Helia/Comics

Comics

Pre-Series[]

In Issue 110, it is revealed that Helia met Flora as a child while playing in the Shimmering Flowers Valley on Linphea. The two became fast friends and often played hide-and-seek amongst the Valley's sprawling flowers. Helia proved to be a skillful hider as Flora would often be left unable to find him but, during one of their games, Flora began to cry as she thought Helia left her all alone. She would not stop crying until Helia leapt out from his hiding place and hugged her too ease her of her worries and remind her that he was always with her.

Seasons[]

Season 2[]

Helia is first made mention of in Monsters on the Loose by Chatta, Flora's bonded pixie, as the handsome new Specialist that Flora had fallen for.

Helia's Invitation — Helia inviting Flora out for a walk by the pier.

He then makes his physical debut in the following issue approaching Bloom and Flora by the pier. Shortly after Bloom leaves to give her friend some alone time with her crush, Helia approaches Flora and invites her out for a walk around the pier. Flora is able to guess his offer before he finishes making it, and the two go on to start up their walk once Flora agrees to it, during which Helia claims that "this beautiful day had just gotten better."

Before he and Flora end up alone together, the pair bump into Brandon and Stella returning from their jog around the lake. After making sure that Stella is alright, Flora goes on to invite Helia to the get-together on the beach they have planned that evening, to which Helia gladly accepts and meets her there with everyone else.

Helia is not seen or mentioned again until halfway into the issue, just after the Winx realize that some kind of sickness has been spread around Magix to keep people from recalling basic memories. As such, Flora begins to panic when she cannot even remember what Helia's face looks like when asked.

He is mentioned again by Flora in Issue 21 as rumors of Belizarius trying to get Griffin and her students to work under him reach Alfea. This prompts Flora to worry over Helia as he once mentioned to her of how the all the Red Fountain Specialists were mobilized in response to Belizarius. Unfortunately for her, she had not been able to contact Helia since then.

Shaab Stone p18 — Helia spying on Belizarius and his men.

Unbeknownst to her, however, is that Helia had been spending his time spying on and gathering intel on Belizarius and his plans. In fact, that night, Helia learns of Belizarius' plans to acquire the fabled Shaab Stone somewhere within the Enclosed Territory.

Once he sees Belizarius' men mobilize, Helia leaves for Red Fountain undetected to inform Faragonda, Griffin, Codatorta and Saladin of his findings. Upon learning this, the three headmasters and Codatorta organize a full-scale opposition against Belizarius' mercenaries using all their students and faculty with Helia acting as commander of his group. Helia tries to propose that they find someone else more suitable for the job but, when Saladin tells him to believe in himself as he believes his skills have proved his worth, Helia accepts the role as commander, promising to do his best at any cost.

By morning, Helia and his squad stop by Alfea to pick up the Winx to join the search for shuttles belonging to Belizarius' men. As everyone boards the ship, Helia greets Flora and is surprised when she bumps into him. The two of them fumble in trying to make sure the other is alright until Riven comes by to urge Helia into having the shuttle take off.

As Helia walks around to make sure preparations are complete, Sky and Riven fill the girls in on Helia's position as group commander, but Riven seems to be inviting trouble with all the accusations he makes of Helia only being awarded his position due to his familial ties to Saladin.

Soon enough, Helia has Timmy pilot the shuttle away from Alfea and towards the Enclosed Territory, where the group searches for any signs of unknown shuttles to no avail. When nothing else works and Timmy proposes they fly higher, Helia advises against it as it would give their position away to the mercenaries Belizarius hired and proposes that they change up their strategy by finding the Shaab Stone ahead of them.

After analyzing the maps they have, Helia suggests that they search for the crater that was most likely caused by the meteor that crashed into Magix all those centuries ago but, even with everyone on board with his new idea, they all have no luck in locating such a landmark. After hours of searching to no avail, Helia begins to doubt his capabilities as a leader as he believes that he may have let the power his position carried go to his head. However, just before he allows himself to give up, Bloom spots something on one of the maps, prompting Timmy into converting the maps from 2D to 3D, which reveals a large crater just as Helia suspected! Helia then has Timmy pilot their shuttle in the direction of the crater so they can all at least check the landmark out before dismissing it completely like Riven had been doing.

Screenshot 1820 — Helia scouting out the area with Sky and Brandon.

On their way to the crater, the group spots an unfamiliar shuttle, which prompts Helia to direct Timmy into landing the shuttle somewhere far enough away for them to scout out the area. Upon landing, Helia rushes to a nearby cliff that would also provide enough cover to allow him, Sky and Brandon to stake out the valley just below them. With their binoculars, the three boys come to realize that the mercenaries Belizarius hired had already found and retrieved the Shaab Stone!

