So here's the next chapter. As you noticed in the last I changed a few things from the original mermaid story. From here on out a few things will change and I will give it my own twist.
So sorry if you don't agree with me on the changes, but this is the way I want my story to go. Please respect that.
For those that are curious, please enjoy the continuation of the story, thank you for your continued support and reviews!
To be human
Even though the Trix had stranded them near the border of their forest, the walk towards to village was still a while away. Especially for Fairies who had never walked this much before.
"Ugh, is it still far?" Musa asked with a sigh.
"I can't believe you aren't excited about this!" Flora answered her and turned around walking backwards. "It's our first time walking as humans."
"Yes! And In these fancy new clothes, I knew it was a good idea to borrow that magazine" Stella chuckled, checking out once more her new heels.
Flora nodded turning to her. "True, not that I'm happy you saved some of my items… but you could have asked."
Stella fanned her hand towards Flora. "Oh hun, don't mind the details, I saved it didn't I?" She took out the magazine and waved it around. It had returned to its original size and she could now read it without much effort.
Bloom looked at Aisha with a smile, Aisha however, raised an eyebrow, still sceptical about this whole thing.
"Girls, according to this sign; it's one more mile in this direction." Tecna pointed to a wooden arrow.
"That long?!" Musa groaned.
"Musa, you know how long a mile is?" Tecna turned to Musa with wide eyes.
"Nope! But it sounds really, really far away." She sighed.
This left everyone laughing. Roxy, who was sitting on Blooms shoulder, simply shook her head.
"I'm happy you send the pixies back home, Roxy." Bloom had looked sideways towards their guardian.
"Yes, I figured it best. That way they could take your place and your mother would not get suspicious."
"Great thinking!" Musa clapped her hands happily.
Aisha shook her head. "I'm worried about Piff though."
"Oh hun, she'll probably sleep all day, she'll be fine." Stella put her hand on Aisha's shoulder. But Aisha didn't really feel any more secure.
Soon they saw more and more people coming up and down the road. They even started to hear noises. Roxy had hidden inside of blooms pocket to stay out of sight.
Greeting everyone they passed to stay friendly, they were slowly starting to feel a little more comfortable through crowds. As if they were being eased into human society, until suddenly…
"Oh my god!"
After deafening the others, Stella ran straight to one of the window stills and pressed her nose flat against the window.
"What?" bloom dared to ask, when she and the others went closer.
"I totally need that satchel!" She pointed, as she managed to unglue her face from the window.
"Flora! The card please!"
Flora, who was about to take out the card, was stopped by Roxy.
"Stella! This card is only for emergencies." She crossed her arms.
"But this is an emergency! We have nothing to hide you in." She grinned as she put her hands in her sides.
"Oh Stella, you'll never change." Aisha shook her head. "C'mon Roxy, it's not like she's gone shopping before."
They felt a little bad for her, for she was so excited. Stella felt overjoyed about Aisha taking her side for once. For this never happened.
They all looked pleadingly at Roxy.
Roxy had no choice anymore and sighed.
After entering the shop, it was clear that they were not simply going to leave with one satchel. And as Roxy had explained, the thing Stella was buying; was a purse.
After they had all chosen one and payed for it with the golden card, they seemed satisfied.
"So Roxy." Stella tried to ask her. But her mouth was full of something called a bagel; she just had to try it. So naturally, they all had one now. Roxy pulled a face of disgust.
"Stella, you're really going to learn how to swallow your food before you talk, it's not suiting for a lady." Roxy waved her finger.
"Sorry, so how are we going to find them?" Stella tried again, after swallowing her mouthful of Bagel.
"Yeah, it's not like we are just going to run into them, are we?" Musa joined in having already finished hers.
Roxy smiled to them, as they were all looking at her expectantly.
"It's simple really." She started to explain. But she got interrupted by a loud noise screams and some pots breaking.
They all turned to see what was up just in time to see a large white wolf running towards them.
"Artu!" They said in union. As the white animal pounced Stella down and licked the rest of the bagel crumbs of her face.
