Chapter 3: Sian and Melanie

Selina lay on the couch all night, but she couldn't sleep. She was thinking about what to do. The Winx had gone back to their room. She was alone. Having the Winx to be her companions was a nice think. She smiled to herself. The air around her was warm and friendly. Well, she didn't want to sleep, but she had to so that she would be ready for a new mission tomorrow.

The moment Selina was waiting for finally came. The sun was beautiful. Selina wandered around the lounge, waiting for the others. The Winx gathered around. They talked about the mission again.

'So, did you get any stone?' Selina asked.

'What do you mean?' Aisha questioned 'We don't take them. We only protect them.'

'Can you?' Selina looked at the other, surprisingly.

'We succeeded in protecting the Abstruse Aquamarine and the Occult Sapphire.' Tecna replied 'Why do we need to take those stones?'

'Yes', Bloom agreed 'We don't need the power'. Everybody was still unclear.

Selina had to explain 'We don't know when will they come and take the stones, how can we stop them. The best way to avoid them from having the stone is taking those stones before them.'

The Winx agreed 'Ok, let's follow what you say'

'By the way', Selina said 'Did you solve all the riddles?'

'What do you mean?' Stella was confused.

'Solve what?' Flora supplemented.

Everyone seemed to be puzzled. That made Selina surprise, in fact, she was very surprised 'So how could you know where the stones are?'

Musa looked at Selina for a while, in curiosity 'Tecna used her technological devices to find out where they are. It only takes a second.'

'What?' Selina frustrated.

'What about you? How did you find them?' Tecna asked.

'Never mind', Selina answered.

If she had known that the Winx could find the location easily, she wouldn't have stayed awake all night to search for them.

They continued to talk about their plan.

Suddenly, they received an S.O.S.

'Who is it?' Flora asked.

Aisha looked serious 'Ninfea'

It said 'Help us! They attack again. They want to have the Occult Sapphire in any price.'

'Alright', Bloom said 'We in that case, we'll stop them once and for all'

The Winx stood up 'Magic Winx, Bloomix', Selina also transformed. 'Let's go'

When they arrived at the Pixie Village, they saw a chaotic sight. Sian and Melanie were there. Selina hid behind Bloom. Actually, she didn't scare. She did it because she didn't want them to see her. That's all!

'Leave them alone', Bloom shouted at Sian.

Selina looked at that girl. She was a few years older than Selina. She might be at the same age with the Trix. She had straight long light blue hair and wore a dark stylish outfit. She was the Witch of Venom and her magic was light pink. Another one was Melanie. She was young, golden half bun and half plait hair. She was dressed in white top and skirt. She was pretty, but when Selina looked at her eyes, the Fairy of Darkness was standstill. Chill came from inside gave Selina a feeling that Melanie was a very evil witch.

'Raise of Snowstorm', Melanie opened her eyes widely. Bitter winds blew round and formed a snow vortex. It froze everything around it, including the pixies.

'Lilac Vortex', Flora tried to stop the vortex, but she couldn't.

'Let me help you', Stella said 'Ray of Pure Light'. Unfortunately, the vortex was too strong. Melanie saw that. She left the vortex, flew to Sian and smirked.

Selina looked at the vortex. She came up with an idea.

She whispered to Bloom 'If we want to stop the vortex, we'll have to stop the one who forms it.'

'Got it', Bloom replied.

The Fairy of the Dragon Flame looked at Melanie. 'Volcanic Attack', colorful steam of magic flowed toward Melanie. 'Wall of Venom', Sian protected her sister. Melanie smirked.

'You think you can stop us?' Sian said.

Things didn't go as Bloom thought. However, that was what Selina wanted. When the witches put their focus and attacks on Bloom, she quietly went behind them.

'Thrashing of Shadow', she commanded. A dark blast appeared and hit Melanie. She fell down. The Fairy of Darkness didn't even give Sian time to turn back. She threw another blast toward Sian.

