"That's it! The Realm Renowned Alfea School!" Stella gestured to the school with open arms.
"It sure is pretty amazing" my mother gapped, while my dad just stood there with his jaw at the ground.
"It makes public school look pretty low class, huh?" I hinted, at that moment I just realized that we were further away from the school then we were last time.
"Well, before we make our official decision let's go inside" My mom hugged me with one arm, as my dad started ahead.
"I wonder what their record is for college admiss-OW!" My dad rubbed his forehead.
"Mike, are you okay?" My mom asked,
"What the? What's going on?" my dad pushed up against the air as if he was miming, my mom pressed her hand against whatever was there.
"What are you guys talking about?" I asked "where is it?"
"Well whatever it is, it's gone now" I said re-assuring them, even Gatsby got through whatever was there,
"Actually…there is an invisible wall" Stella chimed in.
"Well how come I could get in?"
"Simple, you're a magical being my dear" Stella shot a magic spark out of her finger and a dome barrier illuminated,
"This barrier keeps non-magical creatures out of Magix, sorry" Stella continued "though I can't take you any further I can give you two Alfea pamphlets that I got from last year."
Mom and dad looked through the pamphlet.
"So what do you think?" I asked hesitantly,
"I think you're going to have a great time" my mom replied looking a little sad,
I ran up to give them a big hug,
"Thank you so much, I'll miss you" I said.
"Bloooom, we should get going, you know while the getting's good" Stella winked at me.
"I'll send you all back First Class, now stand still, okay, SUN POWER! Transportus Back Homus!" She screamed and with a zap and beam of light they were gone.
"It's time to make an entrance! A fabulous entrance is essential darling" Stella added adding a jersey accent on the word darling.
"I'm not really sure what you mean darling, but I'll try" I smiled attempting to imitate her.
"Okay, all set?" Stella asked as I gathered all my suitcases in one area of the forest.
"Micsora" Stella whispered and with the point of her finger all my baggage shrunk, I picked them up and placed them in my jean pocket.
"I'm nervous" I blurted biting my lip.
"Oh, don't be, trust me it's all just like regular high school, except we all have magic powers and cuter outfits, besides I'm here with you."
I stopped in front of the winged gates taking everything in "I'm loving it already" I replied as we entered through the wing style gates the parted in the middle and smoothly slid into the ground.
"Ugh! You're defiantly not going to love her! What is it, her like 55th year teaching?" Stella laughed.
"Who's that?" for her like 55th year teaching she didn't look that old, mid thirties, early forties.
"Griselda Head of Discipline, she is scary and in bad need of a makeover, for some reason she's always hated me." Griselda had shoulder length plain brown hair, black cat eye glasses and she was wearing an over sized teal pencil skirt with a matching teal vest over a white/grey button long sleeve shirt. She was holding a clipboard along with a feather quill along with some other teachers once you passed the gateway.
"ALL FRESHMAN OVER HERE PLEASE, FIRST YEARS CHECK IN!" Griselda hollered and then faced her attention to the girl in front of us.
"First name and place of origin" Griselda asked the girl in front of us, who was juggling piles of baggage,
"E-Eleanor, of D-D-Dillona" I guess she made just about everyone nervous; unfortunately this was the only freshman check in.
"Hmmm, I don't see your name and you know what happens if your name isn't on my list we turn you-"
"It's with one L" Eleanor quickly added.
"Ohh, there you are, Eleanor of Dillona, you may come in" Griselda stepped aside as Eleanor grabbed her baggage and scurried away as fast as possible. Suddenly I just froze, I couldn't move, I can't lie!
"Hey long time no see Miss. G!" Stella smiled brightly
"Not long enough Princess Stella, after the little incident last year, I don't know how your parents convinced the school board to take you back, it's beyond me." Griselda scanned her list and gestured for Stella to pass through.
"They did donate that new computer lab" Stella bit her tongue from saying anymore.
"Who is your friend?" Griselda asked sceptically.
"Princess Veranda of Vallisto" Stella smiled brightly at Griselda.
"Princess Veranda of Vallisto…"
"Yeah, that's me" I smiled nervously.
"Here you are you may come in."
"Yes, it totally worked!" Stella cheered once we were out of earshot of Griselda.
