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Chapter 4: A Positive Darkness

When I reach the dorm, I find my name written on the door along with Stella, Varanda, and a few other names. So, there must be several rooms in the dorm. I open the door and find all of the fairies standing around and introducing themselves to each other. They then all stop talking when I come in and turn their gaze towards me. I smile and wave shyly at them.

"Onyx! You're finally here! When I heard that I was going to have a roommate, I was about to complain to Faragonda, but then I saw that it was you, so I don't mind as much."

A girl with dark blue hair and pigtails steps up.

"Hey! So you're our final roomy! Nice to meet ya, the name's Musa from Melody, also known as the Harmonic Nebula."

"Nice to meet you too."

I shake her hand. Then another fairy who has light brown hair with blonde highlights in her bangs smiles sweetly at me.

"I'm Flora from the planet Linphea. It's nice to meet you."

"Oh the planet of nature?"

"That's right!"

I've always had a bit of trouble when it came to nature. I don't dislike it, but I just can't tune with it… ever. Maybe Flora would be a good help.

The last fairy has short hot pink hair. She takes out a device, probably one that she made, and she looks at it.

"Onyx… A Dark Ankelon from the planet Dersus."

"That's right. You have my information in there?"

"I have information on almost every student here. My name is Tecna. I'm from the planet Zenith."

Yup, that explains it. It's a pretty handy device she got there.

"You're an Ankelon?"

Musa looks surprised to hear that.

"I've never met an Ankelon in my life. I mean, I did feel that you weren't a fairy."

Flora then takes her turn to ask me questions.

"How come you're in Alfea? Aren't you supposed to be attending at Infinite Castle?"

"Well, since I'm a Dark Ankelon, they wanted me to be "immersed" in light magic, hoping that it'd "cure" me."

I say that with that sarcastic tone. I really don't think it'll work, but I do rather be here than around Ankelons.

"Girls! How about we go to Magix city? My wardrobe needs a major makeover for the new semester."

We all enthusiastically agree to Stella's idea, except for Varanda.

"Magix city?"

"You never went?"

I say while looking at Varanda, pretty surprised that she doesn't know the place.

"Um… Well… I've never been outside of my realm before…"

"And that's why we're here! We're going to show you everything that you need to see."

Stella puts an arm around Varanda's shoulder in a friendly manner. We all then get ready and head downtown.

Arriving there, Varanda is in awe, I don't really know at what though. Magix is indeed one of the most fashionable cities, but it doesn't have anything uncommon to it. What's even weirder, is that both her and Stella keep whispering things to each other. Is she just shy? I still can't help but feel like she's hiding something.

We go around several shops. Then, we go to a cafe and relax for a bit. Varanda then takes a device out of her pocket.

"I wonder why I haven't been getting any signals on my phone since I arrived here."

That's a phone? Is it a special model from Callisto?

"Give it here."

Varanda hands it to Tecna who looks at it and laughs.

"This is ancient!"

She then opens it up.

"I don't think this kind of technology exists anymore. Of course it won't get any signals. Do you urgently need to make a call?"

"Yeah, I was hoping I could call my parents."

Tecna then takes out a card from her pocket.

"Here's my phone card. I never actually use it, since I have a cellphone of my own, but I still carry it around. There's a phone booth right outside from here."

Varanda takes the card from Tecna's hand.

"Thank you so much, Tecna. I'll be back as soon as I'm done with this call."

She then runs out of the cafe. I have so much to say about how weirdly Varanda acts, but I don't think the girls would appreciate talking behind her back. I don't like talking behind people's back either. I just can't help thinking about how weird Varanda is. How come she has such an old cellphone? Is she an antiques collector? Or is it that Callisto is that far behind concerning technology? I've never been to Callisto so I don't really know. And what does she talk about with Stella? Is she just shy? I don't know anymore. I should stop thinking so much about it.

"Don't you think Varanda has been out there for a while?"

"You're right, Flora. It's been more than half an hour since she left."

Tecna answers Flora. It is strange. Maybe she's still talking to her parents? I'd never talk for that long, though, considering we're not exactly on good terms.

"Let's go check on her."

Stella gets up and we all follow her.

"Ah! She's not in the phone booth!"

Musa points at the booth. She really isn't. And she couldn't be at another one, since this one's the only one close enough. It's also pretty hard to miss.

"Did something happen to her? Maybe she got lost…"

Flora looks around worriedly. Something's fishy… I feel some eerie dark magic. It's not strong at all, for me at least, but Varanda might be in trouble.

"I feel some riled up magic… I think Varanda might be in trouble."

The girls all look at me with worry in their eyes.

"We have to find her!"

Flora looks like she's the one who's most worried out of all of us.

"Onyx, do you know where she is?"

Tecna calmly asks me.

"Yeah, follow me."

I dash towards the faint dark magic that I'm sensing. The girls are all right behind me. I feel the dark magic emanating from an alley.

"This way!"

When we arrive there, the sight makes all of my fairy companions gasp. The situation also troubles me a bit. Varanda is completely enveloped in ice. A witch with icy white hair, probably the one who trapped Varanda, is looking at her and mocking her. Two witches, one with short curly bluish hair and the other with long brown hair, are standing behind, enjoying the scene. Just as the witch is about to send a finishing blow to Veranda, Stella intervenes.

