Chapter 3: Alfea College for Faeries
The new day dawned, and Bloom studied her schedule, the classes were listed in order of periods: the first being Charms and Transmogrification with Professor Whizgiz, the next being Magic and practical applications of it with Professor Dufour, followed by the study of Magical creatures with Professor Palladium, then finally Alchemy with Professor Gelt, according to the periods a number of classes were electives and also lacked current Professors due to staff changes. After studying her schedule Bloom double checked her stuff to make sure everything she brought with her was there and wasn't in any bad condition, after checking all the essentials she and Flora left alongside the rest of the Winx to go to their classes.
Meanwhile at Cloud Tower Erasiel was lost in thought and the Trix had gone to their classes, he had much to think about; mostly the recent developments and a new plan to get his hands on Stella's ring long enough to copy it and return it: the later was difficult to figure out mostly because he was focused on the prior and specifically Bloom: she was an unknown factor and something more, he wasn't sure but he had a hunch and it would take time for him to know for certain, mainly all he had to do if Bloom was who he thought she was, is simply have watch and see how things developed; if she was really the same Bloom who was the Princess of Domino and the sister of Daphne and daughter of Oritel and Marion she would most likely be drawn to her past indirectly: something he was not going to rush as he had no way of guaranteeing for certain she was who he thought she was short of a DNA test which she wouldn't take from a complete stranger, also there was another factor that of Thoren but that would come much later if she was who he thought she was; later being if she visited Soloria and was the Bloom who was Princess of Domino, he would introduce them, but until that happened it was best that Thoren didn't get involved; no need to give him hope where there may not be hope; however there was the fact of the magic used was clearly the eternal flame which made it more likely she was the princess of Domino, but then he couldn't be certain.
The day went on rather normally at Alfea, well as normal as it could be in dimension where magic was real and super advanced technology was there and fully developed and being added to. To Bloom classes where either well behaved or in the case of Professor Palladium's class out of control; despite the wood elf's best efforts to keep everyone focused on the lesson, most of the class was already restless after Professor Dufour's lessons where she was more focused on behavior then on magic. Anything Palladium had to say regarding magical creatures Bloom couldn't hear over the constant gossiping of the three girls behind her and Stella's constant mumbling about trying to remove a hangnail from her thumb, also she was pretty sure Musa was phased out by something that made her look sad. The bell soon rang, and everyone left.
"Well I'm certainly hoping Alchemy will be better off then study of Magical creatures, I couldn't hear a thing over you Stella, and the three girls in back" Bloom chatted.
"Don't worry Professor Gelt is the no nonsense type, nobody misbehaves around him" Flora responded.
"Yes, Professor Gelt (he-he)" Stella stammered and giggled with a look of fear in her eyes.
"What's wrong Stella" Bloom stated.
"Oh, not much only he had me held back" Stella responded. "I'm the only one in our group that is 17, I got held back after an incident last year" she continued.
"What kind of incident?" Bloom asked.
"Oh, I blew up the Alchemy class on accident, he was extremely angry with me after that, also I basically failed the makeup assignments and extra homework that followed afterwards, Bloom whatever you do don't get on Professor Gelt's bad side he is not someone you want to anger, in fact it is probably for the best that we don't sit next to each other in class so he doesn't get the wrong idea" Stella stated then soon the Winx had arrived at the Alchemy Classroom, which had numerous tubes, beakers and other alchemical equipment as well as Cauldrons on each desk and well stocked shelves of alchemical ingredients, in the center of the room was Gelt's desk and Professor rose from it, he was rather tall about 6 feet in fact however that wasn't his most distinguishing trait the golden and crimson robes he wore only served to emphasize his golden face mask which was emotionless, also several spikes protruded from it those being decorative he also wore clock that was golden in appearance. "Welcome to Alchemy class students take you seats" Balthazar Gelt stated, everyone sat down at the chairs. "For tomorrow's lesson we will be taking field trip; not for fun but this field trip is for the most important stage of Alchemy; gathering ingredients. oh, and before you ask no we will not be learning how to turn lead or iron into gold today, that is still long ways of especially for Freshmen and especially you Stella" He continued glaring at Stella, Bloom was awestruck; in fact, more than awestruck essentially she had met a living breathing person who had been depicted in one of her Empire books. "For today's lesson we will learn how to make potions that focus magical energy allow the one who drinks them to use more powerful spells, we will start with the simple ones however as we have a batch of new students now take your seats" he concluded, everyone sat down, Bloom following Stella's advice and not sitting near her but rather sitting by Flora and Musa, everyone else had assumed their seats. "The time has come for role everyone say present as I say your name" Balthazar stated having picked up a clipboard and pen, the role followed in alphabetical order, he seemed to stop however when he came to Bloom.
