Is there life after love?
This is a story based on the Winx club tv-series which I still don't own and all characters are still the property of Iginio Straffi and Rainbow S.R.I.
This is a sequel to "expect the unexpected" in which I tell the story of what happened between the final battle on Sparkx and what happened after. Those who read "expect the unexpected" can already guess what will happen in the first few chapters but at a certain point I will go on telling what happened after the end of the story.
The day after the fight.
Sparkx Royal Palace.
The Winx girls were now standing in the summoning chamber for the last time. Bloom was looking at an ancient text on the door which she wondered what it said.
"Hey Stormy, can you read this?" She asked the storm witch.
"Let's see. It seems to be some ancient Sparkx' dialect which I have to look up first but I 'll write it down and translate it when I have some time to do it. It could be a warning of some kind." Stormy answered while she conjured up a notebook and a pen. She started to make notes and once she had everything noted down she put it al in her purse. Bloom then asked everyone to leave the room as she went out herself. Everyone followed her and once they were outside Bloom closed the doors and magically locked the doors and gave each of the girls a part of the key.
"If one day the Great Dragon will be needed again it is upon us or our descendants to call upon him. Give the part of the key to the child that is the most capable of calling the dragon. Our children should be fairy, witch or in between. You are all responsible for your part of the key. Only if all the pieces are together the door can be opened. Stormy your descendants should be taught the summoning spell since your family line will remain the line of the summoners, like your forefathers before you. The rest of our descendants will inherit our places within the summoning circle." Bloom told them as she put her piece in her purse. They all took their piece and put it away somewhere safe. Now they decided to go home where everybody was waiting for them. The school year was over now and they all wanted to go home and see their relatives. Icy would join Bloom on her way home to pick up Dawn and bring her home to her grandparents.
Gardenia, Bloom's residence.
When Bloom came home she found her mother at the kitchen table looking at a plant.
"Hello mum, I 'm home. Is Dawn ready to go home with Icy?" Bloom asked
"Yes she is." Vanessa answered absent minded.
"What is it mum?" Bloom wondered why her mother was so out of it.
"Well this plant was supposed to be dead but when I used the words of that spell you used on your own plant it revived." Vanessa said.
"You mean that you were able to perform magic. Mum this is not possible." Bloom reminded her mother.
"I know. I 've never been able to perform any kind of magic. My fairy mother even couldn't raise me in Magix so why am I all of a sudden able to perform magic?" Vanessa wondered.
"Maybe something happened that enabled you to become a magical being too like Bloom and I are." Icy suggested as she picked up Dawn who had been watching Vanessa too since she healed the plant. Suddenly a shape materialised in the living room. Bloom turned around switching into battle dress but when she saw it was Ms Faragonda she switched back.
"Still a little jumpy aren't we?" Ms Faragonda greeted as she saw her students about to kick the hell out of her "Well I actually came down here to see what your mother was telling me. I couldn't believe what she was telling me."
"Neither can I but the evidence is there on the table." Vanessa said as she looked at the plant again. Ms Faragonda walked over to the table studied the plant and had to admit it looked quite well to be a dead plant.
"Bloom could you look around for another dead or dying plant?" Faragonda asked.
"Sure but it might take a while since all the plants here at home are well taken care off so I 'll have to go around the neighbourhood." Bloom said as she was getting ready to take off.
"I 'll go with you, a girl in your condition should be taking it easy for the moment." Icy offered while she put Dawn on the floor. Bloom accepted her offer on which Icy told Dawn she could come with them if she was going to be a good girl. Dawn nodded and then the three of them went out to look for a plant that was nearly gone. After they came out of the street they found a dead plant at the home of an older woman who was upset about the fact it was gone.
"Ms, today is your lucky day." Bloom started to talk to the woman "My mother who is the owner of the local flower shop has sent me out to find someone who is supposed to be good with plants but has a dead plant because of age. We will replace the plant for free. It is a one time offer for good customers."
"Actually this is the plant of my daughter but she never had a green thumb." The woman said "Ever since she was a kid I 've been trying to teach her how to take good care of a plant but she always messes up. This was a very expensive plant. You don't have to return with exactly the same plant you know."
"Well I don't know what mum had in mind but I 'll return with the replacing plant within an hour." Bloom said as she took the pot in which the plant was supposed to be growing. She returned home with it and put it on the table in front of her mother.
"Well now Vanessa, do exactly what you did to that plant." Faragonda told her and Vanessa looked around at the teenagers and the little girl before she got to it.
