Gravity Winx
by Adventremaker21
chapter edited by LovelessFantasy
Chapter 1: The spark of the flame
Update: 9/23/24
Lots of terms, stories, and overall writing have been changed to fit with the new and improved AM21. Expect more changes to come out soon for future chapters, coming very soon to a FFN near you!
Piedmont, California. August 31st.
The air was cool, the leaves were changing colors, and summer vacation was coming to an end. But to one pair of twins, this was only the twins who arrived at their destination after a summer riffle with adventure, romance, horror, and family bonding, both asleep next to each other with Waddles, their pet pig, in their arms. Mabel woke up as the bus made its stop in Piedmont, glancing out their window to see their parents waiting for them. This would be the first time they saw each other in 3 months.
Mabel opened her eyes and tapped her brother on his cheek. "Wake up, bro-bro. We're home," she said sleepily.
Her brother opened his eyes and said, "We are?" He stretched slowly bringing himself to full consciousness. "I'm excited to see mom and dad."
"I don't know about you, bro-bro, but I missed the crap out of them."
They got up and grabbed their stuff. When they walked out of the bus, Waddles trailing at their heels, they saw their parents and instantly felt at home again. "MOM! DAD!" They ran up and hugged them.
"We missed you so much," The twins said together.
"We missed you too," replied their father, smiling down at them. The twins let go of their parents and Mabel asked "What happened while we were gone?"
As she asked that, Waddles caught up to them and sniffed both the parents. After doing so, he backed up a bit, nose twitching in displeasure, or perhaps in confusion.
"Oh, who's your little friend here?" Asked their mother.
Mabel giggled and said, "Mom, this is the pet I told you about, Waddles." Waddles snorted in response and stared at the mother.
"Well hello there little piggy, I'm Mabel's mother, Dana," She rubbed his head.
"If you're wondering where she got Waddles, it was at a fair and he has been really good for her. In fact, Grunkle Stan, who hated him at first, even saved Waddles from a dinosaur," Dipper exclaimed to his mother. He'd been afraid that his mother might want to get rid of Waddles, but she had a wide, welcoming smile on her face.
"A Dinosaur? You two must have had some fun with Stan." Their mother said, chuckling at his story.
"Actually, it was Stan and his twin brother, Ford," Dipper said.
"It's a long story. Can we explain when we get home?" Mabel asked. "We'll have dinner, we can talk and then we can get ready for school in a few days."
Their mother nodded, and the twins bounded off towards the car. While the kids were distracted, she and her husband exchanged nervous glances, knowing that they had an important conversation to have with Mabel and Dipper.
"Kids," started their father. "We have something to tell you. It's important, but we must go home first. What we're about to tell you isn't exactly something we feel like discussing in public." Both Dipper and Mabel looked at each other wondering what was so serious.
"Oh god, this is it," Dipper said as he started panicking. "It's the divorce talk. I was afraid of this conversation all summer."
"It's that, Dipper. We're not getting a divorce," Mr Pines told his son.
"If anything, your father and I still love each other and wish to stay together until we die when we're super SUPER old," Mrs Pines said as she tried lightening the mood.
"Phew! Glad it wasn't that, eh Dipper?" Mabel nudged him as he smiled back, thinking it wasn't the divorce talk, but they were gonna have a talk anyway.
When they got home, their parents locked the door behind them and pulled out a few old photos of themselves. In the pictures they look dressed like royalty, some with other members of a royal manner, some with guards clad in armor, and some with some strange blond girl.
"Kids, we haven't been honest with everything about who we truly are. First of all, our names. I'm not Alexander Pines and your mother isn't Dana Pines. My real name is Oritel Sparks and your mother is Marion Sparks, king and queen of Domino, formerly the most peaceful and prosperous kingdom in the entire Universe. Basically, space aliens that can use magic."
"Wait, what?!" The twins both shouted after a few moments of silence.
Oritel sighed "There's more, kids. We used to rule over Domino. 16 years ago, three beings known as the Ancestral Witches, a dark wizard named Valtor, and a being called the Shadow Phoenix, came to our planet and turned it into a frozen wasteland. As far as we know, only your mother and I survived the attack. We came to Earth to start a new life here on earth which is where we met Stanford Pines, who had been a royal adviser before the attack on Domino. Stanford also survived, but before he left Domino, he had talked about his twin in Gravity Falls on Earth, Stanley, and about sending our kids over to that town when they were ready."
