Dakota's POV

I nearly passed out again at hearing the news so Duman whispered to me.

"Don't you dare pass out again." I put my hands up and started to breathe again as Matlin turned around and raised her eyebrow to me.

"Is everything okay?"

I looked up, "Huh?"

She laughed, "Is that all you say?"

"No."

"Do you only say one word answers?"

"Sometimes." Matlin laughed her beautiful laugh again, and even though she was making fun of me, I still missed the sound of her laugh.

"Anyways, Cross and I wanted to invite you and your brothers to have dinner with us tonight," Matlin turned back around as we turned one of the corners of the garden. The palace had a huge garden.

"Dinner? With Prince Cross?"

Matlin stopped walking and she turned to face me, "Yes with Cross. I'll be there too of course."

"And what will we be having?" Matlin looked at me confusedly, so Ogron spoke up to cover for me.

"She has allergies."

Matlin rolled her eyes and shook her head, "We're having blood. Is the little vampiric allergic to blood?"

I narrowed my eyes at her and she narrowed her eyes back, "Is there something you wanna say to me? I'm very reasonable." I remembered that Selene had said that to the wizards, and I knew what she meant, so Matlin must've meant the same thing.

"No, your Highness."

"Hm," Matlin looked back at Selene, "Escort them to the room to prepare for dinner, I need to have a word with you."

Matlin trudged back to the front of the castle and Selene glared at me.

"If she has me killed, I'm blaming you." We watched as Selene walked over to Matlin and when she got out of ear-shot, I turned to the wizards, my back to them.

"I can't see here so let me hear, give me a boost, lend me an ear," I cast a spell that allowed me to eavesdrop on them and the wizards and I listened.

"Matlin I didn't know she would do that, please don't be mad at me."

"Why would I be mad?"

Selene looked at her confusedly, "I thought you would be mad that she was challenging you."

"Oh please, she wasn't challenging me. If she was, I would've noticed. It was a simple slip of the tongue, she didn't mean any harm."

"Okay good, now what did you want to talk to me about?"

"The prisoners, we'll have to have the audience right now if we can keep our time correct for dinner."

"Um, okay, I'll have Lane bring them right away." Matlin smiled.

"Good, I'll see you soon." Selene waved her off and Matlin left as Selene ran back over to us.

"You got lucky, I thought I would lose my head."

"Yeah, me too. Is Cross going to be after me?"

"What? Of course not, why would you think that?"

"You said he would try to-"

"If he knew you were her sister. Do you listen much?"

"No," Gantlos said and I glared at him.

"Sometimes."

Selene laughed, "Okay, now I see what Matlin means by you only answer with one word. Come on, we've gotta go get you dressed up."

"This isn't dressed up?"

"Uh, no, that's a casual dress."

I looked at her in astonishment, "This is a casual dress? This is one of the most fancy dresses I've ever worn."

"Wait until you see the formal dresses." Selene took my arm, "Come on wizards, you have to get dressed up too." I heard Gantlos sigh and I laughed at him childishly. He glared at me and I stuck my tongue out. Selene shoved them in their room and picked out five male outfits.

"Pick what you want out of these five, nothing more, got it?" They nodded and we left their room and she took me to my room. She went through my closet until she finally found something she liked.

"Here," she handed me a red, silk dress that went to my knees and had black designs on the waistline, it was gorgeous.

"Meet me at my door okay? And don't be scared if Cross comes to the door."

5 minutes later

I was now wearing the dress Selene layed out for me and the wizards were now wearing the suits she picked out. They looked a lot better than what they used to wear.

"Okay, now what?"

"I guess we wait," I started to walk back to my room, but Gantlos grabbed my arm and dragged me back to the door.

"There's nothing to fear, but fear itself," I kept repeating it over and over again until they'd had enough. Ogron knocked on the door and got out the way so they would think that I did it.

"Selene, someone's at the door."

"You answer it. I'm trying to get my dress on."

Lane opened the door and to my surprise, he looked good. He was wearing his guard uniform, but I could tell that he was attending the dinner tonight too.

"Hey, Selene?"

"What is it?" Selene walked next him and I could see her still trying to put on her earrings, but the ribbons were still untied on her waist.

"Lane, can you-" he nodded as he went behind her and started to tie it for her and she finally finished putting her earring on.

"Hey, Dakota. You look great!"

"You do too. Are you ready?"

"As soon as Lane finishes tying my ribbon I will be." As soon as she said that, Lane had finished tying the bow and wrapped his arms around her. He sank his fangs into her neck and she slightly moaned with pleasure. When he let go, he kissed her neck and whispered something to her. She nodded and he went past me down the hallway.

"Hmm," I could see Selene smiling as she closed the door.

"Come on," she started to lead us to the dining room where there was a long table with four chairs on one half, but the other half had the other chairs.

"Didn't that hurt you?"

Selene left her happy moment, "What?"

"When he bit your neck, did it hurt?"

"I was wondering when you would ask that. To others, like you and the wizards, its an attack, but to other vampires, its like a kiss."

"A very painful kiss?"

"No, a very pleasurable one. You wouldn't understand since you're not real vampires or vampirics."

"What's the difference?"

Selene rolled her eyes at me, "Vampirics are vampire children 17 years and younger, but vampires are 18 and older. Anything else before you embarrass yourself?"

"How will I embarrass myself?" Selene hit her forehead roughly, "Sorry, was I not supposed to answer that?"

She shook her head, "No, no you weren't. I have to go, the trial is starting now and then I have to come back to have dinner. Oh joy." Selene left the room, but she stuck her head back through the door.

"Don't follow me or leave this room, got it?"

"Just go Selene, we won't, I promise," I said reassuringly. She rolled her eyes at me as she left the room.

"5, 4, 3, 2, now," the wizards followed me to the door and I peeped out of it to make sure Selene was gone, and she was. We snuck down the hall to the main room and luckily, we could still hear through the door.

"Okay, so you arrived at the palace for what reason?"

"We were looking for someone!"

"You dare yell at me in my own palace."

"Y-You're the prince?"

"Yes, I am."

"We are SO sorry, your Highness."

"Who are you?" I heard a softer voice say, and it must've been Matlin because I don't think I've ever seen Cross be nice before.

"We're the Winx."

"Hm, yes. I believe I've heard of you before. You are not vampires, but you are have came to this dimension disguised as vampires, which is quite offensive."

"We didn't mean to offend anybody, Princess, we swear. We were looking for a girl named Dakota."

I heard a pause, but then Cross spoke up, and he sounded surprisingly happy as if he were smiling, "Selene, go and fetch Dakota and her brothers."

"Yes, your Highness." We quickly went back to the dining room and as soon as we closed the door, Selene opened it and beckoned for us to go into the throne room. As soon as I stepped foot in their, two guards grabbed my arms as Cross stood up.

"What's the meaning of this?" I asked as he came a few feet closer to me.

"You are a fraud, Dakota. These people here say that you have no brothers, just a sister."