K-5 (Full)

Fleura du Mal

In the Crete Fortress, four mages started reading comic books in the living room. Ezra and Norbit sat on the bean bag seats. Kirana and Camilla sat on the couch while Talia and Pink Hallow laid on the floor.

"Man, the Bronx City Sirens comics are so awesome!" Talia exclaimed with a smile. "Rosecaster and Maytag are wicked cool!"

Pink Hallow screeched and clapped his hands happily.

"Rosecaster and Maytag are alright, but they are no way better than Freakapool, Songvibe, or even Amazonite." Kirana said, holding up three girl-powered comic books in her hands.

"Come on, girls. What about the Elite League? It's way better then Kids Kabooms Go." Ezra said as Norbit nodded his head.

"Oh, please. The Powerpax are the bomb." Camilla said, showing Kirana, Talia, and Ezra the comic book cover in her hand.

"You're kidding, right? The Powerpax?" Talia asked shortly.

"The story of four young preteen sisters who got their powers from a dying alien leopard. Yeah, so awesome." Kirana teased with a grin.

Ezra held back a laugh while Talia covered her mouth with one hand to hold back her laugh.

"Hey, that comic has a real mix of adventure and kick butt, man." Camilla said with a serious face.

Kirana, Talia, and Ezra started laughing out loud. Camilla unloaded a machine-gun barrage of red psychic energy bolts at her siblings, causing them to fling over the couch.

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In Donnie's lab, Ariana was analyzing April's mind with her magic while Donnie was using his flashlight in front of April's face.

"I've been having headaches and weird nightmares about space and other galaxies." April said.

"I don't see anything physically wrong with you, April. You're probably just adjusting to life back on Earth." Donnie said.

"It could be that." Ariana said with a shrug. "Because I'm not getting anything from her mind."

"I don't know, Donnie. My seventh sense tells me it's not that." Mikey said as he came inside the lab with his comic book. "It's that freaky crystal she never takes off."

"For once, I have to agree with Mikey." Ariana said to Donnie. "Despite the power of the crystal, it has been increasing April's psychic abilities. I did detect weird energy coming from it."

"Hmm. I don't think a crystal could give her headaches, but let me take a look at it, April." Donnie suggested as he held his hand out to April.

But April slapped Donnie's hand away that made her friends jerk back from her.

"No! Get away from it!" April exclaimed as she held her crystal protectively in her hand.

Donnie rubbed his hand and Ariana's eyes widened in shock for her friend's behavior.

"Whoa, you're acting like it's your precious. You're addicted to that thing, April." Mikey said to April.

"April, just give it to me, so I can check it out." Ariana said gently.

"I said back off...me." April said threateningly. She then started to calm herself down. "Okay. Okay. It's just a crystal. No big deal."

April slowly took off the crystal from her necklace and handed it over to Ariana, who was inspecting the star crystal with Donnie's microscope.

"Wow. This crystal has many remarkable particles and structures that I don't know about." Ariana breathed in awe. "Hey, Donnie, can you try an experiment on it?"