Marion joined in "What's more, our bloodline possesses a magical power greater them anything in the universe. You two have these powers deep inside you." Mabel and Dipper both looked at her doubtfully and Marion huffed. "Have you ever felt like you were different? Like you could make things happen that other people couldn't?" Oritel asks.
"You mean different like being outcasts?" Mabel asks. The twins imagined themselves at school being shunned by practically everyone. "Of course, I always wanted to find things like magic and the supernatural. Things that everyone says aren't real, but now they are thanks to Gravity Falls!" Mabel said. "And I want to spread happiness around to everyone."
Marion smiled encouragingly as Oritel bent down and put his hands on their shoulders. "Mason, Mabel, your mother, and I decided to sign you two up for a special school called Alfea, located on the planet Magix. It will help you two to discover who you truly are. We've already spoken with the headmistress and you are both heading to Alfea Tomorrow."
Mabel gasped in surprise "Are we going to the real-life version of Hogwarts? AWESOME! We're going to be magical twins now."
Marion smiles at the twins as they suddenly realize an important keyword in that sentence. "Wait a second...you said tomorrow," Dipper said.
"As in 'tomorrow' tomorrow?" Mabel added.
Dipper and Mabel looked at each other, worried about something important.
"OUR EARTH LIVES!"
"Can we at least say goodbye to our friends, both here and from Gravity Falls?" Mabel asked.
"I mean, we won't get to see them again until we're done with the school year," Dipper added.
"Why yes, of course," Oritel said.
"We're not monsters. Go and see if they can come over. They'll want to know what happened to the only pair of twins they know." Marion said.
An hour later, all of the twin's local friends were at their house, wanting to know what was going on.
"Hey, everyone." Dipper said, finally breaking the ice.
"We have something to tell you." Mabel taking a deep breath, she said "Me and my brother will be transferring to a private school starting tomorrow. We don't know how long we will be there, so we wanted to do something all together tonight and celebrate one last night of us being friends together before school starts again." Everyone nodded in agreement.
"Any questions before we start?" "Their friends burst into chatter immediately, each with a million questions to ask.
"Is it a boarding school?" One of them asked.
"Will there be uniforms?" Asked another person in the group.
"Where exactly is this school going to be?"
"Will we be able to see you both again?"
The twins try to answer in a calm and orderly fashion, but due to them not knowing what's about to happen to them, they just answer the best they can.
Meanwhile, in another room, their parents were talking to each other.
"Marion, is this the right thing to do?" Asked Oritel.
"Of course, my dear," Marion responded. "Besides, they have too much of you in their blood. Both of them are fairies of the dragon's flame and may bring our planet back from its ice age set by Valtor, Darkar the Ancestral Witches. "To be honest, I wanted a son who can protect his girl with a blade, not have wings."
Marion sighed at the thought "Well, we'll just have to wait and see, Oritel. But for him to be the first male fairy at Alfea in so long, I feel like they're destined for greatness."
Oritel just nodded in response, not knowing what adventures awaited the twins at Alfea, or if they would uncover the entire truth about their bloodline.
Later that night, when all the young guests left and all was quiet, Marion wrapped a lime-green towel around her bare body.
It had been quite a long fruitful day that she needed a warm bath, especially after telling her children the truth of herself and her husband who had been gone for three months. She needed to have some time for herself to relax and to think, of course after when Mabel and Dipper headed off to bed.
Her husband, Oritel, wasn't here as he was with the twins, probably reading some sort of bedtime story to them or who knows what else he was telling those children of theirs. . .
The redheaded woman had walked into the bedroom and sat down at her vanity, gazing at herself in the mirror. There were many beautiful pictures of herself and her family. Mable and Dipper from infants, to toddlers, to young beaming happy children and now they were in their early adolescence years.
Marion smiled at these olden memories that she and Oritel had cherished and treasured every moment, but something made the woman frown deeply.
There was that one single photo she'd kept well hidden from her youngest daughter and son. She had cast an illusion spell over that particular picture as only she and Oritel could see it. It caused her heart to throb painfully just over the sight of it.