That was hurt. Sian turned back.

'The Winx never play like this, they're not that artful. Who are you?' she tried to have a look 'S-Selina? How? How can it be?'

~Stop~

Do you think that Selina cared about that? The answer is yes and no.

~Continue~

When Sian was still surprised, Selina shot her again. It made Sian felt down.

But it didn't make any sense. Since the witches focus their attacks on Bloom, the girl was a little injured. Flora saw that. She quickly flew to Bloom.

'Are you still hurt?' she asked.

'No', Bloom answered 'I'm ok'.

'Look!' Tecna suddenly shouted 'The village, it is frozen'

'Don't worry. Leave it to me and Bloom' Stella said. Selina flew to them 'That's right'.

'You have no right to say that, Selina.' Aisha frowned 'Bloom is injured, and it is because of you'

'Please don't be angry, Aisha. I'm fine', Bloom said. Aisha ignored. She was very angry. How could a fairy do that to her friend?

Bloom and Stella had to do their job right away. 'The combination of Fire and Light', they held each other's hands. A huge wave of heat travelled outward from the girls and cast away the snow.

'We did it!' Stella shouted.

Everyone cheered, except Selina. When she looked down to the ground, she didn't see Sian. That made she worry. Suddenly, she noticed something seemed to be terrible.

The Fairy of Darkness tried to go and stop it.

However, Aisha blocked her way 'We haven't finished the conversation yet'.

'Let me go', Selina shouted.

'I won't', Aisha replied 'You are a fairy and you can let your friend sacrifice like that'.

'I know', the other girl said 'But I need to go right now'.

Aisha looked at Selina; the Fairy of Darkness seemed to be very anxious 'Ok, I'll let you go'.

Unluckily, it was too late. Melanie shot bolts of magical snow toward the girls. 'Digital Room', Tecna used her power to protect them. 'Infinite Echo', Musa fought back. 'Snow Orb', Melanie stopped the spell. The fight made Selina couldn't go anywhere.

'I've got what we need' Sian voice nearly broke Selina's heart 'We can leave'.

Melanie looked at Sian, who was holding the stone in her hand. 'Goodbye, losers'.

They disappeared.

'They've got the Occult Sapphire', Flora sat down, upset.

Selina tried to look away from the Winx. Aisha noticed what she had done. It was terrible. Stella and Musa held each other's hands sadly. Tecna didn't say anything she shook her head.

'Anyway', Bloom said 'We should return to Alfea'.

When they arrived at Alfea, they met Ms. Griselda 'Headmistress Faragonda wants to see all of you'.

Everyone seemed to guess that Ms. Faragonda knew everything. They walked to her office.

'Good afternoon, Ms. Faragonda', the Winx greeted as they entered her office. Selina also bowed.

'Girls', the headmistress said 'I know what happened'.

There was no reply.

'Do you have anything to say?' she continued.

'I'm sorry', Selina finally replied 'It's my fault'

'I'm very disappointed', Faragonda shook her head.

'No', Aisha interrupted 'It's my fault. She would have stopped them if I hadn't blocked her way.'

However, Aisha didn't look at Selina.

'Well', the headmistress stood up and walked to the window 'I hope you can learn a lesson from what happened. You know that Selina only has the Enigmatic Amber, but Joshua has the Fanciful Emerald and Sian, Melanie have the Subtle Ruby as well as the Occult Sapphire.' she was quiet for a moment 'Things are getting worse. The universe is in your hands. If you continue to act like this, you know what will happen.'

'We're sorry', the girls said.

Faragonda turned to the Selina 'The Winx asked me to let you stay here and I agreed. Do you know that?'

'Yes, I do', she answered.

Then, they went back to their dormitory.

Aisha walked to her room and sat on her bed and gazed at the window.

'You don't agree with what Selina did, do you?' Stella walked toward her friend.

