So I've been re watching winx club lmao. It was my favorite show as a child and I've been itching to write something that has a little more substance to it than the actual show itself. I'm now an adult, and as a kid I loved Musa and Riven, specifically the dynamic the two of them had together, but it was clearly a very toxic relationship. So I thought I would re write it for my own validation starting from the beginning.

I'm going to do my best to make sure these characters stay as believable as possible, but I plan to kick it up a notch and put some more violence and adult themes into the mix. Which I think can be a bit difficult with how benign the actual show was. But honestly, if these were real teenagers fighting a magical war things would be a lot more intense.

For context I've only watched the 4kids version, and only up till season 4. In these one shots I don't plan to go past season 3 probably, and if I do it'll have nothing to do with any of the plots from the other seasons of winx. I frankly don't really like the new transformations, and feel like they really sucked all of the personality out of the girls as the seasons went on.

This is completely unbeta'd, I'm really just writing these one shots super casually, and I'm only using myself to re-read and check for grammar and spelling so apologies if there are any errors.


Musa woke to a yell and a crash.

The sound of ceramic breaking as it hit the tile of the living room floor was quickly drowned out by Flora shouting as politely as she could at her other roommate Stella. Leave it to Flo to find a way to make scolding someone sound considerate, but if Musa had to guess, Stella had knocked over another one of Flora's plants that were haphazardly scattered all over the counters onto the floor of their shared living space.

"Well excuse me, but I didn't choose to inherit my mother's birthing hips. I don't always have control over where these babies swing Flora!"

Musa heard a snort echo from the other side of her room, and assumed Tecna had also been woken up by the squabble happening outside their door.

"You know, you'd assume those two would be able to get along better seeing as their powers really compliment the other," Tecna, always the analyzer in any situation.

"Yeah, well, one of them loves dirt and the other loves shoes, you do the math."

Tecna laughed lightly and nodded in agreement while she swung her legs over the side of her bed, slipping on her house shoes. Guess it was time to wake up with the rest of the world after all. Musa had hoped to get at least a little more sleep before potions class.

The five of them had been living together for 3 months now, and for the most part it had been great. Better than Musa expected, honestly. They were slowing becoming her best friends. She had been prepared to hate her roommates, knowing that even though princesses with a lot of money and privilege were all great and good, they were not her type of people. She wasn't a princess, or of any type of royalty, and had just been a commoner born with a high amount of magical energy. She assumed her mother's side had had a few fairies scattered throughout it, though, but had never been able to get any solid info about that out of her still grieving father.

So when she started to show signs of great potential, and her wings had painfully come through about a year ago, her dad had decided he was going to send her away to Alfea. Half because she should do something amazing with her power, he had proclaimed to her on the same day he'd also broken the news she'd be going to fairy boarding school. And the other half, Musa knew, was because it hurt her dad immensely to know that her powers were centered around music and sound. A cruel joke for him, an amazing gift to her.

When she had found out about her powers, she all but peed herself. Not only was it amazing to be able to pull a hiphop beat out of thin air, or break someone's eardrums with just the flick of her wrist if she was ever messed with, but she was now even more connected to her mother, and that thought always made her break out into a toothy grin.

Musa rose from her bed slowly, and grabbed some clothes from the floor as she made her way to her shared bathroom with Tecna to change and shower. Today was going to be a long one. On top of potions this morning, she had a presentation in Magical History of the World, and later in her Intro to fighting For Fairies, the freshman were having their first real battle. It would be in a controlled space of course, but it was still a bit intimidating. She at least had all of her roommates in that class, it was the only class they all shared, and she prayed they'd all be put on the same battle team.

Musa couldn't help but want to prove herself. She sometimes felt like the odd one out being just some girl who struck luck and got to be magically gifted. Most of the girls here had been told from birth they would amount to something great, it was in their blood. It was in their bones. Healer or Godmother or Soldier, it didn't matter. They were destined for an abundant life with wealth and power. If Musa didn't play her cards right, she'd just end up playing music at lame bars across Magix for the rest of her life. Alfea was a great opportunity, and she wasn't going to waste it.

