30.1 (lord Martiya)

"Are you going to kill me?" Sky asked the Trix when they showed up.

"Nope. We just felt it was better showing you what you need to redeem yourself from." Stormy said

"That was one BAD Loop…" Darcy stated.

"What's your angle?" came the obvious question.

"The angle is that we adopted Diaspro as a fourth Trix." Icy replied as she assembled a holoprojector. "That, and Yggdrasil already screwed you over with this."

In the projector, Sky could see himself being confronted by a rather upset Bloom and Stella about Diaspro's recent suicide-and the funeral that "Sky" skipped in favor of having a pic-nic with Bloom.

"But Bloom, dear, I just didn't feel to ruin your happiness for that." "Sky" told her. In front of Diaspro's parents. "Say, why don't you-"

"Sky" couldn't talk anymore. Not when Bloom applied the universal male-defeating move on him.

"Please tell me you made him pay." the Looping Sky asked the Trix about the sociopath he had been in that Loop.

"Not exactly." Icy continued as she showed him another scene.

In the projector were the Trix and Riven, hidden somewhere over the throne room of Eraklyon's royal palace.

"OK, Riven, explain how did you have the entire security plan." "Icy" asked the Specialist.

"Sky forgets that walls have ears." Riven replied. "Now, I hope you aren't just killing him…"

"That would make him a martyr and wouldn't stop this civil war." "Darcy" replied. "No, we're going to show the world some of the dirt we have on him as soon as the press conference starts. OK, here it go-"

And before the Trix could ruin Sky, the Patchamen barged in on live TV.

"Prince Sky, prepare for humiliation!" the leader shouted. "We, the Patchamen-"

"Sorry, but we are not the costume shop that ripped you off." Sky replied.

"That's it! Napkins!"

"Did-did they just beat the sociopath to death with napkins?!" Sky asked.

"Ninjas." Icy deadpanned.

"Right… Then how did you stop the civil war?"

"Your funeral was on live TV, so we crashed it with our Ancestors' spirits in tow." Darcy explained.

"And now you know. And remember, knowing is half the battle!" Stormy quipped before getting cuffed by her sisters.

30.2 (Awesomedude17)

Bloom blinked as she saw the sight before her.

"Roxy, what are you doing?"

"I saw a video in the Hub and decided 'why not?'"

"Uh huh."

"Anyway. On the top. A one, two, three, four..."

"Beep! Beep! I'm a sheep! I said, beep beep! I'm a sheep!"

"Baaaah!"

"...It's a work in progress."

Bloom sighed. At least this wasn't something that could destroy something.

30.3 (Masterweaver)

"...Stormy, what are you doing?"

"Collating data."

"...what?"

"Icy, how many loopers from our loop are romantically engaged?"

"...what does that have to do with-"

"Flora and Techna. Darcy and Musa. Stella and Brandon. Bloom and Sky, kind of, possibly, it's complicated. Aisha and Nabu-that's all the Winx Club members, except Roxy."

"Stormy, I don't-"

"That's ten loopers, Icy! Ten out of, what, fifteen? Diaspro, you, me, Roxy, and Timmy. Factor in Helia and Riven, and you have seven unattached."

"What's your point?"

"My point is, for some reason, our loop in particular has a high tendency toward romantic shenanigans. Which means it is all but inevitable that you and I will find ourselves a pair-and if we don't act soon, it'll either be each other or somebody that doesn't fit our sexuality!"

"Stormy, I think you're taking this way too seriously."

"AM I? AM I, ICY?! You've read Fand's writings! And we've already got one married couple, and possibly another on the way-"

"Look, Stormy. Calm. Down. We are NOT a teenage melodrama. We're people. We'll fall in love, or we won't, of our own prerogative."

"But-but the charts! The data! If I don't get this right we might-"

"We won't. Okay? We'll be okay."

"...if you're sure."

"I'm sure. Besides, you haven't factored in all the possibilities."

"...what do you mean?"

"Well, for one thing, we could start dating outside our loop."

"...oh. Right. I guess... I guess I was overreacting a bit."

"Tch, I'll say. I'm just glad I caught you before you did something crazy like try to create a threesome."

"...Oh my god."

"Stormy, what-?"

"Oh my god! That's why Bloom and Diaspro didn't work! They're both in love with Sky, and they don't realize it isn't exclusionary!"

