"Hey! Phillip! Lionel!"
Twin boys, both at least twelve years old, with short strawberry blonde hair (with slightly different lengths), fair skin, and green eyes, blinked as they heard their names being called. They looked at each other for a moment, before turning back to the source of the voice with curious looks. "Oh, it's only you, Mel, Mace." One of them stated as both Melanie, Mason...and six odd women approach them. They don't know who these women are, but they could have sworn that they've saw them in one of their mother's photo albums... "It's Phil." The boy rolled his eyes, he preferred his nickname more than anything, only his parents, his twin brother (Lyle), and vice versa can call them by their given names.
"And Lyle, by the way." The other boy continued, also rolling his eyes. One way to distinguish these two from apart is that this boy, Lyle, wears a cap with a dog's paw, while the other boy, Phil, had longer hair, reaching his nape. "Also, who are those ladies?" He asked, pointing at the Winx.
"Hell do we know." Mason shrugged.
Phil and Lyle only got more confused at this, blinking and looking at each other for a moment. "Then why are they in this place and with you-?"
"They just appeared out of nowhere in our dorm, alright?" Melanie muttered, "They're called the Winx-"
Okay, that name definitely rung a bell in the twins' heads, "But I thought the Winx are gone?" Lyle wondered out loud.
"No, Lionel, more like the Winx are just stories mum made up to tell us and Kat at bed time." Phil rolled his eyes. Of course they knew about the famous Winx Club, their mother would always tell stories about the famous 'Winx Club', a group of powerful fairies that saved the Magic Dimension from countless evil villains at the time, at bedtime when they and their younger sister were like, five years old. When they were too old for these tales, their mother said that the girls had gone/died under mysterious circumstances. Lyle, the more naive one, had always believed in these tales, believing that one day, these group of superhero girls would come back and bring the Magix Dimension in its former glory. Phil, on the other hand, was more of the cynical one as he believed those tales their mother had told them were just mere myths, mere fairy tales that their mother told for them to not lose hope for the Magic Dimension. But as much as he enjoyed them, he did not believe it, not one bit.
"No one wants your negativity around here, Philip." Lyle retorted at his twin brother, giving him an annoyed nudge at the shoulder basically saying 'don't be a killjoy'.
"Wait, you two know them?" Mason asked. Okay, why does these two boys know the famous Winx Club, but they don't? Surely, if they were that famous, they would have known about them...right?
"Who doesn't?" Lyle shrugged, even he knew nearly everyone he knows has heard of the Winx's tale and legacy, but for some reason, their mother, along with their uncles, had told them to not mention the famous group of fairies around Ben, Scarlet, and the others. They wonder why? "Winx Club, y'know, the most powerful group of fairies in the Magic Dimension, guardian fairies of their respective realms, the ones who saved our mum from these scary wizards and made her discover that she's a fairy, y'know...the Winx Club?"
"Oh, that's us alright!" Stella exclaimed, pushing her way through her friends and facing the boys, "See?! Even these two know us!" She turned to Melanie and Mason with an accusing finger, "And you don't?! Okay, that's it! It's all clear now! You and those other kids have been living under a rock for some reason!"
Both Mason and Melanie had been a bit taken back at this, but at the same time, they weren't surprised. "That's a bit too harsh, don't you think, Stell?" Musa joined in as the rest of the Winx girls shot an apologetic look to the two. Melanie scowled, while Mason just shrugged at the blonde princess' action. Melanie was always the slightly aggressive one out of the two, most say that she has the temper of her father...
"Anyways..." Mason continued on, holding his sister back just in case she's going to lunge at any of the Winx girl, namely the princess of Solaria. "Like Mel said, they're the Winx, but they're not the Winx you probably think." The twins only blinked at this again, "They said they're from the past, and they want to talk to your mom about going back or something like that." The Winx nodded at this.
"Oh," Phil and Lyle uttered in unison, "Understandable, I guess...?" Lyle shrugged, turning to Phil and whispering, "Told you they were real!" He exclaimed, obnoxiously pointing at the Winx Club. "You owe me your Pokemon Yellow!"
Phil crossed his arms and huffed at this, "Whatever." Turning to Melanie, Mason, and the Winx, he threw his thumb behind him and muttered, "Mum's at Miss Grissy's office if you're still looking for her, by the way."
...
The way to Roxy's so-called office was anything but uneventful. The Winx were rather surprised to be greeted with some of their old friends and their offspring. Like Mirta, Lucy, Alice, Jared, Manuel, etc...they even reunited with their pixies, but that's another scene for another chapter. For now, Melanie, Mason, and the Winx are now standing in front of what was formerly to be the Headmistress' office.
