Chapter 14

"Wha…what's going on?" Stella asked as a second explosion rocked the school.

Before anyone could answer Stella a small orb of red energy hit the wall below the large window to the office. The resulting explosion smashed the window into thousands of pieces that flew toward everyone. The scene played out is slow motion in everyone's eyes as they dived to try and get away from the flying shards of glass.

Flora raised her hands preparing to feel the shards enter into her arms and body. When she did not feel anything she opened her eyes to see a light pink shield between the wall and everyone else in the room. A small sigh of relief escaped from Flora's mouth when she saw the small shards of glass lying on the floor.

Pushing herself up off of the floor Flora could see that the wall the window was in now lying in pieces across the floor. She quickly looked at the others to see that they were okay before turning to see Ms. Faragonda lowering her arms to release the small shield that was created.

"Again what is going on?" Stella asked as she pushed herself off of the floor.

The doors to the office flung open as Griselda ran inside. "Someone is attacking the school." She yelled.

"Do you know what they are looking for?" Faragonda asked receiving a sharp shriek from Stella. "No! Why on earth would we know what they want?"

Musa's eye's widened in shock as she rushed for the door to the office. "Musa, where are you going?" Bloom yelled out. "I think they are after the person that attacked Lacus."

Rushing through the halls of the school Musa turned down the one to the infirmary. Rounding the corner she could see Ophelia lying on the floor, a pool of blood spreading under her fallen form. She hurried to her side and turned the woman over to see various small cuts over her arms and a particularly nasty cut to her forehead.

"Let me go!" Flay yelled.

Musa turned her head toward the open doorway to see a person wearing a blue jumpsuit and a silver mask griping tightly onto Flay's wrists. She could see dark blue that reached the middle of the person's back.

"No Macha you need to come back with me now." Tarvos demanded.

"My name is not Macha its Flay!" Flay yelled with pain in her voice.

Musa could see a slight glow appearing on Flay's left hand where the same symbol as before began to appear. She could also see the grip of the other person's hands tighten causing the young girl to drop down to one knee.

"What do you mean you're not Macha?" Tarvos asked, "I have known you since Endymion created you. Now get up we are leaving."

"You're not going anywhere!" Musa yelled causing the person in the silver mask to turn her attention in her direction.

"And what do you think you can do to stop me fairy?" Macha asked as she stared at Musa.

"Winx Enchantix!" Musa called out before raising her hands toward the person clutching onto Flay's wrists. "Soundwave Attack!"

Purple waves of energy flowed from Musa's hands rushing toward the person standing before her. The energy collided with Tarvos's chest knocking her off of her feet and releasing her grip around Flay's wrists. The momentum sent her flying into the wall behind with a loud crash.

Flay ran over to where Musa was before hiding behind her. "Are you okay?" Musa asked looking over her shoulder. The red head nodded and Musa could see the fear in her eyes. A small laugh caused Musa to change her vision back toward the area that Tarvos had crashed into the wall.

The small pile of rubble began to move as Tarvos slowly sat up. "Is that all you have to try and stop me?" Tarvos giggled.

Musa and Flay watched as Tarvos raised a silver scepter with a red gem attached to it. As the gem began to glow pieces of the wall rose from the ground before flying toward Musa sending her flying into the wall behind. "I'm not done with you." Tarvos said as she sent more debris flying toward the music fairy.

Exiting the school Helia gripped his art supplies tightly in his hands; he turned around the corner of the school to head toward his favorite spot to sit. He loved drawing pictures while sitting on the bench that he had met Flora at just a year before. A smile crept on his face as he neared the bench. When he looked up he noticed Kira and Riven sitting on the bench that he was heading toward.

"Hi guys," Helia called out. "I'm not interrupting anything am I?"

Kira and Riven looked back over their shoulders to see Helia walking up carrying his art supplies with a smile on his face. Before Kira could say anything Riven stood up and walked over to a nearby tree and leaned against it. A puzzled look appeared on Kira's face as he watched Riven.

"Not really Riven and I were just talking is all." Kira replied, "What brings you out here?"

