Disclaimer: Surprise surprise I do not own winx club who could have guessed that.
So I just uploaded chapter 3 rewrite along with the announcement. And boy was it a bumpy ride. I mean I had plenty of problems with the website before it actually showed that I had uploaded that. Well anyway I hope people liked the rewritten version have read it. Unfortunately I cannot determine how many people have read it based on today considering how many times fanfiction marked me as a read in chapter just because I was constantly checking had it worked. Anyway by the time you see this I have removed the announcement. Don't worry there wasn't that many important things in it. Mainly just announcing I rewrote chapter 3 along with other much less meaningless stuff. I also noticed that I forgot to put that line for one of the time skips in the rewritten version of chapter 3. But I have had so much trouble now updating that chapter so I won't bother to do it any time soon because of website issues. Anyway lets finally get to this chapter.
The first week of cloud tower had gone smoothly. I was beginning to get the hang of the place. Saloda was not as bad of a teacher as I originally thought he was. And I can see why especially Mirta likes him. It's because he and Griffin are the only ones that can successfully make a whole class of teenager witches be quiet. The potion teacher especially had a problem controlling the class. He wasn't as good as Griffin off course. Personally I would rate him as the 3rd best teacher behind Zaharusta and Griffin.
On the other news me and my parents had finally solved the problems with my allowance. While I was in Alfea the school actually gave me a small allowance of Magix currency since there was no way for me to use Earth money. Cloud Tower on the other hand isn't so generous. Unfortunately Earth money is practically worthless here, since it has no magic protection. Simply put pretty much any half decent fairy or a witch could make a perfect forgery of Earths money, with just a piece of paper. Here on the other hand, on every coin and bill a spell has been cast by the moneymasters. From what I have read they are a long line of fairies and wizards that have been trusted to verify every penny using an ancient spell that only they know. Because of this there is no way to forge money here.
Eventually dad ended up finding the solution for this. He would use my allowance money to buy silver. And unlike Earth's money there is no way you can fake silver. So from now on every month they would send me silver, which I would exchange to Magix dollars.
Right now I was looking for a place to eat alone. Mirta and Lucy have their preferred place and I wanted to try someplace new. I had experienced plenty of places where fairies eat. Now I wanted to find a hidden gem among the many witch restaurants. I finally found one that looked interesting and decided to just go for it.
I entered the restaurant and was greeted to it's dark lighting. The walls were dark purple and it was decorated with plenty of things considered witchy. Some seemed to be just props like some obviously fake skulls but other items seemed to be the real thing.
I went to the reception. "Do you have reservation?" The guy in reception asked me and I just shook my head. "Well we do have empty tables to I'll just lead you to one." He said and began walking towards a table that could fit two people in it. I sat in the chair and the guy then gave me the menu, which I could look at while waiting for a waiter to come.
Looking at the dishes I tried to see if I found anything interesting. This place had pizza like so many other restaurants. But I didn't want to just order pizza. Not only is eating a whole pizza myself incredibly unhealthy it also has gotten a bit repetitive. Since that's what I always order. And it always ends up in disappointment because I simply find pizza made in Earth to be better. Besides there are some dishes that don't even exist in Earth, which I should give a try.
"Have you decided on your order?" A bored yet familiar voice asked me. I turned around to look at the waitress and my eyes widened. My waiter was none of other than Darcy, dressed in a black waitress outfit, her makeup looking far more professional rather than gothic and finally instead of wearing her hippy glasses she was just wearing normal ones. To think that one of my biggest tormentors from last year was now working as a waitress was baffling to me.
My hunger went away as soon at the thought of spending time in this restaurant with my former tormentor. All I wanted to do now was leave. "I think I'm in the wrong place." I said as I got up and would have left the restaurant if it's wasn't for Darcy physically stopping me.
"Sit down." She commanded. "My boss said to me. That if I scare away one more customer, he will fire me. And let me tell you. Me and my sisters will do much worse to you, than we ever did to you last year if you get me fired." I was no match for Darcy, let alone against all of the Trix. So not wanting to give her any reason to attack me I reluctantly sat down.
"Now why is a pixie like you in a restaurant in a place where pixies aren't welcomed?" She asked me and I instinctively got defensive.
