Chapter 69: The Aracuan Bird
It seemed like another usual day after the mission on Eraklyon, while it was fun going on adventures but had to do schoolwork to avoid falling behind even with the importance of stopping the Trix, Kefka, and Darkar. But also another thing to be excited for was a concert being held at Red Fountain by Musa after the school completes its annual tournament, the girls thought to give their support for her dream of being an incredible singer.
"So, is anyone going to take part in the concert? It will be totally cool!" Stella asked while brushing her hair in front of her mirror.
"I think I'm gonna watch, focusing on maybe improving my powers." Bloom thought of participating but offered to go to cheer them on. "I heard Sky and Brandon were taking part in it. Something of a fire dance"
"That would be something for you to enjoy." Flora knew it would be something the blonde would wanna see most of all.
To Stella, it would be when she heard about it and was excited to see Brandon do a fire dance. Sighing with a dreamy smile on her face. Her moment of thoughts came to a sudden end when the Solarian princess opened her eyes, standing in front of her mirror was a bizarre looking bird staring at its reflection and posing.
She has no idea how it got into her room, but did not appreciate the intrusion. "Hey! Do you mind, I'm trying to brush my hair!"
The bird paid no attention for a moment until he jumped in her arms to give her a kiss on the cheek. Stella didn't know how to react as it jumped out of her arms and dived into an open draw. "Get out of there!" Pulls it open and to her shock the bird was not there. "Huh?" Baffled by how it happened, but then reappeared in another drawer and waved at her with a whistle, Stella chased after it and found no sign of him at all. Driving her nuts of how it could appear like that.
"Where are you? Come out now!"
Bloom overheard Stella's voice, pokes her head inside Stella's room to find her in a frantic state, even pulling out her clothes for something. "Stella, what are you doing?"
Stopped what she was doing to turn around to see Bloom, Flora and their bonded pixies looking at her oddly.
"Some wacky bird came out of nowhere using my mirror." She told them, while baffled as to where it went. Not only that… but kissed her on the cheek. Didn't want to bring that up to be made fun of.
"A bird? You sure you weren't imagining things?" Bloom thought.
"Guess it didn't have the same taste of fashion." Flora held back the snickering as did Bloom in the joke.
Stella narrowly glares at the two. "I know what I saw. And what's wrong with my clothes anyway?!"
Neither seem to want to answer it and look the other way. "Uh… oh, we should probably check on Taren and how he's doing. Coming Flora?"
Flora didn't need to be told twice. "Right behind you!" Making a quick run for it and could hear Stella calling out to them from a distance.
"Hey!"
Tecna was on her computer working on some data, uploading the research on the mana to help information about the artefacts and certain myths after the third was lost to them in Auradon. But another subject she was researching that got her curious. It made her more eager to find out about the nature of these creatures and the history.
"What are you researching, Tecna?" Digit appeared on screen, drawing her attention.
"It's data from the previous events, mainly those of the Kaiju we encountered and maybe more about the Digimon." Tecna responded, displaying images of the Kaiju from when they first fought them due to the Caos Incident when they were preparing for Taren's birthday, as well as the Digimon. She was amazed that such a world made of data could exist, pondering what could exist there and maybe a way to enter that world. But a more concerning question that came to her mind…
How powerful would those Digimon be if they were hostile. Those were the things they needed to look into and maybe more about their ability to evolve.
Maybe she can ask Timmy for help on the subject.
However, she was a little nervous to maybe ask him since she felt unsure what was wrong with her. After she saw him almost get hurt by that mad villain, Kefka, something inside her just suddenly made her worried for him and made her heart beat so much.
Even too nervous to speak with him for some reason.
Maybe she was being too overwhelmed with emotions and perhaps a temporary thing. But as soon as Tecna was in a moment of thought, she found a strange pink feathered bird on the screen. "Odd, I don't remember seeing this." Possibly a photo taken from their classes, only for the 'photo' to start moving about, jumping all over the computer screen and changing the wallpaper into a tropical beach, sat on a beach chair with a pair of sunglasses and a coconut with a straw. She was startled and uncertain how that happened.
"How did that… okay, that's it time to remove this."
