The Hard Knock Fairies
ONE DAY LATER...
MAGIX MAXIMUM SECURITY PRISON...
(BLOOM'S P.O.V.)
"Can I please, talk to a guard?" I yell through the bars of the cell as officers pass by. Ever since me and Jasmin got here yesterday, I've been ignored totally. "Hey, hey hey. You!" I wave a guard down and he walks over to my cell. "Can I get a phone call or something?"
"This is Magix. Not Earth. Phone calls will not be granted to villains." The guard harshly says in my face and begins to walk away.
"But, I'm not a villain. I'm a Winx"
"Winx don't work for Callister. Sorry." The guard turns and walks off down the hall.
"I didn't do it on purpose! I was under a spell!" I yell before he gets out of view.
"That's what they all say."
An unknown voice says from across the way. A figure emerges from the darkness of the cell across from mine. As she comes into the light I can make out her face. Her skin is a faded dark blue color. Her hair is navy blue with white streaks and her eyes are a sharp metallic icy light blue. I can tell she is an older woman by her facial features, around her mid 30's.
"What do you mean?" I ask.
"Almost all who come here say, they didn't do it on purpose. All want to be freed, yet none want to just simply pay the price." She sticks her arms through the bars and leans forward. "You're Bloom right? You worked for Callister."
"Yeah, but not willingly. He did something to us. Me and this other fairy. Her name is-"
"Jasmin. I already knew her." The woman's face snarls up when she says her name.
"How?" I turn my head to the side and look at her distant expression.
"Doesn't matter. Just know, that in here, watch your back. The government will find a way to punish you. Guilty or not." The woman walks over to a wall and slides down.
"I'm not guilty." I urge at her.
"Yeah, yeah. We'll see." She quietly says.
A swarm of guards approach my cell. One gets out a large key and unlocks the cell door.
"Inmate P18B99D. You have visitors. Roll out."
I walk through the door and a guard handcuffs me. As the other guard locks my cell again, I glance at the woman.
"Wait, who are you?" I ask as the guards begin to usher me away.
"Lynx Borealis is the name kid." The woman says as I start to walk out of her earshot.
A sudden realization comes over me as I remember Jasmin telling us about Aaliyah's story.
That's her. Lynx.
I walk into a room filled with tables and chairs. Guards and officers roam around the room as other inmate converse with family members. I look around and see my mother, father, and sister all waiting at a table for me. I rush of embarrassment comes over me as I reach the table and sit in front of them. As soon as I sit, Daphne hops up and hugs me tightly.
"Oh, Bloom! We've missed you so much." Daphne's voice breaking entirely breaks my heart. She chokes back a sob and releases me. She sits back down and recomposes herself.
"We know you don't want us to sugar coat everything for you, but it's not looking to well." My dad tells me as he reaches for my head.
"What's not looking too well?" I turn my head to the side.
"The government officials are pissed." Daphne responds as she wipes her face.
"They barely let me and Mya go yesterday. Something about how history repeated itself and the best way to prevent it in the future is to have those who possess the power of the dragon flame and the water stars to be either banned from Magix or locked away forever, not continuing the legacy." My mom says looking at her feet.
"But if we don't continue the legacy, wouldn't the dimension be thrown out of balance?" I ask.
"I think that's a risk the officials are willing to take upon themselves." My dad rubs the back of my hand.
"That's terrib-" My sentence wanders off as Mya, Thomas, and Aaliyah walk through the doors of the visiting room. Mya smiles and walks over. She hugs my mom and dad. Thomas comes over a gives my dad a man hug, and Aaliyah rushes to Daphne. They walk over to the empty table next to us.
"Did you tell her?" Mya asks.
"Yeah." My mom responds.
"Hopefully my sister can persuade the court in our favor for you and Jasmin." Mya says more to me than the rest.
"Where Jasmin?" Thomas asks me.
"I have no clue. I haven't seen her since yesterday when we first got here." I tell him. When the doors the the room open Jasmin walks through, in handcuffs surrounded by guards. She has a weary look on her face, but soon a smile appears once she sees the rest of us.
