It's the 21st century, in Manhattan a city that every person can love, I'm a fifteen going on sixteen teenage girl, it's the summer and I've landed my dream internship, nothing wrong with that equation-except, well…everything.
Internship, great! Kristy Palmer-not so great, but it's not just that, even Manhattan the city that never sleeps, it's just lately it seems-I don't know, smaller? Cut throat? Depressing? It's never felt like this before, when I moved here in the second grade I thought it would be amazing, and it's not like it's lost its amazing qualities. It's just, summer should have been more fun, but yet it's not, I was originally going to go to Costa Rica with my group of friends, but then I stupidly changed it to spend the summer with my boyfriend Danny, or should I say EX-boyfriend. It seemed like a great idea at the time but of course Kristy Palmer; Ridge North's most popular girl just had to ruin my summer, by corrupting Danny into a meaningless hookup.
After a month of grieving and mourning my relationship and oldest friendship I had moved past Danny and tried to create something new for myself.
I mean I would have been cool with just hanging out by my self this summer, honestly I would, but fresh from my breakup is sort of leaving me a little bitter sweet. Danny and I had been friends since I moved to Manhattan, I could tell him anything and I could avoid all the girl drama throughout middle school. I never thought Danny would do something like that in a million years, not only to me but to him, we're only fifteen, I was and still am tempted to tell his step mother who is a major prude she would go totally ballistic.
Anyways I've just been trying to cheer my self up a bit by going to Central Park everyday, exercise and sunshine ought to get me back to my regular self in no time. So it's just another day, like yesterday, and the day before yesterday and… honestly I'm just getting bored, I've circled and looped and swerved all around Central Park at least a hundred times. On the bright side, I wasn't alone this previous Christmas I had gotten a chocolate lab puppy named Gatsby. But that doesn't distract me from the fact that I need new scenery, a change in the location a new sound, smell, sight-just new.
"What do you think Gatsby, a new scene?" Gatsby barked as if replying yes, now I had four options: North, East, West or South, whenever I thought of the East, episodes of Gossip Girl re-appeared in my brain. Unfortunately my life is no Serena Van Der Woodsen or Jenny Humphry, so I just started walking into the busy streets.
Walking, walking, and more-walking, "Gatsby, I don't think we're going to find a new park to gallivant in" Gatsby licked his nose; my feet ached as I curled my toes from the rubbing pain of my black converse.
What's that? I swivelled to my left, and saw a black iron gate open with a sign above it, which was slightly covered in vines and tree branches; I rushed across the street now just realizing that the street was abnormally empty, no cars and no people walking about.
Rosemary Catherine Park read the sign in faded green letters, there was a small rusting two person swing set on the far end that was surrounded by flowers, bushes and trees. The park was quiet, the sun streamed through the tree branches bright and glowing, vines and ivy covered the brick townhouses on either side, the flowers looked taken care of and watered. But I guess not a whole lot of people come here, probably because it's basically wedged between two townhouses, I walked ahead Gatsby following close behind me as I came up to the swing set, blue paint was crusting off leaving behind a bright mark of rust. But it was nice either way, though I wasn't particularly sure of where I was it seemed like a good spot, I started to lean up against a hedge-only to fall right through!
I rubbed my backside as I landed on my butt and looked up to see a faint outline of my body in the hedge. I heard Gatsby's worrisome bark on the other side; I sat up and pushed away a part of the hedge making a whole which Gatsby happily jumped through like a trained monkey. I spun around to follow Gatsby and my mouth hit the green grass ground, I was standing in front of a small clearing and green grass, flowers, and trees circling around, there was a dirt path that intertwined between trees, vines and ponds. It was beautiful, and seemed oddly large; I put my hand up to my forehead to shield the sun away from my eyes.
"Ready Gatsby?!" I tossed up a small tennis ball, his butt went up with his tail wagging and tongue sticking out I tossed the ball pretty far into the thicket, and on he went. I leaned on the trunk of a huge oak tree and slid down on the grass, and just rested my eyes. I could hear the birds chirping, the light breeze blowing, the bright sun warmed my skin, Gatsby whimpering-wait what?! I shot up from the ground; Gatsby was running towards me with a look of sheer terror on his face. I picked him up and looked around, what could it be? I mean Gatsby isn't really afraid of anything-well besides squirrels. But next thing I heard was a loud thunder cracking sound I rushed into the thicket which shortly lead to a clearing that I had yet to come across.
"HI YAAA!" I heard a girl's voice scream, I quickly hid behind another tree.
"BACK GHOUL!" A tall girl kicked a small red and black creature that had lobster hands snapping, tall black horns on both sides of its head with stumpy feet and glowing green and yellow cat eyes! The tall girl had long blonde flowing hair in a high ponytail that reached her heels, a tiered ruffle mini strapless dress; it shone like the blinding sun while the very tips of each ruffle sparkled with lightly glowing moon dust. She wore lace stilettos that glimmered in the sun like star light and she held a gold scepter that had a sun on it.
"HI YAAA! RISING SUNBURST!" She screamed and shot the small creature back, hitting a tree and disappearing into ash just with her hand.
