Lily found herself in the castle almost as soon as she closed her eyes. She started to walk around and found herself in the library. She walked up and down the long rows of shelves full of books. On the 12th row a book caught her eye. It was a light blue with lavender writing on the spin. Unlike the other books it was no covered in dust. She took the book down and put it on the table at the end of the row. She could not read what the writing said because it was not written in English. She opened the book and found that all of the pages were blank. She opened to the first page and put her hand on the page and thought "Why would anyone keep a book so large and not have anything written in it?" Just then words appeared on the page thy read: "I am not an empty book! I am full of knowledge but the right question must be asked before you can know what you wish to know."
"Well, there is one question I would like to ask!" Lily said "I want to know why I keep coming here in my dreams?"
"You keep coming here because you are a seer and the key to your future lies in this castle."
"That question I cannot answer at this time you must gain more knowledge on your own before I can tell you that!"
Beep…Beep…Beep… "Lily come on I want to get to breakfast before we are stuck sitting next to Jasmine again." Alice said as she pulled out a pair of jeans and a v-cut tee-shirt and handed them to Lily. Alice was already dressed and she was brushing her hair. Lily changed and let Alice do her hair with magic. They quickly went to breakfast when they got there the hall was half full. Most of the freshman and senior tables were empty so Alice and Lily got seats in the middle of the table to themselves and Jasmine was nowhere in sight. As they ate Lily told Alice about her knight in the castle.
"So what do you think the book meant about the key to my future lies in the castle?"
"I am not sure but here comes Mrs. Roma and I think she wants to talk to us!"
"Hello girls! What do you have for first period?" Mrs. Roma asked with a beautiful smile that showed all of the white teeth.
"We have you first, Mrs. Roma, and we can't wait!" Lily told her
"Then how would you girls like to help me quickly set up for today?"
"We would love to!" Alice said at the girls grabbed their bags.
"What is our lesson going to be today?" Lily asked
"Well we are going to start with a worksheet that will ask you about yourself. Then w will start taking notes on how the class will go this year and some of my dos and don'ts of my class room, but first I need to get a few thing put away because I am in a different room this year because the other teacher of the history of realm quit because he could not handle some of the kids!" She told them with a laugh. "Kept trying to tell him that you can't keep the lesson in the class room, but he just would not listen!"
"So you mean that we are going to go to some of the realms that we learn about?" Alice
"Yes and we do it on a weekend and always spend the weekend doing fun things and tow of the trips we go with the boys from Read fountain!"
Lily and Alice Looked at each other then Lily asked "Do you know who is going to be in the class at Read fountain?"
"Well all freshmen have too but I am not sure of names. Why?"
"Well, I have a friend that goes there and I have not got to see a lot of him lately." Lily said. Lily and Alice helped Mrs. Roma put things away and asked about which trips they would be going on and what they would be doing there. She told them about all of the trips but the two that the boys would be going nom with them. They finished only a few minutes before breakfast was over. Lily and Alice went to sit in to desk at the front of the room but before they took their seats, Lily began to sway on her feet Alice and Mrs. Roma rushed over to steady her.
"Lily are you…Oh my god!" Alice said when she saw that lily's eyes had turned black and she had a look that was unlike she had ever seen on Lily before.
"Natilus shall rise once again before the year's end. Only one shall stop him; the princess of the forgotten realm!" Lily spoke in a voice that was nothing like her own. Lily's eyes closed and when they opened they were back to normal.
"Wha…what happened? I feel so strange!" Lily asked raising her hand to her head.
"You have just made a prediction!" Alice said in total shock
"So you are a seer!" Mrs. Roma said with a smile. "Which side did it come from?"
"Umm…I guess my dad's but I never met him so I wouldn't know for sure, but my mom is not magical at all so it would have to be my dad's side!" Lily said.
"Is this the first time you have had a prediction or a recurring dream about a person or a place?" Mrs. Roma asked
"Well, this is my first prediction I know of but I have been having drams about the castle of Sparks!" Lily said just before the bell ran that ended breakfast.
"I would like to talk to you both before lunch. Now take your seats and you must not tell anyone else about the dreams or what just happened!" Mrs. Roma told them then went out into the hall to help the new students find their way to the right classes. She walked back into the room after the bell to start class rang and all the students were out of the hall.
