Chapter 5:
Stella's POV:
I have been shopping for about an hour now and I have a huge pile of clothes that I want to buy. The shop is amazing! It did not only sell dresses but everything else for both men and women. I should bring Brandon by here later. Shopping truly is the best remedy when someone gets angry, namely me. I cannot for the life of me understand how the rest of them are satisfied with such a horrible explanation. I wasn't and I am still pretty confused.
I walk up to the cash counter with all my clothes and take my card out so they could charge me on it. I hope the currency is the same here as it is at home. The lady behind the counter looks up and smiles at me, she looks pretty average actually all the other shoppers here also looked extremely normal. They did not look like those beautiful people we have met.
"I'm sorry but we accept only cash, we don't have a card system here." She apologises to me, she sounded normal too.
Well they should put a board up stating things like this! I had no cash on me.
"It's alright Donna, I shall pay for some of them." a very familiar voice, and annoying voice states.
"My Lady!" Donna Exclaims and kneels down.
I turn and face Anna. She seemed to be calm, quite bored as well. Let's see for how long that will last. Behind her stood rest of the gang and it was pretty clear they wanted to talk to me but I can guess Anna commanded them not too.
"But I am not paying for all of that Stella, I am going to buy clothes for all of you later so we shall head over to where you're going to stay while you're on this planet." She tells all of us but looks directly at me as though she is daring me to argue with him.
What! NO! The clothes I spent an hour picking out! I look at all the clothes then look up at her to see that she is already walking away in her stupid cloak. I pout and cross my hands and debate whether or not to walk after her, since I have no other choice I follow.
"Are you okay?" Flora asks me.
And I snapped. Again.
"Yes Flora I am perfectly alright!" I reply with sarcasm dripping on every single word.
Everyone is staring at me even Anna stops walking to turn around as well.
"I mean it is not confusing at all that I get dragged her, far away from home or Alfea and I get treated like I'm not important whatsoever and I was scared as hell when I saw those so called slayers and I really wanted my questions answered and you couldn't even tell us anything! You knew about this the entire time and you kept your mouth shut! And right now I still don't get what's going on and you don't even try to help us by explaining! I never thought you were s-" But I get cut-off.
"You call yourself Flora's friend? Then you should know how she is already. She would have told you if she could, but a lot of things have happened to her here and I understand if she doesn't want to talk about it, on top of which it is our law that does not allow her to speak even if she wishes it. Learn to control how you speak princess of Solaria." Alex tells me with ice while gazing at me with no emotion on his face. I can't say whether he is angry or not.
He is right. I know Flora well enough to know she is very selfless and I just yelled at her to vent out my frustration. I saw Flora is on the verge of tears. So I wrap my arms around her and apologise.
"I'm really sorry Flora. I didn't mean it. I just ended up taking my frustration out on you. I'm really sorry."
"You have great potential in you" I hear another enchanting and musical voice tell me.
I look up and let go of Flora to see an extremely beautiful lady standing next to Anna, she is as beautiful as Anna. She radiates power and I can feel myself being drawn towards her, like a moth towards light. The entire room is filled with a new kind of light. It looks to me like she is the source of all light. She looked truly breath taking. She had light blonde hair which was curly and came down till her lower back. She had a beautiful white crown fitted on her head. Her eyes were a light gold in colour and my eyes watered like I was staring at the sun and it was burning me but I could not look away. Her skin was fair and obviously she wore a cloak. But this was not like the other cloaks I had seen till now. It looked like it radiated power itself. It was pure white and looked like it was made only for this lady. She also held a long white spear in her hand. The spear was beautifully engraved and looked more like a powerful wizard's staff than anything else. The shard at the top of the staff that made it look like a spear was made out of a translucent stone.
"I thought you were busy, what happened?" Anna asks her, and she didn't look surprised. She nods at her as a greeting and the light lady nods in reply.
"I shall tell you all about at a later time." She replies looking at all of us expectantly one at a time.
"Okay cool, these people are Bloom, Sky, Musa, Riven, Tecna, Timmy, Layla, Nabu, Helia, Brandon, and this glorious person that you are going to help me train is Princess Stella of Solaria, a sun and moon fairy." Anna introduces us.
She turns to look at Flora and Alex and smiles a radiant million dollar smile.
"Alex, Flora it's nice to see both of you again. Especially you Flora we have to talk later." She tells them and only then I got myself to look away from her to see that both Alex and Flora were bowing down to her.
"It's nice to see you too again lady Aria, we surely shall" Flora replies still bowing.
"Please stand both of you." She tells them and then looks at us. "I am Aria, the crowned princess for this planet. This is the light planet and it is a pleasure to meet all of you. Especially dear Stella."
I am pretty sure my mouth is hanging open while I stare like an idiot at her. She turns towards Anna and they start speaking in a language I do not understand. This godly woman is going to train me, this powerful entity is going to help me to power up to the next level. I can barely wait. I see Anna look at me with unease and then back at Aria.
