Daughter of Darkness

Daughter of Darkness

Teaching at Alfea is a perfect job for the Winx Club; Roxy's lessons are also going well.  One day Selene, Stella's younger sister arrives at Alfea, eager to become as good as a fairy as Stella and the rest of the Winx.  Since Selene is the fairy of nighttime, she sometimes seems like more of a witch than a fairy.

Bloom
"Stella wake up, our lecture starts in ten minutes!" Same old Stella. "Hey Bloom" "Oh hey Roxy, what's up?" "Nothing much, just forgot some stuff for my Magic Flora and Fauna class." She ran into her room and Stella walked out sleepily. "Good Morning." She yawned. "Morning? It's almost noon."  "Meaning it's technically still morning." Roxy came running out and said hey have you guys seen Artu?" Artu is Roxy's dog she brought from earth, he was the only large pet allowed at the school because she had charmed him so that he could talk. "No when did you last see him?" "I let him outside this morning like I usually do and then he comes back into my room, I'm really worried." "He is probably just exploring a little bit. Don't worry. Stella come on! We have to go; the others are waiting for us! Don't worry Roxy he'll turn up." Stella walked out in her robe and said "Give me ten minutes" "Stella we have two minutes before our lecture starts!" She rolled her eyes and snapped her fingers, causing clothes to appear magically on her body. "There's no way we can get to class on time." I said to myself. Stella said "Well then we better show our students, one of the believix powers." I laughed and said "I guess we should." At the same time we both said "WINX BELIEVIX!" I felt powerful when I was either using my believix or my enchantix. "WINX ZOOMIX!" I fluttered my wings and said "Stella c'mon we have to go. Good luck Roxy I'll see you after classes." "Bye guys have fun." We disappeared and reappeared in the classroom, getting many startled and surprised looks. I looked at Flora she didn't seem surprised at all. "Stella late again?" I nodded and felt my transport wings disappear. Techna said "okay then that unexpected demonstration was of one of the many powers of the Believix transformation." The students clapped and I let the magic fade from my body until I was back to normal. "Any questions?" I asked.
After classes we walked out into the courtyard for a picnic. Roxy came out with Artu. "Hey guys." "Hey Roxy, you found Artu." "Yeah he was actually with Mrs. Faragonda. They were talking about allowing more pets here. Weren't you Artu?" "Yes sometimes I feel very lonely with only Kiko to talk to." He said. I said "oh I'm sorry, you could have stayed back on earth and been with the love & pet animals." "But then I couldn't live without him." Roxy said sadly. I heard Griselda saying "May I help you?" I looked to the front gate to see a beautiful girl with long black hair with silver highlights. Stella said "No way, this can't be happening." "Stella what's wrong?" Flora asked her. "No I need to get away from here, fast." "Why?" we all asked at once. The new girl called "STELLA!"  Stella covered her face and whispered "That's my younger sister."

Selene
"Hi I'm Selene of princess of Solaria, my mother enrolled me here." She lifted some papers on her clipboard and said "Ah here you are I assumed that Princess Stella was the only princess of Solaria." "Many people assume that since I live with our mother the queen on the other side of Solaria." I've lived on Solaria since I was just six months old. See I was born on another planet, one that was destroyed by the ancient Ancestral Witches and their minions. I was one of only two survivors. My true home planet was called Sparks.

Stella
How did she get here? Stupid Selene always getting what she wants, my fifth birthday I got a Solarain Pegasus. The next day what do I find in the stable? Another one with Selene's name on the saddle. Same thing for almost every birthday after that. Now here she is taking one of the few things I had left to me. She walked quickly over to us and said "Hey Stell I missed you so much!" "Missed you to Selene." I mumbled. Bloom flicked my leg. I frowned at her. Griselda said "I'm sorry to cut your welcomes short but Headmistress Faragonda wants to see Selene in her office." Halleluiah! "Selene you will be sharing a dorm with Roxy here, and your bags will be there when you arrive." She nodded and said "Okay then, I guess I'll see you guys later." She followed Griselda towards Mrs. F's office. As soon as they were out of ear reach Bloom said "Stella what is so wrong with Selene?" "She always gets whatever she wants without a second thought. I mean she was adopted for crying out loud, shouldn't I be treated better? I was born the princess of Solaria; she was adopted into our family. Since my fifth birthday she has gotten every present I've gotten. I finally found the one thing that she can't take and she figures out a way to take that too. I'm tired of it." I finished my rant to see everyone staring at me. "Really Stella?" Musa said I shrugged. "I get jealous really easy."

