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login (guest): Hi, thank you so much, I'm happy you liked it. I will definitely put more Stella and Brandon in the following chapters but I don't want the entire story to revolve around them so that's why I'm being a bit careful. I hope you'll like this chapter as well!

lifeasmariah: Thank you so much! I hope you'll enjoy the new chapter

VIVILAVI: Thanks for the kind words, I really appreciate them! As for your question, this story is set after the first movie, I'm sorry I forgot to mention that. And I indeed struggle with scenes in which a lot of characters are present but I will absolutely try to do that more because I also really miss the casual interaction between the guys and girls in the series. Hopefully you'll like this chapter as well!

knight7572: I guess it was, yea. But it seemed like the most logical reason to send the girls to red fountain.

Guest (guest): Yes I am the writer of those stories and I'm glad to hear that you liked them since I am planning on republishing them once I've established a better plotline for both stories. Enjoy the chapter!

blazingstar99: Thank you, I'm glad! Here is the new update!

Guest (guest): happy to hear that and don't worry I'm planning on bringing them back in the future!

Sunshinestelz (guest) Thank you thank you! I know I love Stella and Brandon too, they're so perfect! And don't worry I am absolutely planning on finishing this story.

Guest (guest): Hahaha don't worry, the drama is coming (Evil smiley face)

ALEXA (guest) You'll find out soon enough….Haha. Anyway thank you, enjoy the new chapter!

winxislife (guest): I'm not spilling any secrets on the final weapons yet, but I will tell you that Bloom is not the one with the sword ;)

madeline (guest): Hahaha, you'll have to wait and see. Thanks for the kind words!


"You're late"

The six fairies were taken aback by the harsh welcome their professor gave them and shared confused looks with each other.

"We are?" Musa asked out loud, looking around the room in hope to find a clock somewhere.

Tecna looked at her watch before looking back up at their newest teacher. "No, we're not. We're perfectly on time?" she said, seeing as it was exactly nine in the morning.

"Forty seconds ago you would've been perfectly on time, right now you're late. Need I remind you that I don't appreciate latecomers in my class?" Codatorta told them, no sign of emotion anywhere on his face.

"Seriously? You're getting pissed because we're forty seconds late?" Stella raised her perfectly shaped eyebrow at the man in front of her. "It's our first day for god's sake"

"Exactly, it's your first day and you're already slacking. I don't care how they did things at Alfea, you're at Red Fountain now and here we expect our students to take their education very seriously. If you had been out on a mission and you would have fired a shot forty seconds late, guess what? You will not hit your opponent and might even hit an alliance" Codatorta told them all while keeping the stone hard expression on his face. "So if I were you Ms Solaria, I'd tone down the attitude and take this opportunity more serious. I've already grown enough grey hairs over the years trying to keep your boyfriend in line, let's not do that again"

Stella, a little frightened by the tone used towards her, gulped and simply nodded her head. "Yes sir" she said quietly, hiding slightly behind Aisha.

"Good" And without another word, Codatorta mentioned for them to follow him and left the training room. The six girls quickly caught up to him, nobody daring to ask where they were going or even utter another word. They followed him around the first floor and into a room none of them had ever seen.

"Welcome in our weapon storage"

Jaws dropped to the floor as the Winx glanced around the room, walls covered with weapons from floor to ceiling. Swords, bows, gloves, knives, spears and weapons they had never seen before were stored here.

"We will begin with finding whatever weapon works best for each of you. Don't think too easy about it, it took some of my students over three months" Codatorta told them, before turning to look at the six of them. "Who wants to pick first?"

Silence

Not a single one of the girls spoke up, all waiting anxiously in the hope one of their friends would volunteer. After minutes of deadly silence, Aisha finally raised her hand. "I'll go" she spoke up, relieving her friends from their fear to go first.

"Very well then, Aisha come over here" Codatorta mentioned for her to stand beside him in front of one of the weapon-filled walls. "There's not really a strategy for choosing your weapon, except if you have experience. Have you ever fought with a weapon before?"

Aisha started to think back to her years before Alfea. "Um, not really thought, but.." she hesitated, not really sure she should tell the intimidating professor stories about her childhood.

"It doesn't necessarily have to be fighting. But you know, shot with bow and arrow at some sort of festival, went knife throwing with some friends, I don't know what you teenagers do"

"No, I… I actually did do that. A friend of mine went to a school in Andros much like Red Fountain and he mastered in knives and stuff, so he let me practise throwing them sometimes" Aisha told him unsurely.

Codatorta raised an eyebrow at her. "Well I don't really think that was very responsible of him… But that aside, it may help your choice indeed" he said as he mentioned towards a few shelves were knives of all shapes and sizes were neatly displayed. "Anything catches your attention?"

