Summary: Sometimes Leanna wonders if anyone will ever get to know her as herself and not just the daughter of Queen Stella, even her mom wants her to 'follow in her footsteps' and go to Alfea. Will the new darkness coming find her and why does the darkness want her over anyone else more powerful? The only thing Leanna now has is hope that she can overcome this evil. Her hope is her guide that will lead her to a hopefully brighter future. Finally, Leanna is ready to discover the truth about the secrets of her very existence, after so many years of secrets can she accept the entire truth.
I don't own Winx Club
July 31
We have been attacked, an entire wing of the council destroyed and so many lives lost, it is unbelievable, we have suffered more causalities however and oddly enough, after the people die they disappear, their gone within a flash of light, I don't understand what is causing this but I do know that it isn't good. Bloom was gone today so she didn't know of the attacks and if she did Sky would have never let her come, he is so protective of her. I begged father to leave but he would hear nothing of it, he is so sick, the doctors have no idea how much time he has left.
The sun was shining on the planet of colors, the landscape painted in many assorted colors, purples, blues, greens, yellows, oranges, reds, browns, and whites. It was a gorgeous day, perhaps even perfect, the people in the town were dressed in outfits that looked similar to costumes, chatting and making common exchanges, the royal palace looked to be made of glass and rainbows, guards standing at the gates and palace doors.
Darkness, unknown to the eyes of the villages slithered closer to the palace, the men at the gates widened their eyes trying to destroy the darkness as it slithered past them, it hissed like a snake before passing through the cracks in the door. The taller guard turned to the other guard and shouted, "Call for backup, get the King and Queen out of this." The shorter man nodded and was dashing across the palace stone pathway before the taller guard could blink.
Inside the palace the darkness crept down a hallway, creeping down the stairway until it turned into four shadows, each shadow glowing a different color, one shadow was glowing a blood red color, another was glowing a poisonous green color, the one beside the blood red ghost was black, while the last one was gray colored. "Halt!" The guards in front of the door shouted as the materialized out of thin air, flashes of many colors shifting from where they had appeared.
The shadow glowing a poisonous green color snickered, a cruel sound that echoed throughout the room, "Never in a million years. Get out of our way!" The voice was young and female as dark green orbs pushed the eight guards to the ground, they instantly started coughing and choking under the green fog that surrounded as the shadow laughed again, "Poisonous gas, you're done men." It sneered.
"That is enough! You are wasting our time V!" The shadow glowing a haunting shade of black hissed, dragging the other shadow down the hallway to follow after the other two, she forced the doors opened and laughed at the multicolored scrolls glowing in the center of the room, "This is two easy." She said carefully eyeing the room.
The shadow glowing gray scoffed, "Please, these people are simple-minded, and I don't detect anything that could block us, the guards out there are scared out of their wits." The shadow remarked, stepping forward to scan the shield around the scrolls, "This shield is pathetic, we can destroy it easily."
The glowing blood red shadow stepped forward, holding wispy hands out as a red orb floated in between fingers that shaped like claws, the shadow fired the orb at the shield and watched as the shield disappeared. Instead of cackling or snickering like her fellow shadows, it stepped forward and snatched the scrolls within its grasp. The shadow turned its only feature, lighter red shining eyes with no pupil or iris, to the other shadows that were bickering slightly and held up a hand, effectively silencing them, "Enough! We got what we came for." The shadow said in a commanding tone. With a wave of blood red magic, they were gone along with the scrolls.
Leanna sat down with her friends in the announcement area, the teachers' faces were grim and solemn, especially the headmistress, she could hear people questioning the meaning of the emergency announcement and whether it had to do with the classes being taught so high-paced. Everyone was happy to have some excuse to get out of class, "I wonder what is going on, hopefully nothing is wrong." Aurora said leaning back into her seat as she studied the teachers with- for the first time since Leanna met her- a thoughtful expression on her face.
Leanna shook her head, "I don't think so, whatever it is that she has to tell us is important, just look at her face." She said softly as she watched the body language of the teachers, whatever the problem was it was serious, especially for them to have to be informed of it, "I don't think she would call us here if it wasn't that big of a deal Rorie."
Aurora huffed and crossed her arms, "Well I don't want to be negative about it. Whatever it is, they can handle it, even though it does get us out of class." She said snobbishly, Leanna sighed at her sentence, Aurora was one of the girls in the stadiums that had enjoyed the idea of getting out of class.