"...Ugh. Stormy, seriously-"

"We have to be slow about this, though. We have to be subtle, give the three of them chances to interact with each other and come to terms with their own emotflrrburwrgglgrrglll-"

"Bad Stormy! Bad! Remember the last time we tried? COOL DOWN!"

30.4 (lord Martiya)

"Run that by me again?!" Sky found himself saying as he Awoke looking at a younger blonde with a red ribbon in her hair.

"YES!" a woman-no, a human-looking demon, according to Loop memories-wearing Chinese clothes, said as she pumped her fist. Loop memories also told Sky the demon was his assistant in a plan to take over the world for a powerful eldritch abomination and was crazy and in love with him.

"Just my love life." the blonde, Minako, told him. "Say, you look kinda... Loopy."

"Yeah, I'd need some Anchoring..."

Then Sky's assistant was shredded into tiny pieces by a white tomcat that had appeared from nowhere and landed on Minako's head, just as Minako morphed into a young woman that looked remarkably like a blue-eyes Stella, only more muscolar-and wearing a strange body suit that reminded him of sailor suits.

"Welcome to the Sailor Moon Loops, Sky, I'm Sailor Venus, the local Goddess of Love and War, and this is my assistant Artemis." she presented herself. "Now, I take you have some issues with your love life?"

"How do you know?"

"Besides having watched your Loop as a cartoon in the Hub? Look at who you have replaced." Artemis replied.

Sky did just that, and found out he was replacing someone who had been in love with Sailor Venus from their previous lives-and so this life he purposefully joined the enemy to make her fall in love with him and then KILL HIM, just to make sure she wouldn't freeze up the wrong moment when she realized her sense of duty came before her own happiness. And right before he Awakened she had told him something unexpected.

"Are you really dating the daughter of a politician with a plan to screw her father out of his money, a plan your girlfriend had?"

"Since the baseline, and we're gonna do that as soon as the Loops end." Sailor Venus confirmed. "Now, Artemis, go make sure the Princess didn't leave anything dangerous while Sky tells me about his troubles with Bloom."

The cat jumped down of her head and left, leaving Sky alone with the self-proclaimed Goddess of Love.

"I suppose it could help..." he said, and started talking.

"The good news is that I know how to help you. The bad news, it's gonna be hard." Venus told him after his tale ended.

"Please, tell me."

"The problem is, the two of you fell in love before knowing each other. And that's not exactly good, trust me. Or trust Ace, the guy you're replacing. Anyway, Bloom apparently fell for you because she is a very romantic girl who loves fairy tales and you came up and swooped her off her feet right as she was in a vulnerable moment thanks to that Mitzi and social isolation, while you appreciated her attentions and the knowledge she was after you for YOU, and not the crown.

"Fast forward to the Loops, and she matured and became more independent. While you... Well, you remained you. That Loop with the sociopath you didn't help on that. End result, she still has affection for you, but she needs more. She needs someone who can stand at her side, someone she KNOWS will be there for her for herself, someone she has some chemistry with. So my advice is: find yourself, find your dedication, and, most importantly, GET TO KNOW HER! At worst you'll both have closure, but at best you'll put that ring on her finger."

"Got it. Thank you." Sky replied as he swore to himself to become what he should.

"And if you get back together, I'm going to make sure your kisses will make her understand she means everything for you."

"What?"

"Have you forgot? We're shooting a film with a love story, and we're the leads! And before you ask, Rei won't burn you down, she knows I'm trying to help."

30.5 (Masterweaver)

"Bloom Domino and Isa Schnee, Flora Fiala-Victoria and Techna Fiala-Victoria. You claimed the White Bishop pieces. You will be known as team BIFT, led by... Bloom Domino."

"What's a Baglafecht?" Bloom whispered to Icy.

"I don't know, how do you-?"

"It's a type of bird," Flora explained. "Yellow and brown."

Techna smiled faintly as the four of them walked off the stage. "Well, Bloom, you're in charge again..."

"Brandon Ericson and Stella Solaria, Stormy Schwarzenegger and Timothy Steele. You claimed the Black Knight pieces. You will be known as team BSST, led by... Brandon Ericson."

"So we're hound dogs," Brandon mused. "I guess we're going for dark colors?"

Stella snorted. "You guys go for that, I'm sticking to white and gold thank you."

"Why am I called Schwarzenegger?" Stormy said grumpily. "Do I look like a Schwarzenegger? Do I?"