"Could be a virus." Digit thought. "But whatever it is, it's the wacky looking virus I've ever seen."
Once more, the bird changes the photo from surfing, dragging the techno pixie with it to ride on a surfboard, not much to her enjoyment. Tecna tries to remove it, but then comes another into a winter coat, snowboarding and making a snowman with Digit popping her head out. Then one with a sci fi looking suit with blue highlighted stripes and a helmet, the Aracuan Bird then pulled out a pen and drew a door, opening it and then leapt inside.
"Oh no you don't!" Tecna tried to open it, only to find it was gone and just a drawing. It was the strangest thing ever and couldn't understand if it was some virus or someone's odd sense of joke. "This this just so weird, I wonder if I should tell the girls about this or not. What do you think Digit? Digit?"
Digit wobbled out of the screen, eyes rolling about as she sat on the desk. "I think I need to process some data… as soon as the stars stop spinning around me." Too dizzy to answer her bonded fairy's question and falls on her back.
Taren was walking around during his break and checked on his friends about some concert they were practicing. Apparently there have been a lot of people taking part in it and some of their friends were going to join. He spotted the Specialists and seemed as though Sky and Brandon were doing some dance moves, they were trawling a pair of sticks and tossing them in the air. Decided to see them after they took a break. "Hey, guys. What's up?"
The specialists stopped what they were doing when they noticed Taren.
"Hey, bro, we thought you'd be back home at the moment." Brandon would have assumed.
"I got some to do here for some studies, plus, the headmaster requested for any other incidents like the Red Fountain." Taren told them. "Mal will be in Cloud Tower for her part time studying as well, guess they wanted to be ready in case the other schools were attacked."
Sky could understand that with a nod. "I guess that makes sense. So you are coming to the concert in a few days?"
"Heard about that, but at the moment I promised some friends to do some sparring. So I won't have much time for that." Taren tells them.
Sky assumed he meant by Bloom and Flora when he found out about their spar practice, he didn't mind at all and thought it was a good idea to learn from each other's skills to get better. "Any word from Master Yen Sid about the next artifact?"
Taren shook his head. "Nope, so far it's quiet but says there's only two left to find."
"And without a doubt, the Trix will want to find them as well." Brandon said, which the two agreed with him.
"What's up, boys?"
They turned around to find Layla and Mirta, both wearing clothes for training and dancing.
"Hey, girls, what are you doing here?" Taren asked them.
"For the concert, of course. We're doing our tryouts for the performance and want to be sure to get it right." Layla tells them as they were going to perform for the concert. "By the way, Taren, we were wondering whenever you were free would you train with us after the concert?"
Surprised by the princess' offer, Taren thought it wouldn't be bad. "Uh, sure. What brought this up?" Not aware of Brandon and Sky giving each other a smirk.
"Seeing as Kefka appears to use magic similar to yours from your world, it could give some ideas to defend ourselves." Layla answered as she recalled seeing the keybladers use their magic as well some they know such as summoning and Kefka's powers. Especially against the Kaiju for that matter.
"Good point, that guy really gets on my nerves." Brandon nodded his head.
"No kidding." Taren agreed. "Sure thing, wish you girls good luck at the concert."
Layla nodded to appreciate his support, Mirta smiles sheepishly to say something. "Thanks, hey, Taren was wondering if-Agumon?"
"Agumon?" Not sure where that came from, Taren was confused why she brought him up. "What about him?"
"Hey, when did Agumon show up?" Sky said, earning more confusion from the redhead.
"Sky, what are you talking about, Agumon is in my digiv-" He was confused and found his partner right beside him. "Agumon? How did you get here?"
"Didn't you summon him?" Mirta assumed he did but never saw the digimon out of nowhere. Suddenly, his digivice shoots out a beam and to add more confusion was another Agumon, at least the one who was his partner.
"What's up guys? Is it lunch time?" Agumon asked, looking at everyone who was gawking at him as if he grew another head. "What?" He turned to find another Agumon, this one from earlier mirrored his reaction.
"Wha? Hey? Another Agumon?" They said at the same time, waving their claws and lift one leg up, the other did the same. "Weird."