"Vegetaris revivere." she said and the plant started to revive making everyone look at her.
"Mum I felt the magic coming from you. It is very low and unfocused but there is definitely magic in you." Bloom told her mother.
"Yes indeed there is," Faragonda said as she walked up to her and embraced her "I can't believe that you are suddenly able to perform magic but it is good to know you can now."
Mike came in with a confused face making everybody look at him.
"What is it Mike?" Vanessa asked her husband.
"I don't know but today we had to put out a fire in the residential area where a woman was locked in by the fire. I decided to go in together with Steven but when we got in it seemed like there was a magic bubble around us like Bloom once formed while we were trying to control the fire at Vanessa's previous shop. Steven was a bit surprised that the fire didn't touch us. At the time he didn't ask to many questions since we had to get the woman out first. As soon as we reached the room she was locked in the fire around it went aside for us. We got the woman out of the house and then Steven asked me what happened in there. I told him that I didn't know. Bloom did you have something to do with it?" Mike told his story.
"No not at all. Honest" Bloom answered his question.
"This means you have magic powers too somehow. I wonder how this is possible?" Faragonda questioned the events. Icy told everyone that she 'd love to stay and find out what was going on but she had very impatient parents waiting in Aracklion for her and Dawn. Bloom first lifted the binding spell she had put on Dawn. Mother and daughter left the place in a flash leaving a very puzzled family behind.
"It 's almost like a wish come true." Bloom started the conversation again. "I 've wanted since I started at Alfea that my parents were magical beings too so they could visit me from time to time. Now they can come and live with me in Sparkx if they wish to."
"So we aren't going to get rid of you one day." Mike teased her.
"No, you don't. I will always be your little girl." Bloom replied.
"A little girl who will soon have her own little girl" Vanessa changed the subject " How are you feeling now?"
"I 'm fine mum, aside from morning sickness I feel fine." Bloom assured her mother.
"Of all the students you were the one I least expected from to get pregnant." Ms Faragonda said "If there was one girl at Alfea I expected to get pregnant before she ended school it could have been Stella. She has always had these impulsive ideas. Well in the end it is always those you least expect to be the ones to do just that what you expect from others."
"Well sorry that I couldn't wait to have sex with someone until I was married." Bloom said as she blushed.
"I didn't want to become a grandfather at forty." Mike stated as he hugged Bloom "but now that it is going to happen I won't be angry about it. Maybe this baby will make you feel better about the things that have happened between you and Sky. I still can't believe that he is going to get married to Darcy just to prevent war between the realms of Aracklion and Solaria. I hope things will work out between them."
"How did Sky react to the news that you were pregnant of his child?" Vanessa asked.
"Well he wasn't to happy about it but his second child will not be first or even second in line for the throne of Aracklion since she will be first in line to inherit the throne of Sparkx." Bloom answered.
"You 're pretty sure your baby is going to be a girl but what if it isn't?" Mike asked Bloom.
"It 's going to be a girl. Fairies have some kind of sense about the gender of their babies even if the baby is still a foetus. It 's the same for witches." Faragonda said as she looked at Bloom.
"I still can't believe my little girl is having a baby soon." Vanessa said as she hugged Bloom "I also wondered why you never had children when I was young, mother?"
"Well," Faragonda started "My husband never wanted children after all and I ended up with only you. It was not as if he had to be there for you or any other child we could have but he just didn't want any offspring. I never understood why. In the end I stopped caring about it when I found out he had been cheating on me. A year later he died in a fight over a woman."
"I'm sorry that it didn't work out between you and your husband." Vanessa apologised.
"Don't be, if it weren't for you I wouldn't know what kind of a husband he actually was." Faragonda said.
"Honey, what do you want to eat?" Vanessa asked Mike who's stomach was making noises for quite some time now.
"What do you want to eat Bloom?" Mike asked
"Wrong person to ask right now because I have all kinds of crazy cravings lately." Bloom answered.
"Oh, there I was thinking you would loose your appetite over food." Mike said
"If you mean like throwing up, sorry dad that only happens in the morning." Bloom informed her father as he hugged her.
"What about something Greek for a change." Vanessa suggested.
"Sounds good." Mike said
"Just as long I can eat something. The baby is hungry too." Bloom said as she took a slice of bread out of the cupboard.
"You have to eat for two now, are you going to stay for dinner mother?" Vanessa asked
"Off course, I want to spend some time with you now." Faragonda accepted the invitation.
Mike went out to get the food while the women were setting the table.