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AN: I'm really sorry I didn't update very quickly since the last chapter I'd uploaded, but the new term began a few days ago, so I've been occupied with studying and homework. Luckily I finished all of my work in advance and I had no other work to do today, so I decided to finished this up quickly and get it up before I don't get another chance…
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-Displaced-
oO~The World in Between~Oo
-Frutti Music Bar-
(AN: Even though the Winx and the Specialists are no longer at or near Alfea, they're still in another dimension, so I'll still be italicizing the guys' names. But just until they get back to their world.)
"I need two strawberry-kiwi smoothies and a mango-pineapple blend!" Brandon called to Rick and Sky.
"On it!" Rick responded before he and Sky whipped up the order in a matter of seconds.
It had been a little less than a month since the Specialists and the Winx left Alfea for Gardenia. It didn't take too long to find a place to stay or a job for any of them. When Rick heard of their little predicament/escapade, he readily offered the group jobs since Roxy wasn't back and wouldn't be for another month or two. The boys worked as waiters or helped out behind the counter, while the girls provided entertainment. Having done the exact same jobs a little while back in their world, the group was able to catch on as though they'd never left.
"It was really great of you to let us help out around here," Sky told the older man as he placed another drink onto the tray and signaled Brandon for pick-up.
Rick waved off the comment. "It was nothing. You and those girls of yours helped keep my daughter and I safe. It was the least I could do."
He looked up at the six girls who were performing on stage with a soft smile. "Besides, with all of you here, it doesn't feel so lonely without my Roxy."
Sky shot a grin at the older man before getting back to work.
-Winx Dimension; Infinite Ocean-
"Do you this will really work?" Desiryee asked anxiously.
"It's got to," Serena answered. "Daphne said it could be the only way to get the girls back!"
The other Selkies nodded in agreement before putting their plan into action. Each of the Selkies swam through the Infinite Ocean into the Ocean Gates that lead to their realms.
Winx~Club
Each of the Selkies remained in front the Ocean Gates in their respective realms. They all concentrated on their bond with their chosen fairy and held their hands out in front of them, towards the Ocean gates.
In a matter of moments, each Selkie began to glow their respective colour. Lemmy, aqua; Desiryee, pink; Serena, fiery-red; Illiris, gold; Lithia, forest-green; and Sonna, magenta.
One by one each of the Selkies began to chant an incantation. The same phrase was repeated over and over until a small ball of light the same colour as the colour they glowed appeared in their hands.
The little spheres of magic shot into the portals and into the Infinite Ocean, where they all connected to each other in a hexagonal shape before the six points of the figure shot out bolts of light to where the centre would have been and connected to form a moderately sized ball of light.
The Selkies struggled to hold onto the connection and control the magic, but it soon became too much for them and collapsed to the ocean floor, unconscious.
The magic that had already been summoned continued without the Selkies, their intentions crystal clear to the magic they'd conjured.
-Other Dimension; Gardenia Beach-
"Man today was a killer!" Timmy stretched his arms.
"I definitely agree with you there," Sky agreed as he and Brandon carried two trays of drinks over to their friends and the Winx.
Everyone took a drink and sat on the cooling sand as they watched the sun slowly sink below the horizon. The couples leaned into each other, feeling the cooling warmth of the sun's last rays.
The pixies laughed and giggled as they played around in the sand and along the coastline.
"Be careful!" Layla warned. "The tide's gonna pull in soon!"
Suddenly, Musa's head snapped up.
"Musa?" Riven asked. "What's—"
"Something's coming," Musa said loud enough for only the group to hear. "I can hear it! It's coming at us fast!"
Tecna whipped out her mini-computer and began typing away at a rapid pace. "She's right," Tecna said grimly. "There's something headed right for us, but it doesn't seem to be an object or even a person."
"Then what could it be?" Stella asked.
Tecna shook her head. "I don't know; all my computer is picking is a massive magical signature."
The group looked at each other, wondering just what was going on when Bloom spoke up. "Can your computer tell what kind of magic it is?"
The fairy of technology nodded. "Normally it can, but this time it's only picking up on the size of the signature; not the type."
