chapter 2: welcome to magix
Femke's POV
One flash of light later I was standing in the middle of a busy plaza. I gasped as I looked around. There were cars hovering over me!
"Wow... What is this place?" I asked the three girls as I looked at them with shock, not understanding where we were.
"Magix, of course. not that you'd know, being new here." Icy quipped from next to me and pointed at the cars with a smirk on her face.
"This is Magix? Amazing! Different from the stories I've heard on Earth. I was thinking people on brooms zooming around, bubbling cauldrons, blacks cats and frogs." I rambled, as I looked around with a smile on my face.
"What kind of books have you been reading? You're talking gibberish. Well, besides the black cats." Darcy smirked as she whipped some of her hair out of her face and walked past me.
"This is the real Magix. A bit too bright if you ask me. But I guess it's okay." She said as she smiled at me, pointing at someone walking by, making her bags float after her as she did.
"Especially in the Fairy part of town. Us witches have our own part in the city. You'll see once we applied to school." Stormy said as she placed a hand on my shoulder. I nodded and followed the girls down the streets and into a beautiful forest.
"Alright, When we reach the school, we don't give any letter, I am the princess. I get in… then what? Do witches have to their magic in any way or do we just hope my powers will activate during the first lesson?" I asked after a while as a big purple tower came into view.
"You have to proof you have dark magic. That could be a problem if you didn't had three great witches at your service." Icy smirked as she made an ice crystal appear in her hand, which had me in awe.
"We will teach you the basics so you can fool that old hag Griffin into letting you enter the school." Darcy said as she came walking next to me. "Let's try. It's a piece of cake. Concentrate on your dark side, focus all your darkest thoughts and try and form a sphere into your hand." She instructed. I tried but nothing happened.
"Come on, Fem! Think of the darkest thing that has ever happened to you." Darcy encouraged which made me look at her surprised. My darkest moments? I had a few dark moments, mostly small things and I wondered if that would be enough to do the trick.
"Do you have anything dark enough to generate an enormous amount of power? It can't be just any dark thought it has to be a strong." Darcy told me.
"I dunno. I didn't have many dark moments in my life. A few smaller ones when I was out on the street but nothing big." I replied, before something hit me.
Maybe that memory would be strong enough. The one from my nightmares.
"We won't know if we don't try." Darcy said, which made me look at her confused, before it hit me. She had read my thoughts once again
Can she not do that? It's really getting on my nerves.
I thought as I rolled my eyes and focused on the darkest memory I had. The moment that werewolf bowed his awful face over me, the first time I woke up with the taste of blood in my mouth.
"It works!" Icy cheered as I opened my eyes, gasping at the small sphere of dark energy in my hand. "You're a natural." Darcy smiled at me as she made a small sphere of dark magic in her own hand with ease.
"Whenever you need to use your magic just focus on what you just focused on." Darcy said.
"Okay, now for a spell; you need something simple yet strong to convince Griffin." Icy explained.
"Would changing a broom in a black cat do it?" I asked with a grin on my face as I played a little with the ball of energy in my hand.
"She wouldn't fall for that." Icy said as a strange girl with green hair passed us.
"What are you three going to show Griffin?" I asked.
"I can do a lot of things with my ice magic." Icy smirked as she made some ice appear out of nowhere, making the green haired girl trip and fall, which made a few other girls cackle at her while a red haired girl walked to her and helped her up again.
"Lucy!" I heard the redhead call out to the green haired one, who nodded and dusted herself off. "You okay?"
"I'm fine, Mirta." The green haired girl named lucy grumbled as she shrugged Mirta away before they moved on.
"Good one, Icy." I smirked as I concentrated and tried to find out what my specialty was, but nothing came up, not even when I tried to focus on the same memory as before.
"You have to dig deep. Find what power is hidden deep inside you." Icy said as she placed her hands on mine, which made a shudder go down my spine, they were freezing.
"How?" I asked as I looked at her, retracting my hands, not wanting to feel her cold touch any more.
"By focusing the same way you just did." Icy said as she looked from her hands to me with an annoyed look.
"You might want to take a step back. Wouldn't want to hit you twice in the same day." I joked at Icy, who took a few steps back as I focused on my powers, trying to call forth anything inside me. At first nothing happened but after at least fourteen tries some sparks came out of my fingers, which made all three look at me, impressed.
