title: a thousand winters

rating: T

summary: four years after Tecna's disappearance in the Omega Dimension and the disbanding of the Winx Club, Timmy seems to be the only one who hasn't moved on. Roxy, trying to outrun her own demons, joins him on his quest for the truth, even as time is running out. Maybe the search will fix everything that's been broken. Maybe questions are better left unanswered.

Hey everyone! If you hadn't guessed, this is a revised version of my earlier story 'Cloud'. I started that one without really knowing where I was going with it, but suddenly had inspiration after like five years and started writing it again a little while ago. And my old writing style does not at all fit with what I do now, so that's changing, as well as a couple plot elements. Well, actually most of the plot elements because (lol) what u see on Cloud is what there was. I literally had no idea where that story was going to go from. That was it. I'm leaving Cloud up because I don't like it as a whole but I think I got some good one-liners in that might not fit in this narrative. don't read it though. It sucks. Also, why was it called Cloud? Because I thought that was a cool sounding title. At no point in the story were there ever going to be any clouds. I was wild back then.

Anyway, be sure to read and review and let me know what you guys think! Hope you enjoy.

the imperial palace

eraklyon

Bloom had been taking an internet quiz about the color of her aura when the news broke in the form of a sidebar headline.

Immediately she called out for Sky, her eyes never leaving the words on the screen. He didn't come so she yelled louder, and there must have been something in her voice this time that scared him, because he came skidding into the room with his sword half-drawn.

Before he could even look annoyed about the false alarm she said, "they're destroying Omega."

"No." Sky crossed the room quickly to stare at the screen. "No, they're not. They don't have the votes. They never have the votes."

"Yeah, they're expected to. And the new Governor of Magix is for it, and the new queen of Kast is for it, so that makes nine out of seventeen planets voting in favor." Bloom followed his gaze to the breaking news story. Maybe because she liked torturing herself, she reread the lines that made her heart hurt, reflecting miserably on the way her heart jumped when she read the familiar name.

The obscure prison planet was left unsecured during the Valtor Wars and gained extreme notoriety after Tecna of Zenith, member of the Winx Club, was lost there after closing a portal that threatened the planet Andros. She was declared deceased one year later after three official searches were unable to recover her, though one did find a spatter of her blood in the snow. Half of the third search party also disappeared, though most of their bodies were later found, and as a result, the Omega Dimension was declared closed. No one has been down since.

Due to the extreme negative energy and the fact that the planet appears to be getting stronger, the Governor informed press of his intentions to carry out the plan approved by the Interdimensional Security Board: the Omega Dimension will be sealed into a closed plane and remotely vaporized from there. An agreed upon date has not yet been released for the destruction of the planet, but sources say it could take up to a year due to red tape, though if the situation increases in urgency, the timeframe will be sped up.

"You've gotta call Timmy," said Bloom, but then she shook her head. "No. Wait. If he hasn't heard you can't tell him over the phone. Call Brandon—or Riven, or Helia, have them check on him—" suddenly the same stale, tearful anger came over her as always and she balled her hands into fists, and that didn't satisfy anything. "I'd like to destroy that horrible place myself. Set the whole thing on fire. It took her life, and it's taken his, too—"

Sky didn't say anything, but he put his arm around her and she leaned into him. With his other hand he looked down at his phone. She felt like her words were hanging in the air. She had said Brandon first out of habit, still, but she knew he was calling Riven. It wasn't like he could really just call Brandon anymore.

Faintly she heard the other end pick up.

"Hey, Riven," Sky said. "It's me. Have you seen the news?"