The three boys then return to their group to report the bad news, but Helia remains calm and tells them that they must leave before being spotted to inform everyone else and call for backup. As Riven insists that they must attack the mercenaries and steal the Shaab Stone away from them while they are distracted, Helia further points out his recklessness by reminding him of the mercenaries' status as trained professionals who should not be underestimated. Helia then proposes that they continue to keep a close eye over the mercenaries until backup arrives as, once all their forces have reunited under one spot, they will have enough manpower to take back the Stone and leave the authorities to deal with both the mercenaries as well as Belizarius. Having Timmy contact the other groups through radio, Helia leaves with most of the group to prepare themselves, leaving Musa to try and talk some sense into Riven one last time.

By nightfall, Helia and the others have managed to inch their way into enemy territory. When Timmy notifies him of when backup will arrive, Helia tells everyone that they will only attack the mercenaries should they try to leave the crater and has them all split up to better surround the area. Unfortunately, Helia's plans are completely ruined when Riven tries to execute his own plan of stealing back the Shaab Stone; failing miserably as it results in both him and Timmy being taken hostage. Even when backup arrives, they are all forced to let the mercenaries make off with the Shaab Stone to ensure both Riven and Timmy's safety.

The next day, Helia is called into the Headmaster's Office to deal with the ramifications of the failed retrieval mission. He expresses his relief when Sky tells him that Belizairus' men had kept up their end of the deal and let Riven and Timmy go free unharmed, but refuses Sky's request to tell Saladin that the mission failing was mainly the fault of Riven's reckless actions as he believes staying silent would be better than accusing him and Timmy because it would do nothing to remove the responsibility he was supposed to bear as commander. Their conversation is quickly ended by Codatorta calling Helia into the Headmaster's Office and, without another word, Helia enters to face the consequences.

Screenshot 2590 — Helia silently entering the Headmaster's Office.

Later that day, it is revealed that Helia had received an official demerit and was held fully responsible for the retrieval mission ending up in failure. Riven was also left completely unmentioned, revealing that Helia kept to his word.

In the following issue, Treason, everyone continues to live without magic now that Belizarius possesses the Shaab Stone. Despite being given an official demerit, it is revealed that it will not be put into Helia's school records and he is allowed to stay in school, much to the relief of his friends with the exception of Riven, who continues to believe that Helia was never in any real danger of being expelled due to their familial ties.

Once the weekend finally rolls around, Helia joins his friends for their usual hangout at the White Horse Café, where he unfortunately faces the scrutiny of some of the patrons, being branded as "the man who let the Shaab Stone be stolen." Eventually, Helia's patience wears thin when he overhears a young man claim that "certain people" would never be able to cause trouble at the school were it not for "certain ties." Upon confronting Horg, Helia tells him to shut up if he does not wish to look like an idiot as he does not know what truly happened, which causes Horg to throw a punch. In response, Helia grabs Horg's arm and flips him into the table him and his friends were sitting at, which forces Sky into holding Helia back. Despite that, Helia manages to kick Horg unconscious when he charges in for another attack.

'It Was Me!' - Helia — Helia declaring himself responsible.

A short while later, the police arrive demanding to know who started the fight, and Helia responds by declaring himself the one solely responsible. News of this quickly reaches Red Fountain, which causes Saladin to lose his patience with Helia and his recent behavior. Though Codatorta tries to calm Saladin down, the Red Fountain Headmaster just gets increasingly angrier at the thought of people believing he only allows Helia to do whatever he likes out of favoritism. And so, by the next day, Helia had already been expelled from Red Fountain.

News of Helia's expulsion spreads quick and leaves both the Specialists and the Winx at a total loss; Flora especially, as she immediately panics upon hearing of it. The Winx quickly get into a discussion concerning Saladin's decision and though they all do not agree with it, they realize that he had Helia expelled to dispel any suspicion concerning possible favoritism to his grandson. Tecna then reveals to the girls that Helia had already left Red Fountain by the time they heard the news and has been looking for a place of his own throughout the city. This prompts Flora into cutting class to look for Helia in the city and help in any way she can, leaving the Winx to make up an excuse for her during Wizgiz's class.

Eventually, Flora finds Helia by himself along the boardwalk near the White Horse. Just before he is about to leave, Flora grabs hold of his hand to assure him that she is by his side. Despite this though, Helia tells her that she should not be with him as, from what he has been hearing all day, he poses as a danger to everyone around him. She tries to insist that it is all just a big misunderstanding but Helia cuts her off by telling her that Saladin, his grandfather and headmaster of Red Fountain, told him in front of the entire student body that he does not deserve to be at the school.

'I Need No One's Help' - Helia (I22) — Helia swearing that he needs no one else's help, not even Flora's.

