Alright, after the gore in the last chapter, this is a light one. And intended to be funny sometimes, but I am not sure if that works.

It was quite hard to flabbergast Stella. As long as it didn't affect her clothes or sensitive fashion sense, she was okay with most circumstances, no matter how weird they seemed. But even after her standards, things were going a little bit over the top now.

It turned out she and her friends had evil clones on earth. Sure, she could buy that any day. They travel to earth and confront the clones. Why not? Then her clone looks like she had been eaten and spit out by Cloud towers wardrobe. Okay, now things were getting strange, but it was still acceptable. Next thing she knew, Musa's clone shots Nabu and they have a chase. Kind of an unpleasant surprise, but she was accustomed to danger. Not that big of a deal.

So she is following her clone, which is in the air before her, sitting in a swing that is worn by two gigantic, black butterflies. Now that was something she had NO idea what to think of.

While she was thinking about what to do, she saw her double turn around, raising a hand and waved at her friendly. And she was smiling while doing so. Stella recognized that smile. In the past, she used to try out facial expressions for certain events in her mirror every morning. And the smile her double was currently wearing looked an awful lot like the one she had chosen to be used to invite her friends to a shopping spree. A smile meant to say "Hey my dear friends, let's have FUN!"

At any other time, it might have lowered her defenses to see such a cheerful opponent and believe she might not mean any harm at all. But due to Musa's clone shooting Nabu out of the blue and Bloom's warning to be wary of them turning their emotions against them, she decided to not return the smile. Instead, she fired two energy balls that annihilated the two butterflies in an instant.

If her double was worried about falling of her swing, Stella could see no hints of that in her body language as she saw her falling. Actually, she would have sworn to have heard her laugh in delight.

The fall of her double ended soon, as she created a giant black owl underneath her. The bird quickly flew off in the direction of the city, Stella on its heels. Her double casually raised her hand again, while smiling Stella's "Let's party" smile, not that she could see that.

Dozens, hundreds, no, thousands of tiny black objects came flying out of the space surrounding Lilith hand. Stella was tempted to blast them too .But because they didn't move towards her and stayed over her double, her curiosity got the better of her and she waited to see what would happen.

The tiny object, which Stella recognized as an assembling of black birds, bats and butterflies, positioned themselves at the rear of Lilith's owl, covering it from Stella's view. Then they positioned themselves to form letters. Surprised, Stella read:

"WE ARE A DISTRACTION. FEEL FREE TO BLOW US AWAY AS YOU PLEASE."

The sun and moon fairy blinked in surprise, and before she could really comprehend this, the words exploded and the black swarm charged her.

Looking over her shoulder, Lilith worried that she might have overdone it with her little distraction. In a matter of seconds, the swarm had surrounded the fairy from all sides, trapping her in a ball of thousands of tiny creatures that started to shrink. This way bringing infinite tiny claws and teeth nearer to her double.

Right now, Lilith couldn't do much about that. Her minions might be loyal to her, but they were sentient beings that could think for themselves. The problem was, their thinking depended on what Lilith had in mind for them when they were summoned. When she wanted her minions to be the perfect pet/companion while creating them, they would immediately do anything she wanted without even having to say so, but still thinking about how to do it best. Unfortunately, when she had summoned the swarm, she only intended them to form words, then attack her fairy-double and nothing more. Which meant they would carry out this mission, even if she commanded them to stop.

With an uneasy feeling in her stomach, Lilith started thinking about making the swarm disappear. That was when a beam of pure light broke out of the black mass, annihilating dozens of the shadow creatures.

One by one more beams broke out of the black ball, tearing huge holes in the fluttering mass. And the beams didn't disappear, in fact they seemed to shine even more brightly. Soon, over eighty percent of the swarm was gone, leaving the sight of what looked like a miniature sun about to blow.

And blow it did.

A blinding light filled the sky, forcing Lilith to avert her eyes. She could feel the heat radiating from her double, and her owl got some feathers on its backside burned.

After she stopped seeing stars, Lilith risked a look back. As expected, all of her creatures were gone. So was the blinding explosion of light, but her double, who was now on her heels again, was glowing all yellow still.

Well, Lilith was not worried. By now her owl had reached the border of the park and was over the city again. Through simply snipping her fingers, the blond goth made the giant bird disappear. After a twenty foot fall she landed safely on a flat rooftop. Standing relaxed, she turned around, waved at her double and motioned her to come.

Stella landed in a safe distance to her, arms raised and ready for battle. Her expression showed clear distrust. But it was hard for her to stay alert with her clone smiling innocently at her like that.

"Okay, what is your deal? Why do you simply wait here after you and your friends attacked us?" Stella asked suspicious.

Lilith continued to smile. "My deal is that I simply want to talk to you. But my sisters would not approve, so we had to get away from them first, so nobody would interrupt us. Or would your sisters have accepted it that we talked instead of fought?" She cooked her head curiously.