"I just come to this bench to draw." Helia replied as he walked around to the front of the bench and sat down.

"Why do you have to use this bench?" Riven asked with some anger in his voice.

"It's my favorite spot," Helia answered, "This is where I first met Flora."

"Should have known," Riven said as he looked away from Kira and Helia.

"So what were you two talking about?" Helia asked as he opened his drawing book and flipped to a blank page.

"Why does he have to be so nosy?" Riven thought as he glared at Helia.

Kira turned his head to see the look that Riven was giving Helia, "Riven was just helping me get over the shock of seeing Flay again."

"Yeah that must have been a big shock to see her again after what you had shown us." Helia replied as he sat the book on his lap.

"Yeah," Kira replied with a somber voice before looking at the book on Helia's lap. "What are you about to draw?"

"Flora of course," Riven replied without looking at the two of them.

"Not today Riven." Helia said as he laughed, "It's a surprise though."

Kira watched as a pair of shapes began to form on the paper. One was a young woman and the other looked like a small girl. After a few moments Riven slowly walked over behind the bench to look at the same picture that Kira was looking at. As Kira opened his mouth to say something a gust of wind blew the piece of paper that Helia was working on out of his book, Helia stood up and walked over to where the paper had landed before turning back toward the others.

"Is that smoke?" Kira asked looking off into the distance.

"Yeah," Helia sighed as Riven held a hand before his eyes to shade them long enough to see. "It's coming from Alfea."

Helia started dialing on his phone, a hologram of Timmy's head appeared before him. "Hey Helia, what's up?"

"Timmy, we've got trouble, smoke is coming from Alfea." He turned it around so that the tech specialist could see. "I'll notify the others immediately, try and get in contact with the girls."

"Already on it," Riven replied, holding his own phone to his ear. He heard it ring once, and then again, and again, but there was no reply. 'Hi, you've reached Musa' "No answer," he replied as Helia tried the same.

"I'm getting voicemail too." Helia's phone rang again and he saw Timmy's face once more.

"The others are on their way to the ship," he explained.

"Will meet you there," Helia answered before hanging up the phone.

Helia place a hand on Kira's should causing the young man to turn and look at him, "Don't worry I am sure Lacus and the others are fine."

The girls rounded the corner just in time to see Musa fly through the wall. Hitting the wall on the other side of the hallway she slumped down to the ground right next to Ophelia.

"Now are you going to come quietly or am I going to have to make you?" Tarvos asked from the room.

Flora rushed over to her friend as the others rushed for the door way. Turning her vision the same direction as the others after seeing that Musa was alright she could see Tarvos with her hands tightly gripped around Flay's wrists.

"Let her go!" Bloom yelled.

Tarvos turned her sight toward the girls standing in the hallway. "Not more interruptions." Tarvos said when she noticed the girls who had already transformed. "You fairies think that you can stop me when even that little girl could not."

Tarvos could see the anger in Bloom's face as her left hand began to lightly glow orange. The masked woman laughed as she swung her scepter toward the girls sending Stella, Tecna and Lacus flying into the wall behind them. Seeing her friends slumping to the ground the rage inside of Bloom continued to grow as she sent a blast of energy at Tarvos.

The blast of energy hit Tarvos sending her flying back a few feet but her grip on Flay's wrist held tightly sending the girl flying with her. When Tarvos looked back up at the three fairies she shot a blast of energy from her staff at Flora. Layla jumped between the ball of power and created a Morphix shield. She was shocked when the shield crumbled like glass sending her flying across the room.

Flora quickly shot a blast of pink power toward the masked woman when she heard her friend hit the wall behind her; she was shocked when the woman caught the ball of energy in her right hand. Tarvos threw the ball of energy at Bloom hitting her in the chest causing the Dragon Flame fairy to fall to the ground out of breath.

"Green Luxurious Ivy," Flora said as she quickly raised her hands toward Tarvos. Four neon green colored vines quickly split the tiles below the masked woman before wrapping around her legs.

