Category: Winx Club
Rating: M
Couples: none
Warnings: AU (As much as it can be with only a few episodes into the season xD)
Chapter: 6
Copyright: © characters and places by Iginio; © Plot and OC by me
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There was only rage, Aisha realized, only rage in the eyes of her once-cousin. They had had a mere day to spare, but she and her friends had gained their Sirenix.
Almost as if in answer, Tritannus went mad, taking the powers of the Selkies at an almost absurd rate as if he had forgotten the demands he had made not a week earlier.
In answer to that the hunt was opened in earnest. Knowing that any mer-people send after him would just be turned into his monsters, it were the humans who were in the frontlines.
It was the first time Aisha saw her uncle and aunt outside of the sea. Both arrived with Tressa and Nereus at the royal palace of the Overworld of Andros. A simple spell by Teredor's magicians allowed the four to safely stay outside of the water for a long time.
Nereus was unable to look Aisha in the eyes, evading her as much as was possible with both of them being their father's heirs.
"Nereus!" She called, watching him sit on one of the balconies overlooking the ocean of Andros, spreading from horizon to horizon, broken only by sporadic islands. Waves lap at the cliff-side below the palace, breaking against the few rocks jutting from the water. "We need to talk."
"What about?" He looked as if he was ready to bolt, looking at a point on the ground beside her rather than her face.
"You are not to blame for what he did, Nereus." Aisha said, leaning on the balustrade beside him. "Your brother alone is responsible for this."
"And it started because he was jealous of me." Nereus answered, hiding behind his pale-purple hair. "All this started because he thinks I am our parents' favorite."
"Perhaps you are." Aisha shrugged. "But he is the one who reacted like this, who made the decision to take my mother and do all this. Not you."
"I tried to be nice to him, to somehow alleviate the rejection he felt." Nereus whispered.
"And HE is the one who ignored all that." She sharply said. "I know you, Nereus, you are a sweety unlike many others. It. Is. Not. Your. Fault."
"Apparently not enough." He stood up from the balustrade, floating just a bit over the stone floor. His shark-like tail flicked from side to side, the small scales glistening in the light of the setting sun.
"If you got any more sweet you might as well become a piece of candy." Aisha argued. "Do you remember that day when we were ten? That day at the beach?"
"I do…" He sighed. "You nearly died there."
"All because I wanted a piece of candy after Tritannus had gotten one too." She stated. "I didn't want his, I didn't try to take his, all I asked for was one too. Even with all the proper etiquette required of a princess."
"And he almost drowned you 'accidently'." Nereus sighed in defeat. "Yes, I remember it exactly."
"If you were to blame for this, I might as well blame you for what happened all those years ago." Aisha stated, poking his chest. "But you don't see me doing that, do you?"