Roxy landed lovingly on Artu's head to stay hidden from view again as they were drawing attention.
"Easy girl." Stella laughed trying to make the animal stay away from her face.
"Wait, wasn't she with the boys?" Aisha asked, while she helped pull the wolf away from Stella.
Flora looked around, almost afraid and excited at the same time, while helping Stella on her feet with Tecna.
"She was, but I called her back, she can now lead me to their living place." Roxy smiled, but they couldn't see her, it was like Artu was speaking in her stead.
"The plan is simple." She started, as they all bowed down around the animal. "I'm going back to where they live and lead them here. You guys stay around in town and you'll just bump into each other!"
"Why don't we just join you now?" Musa asked, while putting her hands on her side.
It was Flora who answered her, thinking out loud. "Because 6 girls just suddenly standing on your doorway is going to seem suspicious." She had put her hand on her chin.
"Exactly." Roxy picked up. "And they live in a castle; I don't think they are just going to let us in because they have our pet. But if we get invited in because Artu knows us…"
"Brilliant!" Tecna put her fist in her hand. "It'll all look like an accident and the first meeting will be smoother than ever."
Roxy nodded.
"So you girls linger here, and I'll be back as soon as possible."
They nodded and watched as Artu turned away from her. Wondering if it really was going to be this simple.
"Oh and Bloom?" Roxy asked before dashing off.
Bloom looked up questioningly.
"You're in charge, keep them out of trouble!" She yelled, as she sped off into the crowd.
Bloom nodded with a smile. This was no news to her, as her mother always left her in charge as the second oldest and the more mature one.
She laughed at Stella's pout as she knew Bloom wouldn't let her off the hook as soon as she did something wrong.
"So, what do we do in the meantime?" Musa shrugged, as they started walking again.
"Oh! Stella! Look! It's a public bath!" Flora jumped up and down while her hand was on Stella's shoulder. She always wanted to check that out.
"No, It's a hot spring." The red headed fairy looked at the shop razing one eyebrow and thinking.
"Actually, It's called a sauna now or days." Tecna nodded to herself and crossing her arms with pride.
"And how would you know?" Aisha smiled at the pink haired sister.
"It says so on the sign!" Musa laughed holding on hand to her stomach and the other pointing to a sign outside of the shop.
Tecna looked down. That was indeed where she got the information from. How she missed her digital devices now that she couldn't conger them up out of thin air anymore. She felt so useless not being able to provide information for the others
"I don't care! Let's just go seeeee!" Flora pulled Stella and Blooms arm trying to drag them inside.
They all laughed at their youngest sister and joined her to the door.
She pushed it open. They were greeted by a brown haired receptionist who was behind a huge white counter and has a warm smile on her face.
"Welcome ladies, my name is Vanessa, and welcome to Gardenia' Spa. How can I help you?" She stated. It seemed like this was something she practised daily, for she said this quite fast.
They all stared at the woman called Vanessa with open mouths.
Aisha was the first to recover and pushed Stella to the front.
"What-? I-.. oh..." She stammered out. "Hello! Uhm, I'm Stella...Winx" she recovered.
The others snickered. Nice save sis.
"Well hello miss Winx, I take it this is your first time to Gardenia' Spa, have you ordered in advance?" Vanessa opened a huge book that seemed like it was an agenda.
"Uhm, no... We sort of entered here on impulse." Stella was playing with her fingers at this moment. "I hope that's not a problem?" she added.
"Not at all. May I take your reservation for..." Vanessa's eyes hovered to the others girls and then to Stella again. "6 girls?"
"Yes!" the blonde said loudly. Making Vanessa jump. "Yes, 6 would be fine." she added a little quieter this time.
Vanessa wrote something down. "Method of payment?" She asked without looking up.
Stella took out the small golden card with pride. "It's an emergency, right?" She whispered to Flora. Flora chuckled and the others shook their heads with a smile. How she had gotten a hold of it, no one knew.
She presented it to Vanessa.