"Here Professor" Bloom stated calmly, holding back her desire to ask him about him being the genuine real Balthazar Gelt, Supreme Patriarch of the Altdorf Colleges of Magic and one the most powerful spellcasters in the Warhammer fantasy battles universe, however there was a pause as if Professor Gelt was considering something, it was brief Bloom couldn't tell though what he was thinking do to his golden mask which concealed any emotion, that was if it was a mask and not his face, Bloom didn't want to dwell on that last part and after getting it out of her head Professor Gelt had already moved on to other people in the role. After role class proceeded in a way that was the exact opposite of Professor Palladium's class which had been riotous by comparison. Soon class ended, and everyone was released, and Bloom was stopped by Stella.
"Hey Bloom I just got the word that there is going to be a dance tonight, to welcome all the new students and I heard that the Red Fountain Specialists were invited, anyway I must see to getting a proper outfit for the occasion and I need to get you up to date on the latest news in the Magic Dimension" Stella stated and Bloom was soon dragged away by Stella and they ended up back in their dorm, where Stella handed Bloom a magazine of the latest news in the Magic Dimension. Bloom examined the magazine.
"So alright this is pretty graphic" Bloom noted looking at the image of angry blue haired princess clad in an elaborate dress throwing ice shards out of her hands at a terrified man of the same age whom Bloom assumed to be a Prince.
"What is, oh no I gave you the one I haven't read yet, hand it here and let me see" Stella responded yanking the magazine out of Bloom's hand. "Oh, this is so typical but still outstanding, apparently Princess Esdeath of Whisperia rejected another suiter, but she broke his arms in the process of throwing him out" Stella noted.
"So, this has happened before?" Bloom asked puzzled
"Of course it has, Princess Esdeath of Whisperia is currently the most eligible bachelorette in the Magic Dimension but also the most dangerous, her father is the Emperor of Whisperia and she has quite a list of accomplishments, anyway her father has been trying for three years now to marry her off but she has rejected every suitor that has come her way, either with a simple no or violently hurting them or in a few cases killing them, it would have started so many wars weren't for the fact everyone is too scared of the Empire of Whisperia to try, every prince, lordling, king and noble is out for her hand but she has so far rejected them all, looks like Prince Gortos of Loraton is no exception to this, which is a shame because she broke his sword arm" Stella answered.
"Wow she must make her father really angry" Bloom responded,
"She does but she doesn't care, and he could care less, as she is his heir and she happens to be the head of Whisperia's military and one of the most powerful Witches in the Magic Dimension; not to mention the list of her achievements and powerful magical artifacts she has in her possession on top of that she has a two-headed Dragon for a mount and pet" Stella responded back to Bloom who was shocked at the mention of a Two-headed Dragon.
"So, do you think she will ever get married?" Bloom asked Stella after she had recovered from shock.
" Yes but not any time soon, as she has already gone thru 185 suitors, and not to anyone she doesn't want to be married to; I do bet though that when she does decide who'll she'll marry her father won't do anything to stop it or care who she marries; but for the moment is he is content to keep going through every noble in the Magic Dimension until he finds one she'll marry and at the moment she is his biggest foreign policy crisis!" Stella responded and they both laughed at that, they were unaware however of the Faceless currently watching them and relaying everything to Erasiel, who while interested in Whisperia's politics was more interested in the fact that there would soon be a party later that night one he intended to use to his advantage.