"What do we do now?" I looked around
"Well Griselda will give us a brief speech about 'The Code of Behaviour', and then she'll take all us freshman to the main building over there." Stella pointed to the tall and wide light pink building with the intertwining windows. "Once we're in there Headmistress Faragonda will give us some speech about connecting to our Winx. First day of school we're free for the entire day till dinner, so it's basically like one big social day where you meet your roommates and go out and bond!" Okay, I'm a hundred percent positive that the high school I would have been attending on earth would not have one big social day. I love this place already!
"ALL FIRST YEARS GATHER IN THE CENTRE OF THE QUAD!" A nazzly voice called out,
"Huh?" I flipped my head around but no one was there
"Over here!" it called out again, I turn back around and there's this abnormally large buzzing bee in my face,
"What the?"
"THIS WAY!" And it disappeared just as fast as it appeared,
"That was a Bumble, they work for Mrs. Bee , she teaches Career Studies for 3rd years" Stella informed me as we made our way to the centre of the quad where Griselda and the rest of our grade was.
"Okay! First things first, The Code of Behaviour Rule number 1: You must follow all the rules in the Code of Behaviour! If you break the rules once, there will be a warning, if you break the rules twice, you will be suspended from all social privileges for a week. If you break the rules thrice your magic privileges will be suspended for as long as I think is fitted, if you break the rules four times you will be under dorm arrest with the only exception of classes for a month and if you break the rules five times you will be expelled! Isn't that right Princess Stella? Last year she destroyed the Potions Laboratory with an un-authorized magic spell, which brings me to the second rule: No unsupervised magic at any time." Stella looked down at her feet,
"Did you really do that?" I whispered.
"I was trying to create a new shade of pink" Stella replied defensively.
"We here at Alfea believe that discipline is the only way to prepare you for the world out there." Griselda started going down the line of all the freshman "which brings me to the third rule, stay away from the witches of CloudTower no matter what, we don't have a punishment for that because nothing we could do would ever be as terrible as what they will do if they catch you there." I looked around to see if anyone was laughing, Griselda couldn't be serious? Could she? Nobody was laughing, everyone else just looked pretty nervous.
"WELCOME ALL!" shouted a woman bursting out of the grand double door entrance of the main building her voice echoed throughout the quad. She was short; she had tiny white cat eye styled glasses and had pure white hair that poofed out on different sides of her head, kind of resembling giant popcorn. She was wearing a long sleeve pearl white top underneath a light indigo vest that poofed up around her shoulders with a red oval jewel underneath the collar. A lighter shade of purple for her skirt that twirled out at the bottom slightly all finished up with a pair of low black heels.
"I'm Ms. Faragonda, your headmistress, follow me dears!" Ms. Faragonda gestured to the main building; we all followed as she continued talking.
"I'm an Alfea alumni, and a former fairy godmother, this year it seems we have quite a wonderful class," She stopped in the middle of the room as my mouth fell to the floor with amazement at the inside of this place. The walls were covered with painted ballerinas-but they weren't just painted they were dancing all around the walls bending over to talk with some upper class man, giggling and playing games. Stella giggled at my response to it all, in the centre there was a large white marble ornate staircase with bronze detailing on the railings right across from us leading up to the second floor. Underneath it stood pale pink flowers that acted like columns, which by this moment in time wasn't all that astonishing, until they moved to shake hands with teachers and high fived students as they walked by with their petals. I felt like I was going to fall over, my head was spinning trying to take it all in, behind them were benches, hallways and doors to what I'm assuming were classrooms. There were two hallways on either side of us with lots of light shining through it.
"When you graduate many of you will fight evil, others will grant wishes and many here today are princesses that will eventually take over their realms: Each and everyone one of you are unique, you all have different sources of power and diverse origins, but our mission is the same: To help each and everyone of you to become the very best you can be."
Stella mimicked the last part of her speech and I bit my tongue hard trying not to laugh.
"Naturally, we expect all of you to do your very best at all times-"
"Ladies, it's time to check into your dormitories and meet your roommates!" Griselda clapped her hands twice, with the first word of dormitories, I'm sure everyone just instantly perked up.
"OH and remember everyone! Let's make this a great year and of course use every opportunity to connect to your Winx!" Ms. Faragonda called out as all of us were following our maps. Most girls looked lost; even though this school was shaped like a horse shoe the inside seemed impossibly larger than the outside.
"There's an enchantment on the school" Stella explained as we walked down a hallway that appeared to have sunlight shining through the windows but as I looked around there were absolutely no windows to be seen, which probably was the most normal thing I'd seen since I got here.