"Oh hey, looks like we have another lightning user." Stormy said as she looked at me. "You could make a thunder cloud chase someone. That would be convincing. Not to mention hilarious." She continued with a wide grin.
"You think Griffin would allow me to mess up the school with a natural disaster like that?" I asked, since I could imagine that causing a small thunderstorm inside a school could cause some damage.
"Girl, she'd make you student of the year. Witches love that sort of things." Stormy said as we approached a long road that went up, winding like a snake towards an enormous purple building that like a deformed tree if you asked me.
"Here we are; Cloudtower." Icy said as she pointed at the building. "Alright, remember; your name is Miranda of Pandora."
She said as she gave me a firm look before she took my arm and walked to the door. A woman completely dressed in purple was standing with a list in her hand was standing next to it "Here we are. We took Miranda of Pandora with us as you wanted." Icy said as she waved my hand for me, which made me annoyed.
"That's me. Miranda of Pandora." I said, trying to sound as self assured as possible, praying that she couldn't see I was lying.
"Very well. Show your magic." Griffin said calmly, which made me nod and concentrate on the moment the werewolf, which made the small purple sphere appear in my hand. "Go along now." Griffin said. I nodded and did so, waiting for my friends to be done before we walked a few corridors. When I was certain no one could hear us I let out a small happy screech. I was a student of Cloud Tower.
"Did you see the look on Griffin's face when you made your sphere so dark?" Icy said as she wrapped arm around me.
"You rocked that one!" Stormy added as she did the same with a smirk.
"I have to get used to my new name do." I whispered to the girls as we walked down a corridor to the big main room were all new witches were gathered. after a while the headmistress came in.
"Welcome! I am Miss Griffin, your headmistress. You will learn here to control and use the dark side of your magic." She explained with a smile.
"I first want to see if anyone has what it takes to be a real witch. Let's conduct a text." Griffin smirked as she made a sphere appear in her hand that created a small dome in the middle of the room, at which I looked in awe.
"I want you to use a single spell with as much power as you can." Griffin said, before she got a list and started to read the names from it. Every student had to come to the front and into the bubble to perform a spell to create a powerful spell. Those who didn't manage were immediately gone from cloud Tower, which made me dread the moment my name would be called. Darcy must have picked up on this because all off a sudden she put a hand on mine and smiled at me.
"Don't be nervous, witches are proud and strong." Darcy whispered in my ear pointing at Icy passing her test easily. "Just focus on what we already taught you." Darcy smiled as Icy sat down again and smirked at us. She got through.
"Just act like me." Icy smirked as some other students laughed at Lucy for hitting herself with her own spell, after she was allowed to sit down since it did work.
"Pandora!" Griffin called as Lucy sat down with a Mirta. As my name was called I took a big gulp before I got up and walked as confident as I could, raising my fist at a fellow witch who wanted to make me trip and fall.
"I'm going to use my awesome lightning based magic." I said, boasting a little to try and sound strong. I focussed on the things my new friends had taught me, which allowed me to form a huge thunder cloud that loomed over the witch that had tried to make me trip.
Now you'll pay for ruining my entrance
I thought smirking as I commanded the thundercloud to send small flashes of thunder at the girl, who screeched in pain as she ran, much to the amusement of my fellow students. I could feel a slight pang of guilt though. I knew what that was like.
'This is what is needs to be done to get into the school.'
Darcy called in my head, which made me look up at her in shock. She could both read my thoughts and speak to me telepathically.
She's right. No time to feel sorry! I gotta focus for the grand finale
I thought as I focussed on my powers and called upon all the darkness within me with which I tried to make it rain black cats on the bully but in a flash I saw all the times i had been bullied myself because of how I looked and because my focus had wavered for a moment I only got sticky marshmallows that rained on everyone and made the bully run off.
"Well done Miss Miranda. An excellent performance." Miss Griffin praised as she placed a hand on my shoulder, waving her other hand to make the spell disappear.
"Thanks ma'am, if that weakling had stayed I could have done worse." I said with a smirk on my face. This was a lie, since it still made me sick to act like a bully after all the bullying I had been through at my old school.
"You can take a seat now. You have proven your strong enough to be here. I admire your fierceness, keep that up." Griffin praised as I nodded before I took a seat with my new friends again.