At least she wasn't completely alone, Tecna was in the same boat she was. A non royal girl who just happened to be of a higher magical status than others. It's why Tecna was her favorite, they had bonded over that commonality very quickly after first meeting. Flora was also technically not a princess, but she was still part of the higher royal court on her home planet.

Musa could here some of the girls getting ready for their respective classes. Tecna had already left to go study at the library. They both shared the same history class, but Tecna seemed to care a lot more about acing there exam about the attack on Blair by the Trolls than Musa did.

As she stepped out of the shower, she inhaled deeply. The whole bathroom smelled of eucalyptus and lavender, her favorite. She pulled her short hair into her signature pigtails, still wet. Musa could only imagine what Stella would say to the fact that she was letting her hair air dry in this type of hairdo. It's not proper!

Her piercings were next. She had both ears pierced three times, two on the lower lobe and then both her industrials. She had also gotten her nose pierced a month ago, now free of her dads rules and regulations. Stella had almost fainted when she saw it, and had rudely commented on how she thought she looked like she was one hole away from a street hooker.

After that remark her and Stella had really gotten into it, screaming their bloody heads off at one another. Musa would have most likely blown up their dorm if it hadn't been for the other three girls physically holding her back from using her magic at the blonde. Even though she was the smallest out of the group, reaching a whopping five feet when standing vertical, she could really pack a punch if given the opportunity. Stella had squeaked and flown away into her unshared room, slamming and locking the door. Musa had calmed down eventually. Everyone else had seemed to think the piercing looked good on her though.

She quickly pulled up her favorite jeans as she was running a little late, light blue and mom style with just the perfect amount of rips with the studded buckle she always wore still wrung through the belt loops. Her red band T-shirt of choice today had been thrifted, and so had the dark purple converse she was slipping on as she ran out of the dorm, her spell books tucked neatly under her armpit. She might not have had the riches for designer clothes like some of the other girls here, but she still tried to express her own individuality nevertheless.

She closed the door to her dorm and let out a sigh. She knew today was going to be a bit wild, and she was as prepared as she could ever be.


Riven walked down the halls of Red fountain with a quick step. It was late afternoon, and he had just gotten done with his class on Weaponry and Tactics, and he was ready to crash. His mood was mild today, but he knew one wrong comment from a classmate or teacher would set him right off. Nothing was more annoying than a nagging freshman, or know it all professor.

As he opened up the door to his dorm, which was shared by his other three roommates. (Sky would correct him and say, "We've lived together for a year now dude, can't we be elevated to friend status at least?" Riven would just tell him to shove it.) He noticed Brandon was pacing on his phone, talking in frantic bursts.

"Yeah I know sweetie, Stella li-," Brandon paused and held the phone out so the shrikes of his panicked girlfriend wouldn't leave him deaf.

He put the device back to his ear when he heard the sound falter a bit, "Were coming! We just need a little time. This mission has already been approved by Codatorta, so you girls just need to hold off the beasts as long as possible."

Brandon clicked his phone shut, and turned to Riven.

Riven raised a brow, "The hell was that about? Blondie break a nail or something?"

Brandon crossed his arms, looking perturbed, "Play nice, Riven. Apparently Stella and Bloom and a few other fairies had their intro fighting class today and a contained scheduled battle with some ogres was their assignment. Stella said things have gotten out of hand though, and now they need backup."

"And let me guess, we're the backup?"

"Don't ever let anyone tell you you're not quick, " Brandon teased as he threw Rivens uniform at him. He then grabbed his own with haste, "Now get changed, Timmy and Sky already have the ship heating up."

Riven flopped onto the couch, letting his uniform fall to the ground, "Pass."

Brandon halted his movements, "Riven, there is no 'pass', this is now a sanctioned mission, not just an excuse to go rescue some pretty girls."