As he gets more heated, Helia insists that he is the one who wanted to leave and live his life elsewhere if all the things he has done up until his expulsion were not worth anything. Flora tries to calm him down but to no avail, as Helia declares that he will not be needing help from anyone else to show the world what he is made of. When Flora insists that she will be by his side, Helia emphasizes what he had just told her: that he needs help from no one, not even her, which causes Flora to run off in tears.

He watches her run off for a moment before returning to his thoughts until a man in a blue trenchcoat approaches him claiming to have overheard his dilemma. With little to no qualms, Helia accepts the man's offer and finds himself in the office of Belizarius in his TradeMagix Company building.

Treason p25 — Helia beginning his work with Belizarius.

Belizarius attempts to butter him up but Helia does not buy into any of it and insists that he no longer wishes to stick around in Magix anymore. As Belizarius continues to throw compliments his way, insisting that he would be more useful closeby, Helia requests to see one of his shuttles as he wishes for nothing more than to get as far away from Magix as possible. However, after asking him why he wants to go so far away, Belizarius brings him how Helia was in the perfect position to be Saladin's successor only to be treated horribly by him. Helia responds by simply claiming that the mistreatment he faced is the reason he is in Belizarius' office at that very moment, which leads the tyrannical business tycoon into making Helia prove himself useful before he can give him the means to avenge himself. When Helia asks what he wants, Belizarius tells him to make an offer as he sits back at his desk, leading to Helia suspecting that he wants him to find a way to get Griffin into helping him with her magic.

Once Belizarius shows interest in the idea by throwing out a "maybe," Helia reveals to him the existence of a document that contains an agreement between the headmasters to illegally appoint Griffin as Cloud Tower's headmistress. He goes on to explain that he secretly overheard Saladin discussing about the document and learned that all three headmasters each own a copy of it. Since he is unable to enter Cloud Tower or Red Fountain, Helia claims that he could get his hands on Faragonda's copy and asks if retrieving it would prove to be an adequate "entrance test" to Belizarius. With that, Belizarius places his trust in Helia to go through with their arrangement and, once Belizarius asks him how he will get into Alfea, Helia reveals to him that he knows of someone who can help him.

And so, days after his agreement with Belizarius, Helia commences with his little operation by sneaking onto the Alfea campus one night. Once he finds himself an adequate hiding place, he contacts Flora and asks for her to help him get into the school without being seen. Moments later, Flora manages to sneak down from her dorm room to the first floor of the school and sneaks Helia inside.

Just as she asks Helia of what he is doing at Alfea so late, Helia quickly explains that Belizarius has been plotting against his grandfather, starting with the fight that broke out at the White Horse weeks ago, which forced Saladin into expelling Helia, making him look bad in front of the Fortress of Light Council. He goes on to claim that he found out that Faragonda had received a document full of lies aimed to destroy Saladin's reputation by a Magix-based official corrupted by Belizarius whose identity remains unknown. He believes that, if he could get his hands on the document, he could uncover the official's identity and put a stop to Belizarius' plot. When Flora asks why he did not just ask Faragonda, Helia claims that Belizarius' connections make him capable of spying on all their possible conversations, so the only option he has left is to get his hands on the document without anyone knowing, which led to him asking for Flora's help. When Flora brings up how he swore he needed help from no one, Helia hangs his head low, claiming that he was just confused at the time and apologizes. Flora, wishing to believe in him, takes his hand and clasps it in hers as she makes him promise that what he is doing is for the good of everyone. Helia quickly makes this promise to Flora, and the two go about sneaking into Faragonda's office.

Sneaking Around Alfea (I22) — Helia and Flora sneaking through the school to get to Faragonda's office.

Before Helia can get into Faragonda's office, he is stopped by Flora as Knut is cleaning the halls just outside it. As she goes about distracting him, Helia manages to sneak past the ogre and into the Headmistress' Office for the document. Some time later, Helia silently rushes out of the office once Knut leaves, and informs Flora of how he was able to get a picture of the document on his phone and put it back in its proper place so no one would suspect anything. With Knut still going around the school, Flora leads Helia to another exit. Before leaving, Helia thanks Flora for her help and says his farewells, however, as he makes his way to a TradeMagix Company helicopter, he is unaware of Flora following him under the belief that he would be in danger.

Some time later, Helia returns to Belizarius' office with a physical copy of the documents in question, as well as photos of other documents that would interest him. However, before he can show them to Belizarius, Lothar enters the office with news of an "unexpected guest," and has one of his men bring a captured Flora into the room! When Flora tries to tell him off, Helia claims that she should have kept out of it all, and becomes slightly more nervous when Belizarius claims that they have to do something with her to keep her from telling others now that she knows too much. So, before he can have Lothar take Flora away, Helia rips Belizarius' attention back to the documents by giving him a document he found in Faragonda's office—one that details a full-scale attack on the TradeMagix Company building to rob the Shaab Stone.

