Chapter 3: The Teacher
Stella's POV:
The doors of the ship slowly opened. I was fidgety and extremely nervous so I held onto Brandon's hand. I am not eager to meet our teacher, he might be mean and scary. Brandon gently rubs my back trying to calm me and I look reassuringly into his eyes. I look over to see Bloom pulling the ends of her hair and Sky comforting her, Musa and Riven busy is another argument, Layla and Nabu were quietly staring out of the door and holding hands, Tecna did the same while Timmy was talking to Helia. I turned back to see Alex smirk at us and walk out of the opened door along with Flora, how could she hide something like this from us!
The doors opened to pure white light streaming through them. I mean it was so bright that I had to cover my eyes for some time and I am the fairy of the sun. As soon as my eyes adjusted to the bright light and I could see things properly I turned to see my friends, they were all covering their eyes and could barely see, Alex just looked at us and walked out not even flinching at the bright light.
It took the others some time to adjust to the light and by which time the door was completely open and Alex was waiting outside with Flora and beckoned us to follow. All of us looked at each other unsure, all of us except Flora that is.
"Come on guys, it will be fine." Flora tries to reassure us.
Sure, it's easy for her to say, Alex never gave her the cold glare that equalled the death glare of those slayers, but now he seemed entirely different. I guess coming to his home planet made him happier.
Bloom followed them out with Sky, who are still squinting because the light was too bright. Brandon followed with me in tow. The outside was bright, I looked around to see that we were in a forest of sorts, the trees were not extremely tall and they were covered with white flowers, some of the branches were overhanging making it look like an archway. It looks so beautiful. The flowers themselves seemed to be giving off the light. I look up and I could not spot a single cloud in the vast expanse of an elegant blue. I felt a tug on my hand to see Brandon pulling me along with everyone else. We walked to a pathway which was hidden by a few of the trees, I could see someone standing near the path.
I looked at the exquisite trees while walking up to the unknown figure. He too was cloaked in a grey cloak with the hood up. What was with their fashion sense? Why couldn't they just wear normal clothes like the rest of us? If they are I will personally take them shopping and buy them clothes that make them look hot.
"You are seven minutes late." Said an enchanting voice, a female voice. It was coming from the hooded figure. She pulled down her hood and glared at us.
I could see her properly now and she is beautiful. She has extremely light brown skin with long dark blue hair, almost black, with electric blue streaks that actually complimented her hair, her bangs came down past her eyes and she put most of it on a side. I realised everyone was staring at her, gaping, and she didn't look too happy.
"Sorry for being late but we had to wait for some of the girls." Alex replied walking up to her.
"Why am I not surprised?" She sighed and rolled her eyes before she looked at Flora.
Flora seemed astonished when she saw her.
"Anna!" Flora exclaimed and ran up to her and hugged her.
"Flora!" She shrieked and hugged her.
So her name was Anna, didn't seem to suit her well. Flora returned the hug and both of them look so happy, I have never seen Flora this happy before. How does she know all of these people?
"I am so glad to see you again! What has it been like two years?" Anna asked with her hands on Flora's arms.
"Yes, almost. How are you?" Flora replied just as happily.
"This is why you volunteered to train this group? You knew Flora would be part of it?" Alex questioned.
"I guessed."
"And what would you have done if you had guessed wrong?"
"I would have let you train them and left them the very instant the pissed me off." She shrugs and glances at us, not a care in the world for her. "But they seem like an entertaining bunch, I might actually have fun with this."
I could feel the rage growing in me. This person does not care for us, so why are we being trained by her? She turns her back to us.
"Okay, now all of you follow me. Introductions later, question and answers later, actually everything else later, now we go eat. I do not care whether you are hungry or not, but I am, so we eat and leave your entire luggage behind, it is not required." She ordered taking Flora's hand in hers and walking away.
Flora just giggled and got dragged along while Alex chuckled and followed them.
"Come on, she is not that grumpy once she eats. Maybe." He tells us while walking behind them.
I am utterly confused, she is who exactly? And she is so bossy with no sense of style! Why would I follow her anywhere? But everyone else started following them so I kept quiet and walked along.
"Are you sure we should do this?" I whispered to Brandon.
Alex glanced subtly at me as though he heard but he pretended like nothing happened and kept on walking.
"It's not like we have another option." He whispered back.
We walked down the path for about five minutes. The entire pathway was surrounded by the beautiful trees that gave off light through their flowers, it was an exquisite walk. We reached a small clearing which had leva bikes which were pure white.
