Greetings from Barbados and Happy Halloween, everyone!
Akela V. here with yet another Winx Club story. However this one is a little different to what I usually do. It's a next-gen fic that features primarily my OC children of the Winx Club and... others.
It's been in the works for a long time, but only solidified around late May/early June. I started mapping it out and then wrote the first eight chapters in July for Camp NaNoWriMo so I'm pretty far ahead in pre-writing and updates should usually come out at least once a week!
It contains some suggestive material and occasional swearing, but not too much.
Anon reviewers, I do not answer questions in my author's notes unless it's a common question posed by both signed and unsigned reviewers. So if you feel the need to discuss a plot point/ask a question, refer to the e-mail address I have up on my profile. No guarantee for anyone that questions will be answered though.
In order to fully understand certain references, there are a few other stories which you will need to read, the details of which are on my profile page.
I dedicate this fic to Chibi Horsewoman, Midnights-AM-Child and LoveLoveLovix,all of whom provided some wonderful feedback on this story and have fantastic next-gen fics of their own, which I highly recommend.
With all of that being said, let's begin what is hopefully as enjoyable a journey for you as it is for me, shall we?
"Are you absolutely sure you want to go there, sweetheart?" In a large, beautiful garden, a teenage girl with dark brown mid-back length hair in a French braid was having her clothes inspected by her mother and hating every minute of it.
"You're not going to change my mind, Mother. I'm going to Cloud Tower, not Alfea. I'm going to be a witch…" The girl stepped back.
The blonde woman pouted. "Fine then, Eleanor…"
A brown haired man stepped out into the garden.
"Stella, are you trying to get our daughter to go to Alfea again? She's not going to change her mind, you know…"
Stella sighed. "At least it was worth a shot, Brandon…"
"Let's go, Nori. Arthur's waiting for you at the Atrium…" Brandon led her away.
"Oh joy. Wouldn't want to keep him waiting, would we?" Eleanor rolled her brown eyes as she adjusted her black, oval-shaped glasses at the same time.
"Do you have everything you need?" Brandon asked.
"Yep. Luggage all shrank and in my pockets, I'm wearing my glasses and the Ring of Solaria is safely on my finger." Eleanor waved her right hand casually, letting the precious gems embedded in the Ring glisten in the sunlight pouring in from the glass ceiling.
"Good. And please try not to hurt your brother Arthur too much this year. We're going to need him to rule Solaria one day…" Brandon gestured to the slightly muscled, tall young man with his brown hair in a short ponytail and silver-blue eyes.
"I wouldn't trust him to rule a stick, but I'll oblige as long as he doesn't do anything excessively stupid…" Eleanor shrugged and walked forward to join her older brother.
"He's dead…" Brandon thought as he walked away.
"Still going to Cloud Tower, aren't you?" Arthur looked at her disdainfully.
"Oh, shut up, Arthur and let's go." Eleanor threw her Ring into the air where it activated its sceptre form.
Catching it adeptly in her outstretched right hand, she swiped it and the pair of Solarian royal siblings were off to Magix for the year.
"Oh, you've finally reached your Senior year at Alfea! I can't believe it! It feels like it was just yesterday that we sent you off for your first day there!" Flora exclaimed excitedly.
"I know! The time flew by so fast! I can't wait to get back!" A lightly-tanned skinned girl flicked her shoulder length black hair out of her olive green eyes and sat to comb it at the hallway mirror.
"Plus Ben won't be there…" The girl thought wryly.
"The Winx had so much fun while we were there…" Flora watched her daughter with her own olive green eyes.
"I'm just hoping to finish off my nice, quiet school life and if there's excitement involved this year, it's not of the variety that involves fighting some powerful evil people, mom…" Juniper finished her hair by slipping on a white headband and stood up.
"Now I just need to go get my packing finished and I can…" Flora heard her daughter's voice trail off as she went to her room upstairs.
"BENJAMIN! WHAT IN THE NAME OF THE GREAT DRAGON DID YOU DO TO MY BEDROOM?!"
Flora sighed. "There they go again…"
"IT WAS AN ACCIDENT, JUNIPER!"
