Disclaimer: I don't own Winx Club.

Here we are, chapter sixteen. Oh boy, do we have a lot of ground to cover. You guys are going to get the full story of Allanya, Eclipsis, Gorman (the first wizard), Sasha, her brother, and both sets of earrings. After this it should all make sense. Well, almost all.

Before we get started, I wanted to cover the period Vivian talked about. Yes, fairies and witches were once in opposite roles. It was a harsh time that came in the wake of a magical disaster that damaged every world in the entire Magic Dimension. Fairies, being much more in tune with the magic of their worlds than witches, felt the effect most strongly. Many fairies became aggressive, hostile, almost feral. (Sort of like the Earth fairies in season four, but ten times worse.) Witches were forced to take a stand against the depredations of the fairies, which lead to the creation of Cloud Tower. Several hundred years later and the universe healed, returning things to their normal state. Most people have forgotten about this era, and both fairies and witches have tried to rewrite history to show the fairies as the protectors and the witches as the menace, albeit for different reasons. Today, most people regard any accurate texts referring to this time period as either mistakes in translation or copying errors.

Alright, on with the story!

The other Classix looked at Amelia. Contact Allanya? Only Perdi had ever managed that, and only indirectly.

"Come on girls. If Dhalia, Reyva, and Perdi work together, I'm sure they can do it."

"Maybe," Dhalia said, "but what do you hope to gain?"

"We can't keep fighting blind." Amelia said. "She's been keeping secrets from us. It's time we had the truth."

"Alright then."

Nyssa was edging towards the door. "If you need me, I'll be outside."

"Oh no, you don't." Reyva grabbed the girl. "You're staying right here."

"Reyva's right." Amelia said. "You should be here for this too."

"I really don't think that's a good idea."

"And why not?" Dhalia asked, suspicious.

"Because if I get angry enough the earrings won't be enough. I'll turn back into Sasha."

"And why would you be angry?"

"I have a long history with her. I'm not interested in seeing her again."

"Too bad, you're staying here." Reyva said.

"But what if-?"

"If you lose control I can freeze you in time." Artis said. "We'll have plenty of time to get you out of the city so you can work out your problems."

"No one's powerful enough to freeze me."

"That would be true, if I was trying to simply immobilize you. Instead, I'd be freezing both you and your power." Artis said with an impish grin. "You'd never even get a chance to fight back."

"There, I believe that problem is settled." Dhalia said. "Now, let's get on with this."

"Trace the ties that last forever/Connect the ones, bound together/And seal the rift of time and space/Let us speak, face to face!" Perdi chanted, using Amelia as the focal point of her powers. Reyva and Dhalia joined in, using their powers to bring the conversation out of the realm of the mind and into the real world.

An image appeared in midair. Allanya was on her knees in her garden, hard at work. Whistling tunelessly, she didn't see them.

Amelia cleared her throat. Allanya looked up.

"Amelia?"

"Yes."

"Where are you?"

"Melivon, in Altivix."

"Melivon?"

"A city."

"Oh."

"You have some explaining to do."

"...Very well, I suppose you've earned it."

"We've earned it." Dhalia said. The other Classix moved into view. Reyva pulled Nyssa into view as well.

"You're going to tell all of us everything, and you're going to tell us now." Amelia said.

"I-" Her eyes fixed on Nyssa. "Sasha!"

"You lost the right to call me by name a long time ago."

"Sasha..."

"I've kept my promise! I've done my best to protect and guide everyone who's come to Altivix, even when I can only help by night! You still haven't kept your end of the bargain!" Energy started to flare out from Nyssa, pulsing in time with her anger. "I've done exactly what you asked for ten thousand years! But you still haven't done your part!"

"Sasha..."

"You still haven't cured me! You just imprisoned me! Amelia's the one who managed to replace the earring that broke, not you. You don't deserve my respect anymore. Where's my father?"

"...Sasha...Your father is dead."

"No! You're lying! Just like you always have!"

"I'm sorry Sasha. He's dead. Your mother killed him."

"NO!"

"Easy there." Artis put her hand on Nyssa's shoulder. She was nearly burning with magical rage, power rippling out from her. "I don't want to have to freeze you, so calm down."

Nyssa took a deep breath, returning to a more normal state. "I'm sorry I almost lost control. I apologize to you girls." She turned to glare at Allanya. "Not to you though. Never to you."

"I'm sorry Sasha. I wanted to help you, but I couldn't..."

"Allanya, I suggest you stop talking to her." Amelia said. "I'm not too thrilled with you either right now, but you have information we need. You're going to tell us what we need to know, and you're going to tell us now. Artis already died because you didn't give us the full story. Next time someone dies I may not be able to bring them back."

Allanya stared at Amelia for a moment, then at Artis. "I- I'm sorry."

"Then tell us the whole story this time."

