Princesses through the looking glass

Twi chapter 1 – Feels like magic

I rode my bike down the road, Spike my bunny sat in the basket. I loved going to the park on my bike, it was just so relaxing.

"Twilight, say hello to your mother for me." A man called

"Will do Mr. Genero, see you later." I waved to him, everyone in this town was so nice. Everyone got along. I reached the park, hopping off my bike, I leant it against a tree. Spike jumped out and hopped around. "Go find an acorn Spike and I'll toss it around with you.” He hops off, I sit down and take a bit from an apple. Spike ran back to me, almost screaming "What? Did you see one of those scary squirrels again?" I couldn’t help but smirk at the little rabbit, He nodded and wanted me to follow "All right, I'll come and see." I got up and followed him, I hid behind a tree and gasped, A girl with gold hair and fairy wings was fighting a giant.

"Back Ghoul!" The girl growled, she kicked a ghoul away. I watched amazed, she was a fairy! "Rising Sun Burst!" a bright light destroyed the ghouls, But I see more monsters in the shadows, a monster growled

“Whoa." I gasped

"Take that!" The fairy attacked the creature again

"We can't both be seeing things can we?" I looked at Spike, he was shaking, and ends up fainting

"Solar Wind Blast!" The monsters were all knocked back. A big monster grabs one of the ghouls and comes out of the shadows.  "News flash Mr. Hideous. The power of Solaria is so gonna flatten you." The big monster comes out of the shadows, I gasped, and ogre!

"You're the one who's gonna get flattened!" The ogre growled, knocking the fairy back

"That's gotta hurt." I winced, the ogre and the Ghouls surrounded the fairy.

The ogre laughs” You're finished little fairy girl” ‘Oh no!’ “Now Ghouls, BRING ME HER SCEPTER!" The ghouls grabbed the fairy.

"I'm warning you! You'll never get away with this!" The fairy growled, he voice muffled

"I think I just did.”the ogre laughs and grabs the sceptre “Your sceptre’s ours! “ He walks up to the fairy and gets in her face “and you're history."

"Leave her alone! Come get me!” I froze “Wait, did I just say that?"

The orge gave a growling laugh “you sure did." I gasped as the ogre grabbed me, I tried to get out of his grip "You should learn to mind your own business."

"LEEEET GOOOOOO!" I yelled, Suddenly power burst out of me, forcing the ogre to let me go, I landing on my feet.  Ghouls were coming after me. "Get back!" I unknowingly created a barrier that repels the ghouls."What just happened? How'd I do that?" I looked at my hands. I turned and saw Spike doing a boxing stance, He turned and saw a ghoul, he shrank in fear. I went over and tapped the ghoul on the shoulder "Hey ghoul." The ghoul turned around."Take off!" I batted it with a stick. It explodes when it hit a tree.

"Wow, you've got winx, girl! Major winx!" The fairy grinned

"What? Me? What do you mean?" I asked, looking at her in surprise

"Laugh all you want, fashion fiasco, you're going down!" The fairy turned to the ogre, and growled she blasted the ogre.  "I suggest you like get out of our realm, now." The ghoul close in, I began to wonder if they understood what backing down was.

"Watch it." I warned the fairy. The ghouls leapt, but the fairy uses a major attack and knocks them out. She twirls her sceptre, Spike imitates her and notices a ghoul and screams. A ghouls grabs my leg. "Get off!" I kicked it off, it ripped part of my trouser leg off and then went back to the ogre.

"We'll meet again Princess Stella." The ogre clapped his hand and he and the ghouls vanished

"Ew, I can't say I'm looking forward to that." She grimaced, she faints and changes into a normal looking girl, without wings.

"Oh no! Are you ok? We'd better take her home, she needs major help." I gasped, looking at Spike, who nodded…

I lay in bed, asleep.

“Rise and shine princess, a beautiful day a waits. You know, that used to be your favourite book, you used to pretend that you were a fairy; you could do it for hours.” Mom woke me “ So who's the girl downstairs who's fast asleep… in the guest room?

