Chapter 1

Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Disclaimer: I do not own the Winx Club.

It was almost midnight on a chilly summer night. The season was almost over. Roxy yawned wearily as she tried to catch up on some reading. However, she was reading no ordinary textbook. She was reading 'Basic Magic: Level One'—a magic textbook. She was in the storage room of the Frutti Music Bar taking a break. The music from the bar boomed obnoxiously loud into the backroom behind the bar. She sat on a crate and dipped her hand into a bag of potato chips.

It was an old elementary book of spells from Flora, one of Roxy's new acquaintances, who had used it to study from when she was a child. Bloom, another new acquaintance, had used it during her first year to catch up and now, Roxy was learning from it. There was occasional line of helpful notes was written in by Bloom. Roxy had never tried any of the spells yet because inwardly, it was simply too incredible to believe that such a book existed. It seemed to come out of the realm of Harry Potter.

Roxy continued reading and ate more chips. She heard someone open the storage room door and the music spill in.

"Studying, hmm?"

Roxy, startled, jumped on her seat on the crate and hid the book behind her back, embarrassed. She so did not want to be found with such an incredulous book in her hands. Her face automatically became tomato-red, a failure to control the fact that she was doing something weird, and she tried to sit on her book.

"Oh, h-hi, Sky!" she stuttered, eyes wide and cheeks blazing.

Sky smiled. "We're going to start restocking soon." Sky walked between the shelves searching for boxes of drinks.

"I'll help then."

"I thought you finished hours ago."

"I did…but I wanted to stay and wait for my dad."

"I would think that I would be the last person that one would hide a magic book from, Roxy."

"Yeah…" she said nervously.

She watched Sky's profile carefully. There was an air about him that made stick out from everyone around him. It was not just him either. His friends had the same otherworldly attraction too and it annoyed Roxy. They acted so human yet it felt plastic.

Sky's eyes were an unnatural shade of icy blue that almost glowed and he had unfashionable chin-length gold hair although it did not detract from his handsomeness.

As far as she knew, he had no magic. He and his friends, Brandon, Riven, Helia and Nabu worked at the bar as waiters and also acted as conveniently placed bodyguards. (Their other friend Timmy worked at a computer company.) They were some sort of specialised soldiers from outer space, or at least not from Earth, and their girlfriends—Bloom, Stella, Musa, Aisha, Tecna and Flora—were the Winx Club, a group of fairies. Not that long ago, they had dropped the still incredibly unbelieveable fact that she was a fairy on her.

"How is it coming along with the magic?" he asked. He looked like he knew that she was hiding the book behind her.

Roxy placed the book on her lap. "It's…weird."

"It's never easy to study by one's self. You know, if you have questions, you can always ask."

"I know, but I just never thought that I would be studying magic of all things..."

He smiled understandingly although the action felt plastic to Roxy.

"Everyone has magic, whether it is a teaspoon of it or a vast ocean. They just need to find it inside themselves and let it rush out. Have you tried any magic yet?"

"No."

He smiled again. "There's no rush."

"Yeah."

"But it would be a benefit to you if started though," he said. Sky hefted boxes of sodas off a pallet and returned to the chaotic happenings of the bar.

"…yeah, about that," Roxy said diffidently.

Monday, June 13, 2011: Changed "Layla" to "Aisha." Grammatical corrections.