"Luckily you have me here, so we won't be walking mindlessly around school"
"So what did Ms. Faragonda mean by 'connect to your Winx'" I asked
"Winx is essentially three things, first it's your source of power as in your strength and energy" Stella started counting up on her fingers. "Second it's what guides you, and thirdly it's like your magical identity, got it?"
"I think I got it?" I put my hand to my head this was a going to be a lot more complicated than I thought.
"You either got it or you don't, and you so got it," we walked further and further down the hallways, until we reached the very end,
"HERE WE ARE!" Stella pointed to dark wood doors on the right, I was expecting to see two beds; one on either side of the room with a desk for each, I mean that's how dorms looked in the movies, then again those rooms didn't exactly have a double door entrance. In front of the doors there was a scroll listed with five names, I looked around every door seemed to have it, except one thing, the scrolls were floating in mid air.
"Ah, our roommates, lucky for us, the real princess of Vallisto and I had connections so we got ourselves in the same room, not to mention rooms with actual balcony's, any of the rooms in the school can have balcony's, but ours are like legit, no enchantment necessary" Stella clapped happily,
"I sure hope these ones are fun, my roommates from last year had wardrobes that contained a monumental lack of color, but of course I won't be bunking up close with anyone because I have a single." Stella continued as she opened the doors to a giant room.
It was amazing; all the doors were made out of shiny cherry wood, there was a white staircase with matching cherry steps that led up to a wall which had a beautiful mural of the ocean, up and over a single door to a somewhat hexagonal shaped room that overlooked where I was standing and beautiful sunlight shone through. The staircase had an intricately designed black iron railing, I did a 360, the room was a white wine color a crystal chandelier hung high on my right, and two white pillars were at the back on either side of a pair of double doors. On my right there was another single door, closer to me there was a seating area with Victorian style furniture and a massive TV in the corner closest to me.
Stella pointed to the doors between the two white pillars,
"That's the single" She opened the doors wide, and it was beautiful, to my left there was a white canopy that draped the sides of a sphere bed covered in white silk, that had a ruby red curved table attached to the sides, there was a gold encrusted French divan in the centre, on the other side of the bed there was two glass doors that opened up into the veranda. Hmmm, Veranda was named after a type of balcony? Clever-next to the doors there was a small dark wood desk, and on the right wall, ruby red closet units.
"WOW"
"I know right, come on let's check out your room" Stella threw her tiny luggage into the air and a spark flew out of her finger, enlarging them all making them land on the cushy carpeted floor with a loud thud.
I walked out and ran up the staircase as Stella followed close behind, I tried to act cool and calm, even though I was totally freaking out on the inside, THIS WAS SO FREAKING AWESOME! There was a single door, I ran and burst through the door to find-the bathroom, I swerved to my left and opened two glass doors that opened up onto another veranda; it was sort of shaped like a hexagon. The floor, two walls and roof were covered in light champagne colored marble. There was an octagon shaped hot tub overlooking the bright green trees and sparkling lake with five white cushioned beach chairs,
"Amazing right?"
"Totally" I felt a light breeze and smelled the freshly cut grass,
"Come on, your room is downstairs" Stella grabbed my hand and whisked me away from the beautiful scene to the door right beneath the staircase.
I opened the oddly heavy door into a wide rectangular room that went up two steps higher than the floor level; it was covered top to bottom with the same champagne colored marble. A crystal chandelier hung in the centre, there was a double bed in the centre of the far wall that was covered in light pink colored silk, a Victorian style night table that matched the dresser on the far left corner which was placed behind a matching divider. A matching desk, chair and bookshelf were on the other side of the bed, to my right there was a corner bookshelf and a desk that matched the same ones on the other side of the room. As well as the bed, nightstand, dresser and divider, and a small balcony between the second divider and the two steps leading up to the other side of the room.
I walked in a little further but then felt a weird crunch beneath my foot followed by an
"OUUUUUUUUCH THAT HURT!" I looked down and followed a green vine to a giant plant sitting on a small table
"I-I'm sorry, I think?" I bit my lip, this was defiantly strange.
"He's my latest creation" a girl walked up in denim skirt, a light pink blouse with white cork wedges and those multicolored shaped bands lacing around her left arm. She looked like a pretty tall short person, if that makes any sense at all; she had really tanned skin and long dirty blonde hair with blonde face framing high lights.
