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"My lady, get out of that tree, your father will be home any moment now!" an older lady shouted from a second story window to a girl who was perched on top of one of the highest branches of a large maple tree.

"Oh, Faragonda! Why can't I just stay up here? Father won't mind." the young girl begged as she looked at the older woman.

"Flora, get down this instant and wash up. You know that your father is also bringing a new mother and two sisters for you. Now, don't you want them to see the nice lady that you can be?" Faragonda asked the young eight year old as she sighed and climbed down the tree.

Once inside, Flora was put into a bath and Faragonda tried to brush through Flora's long and caramel colored hair. "Now child, I do not see why you can't just sit and knit like most young girls your age?" Faragonda mused as she brushed through tangle after tangle. Flora sat as Faragonda brushed through her hair and neatly placed it in a bow and dressed Flora in a light green gown appropriate for a young lady. Soon there was a rapping on the window which caused Flora to jump out of Faragonda's grasp and run towards the window.

"Riven! What are you doing here?" Flora shouted out the window to see a young boy her age staring up at her and squinting his eyes.

"You look like a girl!" Riven shouted back at her.

"That's because I am a girl, you half-wit!" Flora yelled back with wide eyes.

"You don't say?" Riven scoffed.

Flora stared down Riven and took off for the door and ran outside to tackle Riven. Riven ran away from her and ran to the garden were Flora grabbed him by the ankles and shoved him into the wet soil. Flora was only stopped by the sound of a horse draw carriage.

"You survive today, Mr. Riven Anderson." Flora smiled down at Helia as she got out of the mud and ran to the front of the house to find the servants, her father, and a woman with two young girls surrounding her that appeared to be Flora's age.

"There appears to be someone missing," Flora's father stated as he looked around, "I wonder where she could be?"

Flora knew that he was talking about her and ran into his arms, tackling him to the ground.

"What happened to you, young lady?" Flora's father asked as he looked at his daughter covered head to toe in mud.

"Riven was being nasty so I had to teach him a lesson." Flora responded as she held onto her father. Soon Riven appeared behind the large house, in a worse fashion than Flora was in.

"Well, I was hoping to present a young lady but I suppose that you will have to do." Flora's father chuckled. "May I present the Countess Cassandra and her daughters Krystal and Musa" (I know that I am breaking away from the canon here but just hear me out).

Cassandra and her young daughters curtsied slightly in unison as a sign of welcome as Flora stared up at her new mother in awe. She was beautiful with hair that shined like the sun. Her daughter Krystal shared her mother's same blonde hair but was lighter in color that it almost looked translucent in the sunlight and Musa seemed to share nothing of the other two ladies other than Cassandra's pale skin. Musa had long black hair that almost looked blue and had violet eyes as opposed to Krystal's hazel and Cassandra's brown.

"How do you do?" Flora asked as she curtsied back to them as part of the formality.

"Come on, let's get you cleaned up, m'lady." Faragonda said as she grabbed Flora by the hand and whisked her away back inside.

After Flora had taken a bath and had her supper, she was settled in for the night as she awaited her father to come in and read her a story and tell the true stories of his adventure. Flora knew that she was too old for her father's stories but she loved them nonetheless and the stories that were shared at night made Flora happy with the absence of her mother. There was a creak in the door and Flora shot up in her bed.

"Father?" Flora asked.

"Yes, darling?" Flora's father replied as he made his way into Flora's bedroom, the only light being the fireplace at the end of Flora's small bed.

"I just wanted to make sure that it was you." Flora smiled as she bounced in her bed in a seated position from excitement.

"Who did you expect?" Flora's father chuckled as he sat down next to Flora.

"You could have been a monster." Flora retorted as she looked up at her father.

"No monsters here, my darling. Now have you picked out a story?" Flora's father asked.

"We have read all of the stories." Flora pouted as she looked ahead of her.

"What? We couldn't have read every single story."

"Well, we did." Flora said as she looked back up to her father.

"Are you sure?" Flora's father asked and soon pulled out a small yet thick book that held a collection of short stories from around the world.

"Father! For me?" Flora jumped up.

"Yes, dear."

"Thank you, father!"

"Now Flora, I need to ask a favor from you before I read this story."

"Anything." Flora smiled.

"I am leaving again, just for a few days and will be back at the end of the week, but I need you to be a brave girl for me. Your new mother and sisters just arrived here today and will be needing to learn the ropes. Promise me that you will be on your best behavior and treat them and everyone that you meet with kindness and patience no matter how difficult that they prove to be." Flora's father instructed.

"I promise."

"Good! Now let's get to that story." Flora's father said as he sat upright and opened the book to page one. Flora snuggled back under her covers and slowly started to drift to sleep as her father read aloud the story of the young maiden and her fair prince.

It was the next morning and everyone was outside to see Flora's father off on another one of his meetings.

"I will miss you, father." Flora sighed as she reached up to give her father a hug.

"It is only for a few days. Now remember our promise?" Flora's father asked as he bent down to hug his young daughter.

"Yes, I do." Flora responded as she let go of her father and he wiped away a tear from her bronzed cheek.

Flora's father then turned to Cassandra and gave her a kiss on the lips.

"Hurry back to us, my love." Cassandra said as she held onto Flora's father.

"Come now, none of all these sad faces. I will be back before you know it." Flora's father chuckled.

Flora's father mounted the brown stallion and started to ride away to the gate. Cassandra and her daughters walked into the house but Flora looked back and stopped the mother and her daughters.

"Wait, he will wave to us at the gate. It is tradition." Flora smiled but was met with a scoff from Cassandra.

"Come along, girls." Cassandra huffed as she pushed her daughters inside.

Flora rolled her eyes and looked towards her father with a smile across her face but it soon became apparent that something was wrong when she saw her father let go of the reigns with one hand and clutch his chest. Flora's father slowly started to hunch over and soon fell off the horse.

"FATHER!" Flora screamed as she ran to where her father laid on the ground. Flora started to weep as she shook her father. Flora was soon joined by Cassandra on the ground next to the father and daughter.

"Flora..." was all Flora's father could say as he caressed her tear stained cheek. With the last utterance of Flora's name, he had died.

Flora sobbed into her father's chest as Faragonda tried to pull away Flora from her still father, but Flora protested and clutched onto her father. Cassandra feigned tears and shouted, "You cannot leave me here!" Cassandra grabbed onto the arms of Faragonda and stood up and the two made their way to the house, leaving Flora to grieve by her father's side.

Let me know what you think. I do not know if there has ever been a Winx and Ever After crossover that centered on Flora and Helia but I have not read every story that is out there and I think that my story will be a little different. Anyways, I love Ever After and the Winx Club so I thought I would do a little story inspiration from it. I own neither the Winx Club or Ever After so don't send the copyright police after me. That would not be fun. However, do send your reviews :)