So, as you'll soon see, there are a few changes in this. Firstly being that it's longer. I'll discuss the other changes at the end of the chapter. Hope you like and review.
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She's got it. Yeah, baby, she's got it. Well, I'm your Venus; I'm your fire, at your desire. - "Venus" by The Shocking Blue
Episode One: Vixen is Born
King Sky and Queen Bloom of Eraklyon waited patiently for their oldest child to come out of her room. They would be sending her to the Realm of Magix for her first year at Alfea college for fairies. At that moment, she was in her room, packing her clothes.
"You know, you don't have to pack everything in your closet," Heaven, the youngest of the Eraklyon royal children told her older sister.
"I'm not packing every last thing," Angel said. She smiled at her sister. "You can use anything I leave behind, because I know that's what you really want to know."
Heaven smiled and hugged her older sister. "I'll miss you," she said. "Don't forget to call and write and post pictures on you Magic Media page."
Angel chuckled. "I promise," she said.
She pushed some of her wavy blonde hair behind her ear so it wasn't covering her aqua-blue eyes that she got from her mother. She took her tiara off and placed it into a box, packing that carefully into her suitcase. Heaven helped her sister take her bags out and found their parents waiting.
"Your ship is waiting," Bloom said, kissing her daughter's head.
"Have a good time, Sweetheart," Sky said.
"And don't forget to say hello to your cousins Helena and Phillip," Bloom said.
"I won't forget," Angel said with a nod. She walked off, her royal guard carrying her bags for her. "Good-bye, Mom, Dad, Heaven." She noticed her brother wasn't around so she pulled out her phone and sent him a text. She looked up as she walked out of the palace and noticed he was at his window. "Bye, Bud!"
He just waved as she walked off.
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When Angel stepped off the Eraklyon royal ship and onto Alfea's lawn, she felt a shiver run up her back. This is it, she thought to herself. I am really starting my magic school. She walked forward with confidence, an Eraklyon royal guard carrying all her luggage. She approached Griselda after a moment, recognizing the woman from her cousin's pictures.
"Hi, I'm Angel of Eraklyon," Angel announced. She stood tall, shoulders back, exuding her royal confidence though she was a little nervous.
"Helena's cousin, I presume," Griselda said eyeing the blonde girl. Angel adjusted her teal tunic and then her silver belt as she waited for Griselda to let her in. The older woman was rifling through her papers. "You're good," she finally said. Angel sighed and began forward, her guard following. "But he cannot go with you," Griselda said before they had gone more than three steps.
"But—" Angel tried to argue. It was rare that someone would do something that made her life harder.
"First of all, he is most definitely not a student," Griselda said. "Second, he is a male."
"I have three bags, and only two arms," Angel said. "How am I supposed to manage that?"
"He seems to have found a way," Griselda pointed out, even though the guard was struggling.
"I can help with your bags," a girl said, coming up behind Angel. Angel turned to see a short girl with long black hair, pale skin, and small dark eyes. "My name is Kaida. You're Princess Angel, right?" She smiled lightly.
"Yeah, that's me," Angel replied. "But, please, no 'princess' when talking to me. I'd like to be a normal girl here. No special privileges."
"That won't be a problem," Griselda said.
Angel looked at the deputy-headmistress for a moment, knowing full well that she would not like the teacher, before turning back to Kaida. "How'd you know who I was, anyway?"
"I'm from Draco," Kaida said. "I watch the news and saw you in the parade last year when you were in Domino." Draco was a small territory within the realm of Domino, and officially under the rule of Queen Daphne.
"Thank you for helping with my bags," Angel said, carrying two of them while Kaida carried the largest bag. "I don't know how I would have managed."
The two girls walked through the halls, Kaida in the lead, having to the drag the case as she had a hard time actually lifting it. "I've been to the dorms already," Kaida said. "You're in the same suite as I'm in. No one else was there when I left, but that was a while ago."
Sure enough, another of their suite mates had moved in by the time the two girls arrived. A tall girl with bright green wavy hair and matching eyes—she even had a green tinge to her skin—walked out from one of the rooms. She wore blue jean shorts, sneakers, and a black tee, standing straight, almost like she was from the military.
"Hi," Angel began introductions. "I'm Angel from Eraklyon, and this is Kaida of Draco."
"Nice to meet you," the green-haired fairy said. "I'm Emma of the realm of Isis."
"Have you unpacked?" Angel asked.
"Just finished," Emma said with a shrug. "I don't have a lot of stuff. I can help you, if you need it."
"That'd be great," Angel said smiling.
