Disclaimer: Winx club characters and world were not created by me, however the plot and characters that drop in later are. If you want to see them you'll have to wait for chapter 2 though :P
Welcome to Alfea, the prestigious academy for fairies where the students learn to use their magic, their heads and quite often their credit cards in preparation for life after school. Of course their training is also needed to save the world, defeat villains and avoid trouble in general.
However who said there aren't other people out there doing the same thing? What's more, who said 'out there' just meant the realms?
With a mutter and a shift the sleeping fairy turned over and buried her face into the comfortable pillow beneath her head as a burst of bright light fell across her face. Most teenagers would have her complete sympathy, after all it was appallingly early in the morning and the early part of November, meaning that it was far more tempting to curl up in the nice warm bed and ignore the annoyingly perky roommate than get up.
All hope of the former option vanished as her friend's voice rang out in a tone of cheerfulness that knew all too well how the sleeper was feeling and was completely disregarding it. "Rise and shine Ms. Musa! I know you're not asleep."
"What are you so cheerful about?" Musa said in a disgusted voice as she sat up, rubbing her eyes free of sleep, "It's just a day like any other!"
"Ah yes, but we get to use the magical reality chamber for Palladium's class and I'm the only person that has finished the essay due to be handed in to Grizelda this afternoon," came the digital fairy's cheerful reply, opening the curtains and keeping her face to the window with a smile as there was a flurry of movement behind her that left Musa streaking for the shower.
"I love being logical," Tecna commented smugly to the empty room with a smile.
As the group of friends approached their third lesson at least one fairy was visibly panicking, after all, Grizelda's lesson was two hours away (not including the lesson) and Stella wasn't the best of essay writer's. This was why Her voice could be heard as she desperately begged the digital fairy, "I mean I really don't know what to do! Seriously, Tecna, we all need your help! Even Flora hasn't quite finished and-"
"I'm only a few paragraphs off..." interrupted a gentle voice from Flora who had been walking on Tecna's other side. Her statement was promptly ignored by the solar fairy but the others were paying attention.
"I mean, we can always work on it together at lunch time? PLEASE Tecna! We need you!" Stella's voice rose to a near yell on the last sentence as they entered the control room of the magical reality chamber, which made even the normally good natured elvan professor turn his head irritably.
"Miss Stella, much as I am sure your life is absolutely fascinating it is not the topic for today's training," he stated, voice a little clipped as he turned back to monitoring the chamber. Seeing the group of pupils already inside Bloom's eyes widened, "Professor, are we late?"
"No actually," Palladium replied, voice back to its normal easygoing tone, though there was a slight hint of annoyance behind it, "It's just that these students turned up early in order to get a longer lunch break... to write their essays for Grizelda."
"Oh thank goodness!" Stella said with relief, "I'm so glad I'm not the only one!"
"Professor Palladium?" Musa asked with a note of concern, hearing something in his tone that worried her, "Is something wrong?"
"With me? Oh no, nothing wrong at all, it's just that whenever one of the other teachers springs an essay like this the students panic and try to skip lessons to do it. Meaning that it is much harder for the other teachers to teach and generally becomes a much more stressful situation!" The elf straightened his jacket and spoke in a less stressed tone, "However we all must cope, so it's nothing really, after all, my potions assignments have done much the same before."
"I didn't know that how the students were doing had so much effect on you professor," Flora said gently, walking up to stand next to the teacher. "I'll tell you what, why don't I bring some of the plants down to your classroom? I'm sure they'd like the sunlight and having plants around normally relaxes people, especially elves."
"Why thank you Flora!" Palladium said happily, "I think that's an excellent idea!" he turned back to the screen in time to see one of the girls sway slightly and whispered a spell before speaking, voice echoing round the magical reality. "That's it for the moment girls! Take a nice relaxing break to regain your strength Selene, you did some excellent work, just try to improve that stamina and you'll be all set for your enchantix!"
The other group came out, Selene practically glowing with pride for all that she was nearly falling flat on her face, though she let Luna slide an arm under her shoulders to support her with a tired smile. At this motion Palladium frowned slightly and directed her to the nurse as Musa turned to the others.
"Hey guys... how come everyone's so tired? I mean Selene's usually really perky and today she looks absolutely drained, Palladium's letting things get to him too and that's REALLY not normal," Musa pointed out, "you know him, he's the nicest of all of them!"
"You think something's up?" Layla asked, "as in magically up?"
"Oh don't worry about it," Stella advised, "it's probably just because of the mid-terms! Everyone's got too much work, she was probably just up late!"
"I hope you're right," Musa replied uncertainly as Palladium turned back to them.
"OK, you girls are up next. Now remember, you will be facing a selection of creatures that can come from anywhere in the realms, so be careful when fighting. However I will be keeping an eye on you to ensure that you won't be hurt."
"Whatever you pick had better not mess with my hair!" Stella said as the others walked into the chamber, though Bloom hung back to drag her friend in after them.
"Come on already..."