The Last Normal Years

A Che Servono Gli Amici? P6

The Trix have finally realized the power of the Dragonflame is not inside Stella's rings. The Winx ventured into Cloudtower a night ago and recovered it saving Stella a humiliating start to the school year. The Winx meet the Princess of Magix, stern and hostile like the Witches she appears, and refuses to be called by her first name which is Victoria. The name she is known by is Raine by her best friend Alice an ice fairy who is the opposite of Icy even though their childhoods have been the same entirely. After Alice confronts Raine about being mean to Flora and her friends earning the Winx an outside teammate ally in one of their classmates. She knows Raine can be soft just her lifestyle doesn't want to allow it. Raine tells on the Winx when finding out they went to Cloudtower. The Winx escape Cloudtower thanks to a telepathic link between Bloom and Daphne whom Bloom has no clue that the Supreme nymph of Magix realm of the group of 9 famous nymphs is her big sisters. During probation, Bloom begins to make an activity with her new friends as they start reading fairytales to pass some of the time while not allowed to use magic as their powers were revoked about a day ago. Faragonda and Griselda have punished the Winx harshly. Palladium gives Flora the task to find the Alfea Greenhouse and its key using only her wits and she would be come its caretaker if she succeeded.

After our mission at Cloudtower and getting our powers taken away a day ago, the girls and I were now in Griselda's office for the rest of the punishment we had to go through.

"Your intrusion in Cloudtower was extremely rude young ladies. You exposed yourself to great danger, that's the reason why your powers have been revoked. It is sufficient punishment. For me, however, sufficient is not enough." Griselda announced to us. I'm getting a little tired of her reptitiveness she doesn't need to keep repeating what we did wrong. We already know it by heart anyways as she glared at us with her cold eyes.

"Now, just so you remember this lesson, you will spend the entirety of this evening till bed time cleaning what you can of the school." Griselda assigns our punishment tasks which brings Flora to inquire. "The whole castle?!"

"No, just the stairs, corridors, classrooms, bathrooms, lecturehalls and belltower. Since classes are finished today, you'll start in Wizgis' classroom and work your way into every other teacher's classroom." (I have a hard time believing episode 7 takes just one episode cause it doesn't)

"Alfea Castle has a bell tower?!"

"Yeah, where do you think the bells for dismissing class come from?" asked Musa.

"That's much better than I thought it would be." sighed Stella. "I thought it could've been much worse."
Stella makes me laugh all the time because she is genuinely so silly I heard her laughing with me on the other side of the room. Griselda clapped her hands and conjured up some cleaning supplies. "And since you do not have access to your magic powers for the time being..." continues on with her talk. "These are your work tools." She hands Stella and the rest of us a broom and two buckets. Lucky me at Sunset Manor Diner I had already cleaned for three days. This would be a breeze as soon as I taught the others and brought them up to speed. Flora wouldn't be a problem, she already proved she knew how to work, and didn't mind getting her hands dirty either.

"Ugh!" Stella groaned. She did not like the idea of dirt or water unless for a fun purpose perhaps like swimming.

"What a strange object!" remarks Tecna. "Let's see what my computer says about such primitive technologies."

"You won't need a manual guide for your labor nor techno gadgets allowed. Your Earth friend can show you what to do herself as she'd worked with these implements on a daily basis, right Miss Bloom Peters?" She spoke to me as she completely closes Tecna's laptop with her hand.

"Absolutely Griselda, I know exactly what to do." I agreed. "I used these tools loads when not in grade school I helped clean my Mom's flowershop from time to time over my vacations."

"Now that worries me, because ifwe don't have a manual for the labor we won't be efficient enough." Tecna sighs.

"Stop worrying! Nobody said we had to perfect at or in the process of cleaning." I assured her. "We just have to be decent at it, girlfriend!"

"Yeah, it shows the sad news has obviously upset you!" Musa exclaims jokingly making me and Stella chuckle again while Flora adds kindly while also giggling. "Well by Zenith standards, Tecna's emotes more emotion than allowed on the Zenith realm, dear girls."

"Well ever since I meant you four my chains within Zenith society have snapped and splintered." Tecna noted aloud. This made us giggle even more afterwards.

"That's not a joke, but a simple observation." Tecna adds clarification.

"We know, but it was still funny all the same." Musa agrees with her as we struggle to contain our contagious laughter here and now. Tecna had no problem emoting emotions that's why she was the anomaly of Zenith people. The one exception to their utopia which made it a dystopia. She didn't fit in, blend in and the King of Zenith didn't like that.

"Young ladies! Quiet now!" Griselda snapped at us. "You get the classrooms cleaned tonight and the lecture halls and corridors will be tomorrow nobody should get in your way the whole school will be attending the concert in the Magix Auditorium in town courtesy of the Royals of the Magix realm, Winx."

Ace walked in behind us and coughed. "Ahem, Mistress Griselda, they'll need some magic to help them clean the windows in the classrooms and lecture halls and second floor corridor. I'd like to stay behind and help with this, I need to practice my magic anyways. They're instructions from Palladium for me."

"Very well then, only Ace can use his magic to help you when it comes to a place you cannot reach alone." Griselda agrees to let Ace use his magic to help us in higher places like the windows now. I smile at him. I couldn't count on the Specialists to catch me if I fell from an attempt of me being levitated but Ace was so quick with his reflexes I knew he'd catch us in no time period. "Now off to work you go girls, don't dawdle anymore."