Chapter 2: Taking It In
Flora's Point of View
I blinked repeatedly until I was able to clearly see the scene in front of me. My friends were standing to the left of me. They were dirty and bloody but they were alright for the most part. I could feel a warm liquid on top of my head. I reached my hand up and pulled it away to find a dark red substance covering my hand. I gasped quietly and everyone's attention turned to me. I smiled sheepishly and Musa dropped to the ground at my side, hugging me tightly. When she pulled away I smiled tightly at her then looked at the others. "Where are we? What's going on?" I questioned, still puzzled over what was happening.
"We crashed Flora." Bloom said softly, as if realizing it for the first time. My eyes widened, even though I had expected as much. "I have no idea where we are. It looks like we're somewhere in the Gamra Islands though." she continued and my eyes got bigger.
The Gamra Islands was nearly a hundred miles from civilization. We were suppose to be gone for three weeks, three weeks. It was hard to convince Ms. Faragonda to allow us to leave for that long. No one was even going to no we were gone for at least three weeks. I didn't know if we could survive that long. "How's everyone feeling?" I asked after taking in the fact that everyone looked sick and hurt in one way or another.
"Tecna, Riven, and Nabu all have concussions as far as we can tell. Sky has a broken wrist. Stella and Bloom both seem to have broken arms or dislocated shoulders. Timmy's blind as a bat. Layla has a sprained ankle, Brandon, Helia, and I are alright though." Musa informed me. I gasped after hearing the long list of injures. "What about you Flora, how are you feeling?" Musa asked me.
That was the first time I noticed the sharp pain in my shin and a massive headache. "Okay I guess. My head and leg really hurt though." I said gritting my teeth. Layla nodded.
"I figured as much." She said, sounding sad. "When you slipped and fell, you hit your head pretty hard if the sharp edge of a chair and landed on you leg." Layla explained and suddenly I could see the entire scene playing out in my head. I sighed and sat up slightly more as the others sat so we made a circle.
"So now what?" I asked looking at each of my my friends, we all knew the answer though.
"Now, we survive for the next three weeks until someone realizes we're missing." Stella said simply and we all nodded in agreement.
Stella's Point of View
We had decided we would get the most done splitting into groups. Layla and Flora stayed at camp since they couldn't exactly walk around. They were trying to find some sort of potion that could at least partially heal us. Helia and Nabu were looking for herbs to help them. Tecna, Timmy, Bloom and Sky were off in search of food while Riven, Musa, Brandon and I were looking for something to make a shelter out of of somewhere.
We searched for what felt like hours and unreality was probably only about 20 minutes. "What about this?" I asked peering into a rather large, dark cave. Brandon peered in along with the others.
Riven nodded in approval and Musa smiled. "We could build a fire in here." Riven said, crossing his arms over is chest while Musa stepped inside the cave looking around. "We could also put palm leaves hanging down so that the rain wouldn't drench us." Riven said again, mostly talking to himself.
I must have looked distracted because Brandon walked over to where I was starring at nothing, hugging myself. He touched me gently on the arm. "You okay?" He asked quietly and gently. I tired to talk but I couldn't find my voice so I simply nodded. It was hard to take in. The fact that we could not see civilization for three weeks. Who knows what could happen in that time? We were the ones that protected the Magic Dimension. It was almost scary thinking about what could happen.
"Yea." I said forcing a smile that I hoped looked real. "Just tired. It's been a long day." I joked, although it wasn't exactly funny. I sighed and help the others gather wood and palm leaves. Musa and Riven gathered a good stack of firewood while Brandon and I gathered palm leaves.
"Do you think they'll figure out we're missing?" I asked while he held me up so I could reach the leaves. There was silence for a while until he set me down. "Don't worry Stella." he said soothingly. "They'll find us. I know they will." he said, but it almost sounded as though he was also trying to convince himself. I nodded but continued to look down.
We headed back to the cave in silence, walking slowly. I wasn't surprised that Musa and Riven had beaten us there. The boys began to hang the long, dark green palm leaves at the mouth of the cave while Musa and I made sleeping bags with vines and palm leaves, which was just as hard as it sounded. We worked quietly and swiftly. I casted an upward glance at the sky. Dark, grey angry storm clouds were gathering above us. I sighed heavily and got back to work.