"WOAH!" I said just a little too loudly, luckily I don't think she heard
"SOLARWIND BLAST!" She screamed and stamped her staff on the ground making a great big bright beam of light shooting five of the tiny creatures across the clearing into ash. But something at the end of the clearing caught it and crushed the creature with one hand, it emerged from the shadows of the tall trees, it was a beast of some sort, big with pale yellow skin and had a stench so bad I could smell it from across the clearing. He was wearing a pair of dark brown old and tattered overalls with no shoes exposing his revolting looking toe nails.
"Newsflash Mr. Hideous, the power of Solaria is like so gonna flatten you" the girl laughed, though the beast sure didn't like it, he roared like a lion and started running towards the girl.
"You the one who's gonna get flattened!" He roared and punched her in the stomach, shooting her across the clearing. She's definitely gonna feel that in the morning, more red creatures started walking towards her.
"You soooo finished little fairy girl" The beast mocked her.
"GHOULS! BRING ME HER SCEPTER!" He ordered.
The ghouls clamped her mouth shut and held her down to the ground.
"I'm warning you, you're never gonna get away with this!" The girl's voice was muffled behind the ghoul's crab like hand.
"I tink' I just did" he chuckled
"Your Scepter's ours!" He roared and slowly stepped towards the girl.
"And you're history!"
I hesitantly looked around; I'm being punked, what celebrity has it in for me? I hesitantly looked around, half expecting someone to jump out and save the girl but before I knew it I had jumped out into the open and screamed
"Hey you! Leave her alone!" I yelled.
The beast swivelled away from the girl and towards me,
"Oh shit" I mumbled
The beast roared and as quick as lightening grabbed me by the wrists with one hand and swung me around like a doll. Man I hated dolls, Kristy Palmer always laughed at my dolls back in elementary school because they were never new dolls like hers talk about a chick flick cliché. I felt my entire body stiffen with anger as my arms started to grow numb,
"You should learn to mind your own business!" He snickered at me. And for a second the entire world turned a deep fiery red, my anger, over boiling inside of me, I tried to blink away the sight of everything catching fire but I couldn't control it. I winced from a quick pang of pain in my chest, and just stopped trying,
"LET GOOOOOO!" I screamed, and then the world went black.
I opened my eyes; the beast was flat on his face at the other end of the clearing, I was stunned to see the ghouls coming after me,
"STAY BACK!" I put my hands in front to cover my face; I felt an amazing sensation inside of me, it felt as if I was glowing from the inside like after you do your first Sun Salutation, but on steroids. I looked in front and all I could see was ash.
Gatsby started chasing his tail around and barking happily as if in celebration of my victory. My beating heart slowing down I felt myself collapsing to the ground on my knees, what did I just do? And why did I feel so tired, it was like I had ran 100 miles
"Wow, you sure got Winx" the girl picked up her scepter and started towards me "major Winx."
"Me? What do you mean?" I asked looking up, only then did I realize what she had on her back, one on each side of her, a pair of silver-light blue fluttery wings. I've got to be dreaming, or dead, or in one hell of a coma of some sort, the girl had big, bright eyes that were the brightest of blues and a sun kissed glow to her skin.
But before she or I could say anything else, the beast's ferocious laughter came from the other side of the clearing.
"Laugh all you want fashion fiasco, you're goin' down!" the girl hollered and blasted him back with a mere point of her scepter.
"I suggest you like get out of our realm…NOW" the girl laughed.
"WATCH OUT!" I screamed pointing to the ghouls that were rapidly approaching, with that she spun her scepter in the air above her head, it glowed a sun blinding light and it shot back all the ghouls into ash. Suddenly I felt a sharp pain; "OWW!" one of the ghouls bit off the hemline of my jeans, slightly nipping at my skin, the ghouls scurried off and huddled close to the beast.
"We'll meet again Princess Stella" with that he clapped his hands twice and they all disappeared in an instant.
"Ew, can't say I'm looking forward to that" and she flipped her long blonde hair. The girl held out her hand, but before I could reach it the beast returned and shot her in the back with one point of his finger, and laughed villainously and disappeared again.
"Talk about…juvenilly…behaver" The girl's voice slurred, her eyes glazed over as she tried to walk but stumbled into me.
"Here" I held out my hand
"You can come to my house and rest there", she limped slightly, and luckily we weren't as far away from home as I thought, which was defiantly a good thing because juggling a small puppy and having some random stranger with wings leaning on you isn't as easy as it sounds.
I opened the front door, dad worked at the fire department and my mom owned her own flower shop down town so the house was empty. I placed Gatsby down on the floor and he rushed to his food and water dish.
"Is this okay?" I asked the girl and helped her onto the guest bed.
"Yeah-" she yawned "this is perfe…" and then she passed out and started to snore like you would not believe. I scurried out immediately, grabbed my laptop, opened to Google and typed in 'hallucinations in youth'.
"Sweetie, Bloom wake up" my eyes fluttered open, I looked around and there was my mom, outside was no longer a sunny day but a dark blue night.
"Hi mom, what time is it?" I asked.
"About nine o'clock" she replied smoothing down my hair.
