Welcome. I have recently reconnected with my love for this series and this is a story that originally took place just before the new series, but has now somewhat become an Alternative Series 5.

I do not own anything apart from the storyline and a few people and places.

Enjoy!

MikaylaRose x

1. Fight or Flight

Bloom looked attentively around the corner, her hand brushing the coarse nettles growing along the outside of the wall. The air was cool and she could feel the negative energy surging all around her, this was not the sort of place for the faint of heart. Luckily, she and her friends had faced terrifying monsters and powerful witches and wizards hundreds of times now so a little mission to the Arrada Dimension to attain a few dark sorcerers would be no issue, and besides Bloom had been getting restless back in the palace.

She loved being a princess, she really did and having her old kingdom restored to its once mighty power was something she had dreamed about ever since she discovered her true identity, but after the sort of life she had lived it was still difficult to adjust to the possibility that that was it; no more fighting, no more battles- it was finally over.

It was now time to marry her wonderful fiancée Sky and settle down, and that idea scared her much more than any monster or wizard ever could.

The grounds were completely empty so Bloom hurried around the corner, keeping close to the walls before ducking into a corridor off from the main entrance to the castle.

The Winx had developed a plan hours ago and now was the time to put it in place. First, surround the castle, with each member entering from different angles and meeting up in the middle to surround the sorcerers whilst they did their nightly chanting. They would then use their Believix powers to capture them before calling in the Specialists who would carry them off for trial. All in all, an easy mission.

Bloom walked along the deserted corridors looking at all the strange and obscure paintings on the walls as well as counting all the doors she passed, trying to remember the map Tecna had shown her. She finally reached the fifteenth door on the left and entered, it coming to another hallway with a large circular door at the end of it.

Behind the door was the circular chanting room, luckily for the Winx there were six doors to enter from so obviously there was one Winx behind each door, ready to barge in on the evil sorcerers.

She placed her hand on the cold door listening intently to the soft chanting in the room behind it before a small pink orb flew through the wall and hovered near her. It was from Flora, it was a new spell they had learnt from Tecna as a way to communicate. They had to send the orb to each of the others to signal they were ready. As soon as everyone got the ready signals, they could enter.

Bloom quickly transformed into her Believix before muttering, "Message-Morphas." She blew onto her hand causing five small blue orbs to appear before darting into the walls on either side of her. The only people who could see the orbs were the other Winx members, so that avoided anyone else interfering.

Eventually, Bloom received all five of the orbs- which disappeared as soon as they touched the person's hand and Bloom turned to the door before quickly blasting it open with a fire ball.

She flew into the room as the other five girls, all in their Believix also burst in, surrounding the three dark sorcerers who were on the ground in the middle of the circular room, all three wearing dark maroon cloaks and were holding hands.

They rocked back and forwards as they muttered something under their breaths.

"Hey you! Stop!" Bloom yelled, pointing at the sorcerers.

"We've got you surrounded cloak boys, so time to go walkies," Stella added.

All of the Winx were standing around the sorcerers, Bloom at the front entrance with Stella and Flora by her side and Musa and Tecna on their opposites with Layla across from Bloom.

"Yeah, walkies straight to trial !" Musa stated, fluttering her wings and hovering above the ground ready for a fight.

The sorcerers didn't respond and continuing chanting.

"HEY! Listen up! You can either come with us willingly, or we'll have to use force!" Bloom cried, getting quite annoyed at their lack of response.

With that, one of the sorcerers' eyes opened and the chanting stopped before the three sorcerers quickly stood and turned back to face the Winx, firing out a dark blue bolt of energy towards the fairies who all quickly flew away, the beams narrowly missing Musa, Tecna and Stella.

"Summer Thunder!" Flora yelled, casting a spell which caused large green vines to capture one of the sorcerers who struggled a little before breaking free and firing a red beam back at Flora which just missed her.

"Super Prism!" Tecna cast, throwing her hands out and sending small green waves towards the sorcerers, who put up a dark shield which bounced the spell back to Tecna.

"Convergence," Musa and Layla yelled, coming together and sending a pink and red bolt towards the sorcerers, who hadn't recovered from the shield in time to react and they were thrown across the room.

One of the sorcerers stood up and fired another red bolt back at them, knocking Musa to the ground with Layla flying down to help her.

"Fire fists!" Bloom yelled, sending a burst of orange energy beams towards the sorcerer and knocking him back.

"Bloom, Musa's really hurt!" Layla yelled, cradling her friend who was holding her arm in pain, she had fallen awkwardly and broken her arm.

One of the other sorcerers took Bloom's momentary distraction and quickly stood up sending a deadly red beam towards her.

"Bloom!" Stella yelled; spying her best friend unaware and flying over towards her as fast as her Believix wings could take her.

Bloom screamed as she watched the beam coming towards her, knowing she barley had enough time to duck let alone think of a spell, however Stella knocked her away just in time and she was pelted back against the rock hard wall, slumping down to the ground and lying lifelessly.

"Stella, NO!" Bloom shrieked, turning back to the sorcerers and yelling loudly, feeling the anger surging through her body before sending three strong beams of fire towards the sorcerers and sending them flying back against the back wall until they- like the golden haired Winx- were no longer moving.