Stella answered, after a short pause of thinking:

"Eh, they are not my sisters, but best friends. And now that you say it, no, after you shoot Nabu, they probably would have demanded me to fight. But still, there were no reasons to have your little "zoo of darkness" attack me. And why should I trust you to mean no harm anyway?" The fairy remained on guard.

Lilith actually cooed: "Aaaahhhhhhhh, sweaty, lighten up. You seemed to be faster than me, and screaming at each other over the wind would have just ruined our voices."

Stella mentally agreed with that logic.

"And about the trust part, well, if we have anything in common, except for being unbelievably hot, I am sure you know why I don't want to fight you."

"Well, there is a reason for me to dislike fighting you." The sun fairy admitted. "If you can tell me, I might believe that you are sincere."

"Oh, that's easy." Lilith was practically beaming. "Seeing a body as beautiful as ours violated would simply be painful! I imagine energy-blasts are pretty bad for makeup, not to forget our haircuts."

Stella immediately dropped her guard, any suspicion that her clone was evil removed. "Oh, you are so right. Keeping your good looks in a magic fight is such hard work. Just imagine, I once got trapped in a block of ice, and when it was removed, all my nails were clipped!"

"Wow, that's harsh." Lilith said with understanding sympathy. "My worst moment was when I was too close to an explosion and my hair got set on fire. It took hours to make it look acceptable again."

All hostile intentions forgotten, Stella and Lilith embraced each other like they had known each other for a lifetime. Then the sun fairy remembered something, froze and hastily took two steps back.

"Wait, there still is a problem. Your Flora…" Seeing Lilith questioning look, she quickly explained:

"Brunette, tanned, outstanding nose."

"Ah, that's Andrea."

"Well, she left a note saying you'd kill people if we don't follow you. You and your friends are not goanna do that, or will you?" she asked concerned.

Lilith, still smiling, rolled her eyes and made a calming gesture. "Don't worry gorgeous. Andrea always was a bit melodramatic. She has like hundreds of such notes with her every time. Like, 'Tell anyone what you saw and we will blow up your car', or 'If you call the police, I will delete all your stocks'. We never had to follow these threats through, it is all about directing people in what to do."

That relieved Stella a bit, but she was still worried. "Well, I trust me, well, you, not to do it, but are you sure the others won't do it? One off you shot Nabu after all."

"Nah, we definitely won't. Except for Andrea, nobody ever knows what is written on her notes. She just gives us directions, and sometimes, like today, she uses her notes to ensure that the other players keep to the rules. And about my gun crazy sister, well, her trigger finger was always itchy, but I have never seen her attack innocents."

"Oh. Well, that is good then, I suppose." Stella said. Then she almost yelled:

"WAIT! Do you want to say that FLORA, eh, Andrea is your leader?"

Lilith shrugged. "Actually, there never was any kind of election, but since she is the smartest of us and always comes up with the best plans, we all somehow unofficially declared her our leader. She barely gives out orders, but when we have a crisis like now, she does all the planning."

First Stella just looked dumbstruck, then she started to laugh heartily. After two minutes, she was finally able to stop.

"I am sorry…." She smilingly told an equally amused Lilith (even though she wasn't sure what was amusing). "….. but you see, OUR Flora is the most dear, innocent person you can imagine. It is really hard to picture her as an evil mastermind. By the way, our unofficial leader is Bloom, the read-head. Does that fit better?"

Now it was Lilith turn to laugh. "No, not in the slightest. Our Bloom, Juliet, is shy, insecure, and would like nothing better to have nothing to do with everything of this."

She frowned then.

"This would bring us back to the topic that our friends are currently fighting each other."

Stella nodded. "Oh yeah, that sucks. Do you think we could persuade them to stop? I am not so sure about my friends. Bloom, Tecna and Flora might listen, but Musa and Layla are not very likely to stop. And in the end, we might end up being pulled into a fight ourselves."

"Unfortunately it does not luck better at my front. I can imagine Andrea and Juliet to stop, but the other three are kind of loony their way. I think more important is, are your friends tough? My sisters tend to get pretty nasty when it comes to fights."

"Well, I think they should be fine." Stella said, confident. "We have been trained by the best, faced dozens of seemingly invincible threats before and are counted among the most powerful fairies in existence. But don't worry, they won't hurt your friends to much."

Lilith smirked. "Unfortunately I can't say the same about my sisters. But if you are right about the most powerful beings part, your friends should be fine, my sisters are not very experienced in their powers. Hell, I am not as experienced as I would like. So to sum it up, here we are, standing on a rooftop, while our friends are beating each other up and we can't do anything about it!"

Stella nodded grimly. "Yes, seems like that. So what do you suppose we do now?"

"Well, we are alone in a city, it is two pm, a Monday and have plenty of time to kill. What could two gorgeous ladies like us possibly do?" The blonde goth asked rhetorically. Both girls gave each other the same, devious smile…..