"I'm not a pixie." I blurted out knowing I should have been just quiet. But the witch pride that was slowly rubbing on to me didn't allow me to do that.
"I'm sorry. I meant a fairy." She replied mockingly.
At this point it was crystal clear, she was just trying to aggravate me. But instead of just ignoring it and being quiet I just had to open my big mouth. "I'm not a fairy. I don't remember which one of you said that I might be a witch. But whoever out of you it was she was correct." I realized the mistake only after the words came out of my mouth. This was one of the things Griffin told me to avoid about. Avoid my old friends and most likely enemies as well.
"Just like Safira." Darcy chuckled. "In our first year there was this witch... well she could barely even count as a witch. Because she acted like a pixie. So we ended up doing a bit of investigation and found out she was hanging out with pixies and came from a pixie family. She had even spent a whole year in Alfea before that. So we told everyone in Cloud Tower about this. We encouraged other witches from firsties to seniors make her life hell. And oh we did. The staff tried to stop us to no avail and she left within few months. It was also the moment everyone in Cloud Tower knew to not mess with us."
why am I not surprised it was the Trix that did that? And now they could do it to me. Sure I could hope that, since they are now just normal citizens working they wouldn't bother to do that. But I had feeling that they were very interested at making one witches life a living hell even today.
"Enough about that. Have you decided on your order?" Darcy asked and I immediately threw my no pizza policy out of the window.
"A kids pizza." I answered and earned a snort from her. But I needed something small so I could eat it quickly. So I can just leave this place.
"What kind of a pizza?"
"Pepperoni."
"Drink?"
"Just water."
And just like that I had finished my order. I watched as Darcy headed towards the kitchen and I could relax a little. But all I could do was wish the pizza will appear here soon so I can just leave this place. Because right now entering this restaurant has been a very bad decision.
I was scrubbing one of the many plates. But it had that one piece of food that just refused to go, no matter how hard I scrubbed it. I hate dishes. I hate it! I don't understand why am I doing this. How did I become such a loser, who washes dishes for a living?
"Stormy. Remind me again why I'm doing this." I asked gritting my teeth, just itching to freeze this whole cursed place.
Stormy who was mopping the floor didn't have it much better. She was equally annoyed doing such a loser job. But unlike me who she somehow can tolerate this. "Because if we don't do this. We will not get paid. And if we don't get paid, we can't pay rent. And if we can't pay rent, we'll be homeless." Stormy explained while gritting her teeth as well.
Homelessness doesn't sound that bad of an alternative to this humiliation.
"One pepperoni kids Pizza for table 5." Darcy announced to the cooks and put her written order on next to the other orders.
Instead of getting back to work she then approached us and I could feel my anger levels rising. She would always gloat about her getting the best job out of us three. "Don't you have tables to go to?" I asked her while trying to just focus on the dishes.
"There are currently no tables to tend to." She explained. "Besides. Aren't you glad that I'm trying to find time to have a chat with you." She said mockingly and I couldn't help but get more angrier at her. Causing a bit of the soapy water turn into ice.
"Well I'm not in the mood. Besides unlike someone I have work to do." I replied and continued to just focus on the dishes.
"You are just jealous, that I'm the prettiest of us, have the best powers, have the best job out of us that also pays the most and I am the only one with a boyfriend." I used all of my willpower to not send an ice blast at her right now. My anger was instead directed at the soapy water, which now had formed an ice formation. Which I had to melt quickly because my boss would have seen it and I would have gotten fired. Since when had I become this pathetic?
"But that's not what I'm here to talk about." Darcy said and I largely ignored her. "Take a look at one of the customers." She said and pointed to one of the seats. I took a closer look at the customer who was sitting in the table and I recognized her.
"That loser pixie?" I asked slightly baffled.
Darcy nodded in return. "Expect she is not a pixie. She actually is a witch and she was just confused to be a fairy." She pointed out. Not a pixie? She is an even bigger loser than whoever that so alternative wannabe punk red head firstie was.
"She is an embarrassment to our kind." I said bitterly and continued to focus on the dishes.
"That I agree with." Darcy said. "Anyway I have to bring her the water she ordered. Want to pass a message to her?"
"Actually I got an idea."
When can I just get my food and leave this place. I felt incredibly uncomfortable in this restaurant. 'Just relax' I thought to myself. Darcy just works here and that's it. I'm just an another customer to her. I'm here to just enjoy my food.