Timmy shrugged as they stepped off the stage. "This loop might need last names. Or it could just be Yggdrasil's idea of a joke."

"Diaspro Isis and Aisha Andros, Musa Melody and Darcy Dunn. You claimed the Black King pieces. You will be known as team DAMD, led by... Diaspro Ackstein."

"Well, I guess I am a princess," Diaspro mused. "And diamonds are a girl's best friend, I suppose."

"You're going to love it here," Aisha assured her, grinning wildly. "I can't wait to catch up with Ruby, maybe actually meet her sister and get a real fight!"

Musa chuckled. "Gets catapulted into a forest of shadow monsters, and is up for another bout. That's our Aisha."

"Shadow monsters..." Darcy mused as the quartet joined the crowd. "Do you think I could control the Grimm?"

Roxy Shepard and Riven Garnet, Sky Ericson and Zwei Gagnon. You claimed the White Queen pieces. You will be known as team RRSZ, led by... Roxy Shepard."

"Team Razzmatazz?" Roxy shrugged, her dog-like tail wagging. "I mean, I can see how it would be hard to arrange those letters into anything resembling a color."

Riven gave her a flat look. "I'm amazed they let somebody so young into Beacon. You must have truly impressed the staff."

"Excuse me?" Sky cleared his throat. "Headmaster Ozpin, I think there's been a mistake."

The man at the microphone quirked a brow. "If you are going to object to my choice for your team leader-"

"No, I'm sure Roxy can do that fine. It's just... I don't think Zwei should be my partner."

"And why is that?"

Sky stared at him. "...Headmaster... he's a corgi. A dog. A small dog, that any of the Grimm could gobble up in one bite."

Headmaster Ozpin took a long, slow sip of his coffee.

"Zwei passed the entry exam, and his references are remarkable. And you certainly saw how he handled himself during initiation. Beacon Academy prides itself on being inclusive to all sorts of applicants."

"...what."

"Now, if you're done voicing unnecessary complaints, I would like you to get off the stage. I have other teams to name and assign leaders to."

"Headmaster-!"

"Come on." Roxy grabbed his elbow and dragged him off stage with a small grin. "I'll make sure Zwei does his best, alright?"

Ozpin watched them go, a faint smile on his lips. Perhaps it was cruel of him to play his little jokes on visiting loopers, but... well, Zwei had seemed up for it. And perhaps they would learn something during their visit to Remnant.

He turned to the students standing just offstage, some of whom were giving him playful glowers, and shrugged helplessly. "Now then, who's next?"

30.6 (Jeanne Summers)

"Hey, Fand?" Diaspro addressed the sky, in a vague way, unsure how to speak with the Winx Loop's Admin. "I don't know if you can hear me, but I was kind of wondering... ummmm... I know I'm still on the MLE Watch-List, but I was hoping..." She let out a sigh and tucked a lock of hair behind her ear.

"Look, Fand, I feel like I'm being crushed, always trying to stay on my best behaviour, so I was hoping I could, maybe, just fill in for a minor villain for a loop, not a successful one, but I'd just like to, be a little bad without worrying about going too far or getting in trouble for it."

The fairy looked at her watch, time was almost up for this loop.

"So yeah, if, if I could do that, or not, I just... please?"

The Loop ended.

Diaspro became aware of being held in a dark, cramped space with several other bodies. Something was happening outside. Above her a sliver of light shone, and she made her escape. Standing and stretching as she sorted through her in loop memories she grinned, letting herself slip into character.

"Ahhh! After ten thousand years, I'm free!"

Destroying stuff was kind of fun, Diaspro had to admit. Playing a villain was exactly what she had needed. She'd spent so long trying to be the best she could be, trying to not worsen her MLE status, that she hadn't really let loose and had a chance to deal with the negative emotions she often felt.

She knew several people had died from her actions as an evil sorceress hell bent on destruction, but at the same time she was able to use the expected collateral to examine herself.

How did she feel killing these people, even knowing they were likely killed over and over again, even knowing they'd be alive again as soon as the loop reset?

"Hey," Diaspro startled, almost toppling into the freshly laid flowers.

"Uh, hi?" she brushed her hair from her eyes, and paled. Tommy Oliver stood a few feet away, his hands in his pockets, stance relaxed. On the inside Diaspro was panicking, did he know who she was, what she'd done?

During the time she'd had him under her spell, she'd never met the man face to face, certainly not in jeans and a hoodie. But that didn't mean anything.

