Who's Dawn?

Gardenia.

Vanessa looked at the girl and decided to switch the light on. The moment the room was filled with light she could see what the little girl looked like. She had medium length snow white hair and steel blue eyes. A nicely formed nose and a very good looking smile on her face. She was dressed in a green dress and wearing black shoes. Vanessa wondered who this little girl could be since she looked very familiar to her. She noticed a bag that was standing near the front door so she went over to it and found a note on it.

'You are the only ones I can trust with this child. I 've been informed by some people that you have raised a magical child before. Raise her well and she will grow up to be a bright girl.' As Vanessa finished reading the note she picked up the child who had been standing next to her waiting to be picked up. She smiled at Dawn wondering who may have dropped of this child. It had to be someone from the magical realms because there were no signs of forced entry around the house. The child looked at Vanessa and then she laid her head on Vanessa's shoulder. A few minutes later the child had fallen asleep so Vanessa laid her down on the couch and went to the kitchen to fix herself a cup of coffee. When she got back to the living room she suddenly realised who this girl might be. She remembered the day the Trix came to Gardenia to steal the Dragonfire. The leader of these girls had the same hair colour and the same blue eyes as this child. Could it be that this girl was her daughter? What was the name again of this girl? Vanessa walked over to the telephone and dialed a number.

Alfea.

It was very early in the morning when Ms Faragonda was woken up by a ringing phone. She wondered who could be calling at this ungodly hour. It was just a quarter to five which was a bit too early even for her taste. She got to her desk in her room and sat down picking up the phone.

"This is Ms Faragonda" she answered the phone.

"Hello mum, I am sorry to wake you this early in the morning but I was woken up an hour ago by some noises in the house to find a child here playing around with a fire ball." She heard Vanessa tell her.

"Are you saying you have another magical child with you?" Faragonda asked.

"Yes mother, and I think this girl isn't just any girl. I 've seen a girl like her before only this girl was about Bloom's age. It was one of Darcy's cousins I just can't remember the name."

"Describe how this child looks like" Faragonda ordered and then Vanessa gave a detailed description of the girl. When Faragonda had heard enough she cut in.

"You think this child could be Icy's daughter? I don't think so. Icy is far to young to be a mother at this age. Although she is twenty by now and young mothers aren't that uncommon even here in the magic realms. If the baby is as old as you say it is that would mean that Icy could have been eighteen when she gave birth to this girl. Before we jump to conclusions I should see the girl myself and I 'll bring Bloom and Darcy along too." and with that Faragonda hung up the phone thinking about the latest event. It was unthinkable that a girl as Icy would have a child. It suddenly would put Icy in a different light since she has always been the driving force behind the Trix. She was as cold as ice, uncontrollable and very ambitious. When did she get involved with a boy long enough to have a relationship and end up pregnant? She walked over to the dormitory where Bloom and Darcy were still sleeping or that was what she thought when she entered their dorm. She heard there was someone in the shower so she decided to go to the bathroom first to see who was taking a shower this early in the morning and was surprised to see it was Darcy who came out at the moment she wanted to enter the bathroom.

"Darcy are you always this early in the shower?" She asked the surprised girl.

"Yeah, I kinda like to get ahead of traffic." Darcy joked.

"So that's why you go to bed early as well."

"Actually in twenty five minutes is it six o clock and the Stella and Flora will be trying to get in the shower ahead of each other and I love to hear the shower being turned on before Stella gets out of bed. She always complains that I should have woken her up after I have taken a shower."

"Well now Bloom will be taking first turn and the two of them will have to wait. I need the two of you ready by seven at the entrance gate." Faragonda said as she turned to Bloom's room and got in to wake her up. A few minutes later Faragonda left the dorm to get ready herself and prepare a little breakfast for the girls. At half past six the three of them met in the mess hall where they were eating in silence wondering about what was going on. As soon as they had finished breakfast Bloom wanted to know why they were woken up this early and were excused for classes today. Ms Faragonda told them that she would tell them as soon as they had arrived where they had to go. Darcy just shrugged and walked out of the room leaving Bloom and Faragonda behind.

"Bloom I have to ask this. Does anyone know that I adopted Vanessa?" Faragonda asked.

"Not to my knowledge because I never told the others and as for Darcy she just doesn't care for the time being. She even thinks the same way about things as I do the ..."

"Others might abuse that to do as they want because your fairy grandmother will help you to keep you here at Alfea." Faragonda finished Bloom's sentence. They both laughed for a second and then they went out to the gate.

Gardenia.

Faragonda and her students arrived in an abandoned alley where they looked around to see if no one had seen them arrive. Then they walked on to Bloom's home.

"Ms Faragonda why did you take us here?" Bloom asked

"Yeah seriously, is this some kind of a joke?" Darcy wondered.

"You 'll see as soon as we have arrived at Bloom's place." Faragonda told them.

When they arrived at Bloom's house they heard a child cry as if she was being tortured. As they went in they heard Vanessa say to, what they figured, the child that she would take good care of her if she would let her change her clothes. Bloom rounded the corner first and stopped in the doorway as she took a look at the child. Darcy who had bumped into Bloom looked at the little one in Vanessa's arms and gasped for air. Faragonda who had anticipated this just pushed them forward to see for herself if this could be Icy's daughter. When looked at the girl there was no mistaking this girl was almost the spitting image of Icy. There was only her mouth that looked different but even the smile looked familiar to her but she couldn't place that smile to a face. For now she couldn't care less about who the father could be first she had to be absolutely sure this was Icy's daughter. She then looked at Darcy who was still speechless and Bloom looked at Darcy with a lot of questions on her mind.