Bloom turned back to her friend and bolted over to Stella, falling to the ground and leaning in close.

"Stella?" she asked, tears beginning to form in her eyes at the thought of losing her best friend. "Stella! Wake up!"

Flora came down beside Bloom and touched her shoulder, tears beginning to form in her eyes too and she felt Stella's arm before shaking her head- there was no pulse.

"I've messaged the guys," Tecna said, walking over to them with her Digi Device in her hand. "They've got medical equipment on hand to help her."

"I think she's beyond help Tecna," Flora stuttered, un-able to hold in her tears.

Musa and Layla quickly came over too, coming down beside Bloom and Flora.

"She's can't be dead, she just can't be!" Musa whelped, hoping for a miracle.

"No, no this isn't happening," Bloom cried, touching Stella's arm. "Stell, please WAKE UP! STELLA!"

"I'm sorry sweetie, s-sh-she's gone," Flora said, choking back tears as she gripped Bloom's arm.

Bloom went to move her hand away, but she noticed something. Stella… was warm, and glowing… she was…

"Stella, Stella you're alive!" Bloom cried, shaking her friend much to the shock of her other friends.

"Bloom! What are you doing!" Layla demanded.

"Stella, Stella wake up!" Bloom yelled, before Stella moved a little and her eyes fluttered open.

She yawned and smiled at them.

"Did we kick sorcerer ass?" Stella asked, and her friends were overwhelmed.

"STELLA!" They all cried, happily.

"Yeah, right here?" Stella said, confused and sitting up as Bloom threw herself at her friend, hugging her tightly. "Hey, I was just knocked out. That stupid gangly guy got me, no biggy."

"But you were dead Stella!" Tecna argued.

"How could I be dead if I'm right here!" Stella stated, as Bloom let her go and smiled at her, wiping her eyes.

"You had no pulse sweetie, I felt it myself," Flora said, touching Stella's hand.

"No pulse? Are you sure?" Stella asked, confused.

There was a stifled groan from across the room and the girls looked around to see the sorcerers were beginning to regain consciousness.

"Hey, I hit them with a pretty powerful spell," Bloom observed, standing and walking towards them a little.

"Well, maybe they're as resilient as our little sunqueen over here," Musa piped, gripping her throbbing arm tightly.

"Maybe, but let's not chance it," Tecna responded, clicking her fingers and causing a large green digital square to form around the sorcerers, lifting them into the air. "Now, let's get out of here."

The Winx- with the sorcerer's floating in front of them- made their way out into the main grounds were the large Specialist ship had landed. As soon as the girls emerged into the cold night, Brandon came running out of the shop and straight into Stella's arms, whisking her of the ground and holding her close.

"Tecna told me something happened to you, are you okay?" Brandon asked, letting her go and cupping her face with his hands.

"I'm fine snookums," Stella responded, sweetly.

"We thought she was dead," Tecna said, bluntly.

"What?" Brandon cried, looking to Stella who gave him a quizzical look.

"We'll explain on the way to the trial, come on," Bloom interjected.

They all headed onto the ship, the sorcerers being placed in the holding cell whilst the others went into the control room where Timmy, Helia and Riven were seated, Timmy at the controls. Sky wasn't able to come on the mission as he had other royal duties, much to the dismay of Bloom.

After they fixed Musa's arm, the girls explained what had happened to Stella, causing Brandon to rush over to his girlfriend and hug her tightly.

"So, you died?" he cried, shocked.

"No, I just passed out silly," Stella argued, spitefully. "If I had died, I wouldn't be here."

"Then what happened?" Bloom asked. "Flora took your pulse; I was right next to her. You were gone and then suddenly you were back… and then, the sorcerers. I hit them with one of my strongest spells and they just woke up, even after being pushed back to the hard stone wall."

Bloom stood up from her seat beside Stella and walked over to the window, looking out as the stars whizzed past the ship.

"What are you saying Bloom?" Flora asked, looking over at her.

"I know it sounds crazy, but I think Stella was brought back to life, as were the sorcerers," Bloom answered, turning back around.

"Brought back to life?" Stella cried, shocked. "Ew, creepy."

"But there are no spells to bring people back to life," Layla pointed out, leaning back against the edge of the controls. "None that properly work anyway and you have to be mega powerful."

"Yeah but none of us cast any revival spells," Musa answered.

"So how did they do it?" Riven added, spinning around to join the conversation.

"I don't know, but I'm just glad they did," Brandon said, wrapping his arms around Stella who moved in close to him.

Bloom turned back around, crossing her arms and looking out the window. She was glad her best friend was alright, she couldn't even imagine life without her, but she couldn't help but wonder what had happened. Why were they still alive? Both Stella and the sorcerers should have died but they didn't.

Bloom didn't want to, but she could just tell that there was something more going on that branched out much further than Stella and the sorcerers, and she knew there was only one person who would possibly know the answer.

"Timmy," Bloom said, walking over and leaning against the back of Timmy's chair. "Can we make a pit stop on the way back home?"

"Sure Bloom, but why?" Timmy asked her, sliding his glassed back up his nose.

"We need to speak with Ms Faragonda," Bloom answered, looking forwards. "We need to go back to Alfea."