To break or not to break.
Magix
It had been six weeks since Stella,Flora and Bloom had suddenly disappeared one by one. Sky was sitting together with his friends and the remaining Winx club members wondering where to look next for his girlfriend.
"We have to find Bloom, Stella and Flora. Oritel, Muriel and Bloom were finally reunited as a family and then this happens. If I get my hands on the Trix..." Sky started but got interrupted.
"No the Trix have nothing to do with this. Icy disappeared while the other two escaped Lightrock. So this would mean that there is someone else behind their disappearance. It 's the only logical conclusion. Besides if the Trix had them imprisoned wouldn't they be all over the place trying to destroy everything?" Tecna reasoned as she looked up.
"That's right, they would be witching us out the moment they get their hands on Bloom and the Dragonfire. But what if the Trix are ...nah that would be ridiculous." Layla said.
"What were you thinking about Layla?" Musa asked.
"Well I thought since Icy and Bloom were taken at exactly the same day they might be together. Maybe they are both being used for some reason. I don't know...it sounds a little out there." Layla answered.
"Not that far out... I can feel there could be some truth in it." Riven said as he looked at the rest.
"What do you mean?" Helia asked him.
"Riven once had a short lived relation with Darcy and ever since then he is able to sense when she 's near. In the past few days he 's sensing that she is somehow in pain." Musa answered "I don't mean physical pain but he can feel she 's hurt..."
"You don't mind the fact that there still is some psychic connection between the two of them?" Timmy asked.
"At first it was difficult to live with and Musa tried many spells to sever that connection but it never happened so in the end we learned to live with it. It also comes in handy when the Trix are up to something. But lately it seems as if Darcy is screaming it out instead of trying to keep her feelings under control as she always used to do." Riven clarified the situation.
"If we put this all together we can conclude that the Trix are together with our girls and probably in big trouble, but Sky you can sense when Bloom is around isn't it?" Brandon started to think of a plan.
"I do but it feels like it is all over the place. Like as if there is some kind of force making sure I can't exactly pinpoint where she is." Sky said.
"That would explain why I can't tell where Darcy is as well." Riven said.
"Well whatever the case, we need to find them before it is too late to do something about it." Musa interrupted as she looked at the team.
The hideout.
The witches and fairies were suddenly brought to a big room where the old man stood waiting for them. As the girls were looking at him one of his servants was serving them a drink. The man then looked at the six of them with a smile on his face.
"Well the three witches couldn't be broken because the three of you always fixed them up after whatever torture we put them through so I had to come up with something new, something that would finally either finishes the witches and become the ultimate humiliation to them." he spoke up as the girls looked at him wondering what he up his sleeve this time.
"What is it this time you have in mind?" Icy asked him as she took another sip of her drink.
"Well I noticed that the six of you rather join forces than fight each other in the past few weeks. What I don't understand is why? Why would you fairies help these evil creatures?"
"Because it is not our way to torture them. We are guardian fairies and as such obligated to help whoever needs us. Right now, the Trix are the ones that need our help." Bloom answered as she looked at the man who only raised an eyebrow.
"Even if they aren't our favourite people it is our duty to even protect them from harm. I would be the last to actually help them but they need us and that 's what matters." Stella added.
"Why do you want to hurt them?" Flora asked.
"The Ancestresses are the reason I want them out of the picture. If they would die the Ancestresses would loose their powers and finally disappear as well. Isn't that what you want too." the man asked Bloom.
"They had my people locked away in the Obsidian circle together with them but we freed them all from their prison including the Ancestresses. If we have to face them again we will fight them with all our might but for the moment they are keeping themselves under our radar. As for the Trix, killing them is not the answer to destroy the Ancestresses, they are their daughters and that is a fact." Bloom answered his question.
"That is impossible. For thousand years they have been between life and death so how could they have children?" he asked again looking at Bloom who started to smile. Even Icy wondered what this was all about. Bloom then looked at Icy with a more serious face now.
"What I am about to tell here might make the three of you either hate me more or change your mind about me even more than it has already. The Ancestresses were given a chance by a higher being to be alive long enough to have a child. They took that chance hoping it would save them someday from their eternal life between actual life and death. Being ghosts was not the way they had pictured their lives after being reborn over a thousand years ago. They were abandoned by the witches that gave birth to them or so they were told. As they grew up they found out that those witches were actually killed and in their dying moment they cursed their daughters with eternal life in order to find their killer or his or her descendants and punish them for what was done to them. I think that what happened to Sparx was the result of that but since they didn't die they must have found the wrong people who were responsible for killing their mothers. There has always been friction throughout history between the powers of darkness and light but there was always balance as well. All that changed thousand years ago because someone decided it was better that only one side should be absolute and the other should serve the absolute power. Since then Darkness and Light have been fighting to become the absolute power. All that ended in the worst case scenario eighteen years ago..." Bloom told as she was looking at everyone "The Trix are actually the victims in this whole scenario, they lost their mothers because of the company of light who banished them to the Obsidian circle in the first place. They became the way they are today because of my parents Oritel and Marion. I am not going to make that same mistake."
