A 14-year-old girl with purple hair and a lavender beanie walks up the hallways of Starling Academy. *Okay, Alesha*, she thought to herself. *You waited your whole life for this day. Your big sister, Clover, attended this school years ago and is now attending college, majoring in music.*

As she got to her room, she bumped into a black student with dark green clothes. "Be careful," she hissed. "I received these goggles as a Starling Academy present."

"Sorry about that," Alesha replied. "I'm Alesha."

"I'm Cheryl," greeted the girl. "Is this your first time here?"

"It is," replied Alesha. "My big sister, Clover, was an alumni here. During her time, she kind of went to Wishworld to stop negative wishes. Plus she was a part-time DJ for a local band called the Star Darlings."

Just then, a scream came from an Asian student in green. "The Star Darlings are the best band ever!" she shouted. "Forgive me. I'm Pia."

"Welcome to Starling Academy, Pia," Alesha replied. "You must really like the Star Darlings."

"Of course. I have all their albums and merchandise, and I'd even sewed plush dolls of them in my spare time," Pia replied as she looked at Cheryl. "You're Tyra's cousin, aren't you?"

"Let me guess," replied Cheryl. "Your Tyra's roommate?"

"You guessed it," Pia answered as a black girl in light green did a few gymnastics flips and ends with a karate kick.

"That's my cousin Tyra," replied Cheryl. "Our dads thought we could use some family time if we attended Starling Academy."

"That's nothing," called a voice.

Out of nowhere came two genies. One wore purple and had pink hair and one wore teal and had blue hair. "I'm Shinner," greeted the genie with pink hair.

"And I'm Shine," greeted the genie with blue hair. "We're exchange students from Zharamay Falls."

"Okay," Alesha nervously said.

Throughout the day, the girls took the tour with a bunch of other freshmen from Starling Academy. They've even befriended a hippie Starling/fairy named Lottie who wore pink and had a pink flower wreath in her hair, and a half mermaid/Starling named Carrie who loved the water and had silvery blue hair.

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At lunch, they got to know each other a bit better. While she was wrapping up her lunch, Alesha spotted a black shooting star, then she looked and saw a goth girl in brown. "Don't you just love black shooting stars?" she said. "They make my day here in Starland, unlike my dorky older sister Vega. She's now a second-year music teacher."

"And you must be her sister," replied Alesha. "Vivian, right?"

"Vivian to my family and out of Starland City relatives," replied Vivian, "but everyone calls me Vortex - as an homage to the black vortexes that suck up life in the galaxy."

"You're starting to freak me out," Alesha said in a weirded-out tone.

"Don't worry," smiled Vivian. "I get that a lot. I sometimes wonder, where would that black shooting star lead to?"

Wishworld, England

At a pet shelter, a blonde British 8-year-old boy named Casey was at the pet sheller, hoping to get a puppy. His mom accompanied him to see if they got the right one. The owner of the shelter came in with a German Sheppard. "It's a German Sheppard," said Casey. "This puppy is rabid, and I wanted a beagle."

"I'm sorry, kid," replied the owner, "but we're fresh out of beagles."

"Sweetie," Casey's mom replied, "you have to take what life gives you."

Casey was still bummed because of a scary German Shepard.

Starling Academy

Lady Stella knew that there was trouble on Earth again, and knew she needed reinforcements asap.

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As they were called to the principal's office, Alesha noticed a blind girl missing it. "Excuse me," she said to the blind girl, "the principal's office is this way."

"Sorry," replied the blind girl. "It's hard to find the braille by the signs here, my name's Leslie."

"Nice to meet you, Leslie," replied Alesha. "Are you a freshman here?"

"That I am for thy sweet sake," replied Leslie.

"And I see you're a theater fan," smiled Alesha.

In the office, they were greeted by a perky girl in blue. "Alyssa, my dear," Lady Stella said to her granddaughter, "could you please sit down? We're about to start the meeting."