Riven groaned. He knew something was gonna find its way to shit on his mood, and this was that.

"Yeah, because even in my free time I wanna go rescue some helpless pixies. What-fucking-ever, this better not take the whole afternoon or i'll be pissed."

Brandon gave him a weary smile and a thumbs up, uniform clad and ready. Riven had half a mind to break that thumb, but knew that would just be cruel. As they walked out of their dorm, Riven made sure to slam the door extra hard just to get across how peeved he was.

"God you're melodramatic."

"One more word and i'll make sure you end up with your insides on the outside."

Brandon put his hands up in defeat, "Okay okay, I concede."

Under his breath, however, Brandon couldn't help but whisper, "You just proved my point further though."

The bruise Brandon would be nursing on his arm was gonna be a doozy, but it had been worth it for the last word.

As they flew to Alfea, Brandon had gotten another call from Stella, shrikes still prominate. Apparently the monsters had backed them into the magical forest, and the girls were slowly running out of winx. They were only freshmen after all, and between all of them they had little to no battle experience. Riven just rolled his eyes.

"Did she give you an exact location? The magical forest is very vast, it covers a lot of Magix." Timmy was the one flying the ship, even though Riven had insisted he should be since they needed to get somewhere quick.

Brandon nodded, "Yeah she sent it to me via text, i'll tap it into the monitor."

The fairies were apparently fifteen miles from the Alfea grounds, and Riven was dumbfounded as to how the hell they had been pushed that far from the school. That was just basic battle strategy, never let your opponent get you into their home turf.

Timmy sighed, "They're far from the school, but we will be there any minute. Let Stella know help is on the way!"

Brandon nodded, "Will do Timmy."

A few minutes passed, and then Sky spotted something on the screen, and paled, "There! I see a bunch of heat signatures. Six fairies and what looks to be four large creatures, bipedal."

"That's for sure them, Stella had told me it was six freshman and some nasty ogres. Let's find a open space for landing, and quick."

As they descended, Riven noticed that the ogres the fairies were fighting were at least twelve feet tall, if not taller, and carrying various malignant weapons. At least they didn't have any long range magic, but that didn't mean they were any less deadly. Those fairies were definitely in over their wings.

As the ship touched the ground, the boys grabbed their weapons and exited off the ships doc. They were a little far from the girls, but that gave them enough time to think of a strategy as they made their way towards them. Four ogres was a lot, but they could handle it. As long as those fairies could get their act together and fight alongside them.

Riven heard Stella yell, "Brandon! Boys! Oh thank God!" and watched as she stayed in her fighting stance, sending sun blasts at the beasts. Even though Riven could see her fighting all of her urges to fly towards her boyfriend and feel him up. Stella may be vapid, but she was still a warrior.

Riven noticed that two out of the six fairies were lying motionless in the clearing, a few feet away from the raging battle. For the schools sake, Riven hoped they were still breathing. That would be one hell of a lawsuit on Alfea's end if either of those pixies were dead. The other four were still putting up a decent fight. The two Riven didn't know were clad in pink and purple, and looked to be just as bruised and bloodied as Stella and Bloom were.

Brandon and Sky had maneuvered two of the four ogres away from their counterparts, a clear tactic to break up the power imbalance. Timmy was a little farther away, sending blasts from his laser gun at one of the other creatures, working with the two unknown fairies, and aiming for the known weak spots.

Riven was about to jump in, sword glowing and adrenaline pumping through his body when he heard a crack like a aircraft breaking the sound barrier echo on his right. The hell? He felt a monstrous gust of wind blow past him, kicking up grass and dirt and also his hero's cape. He saw a flash of red rush past, and if he had been any less of a warrior, the blast would definitely have sent him falling down onto his ass.

