four years ago

Portals proved unsuccessful, even using fairy dust and the new power that came with having an Enchantix. That had been expected but she had figured she should try it before she did anything else. But that was out. Finding the actual portal out of Omega was useless because she had just sealed it forever. That left Tecna with two options: create a way out, somehow, or wait for her friends to come looking for her.

Would her friends come looking for her?

Before she could decide on the probability, she was overwhelmed by emotion, by the thought that of course they would. Of course they would. Her friends and Timmy. They loved her. They were probably looking for her right now.

With some effort she took a deep breath and pushed those feelings away. Now was not the time. Feelings aside, would her friends be looking for her? Yes, if they thought she was alive. No, if they thought she was dead. What were the chances of that?

And even if they did look, how would they know to do so in Omega?

And if they did so in Omega, how would they even find her?

For a second she was overwhelmed by the data.

No. No. Do not analyze. Tecna resisted the feelings of despair that were again seeping into her thoughts. It didn't seem like a good idea to depend solely on being found by her friends. (Of course they would look for her. They loved her.) But the odds were much better if she got herself out, so she would have to do that.

She didn't feel like she had the energy to come up with anything right then. Her head was hurting, and all of the white on the snow and the ice felt like she had been staring at a screen for way too long. Tecna didn't typically maintain a transformation for hours at a time, and it was making her kind of tired.

She was going to have to survive here until she found some way to escape. That necessitated food, and—she glanced around. This area was secluded, since she had gone to the deepest part of the canyon to try a portal, but the gaping opening made her uneasy. She needed somewhere securable.

What were the characteristics of Omega? Snow and ice everywhere. Patrolled by monsters, ones designed by the prison and ones that had mutated as a result of the glitchy, negative energy. Filled with prisoners, although if the Trix had broken out so quickly it would be natural to assume that there might be more escapees around, in which case, she needed to find defensible shelter sooner than later. Then she would worry about everything else.

Magix City Daily

Alfea Fairy Disappeared From Andros

by Kalissa of Magix

Tecna of Zenith, a third year Alfea student, has been missing since yesterday, when she entered and then fell into the vortex on Andros. Recordings of the scene have been emerging since, which appear to show the technology fairy voluntarily entering the vortex, which had been threatening the existence of Andros, and gaining her Enchantix as she does so. She is then pulled into the vortex and falls.

The vortex was not fully understood when it was threatening Andros, and Tecna of Zenith is now presumed dead, as it is assumed it lead to a closed plane or nether-dimension, but research is still underway to discover the exact makeup. But the outlook is not good, according to portal and teleporting expert Sancha of Solaria. "The vortex was the result of dark and destabilized magic, which will greatly hinder efforts to identify it. It is highly likely that because of its aberration origin, it lead nowhere—that is, when it closed, it ceased to exist. And if it ceased to exist, it's likely so did Tecna of Zenith."

In a joint statement issued in central Magix today, Alfea's Headmistress Faragonda and Red Fountain's Headmaster Saladin expressed their sorrow and asked the press to leave their students alone to process the event, saying, "we hope entirely for a positive outcome to this tragic event, and that Tecna will be reunited with us again. In the meantime we ask that our students be given time and space in the wake of this sad development in the current conflict."

Tecna of Zenith's parents, XemTech founders Morela and Roman of Zenith, could not be reached for comment at this time.

Tecna has been involved in much of the resistance against Valtor this past year, and is a part of a group of students who call themselves the Winx Club.

The Androsi royal family could not be reached for comment at this time. The heiress to the Androsi throne is Princess Aisha, a member of the Winx Club and roommate of Tecna of Zenith at Alfea.