Opening Scene: Welcome to Aetheria Academy
Setting: Dawn breaks over Aetheria Academy, its crystalline towers shimmering in golden light. Birds with iridescent wings flit between floating gardens as students begin their day.
(Camera sweeps into Lyria's new dorm room cozy but enchanted, with a self-making bed and a mirror that offers fashion advice.)
Mirror (cheerfully):
"Good morning, Miss Lyria! Might I suggest celestial blue for your first day? It matches your uncontrolled magical aura."
Lyria (groaning, half-buried in blankets):
"Ugh. I still think this is a dream."
(She absentmindedly flicks her hand a spark flies, igniting a floating candle. She yelps and pats it out.)
Seraphina (leaning in the doorway, amused):
"Dream or not, you're late for Intro to Elemental Control. And trust me, Professor Gale hates late students."
SCENE 1: FIRST DAY CHAOS
Setting: The Grand Athenaeum, a vast classroom with floating chalkboards and enchanted textbooks.
(Lyria rushes in, tripping over her own feet. The class a mix of young fairies giggles. At the front, Professor Gale, a stern wind fairy with storm-gray wings, glares.)
Professor Gale:
"Ah. The mystery fairy who nearly blew out the academy's wards yesterday. How… thrilling."
(Lyria shrinks into her seat beside Marina, a bubbly water fairy who grins and whispers:)
Marina:
"Don't worry, Gale's bark is worse than her breeze."
(Professor Gale flicks her wrist a mini tornado spins above her palm.)
Professor Gale:
"Today, we practice basic elemental focus. Channel your magic into these."
(She tosses out delicate glass orbs. The students gulp.)
Marina (whispering):
"Fill it without breaking it. Easy, right?"
(Lyria's orb immediately cracks as her magic flares. The class snickers.)
Professor Gale (dryly):
"Or you could just fail spectacularly."
SCENE 2: THE OUTSIDER
Setting: The Sunbloom Courtyard, where students lounge between classes.
(Lyria sits alone, poking at a floating sandwich that refuses to be eaten. Nearby, a group of elite fairies led by Vesper, a snobby lightning fairy whisper loudly.)
Vesper:
"Honestly, a human at Aetheria? What's next, teaching pixies to use forks?"
(Her friends laugh. Lyria's hands glow faintly anger stirring her magic.)
Marina (plopping down beside her):
"Don't mind Vesper. She's just mad you're more powerful than her on accident."
(Lyria smiles weakly. Marina conjures a water bubble with a flick of her wrist.)
Marina:
"Here. Focus on the ripple, not the splash."
(Lyria tries her magic, sputters, and then forms a tiny golden ember inside the bubble. They both gasp.)
Marina (grinning):
"See? You're not hopeless!"
SCENE 3: SHADOWS STIR
Setting: The Forbidden Archives, a dim, book-filled tower where ancient texts are kept.
(Lyria sneaks in, guided by her locket's faint pulse.)
Lyria (muttering):
"Okay, magic books. Help me not explode things."
(She pulls a dusty tome"The Lost Starfire Dynasty" when suddenly, shadows creep along the walls.)
???(hissing from the darkness):
"The child of starlight…"
(A Shadowling lunges! Lyria screams, blasting it back with a wild burst of light but the noise attracts Headmistress Orla.)
Headmistress Orla (frowning):
"Curfew exists for a reason, Lyria."
Lyria (panicked):
"There was a! (Looks back; the Shadowling is gone.) … Never mind."
(Orla's eyes darken. She knows something's wrong.)
SCENE 4: THE FIRST FRIENDSHIP
Setting: The Starlight Dorms at night.
(Lyria sits on her balcony, staring at the floating constellations above Aetheria. Marina joins her, handing her a cup of moonflower tea.)
Marina:
"So. Want to talk about why you were in the haunted section of the library?"
Lyria (sighing):
"I just… need answers. Why me? Why now?"
(Marina's playful grin softens.)
Marina:
"Look. I don't know your deal either. But I do know you're not alone here."
(She nudges Lyria. A shooting star streaks across the sky Lyria's locket glows in response.)
Marina (raising an eyebrow):
"Okay, that was definitely not normal."
(They share a laugh. For the first time, Lyria feels… hopeful.)
CLOSING SCENE: DANGER APPROACHES
Setting: A dark tower far from Aetheria.
(The villain Malrik, the Shadowforged, watches through a crystal scrying pool as Lyria's magic flickers.)
Malrik (smirking):
"Such raw power. And she doesn't even know…"
(His hand passes over the pool, revealing a hidden symbol, the same one on Lyria's locket.)
Malrik (whispering):
"The last Starfire heir will light our way to victory… or burn to ashes."
(Fade to black.)
TO BE CONTINUED…