"He talks?" I sputtered
"My theory is that if more plants could talk deforestation would be dramatically reduced, it's worth trying, if it just saves one tree." The girl's voice was soft and sweet, she scratched the top of the plant.
"Hi, I'm Flora" She cocked her hip knocking over the plant breaking the pot.
"Oopsey!"
"Can't a plant get a break around here?!" The plant moaned
"Sorry honey" Flora picked up the plant and placed it in a new pot on the bed and started picking up the pieces, only then did I see all the baggage on the other side of the bed.
"Nice to meet you, I'm Bloom" I place my tote on the bed two steps up,
"Bloom?" Stella nudged me. I tried to hide the instant panic that i felt,
"What I meant was-Bloom was a name I like a lot but it's not my name" I scrambled, Flora threw the pot pieces in the garbage,
"Actually my real name is…just give me a sec I think i left my bags in the front…" I quickly walked into the hall pretending to look for luggage while I peered at the scroll
"…Veranda! Of, Vallisto" I blurted turning around running straight into someone.
"Sorry!" I said a little too loudly
"Vallisto: fourth world of magic realms upper ring, renowned for it's rich artistic tradition, it's beaches are very popular with tourists" a tall slender girl spit out like a computer, she had short magenta hair with a long jagged side bang, she was wearing a silver spandex long sleeve top with a bit of her midriff showing with matching pants followed by knee high black boots, she had a moving trolley behind her with a large black cube with a bright green circuit board design of some sort covering it.
"Yeah! That's where I'm from" I spun around.
"Cool, my name is Techna" her Accent could cut through butter, it sounded like a cross between French and British, I was about to ask her is she was from earth too, but even though I've never been across the pond I'm pretty sure they don't dress like that. Flora and Stella came up behind me.
"Hi Techna, I'm Flora" Flora held out her hand,
"I'm Stella" Stella chimed in as Techna shook Flora's hand,
"You are quite infamous-" Techna started but was cut off by a girl that just walked in, she wasn't tall nor short, she was wearing dark denim cargo jeans, with red converse which matched her red one shoulder top, with slight midriff showing, she had long silky black hair in two pony tails on either side of her head, she had two duffels and a one arm back pack.
"That's the word on the street, name's Musa, yo if you plan to blow up more stuff give us a heads up so we can bounce" she walked in and placed her duffels in the corner. We all burst out laughing except Stella,
"It was in the name of fashion, I don't regret it" she crossed her arms.
"I'm quite curious, were you actually able to create this new shade of pink?" Techna asked
"No, but when I do it's going to be the official color of Solaria" Stella replied instantly perking up.
"AHHHHHHHHHH!" We all looked into mine and Flora's room, Flora's creation was holding up Gatsby by the tail,
"Bad plant, Put him down right now!" Flora commanded, the plant didn't release, even though I've only known Flora for about five minutes, I don't think she's one to yell-ever.
"Its okay" I bent down to grab Gatsby "I have a feeling Gatsby tried to eat it" I added gesturing to the small bite taken out of the plant's vine.
"Hmmm" Flora thought picking up a small pot full of soil,
"You hungry little puppy?" she asked, she pulled out a small pouch of seeds and sprinkled them in the pot, she placed it down on the ground and Gatsby stuck his face in the soil and pulled out a bone that was bigger than his face!
"Speaking of food, I'm famished" Stella continued
"I have a great idea! Why don't you say we get out of here and go down town for a pizza?"
"Great idea, I haven't been there in so long" Flora chimed in,
"What's it like?" I asked, totally not realizing I had Miss Veranda of Villisto's image to uphold.
"It's fresh" Musa grabbed her baggage and tossed it in front of her bedroom doors,
"You've never been?" Flora asked excitedly,
"No, but if we can get a slice I'm so there" I replied.
"So Veranda, you've really never left your kingdom before?" Flora asked as we flew over trees in the Hover Express,
"No, never" I replied as the Express came to a stop.
"Then prepare to be blown away" Flora chirped as Techna guided me off the Express while my eyes were closed,
"So what do you say? Can I open my eyes now?" I asked,
"Yeah go head, take a look" Techna replied. I opened my eyes and looked around, there were streets and sidewalks like any other place in the world, well the cars were flying, but the whole flying effect has sort of warn off on me, there were tall buildings like in New York City but eccentric like the ones in Tokyo, Downtown Magix was filled with color and fruity smells.
