Love Can't Be Denied

Relief - Part 4 :Isis

 The next day, Bloom and Sky  take showers and get dressed, both strangely enough, in gray. Standing out in the courtyard, Samara and Erendor a few feet away from them, a sudden thought enters Bloom's head. Her arms go around her stomach and she looks up at Sky, both of her eyes dilated to the size of golf balls. He turns his sad stricken face to her and looks from her face to her arms and stomach and back. Turning his body, he grabs her hands gently and kisses her knuckles.

"He's not gonna know. Nobody's gonna know" he tried to ease her thoughts, but she shook her head.

"They're gonna know"

"Bloom, how would they know? How?" he asked, tilting his head down at her. She struggled to find an answer, but couldn't. Sighing, she just nodded and was pulled into a hug right after. "It's gonna be ok. I promise" his arms flexed around her waist and her heart jumped a bit .

"Ok, Sky" she gave in. They pulled away and saw the Domino ship out in the distance. Bloom's hand went to Sky's and he squeezed it in reassurance. Once the latch opened, the captain stepped out and her luggage was placed on the ship right after. Now, in this very moment, they were waiting for her. Out the corner of her eye, she saw Samara and Erendor walking over to her. Samara pulled her into a hug and she nearly jumped out of her skin.

"It was a pleasure having you back on Eraklyon, dear. Re-visit soon as possible" Erendor suggested once they pulled.

"I will try, King Erendor" she smiled to the best of her ability, her face already wet with tears.

"Time to go, Your Highness" the captain said, looking at his watch. Her face fell and hugged Sky with all her strength. He hugged back, running his fingers up and down her spine lightly. Pulling away, she got on the ship, and went to one of the windows, looking out at the Eraklyon family. The latch closed and it started to take off. Her hand went to the window and more tears fell seeing them wave goodbye. She sunk to the floor of the ship when they left the atmosphere, her love disappearing from her sight, but now she has a second love. A living, growing baby. She wiped her tears and curled up by the wall with her hands on her stomach, getting lost in thought until she fell asleep.

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"Princess, wake up" Bloom's body was being gently shook by one of the crewmates. Her eyes opened and looked up at him. He smiled at her softly and held out a wooly jacket to her. She put it on and shivered when the latch door started opening. Maybe it was familiarity of the area, or Sky's words, possibly the nap, but all the anxiety she had before coming here seemed to have melted away. Odd. Guards came up to her and escorted her to the throne room while others took her belongings to her new room. 

WITH THE GROUP

 Daphne and the gang landed on Isis early that morning. They bundled up in their gear and whatever else was needed for the trek. Ok, now THIS water star was the easiest to get. It's Tecna's water star and it's somewhere in the western hot spring on Isis.  They started the hike. The girls could've transformed but that would cause too much attention and they needed to stay low. They weren't to use their powers until they got to the star.

With Tecna and Timmy leading them, they trudged through three towns where they stopped for hot chocolate and some hot food in the local cafes. They got weird looks as they moved from each town. Everyone looked the same with subtle differences. Everything was the same shade of gray, light blue, white and black. Purple or lavender here and there, but not much. And everyone so pale and lifeless almost. They're cheek bones high and pointed with heavy clothes draped around them. 

"We're almost there. It should be a few feet outside this town" Tecna announced and Stella groaned.

"Can we transform now? I'm freezing!" she pouted and the girls mentally agreed they should transform. "Yes!"

"WINX ENCHANTIX!"

"Daphne! Nymph of Sirenix!" Once transformed, Aisha made them their hover bikes out of morphix again. They hopped on and they all flew out of the strangely quiet town. While flying, they heard a ship. "What time is it, Tecna?"

"It's... 2:30pm"

"Oh no. We have to hurry. That ship came from Domino. Which means, Bloom is here already!" They flew faster, looking for the hot spring. "Where is it?!" Daphne started to panic, not seeing anything but snow.

"Down there...somewhere" Timmy pushed his glasses up on his nose that was starting to turn red from the cold.

"Then let's get to searching!" She headed towards the ground and the rest followed her. The group looked to the best of their powers. Tecna tried to locate it's exact location. Stella tried melting the snow. Musa used her Sonic Boom to knock snow off of trees. Aisha shoveled and sifted snow. Flora attempted to raise up plants from the ground, but the land where ground should've been was snow. This planet's base wasn't normal land. It's land IS snow. 

After tireless hours of looking, they were all exhausted and cold, but Daphne wanted to keep searching for it. She had to deactivate it before she lost her little and only sister forever. She would do anything to make sure she's safe. "Daphne, maybe you should rest. We've been looking for hours now" Musa suggested.

"No! We have to find it! It has to be here!" Once the words left her mouth, the ground started to rumble. "What's that?!" They took to the sky and a gush of snow on top of melted water followed them. The water was steaming only because it was warmer than the temperature of the rest of the planet. 

"They call this a hot spring?" Stella scoffed, touching the water. 

"Guys, look!" Brandon pointed at something shining in the water.

"THE STAR!" The girls said in unison and before they could blink, Daphne was already rushing toward it. Gasps were heard throughout the group when her entire body went inside the water with no hesitation. They waited for what seemed like forever, but was only a few minutes for her to come out. 

When she emerged from the top, a sad look on her face made all of their hearts sink before it changed into one of excitement and she held up the water star from behind her back. "Got it!" The girls screamed and flew over to hug her tightly while the guys let out sighs of relief. "One more star" she said more to herself as she cast a spell on it to deactivate it and sent it back to where the other stars are on Domino.

They flew back to the ship to warm up and sleep for the night. They were about to fall asleep when they heard something outside. Taking a vote, Riven was picked to go outside. "Fine. I'm not a scared little girl like you guys" he said, opening the latch and hesitantly walking outside, disappearing from their sight. "AAHHHHH!" Was heard. Everyone got up and ran out into the snow and nearly fell out from embarrassment.

"SKY!" 

"Oh...my gosh. You should have seen your faces!" Riven laughed clutching onto stomach, Sky doing the same. 

"Bro. What are you doing here?" Brandon asked, running a hand through his hair. 

"Same as you. To rescue Bloom"

"You're kinda off, dude"

"Fine. Then to rescue Bloom" The group looked from him to his Eraklyon ship. A chorus of Ok's were heard as there was no point in arguing.