"So you're the one filling in for Rita." He knew.

"Uhm, yeah," Diaspro shrank in herself.

"Huh, didn't expect to see you here, given..." he nodded to the graves. The markers of her victims.

"Yeah, I can understand how you'd be confused."

"Seems like you want to talk about it."

"Are you offering to listen?"

"I have time," he gestured for her to go ahead.

"You might regret this," he smiled, "okay, get ready to be unloaded upon."

"- so here I am, trying to figure out if being a villain in baseline, means I am inherently villainous."

Tommy eyed her over their table in the juice bar, working through everything she'd told him.

"Okay, first of all: I think it's a good thing that you're exploring all the facets of your personality in an effort to understand yourself, being on the MLE watch list can't be easy, I can't even imagine the pressure you must be feeling, having that kind of stigma over your head. Second of all: there's a watch list for that?"

Diaspro laughed, that one questioned seemed to be the inherent response.

"Third," he continued, "I don't think being a baseline villain means you're inherently villainous, I think every one has these dark impulses you described, you've just been putting yourself through extra worry because of your status, you keep worrying that extra inch. But you don't need to, the fact that you worry at all is a good sign. The fact that you acknowledge your darker side is okay, it means you can stop it from getting out of control. You are doing fine."

"Even though I killed those people?"

He smiled again, "people."

"Huh?"

"You call them people, you feel bad enough about what you did that you visited their graves. If you were as far gone as you're scared you might be, you wouldn't still see them as people."

Diaspro felt a weight lift from her as she realised he was right. She still had a lot of things to work through, but they weren't as bad as she thought.

"Thanks Tommy."

"Uh, my queen? I don't mean to bother you, but... it's been a while since we attacked the Power Rangers, shouldn't we, uh, attack them?"

"And how are we supposed to do that with my wand out of order?" Diaspro's in loop lackeys eyed the magical stave, which was in pieces on the floor. "Now be silent, I'm getting a headache!"

Goldar peered around the corner, spotted his queen by her magical telescope and sighed. Normally he'd be happy she was enthralled by her telescope, but normally that meant she was gazing through it and plotting, not surrounded by the sections, sitting cross legged on the ground.

"Alright, I have a new plan to DESTROY THE POWER RANGERS!" Her proclamation was met with cheers.

And the implausible sound of thunder in space.

Zedd was shouting at her, her minions were panicking. Diaspro was panicking, was this supposed to be happening? Was it because she hadn't actually conquered Earth?

Diaspro hadn't wanted to be an actual world enslaving/wrecking baddie.

Zedd raised his staff to cast a spell.

Despite the fact she did technically work for him, Diaspro's knee jerk reaction brought her own staff to bare, magic swirling.

The two forces met and-

-Diaspro blinked, a wave of dysphoria washing over her as she took in the forest passing by the car window.

"Woops," she pressed her hand to her mouth, trying not to giggle.

"Every thing alright sweetie?" She turned to Sheriff Charlie Swan and nodded.

"Yeah, I just realised I forgot to pack a few things, but it's fine, there's a store here."

Diaspro wasn't sure if she'd actually destroyed the planet of Magix all though loops ago, or if her 'memories' were just a manifestation of her guilt.

What she was sure about, was that she had just blown up the Earth's Moon, by accident.

"Hey! You're Crazy!Bella."

"Excuse you! I am not Crazy!"

"Really, cause last time you were here, Charlie stuck you in a loony bin."

Diaspro paled as she realized what the girl must have been talking about. "That... is a long story, I'm not... 'crazy' anymore. And my name is Diaspro."

"Leah, local Anchor. How do you feel about vampires?"

"What kind of vampires?"

"The kind that sparkle."

"... real vampires don't sparkle."

30.7 (Awesomedude17)

Aisha had been through this billions of times. Whenever she Awoke this late, she knew she'd have very little chances to make this work.

"Nabu, where are you going?" Riven shouted.

"The chasm! I have to close it!" Nabu explained.

Aisha's world began to dull as this particular event happened again. She mindlessly went through the usual motions. Everyone did. Even Flora did so.

The dark magic began to subside, and Aisha ran to Nabu, shouting his name.

She begged him to stay alive. She begged him to stay strong. She begged him to pull through.

"These eyes, Aisha, mustn't cry... I love you..."

Nabu gave out one last breath. It happened again.

He was dead.