'Not really' Aisha thought to herself, but she went ahead and just grabbed two matching knives from the shelves and looked at the professor. "These, I guess?" she said, very unsure as to how she was supposed to know that it was the right choice.

But Codatorta just nodded at her. "Those are classic throwing knives from Eraklyon, I'll assign you to one of our seniors that is specialized in knife throwing so you'll have someone to help you when you need questions since I obviously have other things to do as well. When you feel like it is not the right weapon, that is totally fine just tell me and we'll try to find a new one, but definitely don't give up until you've tried the different variations as well. Knives come in all kinds and it'd surprise you how different from each other they can be"

Aisha looked at the knives in her hands. Both the handles and the blades were a reflective silver and the handles was lined with black patterns. They were gorgeous, for sure, and it made her feel kind of weird that such beautiful objects could easily kill someone.

"I thought you were gonna train us?" Bloom asked, snapping Aisha out of thought.

Codatorta turned to look at the redhead and nodded. "I am, but I'll be teaching you hand-to-hand combat. If I'm gonna have to teach all of you with differents weapons it's all gonna get very confusing and not very efficient. So I'll assign each of you to one of our seniors mastering your specific weapon and you'll train with them" he explained to them. "Alright who is next?"

"Ooh me!" Stella suddenly raised her hand with a sudden burst of enthusiasm that made her friends look at her in confusion.

"Alright Stella, I assume you have your eye on something?" Codatorta said, immediately understanding the nature of the fairy's sudden excitement. "Go ahead" he said, mention towards the weapons.

"Yay" Stella took off in a short sprint to the other side of the room, everyone's eyes following her. She climbed up the ladder to get to one of the higher placed weapons and grabbed the pair off the shelves. "These are so gorgeous!" she squealed in excitement as she climbed back down, two shiny silver fans in her hands. "What do you think?"

"That Brandon owes Riven ten bucks" Codatorta told her, earning a confused look from the blonde. "He bet you'd pick something you thought was pretty"

"Well, you said to pick something that caught our eye, didn't you?" Stella said, raising her eyebrow at him.

A slight chuckle came from the professor. "Fair enough. These are Callisto fans, made with incredibly thin steel so watch out with practicing because it's easy to cut yourself. I'll assign you to a senior as well"

Stella clapped her hands in excitement, until she suddenly hissed from a sudden pain in her hand. "Ow!"

Codatorta sighed. "What did I just say?" he asked her, taking her hand to see blood trickling from where she had accidentally cut herself. "Aisha, could you run her by the first aid to get a band aid or bandage please?" he asked the fairy of waves, noticing the cut was a little too deep to just ignore. "Stella be more careful next time please, these are not just pretty accessories. These things can easily kill people" he reminded her before looking up to the rest of the Winx. "That is the case with all of these weapons, don't let their looks fool you because piece by piece these are some of the most dangerous weapons ever made"

The girls nodded nervously as Aisha took Stella to get her cut looked at. The four remaining girls looked at each other before Musa raised her hand. "I guess I'll go next. I don't really have any experience with weapons so I don't really know what to look for" she said as she made her way over to the professor.

"That is alright, just take the time you need and look around, you can all do that, if anything catches your attention, just follow your instincts and come back to me" he told all of them and with that, the four girls spread out to try and find a weapon they liked.

"What even are these?" Bloom thought out loud as she looked at some peculiar objects, having not a single clue what they were or how they should be used.

Tecna, who was standing next to her, shrugged. "I have no idea. I know about swords and stuff like that but some of these things I've literally never seen in my life. I mean, to me these things just look like the marbles I played with as a kid" she said, pointing to some round glass objects that indeed looked identical to the marbles from your childhood.

Bloom laughed and went on to look at another huge display of weaponry. She was gazing up and down the wall. 'What to pick, what to pick?' she thought to herself. She didn't have any experience with weapons and had no clue what she should choose.

"Oh my god, these are badass" She suddenly heard Musa from the other side of the room. When she turned to look at her, the Music fairy's hands were covered by black gloves with claw-like blades coming from the knuckles.

"I'm just gonna keep these on and if anyone pisses me off I'm just gonna stomp my claw knuckles into their faces" she grinned, punching the air as if it were a person.

"Musa, honey, be careful. You don't want to hurt yourself like Stella did" Flora warned her. "Or hurt one of us" she added as Tecna ducked away from Musa's fist swinging at her.

Musa mumbled something and took the gloves off.

"Flora have you found anything you liked yet?" Bloom asked the nature fairy, who was inspecting a row of classic fighting swords. She knew Flora wasn't very excited about having to fight with weapons, but the brunette did seem rather interested.

"I think so. I mean, these swords are so beautifully made, you can just see the craftsmanship behind them" she said turning one of them in her hands to inspect it more carefully. The handle was a deep black and the sword itself was made of shiny steel.