Darcy was approaching the table holding a glass bottle of water and a glass. She put the glass on the table and poured water out of the bottle, until the glass was full. Then she put the bottle next to it.
"Your pizza should be ready soon." She said and I nodded politely, trying to pretend this girl didn't try to hurt me or worse a year ago. Instead of leaving back into the kitchen to do other orders, Darcy decided to stick around next to my table.
"How's cloud tower treated you so far?" She asked and to any assuming person she was just trying to initiate a polite conversation. But I knew Darcy better than that. She has an ulterior motive. But I still decided to play along.
"It's a lot easier than Alfea, now that I get to use magic that's more natural to me." I answered to her honestly.
That wasn't unfortunately end of her questions. "And have you made any friends? Or are you just a loser loner."
I weighed in whether I should say I have none, throw in a fake name or just tell the truth. In the end I decided to be honest about it. "I have two friends. Their names are Mirta and Lucy." Darcy burst out laughing but managed to control herself pretty quickly. She probably would have laughed for minutes had she not been an employee here.
"Off course you are friends with the schools two biggest losers." She said while still giggling. "Look at me. I'm so alternative, because I think pixies and witches should be all friends and rainbows."
I felt my anger rising up when she started mocking my friends. "Don't talk about her like that." I told her but she simply ignored me.
"At least that ugly wench has the right attitude." Darcy said but I didn't allow her to finish whatever she would have said.
"That ugly wench won the miss magix award." I shot back at her. I didn't want her to mock my friends.
"Only because she agreed to do our homework. So in exchange we used our magic, to make her look pretty for that show. In fact I'm surprised that even our magic was enough to fix her. Then again, we are known for doing miracles." I was both angry at her and Lucy. Off course there was something fishy about her winning that show and it all makes sense now.
"I'll bring your food soon." Darcy said and made her way to the the kitchen allowing me to have some peace. I couldn't enjoy the peace for that long because Darcy returned very soon with the pizza. I took a sip of the water before I prepared for whatever else Darcy would throw at my way.
"Enjoy." She said and put the small pizza on the table. Any other waiter would be on their way but off course Darcy wouldn't. "Now lets talk about blackmail." I winced at the words and I had a terrible itch to just stand up and leave.
"You obviously don't want to end up like Safira." She started and it dawned on me that I revealed too much to this witch. "And if you don't want to you'll do exactly what we tell you to do." I couldn't let her push me around like this. I didn't let them even when I was an Alfea student without any powers.
"You are graduated. You have no influence anymore. If you even think that I will let you order me around like that, you are wrong and deluded." I snapped back at her but she just kept on grinning.
"Oh but you realize our influence is still strong among the students. Even that ugly wench you hang around idolized us. We know where they hang around and all they need is just a little riling up. And then all of them will be chasing you like a little mouse, even your friend Lucy." Darcy started and I could feel the helplessness of the situation I was in.
"Everyone would abandon you. I'm sure you haven't told those fairy friends of yours, because they seemed to be as confused as us when it came to your disappearance. And I can understand why, because they would have abandoned you in a heartbeat just like everyone in cloud tower will if we tell them. The only one who would have your back is that loser Mirta, who can do nothing for you." I tried to stop the tears to no avail.
"Just... sh... shut up." I said in desperate attempt to make her just leave me alone.
Darcy looked amused at my misery. "We'll talk more later. After you have eaten." She said and started to walk towards the kitchen. "Enjoy."
Once I got the tears out, I focused on finishing the food and getting out of this place as soon as possible. Normally I would eat pizza slowly, so I can savor every bit of flavor of each bite. But now I was eating the small pizza like a pig. Each bite was quick and decisive and I swallowed the pieces before I had fully experienced the flavor of the pizza. But if it meant I could get out of this place sooner it would be worth it.
The pizza was finished fast and I'm sure I had some of it on my face. And right on cue Darcy appeared.
"So you have finished." She said while looking at the mess I had created.
"Can I have the bill." I asked finally ready to leave this place.
She let out a small somewhat amused laugh. "But what about dessert?" She pointed out.
"I just want the bill." I insisted and even stood up a little.
She put her hands around me and forced me to sit down. "What about dessert?" She asked with a threatening voice.