Vanessa looked up from her book to the card and gasped.
"Oh my!" she smiled to the holder.
"I apologise." Vanessa came out of the counter and bowed to them. "It's just that we've had a few teenagers in here last time without paying, I assumed unrightfully this was the case again."
The girls looked at each other surprised. This card really was something else. They reminded themselves to thank Roxy next time they saw her.
"Have you brought any swimming gear?" Vanessa stood up straight again.
The sisters looked at each other eyebrows raised. Swimming gear? Oh if only Roxy where here. She'd know what that was.
Vanessa's chuckle made them turn back to her.
"I'll take that as a no. It's a common thing now or days, but swimming gear is required in this spa. To avoid any sexual harassment. It's a gender shared Spa after all. We have some spare if you'd like. I'll go fetch my husband to show you the way."
She left short after that statement and left the girls where they were standing.
They looked at each other again.
"Whose idea was this again?" Stella complained crossing her arms.
Flora slowly rose her hand. "I just wanted to see what it was. I didn't expect someone to ask so much questions... I'm sorry..." she looked down.
Bloom patted her shoulder. "Don't worry Flora, I still think it's a good idea and who knows, it might be fun!"
"Yeah! I mean look at the place! It looks nothing like the books we've been reading! These humans are clean!" Musa looked at the shiny white floor.
"It smells odd though." Aisha added as she sniffed a few times. "I can't quite tell what that smell is."
"Must be some kind of chemical thing?" Tecna added carefully.
"I wonder what this swimming gear is like." Stella asked herself. "And did you hear? Gender mixed baths! That means BOYS!" She clapped her hands.
Flora blushed; thinking of the blue haired boy. Oh she hoped she would see him soon.
Vanessa came back with a man at her side. He had blonde hair and also smiled brightly.
"Well hello girls, welcome! My name is Mike and I will show you to the dressing room. We have a small selection of bathing suits at your disposal. If you'd please follow me." He motioned them to follow him, turned on his heel and left the room again.
The girls quickly followed Mike and entered the dressing room.
"Please, help yourselves. These 2 lockers are for your things and I'll be outside if you need anything. Let me know when you are done and I will show you the baths." He motioned to the huge closet at the back of the room and 2 small closets with a key on it for their lockers. He then left the room and closed the door behind them.
The girls were standing in the middle of the room looking around.
The room was really big and there where "lockers" all around them. Some with keys and some without. There where benches in the middle of the room and 2 doors. The door they came in and a door with a sign on it with a boy and a girl.
"I know what that is! It's the toilet!" Tecna said excitedly while she pointed to the toilet.
The others nodded. Good to know.
Stella opened the huge closet and squealed.
"Oh my gawd! Look at this!" She pointed to the now open closet. It was full of folded clothing.
The sisters joined her and started to feel the fabric. "Such strange fabric! Oh, I wanna try this one! It has 2 pieces!" Stella took out an orange bikini covered in light seashells and started to dress up.
Aisha took out a light green one piece with an open bellybutton.
Musa took a red bikini with blue ruffles and Tecna took a purple bikini with light green lines. The bottom part was a short.
Bloom took out a light blue strapless bikini with light red bottom and matching blue flowers on it.
Flora stared at the closet. Her eye caught something: It was a pink coloured bikini with light green ruffles on the sides. It had a few light green flowers on it and it went around the neck. She took it out and put it on.
Once they were dressed they looked at each other.
"Well, I feel a little exposed, but I guess I really like this "swimming gear"!" Stella laughed as she made her way to the locker.
"I agree, I take it we put our other clothing in these "lockers"?" Tecna asked as she opened it.
Everyone put their stuff in the locker and turned the key. Tecna put the key around her arm, as it was a bracelet. The other key was in the locked locker.
Stella opened the door and everyone went outside but no one else was there.
Suddenly a door opened and Mike appeared.
"Ah, I see that we are all done now, please follow me to the baths!" Mike turned his heel again and walked out of the room into another door.
The girls giggled a little bit and followed him out.
