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 finally accept the entire truth.
I don't own Winx Club
August 4
We cannot reach a choice on what to do, it has been stressing both me and Brandon out. We both know that this threat, that this war is going to tear the planet in two if a solution cannot be reached. All that the council of Solaria did today was argue, some throwing out terrible and judgmental looks towards me. Brandon as well. I can tell they do not fully agree with our union and they despise whatever other drama that will ensue but I believe that I can never be a good ruler without Brandon by my side, he is the one thing that holds me down, that helps me fall asleep at night. I need him now more than ever.
Her heels clicked down the hallway, the heel clicking on the marble of the floor, the ceiling reached high and was decorated finely with gold and red, specks of orange and blue amongst the other colors. At the end of a hallway was a tall and large door, flames dancing on each door, there were many different guards outside the door. Leanna followed behind her mom and her mom's adviser and lady-in-waiting, Nova. The woman had babysat her when she was young before she became the adviser and lady-in-waiting after Nova's mother passed away. Her mom was around but when she had long meetings late at night or during breakfast, lunch, or dinner, Nova had been there.
Her dress was a pure white, shimmering with gold details lined with sapphires and topaz gemstones, the top had been strapless with a sweetheart neckline, her hair was braided down her back, her heels as white as her dress with a strappy look to them lined with gold and blue. Her mother was wearing a fancy gold-colored dress, rubies, sapphires, and topaz stones glistening from the elaborately made-up dress, her heels were gold with red and blue designs, her hair placed in a braided up-do, curled strands framing her face. Nova's dress was simple, an ombre light blue and gold skirt with a twisting white bodice, small white heels.
Leanna had never been on Domino before, the realm was extremely beautiful despite being the resting place of the Great Dragon, she had made sure to read up on Domino when she had heard of the meeting, when she had called her mom back merely two days ago. It had required the attendance of many royals and some nobles, since her mother was also the guardian fairy they hadn't had need for a fourth person. All of her friends had been required, including Lyrica despite the fact that they weren't on good terms, oddly enough.
The meeting room was humungous, a pool in its center showing a few mermaids, they were in a heated conversation with four other royals, two kings and two queens. She immediately spotted Athena standing next to the King and Queen of both Domino and Eracklyon, along with another man, a knight perhaps, with shaggy dark brown hair, tan skin, and chocolate brown eyes. He looked oddly familiar to Leanna, but she couldn't quite place her finger on it, her mom had walked to the opposite end of the room leaving her by the door.
Leanna sighed, walking towards Athena and Carter, "Hey Leanna." Athena said beaming slightly, Leanna merely smiled back, before looking around the room, she spotted Aurora and Lyrica along with their parents talking slightly with a familiarity and friendliness, but what shocked her the most was that Aurora was with Flora. The puzzle pieces now fit perfectly together, realization hitting her that Flora was Aurora's mom and from the pictures she had seen of the headmaster of Red Fountain, Helia, was her father.
She shook her head to clear it and glanced back towards Athena, the royals were eyeing her with suspicion and weird glances and she wanted to ignore their looks, "Hello Athena, I wonder what is going to happen." She said softly, Athena sighed wistfully, casting glances towards her parents, Carter had left to go talk with Ryan, who was also at the meeting, "I suppose it must have to do with whatever has been going on." Leanna said and Athena nodded, catching her hint in her words, the underlying meaning behind them.
"Have they been getting worse?" Athena asked carefully and Leanna nodded slightly, "Well whenever you're ready to talk about it I am here for you." She whispered slightly as they both nodded, Athena had remained quiet so her parents wouldn't overhear the conversation, she knew that Leanna didn't want to have to talk about her nightmares but she might have to considering it could help them.
Leanna glanced around the room once more, almost everyone was here, including Jennifer, Hannah and another boy that was with Aurora, "I suppose we should go talk to Aurora and Lyrica." Leanna offered, as Athena glanced at her cautiously before nodding. She wanted to get away from the stares of the royal family of Domino and Eracklyon, even though they were Athena's parents, they didn't seem to be quite as friendly.