I rubbed the crusties out of the corners of my eyes
"Did you guys just get back?" I asked
"Uh huh, we left messages, I guess you stayed up too late watching that 'Fantastic Run' last night, huh?" My dad chuckled.
"It's called 'The Amazing Race' dad" I smiled.
"Just glad you're okay" my mom kissed my forehead "you hungry for a late supper? Or did you sleep all that off too?" My stomach growled.
"I put some pizza in the oven, it should be ready soon, and well we're off to bed, goodnight sweetie" They both said and wondered down the hall way, time for some 'It's not Delivery, its Delisssio Pizza!' I grabbed my slice and headed off to bed, but tracked back after passing the guest bedroom, I thought about looking inside, was I concerned I was going insane? Yes, was I concerned that if this was real there was a rare possibility of her slaying everyone in this house? Possibly, either way I was both too hungry and tired to care.
"Bloom, wake up sweetie, a beautiful day awaits" my mom smoothed down my hair like she always did, but I was determined to stay in bed, I was exhausted, that was one wicked dream.
"'The Ultimate Fairy Book'? I'm surprised we still have that story book, it brings back wonderful memories, doesn't it?"
"So who's the girl that's asleep?" My mom asked.
"WHAT!?" I jumped out of bed, my mind darted a million and one different places, causing me to feel wobbly
"The girl asleep, in the guest room, downstairs?"
"OHMYGOD! So it wasn't a dream?!" I started getting dressed.
"What wasn't a dream dear?" she asked.
"Just some girl I found…at the park, and she seemed lost and a little loony...I took her back here to call someone for help but she passed out…on the couch so I took her to the guest room." I scrambled for the right words to say; hey it was partially true,
"Come down stairs for breakfast" My mom sighed a what-am-I-going-to-do-with-you-but-I-still-love-you-dearly sigh and then she shut the door as she left. I looked in the mirror 'how am I going to get out of this one? All in all my mom is pretty understanding, her sister has some sort of mental illness (I forget what) so I see why she wouldn't be upset about the fact that I would want to help her. I looked at my hair one last time and just decided to put it in a ponytail, there's no boy I need to impress anymore, I sighed.
"Morning Bloom" My dad said over his newspaper,
"Guess what today is? It's the day you and I are going to clean out the garage" he smiled brightly.
"Oh dad, sorry I uh can't, I'm uh, allergic to-cardboard boxes and…dust" I replied uncertain
"Oh Mike, Bloom has a certain issue to take care of today" My mom put her hands on my shoulders.
"Oh okay, just get the groceries and you're off the hook with me okay" he sipped his coffee.
"Thanks dad, I'll be back later" I grabbed my house keys and headed out the door.
Considering this is Manhattan, there are a lot of Looney Bins-I mean Mental Facilities around, so I called them all-okay not all of them but enough to know that she wasn't a missing patient of some sort. But I'll be honest, all I could think about was yesterday, it was a complete blur, how am I going to explain this now, I thought as I entered and left the grocery store.
"Hey Bloom!" A high pitched, all too familiar voice called out to me "isn't it time to send that two wheel relic to the junk pile?" she laughed, I looked to my right and there was Kristy Palmer, the boyfriend slash best friend stealer. Before, I used to look at her and feel pity towards her, mostly because she's as dumb as rocks, now-I hate admitting it, but I'm actually jealous of her. Her jet black hair was always in place, not a strand astray, not to mention porcelain skin, and how she could get any guy to do anything for her with the snap of her fingers. Unlike me, with my red hair that went just about anywhere and everywhere, freckles (which, I really do like, it's just the grass always seems greener on the other side) and the fact that the only guy I really talked to was Danny.
"There's nothing wrong with my bike, my dad got it for me" I replied not realizing how lame that sounded.
"Oh you poor girl, of course I don't mean poor as in not rich, even though that is what you are" Kristy laughed annoyingly, I don't know how she does it but everything I used to find irritating, she does it, only it's reached a whole new level of irritation. And I am not poor, I don't exactly live in a mansion but I'm not poor,
"Oh by the way, I was meaning to ask you if you've spoken to Daniel recently, he says that he has some of your things at his house and wants to return them" Kristy held out her hand and admired her light pink manicure,
"Well, Danny knows where I live so you can tell him to stop by any time he wants" I shot Kristy a smug smile. But before she could retaliate my phone went off,
"Hello?" I asked just barely through my freakishly wide smile, I had gotten the last word, HA take that Kristy!
"Bloom, she just woke up a couple minutes ago in a panic, I think it's best if you come home" my mom informed me calmly that was so clearly hiding the sheer panic she was feeling, my mother is physically incapable of hiding how she truly feels.
"Okay, I'm on my way" I started pushing my bike away, feeling both satisfied and accomplished-until
"Don't worry I'll tell Daniel for you!" She called out,
GRRRRRRRR!
Knut hesitantly opened the door to his chambers, with any luck The Trix had forgotten his mission to steal Princess Stella's scepter, which he failed to do, all Knut wanted to do at this point was go to bed. But the minute he stepped inside his bedroom, it all went black, foggy and cold, like he was walking in dark thunder cloud.