"Okay, Grandma," Alyssa replied as she sat next to Shimmer.

In the office, Leslie and Alesha were joined by Georgia, Shimmer, Shine, Carrie, Vivian, Tyra, and Cheryl. They decided to sit next to a nerdy half-genie Starling in yellow, who was busy reading William Starspeare's "Romuleo and Lumiet."

"What man art thou that, thus bescreened in night, so stumblest on my counsel?" Georgia read.

"I'm Alesha," smiled Alesha. "And you must be Vivian's roommate, Georgia."

"Vivian has told you about me?" asked Georgia.

"She has," Alesha replied. "She told us that you love to read Starspeare classics."

"You two better be quiet," whispered Georgia. "The meeting is about to start."

As they got quiet, Lady Stella came up. "Star salutations, girls," she replied. "How many of you know of the planet Wishworld or Earth?"

Many of them raised their hands. "A few years ago," Lady Stella explained, "a group of girls called the Star Darlings came to Earth to fix negative wish energy by my ex-best friend Rancora. She wanted revenge after I got her expelled for going near a dark wish. She went under the persona of Lady Cordial to gain her vengeance. I hired a new Head of Admissions named Paige Tico after her defeat. Unfortunately, she died in action during her fight with the First Order. So I decided to hire some alumni to help you in your time of need. Please welcome...the Star Darlings."

Out of the shadows came Sage, Libby, Scarlet, Vega, and Leona and their grown up. "Oh, my God!" Pia shouted. "It's the Star Darlings!"

"Oh, great," groaned Scarlet. "It's that crazy Pia girl again."

"Don't be grumpy," replied Libby. "I think she's fun."

"Easy, Pia," replied Vivian. "We have important matters to discuss."

"Hi, Vivian," Vega waved as the others giggle, much to Vivian's embarrassment.

"Okay," Lady Stella replied. "As any Starling can remember, wishes were granted in many forms. But it doesn't get granted overnight. It takes time to get what you want. When a wish is ready, a Starling is sent down to grant the wish. Many other magical creatures grant the wish too, that way we can all take turns. So I decided for the first time in Starland's history, I enrolled many half-human Starlings like Lottie, Carrie, Leslie, and Georgia."

"Thank you," Georgia smiled. "So what's the problem?"

Lady Stella took a deep sigh. "Well," she said, "recently positive wishes are turning negative for some reason. So we took it upon ourselves to find the solution. In the archives, we found a book called 'The 50 Wishes of Wonder'. It was there that 12 students, including a few bi-Starlings, would go to Wishworld and other dimensions to grant these wishes. We believe it's you girls who will be the answer."

Then Alesha remembered Clover telling about the stories of Wishworld and the Rancora incident. "Is all this real?" she asked.

"It is," Sage replied.

"Clover told me these were just fairytales," Alesha recalled. "And do we have to keep this quiet like the Rancora Incident."

"I'm afraid so," Lady Stella replied. "We don't know who is causing all of this. Every few days, you will join your music teachers for your special training. If anyone asks, you're getting music tutoring."

"That's right," Alesha recalled. "You girls were afraid that they would find out who the Star Darlings are, so you decided to become a band. You couldn't leave the others out. So you let Adora and Piper design the clothes, Gemma and Tessa did the marketing, Astra was the choreographer, Cassie did the special effects, and you let my sister be the backup DJ."

"Every band needs a crew," Leona said. "Now your training starts tomorrow, kids, and yours truly will be the first instructor."

"Can you believe this, Shine?" Shimmer smiled. "We get to go to Earth again."

"Again?" asked Tyra.

"Years ago," replied Shine, "we helped our human best friend, Leah, grant wishes. 3 per day."

"That's good," Georgia said. "My mom said three wishes for a genie, but this does sound generous."

Everyone giggled.

In Lady Stella's office, Vega began to wonder if the girls would ever grant the 50 wishes of wonder, and Lady Stella said that they would.

To Be Continued.