When Bloom had finished the man laughed out loud as he looked at them.
"You see Bloom you don't have to since I already sealed their faith. The drinks they were drinking were spiked with a special potion. It will turn them back to their embryonic state which they won't survive. You have about two hours to make your goodbyes since now they can't be saved any more." he said as he left the room. The Trix then looked at their empty glasses as they realised they were tricked.
"Why did he do that?" Stella asked.
"Because that was the only way he could get rid of us." Stormy answered.
"What did you mean by the Ancestresses being reborn a thousand years ago?" Icy asked Bloom.
"You paid attention when I told him the story of the Ancestresses. Now I can tell the parts I left out because I didn't want him to know everything. Before they were reborn they had lived a life until they were twenty it was then that an evil warlock had poisoned them with a potion just like the one you just were given. The warlock had gotten away just in time before the witches and fairies who were looking for him found them. One of them was my ancestress and when she found out what was happening to them she came up with a very special spell. It is known as the rebirth spell which my mother recently taught me. The main purpose of this spell is to put the embryo in someone's womb and she put the Ancestresses into the womb of the witches that volunteered to save them. There is a downside to this spell, they were reborn with every memory of their previous life intact, they even remembered being born. When they were reborn they were raised as well as they could until one day the three of them were left alone for a what was supposed to be just a few hours. Their mothers never returned and they grew up slowly becoming the way they are now. When they found out what had happened to their mothers their anger knew no boundaries. Their lives became all about finding the killer of their mother and over time they even forgot what is was all about. They blamed the Sparx royal family for what had happened to them in the end and wanted to get their hands on the Dragonfire in order to revive themselves. It was in those days that a higher being decided it was time to interfere and offered them a choice. They could go after the Dragonfire and keep reviving themselves for all eternity or they could be revived long enough to have a child. They choose the last option." Bloom told the group as the Trix were slowly rejuvenating "When they were revived they came across a man called Valiant who in the end became the father of all three of you. Once you were born the Ancestresses turned into ghosts again but they were happy and decided to go looking for this killer again. Even the killer was as cursed as they were but Valiant had different ideas about that and tricked them into believing that the killer was in Sparx. You can guess what has happened next. As for the grim part of the story, Valiant was a prince of Sparx in possession of the Dark Ember of the Dragonfire. He later became better known as Valtor."
"What are you saying? Valtor was our father?" Stormy shouted while Darcy seemed to feel bad.
"No wonder he wasn't interested in either one of us, we do have a bad taste in men. But why didn't he tell us and how did you find out?" Icy asked Bloom.
"Valtor used to be uncle Valiant." Bloom answered making everyone in the room looking at her even more confused.
"Are you telling us that we are family?" Darcy asked.
"That 's right. When my mother told me about him I felt sick to my stomach, especially since I killed him. Now you never have the chance to know your father." Bloom said to the witches who then looked at each other.
"It was not your fault he is dead. He should have quit when he was defeated but no he had to tempt faith by attacking you again. It costed him dearly." Icy said as she walked up to Bloom and put her arms around her. They stood there for a while holding each other.
"So we are cousins," Darcy stated "unbelievable. I never thought this would happen."
"Yeah, we have been witching out family." Stormy replied as she shook her had.
"What does it matter now, we are dying anyway." Icy said as she sat down.
"Well, you don't have to die." Bloom responded to Icy "I can perform the rebirth spell and save all three of you."
"And who will be our mother? It's not as if there are some witches here who will carry us to birth." Darcy wondered.
"I will carry you to birth." Bloom said making everyone look at her.
"Hold on, I am not going to let you give birth and raise the evil triplet by yourself honey." Stella cut in "if you are going through with this spell you might as well give Darcy to me."
"Even if it ruins your figure?" Bloom asked Stella
"Hey that would happen some day anyway." Stella said as everyone started to laugh.
"While we 're at it why don't you let me carry Stormy to birth." Flora offered.
"Sounds all noble but there is a tiny detail we are overlooking" Icy started "our powers are bound in here."
This made everyone look down as they realised the old man had won after all.
"You know, what could be more humiliating" Darcy wondered "die as an embryo or being reborn as a fairy's daughter."
"I 'd say the first one, I 'd rather die of old age as the daughter of Flora then as an embryo." Stormy responded.
"I just don't want to die. Right now I wished someone would find us in the next hour or so." Icy hoped as she started to cry. As everyone was sitting down holding each other suddenly they heard a lot of noise coming from behind the door.
"What is going on out there?" Stella wondered.
"Whatever it is it 's helping us too." Bloom said as she felt her powers being unleashed again.
"We can kick back now." Icy said as she stood up and started walking to the door but before she reached it it opened. The man ran in there followed by three shadows.
"You 're not getting away from us, Barash. You killed our mothers and you turned us into children again. Now we will punish you for that." the three Ancestresses shouted at the man as he came closer to the Winx and the Trix. He reached out for Icy but before he even got his hands on her he was turned into a block of ice.
