I had this in my mind for a while, but I wasn't sure about writing this. But then again, why not? That's what fanfiction is for! I hope you'll enjoy this story and see that I can write serious stories too (see: What if...? the second story I made). This story starts somewhere in the middle till the end of season 3, so with Baltor, realms and enchantix. It will probably be different by some points.

Disclaimer: I don't own Winx Club blabla only the plot blabla (boring...)

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The fear for Baltor was glooming over each of the three school of Magix. Alfea was marked by the enchantix of the Winx Club, even though Bloom didn't complete hers yet. The witches of Cloud Tower had been released from their hypnotized state (1) and were hardly ever seen since, too terrified to come out the safe gates of CT. At Red Fountain the specialists were training, training for the worst to happen. Everyone had to learn advanced techniques, almost impossible to learn.

It was late, the time must have been around 11:30 pm, everyone was asleep after the hard trainings they had to do. Everyone, except one. One maturing boy, one specialist, was still up and training. He look exhausted, but he still continued mastering his skills to perfection. Codatorta, a strong teacher from Red Fountain, had watched him the last few nights. The boy was determined, probably having one thing on his mind to protect. Or maybe one person.

"That boy needs to rest..." Codatorta sighed, but he knew better. The boy was way too stubborn, he wouldn't quit. Still, he was going to make an attempt. Codatorta slowly came out of his spot where he had been watching.

"Keep going... come on!" the boy muttered to himself. It seemed like he wanted to break his saber in two, just to prove his strength.

"Riven, stop now." Codatorta said. The boy, Riven, turned around, glaring at his teacher. He was clearly exhausted.

"I can't... I have to get it... right... must protect..." Riven stopped there with his sentence, catching his breath while saying it.

"Riven, you can't protect anyone if you don't rest." Codatorta stated, pushing Riven slightly towards the dormitories. Riven knew he had no choice but to go. If it was one of his friends, he would fight them about it, but he couldn't do that with a teacher. Angry, Riven threw his saber into the tree with a lot of force. The saber stuck into the tree till halfway. Riven just grabbed his belongings together and went to his room, knowing he was right, but just didn't admit it. He left his saber behind, not wanting to pull it out of the tree, looking like a fool. He had his pride.

"Crazy boy..." Codatorta looked at the spot where Riven had hit his saber into the tree. Suprised, he looked a bit closer. There was something wrong with the tree, as Codatorta examined it. Not only did the tree have a saber sticking out of it, but something more powerful had hit that tree too. Codatorta could only stand still and watch how it happened.

Next morning, at Alfea

Ok, now you make that little turn on one leg, and then kick!" Layla instructed Musa with a new dance move. Musa did the turn perfectly, but with the kick, she fell on her but.

"I bet that was what you wanted to do right?" Layla smiled. They both just simply laughed about the little dance move error. There was a knock on the door. Techna came in.

"Layla, Musa, are you coming? We're going to Magix to have some lunch with the specialists." Techna told them excitedly, probably because of the thought she would see Timmy.

"Yeah sure, I'm starving." Musa said, while she was pulled back on her feet by Layla. They quickly ran to the front gate, where the specialists were waiting. Bloom and Sky were just chatting and laughing, Brandon and Stella seemed like glue and paper together, while the rest just talked as a group. Standing out the group though was Riven. His eyes were dark because of the lack of sleep. While Musa examined his state, he suddenly looked her right in the eyes. For a brief moment there was just a stare, then Musa looked away and chatted with the others, hoping that Stella didn't see that.

"Hey guys, shall we get going by now?" Stella cheered happily, already putting on her helmet while sitting behind Brandon on his leva-bike. As the other girls did the same, they went of for Magix.

"This place has great sandwiches!" Stella said, while they were walking past a little cafe.

"Well then, let's eat something there." Layla said, holding her growling stomach.

"No way! That place has the grace of an elephant! But that little restaurant over there surely has a lot of style." Stella replied, pointing to a restaurant two stores further.

"But let me guess, the food will attack us, so that's why we can't eat there?" Musa joked. They have been walking threw Magix for 15 minutes now, still not having a place to get some food. The other laughed and Stella puked her lip in annoyance. Luckily enough Stella agreed at eating at the restaurant she pointed out, probably so she wouldn't get another remark.

"Riven are you ok?" Musa asked, noticing his tiredness even better now she was sitting next to him.

"I'm fine, just... tired of training." Riven replied shortly. Musa wanted to ask further, but Brandon held his hand on her shoulder.

"He has been training threw the night a few days now, he really doesn't get enough rest." Brandon whispered in her ear. Musa nodded.

"he Riven, are you going to eat that or are you waiting for Kiko to grab it from your plate?" Sky joked. Riven slightly glared, so did Musa.