A little after Angel had unpacked her bags, with Kaida's help—Emma's help turned out to be sitting on a chair and commenting on some of the things Angel had—they heard the door of their suite open with a loud bang and a voice called out, "Good morning, Alfea!"
"Who's that?" Emma questioned standing from the bed and heading toward the main room to see who had just entered the suite. "And it's nowhere near morning."
"I would assume one of our roommates," Angel said following Emma. Kaida took up the rear.
A short girl with dark skin and black hair was heading toward the room opposite of Angel's. She wore an ivory top and a light green skirt, though she was a little stout. The three girls just stared as the girl walked through the doorway with a suitcase in one hand and a large box held by her other arm. She came back out a few moments, a big smile on her face. "Hi there!"
"Hello," Emma said, a small hesitation in her voice. There was something about the girl that seemed a little off, almost as if a darker energy was coming off her than the average fairy.
"I'm Cicada of the realm of Insectus," the girl said waving and smiling happily. "So, which of you beautiful damsels am I rooming with?"
Slowly, Kaida raised her hand. "That would be me," she said. "I'm Kaida. These are Angel and Emma."
"A pleasure to meet you all," Cicada said, approaching each quickly and shaking their hands. "So, when is dinner in this joint?" She threw an arm over Kaida's shoulders as if they had known one another for a long time, not just seconds.
"You do realize this is a school, right?" Emma asked.
"Well, duh," Cicada said. "But still, it was a long journey from my home to get here and I didn't have any food on the road."
"Well, as long as you know," Emma said.
"And dinner is in an hour and a half," a new voice announced from the door. There stood a tall, fair-skinned girl with platinum blonde hair, pale green eyes, and a pale pink dress. She smiled and giggled, and immediately, the other four girls smiled back at her. "My name is Trend."
"Hey, Trend," Angel said. "My name is Angel."
"Emma," the green-haired fairy introduced herself.
"Cicada, here!"
"And I'm Kaida."
Trend turned out to be rooming with Angel, which the Eraklyon princess was perfectly fine with. Trend, as it happened, was a princess too, from the well known realm of Popularis. It was explanation enough as to why everyone took an immediate liking to her, as it was part of her natural Popularis magic, though after that had worn off, Trend turned out to be an absolute sweetheart. She was interested in learning all about her new roommates and open to making friends.
About half an hour before dinner, Kaida rejoined Angel in her room, completely creeped out. Cicada was a fairy of arachnids, and as such, the dark-skinned girl had jars of bugs that she kept as pets. When the others went to check it out, they discovered that Cicada had several butterflies, a praying mantis, a few dragonflies, a spider, and a whole ant farm.
"That's kinda gross," Trend said looking at the bugs. "Though, the butterflies are pretty."
"I love them," Cicada said. "My favorite is Maddie, my mantis."
"You've named them?" Kaida asked, even more creeped out.
"Not all of them," Cicada said. "Just Maddie and Louise, the queen ant."
"I think it's about dinner time," Emma said, just for a reason to leave the room.
Cicada smiled while Kaida, Trend, and Angel all grimaced. "I think I lost my appetite," Angel said, eyeing the insects.
"Oh, can I have your share then?" Cicada asked.
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Aside from Alfea, Magix had the school for witches, Cloud Tower. Like at Alfea, students were arriving, some new, some returning. A certain Trio of witches were sulking over the fact that they had been given a fourth roommate. Their suite was certainly large enough for a fourth roommate, or even a fifth one if needed, as they had an entire shelf to their room that they didn't use along with their spare bathroom. One girl, with black hair and pale skin wearing green clothes to match her acid green eyes paced their main room a few times as the new girl unpacked her things.
"I don't like it," Bryony said. "Not one bit."
"Would you stop pacing?" Ebony asked. She had dark brown hair, hazel eyes, and tanned skin, especially tan compared to the other three witches in the room. She was sprawled across the couch, looking at her new purple boots. "You're going to wear in the carpet and it's new."
"Like you care," a girl with white hair and light blue eyes said. "It's not like you paid for it, Eb." She was sitting in a desk chair, spinning slowly.
"Our mothers didn't have a fourth roommate," Ebony complained, sitting up and staring at her cousin, Frosty.
"I thought we had agreed not to mention our mothers at all," Frosty hissed through clenched teeth as quietly as she could. Her blue eyes darted to their new roommate, then back at Ebony. "What if she was to overhear us? That could be real bad, or have you forgotten?"
"Oh, relax, would you?" Bryony said. "I found out and you two are still here."
"Yes, well, you found out when we learned of your secret desire to take over the world," Frosty said. "Then we understood that you looked up to our mothers."
"Yet, they failed," Ebony said. "Just like all the men they hooked up with." She sighed and sprawled herself across the couch again.