The girls all suddenly stiffened as did Roy and Helia.
"It's getting closer!" Stella shivered.
"Look!" Sky shouted pointing out into the horizon where a small speck had suddenly appeared and was steadily growing larger and larger with each passing second.
"Brace yourselves!" Timmy ordered.
Each of the Specialists took one of the girls into the arms to shield them from whatever could be coming at them.
There was large explosion as the object made contact with the group of twelve.
A blinding neon light flashed around them.
And just moments later, they knew no more.
-The World in Between-
"Ugh," Riven groaned. "What the heck happened?"
"You tell us," Stella moaned in response.
One by one each of the Winx and Specialists opened their eyes.
"Okay," Bloom said slowly. "Where are we?"
The group looked around at their surroundings and found themselves floating in a space full of multicoloured sparks, the area around them shifting quickly like images in a kaleidoscope. What was more disconcerting was the fact that they were unable to control
"We seem to be in a sort of suspended world," Tecna observed.
"Meaning?" Layla asked.
"What she means is that we're not in any particular world," Timmy clarified. "But rather it's a sort of connecting place between worlds."
"So how do we get out?" Brandon asked as his body slowly turned in a 180 degree angle.
"We'll have to find it, I guess," Timmy shrugged as he struggled to stay upright.
Just then the group heard a cluster of screams coming from another direction.
The girls and boys looked at one another before nodding. They all linked arms and pushed off with their feet in the direction of the screams.
"WOULD SOMEBODY TELL ME WHAT'S GOING ON HERE?!" came a panicked shout.
"That voice sounds familiar," Brandon murmured.
"I would if I knew where the heck we are!" Another voice snapped.
"I definitely know that one," Riven muttered.
"Stop asking already!" a different voice moaned. "You've been at it for who-knows-how-long!"
It wasn't until a little later that the Winx and the Specialists saw the figures that were the cause of the disturbance. They floated closer to the six figures and gasped when they saw who they were.
The six figures that were the source of the noise were in fact near-exact copies of the Winx.
(AN: I won't be describing the Winx-doppelgangers, so just picture them as they were in their freshman year, clothes, hair and all, while Layla looks as she didn't when she first came to Alfea. Oh and the Winx and the names of the Specialists of their dimension will be in Italics.)
"What the—" Layla blinked.
"What's going on?" Flora asked hesitantly.
"Beats me," Bloom said quietly in awe.
Tecna looked closely at their counterparts with a calculating look. "I think…they could be our counterparts from the other dimension," she said slowly.
Everyone turned to Tecna at that.
"How?" Helia asked.
"Well, if we were sent to their dimension," Tecna explained, "it would make sense for the 'us' there to be sent somewhere else."
"But they weren't in our world," Sky pointed out. "Since you girls were sent to that world, should these girls have taken your places in our dimension?"
Tecna nodded. "That should have been the case, but if you didn't see them in our world, then I believe they could have been sent into a different dimension with our counterparts in other dimensions being shifted around in the process."
"But that still—" Brandon began to say when he was cut off by a loud gasp.
The group of twelve turned to the six girls that were floating around helplessly and found them staring at them with large eyes and dropped jaws.
"Okay, what's going on?" Layla asked.
"Um," Bloom said nervously, "We're you…but from another dimension…"
The Winx of the other dimension just blinked at the explanation before five of the six fairies turned to their Tecna.
"Well?" Stella asked.
"Is what they're saying true?" Bloom asked.
"Can it be true?" Musa wondered.
Tecna looked at the Winx and Specialists with the same calculating look their Tecna had used just moments before. "It's certainly quite possible, considering what's happened to us."
"Excuse me," Flora interrupted, "But if I may, what did happen to you?"
The girls looked at each other before Musa began to speak. "Well, we were in the Magical Reality Chamber for some test because we just got our Charmix and we really needed to catch up with everyone else. But right in the middle of the test, there was some flash of light and the next thing we knew, the six of us were floating around in here."
"So wait, you didn't get sent into some other world or something?" Stella asked.
Flora shook her head. "We've been stuck in here trying to find some way out for a while now. You're the first people we've seen here since we've been here."
