In this chapter, Melanie makes yet another enemy, yay!
Just a warning since Melanie actually hurts someone in the chapter, so yeah. Basically, a bit of violence and swearing, but nothing too extreme.
"Carry them, peasant!"
"Like hell I will, blonde airhead!"
"Great." Fiona sighed as she, Princess Blaire, and Tesla basically stood by a street in the city of Magix while a certain hotheaded freshman looked like she was about to lunge at a certain blonde princess from the sunny realm of Solaria. Great, indeed. Not even a few hours at Magix city and Melanie also managed to pick a fight on the princess of Solaria, but Tesla and Fiona couldn't blame the musical fairy though, considering how Princess Stacey is treating them as if they were mere servants of some sort. Not like Melanie was the only one who Stacey was barking orders at...
Fiona, being a slightly nice and friendly person on the outside, carried some of the shopping bags that the blonde fairy had bought, while Tesla, only carrying her own bags filled with games and school materials, ignored the princess' barking of orders to the point where the said princess ultimately gave up and chose to bug Melanie instead. And now, this happened.
This wasn't what Blaire was expecting that would happen, she was expecting for all the Winx daughters to get along, go shopping, go to some pizza parlor and eat there, and perhaps meet some boys along the way. Princess Stacey feeling extremely superior to the point where she bosses her non-royalty friends, Melanie bickering with yet another Winx daughter in the first day of Alfea, Tesla not talking at all ever since they had gotten here, and Fiona being way too secretive for her own good...wasn't part of Blaire's plan for today. "At least Lauren isn't here..." Blaire whispered to Fiona, "It's not like I don't like her hanging out with us and all, it's just that, if she was here, she and Stacey would have probably buried Melanie alive at this point."
Since Lauren was kinda pissed at Melanie and probably will hate her guts for the time being, she refused to go to Magix city with them. Blaire, Fiona, and Stacey was somewhat disappointed (Blaire and Fiona because they're not going to be complete on their first trip to Magix, while Stacey because she didn't like it how 'peasants' outnumbered the princesses in the little group of theirs), Melanie looked overjoyed, while Tesla...well, who knows what's going on in that head of hers.
"Stop fighting, you two." Fiona frowned as the fighting of two fairies are starting to catch bystanders' attention. "People are starting to notice."
Both Melanie and Stacey ignored the artsy fairy and continued bickering, causing the redheaded and art-loving fairies to sigh. "What now?" Blaire asked Fiona and probably Tesla if she's even listening.
Fiona merely shrugged at this, while Tesla didn't respond to it, much to the Eraklyon Princess' frustration. She was about to probably ask Fiona to grab Melanie while she grabs Stacey to separate them, until...
-Meanwhile-
"So, Ike, Damian, Bolt," Max said out of the blue as he took a bite out of his burger, "Where are you guys from?"
Just like how the Winx daughters (Minus Lauren) went to Magix City to buy some things, the Winx sons (along with their three remaining dorm mates) did the same. Apparently Max forgot to bring his only pair of headphones and he decided it was too much of a hassle to go back to Melody to retrieve it so he bought cheap ones in Magix (and maybe ask a certain tech-savvy Junior Specialist to upgrade it or something). After the blue-haired boy was done buying headphones, the boys decide to stop by some burger shop nearby. So here they are, sitting on a table, eating some burgers or other menu items and trying to get to know each other. It seems that they're in a much more pleasant situation than the Winx daughters, that's for sure.
The three cousins paused for a moment, looking at each other whether or not they decide to answer it. "You first." Ike said rather rudely at Max, Mason, and Blaine, as he took a sip from his cola with extra ice on it.
Needless to say, the three Winx sons were surprised. "Uh, didn't we already mention it when we introduced each other back at the dorm?" Mason raised a brow.
"Yes," Damian nodded, "But we can tell that what you told us were just the tip of the iceberg. And we are so interested in learning things about you, so, care to enlighten us?"
"We will if you would do the same after we do." Max said, "Deal?"
The three cousins looked at each other again, looks like they can debate just by looking at each other, Mason took note. "Sure, whatever." Bolt shrugged, "Now, spill."
