Fanfiction Fate the winx saga : Tecna's arrival chapter 2

 Here is chapter two of my fanfiction about my mix of Winx Club and Fate the Winx saga. I am also posting this story on my AO3 account, Wattpad account and on Tumblr. 

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“So let me get this clear,” Tecna said as she motioned for the group to be quiet. Which took quite a while, considering that there were six of them which made the total count of their suites seven fairies.

“Your dad works here as a teacher,” she said as she pointed at Terra.

“He is our Botany teacher.”

“Of course. Who could have figured out that an earth fairies father would teach Botany,” Tecna said with a grimace on her face before pointing to Flora. “And the two of you are cousins?”

“Yes,” Flora said with a welcoming smile.

“And you are dating Terra’s brother?” she asked as she looked towards Musa who nodded and resisted the urge to put her headphones on again.

“You are dating Stella’s ex and come from earth?”

“Well, he is my boyfriend,” Bloom said with an awkward smile as she looked at Stella.

“And he is still Stella’s ex,” Tecna said. As she pointed out the fact.

“I told you I liked her,” Stella laughed as the rest of the winx didn’t know where to look. They had all obviously chosen a side in this matter and it wasn’t Stella’s. Maybe it was time to even the odds a little.

Tecna looked at the fairies in front of her who were all busy talking about some annoying guy named grey as she thought of some of her mother’s words before she left. ‘Sometimes the fastest way to create a bond is to share a secret.’ She looked at them again and sighed. It was too soon to reveal Digit. Too soon to reveal her Charmix. Especially since they were not strong enough to guard off their minds for Rosalind or any other mind fairy for that matter. Even Musa, if she wanted to, could probe their minds. Quite a pathetic fact for second year students, she thought as she laughed to herself and leaned back into the comfortable sofa.

If she was to ever trust them to help her, they would need to become stronger. Both their minds and their magic.

“When do classes start?” Tecna asked as she tapped Stella’s arm.

“Not until tomorrow. Besides tonight is a rave. To kickstart the first day of school,” Terra said. “I usually don’t go to that sort of thing but I was thinking that maybe this year it could be nice to go, with all of us as a group.”

“Yes, that’s a wonderful idea,” Flora said as she tried to mask Aisha’s stressed-out face from the thought of losing precious study time.

“That’s settled then,” Stella said as she turned her head towards Tecna. “You are coming with us.”

Tecna nodded and smiled. If there was no secret she was ready to share with them, then partying was the way to bond with them.

The rest of the day went quickly. Stella and Aisha showed her around Alfea whilst Bloom was off to her private studies with Rosalind. Musa was with Sam whilst Flora and Terra were busy in the greenhouse. Healing students, because apparently, Rosalind’s new regime had become quite bloody. Even Terra’s father looked like a shell of himself, according to Flora.

“There you are,” a fairy named Beatrix said as she extended her hand towards Tecna. “I have been looking for you the entire day. I was supposed to give you a grand tour of Alfea.”

“We already gave it to her,” Aisha said as she crossed her arms in front of her chest.

“A pity. Have you shown her all the secrets Alfea has to offer or did you only show her the classrooms?” Beatrix asked as she looked at Aisha with a challenging look.

“of cou-“Aisha started but the words were lost in her mouth when a handsome specialist passed the group of fairies, and by the way Aisha angrily stared at him, it must have meant that this was grey. Instead of returning her angry look he laughed. Quite innocently at her and waved.

“You can give me the schedule anytime,” he said to Aisha before disappearing behind a corridor again.

“So about that tour,” Beatrix said as she pulled Tecna towards her, “let’s do that now shall we?”

“Yes, that sounds good,” Tecna said as she smiled at Aisha and Stella to signal their goodbye’s before nearly being dragged away by Beatrix.

“So I take it you have been informed of me?” Beatrix asked as she slowed down and let go of Tecna’s hand. ”Given the company you keep.”

“I wouldn’t know. I’ve known them for less than a day. But anyway, I can make up my own mind. You said you could show me all the secrets Alfea had to offer and i’d like that tour.”

A hopefull smile that was masked with arrogance appeared on Beatrix’s face as she pushed on a certain stone and a secret passageway opened up behind her.

“Follow me,” she said as she pulled a clipboard close to her chest.

The tour entailed several secret passageways. And it appeared that several led to the library, the dinning hall, the east tower, the training grounds and one even led to the attic.

“So you are a second year as well?”

“Yes, but I was though before I came here. Sort of like, homeschooled,” Beatrix said as she forced a smile on her face.