"Having faith in the army of Magix is perfectly fine Rorie, but why would she be telling us this if it wasn't in such dire spirits?" Athena pointed out logically, she crossed her arms, "That could also be why they grounded us." She said averting her gaze to her aunt, who had her head bowed and appeared to be in a deep conversation with Professor Flora.
Lyrica tugged on the cord of her headphones, "I still can't believe they did that, not that it matters, it gets us out of shopping with Aurora again. But why treat us like we are five-year-olds." She said slightly scowling as she crossed her arms, she stared at the teachers for a long-minute, closing her eyes and humming slightly, "I can pick up bits of their conversation here and there but it is mostly nervous mumble jumble." She opened her eyes and turned to look at the other three girls.
Aurora buried her face in her hands and groaned, "How long are they going to make us sit here?" She said, her tone bordering on whiny. She rested her chin in the palms of her hands, slouching in her seat to balance her elbows on the tips of her knees.
"I thought you were happy to get out of class." Athena said jokingly as she quirked an eyebrow causing Leanna to giggle and Lyrica to smile slightly, "Have a little patience your royal highness." Athena winked as a hush fell over the crowd as the headmistress raised her hands to silence the students.
Roxy coughed slightly, "Girls, I have called you all in here in the effect of a dire emergency, the Magic Dimension is suffering from the threat of another evil. An evil we cannot recognize but they are strong, earlier this morning they stole the scrolls from the realm of Colors. Arrossire. The Magix Council has no idea of their next move, but some of the schools are offering students the opportunity to go home. To feel safer with their families, those who do not wish to fight can either go home or stay here and learn healing courses to save those who do, they will stay here. Due to the hard lessons of the past two months we are prepared to send students home early since you have all covered your learning for this year." She explained, pacing around the center of the room as students gasped at some parts of her speech.
Leanna could hear Aurora gasp, this was serious, as she had predicted, but she couldn't just stay here, she watched as students rose to their feet, talking and murmuring loudly, taking their leave to call their parents. She glanced at the other girls as they all stood up and left the room, going their separate ways to call their parents, Aurora, oddly enough, had stayed behind to talk to Flora.
She pulled out her phone and searched her contacts, she dialed her mom's number and sighed into the dial tone, "Leanna? Why are you calling so early, aren't you in school?" She could hear her mother's worried and surprised voice over the line, Leanna bit her lip and sighed into the phone, catching the emotions behind the sigh, "What happened?" Her mother's voice turned even more worried but her mother was struggling to conceal that.
"The headmistress has said that we are in threat of evil forces, mom." Leanna said, her mother was silent, so she continued, "Mom I know you would want me to come home, but" She trailed off looking outside of a window and at the snow covered ground of Alfea, "I can't, I have to stay here, I feel like I have to stay here." Leanna said closing her eyes and sighing as her mother sighed into the phone.
The line was silent and Leanna almost thought her mother hung up, "Leanna, come home, I can protect you here, we all can. Please just come home, what about Solaria? What about me? If something happens to you while you are there, then what? Come home, you have to think of Solaria now too." Her mother said sternly.
Leanna shook her head, "Mom, I am thinking about everything but I can't retreat home while my friends stay here, I can help, I can heal people. And why are you so afraid of me staying here?" She asked, her voice filled with suspicion as she narrowed her eyes thoughtfully and leaned against a nearby pillar.
"N-No Leanna, why in the Magic Dimension would you think that?" Her mother slightly stuttered in the beginning which only sent up more Red Flags for Leanna, she knew her mom was hiding something from her and that thought almost stabbed her in her heart. She was trying to come up with a reason, perhaps her mother was trying to protect her and it was you were in more danger if you knew than if you didn't.
Leanna sighed, closing her eyes and rubbing her temple, "I'm sorry mom, but I have to stay here, I can't go home knowing I didn't try something." She said softly, she glanced towards her friends, Athena was done with her phone call, looking slightly irked but she was still done, "I have to go mom, I'll call you later, bye." She said, listening to her mom's motherly warnings and good-byes before ending the call and putting her phone back into her pocket.
She walked back to Athena and Lyrica, Lyrica had just hung up the phone too and an air of silence engulfed them as they all were in deep thought about their conversations with their parents. Leanna was worried and curious; her mother was hiding something from her and it only increased the feeling in her gut that told her something was going to happen.