She walks up to the table and the guards leave. Aaliyah moves to her side of the table and hugs her.
"I'm so glad you're safe."
"Thanks." Jasmin casts her head down and looks at her lap. "What's been going on?"
"Lots of stuff, but besides that. How are you?" Thomas asks her. She looks at him with sad eyes and frowns.
"Why did this have to happen?" Jasmin asks the question that's been burning on our lips since the start. The question so small, yet held so much depth.
"Sometimes, well, life gives you things slowly. This was thrown at you two and life wants you to grow from it. Situations like these make people stronger or weaker. It's up to you to decide what you would rather gain." My dad begins to preach on our predicament. Jasmin's face bumps up into a faint smile.
"Uh, how are our friends?" Jasmin asks looking intently at our families. They all look at each other and shrug.
"We haven't really seen them much." Daphne says to us.
"But, I have a strong feeling they know something. They've all been really secret for the past couple of weeks." Aaliyah adds.
"Can they come visit us?" I excitedly ask.
"Yeah. I feel like I need to apologize." Jasmin adds in. Thomas shakes his head no.
"Only family is allowed to visit inmates in here."
"When do we get out of here?" I ask. A guard from across the room begins to shout.
"1 minute left! Inmates have 1 minute left!"
"The dates are probably being finalized right now. The officials had to regroup and discuss the outcomes." My mom tells us.
"You'll most likely be in here for the rest of the day and a little of tomorrow since the situation is so dire." Mya lifts the bottom of her dress and moves around the table. Everyone else begins to get up.
Our families surround us and pull us all in a big group hug.
"Stay safe in here okay." My mom rubs my head and my dad kisses my forehead. The guards come our way and escort them out of the visiting room.
"Lunchtime inmates!"
LUNCHTIME...
When our families left, it was time to eat. The guards escorted me and Jasmin out of the visiting room and into the cafeteria. Prisoners flanked the stone cold room, running into the lines. Some prisoners glared at me and Jasmin, some whispered "fresh meat" passing us by.
Me and Jasmin stayed glued to each other's side as we slowly walk into a line. A huge burly female came and cut in front of us in the line.
"Uh, excuse me?" Jasmin tapped her shoulder. The sasquatch like woman turned around and grunted at Jasmin, her breath reeking of feet and iron. I shook my head at Jasmin, warning her not to upset the beast. Jasmin pinched her nose as her eyes teared up. "W-we were in- line first."
"Grr!" She seemed affronted at Jasmin's actions, but then began to laugh. Me and Jasmin looked at each other confused. She kept laughing, but then her face immediately changed into a cold glared directed at Jasmin.
The woman picked up Jasmin from her stomach and threw her into a lunch table, her back smushing other inmates meals.
"Hey, newbie! I was gonna eat that." One inmate shoves Jasmin off of the table and walks back in line.
Jasmin falls to the floor in a heap. This is exactly why I told Callister to feed her. She looks to skinny and fragile to fight. I walk out of line and over to Jasmin to help her up.
"Are you alright?" I pull her up as she wipes the food off.
"I will be." Jasmin says coldly as she walks back over to the burly female in line. Jasmin taps her on the shoulder again. When she turns around Jasmin revs her fist back and punches the girl square in the jaw. I run over and pull Jasmin away as the girl turns her head in pain. She clutches her face, rubbing her cheek. It starts to swell and turn red.
Well Jasmin might be skinny, but definitely not weak.
The rest of the inmates around us see the scene unfold and begin to chant.
"Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight!"
The burly sasquatch walks over to Jasmin and slaps her hard across the face. The inmates form a circle around them, egging the fight on. Jasmin steps back and kicks her in her stomach. She falls on her back. Jasmin runs over and sits on top of her and starts to punch the girl in her face more. The inmates chant more.
"Ooooh!"
"Damn!"
"Get her newbie."