"There!" I cheered quietly pushing the twelfth sleeping bag away. We had been working for well over an hour and we still had to build the fire pit and gather water. Riven had returned to camp about 20 minutes ago to inform the others the others that we had found a cave.
Tecna's Point of View
Finding food wasn't quite as easy as we had originally anticipated. Sure, we happened upon lots of berries but very little of it could identify as positively safe to eat. The rest of it we ha to throw out. We only had about three handfuls of berries and we realized we had no where to place the berries.
"You and Tecna should look for some food. Bloom and I will make something to put the berries in." Sky told Timmy. I could understand why. We were the only ones that could be sure the food wasn't poisoned. I nodded in agreement and we went our separate ways.
Timmy and I walked around in awkward silence for a while, gathering a few berries here and there. In about an hour we had gathered seven different types of berries, several oranges, Timmy had actually managed to catch a couple of fishes, and three huge jugs of water.
While we were walking back to camp, no one talked. For once, no one had anything to say. I mean, what was there to say? "Do you think we can survive for however long it takes them to fins us?" Bloom asked me with a nervous look plastered on her face. I looked at her trying to mask my doubts.
Technically speaking there was a much higher chance of us dying then of us somehow being found and rescued unharmed. However, there was absolutely no way I could tell Bloom this not with the look of hope in her eyes. "Of course we can. We're the Winx." I told her, hoping my face matched my tone.
She nodded and fell silent. We walked to the cave that Musa, Riven, Stella and Brandon had deemed as our shelter. We walked for what felt like hours until Sky stated the plainly obvious. "I think we're lost." I shot him an annoyed look.
"Maybe we should head back towards the coast; from there we can find the cave fairly easy I think." Timmy suggested. Bloom, Sky, and I nodded in agreement and we began walking back the other way.
"I swear. We have past that tree six times." Bloom complained after about twenty minutes. I raised an eyebrow at her exaggeration but I had to agree. Everything looked so familiar. I sighed and continued to walk but the sun was making it extremely difficult. At about mid after noon, I was about to give up. I was so hungry, tired, and thirsty. I sat down on a near by rock and the others followed me.
"How long have we been walking?" Sky asked, looking slightly delirious. Timmy shrugged.
Flora's Point of View
I blinked repeatedly until I was able to clearly see the scene in front of me. My friends were standing to the left of me. They were dirty and bloody but they were alright for the most part. I could feel a warm liquid on top of my head. I reached my hand up and pulled it away to find a dark red substance covering my hand. I gasped quietly and everyone's attention turned to me. I smiled sheepishly and Musa dropped to the ground at my side, hugging me tightly. When she pulled away I smiled tightly at her then looked at the others. "Where are we? What's going on?" I questioned, still puzzled over what was happening.
"We crashed Flora." Bloom said softly, as if realizing it for the first time. My eyes widened, even though I had expected as much. "I have no idea where we are. It looks like we're somewhere in the Gamra Islands though." she continued and my eyes got bigger.
The Gamra Islands was nearly a hundred miles from civilization. We were suppose to be gone for three weeks, three weeks. It was hard to convince Ms. Faragonda to allow us to leave for that long. No one was even going to no we were gone for at least three weeks. I didn't know if we could survive that long. "How's everyone feeling?" I asked after taking in the fact that everyone looked sick and hurt in one way or another.
"Tecna, Riven, and Nabu all have concussions as far as we can tell. Sky has a broken wrist. Stella and Bloom both seem to have broken arms or dislocated shoulders. Timmy's blind as a bat. Layla has a sprained ankle, Brandon, Helia, and I are alright though." Musa informed me. I gasped after hearing the long list of injures. "What about you Flora, how are you feeling?" Musa asked me.
That was the first time I noticed the sharp pain in my shin and a massive headache. "Okay I guess. My head and leg really hurt though." I said gritting my teeth. Layla nodded.
"I figured as much." She said, sounding sad. "When you slipped and fell, you hit your head pretty hard if the sharp edge of a chair and landed on you leg." Layla explained and suddenly I could see the entire scene playing out in my head. I sighed and sat up slightly more as the others sat so we made a circle.
"So now what?" I asked looking at each of my my friends, we all knew the answer though.
"Now, we survive for the next three weeks until someone realizes we're missing." Stella said simply and we all nodded in agreement.
