Chapter 20: Here comes Chaos!
The Trix followed Seneschal through the dark corridors of an unknown base they set up, not certain the location of where they're hiding but was kept secret even to them despite the alliance they have. But somehow they got word of the incident and no doubt unhappy about it. The Cyber Lord leads them to the large room, and standing by the holographic projection of several planets, his hands folded behind him as the witches were led inside.
"Care to explain what happened?" It was clear from the tone of his voice, although somewhat calm but not something to make them feel better.
Darcy was not happy to hear what Icy had done and now was partly to blame for the cause. "Well?" This time he spoke out, causing them to be intimidated by the growing aura around him.
Icy remained silent but not want to keep him waiting. "Ok, so I might have… gotten carried away after that fairy pushed me to the edge. But-"
"And you thought by rounding up some witches to gang up against one fairy?" Tezzeret slowly turned around to face them with his menacing cybernetic eye glowed directly at her. Clearly he was not pleased by her answer. "I expected more from you, but you let your pride and arrogance get the better. The Grimm are creatures made from darkness, an army to lay waste to our enemies. Not your personal playthings." Slowly walked towards them, clearly trying to control the emotions running through his mind.
"Look, we know it gotten a little out of hand but what happened to the others who saw it?" Stormy asked him and was a little afraid of him.
"The Cyber Viruses had erased their memories of the event. So far the authorities only believed it to have been an accident." Seneschal told them. "They are very useful to keep our presence hidden from others."
"Which means no one knows about your connection with our plans. You were lucky. For now." Tezzeret stated. "But, it did seem your attempt has brought some interesting results of where to find the objective."
Creating a screen in the air to show them of Bloom awakening her powers. "I did not believe it myself when we saw it happen. But it appears the flame has been right where it was the whole time."
"Then it is her! She has to be one to possess the Dragon's flame! If only we can be sure." Icy said to prove her theory.
"After what happened, I feel we need to be extra careful now. We have Riven on our side now." Darcy told her as Tezzeret and Seneschal have heard her, they were glad to know that least one of the three did her job well.
"I agree, and also to avoid provoking her further until the time is time. What is most intriguing is what happened to the Grimm." Showing the image of the King Taijitu that was turned to stone by the flash of light. "It is unknown how it happened, but perhaps something to do with the Dragon Flame. I would acquire analyses on the subject."
"Understood. Now then, I will let this slide, but the next time you do something like that again?" A metal twisted spike shot out straight towards the terrified Icy until it stopped within inches of her face. She froze and dared not move an inch to know the idea. "Remember, the future of Dyamond is in your hands if you don't learn to control the flame." Lowers his hand to pull back the spike and retracted back to the ground.
"Y-Yes, I never forget it." Taking a mental note to never underestimate him, knowing their alliance needs to work and agrees fully. Leaves the room to walk into the portal behind them.
"If anything comes up, we'll let you know." Darcy told him and followed her along with Stormy who didn't want to stay behind and followed them.
"You did not tell them about there being TWO energy spikes?" Seneschal questioned him.
Tezzeret and his ally approached the board to see the data. "So far they only saw Bloom and that shall remain that way. I studied the data comparing the one that happened several months ago and yesterday." Observing the images of a burst of light rising from the island and a second with a different angle showing Taren with a glowing aura. "Something unexpected has caught our curiosity and it's time to find out what it is."
Seneschal agreed and found it logical for the two of them to hide this from the Trix. But what they don't understand was how there could be two of them. "Understood, although be best to keep a close watch on the Trix before they become too suspicious of our true objectives."
It barely slipped his mind and truthfully never trusted the witches, no doubt they felt a mutual distrust for the two either. But would hardly matter at all as their plans were coming together smoothly. "It won't be long until we make our move, the last child of Domino will meet her end."
However, one thing that disturbed him was when he noticed how the boy petrified the Grimm with his powers, something he had not seen in a long time. 'What secrets do you hold, Taren Strife?'