The woman had carefully pulled up the picture that was on the vanity's side mirror. She felt her eyes filled with tears of grief. Sorrow had flittered across the redhead's face. Her heart had been shattered for thirteen years as well as her husband's. Their broken hearts had never healed nor would it ever come close to having their wounds being closed.
Marion had lost both her daughters during the tragic bloody massacre and genocide of their home world Domino, a world the twins will truly know.
The older daughter was the crown princess of Domino: Daphne Sparx and and a young baby girl.
The young baby was the only one out of her children who looked exactly like her with her firey red hair and those deep ocean blue eyes that twinkled whenever Bloom had looked up to her, Oritel, and Daphne.
It was as if it were a lifetime ago.
Something rose in Marion's chest as she thought about her darling baby daughter. She was only a few hours old when she died. No. Bloom alongside her older sister had been brutally murdered by that wretched wizard, that accursed shadow phoenix, and the trio of witches.
She sobbed to herself unaware of the fact that her husband had entered their bedroom.
"Marion?" he had rushed to his wife's side in a heartbeat. He never liked seeing his wife so heartbroken in tears, especially ones drowned in familial losses.
He gently placed his hand on her shoulder.
"My love, is everything alright?" Oritel asked softly, as concern showed on his handsome face, despite the fact that the two had slightly aged, but nonetheless, the two still appeared to be young.
"Oh. . ." her voice sounded utterly heartbroken, as the woman gazed at her husband with tears glistening down her pale face, "I miss my daughters, Oritel! I miss Daphne and Bloom so much! If they were only alive . . ."
Upon hearing his two beloved daughters' names being brought up, he froze in his place. He too had grieved for the death of two young girls that his two other children didn't know about, or are aware of their older siblings' existence before them.
Oritel never liked bringing up the subject of his previous daughters.
He hadn't gotten over their deaths nor did his wife and nor would they ever. They were their daughters and would be forever. They hadn't lived their life to the fullest, especially his second-born Bloom.
She had been a baby, barely a year old.
A beautiful baby girl, who was like a mirror image to Marion save for their eye colors being different. All his children had inherited his brown eyes and hair, even his eldest, Daphne who had hazel eyes, and dirty blond hair.
He never outright told Marion this, but he didn't feel like he deserved to be a father to those innocent girls. He could never forgive himself for not protecting them when they needed him the most. Oritel had blamed himself ever since and could never comfort himself or his beloved wife.
He held Marion in his arms, allowing her to cry as he rocked her (as if soothing her pain). He could be so strong for his wife, but even he had fought off his own emotions.
"I miss them too, my love, so very much," Oritel responded, still broken about the loss of their older daughters.
"Bloom was only a baby when she died! We only had her for not even a few hours before that accursed wizard took her from us." she shook into tears, as she sniffed. "She would have been sixteen by now if she were still alive! I and she would probably be having conversations about her dating, and Daphne, for the love of the flame, she would've probably been married by now and had a child by now, and we would've been the greatest grandparents in the Magix alliance."
"I don't even know how Mason and Mabel are taking this," Oritel wondered, only being dropped the bombshell of EVERYTHING of what happened.
"Hey Dipper, You still up?" Mabel asked as she saw Dipper still awake and reading that note he was handed by Wendy just before they left town.
"Yeah, I'm up. I know what you're gonna say," Dipper turned to see her in her bed. "Do mom and dad hate us?"
"We're being sent to a private school just after coming home from a summer's worth of supernatural, demonic entanglement, and a failed romance for the both of us," Mabel listed out. "Something doesn't add up."
"Did you have to add that last part in?" Dipper said, annoyed. "But yeah, I don't think Mom and Dad told us EVERYTHING about Domino or its fall."
"With our new powers, we could always just bribe them both into answering them for us," Mabel chipped up.
"Always got a new way of looking in another point of view, eh Mabel?" Dipper said as he complimented his sister.
"It's my specialty, dear bro-bro," Mabel said as they both laughed. As they did, they quieted down so their parents would not hear them. "But mom and dad don't hate us. And even if they do and this Alfea place sucks, we always have Star and the online besties to back us up. I'm sure they won't mind having us annoy them."
AN: This reiteration of chapter one is For Blair, who I miss every single day. Love you so much. This used to be an RP between me and them, and I decided to make it into a story. Wish you were still here to read this.