"Well, look who's failed us again" a woman's icy voice called out as three sets of glowing eyes emerged from the darkness. Knut looked down at his shoeless, smelly, green tinted ogre feet,
"EXPLAIN YOURSELF KNUT!" She hollered
"It really wasn't my fault this time you wicked-nesses" Knut stammered
"The scepter was mine!"
"Go on" another voice added
"But then this earth girl attacked me-"
"Did you say earth girl?" The woman's icy voice roes
"Uhhh, yeah but she was no ordinary earth girl! She had magic powers!" Knut started acting out the scene
"She took us on with one hand-"
"WHAT DID SHE LOOK LIKE!" another voice screamed,
"Well, uh, I, uh-not sure"
"WHERE ARE YOUR GLASSES!?" the icy voice screamed, Knut cringed as he grabbed his eye glasses out of his brown overalls pocket.
"KNUT!" She thundered as the ground shook "HOW MANY TIMES DO WE HAVE TO TELL YOU?! YOU ARE NEVER TO REMOVE YOUR GLASSES"
"Don't you know that you blind as a bat without them!" The third voice called, Knut put the dark brown, thick frames on his face,
"I don't like these frames, they not me" Knut looked cross eyed.
"KNUT!" the icy voice boomed impatiently
"We must find this girl!"
"I all ready got a plan-" Knut started,
"GO ON" she boomed
"One of my ghouls grabbed this" Knut held up a ripped piece of denim form a pair of jeans
"it's a piece of the earth girl's clothing now all we have to do is give it to a hunter troll and he can track her down."
"Very well, go and find that medaling earth girl, kill her and bring me back that scepter."
Well the girl didn't wake till the next day and that's when I had to break the news to my parents that there was no way she was a mental patient and that she's some sort of fairy thing without sounding like a lunatic, which was a lot harder then it sounds.
"So you're telling me," my dad started rubbing his temples
"That the reason this girl has been asleep for over twenty four hours is because she's a fairy?" My dad continued trying to gather his thoughts.
"Yeah-"
"Is that like a goth or something?" my dad started passing back and forth.
"No dad like a real fairy, with magic powers, a scepter, and fluttering wings-" I tried to explain, my mom was keeping a pretty good poker face through out this entire situation though she hadn't moved since I woke up.
"You must have a very high fever, or-did you hit your head? Of course you did that's why, dear we should probably call Doctor Silverman" my dad re-assured himself. My mom sat down at the end of the guest bed. As the girl gently yawned and opened her eyes,
"Good morning" the girl said a little groggily and stretched her arms as she awoke.
"Its evening dear" my mom calmly replied. "How do you feel? Are you feeling okay?" she added.
"Uhhh" she looked around
"Fine now, thanks to that girl right there" she pointed to me.
"Me?" I replied.
"My name's Stella" she held out her hand as she sat up, my dad frowned.
"Hi, I'm Bloom" I said as I shook her hand.
"Let's call your parents now shall we?" My mom chimed in seeming a lot calmer than she was five minutes ago.
"Oh, I'm afraid that's like so way easier said than done, I mean let's face it they live like six whole realms away" Stella replied talking really fast, but the minute the word 'realm' left her mouth my parents expressions changed instantly with a this-girl-is-crazy-town face. "In the kingdom of Solaria, maybe you've heard of it? Well of course you've heard of it, how could you not? It's one of the best places to live! Though I suppose my opinion is a slight bias, being the princess and all but that's merely a formality…" Stella added. "Anyways, I'm just thankful Bloom was at that Park Portal Stop, without her my face would have been completely re-arranged, I mean what would you expect from the yearly travel to the Early Admissions Day at Alfea, I mean I'm personally not usually into going back to school earlier than I'm supposed to-but since that failing incident from last year…I figured I just get a better start to this year, anyways-" Whoa this girl Stella sure talked fast-and A LOT.
"Oh boy, oh no" Dad held his head as if it was seconds from rolling off his neck.
"I'm calling Doctor Silverman, we'll see if he knows why the two of you are both seeing things, and making up these ridiculous stories" dad picked up the phone but before he could dial any number Stella quickly pointed at it and the phone turned into a carrot.
"Still think we're out of our brains?" Stella crossed her arms proudly. Though dad looked like he was going to pass out, while mom just sat there wide eyed at the both of them.
"Whoa, that was so awesome!" I sputtered totally flabbergasted,
"You're the one that's majorly awesome, when this ogre attacked me, she gave him an energy blast that kicked his booty into another dimension" Stella smiled brightly.
"I guess, I mean, I uh don't really know" I said starring at my feet, at a loss for words.
"It's like I told you yesterday Bloom, you're loaded with magic! Not to mention the amount of Winx that would make Spella Magia jealous!" Stella stood up, clapping happily.
"Spe who?" I was shocked, and seriously considering therapy at this moment in time, but at the same time, I felt lighter, like maybe Stella was telling the truth
"Hey! I just got like a great brainstorm! You should come to Alfea with me" I could see the wheels turning in Stella's head, which I have yet to figure out if that a good sign or a bad one,
"I mean school starts on August 29th…and it's the 24th-"
"25th" I corrected her.
