Chapter 1- Protection's strength
Day 1
Daphne walked down the long hall to her dorm. When she walked in, she saw that there was someone packing her things into the closet.
"Hello," Daphne said nervously, "I'm Daphne."
"I'm Zaera. Are you princess Daphne?"
"Yeah…"
Zaera had light brown hair in a high ponytail with side bangs. She had on a pair of jeans with stars and a yellow shirt with a blue star on it. Her shoes were plain tennis shoes.
"Cool. I'm Princess Zaera. Ok, I just got here about five minutes ago, but I've already met everyone else in this dorm. The two that have the door to our left are Nele and Riquora from Eraklion. On our right is Astoria from the kingdom of Amoral and Yci from the kingdom of Hoarfrost."
"Aren't Hoarfrost and Amoral at war with each other?"
"That's right. And we're going to be share a living room with them. Joy, right?"
Two girls came over just then. Both were blonde, but one had long flowing hair and the other's was cropped short. The long haired girl had a pink halter top dress and purple sandals. The short haired girl had jean shorts and a middy top, both with a chamo pattern. Her boots were army style boots.
"I'm Riquora," the long haired girl said, "And this is my twin, Nele. You must be Daphne from Sparx, right?"
"Yeah…" Daphne said.
"Enjoy the calmness while you can," Riquora said, "Yci went out to cool off- man, that's ironic-and when she comes back, she and Astoria are going to be fighting again. I'm not looking foreword to this year."
Just then another girl came. She had dark skin and brown hair. Her eyes were an aqua color and she wore a skin tight orange mini dress and knee high orange boots.
"I'm Astoria. It's a pleasure to meet you."
"And I'm Yci. Don't mind her," Yci said as she pushed her way through. Yci had shoulder length hair in a braid and a tight strapless top-white- under a pale orange vest and a denim skirt. Her shoes were sandals with green stars on them.
"It's nice to meet you all," Daphne said. When Daphne had been 16, she'd worn her hair in low pigtails and it was a dirty blond. She wore a yellow and green skirt with a pastel pink shirt. Her shoes were black and her socks came up to her knees.
"Well, I'm going to unpack," Yci said and pushed her way to her room where she unpacked.
Day 2
"What?" Yci asked. She'd just asked if she could transfer rooms, and the answer was no. She walked back to her dorm and kicked the couch in the main room.
"What's with you?" Daphne asked.
"I just asked if I could transfer rooms, and the answer was no!" Yci was infuriated.
"Then I guess this means you two should get used to each other," Riquora said.
"I'm never getting used to that freak!" Astoria snapped.
"Well, at least for our sake get used to each other!" Nele said.
"Fine. We'll go to Magix!" Yci grumbled.
"So…what are your powers?" Nele asked on the bus to Magix.
"Ice," Yci snapped.
"Lure, which are distractions, both physical and emotional," Astoria smirked.
"I'm the fairy of nymphs," Daphne said.
"Stars," Zaera said.
"I'm fairy of portals," Riquora said.
"Speed," Nele said.
"Have any of you transformed yet?" Zaera asked.
"Yes," Yci smirked.
"No," the others said.
"Ha! I'm better than you!"
"Ok, what do you like to do in your spare time?" Riquora asked.
"Ice skating," Yci said.
"I bet you're not any good," Astoria smirked.
"I'm better at skating than you are at all of your hobbies put together," Yci snapped.
"Well, I like playing with animals," Daphne said.
"I like reading romance novels," Riquora said.
"I like swimming," Nele said.
"I like star gazing," Zaera noted.
"Well, I like rock climbing," Astoria smirked.
"Is everything we're going to say going to be a contest?" Daphne asked.
"It's not a contest," Yci said, "I'm better than Astoria and she's not accepting that!"
"You've got it backwards, Yci. I'm better than you!"
Zaera hit her head.
When they got to Magix, they all went over to a pizza place. After much debating, they ordered three pizzas so everyone got what they wanted.
After eating, they walked down the street to the mall where they planned to look around.
"Look at them," someone said. Daphne looked over her shoulder and saw three women standing there. They looked a few years older than them.
"Yeah, I mean, their clothes are so slutty."
"They're better than yours," Astoria said.
"Hey, watch your mouth, you little bitch!" one of them said.
"Let's go," Riquora said.
"No. I'm not letting them push me around!" Astoria said.
"You've got some guts talking to us like that," one of them said.
"Let's go," Nele said.
"I don't think so," the third one said.
"I think so," Daphne said.
"We're going. Come on," Nele said.
"You mess with us, you don't just walk away," the second said. She put her hands out and let out an ice beam that was headed straight for Nele. Riquora jumped and pushed Nele on the ground.
"That goes for you, too," she said and aimed an ice beam that froze Nele and Riquora.
"That's it," Daphne said, "I'm not going to let you get away with that."
"And you're going to stop us?" the first one said.
"No," Yci said. She walked up, "Clearly, none of you have any chance to take care of yourselves."
She put her arms up and crossed them. She was lifted off the ground and her back arched. Her braided hair was let loose and became a pony tail held up by a crystal like a head band. Ice covered her chest and her waist. From her waist it moved down to a skirt. Then the ice vanished, revealing a strapless light blue and white top. Her skirt was a slightly darker shade of blue. Then ice came up around and formed boots that came below her knees. Then it vanished and showed the boots. All the ice that had vanished gathered at her back and formed thin wings that were a blue also.
"Oh look, she can transform," one of them said.
"I can do more than that," Yci said. She put her hands forward and ice gathered.
The first one put her hand forward and sent out a beam of darkness. It almost hit Yci, but she put up a shield of ice that blocked it. She summoned up all the ice that encased Nele and Riquora. It was slow and long, but eventually it was all absorbed by Yci.
She hit it forward at the three women. They blocked it, but whatever it was, they seemed pretty done fighting for now.
"I'm Congeal," the second one said, "This is Eclipse, and this is Gale. We're senior witches at cloud tower. Don't mess with us."
"I say the same," Yci said.
The three witches vanished in a flash. As soon as they were gone, Yci fell onto the ground.
"Are you alright?" Riquora asked.
"Hell, I'm fine. Are you?"
"Just cold," Riquora said.
"Yeah. That's good," Yci said.
"I thought you've transformed before," Astoria said.
"Fuck, I've transformed before. I've fought before, but never like that. I actually saved Nele and Riquora for something that you caused, but you couldn't do anything about," Yci said.
"Yeah, right," Astoria said.
Yci smirked, and then passed out in her normal form.