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Wyverns… creatures from ancient times enveloped by mysteries. Not much is known about them and the only known surviving specimen is the Blue Wyvern. Blue Wyvern lived through millennia by being reborn over and over. All of them were heroes, great leaders, who led their forces to unbelievable victories. Countries under their reign were the most powerful and peace ruled over their land.
I always thought such would be even my fate, but I learned fate is cruel. I too was reincarnation of that majestic beast, I too was Blue Wyvern, but my life was nothing but constant struggle. I had to fight beast inside of me for years. Only once I let her roam free… and I was banished. And now, when I can finally put that past behind me, I learn that people fear me, because of my predecessor, Markaria.
My great grandmother did something unforgivable, thus ruining my chances of having a normal life. She opened the gate of Obsidian and let evil get into our universe. I was so ashamed to call myself her great granddaughter. I know my sisters and friends wanted to calm me, they were telling I had nothing in common with her. If they only knew. That day, everything changed again.
Bloom took me to Lymphea, where Winx had some mission. Something about wolves being in danger. I stepped out of the portal together with Bloom and immediately after stepping on Lymphea's soil, I felt it. It was same as when I visited this place first. Sudden urge to go wild. To transform, to fly, to be free.
It wasn't as strong as before, but it was there. I know Lymphea made me transform a year ago, but I figured it was just some residuum from my time as wyvern, so I just tried to ignore it.
After we met up with Winx… and Stella changed clothes of Winx, we walked to Flora's house. Stella of course wanted to change my clothes too, but I still had my flight suit. Hagen made some adjustments, which made the wearer, me, immune to almost all magic. Pretty good trick, don't you think?
After few fruitless attempts, Stella finally given up. Just few minutes after her last attempt to change my clothes, we arrived to Flora's house. It was really pretty and with huge greenhouse.
"Here we are." Flora exclaimed with her cheerful tone "Here my parents live."
"Wow." Tecna gasped "That house if beautiful."
Girls were talking more, but I was not really listening. My head started hurting. I still felt that urge to transform, even though I knew I couldn't. It was like whispering from deep within. If you struggle to imagine it, try this. Lie down somewhere and let water fall down by drops on your forehead. (Don't do it guys. It's medieval torturing technique.)
"Are you all right?" Aisha asked stepping up to me. She placed her left hand on my shoulder.
I just kept on massaging my head "Yeah… sorry, just a headache."
"Do you need to rest?" she asked calmly "I'm sure Flora wouldn't mind."
"Any problem?" Flora stepped closer too.
"Just my head. It hurts."
"Oh, don't worry, I'll make you some tea, OK?" She was so sweet I just couldn't refuse. Plus I didn't even want to. Her teas were always so delicious.
I nodded and as we walked into house's greenhouse, I suddenly fell. I just fell. My knees went weak and I just lost my strength. And the best thing was I couldn't get up. I wanted to say that I just tripped and fell, but now I couldn't.
"Mira." Aisha immediately crouched down next to me. I was trying to get up, my arms were doing their best to lift me up, but no matter how much I tried to, I just couldn't "Are you all right?"
"I cannot get up." I replied giving it another try. This time Aisha reacted quickly and held me from below, allowing me to sit. She was still holding my shoulder "I don't have any strength."
Flora knelt next to me and gently touched my forehead. By that time, rest of Winx noticed something was happening. Bloom of course was the protective big sister and ran up to us "What's happening?"
"Her temperature is slightly up." Flora said "Aisha, can you take her inside, I'll prepare a tea for her."
"Sure." Aisha said and picked me up. Was I really that light? I know she in particular trained all the time and love all kinds of sports, but come on… she didn't even break a sweat. As if I wasn't even there.
She carried me through front door and… I don't even know where she put me down. I think it was some living room, since there was a sofa. Everything in room was made out of wood, but… it didn't seem to be carve out of it. It was all so beautifully made and there were no sharp edges. Table, chairs, sofa, they all seemed to be… natural. As if they grew this way. Maybe they did, this is Flora's house after all.
Aisha stayed by my side and just sat next to me, gently rubbing my back. I must say I liked it. It felt really good. Then Flora came with a cup of bright green tea "Here, this tea will restore your stamina."
With their help, I managed to grab the cup and drink it. As always, the tea was delicious. She was right, I already felt better "Thanks."
"How do you feel?" Aisha asked letting me lean back on the sofa.
"Better." I replied "I think that tea works."