"Well Flora I must say you have quite the eye for seeing that" Codatorta said, taking the sword from her. "These are indeed designed by men who knew everything about how to make the perfect sword. In comparison to most weapons we have here this one right here might be one of the oldest, but that doesn't take away that it's an excellent piece of weaponry"

Flora smiled as Codatorta handed back the sword as well as the matching scabbard. "Thank you" she said, sliding the sword into the sheath.

"So girls, it's you two left" Musa said, looking at both Tecna and Bloom. Both of them still had no idea what to look for.

"Oh I - uh… I'll take these" Bloom impulsively said, grabbing silver...stars? From the shelf behind he. "They look cool, I guess" she said, shrugging as she walked over to where Musa was standing. "What about you Tec?"

The technology fairy looked around once more, still very unsure. But, just like Bloom, she decided to just go with something and grabbed a steel spear with black markings on it. For a weapon, it had a real gracious feeling, as if it'd never kill someone and was just a nice accessory. "I'm gonna go with this one" she announced to the others, who all nodded in approval.

"Very well then girls, I will assign all of you to one of our seniors. That'll be all for today, though I do suggest you try to get some information on your weapon and maybe even carefully try something with it. I will see you all tomorrow morning at nine. And this time, do not be late" Codatorta told all of them.

The four Winx girls nodded and were quick to leave the armory storage room.

"I say we head straight for our rooms, I feel really weird just carrying these weapons with me" Flora said as she uncomfortable shifted the sword in her hands. The others all agreed quickly and together they got in the elevator.

"Oh Stell texted me, they're in the cafeteria with some of the guys. I say we join them after dumping these things off" Musa said as she looked up from her phone and read the message from her friend.

"Sounds like a plan"


"Does it hurt?" Aisha asked the blonde as they emerged from the first aid office. Stella's cut had to get stitched up, much to the princess' dismay, and was now carefully bandaged.

Stella shrugged, not wanting to appear weak to her tough friend. "Not really anymore, but when the stitches did hurt like hell" she smiled sheepishly as they walked through around campus.

"I can imagine"

The girls were crossing through the cafeteria when a familiar voice called out their names. "Yo Aisha, Stella! Come join us!" It was Nabu, who was sitting at one of the tables with Sky and Helia, his signature smile on his face.

The two girls shared looks, not really sure whether they should accept the offer or head back to the others. Until Aisha reminded that they would only pick out their weapons today, which the two of them already had done. Secretly she had just wanted to spend some quality time with her new boyfriend.

The two of them hadn't been going out for too long so she still really enjoyed every moment with him. He made her laugh and she felt like she could really be herself around him, something she really cherished.

Stella didn't argue with the waves fairy and the two joined their friends at the table.

"Hey guys, don't you have class?" Stella asked them as she grabbed a chair to seat herself around the table. "Don't you know skipping school is wrong?"

The three guys chuckled before Sky shot her a sly look. "I could ask you the same, aren't you supposed to be at your first training right now?" he asked in return.

"We were, but then Ms Solaria couldn't resist hurting herself on her very first day and we had to go to the emergency room to get her stitched up" Aisha said with a slight grin as she took a seat on her boyfriend's lap. She did feel bad for her friend about the incident, but she couldn't resist teasing her about it. Besides, she knew Stella could take it, it was one of the things she loved about her blonde friend: always up for a joke and tease.

It was only then that the normally very observative specialists noticed the sun fairy's bandaged hand and immediately looked at her in shock and concern.

"Whoa what happened?" Helia asked, carefully taking the blonde's hand.

Stella's cheeks flushed, something that didn't really happen often, and shrugged. "Um, I don't really wanna talk about it" she quickly said.

Nabu looked at her for a moment before a grin spread on his handsome face. "You did your little clappy thing while you were holding a weapon, didn't you?"

"...Maybe"

The guys laughed at the blonde's antics, adoring their friend's clumsy nature. After the laughter died down into slight chuckles, Sky looked around the table as if he was looking for something. "So where are your weapons then?"

Stella chuckled. "We don't all see the appeal in carrying those big ass swords like yours around Sky' she said. "We like something a little more subtle" she added as she spread out her warrior fans, before casually fanning herself with them.

"Ah nice, can I see them?" Helia asked. Though he still wasn't a big fan of the whole fighting thing, he was definitely interested in all different sorts of weapons.

Stella handed him the fans with a mumbled 'be careful' and the three specialists immediately started inspecting the weapons as if it was made out of solid gold, talking about the craftsmanship and history and all kinds of things the two fairies didn't and/or wanted to understand.

"Hey Stell, can you text the girls where we are? My phone is dead and I don't them to worry about us" Aisha said as she tried to start up her battery-dead phone.

Stella looked at her with a raised eyebrow and a grin. "Them worrying about us? I'm more worried about them. I mean, we left them alone with Musa in a room full of weapons"

"You were the one who needed to get stitches" Aisha casually shot back.