Selene
"Hey Stell I missed you so much!" I said "Missed you to Selene." She mumbled back to me. Well so much for warm welcomes. One of the girls on the blanket flicked her leg and Stella frowned. Griselda came up and said "I'm sorry to cut your welcomes short but Headmistress Faragonda wants to see Selene in her office. Selene you will be sharing a dorm with Roxy here, and your bags will be there when you arrive." I nodded and said "Okay then, I guess I'll see you guys later." I followed her towards the school highly aware of the stares behind me.  We walked through the building past hundreds of doors. Finally she stopped at a large door at the end of the hall. "Headmistress, I have Selene of Solaria here to see you." "Come on in." the doors opened without her touching them. An older looking woman sat at a desk with her hands clasped together. "Ah Selene look how much you've grow." I looked around to see Griselda was gone and the doors were shut. "I don't believe that I have met you before headmistress." I said confused. "Come sit down and I will explain." I slowly walked up to the large chairs and said "Okay then I'm all ears." She laughed and said "Selene as you may or may not know, you were not born on Solaria." "I am aware of that; I was adopted when I was very young." "Yes that is true but do you know where you were born?" "Yes I believe that I was born on Sparks." "Yes I was a member of the company of light. The company of light was the ones that saved you and your sister from the ancestral witches. When Sparks was destroyed we took you to Solaria to live with the royal family." "You said I had a sister, do you know who she is? And where did you take her? Does she know who I am? Does she know where I am? Is she here at Alfea? Is she alive?" "Hold on, slow down Selene. All of your questions will be answered in time but I am glad to let you know that she is alive and well." I smiled so I had a sister, she was alive, and hopefully I would meet her very soon. "Can you tell me anything else about her?" I asked. "The information is not mine to tell. But this was not the reason I called you here. Since your powers come from darkness based sources the moon, stars, and nighttime, it means you are much more susceptible to dark spells and dark magic. You may know that we have many dark wizards and dark magicians and since your are truly from Sparks many if not all of them will be after you and your power." "Why my power? It's just darkness based." She shook her head and said "It's actually a form of the dragon fire. The dragon fire is the Great Dragon's fire. The other dragon that it fought against was called the Dark Dragon; your power is the Dark Dragon's fire.  It's called the Shadow Fire, and in some ways it's more powerful than the Dragon Fire in other ways it's weaker. Your power and the Dragon Fire mildly attract each other. You two may be in the same room but not realize it but that attraction would bring you to that room. Selene you're more special than anyone could let you believe, that is one of the reasons I convinced your mother to let you come to Alfea. Not only to train you how to best use the Shadow Fire but also to protect you. I don't doubt that Baltor or the Trix know you are here." "So to recap, I have an ancient fire as my power source, my birth sister and I am attracted together by our powers, and some big horrible bad guys are after me?"  I counted off on my fingers "To sum it up, yes." I shrugged and said "Was that all you had to tell me?" "Yes that is all. If you see Bloom and her friends can you please send them in?" "Yes should I send Roxy in? Because I share a room with her." "No not Roxy but you will most likely see them. They all share an apartment room together. So if you are with Roxy then you are with them." I nodded and said "Can you show me where my room is? Griselda didn't exactly tell me." "Oh I can do better than show you. Roomius Appearius!" I opened my eyes to see a door. That said 'Winx Club' who are they? I shrugged and opened the door to see Stella and the other girls from earlier this morning. "Um hi Headmistress Faragonda spelled me here. She said my room was in here? I'm Roxy's roommate." A red haired girl walked up to me and said "Oh you're Selene? It's nice to meet you. I'm Bloom." "Nice to meet you too." A brown haired girl came up and said "Hi I'm Flora." I smiled and said "Nice to meet you. I'm Selene." A girl with black hair said "Hey I'm Musa." "Nice to meet you Musa." A girl with hot pink hair said "Hello Selene I'm Techna." She shook my hand. She was very sophisticated. Bloom said "Layla's not here right now. She is at Pixie Village. Roxy's in your guy's room" She pointed to a door with paw print on it. "Thanks everyone." I got a hug from everyone except Stella. I half-smiled at her and walked away.