“Ah, so it wasn't a dream. And she's still asleep? Good. Uh, she's…Wanda's cousin... and she's visiting from far away. Don't wake her up, OK mom?” I jumped up, and quickly changed into clean clothes.

“Come on downstairs for breakfast!” Mom said, I sighed and looked at Spike, who was still asleep. At least one of us could sleep.

“ Hey Twilight... today's the day we're gonna clean up the garage.” Dad said, once I finally got downstairs

“ C'mon Dad, I have lots of other stuff I have to do, lots of important stuff!” I sighed, looking at him pleadingly.

Dad looked at me “What sort of stuff are you talking about?

I sighed, this was going to be weird…” Do you remember when I was into Fairies and Witches dad?”

Dad laughed “Of course I do. You were so cute, always pretending to know magic.”

“Well, here's the thing…” I began

“…if you knew magic, you could just wave a wand and the garage would clean itself!” Dad grinned

“ Well that's kinda… the thing that I wanted to talk to you about. You know my friend, the one that's asleep in the guest room?” I asked

“Oh just give her a break honey; she wants to spend the day with her friend!” Mom smiled

“ OK, you get the groceries and you're free for the rest of the day!” Dad said

“You guys are the best! Thank you!” I hugged then and went to get the groceries.

I was riding back from the shop, Spike sat with the shopping. "I haven't felt any powers today. I sure hope they didn't wear off." I sighed

"Hey Twilight. Isn't it time to sell that two-wheeled relic to the junk pile?" I glared at the girl who had spoken, Mitzi.

"There's nothing wrong with this bike. My dad bought it for me." I growled

"Oh you poor girl. Of course I don't mean poor as in not rich, even though that is what you are." Mitzi laughed, I glared at her angrily,  Spike gives Mitzi the raspberry. Mitzi turned to some guys  "Hey fellas, careful with my scooter. Hmph, it's brand new you know."

"Well, see you later Mitzi. If I do have powers Spike, remind me to turn her into a monkey." I whispered as I rode off.

Dad was pacing "So, she's been asleep for 20 hours because she's a fairy? Is that like a goth or something?" I sighed, I had explained everything, but just as I had guessed, Dad didn’t believe me.

"I'm talking real fairy dad with a sceptre, magic powers and fluttering wings. She's amazing." I told him

"You must be running a very high fever. I think we should call Dr. Silverman." Dad said

"Hey. Good morning." Stella , the fairy sat up.

"It's evening hun. Are you all right?" Mom asked her

"Uhhh. Fine now, thanks to this girl right here." Stella smiled

"Oh, it's nothing." I blushed happily.

"My name's Stella." She introduced herself

"Hey there Stella, my name's Twilight." I grinned

"Let's call your parents now shall we?" Mom said

"I'm afraid that's like, so way, easier said than done. I mean, let's face it. They live like six whole realms away, in a kingdom called Solaria. I was on my way to the Alfea school, you know to continue my magic training and --" Stella said

Dad sighed "Oh boy, oh boy. I'm contacting Dr. Silverman. Maybe he can explain why the two of you, are seeing things that aren't there." He picked up the phone, Stella smirked and turned the phone into a carrot and lettuce. Dad was shocked

Stella folded her arms "You still think we're out of our gourds?"

"Wow that was awesome." I gasped in admiration

Stella turned and smiled at me "You're the one who's majorly awesome Twilight When this Ogre attacked me, she gave him an energy blast that kicked his booty into another dimension."

I sighed "It's true. But I don't know how I did it."

"it's like I told you yesrteday Bloom, you're loaded with magic." Stella in a matter-of-factly tone

"Me?" I questioned, it was hard to believe, but it would explained how I was able to defeat a big ogre.

Stella suddenly gasped "Hey, I just got a brainstorm. You should go to Alfea with me. It's like so far and away the best school in a whole eight-realm area."