She was practically on autopilot at this moment.

After beseeching for the Spell of Life, Aisha saw it. The Ethereal Fairies answered.

And then someone grabbed it.

Ogron.

Aisha was practically at her wit's end. She mindlessly demanded that he give the Spell back.

"Oops. How careless of me."

He cruelly dropped the spell. Time slowed down in her eyes.

Everything seemed lost.

What could she do? What does she have? How could she stop this?

"Thanks Sokka. So tell me, who did I replace?"

"My sister, Katara."

"Any special abilities?"

"She's a waterbender."

"Really? Neat! I can't wait to use it. I mean, I've never controlled... water... before..."

"Let's me guess, you had water powers?"

"My Morphix is connected to the ocean. Why didn't I think to use water attacks?"

Why didn't I think of that? No time left to waste.

Aisha, in a blink of an eye, began to grasp at the water in the ground with both her fairy magic and her waterbending prowess.

Just before the Spell of Life hit the flower, Aisha drove a spike of water through the ground, deflecting the Spell, and launching it towards her. Not bothering to notice Ogron's reactions, she moved the water she had, and launched it towards him.

The water pierced his chest, and he collapsed. Wasting no time, she used the Spell of Life on Nabu.

Please let it work. Please let it work. Please, for the love of all that is holy, let it work!

"U-ugh..."

"N-Nabu?"

"Aisha?"

Aisha began to embrace Nabu. "Oh Nabu, you're okay! Please don't die on me again. I beg you, don't die again."

"Aisha... you're crushing me."

Aisha opened her eyes, and then back off with an embarrassed chuckle. "Sorry. I'm just... I'm just so glad that you're okay. I so glad that you're alive." Tears began to form in her eyes.

"Shh... don't cry Aisha. Those eyes mustn't cry."

The two looked at each other, and moved in for a kiss.

"Uugh... I... I cannot move. What have you done to me!?"

Aisha got an annoyed look as she turned to the immobile Ogron, who had a panicked look in his face.

"Aisha, what did you do?" Flora asked.

"My guess, that water attack I did hit him in just the right way to paralyze him. He's not going to be moving for a long time."

"You blasted fairy. You'll regret this!" Ogron spat out.

"Enough of this." Riven took took out his mace and swung it onto Ogron's face. After doing it again for good measure, he was sure that the wizard was dead.

Nabu wincing at this, he soon realized something.

"Gantlos. Anagan. They're still out there."

"They're probably going to try and hide. We did just kill two of them." Sky said.

"Where would they hide?" Timmy asked.

"...The Omega Dimension?" Flora suggested.

"..."

"Huh, good guess Flora." Nabu remarked as Anagan and Gantlos appeared to be arguing.

"What do you think they're blabbing on about?" Riven asked.

"Guessing that without Ogron to keep them in check, they've decided to attack each other, or at least try to figure out what to do." Techna said.

"So what do we do?" Brandon asked.

"Let's take no chances. Take them down." Sky said.

"Let's." Aisha nodded, determination in her eyes.

The group approached them, surprising the two.

"Alright you two, we're giving you two choices. Either you give up, or we fight you, and considering that Ogron's dead-"

"He's dead? Impossible!" Gantlos recoiled in shock.

"It's true. I dealt the crippling blow, and Riven, the finishing one." Aisha said. "So what's it going to be, surrender or fight?"

Anagan shook his head. "We should give up."

"What? Why should we give up against these fairies?" Gantlos said angrily.

"These fairies are accompanied by the man who killed Duman, and that fairy took out Ogron."

"Peh. She probably got lucky. We can take them."

"So you choose to fight?" Sky spoke.

"We do."

"Girls, I believe you have something that can take these two down."

"Right." Bloom said.

"Believix!"

The six fairies, in their Believix forms, approached the two wizards.

Anagan looked between Gantlos, and the fairies, and let himself fall to the ground.

"Anagan, what are you doing?"

"We can't win this, Gantlos, so I'm giving up."

"Why you-" Gantlos didn't even finish that sentence as the Winx froze him in place. The Specialists promptly grabbed Anagan, and put out all the stops to keep him from using what magic he had left, and put him in chains.

"You made the right choice, pal. Now let's bring you to the proper authorities.." Sky said as he walked Anagan out.

Aisha sighed. It was over.

The Wizards of the Black Circle had been defeated, though that was a given.

What Aisha really was proud of was that she had managed to succeed where she usually failed.