Roxy
I looked on the extra bed in my room and saw six black sparkly bags with a large white 'S' on each. I said "Artu we are getting a new roommate." "Have you met her yet?" "Well sort of, I've seen her and I know a little about her but I haven't met her personally yet." He rolled his eyes and sniffed the air. "Well you're about to; a new smell just entered the room."  I gulped and I heard Bloom and everyone else introducing themselves. Bloom said "Layla's not here right now. She is at Pixie Village. Roxy's in your guy's room" Thanks a lot Bloom. I rolled my eyes and the door opened slowly. A tall girl with long black hair and bright blue eyes came in and looked around. She seemed like she should be older than me but at the same time she seemed younger. "Um hi, Roxy right?" I nodded and said "Um Selene?" She nodded and said "Princess of Solaria and Fairy of the sha… I mean moon, stars, and nighttime." She gave me a feeble smile. I smiled back and said "I'm the fairy of animals. This is my dog Artu." He said "Nice to meet you." Her eyes went wide and she said "He can talk?" "Yeah when I found out I was a fairy I used a spell to let him talk." "That's so cool. Hi there Artu" she said softly to him. "You don't have to talk to me like that I can understand you just fine." He said annoyed. "Sorry I'm not really used to the whole talking dog thing." "It's okay Selene it takes some getting use to." She smiled and said "So Roxy where are all your things so I don't take any of your space." "Oh okay then, I didn't bring much but my stuff is all here." I pointed to the closet that had all my clothes in it. "Selene do you need help putting your stuff away?" "No I got it." She waved her hands and all the suitcases opened. She snapped and one suitcase was emptied into the closet. She snapped again and two more unpacked. "Okay I've never done three at once. So let's see how it goes." She closed her eyes and snapped. Then I looked around to see Selene, Artu, and I all covered in clothes. I said "Maybe you should stick with two at a time." We both laughed and she said "Oh I almost forgot" she ran out the door and said "Bloom. Headmistress Faragonda wanted to see you guys in her office." She came back in and said "You wouldn't mind…?" I shook my head and started helping her pick up her clothes.

Bloom
Selene didn't seem nearly as bad as Stella had made her sound. She was kind and courteous not rude and stuck up as Stell had made her sound. "Stella she's nice." Musa said. Stella said "Now she is, wait until you get to really know her, then you realize she is a bottomless pit of annoyance. We all gave Stella weird looks, she wasn't that poetic ever. Though she was being mean to Selene. We got to Mrs. Faragonda's office and before I could knock the door opened. "Hello Winx" "Hey Mrs.F you wanted to see us?" "Yes I have a mission for you girls." "Awesome! It's been so boring since we got back from earth. So where we headed?" Musa said. "No where actually. You will be staying here to protect the school. I have a strong feeling that Baltor, Darkar, The Trix, and the Ancestral witches are going to work together to destroy Alfea." Musa sighed and I said "why do you think that?" "I'm sorry Bloom but if I told you then it would possibly doom us all." Of course. "But Bloom I need to talk to you. The rest of you that's all I needed to tell you, please go back to your classes." We waited and she went down to the secret library. I followed her to the hall of memories. "Bloom, as you partially know, you are not the last survivor of Sparks." "Yeah Daphne is too. Why?" "Other than Daphne you have a sister, as you have the Dragon Fire, She has the Shadow Fire. The gifts naturally attract each other you two may be in the same room but not realize it but that attraction would bring you to that room.  Bloom I cannot tell you who she is but she is here at Alfea, you must be careful because Baltor and the forces of darkness may try to use you to get to her." "Wait I have another sister? This is so cool. I really need to figure out who she is. Wait why did we come here?" "Because you can find some answers here. But I cannot tell you anymore than what I already did. Yes I know who she is but like I said before if you knew then it could endanger all of Alfea." "So what you're saying is that I can look on my own but you can't tell me anything?" "Yes also I knew you would look anyway and sneak in here so I let you in." I laughed and said "Then I am just going to do some 'Research' for my lecture" she laughed and left. Okay so the pictures on the wall show my past and future enemies, might as well look there first. There was one that was covered; I pulled off the tarp to see a girl obviously a fairy. But half of her looked like and enchantix fairy the other half looked evil. She looked a little familiar. The evil side was super creepy, dark purple eyes, bat like wings instead of the normal enchantix wings. There was a caption; it said "Prophecy of Princess Karina". "Who's Princess Karina?" I wondered out loud. I walked back to the large library and walked up to the giant catalog book. It could find a book on any subject, I haven't seen it used before but it was worth a shot. I opened it and said "Prophecy of Princess Karina." The pages turned quickly and ended up on a page with a similar picture to the one I had just seen but this time there were two. One for the good side of her and one for the bad side. It also listed a book and the sentence "Prophecy of Princess Karina, first requested by Bloom of Sparks." "Why does it say who requested it?" I said out loud.  A voice said "So that others may look and see if it was already requested." "Who said that?" "Why the book of course." It said. "Um okay that's a bit weird." No answer. "Can you show me the book?" A book flew towards me and landed on the podium. The book was called 'Prophecy's of Magix.' I opened it to the section labeled 'dark prophecy's' it seemed like a good chapter to start on the outcome of the prophecy seemed kinda dark. "Here it is" I said. I read out loud "A member of the royal family of…" The name of the realm was blurry with age I assumed. "… with the power's of both darkness and light will be forced to make a choice that will doom the Magix dimension or save it from the forces of darkness. Karina of S…" The name of the realm was mostly blurred out. ".. Will be the one to decide the fate of the Realms. Only the other heir to the throne of Sp… will be able to change her path and affect her choice. This is the prophecy of Princess Karina of Spar…" Oh my god, based on the spacing of the realm name, and of the letters I knew. Princess Karina's home realm was Sparks. This made her my sister. And she is here at Alfea. And I will have to be the one to help her make that choice. Great another Magix saving choice that's up to me.