Erasiel waited in the Trix's room as the three sisters were busy doing a variety of tasks to keep themselves entertained, soon a loudspeaker boomed inside the room startling all three Trix sisters and causing them to jolt up from whatever they had been doing, Erasiel was unfazed by the noise and listened to the message. "Attention Cloud Tower students, once again Alfea College is hosting a dance for new students with the Red Fountain Specialists, and once again the Witches of Cloud Tower have not been invited this year, there is only one thing for it and that is to continue our time honored tradition of pranks for the party; all students are encouraged to come up with the most dastardly prank for the event, applicants with such plans need only come to my office to receive my approval, the student with the best Prank and successful prank will receive extra credit in their worse scoring class for the rest of the year" Griffin's signature voice bellowed over the intercom.
"That sounds like fun!" Stormy yelled.
"It also sounds like an opportunity to get Stella's ring" Icy stated.
"All right then we have to think of plan now" Darcy responded, the three turned to Erasiel for ideas.
"I agree but in order to pull this off we are going to need information, I've got a way to get said information and you three well just need to sit tight, I need to make a phone call" Erasiel responded, then proceeded out of the room, down the hallway past a number of witches who were studying him with obvious interest and then went to the nearest bench, avoiding any hazards that came with sitting on a bench in school for Witches. Erasiel then picked up his Cell Phone and dialed the number he had received yesterday from Riven calling her.
At Red Fountain Riven answered her phone, "Riven, oh it's you Nathan"
"Indeed, it is, I was wondering about the dance tonight?" Erasiel responded.
"Oh that, a dance for Faeries and Specialist, fine if you are into that sort of thing, I'm not into girls nor are any of the guys at Red Fountain interesting to me, is this an invite to a date?" Riven responded.
"It is if you want it to be" Erasiel responded semi-cryptically.
"Well I'm for it, I didn't have anything else planned for the evening anyway, and if you're willing to go with me I have no problems" Riven responded.
"Yes, I'm willing, but I have a question about the dance, anything interesting happening?" Erasiel responded.
"Glad you accept, as to anything interesting, not much; the headmaster had this idea about give presents to the faeries from the specialists, not interested in that for obvious reasons but other than that not much" Riven responded.
"What kind of presents?" Erasiel asked.
"Hang on and I'll send you a picture" Riven responded, then hung up, a few minutes later Erasiel received a text with an image attached; a Golden egg decorated with stars. Erasiel called her back
"Lightspark Eggs, how novel and yet simple" Erasiel responded.
"Yes, and I have no idea why Headmaster Saladin is bothering to give them out in the first place" Riven responded.
"Thanks that's all I needed see you at the dance, I'll be there" Erasiel responded then hung up, he now had a plan; all he needed now was a scapegoat to take the blame, preferably one that would sow distrust in the faeries with regards to the Specialists; he knew what Saladin was planning with the Eggs and he had no intention of allowing it: the idea of Specialists dating so many of the lovely faeries of Alfea, that disgusted him and such relationships would not be fitting his plans whatsoever, not that he didn't object to marriages of love, but he hated when others tried to set up said relationship; also Specialists and Faeries as allies; no that wouldn't be good for what he had planned either, he intended to have Cloud Tower-Alfea Alliance specifically one in which Specialists who has disdain witches took second place, on top of that there was the fact many of those eligible Specialists came from noble families whose only interest was in seeing a marriage that strengthened them only.
Erasiel then left and snatched a Lightspark Egg from the shop before returning to Cloud Tower and the Trix, who were in the process of debating the most effective way to prank an entire school; their current plan involved cookies with a nasty spell to turn the eater into a frog for an hour. "That is an excellent plan for a later date, remember we want to cause a diversion here; also, it needs a plan to escape blame" Erasiel stated then dropped the Egg on the table.
"What's that?" Darcy asked.
"It's an egg Darcy" Stormy responded with annoyance and pointing out the obvious; "What is this some sort present for us?" she asked afterward.
"No, it is a piece of a plan, I called an associate of mine at Red Fountain and found out more about the dance; specifically, that the Specialists intend to give one of these to every fairy at Alfea; think of that as a starter" Erasiel responded, Darcy opened the egg and sparkle of lights emerged from it.