"Anyway," Frosty interrupted before Ebony could say anything about their mothers. "How long do you think she will last?"
"I give a week," Bryony said, snickering a little.
"You're giving her too much credit," Ebony said. "I say she bails after the first day of classes."
"I give her over night," Frosty said.
"I can hear you," their dark-haired roommate called down, looking over the balcony rail with her brown eyes.
"And we care about that because…?" Bryony asked, not bothering to look up.
The girl returned to her bags, not allowing herself to care.
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"How would I look with purple hair?" Angel asked, swirling her hands and changing her blonde locks purple in Professor Wizgiz's class the following day. The short teacher had gone to the side of the class to help one of the fairies that couldn't get her hair to do anything.
"Like that girl in the back of the classroom not even trying," Emma replied. She glanced toward the back where a single girl with lavender hair was staring down at a book rather than trying. Angel nodded and changed her hair back to its normal color, or at least a shade lighter.
"You know, she snubbed Trend," Cicada said, leaning forward to join the conversation. She had managed to give herself seven colored stripes making her hair into a rainbow. "How do you snub Trend?"
Suddenly, there was a loud Poof! The three girls talking turned to see that Trend, rather than making her hair change colors, had made it, well, into an afro. She still looked gorgeous. Kaida, next to her, giggled. "It's so you, dahling," Cicada said, faking an accent.
"Everything looks good on her," Emma claimed. She looked to her own hair and went for blue. Then red. Even blonde. She had the magic down, but none of it worked with her skin tone. "Why must green be my color?" she questioned, letting it return to its natural color.
"You don't like it?" Angel asked.
"I abhor green," Emma stated firmly. "It's the color of envy."
"And money," Cicada reminded her. Emma rolled her eyes.
Wizgiz, in the back of the class helping girls, looked at the lavender-haired girl. "Are you having difficulty, Avery?" he asked approaching the olive-tanned girl.
"No," the girl replied, not looking up from her book as she turned the page. "I just don't feel like wasting time and magic."
"Wow, can you say snob?" Angel asked hypothetically.
"Snob," Cicada said with a smirk, making the other four girls giggle.
"Please at least demonstrate that you can, then," Wizgiz said, clearly not happy with the girl.
Avery rolled her light blue eyes and sighed in annoyance. "If I must," she said and waved her hand. Her hair immediately turned a brilliant golden blonde. "Would you like me to decorate it as well?" Suddenly, her hair jumped to life and small braids formed every few inches. Once those were done, all her hair pulled back into a perfect bun, a few tendrils curled around her face.
"Okay, that was impressive," Kaida said. Her hair was only a few shades lighter than its natural onyx black color.
"I wonder where she learned that," Trend said. Her hair was still rather poofy, and still its natural color.
"I really do not care," Angel said. "I do not care for her at all."
As the bell rang, the girls all shuffled out of the room. Avery, her hair having returned to its down, light-purple state, kept her blue eyes down. She overheard a couple of girls gossiping about her as she passed. She bit the inside of her cheek and kept walking, not allowing anyone to see her breath grow shallow. She hadn't known how to feel when she arrived the day before to find her uncle had reserved her a single dorm that were usually designated for seniors that wanted more privacy. Not having any suite mates and having never had many friends at home, she had found it difficult to connect to anyone when they had all formed little groups hours earlier while she had been alone in her room.
"Avery," Palladium said as she walked in with the bell. "Be careful, you were almost late."
"I'm sorry, Professor," Avery said with spite. She took a seat in the back and pulled her hair behind her right ear, exposing its pointed-shape.
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As the girls were sitting down to lunch, a short girl with light brown hair came bounding over and hugged Angel without warning. "I'm so glad you're here! Ange, it's been too long!"
"It's been two weeks," Angel said, standing and hugging the girl back. She turned to her roommates. "This is my cousin, Helena." She gestured to the girl. "Helena, these are Emma, Cicada, Trend, and Kaida. Kaida is from Draco."
"Oh, Draco, that is awesome," Helena said.
"Princess," Kaida said and bowed lightly.
"Anyway, good to meet you all," Helena said. "But I have to jet. Extra lessons with Griselda about my study abroad."
"Oh, that's right," Angel nodded. "Have you decided where you're going?"
Helena nodded. "My friends and I have decided to take a page from your mom's book and we're going to Earth. Wish me luck!"
"Good luck," Angel said and hugged Helena once more. "Oh, and give my wishes to Grandma Vanessa and Grampa Mike if you see them."
"I got it, girl," Helena said, and then was bounding back out of the room again.
"Wow, she's a ball of energy," Emma stated.
