Le Rallye de la Rose: Chapter 4: What Bloom does not know

Crazy with rage, Riven walks by all the attractions without paying attention. This girl had held her head high! She had humiliated him! She had ridiculed him in front of his closest friends!

It seems like the icy cold water would not stop pouring down his neck. How Prince Sky and Brandon's laugh did not stop haunting him.

And all around him, everyone are aware of his humiliation.

"I don't need them!" Riven grits between his teeth. "I don't need anyone! I don't care about this holiday!"

Perched on the roof of a building, three slender silhouettes follow him with their eyes. The most attentive has hair the colour of mud. Her eyes, like all hopeful witches, irresistibly call swamps to the mind. She is called Darcy, who bends down over to look at the road, a sentimental look on her face.

"I like this boy. He has personality and muscle."

Her sister Stormy throws a mocking glance at her:

"Say, you're not in love, by any chance?"

For a witch, there is no greater insult! Darcy becomes upset, and they launch into an argument. Until Icy, the leader and older sister, intervenes.

"Ugh! Stop bickering! We have a mission to complete. And the scene between Bloom and this boy has given me a little idea... Riven doesn't like losing and us, we have the power to make his dreams come true."

Darcy understands suddenly:

"Then, it won't be difficult to have him in our pocket!"

The enormous and stupid ogre Knut is summoned as reinforcement. In a flash of evil lightning, he appears. He kneels at the feet of the Trix.

"I'm here, my Lady. What do you wish?"

Icy lifts a hand and the ogre understands that she wants to transform him. He pleas but she cackles. She adores it when he is scared.

"Oh no, not that!" the yellow monster groans.

"Too late, Knut!"

Hey presto the ogre takes on the appearance of its contrary: a young man, slender, gentle and astute. There does not exist but one common trait between the two: both of them are myopic and must wear glasses.

The witches are pleased: no one will recognise Knut disguised as Timmy, the friend of Prince Sky, Brandon and Riven!