"What do you think?" Musa blurted which awoke me from my thoughts,
"To be honest with you I'm kind of disappointed," everyone looked at me confused,
"This is it?" I asked not realizing I was walking onto the street "this is the capitol of the realm of Magix most enchanted city in the universe?!"
"Well, what'd you expect?" Musa cocked a hip
"I don't know, dragons, unicorns, rainbows, giants, flying brooms?!" I spun around,
"Well, yeah, but that type of stuff is in usually in the small villages that no one visits, THIS IS THE CITY!" Stella twirled "the cool thing is everyone here knows magic and unlike us they get to use it for whatever they want-"
"AHHHH" I screamed as I jumped out of the way of a car, they flew and all, but lower to the ground then I expected. The guy in the car snapped his fingers and with that a parking space emerged between two parked cars on the side.
"That was cool," I admitted,
"Yep, and so way better than vallet" Stella laughed,
"Time for Pizza" Flora pointed to a giant pole which was the size of those trees you can drive through in Vancouver. I was about to question but then I looked up at this cylinder type building which was covered in windows that was slowly sliding down the pole.
"These frames bring out the pink in your eyes" advised the eye glasses salesman, "very chic" he re-assured Knut, as he tried on a pair of fuchsia pink cat eye glasses.
"Are you sure the don't make my nose look too big?" Knut asked looking into a mirror,
"I don't want my nose to look too-WAIT A MINUTE!" Knut pressed his face against the store window to make sure he saw who he thought he saw,
"You have a tiny nose for an ogre" the salesman advised,
"Was that them?" Knut questioned, ignoring the salesman, "did you just see what I just saw?"
"What was that?" the salesman replied,
"The fairies!" Knut exclaimed,
"Sure" he replied, his voiced getting higher due to lack of patience,
"Was one of them a princess with long blonde hair?" Knut asked, as if some random guy would know who she was,
"They look like a bunch of Alfea students, the new school year started today you know," the salesman suggested, but before he could even mention the price of the glasses, Knut ran out not realizing he was still wearing the glasses that brought out the pink in his eyes. "Got to call her highness, can't mess up this time, she's going to be so happy" Knut flipped out his phone and dialled the only number in its contacts.
"Talk to me, and this better be good, or I'm going to turn you into something you didn't even think possible" the icy voice hissed through the phone.
"It's about Princess Stella, I see-ed her and her friend too, so meet me in Witches' Alley right away." Knut blurted, sounding as if he was going to forget everything, then a dial tone.
Considering the pizzeria was going up and down a pole over and over again I didn't feel sick, the pizzeria smelled delicious, hot cheese and fresh bread, hmmm. If only my cell phone worked,
"What's wrong?" Stella asked between chews of her extra veggied pizza,
"My cell phone isn't working for some reason; I mean it's not even getting a signal or anything"
"Let me see it" I handed it over to Techna, who instantly started laughing,
"What's up Tech? Having a laugh spasm or something?" Musa sipped her coke,
"It's this cell phone, its ancient technology, it belongs in a museum" she laughed, I looked down at my iPhone5c, I happened to have saved up for forever to get that phone, how on earth-or Magix could it be ancient technology?
"You need an Inter-Realm phone to call Vallisto" Musa added
"Right, there's one two blocks away, you can use my card" Techna offered, and just at the right time the pizzeria took a stop at the bottom.
"See you guys in a few" I called as I started walking away,
"Meet you back here!" Flora hollered-or well delicately, shouted?
"Hello, Honey? Is that you?" My mom chirped,
"Yeah, hey mom, everything's been great since we got here, I just finished having lunch and-" I started, and then I right there and then almost pissed my self of sheer terror, the ogre from the park just passed me and was headed down towards an alley of some sort.
"Uh…I kinda got to go now"
"Right now, Bloom I know-"
"Mooooom, I'm using my friend's phone card so I really should go, but I love you and I'll call you back before I go to bed, okay bye" I hung up the phone grabbed the phone card and steadily followed that ogre, he was up to something.
It was starting to get darker, maybe I should go back? No, something's not right, and it wasn't just the smell he was leaving behind either now-wait what? The ogre was heading for a dead end-wait, garbage cans! I did this super cool dive behind them, something like you would see in a James bond flick.
