Several days passed and the festival feast was saved, thanks to the resourcefulness of the Winx Club. When the day of the festival arrived, the representatives from Eraklyon and Tir na nog arrived separately. Sky was the first to arrive and he was dressed in a splendid suit becoming of the prince of Eraklyon. Walking with his squire and fellow specialist team mate, Brandon, they approach Queen Seraphina and Princess Alyssa.
"Your Highnesses its an honor to represent Eraklyon on this glorious festival." Sky said to Queen Seraphina before turning to Alyssa and saying "Well Princess it is an honor to see you in an official capacity and not just a student at a fellow magic school."
Alyssa blushed as Brandon walked up and knelt saying "It is an honor to be here you two. I hope we can improve an ever growing diplomatic relationship between Eraklyon and Mystelar."
Queen Seraphina leaned over to her daughter saying "They seem really nice Alyssa. I hope they treat you right during the functions at Alfea dear."
Alyssa blushed and then said, "Mom, you're embarrassing me." Sky and Brandon laughed as they headed into the castle, after they entered the castle Alyssa turned to her mom asking, "Mom, who's coming from Tir na Nog?"
"Well we can see really soon," Queen Seraphina said pointing to the Tir na Nog envoy. As the ship touched down, Aurora, Major Fairy of the North disembarked and began walking towards Alyssa and Queen Seraphina.
Extending a hand when she reached the mother-daughter duo, Aurora warmly said, "Seraphina its lovely to see you again, how's things going?"
Seraphina, taking Aurora's hand then pulled her into a hug saying, "Wonderful Aurora, just wonderful. Its lovely to see you again," Seraphina then gestured to her daughter saying, "This is my daughter Alyssa." she then disengaged the hug allowing Aurora to introduce herself to Alyssa.
Aurora smiled extending her hand, "Alyssa its lovely to meet you although stories of you have reached Tir na Nog. I hear you are quite the student at Alfea and you are tracking down Valtor, I commend you."
Alyssa smiled as Aurora left to go join the other delegates before turning to her mother and saying "I'm going to chat up Aurora and see if there's anything I can do to make her stay comfortable."
Queen Seraphina smiled and ushered her daughter inside, and leading her to Aurora. Alyssa walked up to Aurora and said "So, um Aurora you said that stories of me reached Tir na Nog? I..I'm amazed at that."
Aurora smiled and said "Well its not often that there's a fairy of your caliber at Alfea. Come walk with me I have some things to discuss with you."
Alyssa followed Aurora through the halls of the castle, the Major Fairy of the North, turned to Alyssa and began, "Crown Princess, I come to you asking you to keep an eye open for anything or anyone that might try and harm me. As I disembarked from my ship I over heard that I was the target of a disgruntled servant girl working for the Mystelar royal family."
Alyssa looked at Aurora disheartened and worried about this said "You have my word Aurora I'll keep my eyes open and ears open, I'll make sure to inform you if I hear anything. Is there something else?"
"Thank you crown princess. I hope that we can bolster relations between Tir Na Nog and Mystellar, come to think of it there is something more. Next time you're in Gardenia can you convince Roxy that she's a fairy? I know you all tried a while back but with how things are going with Morgana as queen we need Roxy back in Tir Na Nog. Don't worry I have faith in you." Aurora said.
Alyssa smiled and said "We can try Aurora. It might not be easy but we'll do our best."
Aurora smiled and then left Alyssa to her own devices.
As Alyssa and Aurora went their separate ways, Diaspro, who was lurking behind a statue began sneaking behind Aurora. When they rounded a corner Diaspro seized an opportunity to enact her plan. She led Aurora through the back halls and out of sight of guards to the grounds that had the Eraklyon envoy ship. Diaspro, led Aurora aboard and initialized the engines of the ship laughing as she did. She somehow managed to break the magic suppression cuffs and was now free to transform and use her magic again.
Back in the castle the representatives from the realms currently on Mystelar heard the sounds of roaring engines. Running outside the girls, Prince Sky and Squire Brandon all saw the ship leaving. Alyssa felt guilty about what had happened to Aurora, she was the last one to talk to Aurora and placed a heavy amount of undeserved blame on herself. Meanwhile Queen Seraphina was sitting on her throne when a servant came barreling into the room.
"Your Majesty, I...I have news. D..Diaspro took the Eraklyon envoy ship...she said that she was taking the Major Fairy of the North back to Eraklyon as a bargaining chip for her title back."
Queen Seraphina stood up and ran to the now empty sport that the envoy ship once occupied. The winx club, Bloom's sister Daphne, Prince Sky and Squire Brandon all stood there thinking about what to do before Sky said, "Brandon try and get in contact with the rest of our specialist squad and tell them to meet us on Eraklyon."
Brandon nodded and began trying to call one of the squad members. When Queen Seraphina showed up she told everyone, "Alright all of you please go to Eraklyon and rescue Aurora, the festival this year is canceled and we'll have to move locations to try this again."
Queen Seraphina conjured a portal to Eraklyon and then hugged Alyssa before saying, "Be safe sweetheart, keep your wits about Diaspro and between you and me, good job knocking her out a couple days ago she was getting on my nerves."
Alyssa smiled at her mom and broke off the hug to join her friends. Once they were all through the portal closed and now they had to wait for Riven, Timmy and Helia. In the meantime they had to devise a plan to insure something like this with Diaspro doesn't happen again.
"Alyssa why don't you go talk to my parents." Sky suggested, they know of Mystelar culture and laws. If you explain to them the situation they might be inclined to listen to your proposal for punishment for Diaspro."
