"Oh, the 21st century," Scarlet mused bitterly, "Where everything was, well, peaceful where we, civilians, can walk around the streets and nearly everywhere without having the bad guys or their watchdogs to worry about." She paused for a moment, "At least, that's what dad and the others say."
"Well, they did say that that era was quite a time to be alive." Melanie shrugs, rolling her eyes. "This generation sucks."
The Winx found it quite hard to believe, so many burning questions in their minds. Is the Magic Dimension really in chaos right now? If so, how did it happen? When did it happen? Are they even alive in this timeline? If so, where are they? Why aren't they saving the Magic Dimension fifteen years ago like they should? And so on, and so on...
"Are you sure that the Magic Dimension is in chaos though?" Bloom asked with an unsure expression. "Other than this abandoned building of some sort that you are living in, everything seems to be peaceful." She says, hearing no sounds of blood curdling screams like she would have expected when everything is in chaos.
The orphans only looked each other knowingly at this, "Oh yeah? Is this what you call peaceful?" Scarlet asked, walking over a curtained window-door thing leading to a balcony and pulling it open. Considering the Winx's distance between them and the window-door, they couldn't really see much. Looking at each other, they curiously and hesitantly walked over to the balcony door thing, "Go ahead," Scarlet encouraged them as she gladly slid the sliding door open, nodding at them for them to take a step forward and see what's really going on on the world around them 25 years from now.
"Hey, there's this thing I like to do," Reed called out, "Closing your eyes for more shock factor."
"Okay, how does that even help?" Musa asked, looking back at the boy with slicked back, dark blue hair with a raised brow.
"I dunno about you but seeing a past individual look at what the world has become is a tad amusing and simply hilarious." Tess stated, backing up for Reed. He only grinned at her and gave her a high-five. "Don't worry, just close your eyes and walk to the balcony, we'll tell you when to stop and when to open your eyes for the surprise." She's saying this as if the 'surprise' is a good thing.
The Winx just sighed at this, closing their eyes and taking a step closer until they're now standing on the balcony, they were simply anxious for the surroundings around them being...well, in destruction. They momentarily shuddered as cold air blew on them, this only adds to their anxiety. What if the kids are right? What now?
Hearing a whistle, they took it as a sign to open their eyes. Expecting, or rather, hoping that their surroundings would be just like before, peaceful, calm, tranquil, soothing...
But, no.
The kids were absolutely right.
The sky was dark and cloudy, witches and other evil creatures roamed freely around, trees in the forest were either burned to the ground or was plain destroyed, there's barely any water in the lakes, the only thing that separates the building, or rather, castle-like building they were in and the destructive outside was a sturdy, still standing, all too familiar winged gate that looked a bit worn down, but even then the surroundings that was held in the gate looked like a mess.
Gasping, the Winx can now familiarize the surroundings. "This...this is Alfea," Flora whimpered in shock, her voice barely audible as she and the Winx continued to look around. Some parts of the castle-like school was destroyed, the fountain at the center of the campus that they always hung out on was blasted, there were some blasted hole things around the ground in the campus, showing that there was some intense battle that occurred here, even the bright pink color of the school was now miserably faded.
They took a look at the major all-boys school from the distance, and it wasn't good condition either.
"N-no, this can't be happening," Layla muttered as she and the Winx backed away from the balcony, away from the madness.
"Yeah, it can't be happening," Noah repeated sarcastically, momentarily rolling his eyes, "'Cause it's already happened, believe it or not."
"B-but how?" Bloom asked in disbelief, looking at the orphans with wide eyes.
"Since you're from at least 25 years ago," Bianca says, pointing at them, "You already know about those three scary witches, right? I kinda forgot their names-"
As soon as the brunette had said 'three scary witches', the Winx immediately knows who is behind this...mess. "The Trix!" Musa exclaimed, gritting her teeth and clenching her fists in anger, how dare those witches destroy the future? "I swear I will blast them off to ob-"
"Don't forget the Trids," Blaine casually adds.
The Winx were confused. The Trids? Of course they've heard of the Trix, they are their arch enemies! But the Trids? Who in the realms are they? "Trids?" Layla questioned.
"You know, their annoying offspring that was spawned from hell, duh." Melanie explained dumbly at them, before understanding as to why they are confused. "Oh right, you're from 25 years from the past, right?" Seeing them nod, she just nervously laughed, "Oops, they didn't even exist back at your time, my bad."
"Anyway," Cody decides to continue Melanie's explanation after the maroon-haired girl was a bit embarrassed for unintentionally mocking the Winx. "Like what Melanie stated before, the 'Trids' are the offspring of the Trix, in other words, their children. Hence, why we call them the Trids, short for the Trix kids. But they don't necessarily call themselves that, though."
"Great, they have children." Musa rolls her eyes, "What else is in store for us in the future?"