"Sure, I'll go first, I guess." Blaine cleared his throat, "Uh, as you already know, I'm Prince Blaine of Eraklyon, I-"
"You're the kid of Queen Bloom, right?" Damian asked, "You know, the previously princess of the realm of Domino?" Blaine nodded at the boy's question, to which Damian asked some more, "So why aren't you and your sisters the Prince and Princesses of both Domino and Eraklyon?"
Blaine admits it; he gets this question quite often. "Well, that's because my cousins, Prince Dominic and Princess Titiana, are the true Prince and Princess of Domino, since my aunt Daphne and uncle Thoren are the rulers of Domino right now. Even if my mom was a princess of Domino, aunt Daphne was always the crowned princess of Domino."
"Oh," Ike nodded, "But you still have the blood of both royal families, right?"
"Oh, obviously." Blaine let out a nervous laugh. Why are they asking this question?
"That sounds cool." Bolt said, "But anyway, what about you two?" He asked, referring to Max and Mason.
"Our family isn't really that interesting." Mason shrugged, "We just came from the musical realm of Melody-"
"Your hair color suggests otherwise." Damian points out to Mason's hair as if it was a fact, "Your hair color is quite rare, and it is mostly found here in Magix. I have never seen someone in Melody with that unique hair color. One of your parents must have been from Melody, while your other must have been from here, Magix."
Max and Mason blinked at the blond's statement, looking at each other with confused expressions. "Uh, yeah, you got us," Max let out a chuckle as he put up his arms in surrender, "Mom is from Melody, and Dad is from here in Magix. So, yeah, you're pretty much right."
"Anyways," Mason said, "Enough about us. What about you guys, where are you from?"
It took a while for the three to respond...for some reason, they didn't know why. "...We don't really know." Ike spoke up after a while, while his cousins merely nodded.
The three Winx sons were surprised, "What do you mean you don't know?" Mason asked.
Damian only sighed at this while leaning his elbow on the table, "We don't want to talk about it, alright?"
Max, Mason, and Blaine only looked at each other at this with concerned looks, "Okay, I guess...?"
...
"Oh, hey Masey, Blainey, it's Melly!" A voice beamed nearby, the other girls couldn't fully recognize the voice but it sounded incredibly familiar, but Melanie knew that voice all too well.
Melanie couldn't help but flinch at her brother's voice as six (three familiar ones, the other three they couldn't recognize) boys approach them. Blaire could see her twin brother Blaine in the group of six boys, while Melanie flinched yet again when she saw her twin brothers.
"What's with that look, dear sister?" Mason asked his sister in amusement as he took a sip on his soda, he sounds much more mature and formal than his brother, Max. "Not happy to see us?"
"'Melly'?" Stacey couldn't help but repeat the quirky boy's nickname for a certain music-loving freshman in amusement, what a perfect nickname to mock! "What kind of name is that?! I wouldn't even name my pets or call my servants 'Melly'!"
Melly- cough, Melanie's eye twitched in annoyance at the blonde's words as she turned back to the said blonde, "I am so fucking tempted to push you on the road and watch you get run over by some bus right now. You know that? I hope you do."
"Is your sister always like that?" Bolt, who was, along with Ike and Damian, with Max, Mason, and Blaine, whispered-asked in curiosity to Mason as his eyes darted at a certain maroon-haired fairy.
Mason was surprised to hear that question from his dorm mate, don't tell him that this guy is interested in his sister? "Yeah, pretty much, I guess so." He shrugged, yet said it slowly as he examined the boy's expression. "Why do you ask?"
"N-nothing, just curious, is all." Bolt stammered as he scratched the back of his head and pretended to be interested in some poster nearby. Mason only narrowed his eyes on the boy.
But Mason's narrowing of eyes was quickly interrupted as he was being nudged rather harshly by his brother. "Mase," He whispered to him, his eyes darting over a certain bespectacled girl, "Do you think Tess remembers the bet we made, like, years ago?"
Mason raised a brow at this, "You mean the one where you actually won-?"
"Yeah." Max cut him off since he didn't want him to fully mention it out of embarrassment. "I was just kind of wondering if she, y'know, still remembers to give me my prize?"
