Chapter 1808 The Black-Mud Swamp
I don't own Bleach or any of the powers and gear used in this story.
It was morning and Team Light were at the Black Mud Swamp with the students which includes his friends the Winx and Professor Palladium, the girl were all dressed in explorer outfits for the trip.
"So as I was saying today's exercise will be rather difficult." Palladium said.
"Professor Palladium a mosquito just bit me." A student said.
"Yes we are near a swamp and it's just a mosquito, no big deal." Palladium said and the girls chuckled.
"Look were it got me." She then pulls her shorts a bit up to show and it made him nervous.
"Why did they agree to come?" Zack said.
"One answer, us." Aka said.
Draco sighs.
"Of course." Shiro said.
"Oh my, well what I meant was to uh shorts." Palladium couldn't get a proper answer and most of the girls laugh.
"Come on girls don't tease him." Yui said.
"A good fairy must be able to listen what nature tells us, today's exercise is designed to put your skills to the test, now you've all been put into groups so were ready to begin you have three hours to get out of Black-Mud Swamp and reach the clearing int he middle of Gloomy Wood Forest without using magic but the boys are here to watch over in case something bad happens, remember listen carefuly to the voice of nature and follow it's advice." Palladium said and he vanishes surprising them.
"Okay everyone be careful around the place. There could be dangers." Draco said.
"Okay Draco." Many girls said while waving at him.
They then went to the swamp and the girls went inside it.
"This place is totally disgusting." Stella said.
Draco walks through using hamon to go above the stuff.
"Hey no fair, your getting dirty." Stella said.
"We are here to protect you not to get dirty. Plus this coat is expensive." Draco said.
Aka helps her up and she smiles.
"Come on girls let's go." Bloom said and they walked foward.
"I don't know if you realise it but were in knee deep in what I refer to as a problematic mud puddle."
Tecna said looking at the puddle that had bubbles.
"Alright you guys take cover, I'll handle it." She raises her hand but Leonidas grabs it.
"No stop." Leonidas said.
"Wait a minute don't you smell that?" Bloom asked.
They all small it and Musa said: "it smells like gas, let's get out of here."
They ran to the other side and hide behind a log.
Bloom picks up a small log and said: "okay let's see." She then throws it and it hits a bubble making gas get shoot out from it. "A single spark and we would have been toasted my friend."
"Ah yes we took a big risk." Flora said.
"That's why I stopped you Tecna, you almost made a big mistake." Leonidas frowns.
"Sorry." She looks down.
They walked foward for some time and then they saw a red fountain airship crashing on to the other side.
"That was a red fountain airship." Zack said shocked.
"Let's go see." Bloom said and they went towards the crash site.
They arrived at the site and saw Riven, Timmy, Sky and Bradon on the outside.
They got close and Aka said: "Are you guys okay?"
"What does it look like." Riven said.
"Were fine." Sky said and he then sees hole on the ship making him worried. "Oh no."
"Troll footprints." Leonidas found some.
"He's escaped." Sky said.
"You guy let a troll escape." Tecna said.
"We didn't let him escape, there was an accident, we lost altitude." Riven said.
"Mechanical failure." Timmy said.
"Anyhow theres nothing to worry about he's handcuffed." Riven said.
"You mean these." Hank lifted handcuffs up.
"Oh no." The girls said.
"What are you guys doing here?" Brandon asked.
"Were in the middle of an assignment." Bloom said.
"Then get back to your assignment and don't worry about a thing leave it to the specialists." Riven said.
"Oh then when will they come." Victor said making him grunt.
"What Riven means it would be best if the girls were to go back to Alfea while we try to capture the troll." Sky said.
"Well I wouldn't expect them to take lightly from that." Zack said and he saw the rest of the students coming.
"That's right we don't need to told what to do." One of the girls said.
"You'll do what you gotta do, but don't ever say we didn't warn you." Riven said.
Hank closes his eyes and senses. "I can track it since I have a way."
"That could help." Sky said.
"It would save us time." Timmy said.