After history of the realms they had to go to battle class. Battle class seemed like it was going to be fun even though Jasmine was in the same class. On the first day the teacher Mrs. Doyle wanted to see what the girls could do with staffs. She paired up Alice with Katie and Lily with Jasmine. Alice and Katie went first and Alice won. They Lily and Jasmine came up next. Jasmine told Lily, just loud enough for her to hear her and no one else. "I won't go easy on you!"
"Please don't!" Lily responded in the same tone. They bowed to each other and waited for the bang that told them to start.
BANG!
Jasmine swung the staff at Lily's head. As she ducked Lily swung the staff at Jasmine's legs and hit her in the back of the knee. As she was falling Lily grabbed her staff and placed her foot on the stomach and crossed the two staffs over her neck. Lily had forgotten about the rest of the class until they started to clap.
"Truesdale, what I have seen here is something the most seniors can only do after four years of my class! Where did you learn how to fight like that?" Mrs. Doyle asked, impressed.
"I took some classes with my mother last year!" Lily told her blushing. Jasmine went to the other side of the room as Lily went to join Alice. The rest of the class went by so quickly that everyone jumped when the bell rang. Alice and lily hurried off to Mrs. Roma's room.
"Girls please shut the door and please have a seat!" Mrs. Roma told them as they walked into the room. They took the same seats that they sat in during her class.
"What did you want to talk to us about, Mrs. Roma?" Lily asked
"Well first I would like to show you this!" She said as she pulled a large book out of her desk. It was a large black book that looked like it held only notes.
"This is everything that I could find about Sparks over the last many years. But I have found very little about the royal family!" Mrs. Roma told them as they flipped through the pages stopping only to look at drawings that were of great detail about the way thing on sparks once looked. When they got to the last page Mrs. Roma touched the passage and said "I got this legend from a story teller. It fits with all of my other information that I got so I added it."
Lily pulled the book closer to her and read the Legend aloud.
"There once was a realm of peace and love taken by demons. Where hope was raised only to be crushed. Joy long since abandoned. It was a realm older than time itself. Where a powerful inferno lay buried deep in ice. A powerful king and Queen gave life to a powerful young Fairie. Nobody know what happened to this fairie for soon after her birth there was an epic battle and she was never to be seen after that. Some say the King and Queen died protecting her from the evil that had attacked but that is all that can be said about the King and Queen but they say there is no proof that the child is alive or dead. She from then on became known as the princess of the forgotten realm."
"The demons he was talking about was Natilus! Sparks' heart was made of a magic called the dragon fir which from what I could gather was only one of four parts. The second part was the Queen's Winx. The third was the Princess's Winx and the fourth was taken by a covenant of witches who created Natilus with it. The part that was in the heart of Sparks was given to the princess for protection before she disappeared." Mrs. Roma told them.
"What was the name of the King and Queen?" Alice asked
"The King was King David and the Queen was Queen Ella. They met each other at the end of year dance at Alfea and although I could not find much about the King during his time a Red Fountain I did find a lot about the Queen. She and a group of friends did great in classes and were at the top of all of their classes but disregarded the rules! In their freshman year alone they were written up twenty-eight times just for being caught walking around the school after hours and sneaking off of campus to go to a small town on earth called Morris Plains. On a few weekend and summers she would return to her home on sparks to help her mother work when they had a hard time paying bills."
"Hold on did you say Morris Plains?" Lily asked.
"Yes, Why?" Mrs. Roma asked.
"I once lived in Morris Plains before I moved to Greenburg when I was seven." Lily told her.
"Did your family move to earth to hide?"
"No. I have always lived on earth and so has my mother."
"That's so strange." Mrs. Roma said looking down at the book.
"What is?" Lily and Alice asked in unison.
"Magical people stopped appearing on earth after the witch hunts went on and now earth is only used as a short term hiding place! Do you still live on earth?" Mrs. Roma asked still looking at the book deep in thought.
"No, Alice's parents adopted me from my mom along with my sister so I am living with them on Tides!"
"Lily, have you ever done magic before or transformed"
"No…I never knew that I was magical until I got my letter!"
"Well them you would not know what power of Winx you have!" Mrs. Roma said more to herself then to Lily "do you know how to transform?"
"No, but I was going to teach her after school!" Alice told Mrs. Roma
"OK, will we better hurry off to lunch and if there is anything you want to talk about I am always ready to listen!"
"Thank-you!" Lily and Alice said as they hurried of to lunch.