"But the prize probably won't come in another two years or so, her dad said so, remember?" The maroon-haired boy pointed out, "Plus, at that point she probably would have completely forgotten it since it was made when we were, what? Twelve?"
"But still..."
Mason just sighed at this as he patted his brother's back, "Move on, brother, move on."
Meanwhile, Blaine, Ike, Damian, along with the remaining Winx daughters that aren't fighting, just observed what was going on between a musical freshman and a Princess of Solaria. "Can I have the context to this, sister?" Blaine asked Blaire as he looked at the fight in confusion. Blaire only stared dully on the ground, much to her brother's confusion.
"Stacey was being a bit too harsh and bossy to me, Tesla and Melanie, Melanie got mad and fought back, and now this happened." Fiona explained quietly, "Hard to explain, actually."
"Oh," Blaine was surprised that Fiona was the one who responded instead of his sister, but it's probably for the best since Blaire looked extremely upset right, he didn't know why. "Oh, and uh, hello, Fiona, by the way." He greeted his headmaster's daughter.
Fiona merely smiled at the prince and gave him a small wave. "Hello to you too, Prince Blaine."
Blaine was about to smile back at the artsy fairy but was interrupted as he was being nudged by a certain silver-haired boy, "Hey, Blaine, that's your sister, right?" He asked, pointing at a certain strawberry blonde-haired girl bluntly staring at the ground. Blaine nodded at this, to which Ike brought up a followup question. "Is she okay?"
"Uh, why do you ask?"
Ike frowned, "Well, she just kind of looks...broken. Is that the right term?"
To be honest, Ike was right; Blaire just look kind of broken. The look in her eyes is just pure misery and disappointment. "Y-yeah, that's the right term, I guess..." Blaine trailed off, "And uh, I don't really know what's wrong with her, to be honest..."
Damian was supposed to be next to ask Blaine about a certain blonde princess, but suddenly...
"OOPS, I THINK MY HAND SLIPPED!" Melanie yells as she grabbed Stacey's shopping bag from Fiona's hands and literally used them to hit Stacey and practically shove her into the road in the process.
Stacey was more than surprised when she found herself being hit by her shopping bags and being harshly shoved into the road, that she yells at Melanie for doing so. "How dare you treat a princess like that, peasant!" She yelled, not noticing the upcoming bus going in her direction.
Before the Winx next generation knew it, a loud crash, a scream, and some sirens could be heard. Fiona, Blaire, Blaine, and the three cousins flinched at this, while Melanie and Tesla didn't react to this.
Fiona, Blaire, and Blaine were shocked, their eyes wide and their mouths agape, who knew what Melanie was capable of? Max and Mason just gave out tired looks, already knowing what their sister is capable of. Ike, Damian, and Bolt just stood there, also somewhat shocked but weren't really affected that much. While Tesla just remained in her usual stoic expression, she either didn't notice, or noticed it and just didn't care.
As the sirens continued on, Melanie only yawned and stretched a bit. "Wow, who knew it would take so much energy to do that? I'm starving." She spoke up as if she just didn't push a princess into the road to get hit by a bus, "Who wants pizza?"
Fiona managed to snap out of her shock and looked at Melanie with slight fear. Please remind her to never mess with this girl.
"Um...there's this pizza place nearby..."
"That's great. Let's go. Now."
Lauren wasn't included because, again, she was too pissed at Melanie right now. But what's weird is that, despite Tesla being here in this chapter, she literally has no lines, none, not even a word or phrase uttered by her. And I think that's fascinating. Just a thought while writing this.
Looks like Melanie made yet another enemy in the Winx next gen, but don't think she's the only one against Stacey, another one will also hate her, so basically, she has an ally on this one.
Also, we can see the potential couples (because romance is so necessary for every story) in this chapter. Can you guess? I bET YOU CAN'T.
Anyway, is Stacey going to be okay? What was the prize Max was talking about (this isn't really relevant to the story but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯)? What's up with Ike, Damian, and Bolt? Why is Stacey being a brat?
Well, I don't really know either, when it comes to the last question, that is.
Nothing more to say so, thanks for reading!