"Cool! You guys got summons? Nice!" Genie gave his compliment to the Keybladers upon finding out what they have and also surprised by the type of beings they would use.
"Yeah, when he called them Titans, I almost thought it be something to do with the Greek legends." The Auradon prince told him. "But the one Macbeth used was different and not like the ones my dad described when he fought them last time."
"Oh not exactly. Usually some have similar names but different." Genie magically created a board to show two different pictures. "The Titans you know were ancient beings usually created by the natural elements that make the world like ice, water, earth and wood for example. But the ones you saw were spirits from another dimension and come in many shape and form by comparing them to some other myths from Earth."
"So is it possible for keybearers to use something like that with our blades?" Ben asked him.
"Hmm, not that I know off after being stuck in my lamp for 10,000 years." Pulls out a spare sash with the mist tail, pulling it inside out and lots of books and historical items pour out. "Hmmm, guess I over packed." Scratching the top of his head to see so much
Ben softly chuckled and turned to Taren with the video camera.
"So you thinking of asking bloom out sometime or not?" Taren heard Ben while he was focus on what to say on the video for his family back home. Truthfully ever since he heard the news, Taren was not certain how to say as it's been almost a year but something else was on his mind that he was trying to remember. Even Ben was so nervous about sending his first message to his folks back home for a while before they came to Magix, usually was to stay in hiding from Tezzeret or his spies that could've tracked their whereabouts. But now the access between their worlds was opening up, it won't be long. But another thing that made him so nervous but couldn't admit it.
"Uh, why would you certain I was thinking of her?" Tries to deny it but somehow Ben able to see through him.
Ben sat up on "Come on, it's obvious you like her. I mean, some of us noticed it."
"I uh, no idea what you mean." Trying to deny it and not let his stuttering reveal a little of his secret crush. "Me and Bloom are perfectly good friends. That's all."
"Not from the way Genie said when Riven tried to pull a move on her." Taren turned to Genie acting all innocent and whistling.
"Well the way Riven acted towards her, I only thought to side with her."
"Yeah, and the time back in the dance you two were really enjoying each other's company." Ben added, not to mention how she was happy seeing him and also the party.
"Kid, you're just like your old man. It's written all over your face!" Pulled out a sketch of his face with words written all over it. "Hmm, missed out 'oblivious'." Scribbles it down and turned into Mr. T. "But you gotta go far! You gotta succeed to accomplish your dreams fool!" Grabbing him by the collar and shaking like a doll.
Pulled away and then decided he had enough, no way of getting out of it and time to let it out. "Ok, ok! I admit I really like her!" Able to regain his bearings after finally admitting his feels for Bloom. "I mean, she's beautiful, smart, kind and whenever she gives the sad look just makes me want to support her more." Wanting to go further but stopped and thinking of something else. "I mean, what am I gonna do? Need some help here."
Genie took on the Nicholson impression to give the kid some advice and hopefully he takes them. "Alright champ, here's the deal. If you want to score with the fairy lady you gotta be a straight shooter, do you got it?"
All Taren could do was raise an eyebrow with no clue as to what Genie was talking about. "Huh?"
Ben just face-palmed when clearly had an idea what he meant and turned to Genie. "Spell it out for him."
Genie pulled out a black board and wrote down the words, he brought up a stick to point each one to read out. "Ask... Her... on… a… DATE!" Flipped it over for the final word in bright colours.
"I can't! If I ask Bloom into a date she would say no… and probably laugh at me. Plus Mal would make jokes about it." That was the last thing he wanted was to make himself an idiot and never thought about asking a girl out.
Genie turned into a lamp over his head. "Well boy, the finest ladies always like the guy who makes her laugh." But was switched off by Taren grabbing, groaned in annoyance until Genie reverted back to his original state.
"T, Jokes aside kid. You just gotta be yourself." Which was what Genie gave to him as an honest opinion.