"Well by the looks on your face I would say that the two of you have the same thoughts as Vanessa had. I myself don't know what to think but I think that you all are right about this." Faragonda started the conversation.

"That would explain Icy's behaviour during her junior year at Cloud Tower. She suddenly was into this wide clothes thing about the second month of the school year and growing softer on us over time. It was as if the ice queen had melted and was not in the mood to get down on us for every little mistake we made. She seemed completely off for her doing. A week before final exams she just left us for a week and the she came back as if nothing had happened and never explained her absence to us. By the beginning of our senior year she was back to her old witchy self. The real question raises is that how could Stormy and I miss it that she was pregnant?" Darcy started to speak.

"Well did you watch her while she was taking a shower? Did the three of you hug from time to time? Or did the three of you share everything with each other?" Bloom asked Darcy.

"No, No and No, we just imagined that Icy wouldn't like it if we hugged her and as for watching her shower, uh uh, that was the last thing you would want to do around Icy. She might get the wrong idea about you and get back at you for that. As for sharing everything? Icy is the empress of secrets, there is so much she is hiding inside of her. I wonder if she will ever talk about them with someone. I only know for sure that in the summer before our junior year she went out a lot. We never saw any problem with that because Stormy and me could have a little fun ourselves too. I wished sometimes that I could have met Riven back then maybe it could have worked out but now he is happy with Musa and I don't want to come between them. I blew my chance when I had it. Someday I might find the right guy to love me."

"Or maybe the right girl" Bloom teased.

"Oh yeah, Stella 's a real hotty but don't tell her because she might get the wrong idea about me." Darcy joked as the two started laughing while Ms Faragonda wasn't that amused. She was more worried now then she was ever before. She wanted to know who had been taking care of Dawn all this time while hiding the child. As she looked at the child she started to wonder who the child's father might be.

"Bloom, do you think that Tecna might be able to do a DNA scan for us." Ms Faragonda asked.

"I think she can since she has been bragging since the beginning of this year that she has been working for her government as a crime scene investigator. I bet she has learned a lot about it." Bloom answered truthfully.

"Well then we will collect some evidence here and start to compare it to what we have on file about Icy. Her DNA sample was taken when she entered the Fortress of Light. So we can trace back DNA that way." Faragonda said as she looked around to find something to collect DNA with. She found some cotton swabs and asked the little girl to open her mouth and then she swabbed the girl's inside of the mouth. She then put it into a plastic bag in order to make sure that it wouldn't be contaminated. The little girl went over to Darcy with a face full of hope asking her:

"Are you my mother?"

"I am close to your mother but I am not your mother." Darcy answered with a sad look on her face while she picked up the girl who was near crying at the time. Darcy held her in her arms while she said.

"I may not be your mum but you may call me you aunt Darcy because your mum was always like a sister to me."

Vanessa looked at the scene with a slight smile on her face. Darcy had never showed much of her softer side until today.

Back at Alfea.

Bloom and Darcy went to their dorm the moment they had arrived back at Alfea to look for Tecna. They couldn't find her there so they had to ask Musa.

"Hey Musa do you know where Tecna is" Darcy asked.

"Not a clue, Darcy. Maybe she went out to spend some time with Timmy. I was about to go meet Riven at the gate. Wanna join?" Musa replied.

"No not now, I 've got other things to do." Darcy stated.

"Yeah as if, You still have feelings for him don't you.?"

"So what if I do, I blew my chance with him two years ago but that doesn't mean that I have to steal him from you. So get off my back about him."

"Sorry I hurt your feelings" Musa apologised as she went out.

"Don't take it to hard" Bloom said to Darcy as they both went out the dormitory searching for Tecna.

"Maybe we could ask our Pixies where Tecna is" Darcy suggested.

"That's a good idea." Bloom said as she called for Lockette. In no time the little creature was there with them to help them out. Lockette found Tecna in the courtyard where she was reading a scientific magazine.

"Hey Tecna we need your help." Bloom shouted making Tecna look up.

"How can I help you. Do I have to look up something on the realm wide web?" Tecna asked.

"Actually we want you to do a DNA test. We just arrived back from Gardenia and met this cute child at my parents place. We know that she is a magical being but we want to find out who her parents are. Can you help us." Bloom asked.

"Actually I don't have the right equipment here to perform the procedure but I could hire a lab at the local police force. I have to warn you it could take some time to exactly find out who the parents are since not all the people in the realms have their DNA on file. The people of all the schools in Magix and the prisoners have their DNA on file along with those who were at one point or another suspected in a crime. That would leave an infinite number of people that we have to get to give up their DNA which can't be asked without a court order unless they volunteer. Most people like their privacy so they won't give up a sample. So the best we can hope for is that the parents are known by the system or we have a chance of 0.5 percent to find out who the child's parents are." Tecna reasoned.

"Well we take that chance." Darcy told Tecna.

"Okay then, I 'm of to the lab then. Maybe Timmy will help me with that. See you tonight." Tecna said as she pulled out her cell phone and called her boyfriend. Bloom and Darcy just stood there watching Tecna leave with a smile on their face.

"You know, she will be quite pissed if she finds out that Icy is Dawn's mother and we never told her that we suspected that." Darcy said to Bloom.

"Oh yeah, but we worry about that later. At least there is a good chance that we can find out who Dawn's mother is for sure."