Three girls appeared from the shadows
"Well, Knut?" the middle one of the three girls asked, she had blonde hair but was so platinum it looked like ice, her hair was in a high ponytail but was so long a tall blue elastic that went up at least four inches, tied her hair up letter her hair only a few inches from the ground, she must spend a lot of money on hair care products. She wore a shiny, dark teal halter style top which had a silver 'I' in the centre of her top and a silver line went all the way up to her neck making a choker necklace. She had on a matching pair of skinny pants, paired with dark blue knee high heeled boots. She had dark shimmery teal eye shadow on her lids and some swirl design underneath them, the 'I' girl also had a spandex type material for dark teal arm warmers that went up past her elbows.
"Well?!" The 'I' girl placed her hands on her hips, now just realizing her dragon claw sized nails were the same dark teal color.
"Uh, I, uh, I saw Princess Stella on Oneth Avenue" He pointed in my direction, but I ducked down just in time, I hope.
"She was wearing the Solaria Ring" Knut explained,
"Good, we have to get that ring" the 'I' girl crossed her arms, the rest of the conversation was hard to make out maybe I can sneak away fast enou-"
"AHHHHHHH!" I screamed totally forgetting that I needed to be sneaky, a tall girl stood in front of me, a devious smile spread across her face.
"Look what I found girls" then I felt a pain in my back and was shot up into the air but quickly fell onto the hard asphalt in front of the two girls and Knut, I looked back behind me, there a tall olive skinned girl with long brown hair that went down to her thighs with thick blonde face framing highlights, she was wearing a similar outfit to the 'I' girl except it was a dark shimmery purple shade. She was wearing dark purple and black heeled ankle boots. It matched the skinny dark purple pants which was connected with her sweet heart shaped top, they had a light purple line forming at the centre where a 'D' was placed all the way up to her neck forming a chocker necklace, as well as matching gloves. Her eye makeup was exactly the same as the 'I' girl except, purple.
"Well, hello there" another girl smiled as she walked up to me nearly missing my fingers wither her shimmery burgundy ankle boots that were actually really cute, she had dark, super curly black hair that looked almost indigo, she had light indigo face framing highlights that were a little shorter than the rest of her think short curly hair. She had the exact same eye makeup but burgundy, a V neck top and matching skirt, fingerless gloves that went up to her elbows and an 'S' in the centre of her top that went up to her neck into a chocker necklace.
"Who are you" I asked meekly unable to get up,
"We are witches of CloudTower, also known as 'The Trix'" replied the 'I' girl,
"And we're senior witches" the 'D' girl added appearing in front of me,
"Nobody messes with senior witches" The 'S' girl stomped her high heeled boot down so hard I thought the ground beneath would concave. Yep, I'm pretty sure I just pissed my pants,
"But if you tell us where Stella is, we might forgive you" The 'I' girl smiled deviously, Okay time to be brave,
"Back off, I have magic power" I put my hand in front of my face trying to connect to my Winx but unfortunately all that happened was some sparkly fairy dust falling to the ground inches from the 'I' girl's face. She gave me an are-you-for-real Face.
"That poor girl barely has Winx" the 'I' girl laughed as though I wasn't even there. I started making a quick mental list of ways I could survive as a toad for the rest of my life in case there was a chance that they would turn me into some undesirable amphibian.
"That is just so sad" the 'I' girl put the palm of her hand facing the sky and snow flakes and ice started twirling around inside and burst out flying everywhere.
"Here, let me show you what real magic looks like!" The 'I' girl screamed, and giant ice crystals that shot up from beneath the ground trapping me,
"Join in girls!" She added,
"Witch up time!" the 'D' girl screamed, pointing her hands at me revealing dark purple glowing rings coming towards me,
"AHHHHHH!" I screamed my head was exploding, like my brain was replaced with a fire bell, the sound eventually shattered the ice crystals, blasting me up in the air and into a wall,
"PSYCO CLONE!" Screamed the 'S' girl, she started spinning faster, and faster revealing a small tornado that grew bigger, and faster, bigger and faster, picking up all the dirt, muck and garbage that the alley contained, spinning and spinning faster towards me, I tried to run but it was to fast and powerful, the next thing I knew my feet left the ground beneath me and I felt like I was in the dirty laundry pile in a washing machine. Trying to find something to grab onto, with my eyes closed to keep the dirt out of my face, I grabbed onto the ledge of a building, when the tornado calmed down to the ground. Before I could hoist my self up and start running for the hills, the 'I' girl yelled,
"GET DOWN HERE!" She shot me with frozen ice pieces and snow, freezing my back and pulling me to the ground where I smashed into some recycled cardboard boxes. They all walked up to me,
"I hate to be a total witch about it, but I'm very quickly running out of patience!" I felt my feet and legs getting colder, and I tried to get up, but couldn't, the ice cold pain escalated from my toes till finally my face and then…nothing. It was totally dark; I could hear everything that was going on around me, but the voices were muffled.