With Belizarius and his men now worked up into a frenzy, Helia sets his sights on maintaining Flora's safety by insisting that he should be the one to "sort her out" now that she cannot retaliate with magic. Once Flora is strapped to a nearby chair, Helia motions over to a gold trophy at one of the sides of the office door and turns his back as Belizarius opens the safe containing the Shaab Stone to get ready to move it.

Helia's Assault (I22) — Helia makes his move!

Once Belizarius opens the safe, Helia makes his assault by grabbing the gold trophy and slamming it against the safe's lock, completely destroying it. He then throws the trophy at the only man stationed in the room, trips Belizarius before he can call for help and locks the only door leading into Belizarius' office before telling someone via a wrist-communicator that the coast is all clear for "them" to come out. Just then, Sky and Riven burst into the office on their hoverbikes as Helia unties Flora and explains the situation to her. The four of them manage to escape Belizarius' office with the Shaab Stone in their possession just before Lothar and his men could break in.

As they speed through the city, Flora learns from Riven that Helia was never a traitor, but was instead working undercover to steal the Shaab Stone from the inside. To ensure that he could gain Belizarius' trust, Helia had to keep everyone with the exclusion of the headmasters out of the loop so it would be more convincing.

Once Helia confirms that they are not being followed, the four of them regroup with Brandon and Timmy in a shuttle, where they headed for Flame Mountain and threw the Shaab Stone into a superheated crater, destroying it for good. Afterwards, Helia made up with Riven and was reinstated into Red Fountain with full honors.

Treason p44 — Helia and Flora become official.

Before dropping Flora off at Alfea, Helia is confronted by the nature fairy, who expresses her shame at believing he really was a traitor. In response, Helia reminds her of how he had to keep from telling everyone the truth behind his actions as he would have ended up in deep trouble if Belizarius suspected anything. When Flora asks for his forgiveness and whether they can be friends again, Helia grabs hold of her hand and eases his free hand to her face as confesses that he was hoping they could become something more than friends. His hopes end up coming true in that very moment as he and Flora share a kiss just before the rising sun, solidifying the start of their relationship together.

Halfway into Issue 23, Helia can be seen joining his fellow Specialists in their usual weekend hangouts with the Winx at the White Horse.

After arriving a bit earlier than planned, he and the Specialists are roped into spending time with Icy and Darcy thanks to the realm-wide vow of secrecy they swore to. Though the others try to humor the pair of witches, Helia remains quiet until, eventually, he and the boys get worried and leave to look for the Winx.

As they speed down the road from Alfea leading to the café, the boys come across a bus that had crashed into the nearby lake. As they approach, tentacles rise from the lake water to attack the bus, which prompts them into action before the creature can drag the Winx, as well as the other passengers, into the bottom of the lake. Helia and Sky in particular rush for the bus to drag out the passengers, all of whom look to have been knocked unconscious, while the rest of the Specialists try to fend off the mysterious lake monster.

Screenshot 2606 — Helia trying to wake Flora up.

He and Sky manage to help pull out Flora, Bloom and Stella once the Trix arrive to blow back the monster with their magic, giving Brandon, Riven and Timmy the opportunity they need to help rescue everyone still aboard the sinking bus.

Once everyone has been rescued, Helia stays by Flora's side to help wake her up and check if she is okay. He then joins the rest of the Specialists in praising and thanking the Trix for their help with the lake monster, much to the Winx's collective ire.

In the following issue, Helia participates in a school-wide flight exercise with his fellow Red Fountain Specialists, during which he is partnered up with Flora.

TSoD p5 — The group looking back at the crashed spacecraft.

In Issue 26, he can be seen enjoying a nice day out by the lake with his friends until a spacecraft that had caught fire comes crashing down in their direction. After helping Brandon rescue Stella, who had get caught in a wave caused by the crashing spacecraft, Helia joins the others by the shore to properly assess what had happened. Once emergency services arrive on the scene, Helia and the others leave the lake early after making sure they all made it out unharmed.

Days later, Helia joins up with the Winx and Specialists to help them seek out the Disagreement Plant before its spores spread throughout Magix completely, leaving everyone at constant odds with one another as a result.

After a scuffle caused by the Plant's spores, the group stations themselves by a mountain ridge to wait for the Pixies to seek out the Disagreement Plant, as their young ages and mindsets made them less susceptible to the spores. Naturally, when a fire mysteriously breaks out within the forest, he and the Specialists break out their hover-shields and glide themselves and the Winx over to rescue the Pixies. Luckily, the group reunites with the Pixies and learn that the Disagreement Plant had been burned in the mysterious forest fire.

Three issues later, in Magic Tournament, it is revealed that Helia had been put on the Awards Committee for the titular event, possibly due to being the grandson of the Red Fountain Headmaster, and Flora, upon hearing this, become ecstatic over the thought of winning the Tournament, as it means she will be receiving the grand prize straight from Helia's hands.