"That was amazing!" Stormy grinned as she slammed me on the back to the point it hurt.
"Best trick I've seen yet." Icy smirked as we watched Mirta barely pass her test, the wimp.
"What was up with the marshmallows? I thought you said you were going for cats." Darcy asked as she looked at me sternly.
"My powers suddenly failed me but I'm glad at least something happened." I said as Darcy was called up to take her test. She passed with flying colors as well.
"You would have been gone if nothing had happened." Darcy said as she sat down again, flipping her hair out of her face as she did so.
"Everything's better then what that wimp Mirta produced." Icy commented, smirking as Stormy passed her test as well, which resulted in another witch needing to see the nurse because she had wanted to volunteer to be the target of the spell.
"Yeah, that was weak." I replied as we left the gathering room as soon as Stormy was told she was allowed to leave as well, walking a few blocks before we let out screeches of happiness. We were all students at Cloud Tower now!
"That was super amazing! That spell was so destructive!" I smirked as I hugged Stormy around the neck. She shook me off.
"Thanks. But witches shouldn't, you know…" Stormy said, smirking as she made me back away a little embarrassed.
"I really have to get used to that." I said a little sheepishly.
"That's what you got us for. We'll teach you everything you need to know. You'll get used to things around here in no time." Stormy said as she put a hand on mine.
"We'll be a team. Sort of strange for witches, but we've been making it work." Darcy said as she put her hand on the stack as well.
"We just call it ganging up." Icy said. "With the right gang name we could strike fear in the hearts of everyone who comes across us." She continued as she raised a fist.
"A name?" I asked as I turned myself to the wall, thinking, hoping a name for our gang would pop up in my mind.
"The fearsome four!" Stormy popped in with a smirk on her face.
"Lame." Darcy said as Stormy crossed her arms.
"I like to see you do better." Stormy challenged her sister while I kept my focus on the wall.
Our team name should be cool. Something catchy yet easy to remember
I thought as I used some dust on the wall to write. Soon, one single word was readable.
"Trix?" Icy's voice called out from behind me as I jumped. I had been so caught up in what I had been doing that I hadn't noticed she walked up behind me. As she read out what I'd written on the wall Darcy and Stormy also looked at her.
"Like playing a trick on someone?" Stormy asked as she looked at the wall.
"Yeah!" I smiled "Playing tricks on others is kind of the essence of being a witch to me. That would actually be a good name for our gang."
"It's perfect. The Trix, sounds like the name of a gang you really don't want to mess with." Icy said.
"Good one." Stormy said as she gave me a firm pat on my back.
"Sometimes genius just happens." I teased before I followed the girls back to the main hall, where the lists appeared with the rooms numbers and locations as well as a list that said who shared a room with who.
"We're sharing a dorm." Stormy said.
"Just the four of us in a room. Nice." I said, pretending to roll my eyes.
"Just a warning; I snore. Loudly." Stormy said.
"Me too." I said, trying to sound a little arrogant and praying that I was convincing.
"Do you even know what the word sharing means?" A purple haired girl called out.
"Probably better than you!" I called back without even thinking. "Also, purple is so not your color." I said with a devious smirk on my face, as my friends laughed.
"At least I didn't buy my way here with my parent's money!" The purple haired witch said as she walked to me and roughly took my by the shoulder, forcing me to look at her.
"Newsflash: I didn't. Rich people aren't all terrible." I told the purple haired girl, roughly pushing her away from me.
"They are. I'm from a poor farmer family living on the planet Mandoria. Do you have any idea how hard I had to work to get here?" The girl snapped "Of course not. You're a princess. You only had to call and you got whatever you wanted, whenever you wanted it." The witch said as she took a step forward in order to intimidate me.
"Being a princess doesn't mean you get whatever you want." I said, looking up at her with challenging eyes. "You can refuse to live like a spoiled brat, you know"
"Did you?" One of the other witches, a blonde first year, asked me as she peeked at me from behind the purple haired girl.
"Of course." I said while rolling my eyes. "That's why I'm here. I wanted to learn how to live as simple as possible until my coronation so I know how my subjects live. This is also why I didn't wanted to go to that pretty princess school for spoiled brats." I said rolling my eyes at them again. "I'm getting sick just thinking about it." I lied. I had no idea was Alfea was like and part of me was kind of curious to find out what Alfea would be like.