"Really this thing, they are giving one of these to every fairy; that is perfect; all we need to do is replace the eggs with something else" Darcy stated puzzled.
"What do we replace it with? Wait I know: poisonous snakes!" Stormy chimed in with a wicked smirk.
"No Stormy; too obvious and too dangerous, besides we were saving that spell for dealing with the rats in the utility closet; How about something nasty but not deadly like crows" Icy suggested.
"Great idea Icy, now all we need is a scapegoat I'll find one and be right back" Erasiel stated and left the room; he then pulled up a copy of the registry for Red Fountain to look for an obvious troublemaker; someone no one would miss and would be perfect to take the blame, after a few minutes of searching he found the perfect scapegoat: an idiot by the name Lucius Leary; a trouble maker who had a history of trouble even out of school, he also had a respectable and wealthy father who got him into Red Fountain; the guy had credit cards too, which Erasiel soon swiped; then disguised himself as Leary and purchased as many Lightspark Eggs as the store had left in stock then bought more from elsewhere until he had enough for his purposes, before returning to the Trix as himself.
"Now time for the plan itself; I will enter the dance from the front undercover to keep watch out front and make sure to put the eggs in Lucius Leary's bag, you three will infiltrate the school from the catacombs; no one will expect you coming from there also everyone should be outside but just in case make sure you aren't seen" Erasiel explained before Darcy interjected "Not be seen, piece of cake" before turning herself invisible.
"Wait can't we just go in the main gate?" Stormy asked.
"Too risky, besides I have an excuse to be there I have a date; now the plan from you three entering is to first head to Stella's room and grab the ring if it's there and replace it with this replica; it is functionally identical apart from the fact it isn't magical; then from there move on and turn the eggs into well real eggs with crows in them as planned; then exit by the way you came in; if the Ring isn't there don't go looking for Stella to take it from her, the Ring is secondary here; it's a case of its there then take it if it's not forget it" Erasiel continued to explain the Trix paid attention to detail and soon after going over the plan several more times and taking all advice they soon were ready, all the had to do now was wait for the dance to start.
Later that Evening...
Erasiel arrived at Alfea thru the front gate dressed in formal robes of the kind expected by a wizard attending a dance, though he wore no hat; he viewed hats as something you shouldn't wear to a dance or to any formal events. Erasiel immediately studied the surroundings the party was in full swing: Specialists and Faeries mingled and, in some cases, danced, then out of the corner of his eye he spotted the Winx: as they were calling themselves now; he liked the name it was catchy. He studied all five of them carefully and intensely; Bloom was wearing a light two-piece outfit that consisted of a crop top, detached sleeves with longs strings flowing from them, and a pencil skirt. Flora's outfit was a pink, floor-length dress with deep green decorations and a darker pink bodice. In her hair she wore vines of the same color and a pink rose. Her hair is in pigtail buns. Her shoes weren't visible. Stella's formal dress was a dark orange, halter neck style, top with a jewel in the center. The dress also consisted of a dark orange skirt and a pale orange under skirt underneath. Her headband was orange. She also wore light blue bracelets on her arms, and a light blue scarf on her neck. Her shoes were not visible, but he assumed they were same blue sandals that she wore with that dress; he recognized as being similar to the one she wore when she had transformed out of her Charmix form in the park. Musa's dress was exotic and certainly the latest in Melodian fashion her dress was a kimono-styled ensemble composed of a pair of flared pants in a fuchsia color with red swirls at the end. The pants were long enough to hide her shoes from sight. Her shirt was inverted of these colors, with it being a red, shoulder less flowy top with large dangle cuffs and fuchsia swirls at the cuffs and hem. The top was belted at the waist with a dark blue obi and gold strings. Her headdress was a red collar connected to the shirt with a fuchsia color on the inside, and pair of red headphones with gold patterns and blue ribbons hanging off. Lastly there was Tecna and she wore a gown not a dress her gown consisted of a pale purple dress with light green details and outline and a cloak of the same color. There was a strange circle on the top of her dress. Tecna was also wearing a crown and a headdress at the back. She had mysterious decorations on her back that looked like wings. She also wore light purple and blue boots. Each of the Winx was a beauty in their own way; he then scanned the crowd for Riven and she approached in a dress that resembled Blooms only purple and teal and she wore a purple fur boa around her neck and a short cape of the same color, her hair was down as well as somewhat less spikier then before with a spiked bun on the top of her hair, she wore a teal ribbon to tie it back and had a wolf shaped pin on the left side of her hair; she also wore a good deal more make-up, she was a completely different person then the woman he fought in the swamp yesterday.