Tarvos laughed as the vines continued to grow wrapping her arms and the silver scepter tightly against her body. The vice grip that she had on Flay's wrists slightly loosened. Flora could see the young girl pulling her arms as strongly as she could to try and break away from the masked woman.

A small laugh escaped from behind the mask as the red gem began to glow. Flora began to feel beads of sweat forming along her forehead as she watched the vines begin to change to a shade of the darkest black she had ever seen. Flora called out in pain as the vines slowly crumbled into ash and dust before dropping to her right knee.

Exhausted from feeling the deaths of her vines Flora forced herself to her feet quickly glancing at her friends she took her opportunity. Tarvos laughed at all of the fairies, powerless to defeat her. Flora slowly raised her hand toward the masked figure as a small pink glow began to flicker in her hand. She forced the energy at Tarvos hitting the hand that was tightly gripped around the scared girl's wrists.

Flay's wrists were released as Tarvos yelled and tried to regain control but Flora was too fast. She cast a shield spell over Flay, protecting her from harm. The masked woman slammed her fist against the pink shield causing the girl inside to take a step backwards against the other side of the shield.

"You should not have done that little fairy," Tarvos said as she turned her vision toward Flora. Flora watched as the masked woman slowly walked over to where she was standing. She knew that she did not have the power to stop this woman, quickly turning her vision she could see that Bloom had collapsed.

The feeling of fingers wrapping around her throat caused Flora to look back at the masked woman, she could feel that her body had been lifted off of the ground before feeling the solid wall impact with her back. She could see sadness in the dark blue eyes behind the mask of the person tightly gripping her throat.

Flora wrapped her hands around the wrist of the person holding her as she tried to release herself from the vice like grip. "I think its time you learnt a lesson." Tarvos said as she leaned in closely to Flora's right ear causing her eyes to widen in shock.

Musa painfully rolled onto her side and looked to the struggling nature fairy before extending her hand, "No, its time for you too." A blast erupted from her palm and hit Tarvos, sending her flying across the room as Flora collapsed to the floor, desperately trying to get air back in her lungs.

Flora placed her hands near her throat as she took in painful raspy breaths trying to fill her lungs with oxygen. Black dots danced in her vision as she looked to her left and right, her neck blazing with raw bruises. As the black dots slowly disappeared she turned her vision toward Musa and was shocked at what she saw.

Musa's eyes looked completely different, the size of her pupil's had shrunk while her iris's had grown in size. A laugh escaped Tarvos's throat, catching Flora's attention. "So," Macha spoke, her voice dark. "You have a little more fight in you, huh fairy?"

Tarvos slowly stood up with her scepter tightly gripped in her hand, the gem beginning to glow brightly as she swung it in the direction of Musa. "Musa," Flora managed to painfully yell out as she watched her friend being swallowed up in an explosion.

"Playing hide and seek are we?" Tarvos asked as she looked around the room, "What happened to teaching me a lesson?" Tarvos chuckled as she turned her vision toward Lacus. Slowly walking over she lifted the fairy off of the ground. Lacus groaned as she felt her body being lifted off of the ground.

Lacus opened her eyes when she felt the pressure tighten around her shoulders. Everything was a giant blur until she blinked a few times weakly and managed to see Tarvos's mask. Macha had her dark blue eyes focused directly into Lacus's Blue-Gray eyes.

"Are you going to show yourself?" Tarvos yelled as she looked around the room, "Or are you going to let your friend here suffer?" Tarvos laughed when she heard no answer before turning to look at Lacus again. "I guess your friend does not care about you does she?"

Before Tarvos could say anything else Musa appeared in front of her and placed her hands against the masked woman's chest. A flash of pink appeared from Musa's hands before Lacus felt the grip on her shoulder release and Tarvos flew through the room. The masked woman flew through the wall behind her like it was made out of paper sending her flying off into the forest that was surrounding the school.

"Are you okay?" Musa asked as she turned to look at Lacus. As her friend turned to look at her Lacus could see the same eyes that had shocked Flora, she knew what had to have happened and nodded her head to let the music fairy know that she was okay. "Good," Musa replied before collapsing into Lacus's arms.

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