That flash of red had been a fairy, and when Riven refocused, he noticed she wasn't planning to stop as she sped forward towards the fight. She was going fast, faster than any fairy he'd ever seen fly before. He didn't even realize pixies could catch speeds like that. She was rivaling some of the most aerodynamic aircrafts that red fountain had to offer.

Riven noted Stella and Bloom shouting a quick, "Musa!" before the girl barreled right into one of the ogres, purple glowing fist connecting to blue flaky skin. A nauseating crack echoed off the trees of the forest, and the beast went soaring into the tree-line, clearing a sizable opening.

Riven couldn't detect if that sound of breaking bone had been that of the ogres face or the red fairies hand, but he smirked nonetheless. Things were getting interesting now.

The fairy, Musa, he presumed, turned to Stella and Bloom, "Hey girls, sorry i'm late! But I got flo's SOS message and echo-located you as quick as I could. We were able to deal with our ogre pretty quickly, but it looks like yall's called in some ugly company."

Riven was nothing if not quick, and he put together that this fairies power must've had something to do with sound. It was clear from the displays he had seen and the comment about echolocation.

Bloom perked, "Were just glad you came when you did. That was great Musa! You saved our butts."

Before Riven could scoff, he noticed the ogre that Timmy and the other two fairies had been keeping occupied was now heading towards the three other girls, and was right in their blind spot. Riven knew he wasn't going to make it to them in time, and he watched feebly as the ogre swung its metal club at the three of them. The tip of it had brushed both Stella and Bloom, sending them skittering across the grass, but with minimal damage. The red fairy however, was hit with the full force, and was sent flying in Riven's general direction.

He braced himself, knowing he could catch her if he stayed in the spot he was in, and planted his feet accordingly to account for her impact. When she hit his chest, he curled both his arms around her and swung her to his side, using the shock of the impact to his advantage to cause as little damage to both him and her as possible.

After a few moments of her just hanging limp in his arms, he heard a strained, wet cough and saw blood splatter onto the grass below where her head hung.

"Fucking..christ that hurt."

Riven could only bet. She squirmed, and he took that as her wanting to be put upright, and he did so with ease. This girl couldn't have weighed more that a hundred pounds, and when she stood fully he took note of the fact that she only came up to about mid chest on him. She swayed, and he put both his hands onto her shoulders to steady her. Riven noted Stella and Bloom were now back to fighting the ogre that had punted their little friend like a baseball.

He looked down at her and took her in. First he noticed the blood covering both her mouth and left hand. Then he noticed her stupid hairdo. Two short pigtails sat high atop her head, with a set of bangs covering her forehead. black strands of hair were going every which way, wild and untamed. A bunch of piercings, and she was of asian decent. And her winx outfit was definitely different, if not unorthodox.

A red leather skirt and tube top, with a light purple sheer long undershirt instead of the usual sparkling spandex. Metal spikes adorned the bottom of the skirt and the choker that was around her neck. She wore a pair of white hightop Nikes, which were incredibly dirty, and fishnets covered her pale her legs. A set of purple headphones was slung around her neck and he could faintly hear some random rap music being played from them. Her wings were light purple, and the only real sparkly thing about her whole getup*.

Riven wasn't going to lie and say he didn't think she was a little cute. What could he say, he liked the punk look, sue him. But girls were a hassle nevertheless. Especially ones that could one punch an ogre six times her size.

She brought a hand up to her face, and smeared away some of the blood that was trickling from her mouth, "Uh, thanks I guess, for catching me I mean."

Riven crossed his arms, defensive as ever, "Yeah, sure, it's my job. But maybe next time pay closer attention to your surroundings. Your gonna get yourself or someone else killed being that absent minded."

Riven hadn't meant to sound so arrogant, but coddling new fairies wasn't on his list of specialist skills.

She glared at him, quickly going from disoriented to down right pissed, "Okay, first of all who even are you? second of all dude, the last thing I need is a cocky son of a-"

Riven heard a, "Look out!" and saw that a bolder was heading their way, thrown by that same ogre that had sent her flying just seconds ago. Even if Riven wanted to stand hear and listen to this pixie throw insults at him, he'd rather live through this fight to see another day. He pushed her off to one side, and used that momentum to send himself flying in the opposite direction. The bolder missed them both, rolling into the forest and leaving both of them disoriented but unscathed.