"I don't believe we have met." The King chimed in, smiling slightly, falsely Leanna noted with a pang of hurt, "I am King Sky of Domino and Eracklyon, this is my wife Queen Bloom of Domino and Eracklyon." The Queen nodded with a polite smile on her face, Leanna resisted the urge to shiver against their overwhelming presence, "and my knight Brandon." The man next to them nodded, suspicion behind his imitating gaze.
Leanna curtsied, "It is a pleasure to meet you, I am Princess Leanna of Solaria." Out of the corner of her eye she saw Brandon stiffen and was confused but didn't let it display on her face. This was similar to meeting royals who assumed her to be like her mom and she wouldn't let them bother her, but Queen Bloom looked similar to the woman from her dream, wearing a Sirenix form absorbing the fire of that charred house.
"We will be heading over to Aurora and Lyrica now." Athena said with gritted teeth, Leanna could tell that she hated the way her parents had been acting, the unfairness had made Athena want to knock more than a few girls' teeth in, the girl was her friend, but she was less violent than Lyrica and they were not as close, but they were close nonetheless.
With that Athena dragged Leanna over to the other two girls, dressed in similar flowing ball gowns, in their respective colors, "Hey girls." Aurora said, meeting them halfway, she had heard the way the King and Queen had acted and was disturbed by it, so what Leanna was a daughter of someone they didn't know but why did it matter to them, she had known to them to be nice and friendly, loving and caring, not cold and false, polite. Lyrica had turned away slightly, not even looking Leanna in the eye.
Leanna smiled, she was about to respond when the man who led the Magix council cleared his throat, "We have come together in dire emergency, evil has once again tried to destroy the light." He said, causing an array of gasps around the room, some of them forced and some real, "We must decide what to do about this new evil. A few of my men, though fatally injured manage to get pictures of these people, it appears to be four witches, that appear to be seventeen." His gaze traveled over to a woman with dark green hair who shook her head.
She stood up, "I have seen the pictures and none of those girls have any records for the past decade of even setting foot in my school, I could search farther back but that seems almost impossible that they look merely seventeen." She said, informing the man as he nodded his approval.
"Very well Headmistress Lucy." He said as the woman nodded back and sat down, making a note to do so, "Now what shall we do about these four witches?" He asked, his tone bordering on boredom which made Leanna frown slightly, he had made this matter seem so simple and not at all like a real problem at all which was the complete opposite. The fact that the man refused to admit the importance of the problem made her clench her fist.
King Sky stood up, "I move that we gather our armies and attack, it will be the swiftest way to end this threat. They have already attacked my daughter and son and their friends, I want this threat gone immediately." He said and Athena groaned, there was a flaw to his plan since that kind of attack would be too easy, his motivation was smart but his actions were greatly flawed, they had only the slightest clue what these witches could do, if they could be torturing Leanna like that through her nightmares, who knows what they could do to someone who is awake?
Her mother shook her head, Leanna had told her briefly of the nightmares, she had already known of the attack at the pool, and it worried her as much as she was desperate for the evil to be over, "We can't, it would be too risky to attack the four witches if we don't even know their power level, I suggest that we wait to attack, for all we know they could be watching us right now and knowing of our plans." Her mother said shaking her head and glancing around the room, "It has happened before, what makes it possible it won't happen again."
The Queen of Zenith shook her head, "Our technology is too advanced as is our magic, I do however agree with Queen Stella, we need to strategize before we just attack, it is far too likely we will lose." The Queen said, drawling Stella out with a wrinkled nose, but nodding her agreement and Leanna flinched slightly watching her mother flinch, some people could never let their grudges go.
The Queen of Melody shook her head, a small frown on her face, "Our magic may have increased but that does not mean that the evil magic hasn't increased as well." Queen Galatea said, crossing her arms and glancing towards the Magix council who raised his hands to stop the oncoming argument, it was common knowledge that both Queens had a strong dislike for each other despite their alliance.
Queen Krystal nodded her agreement, "I agree with Queen Galatea. We don't know anything about this new evil, other than the fact that they are somewhat powerful, that could be very little of their magic being shown. Also, the tree of life determines the balance making sure that the balance is equal which would mean that they could be as strong as us, if not stronger." She said with a thoughtful expression on her face, her dress was as flowery as her realm, vines and flowers styled on her dark green dress, her bubblegum pink hair held into a ponytail with a flower crown resting on it in representation of the crown of Lynphea.