I gulped a bit and realized she wasn't giving me a choice. "Ice cream." I simply said since the chance this restaurant didn't have ice cream was very small.
"What kind of ice cream?" Darcy asked.
"Vanilla." I said picking the most common flavor, I was sure they have here. "And give me the bill with it."
"Coming right up." She said and went back to the kitchen. It took it for a little while to get here, which I used to think of Darcy's words. It was true. Being a witch already made me an enemy to the fairies so I couldn't hang out with the winx. And if the witches found out I went to Alfea I would be their enemy. Which means the only one who might stand up to me would be Mirta. But off course she cannot go against both fairies and witches.
Which left me one option. Just do as the Trix say. That way I can be with the witches. And in turn not be the enemy of the whole magical dimension. I sighed as Darcy came back with the Ice cream along with the bill.
Darcy put the ice cram and bill on the table. "Now here is what we are gonna do." She said and put a piece of paper and a pen on top of the table. "You are going to give us your phone number. And we'll call you when we need you." She explained.
I debated whether or not I should put my real number there. Maybe I can trick her by putting a fake number and then I might get out of this mess. Risking it I wrote a number that wasn't mine to the paper.
Darcy then picked her phone from her pocket and typed the number. "Now lets do a little test." She said and pressed call on her phone. Darcy looked a bit amused when my phone didn't ring. "Giving me a fake number huh?" She said and looked at me with an uncomfortable stare, while I was fearing that she would now attack me for this trick.
"Witchy. But I don't fall for a simple trick like that." Darcy said with a slightly amused voice. "Now write you real number." I sighed and wrote under the fake number my real number. Darcy typed that to her phone and my phone began ringing.
Satisfied Darcy then turned to the bill. "This is for you." She said pointing at the bill. I looked at the bill and took the exact amount the ice cream and the pizza cost. When I gave the bills and the coins Darcy looked offended.
"No tip? Is my service not good enough?" She said in an offended tone. I begrudgingly took a few coins from my pocket and gave them to her. "Enjoy your ice crem. Firstie." She said and walked back to the kitchen for the final time.
I wasn't hungry after this whole deal but still decided to eat the ice cream. Despite Darcy no longer bothering me, I still wanted to get out of this place fast. So I ate the ice cream as quickly as possible. Until halfway through I got a brain freeze from it. After that I ate the ice cream in a reasonable speed and finally left the restaurant.
Entering this place felt like, it was the biggest mistake of my life.
After a long night of washing dishes, the restaurant closed for the night. After getting rid of our work uniforms and going back to our normal outfits we made our way home.
Today was supposed to be a happy day. After all it's payday. But to me that check reminded me of how far we had fallen. To think that just a year ago we were on top of the world. We used to rule streets of magix and cloud tower. Now I'm doing servants work for barely above minimum wage.
Even worse both Stormy and Darcy have accepted this situation. Darcy always uses these days to brag about her better pay. Even though she gets paid below minimum wage on her paycheck the tips make up for it. These paychecks represent what we have become. These paychecks are the reason why we have to kiss our bosses ass. Only because we would become homeless if we didn't do it.
We should have the dragon fire by now and my boss should be kissing my feet. At least that loser pixie bring some excitement to life.
"What will we do tomorrow?" Stormy asks Darcy during her conversation with her that I totally ignored.
I decided to inject my own plan to the conversation. "We should give that firstie a call. Make her do something that she really hates doing. Something that is against everything she stands up for." I told them.
Darcy shook her head at that. "Can't do tomorrow. I have a date with Riven planned for then." She explained and it made me furious. That loser has been hogging way too much time from her.
"Why are you still dating that loser?" Stormy asked with an annoyed tone, taking the words right out of my mouth.
Darcy just gave her a smug smile she that was common sight on her ever since we graduated. "You just sound jealous that you don't have a boyfriend." She remarked to us.
"What did you say!?" Me and Stormy asked her in unison.
"I said that you two couldn't get a boyfriend even if your life dependent on it." I had to use all my willpower to not strangle her at the spot.
Stormy was very close to blasting Darcy with lighting but also held it off. "Like you are one to talk. You had to use mind control to get your precious Riven." Stormy said in a disgusted voice.
