SECRETS | Fate: The Winx Saga ~ Alternate Season 2

Chapter 27

Ben stormed out of his suite and down the stairs. Too anxious, he didn't go to the dining hall for breakfast, he had to get to Luna's place as soon as possible.
As he was running through the corridors, his attention was suddenly drawn to the sound of crying. He noticed a small group of girls standing in the distance, who seemed to be trying to console a friend who was screaming and crying in distress. As he got closer, he realised that she was none other than Stella, who was surrounded by her friends, including his daughter.

"Stella, what's going on?" he asked as he approached her in a panic. "Have you been able to reach your mom?"

"No!" she answered, groaning in despair.

Quickly, his daughter took him by the arm and pulled him aside, looking serious.

"We've just heard from the press that something bad happened last night at the castle," the earth fairy began in a whisper.

Her dad didn't let her finish her sentence and grabbed her violently by the shoulders, freaked out.

"What?! Where's Luna?!"

Terra sighed, searching for her words so as not to traumatise her dad, whose feelings she had guessed.

"All her household employees and security agents were killed, it was a real slaughter, however, she was not in the castle, she's missing," she admitted, lowering her eyes. "The police are looking for her but no trace has been found."

"Rosalind..." he growled, beside himself. "I'm sure she hurt her, she must have sensed our closeness. If only I had answered her call last night..."

Touched by his sense of guilt, his daughter hugged him tenderly.

"I'm sorry, Dad, we'll find her."

"She could be anywhere, dead or alive, and I don't want Rosalind to hurt her," he murmured, trembling, holding back tears. "She's done enough harm to her, I need to find her."

The teenager stared at him with a facial expression revealing the fact that she was heartbroken, both bothered and worried about him.

"Leave it to the police, they know where to look and are prepared for attacks. If you go off on your own and run into Burned Ones or Rosalind, you might lose your skin, and I don't want to lose you."

He nodded his head in agreement. Terra wasn't wrong, he couldn't risk leaving his children orphaned. But knowing Luna was in Rosalind's clutches made him sick.

"Okay, I'll give them a chance, but if they don't move fast enough, I'll turn the Otherworld upside down to find her," Professor Harvey acquiesced. "I'm certainly not going to let that bitch torture her."

At that moment, he thought of Farah, who was probably still with Saul. Should he warn them? It was a considerable risk, and if Rosalind managed to locate them through his fault, he wouldn't forgive himself.

"Well, that's my dad," replied his daughter energetically. "Go and have some breakfast, you're starting with our class."

He thanked her and quickly headed for the dining hall so as not to remain hungry all morning. He had no appetite, but he had to eat. He just wanted to find Luna, but he had to stay at Alfea to teach classes.

***

When she had finished teaching her class, Rosalind teleported to the small room where the Queen was being held prisoner. Immediately, the latter jolted, still very weak and traumatised by what she had experienced.

"Calm down, Luna, I'm not going to eat you," she laughed innocently and walked towards her.
The light fairy tried to sit up, ignoring the pain pulsing through her body.

"What do you want from me now, Rosalind?!" she grumbled, angry. "Haven't I given you enough?"

Her enemy crossed her arms over her chest, her sadistic smile plastered on her face.

"I just want to know where Dowling is."

Of course! She should have known better! But Luna wasn't about to betray the man she was falling in love with. She put on an innocent face and confronted her captor.

"You're wasting your time, no one has seen her for weeks," she replied curtly.

"That's weird because you were talking about her with Harvey yesterday," she retorted with a satisfied look. "Maybe Charles' spirit could help us..."

Luna clenched her fists. Once again, her enemy was trying to manipulate her, but it wouldn't work. The fairy was exhausted, but she had to hold on. For Ben and his friends. Her son would understand.

"Stop the blackmail, it's getting tiresome, I'm not telling you anything, ever."

"Even if Stella found herself in an unfortunate situation?" teased Rosalind, determined to get her to talk.

The Queen felt her heart sink. This bitch was threatening to attack her daughter, the apple of her eye. She would do anything to protect her. But Rosalind would give her a hard time no matter what, and she could still count on Bloom to protect her, because the headmistress feared the fire fairy.

"You can say anything, I don't care, you're no match for a group of fairies, including the fairy of the Dragon Flame."

The blonde fairy gave a devilish grin and raised her hand towards her, threatening.
In response, she inflicted unbearable pain in her bones, so much so that Luna writhed. She began to scream, refusing to tell her anything.
Then her torturer decided to implant images of her son's fatal accident, of Stella and Ben being tortured, suffering martyrdom. The lover of the botany professor knew that all these images were manufactured and she was still resisting, with tears in her eyes.

"Well, will you confess, you traitorous bitch?!" shouted Rosalind before spitting at her, mad with rage.

"No, I won't," she mumbled, groaning.

The headmistress grunted and finally disappeared, as she had important things to do. She left the fairy slumped on the ground, even more exhausted and scarred by the terrible pain. Shocked and distraught, Stella's mom began to cry. In this state she was unable to use her magic, she didn't even know where she was, and if Ben didn't find her, she wouldn't make it out alive.