"Hey, what's wrong with being myself?" He asked them
"Nothing, except sometimes you miss out the simple things and always the last to wake up." Ben pointed out from what he knows about Taren's traits. "And also wonder how your parents would feel about it.
"No way! Absolutely no! Not to my dad, not to my sister and especially not my mom! " Taren made it certain of it. "If they hear something about this, my mom will ask things like the relationship and how far it's become. It'll be embarrassing for any questions she ask."
Listening to his reasons would make sense. "Yeah, guess your right. Best to plan something in case, but sooner or later she'll find out." Ben told him.
"Didn't you have been in the situation telling your parents about you and… Audrey?" Not someone he liked to bring up the snobbish princess and daughter of Aurora. "No offense, but I never liked her for her over-demanding, snobbish, one sided few on heroes and villains."
"And don't forget she thinks of herself the most beautiful girl in school to get attention." Genie added and wondered how she was the daughter of one of the kindest royals and the former Princess of Hearts. "Plus, I was relieved to take the offer before her sweet 16th party. Hate to think how she would've planned it."
"I know you never gotten along with her and how she has her certain views, especially what happened to her mother." Ben responded and not taken offence to their comments.
"Yeah, sorry. Guess you must miss her after nearly a year." Taren thought and no doubt he be worried about her.
"Actually I broke up with her." Gave a simple reply of his answer, which caught the two by surprise of this.
"Really? When?" Taren asked and first time hearing about this.
Ben just shrugged his shoulders like it was no big deal to him. "About some time before the Grimm attacks. I just felt like she wasn't for me."
"Don't worry, Ben, I'm sure there be plenty of ladies out there waiting for ya." Genie gave him some encouraging words before whispering to his ear. "Could be one right around the corner and even T's getting the attention of them."
"What?" Taren's phone started ringing and checked to see who was calling him, to his surprise it was Bloom calling for him and suddenly became nervous. "Ah! It's Bloom!"
"Wow, talk about a coincidence." Genie was amazed to see that happen. "Answer it."
Taking a moment to calm himself and slowly reached his thumb to answer the call. "Here goes." Whispers to himself for good luck and brought it to his ear. "Uh, hey, Bloom how's it going?" Not sure what she wanted but to ask.
"Uh, h-hey, Taren! Sorry if I'm interrupting anything." Putting it up on loudspeaker for Ben and Genie to listen, to them she sounded nervous of the way she spoke but slipped past the oblivious redhead.
"Not really, were about to figure out to make plans for summoning practice." He had been meaning to check out the Specialists' new summons and how they can use their keyblades for it.
"Oh yeah, Tecna's been on the medallion to study how they could work and type of magic. But, uh… was wondering… if, well you not too busy…"
Genie took this a chance to help him out, creates a black board to write something. "Sure why not." He whispered for Taren to follow.
"Uh, s-sure, why not? I mean, what did you… have in mind?" He could see Genie grin and a thumb up.
"Great! I-I mean, well just a talk about some test and maybe something to take my mind off of stuff that's all."
Thinking it might get his mind to relax and take a break from the training, especially the home video. "Sure, I'll come about later. Red Fountain is getting a bit busy this time of day. I'll call you back shortly just something to do first. Later!"
"Ok, great! See ya then!" Bloom hung up after sounding excited. Taren let loose some air that he didn't know was holding and slumped to the chair.
Genie came to his side and gave his congrats. "Way da go, T! You got yourself a date!"
"It's not a date! It's just a hang out and a walk." Taren tries to explain.
Ben grins and joins in. "Really, then we could probably have a look at that camera for evidence."
If it did then it would show his parents and a total embarrassment if they see it. "You better not have. Now if anyone asked, I'm heading out. Sky's taking Lady for a walk so our spar will wait later."
"Go for it kid! And remember, be yourself, polite and take her by the horns!" The last part made Genie released what he said. "Uh, scratch the last part, just think of it as a hang out."