Stella's Point of View
We had decided we would get the most done splitting into groups. Layla and Flora stayed at camp since they couldn't exactly walk around. They were trying to find some sort of potion that could at least partially heal us. Helia and Nabu were looking for herbs to help them. Tecna, Timmy, Bloom and Sky were off in search of food while Riven, Musa, Brandon and I were looking for something to make a shelter out of of somewhere.
We searched for what felt like hours and unreality was probably only about 20 minutes. "What about this?" I asked peering into a rather large, dark cave. Brandon peered in along with the others.
Riven nodded in approval and Musa smiled. "We could build a fire in here." Riven said, crossing his arms over is chest while Musa stepped inside the cave looking around. "We could also put palm leaves hanging down so that the rain wouldn't drench us." Riven said again, mostly talking to himself.
I must have looked distracted because Brandon walked over to where I was starring at nothing, hugging myself. He touched me gently on the arm. "You okay?" He asked quietly and gently. I tired to talk but I couldn't find my voice so I simply nodded. It was hard to take in. The fact that we could not see civilization for three weeks. Who knows what could happen in that time? We were the ones that protected the Magic Dimension. It was almost scary thinking about what could happen.
"Yea." I said forcing a smile that I hoped looked real. "Just tired. It's been a long day." I joked, although it wasn't exactly funny. I sighed and help the others gather wood and palm leaves. Musa and Riven gathered a good stack of firewood while Brandon and I gathered palm leaves.
"Do you think they'll figure out we're missing?" I asked while he held me up so I could reach the leaves. There was silence for a while until he set me down. "Don't worry Stella." he said soothingly. "They'll find us. I know they will." he said, but it almost sounded as though he was also trying to convince himself. I nodded but continued to look down.
We headed back to the cave in silence, walking slowly. I wasn't surprised that Musa and Riven had beaten us there. The boys began to hang the long, dark green palm leaves at the mouth of the cave while Musa and I made sleeping bags with vines and palm leaves, which was just as hard as it sounded. We worked quietly and swiftly. I casted an upward glance at the sky. Dark, grey angry storm clouds were gathering above us. I sighed heavily and got back to work.
"There!" I cheered quietly pushing the twelfth sleeping bag away. We had been working for well over an hour and we still had to build the fire pit and gather water. Riven had returned to camp about 20 minutes ago to inform the others the others that we had found a cave.
Tecna's Point of View
Finding food wasn't quite as easy as we had originally anticipated. Sure, we happened upon lots of berries but very little of it could identify as positively safe to eat. The rest of it we ha to throw out. We only had about three handfuls of berries and we realized we had no where to place the berries.
"You and Tecna should look for some food. Bloom and I will make something to put the berries in." Sky told Timmy. I could understand why. We were the only ones that could be sure the food wasn't poisoned. I nodded in agreement and we went our separate ways.
Timmy and I walked around in awkward silence for a while, gathering a few berries here and there. In about an hour we had gathered seven different types of berries, several oranges, Timmy had actually managed to catch a couple of fishes, and three huge jugs of water.
While we were walking back to camp, no one talked. For once, no one had anything to say. I mean, what was there to say? "Do you think we can survive for however long it takes them to fins us?" Bloom asked me with a nervous look plastered on her face. I looked at her trying to mask my doubts.
Technically speaking there was a much higher chance of us dying then of us somehow being found and rescued unharmed. However, there was absolutely no way I could tell Bloom this not with the look of hope in her eyes. "Of course we can. We're the Winx." I told her, hoping my face matched my tone.
She nodded and fell silent. We walked to the cave that Musa, Riven, Stella and Brandon had deemed as our shelter. We walked for what felt like hours until Sky stated the plainly obvious. "I think we're lost." I shot him an annoyed look.
"Maybe we should head back towards the coast; from there we can find the cave fairly easy I think." Timmy suggested. Bloom, Sky, and I nodded in agreement and we began walking back the other way.
"I swear. We have past that tree six times." Bloom complained after about twenty minutes. I raised an eyebrow at her exaggeration but I had to agree. Everything looked so familiar. I sighed and continued to walk but the sun was making it extremely difficult. At about mid after noon, I was about to give up. I was so hungry, tired, and thirsty. I sat down on a near by rock and the others followed me.
"How long have we been walking?" Sky asked, looking slightly delirious. Timmy shrugged.
