Another week begins, and for once my favourite team has actually made it to the 2nd round of the FA Cup... and they won away too! w00t!!

Thanks to: Spongey, Chibi Horsewoman and Gabby for their reviews (I'm glad this has been an educational experience for you!)

Random Quote: Good-Bye. I'll miss you, beautiful gorgeous face. Ohhh, got to become a bubbly and dorky looking fairy. (Stormy, Winx Club)

"What? No, you can't do this! You can't tell anyone! Please!" Anyuna pleaded.

"Oh yes we can!" Steve replied smugly, as somebody knocked on their door. "Ah, and what better time to start spreading the news than right now!" he said as he and Nikki raced to answer it. He laughed as he let their friends in.

"Hey guys, you're never gonna believe this. Those geeky girls decided to come and pay us a visit."

"Yeah, so?"

"They're out on the balcony right now, and you'll never guess what?"

"What?"

"They're fairies!"

"Excuse me?! Fairies?"

"Yup. Fairies. From another planet!" Nikki babbled excitedly as she led them out onto the balcony. "Oh yes, you gotta see this. They got the whole fairy thing going on - wings, magic, the works!"

Their friends looked very unimpressed to say the least.

"Wings eh? What wings?"

"Are you blind? Those wings right th..." Steve stopped dead in his tracks as he was greeted by the sight of the Starz in their everyday wear, looking oh-so-innocent with not a wing to be seen. "Hey! What's going on? Where have your wings gone?"

"Wings?" Charlotte replied nonchalantly, trying her best not to laugh as she shrugged her shoulders. "I've got no idea what you're talking about."

Anyuna leant over towards her friend. "Maybe he means those costumes we wore the other night."

"You really think so? I mean, sure they were pretty, but I don't see how that would make them think we're REALLY fairies - can you?"

Steve and Nikki looked desperately at their friends, who glared back at them. "Guys, you gotta believe us - it's TRUE! They ARE fairies!!"

"Pfft! If you ask me, it's you two who're away with the fairies! Come on lads, let's get out of here before they start trying to get us playing with dolls!"

They stormed out of the room, closely followed by Steve and Nikki as they frantically tried to claw back their reputations, but to no avail - as far as the others concerned, their formerly cool pals were officially two sandwiches short of a picnic. As the door was slammed shut, the nasty pair turned around and stormed back out onto the balcony, their faces turning bright red with anger and embarrassment.

"Right, that does it! You girls are gonna pay for..."

What girls? Steve and Nikki looked around them, left and right. The balcony was empty. The girls had vanished - well, not quite vanished... just back in their room laughing their heads off as they listened to Steve bellowing out into the night.

"Where are you? You're gonna pay for this! You hear me? YOU'RE GONNA PAY FOR THIS!"

Tegryn and Musa had to prop each other up as they laughed hysterically, tears streaming down their faces.

"Oh man, you guys are absolutely priceless!" Tegryn said as he wiped his poor, aching cheeks. "But what would've happened if somebody had heard you?"

"No chance of that happening!" said Mimi.

"We had the balcony wrapped up in a Sound Bubble. No-one heard a thing!" Nini added.

"Yeah, and no-one saw anything neither." said Anyuna. "I planted an Mirage Ball on the side of the balcony - anyone looking up at it would've only seen, well, an empty balcony!"

"Mirage Ball?"

"A little something I've been working on over the summer."

"Well, gotta take our hats off to you," Musa applauded. "Way to de-rep those creeps!"

"Yeah, remind us not to get on your bad side!" Tegryn added, nudging Charlotte playfully before patting his stomach as it made a loud growling noise.

"Aww what's the matter Teggy? Hungry?" Charlotte asked, giving his tummy a quizzical look.

"Yes, his chocolate supply ran out two hours ago!" Musa joked.

"Oi!"

"Well, it IS lunchtime after all." said Bloom. "Come on, let's go and get something to eat."

"Ah, now you're talking! Let me just dump my bags in my room, then I'll meet you down there." Tegryn said, waving to the others as he walked down the corridor. He had only walked a few steps when Musa popped her head around the corner.

"Erm... Teggy?"

"Yep?"

"Your room's THAT way!" she said, pointing in the opposite direction. A couple of muffled sniggers could be heard coming from the room behind her.

"Are you sure? I could've sworn my room's THAT way."

"No Teggy, that's a store cupboard! Your room's on the other side of the castle." she sighed. "I guess I'm gonna have to carry on walking you to classes, huh?"

"Heh. You make it sound like a chore. Come on then!" he said, holding out his arm which Musa was only too glad to take in her own.

They sauntered through the corridors and hallways of Alfea accompanied by their pixies, all happy and joyful, cheerfully greeting everyone they passed until, as they entered the last corridor leading to the teachers' quarters and Tegryn's room, they stopped. There in front of them, at about head height, a little pinprick of light had appeared and was slowly getting bigger, crackling with minute bursts of energy. They examined it closely, their curiousity at a peak.

"Musa? Did you order a pinprick of light crackling with minute bursts of energy?" Tegryn remarked.

"No, I could've sworn I asked for pepperoni. What IS that thing anyway?"

"I don't know" he said, looking more concerned as the crackling suddenly became more dramatic and violent, "But I get the feeling taking a few steps backwards would be a really good career choice right about now..."

It was a great idea, but unfortunately for Tegryn he never got the chance to practice what he preached as, with a blinding flash and what sounded like a girl's scream, something solid cannoned out of the light and hit him square on the forehead. The sheer force of the blow sent him reeling backwards and he fell, smacking his head hard on the stone floor with a loud and less-than-healthy crack, with whatever it was that hit him landing heavily on top of him.

Tegryn grunted in pain. His head was throbbing - it felt like some demented nutcase was inside his head smacking him repeatedly with a sledgehammer, and the shockwaves were still reverberating through his skull. His whole world was enveloped by darkness, and he could feel it swaying to and fro, to and fro, to and fro - he hadn't felt this woozy ever since Darcy hit him with her confusion spell. All was nearly silent, the only sounds being Musa's desperate cries gradually fading in and out as he struggled to steady his mind. It was a struggle he was struggling to win - try as he might, he couldn't stop his subconscious surrendering itself to the blackness...