"Two on each bike, but I am pretty sure you guys are smart enough to figure out that much. I got the bikes according to the ones that you use in your universe." She told us getting onto one and placing her helmet on.
So we all sat down on the bikes and put on our helmets. I shared with Brandon, Bloom with Sky, Layla with Nabu, Musa with Riven though it didn't look like they wanted to go together, and Helia and Alex rode by themselves while Flora shared with Anna.
No one has said a word till now and I don't think anyone wants to. I'm pretty sure they are still trying to process what the hell is going on. We took off and rode for a while, the beautiful white trees surrounded us. I could say this is Heaven, by the looks of it. After a few minutes the trees were slowly thinning out and I could see a vast plain ground. Is this our training ground? How are we supposed to train when there is nothing around us. No shopping mall, no stores, no wardrobe.
"Look up ahead" Brandon told me.
So I did. There lay a small city, I wouldn't say it's completely white but it looked bright. The buildings were all coloured light colours and looked a few stories high. The city enlarged quickly as we drew closer and closer. I could see people walking about in the small city. We passed by the first building entering the city and everything seemed so familiar. A normal city were the citizens are going about their everyday routine and they seemed nice and more importantly, they were dressed like normal people, like those who live in Magix. So their fashion was pretty much the same as the one in our universe.
So why were these two dressed in grey cloaks? We soon stopped in a parking lot and got off our bikes and placed out helmets on it.
"Hurry! I am hungry! We don't have all day!" Anna exasperated rolling her eyes and walking super-fast out of the parking lot with Flora in tow.
The town was so nice a pretty that I forgot we were meant to follow her after a while. I passed many shops that looked like they would have nice clothes, I should stop by once to see how they are. A small white building drew my attention, it had a dress on the window that I had never seen before and I want it. I walked towards it but Bloom put her hand on my shoulder guessing my motive.
"Remember we are meant to follow her" Bloom tells me and looks around. "But it seems like we already lost track of her."
"Don't sweat it blondie. You can go shopping later and don't worry about her. I know where she is going, there is only one restaurant that she likes here, so I shall lead you there. She is always like this when she is hungry." Alex leads us through the streets.
Now he is being sweet to us. Why? But before I could voice my questions, I was being pulled by Brandon. We followed him, so I let it go for now, the surroundings were far more interesting. I took in everything I could about the city as far as my eyes could see. The others didn't seem too happy about it. I could hear the grumbling that it was too bright and it was starting to really hurt their eyes.
We stopped in front of a café door, which had light green and yellow doors. We enter and I see Anna sitting by the biggest table in here, probably for all of us and it had loads of food on it. They were three other people in the café excluding the waitresses. We sat down on the wooden chairs and I tried to make myself as comfortable as I could.
Anna was eating everything she could get her hands on and all the gracefulness I thought she had, was gone. Wow she could eat like a savage. Flora just sat beside her, laughing quietly and drank her tea.
"Anna please eat like a human being, we have guests." Alex requests her.
He sat next Flora and I could see Helia was not too thrilled about it. Helia sat across Flora, who were both sitting at the end of the table. Alex and Riven were next to Flora and Helia, Musa, Layla, Brandon and I sat on one side while Bloom, Sky, Nabu, Timmy and Tecna sat on the other.
"Order whatever you want and help yourself, it's on me." She spoke in between her bites.
Musa and Riven looked thrilled and started eating the pizza and burgers that were already on the table. We all ordered drinks as well, while Brandon ordered a pasta. I could see Musa, Riven and Anna becoming good friends because they all eat like savages.
Apart from those three, the rest of us started eating slowly and drank in silence for a while. Wow we have been silent for quite a long time, this truly was surprising. So obviously I decided to break it.
"Who are you? Are you our instructor?" I ask breaking the sound of people chewing and swallowing.
Alex raised his eyebrows but said nothing, Flora looked into her tea cup, and Anna stopped in the middle of her food fest and looked at me deep in thought. Everyone else looked at me surprised, that I actually had the guts to speak up. This girl did not scare me. She did not have that weird pressure given off by the weird group of people we had met in Magix. Now they were strong and scary, could this uncivilised person actually train us to beat them? Because I was pretty sure I could kick her butt if we ever fought.
"Hmm… I suppose I should answer something now. Alright let us start with introductions." Anna replied wiping her mouth with a napkin.
"Okay then, who are you?" I asked unable to control my curiosity.
