Stella on the Throne

The day after Eldora magically forged the Legendarium Key, the Winx all head to Cloudtower. Just as they get in sight though, the place disappears - Darcy's doing, no doubt about it.

Stella points out "Is anybody else concerned that we've got a college packed full of witches, run by the Trix, and we can't see it?!"

Bloom stares at the spot where Cloudtower just was, and says "Maybe we can…" She waves a hand in front of her face, leaving a trail of magic in its wake - a little idea of hers. She can sense magic and heat signatures, why not try to see the same?

What is she doing? Tell me she can't ACTUALLY SEE THROUGH ILLUSIONS TO!

Bloom smirks at the sound of Selina's voice, raised in no small amount of fear. When she looks through the magical haze, she can, in fact, see the negative magic surrounding the school and each individual person in the place as well.

Stella asks "You can see through Darcy's magic?" Bloom smirks and says "I've been playing with fire, illusions, and weapons since I was five years old. Darcy may be the witch of Illusions, but my brother is the God of Mischief. Let's just say I learned from the best. Between him and mother, I had the two best magic-users in all the Nine Realms as my teachers. And magic is…flexible, let's say, when you have the mind for it. While I can't see Cloutower as it is without the spell's influence, I can see the spell covering it, and each individual person and source of heat and magic in the castle. And I can hear, and see if I so choose, anyone scrying me. Really helps with talking to my brothers whenever they call."

Bloom could nearly burst out laughing when the bright white figure in where she thinks is Griffin's office falls sideways and the dark purple magic surrounding the school ripples and waves with Darcy's distress. Everyone notices the storm clouds gathering fast, and Stella says "Well, we can't see them. Let's get out of here and figure out how to make the place visible again."

Bloom fake-pouts and says "Aw, and here I was planning on sneaking in invisibly. Ambushing the four of them and locking the Legendarium in maybe an hour." The scrying abruptly shuts off, and Bloom can sense them magically locking the entire school up tight.

Back in the dorm, Brandon comes over as Stella's picking out a dress to wear for an occasion on Solaria - and it's also their anniversary - and the rest of the Winx have no clue about what to do to make Cloudtower reappear.

Well, Bloom has an idea: sneak in, beat the Trix, lock the Legendarium, get Loki over to undo the spell. Because they tried undoing it and it just wouldn't work. No matter how much they all tried, the magic resisted their every effort at reversing the effects - the effects being not even Techna's magical detection could find the school even though Bloom assured them it was right there. And she could only see it because of the way her powers work, allowing her to sense the heat and magic continuously pouring from people.

Stella bursts into the room, saying she's got a great idea - they search the Library of Solaria. Good news: it's the biggest library in the Magical Dimension, and Bloom and she already searched through it once before when Bloom was trying to find a way to bring Domino back and restore Daphne's body. Bad news: only the king can grant access, and King Radius is not exactly the most approachable person in the dimension. Stella only got her and Bloom access by way of being his daughter and Bloom being her best friend - and Bloom's giving the question with Stella giving him the puppy-eyes.

At the question of how they're going to get access, Stella says "I've got an ace up my sleeve girls, follow me!"

They head to Solaria, with Brandon in tow for a massive feast Stella promised him, and discover that ace is actually a rare showing of all three of Solaria's suns in the sky at once - on which day the current ruler gives up the Regency and the Throne to the next in line.

Which is Stella.

Which means she's technically the Queen of Solaria until midnight tonight.

She immediately grants them access, and Bloom whispers "I'll stay behind. Give Stella some help. Because her parents can't really agree on much other than the fact that they love her."

Daphne nods, and they leave Bloom leaning against the door - much to Stella's confusion until she hears Bloom's voice in her ears say "I'm staying here to help, Stell. Don't react to this, it's an illusion. For your ears only. Use a burst of your magic if you can hear me though."

The lights flicker for the barest instant, and Radius whispers "It's alright to be nervous, Stella. Your mother and I will be advising you all through today."

She nods, and Bloom's voice whispers "Great, now for the hard part - and the reason I never wanted a throne. Ever. I don't envy you, Stell. Or Brandon."

The first Courtier steps up, and Radius explains how they'll present their requests for her to either accept or reject.

The first is a man who wants to turn the Royal Terrace into a vegetable garden - Luna loves the idea, Radius hates it.

Bloom's voice sounds in Stella's ears, saying "Great, they can't even agree now? When you're running an entire kingdom for the day? My advice: say you'll think it over." Stella does exactly that, silently thanking Bloom for helping out.

The next guy requests a law to forbid post-sunset barking.

"It's going to be a long day, Stella. You can't just keep a dog from barking, you know." Stella inwardly sighs, seeing Bloom's early-age wisdom - even if it was likely for childish reasons at the age of five - in not wanting a throne. "Stell, repeat after me…"

Stella takes a deep breath and says "I'm sorry, but you cannot simply order a dog to stop barking. A law forbidding it won't make any results other than unhappy pet-owners. I can have your house spelled so that you can't hear the dogs, I can teach you a sleep spell so you won't be kept up by them, but a law won't work." This guy actually seems somewhat satisfied with having his house walls soundproofed, and walks away semi-happy - unlike the last guy.

Twenty minutes later, and at least as many ridiculous-sounding requests, and the Courtiers are finished for now. Stella goes to her room for a break, and finds there's a huge mirror in there that definitely wasn't there before.

