Princess S Makes it Big -To Stella fans, your pregnancy test is postponed to eight months
Flora and Layla walked through the halls of their old school together. It was odd seeing girls rushing to class before the bell and they didn't have to go to class. Layla told Flora about Musa and Riven reuniting in Magix earlier that day. Flora told the gruesome details that she heard from Palladium about his relationship with her mother as they entered Grizelda's office.
"That's so awful Flora. I mean not to diss Palladium and all, but having an affair with your mom is very low," Layla exclaimed, Flora lowered her head in shame.
"Yeah, but it brings up the question.." Flora murmured slowly, "Is he my real father?"
"Is who what's father?" Grizelda's voice loomed from the headmistress's desk. "Care to dish Flora?"
"Grizelda? Uh..we were just talking interrealm gossip!" Flora exclaimed squeakily, she waved her arms in embarrassment.
"I see.." Grizelda stated unimpressed, she motioned towards the seats as Layla and Flora sat down in front of her "I am glad that your friend Musa has come back to the good side of things. Where is Musa now?"
"Musa said she wanted some alone time with Riven...you know catching up and all that," Layla replied, Grizelda eyed her as she put down the book about the Great Dragon and adjusted her glasses.
"At least she's feeling like her old self," Grizelda remarked. "Now, I called you back here because I am still worried about your other club member Bloom. She may have disappeared yet I feel an aura of darkness and danger around her."
"But she disappeared from the magical dimension after Skye was MIA," Flora said in shock.
"Yes, but I still can sense her presence,"Grizelda stated grimly. "You must try and find her."
"But Grizelda, we had a tough enough time busting our butts to turn Musa back into a fairy on our own," Layla argued with a roughness to her voice. "We need backup."
"Hey! I know what we can do... Stella used to have an uplink to Earth via magic messaging and something Earthlings called the internet on Solaria." Flora interrupted, Layla nodded. "I'm sure Stella wouldn't miss a chance to save our best friend."
"Indeed she would. That Stella girl always pushed you into most of the trouble you girls caused," Grizelda remarked flatly. "But don't even think of letting her set foot on campus!"
"Alright Flora, what do you say?" Layla said encouragingly as Grizelda made a portal.
"Next stop Solaria!"
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Princess Stella of the sun and moon was busy at work in her great golden palace on Solaria. Her workers were at their sewing machines and used fitting spells on fabrics as Stella monitored her latest fashions that suited the trends of today. Stella grew quite successful in the years after Alfea. She had pursued a career in fashion, her lifelong dream as well as ruled the kingdom of Solaria with a bracelet covered fist.
"Now daw-lings, summer fashion shoot is in three weeks so I want bikinis to be slingy, sexy and slim." Stella declared, as she walked around her quarters. "That means no itsy bitsy teenie weenie polka dot bikinis this year grandma!"
Stella's grandmother sighed at the assembly line which were seemingly going ship shape. Stella gleamed at her accomplishment. She was a success story at 24 years all the magazines including Teen Fairy had carried her clothing line and she felt on top of the world! Suddenly her stomach lurched, as if Stella was about to hurl. Stella never used to get sick, her immune system was always in top shape, but the last few weeks it seemed as if she had the flu of some sort.
"Must be something I ate.." she chuckled, suddenly Brandon came out of a secret passageway coming behind the staircase. He was wearing only a loin cloth and a piece of rag that wrapped around his bare chest.
"Stella, sweety!" Brandon shouted as he went toward his beloved. Stella frowned as he kissed her on the forehead. "What's wrong, babe?"
"Shnookums, I don't want to seem distant, but what if my father had seen you," Stella replied quietly as she lowered her eyes.
"Why can't we just talk to him? Maybe he forgot about what an ass I made of myself." Brandon argued as he threw down a broom that was in his hand. "I am sick of playing one of your servants!"
"Honey, my dad is like an elephant. Unfortunately, he never forgets and what we did is sure to be on the top of his do not forget list," Stella replied sadly. "But, we're still together on this, right?"
"I wish you lived with your mother, Stella," Brandon sighed. "At least she'd give me a chance."
Suddenly a portal opened right in front of the couple with a flash of radiant light. Flora and Layla emerged from the opening as the light faded. "Guys! I can't believe I'm finally seeing you after all these years!"
"We missed you too Stella," Flora said warmly as she gave Stella a warm embrace. Layla hugged Stella too and paused as she saw Brandon in his servant costume.
"Uh, Brandon..why aren't you wearing anything?" Layla asked awkwardly as she sized him up in his loin cloth.
"Long story Layla..." was his only response.
"Come on Flora, gossip! What have you been doing all these years?" Stella shrieked in delight, Flora bit her lip as Stella grabbed her arms and shook her like a rag doll.
"Well, I'm trying to achieve total enlightenment. Yoga, belly dancing and tai-chi. I didn't have as good of career opportunities as you did..so I was a bit bummed out and contemplated suicide which got me into Pos—" Flora grimaced as she felt Layla's rock hard fist jab her in the stomach.
"She's been taking it easy, but she and I got together and went to Magix to find Musa. We'll explain it all later, okay." Layla stated quickly. Stella eyed her friend a little bit. "This is a nice reunion and all Stella but we really need your help.."
"We're trying to figure out what happened to Bloom. She disappeared after Skye was considered a missing person in the Eraklyon army," Flora explained, Stella's big brown eyes lowered as sadness spread across her face. "We were wondering if you heard from her."
"I'm sorry, but I haven't heard anything for months." Stella said sadly, she turned to her staff and waved her arms. "Alright, ladies! Cappuccino break!"