It had been hours since everyone in the dorm decided upon sleep and yet Leanna was still wide-awake, exhaustion clawed at her brain but she ignored the feeling, she was sat up in bed, leaning against the headboard and staring into her lap, unconsciously tracing lines on her comforter. Winter had long-since set in and it was approaching the Earthen holiday of Christmas, it had been transmitted through the famous fairy that was Earth-raised, she had faintly remembered that Holiday but some planets, including her mother, had not hosted the event.
She had known that since Christmas was setting in they would have a dance, usually at least, which would lead to a week at home, but due to the high alert it seemed that break would be postponed and the dance, who would want to dance when evil was, once again, reaching its claws into the Magic Dimension. Her bedside lamp was the only thing that illuminated the room other than the moons outside which released a silver sheen through the window. She had turned the lamp back on after she had confirmed that Lyrica was sound-asleep.
She slid her gaze over to the window and sighed, closing her eyes and ripping off the blanket, she ignored the goosebumps and instead threw her legs over the left-side of the bed, grabbing a book off her shelf. Cress. She opened the book and gazed at the words written on the pages, the tale of a young Lunar locked away in a satellite that had protected the gang since their journey into space was intriguing to her. Oddly enough she couldn't focus on the words printed neatly in front of her and instead could only think of the threat.
A threat the scared her to the very core, she sighed, pulling the comforter over her after placing the book on the bed-side table, and clicking the lamp off, the dark shadows of the room had scared so she had slammed her eyes closed and focused on her breath, she hated the dark, there was so much lurking in it, despite her defense of dark magic, the darkness was without light and therefore felt evil and as if it would betray her. She slipped into sleep unknowingly due to her own exhaustion.
Leanna opened her eyes and almost jumped, she was at a beach, near the waves that crashed against the bright sand, she could feel it between her toes and in her hair, it tickled at her, she glanced towards the forest edge and was shocked to see blackened trees and scarred lands, the faint smell of sulfur and smoke filling her nose, the forest was charred from flames, the animals must have fled during the fire. The sun felt oddly hot against her skin and she glanced up.
The sky was blood red, the sun brimming with a red light, it had almost felt like she was looking at a canvas and the sky had been painted with blood. Leanna stumbled back into the sand, there were whispers that filled her ears, sayings and taunts in a language unfamiliar yet clear to her. They were saying that she was going to do this, she was going to kill and paint with the blood of those she did.
Her thoughts fled and in a moment of panic she darted away from the spot she had been standing on, the forest and beach was endless and after stopping to catch her breath it had felt like she hadn't moved a single inch. Whispers became screams and she crouched down, pain ringing in her ears along with the echoing of the voices, she covered her ears with her hands but she could still hear it clearly.
Leanna closed her eyes, trying to will the thoughts away, will the voices away until her ears filled with static, she opened her eyes, noting she was in her fairy form, tied to chains in a dark abyss, she could hear it as she moved, there was a video in front of her, she peered into the video realizing she was looking through her body, watching herself bow her head to shadows, before she turned and saw her friends, family, and even their own families, they were begging and pleading.
She screamed, closing her eyes tightly, but when she peeked up she was just in time to see herself lift her own mother by her neck and kill her. She curled tightly into a ball, ignoring everything that came to her, seeing that image of her mother lifeless and fading, she would never forget the pleading look in her eyes or watching the light fade from them. The whispers came back, but with more strength, they weren't telling her what she would become but something that would only weaken her.
'You're pathetic. You think your mother honestly wants you. Your brother wants you out of his life. Your friends don't like you. They hate you. Everyone hates you. Give in. You can't win this fight. Did you honestly think that anyone would ever love you? Ryan doesn't like you, don't think for a moment he would go for you. Weakling. Stupid. Conceited. Selfish. Give into the evil, look at what they have done.' A voice whispered.
The voice was cruelly female, there was an urgency yet cruelness to the voice and tone, Leanna cried harder, she was almost fooled that everything the voice was saying to her was true, she was pathetic, she was stupid, no one would ever love her, they all hate her, she was weak. She could almost feel the light, the positivity in her fading, her last fleeting thought of light was a whimpering pathetic thing, it's not true.
Leanna shot up in bed, breathing heavily and almost sobbing, in her moment of panic and anxiety, she didn't realize that Lyrica was gone, most likely in the shower or laughing with everyone in the common room, she sighed with relief before she walked to her closet to gather an outfit for the day, a dark blue pair of skinny jeans that felt like cotton against her legs, a white long-sleeve flowy shirt, and black combat boots, she grabbed a hair tye before leaving the room.