"Unfortunately," Tecna picked up, "we wouldn't be able to tell you just how long we've been stuck in here. Time apparently doesn't flow in this place."
"Interesting…" Tecna murmured.
"But what are you guys doing here?" Bloom asked.
"We were cursed by three witches, but their spell backfired," Layla explained. "We were sent to your world and it looks like we were switched in while you guys were switched out during that flash of light you saw in the Magical Reality Chamber."
"What's been going on over there?" Stella asked. "We were getting worried about our families…"
"There were a few…hiccups," Musa said slowly, "but everyone's fine now. Your families are safe, though, if that helps."
"'Hiccups'?" Layla raised an eyebrow.
The girls grinned sheepishly and began to explain what had been happening in that dimension since they came there and why. They also explained, at the girls' insistence, about the event that happened in their own dimension, comparing them to what happened didn't in the other and why.
"Whoa," Musa whistled. "You guys look like you've had a wild time…"
"Wait," Layla broke in, "You said that you used your Enchantix, Believix and Sirenix in front of the Alfea and Red Fountain students?"
The Winx winced and nodded.
"And they didn't know that you weren't us?" Tecna clarified, catching onto Layla's train of thought.
The Winx nodded.
"It was a risk we had to take," Bloom tried justifying their actions. "It was to either reveal ourselves or let the Magical Dimension either be destroyed or thrown into complete chaos!"
Musa and Flora nodded. "I guess you have a point there," the fairy of music admitted. "But what are we supposed to do now? You showed them those advanced forms and magic and now everyone'll be asking just why we've been pretending to be weak!"
"I know you had good intentions," Flora said, "but Musa's right. What can we do now? We can't show anyone something we can't do."
The Winx let go of the boys and floated off together towards their counterparts.
"Everything'll be fine," Bloom told her counterpart.
"You'll see," Flora smiled.
Each of the girls took their counterpart's hand into their own as an act of comfort. But no one had expected what happened next.
A white light began to erupt from between the Winx's hands and those of their counterparts'. The light crackled like electricity over their forms as the glow spread over their bodies.
Frightened at what could be happening to their girls, the Specialists tried to hover over to them, only to be repelled by whatever magic was at work.
Suddenly, the girls all began to scream and shout, but whether it was in pain or shock, no one could tell. The boys watched helplessly as typhoon of energy swirled around the girls, white electricity crackling around them. It all ended with a loud bang when the magic exploded with a blinding flash of light.
The Specialists closed their eyes to avoid being blinded by the bright light and opened them once more when they were sure it had died down.
Worried, the boys looked over to the girls and found both sets in their Sirenix forms.
"What just happened?" Brandon scratched his head.
"I think somehow when our girls touched those girls," Timmy explained, "They must have shared their magic, giving the other girls a way to access their Enchantix, Believix, and Sirenix forms and probably the others in between."
"Are you girls okay?" Riven asked as he and his friends floated over to their girls, who had now returned to their civilian forms.
"We're fine," Musa answered.
"We just feel a little…" Stella trailed off.
"Charged up?" Layla supplied?
The Winx nodded.
"We definitely feel stronger," Bloom commented, flexing her new wings curiously.
"That's because we have gotten stronger," Tecna confirmed. "When we touched our counterparts, our magic must have copied the level they're at. Thus the reason why we're in the Sirenix form and can access the pervious forms and magic as well."
"So what happens now?" Flora asked.
"I think I have a very good idea!" Bloom said pointing to all of them.
Everyone looked down at themselves, only to find their forms slowly becoming transparent from their feet up.
"What's happening?" Brandon asked.
"We must be getting pulled back into our own worlds!" Tecna said quickly.
"But why now?" Layla asked.
"I don't know," Tecna said. "Magic has its secrets and I don't think we'll ever figure everything out about it."
"Thank you!" the Winx of the other world shouted as their forms dissipated. "Stay safe!"
"You're welcome!" Bloom shouted.
"We will!" Musa said at the same time.
And with that said, both groups were gone from the mysterious realm.
Ciao,
TsukiyoTenshi