"Fresh meat! Fresh meat! Fresh meat!"
The girl grabs Jasmin by the hair and throws her off. The girl gets up first and grabs Jasmin's shoulders. She knees Jasmin in the stomach and Jasmin hunches over in pain. She throws Jasmin on the floor again and walks over to her. I decide to try and pull Jasmin out, but one of the girl's friends runs up to me and shoves me on the ground with Jasmin.
Her friend comes over to me and kicks me in my back. I look up and see her fist coming down towards me. I move to the side and her fist smashes into the hard floor. She screeches in pain. I move and stand up. I kick the girl to the ground and go to Jasmin. She jumps up and puts the girl in a headlock, bringing her down to her height. Jasmin begins to punch the girls face again, bruising her nose, blackening her eye. Her friend comes up from behind me and drags me away by a table. She grabs my neck and smashes my face into a plate of food.
"Take that, fresh meat!"
I use my arm to find her face. My hand finds her face and I press my nails into her skin, scratching her face. She lets me go and falls back, clutching her face. I come up and take a deep breath.
Some guards rush in and break up the fight. They take me and Jasmin and put us back in chains. They escort us out of the room and down a hall.
"Where are you taking us? You passed the cells." Jasmin asks.
"Temporary solitary confinement. Unfortunately, almost all are full, so you two will have to share."
We arrive at the cell which looks more like a dungeon. The guard throws open the door. They remove the chains around our wrists and shove us in the cell.
SOLITARY CONFINEMENT...
Me and Jasmin sit on either side of the cell, bored out of our minds. Both of us to conflicted to start up a conversation. The two of us never really had an in depth conversation about much of anything. We bonded with our powers the evening of the party and that's it. Every other interaction had been about evil doing for Callister, or relationships. Not a regular girl talk between the two of us, as we are.
There's a lot of tension in the room. Between the two of us. Both of us feeling intimidated by the other. All this time of me thinking I was the most powerful. Always feeling like the Winx and I were doing all of the work to protect Magix, not knowing that we were only protecting one side of Magix while Jasmin and her friends all protected the other half.
The pressure of Magix needing the most powerful hero always weighed on me. But now, knowing that I have an equal, the pressure feels lifted. I have someone who fully understands me. Jasmin knows what it's like to carry such great power, to feel pressured by your peers, feeling alone. But no, that we've found each other, we can do it together.
There's still so many questions unanswered though. The many elephants in the room making the pressure unbearable. So many questions on why we never met, why no one on this side of Magix knew about the other. How can we be so close to each other, yet not know we existed. Something only those who were around way back then know. But now, it's about me and Jasmin, so I plan to solve all of those mysteries starting with Jasmin. I muster up the courage and start up a conversation.
"So... where did you learn to fight like that? It was pretty impressive." I ask, looking at her with hopeful eyes.
She looks over at me and chuckles. "Brandon and Marcus."
I laugh with her. "Why?"
"They thought I would need to know, so on Eraklyon, they always started to pick and mess with me and Diaspro, making us fight back. We were bad at it, so they tried their best to teach us what they learned from the guards." She told, reminiscing the past.
"What else did they teach you?" I sit up and cross my legs, getting ready to hear her story.
"Trevor and Thoren taught me sword fighting. We had play swords, but they let me try to beat them."
"So, Aaliyah knows how too?"
"Yeah. They tried to teach Diaspro, but she struggled with it. " We started to laugh and roll on the ground.
"What about Sky?" I ask.
"He got a mini wind rider for his 9th birthday. When he did he let me use it and I fell off and broke my wrist." She said as she started to crack up on the floor. I joined her and we continued to laugh breathless. "I got better at it eventually. I'm a pro now."
"Did you guys keep in contact when you got banned." I said, sitting up and recomposing myself.
"I only kept in contact through Marcus. I was certain times I went to Red Fountain and said hello. Other than that not much."
"That's crazy. All the connections we both have to Red Fountain and we still never met." I say, thinking to myself at the chances.