"Like you had a choice." The purple haired girl huffed in an annoyed way.
"Yes I had. So back off." I said firmly, feeling my anger was taking over which must have somehow caused my werewolf senses to kick in because the purple haired girl suddenly turned white, before she let out a loud screech as she ran off.
"Anyone else who wanted a piece of me?" I asked with a scowl on my face. All the girls shook their heads before running off, leaving me alone with the other Trix.
"That was amazing!" Stormy said, backing away a little when I looked at her and in a mirror I saw why; in my anger I had made my eyes glow yellow and my skin had been covered with bits of white fur.
"You're a natural." Icy said as she patted me firmly on my shoulder while I relaxed, turning back to normal.
"It was nothing, that just happens sometimes when I get really angry." I said as i looked at my friends shyly.
"Don't be so modest. That was awesome! Especially for someone who has…" Stormy started, but stopped as Icy put a hand over her mouth.
"For someone who just started out on Cloud Tower today. Right?" Icy asked as she signed with her eyes to the roof, where an eyeball crawled by.
"Right. Now stop covering my mouth for no reason." Stormy snapped before she gave a small nod. Griffin was watching us.
"How did you do that thing with your eyes?" Darcy said with a smirk on her face, which made me blush.
"It was nothing. Just a trick I've known for a long time." I said, trying my best to shield away my thoughts, since right now the memory of that werewolf attacking me was fresh in my mind, and I was unable to push it into the background again.
"Why are you shielding your thoughts if that's all that happened?" Darcy asked me as she looked at me with a piercing gaze. "You have something to hide?"
"Maybe she just got sick and tired of you peeking in her head all the time." Stormy thankfully commented. "She wouldn't be the only one."
"What does that have to do with anything?" Darcy asked.
"It has to do with your snooping!" Stormy backfired while crossing her arms.
"Anyways… Mind shields are an advanced spell. Something she shouldn't know yet. Unless she wants to hide something." Darcy remarked as she gave me a stern look while she was trying to read my mind again. I stayed strong and focused on whatever I focused on just now which worked because I felt the link she was trying to use to read me stayed out of my reach, causing her to look at me with widen eyes. "How are you refusing me?"
"I dunno. I just don't want you to read my mind." I stammered as I locked eyes with her, shaking off the memories of the werewolf head above me as I forced myself to smile.
"She's not the only one." Stormy interrupted.
"I'm not doing that on purpose! You know I still need to learn to control my magic just as much as you." Darcy defended with a stern look on her face.
"Don't lie!" Stormy snapped.
"I'm not!" Darcy snapped as she rolled her eyes at her sister in an annoyed way.
"Didn't Granny teach you to control it?' Stormy replied as she rolled her eyes at Darcy, which made me snicker a little.
"Is that what this is about? You being jealous Grandma Gertrude didn't teach you? I can't help it you were a late bloomer." Darcy snapped back, which made Stormy look at her with widen eyes.
"You did NOT just go there." Stormy gasped as she looked at her sister with widened eyes.
"I just did. Now apologize for saying I sneak into your thoughts on purpose." Darcy said firmly.
"No." Stormy snapped.
"Knock it off you two!" Icy firmly said. "I'm sure miranda had a good reason for not allowing Darcy into her head and I'm sure she'll tell is eventually." As Icy said this she gave me a stern look, which made me gulp a little.
"For now, let's just try and find out where our dorm room is." Icy said as she looked at the map.
"Thanks." I said softly as she just growled in reply before she walked off.
"Did you already decipher the map?" Darcy asked as she and Stormy started to follow us as well.
"Of course, what do you take me for?" Icy snapped as Darcy immediately cringed away.
"I'm not good at directions but even I'm seeing this map isn't pointing us at anything specific." I said as I looked at the map from over Icy's shoulder, backing away when she looked at me firmly.
"That's because the map isn't pointing in a specific direction. It's quite simple. It shows the area where the room should be and then it's up to the wit of the witch herself to find the room." Icy explained as she looked at the map and then around the area we were standing in. "It's a test. A witch must always be able to trust on herself and no one else."
"Should we split up?" I asked as I looked at Icy a little nervous.