Riven watched as the red fairy slowly picked herself up from the ground, her wings expanding like a butterflies, "That's it! I'm done playing this stupid fucking game!"

Riven didn't really know what that meant, but he surveyed and she flew back into the fight, rage covering her face along with dried blood.

"Tecna, Flora, i'm gonna use my super sonic to rock the ground, once I do can you capture these three in a deep web vine cage combo?"

Both girls nodded at her, and Riven watched as the girl got onto her knees and raised both of her small fists over her head. They started to glow purple, and the air around them started to vibrate erratically. Riven had definitely been right about her power source, and watched as she brought both her fists down onto the ground. The dirt around the ogres started to shake and break, causing their large bodies to sink down into the earth. The sound waves made the ground unwalkable, but the fairies were able to stay in the air perfectly upright, giving them an advantage.

The specialists, however, were all brought to the ground along with the ogres, but were able to stay above due to not being as large at their opponent.

The enemy had been caught off guard, and were unable to fight on such unstable terrain. The fairies had gained the upper hand. The pink fairy, Flora, (Riven was slowly piecing together names), brought up a hand and blew some sort of spore at the creatures. That seemed to make them become groggy, and fall asleep within seconds. Then both Flora and Tecna combined their magic and formed some sort of cage around the beasts. The fairies had contained them, and once Musa had lifted her powers the specialists were able to stand back up and run to go grab the ogre shackles from the ship.

"Timmy, can you phone into red fountain and tell them we need some manpower and the ogre cages?"

The specialists were now restraining all of the ogres, making sure to make the cuffs as tight as possible in case they decided to wake up from their magic induced slumber.

"Already did! Cordatorta should be here in a few minute with some ships and backup."

Leave it to Timmy to know what Riven was gonna ask before he even thought the question.

Bloom and Flora, seeing that the battle was over had made their way over to their unconscious classmates. They were clearly alive from the way they the two fairies were reacting to the bodies. Riven was sure if they had actually been dead there would have been a few more tears and screams. Flora waved a hand over the both of them and they jumped awake, clearly startled from being abruptly brought back to consciousness.

Stella had made her way to Brandon and was chattering his ear off, but Brandon was clearly okay with it from the light pink that dusted his cheeks and the way he leaned towards her as she talked. Riven would never understand Brandons attraction to the blonde. She was hot, sure, but too half-baked for his taste.

Tecna, concerned about her friend, flew over to Musa. She clearly wanted to check on her, since after she had brought down her powers she had fallen right onto her back, laying in the uneven earth and breathing heavily, not moving.

Tecna quipped, "Are you alright, Musa?"

Riven was close enough to hear the two girls exchange, and noted that Musa replied with a pained grunt, "Uh yeah, I think? My left hand is for sure broken. Also I think I broke a rib, or six, because it hurts like hell to breath." Riven heard her spit up another mouthful of blood, and wasn't that shocked at how unladylike this particular fairy held herself.

Clearly from her fighting style, this girl didn't give half a shit if her whole outfit was covered in blood and dirt by the time she was done with an enemy.

Tecna gasped, "Oh my, um, what would you like me to do? I can call the Nurse? Perhaps the headmistress?"

Musa chuckled, clearly amused by her friends concern, "Nah dude, can you just magick me to the infirmary? They can deal with me from there."

Tecna replied with a quick, "Oh yes of course," clearly forgetting she could do something like that. But before she magicked her away, she inquired, "Do you think that fourth ogre is still out there?"

Musa, even with her broken and pained body, laughed boisterously, "Dude, no way in hell! I know I smashed that bastards face in so bad he's never gonna get back up. Besides, even if he survived the actual skull break, I put a subsonic wave behind the punch, so his brain has literally gone from a solid state to a liquid one. Trust me, I wouldn't worry about him Tec."