"NOTHING IS EVER AN ACCIDENT WHEN IT COMES TO YOU, BENJAMIN!"
"We should probably go up there before they kill each other…" Helia passed through the hallway and dashed up the stairs.
"It's too damn early in the morning for another migraine…" Flora massaged her forehead as she followed her husband up the stairs.
When they entered Juniper's pink-walled room, it looked as if her luggage had exploded everywhere.
Clothes and other items were strewn around the room haphazardly and Juniper's Persian cat Barbara hung dangerously from the hangings on the four poster bed, hissing down at Benjamin angrily.
"He… He used his telekinesis to throw my luggage- and Barbara- all over the place!" Juniper muttered angrily as she cast various spells to tidy her room and repack the luggage, finishing by rescuing Barbara and putting her safely on the floor where she promptly sped out of the room, still hissing angrily.
"It was an accident!" Benjamin wailed, grey eyes filling with tears.
"What were you doing in Juniper's room anyway, Ben?" Helia raised a suspicious eyebrow.
"Look. If I don't leave now, I'll be late for my first day of Senior year and I simply can't have that! Can someone please take me to school?" Juniper stood outside the doorway, trying to coax Barbara back into her cat carrier.
"I'll do it…" Flora sighed, transforming into her Believix and summoning her Zoomix wings.
"So, how do you like your tour of Magix so far, little sis? You think you'll get used to living here instead of Melody?" A black-haired, dark blue-eyed young man swept his arm around at the various buildings as he put an arm around his maroon-haired, dark blue-eyed sister's shoulder.
"Magix looks pretty cool, but I'll always miss home. I do think I'd have a lot of fun here though!"The girl cheered.
"Yes you will, but remember that school should always come first, Neima!"
"Of course, Jaden. School will always come first since I do want to become a great fairy just like our mom someday, after all…" Neima smiled.
"Good. Please try not to stir up any trouble and piss people off this year. People generally don't like that." Jaden narrowed his eyes at his younger sister.
"Hey, I can't help it if people don't want to hear the truth!" Neima held up her hands in a gesture of surrender.
"Right…" Jaden eyed her suspiciously.
"I still plan on having the biggest blog at that school and the Realm Wide Realm though!"
"Just as long as you don't get sued for libel and drag me into your mess…" Jaden remarked wryly.
"I promise that much at least. Trying not to drag you into my 'mess' indeed…"
"Now shouldn't you be back at Red Fountain with Lewis, Adrian and Crown Prince Arthur of Solaria?" Neima chuckled.
"Don't remind me." Jaden said darkly. "Lewis jokes about being the Crown Prince of Domino sometimes, but Arthur rubs it in your face any change he gets… And not only do I have to put up with him there for another year, but dad's there too…"
"At least Princess Eleanor is in Magix this year at Cloud Tower. I heard that Princess Stella had almost as big a fit about that as Queen Bloom did with Princess Joanna!" Neima exclaimed.
Jaden chuckled. "Should make things pretty interesting this year, her keeping him in line …" He checked his watch.
"We really should separate now… Unless you want to be late your first day and face Griselda's legendary wrath…"
Neima's eyes widened. "Oh hell no! I'm gonna have to go get the bus right now! Bye, big bro!" She ran for the bus stop faster than Jaden had ever seen her move.
"Ican'twaitIcan'twaitIcan'twait! Alfea is gonna be so much fun…"
A petite, auburn-and-dark-brown-haired girl's shoulder-length wavy hair went up and down as the person the hair was attached to darted around the large living room.
"Allegra, calm down or you'll bump into some- OUCH!" Timmy cringed as he watched his youngest child and only daughter slam rather painfully into a marble column.
"I'm okay!" Allegra called from the floor.
"Allegra, are you all packed? Adrian's ready so we'll be leaving soon!" Mirta's image appeared above a silver device on the coffee table.
She blinked upon seeing her daughter sprawled out on the black-carpeted floor.
"Allegra, did you have too much sugar already this morning?" Mirta raised an eyebrow.
"Nope! Just running on natural exuberance!" Allegra jumped up from the floor and brushed herself off.