Roxy
Selene was a weird girl. Whenever I would talk about earth and she would talk about Solaria, she would sometimes stumble on the words like she was hiding something. She showed me this cool power she had, she called it phases of the moon. It let her become all or partially invisible.  Every morning I would wake up and she would be gone, the first time I panicked and called Bloom and everyone else. Stella didn't seem surprised, she said "At home she would sleep on the roof or stay outside really late because she "Liked to watch the stars and the sunrise"". Usually she would poof back into the room about five minutes before classes started, just to get her books. Today just like usual she came back and I said "So how did you sleep?" She laughed and said "Sleep? Sleep is for fairies that don't get their power from nighttime and the stars. But I did have a nice night." I rolled my eyes and said "Do you ever sleep?" "Yeah I like to consider myself to be "Nocturnal". I take naps and on cloudy nights I sleep outside, just so I can be at full power." "Okay point made, let's go to class."  Every day she would go the Headmistress Faragonda's office after classes. I asked why and she changed the subject. This girl has a lot of secrets. I asked Stella about it once and she said "I can't tell you anything, even back on Solaria I didn't know anything other than she was adopted. I asked my mom and she said they weren't her secrets to tell. But I think some are pretty big if she kept them from my dad." Huh what secrets could she have? Oh well, maybe she'll tell me. Right now all I have to worry about is getting to class. "SELENE! We're already two minutes late, let's not make it five. HURRY UP!" lucky for us we had Bloom and everybody's class so we were okay to be a few minutes late but not more than five or they would count us late. "Hold on I'm almost ready." She walked out of our room looking like the most beautiful girl in the world. Her silver highlights were gone and replaced by dark purple, and her outfit matched her hair and eyes perfectly. "Ready now?" She nodded and we sprinted to class. We were barely close when she stopped and said "Wait why are we running? We're fairies aren't we?" I nodded and she said "Then grab my hand." I did as I was told and closed my eyes. When I opened them we were outside the door to our classroom. She gave me a smug smile and said "you lied we weren't late. We are perfectly on time." She opened the door and we walked in right as the bell rang. Everyone gave us a look that said "Don't act all high and mighty because you were almost late." We sat down and Bloom said "As you may or may not know, Baltor, Lord Darkar, The Trix, and The Ancestral Witches are coming together to form a large group of dark magicians for the purpose of destroying all light and goodness in Magix." Some people gasped, others said things like "What?" and "No Way!" I looked at Selene and she looked excited. Flora then said "As safety precautions there will be a few new rules. One you may not leave the school without a staff member or without special permission. Two the magical barrier from last year will be put back into use only it will be strengthened. Three be careful who you talk to outside of the school. Those are the only new rules for now; Headmistress Faragonda may add more or take some away as she sees necessary." After that we continued lessons as normal.
That night when we were back in our room. She said "I'm going for my nightly walk." "Didn't you hear them? You need special permission or a staff member to go with you." "Okay then I'll go get my permission." She said with a bit of sass. She turned on her heel and walked out the door.