Leonidas checks the ship. "Hey Sky."
"Yeah." He looks.
"The hole on the ship was made by the outside he had help." Leonidas said surprising him.
"Those handcuffs are a psychic lock to be able to open it you need mental power so the troll had someone to open them." Tecna said.
"Hey guys check this out." Bloom said and they look at the footprints. "The trolls footprints notice anything."
They looks at them and Yui said: "they're leave no prints."
"That's right he has huge feet that leave no prints." Musa said.
"But the ground is still soft, how do you explain that?" Flora said.
"It's as if the troll was in a supersonic weight lost plan." Stella said.
"Or floated up." Yui said.
"But trolls can't cast flying spells."Tecna said.
"So that means someone helped him." Bloom said.
"Follow us." Draco said and they went inside the swamp.
"Are you sure we should go there?" Stella asked.
"Stella just listen to nature and we will be able to find the way." Bloom said and she closes her eyes.
"Yes, I can hear it too it is the right path." Flora said.
Hank nodded and knows what they're doing but his way of the force is better.
They walked foward and they saw a few plants that looked alive.
"Don't make any noise I know these kind of plants, these plants hate noise." Flora said.
"Really." Stella said before she could do anything Aka puts a finer on her mouth and looks into her eyes.
"I wouldn't." He whispers making her blush.
Then they heard a scream, the group went towards the source and found the guys tied up by the plants.
"Ah there you are." Flora said quietly
"Keep whispering by all means, you wouldn't wan to upset the digestive process of these plants." Riven said but they crushed him.
"Keep your voice down." Musa said.
Flora talked to the plants. "Everything is alright little plants you can relax." They went down and released the guys.
"How about we worked together this time." Hank said.
"Sounds good to me." Bloom said.
"Yeah right, no way i'm teaming up with fairies." Riven said.
"Then your on your own, tell us when you find the troll." Sky said to him.
Riven gave up and went with them, Hank walks in front before he opened his eyes.
"He's near."
They found the troll trapping three girls and Bloom said: "The girls are trapped, we gotta do something."
"We've gotta be quick and to the point, number 1 find a way to distract that troll." Sky said.
"I hope your plan has a number 2?" Stella asked.
"Of couse, Brandon and Timmy will grab a hold of him and Riven and I will slip the hnadcuffs on him, any complaints, alright then let's do it." Sky said.
"Fine." Yui sends a bolt as it sparks in the sky making the troll look.
Brandon and Timmy then grabs it's legs making it fall to the ground, then they saw Riven and Sky jump onto it too and they start to cuff it while the argue, the troll shakes them off and runs which made Team Light facepalm since they cuffed Timmy.
"Great we lost him again, what a great job we did." Brandon said.
The three girls go up to them and one said: "So your guys are the specialists, in what botchery, you should have let Draco and the guys do it, they would have capture it." The other two laugh at them and they left.
"That's the thanks we get." Sky said.
Brandon was sitting at a log with Zack going up to him.
"It's not that bad."
"But they were not too far off, were not specialists were rookies, the only thing we do really well together is argue, they were right about you, you could have stopped it since we always lost to your team." Brandon said.
"Hey don't be like that. Look at me, when I started training with my mentor I screwed up a lot and had problems, but he never gave up on me and I still kept training. And I got better because of it. So you can do the same." Zack said.
Brandon smiles. "Hey thanks."
The group tried to find the troll but he was gone, they found feathers that belonged to Icy's duck which gave them a idea who was responsible.
"She was here." Draco frowns.
After that the Specialist returned back to Red Fountain after talking to each other, Team Light took the girls to the spot where Professor Palladium was.
"I watched you during today's exercise, even though you came in last I'm really satisfied with your perfomance." Professor Palladium said surprising them. "You showed courage and generosity, as well as excellent decision making, so the outcome I would like to say it was just a test run."
They returned back to Alfea but now they know where the troll went.
Note: Here's the Swamp mission and Zack helped "Brandon" out, now much they could do since it's about the girls.