"She reminds me of my sister, June," Cicada said.
"You have a sister?" Trend asked. "That's cool. I only have a brother, but I would love to have a little sister."
"Want one of mine?" Cicada asked. "I have siblings to spare."
"How many do you have?" Kaida asked.
"As of now, thirteen," Cicada said. "I think that my mom is done."
"Thirteen kids?" Emma asked, shocked.
"Fourteen," Kaida said, "because she has thirteen siblings."
"And I'm the oldest," Cicada said. "But, I'm not the only one with magic. I'm pretty sure my sister Lady is a witch, and my brother Scarab is at the Insectus School of Magic. It's not specialized and I used to go there, until I surpassed all my peers and several of my professors, so I got upgraded to here. June looks promising to come here too." She cocked her head. "As of yet, only one of my brothers old enough to go to ISM hasn't had magic. The rest are too young."
"This is the first time I've been at a magic school," Kaida said. "I mean, I've done all the reading, but the work is much harder."
"Tutors," Trend and Angel said in unison.
"I've had a few lessons," Emma said. "But mostly it's been athletic training for me. And weapons."
"Like specialists?" Angel asked.
Emma nodded. "I'm in line to guard the Isis parliament in Jewel City. I need magic and hero training."
"I thought Isis was a monarchy," Kaida said.
"It was until about when we were born," Angel said. "There was a coup d'état. The royals fled to Eraklyon where they're still nobility but with no real power." She smiled as if proud she knew something.
"The parliament is paranoid that the royals will come back to overthrow them," Emma said.
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After classes, Angel and her roommates were celebrating a fine first day. "We really ought to do something to celebrate," Angel said.
"Like what?" Kaida asked. "It's not like we know what there is around here aside from shopping.
A look of pleasure took over Trend's eyes. "Shopping is perfect!" Angel and Cicada immediately agreed, though not with the same passion as Trend. Kaida and Emma looked at one another, then nodded.
"Wait," Angel stopped them before they all stood to get ready. "I feel this year is going to be epic, and we need to commemorate this important point in history."
"Definitely," Emma said.
"A name," Cicada suggested.
The other girls all looked at one another. "How about Totally Amazing Confident Elite… what's a good word for K?" Trend asked.
"Killers?" Cicada said with a shrug.
"Too long," Emma said.
"Etack?" Trend asked.
"It doesn't need to have our initials," Kaida said.
"I've got it," Angel said, standing. "Vixen!"
"Because we're all so foxy and cool," Trend said.
"And totally amazing confident elite Ks," Cicada added.
The five girls all looked at one another and then shared a high five.
"Now, about that shopping trip…" Trend reminded them.
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As we can see, changes.
Firstly, Angel is only the princess of Eraklyon. Her cousin, a new character named Helena, is princess of Domino. Helena has a twin brother that we haven't met, just heard of, named Phillip. I'm still in the deciding process of whether Helena is crown princess or if Phillip will be crown prince. Helena was born a few minutes earlier, therefore oldest, but most kingdoms have the males first in line. Thoughts?
Second, Emma. I've decided it's been annoying Emerald using emerald weapons. This will help differentiate the difference between the person and the power.
As a side note to that, I've changed her realm. In looking up a few things, I remembered that Diaspro is the fairy of gems. Diaspro is from Isis (in the 4Kids version, and it doesn't make sense if she's from Eraklyon because she is a princess, but Sky's family is the royal family. So, I'm saying that her family has always been really close politically with Eraklyon's royal family (even becoming advisors in the past).) To get around the royalty and to place Diaspro's family (and therefore Trine later) on Eraklyon, I've explained it with a coup.
Thirdly, the titles will no longer be songs. Instead, I will have a song quote at the beginning of each chapter (I still love songs).
Fourth, Cicada's family. I'm not sure if I ever mentioned any names of her siblings. They don't all have names… in fact, I haven't given names to seven of them. Her oldest sister is named June and next is Lady. Her oldest brother is named Scarab. I'll probably be adding him into the second season in the revamp (possibly to replace Chase, but I'm not entirely sure yet). But she'll talk more about her family from here on out. When (if) I get to a third season, we will officially meet June who will be attending Alfea. (Also, if you're wondering where the names come from… june bug and lady bug… and a scarab is a type of beetle.)
I know a lot of this chapter is similar to the original, and it will continue so throughout. Some scenes are nearly straight out of the original. I've differentiated the girls from one another a little more quickly this time around, from Emma's more abrasive attitude to Trend's super sweetness. Rereading the original, I felt that, aside from Cicada who has always been a jokester, it took a few chapters for them to start developing their own personalities. Hope you've enjoyed and review!