She walked down the hallway but as she passed Athena and Aurora's room she heard voices, curiosity peeked, she listened slightly, picking up bits and pieces of the conversation in the room, "worried about her. Something wrong…afraid..sleep…we could." That was Lyrica's voice, she had realized, and it seemed she was talking quietly.
"When she's ready…talk about." She could hear Aurora say and she furrowed her eyebrows in confusion, was it possible they were talking about her, but she could assume it was nothing bad since they seemed mostly worried, she could hear the whispering again, like they were having a heated argument.
It almost felt wrong to listen in on their private conversation but at the same time, if they were talking about her, she had a right to know, "I'm worried too." She could hear Athena say defensively, she quieted, "but…..rip information…patience." Athena whispered and Leanna backed away from the door and towards the bathroom to avoid getting caught, she quickly shut the bathroom door and sighed.
She turned on the shower, since the light had flickered on when her magic had been detected in the bathroom, a new thing that the technology planet had just produced, she watched the steam cover the window slightly and sighed, it would be the first day of training today, she had realized, she had long-since returned the plant she had been assigned by the nature-fairy teacher, and now her room was slightly filled with other plants that she had gotten.
After a few minutes, she stepped out of the shower, drying off quickly and slipping into her selected clothes from earlier, she tied her hair into a loose ponytail and gave herself a once-over before walking out of the bathroom, she took a deep breath before she went into her room, threw her dirty clothes in the hamper, and walked to Athena and Aurora's room, she knocked slightly, "Come in." She heard a muffled voice reply, Aurora.
She walked into the room to see the girls wearing similar outfits to her, seemingly ready for training, Aurora was combing her hair though, the only one who seemed not ready, "Hey girls." She settled herself onto Athena's desk chair, "So are you guys ready for class?" She asked leaning forward slightly, she was obviously nervous but she wondered whether or not the other girls were.
Aurora shook her head, confidence oozing from her, "It can't be that hard, it's almost funny to be that Jennifer and Hannah left, Hannah almost begging to go home from that phone-call I 'overheard' but I'm not so sure about Jennifer, she just left, I don't even think Hannah knows why." Aurora shrugged with a glint in her eye, she snickered, "They are so wimpy."
Athena shook her head at Aurora, "You do realize this is serious, according to logic there is a less than fifty percent chance we survive since not one of us know anything about this new evil, nor how many people there really are." She scolded slightly, "You can't just joke about this stuff Rorie." Athena said crossing her arms.
Aurora rolled her eyes, "Lighten up, would you, gosh I just don't want to focus on the fact that our lives are in danger, can't you guys just stop worrying about that for a minute." She exclaimed standing up and glaring as she crossed her arms and pouted her lower lip. Leanna rubbed her temple, she could already hear the oncoming fight.
Athena slammed the book in front of her closed, the sound echoing around the room as she glared, "Our lives are in danger and you are telling me to 'lighten up.' Grow up Aurora." Athena snapped, crossing her arms, "This is so like you to say, you don't care about anyone else but yourself because only Aurora matters to you." She said, standing up from her bed, bringing her book with her and slamming the dorm room door, so it almost fell off its hinges.
Aurora stared at the door, her expression filled with hurt as she grabbed a nearby pillow and screamed into it, "Why does everybody have to be so negative, I just want everyone to stop thinking about it, to be happy and positive." Her voice was choked on a sob and cracked.
Lyrica and Leanna shared a look, "I'll go talk to Athena." Lyrica said, hurriedly walking out of the room as Aurora fell on her bed, her head still buried in her pillow but her shoulders shaking from her sobs, Leanna sighed, this evil was tearing them apart and she just wanted the two girls to forgive each other, neither were wrong in their motivations.
She sat down on the bed, deciding to comfort Aurora, "Hey Rorie, Athena didn't mean what she said, she is just stressed over the entire situation and sometimes that makes people say the wrong things to the wrong people." She said soothingly, she rubbed circles on Aurora's back and sighed, humming softly, "It's going to be ok Rorie, don't be sad."
Aurora sat up, wiping her tears slightly but her eyes were still glassy and her face flushed, "Thanks Lea. You're a true friend." She said, wiping the rest of her runaway tears away, then she did something that surprised Leanna, she hugged her, they sat together like that for a minute before Aurora pulled away, "I guess I should go apologize." Aurora muttered slightly, glancing down at the floorboards.