"It would seem that the schools in Magix all seemed to know, but didn't say anything." She looked off into the distance. "Hey do you know a girl named Chimera?"
"Oh yeah! Stella hates her guts. She's from Beta though. How did she know about the other side."
"She got a chance to move. Her mom Cassandra got engaged to some king and all that and she was able to move. I think that's the only way to travel across." She replied.
I think back to when we first met Chimera. We've all come a long way. Jasmin begins to ask me a question and it shakes me out of my thoughts.
"Bloom, are you a virgin." My eyes widen and I choke on air.
"Well that's a little blunt." I laugh. "But no- I'm not."
"When and where?"
"7 months ago in March, on Earth." She laughed at my response. "What's funny?"
"Was that the only time?" She asked still giggling.
"No, it happened again throughout the year, but since we were taken nope." I reply back. "What about you?" I ask.
"9 months ago in January. He had turned 18, so I went to his castle and things got steamy. And it kept on occuring like every month." She said, blushing.
"Did you guys follow the rules of virginity for royals?" I ask her.
For royals, there was this saying that we were supposed to save ourselves until we turned 18.
"We tried our best. He turned 18 in January and I turned 18 in July. I was still 17 at the time." She explained looking embarrassed.
"Ooh, bad girl." I teased her and she nudged me.
"If you think that's bad you should talk to Ava. She and Logan lost it at 16, 2 years ago." She gossiped to me. My eyes widened.
"Really!" I egg her on for more.
"Ava is a wild one and Logan loves her for that."
We go silent for a while. Just thinking to ourselves. aone of the many elephants in the room being approached.
"Hey Bloom." Jasmin talks to me as her head leans back on the wall again.
"Yeah." I respond to her.
"I'm glad I met you." She said looking at me. I lift up and stare at her.
"Why?" I ponder. "It seems that because we met, all this chaos broke out."
"Because." Jasmin crawls over to me and sits beside me. "I feel like, out of all of my friends, even Caitlin and Ava, who been with me forever, you can understand me more than they ever can."
"I feel the exact same way."
"Right. We both have the two biggest powers in Magix. I thought it was all me, alone. But, now I know that you feel the same as me. I know that you've had a different life on Earth and you're like semi-new to Magix, but you get me. We're amazing together." She grabs my shoulders and tells me directly in my eyes.
"Maybe that's why Callister wanted us to meet first. Our powers are 100% opposite and so dangerous against each other, but when they're together, it's the most powerful thing ever." I say grabbing her shoulders too.
"We'll get through this together, but first we need a plan to defeat Callister. He has total control of Magix's main kingdoms and it's non stop storming in Callisto. What are we gonna do?" Jasmin gets up and paces the room.
"Remember Callister's spell book that was in our room. He always told us to look at the page he left open." I stand up with her.
"The Bonding Vanquishers. He said we might need it in the future. He said we can use it to bond our powers faster." She says.
"But, this time we'll use it to destroy him. You remember the chant for it?" I ask her. At the same time, we recite the chant.
A timeless fairy, reincarnated through the ages
From the rise of Magix, power take her soul
All my power is to go, a fairies essence and spirit
Makers of this dimension rise and find your match
Invested deep in our souls cross, and don't come back
"When you say it out loud it sounds a little creepy." Jasmin says going over the words again in her head.
"Well it was written centuries ago by our ancestors." I tell her. We both say their names out loud.
Bryleria and Dometri
"The first saviors of Magix themselves." Jasmin says in admiration. "Let's do them justice Bloom."
"For sure." I say as we high five.
A guard comes up and at us through the very tiny slit in the cell door.
"Lights out inmates!" He slams the slit shut. A few seconds later he opens it up again. "If I were you, I'd get rest. You two are going on trial tomorrow." He slams it again and walks off.
Me and Jasmin walk over to the bunkbed in our cell. I sit at the bottom bed and she jumps up to the top one.
"Goodnight Jasmin."
"Goodnight Bloom."
See ya later...
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