"You look absolutely radiant" Erasiel complemented holding out his right-hand which she promptly took, he brought her hand up and kissed it.
"Thanks; Everyone from school thought I was telling them B.S. about me having a date; not that I care about what they think; by the way you look absolutely handsome, me I look like a gidget girl" Riven replied as a number of boys responded with dropped jaws.
"Kerborg" Erasiel called and the faceless took his staff and assumed the form of an ice sculpture holding said staff like one would a flag. "You still look beautiful; shall we dance?" Erasiel asked, she responded by grabbing his arm and placing it on her waist, she then placed her arm around his shoulder, and they began to dance to the music which was mixture of pop, techno and rock, as they danced Erasiel kept an eye out for Lucius Leary whom he soon saw, Lucius Leary was a skinny man who was decently fit with black hair in a spiky mohawk and numerous piercings in his ears, lip, chin and nose, he was repulsive with freckles and pale skin and teeth that were a dark yellow from poor hygiene overall the kind of person you wouldn't expect to see going to a prestigious collage for Warriors, wizards, sorcerers, sorceresses and battle mages. Erasiel soon saw the idiot make passes at a fairy: she was an elegant-looking girl with long, grayish blue hair that was somewhat curly. Her lips appeared reddish, while her eyeshadow seems purple. Her eyes looked to be blue-gray, she wore a blue gown with an icy pattern that made it shimmer, something that Icy would probably wear if she was invited to an event like this. The fairy rebuffed Leary's advances and moved elsewhere to dance alone. "What a yutz" Erasiel thought Riven noticed his distraction and looked at what he was looking at.
"Lucius Leary, there is an idiot if I ever knew, one, he actually was stupid enough last month to paint to his name all over Kordatura's office; man, that was enjoyable to see him get the crap beaten out of him by her, on top that he got detention for two weeks, Headmistress Faragonda must be awful nice to let him come here, he is an accident waiting to happen not that he isn't the only one" Riven stated Erasiel regarded her with a look of amusement, then whispered into her ear; which caused her to giggle. "So, you want to see him humiliate himself and have a plan to do it, go try it I'll make sure no one notices" Riven whispered back, Erasiel then walked over to a bench and found Leary's bag, and used a silent teleportation spell to put the eggs in his bag then he walked back to Riven and continued dancing, "So that's your plan?" She asked.
"Only part of it, I'll let you in on a secret, some friends of mine from Cloud Tower actually are going to crash the party with one of their pranks, and we planned to have Leary take the blame for it" Erasiel responded in a whisper.
"Oh, that's fun, hopefully it works" she responded with grin and a look of interest in her eyes she then kissed him on the lips softly.
"It will, the friends of mine are rather subtle about their work and they aren't the best at Cloud Tower for nothing" Erasiel replied after breaking the kiss then the music began to intensify and Tecna walked by, he then twirled Riven with one hand and grabbed Tecna's and twirled her with other , then gracefully caught Riven and began to dance with more intensity, Tecna was dizzy and but also had received a dose of Erasiel's blood from his ring this again caused her to trust him she soon stepped in and asked "May I have a turn?" to which both Riven and Erasiel agreed and he danced with both of them, soon other faeries, the other Winx included, would join their group as Erasiel danced with one girl to another as Everybody wants to rule the world by Tears for Fears played in the background.