"Stop right there! Get away from her!"

Visibly annoyed and surprised by our presence, the witches shift their attention to us.

"More pesky little fairies?"

The witch with curly hair angrily says that while clenching her fists.

"Come on, Stormy, that just means we get to have a little more fun."

The witch that just said that is the one who's keeping Varanda captive. I guess she's my main target then.

"Fairies, we have to transform-!"

"You girls won't need to."

I interrupt Stella.

"I can take care of them easily. Just get Varanda out of there when I give you an opening. I'll hurt her if I try to do it."

They hesitantly agree and I start walking straight towards the witches. I don't think I'll even need to transform for this. These three probably haven't even graduated from Cloud Tower yet. The witch with white hair looks at me menacingly.

"Who do you think you are, little pixie? You think you're all that? I'll show you just how powerless you are!"

"Pixie? I'm sorry, but I think you're a little confused here. I'm not a fairy."

"What? Does that even matter? I'll still crush you!"

"Are you really sure about that?"

I then put my hand out in front of me.

"Destruction Sphere."

A pitch black sphere forms in my hand. The witch backs away.

"This magic… It's dark magic!"

The witch with long brown hair then steps forward.

"When it comes to dark magic, I've always got the upper-hand."

She says that now, but she's just not strong enough to sense magic levels. If I throw this sphere at them, they'll be seriously injured, or they might even lose their lives. I should just throw it at the wall to scare them. I direct my sphere at the wall. The ball of dark energy then hits the wall at full force and grows ten times bigger. The part of the wall that is hit then completely disintegrates, leaving a large hole. I see fear start to creep in the witches' eyes. In the meantime, Stella unfreezes Varanda.

"You don't want to mess with me, witches. That wasn't even a high level spell for me."

"Sisters, let's go. You haven't heard the last of us!"

The ice witch seems to be the leader. Whatever she says, the other two follow. Good thing this ended without any casualties. At least, not major ones… I turn towards the fairies who are warming Varanda up.

"That was amazing, Onyx! I've never seen an Ankelon's power up close like that."

"That was nothing, Musa… Other Ankelons are capable of much more interesting spells than mine. I can't even dispel anything. All I can do is destroy…"

Flora then comes and puts a comforting hand on my shoulder.

"But you used that power to protect us. You didn't hurt anyone either. In my opinion, that's what separates dark from light."

Flora… That's the first time anyone complimented my powers. All of a sudden, I feel very grateful to have met the girls. I walk towards Stella who's still trying to warm Varanda.

"Bloom! Bloom, are you alright?!"

Bloom…?

"Y-Yeah, Stella… Thank you…"

"Oh, Bloom, don't ever go wandering on your own like that again!"

"Stella…"

All of us look at Stella menacingly. I knew those two were hiding something!

"Alright, you two better tell us everything now, or I'm going to blast you with my Destruction Sphere!"

"Alright, alright! I'll tell you guys everything. Let's head back to Alfea and I'll tell you on the way. Can you stand Bloom?"

We start heading back to Alfea. On the way there, Stella explains to us that Bloom isn't actually from Callisto, but from Earth. We all express how we thought that Earth was completely void of magic since a long time ago. To get Bloom to enter Alfea, she made her act as Varanda, who gave a letter to Stella so that she could deliver it to Alfea, saying that she will not be attending the school that year.

"So that's the whole story… Please girls, can you keep it a secret?"

"Well, I don't like to lie, but this is a special case…"

Tecna says with a bit of concern showing. We reassure the two girls, telling them that their secret is safe with us.

When we arrive at Alfea, it's already past curfew. As soon as we enter through the gates, Griselda is there to "greet" us.

"You girls have the guts to arrive late after the little trick you played on us?"

"Trick? Hehe…"

Stella nervously giggles.

"You know exactly what I'm talking about, Miss Stella! And you two Miss Varanda!"

She emphasizes on the name Varanda. She figured it out didn't she…

"Did you really think you could fool us? You are not Varanda of Callisto! What you did is unforgivable!"

"It wasn't her idea-!"

"No, Stella… It's my fault, Mrs. Griselda… I'm not Varanda of Callisto."

"For this transgression, young woman, you will be permanently expelled from Alfea! As for you, Miss Stella, you will be suspended for a month!"

That took a turn for the worse…

"Now, now, Griselda."

Ah! Headmistress Faragonda!

"Headmistress?"

"I do agree that lying about that is a serious issue. However, all fairies who earnestly wish to learn are welcome at Alfea. What's your name dear?"

"My name is Bloom, Headmistress… I'm from Earth."

"Again with the lies?! This child never learns! There's no way she's from Earth!"

"I don't think she's lying, Griselda. I will officially enrol you in Alfea. From now on, however, you better not lie to us about such major things. Back to your rooms now, ladies."

We all head back to our dorm. That's a relief. Now we won't have to keep such a huge secret anymore. Today was very eventful. I wonder how I'll be able to handle the classes I'll be taking.

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