"Right, you should totally come with me, it's by far the best magic school in the whole Eight Realm Area-" Stella continued.
"HOLD IT!" My dad cut her off,
"My daughter's not going to another realm! Look I don't know what is going on here but we need to start thinking rationally, I'm sure you are a very nice girl, Stella, but I'm afraid you're not in a stable state of mind and I think we need to get you some help" dad started pacing back and forth
"Uh mom?"
"Hmmm?" she forced a smile,
"I'll just get Stella something to eat and show her around the house, okay?" My mom gave a slight nod as my dad still paced back and forth muttering under his breath to himself.
I gave her a slice of pizza from the fridge and gave her a tour of the house,
"Wow, I love your room" Stella looked around my bedroom; I mean I totally love my room it took me forever to get everything exactly the way I wanted it. But Stella was defiantly over-exaggerating, considering she's a princess and all, my room probably just likes like a closet.
"You should totally bring it to Alfea, a quick packing spell, and it will fit in a hand bag" I had to admit that did sound really cool.
"Stella, I don't think I'm going to Alfea" I sighed.
"What!? Why not?" she asked
"Well, if school starts in four days, there's no way they'll admit me, not to mention my parents reaction to all of this, and-I don't think I have powers anymore, I mean I know I fought that ogre in the park, but now-"
"Trust me Bloom, someone that has magic like you have, doesn't lose their powers, they're just a little rusty from sitting unused for so long" Stella explained.
"So, I guess I really am a fairy" I felt ridiculous saying so,
"Well, technically no, there are a lot of things you could be, but there are way more things that you couldn't be, and we sort of have limited resources, but given our brief time spent together, it's not likely that you'd be anything else."
"So I'm not a fairy?" I tried to clarify,
"No, you're definitely a fairy, but at the same time there's like a one percent chance that you couldn't be one, I just don't want you to be too surprised if you end up not being a fairy" I nodded, trying to take in all this information,
"And I have, what did you call it-Wints?"
"Winx" Stella corrected me,
"Your magic has always been inside you Bloom" I felt a wide smile stretch across my face, "it's like my fairy godmother used to say 'sometimes you just need a giant ogre to attack to find out what you're really made of.'"
I sighed; this entire situation was too weird, any minute now I would wake up, late for the first day of school. Stella sat down beside me on my bed.
"Look, try this, it's a simple Matter Merge exercise, Stella moved her hands around like she was washing a window, my different colored pencils in a cup on my desk floated in the air and merged into one giant pink pencil crayon in mid air!
"Okay now you give it a shot, put them back how they were" I stood up and tried to do the same thing with my hands like Stella did but all the giant pencil crayon did was jiggle and fall to the floor.
"Come one, you can do it, try again" Stella encouraged me. I tried focusing more on the pencil this time but it just rolled on the floor back and forth a couple times.
"Well…it's a start" she smiled sincerely; she snapped her fingers and the pencils were all neatly placed in the cup again, while I flopped face down on my bed.
"I don't feel anything" I said my voice muffled through my pillow
"Don't worry Bloom; it just takes practice, that's why you have to come to Alfea with me" Stella reasoned.
"Before long you'll be zapping ogres left and right" Stella spun around, it's going to be sooo much fun." I let my thoughts ponder the idea for a second,
"Hmmm, so, where is Alfea anyway?" to tell the truth since she mentioned Alfea it's all I could think about.
"Well, it's sort of in like a parallel dimension almost: you go to the Inter-Realm of the Enchanted Ring and then you-look why don't you come with me and I'll show you"
Stella scrambled around my desk for a piece of paper she then scribbled some words on it that I wasn't even going to begin to comprehend. She threw it on the ground, as it floated down it grew to the size of a single cot bed.
"This is an Express Portal" Stella tapped the portal with her shoe and it rippled like a small pool.
"Come on its cool" Stella re-assured me as she stood straight up and was slowly brought down inside the portal like an elevator.
"Now follow me" she added as her head quickly disappeared into the portal. I walked above it and held my breath.
"Stella, this feels really weird" my skin felt the same sensation when I'm in the water, but my skin and clothes felt completely dry,
"Don't worry, almost no one get's lost between dimensions" she added sweetly. I landed softly on green grass surrounded by a bright green and floral forest, it was beautiful, there was a crystal clear lake and small coi ponds here and there, with cute little forest animals, it was like a Green Peace member's dream. The birds were chirping the sun was shining which warmed my skin,
"Come on this way", Stella ducked underneath some tree branches and around some bushes until we were in front of a giant school, there were two mirroring towers on the right and on the left, the school went further back and was rounded like a horse shoe with giant sheer blue gate in front resembling fairy wings, the entire school was a light pink color. With icy blue, and metallic blue roofing, it was like a modernized castle, there was a giant building attached to the rest of the school in the back with giant tall windows that intertwined with one another like vines, in the middle of the school there was a quad, with pathways, green grass, benches, picnic tables, and a pretty pointless arch in the middle like the Gateway Arch in Missouri, and a magnificent fountain. The very back of the school was hard to make out, but there seemed to be more pathways intertwining in the forest and around the school, an abnormally large greenhouse, a soccer field of some sort and some sort of a recreation hall, and a green forest behind it all, surrounding the school. All that, and the only words I could muster was,
"WOW"
"Tell me about it, like I said 'best school by far in Magix'" Stella put her hands on he hips
"Magix?" I asked
"Magix City" she explained,
"So what exactly goes on here?" I asked trying to take in the entire school.