“I was too. Back in Zenith. This is the first real school that I’m allowed to attend.”

Beatrix stopped for a moment and looked Tecna in the eyes. “So did I. I’m an air fairy. What is your element?”

“We don’t have caste systems when it comes to magic like you have. Well. At least not until the fairy has graduated.

“Then how do you separate what kind of powers everyone has?” Beatrix asked with a surprised look on her face.

“Is there a need to put a fairy in a certain shelve when later on, they learn how to use all kinds of magic anyway? And what if a fairy who was born with an affinity to fire later on learns that light magic comes more natural to her? Do we still call her a fire fairy or is she a fairy of light?” Tecna said as she studied Beatrix’s expressions. They ranged from confusion, to understanding of what Tecna had just said and to mockery.

“I heard that when a fairy graduates in Zenith they can be called any kind of fairy. A fairy of weather, a fairy of lakes, a fairy of technology, a fairy of music. Why is that?”

“It depends on the fairy and the kind of magic that she wields.”

“How strange. Such a small city-state and yet so vastly different from Solaria and Eraklyon,” a deep voice from behind them said.

Startled, they raised their hands with a sphere full of magic towards the stranger behind them. Bea’s was full of electricity and darkness, whilst Tecna’s was full of green and purple lights, with coding numbers floating inside the sphere.

“Come out!” Bea said as she made her sphere bigger until Andreas of Eraklyon stepped out of the shadow.

“Well done, both of you. Good reflexes, better than those of some of my specialists,” Andreas said with an inkling of proud in his eyes.

They both lowered their hands and let the magic dissolve. “Dad!” Bea said.

“Now what are you doing in these hallways?” Andreas asked with a stern look on his face.

“I was showing Tecna the way to the library,” Bea said with a sweet smile.

“And that had to go though here?” he asked.

“I asked her to show me some cool things Alfea had to offer,” Tecna said quickly. She shrugged her shoulders and smiled like Bea. “I wanted to see what kind of school I left Zenith for.”

“Very well, but don’t come here again without an escort. Who knows what may linger here when I am not here to protect you.”

 

 

“Understood,” Tecna said as she nodded, “and to come back to your comment. Yes, it’s quite remarkable how different Zenith is from its surrounding neighbors. Despite how small it may seem, it has a lot more to offer than you think.”

“I can imagine,” Andreas said as he escorted them back out of the secret tunnel to the library.

“There is a party in an hour,” Bea said as she turned to Tecna, “Perhaps we will see each other there. Come and find me if those suitemates bore you out of your mind.”

“I will.’ And with those words, Tecna turned around to go back to her suite to change.

The entire suite was filled with clothes and loud chatter about who was going to wear what.

Tecna initially thought that she had enough time to change and look at her messages on her mini laptop again before leaving to the party, but with the indecisiveness of her suitemates and the continuous need for an opinion on their outfit, they were almost half an hour late before they eventually entered the old war room that laid underneath Alfea.

The music was blasting from the speakers. The room had been turned from a dusty old room to a space where fairies and specialist alike, acted like it was the end of the school year instead of the beginning.

It didn’t take long for Stella to pull Tecna on to the dance floor and as she was dancing she looked around the dark room until she finally saw Musa come alive.

She saw Bloom and Sky dance alone in the corner and quickly saw how hurt Stella felt.

“Let’s go!” Tecna said as she pulled Stella away from the dance floor.

“What are we going to do?”

“Anything!” Tecna yelled out as she found who she was looking for. Beatrix was dancing on the edge of the crowd, surrounded by the specialists Riven and Dane who seemed all to eager to hang onto her lips.

“Tecna, you found me!” Beatrix yelled out as she pushed Dane away from her and embraced Tecna. She looked at Stella an lifted and eyebrow. “I see that you brought the princess with you.”

“Well yes, the princess needed some air,” Stella said sourly as she glanced at Bloom and Sky again.

“There is plenty of air someplace else,” Riven said as he pulled Beatrix closer to him.

“Yes, it seems that this place has been polluted by stupid anyway,” Stella said as she turned to Tecna who until now had stayed quiet.

Just as she wanted to say something, her watch pinged and a notification appeared on the screen.

She read the message and relief filled her core. She finally had an excuse to leave.

“I’m sorry, Stella, Bea, I have to go. But please be nice to each other!” she said as she gestured towards her watch.

“Where are you going?” Stella asked with a high pitched voice.

“I need to go and meet the other student from Zenith, he just arrived,” Tecna yelled out as she escaped the crowded war room and ran up the stairs to find her future ally.