"You're right Sky I should its worth a shot and if I do allow them to delegate the punishment towards me, I'm not going to go harsh like I wanted to, I'm thinking about sending her to Lightrock monastery." Alyssa said, keeping her blood-lust in check as Lightrock was more tame than sending her to the Omega dimension.
Bloom and Flora looked at Alyssa proud of her for not essentially condemning Diaspro to die in the cold desolate environment of Omega. Bloom then spoke up, "Alyssa we're proud of you for being rational and collected with this decision. Please remember this when you sit on the throne of Mystelar."
"Bloom's right muffin, and remember Bloom and I support you all the way." Flora said taking Alyssa's hand. "Now lets go find Diaspro."
Just then a ship from Red Fountain landed and out came, Riven, Helia and Timmy. In his calm demeanor, said "I heard we have a princess to wrangle. We've come to help."
Riven seeing Alyssa dressed in her official capacity was stunned and walked up to her, "Um, hey Alyssa, I really wanted to say sorry about last time."
Alyssa smiled, her face softened and she said, "It's okay Riven, it was a mistake and now we can team up."
Helia looked at the ground noticing two sets of footprints, both leading to a shed on the Eraklyon castle grounds. "Everyone look at this, two sets of footprints leading to a shed." he said, his calm pacifist demeanor evident. Helia decided to look in the shed having his restraint cuff ready. When he opened the shed door Aurora was sitting there, her blue coat-dress dirty and stained. Her eyes lit up as she saw her rescuers. "Oh thank you for coming to rescue to me." she said as Helia stood aside.
Aurora ran to the Red Fountain ship and stayed there as the team went to get Diaspro. Running to the court, the team tried to hurry hoping that they would set the narrative straight.
Diaspro was already trying to spin the narrative in her favor "Oh they treated me horribly." she begged to the king of Eraklyon. "the prince punched me and he was smug about it. I demand that I have my role as princess reinstated." King Erendor looked up at Diaspro clearly unimpressed with what Diaspro was saying, before he turned to his wife saying "Why is she back? She should be cleaning the palace of Mystelar."
Hi wife, Queen Samara was equally unimpressed with the former princess begging like a commoner. Just then the team of specialists and fairies ran into the court as Prince Sky started, "Mom, dad we've come to take Diaspro back to Mystelar she ruined the Festival of the Lunar Eclipse and embarrassed the Mystelar royal family. She needs to be brou…."
Sky's father cut him off "I know son but she isn't responding well to the rehabilitation offered by Mystelar so we have decided to fully agree to whatever the crown princess of Mystelar wants to give her."
Alyssa looked shocked at the revelation that she was going to hold the fate of Diaspro in her hands. Alyssa took a deep breath and said "Diaspro, I sentence you to 10 years in the Omega dimension."
"Fuck you, damn confused prince. I don't want to do anything you say." Diaspro lunged at Alyssa.
Alyssa sighed and just gestured to Helia to use his restraints on Diaspro. Smiling Helia restraining the disgraced princess and waited for Seraphina and Alaric to arrive. Eventually they did arrive and after discussing the logistics of transporting Diaspro to the Omega Dimension Seraphina and Alaric turned to their daughter saying "Alyssa, you acted swiftly and as a true princess. We're proud of you, how ever we think that it would be best for you to visit Laura while we fix up the mess Diaspro caused."
Alyssa nodded and then remembered that there was a loft that Faragonda bought saying "Alfea, has purchased a loft for us in Gardenia, why don't we head back there."
Bloom and Flora walked up flanking Alyssa on either side saying "Alyssa's right plus we have unfinished business in Gardenia."
The rest of the winx club agreed remembering that they have to find Roxy and deal with The Wizards of the Black Circle. Plus Valtor was still out there.
Diaspro was still protesting her punishment calling out "Valtor, help me. You promised me power." she struggled against the restraints Helia had put her in. Suddenly her chest began to glow as if there was a brand appearing there. Then almost as quickly as the marked began to glow the air became cold and chilly, a deep crimson fog wafted in and clouded the vision of everyone. When the fog lifted Diaspro was no where to be seen and an oppressive dark energy lingered.
"It seems Valtor heard her plea," Seraphina said before turning to the 7 fairies and 5 specialists "All of you, I implore you on behalf of the royal family of Mystelar go to Gardenia and look for those two."
Nodding with a new mission the 12 young adults boarded the Red Fountain ship where Aroura was and left for Earth and the kingdom of Tir Na Nog where the earth fairies reside, little did these 12 heroes know that there was a new threat lurking in Gardenia. On the flight to Earth, Tecna took out her pad and made a list of villains they faced and who they still had to deal with.
"So everyone, the only one who's been brought down so far is Tritannus, and he's in Oblivion. The Trix, Diaspro, Valtor, Darkar and the Wizards of the Black Circle are still at-large. We need to be vigilant."
Aurora, knowing what was at steak here walked up and calmly said "If it isn't too much to ask of you twelve can you look for Roxy, she is the crown princess of Tir Na Nog. We should keep her safe and as I told Alyssa we will help in any way possible."
The Red Fountain ship kept flying to Earth as Alyssa had an uneasy feeling about this time back on earth. She could sense something was amiss and that these villains still at large would be a thorn in their sides as long as they were out and free to cause trouble in the magic dimension and on earth. The ride to earth was going to be long so Alyssa decided that she was going to take a nap. Laying down on a bench on the ship she closed her eyes and drifted off to a troubled slumber.