"I'll let you know that it wore off very long time ago. So most of what you have seen has been very real." Darcy pointed out to the detriment of Stormy. "I'll bet that you and Icy can't hold a boyfriend after the spell wears off."
Stormy seemed to be very close to actually accepting that stupid bet. But I held her off. "The problem is that we are even arguing about this. Right now we should be the queens of magical dimension with the power of the Dragon fire. And every boy should bow down us and treat us like the queens we are."
"Oh here she goes again." Stormy muttered. "Icy unlike you we don't live in fantasy land." She shouted angrily at me while all I could be was disappointment at her. "It's all been dragon fire and dragon fire." She said in a mocking voice. "When will you wake up from that fantasy. We are never going to get the dragon fire. At least you should focus on getting a power that is obtainable. But no all dragon fire." She continued. "Or maybe instead of focusing on that, we could focus on just living a normal life."
"Normal life!" I shouted at the two. "What happened to you. Descendants of the ancestral witches." I said while thinking of what they would think about us, if they saw us in this situation. "Have you two given up just like that?" I looked at the two who gave me silence as the answer. "If the ancestral witches saw you two now, they would refuse to even call you family, because of what failures you have become!" I shouted at them while I made the final steps on the stairs towards our apartment.
"You two need to see what you are, and forget this normal life cr" I was about to finish the sentence when I opened the door. Instead of being greeted by an empty apartment there, was this dark red very slim skeletal figure, who almost seemed to be a living armor.
"What the hell are you doing in our home!?" I shouted at him and sent out an ice blast at him. He blocked it with ease startling both all of us.
I looked at the eyes of both Stormy and Darcy and we made up our mind to attack him together. Before we sent any shots at him he raised his arms at us.
"Now now no need to fight. I'm your friend, not your enemy." The figure said while we hesitated whether or not we should trust him. We decided to hear this guy out and stopped charging our attacks.
"Now I have a proposition for you." He said with a smirk. "You and I are on the same path and I would like for you to become my personal witches." He said while extending his hand.
We were not impressed with this beings proposal. "And why would we do that?" I asked him annoyed, that he thinks we would become his personal witches just like that.
"Because we are after the same thing. More power and the rule of the whole magical dimension. With your help I can get the ultimate power and you would rule with me as lord Darkars personal witches. And from what I heard about your conversation, you haven't had any luck doing that yourself." He finished with a smirk. I began considering his proposal. On the one hand we would need to do this guys dirty work and wouldn't even rule the universe ourselves. But he seems to be far ahead of us when it comes to his goals. And considering how he blocked my attack he is powerful as well.
Making up my mind I turned to both Stormy and Darcy with the look. The look of lets see if this guy is any use of for our own goals. And once he outlives his usefulness we'll get rid of him.
"Alright Darkar you have a deal. Right?" I said and looked at Stormy and Darcy who seemed unsure at first but agreed as well. "But first we need to see if you are the real deal." I told him and he smirked at us.
He created a portal and looked at us. "Ladies follow me." He said and stepped into it. We looked at each other for a moment and stepped into it as well. The other end of the portal revealed a freezing wasteland. And while the freezing cold air didn't bother me at all, it was a different story with Darcy and Stormy. Both of wwho were shivering already in a few seconds.
At first I wondered why did he bring us here. Then I saw a three snow monsters. I hadn't seen any of them in real life before. But they were one of the toughest monsters known around.
"Watch this." Darkar says and sends a fire blast at one of these said monsters. The monster, which it hit winces in pain and wakes up along with the rest of his kind.
"You are really showing your powers there." I said to him in a sarcastic tone. He just shook his head and focused on the battle. He turned into a phoenix and went straight at one of the monsters. He quickly turned back and sent many shots at the monster, at point blank range. The monster was killed instantly.
The second monster charged at him but he used his magic and created an aura around it, which froze it in place. Darkar also sends shots at the monster at point blank range and kills it.
He then turns to the last monster. "Ladies I think I proved myself enough there. Now how about you show me your abilities against this one."
"Come on girls let's transform!" I ordered to Darcy and Stormy and we quickly transformed from our street clothes into our witch forms.
Once in my witch form I sent out an ice blast towards the beast. It hit him straight to it's fur but it didn't seem to do anything. "H-how?" I asked in disbelief.
