A/N: Here is the first chapter! I hope I get some reviews since this is my first Winx story. DISCLAIMER: I, KAWAII STELLA, DO NOT OWN THE WINX CLUB.

Note: This story takes place before the Winx Club comes to Alfea.

A Hidden Magic

Chapter One

Memories

~Alfea College for Fairies ~

Yesterday had been the last day of term for Alfea students. Last night the girls had packed to go home for summer. The faculty had packed as well, but this morning as the students left for home Headmistress Farigonda secretly called an urgent staff meeting to take place as soon as the last student had gone home.

The last few students went home and the staff gathered in Headmistress Faragonda's office. All teachers were accounted for, including Professors DuFour, Wizgiz, Palladium, Ms. Griselda, and others. Gathered around Faragonda's desk, the teacher's noticed that the Headmisteress' delightful smile had been replaced with a solemn look as she addressed the staff.

"I know that you'd all like to leave for your vacations, but I'm afraid I have troubling news."

With rapt attention form the faculty, Miss Farigonda proceeded.

"I fear that there is something going wrong in the magical universes. Something, I am afraid, will cause a dramatic and dangerous peril for whoever is involved. That is why I want everyone to keep their eyes open for anything suspiciously unusual. Also, I want us all to stay in touch during the course of the summer, understood?"

"Yes, Headmaster," the faculty chanted back.

"Very good, I imagine that you are all packed to leave for your vacations," Farigonda said. "So I have one thing left to say: Have a wonderful holiday, everyone!" She said with a smile.

With that, the faculty was dismissed to return to their quarters to retrieve their things so that they may leave on holiday. Professor Wizgiz and Professor Palladium walked down a corridor to their private quarters.

"So, Professor Wizgiz," Palladium began. "Do you have any plans for the summer?" Asked the shy elf.

"Just headed home to see my family," said the leprechaun in his Irish accent. "Then maybe I'll head back to Ireland for another adventure. Do you have anything planned, Professor?"

"You certainly had a time in Ireland last winter didn't you? As for me, I'm going to a dimension rather far to see my family; to see relatives that I've not seen since childhood." Palladium said.

"Yes I did!" Maybe those two singers will be there again," Wizgiz wondered to himself. "But that's nice that you're going to see your kin after so long. I imagine you'll have plenty of catching up to do."

"Indeed I will. Well, have a nice summer, Professor."

The two wished each other a good holiday and left to gather their things. Palladium gathered his trunks together and using a spell, shrunk everything down into a box to fit inside his knapsack, leaving a book and a few photographs out on their own.

In the first photograph it showed a young Palladium perhaps seven or eight years old with two older elves; a male and a female. They were his biological parents. Not three months had passed after this photograph had been taken when Palladium's parents had been killed by a renegade psychotic vampire. That vampire had killed many others in Palladiums village, but he had been the only orphan as a result of the attack. That's when the new people came.

There were some elves that were absolutely terrified of vampires even before the attack; others were okay with them as long as no trouble was brought by them. The new people hailed from the country of Aldenmor. Two of them were the monarchs of the country. Palladium had hidden in the bases of the huge trees in the woods while the strangers wondered the village. Really, he hid there often as he found himself the target of his villages' pity. So he didn't even know that there were strangers in the village. Palladium didn't want their pity, he wanted understanding.

The king of Aldenmor had decided to take a walk through the forest when he found the young Palladium hiding under a tree. The king asked Palladium why he was there and Palladium told his woeful tale. In the king Palladium found what he wanted, understanding of his feelings, and he had found a friend. The monarch and his wife took to liking the young elf so much, by the time they left a week later, they had adopted Palladium into their already large family.

That left the tired and last picture that Palladium had left out. It was a picture of an eight year old Palladium and his new baby sister from his adoptive parents. The photograph was a snapshot as it did not show the baby girl's twin brother.

Palladium grew to know and love his new family; he had become a part of the family, despite them being vampires themselves. Palladium could tell that these people were truly good, unlike the beast that had killed his parents. In almost a year's time after the adoption, Palladium had settled into his new home, though unbelievably shy and unconfident, when two bundles of joy had entered their lives. The twins truly miracle children.

Despite being two months premature, the twins overcame all odds. The doctors had told the family that the twins would not survive very long, as they were weak and sickly. The only words o hope the doctors gave were that the baby boy might live to be maybe two months old; they gave the furl three weeks, as she was much smaller than her twin. The girl was also troubled by a weak heart. The family braced themselves for tragedy but never gave up a shred of hope and neither did the premature babies in their ICUs. They fought against the tide and the twins defied the doctors' prediction. The twins grew up strong after a few struggles in their first few years then became strong enough to get into pee-wee hockey.

The twins were attached to all their siblings, having deeply bonded to all of their brothers and sisters. However, the baby girl, Autumn, especially attached to Palladium. Palladium, of course, was thrilled that she wanted to be with him out of all of her other blood siblings. Then she was taken away, due to a tragedy that had deeply scarred Autumn. She was sent away to live a normal, non-royal live with her memories of her real family and life locked up away from her. After that they moved on, Palladium grew up and went to a magic school and eventually became a teacher.

With that memory he picked up the book and the three pictures and put them in his knapsack and left the school, saying farewell to various teachers as her walked out of school boundaries. No he walked into the forest outside of Alfea's gates.

'It's been almost eleven years since I've seen her,' Palladium thought to himself. 'I wonder how much she's grown and changed since then. I can't wait to find out!'

With that Palladium opened a portal using his magic and entered it and within moments arrived in his chosen dimension, although a bit off course. About ten miles off course, actually. He had landed in a field on the edge of a forest.

"What an amazing place!" Palladium breathed.

The dense wood, at which Palladium stood at the edge of, was lush, green, and full of life. There were hundreds of types of plants. The indigenous trees were quite diverse as well. Palladium, being as fascinated by nature as he is, lost no time becoming engrossed with the local flora. So much, in fact, that he did not hear the four-wheeler arrive in the next field over.

As Palladium observed a new plant , one that had many long vines and had small, delicate flowers in white and yellow, he remembered coming here as a young child. He, as a young child, had been to this dimension of Earth thrice before. However, then he had been more interested in playing in the creeks than in studying the plants. Today marked his fourth time into this dimension. Little does he know that getting a family reunion won't be as easy as it sounds.