"It IS a hang out! Nothing more!" Taren continued to argue but left the room to get ready, leaving the two to watch.
"Young love. So, that means you on the girls' market once more?" Genie turned to Ben now it was the two of them. "Truthfully, she wasn't the one for you. Much to your mother's relief." Mumbling the last sentence to himself from Ben's ears. "Anyone you have in mind? Don't worry, this will not leave this room." Dressing up as a security guard to inspect the room fir any signs.
Ben suddenly became nervous and scratches the back of his head. "Well... ok, just between us. There's... there is this one girl I started to like but..." The brunette sighed and slumped his shoulders of what else to say. "I'm not sure if she likes me back, we know each other well, and she's really…" So nervous he chuckled and uncertain how to bring it up.
"Pretty?"
"Beautiful! I mean, she has these eyes that… hair of her's. And when she smiles." Uncertain how but made him feel so good about her to let it out and say it but not wanting to bring her name up. Not certain if it was the same thing about how Taren felt when he first met Bloom.
Genie was sitting in the Parisian Cafe, sitting with the Aracuan Bird on a table in a French outfit. "Ami. C'est l'amour." The bird raised a wine glass. "Maybe be a chance to grow closer to her for a special occasion. Like the coming special day we need to prepare!"
"You gonna have to refresh my memory, we've been pretty busy lately these past months with the Grimm and villains." Genie came to his side and whispered something in his ear, causing Ben to be surprise and alarmed. "Wait, you mean it's that! Oh, crap! I almost forgot about it! Wait, does he know?"
"Nope, but have some ideas in mind." Genie grins and had ideas, something he and Stella had planned for.
However, unknown to the two, a pair of eyes were watching from outside the window, which was none other then Chaos himself. "Hmm, this has gotten very interesting. Now then, to find the third." Vanishes before anyone would notice his presence.
"Ok, so it's all set then? Good, I'll get something done and best not to tell her for the surprise." Mal was talking to her phone while doing some studying on her bed with her legs crossed. "Just keep me updated and something that is his favourite like I said. Keep me updated." Hangs up and resumes her work but one of them she was reading about were the Titans Yen Sid gave her and means of summoning with her keyblade, several worlds that caught her curiosity and also to understand them before she does something. "The wonders of a keyblade always grows."
"Hey, you found something interesting?" Turns to see Mirta walk in and made her way to her bed, somewhat a little troubled.
"Just something about able to use summons for our keyblades."
This caught Mirta's interest about the news. "Really? Cool, so any you thinking of?"
"Uh, maybe something not so big and destructive for starters." Something Mal wanted to try could be easier to start with without losing control. "So far the Winx and Specialists were giving medallions for something called Titans. Said that ours could do something similar but yet to train those." Also a fact of researching into various worlds and not just some in the Magic Dimension. "Plus, got some ideas coming."
This made the dark red haired teen smile brightly. "I know! I'm helping Flora out with things as she wanted to make it a special moment. Wanting to get a perfect gift for him."
Raised an eyebrow and smiled teasingly. "Best not to ruin the moment, no doubt princess sunshine has that covered." However she was curious to what was on Mirta's mind earlier and wondered what was up. "But earlier you seem a little down. Something the matter?"
Mirta sighed and thought maybe to tell someone. "Well, it's just that Lucy seems really intend to be like the Trix, probably thinking of wanting to join them."
This didn't go so well for Mal upon hearing the news and rather her friend didn't. "You did tell her it was not a good idea. Coming from me, she'd never believe me."
"I did. But she still wants to be a strong witch and… well she thinks you be… not at their level." Uneasy to describe it to her roommate and friend from Lucy's words, which she would no doubt get mad about it.
The blonde haired witch looked at her and tries to remain calm as possible. "…"Not at their level"? Is she serious? I fought them numerous times and even giant monsters with a magical weapon to kick ass!"