Riven leaned his head around the body of the ogre he was currently cuffing and saw that Tecna had paled considerably, clearly not accustomed to that type of violence Musa had just described. With a silent nod of understanding and a shaking hand Tecna transported Musa to Alfea, and Riven watched as Musa's body was whisked away magically to the infirmary to be put back together.

Codatorta and a few other students had touched down about a minute ago, and all of the ogres were now restrained and caged and ready to be transported back to high security. The other fairies had started the fly back to Alfea, except for Bloom and Stella, who had stayed back to talk to Brandon and Sky. But they too had been shooed away eventually by Codatorta, saying they were distracting the boys from an important teaching moment.

Riven just snickered.

On the fly back to Red Fountain, Riven couldn't help his mind from drifting to that deceivingly brutal fairy. He had never seen a pixie fight like that before, with so much fist and vigor. She had put her whole body into that match, unlike most other fairies who were long range fighters due to their magic. And he knew most of them tried their best to stay as far away as they could from whoever they were fighting, caring a great deal about their outfits and hair.

She did the exact opposite, though, getting as up close as possible. Not to mention that punch, it had shook the whole forest. However, she seemed to not be able to escape the air-headed tendencies of her counterparts, and really needed to pay more attention to her surroundings. Maybe her ribs would still be intact if she had focused in instead of gossiping with her friends mid-fight.

Riven knew it was a risk of being teased relentlessly to ask about her, but he couldn't help himself, he wanted some information.

He slowly turned to Brandon, "So, who was that one red fairy? The one who punched the ogre?" He knew her name, he had gathered that much in the battle, but did not want Brandon to think he was paying more attention to the pixies then he let the specialists assume of him.

"Ohh, did you think she was cute? Riven I didn't take you for the fairy liking type. Thought they were a little too bubbly for your taste." If he could throw Brandon off this ship he would.

"Fuck off, asshole. I'm just curious, she had a good left hook."

Brandon turned to fully face him, a contemplative look framed his features, "Her name is Musa, she's one of Stellas roommates. Those other two are as well that you saw, Tecna and Flora, and Bloom, but you knew that already," Brandon paused, thinking of where to go next, "She's from the Harmonic Nebula, and she's just a commoner from what Stella explained. Apparently she's one of the fastest flying fairies to ever go to Alfea," Brandon paused as Riven snorted, a nonverbal 'no shit' released into the air, Riven had pieced that together no problem.

Brandon continued, "Her powers are tied in with music and sound, and she's also apparently brassy as hell from what Stellas told me. I guess they get into it quite a bit, her and Stella, and Stell has dramatically retold the stories of how Musa had almost blown her off their balcony with magic more than once." Brandon chuckled, clearly more amused by the stories than worried for his prissy girlfriend, "She's nice enough though, funny as hell the few times i've been around her outside of battle."

Riven quietly soaked in the information, intrigued. She sounded troublesome if he had to be honest, but he couldn't help but want to see what she was like around people outside of a battle.

"Oh! She can also play like, ten different instruments too which is pretty cool."

Riven hummed, but didn't say anything further. He really didn't want to give Brandon or the rest of the guys any ideas. He was barely going to live down just asking about her, so he definitely didn't want them to assume he had a thing for her. Which he didn't, but he did find her compelling. And he was a knowledge seeker, now knowing she was a roommate of Stella's, which meant that he'd be seeing more of her with Brandon being as whipped as he was and Sky playing all nice with that redhead.

Riven sighed, this was going to be a long year.


*So I'm also an illustration student currently studying in art school, so I've been drawing the girls as I've been re-watching the show as well as writing lol. you can find my stuff on my instagram bidiza_ or my tumblr bbidiza , and Musa was the first one I redesigned so go check it out! I remade both her winx transformation and her everyday casual look!