Fairy 101: How to become a good fairy without getting killed

Prologue.

The town of Deresia was not exactly known for being eventful. The highlight of this year was the annual parade, with Marissa Greentower winning the election of most beautiful girl in the parade three years in a row.

She even made frontpage in the Deresia Times. You understand what I mean?

Ember looked at the photo of the girl who had been mean to her since fifth grade and sighed. It was time to go to work. "Are you up, Ember?" Aunt Susanna called from down the stairs. "You have work in an hour." Ember closed her eyes and yawned, trying to brush through the nest she called her hair. "I'm up, Auntie. Don't worry!"

She sighed once again, opened her curtains and looked at her small village, miles and miles of fields surrounding her neghbourhood. They lived on the outskirts of the village after all.

She went down and chomped on a croissant, all the while looking at the television. Thyere was a replay of the Winx concert from the Fruity Music Bar last night. Ember hummed with the music while checking her workschedule.

To think her little village was only half an hour away from Gardenia, she mused. She squealed when she saw the Winx singing. "They are all so beautiful!" she thought. "If only I was a fairy..." She looked one last time to the concert before turning off the television and going to her room to shower and get prepared.

Since Ember was going to enroll in college in Fall, she was now working a studentjob so she could have a bit more of an allowance since her aunt would pay all her school expenses the scholarship didn't cover.

Once she was ready, Ember put her hair in a braid since it would be a hot one today and went downstairs. "You want me to drop you off at work?" her aunt asked, taking her carkeys. "I'm going groceryshopping anyway." Ember smiled and nodded.

Work was well...slow. There's only so much gossip you get to hear at the grocerystore. When she finished her shift at eight in the evening, Ember decided to walk home. "See you tomorrow, Ember!" Her co-worker called out. Ember waved back and went on her way.

When she was walking home, she began to understand something wasn't normal. It just felt weird. "Maybe I should call aunt Susanna to pick me up." she thought.

Rummaging through her purse, her gut told her something wasn't right. Hurrying down the street, going towards the parc where her aunt could pick her up, her gutfeeling only got worse. The wind seemed to be picking up and the dark clouds at the horizon didn't seem to be very promising either. "Just my luck, a storm is coming just when I'm walking home. Great, just great!" she huffed.

"Come on aunt Susanna pick up!" "Hello?" aunt Susanna's voice came through the receiver. But it sounded gritty, like it was far away. "Aunt Susanna? Can you come and get me at the entrance of the parc? I was walking home but the weather is changing fast and I just don't feel safe... I cannot explain it, can you just come and get me please?" "Ofcourse. Ember, you're breaking away! Ember, can you hear m-?"

Ember groaned when the click sounded of the line being broken. Great, no service either. But since aunt Susanna said she'd come, she decided to wait it out.

In the meantime, the weather kept on changing more and more. Ember felt a creeping feeling of fear that this was not normal.

Before she knew it, the wind started to blow so hard she could barely keep on standing. Two carlights came in the distance, and she just knew it was aunt Susanna.

Ember wanted to move, but for one or the other reason she couldn"t. "Aunt Susanna!" she screamed, " I can't move!"

Susanna stopped the car and wanted to step out when she saw a gust of wind taking up her niece. Though something was weird, since the air only seemed to move around Ember herself. Her braid came undone and her long black hair started to move in the wind. "Ember, can you hear me? Ember!" Susanna screamed at her niece, not being able to move away from the car because of the wind that was blowing. "Ember!" Susanna panicked. Ember didn't react and looked with wide eyes to the sky above her. She seemed to be in some kind of trance.

Ember though didn' t hear the frantic screams of her aunt. Her world and mind seemed to have slowed down. The only thing she could focus on, was the darkblue light above her. It was shining so brightly it was almost blinding. It seemed to take the shape of a giant darkblue coloured diamond.

It emitted a warmth and familiarness that Ember craved. It seemed like she knew it...

Ember, you have to find it. She heard a warm male voice utter. You have to remember your lineage and fulfill your destiny.

The voice went away. The light brightened so much Ember had to close her eyes as the air shifted around her. The last thing she remembered before losing consciousness were the frantic screams of her aunt and a voice fading away uttering some last advice.

It knows you. You were born to wield it. It is your fate to wield it.

Your destiny awaits, you only have to find it...

When Ember awoke three days later, she didn't remember much. She understood something wasn't normal.

She thought much couldn't shock her anymore.

Her mouth fell open when three days later a letter from Alfea arrived.