"Try not bruising that brain of yours. You'll need it for Alfea. It's not all fun and games, you know…" Timmy walked over and began fussing over her.
"Daddy, daddy, I'm okay! I'm okay! I will be okay." She inched away from his grasp and smiled, her honey-brown eyes practically shining with excitement.
"I can't believe this. My baby girl is going away to college!" Timmy smiled a watery smile.
"To think that many years ago, we were telling your brothers who were very young themselves that they were finally going to get a baby sister…" Mirta walked over to Timmy and grasped his hand tightly.
"And now that baby sister is off to Alfea…" A young man that looked like a younger version of Timmy except with short, curly hair, blue eyes, no glasses and slightly more muscle leaned in the doorway.
"Hey big bro A!" Allegra grinned.
"Hey little sis A!" He grinned back.
"Keep an eye on her where Mirta can't, will you please, Adrian?" Timmy asked as he checked his watch.
"I've got a meeting with some other execs over in the next city. I'll call you all later. Have a good day!" Timmy gave Mirta a quick kiss and bustled off to get ready.
"Let's get this show on the road, people! And Allegra, honey, don't think you're getting off any easier just because I'm a teacher at your school…" Mirta said as she snapped her fingers and the large front doors opened to reveal an even larger courtyard.
"DRAT!"
"Joanna, please behave this year..."
"No promises."
"Try to get along with other people..."
"No promises."
"Please act like a proper princess should..."
"Not happening..."
"At least let me fix your hair. It looks horrid!"
"Do not touch my hair."
The teenage female arguing with her mother refused to budge.
Spiky blonde hair barely hid her light blue eyes as she stared at the red-headed woman in front of her.
It was not shaping up to be a good day for Queen Bloom of Eraklyon.
Her youngest child and only daughter Princess Joanna was now entering her second year of studies at Cloud Tower was the first reason for her bad day.
The second?
She was apparently an excellent student witch and showed no desire to even learn a small amount of fairy magic.
The third?
She wouldn't even let her own mother fix that wild hair of hers…
"Mother, I'm going back to Cloud Tower and nothing you say or do is going to stop me! Besides, why would I want to go to school in such a prissy looking castle anyway?" Joanna scoffed.
"I went there and I had a wonderful time!" Bloom frowned at her daughter who was being a general pain in the neck- as she usually was.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah. If you call being attacked by villains every single year a wonderful time, I don't want to know what your concept of a bad time is. Now can I please get to school? I promised Eleanor that I'd show her around and I want to find out if my room re-assignment request was approved so I can know whose hair to set fire to this year!" Joanna held up a hand and flicked her fingers, forming a fire ball.
"Joanna, you can't just go around setting people's hair- or other parts of their bodies- on fire just because you can't get along with them!" Bloom exclaimed exasperatedly.
"Technically she can, mom. It's more that she shouldn't…" One of the pair of red-headed, young twin men that walked in corrected.
"Besides, Hectate kind of did deserve to have her hair burnt off by the Shadowfire…" The other said.
"Thank you for defending me, my dear brothers…" Joanna walked over to them.
"We've got about two hours before we have to be in Magix, so…" One twin said to her.
"And about the same for me to get to Oskuria…" The other checked his watch.
"Well, I'm off to Cloud Tower again, dear Mother. Bye-bye!" Joanna smirked as she and her older brothers disappeared.
Bloom sunk into a plush chair nearby just as her husband King Sky entered the room.
"She gave you a hard time again, didn't she?" He asked as he sat next to her.
Bloom rubbed her forehead. "It's too damn early in the morning for this…"
The platinum-blonde girl with hot pink streaks in her hair flicked the fringe out of her emerald green eyes as she stood outside the winged gates of Alfea.
"Eh… I liked the Institute of Magic better…" She thought as she strode forward.
"Name?"
"And this is the infamous Griselda that I've heard so much about from some of the past exchange girls…" She thought again.
"Zara of Earth." The girl answered.
"Zara of Earth... Ah, here you are! On a year-long exchange trip from the Institute of Magic… You'll be expected to maintain your high standards while here, young lady…" Griselda checked her off the list.