"Way to go Icy, use Icy powers against a beast with it's element." Stormy said and sent a bolt of lighting at the beast. The beast winced a little but even that one didn't do anything.
"I'll show how it's done." Darcy said and sent out a spell that would have blinded the beast. Once the spell hit it, to her horror only one of it's eyes were blinded.
The beast had enough of our attacks and charged at us. We flew a bit higher to avoid it, but it would hit us soon, if we didn't kill it.
"How are we so powerless against it?" I asked in disbelief.
Darkar seemed to have fun watching us make fools of ourselves. But that didn't seem to be only reason. "I will make sure no one messes with my personal witches. Use this to defeat that thing." Darkar said and used a spell on us.
I watched around when as an arm cuffs formed around on both Darcy's and Stormy's hands. And then a necklace started forming around my neck. I could feel that whatever this was, it was making me stronger.
When the necklace had formed around my neck and arm cuffs had formed around on Darcy's and Stormy's hand. We knew that this beast was easy picking.
I sent out an ice beam to the beast legs, and despite the fact it was resistant to ice, the beast was locked in place. Darcy sent out a blast of psychic energy straight towards the beast, who couldn't resist it. And finally Stormy finished this pathetic excuse of a monster with a tornado.
The three corpses snow monster corpses was the perfect start for our glorious return. Soon everyone will know the name Trix.
Because whether they like it or not. We are back.
Yes I completed this chapter within schedule. Anyway school started so I'm not sure that if I can make updates so often. At least the next chapter is relatively short, so I can almost 100% promise it will be out in max 3 weeks. I also changed the cover art for this story. The one that has been there for longest time is a bit squashed. This one has the original resolution without the text. Anyway the Trix are finally back in this story and Bloom has gotten involuntarily involved with them. And now darkar is in the game. Anyway road to 10k views. As of writing this AN. This story has 9895 views. So I hope within the day of publishing this, I reach this goal. Anyway hopefully you enjoyed this chapter. Now since Bloom is a witch I need to talk about the rules of earning the witch transformations:
No form: A witch without any witchform. Most witches are like this, since they haven't achieved a witch form. A witch without a witch form is actually more powerful than a fairy with magic winx. However most charmix fairies are more powerful. However there are powerful witches who are exceptions.
Witch form (just witch form unless there is name for it like magix witch): You get it, once you have matured enough in dark magic. Unlike magic winx this one is not common at all. Even large part of senior witches haven't achieved their witch forms. So a witch with a witch form is on a similar level with a fairy with charmix.
Gloomix: You earn it by being proud of who you are, yet are willing to change. Gloomix isn't as powerful as a fairy with enchantix. However it is more powerful than a fairy with charmix.
Disenchantix: You earn it by hurting someone very close to you. Disenchantix is more powerful than enchantix.
The gloomix rule and regular witch form were invented by myself. Regular witch form seems to be achieved in a same way as magic winx expect it's harder. Gloomix was a tricky one since opposite of charmix would have been so absurd. So I made it more witchy by making it being proud of yourself and also made it bit opposite with that willing to change thing. It also explains why Trix didn't have gloomix until darkar gave it to them. Also makes an interesting jounrey for Mirta (who I think I'm going to keep as a witch), Bloom and Lucy to earn them. Since Mirta and Bloom aren't proud of the fact they are witches and Lucy is not willing to change.
The disenchantix rule was from a description in a deviantart image of Mirta's witch form. That had a long thread on Mirta's original role from a supposed former rainbow employee. Supposedly Mirta was supposed to be the 6th member of winx club rather than Layla. But she was dropped because of a potential lawsuit from W.I.T.C.H. Mirta was supposed to stay as a witch and keep up with the fairies by earning witch forms. (which is why they were supposedly created for a first place.) And Mirta was supposedly supposed to earn her disenchantix by cutting Lucy completely off. Since Mirta wouldn't have forgiven for what Lucy did in season 1 in that universe. Anyway it's a fun concept and gave me some ideas for this story.
Now responses to my reviews from C7 and C8 announcement.
Jean D (c7): Good to see you liked this story and that prank Lucy pulled. Hopefully I'm being as true to the characters as possible.
Shiranai Atsune (c8a): Well good to see you like the fact I'm still making this. Hopefully you noticed this chapter.
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