Selene
Why did I need 'special permission' I mean really they couldn't deny me of getting my full power. I knocked on the headmistress's office door. "Who is it?" "Selene" the door opened and she motioned for me to come forward. "Yes Selene how may I help you?" I looked out the window and saw it was almost sundown, I need to hurry. "Um the new rule that to leave the school grounds we need special permission and/or a staff escort. Well I kind of take a walk every night, and I'm here to get that special permission." "Okay then. Where do you plan on going? How long will you be gone? And why are you going exactly?" "Let's see, The Lake about five minutes that direction" I pointed out the window. "For return time, I'm not sure, maybe around sunrise or possibly earlier. And I know this sounds odd but the stars speak to me and tell me stories. The constellations actually form lines and act out those stories. And the best place to see them is away from light sources, like the school." She should understand best since she knows my secret. She placed her pointer fingers together and said "Hmm. I'm wondering if there is a way that we can still protect you but allow you to be alone. You know that you are more susceptible to dark spells, yet I cannot deny you use of your power. Ah! I know why don't we use an earth idea?" "Earth idea?" "Yes they have something called binoculars. They are things that let you see farther than you normally can. Like dragon tears only not as far. Someone could watch you on the roof and poof to you if you need help or are in trouble." She was more talking to herself but still talking to me at the same time. "Yes that will work, hold on one moment." She pushed a button on a speaker and said "Can all staff members please report to my office. Thank you." "Oh no not everyone needs to watch me, then you will have to tell them why I am a lot easier for the bad guys to capture. Just someone who wants to watch for safety, like Griselda maybe." She shrugged and said "You're probably right, let me call for her." She pushed the intercom bottom and said "I am very sorry but please ignore that last announcement." Then she pushed another button on the speaker and said "Ms. Griselda could you please come to my office." Seconds later she knocked on the door "come on in." she came in and stood next to me, giving me a look that said 'What did you do?' Mrs. Faragonda said "I am giving Selene special permission to leave school grounds, she is going to the lake and you will be watching her from the tower making sure she is safe. This will be for an extended period of time, until we can trust someone else to take your place." Griselda nodded and turned to me "When will you be leaving?" I looked out the window, just three minutes till sunset. "Right now. I have to get my jacket but then I will be leaving, so you should probably go up there now." She nodded and Mrs. Faragonda handed her some metal things. The binoculars I assume. I snapped and appeared in mine and Roxy's room. She screamed and said "oh it's only you; you really need to stop doing that." I smiled and said "I got my permission, so see you later." She said "do you always get what you want?" "No and technically I will still have a staff member with me, Griselda is going to watch me from the tower to make sure I'm safe. Talk about overprotective, I mean worse case scenario some bad guy shows up and I turn invisible and run." I grabbed my black trench coat and said "gotta go bye."  I poofed out to the courtyard and waved to Griselda. She nodded and I zapped to the edge of the lake. I made a little bridge of rocks out to the middle of the lake so she could see me. When I got out there I created an island so that I couldn't be disturbed. The stars hated it when someone interrupted their stories. I watched the sunset and said "the end of another day but the start of a beautiful night." I lied down and watched the stars show up one by one. Finally all of the stars showed up. "Hello Selene." They said "We are very excited to see you tonight, we have a new star. She was just created today." "Congratulations" I whispered, I couldn't talk loud, it would scare them away. We talked for hours until I began to hear the most beautiful song in the world. It didn't take long for me to fall into the embrace of sleep.

Baltor
"There is a new fairy at Alfea." The ancestral witches said. "She is the one we need, she possesses the shadow fire, and she is the one the prophecy describes. The only way we can win is with that fairy. It should be simple to capture her; your dark spells will be very useful against this one unlike her sister." I was down on one knee looking at the floor, the normal position when you are in the presence of the dark mistresses. "I will take care of it, I will have the Trix observe her and then I will come up with a plan to capture her." "Well be quick about it, we get weaker by the day." I nodded and walked to the main room of shadowhaunt. Darkar, the Trix, the ancestral witches and I had formed an alliance to once and for all destroy Alfea and the fairies. "ICY, DARCY, STORMY!" the appeared and Icy said "You called oh great one?" I ignored her sarcasm and said "The ancestral witches have given me a job and I need you to help me." Darcy said "why don't you get Dakar's help?" "Because I need you to spy on a fairy at Alfea so that we can capture her. She wields the Shadow Fire and if we want to succeed then we need her on our side." Icy said "So you want us to spy on a little fairy so that we can capture her? Why don't we just capture her now then?" "Because she has the protection of the company of light and all who support it. And for the prophecy to come true then she needs to come semi-willingly, not forced into it by magic." She rolled her eyes but they left. I walked to the magic portal and said "Karina of Sparks." She may be able to hide who she really is but she can't hide it from the portal. She was lying on the roof of Alfea, looking up at the sky. What kind of fairy stays outside by themselves at night? Especially with people like me trying to get her.
Icy and the Trix have given me what I need and tonight when Selene is on her nightly walk then I will capture her. I am going to disguise a dark spell as a song and project it into her mind. She won't suspect a thing other than the stars are singing to her. And just to throw off the Winx and the company of light. I'll magically place a pendant with a black jewel on her. They will suspect the spell is in the necklace and think the stars actually did sing to Selene. It's perfect. The time has come, I walked to the magic portal and said "Karina of Sparks", and sure enough she was laying on a rock in the middle of the lake.  I touched the portal and recited the spell in my head; since the portal was focused on her she would hear the spell in her mind.