Bloom's still leaning against the wall when King Radius comes over with a half-smile on his face. "You know, Bloom, some of Stella's answers to those Courtiers sounded a little bit less like my daughter's and a little more like something you would say."

Bloom shrugs, and says "I may be helping my best friend from Solaria out just a little bit. Because, no offense your Majesties, but you two haven't yet agreed on a single request. And it's sort of driving Stella up a wall."

"I see."

The rest of the Winx get back into the throne room, and find it is empty except for the King and Queen, the guards, and Bloom. Daphne says "We found an answer! Fairy magic apparently needs to be enhanced with Master Technology! Techna sent Timmy the notes that we found, and the two of them are going to do some TechnoMagic research starting tomorrow."

"That's great! But…"

Aisha nods and says "But we need to get to tomorrow. Where's Stella?"

Luna says "The demands of ruling a kingdom are rather taxing. Stella went to her room to freshen up."

Bloom holds back a laugh, because she was getting incredibly tired of ridiculous requests - if she ever wanted a throne of her own, she wouldn't now.

Stella suddenly storms in, with an aura of negative energy Bloom can sense across the room - not good. If they couldn't tell something was off before, they can absolutely tell something is very wrong when she starts talking in some imperious voice about how she was deprived of valuable time as queen - and when her father tries to protest, she makes it so he can't speak.

Bloom steps forward, asking "Stella, what has gotten into you?"

Stella glares at her, saying "That's Queen Stella to you, Bloom."

"Alright, Queen Stella, the better question is what spell has gotten onto you."

Stella's eyes narrow, and she says "Very well, if you don't want to be my friends anymore, I'll find some new ones. Ones who understand what a great queen I am." She holds her arms out, her hands glowing brightly, and then there's six witches in the room. "Guards, you are not to harm my new guests. I'll be in my chambers."

Bloom eyes the group of witches, one of whom is wondering about what she'll turn them all into, and asks "Guards, Stella said not to attack these ladies, but she didn't say anything about protecting her parents. Can you do that?" They nod, getting between the Witches and Radius and Luna.

"And what are you fairies going to do about it? Blast us?" The pale-haired witch starts laughing, right up until Bloom does exactly that - she ends up a smoking pile of sore witch on the floor.

Bloom flexes her fingers, asking "Your Majesties, do I have your permission to be only slightly un-princess-like at the moment to, shall we say, escort these ladies out of your home?"

Radius immediately nods, and Luna says "Wholeheartedly, Princess Bloom. Be as un-princess-like as you wish if it means our subjects are safe."

"Fabulous. First these ladies, then the spell on Stella." Bloom changes her dress to her shirt, jacket, and some jeans and boots, and then the nearest witch gets yanked forward in an iron grip and thrown into two more like she's a ragdoll.

Not even five minutes later, there's a pile of sore witches turning some interesting shades of purple-black, and Bloom hasn't even broken a sweat. Daphne snaps her fingers, and Radius can speak again - and the first thing he says is "Bloom, you wouldn't mind training the guards for a few weeks, would you?"

Bloom shrugs and says "Not at all, King Radius, but I'm afraid I may be held up directly after the threat of the Legendarium is ended. As per usual with my life." She shrugs, then teleports to Stella's room, where she finds Brandon right outside the door.

"Bloom, you've got to hear this. Listen." Stella's voice is on the other side, welcoming Darcy to Solaria.

"Brandon, she's under a spell. You distract Stella, I'll take Darcy out and break the spell."

"Distract her how?!"

"I don't know, kiss her if you want! Doesn't that break spells in Earth Fairytales?"

"This isn't Earth!"

She points at herself and says "Fairy."

She points at the door and does the same, and Brandon says "Alright, fair enough. Let's go."

They get inside, Darcy freezing upon seeing Bloom, who says "I think this party is just about over. Darcy, I do believe its time you took your friends in the throne room and left." She teleports over before either can react, and grabs Darcy by the front of her outfit.

The Witches toes start brushing the floor, and Stella says "How dare you? She is my guest-"

"Brandon, any time now."

Brandon grabs Stella by the arms, and actually does kiss her - maybe to make her stop talking, maybe to confuse her. Either way, it works.

Bloom looks behind Darcy, who's still struggling to loosen her grip, and sees the mirror with a floating face. "Nice mirror, Stella. Got a great beard. Too bad its also got a dark spell it put on you." She throws Darcy into the mirror, breaking it into a million little shards.

Dark purple energy flies off of Stella, and then Brandon stops kissing her. "Ugnhh…Brandon? When did I start kissing you? And what's Darcy doing in here?!"

Bloom firmly plants her boot on Darcy's spine, keeping her from going anywhere, and says "Excellent question. What's the last thing you remember?"

"Staring into this new mirror…that mirror on the ground!"

"It was magic. A gift from Darcy. Sorry I broke a gift, Stell."

"A gift from the Trix? Rare enough as it is, and even rarer that its not dangerous."

Bloom starts laughing, and Darcy takes the opportunity to teleport away.

AN: Yeah, I felt really bad for Stella sitting on the throne having to deal with stupid requests like the ones in the episode. So I was merciful and had Bloom stay behind with her common sense. And, seriously, I thought she'd had more personal growth in the cartoon than they portrayed - maybe she was letting the power go to her head in the episode. the fact that her parents took opposite sides on every question didn't help though.

PS. got completely moved-in to college today, and classes start on Monday - please be patient for updates, I'm going to have to do homework and such first no matter how much fun it is to write a chapter.

Enjoy! Review if you have suggestions! More chapters coming soon!