Her husband stood beside her, nodding his agreement, a few royals nodded their agreement but a few shook their heads, "It may be rash but we have to do something, we can't just sit here and do nothing while they threaten us." Another Queen said, shaking her curly dark brown hair back and forth, her skin was dark, and her eyes ocean blue along with her blue and green ombre dress.
Leanna shook her head slightly, the head councilmen nodded towards her and she widened her eyes slightly noticing everyone look at her, Athena and Aurora smiled encouragingly, winking and giving her a thumbs up and she sighed, "If we act too rashly than they will knock us down, my idea is that we send in a few groups, that have one healer in each group, and try to surround the location of the witches from all directions once we can pinpoint their general location we send in some of the most advanced computers to observe their power level. Once we have we can determine how big of an army we need and how much magic we really do need." Leanna said softly.
There was a silence around the room before the King of Zenith nodded, "We have the computers to do so, my guardian fairy and her husband will be in charge of establishing the most advanced computers." He said nodding towards the couple in front of him, the woman had magenta hair, pale skin, and teal green eyes, her dress was a bright purple and green color and was shaped like a mermaid dress, the man had tanner skin than the woman but not enough to be considered tan, he was lanky and lean with orangish hair with light brown eyes.
The woman nodded, "That we can do, we will be able to create fifteen computers which should be enough to observe this new evil." She informed, sharing the calculations with her husband, Ethan and Jennifer were in front of them both, Jennifer had a disinterested look on her face and Ethan had an emotionless mask on his face.
The orb showed the head councilman nodding his agreement, S rubbed her long nails on her chin with a thoughtful expression on her face, V cackled slightly from her place on the couch, "They are so pathetic, do they honestly think that they can beat us." She scoffed, "We can beat them easily."
E rolled her eyes, "If we allow them to do that, then they can weaken us and throw us right back into Oblivion, we cannot allow that headmistress find out who we are." She said, "I think that we should attack Cloudtower, distract them with the men and women, then erase our files from the library before they can find us." She said, leaning forward and gesturing towards one of the doors that held the men and women captive.
S smirked, "And now is the perfect time to attack." She said causing V and O to gape at her, she shrugged, "With the headmistress gone we have the perfect opportunity to attack and destroy those files, for now hiding who we are is the only way to make sure they don't find out about what we have done." She said standing up.
V rolled her eyes and crossed her arms, "Well I want them to know who we are, then they will fear us, won't that be more fun than watching them search for nothing, squirming in fear." She said smirking as the witch wearing blood red glared at her, "What is the matter with that S? Why don't you won't them to know about us, they will eventually so why not know."
The witch wearing blood red grabbed her arm and yanked her up, digging her long nails into her skin, "Listen well Vixy, I know what is best for us, and that is not part of the plan." S released her and Vixy reached up to grab her arm, her hands closing around the blood that S left on her skin. She gulped and nodded, fear burning in her eyes, S smirked once more, "Now let's go get Cloud Tower."
With that they disappeared from the cavern, blood red magic engulfing them and changing the place they had just been in, the lights dimming and the sounds of the men and women begging to be released gone with them.
Brandon typed on his computer, he was working on an assignment for history class, even though the school was for future heroes they also had to learn the history of Magix and of course fighting and having the morals of heroes, along with past heroes. So far his article was about one of the members of the company of light. A company that fought against the forces of evil, and formed to stop the Ancestral witches. He was writing about a specialist that was a king, the King of Domino to be specific.
King Oritel of Domino
King Oritel of Domino was one of the lead members of the company of light, when the company of light was formed he had been a young crown prince that had his realm threatened by the evil Ancestral witches and their apprentice Mandragorda, the eventual keeper of the Obsidian circle. He married Lady Mariam when he was twenty-three, she had been the daughter of one of the dukes of Domino. After a year of their marriage, due to the powerful dragon flame being passed down his family line, they had their firstborn daughter Princess Daphne of Domino, she had been the keeper of the dragon flame.