"Fair enough"

"So Aisha, what weapon did you get?" Sky asked curiously once the guys were finally expecting every single detail of Stella's fans.

Aisha got her throwing knives from her pocket and handed them over to the guys, who -once again- bowed over the object to look at it closely from every possible angle.

Around ten minutes later, the rest of the girls joined the five at their table in the cafeteria. "What's up y'all? Musa asked with a grin on her face as she sat down.

Nabu raised an amused eyebrow at the music fairy. "Y'all? I didn't know you were from the south?" he commented with a grin, earning him a whack on the back of his head from the young woman.

"I was just trying to spark a nice conversation, why are you shooting me down for?"

"Hey girls, so where are the weapons you guys chose?" Sky asked, once again seeing no weapons. "Or were you guys also too 'sophisticated' for our 'big ass' weapons?" he said with a grin towards the blonde.

The girls laughed as they all took place around the table.

"No we dropped them off at our room, walking around with those things just didn't feel very natural" Flora explained. "I got a sword" she then informed them of her choice. "I know I'm not that into weapons and stuff but this one was just really beautiful and it had a sort of grace that you wouldn't expect"

"I got this badass claw glove thing!" Musa announced proudly before anyone could even react to Flora. The look on her face and the description of her choice made everyone laugh.

"Claw glove thing?" Helia asked, being the first one to recover from the burst of laughter. "Sounds perfect for you"

"I know right!"

"So Bloom, tecna, what did you get?"

Bloom chuckled slightly. "To be honest, I have no clue what they are. They are these small sharp star-shaped things that I think you're supposed to throw in some sort of way" she said.

"Shuriken" The three males all identified at the same time, making them look at each other in astonishment before laughing it off. "What about you Tec?" Helia asked the last fairy.

"Oh I got a spear, though I'm not sure it was exactly the right choice" she admitted.

If she was being honest, from the moment she had chosen the spear, she knew she had made the wrong choice. She didn't want something that she'd have to… use. She preferred to fight from a distance, so that she could calmly calculate her chances and techniques without getting distracted in the fog of war.

"Hey, don't worry about. You'll find it eventually, no rush" Sky smiled at her, putting her more at ease. She usually wasn't very great with making wrong choices and it kind of bugged her when she did.

"Thanks" She smiled in return.

"Well, we better head to class. Next period is almost starting" Helia said, getting up, the other guys quickly following his moves. "See you girls later!" they waved and head off to class.

"So you guys wanna hang out tonight?" Musa asked as soon as the guys were out of sight.

Flora shook her head. "No sorry, Helia and I are going out tonight" she said, a smile appearing on her face as she reminded herself that it was just going to be the two of them that night. It was sometimes hard to spend quality time together with everything happening and everyone around, so she was really looking forward to a romantic night with her boyfriend.

"I'm out too" Stella said. "Nova has a date and I promised to help her prep" she explained. "The girl's a nervous mess"

"Ooh who's the lucky one?" Bloom asked, always in for a little gossip.

Stella shrugged. "I don't know. Nova's been weirdly secretive about her"

"Her?"

The blonde raised an eyebrow at Tecna as the technology fairy looked at her in confusion. "Yea, Nova's gay" she said. "What's wrong with that?"

Tecna immediately shook her head. "No no, nothing. I just didn't know she was into girls, that's all" she explained.

"But she didn't tell you who her date was?" Musa asked. "Maybe the other girl doesn't want people to know she's gay yet and asked Nova to keep it quiet?" she said as Stella shook her head at her earlier question.

"Perhaps, but anyway Nova really likes her and is super stressed out. It's pretty cute actually" Stella chuckled before looking down at her phone, which had started to ring, and answered the call. "Hey babe" she greeted her boyfriend before excusing herself from the table.

"Anyways, I'm not free tonight either Musa. Timmy and I planned to get some research done on this new technological device they're trying to put together back at Zenith" Tecna told the rest, her eyes shining merrily in excitement. She knew many people thought that Timmy and her were a weird couple because they'd rather spend a night testing out new gadgets that go to a romantic dinner, but Tecna loved being with someone who not only understood but shared her interests.

"Ugh you all and your boytoys" Musa grinned teasingly, seeing the happiness in her best friend's facial expression. "Fine I'll just hang out with my oreos and kit kats"

"Hey hey, I'm free tonight" Bloom said. "Leave some of those for me" she grinned.

"Only if you bring me doritos"


So I really hope you enjoyed it. I know it's a bit of a boring chapter but the weapon class thing just had to be done and I didn't want to skip it. But don't worry: the drama is starting soon!

Also: The weapons the girls chose this chapter aren't final. Like Codatorta said, it can take a while to find the right one.

If you liked it or have some critical points, please leave a review and I'll see you guys next chapter! x