"Alright, fine. Make sure you still finish your work though, I don't want to be chased around by your court telling me you are not doing your work because you are doing mine." Anna tells her nodding her head. She then turns to us. "So change of plans again. I shall take you to were you shall be staying, Stella you shall change and immediately begin your training with Aria. The rest of you can relax for today as I shall be accompanying the two of them. If you have any questions or you require anything you can ask Xan or Flora."
This is again one of those moments when we all look at each other to make sure we agree because we are too confused for anything else. We all step out and walk towards the parking lot.
"It will be faster if I just transport us there." Aria states.
"Lady Aria you do not have to go through so much trouble." Alex tells her.
Lady? Oh yes she is the crowned princess of this confusing system, but a princess none the less. I suppose I should address her the same way even if Anna does not.
"It's alright Xan. The faster the better. All of you close your eyes." She replies and tells us nicely. Nice, such a rare thing now.
We all close our eyes but I open mine slightly to see that neither Anna nor Alex have closed theirs. Lady Aria raises her staff or spear and hits the butt off it to the ground. A white light emerges from the stone on her staff and it is blinding, now I understand why she asked us to close our eyes. I quickly shut mine tight but I can feel the light on my skin slowly fading and at the same time I can feel the fabric of my clothes changing.
"You can all open your eyes now." Lady Aria tells us gently.
I open my eyes slowly to see that everyone is staring at me. I look down and see that my clothes have been changed. My clothes have changed while we transported. I am now wearing a full sleeved pure white shirt that had a v shaped neck line, the white shirt fit me like a second skin, I wore white skinny jeans and long white boots which are tied up with white lace. I put my hand on my hair and noticed that it is braided down my back. The clothes were white but they seemed to be of different shades. I have never seen white which looks like this! Shades of white! I had never even dreamed of such a thing.
I turn to look around the room with my friends. We are standing in a big room that has 16 single beds in it. Each bed has a cupboard on one side and a desk on the other. The cupboards have our names on them. There are three doors in the room. One door is behind me, one on my left and the other to my right. Everything is white, the walls, the ceiling, the cupboards, the beds, the desks and chairs, the doors, everything. Different shades of white though, but I don't think anyone else would notice the colour difference so much. And that is it. There are no windows, balcony, paintings, nothing. It looked more like a nice bright prison.
"You shall all be staying here during our practice sessions on this planet. The cupboards already have your names on it which means that you belongings are already inside, the door to my left is the girl's bathroom and to my right it is the boy's bathroom. The door behind me leads outside but do not leave without informing Xan." Anna explains to us. "Alright let us get going Stella, you must get be strong because your training will begin as soon as we reach, with very little break. The rest of you, I shall be back soon so don't cause much trouble and wish your friend luck."
All the girls come and hug me.
"Good luck Stella, you will do amazing! I know you will!" Bloom tells me hugging me hard.
"I am really sorry for not telling you Stella, and I know you will become so much stronger when you come back!" Flora tells me.
"Stella, you should be able to beat those evil slayers with your eyes closed after this training alright?" Musa sings.
"Technically there is a high probability you will screw something up but still come out powerful Stella." Tecna smile smugly.
"If you do not do well during your training I will beat you up, understand? So good luck!" Layla hugs me.
When the girls are done the guys come and each of them wish me luck. Brandon sweeps me up in his arms and gives me a peck on my lips. He hugs me tight for a few minutes and then let's go.
"You are a princess, you are fierce and you never give up! Train hard Stella, I shall be thinking about you while you are training and hoping for the best. Good luck honey!" He tells me giving me another peck on my lips.
"Alright let's go Stella." Anna tells me looking at me sympathetically.
Suddenly I want to do amazing, for my friends, for Brandon and for her, I want to impress her. Maybe she is not so bad, she is actually pretty sweet. I walk up to her so that I am standing next to her and Lady Aria and I turn to all my best friends.
"Thank you! All of you! I shall come back more powerful than ever before!" I exclaim.
"Close your eyes everyone" Lady Aria commands and for once I do so without any complaints.
I am getting very nervous, my heart is pounding, my palms sweating. I can feel the light on my skin fading but there is a new kind of pressure. Thank god I did not eat much at the cafe because now my stomach is doing back flips. I open my eyes slowly to see Anna and Lady Aria looking past me.
"Good luck Stella, I know it must be strange for you and this is a completely different style of training than what you might be used to. You have to listen to Aria from here on out." She tells me while her gaze softens.
Wow she is being sweet. This feels weird.
"Turn Stella, this is where you shall be training." I hear Lady Aria tell me from behind.
So I turn slowly to behold an amazingly beautiful sight. My mouth drops open with an audible gasp. This is where I am going to be training? This is where I'm going to get my new transformation? This is absolutely not what I am expecting.