They came into a huge room full of different baths and rooms. There were a lot of people swimming around or playing in the pool.
Mike explained what all of the pools and rooms did and they decided to just have a swim first. They tried out almost everything and totally forgot they were on a time limit.
When they got tired of the pool Stella decided it was time to try out the sauna.
Flora wasn't so sure, she liked the swimming part. Plus the sign outside of it sounded dangerous. "Don't fall asleep!" she read out loud.
"Oh don't worry dear, It's not like you can sleep in a pool either. You'll drown! You don't need to be a human to know that!" Stella patted her little sisters' head and took a towel out of the pile that was outside.
She opened the door and entered the hot and steamy room. They each took a seat on the wooded benches and sighted in relief. This felt good.
Flora wasn't feeling to hyper anymore. She realised they hadn't slept that night because of the incident and it would be very dangerous for them to just stay here... in the heat... nice... and warm...
She looked at her sisters. Some of them had decided to lie down, probably to relax, she thought.
Her mind was carrying her away, to a pair a light blue eyes and a warm smile. Slowly, her mind was nowhere with her panic of falling asleep.
For she had.
"Hey guys, check this out! I haven't been there in ages!" Sky pointed to a huge sign that said "Gardenia' Spa".
"Yeah man, maybe it will get your mind of things, why don't we go check it out?" Roy put his hand on his youngest brothers' shoulder and smiled.
Helia sighted and mustered up a smile. "Yeah, maybe..." He said quietly. They had been walking around of town all day, trying to take his mind of the Angel inside his head.
Helia himself had taken this time to actually look around and find his rescuer. To the dismay of his brothers, because their trick was not working. So they decided another approach to make him forget the imaginary woman.
"Awesome! Let's go!" Brandon pushed the door and was greeted by the brown haired woman.
"Welcome, My name is Vanessa, and welcome to Gardenia' Spa. How can I-?" She wasn't looking up when she said this. But when she did, she got startled by the sight.
"Your highnesses!" She startled and put her hand to her chest. "To what do I owe this pleasure?" She got out of behind the counter and bowed.
Sky put his hand behind his head and smiled awkwardly. "uhm, We'd like to... Take a dip?" He said.
"But of course! Please! Right this way!" she made a gesture to the door and walked to it to open the door.
Guess they didn't need a reservation. The boys smiled to each other. Sometimes; maybe sometimes it was good to be a prince.
'It's all right miss, we know the way." Riven took over the door and walked through it.
The woman shook her head in disbelieve. Where was her husband at a time like this! She needed to tell someone!
The boys entered the dressing room, suddenly reminded of the fact that they also had no swimming gear. They each took one out of the closet and when they were all wearing trunks that matched their hair they got out to go to the pool.
By the time they were inside, not a lot of people were left. Mike was supervising the pools and didn't notice the boys. No one recognised them because they weren't paying attention.
They liked this fact. They got in the pool for a bit and had some fun. They quickly grew bored of this though.
"Hey, let's go in the sauna" Brandon pointed to the Sauna door.
"All of us? Isn't that a little... gay?" Riven said with disgust on his face.
"Fine, you can stay in here dude, I for one would like some relaxation." Roy pushed him aside to pass with a wink and then went behind Brandon who was already on his way to the sauna.
"Hey, wait up! I was only kidding!" Riven yelled as he followed behind his brothers.
They all took a towel and dried themselves up. Helia looked forward to a little relaxation too. This would be nice.
Brandon took the doorknob and turned it. He took once step inside and looked around the damp room. He then took a step back again and closed the door. He stared at the door in disbelieve.
"Yo, what's the holdup?" Timmy said, without his glasses he looked a little bit more like a normal boy, though he couldn't really see a lot.
Brandon turned to his brothers; his back was now towards the door and his hands behind his back on the doorknob. He stared to his brothers with a serious look.
"Dude, There are 6 hot girls asleep in there..."
*Evil grin*
Disclaimer: I do not own the Winx club nor Disney's stories!