"I would expect or do nothing less than excellence while here, of course." Zara answered before walking off.
As she walked, she glanced around at the other fairies there, taking in the differences between here and the fairy school on Earth.
"This realm is definitely crazier looking than at home…" She glanced the bright lime green hair that was pulled up into a beehive on another fairy's head.
"Now I know why mum and dad never batted an eye when I told them I wanted to add hot pink streaks to my hair…" Zara lifted a few pink strands and glanced at them for a moment.
And was blindsided by a rampaging fairy that had apparently had too much sugar in her tea this morning…
"What the bloody hell was that?!" She exclaimed.
"OhI'msosorryIbumpedintoyoulikethatIseemtobebumping intoalotofthingsthismorning… Are you okay?"
Zara groaned and sat up. "Perhaps when I get hold of some Aspirin…" She pinched the bridge of her nose and allowed the apparently hyper fairy to help her up.
"I'm really, really sorry about that! It's just that I'm so excited to be starting my first day at Alfea! You look a little older than me. Did you go to school here last year?" The… short girl with now very messy auburn and dark brown wavy hair asked.
"Actually, no. I went to the Institute of Magic last year. I'm on exchange this year..."
"Oh, so you're an Earthie then! Love your accent, by the way. It just sounds so… refined sounding. I'm Allegra, from Planet Electro- my dad's planet, though my mom is from Psyche and I'm an Illusions fairy. Who are you?" Allegra asked.
"My name is Zara, I am indeed from Earth- England if you really want to get specific- and I'm a Gemstone fairy…" Zara replied.
As they walked and talked, Zara quickly came to the conclusion that Allegra seemed nice enough, if not hyperactive and a bit on the crazy side.
She just hoped she wouldn't have to share a dorm with her.
"Oh look! We're in a room together! Isn't that great?" Allegra cheered.
Well, damn it all.
There went her hopes for a peaceful school year...
They entered the room and found a black-haired, green eyed girl sitting in a chair reading a book with a fuzzy white cat on her lap (Zara hated cats) and a maroon-haired, blue-eyed girl looking through pictures on a camera and muttering something about a blog.
The black-haired girl looked up. "Hey Allegra! I was waiting for you to come back. Welcome to Alfea! I'm a Senior so I won't be rooming with you, but I'll be stopping by to visit sometimes and make sure you're okay!"
"Cool! This year is going to be great, I can tell!" Allegra exclaimed. "Oh, hey Barbara!" She bent down to pet the cat that had jumped down from Juniper's lap and sauntered over to her.
"This Juniper girl named her cat Barbara?" Zara raised an eyebrow in thought.
The maroon-haired girl put her camera in a gorgeous black handbag with navy blue handles that Zara would have loved to own.
"Hey, I'm Neima of Melody! You're Zara, aren't you?" The girl walked over and offered her hand for a handshake which Zara accepted.
"Yes, I am. I guess I'm to be sharing this apartment with you and Allegra then?"
"Yeah. Now I know I like gossip and excitement, but those two when they are together might one day create an explosion worthy of Princess Stella…" Neima chuckled as they walked into Zara's room (she was the owner of the single suite in this apartment).
Zara sat up straight on the bare queen-sized bed she had thrown herself onto as soon as she got inside.
"Do you by any chance… actually know her?" She asked.
"We've met. My mom Musa is part of the Winx Club as well as Juniper's mom, Flora. Princess Stella's daughter is at Cloud Tower as well as Queen Bloom's daughter. And Allegra's mother is good friends with Juniper's mom…" Neima answered.
"Let's just hope that you don't attract as much trouble as your moms did. I'd like to have a rather peaceful year here, thank you very much!" Zara exclaimed as she used her magic to unshrink her now unpocketed luggage and retrieved her bed sheets.
"I want some excitement, but not as much as mom ha-" Neima was cut off by the sounds of small explosions in their living room.
"Joy…" Zara thought, grumbling as she and Neima went to investigate the noises.
This year was going to be… interesting if just having Allegra as a roommate was any indication…