Stella thought about it for a moment, if the Trix has kids, then that means... "Ooh, I hope we meet our own kids! I wonder where they are, or who they are!" She exclaimed excitedly, before gasping at the orphans, "But what if YOU'RE our future kids-?!"
"It's possible, but at the same time, very unlikely." Tess shook her head, one of them, as her mother? "We don't even know you."
"We don't even know our own mums, Tesla," Jade points out, "So we can't really tell if they are indeed our mums from the past or not."
"So you're saying, that this woman right here, for example, Tess walks over to the Winx, specifically Tecna, and gestures at her, "Can possibly be my long lost mother?"
The orphans only examined the two, "Hmm, you two do look alike, I must admit." Glenn shrugged.
The blue-haired girl only frowned at this and kept glancing at the technology fairy, "No, we don't, okay, maybe we have the same eye color but that's it."
Bianca only raised a brow at this, "But what about your dyed hai-"
"We don't talk about my hair." Tess cut her off firmly, "Like I said, they're not our mums, and we're not their kids, got that?"
"Geez, Tess, why are you being defensive about this?" Mason asked with a frown.
Tess only gave them a tired look, "Remember the time we thought that these weird women were our mothers because we 'look so much alike' and ended up following them and almost got killed-"
"Oh," That was all the orphans could say, shuddering a bit at the memory of their...misadventure.
"Wait," Musa says, looking at them questionably, "You don't have mums?"
The orphans only nodded at them, "We don't even know who they are or what they look like. Pretty pathetic, huh?" Melanie shrugged. "Dad doesn't even bother mentioning them, and if they do, it's always getting switched to a new freaking topic-"
"But what about your fathers?" Flora asked in concern, she's starting to feel bad about these kids, are they orphans?
"Well...our dads were pretty much the only parental figures in our lives," Ben shrugged, "Well, that is, until they got abducted by those witches a couple of months ago."
"They got kidnapped, by the Trix?" Bloom asked. What would the Trix even need from a couple of fathers just looking out for their motherless children? The orphans only nodded at this, "But, why?"
"Hell if we even know." Blaine shrugged, "The only thing we know is that they need something from dad, I just don't know, since he never told us. None of them did."
"Secrets are just a common thing here, I guess." Melanie muttered bitterly.
"Huh, that reminds me," Musa ponders, "If the Trix are out there, ruling the Magic Dimension when they shouldn't, then...where the hell is our future selves and why are they not kicking the witches' asses by now?"
"You're right, Musa," Tecna agrees, turning to the orphans, "Well?"
"We didn't even know who you are before," Tess points out, frowning, "How are we supposed to know where your whereabouts are?"
"Well, did you live in a rock for who-knows-how-long or something?" Stella asked, she still found it extremely hard to believe that these kids don't even know who the Winx Club are. "We're the Winx Club, hello! Guardian fairies! Most powerful fairies in the Magic Dimension! Arch enemies of the Trix?!"
The orphans only blinked at this, and shrugged. "Okay, maybe it does ring a bell a bit." Ben admits, "But we only hear the name 'Winx Club' from others from time to time, we don't actually know what you look like or who you are."
If these kids don't even know who they are, how will they ever find their future selves? Where are they? Why aren't they even known anymore?
Are they...dead?
They shook their heads at this, no, it isn't possible. They couldn't possibly have been dead all along...
Other than going back to their respective timeline, their other goal is now officially to find where the future Winx are, or at least, find out what happened to them. And maybe with the help of these kids...
It's weird. In the future, the Winx normally expected that the Magic Dimension would still be at peace, but now they're living happily with their respective Specialists, with, of course, a new family, with kids and all that. But instead, they're greeted with this.
...Speaking of the Specialists, where are they? Along with their families and other friends? Yet another question and mystery yet to be solved.
They wouldn't even bother asking the kids about their boyfriends. They don't even know the Winx, much less the Specialists. Or do they? Most likely not.
"Huh," Mason pondered a bit, "Speaking of Winx Club, Aunt Roxy does mention the name a lot before."
This somehow caught the Winx's attention, "Wait, Roxy?" Bloom asked, her voice somewhat hopeful. "You mean the last fairy on Earth?"
The kids were caught rather off guard about this, they know about Roxy? "Yes?" Scarlet hesitantly answered.
"You know her?" Glenn asked.
"Know her?" Musa demanded, "She's basically like our little sister!"
"Well, you want us to bring you to her or something?" Melanie offered.
"Yeah!"
A/N: Oh goody, false foreshadowing! Extreme red herring usage in chapter!
Whatever you're thinking right now, let's just say; it's not what you think it is. Feel free to conclude whatever you're thinking, but it's not what it sounds like.
Anyway, *GASP* Roxy is here?! That's one heck of a surprise. But that's not all, I'm also going to include the other minor characters' future versions, and in some cases, their offspring included, in the future chapters.
Uh, I'm too tired to say anything more so, I hope you enjoyed reading, I guess?