"All right." She sighed heavily "I think I know what happened." She sat next to me as well "Bloom said you flew all the way from Domino Palace to Daphne. That's a lot of strain on your young body. No wander you don't have any energy."
"You flew all that way?" Aisha asked surprised and gently punched my shoulder "Quite a trip, girl. It just seems you overdid it a little."
"Well…" I giggled "It's funny. I used to be flying over the oceans without problem, now I cannot make it from one palace to another."
"Mira, you are not a wyvern anymore." Flora said with a smile "Now… Aisha, we gotta go into the forest." Aisha nodded "Miele will take care of you."
"Wait, I want to come too." I said, trying to stand up again.
Aisha and Flora gently pushed me back into sofa. Aisha then said "No. You need to get proper rest. Don't worry, we'll be back soon."
"All right." I submitted and sighed "Just be careful, OK?"
"Aren't we always?" Aisha joked as two of them stood up and walked away "Don't forget… relax."
For few minutes there was complete silence. Only birds were singing, wind was blowing outside, just a total peace. Then a girl came "Hi, I heard you don't feel well."
"Hi, Miele." I replied smiling at her "Long time no see."
"We didn't exactly have time to introduce before." She giggled as she sat next to me "We were fighting treants after all."
"Yeah." I laughed when I remembered it "My first transformation in Magical Dimension."
"You scared us." She leaned back into the sofa too "You were so wild and fast. I've never seen anything like that. Kinda reminds me that story of Mirkaria."
"What did you say?" I snapped back "Did you say Mirkaria?"
"Yes." She replied, not quite sure what I was suddenly so worked up about.
"What story?"
"Well…" she was nervous about my reaction to that name "It says that Mirkaria was a queen many years ago. She led armies to die in battle with dark forces. She herself was evil. But her son revealed it in time and they stopped her. However, Mirkaria fled and hid deep inside unknown forests of Lymphea, never to be seen again. But as I said, it's just a story."
"If she fled here." Thoughts were driving through my mind really fast. Mirkaria was here, on Lymphea. She most certainly wasn't alive anymore, otherwise I wouldn't be Blue Wyvern. She had to die some time before I was born.
"Mira?" Miele was obviously worried about me, but I didn't listen. It was as if something snapped inside me. Miele suddenly backed away. It was later, after everything ended, that she told me my eye pupils turned narrow, as if I was a lizard.
Not realizing what was happening, my body started moving on its own and with quite a speed. Just few minutes ago I could barely stand and now I was running out of the house and into the forest. I know I heard Miele calling my name, trying to follow me, but I was too fast. By the time she could use her wings to catch up with me, I was already amongst trees, running like never before.
It's very hard to explain my feelings. In fact, I cannot understand it myself. I just remember having strong urge to find Mirkaria. And then there was something more. I'm not sure if I can describe it. A pulling forward. Something was telling me where to go, what to do.
In few minutes, it suddenly disappeared. Everything went quiet. All of a sudden I realized what was happening and stopped. I was once again in full control of my body. I found myself on a clearing in the middle of nowhere. I had no idea how to get back, where to go.
Then I once again felt my strength disappearing. Urge to transform was still there, whispering from back of my mind. I fell down on my knees "What is happening?"
Before I could do anything else, I heard rumbling from above me. Slowly, trying not to make any sudden moves, I moved my head up. My eyes went wide with shock as I saw a huge hemisphere fungus falling down on me. All I could do was quickly fall backwards on my back to avoid being hit by pistil in the middle of it all.
It fell down on my and trapped my inside of that hemisphere. I took all my remaining strength to struggle. I quickly crawled up to the transparent wall. It wasn't hard, but very durable. I couldn't break through no matter how hard I was bashing into it.
There was only one hope for me. I reached behind me and grabbed wing of my flight suit. I quickly pushed the button at the end of handle. Leather from front bone of wing withdrew and revealed sharp blade. But as I did so, I found out I didn't have any energy left to cut through it.
The fungus was releasing some kind of gas into this chamber. It my whole body go down. I was suddenly sleepy and couldn't move.
I was losing all hope and only one word came out of my mouth "Bloom."
However, as my eyes were getting so heavy I couldn't stay awake, in all that blurriness, I saw something. Somebody was standing on the other side of hemisphere. A woman. She raised her hand and waved it across the surface of fungus, cutting several stripes in it.
Hi guys! I hope you like it so far. I know it might seem confusing, but trust me that is how it's supposed to be. You will learn everything in time, I promise. By the way, if anyone has any ideas for this story, I and Skylar Sparks are more than willing to hear them out.
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