"The best and most fabulous come from all over the universe to perfect their powers most are princesses like moi, but we also have pixies and the occasional angels." Stella continued quickly talking like a million miles per hour.
"And get this we're only one enchanted forest away from the 'Red Fountain School for Heroics and Bravery' it's full of hotties, but there's also another school which is a little further than Red Fountain which is also full of dreamy guys with powers just like us, 'The Prescott Academy for the Exceptional and Extraordinary'. But I wouldn't trust anyone from that school, they're all pretty stuck up, and probably won't call you back-" It sort of sounded like Stella had a bad experience with that school; or someone from that school, I assumed it was best not to ask.
"Anyways, if that wasn't torture enough, just across the lagoon is about the creepiest place on earth 'The CloudTower School for Witches'." Stella took a deep breath as if recovering from that last part.
"There are a lot of rules I break at school but going to CloudTower is not one of them, headmistress Griffin will gladly let her student witches turn us into toads if they wanted to, rumours have it, our headmistress, Miss Faragonda and Headmistress Griffin have some old time rivalry back when they were students or something like that, which is why Headmistress Griffin acts like a jealous bitch towards us fairies." Stella flipped her long blonde hair,
"You're doing a really good job of making me wish I could actually go here." I sigh
"What do you mean?" apparently it slipped Stella's mind that I have not applied to Alfea; therefore I will not be admitted in four days!
"I don't have anyway to be admitted into Alfea" I replied, Stella checked her phone and smiled.
"Trust me, I'll have it taken care of" Stella flipped her long blonde hair. Again,
"In less than four days?" I asked
"Absolutely, and to get a head start I contacted my distant half, twice removed on my mother's side's cousin Timothy to come and meet us at your house, he goes to Red Fountain and he'll be bringing some of his friends with him too." Stella clapped excitedly.
"The hero boys are coming to my house, when?" I hated to admit it, but I was pretty excited.
"Pretty soon, so let's get going!" Stella started running towards the portal I followed close behind and we we're shot up though the portal like a vacuum cleaner.
"Are you doing okay?" Vanessa asked Mike.
"I just don't get it; I mean you saw the carrot phone too, right?"
"Hmmm" Vanessa nodded,
"Well, at a time like this, I suggest we just 'Go with the Flow'" Vanessa said reading off one of her old self help books.
"Huh?" Mike scratched his head.
"I guess when they come back downstairs we just have to ask as many questions as we possibly can to get some logical information for this 'unique' situation" Mike sat down on the couch and rested his head in his hands. But before Vanessa, Mike, or Gatsby could do anything else The Hunter Troll smashed through the back door rawring and smashing everything in sight crumbling the walls around them…
"What was that?!" I screamed
"Mom!?" I hollered as I ran down the stairs and Stella followed close behind "MOM! DAD!" I screamed and looked over into the living room, mom, dad, and Gatsby were huddled in the corner of the living room while a giant blue beast, the ogre from the park and those ghouls started closing in on them.
"Tell us where the girls are or you become Ghoul food!" roared the ogre,
"Turn around sunshine!" Stella screamed over the smashing and screaming.
"It's them!" the ogre pointed at us.
"I guess someone didn't learn their lesson" Stella crossed her arms. She jumped up and screamed "SUN POWER!" she threw her ring in the air and then a blinding sunlight burst and she had transformed into the fairy outfit I first saw Stella in. Stella flew up towards the blue beast and super kicked him in the face making him fall over crashing into the china cabinet. I heard my mom let out a faint yelp.
"Are you just going to lay there and let that little fairy kick your butt?!" the ogre screamed.
"Then do something about it tall blue and gruesome!" Stella laughed,
"Bloom! I'll handle the two gross outs you handle the ghouls!" she ordered.
"Hey, uh, ghoul things come get me!" I screamed and ran for the front door, as the ghouls chased me out.
"Now that her friend's gone, she not stands a chance, get her! And make some fairy dust!" the ogre screamed at the Hunter Troll, not noticing that Stella opened the window in the corner for my mom and dad to sneak out.
"Bring it on! I'm gonna whoop you and not even muss my hair!"
I started to panic, now what?
"Uh, nice little poochies, uh roll over?!" Suddenly the ogre was zapped out of the front door and slammed down on the ghouls turning them into ash.
"GOOD ONE STELLA!" I shouted over the zapping and ka-powing, but then the living room window shattered into a million pieces as Stella sky rocketed out onto the street. Ouch, the giant blue beast charged towards Stella and denting our door frame with its giant body. But before I could mutter 'what now!' we heard voices behind the blue beast
"HEY! Princess Stella! I hope your friend is the pretty one with the red hair!" I blushed not realizing who it was,
"Yeah, and not this ugly one at the end of the leash here!" Another guy yelled as he lassoed the blue beast's neck
"Hey cous!" another guy chimed in to Stella, whom I'm assuming was Stella's cousin,
"Okay I suggest a Three Prod Rescue Op!" shouted the one that called me pretty.