Feeling a hand on her shoulder, she looked over to see Nabu, smiling.

"Hey Aisha."

"Nabu. Nice to see you."

"Same here. You know, I was wondering, where should we have our wedding?"

Aisha's heart skipped a beat. "I can't really think of a place at the moment. After all, you did die, and I did revive you."

"Heh. True. I was thinking we'd have it at back home at Andros. What do you think?"

"Good idea. We should probably talk with our parents about when too."

"Right. This was an arranged marriage."

"Until it was broken off, and then we reinstated it."

"Well, couldn't find a more perfect girl for me."

Aisha smiled. "And I couldn't find a more perfect man."

Nabu smiled back.

The two leaned in, and shared a kiss.

Fand stumbled to her terminal.

"Status report?" Fand said, zombielike.

"Uhh... We have a prompt to Activate Nabu... uh..."

"Nabu! Let me see!"

Miele showed the prompt that showed that he was ready to Loop.

"When did this happen?"

"A couple iterations ago, where Aisha rescued him from the Wizards of The Black Circle and a rather dramatic kiss to boot. Here, let me show you." Miele showed a recording of exactly that happening.

"Wow. This is exactly what I needed to bring my spirits up."

"Why were you so tired anyway?"

"We ran out of coffee. Aphrodite took the last one, but I got the last laugh."

"How?"

"AUUUUURGH! WHAT HAPPENED TO MY SKIN?!"

"A little magic to change her skin color to whatever she consumes for the next thousand years. She also took a cherry from Madoka's sundae, and I bet she's regretting that now."

Miele laughed. "Good on you. I never liked her."

"Who does? Lazy bitch."

Several Loops later.

"Well, I just defeated The Wizards of the Black Circle with a rubber chicken." Flora nonchalantly said as she walked in and grabbed a root beer. "What's the plan for the rest of this Loop?"

"I don't know, but I do know this. Pay up." Musa grinned.

"Ugh. Fine." Aisha handed Musa a fifty.

"Musa, you seem to be betting a lot more often than usual. Is Darcy encouraging you?" Stella asked.

"No, she's not."

"I think she is."

"No, she's not."

"Are we interrupting anything here?" Brandon asked.

"Not really. What bring you here, Brandon?" Flora asked.

"We've got a new Looper."

"So soon? After Sky Woke up?" Bloom noted.

"Yep. Aisha, get ready."

"Wait, you don't mean..." Aisha went silent.

"Come in Nabu. She's waiting for you."

Aisha's heart skipped a beat when Nabu came in. As he approached the Winx Club, he sighed.

"So, I guess I'm 'Looping' now. Brandon already gave me the basics, so I'll just say it. Aisha, I'm pretty sure that when you saved me, I became a Looper, so I guess all I have to say is... thank you so much. I guess we'll be together forever. What do you say?"

Aisha was speechless. All she could do was walk forward, and rub the back of her hand on his face.

"This not a dream. This is real. I... I'm glad you're Awake now, Nabu. I love you."

Nabu smiled. "I love you too."

As the two shared a kiss, Everyone clapped in celebration. When they broke the kiss, Nabu then wonder something.

"Since Brandon told me that Flora was the Anchor, what has happened while I wasn't Looping."

"I married Techna, Musa and Darcy are in a relationship, Bloom told Sky that he has to work for Bloom's affection, Sky's ex, Diaspro, is Looping and I'm fairly sure that she had a hard time last Loop I was Awake with her in because a vampire MLE named DIO or someone close to him killed me in my sleep, so he knew I was there, and he wanted nobody to stop him in his goals of world domination or something, I'm part vampire and part Chaos God, Roxy is someone who doesn't take no for an answer and occasionally, a man named Naruto kicks Darkar, Valtor and the Wizards of the Black Circle into low orbit when they inevitably destroy his attempts at ramen. Did you get all of that?" Flora rattled off in in a single breath without thinking about it.

Nabu was trying to process everything he heard, and failed.

"Can you repeat that from the top, and do it a little slower? I'm afraid I don't understand a thing about any of that."

"You know what, let's put it in writing, and take it from there."

Aisha couldn't help but laugh at Nabu's confusion. To his credit, he ended up laughing alongside her.

Nabu just had to admit, this was going to be interesting.

30.8 (Jeanne Summers)

Musa Awoke just inside the dormitory door, opening her mouth to greet her friends, she choked. Loop memories swarming through her mind, she let slip a small wail.

