Forbidden Fruit

Chapter 4: A Positive Darkness

When I reach the dorm, I find my name written on the door along with Stella, Varanda, and a few other names. So, there must be several rooms in the dorm. I open the door and find all of the fairies standing around and introducing themselves to each other. They then all stop talking when I come in and turn their gaze towards me. I smile and wave shyly at them.

"Onyx! You're finally here! When I heard that I was going to have a roommate, I was about to complain to Faragonda, but then I saw that it was you, so I don't mind as much."

A girl with dark blue hair and pigtails steps up.

"Hey! So you're our final roomy! Nice to meet ya, the name's Musa from Melody, also known as the Harmonic Nebula."

"Nice to meet you too."

I shake her hand. Then another fairy who has light brown hair with blonde highlights in her bangs smiles sweetly at me.

"I'm Flora from the planet Linphea. It's nice to meet you."

"Oh the planet of nature?"

"That's right!"

I've always had a bit of trouble when it came to nature. I don't dislike it, but I just can't tune with it... ever. Maybe Flora would be a good help.

The last fairy has short hot pink hair. She takes out a device, probably one that she made, and she looks at it.

"Onyx... A Dark Ankelon from the planet Dersus."

"That's right. You have my information in there?"

"I have information on almost every student here. My name is Tecna. I'm from the planet Zenith."

Yup, that explains it. It's a pretty handy device she got there.

"You're an Ankelon?"

Musa looks surprised to hear that.

"I've never met an Ankelon in my life. I mean, I did feel that you weren't a fairy."

Flora then takes her turn to ask me questions.

"How come you're in Alfea? Aren't you supposed to be attending at Infinite Castle?"

"Well, since I'm a Dark Ankelon, they wanted me to be "immersed" in light magic, hoping that it'd "cure" me."

I say that with that sarcastic tone. I really don't think it'll work, but I do rather be here than around Ankelons.

"Girls! How about we go to Magix city? My wardrobe needs a major makeover for the new semester."

We all enthusiastically agree to Stella's idea, except for Varanda.

"Magix city?"

"You never went?"

I say while looking at Varanda, pretty surprised that she doesn't know the place.

"Um... Well... I've never been outside of my realm before..."

"And that's why we're here! We're going to show you everything that you need to see."

Stella puts an arm around Varanda's shoulder in a friendly manner. We all then get ready and head downtown.

Arriving there, Varanda is in awe, I don't really know at what though. Magix is indeed one of the most fashionable cities, but it doesn't have anything uncommon to it. What's even weirder, is that both her and Stella keep whispering things to each other. Is she just shy? I still can't help but feel like she's hiding something.

We go around several shops. Then, we go to a cafe and relax for a bit. Varanda then takes a device out of her pocket.

"I wonder why I haven't been getting any signals on my phone since I arrived here."