Three years later they banded together with many other members including Saladin, Griffon, and Faragonda, to form the company of light, a group of wizards and witches formed together to save the Magic Dimension, acting as heroes. They had faced off with the Ancestral and he became extremely powerful due to the dragon flame being in his blood, making him a wizard and extremely powerful at that. During those years, he had an old friend of his, Hogan, craft a sword charged with Domino power to obliterate the witches.
Seven years later Mariam gave birth to Princess Bloom of Domino, after a month Domino had been attacked by the ancestral witches, they had destroyed the planet, cursed Daphne with the Sirenix curse, trapped Oritel in stone in Obsidian and his wife had gone into his sword, and Daphne gave Bloom the dragon flame so that she could protect it before she sent her to Earth.
Eighteen years later, Bloom with the help of her friends the Winx Club freed Oritel and Mariam from their imprisonment-
He sighed hearing the door slam closed in his dorm room, he mentally flinched but rolled his eyes, saving the essay before he spun around in his chair to look at his roommate, his roommate was running his hands through his hair with an annoyed sigh, "I'm guessing the council meeting didn't go too well." Brandon said dryly causing Luke to glare at him before he said nothing and grabbed his bag, storming out of the room, "Figures." Brandon muttered standing up and walking through his door to go see Carter and Ethan.
"Hey man." Carter said opening the door, "Well that meeting was a mess, the royals are so set on arguing over what to do." He rolled his eyes, "Why didn't you come anyways? You are the Prince of Solaria after all." Carter asked as he spun around in his only rolling chair.
Ethan gaped at him slightly but rolled his eyes, sliding his headphones over his ears, as Brandon just sighed sitting on one of the bunk beds, "I didn't think my appearance was needed, besides they only needed the heir, not the second child." He pointed out, he was not jealous of Leanna but he just really didn't feel like talking with his family as of the moment and plus he could tell the media would start to gossip on him going and start asking him questions he didn't want to answer.
Carter gave him a look, rolling his eyes, he was still wearing his royal attire, "Well we have to go back in an hour, I just wanted to come here along with the rest of the guys since mom and dad were acting slightly weird. What was weirder was how they acted towards your sister." He said furrowing his eyebrows slightly, his parents had never acted like that especially his godfather, it was making him frustrated and confused at their actions.
Brandon raised an eyebrow, "Well how did they act towards her?" He asked, he hated that he wanted to know but at the same time the sibling in him still wanted to protect his sister, he could never really hate her, he could be mad, he could feel betrayed but never hate. He had saw hints of how the people of Solaria treated her and was not pleased, they had seemed more like mindless gossip teenage girls than grownups.
"Well they just acted weird, overly polite as if they couldn't stand that Athena even knew her, they were acting fake. My godfather also kept eyeing her as if she would sprout horns and become the devil." Carter relayed their actions from the room, he offered a cheeky grin, "But Leanna could come up with a sensible plan instead of even my father who wanted to charge right into battle blind."
Brandon chuckled, "Well what is her plan?" He asked, Carter sent him a warning look, and he rolled his eyes, "I guess I would have to go to know, sorry but I think I'll pass on that and figure out later, since someone could be watching us." Brandon said getting up from the bed and stretching his neck, "I got to go finish an essay for History class." He said waving his good bye and walking out of the room, he sighed remembering learning similar things when he was younger when he was tutored with Leanna.
The history tutor was an old man, wrinkles on a permanently frowning face, eyes narrowed and a furrow in his bushy pristine white eyebrows, white hairs growing from his hair and combed neatly, short and somewhat plump, wearing a business-suit. Brandon sat at the desk, bored out of his mind at the droning lesson the man was teaching, Leanna was taking notes at the desk next to him and he almost yawned at how tired this lesson was making him, "Brandon." Leanna whispered, she rolled her eyes, "You know you have to try not to fall asleep in class."
Brandon just smirked in response, pointing towards the teacher, "But this class is so boring." He said in a whiney tone as the teacher continued to write on the chalkboard, he was old styled instead of giving them a lesson using the newest technology, and he was also from Earth. He couldn't tell whether or not the man was ignoring him or just deaf.
