Layla (Aisha)

Layla (original name being Aisha) is one of the main protagonists in the Winx Club. She made her first appearance in the second season of the Winx Club. She then became a member of the club after they helped her rescue her friends, the Pixies, from Lord Darkar. She is the Fairy of Tides (Waves in the Nick dub) and the princess of Tides (Andros in many dubs).

Ultimate Story
Layla made her first appearance in the Ultimate Story special: the Celestial Winx. She became a key factor in why the Celestial Winx were forced to sacrifice themselves to imprison Malicet.

Layla is one of a pair of twin heiresses to the throne of Tides, with her sister being Aisha. Layla was always overshadowed by her sister and belittled by her parents as the inferior sister. During the Winx girls' second year at Alfea, her parents brought their daughters to the school so that she would become a teacher. However, she was shown to be less than qualified to teach a class. Outraged, their parents forcefully pulled their daughters out of Alfea, however, during Layla's stay, she had grown to like the school and wanted to attend it. Her parents demanded her to return home with them, but with some encouragement from her friends and the schools overruling her parents, she was then allowed to stay.

After she and her friends graduated from Alfea, the Great Wizard came before them and made them his most trusted subordinates for their selflessness and compassion for others and have been dubbed the Celestial Winx. Their first task was to defeat Malicet before he decimates everything in the Universe.

Aisha became resentful of her sister for being approached and granted high privilege by the Great Wizard. Her hatred towards her sisters and her friends became so immense that she aligned herself with Malicet to get back at them. At one point, Aisha infused her very being with Supreme Darkness as a means of trying to get stronger, but this had proven to be fatal as the Darkness was going to devour her. To prevent this from happening, she forcefully infused herself with her own sister so that her Light Magic would be able to shield her from this. This, however, caused her friends' weaknesses to be exposed to Malicet, thereby enabling him to penetrate them. Knowing that they could be destroyed by Malicet, the girls were force to sacrifice themselves to imprison Malicet as well as his underlings, including Aisha. No one knew what happened to the girls afterwards.

4000 years later, as Fox encountered the Celestial Winx in his dream, he also saw was, in reality, a manifestation of Layla who was fighting to prevent her sister from taking full control of her. Her friends believed that she could be saved and urged Fox to find a way to do so. In order to help Layla with fighting back against her sister, her essence were encased in a magic bubble so that she would have the strength to withstand her sister's influence so that she could finally break free.