Stella's grandmother shrieked in delight as the assembly line workers exited the room. Stella turned to her friends and smiled. "If grandma and the staff don't have their mocha latte every half hour, they become really cranky. Nobody likes cranky old women as I always say."
"You never say that," Layla put out.
Stella gave a little tour around the work room where extravagant and elegant cloths lay with eloquent and somewhat bizarre patterns. They were placed everywhere, on the tables, on manakins and even on the floors. Layla and Flora glanced in awe of what their friend had been doing during these years, looking at the different styles and colours of half done clothing and magazine covers hanging on the walls with Stella on the cover.
"It seems you've been busy," Layla remarked eying a pair of khaki shorts and a pink summer top.
"Why of course, darling!" Stella said in a singsong voice as she showed them a notebook full of sketches, designs and dresses. "When we all graduated I was spotted in the Goblin Ghoul night club while I was a waitress washing tables there. They told me I was perfect for modelling and they signed me up with an agent. Let's see, after I did that for a year I knew my calling was for fashion design! Now I have my hot fashions on almost fifty of the magazines in the magical dimension. I also have a new designer perfume called P.S! Out in stores this winter!"
Stella sprayed a pink perfume bottles with the initials P and S written in gold into Layla's face. Layla began to hack and choke as she let the whiff of it fill her nostrils. Flora got a whiff of it and thought it seemed divine. Brandon caressed Stella and put a hand on her shoulder. Suddenly the double doors of the throne room flung wide open, and one of Princess Stella's servants entered wavering a small white stick in her hand.
"Princess Stella, Princess Stella! What wonderful news!" the servant said in a thick English accent as she gave the stick to Stella. "I found it in the lavatory, you must have left it there."
"Oh no.." Stella murmured as her face went white.
"What is it?" Flora asked unsurely. Stella looked at Flora and then at her stomach.
"I'm pregnant..."
"That's great sweety!" Brandon exclaimed happily, "We can get married now."
"But my dad will kill us!" Stella shouted, "He's still king ya know!"
"I get it. He'll be mad that we did it a couple of times before marriage and all, but this is the right time to reconcile with him," Brandon remarked calmly as he put an arm around her. "We won't have to hide anymore.."
"That sounds like a relief, I guess," Stella murmured as a small smile spread across her face. "But, I won't fit into a size four ever again!"
"It doesn't matter. You're beautiful whatever size you are," Brandon replied as he softly brushed his hand over Stella's cheek. He pulled back a long golden strand of her hair back and squeezed her under the waist. Stella lowered her head onto Brandon's broad shoulder in serene silence. All of a sudden the peace and quietness was shattered as there were several booming knocks at the door. Voices and bright lights hovered around the windows as crowds of people kept shouting and trying to break in.
"Uh oh, I know that sound..." Stella gasped as she went to the door and tried to keep it closed. Brandon and the servant tried to block the pathway as well as Flora and Layla just stood there looking very confused.
"What is it?" Flora said in terror.
"The media..." was all that Stella could say before the doors were forced open as reporters and photographers for every magazine, newspaper and television show on the face of the realm, or so it seemed to be there. Questions were flying out of almost everyone's mouth.
"Princess Stella! Is the pregnancy rumour true?" a reporter hollered shoving a microphone into Stella's face.
"What are you going to name the baby?" a woman journalist shouted scribbling down a few words on her paper.
"Who is the father?" a talk show host asked.
"Can I see you naked!" another perverted person shrieked.
"No Comment! No Comment! No Comment," Stella shouted loudly as she tried to pry the doors closed. She pointed at a crusty old man. "And for the thousandth time Mr Spader, NO!"
As Stella successfully shut the door, Brandon ran to get a piece of plywood and took out a cordless drill to bolt the door shut. Layla gave a sly snicker.
"You can put anything under that loin cloth, can't ya Brandon?" Layla remarked playfully.
"I was fixing the staircase in the secret passage, okay?" Brandon said with a shrug. "No big deal."
"So what are you going to do with the baby, Stella?" Flora asked.
"Maybe you should rename that perfume PMS. For Princess Mommy Stella," Layla quipped.
"Oh ha ha Layla, your jokes are as funny as Tecna's used to be," Stella remarked bluntly, she planted her hands on her hips and lifted her chin haughtily. "I'm going to deny everything, as if nothing is going to happen and go on with my fame and fortunate life as a superstar!"
At that moment, Stella felt her stomach grumble in protest as a shower of sparks formed around her midriff. Stella couldn't believe her eyes. Her belly was twice as big as before and was poking out of her top. Stella sighed as she shook her head.
"That's the problem with being a magical being. You're body can play magic tricks on you," Stella remarked as she inhaled a deep breath and touched her belly with a reversal spell. Her waistline returned to the normal size. Layla snickered behind her back and as Stella turned around she seemed to be fuming, then she seemed to be depressed and started to cry on Brandon's shoulder.
"Stella, this is a good thing. There's actually a little person growing inside of you with a little part of you and a little part of me," Brandon said trying to sooth Stella from her tears. "You and Brandon should be celebrating!"
"Brandon's right. Don't be so down on yourself," Flora remarked softly, "You're a strong person and you two will get through this together!"
"Right, just not now.." Stella sniffled, "I have way more important things to do. I have to try and find a way to rescue Bloom with you!"
"Then go for it Stella, Pregnant or not!" Brandon said determinedly. "Go and save your friend.."
"So you're coming with us?" Layla remarked.
"It won't be the Winx Club without you," Flora said giving the two of them an embrace.
"It wouldn't be the Winx Club without Bloom!" Stella cried, "So let's go find her!"
Sorry for delaying the grand entrance for Stella, It took a long time to rewrite it all. Tell me if it's good, okay? -Pheofox