"Forget that, I got this puppy wrapped up all by my self!" said the cocky guy who lassoed the troll,
"Dude one summer at a Swashbuckler Camp doesn't mean you can go solo on a troll" the fourth guy said dryly leaning forward on a bright transparent green sword that was more than half his size. The next thing I knew the majorly cocky guy had lost control of the troll and was swung over him and landed in between Stella and I, the fourth guy added
"I rest my case" now that was funny but I bit my tongue to contain my laughter. The troll walked over to Stella's cousin and the guy that called me pretty (hopeless romantic *sigh*) shouted
"Get behind me!" and a blue transparent shield slid open and blocked the troll's monster fist smashes.
"Hey guys what did we learn about battling trolls?!" the fourth guy jumped up and smashed his sword to the ground making a seemingly effortless deep cut into the cement ground right between the troll's two feet.
"Then you have to take out their feet!" Stella's cousin took a bright yellow gun that looked like something you'd get from the toy section at Wal-Mart but blasted the troll's feet thrice making him fall into the gap. The guys cheered Stella's cousin,
"Good thing you aced 'How to Battle Forest Creatures Timmy.'"
"EXTRA GHOUL ALERT!" Shouted the fourth guy,
"Stay here! This won't take long" the majorly cocky guy ordered me and Stella. He started smashing all the ghouls into ash but before he could finish the last couple off, the ogre came up behind him and effortlessly shoved him to the other side of the street.
"LEAVE HIM ALONE!" Stella and I both shouted in unison and shot the ogre in the back.
"Awesome shot there Bloom!" Stella gave me a hip bump,
"It just happened" I replied smiling, I really do have powers!
"Like I said, you got Winx" Stella flipped her two ponytails, but before we could celebrate the ogre got up licked his two fingers and put out the small flame on his shoulder. Then the majorly cocky guy walked up to the ogre, he was holding a sword that resembled the fourth guy's sword but it was a transparent purple color and smaller with a sharp curve at the end. He wiped off some dirt on his cheek and smiled at the ogre mischievously, "back off shorty" the ogre laughed at him.
"You're the one that's gonna back off or I'm gonna put my Stinkus Removus Spell on you and then you're gonna end up smelling like you just took a bath." Stella called out, the ogre backed away wide eyed and worried he gathered up his ghouls clapped his hands three times and disappeared into thin air.
Once my heart started beating normally I let out a big sigh that I didn't realize I had.
"I knew that would scare him" Stella laughed and went to hug Timothy,
"Long time, no see cous'" he added
"Totally, Bloom, these are the Red Fountain guys I was telling you about…" she gestured to the guys, my heart just melted, she gestured to the majorly cocky guy
"Um, Riven, right?" he nodded, Riven had spiky, short auburn hair that was gelled upwards, he was tall, with pale skin and was defiantly physically fit.
"Prince Skye" Stella said a little too sweetly, Prince Skye had light brown hair with a long side swept bang; he was majorly ripped, lightly tanned skin and had hazel eyes.
"Timothy-Timmy" Stella corrected her self; Timmy had bright orange hair, square glasses, and gave me a friendly wave not as ripped as the other guys but he kind of had that geeky cute thing about him.
"And Brandon, Prince Skye's squire," Stella finished, Brandon had dirty blonde hair in a buzz cut that was flicked up in the front like the Bieb's new hair cut normally that would turn me off but Brandon seemed to make it a haircut a douche bag wouldn't have. He had pale skin he was muscular, and had ice blue eyes. It was just then that I realized they were all wearing the same thing, navy blue, and cream white, body suits, with navy blue boots and cream white fingerless biker gloves with bright blue superman style capes but was connected together on the left side of their chest with a circle button of some sort, Riven's was purple, Prince Skye's was green, Brandon's was blue and Timmy's was yellow.
"Not so fast tough guy you better come with us!" Brandon shouted as he secured some sort of electric collar, which secured him with four parallel rings around his body.
"Where are you guys taking him?" I asked
"We're bringing back to Red Fountain, they'll probably send him to the creature preserve or something" replied Riven. Timmy took out a small box that looked kind of like a glasses case, but then he pushed a button on the side a giant blue portal popped up making them slowly disappear.
"Bloom I sure hope I see you at Alfea!" Brandon called out as he disappeared from my sight. When we were positive they were gone, Stella looked at me and we just screamed and squealed, normally I'm not one to do so, but what he just said, it just made my heart flutter.
The rest of the night was a blur of lots of questions from my parents, cleaning, and trying to tame Gatsby so we could go to sleep, Stella fixed up the back and front of the place with her magic; thank god our neighbours were out on vacation, as for the rest of the city, I'm not so sure.
I started down the stair case when I heard my dad
"Thank god that's over" he said wiping beads of sweat off his forehead as he swept up the debris in the kitchen. I quickly retreated back to my bedroom, where Stella was meditating.
"Stella?" I asked
"Yeah? What's up?" she asked unfolding her legs.