Leanna sighed, "Brandon, you know this is important, we have to know this stuff so that either one of us is prepared to rule the planet. Please just try to pay attention, besides this stuff is really interesting." She said as she glanced back at the board, jotting down the notes onto her paper.
"But it is Saturday." Brandon pointed out, crossing his arms, "I would rather be outside with our friends than in here listening to this guy talk about some royals and the historical events of Solaria." He said as he thought back to their friends, he had wanted to ditch so that they could go to the beach but Leanna had refused to do so, he couldn't understand why she liked history, it was dull and boring learning about dead people.
Leanna ignored him as she continued to write down the notes as he groaned loudly causing the old man to whirl around to glance at him, "Brandon." He said with a fake smile, "Would you care to tell me about what I have just covered?" The old man asked as Brandon smiled sheepishly and the teacher just rubbed his temples, "Pay attention Brandon if you plan on ruling this realm." He snapped turning back around.
Brandon could see Leanna flinch at that, he knew that she was not the person everyone made her out to be and it made him honestly angry that someone could treat his little sister, no his twin like that. He glared at the back of the teacher's head, resisting the urge to smack the old man, even though he was only ten at the time it still made him want to protect his sister from anything.
He hoped that they would never drift apart, that whatever happened in the future they would never lose their friendship. Finally, after what felt like an eternity to Brandon, they were released from the tutor, he couldn't wait to meet up with his friends later at the beach, for whatever reason Leanna declined meeting them, "That was forever." He said slinging an arm over Leanna's shoulder.
Leanna rolled her eyes, "It was not, it only felt like forever to you because you refused to take notes." She said pulling out her own notes that she had wrote in a spiral notebook, Brandon rolled his eyes and took the notebook, a small smirk playing on his lips as he held it above her head, "Brandon! Give it back!" She exclaimed jumping up in an effort to grab her notebook back.
He chuckled pretending to hand it back before he ran off, soon he heard Leanna follow him, finally she tackled him to the floor, grabbing her notebook back, he pouted and got up, wiping the imaginary dirt from his clothes. "Oh, come on, I was almost to my room." He teased slightly as she playfully hit his shoulder with her own pout, together they walked to his room, he pulled out his secret candy stash and passed her a pack of skittles.
Leanna opened the pack, popping one into her mouth, "You know, you should really pay attention to history class, despite it being about 'just dead people's lives' it is actually really important so we don't repeat past events." Leanna said, laying on her stomach on his bed, he rolled his eyes at her and crossed his arms, sitting in his chair.
"Why can't you become the next Queen of Solaria?" Brandon asked as he sighed, he wasn't cut out for being a ruler, while Leanna on the other hand was the perfect candidate, she was smart, and she understood things, when he would rather hang out with his friends at the beach, she would rather stay home and read a book, sometimes about History.
Leanna lowered her head and he almost regretted asking the question, "I don't know." He could hear her mutter before she looked up, smiling slightly, "Aren't you going to meet up with everyone at the beach in twenty minutes?" She asked and he almost ran to his closet, grabbing his newest swimsuit as she laughed, the situation stored away to the back of Brandon's mind.
He almost smiled at the memory but stopped himself, going back into his dorm room to sit at his desk, history lessons reminded him a lot of Leanna. Brandon had made a promise to himself that he would find their father first, and then worry about mending his broken relationship with his sister. Leanna, despite all of the problems and issues they had, used to be his best friend and he remembered days when they would spend hours together.
Suddenly he eyed the dresser next to his bed, it held a royal uniform with it and he mentally debated whether or not he should put it on and go to the meeting or would that cause too much of a disturbance. Well disturbance be damned. Along with that history paper he could finish later. Carter said they had thirty minutes five minutes ago so he was most likely still here. With that thought in mind he went into Carter's room, his royal uniform folded over his arm.
Carter's eyes widened before he smirked, "I knew you would change your mind." He said getting up from the bed as he nodded towards the bathroom, with that Brandon went into the bathroom and changed into his royal uniform, a simple white royal coat with golden shoulder pads complete with hanging things, and gold buttons with a gold collar and white pants, he had on a light blue somewhat design in the middle however.
He was going to the council meeting.