"...Alright. I'll tell you."

"No more secrets?"

"No more secrets."

"Good."

"You'd better get comfortable. This will take a while."

"I suppose I should start at the beginning. Six people went to Univix. Arcadia, her sister Wirena, her friend Pelia, myself, Gorman, and his fiance, Kallise. My twin sister."

"Twin sister?" Amelia asked, startled.

"Yes. Kallise was the one who went through the Well of Monsters. She was desperate to get out of Univix. We didn't know she was pregnant at the time."

"So she came out a monster?"

"Yes." Allanya's voice was bitter. "We confronted her. I tried to appeal to the woman inside her. I tried to reach my sister.

"She threw it in my face.

"Before we went to Univix, we each obtained a pair of earrings as the other's birthday present. One black, one white. It was our way of celebrating who we were.

"She took her earrings and threw them at me, saying she wasn't my sister anymore. That she was now Eclipsis, Queen of Monsters.

"I hated her. I hated her for stealing my sister from me. I hated her for what she did next when she started the war. I hated everything about her. But she was still my sister.

"A year later we heard rumors of her children. Gorman and I set out to rescue them. We only managed to grab Sasha before Eclipsis found us. We escaped, but we had to leave her brother behind.

"Gorman wanted his daughter to have a chance at a normal life. We'd discovered that the trip through Univix had altered the earrings. Given them a power of their own. After some hard study, we found a way to use them to control the baby Sasha's powers. Soon she was just another young girl, the earrings transforming her raw power into something she could control." She turned to Nyssa. "You were so happy then."

"Don't speak to me."

"Sasha..."

"Do as she says." Amelia said. "And tell us the rest of the story."

"I... alright."

Allanya turned back to the Classix. "The war dragged on. I had my own daughter a few years later. Her father was killed soon after she was born. All the while Sasha grew. We kept her hidden so that Eclipsis couldn't find her. Gorman did his best to raise her, and I'd come by to visit whenever I could.

"Then, when Sasha was sixteen, something happened. She was out doing something when one of Eclipsis's monsters found her. She fought hard, but her earring broke.

"Each earring was linked to either day or night. Without the day earring, she transformed into the monster you're no doubt familiar with.

"She destroyed the monsters with ease, rampaging around her home. Her father tried to stop her, but he wasn't strong enough. She injured him in the battle. He only survived because the sun went down, returning Sasha to her normal state.

"It was no longer safe for Sasha to remain in the world. I wanted to find a way to make her normal, give her a chance at life. I found Altivix. One night, I brought her with me to the entrance of Altivix, and we passed through. The empty land had only one exit: The Gate of Mortals. The only way to remove the powers given to us by Univix.

But when Sasha tried to pass through, the Gate rejected her. Her powers were not hers to begin with, they belonged to her mother. So the Gate could not remove them. I had to leave her here, with the promise that one day I would bring Eclipsis through so that they might both be restored.

She turned to Sasha. "I am so sorry I haven't been able to keep that promise."

"Save it. I don't want your apologies. Your words are empty."

"Sasha..."

"And what happened next?" Amelia prompted.

"I Gorman brought me back to Univix. Alone, I passed through it. When I emerged I was the Lady of Magic.

"With my new power I created magical beings in every realm so that they could better defend against Eclipsis's monsters. With that, the war escalated. Where previously it had been a matter of hiding from the monsters and attacking when we had the chance, now it became a real war. Fairies, wizards, witches, and pixies battled dragons, chimera, serpents, and beasts. We began to push Eclipsis back.

"She made her last stand at the realm that would become known as Earth. Monsters from across the Dimension gathered there for one final battle. Our forces did the same. And the war entered its final stage.

"The fight for Earth was a war in its own right. Hundreds of battles raged. My daughter fought with the powers my set of earrings gave her until she had to stop to give birth to her own children. This war had gone for far too long. It was time to end this.

"Eclipsis's most powerful fighter was her son. Immense, powerful, and resistant to most magic, her was her field general, leading her forces into battle. We, the original magic users, gathered together one last time. Together, we would seal him away.

"We succeeded, though it cost the lives of Pelia and Wirena.

"Arcadia was shattered by the blow of their loss, leaving Gorman and I to confront Eclipsis. Our worst enemy. My sister. The woman he still loved, even with thirty years of war between them.

"He tried to appeal to her, just as I had. He tried to find the woman he loved. She killed him.

"But when she killed him, she seemed to stop. It was as if she couldn't believe what she'd just done. Desperate, I did the only thing I could think of. I opened a portal to Univix and forced us both in.

"I managed a brief message to my daughter, but nothing more. I was trapped in Univix with Eclipsis. The person I hated most in the whole world. My sister." Allanya looked down. "You know the rest."

A/N: Okay, I think that's enough for one chapter. The rest will have to wait for another day. I hope to see you all there.