"I think it might be a bad idea for me to go to Alfea"
"What?! Why?" she asked in a panicky voice.
"This clearly is putting a lot of stress on my parents, I don't want to burden them with this stuff" I sighed as I sat on my bed.
"Okay, I know I've only known for like three days, but now that I've meditated I'm very in tune with others now, what's the real reason, you're re-considering?" Stella sat on my desk chair.
"I thought you were in tune with others today, shouldn't you tell me?" I forced a laugh; her expression stayed the same,
"What if I get there and I don't know how to do anything? I mean you said so yourself, the best and most fabulous from all over the universe go there, I'm not that fabulous nor am I anywhere close to being the best." I sighed.
"Yeah, to perfect their powers, everyone will be in the same boat as you, the only reason I can do some things better than you can is because, well, I failed my first year of Alfea!" Stella blurted, "I mean, I probably would havepassed but there was this incident, and I got expelled." Stella admitted. I figured it was best not to ask why, "So you see, you'll be fine, you can't screw up anymore than I did."
"Knock, knock"
"Come in!" I called as my mom walked in with a letter,
"It's addressed to you dear" my mom handed Stella the letter.
"Thanks Bloom's mom" Stella smiled brightly and she waited till my mom left and then Stella jumped off the bed and began spinning around waving the letter up and down.
"Stella, what is it?!" I asked now really excited.
"It's you admittance letter" she smiled twirling around my room I grabbed the letter out of her hand, the return address was from a place called Vallisto and from a girl named Valery Vinyl, TO: Alfea,
"Stella, what is this really?" I asked hesitantly.
"My mother is friends with Princess Veranda's mother: Valery Vinyl, Veranda and I used to hang out together all the time, until I went to Alfea. After that I told her how much fun Alfea was, but then I got expelled, and Veranda's mother got the idea in her head that I wasn't a 'good enough role model' for her daughter. So she decided to send Veranda to a less impressive school in the third realm, so Veranda sent me her withdrawal letter to give to Headmistress Faragonda for her. The thing is I just won't give it to her and we'll be all set!"
"What!? Stella that's crazy, I can't pretend to be a totally different person for the rest of my high school life!" I started to panic.
"Trust me, it'll be fine, I'll be there" unfortunately that didn't make me feel better.
"What about the Red Fountain guys? They know my name where I live; they'll know I'm lying!" I started pacing back and forth.
"Chill, I'll just tell them to keep it quiet, if not I'll put a Mindus Erasus Spell on them, granted it's a junior level spell, but I'm sure I'll be fine."
"Ohhh" and I fell face flat on my bed and didn't move for the rest of the night.
"HEY! BLOOM! Wake up!" A loud voice screamed as I felt the brain shattering, mind exploding rude interruption of a pillow crashing into the back of my head,
"Ugh, what time is it?" I asked groggily.
"4 AM, Now get up!" she smacked me again as I buried my face further into my pillow.
"Stella!" my muffled voice screamed into my pillow.
"School starts at 8:15 pm, and you haven't even packed yet, I already woke up your parents, now it's your turn!" She smacked me with her pillow one more time. I pulled my blanket over my head and snuggled closely with my pillow,
"Okay, have it your way, I happened to see some pretty embarrassing baby pictures downstairs that I could pack for you, and possibly ever ugly thing that you own! I wonder what Brandon will think of this old, oversized High School Musical T-shirt that you have buried deep in your clos-"
"I'm UP!" I hollered ran to my closet and started packing.
"I'll meet you downstairs" she called out and shut the door behind her.
"I'm ready!" I called out as I started bringing my suitcases down the staircase.
"You sure packed light" my dad smiled at me and gave me a hug. I looked down at them, it was two suitcases, my bright pink duffel bag, a book bag, my tote bag and my soccer bag.
"She sure did" Stella agreed, except looking all too literal
"Where are your suitcases?" I asked, Stella dug inside her pocket and pulled out ten little matching pink suitcases and extra baggage.
"I wish I would have been able to do this freshman year last year, it would have made everything so much easier" my mom smiled at me brightly.
"So Stella" she started.
"How do we get to Alfea?" She asked sweetly, though Stella was quite loud and somewhat-abrasive? In a way, I think she really grew on my mom.
"Yeah, are we taking a car, plane, or broomstick?" I could here the excitement in my dad's voice.
"Do they make a broomstick for four?" He asked as he grabbed his coat.
"Dad, broomsticks are for witches" I corrected him.
"Are we going to take the Express Portal?" I asked
"Regular humans can't go in it-" Stella bit her lip
"But you know what? My scepter can handle a little Trans dimensional puddle jump" Stella pulled off her ring and threw it up in the air, it shone like the sun and it turned into Stella's scepter the one the ogre was after. Stella walked in the middle of the living room "SUN POWER!" She shouted and the next thing we all knew we were floating in a galaxy floating around, then we all shot down into a black hole of some sort and landed in the same green forest Stella and I were in last time.
"Wow, would you look at this place!" my dad did a 360 once he got up.
"Isn't it awesome?!" I asked
"Come on, can't be late for orientation", I looked down at my watch, about 7:55 am!