'Yes', Aisha, replied 'But I even angry with what I did. I-I…'

'Stop, Aisha', Stella sat next to her friend 'It is over. Please don't think about it anymore. What you should do now is going to bed and forgetting about what happened.'

Stella put her hand on her friend's shoulder.

'But…but if Selina still mad at me…' Aisha was a little bit worry.

'Don't worry' Stella stood up 'Everything will be fine'.

Aisha nodded.

The Fairy of the Shining Sun turned off the light and walked out of the room.

'Is she alright?' Tecna asked 'I'm very worry about her.'

'It's ok now' Stella gave her a small smile 'All we need is a talk to Selina.'

The two walked to the lounge, where Bloom, Flora, Musa and Selina were.

'I'll sleep here tonight again', Selina pointed at the couch, a blanket appeared and spread on it.

'No, no', Bloom used her magic to put it away, 'You'll stay with me and Flora'

'Yes, I've already put a bed there', Flora added.

'Look like you don't want to hear them talking to you about what happened today when you're about to sleep', Musa mused 'Am I right?'

She seemed to spoke Selina's mind and the fairy couldn't say anything. Musa was right.

'You don't need to wait until then', Tecna said 'Because we're going to talk about it right now'.

'And for sure', Stella added.

Selina turned away and faced the wall.

'Don't try to avoid it', Flora shook her head 'You can't'.

'That's right', Musa folded her arms.

The poor girl looked at her childhood friend and asked for help. But of course, she was refused.

'I know', Selina finally opened her mouth 'I know that I was wrong when I did it. I shouldn't do that to you. But I didn't want to admit. I'm sorry.'

'We understand', Bloom smiled.

'By the way', Stella said 'I wonder if you could forgive Aisha. You seemed to be very angry at her.'

'I'm the one who need to be forgiven', Selina said 'After all, I'm only a greedy and selfish girl who wants to do things alone. If I had told you about it, thing would have been different.'

'It is over', Flora said. 'Don't mind about it anymore', Tecna added.

'Tomorrow will be a different day' Stella stood up. Selina smiled. 'That's our girl', Musa teased.

'Oh', Bloom looked at the clock 'It's nearly midnight'

'What?' Stella shouted.

'Is there anything wrong?' Musa started to worry.

'Staying up late is BAD FOR YOUR SKIN' was the answer which Musa received.

The girls went back to their rooms and turned off the lights.

The glorious sun started a new day went the lights playing on the surface of the well. Alfea woke up due to the sound of the magical creature.

It was early in the morning. Bloom and Flora were still sleeping. Selina walked to the lounge alone, where she saw Aisha, who was running on her morphix machine. Selina was puzzled. She didn't know what to do or say.

'Hi', Selina suddenly heard a voice 'How was last night?'

Aisha left off running and the machine vanished.

'Well', Selina replied 'Very nice'

'I'm sorry', Aisha said 'For what I have done'

'No, no', the Fairy of Darkness interrupted 'It was MY FAULT'.

'It looks like we were both wrong', Aisha gave a small smile and so did Selina.

'By the way', Selina looked at her friend 'Thanks for saving me from Joshua in Domino back then'.

'Never mind' Aisha replied 'We're friends'.

The girls started chatting happily and it was a sign of a new friendship.

When Stella woke up, the room was empty. 'Where is Aisha?' she wondered 'Doing her exercises again?'

The Princess of Solaria got out of her bed. She wandered around for a while. She thought of the mission and the stones. Luna had secretly told her that the Illusory Citrine had to be left untouchable. But why did she do that? Wondering a few seconds, Stella picked up the phone.

The lounge was full of noise when Stella went in. Everybody had already shown up.

'Stella, you're late', Aisha gave her friend a quick look.

'You missed our discussion about what had happened to us and Selina before we met each other.'

'Forget that anyway. We're talking about what to do', Flora smiled.

'Join in', Bloom said.