"This is the place." Melanie announced, her hands at her hips as she turned to the Winx. "Do it."
The Winx was confused at her statement, "Err...do what?" Bloom asked.
Melanie rolled her eyes at this, "Oh, I don't know, knock the door so you can talk to Aunt Roxy? I can hear her in there, y'know?"
"But...why don't you do it?" Flora mumbled quietly, "You should probably do it first and tell Roxy about what's happening-"
"Oh, there's no way in hell am I ever going to knock on Miss Griselda's office, even if it has Aunt Roxy in it." Melanie snapped, "That woman is like a ticking time bomb waiting to blow up if you piss her off hard enough, no thank you."
The Winx looked at the maroon-haired girl for a moment. D...did she just say Miss Griselda? She, and possibly everyone else, knows Miss Griselda? More importantly, Miss Griselda is here? It wasn't that surprising, considering how she's basically the Vice-Headmistress of Alfea...and they're at Alfea right now. But...if Miss Griselda is here...shouldn't Miss Faragonda be here too? Another question ached to be answered...
After staring at the hotheaded girl, they looked at her twin brother, basically saying 'how about you?' to him about knocking the door and explaining their situation, Mason only nervously laughed at this. "I know what you're thinking, and yeah I may be way nicer than my not-so-nice sister with some temper here," He got rewarded by an elbow to the ribs by his beloved twin sister, coughing for a moment, he laughed more at this, used to his sister's treatment towards him, "But I'm afraid I'm going to pass, you're on your own here ladies. My father may have raised me to be the brave young man I am today," Melanie scoffed and rolled her eyes at that statement, "But Miss Griselda is a whole different story, even dad admits that he's scared of her sometimes...so basically, no, I'm not going to do that."
"Darn it." Musa muttered under her breath, turning to her friends, "So...who's going to knock-?"
"Young Master Mason and Miss Melanie, I can hear you through the door, are you aware of that?" A woman's voice inside the headmistress' office, it sounded quite strict, but not in any way aggressive. Both Melanie and Mason flinched at the voice, while the Winx knew that voice all too well... "What do you two want? I have an important talk with Miss Roxy and it is rude to interrupt it."
"Uh..." Was all Melanie could utter, turning to her brother and elbowing him on the ribs again, demanding for him to speak up instead.
Mason merely flinched and groaned at his sister's action, "Uh...w-we don't mean to interrupt, Ms. Griselda. But you and aunt Roxy have new visitors demanding to discuss urgent matter..."
The two individuals in the office was silent for a moment, "And who are these visitors, might we ask, Mason? Melanie?" Another voice asked, and the Winx immediately recognize this as the voice of their animal fairy friend, with a hint of maturity involved in the voice.
"Huh...I think you would prefer it if you see them yourself...surprises, y'know?" Melanie nervously shrugs,
They could hear a sigh coming from the other side of the door, "Miss Melanie, we'd very much prefer it if you get to the point already. I'm afraid we don't have much time with your shenanigans-"
"It's your friendly neighborhood Winx Club!" Musa exclaimed.
The people in the office was silent for a moment. "...Is that superhero reference really that necessary?" Tecna sighed, massaging her temples as if she's had a headache. The musical fairy only grinned and shrugged sheepishly.
Without a second to spare, the door to the headmistress' office suddenly slammed open, revealing a certain animal fairy with dark pink hair, her eyes wide as she looked at the group of fairies she had always looked up to this day.
"Winx?"
"Roxy?"
...
"-And that's how we got in this...dystopian future of some sorts." Tecna finished off their story about how they got into this future in the first place to the now-adult animal fairy and somewhat old vice-headmistress. The Winx were either sitting on some of the couches in the office or just standing, while Ms. Griselda was seated behind the desk, and Roxy sitting on one of the couches also. The twins, Melanie and Mason, had recently left after Ms. Griselda had urged them to leave, deeming it 'inappropriate' for them to stay to listen to what they had to say...for some reason, Melanie was somewhat reluctant, considering how she was really curious about the Winx, and how Mason had to practically drag her out of the office.
Everyone in the room was silent, with both the vice-headmistress and pink-haired animal fairy speechless at the past Winx's situation. "...is that so?" Ms. Griselda muttered. The vice-headmistress hasn't changed much over two and a half decades, but the wrinkles and the graying spot on the roots of her brown hair has proven that despite the lack of change, she still aged.
