The Queen of Shadows - World of Winx rewrite S.1

Chapter 15: The Shaman

On the TV Screen:

"Wow-wow- wow -wow! Welcome to our reality show where we are trying to find talents and make their dreams come true. What's even better, we have a huge surprise for our beloved Winx!" Ace exclaimed with a huge smile on his lips.

The camera scene switched over to the Winx who stood and chatted. All their faces turned towards the camera, looking curious.

"You'll never guess what's waiting for you at the Winx mobile!" Ace finished and winked.

Aisha, looking suspicious with her arms crossed, asked, "A ticket?"

Ace laughed at the joke, smiling to the camera and looking confident.

"No, Aisha," he started as the camera scene switched to the Winx mobile where Lorelei stood with a bright smile. "Lo-re-lei!"

"Uh... Move, I need to drive..." Stella suddenly said as she appeared on screen, pushing Lorelei, making her fall to the ground.

Lorelei rose up from the ground, slapping Stella on the back, and started to argue.

"You know I also have a driving license!" she screamed.

Ace shook his head in annoyance and rolled his eyes. He murmured something that neither the audience nor the cameras could understand.

"We take a short break..." he then said. "We'll be back when our talent scouts have reached their destinations at the Tiger palace, in China."

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"Please, stop fighting!" Musa exclaimed.

"Okay, sorry..." Stella said.

Everyone shot angry looks at Lorelei, who was just polishing her nails and not saying anything. She looked up, groaned, and finally said 'sorry'.

"But so... you want to drive, Stella?" Flora asked.

"Does even the Princess know how to use the steering wheel?" Musa teased and nudged Stella in the side.

"Of course, back home I took some courses," Stella replied with a wink.

Everyone looked at her with skeptical looks, not believing it in the slightest.

"If you crash, you owe me one of your credit cards," Musa finally sighed.

***

The roads wound their way up to the mountaintop. They were small, and it wouldn't surprise Tecna if Stella somehow managed to crash before they even reached halfway. Aisha, who sat beside Stella coaching her on how to turn on the Winx mobile, was not a good sign. This told Tecna that Stella must not have been taught how to drive this kind of vehicle.

Stella began to gas and pressed down on the gas pedal. Tecna felt the vehicle move forward, first at a slow and legal pace. But then everything escalated. The Winx mobile accelerated, and the engine roared at high speed. The Winx mobile scratched towards the rockside before suddenly drifting towards the cliff edge, closer to a free fall. Everyone let out a scream.

Aisha fell off her seat, in the move, as Stella kept going left and right, as if she didn't know how to drive straight.

"Stella, could you try not to swerve so much?!" Flora asked gently. Almost being too nice, Tecna thought.

Then, sounding like a rock, hit one of the tires, making everyone fly down onto the ground. Feeling how Stella managed to drive so badly that she could not even take it easy when a pothole appeared on the road. Only going at full speed.

"I thought you said you knew how to drive this kind of thing?!" Roxy exclaimed, holding tight to the table.

"But it must be something wrong with the Winx mobile. It's not going straight..." Stella answered.

"According to my data, you have almost gotten us into an accident ten times now?!" Tecna commented, playing with her tablet, trying to find a solution if they fall off the cliff edge. "The most logical and best thing is if you let Aisha drive..."

Another hit towards the rock wall made even Lorelei yelp and look scared for her life.

"Let Aisha drive!" Musa exclaimed, trying to maintain her balance, holding onto her seat. Aisha rose up from the ground, taking over the steering wheel.

Out of nowhere, a small diamond-shaped stone hit the windshield. Suddenly, a dark mist appeared around them and the Winx mobile, making Stella drift hastily to the right. Aisha trembled backward.

"Where did this mist come from?!" Stella exclaimed.

Tecna's device flickered and warned about dark magic being used, as if someone had been targeting them and trying to stop them from reaching the top.

"It's dark magic! Fast..." Before Tecna had the time to finish her sentence, gravity suddenly changed, feeling like they were floating for a second, causing everyone to be quiet for a second, probably knowing what was happening. Everyone let out a scream in unison. Lorelei fainted, almost too dramatically, Tecna thought.

"We have to do a convergence, fast!" Tecna exclaimed.

She closed her eyes, trying to connect to the other girls. It had been a while since they'd done one of these. But this could be their only way to save the Winx mobile from falling. Feeling how the other Winxs' powers connected and their harmony. Feeling Musa's music flow through her heart, Stella's bright light inside her, Aisha's strength, and the morphix particles strengthening the base. Flora's calmness and connection to nature and her own logical side running at maximum speed to maintain their full connections and senses together. She even felt Roxy's strong connection to animals and how she called for help.

The Winx mobile now stopped falling, now floating. Tecna opened her eyes, seeing how an aura had built around all of the girls. An aura of a mix of colors, almost like a rainbow, glowed around the Winx mobile. Birds circled outside the vehicle, roots and morphix pulling. The light brightened up the dark mist, making it disappear, and all the electricity going back, upgrading the Winx mobile, updating its services, and repairing all the damage.

"That... was intense..." Stella exhaled.

"I am even more surprised this worked. It's been a while since we did a convergence," Flora said, fiddling with her fingers.

"Yeah... but we are alive. It's all that matters," Tecna concluded.

"Should we wake her up?" Musa asked, pointing at Lorelei, who still looked unconscious.

"We can do it when we have arrived at our destination... just in case if we encounter some dark magic again..." Aisha said.

Everyone nodded in agreement.