Brandon placed his hand on mine trying to calm me down I suppose.
"My name is Annalise Van Horn, but you can all call me Anna and I will be one of you instructors Stella." She told me with a beautiful grin on her face.
Well she wasn't as polite as Alex but I suppose it would be fine if she trained us, she is still very bossy though.
"How do you know her name?" Brandon asks her.
Huh? What? Yeah that's right, how does she know my name? None of us had introduced ourselves as yet.
"Oh I remember the description Flora had told me about you guys."
"You must be Bloom." Anna tells us looking at Bloom.
"Fiery red hair, Keeper and fairy of the dragon fire and a princess of Domino, you are short tempered and impatient but you are the most powerful fairy out of everyone here, you are strong willed and you defend the ones you love to no end.
"You must be Musa, blackish-blue hair almost like mine, fairy of music, you're from Melody, you love music, dancing, and singing and you're amazing at it. You put up a tough front and you are surprisingly very smart.
"And you must be Tecna, purple coloured hair, fairy of technology, you're from Zenith. You are extremely smart, self-confident and a perfectionist, you are practical and have trouble expressing yourself but you are selfless and very nice.
"You must be Layla, wavy dark brown hair, princess of Andros, fairy of waves/ morphix. You are a talented dancer and athlete, you are open minded but opinionated. You're caring and very helpful and you give a lot of practical advice and are also Flora's best bud.
"And last but not the least, the impatient blondie, you must be Stella, princess of Solaria and keeper of the ring of Solaria. You are the fairy of the sun, moon and stars. You are proud and though you are self-centred, you care greatly about your friends. You are loyal to them. You are cheerful and optimistic and you are completely obsessed with fashion." She finishes smiling.
"And now the specialists turn." She says grinning, knowing what she is saying is completely right. She looks at Sky.
"You must be Sky, blond, prince of Eraklyon, Blooms boyfriend, you have a strong sense of duty and are sometimes hasty, your normally generous and kind and an excellent swordsman.
"You must be Riven, magenta coloured hair, Musa's Boyfriend, very competitive, and you get jealous easily, you put up a cold front and you have trouble expressing your emotions, you are brilliant at sports and physical combat as well as a skilled swordsman.
"You must be Timmy, light brown hair, Tecna's boyfriend, you love technology and you have an aptitude for it, you are sweet and shy.
"You must be Nabu, dark brown hair in braids, Layla's Fiancé, the only wizard out of all of the specialists, I don't really know much about you, so moving on.
"You must be Brandon, dark brown hair with a fringe, Stella's boyfriend, and caring, gentle, kind spirited and sometimes a huge flirt.
"And finally you must be Helia, long black hair, you are a pacifist, you love poetry and art and you are our Flora's boyfriend." She concluded looking at Flora who had turned bright red.
"BOYFRIEND?!" Alex exclaimed standing up and glaring at Helia.
"Quieten down, Flora can find her own boyfriend and sit down." Anna commands him and he complies still glaring at Helia.
"Anyways I am right am I not? I heard this almost 2 years ago so I have no idea if you guys have changed over time or not." She told us looking at each of us slowly this time.
I cannot believe she has gotten our descriptions and basic characteristics so accurately, and we knew nothing about her. I looked around and I see all of us are pretty much staring at either Flora or Anna with a look of surprise, this is really shocking. But how dare she call me self-centred and proud.
"How d-" I wanted to ask her, how she dare call me that. Me, the princess of Solaria. But Alex cut me off.
"I do not approve of you till you prove yourself worthy." He glares at Helia.
Flora opened her mouth to say something and so did Helia but they were both cut off by Anna.
"You guys can debate on who is worthy and who is not later because there are more important matters, like I dunno, your training? You shall meet the princess of this planet today and she will personally train the blondie. Alex and I shall teach the rest of you how to fight with and against the element of light."
"Why is Stella the only on-" Bloom started.
"Each of you, that's only the fairies, will have your own kind of training on different planets and the specialists together on another. I shall teach all of you magic you have never seen before, so for now we meet the princess. I shall explain any other questions you might have later, we do not have the time now." She explained and stood up.
What is she saying? Now I am really confused and by the look on most of my friend's faces I could see they were too. This is not fair, no one seems to be explaining anything to us properly and they still expect us to follow them without any questions. They keep postponing our answers and it is really annoying me. And what is this magic she is talking about that we have never seen before? I thought Alfea had taught us all it could. My brain was hurting thinking so much and I looked up to Brandon who always cheered me up.
