Chapter 10: I Am Me

Carla was almost never herself anymore. Why should she be? She had already expressed her dislike of her true self, and she didn't have Lae to hold her back anymore.

But something felt different. And no, before you ask, this is not one of those get-everything-you-want-and-still-not-be-happy situations. She was perfectly happy, whoever she was. The problem was that she didn't know who she was anymore. She was never Carla, therefore Carla didn't exist. So who was she then? The answer was different every time, since she didn't use the same person for more than a couple of hours. She was always changing.

Now, you might think that this much abuse of power would be exhausting. And you would be right.

One day, as she was being Victoria Stevens (an actress in the upcoming vampire movie), she was walking to some celebrity function. One minute, everything was fine. The next minute, she become suddenly fatigued. Her breathing grew heavier, and she felt as though she was trying to walk through honey. Every muscle in her body seemed to gain 15 pounds as the magic faded, until she finally collapsed.

When she woke up, she had no idea what form she was in. Her mind was fuzzy, so she was having a hard time calling onto the memories of whatever form she was in. The one thing she could think of was a question: why wasn't anybody helping her? Surely whoever she was, she must have concerned friends.

Then the memories started to flow back. She did have one friend - one friend who wasn't speaking with her at this time. His name was Lae, and she had wrongfully hurt his feelings.

She got up and hobbled to the nearest mirror that she could find and took a good long look in it. It took a while before she could recognize her own face. She want entirely sure what her name was at this time. But due to her slowly returning memories, she knew that this was her true form. Her true, boring form. A form she thought she would never have to take again.

She sighed as she sat down and gazed into the sky. She felt confused, hollow, like she wasn't a real person. Real people only had one life, and all she did was copy those lives for herself.

This was the first time she had actually contemplated the effects of her strange powers. Until now, she just took them for granted and abused them. How did people feel when she essentially stole their identity? That was another thing she'd never thought about.

She continued to stare at the sky, drowning in her own thoughts. Something caught her eye, however. It looked to be some sort of white hot meteor. Something was peculiar about it. Rather than going straight across the sky, it appeared to be coming closer. She stood up to get a better look at it. Yeah, it was definitely getting closer. And other people were starting to notice.

"Ah! Space rock!" some kid screamed.

"Really?!" Carla thought aloud. A meteor scene like from some cheesy cartoon? No way, that was not even remotely possible. But then again, until recently she had thought that Winx was just some cartoon, but she was able to bring those characters to life. Maybe this was possible.

Assuming the meteor did exist, it was definitely bound on a path to destruction. From this distance, it was hard to tell how big it was and how much of the Earth would be impacted by its force. One thing was for sure, even if it would only destroy something as small as her town, it had to be stopped. She had an idea, but it was a dangerous one.

She moved to the largest clearing she could find on short notice, and prepared for her strongest change yet. She just hoped that she had recharged enough to pull it off. She took a deep breath and began to change. And what's a big climactic transformation without a monologue to go with it?

"My name is Carla," she began, already feeling the start of the transformation taking hold. "I am a fan girl. And yeah, I choose to separate those words out, both online and in my speech patterns, because I am a unique individual. I love Winx Club most of all. It's boarderline obsession for me. I spend my free time writing fanficton. I take preexisting characters and put my own twists into stories. No matter who I transform into, I still have my own ideas." She slowed down here as a realization occurred. "I'm still my own person with my own plans, my own destiny. I am me, no one else."

At this point her transformation was complete. Why did it take so long to change? She had gone back to the Winx theme for this transformation, but instead of one girl with one fairy form, she was all six girls with all officially announced and aired fairy forms. Bloom, Stella, Flora, Musa, Tecna, and Aisha; using Magic Winx, Charmix, Enchantix, Believix, Lovix, Sophix, extra wings (Tracix, Zoomix, Speedix), Harmonix, and Sirenix. All the different fairies' forms flowed in and out of each other.

The meteor came in closer, and she likewise moved closer to it until she could touch it. She spread out her arms as wide as she could and sent out her own blast of counter energy. There was a huge burst of light. When it faded, it was revealed that the meteor had disapated. Carla wasn't there either.

That was a huge burst of power, it made sense that the transformation wouldn't be able to hold up after it was finished. She was falling from the sky yet again, like she did after she first used Bloom's believix powers. She felt very at peace with herself after her little moment of enlightenment, and she didn't mind that she was quite possibly falling to her doom.

Suddenly, she wasn't falling anymore. Her eyes were closed, but it certainly felt she had been caught, which didn't seem likely.

"The last time you fell from the sky, I couldn't catch you and to face-planted into my yard. I've got you this time."

"Lae!" Carla exclaimed as she opened her eyes. "I'm so sorry for how I treated you."

"I totally forgive you," Lae said as her set her back down onto the ground.

"That was some impressive magic," a female voice came from behind. Carla could've sworn it sounded like...

Her eyes grew wide as she turned around to see who had spoken. "OH MY GOSH!" she screamed. "The actual Winx girls! In person! Right in front of me!"

"That's right," said Bloom. "We actually exist. Our Earth TV show was just another trick to help the humans to believe in fairies. But no one believed that it was more than a TV show except for you."

Carla was trying hard to listen to Bloom without hyperventilating, and Lae couldn't help but chuckle at Carla's fangirl attack.

"We were just saving the entire magic dimension. Again," said Musa.

"From some other big bad villain who was probably working with the Trix," added Aisha.

"And we used a brand new beautiful fairy form that makes us even hotter than we already are," Stella cut in.

"But during the final battle, there was a magic blast that got away," said Flora.

"We tracked it here, to Earth. We came to stop it, but to our surprise, you already had the problem under control," Tecna finished the story.

"We are so cool," said Musa.

"Aw yeah we are!" Aisha agreed.

"You, my friend, are the Fairy of Metamorphosis," said Bloom.

"Yeah, there are legends about you," Stella added.

"The fairy who can turn into other fairies," Flora spoke. "It's a pretty big deal."

"I'M A FAIRY?!" Carla squealed. She could no longer contain herself.

"You bet," Stella winked.

"And we would like to offer you a full scholarship to Alfea College to help develop your powers," Bloom announced.

"And we cool could also pull some strings get your boyfriend into Red Fountain" Musa added.

"Oh, we're just friends," Lae cut in. Carla, however, was too stunned to notice that Lae had just been mistaken as her boyfriend.

"Alfea?!" Carla looked like she was going to pass out from all this excitement.

"Well, do you accept?" Tecna asked. "I've got the paperwork ready."

"We both readily accept," Lae answered for both of them. "Thank you very much for this amazing opportunity."

"Perfect," Tecna said as she marked some things down on a digital pad and handed it to them. "Just sign here, and we'll see you in the fall."

End of More Than A TV Show

A/N: Ah, the big reveal. Now we understand everything. Fairy of Metamorphosis, eh? That wraps up this mini story nicely. But wait! Her story isn't entirely over yet. In fact, it's just getting started. Wouldn't you like to see how the how this fan handles being an Alfea student? What adventures she might go on? Who she meets? What enemies she may face? There is oh so much more to see. A lot can happen in that three year time period, maybe even a trilogy's worth of stuff! At this point in time, I have already uploaded We Are Oddix, the first story of the Oddix trilogy. Go ahead and give it a read if you like.

I don't know if you noticed, but I decided to take a your-idols-aren't-like-they-appear-on-TV kind of approach on this chapter, and portrayed the Winx as totally full of themselves. This will come into play more in the story.

I hope you are at least somewhat satisfied with this. Leave a review and tell me what you think! And don't forget go check out Carla's next story!