Leanna nodded, helping Aurora to her feet, they walked to the door together and out into the main living space where Athena and Lyrica sat side-by-side, Athena got up to hug Aurora when she walked into her line-of-sight, "I'm so sorry for what I said Rorie, this situation is just stressing me out." She said with a apologetic and guilty look in her cyan blue eyes.
Aurora nodded, "I'm sorry too, still friends?" She asked, pulling away and smiling slightly.
Athena rolled her eyes, "Like we ever weren't." She said before she glanced at the clock, her expression turned from playful to grim, "We better get going, we're going to be late otherwise." She said as they all shared a nod before making their way into the courtyard, the other students were all gathered, the group was somewhat thinner than it was yesterday since some students went home, the protective shield was already up as dark storm clouds covered Leanna's line of sight with raindrops pouring down overhead, but the shield protected them from the rain as the shield glowed a vibrant green color.
A hunched over person flashed in the crystal ball, their face covered by a cloak, "The Alfea fairies think they stand a chance against you, they are trying to learn to fight right at this moment, how pathetic." The voice was female as she laughed, her eyes glowing a vibrant red color, there was a witch wearing blood red standing in front of her, a smirk across her red lips.
"Yes, how pathetic, now watch them and make sure to inform of how they are doing, I want to see what we are up against, but don't make yourself known, not yet." The witch said, cackling slightly, her eyes glowing a red color as the person in the magic orb faded, the orb going back to its regular color, gray and blank.
Another witch stepped forward, "So are we continuing with phase two?" She asked, her arms were crossed and her witch form was pitch black, she had an emotionless look on her face as she sat on the couch in front of the ball, a few seats away from the witch in blood red.
The witch in blood red nodded, a cruel smirk on her face, "Yes, the minions are on their way to the destination, once their attention is diverted we can strike." She said standing up, holding her hands over the stolen orb as it glowed to life, showing several men and women with purple glowing eyes, the few that had red eyes were grouped with at least ten of those who had purple eyes.
He road through the town, his eyes jumping to and from his communicator, he had just received word of an attack on a small village on the southern part of the planet, a peaceful village, there were at least several deaths and the most horrific part was that men and women were doing this, he opened the door and ran through the guards, not allowing them the chance to greet them. He ran through the hallways and to the meeting room, two guards manned the door, standing on either side, "I must speak with the King and Queen, it is urgent matters of the planet." He managed to rasp out.
One of the guards pushed open the door and his eyes fell upon the King, Queen, and their council sitting around a circular, he stepped forward, kneeling on his knee and bowing his head, one the men in the council scoffed but said nothing as the King motioned for him to rise, an awkward look in his eyes, "What is so urgent that you must interrupt an important meeting knight?" One of the men asked, drawing out knight to remind him of his status in comparison to them.
The King cast a sharp glare over but motioned for him to speak, "One of the Southern villages are under attack, men and women had been spotted more than an hour ago marching to the village but they have stricken the village, so far we have confirmed sixteen dead, three men, six women, and five children. There are twenty-two causalities last I was in contact with the guards in the village." He said as an audible gasp made its way around the room.
The Queen took on a troubled look, "We will be heading over there personally to help and to survey the damages." She said as most of the council shook their heads no, but she only narrowed her eyes at them, "The blood of innocent men and women are being painted on this planet, we will not sit here and let them die, that is final." The Queen said, daring anyone to defy her, no one spoke.
The King stood next to his wife, "We will continue this meeting another time." He said informedly as he took his wife's arm and nodded for the knight to follow them, they left the room and the formality was dropped the minute they were out of the councils' presence, "What should we do about those men and women, did it seem they were under a spell of some sort, the alliance of the Magic Dimension is still being used."
The man nodded his head, "Their eyes glowed a purple color, some had the color of red and they proved to be more powerful but I don't understand the tactic unless it is to distract us from something important." He said, the very idea that another planet could be doing this was not possible, the alliance showed a peace between the previously warring planets so the likelihood was extremely low.
The Queen suddenly gasped and took a step backwards, "What if the evil is after Athena, she could be in danger, she is at Alfea training." She said, covering her hand with her mouth as worry filled her eyes, the King shared a glance with the knight as the knight nodded back and walked away, he wrapped his arms around his wife.
