brandon caught it before Musa or Mal had the chance to catch him if it weren't for his team blocking them and launches the soap with his mop straight to the girls' goal, earning them a win for the game.
"YES!"
The boys earned a win, but the girls didn't seem bothered and had a lot of fun.
"Whew! I almost thought we win." Stella said, wiping her forehead with her hand when suddenly given a helping hand from Prince Sky.
"You did good there." Giving Stella his charming smile, causing the princess to stutter and blush.
"I-I-uh, yeah, it was."
"Hey, is anyone missing somewhere?" Mirta was seeing everyone standing up and noticed as well until Genie cleans up the place and found.
"Found them!" Gave a growing grin on his face to find Taren in between the two girls. Bloom groans and slowly sat up to see Flora on her with both on top of Taren, only for him to have a bucket over his head, unaware of each other blushing to be this close to a boy.
"Ugh..." Takes the bucket off to find himself in an awkward position with both of them, despite his blush as theirs he tries to think of something. "Did... someone win?"
Both were surprised and looked at each other before letting out a laugh over his response.
"Are we interrupting something?" All three turned to find Mal, Stella and Ben with amusing expressions, causing them to stop.
Taren groaned in annoyance. "It's not what it looks like."
"Bloom slipped and we tried to help." Flora added to explain .
"And yet you guys seem a little without any injuries." While true to his point, they did seem somewhat less uncomfortable of the position, the girls seem somewhat reluctant but not want to be any more awkward with Flora close to Taren and Bloom's growing crush. Both girls managed to get up and helped him out while he noticed his friends smirking at him and gave the 'not a word' look on his face.
"Well, least it was fun and maybe do it again sometime but without the cleaning." Ben suggested as they started to clean up now that the place was much cleaner then it was.
"Now that's over with, what say we head to our dorm and get the part started?" Musa thought since they were probably eager for some food and dance to have fun. Both groups were eager for a party and least it helped them made the chores more fun.
Genie impersonating as Wolfman Jack playing the records with Musa helping out to get the party started. "Alright, baybah! Here's a little magic comin' at ya right now! Lets see some on the dance floor!"
"Yeah!" Musa said with excitement.
Using some of his magic on the CD players to start up the music, alongside making snacks for them for the hard work cleaning the school. Some of the teenagers decided to sit down and have some drinks while the others enjoy themselves dancing. Bloom was glad everyone was having fun and knew it was a good idea to throw a party.
"It went well." Bloom told Stella who couldn't agree more.
"You betcha! And what's more I discovered that prince Sky is a perfect man around the house." Taking a glance at the brunette and then back to Bloom with a smile on her face. "So? What's the deal between you and Taren?"
Bloom smiled shyly and tried to hide it from her best friend. "Oh, n-no reason."
"Liar." Stella giggled and wanting to encourage her to open up. "It's obvious that you like him, wanting to get closer to him and you act like a different person."
She didn't want to admit it, but she really started to like him more and wanting to be supportive to help him get back to his family, obviously they be missing him terribly. Still feeling a little awkward after they fell on each other, especially for pulling Flora but least no one was hurt.
"But If I were you, I get the chance before someone would get the chance."
"Huh?" Bloom didn't understand what she meant, maybe just to encourage her to be more open about it. Gave a glance at him while he was busy talking to Ben, causing her to smile warmly and continued dancing.
Mirta sat on the bed with a glass filled with soda in her hand, watching the other teens dance and found herself comfortable around them. "Hey, you alright?" She turned around to see Taren who was one of Mal's friends.
"Oh yeah, just not used to all this, but so far great." She smiles softly takes a mouthful of her drink. "So how is it you guys met Mal? She never said much of her past." Not wanting to be rude but was curious to know about it.
Ben thought of how to answer without exposing their secret to her. "Well, we were met as students and made part of the exchange group." Giving the least truthful version as he can. "She's not much of saying anything about her history."
"Only she likes to torment others with her jokes." Taren added in a sense of humor.
"Only to those I find fun and annoying." They turned to see Mal behind him with a sandwich in her hand. "Ignore him, probably his head still spinning after hitting on Bloom and Flora."
"Very funny." Taren rolled his eyes and wish she just not make him part of her jokes. But Mirta tries to prevent herself from giggling. "I'll be getting some more snacks. Hope you have fun, Mirta."
Decided to leave his spot and walks off. She gotten to know some of them, they seem very nice. Well, that Riven guy looks to be all cocky and obnoxious like the witches but not mean. Musa likes to have fun with music, gotten along well with Flora and Bloom being more friendly when they made her feel welcomed while Stella also seems nice. She did gave some advice on her choice of clothing as being informed earlier, but seems both her and Mal have a on-off friendship thing but the others say it's nothing to worry as how she and that Taren fella get along on their first meeting. If she can somehow convince others about her opinion of getting along between both sides, they don't need to hate each other, if only she can try to talk to Lucy, but she's been a little distant lately since the Trix have started to build up a reputation for being seniors.
Thinking about when the Winx told them about sneaking into Cloud Tower, she hopes the Trix don't ruin this moment or attack them not with rumors of monster sightings but wanting to be strong and brave like the heroes her parents told her about for stories when she was a little girl.
While the teens were having a fun night, unaware that they'll be having a group of party crashers.
So I thought to change the scene instead of the group dancing, I figured not everyone be a fan of it such as Mal, Riven or Taren and make it something more fun like a hockey game only with mops and soap to make it fun for them doing chores. Have ideas for Mirta in the story since I figured she will have a major role :) I know the game scene seems a little rushed but gave it a shot and will add more scenes for the KH and disney characters of how things are going with them so far in the next chapter.
Have made some choices for Taren's harem and you can probably guess by now, maybe some ideas for Ben having another in the future, not to worry he and Mal will be paired, I wanted to work up the relationships between the characters but if you have some ideas or advice pm me. And after seeing some clips of the new Descendants 3, it was hardly surprising who her dad is since we all knew if anyone remembers watching the House of Mouse episode years ago. Least it would give me some new ideas for future arcs.
Speaking off which, by now some of you already figured out about a little wacky bird popping up every now and then hehe.