15 minutes later:

"EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!"

"EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!"

"OH MY GOD!"

"HOLY CRIST!"

"YOU LOOK ABSOLUTELY BREATHTAKING!" they screamed in unison.

The two were standing in front of two changing rooms in a clothing store. On first sight and actually on second sight too, they looked the same as ever. Except Stella having turned off her Enchantix. But what would be hard for anyone to notice was that they had exchanged clothes and makeup. So now they were looking exactly like the other one looked before.

What followed were a lot of gushing over each other, inspecting the other one from every possible angle, searching for flaws in the outfit. And happy, almost hysterical screaming after none were found.

"You were right, this is SOOOOO much better than a mirror." Stella stated exited with shining eyes.

Lilith almost squealed in response: "Yes! And I have to admit, I never saw myself as the type for shiny clothes, but right now, I am tempted to give it a go."

Stella nodded in agreement. "I know what you mean. If someone had told me yesterday I would change to goth style, I would have laughed, but you really made it work for our bodies. And the makeup goes so well with our hair."

The former goth actually blushed. "Thanks. Alright then, the day is still young and there are a lot of boutiques in this town."

Ten minutes later, the two were in a changing room of Victoria Secret, trying out new lingerie. Thanks to the ruckus the Sisterhood and Winx caused, the shops were pretty empty because most people had retreaded to their houses. All the better for the two. Stella managed to talk Lilith into some pink garments, and Lilith managed to talk Stella into some panties that were a lot more tiny than the ones she usually wore.

"By the way, which one of those California dream boys is actually your guy?" Lilith asked while Stella was kneeing in front of her, helping adjust a mesh pantyhose. "No, let me guess. The sweet one with the brunette hair and the adorable smile? Or the mean looking one with the magenta hair? If you are the one for bad boys."

Stella giggled. "The first one. His name is Brandon. We have been together for years now, but it still feels like we just started having fun."

Noticing the dreamy look on her double Lilith said: "I can imagine that, he looks like quite a catch. Say, do you share?"

That got Stella to stop what she was doing. She pursued her lips. "Eh, well, I am not sure if we are ready for such a thing yet. I mean, I trust my shnugums (1) and he trusts me, but even given the circumstances, that would be…."

"Well, it is not like you would have to be absent during it, right?" Lilith answered, smirking.

Stella could not help but think that it had gotten hotter all of a sudden. There was no doubt that she was as straight as an arrow, but doing it with herself, would that really be THAT different from masturbation? She quickly pulled the mesh pantyhose all the way up and said, blushing:

"I'll think about it."

Lilith seemed satisfied with that answer, and soon they tension was gone, as they continued to try out new clothes while telling jokes only they laughed about.

Seven minutes later they were in a shoe shop.

"But Prada is totally hip this week." Lilith sulked after Stella had rejected a pair she had suggested.

"Perhaps" the sun fairy answered "but on eight of nine planets in the magical dimension moose green is totally out."

Lilith immediately dropped the shoes like they were covered in acid.

"Oh. Silly me. So what would you recommend then?"

"You know, you are taking the whole existing of magic and new dimension stuff pretty well. Even Bloom had a hard time really believing it, and she had always wanted to be a fairy before." Stella could not help but wonder.

Lilith shrugged. "What can I say? I always thought my powers would come from me being some magical creature, so I would have been more surprised if it had al been just some high-tech. Magic simply was and is the only fitting explanation, and one I like very much. But it is a little different with my sisters. Gaia, Yukie and Kendra are too pragmatic to think about it, they simply accept that they have powers. Juliet does not want to think about it. And Andrea is always searching for some LOGICAL explanation, that is nothing for me, I like things that can't be explained. Hell, even if Andrea would come to accept magic, she most likely sees magic as a not yet understood science that can somehow be explained. But to me, magic is just something you have or don't have. And I have it, so I have fun."

Both smiled. Stella said:

"That's a good attitude. And speaking of magic, I can't help but have the feeling that I have forgotten something. Something important."

"Me too." Lilith said and pursed her lips, thinking. "Ah, right. Your friends and my sisters have been fighting for the last half an hour or so and we have heard nothing of them since."

"Oh, yes, that's it."

For a moment, both girls continued to go through the different pairs of shoes. Then they simultaneously stiffened, looked at each other, eyes as big as saucers, and said:

"Oh, darn it!"

(1) I have no idea how that nickname is written.

Well, that is how I imagine Stella meeting a doppelganger. Perhaps she did dismiss the idea to talk to the other winx a little too soon, but that is an authors freedom.

As for the next chapter, here is the deal: I will give you six days to decide if the next chapter should be Andrea VS Flora or Juliet VS Bloom. The first one to pick on pair gets his/her will. After the six days, I'll decide myself, and before that I'll just work on both chapters.