"Well done Icy" one of the Ancestresses said.
"Now kill him." another said
"only then we can finally die and rest in peace." the third one said.
"Is that the only way the curse can be lifted?" Bloom asked the Ancestresses.
"Unfortunately, it is." they answered.
"I don't care." Icy said "He is going to get what he deserves."
Bloom then looked at the iced man and then realised that he still had a body.
"How is it possible he still has a body whereas the Ancestresses don't?" she wondered.
"He absorbs the life force of the people who he has dosed with his special potion, rejuvenating him as well as his victims. The moment his victims die he regains his youth. Only once he had failed to do so." an Ancestress explained.
"I see, well then Icy if you still feel like killing him let's do it all together." Bloom said wondering how many people had fallen victim to this man. They all combined their powers and sent it into the man killing him once and for all. When it was done the Ancestresses all smiled as they were slowly disappearing.
"Thank you all for finally letting us pass on to the next world" they said while the Trix were crying and the Winx were comforting them. Once the Ancestresses were gone Bloom looked at the witches who now looked like twelve year old and whose clothes no longer fit them.
"Now let's get out of here."Bloom said. Stella then performed a transportation spell making them appear in the royal palace of Sparx where Oritel and Marion looked confused at the girls. Bloom told them everything what had happened in the past few hours.
"So if I'm getting this right you want to carry Icy to birth. Why would you want to do that? After all she is the daughter of an Ancestress. Wouldn't it be more logical to let a witch raise her again?" Marion asked
"Well first, I found out that a few days before I went missing that they are family. Second, where are you going to find a witch willing enough to give birth to them?" Bloom wondered.
"What do you mean by family?" Marion asked.
"Didn't you have brother?" Bloom answered making Marion look at her with big eyes.
"How did you find out about him?"
"History books mother. I read up on my history of Sparx. I wouldn't make much of a queen if I didn't know anything about the history of my world. Why didn't you tell me?"
"Because he was the black sheep of the family. He wanted to rule as king of Sparx but throughout history only the keepers of the Dragonfire were allowed to rule this realm. It's the law. If Daphne hadn't died she would have been the next ruler but things didn't work out this way." Marion finished her story.
"Well ," Bloom started "Icy, Darcy and Stormy are his daughters. So that 's why they are family."
"So Valtor did have children after all." Oritel said as he walked up to the Trix who were getting younger by the minute. Suddenly the other Winx girls and their boyfriends showed up.
"Bloom, you 're back...I missed you so much." Sky said as he took his fiancé in his arms.
"Stella my sunshine, it feels good to have you in my arms again." Brandon celebrated.
"My beautiful Flora, come into my arms." Helia embraced Flora
While everyone was greeting Bloom,Stella and Flora the Trix felt their that their powers were diminishing.
"Bloom, what is going on with the Trix?" Musa asked.
"Yes, they have been poisoned with a special potion that returns them to their embryonic state. The only way to save them now is to use a spell that only a keeper of the Dragonfire can use this spell. So Stella, Flora and I have decided to use that spell and get pregnant. The three of them will be reborn in six or seven months from now." Bloom answered as she walked up to the Trix who were looking about six by then.
"So we are going to have a child." Sky stated "and not just any child but a descendant of the Ancestresses. Well does that mean we are getting married any time soon?"
"No Sky, we are having a baby sooner than we had planned, that's all." Bloom answered "But Icy will have to get used to a new name."
"What do you mean" Icy asked.
"Well if I call you Icy again some people might put one and one together and may want to kill you. How do you feel about Isabel?"
"Sounds great. You have to get used to being called mum soon." Icy laughed.
"Oh, my mother would kill me. She is going to be a grandmother soon and she had hoped that Brandon and I would wait at least four more years before we would have children. And the fact that Darcy is going to be her granddaughter will make it even worse." Stella said as she realised what she was about to do as she saw her parents walk in the room.
"What did you just say?" King Radius asked as he walked up to his daughter "I am going to be a grandfather soon?"
"What is going on here?" Stella's mother asked and Stella told her everything that had happened.
"So that's why I want to go through with this." Stella finished her story.
"Spoken like a true guardian fairy." her mother complemented "This is not really as we had hoped but a witch as a granddaughter doesn't sound too bad after all."
"Would you change my name too?" Darcy asked.
"Yes, honey. I was thinking about either Aurora or Daisy which one do you prefer?"
"I 'd like to be called Daisy. It sounds closer to my name." Darcy answered.
"What will your parents think about you getting pregnant with me?" Stormy asked Flora.
"I just got of the phone and they actually are looking forward to meeting you as soon as you are born." Flora answered
"Would you please change my to Samantha when I am reborn?"
"Why Samantha?"
"I love the way it sounds." Stormy answered as Flora picked her up. The Trix were close to two years old by then while Marion and Bloom were making the necessary preparations to perform the spell. When they were ready Stella and Flora were the first ones to get a baby in their wombs and then Marion performed the spell on Bloom. As soon as it was done the girls decided to go outside and enjoy the last moments of their freedom.