Leanna could see Lyrica talking to one of the girls from their school, lately Lyrica seemed to be hanging out with the other girl instead of Leanna and that hurt Leanna. It hurt her a lot, it seemed that the girl had a lot more in common with Lyrica than Leanna ever could and that caused tears to nip at her eyes. She sighed, leaning against the wall stuck in between Athena and Aurora, "I can't believe that she is acting like this." She could hear Aurora say as Leanna glanced at her.
Athena rolled her eyes, "She is acting like a child." She said harshly, then glanced around the room, "I wonder where the guys went, the meeting is about to resume." Athena said shaking her head slightly before glancing back at Leanna and Aurora, "That was really brave what you did back there." She finally said as she looked at Leanna, to which Leanna sighed.
"I can't believe he put me on the spot like that, everyone could have been shaking their heads and he only looks at me like he is going to laugh at what I might say." Leanna said rubbing her temples, "Plus your parents have been giving me weird looks all day along with the knight." She said giving Athena a pointed look.
Athena shrugged, "I had no idea they would act that way, my parents have never acted that way to my friends other than Aurora and Lyrica, even my godfather never has, he is the knight and my father's best friend. They grew up together on Eracklyon." She said as she glanced at her parents who were talking to ten other people, including Flora and Helia that Leanna recognized and the knight from earlier.
"Their probably just extremely freaked out by the evil going on and by your mom's reputation." Aurora said shrugging carelessly, "Once they get to know you, they will absolutely love you." She added as she winked at Leanna, before a hush fell over the crowd and Leanna glanced over to see her brother walking in with the guys and another guy that Leanna could not recognize.
"Oh no, what have you done Carter?" Athena muttered under her breath as she stalked over to them, pulling Aurora, who pulled Leanna to the boys. "You guys know that everyone will be talking about him being here. We have more important matter to talk about." Athena hissed, scowling slightly.
Leanna sighed, pulling Athena back slightly, "Girls calm down, come on we have to go back to our families." She said as she looked at the clock high above the door, Athena and Aurora nodded pulling everyone towards where the King and Queen of Domino and Eracklyon were, Ryan didn't even look at her and that made Leanna sigh, she was back to being invisible to him.
Leanna sighed, gesturing for Brandon to follow them as he nodded slightly and followed after her, they were gaining looks from everyone, including their mom as they made their way over to her and whispers started throughout the room as they walked past. Leanna flinched slightly before they were beside their mom, "Brandon." Queen Stella said smiling slightly in acknowledgement but there was something in her eyes that bordered on hurt and something else.
The head of the Magix Council clapped his hands together, silencing the whispers as soon as they started, "Everyone, we are here to discuss the witches, not gossip about affairs that do not concern us. The Magix Council votes that the Winx Club and the Specialist be put back into action." He said as Roxy shook her head slightly, but the man paid her no heed instead focusing on Athena's parents, Flora and Helia, and three women and three men, along with the knight. Before his gaze traveled to Leanna's mom.
Leanna felt shocked as everyone that his gaze landed on went to stand in front of him, including her own mother, but the rest kept a reasonable distance between them and her. It made her wonder, her mom was part of the Winx, then why wasn't she told? What other secrets had her mom kept from her? It made Leanna feel even worse than Lyrica avoiding her.
What was even worse was her friends had no idea that her mom had been part of this Winx Club and they caught her glance and returned the same confused look. Instead she focused on her mom. Instead her mom refused to meet her eyes as they all turned around and she sighed, catching her brother's glance.
Something happened between these people and she intended to find out exactly what happened.
Brandon was as confused as his sister but this pulled him closer to the truth and he knew it, he watched the rest of the royalty and their agreement with the action or their disagreement, after that display their mom came back over, refusing to even look at them and it made him even more confused, suddenly he noticed the headmistress of Alfea stand up, a stubborn expression on her face, "They have retired from this, don't you think that they deserve to live the rest of their lives without fighting every battle for the Magic Dimension." Roxy said as she crossed her arms.