"Mal, I know you mean it, but she doesn't understand the danger she could get herself in after seeing what the Trix can do." Mirta responded and not wanting her to get all worked up about it. "But I don't want her getting hurt for her ideals, something like this that gets witches into trouble for so many generations and feel like maybe it be best for changes."
Mal sighed and fell backwards on her bed as she agreed with Mirta completely. "Yeah, all Griffin talks about is keeping the balance in check. It's like if something new comes it will cause great catastrophic events or something. What's wrong with a little bit of change every now and then?"
"Oh I certainly agree my dear!"
Both girls jumped out of their beds as Mal flipped to the side and right in front of them was a pair of eyes and a smiling grin floating in mid air. "You witches seem to have this problem of being a little… obsessing. Turn people into frogs, casting curses and crush kingdoms." The rest of his face revealed into being a cat with pointy eyes and a beard. "I for one like a little change, surely you two understand?"
Both girls were not certain how to respond to a floating head that appeared out of nowhere. Something about him seems off for Mal. "Uh, not to be rude or anything but… uh, who… what are you?"
"Oh, terribly sorry for my lack of manners, you may call me Chaos." The rest of his body revealed as a winged feline. "Just popped by this dimension for a visit and looking for certain… unique people."
"Chaos? Unusual… name." For some reason the witch keyblader had felt like she heard that name somewhere, but not the common word but something about him that made every fibre of her being cry out 'danger'. "Uh, well my name is Lilith and my roommate Mirta. Sorry if we can't be of helpful."
Chaos paid no attention and turned to the books Mal was researching, looking through each page while humming to himself. "Oh, sorry were you saying something? Just been thinking of something fun with them and a little more… creative." With a flick of his paw the bed sheets flew right towards the girls but flew over to the startled wielder.
"Hey! Get this off me!" Struggling to pull it off of her, tripping over the sheets and fell to the floor.
"Leave her alone, you bully!" Mirta was about to help her when suddenly she felt something sprong out of her behind, and the same to her head. Reached up to touch them and felt something… furry. Grabs a mirror and to her utter shock were a pair of cat ears and a tail. "AH! What happened to me?!" She looked like some sort of cat girl, pulled the ears to feel them.
"Like it? Just wait to see how your keyblade friend embraces her heritage. Not to worry there's more where that came from!" The flying cat vanished before she could do anything and leaving the two alone.
Mirta rushed over and pulled the sheets off of Mal. "Sorry, Mal, but you not gonna believe that cat just turned… me… whoa…" The moment she pulled them off of her, made her speechless for what became of Mal.
"When I get my hands on that feline, he's gonna be coughing up more then hairballs." Mal grunted and stood up on her feet after finally able to see better thanks to Mirta, but noticing the shocked look on her and all quiet for a sudden. "What's the matt…what happened to you?" She finally noticed the cat ears and tail and uncertain if they were real or not. "Wow."
"Never mind me, look what happened to you." Not sure what she was talking about but wondering what she meant. "Ok, just try not to scream. Best I show you."
Watching her fetch her mirror. "What? What did he do? Made me into a cat myself?" Reached for her head to feel something, she still feels hair so that's a relief and no furry ears. But instead, she felt something… hard. And long. "What… what are these… horns?"
Mirta showed her the mirror and slowly revealing her face of what happened to her. "Whatever that thing did it can't really be that…" the moment she sees her reflection took her breath away and utter shock. "AAHHHHHH!"
"Now that I found them, I wonder what fun things I can do? Oh, such potential ideas." Chaos felt satisfied with his work after hearing Mal's scream. "Now to see how she handles it in a situation." Finding it more interesting about the book she was reading, poofed one before him and looked through them and couldn't help but smile more until they were ear-to-ear. "Oh, this will be most interesting. A very cunning idea popped in my head. Time for a fun party of a lifetime."