"Athena will be fine Bloom, if anything was to happen she is preparing for it, as of right now, as much as instinct tells us to bring her here so we can protect her, she needs to learn to protect herself." The King said, rocking her back and forth as she sighed and closed her eyes, tears escaping them, "don't worry love." He said again.
The knight approached them again, "I am sorry to interrupt the moment but the attack has halted, they have all stopped in sync before they disappeared, the damage they left behind and spelled out in blood is a warning, they are coming for someone important to the Magic Dimension." He informed, an apologetic look in his eyes, "I am sorry Sky." He muttered to the King, who smiled weakly.
Athena was clutching her phone, deep in a conversation with someone, Leanna noted as she dodged a random spell thrown her way, the students had been firing at each other all morning, one spell after another and Athena had to attend to an important call from someone. Leanna shook her head, conjuring a sphere of light in one hand and throwing it at another fairy, the days were drizzling by slowly, each training session becoming more and more difficult, more and more hurried since two more smaller planets had been robbed of their magical spells and from rumors around the school, a village of a very important planet had been attacked.
Hence the intense training, the teachers were preparing them for the worst she mused silently, their lessons becoming more and more difficult to overcome, but not entirely impossible, so far she had thrived. Leanna conjured a white shield as a green orb was shot at her, the orb bouncing back off the shield and to the person who threw it. She dodged a spell coming from behind her. The method was dodge, fire, shield.
Having enough of the repetitive actions she stopped suddenly, a blast narrowly missing her, pushing the hair off her back, she lifted her hands and muttered a spell under her breath, "Blinding Stars." Her hands glowed and the magic extended beyond her, throwing several nearby fairies onto the ground, she opened her eyes and dropped to the ground, breathing heavily, the spell exerting her already tired body.
She knew that everyone was staring at her but at the same time she didn't really care, she sat on one of the pull-out chairs the teachers had grabbed and watched as Athena jumped into the battle, some of the students she had knocked out of the sky were on the ground, stunned a moment, before they allowed the nurse to look them over. Leanna closed her eyes and rolled her head back, the spell had winded her.
After being awoken by the nurse, Leanna had grabbed herself some dinner, ate it in the dorm room listening to some soothing music with Lyrica, Lyrica dozing off the minute the playlist stopped and Leanna having to tuck her under the covers and turn off her lamp before making her way to her bed, she had crawled under the covers, turning off her own lamp and turning to look out of the window, stars were out and lighting the dark pitch of the night sky.
If she closed her eyes and listened hard enough she could hear the wind rustling the trees that had remaining leaves, evergreens, a thin layer of dew covering the ground, along with some snow, she could hear the wind whistling through the surrounding of the window. Leanna allowed her thoughts to wander for a little bit, with all of this worry of new evil coming she had barely had the time to think, much less worry about her own drama of a life.
Her older twin brother who she hadn't talked to since the Eclipse festival over two months ago, her mother who had always seemed to be hiding something or worrying about her, and her father, whoever he was, who still had an impact on their lives unknowingly, she had come to understand that he had left before she was born, but there was still the question as to who he was.
Leanna frowned a little, her eyes still closed from trying to sleep, despite the nightmares that usually scared her out of sleep she was exhausted and knew that sleep would be the only way to help her with preparing for the attacks of the new evil.
After two hours of finally falling asleep, a darkness crept into Alfea, surrounding the students slightly before continuing along its mission, it crawled through the crevice of one of the dorms, crawling into a room, Leanna was laying under the rays of the moon, hair tousled, a small frown playing on her lips, her eyes closed from when she fell asleep, the darkness crawled towards Lyrica a moment, surrounding her before settling on Leanna, an orb of light surrounded her, trying to fight off the invading darkness before it crashed and the darkness was partially absorbed into Leanna, leaving a sliver of darkness and a necklace.
The necklace was on a silver chain, the main gem was purely white but a splash of darkness mixed in with it, the necklace that had materialized gripped her neck so she could never remove it and added memories of buying it with her mother, false memories so that no one would be suspicious of the necklace and where it had appeared from.
The darkness crawled through the door once more, floating and crawling around the hallway before entering another door in the room, crawling towards Athena, who was asleep, lying on her side, her face void of any emotions as the darkness was absorbed into her, disappearing entirely, leaving nothing to even acknowledge that it had ever been there, other than the necklace that had appeared around Leanna's neck.