"Nah." Icy said. "Besides…" And with this Icy tapped on one of the pillars "I already figured out how to get there, The pillars point out the way." Icy smirked, just as the pillar bended to the right.
"I wish we had pillars like that on Pandora." I said.
"Yeah, things like that would be handy in a palace." Stormy agreed.
"Anyway..." Icy said as she rolled her eyes at me. "This should be our dorm." Icy smirked as she opened a room in the wall were suddenly a door appeared. This made me gasp, still not used to magic but more when I saw the four beds in the dorm room were all taken, and the four witches on the bed looked up at us shocked when we entered without even knocking.
"I think your wrong here. This is our dorn." I said as I showed them our names on the map. I had expected them to leave, but instead the purple haired girl from earlier rose from her bed and walked to me with a grin on her face.
"Guess again, princess. This is our dorm room. Get out." The girl said as she looked me right into the eye with a smirk on her face.
"Hang on, this isn't real." Icy said calmly as she took my by arm when I wanted to grab my stuff and get out.
"What do you mean?" I asked, a little confused.
"It's another test. Witches are supposed to be bold, proud and willing to fight for their place." Icy said as she smirked at me. "These holograms are part of a test to see if you got what it takes to stand up for yourself." I blinked a little at her words before I understood what she meant. I was supposed to tell her to get the heck out of here herself. Stand up for myself. This made me grin as I walked to the purple haired girl.
"The map says this is our dorm. So get out or I will make you get out." I growled at the purple haired girl as I raised a fist at her, holding it under her nose so that she knew I meant it.
"You want to pick a fight with me, Princess?" The purple haired witch asked as she took a step towards me.
"Yes. Now leave." I said, trying to sound confident even if I wasn't feeling that self assured at the moment.
"Whatever. We're leaving." The witch said, before she and her gang suddenly vanished in thin air, leaving the four of us alone in the dorm
"Good work, Miranda." Stormy said as she plopped on the bed in the far corner of the room while Darcy took the beth next to the door.
"That felt awesome. But I was terrified on the inside." I admitted as I took the bed across from Darcy while Icy took the beth across Stormy, plopping down as she dropped her bag under the bed.
"You better get used to it, princess." Icy replied as she lied down and looked at the roof.
"Yeah, from now on it will be part of your daily life. At least until the end of the fourth year and during vacations." Darcy said calmly while I started to unpack my stuff. I stopped and looked at the girls with a shocked expression as they said this.
"You didn't expect perfect little fairy behavior right?" Stormy asked with a grin on her face.
"You don't have to look like that. You're not alone, remember?" Darcy asked with a sigh as she rolled her eyes at me when she saw how scared I was.
"Don't fret about it! Were a gang from now on and we'll watch your back." Stormy said as she used a bit of her magic to get up again. "You'll see, getting used to this life will be piece of cake."
"Trix forever then?" I asked as I put my hand in the middle with a smirk on my face.
"Trix forever." Darcy said as she placed her hand on mine, while placing her free hand on my shoulder.
"You bet." Stormy said as she did the same.
"Until the end." Icy nodded after a soft groan, placing her hand on top, not liking this, retrieving her hand first after a short moment.
"I know. I know. We're a team. Yay for us. Now enough with the mushy stuff and let's go to bed. We have a big day ahead of us tomorrow." Icy said sternly as she headed back to her bed and lied down. I looked at my watch, seeing that it was pretty already.
"That late already. We better go to sleep." I said, getting into my nightgown and laying down in my bed. This was a good sign for the life that was gonna be ahead of me.
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And with that I end the second chapter of my story! I hope you all liked it!
Sorry it took me a while, but I had a very bad version of a writers block, I hope it is solved now and that I can continue the story from here on out.
Femke would be quite shocked to see that Magix was very different then how it was described in her books, but thanks to the Trix she adapted quite fast.
I thought it would be nice to include all kind of tests for the witches to get them used to their magic abilities and see if they got what it takes to be true witches, something with which Femke would have some trouble at first.
Maybe the trix are a little too OOC right now but I don't think they started out completely evil. They will start to show of their true colors at some point.
Well, that was all for now… I hope you enjoyed it!
Thanks to paranoidgirl for doing an awesome job as beta reader and advisor.
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