Queen Bloom, a woman Brandon had met every so often when he came to the palace, stood up as well, "Roxy, we understand that you want us to live peacefully after so many years of defending the Magic Dimension but we can't live the rest of our lives in peace knowing that we did nothing or let our children face the same dangers." She said as Roxy sighed and sat down, for whatever reason she eyed everyone in the Winx Club with an uncertain expression in her eyes.
Brandon could not fathom why he had looked over everyone from the Winx Club and the Specialist, they had all looked oddly familiar, especially Carter and Athena's godfather, a man Brandon had only encountered once and the man just rubbed him the wrong way, whether it was from the suspicion in the older man's eyes or the fact that Brandon felt like he should know him but at the same time his brain wasn't coming up with any images of how.
When his eyes passed the knight's eyes, he found that the man was looking at Leanna oddly, as if he was trying to breathe in every detail of her, from her face to the way she glanced around uneasily. He didn't like that the man was trying to capture every detail of Leanna, she was his little sister and despite everything he would always look out for her. Even the idea of her betrayal didn't upset him that much anymore, as if it only happened a decade ago instead of almost two and a half years ago.
He carefully took two steps sideways to block the man's view and settled him with a sharp look, the man looked shocked for a minute before he narrowed his eyes, he had chocolate brown eyes that looked cold and calculating, tan skin, and dark brown hair that fell over one eye in a shaggy do. His uniform was armor that was the colors royal blue and gold, with hints of red and orange, and a long billowing cape that hung on his shoulders proudly, a helmet at his side with a red and blue feather.
Brandon knew that he should be paying attention to the meeting but found his attention trained on the knight, he blinked suddenly, breaking the eye contact and turning his head to look at the rest of the room, feeling a gaze burning his face but he ignored it, the kings and queens, along with the Magix Council were in a heated argument. He could hear his mom sigh as she whispered something to Nova.
King Sky stepped up, "Everyone that is enough!" He yelled, causing a hushed silence to fall on everyone at the force of his yell, "Fighting over this will not stop the witches, our alliances have been intact for years, and they will remain that way. This is what the witches want, they want us to fight, they want us to feel confused. We cannot and we will not give them what they desire." He said as he sat down on his throne, rubbing his temple.
"King Sky is right." The King of Lynphea exclaimed, "We must all agree on something to do about this." He said as he too stood up from his own chair that proclaimed him royal, "I move that everyone on Lynphea will offer the potions and healing necessities, other than Lady Flora Knightly and Sir Helia Knightly." He said with a nod from his wife.
The King of Zenith nodded as well, "Our people will be focused on providing the technical resources and equipment needed, other than Lady Tecna Electro and Sir Timmy Electro, who will be crafting the advanced computers." He said as his wife crossed her arms but nodded as well. Brandon sighed as everyone began to chip in their people to help, the people of Melody offering people, the people of Andros offering their best spies, etc.
Finally the gazes landed on Queen Stella, some of them holding distrust, and others holding smugness, figuring that she would not have anything to offer, "My people will be offering the outfits for the spies, we will be making them easy to move around with, and have weapon compartments with shrinking spells so they can travel with any sized weapon that they please and we offer them to come with night vision screens to show what the forest at night would look like during the day, providing them the ability to see in the dark. Lady Nova, would you please hand me the suit?" Their mother said as she grabbed the suit gently from Lady Nova, holding it out.
The man leading the Magix Council nodded his head, "Thank you for offering that Queen Stella." He said drawing her name out as if it was a vial of poison on his tongue and he despised saying it. Brandon narrowed his eyes but said nothing in response, "That will be all for today, we will come together in two weeks." He said standing up and clapping his hands, with that everyone filed out or stayed behind to talk to each other.
Leanna sighed as she laid down on her bed, Lyrica was still not back yet but she was most likely not going to be coming back till much later considering the fact that she wanted nothing to do with Leanna. She couldn't help the yawn that escaped her at the events of today, they had been chaotic and the fact that her mom had been part of something that she never told her about only made her more upset and exhausted.
She was also exhausted with everything else and told herself that on Saturday, today being Thursday, she would do all of the research she could on these witches. Leanna needed to, both for her own sanity and for whatever she could find to help everyone in the Magic Dimension. Leanna knew one thing with absolute certainty.
She would find answers.