Meanwhile the Trix had already entered the school and used the vacuums to locate Stella's room, they found a gold oyster shell shaped box that Kerborg said Stella kept the ring in and opened it: the box was empty apart from the orange fabric casing, they shrugged and left the room and reprioritized the Vacuums to search for the eggs, which the found not too far from the Teacher lounge which fortunately was empty, no students were about nor teachers or animals for that matter no witnesses at all and they found the chest where the eggs were being stored much like a pirate would his treasure; then they cast a spell to enchant the eggs, turning them into the crows eggs they had intended to turn them into, they then ducked out and escaped via the way they came in as if they hadn't been there in the first place.
Meanwhile Erasiel had become the life of the party with multiple girls dancing around him while he twirled Musa around him with her happily laughing in enjoyment before he wrapped his arms around her hips and she kissed him on the lips; much to the chagrin of the Specialists, the male ones anyway as the female ones were dancing with him, also Saladin who was annoyed by Erasiel's womanizing most of the time, and especially Griselda who had the face of a teapot about to explode; Faragonda was giggling hysterically at the sight. "Something must be done to put a stop to this headmistress!" Griselda irately commented loudly to Faragonda, who laughed at the suggestion.
"You mean to say that I should reign in your father for doing what he does best, really Griselda you have got to stop being a wet blanket let Erasiel do as he pleases, he's not under my control or anyone else's for that matter" Faragonda responded, then proceeded to laugh a merry laugh that only Faeries and Elves can while Erasiel alternated partners to the lovely Katy. Katy is a fair-skinned girl with chest-length, light brown wavy hair. Her eyes are dark brown. Katy wore a pink tank top with two very thin shoulder straps, along with a knee-length matching pink skirt that was worn underneath her top. She had on dark magenta gloves that stopped just before her elbows. Her hair was pulled back and straightened with a small flip along the edges, along with having two very thin loops of hair on top of her head, resembling mouse ears. Her shoes were high heel sandals the same color as her dress. She laughed as Erasiel preformed his dance moves
"Perhaps it is time for the gifts" Saladin chimed in diplomatically after Faragonda had stopped laughing, to which Faragonda agreed and then went to the nearby microphone.
"Attention students, the time has come for the gifts" Faragonda announced, then sent some of the professors to bring out the box from which Griselda began handing out gifts.
When Griselda came to Riven and Erasiel, Riven stated "No thanks, my date isn't from Alfea or Red Fountain, I have no interest in spark tricks" and Griselda walked by grunting. "I heard that" Erasiel stated, leaving Griselda from that point to smile creepily at everyone else she gave eggs to. A few minutes after the Eggs had been handed out they hatched and out of them came fully grown crows, which began to go in every direction which sent a number of Faeries and Specialists running around, Erasiel laughed at the spectacle and when a crow came his direction he roasted it with a fireball and swallowed it whole, then continued laughing, nobody commented about his laughing as a number of people were laughing however they had a sense of humor unlike the teachers who were busy shooing off the crows which flew off in any number of directions well all the teachers save Professor Defour who was terrified of the birds and was cowering in a corner.
Soon when the ruckus died down Griselda, who was covered in bird feces and feathers, came and yelled "Who is responsible for this, who stole the Lightspark Eggs and replaced them with these crow eggs?!" Griselda then glared at Erasiel and yelled "You have something to do with it don't you?!" to which Erasiel glared at her before responding.
"Griselda, what reason would I have to ruin a perfectly good dance, remember I stand to gain the most by the longer it goes on" Erasiel responded. "Also, I'm pretty sure the person who did this must be still here, I was here the whole time and I wasn't first person here" he continued, deflecting all suspicion off of him from everyone but Griselda; but that was normal Griselda always stuck her nose into other people's business and was too paranoid for her own good.
"Hey, I saw Lucius Leary skulking around earlier he had his bag with him" the Blue haired Fairy from earlier chimed in, Erasiel could tell she was lying but no one else did respond; it was obvious she was getting back at Leary for making unwanted advances towards her earlier; everyone looked at Leary who was standing there looking like an idiot who was stoned out of his mind as he was drooling, though he wasn't clearly on drugs. Griselda walked over and grabbed his bag which provoked a rise out of him and this prompted a tug of war which Griselda won after some effort on her part, her suspicions were off of Erasiel at this point, and she opened the bag to find it full of Lightspark Eggs.