"No kidding, I'm seeing double." Taren didn't know who was who.
"But which one is yours?" Sky scratched his head in confusion.
But then the first Agumon reached for his forehead and pulled out what they thought was a zipper and pulled it down like a suit. To further stun the group, the one in its place was Taren.
"Taren?!"
Brandon was utterly shocked to find another Taren. "Wait, it could be Darcy at work! She must be trying to sneak into the school again."
"You're right, she's tring to confuse us!" The other Taren declared, causing the other to appear startled.
"What?! Wait a minute, you guys can't be falling for this!
"You made a big mistake, Darcy!" Sky was ready to take her on.
Taren, or at least one of them was taking a step back as he was being surrounded. "No wait a minute! Guys wai-aachh!" It was too late when his own Digimon turned on him. Followed by Sky and Brandon to join in. Creating a dust cloud "Agumon cut it… ow! What the leg!"
"Wait a minute, guys! This can't be Darcy." Layla didn't think it was her sort of style, especially to use this trick.
Mirta sighs and thought they were not listening when too busy fighting each other. "Boys."
"Well, I better go." The one they assumed was the real Taren smiles at them. "Goodbye, ladies." What they did not expect was his move on pecking them both on the cheeks, causing the two girls to blush in surprise by such a stunt. This caught the guys attention to cease their fighting, more so to the other Taren who looked red and utterly gobsmacked after what he just saw.
"Woah, Taren, you player!" Brandon could only grin, but then felt a fist clobbered the top of his head by the frustrated Taren they tackled. Causing him to groan in pain.
"THAT WASN'T ME, YOU IDIOT!"
Agumon suddenly sniffed something from the other and realised this was his partner. "Wait a minute, it is Taren!"
With the cover blown, the other did the same stunt and this time revealed to be the Aracuan bird.
"A bird?" Layla and Mirta were surprised and confused.
"Told you!" Taren glared at the bird when he recognised the crazy bird that has been popping out of nowhere ever since he and his friends arrived in the Magic Dimension.
The Aracuan bird waved at him and made a run for it before anyone could stop him.
No one had any idea what was going on, but so far it just became a very strange day for them.
The next day, the girls were in class waiting for professor Wizgiz to begin class, and sat behind their desks to get started. The students went silent as the professor walked inside. "Good morning, students. I hope you are all excited for today's lesson."
Before they could ask what they were learning, entering the class was ANOTHER Wizgiz walked into the classroom. "Wait, there are TWO Wizgiz?" Stella couldn't tell if she was seeing things and thought her eyes were playing tricks on her.
Musa looked at them both. "Are they twins and we never knew?"
"You think Genie is doing this?" Tecna pondered as it has been awhile but knowing about his magic
Layla groaned and had a flashback of what happened the other day. "Not again."
The second Wizgiz came up to the first one and crossed his arms as the other did the same, almost amused instead of being concerned about having a double in the same room. "Now what is going on here then, eh?" The first one reached his hand up to the hat, pulled down a zipper, like some sort of coat, and inside was the Aracuan Bird.
"That's the bird that messed around with my computer." Tecna recognised him immediately.
Stella shot a finger to point at him after being made a fool. "See I told you I wasn't imagining things!"
"Guess, we do owe an apology." Flora remembered him a while back after their adventure in the swamp and thought she was imagining things.
Bloom blinked her eyes and looked at it, almost funny looking for a small bird. "Wow, I've never seen one like him before."
Wizgiz chuckled when he assumed the girls had experiences with the bird's mischiefness nature. "Oh, mischief as always." as both shook hands and turned his attention to the stunned and confused students. "Class, allow me to introduce Ari, simply short for the Aracuan Bird."
The Aracuan simply smiled and bowed his head.
Tecna raised her hand to know more about the bird and what he could do. "Was that part of his magic?"
The Aracuan bird pulled out a couple of sheets with musical notes and a top hat as if he was about to perform some singing, but surprised the class when suddenly shreds the notes and let out a high pitch scream. "Arapapapapapa, Arapapapapapa, variar." Running around the class and appear all over, surprising the students. "Aracuan Haa! Haa! Haa! Arapapapapapa, variar. Aracuan. Haa! Haa! Haa!"
