Between fantasy and reality

-Alyniara's lifestory-

A red headed girl looked out of the window to see a magical schoolyard, which contained a lawn with some gravel pathways across it. In the middle of the yard a beautiful fountain stood.
The girl, Aly, as she was called, sat on the windowsill, leaned against the bit of wall there was at this angle.

Aly was observing the first beams of sunlight that slowly rose above the tree tops, sending their light across the schoolyard, making long shadows on the ground and letting sky brighten up from dark navy into a light blue color. She had always been fascinated of the night. Back on Canaria nights didn't even exist. She had got explained that it was because that there were so many stars close to the planet, which made the days eternal.

A heavy sigh escaped her, and her eyes ran through the scenery on the other side of the pane. 'Back on Canaria…' she though. Back on Canaria everything has been so, so, so different. She wasn't exactly sure of how to put a description on it. For an ordinary person, who lived in the luxury of Magix, her past would have seemed really tough.
Aly memorized all the times she had slept on some street corner, underfed, between the small brick houses back on her home planet. She had had nowhere to go, and yet, everywhere to go. She knew no one, no one knew her. She had just been another poor child with unknown parents, who spent her days on the Canarian streets.

She shrugged once. She had been so used to it, she had known no other life, had had nothing to compare to, so she couldn't complain about anything.

It all had changed the day she had met Professor Rainer, a teacher of the best school for fairies, Alfea. He had said she had some weird thing called 'Winx', said that he felt if from her for a moment, so he took her with him to Alfea, hoping that he had found a fairy aspirant in these times, where there seemed to be less and less fairies with connection to their Winx.

Aly smiled. All the possibilities opened that day. Now, here she was, sitting on a windowsill in the best school for fairies in the whole galaxy, with her future open, and she knew what she wanted. She wanted to help the Canarian people, from what she had been through herself. Show them that they didn't have to live the way they did. She wanted to make a change.

Her eyes lightened up and eager filled her. Then her eyes darkened and she sighed.
The main problem about the Canarian people was that they either didn't believe in magic or thought that magic was something evil.  All those, whom stepped on the Canarian ground, where descendants of people who rebelled against magic, in the magical dimension, centuries ago. These people moved to one of the most isolated planets in the whole magical dimension.

Although Aly did not loose her faith, she wouldn't. Not after all she'd been though. Her mind wandered back, thinking of the first time she had entered a space ship, the first time she ever had seen the nigh, the first time she had spoken an English word… It had not been easy, not at all. English was a hard language, and she still had enormous problems with it. It demanded hours of studying, but it was worth it all. She felt how she day by day became better and more skilled.

She felt exactly the same way towards her powers. It was like they grew day by day along with her eager to reach her goal. Aly remembered the semester start. She had not believed that she had had powers. It seemed like an impossible dream to reach. To her, fairies were associated with tall, beautiful rich girls, princesses even. She had not all that, and she had not believed she had powers, which later had proved to be the reason for why she couldn't unlock her Winx. They realized that her disbelief had made a strong illusion, so it seemed that she had no powers at all. And that exactly were her powers. Illusions. Illusions and fantasies.

Aly stood up, turning her back to the window. It was still too early to wake Krysten, her room mate and best friend, up, so she found some clothes and left the dorm, meeting Koralia at the hallway. Koralia, or Kia, as preferred, was an early bird too, but that was mostly because of her dusk and dawn powers. Here on Alfea Aly felt like she was a part of something. On Alfea she had also discovered how it felt to have friends for the first time. The girls here were so warm and helpful. Although Aly still was a bit distrustful, since it was in her nature, to stand alone, she was really grateful to know these girls. They brought a warmth in her heart, she had never know before; a feeling of friendship.

Aly ran down the stairs, running outside in the schoolyard and feeling the cool wind against her skin. Often had she wondered who she was. She knew she was called Aly, but why? Was that her real name, who was she? She didn't even know herself. She shook her head, deciding that it didn't matter, and that she was what she made herself to be.
Aly made a high jump and spread her arms to the sides. It was a new day, new adventures were waiting. She was living now, not in the past, not in the future, but now, in the present, trying to enjoy each second and keeping her head held high towards new challenges.