"I didn't do it" Leary protested, and received someone's shoe in his nose, Erasiel noted it came from the blue haired girl who clearly had it in for him and made note of her for a future ally, suddenly a bunch of Specialists rushed to defend Leary claiming he had been framed, Saladin didn't bother interjecting himself into the resulting fight, which was started by a pig-faced buck-toothed specialist wearing a Bennie hat pinching Musa's butt causing Erasiel to yell "Hey Musa that guy grabbed your tail!" causing Musa to turn to said specialist next to her and back-hand him, hard, this resulted in a massive brawl, which Erasiel, Riven and the others stayed back from and for sheer laughs Kerborg had pushed Griselda in too; resulting in a massive brawl from which Erasiel made a few notes, A. Bloom had a mean Right hook, B. Flora always goes for a man's junk in a fight, C. the Blue Haired girl clearly hated the Specialist who had rushed to Leary's defense as she bit his hand hard, D. Don't mess with Musa as she delivers a mean slap, and E. Stella is more than willing to use her ring in scepter form as a quarterstaff. The fight began to get more out of hand when a couple faeries transformed into Charmix and began lobbing magic at a couple specialists, this prompted Faragonda to launch a green firework-like blast out of her hands into the air which stopped the whole thing.
"ENOUGH! This kind of rough housing is unwelcomed in my school especially when magic is involved!" Faragonda yelled into the microphone, the two Charmix faeries who had transformed quickly changed back before Faragonda could tell who they were; the gathering dispersed and a couple faeries had black eyes and bruises but the Specialists had taken the worst of the fight, most if not all were badly beaten with multiple having black eyes and lost teeth, Leary being the worst off having two black eyes and having had most of his hair torn out by someone probably the angry half-staved crazed weasel that Erasiel had lobbed in for good measure, Griselda was a mess and extremely angry with a face that would terrify an angry minotaur; Kerborg threw a pie at her and then laughed at her he was followed by practically everybody.
"ERGH! I'VE HAD ENOUGH OF THIS! I'm going elsewhere I have been thoroughly humiliated! I will be in my office, Headmistress you are in charge of discipline for the time being!" Griselda stormed then ran off, her tail feathers all in a mess as well as her hair and her outfit was torn in some places her humiliation was further added when her skirt split and fell off revealing her underwear to more laughter.
"As Griselda said, I'm in charge of discipline! The faeries who participated in that fight will have to clean the school this weekend without magic and are to remain in their dorm rooms when not at classes; anyone else who causes trouble will receive the same punishment and three hours of detention with mandatory work, also Professor Gelt is in charge of Detention this month so don't think you are getting off light!" Faragonda bellowed, her sweet voice now angry at the students.
This was a problem, Erasiel had unintentionally gotten the Winx punished for starting the fight he had started; Faragonda's punishment was fair but not to the people who started the fight, Erasiel then resolved to help them with their punishment, also he resolved to spray paint Red Fountain with unflattering and insulting images, also he resolved to write his initials on it. Erasiel then turned to the Winx and the other five faeries and said "My apologies I'll try and make up for this" which caused them to regard him with surprise that he cared about something that clearly wasn't his fault (That they knew of.)
"Headmaster Saladin I only assume a proper punishment will be given Leary for his Prank and the other Specialists for fighting" Erasiel stated, glaring at his friend with a look of; if you don't you're next as in what happened to Griselda will happen to you.
"Indeed, a suitable punishment, A weeks detention for those who participated in that fight and a month for Mr. Leary for his unbelievable prank" Saladin responded, which caused Erasiel to glare at him even more also caused his glasses to briefly go opaque enough that Saladin couldn't see Erasiel's eyes.
"That's too light my friend, at Graynor students who started a brawl like this around me received three months" Erasiel responded with a very stern expression.
"Yes, and I understand but there is the matter that many these students are nobles' sons and those that aren't are squires or retainers of some sort" Saladin responded.