"Hold it! My daughter's not going to another realm." Dad looked horrified at the idea. Stella and I looked at each other.

I took Stella to my room, she looked impressed “ Room Twilight, wow. You should totally take it to Alfea. A quick packing spell and it'll fit in a handbag."

"Stella, I don't think I'm going to Alfea." I sighed

"Huh?" Stella looked at me

"I don't think I have powers anymore. I mean I know I fought that ogre in the park but now--" I began

Stella patted my arm "Trust me Twilight, someone with magic like you have doesn't lose their powers. They're just rusty form sitting unused for so long."

I saw my fairy book "Do you think I'm like the girl in that book?"

Stella picked it up and flicked through the pages "Hmmm, let's see... kinda, but this book was written by humans. You're so much more cooler than this, and more fashionable!"

I began to feel excited "Wow, I can't believe I really do know magic! And I have, what did you call it, winx?"

"Your magic's always been inside you. It's like my fairy godmother used to say: sometimes you just need an ogre to attack you to find out what you're really made of! Now try this. It's a simple matter merge exercise." Stella merges all the pencils in my pencil holder into one big pencil. "Ok, you give it a shot. Put them back how they were." I tried but failed. "Come on, try again." I tried again but with the same result..

"I don't feel anything." I sighed

"You just need some practice Twilight. It's actually no biggie. That's why you have to come with me to Alfea." Stella turns the big pencil back into little pencils. "Before long, you'll be zapping ogre's left and right."

"So where is it." I asked

"Well, It's sort of in a parallel dimension. You go to the inner realm of the enchanted ring and then you... Look why don't you come with me and I'll show it to you." Stella said Stella pulls out a postcard of Alfea, and casually tosses it on the ground. The postcard then expands in size. "This is an express portal. Come on, it's cool." Stella steps on the postcard and sinks into the picture.: "Now follow me."

I stepped on to the postcard "Ahhhhh." I gasped as I began to sink into it.

"Stella, this feels really weird." I said

"Don't worry, almost no one gets lost between dimensions." I rolled my eyes, I guess she was trying to be helpful. Soon we stood in front of a school "Well there it is, Twilight! The famous Alfea castle!"

"So what exactly goes on here?" I asked

Stella created some picture to show me what Alfea was like "The best and most fabulous come from all over the universe to perfect their powers. Most are princesses like moi, but we also have pixies and Gwyllians, and get this, we're only one enchanted forest away from the Red Fountain School for Heroics and Bravery. It's full of hunks. But we're also just down the lagoon from the creepiest place in the entire realm, the Cloudtower School for Witches." The pictures ended

"Wow, this is a really big decision." I said, looking at the school.

"To help you make it, I invited some of the H & B boys over to your house." Stella grinned

"The hero guys are coming to my house? When?" I gasped

"Pretty soon, so let's get going." Stella jump just through the portal, I quickly followed.

There were crashes from downstairs. We rushed down to see the ogre and ghouls again, but this time with a troll!

"Turn around, sunshine." Stella transformed as the ogre asked where we were. The ogre turned

"It's them!" he growled

"I guess someone didn't learn their lesson. Sun Power!" Stella attacked the ogre, Stella then kicks the Troll.

"Are you just gonna stand there and let her kick your butt?" The ogre yelled

"Me mad." The troll roared

"Then do something about it tall, blue and gruesome." Stella mocked, I joined her “Twilight, I'll handle the two gross-outs. You take care of the ghouls."7

"How?" I asked

"Just do something." Stella told me. I get the ghouls attention and make them chase me a Spike.

I heard a strange blast from inside "Nice little poochies, roll over?" I told the ghouls, it was a stupid idea. The ogre was blasted out the door and crushes his own ghouls.  "Good one Stella." I grinned

Stella was thrown out of a window, I rushed over to her. The Troll exits the house and approaches me and Stella

"What do we do?" I asked

"Hey Princess Stella, I hope your friend's the pretty one in the blue pants." A guy said

"Yeah, and not this ugly guy on a leash here." Another added

"Ditto that." A third guy agreed

"All right. I suggest a three-pronged rescue op." The first boy said

The second boy told his friends "Forget that, I got this puppy wrapped up all by myself."