"Musa?!" All four of her friends were by her side in an instant.

"Home, I have to..." brushing them off, Musa let her Zoomix wings carry her home to Melody. Stumbling through the door she called out.

"Mum! MUM!" her mother appeared around the corner, looking concerned.

"Musa, sweet heart what is it?"

"Mum, oh mum!" Musa fell into her mother's embrace, weeping openly and holding her tight.

She thought she might be dreaming, her mother was holding her, brushing her fringe aside and looking concerned.

"Do you feel better now?" Musa nodded with a sniffle, "and do you want to tell me what brought this on? I thought you were starting at Alfea today, was some one mean to you?"

"NO, no, I've already made friends, I... I just missed you so much."

Her mother laughed, smiling indulgently, "you've only been gone a few hours."

"It felt like longer," her quiet, sorrowful tone made her mother pause.

"Musa, you know you can tell me anything right? No matter what it is, even if you think I won't understand, you can tell me."

Taking a deep breath, Musa explained as best she could, about a computer and a tree.

"Oh my poor brave girl."

"Girls," Faragonda stood in front of the assembled school, "it is my pleasure to introduce our new music teacher, Professor Matlin."

The Winx Club drowned out the polite applause of the rest of the school with their excited whooping and cheers.

Sitting on the docks of their home on Melody, Matlin and Musa held each other tightly. Matlin had long ago come to terms with her daughters strange fate, and her own tragic destiny, but before the clock ran out, there was one last thing she needed her baby girl to know.

"No matter where you go, or what you do, I want you to know: I am always proud of you, and I will always love you."

"Thanks mum."

"And I hope that your girlfriend treats you right."

"She does mum."

"Good."

Musa Awakened just inside the door of the Alfea dorm. Sinking to the ground she started crying, Flora was by her side in an instant.

"I'm okay," Musa cut her off before the 'are you okay's could start. "I'm okay, I'm just... I got to have so much time with her, and she was proud of me."

"Happy tears?"

"Happy tears," not entirely true, but Flora let the half lie go.

30.9 (Jeanne Summers)

"You know what's always surprised me?"

Diaspro looked up from where she was perched on the edge of her tank, referencing a manual on the engine.

"The... Spanish Inquisition?"

Bloom scoff and gave her a 'duh, no' look.

"The fact that you've never gone after Yoshinoya, I mean, you've gone after all the other bad guys but..."

Disapro put her wrench down. "You think I've never gone after Yoshinoya? Seriously? Offing Yoshinoya is practically my hobby."

"Wait really?" Roxy popped her head out of the nearest hatch.

"Um, yeah... I started off just dropping him in sink holes, or ensuring rock slides while he travelled, crumbling cliffs, that sort of thing." Roxy nodded, that made sense, playing to Diaspro's magical strengths. "Then I started getting inventive, I may have crossed a line around the time I locked him in a sealed room and had Zing bring in an army of Fire Ants... but then again there was the time..."

"...and of course making sure his fish wasn't properly prepared so he died of food poisoning felt kind of like cheating after that."

Musa, who had wandered over at some point during Diaspro's recollection looked at the fairy of Gemlight like she was seeing her in a whole new light.

"That was... unnecessarily brutal," she whispered in horror.

"Which part?" the blonde asked.

"The part where you cursed him so he - and only he - had to listen to that horrendous J.B. Music every second of every day until he offed himself."

"Musa's right," Roxy agreed, "even the thing with the rabid lemurs wasn't as bad as that..."

Bloom just walked away, staggering slightly till she reached the open air outside the shed, bending over she tried to breathe in a way that wouldn't make her sick.

She'd forgotten, no longer being the target of Diaspro's ire, just how vindictive the other girl could be.

"Bloom?" The girl in question looked up.

"Oh, hi Miho, sorry, just... taking a break, we'll get right back to the tank repairs in... in a little bit."

So that was quick.

30.1: Apparently you can beat someone to death with a napkin. I've been wondering about that for a while now...

30.2: Uhh...

30.3: Actually, you kind of are a teenage melodrama...

30.4: Sound advice.

30.5: Well, this is the start of... something? Not sure what, but it should be interesting. More to come.

30.6: Huh. I guess Fand takes requests.

30.7: NABU!

30.8: No, I'm not tearing up. It's just dusty in here. I swear!

30.9: Thaaat's alarming.