"That has to be some singing." Musa almost thought it was more of a scream than music.
Stella's book opened up by itself and the Aracuan Bird popped right out of it, startling the blonde princess which almost caused her to fall out of her chair and amazed other students while some laughed. He jumped on to Flora's desk, reaching into his sleeve and pulled out a bunch of roses to her.
Flora accepted them and smiled warmly of the kind gesture. "Oh, thank you." She smelled them and smiled.
"Should we tell Taren he might have competition?" Musa made a humorous joke as Flora responded by sticking her tongue out for a tease and chuckled.
The bird simply walked away from her desk but without touching the floor, catching everyone's amazement until he walked on and reached the main study desk.
"Aracuan Birds are unique, very hard to find, or where they even come from due to their bizarre habit of being so unpredictable. Also difficult to tell if they could either be magical or not with a lack of knowledge about their nature." Wizgiz explained as the Aracuan demonstrated more of his abilities by pulling out a set pool out of nowhere, filling it up with water from a hose, along with a chair and a fishing rod. and dressed up as a fisherman in a blink of an eye. Few seconds while tapping his foot, the rod caught something and began pulling whatever it was out the pool, giving a strong yank when something big was flung high up in the air. The bird tossed the pool aside to pull a small table with a plate and sheets to cover as if preparing for a meal. The class watch as something he caught was too high up to see and too fast, flapping its arms or wings, wailed in surprise until it lands back down. The catch on the plate was surrounded by chopped vegetables. It was a large a white feathered duck with an apple in its mouth, wearing a purple jacket and a blue shirt underneath it.
It was none other than Donald Duck.
"Quite a catch you got 'ere." Wizgiz chuckled as the girls clapped by the performance but were curious to know who it was or what.
Donald spat out the apple and stood up, confused, and baffled to find himself in a class full of students. "Wha? Who did... how did I..-" He stopped at his tracks when he recognized the Aracuan Bird who simply smiled and acted innocent with the blinking eyes and hands together. It didn't take a second for Donald to figure out who was the culprit and the last person he ever wanted to see. Jetted straight towards the Arabian, pressing his head against his by inches and looked straight in the eye of the unconcerned Arabian. "YOU! Where am I, you stupid bird?!"
"Well, allow me to answer that, you are in Alfea School." The professor answered the confused Donald.
"Alfea? But that's in Magix!" Donald wasn't sure if he was hallucinating or one of the bird's tricks. "I gotta get back to the Clubhouse!" Believing the Araquan might know something and he's going to get some answers out of him, grabbed him by the ponytail and yanked off his feet. "You're gonna send me back to the clubhouse right now!"
Not fazed by his demand, the Aracuan gave a salute when he was put back on his feet. He did a spin and now dressed up as a biker and suspended in mid-air, as if he were actually driving a motorbike and heard the actual sound of a motor engine running. He 'drove' round and ran over Donald with tire marks over him and left the classroom. Fortunately, Donald was able to make a fast recovery and held his head up before shaking himself to focus.
He was now more mad than before. "WAARRGHH! GET BACK HERE! STUPID BIRD!"
Donald ran so fast, he left a trail of debris to catch the Aracuan Bird to send him back home, Wizgiz stood by after watching the 'demonstration' and clearing his throat for their attention. "Well, seems to be they have quite a history and I hope you enjoyed that little thrill." Reached his head up to his green hat and pulls down a zipper, revealing to be another disguise of the Araquan Bird. He bows his head and smiles, allowing the girls to laugh and applauded for his performance before making a dash.
The Winx have no idea just how crazy this day will get.
Hope you like it as I thought to make a part two for this as I was real busy with projects in mind and some work, especially being my birthday last month. As we now abut mid-way this year, time certainly flew by. This be a comedy chapter split in two of the Aracuan causing some mischief and now Donald is in Alfea, this will be a lot of fun with the duo to cause such mayhem. I was gonna do the concert episode but thought do this one first before that and with some bit of changes, tune in to the next chapter, viewers! Reviews and critist are open, ideas as well for any other worlds you want them to visit, send me a PM or message for ideas for the characters!