Elena is more nervous than she is excited about magic class. All kinds of thoughts begin to swarm her head what if the teacher calls her out to showcase her power as the most powerful fairy in the whole magic dimension and she can't and then everyone including Anastasia and her friends laughs at her?
She hasn't stopped thinking about Anastasia since she purposefully knocked over her books. She doesn't know why she feels intimidated by her. She has met girls like Anastasia and has handled such girls like a pro. What makes this one any different? Is it because she's a princess? Well so is she.
Elena thinks it would be mad stupid to let some ice princess intimidate her. Besides, she can't let her Aunt Imogen down, she was given strict instructions to not let anyone here intimidate her and that is what she's going to do.
"Elena, are you alright?" Fran asks her.
"Yes, why wouldn't I be?"
"Well because I asked you if you were excited about magic class and you didn't answer you kind of spaced out for a bit there."
Oh shit, has she been that deep in thought? Yes, she's walking but not being able to hear a question from someone walking close to her. That's not good.
"Sorry, I am excited but I am also a bit nervous." she chuckles.
"Don't think too much about it. It's magic I'm sure you're going to be great at it. I trust you."
"Wow, thanks for the level of confidence."
"It's what friends do." Fran winks at her.
The fairies move over to the back which is surrounded by lots of stones and they have to sit in front of the enchanted forest. Which Elena hasn't been given so much insight on. Is the forest safe? Can students get in? The autumn leaves make the trees look beautiful though.
She sees that everyone is sitting on the grass. She joins Fran and the others to sit on it. And oh, she did not expect the grass to feel so comfortable she thought it would leave scratches on her legs or something. But the carpet feels so nice. She believes that one can even lie on the grass and fall asleep.
She spots Anastasia her friends and her cousin sitting close to each other. Her cousin whispers something inside Anastasia's ear and Anastasia rolls her eyes then she giggles.
Elena leans over to Fran. "Are those two dating?"
"Who?" she follows Elena's gaze and she sees that she's asking about Henry and Anastasia. "Oh, evil snow princess and sex god lightning prince… no offence."
"It's fine."
"No, they're not dating. Henry doesn't date he just screws with people and Anastasia is too stuck up and selfish to even date anyone. I swear that bitch only loves herself."
"Francesca, what did we say about anger?" A girl behind them asks and Elena turns to see that it's a beautiful brown-skinned girl with long green hair and flowers on her hair, and she has bright brown eyes. She's so pretty, Elena thinks.
Francesca sighs. "Anger leads to hurtful thoughts, hurtful thoughts lead to hurtful words and hurtful words lead to regret." Fran rolls her eyes.
"Good, now please try to calm down." She says. Elena chuckles looking between the two of them.
"Are you her therapist or something?" Elena asks her.
"No, my mom is a therapist so I get her expertise from her. Hi my name's Hilda, nice to meet you." She brings out her hand for a handshake and she does it smiling. Elena likes her already. She takes her hand and shakes it.
"Nice to meet you too, I'm Elena."
"Well, everyone knows who you are," she says looking around and Elena looks around with her. And they're all looking and staring. Elena lets out a sigh.
"When are they going to stop staring at me like that?"
"When they get used to you dear," Hilda says in that soft tone of hers.
"Or when they find the next thing that'll make them stop looking at you," Fran says rolling her eyes.
"Hmm." is all Elena can say.
"Oh hello guys, sorry I'm late I had to get a stain off my dress." the tall woman before them says gesturing to the evidence on her sun dress. She has green hair and she looks like the older version of Hilda and she also has her mannerisms. This is Hilda's mother, but more importantly, this is the teacher of the magic class.
Darla Fink.
"Good morning Mrs Darla." the students say in unison even Hilda greets her as Mrs Darla.
"Good morning. I see we have a new student today." she clasps her hands, "Welcome Elena, we are happy to have you." she says.
"Thank you," Elena says clasping her hands as well thinking that it's some gesture they do here but when she hears Anastasia and her friends laughing she thinks that's not what they do here. Her cousin Henry nudges Anastasia telling her to stop. Elena looks stupid but she's also pissed off.
Fran is pissed off as well. "Oh, those little-"
"Remember, Fran." Hilda reminds her in a whisper and Francesca closes her eyes and begins to breathe small breaths.
"Since you're new here we're going to start with the basics. We're going to show you how people use magic. I need five people. Anastasia, Francesca, Hilda, Henry and Marcus please come forward." they all do that immediately. Walking up front. They make their way to the stones that look like an altar. There's nothing on them they're just large stones.
Elena has her eyes on Anastasia and Anastasia only. When Anastasia sees that Elena is looking she throws a wink her way.
No, Elena is not going to be distracted. She has to listen.
"As fairies, magic is a part of us, we have to learn how to harness it. And it's also about emotion, and emotion is what we use when we want our powers to be used to defend ourselves. But to use magic you have to channel it through you. It's just like breathing." she looks away from Elena and she turns to the students she called. "Guys show her."
And that's when it happens, they all do it so effortlessly.
"Look at how concentrated they are in doing that." She says. And Elena watches them. They are concentrated, and their eyes are even the same colour as their hair but brighter and lighter. Henry has lightning moving in his hands, he even plays with it and the people who see him do that laugh, Hilda is controlling the rocks, they float in the air, if she decides to be a builder it's going to be very easy for her, Marcus' power is beautiful, fire floating in the air and it even moves around his hand, Fran has water ball in front of her and Anastasia has a snowflake floating in front of her, beautiful and cute just like her.
How the fuck is she going to know how to do this when she doesn't even know how she killed those vampires in the first place?
"You can be able to do that too if you learn how to manifest your power." Mrs Darla says to Elena. "And I am happy to do one-on-one lessons with you if you're interested," she says to Elena in a whisper. And Elena's eyes widen in gratitude.
"Yes, yes I am interested thank you." She says and Mrs Darla winks at her.
"Okay, you can go back to your seats now."
She doesn't know why she was so worried, she thought this woman would call her out to show the class how to eliminate a rock the same way she eliminated those witches and vampires but she didn't. If she had called her out to do what they did Elena is sure she would do it with ease because the only thing she knows how to do with her powers is create light.
It looks like she's going to be loving magic class, and she's going to do her best to learn how to use her powers.