"Does anyone know anything about this prep school that Flora and Musa attended?" Bloom wonders as she and the other Winx and Specialists fly in one of the Red Fountain ships to fly to this realm of Domino where Flora and Musa attended some sort of elite prep school. Said school is having a reunion and Flora and Musa invited them to show them a part of their lives that not many people see.
"I'm afraid not." Tecna replies. "Timmy and I have looked at numerous schools in the realm of Domino and none of them have records of Flora or Musa attending, not even pictures of former students look like them."
"Didn't they say that their school was on an island?" Layla interjects.
Timmy nods. "They did, but all we could get was that it is called Duel Academy, other than that we couldn't access any records of the school."
As they enter the atmosphere of Domino, some kind of magic hits them but they aren't sure what it is. When they all look up, they are above an island in the middle of the sea that has a huge building with three smaller ones. "Look outside." Stella says as she sees creatures inhabiting the island. There are bug creatures, dinosaur creatures, blob, birds, even humanoid-hybrid creatures.
"What are these things?" Brandon wonders as he and the other Specialists start mentally preparing themselves in case they need to attack the creatures.
"I have no idea, and why are they surrounding people and what those cards that they're playing that have their creatures attack or stop their opponents?"
Just then a comm comes in and up on the screen reveals a man with a brown beard that is graying, bald head, wearing a red coat with a yellow shirt underneath and a red tie. "I am Chancellor Sheppard, how may I help you?"
The Winx and Specialists look at each other before Helia answers. "Flora and Musa invited us."
"Ah. You must be the friends they've told us about. There is a dock that you can park your ship. I will let them know that you are here."
Timmy pulls up a map and gives the coordinates to the others who steer the ship to the docks. Once they've landed and exit the ship a guy around their age is standing outside. He has orange spiky-hair, grey eyes, yellow tattoos in the shape of triangles under his eyes, yellow lines underneath, and an M with a dot on his forehead. He's wearing a yellow shirt, a brown vest, blue jeans, boots, gloves, and has a headband that has two rings on the right side.
"Hi there, I'm Crow Hogan." He introduces himself. "And if my memory serves me, you all are Bloom, Stella, Tecna, Layla, Sky, Brandon, Timmy, Riven and Helia."
"How do you know about us?" Riven inquires.
"Flora and Musa. They've told me all about you guys. Man, I thought that when they left of Alfea their lives would actually calm down a bit. Come on, they're in the courtyard of the school and are awaiting your arrival." Crow indicates for them to follow him and they do, hoping that they can get some answers as to what is going on.
"So, these monsters are holograms yet someone can still feel the damage if they use direct attacks?" Brandon sums up. "And these spell and trap cards can help their player and stop their opponent?"
Crow nods as they enter the courtyard of Duel Academy. "That pretty much sums it up."
Closer to the entrance is Flora wearing a black corset with a pink bow in the middle, a pink sweater, a hot pink shirt with a black belt and black boots. Her hair is in a high ponytail. Across from her is Musa with her long blue pair in two down pigtails, a red hat, white shirt with red straps and green lines going across her chest, red shorts with white stripes on the side and white flip flops.
On Musa's side of the field there is a white dragon that appears to be illuminating some sort of dust, a black and red dragon, and a black dragon with red eyes. On Flora's there is a light blue dragon with golden armor that appears to be the embodiment of a fairy, a black dragon with red rose petals and a couple of small birds.
"Now, I overlay my Lyrilusc Cobalt Sparrow and Lyrilusc Sapphire Swallow to build the overlay network! I Xyz summon Lyrilusc Assembled Nightingale!"
Flora's two small birds turn into small orbs of purple and yellow respectively before they disappear into a portal on the ground and out comes a beautiful humanoid-bird creature. "And with my Assembled Nightingale's ability, I choose to attack. Go, Talons of Rage!"
Musa grunts as the creature attacks her twice, dropping her 2000 life points down to 1000.
"Nice job, now it's my turn. Stardust show Black Rose how the game is played, you to Red Dragon Archfiend! Red Eyes, destroy her Assembly Nightingale!"
Stardust goes over to Flora's Black Rose, causing both monsters to be destroyed along with Ancient Fairy and Red Dragon Archfiend. Musa's life points go down to 300 and Flora's goes from 3100 to 2000. Red Eyes tries to attack Assembly Nightingale, but Flora activates her monster's ability and flies of Red Eyes's blast and attacks Musa, causing Musa to lose the duel.
"Nice job, Flora." A guy with blue-hair with blue-grey eyes tells her. "Your strategy is improving, especially since you've started using Fusion, Synchro, Xyz, and now Pendulum summoning in your tactics."
"Really? Thanks Zane."
"That was amazing Flora! The way you first used some of your Melodious monsters to get Musa, and then she. . . . and then you! This was one of the best duels between you two yet!" Chatta says.
"Thanks Chatta."
"Ladies and gentleman, I hate to interrupt but I believe we have guests." Tune informs them.
Musa, Flora, and Zane look to see the Winx and Specialists standing there along with Crow. Musa waves them over and Crow brings them over, rather he runs and he, Flora and Zane fall to the ground in one group hug. All laughing. "Hey everyone, you've already met Flora's cousin Crow, and this her other cousin Zane."
"Cousins?"
"Well, actually Crow and I cousins because my mom is his dad's sister. Zane and Crow are cousins because Crow's mom is the sister to Zane's dad. Even though Zane and I aren't related, we still consider each other cousins because we've grown up together." Flora explains.
"Yeah, now you two need to rest. Your big duel is in two weeks and after what we've just been through I suggest that you two take a rest for as long as you can." Crow tells Flora and Musa.
The fairies and heroes look at each other. As the trio of cousins get up off the ground, Musa explains to them that they just got done with one heck of an adventure that she says really all started when she and Flora were seven and had to duel against the Shadow Riders (six, if they count the year that Crowler tried to get them expelled because he didn't think they were good enough duelists despite who their mother's are).
Flora leads them inside where they go to a huge room where there are chairs and couches near a huge screen. Digit goes behind it to make sure everything is plugged in right, and when she gives the all clear Musa tells them all to sit down as she uses the remote to turn on the screen.
It's high time their friends see just how chaotic their lives have been.