"Fairies can't last long in ice, so you better start talking now" I couldn't tell which girl it was, but then I heard the ear bleeding nails against a chalkboard sound that filled my head, but I couldn't scream, or even cover my ears.
"Tell us where Stella is!" she demanded, I tried to move my mouth, but I couldn't even wince from the pain.
"I'm right here!" I heard, that must be Stella,
"Let her go!"
"Yeah right Knut time for you to step up and crush those losers!" I heard a rawer which was probably from Knut and screams which I'm assuming was from Stella and everyone else.
"Now Girls!" Stella screamed, seconds later someone shouted
"Digital Web!" and I heard Knut panicking
"Sub whopper blast!" another voice shouted and I heard a muffled burst of music,
"Ivy Rope" that was defiantly Flora, I heard Knut, yelling in a panic as his voice faded away,
"What a useless ogre," one of the witches said "all right little firsties, you're history!" she screamed and I heard sounds of broken and shattering glass,
"Everybody get behind me, Fire Wall!" A British accent thick as butter called out,
"Time to conjure the Ice Coffin" I'm assuming it was the 'I' girl, "from the depths of primorital space, I summon above with a frigid embrace…" one of the witch's chanted,
"SUN POWER! GET US OUTTA HERE!" and I could suddenly move my arms but instantly regretted it once I could feel the sharp pains everywhere.
Apparently, Stella got us out with her scepter magic, and we all ended up in front of the Hover Express Stop. I sat on the bench freezing, shivering, chattering, and goose bumping, while Stella sat next to me with her hand on my shoulder heating me up.
"It's okay, you could have survived at least another fifteen minutes in that ice" Stella re-assured me as she literally glowed with heat.
"You know considering you're from earth and all, you did outstandingly splendidly Bloom" Stella smiled brightly at me, as she stopped glowing.
"Stella? Why did you just call her Bloom and say she's from planet earth?" Flora, Musa and Techna all questioned in unison,
"Uh, right" Stella pretended to think about it for a second while I just slapped my hand to my head, we're so toast.
"There might be some teeny tiny details we may need to fill you in on," They all wore unsatisfied faces,
"Look, I'll give you the whole scoop on the way back to Alfea." Stella sighed, the Hover Express showed up shortly, and Stella gabbed away the entire time about me, my powers, the ogre, the boys, and that day in the park. But I was too exhausted to pay too much attention to it, and my splitting headache didn't really help the situation either.
We all hopped off the Hover Express, Techna looked down at her watch,
"Holy, cheese and mushrooms with peppers on the side!" We all looked at her with what-the-hell?! Face.
"It's 2 am!"
"WHAT?!" Stella screamed, oh god, we're so dead, and it's only the first-second day of school,
"How is it 2 am?! We only went out to eat?" I started to panic, but clutched my forehead from my headache,
"Okay, everyone calm down! Relax, just calm down" Stella repeated, but it sounded more like it was for her than any of us,
"Okay" she repeated "we just have to be extra quiet" the gate was opened, hmmm, weird, we didn't make a sound, all I really wanted to do was go to bed. We all followed close behind Stella who scurried across the quad and beneath the giant arch.
"FREEZE!" A blinding light shot down on us we all looked around, Griselda and Headmistress Faragonda emerged from thin air.
"Do you have any idea what time it is?!" Griselda placed her hands on her hips,
"We were worried sick about you girls!" Ms. Faragonda crossed her arms,
"I advise you to go to you rooms immediately without another word or you'll be forced to be reckoned with the most profound punishment yet, we will have a discussion about this tomorrow morning." Miss. Faragonda ordered, though by Griselda's expression, I'm sure she would have handled it differently,
"I shall escort you to your rooms" Griselda gave us a light shove towards the dormitories,
"Not you, Ms. V" Ms. Faragonda turned around headed for the main building
"Follow me" I looked back at the girls, they looked worried but I gave them the AOK sign which made them look confused, so I just gave them a thumbs up instead, and steadily followed Ms. Faragonda inside.