Roxy only sighed at this, "I knew it was too good to be true." She was hoping for the day the Winx Club would return...but not like this.
"So...what happened to us?" Bloom asked hesitantly, frowning at the sight of Roxy's disappointment...something must have happened to them for the future to turn out like this, but what? They hope they find out soon...
"Well, I do not wish to be the one to tell you," Ms. Griselda spoke up sympathetically, turning to Roxy, "I'll just let Miss Roxy explain."
Seeing the usually-strict vice-headmistress nod at her, Roxy turned to the Winx, "..." She didn't want to tell them.
"...Roxy, we need to know." Bloom said sternly after the animal fairy had become silent for quite some time now, hesitance in her look. "Just because we're from the past doesn't mean you have to keep us in the dark like that. We want to know what happened to us, to, you know, fix the future? Save the future?"
"The thing is...we're on the same page." Roxy spoke silently, the Winx was confused at this.
"...What do you mean?" Layla asked, a bit worried at the statement.
Flora looked at Roxy with an encouraging look, and the Winx soon copied her look. "Go on Roxy...please."
"I...it's just that..." Roxy managed to utter, "...We don't know what happened to you either, Winx!" Roxy exclaimed, "I don't know, the guys don't know, your families don't know, Ms. Faragonda and the Alfea staff doesn't know, no one knows!" She took her time to calm herself for a moment, rejecting any type of comfort coming from anyone as she continued on. "It's been fifteen years, Winx, it's been fifteen years since the Magic Dimension was fine, okay, well...that is, until you guys..."
They waited in anticipation at what the pink-haired fairy had to say, "Until we what...?"
"Until you were gone," Roxy mumbled, "Like I said, no one knows what exactly happened to you. All we know is, one night, you seem to have disappeared, out of nowhere, into thin air, out of the blue. It basically took us and the Magic Dimension by storm..."
Their eyes widened at the newly acquired information as Roxy continued on. "We tried looking for you girls, every place, planet, realm, whatever, for years...but we never found you. We've literally lost hope at the time...but not the guys."
The Winx's eyes lit up at this, does she mean their boyfriends, the Specialists? "You mean...?"
Roxy nodded, "Yup, the one and only Specialists," She mused, "But, what do you expect? Those guys nearly stopped at nothing to look for the love of their lives, their wives...the mothers of their children, and all that..." She looked up at the Winx with a sad smile, "They really loved you, y'know?"
"Wait..." Layla paused for a moment to process what she just said, Roxy's statement about the 'love of their lives' and wives are understandable considering that it's the future, but the other one made her curious... "'The mothers of their children'?" She asked. Don't tell them they have...
Roxy showed a shy grin and shrug. "Yep...you have kids."
"Really?" Stella asked in awe, the thought of them having kids just excited her for some reason. "All of us?!" Roxy nodded, "OMG-!"
Musa covered her blonde friend's mouth before she can go on a rant about some Winx Next Generation crap, and then Bloom spoke up, "But where are they now, then?"
Roxy frowned at the question, she didn't want to tell them, she didn't have the guts to tell them the truth... "Well...your kids aren't around, at least, anymore... Your disappearance made an opportunity for the Trix to kidnap them...and they did, five years after your disappearance, to be specific. Who knows what those witches did to those kids...but if they were here right now, they probably would have been glad to see you again..."
The Winx gasped at the news, but there's this one last question that they've been dying to ask. "...What about the Specialists? What happened to them?"
"Well..."
A/N: This was supposed to be longer but, I don't think I still have enough time so yeah.
So...there's kind of a lot of questions rising in this chapter. Okay, maybe not a lot, but there are questions. Like, where are the Specialists? Who and what happened to their kids, or better yet, what did the Trix to do them? Where's Ms. Faragonda? Roxy has twin boys? Who is the father of Roxy's kids? While does Phil and Lyle, and basically everyone knows about the Winx but the orphans? Why is Melanie and the Orphans even relevant in this story? Well, find out soon!
By the way, about the Roxy has kids thing...the father of the kids have actually been mentioned, and who is that other than Roxy's boyfriend in the comics, Manuel. I didn't really have much difficulty in naming her kids, since I can tell that Roxy would be the type to name her kids animal related names. Like, Lionel (Lyle) means 'Little Lion', and 'Philip' (Phil) means 'Horse'. Plus, it's kind of a different version of the names of Phil and Lil, the twins in Rugrats. So yeah, I have to congratulate myself on that one.
Anyway...I hope you enjoyed reading!