Thus it was time to set his plan to motion and make some excitement in this world.
Griffin walked through the corridors when she suddenly heard a girl scream. "Tch, can they ever keep their voices down? What could be so bad?" But somehow it came from Mal and Mirta's dorm, uncertain what it was until she saw a group of students run, before she could stop them a large specter dressed with a pirate hat, sword and dark cloak with it's open rib caves and skull chasing after them. Uncertain what creature it was until she blasted it away with her magic. It only flew back until recovered before turning its attention to the headmistress.
"I don't know what you are, but you dare attack in my school?" She will have to find out what is going on when suddenly one of the portraits came to live by spirits to scare others and giant snails appeared.
Distracted for a moment until she called for a shield before the ghost pirate creature had the chance to strike her with it's sword. Whatever caused this had serious magic she felt and determined to punish whoever is responsible for this mess. Waving her hand and snared the spirit in a purple barrier to capture it. Decided to call her staff for an emergency. "Ediltrude, this is headmistress Griffin, alert the staff that a situation has broken out."
Calling through her magic when she saw a giant brown scorpion crawling on the roof and snapping it's pincers at her, until it noticed the spectre she caught and turned it's attention towards the spirit. It broke out and decided to fight it instead of Griffin. Thus gave her the chance to sneak past them for a way to help the students and end this situation fast.
"Thundega!" A female cry shouted out and blasted lightning towards the two creatures, blasting them at high voltage and screech in pain.
"Headmistress Griffin! This way!" She turned to see Mirta and realised they never paid attention to her as her illusion spell must have made her invisible to them. But what surprised her was the girl's… appearance.
"Mirta? Is that you." Unsure if this was some trick or spell gone wrong but clearly Mirta.
"Some explaining to do yeah, but Mal's got some bit of trouble herself." Watching the keyblade wielder use her magic and finish them off by trapping them in a time spell that froze them long enough for her to finish them, emerging out of the shadows and sliced the ghost pirate across the rib cage, clashing it with its sword against her keyblade, avoiding the sharoedespite the struggle adjusting to her new wjngs they seem to provide some aid for jumping and glide when the creature takes the air for higher ground. Seeing the scorpion crawled towards her, forcing Mal to flap her wings as much as she could and jumped backwards a few feet but almost lost her balance of where she was going to provide a distance from the two. She could not risk letting this be a disadvantage and had to finish them off Fast. the giant stinger from behind and dodged it before it struck into the ground, using this as her chance and sumkoned string vines to catch its tail along with the specter now captured once more by the headmistress.
"I got this, do what you must to finish them.
Taking the moment to strike by aiming the tip of her blade into the monster scorpion in the face using a fire spell. "Alright, time for you two to take the heat. Firaga!" Scorching them both with her fire and watch as they vanished in green and purple that engulfed their forms
It was troubling to deal with her current form no thanks to that cat. To the headmistress' surprise, Mal had dark brown wings with a curved spike on each wing, along with small curved horns that were grey with purple tint on them growing from the top of her head. "Mal? Is that you?"
Mal wasn't all that certain what was going after taking a glance of her current appearance and seems to struggle with the adjustments of the wings that kept moving. "Yeah, I know, so much so that we might have a big problem here." If this was happening here, no doubt be the same for the other schools and have to warn them one of the biggest danger they ever face.
I hope you all enjoyed it, the first chapter of the Chaos mini arc and thought to make it interesting and make a surprise for someone if you can guess. As for what I did thought maybe a filler chapter. Something fun and creative, so the creatures you noticed were from Kaijudo: Rise of the Duel Masters. They were Ambush Scorpion and Dream Pirate. For Mal's transformation, I thought be interesting of how she handles it and maybe use elements from Maleficent for ideas I have for her in the future. Along with wanting to work on the characters' relationships and what could happen. As for the next chapter I have something in mind so taking something from other episodes for ideas for what Chaos has in stall for them.