The main building seemed to change since this morning, the windowless hallways didn't shine sunlight, but moonlight, I never quite noticed it before but the ceiling seemed to glitter and shine, like stars in the night sky. We walked up the right side of the grand staircase to the second floor passing sleeping ballerinas on the wall. Once we got to the top there was a wall with a double door and two hallways on either side of it that looked like black holes, there were strange looking paintings on the wall. I let my fingers dance on the railings. There were windows on the far wall behind me which were similar to the ones in front. Ms. Faragonda opened the only door and gestured for me to go in first, the room was fairly plain; book shelves covered the walls except for two doors on the far right and left near the intertwining windows that looked even cooler from the inside. But placed in the middle of the white wood floored room lay a long solid bronze desk which was similar to the railings outside, there were three chairs one behind the desk and two in front, they looked like something you would see in a palace. Ms. Faragonda shut the door gently and walked behind the desk,
"Please take a seat Princess Veranda" I did as I was told, maybe I should just fess up to my lie I mean I'd still have the memories, right? I was expecting her to say something but she didn't, she just stared at me.
"Was there something you wanted to talk to me about Headmistress Faragonda?" I asked politely,
"Nothing to major dear, but I do need to know…" I waited, trying not to wince or clutch my forehead from the insufferable pain it was inflicting on me at this time.
"Have you ever been to Vallisto?" I froze what?! Just be cool deep breath…
"What do you mean Ms. Faragonda?" I asked, she opened a drawer in her desk and pulled out an envelope and slid it towards me, It read TO: ALFEA, RETURN ADDRESS: Vallisto.
"Open it" Ms. Faragonda ordered but in a sweet voice, I picked it up trying to avoid eye contact, the letter read:
Dear Headmistress Faragonda,
I give my sincerest apologies if this does not arrive on time; my purpose for writing this letter is to resign my daughter: Princess Veranda Vinyl of Vallisto from Alfea, my reasons are personal and Veranda was quite disappointed by the change of plans. Please note that this has nothing to do with your prestigious school, but my un-enrolment for my daughter was urgent and needed to be taken care of immediately. Therefore she will not be attending Alfea this year or any other years to come; I shall request you to send me a confirmation letter as a follow up to this in the first hour of receiving it on the first day, if I have not received your confirmation letter I shall be obliged to send another.
Sincerely Yours,
Vv
Valery Vinyl,
I just stared at the last sentence, I'm dead, just shoot me now, they're going to turn me into a frog and send me back home with no way out. I folded it back up and placed it back on the desk,
"Do you know why you're here, dear?" she asked, deep breath,
"I'm really sorry!" I blurted "It's my entire fault; I shouldn't have let Stella talk me into this! I know this is all my fault and stuff, but I promise I'll leave right away, and if you want to turn me into a toad and take my magic away forever, I understand" Whew, out of breath, I was expecting Ms. Faragonda to nod and send me to my room to pack my things.
"Oh dear, I know Griselda makes it seem like we'd punish you but we're not nearly that cruel." Ms. Faragonda saw the look on my face,
"Not quite what you were expecting?" I nodded,
"Okay, so just tell me, how come? What was this reason for the charade?" I took another deep breath and told her everything, from the beginning of that day; to the moment we were in right now (leaving out the witches).
"Well, you must be a magical being, the barrier would have kept you out…and where are you from dear?"
"Earth" I replied, I could have sworn Ms. Faragonda gasped, but she quickly recovered if she did,
"Well, Bloom, you may not have been on Griselda's list this morning, but you're on my list now, and I would love if we could have you attend Alfea permanently" She smiled, I had to do a double take to make sure she was serious.
"Really?" I asked, totally forgetting my headache,
"Yes, Bloom, really, now run off to your dorm, I will have a chat with you girls tomorrow morning" Ms. Faragonda pulled her eye glasses of her nose as she started going through papers.
"Thank you Ms. Faragonda, Good night" I shut the door, ran down the stair case and twirled round and round, did a snoopy happy dance and silently screamed at the top of my lungs while the ballerinas on the walls shushed me,
"YESSSSSS!"
"I always knew she wasn't Princess Veranda" Griselda huffed as she floated through one of the doors into Ms. Faragonda's office once Bloom had left,
"Is that so?" Ms. Faragonda placed her glasses back on not looking up,
"Earth? I don't understand, the Black Circle made positive that there were no magical beings left on earth" Ms. Faragonda rubbed her temples,
"Agreed, I'd thought they'd all been extinct ages ago" Griselda looked out the massive window,
"Well then, who is Bloom?"