The Princess of Solaria sat down on the couch.

'We decide to have a little visit to your realm for the Illusory Citrine' Tecna looked at Stella.

'Stella!?' Flora asked 'What is happening to you? You look sad.'

'Is there anything wrong?' Bloom tried to look at her friend's face.

'Tell us', Aisha said in a worry tone and held her friend's hand.

'We can't … the Illusory Citrine … the suns … Solaria', Stella's voice whimpered and hard to be heard.

'It looks like she wants to tell us something that will disappoint us', Selina guessed.

Everyone seemed to be quiet.

'The Illusory Citrine is a magical stone which supports the suns of Solaria, the suns of the whole Magic Dimension. If this stone is taken from its position, all the three suns will be affected and stop shining. And of course, the King of Solaria will be the first one who collapses and dies. Is that what you want to say, Stella?'

The girls looked at the door where the voice came from.

'Daphne', Bloom asked 'Why are you here?'

'All of you know why', the nymph answered and took a seat on the armchair near the girls.

'I thought that you told us that this mission was easy and we could handle it ourselves, you didn't want to help.' Tecna reminded.

'And you said that you needed to do something else', Musa added. However, the Nymph of Sirenix ignored them.

'Daphne', Flora asked 'How do you know that?'

'I told you that I went on that mission. How could I don't know that?' Daphne replied.

'Anyway', Selina questioned 'Why are you here when you told them you didn't want to put your hand in that mission again?'

'If I had known that Joshua's back, I wouldn't have said those words', Daphne answer 'I saw him yesterday in Melody when I was doing my History of Magic project so I come here to view the situation'

'So do you have any advice for us?' Bloom asked.

'Actually, I…' Daphne replied 'I forget it.'

'Hey', Stella reminded 'We are going too far'

'Oh', Bloom said 'We almost forget.'

Suddenly, they heard something rang.

'Your phone, Aisha', Musa told her friend.

'Oh yes, thanks for reminding me', Aisha whispered and picked up the phone.

'Anyway', Daphne turned to Tecna 'Where will we go?'

'Calm down, Daphne', Selina smiled 'You look so anxious. I think you need some tea to cool down. Let me get you some.'

'Wait!' Stella said 'You don't need to…'

Selina ignored her and went to her room.

'Forget it', Bloom looked at Stella 'She always wants to do what she like'.

'Ok', Musa reminded 'Go back to our mission. Where will we go?'

'Andros', Stella suggested.

'Oh right', Flora agreed 'Let's head to the place where we started our mission'

'After all, it is the only way we can go if we can't go to Solaria', Tecna concluded.

'That's right', Aisha added 'And we also have to go to Andros because Tressa called me and told me that someone may attack there for the stone'

'Let's go', Musa shouted.

'And I'll go with you, too' Daphne stood up.

'But Daphne', Bloom tried to stop her sister 'What if you meet Joshua there?'

'That's what I want', the professor stated 'I defeated him once'

'That is the reason why you shouldn't go' Flora replied. The other Winx agreed.

Daphne found no consent, but she still didn't give up 'I'll go. Let me go'

'Excuse me', Selina walked toward the girls, holding a tray with some tea cups 'Did I miss anything?'

'You think I should go or not?' Daphne looked at the young girl.

'Well, I-I', Selina around and saw Bloom's signal, but she seemed not to care. 'You should go', she answered 'But before that, have some tea to cool yourself down. Anger won't make you become stronger'.

Daphne felt better and took the cup Selina gave. She drank it. Suddenly, she fainted. Selina caught her.

'Don't worry. I only put some sleeping powder into this cup when I made the tea.' Selina explained 'When I heard she asked 'Where will we go?' I could guess that she wanted to go and would go in any price. However, it will be very dangerous if she meet Joshua. So I decided to do this. You don't want her to go too, do you?'

The Winx agreed with Selina. They took Daphne back to her room and went out.