"So, you're letting them off light because their fathers are some fat pigs sitting on cushioned seats and you don't want to offend them?" Erasiel responded.
"Well- "Saladin began but he was cut off by Faragonda who said "I have been light with my punishment to Erasiel don't think- "Erasiel interrupted her "They started the fight, that arrogant blackguard pinched Musa's tail I saw him do it" Erasiel responded pointing to the black-haired pig-faced specialist that had been standing by Musa earlier.
"Did not!" the pig-faced Specialist replied in a voice that resembled that of a donkey.
"That is beside the point, the punishment still stands" Saladin responded, Erasiel ignored Saladin, strolled pass him, then delivered an uppercut to Pig-faced Specialists nose, and a falcon punch to his gut.
"Erasiel!" Saladin yelled to which Erasiel responded. "He had that coming!"
"I'll tell my father about this!" the pig-faced boy moaned getting up.
"Yeah you will, and I'll rip him apart and devour that fat prick bones and all, I haven't eaten a fat noble in a while; just letting know I'm a Phoenix I do eat humans that cross me especially the fat arrogant variety they taste delicious so shove of and die you coxfither" Erasiel retorted, he then lobbed a rock at the noble's son who had just gotten back up to receive the rock right in the crotch. "Come on Riven, Kerborg we are leaving, I'll buy you both dinner to make up for this bullshit with that noble creep" Erasiel continued with both Riven and Kerborg following him, Kerborg handed Erasiel his Staff.
"Headmaster Saladin you must do something about that man, if you won't I'll have my father deal with him" the Noble Pig-face stated.
"There is nothing I can do with regards to him, he is out of my control and anybody's control actually he is the Head of the Wizard's Council; nothing for it, Also I would take that warning to heart, also you will have to walk back to Red Fountain as added punishment for your starting the fight" Saladin stated. Erasiel ordered telepathically to have Lethos and his Assassins make the pig-boy squeal but to use Beastman Weapons for the job.
Shortly… "So, do you actually eat people?" Riven asked.
"Yes, but only those who are my enemies, as well as criminal scum no one will miss, and on the offhand chance to impress some cult that I don't want to be eating ordinary populace and direct their interest into eating more choice cuts, like the aforementioned criminal scum" Erasiel replied.
"You have a lot of interesting things in your past don't you" Riven replied.
"Well I'm not a cannibal, I don't eat my own kind, so eating humans is fair game for one of my race, and I'm not the only one who does it, I'm in the majority though that only eats criminals and enemies though, there are some crazies who pray indiscriminately on Humans, but most of them we lock up in the Oblivion Dimension and they are few and far between" Erasiel replied, and Riven laughed as they strolled off to dinner and a movie.
Later that Night… Erasiel followed thru on his plan to vandalize Red Fountain however his plans turned rather gruesome thanks to the two Dark Elf Assassins which were lugging around the body of the pig-faced noble boy from earlier who had as a side punishment been made to walk back on foot to Red Fountain; they then hung him from the statue in the center courtyard of Red Fountain castle, his body wearing only the torn half his jumpsuit as his hat was stuffed in his mouth covered in his blood mainly from the fact he had been force fed his loins and his tongue before death; the body ripped by crude blades with blood still oozing from the wounds and was otherwise a mangled mess with dark brands scribed into it; Erasiel meant to send a message to the Red Fountain Specialists, don't mess with the Faeries at Alfea or him, nobody would miss the fat boy and he made sure the Assassins painted the bloodmark of the dark gods on the boy's chest in place of his lungs which now hung him from the statue; he also had them paint the seals and imagery of the dark gods over the front of the school, having the Beastman blamed for this was all too simple, with more effect he stole some totems from a local Beastmen herd stone and made it look all the more like they were behind the killing; Saladin would have his suspicions but he wouldn't blame Erasiel for the killing; Erasiel viewed it as a necessary punishment, and would probably be better for the family's subjects as they would probably have better leader in the future.
He returned to Cloud Tower to find the Trix fast asleep in their pajamas, Erasiel placed an egg on Icy's nightstand this was of the more pleasant kind, it would hatch in the morning.