"come on, it was just a joke Riv." Sky said, slightly uncomfortable by the glaring. But Riven didn't really like the little nickname Sky just gave him. But before Riven had said anything, a cd hit Sky on the back of his head. A little shock went threw the group, they were caught of guard by a... cd? But Musa didn't look at Sky, who felt his head to make sure he didn't have any injury, but she looked at Riven. He seemed calmer now, but also more tired then before. But he hadn't even lift a finger, how did he get even more tired than he already was?

"Musa, what was that for?!" Bloom said annoyed to her friend, breaking threw her thoughts.

"Excuse me? I didn't do that!" Musa yelled back, angry.

"Ow come on Musa, you're the music faerie, you're angry at Sky because of what he said to Riven, and the next second Sky gets hit on his head by a cd! Everybody knows cd's have music on them." Stella came up for Bloom.

"Stella quit it. If Musa said she didn't do it then I believe her, and you should too, as her friend!" Layla replied to Stella, not letting her best friend down (2). Soon there was a whole fight between the four of them, and Flora and Tecna just stayed out of it. Everyone went silently back to Alfea, some glaring at each other, others uncomfortable looking at each other because of the glaring. After dropping the girls off, the guys went back to Red Fountain, trying to forget the whole happening. Only Riven still seemed occurred by the event. If Musa didn't do it, who did? But there was no time to think about it, because as soon as they were back, they had to go to the gym and do push ups for Codatorta.

A few hours later...

"My poor muscles." Timmy muttered softly. Poor Timmy had to do 50 more push ups because he was too slow, according to Codatorta. After that there was training with dragons, a combat against Riven which he terribly lost, and he got plunged in the pool by a couple of seniors (3). Luckily for Timmy, Riven had seen this, and those seniors appeared to be in the hospital wing, muttering something about lots of light and pain. With his body in pain, he crawled behind his computer, looking for messages from Techna that might cheer him up.

Hey Timmy

There is no logical reason for it, but Stella and Bloom are still mad at Musa because of what happened. It would be only logical to just delete the event out of their memory. Too bad they don't have software.

Techna

Timmy had to laugh a bit about Techna's message. She actually cracked a joke there at the end. Meanwhile Riven had entered their room too (4) after he had taken a shower.

"What's that? Another love letter from your secret admirers?" Riven said, sarcastic as always.

"Har har Riven, it's from Techna, about Musa.." Timmy said the last word slowly, knowing what kind of impact it would have. Timmy always feared for his life when he did these kind of things, but still, the sight of Riven struggling threw words about how he didn't like Musa was plain hilarious.

"Why would I care?" Riven said quickly, although Timmy could swear he saw a little hint of red on his face.

"Of course, you don't like her. And Musa doesn't like Music too." Someone said. When Riven turned he saw Brandon grinning slightly. The little hint of red seemed to get bigger by the second. Riven quickly turned around again, and hopped into his bed. Going quickly under the sheets and turning his back to them was a simple statement for: Shut up or you'll never see the daylight again. Brandon simply shrugged, he knew Riven had been worse. Brandon turned to Timmy instead.

"he Timmy, you know that big old, thick tree where you can practice your skills on? The one we used a few times?" Brandon said.

"The one we didn't use anymore since we know Helia?" Timmy replied.

"Yeah that one. It actually got split in half last night!"

"Of course it would break down sometime, it was cut all over. It's easy to let it fall over and knack." Timmy stated.

"Nothing like that! It got split in half vertically, from head to toe! Straight down, not even a splinter points out of the sides. It's crazy." Brandon said.

"That's about impossible!" Timmy said, flabbergasted.

"That's what I thought the first time I heard it, but I've seen it Timmy! Come and look for yourself." Brandon quickly went out of the room, with Timmy on his heels.

Riven had followed the whole conversation without saying a thing. He had practiced on that tree last night. He tried to recall what he did. He practiced his skills, nothing wrong with the tree. Codatorta came and send him to bed, and he went to his room. Wait, he did something before that. He had thrown his saber into the tree. Right? But his saber was in his room when he woke up this morning. But someone could have... But why would someone do that? It buzzed around in his head. The tree that got split in half, the cd thrown against Sky's head (Riven grinned at this memory)... Could he... have done that?

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(1) In season 3, the witches get taken over by Baltor

(2) In the Rai version, Musa and Layla are each others best friends

(3) Sorry, but Timmy just seems to me the little nerd that gets bullied. And Riven a bit big brother alike, who won't let anyone but himself torture his little brother x33

(4) Timmy and Riven are roomies in my story x33 Poor, poor Timmy...

First chapter, what do you guys think? Too much Riven? I don't care if there is too much Riven, I love him x33 and: nobody forces you to read this right? I have read this over twice, so I hope I didn't make grammar mistakes.

Can you guess what might be going on? If you have read it well, you might have an idea. But if you don't: you'll have to wait till the next chapter, cause I'm not saying anything x33 I hope x33 No cookies for the people that don't review x33

4 pages on Microsoft Word for this story x33