"Dude, one summer at a swashbuckler camp doesn't mean you get to go solo on a troll." A fourth guy sighed, leaning on a sword. The troll threw the second over his shoulder. "I rest my case."He lands between me and Stella. The Troll approaches the first boy, he was good looking with blonde hair.

"Stay behind me." He said, he  uses a Shield and the troll bashes it. "Hey guys, what did we learn about battling trolls?"

"Well..." the fourth guy smashed his sword into the ground "Smash 'em I think."The force creates a fissure splitting the ground between the troll's feet.

"No Sky, you take out their feet." The third guy correct his friend. he usesa blaster and takes out the ground below the troll's feet. The Troll falls in. "All right."

"Good one Timmy. Way to go." The fourth guy nodded

The first guy grinned "Good thing you aced how to battle forest creatures Timmy."

"Ghoul alert." The first guy pointed out as the Ghouls prepare to strike.

"Grr. Stay here. This won't take long." The second guy said, I looked at him, he was such a grump, the Ghouls attack and he ffights them off. But the ogre knocks him out.

"Leave him alone!" I yelled, Stella  and I blast him.

"Awesome shot there Twilight" stella smiled

"It just happened." I told her

"Like I said, you got Winx." Stella patted my shoulder

"Back off Shorty." The ogre roars the second guy  wipes off the bloodstains on his face.

"You're the one who's gonna back off ogre, or I'm gonna put my Stinkus-Removus spell on you and you're gonna end up smelling like you just took a bath." Stella told him. The ogre backs off then vanishes "I knew that would scare him." I grinned.  "Twilight, these are the RedFountain guys I was telling you about." They all said hi."Meet Riven..." The second guy glared at us. "...Prince Sky..."

"Hey." The brunette smiled

"...Timmy..."

Timmy gives a friendly hello, the blaster thing still in his hand.

"...And Brandon."

"How ya doin'?" the blonde one smiled, I blushed. Troll emerges from hole. Brandon  puts a collar around its neck."Not so fast tough guy, you're coming with us."

"You've done enough damage for one day pal." Sky agreed. my parents watch what's happening.

"Where are you guys taking him?" I asked

"We'll bring him back to RedFountain. They'll probably send him to a creature preserve." Riven said

Brandon smiled and waved "So long." A portal opens.

"Bye." Timmy said

“Twilgiht, I sure hope I see you at Alfea." Brandon smiled

  The next morning I went downstairs with my things packed.

"I'm ready dad." I said.

"Why do you have a suitcase?" Dad asked

"You know, just in case you guys say I can stay, then I'll be packed." I told him

"I know that you're way more grown up that we thought you were and that you have a special gift and all but we still have to check the school out. We have to get more information about Alfea." Dad said

"But if it's anything like Stella says it is, you'll be in for a wonderful adventure. It's so exciting." Mom smiled

"I know mom, it really is." I nodded

"Hey Stella, how do we get there? Car? Plane? Broomstick? Do they make a broomstick for four?" Dad asked, putting on his coat.

"Um, duh dad. Broomsticks are for witches." I told him.

"Oh yeah, that's right. So, what do you use Stella? Wait, don't tell me. Is it fairy dust? Ooo." Dad was getting excited by the idea of fairy dust.

"Are we gonna use the portal?" I asked

"Regular humans can't go in it, but you know what? My sceptre can handle a little trans-dimensional puddle jump like this. Sun Power!" Stella used her sceptre.

We warped through space and time and land right near the Alfea school.

"Wow. Would you look at this place." Dad gasped

"Pretty cool right?" I grinned

"With a capital C." Stella agreed with a nodded. We all headed towards the campus.