#Ophir Energy

[daydreamsia]

Winx Club (seasons 1-3) Rewatch thoughts:

the Trix having Knut work for them was kinda iconic

the Trix are giving boss bitch energy (only season 1)

Riven with Darcy would have been so much better if it would not have been a spell

also, what do you mean - "negative energy like the Prince of Darkness" tell us more! who is this Prince of Darkness?

magic for Riven? he could be Sorcerer of - idk to be honest i have no idea and i have been thinking about that a lot

i'm not a fan of Musa×Riven

Mirta is a baby and needs to be protected

"the witch who turns emotions into pictures"? - sounds like Witch/Fairy of Emotions would have been a better title for her

Diaspro had every right to be offended/feel attacked and defend herself

PUMPKIN

i ship Flora and Mirta

Stella and Brandon are perfect for each other!

the Pixies are kinda annoying but also not

i'm not a fan of Gloomix - would have been more interesting if Darkar gave them a piece of his magic - the Shadow Flame. kinda like Bloomix but also different

OMG Flora and Helia are SO CUTE

but i still prefer my idea of Flora and Mirta

Jared's pictures of Musa gave me serial-killer vibes - photographing her without her knowing and without him knowing her is not romantic!

don't be sad Layla! - they really want to be friends with you

i like Stelas humor a lot

still not into Musa×Riven

what was Darkars Plan again?

Sky had every right to be worried about Bloom, because it felt like she was a little too much into Avalon

the Charmix-bags seem impracticable

Dark Bloom is HOT

MegaTrix are a weird idea but i'm here for it

of course ICY doesn't freece in Omega - is everyone stupid?

hello Valtor

tell me, what are Chimeras powers? Fairy of - i hava no idea what could be fitting

Musa looks good with long hair but the short hair suited her better

Stella and Brandon are still perfect for each other!

Stellas dogs recognizing her made me happy

Diaspro should be over Sky - he's not worth it and she deserves better

Enchantix is giving everything! and i'm not even a fan of the gloves and those "shoes"

what do you mean "final transformation"? there are like X more seasons to come

every other transformation after that should be not as strong as Enchantix - except for the part they need them for, that part can be stronger

Tecna saves the day - we stan her!

still not a fan of Musa×Riven

but Tecna and Timmy are the cutest!

and i'm slowly falling in love with Musa×Layla

Diaspro as a fourth Trix, huh? i'm into that idea! but i also like that she is an "evil" fairy

why are the Trix so into Valtor? like one of them would be ok. but all three of them being into a guy that much older than them...

lol, GIGANTIC Pixies

why are they only worried about Bloom when Tecna is still in Omega?

of course Bloom gets her Enchantix through pure force of will *eyeroll*

redesign idea for "incomplete Enchantix": the Magic Winx wings  instead of the Enchantix ones and the Charmix brooch instead of the fairy dust bottle(?) - it should be visible that something's off about her Enchantix

Timmy is the cutest!

of course Bloom and Sky find Tecna right after arriving *eyeroll*

GIANT ICE SNAKE

Ophir - stop stalking!

i would have preferred Layla and Nabu as friends

i'd still be here for Musa×Layla and don't care a second about Musa×Riven

since when are the Trix so useless? are they really only thinking about Valtor? embarassing

Bollm: STAY AWAY FROM THE WATERSTARS!

why did she even get one? it should have been either only Stella, Musa and Tecna each have one or Flora and Layla should have gone through the labyrinth too - but definitely no waterstar for Bloom!

why did he give them "Disenchantix" that late and why are they only like bikinis?

why is Icy head over heels into Monster!Valtor?

the Trix abandoning Valtor should have happened way earlier

final thoughts: Winx Club could have ended after season 3 (maybe after the movie would have been okay too) and i would be completely fine with it. maybe add a spin-off after that. about the Earth Fairies, Fairy Hunters, Roxy and Selina. But now i'm only talking about my au again - sorry!

i don't know if i will watch season 4, but i will at least start it after rewatching the movie.

[multipleoccupancy]

"The same service I asked you about earlier," Theo answered honestly as she spotted the date on the calendar, looking over to it to make sure there was not another one he was supposed to be doing anything about, but his scheduling was of course well known to him. "You've missed it, it was a few hours ago."

He cast a little look to her on the scatter-brained comment but didn't follow it up, just a curious consideration as to whether or not she was mocking him. "Amulets when bound to you are of course hard for anyone else to steal and no one else can use them." She would have to cast the ritual, no one else would be able to use up the amulet for her. Until she used them, the amulet would stay with her.

"I'm glad you understand," he answered her for her acknowledgement, even in lying that he had believed he was helping her. It was in part very true but as ever he had ulterior motives and getting her to do both an amulet and a ritual had earned him a lot of praise. He could do more in time but for now he had to settle on her not trusting him. He could build that back up.

"It's called an Olprit Aldon," an answer for what the symbol was, "it just means summon light." Simple enochian by his understanding but then again if she wanted answers she was about to get a very real lesson as he put the cup of ginger tea down in front of her and sat at the table, mirroring how she had been sat with her father in the early hours. "You see there's a circle, what looks like two legs, four arms and something like the Rebel symbol from star wars?" He beamed, "but above it there's a rising sun? That's your light symbol."

He cracked a smile to himself and prattled on as the runes were something of a special interest to him, more so as the inadvertent jeweller for The Network and beyond. "It's all very easy when it comes down to the basics, you need to work out where the magic comes from," which deity, "and work from there. There are universal signs like the rising sun, a lightning strike, but there are more complex ones too and ones with different meanings. There's those of the Outer Gods, The Great Old Ones, some signs mean Elder Gods or the marks of their servants where you can evoke their energy or summon them, like in Ophir." He had been sure to finish what he had started and watched as he revealed a secret of the universe to her, that there were more than The Horned One out there.

𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐎 & 𝐕𝐈𝐎𝐋𝐄𝐓 @multipleoccupancy

Violet was admittedly relieved not to find any more human organs in the house -though maybe he hid those in his bedroom, who knew? But her eyes did land on the calendar, which was identical to the one in her kitchen, save for the asterisk on today's date. "What is happening today?" she asked innocently enough. Why hide her curiosity? This Theo didn't seem to mind about her snooping. "Another 'service'?" She knew now that what she had confused with mass was a much for grim affair.

"I see," she mused politely as he explained how the amulet work, "it does sound more convenient that way. Especially if you're scatterbrained." And it sounded like a trap, too. He had made sure that she could never get rid of the amulet, not without using the rituals, at least. It was a rather ingenious trap, but traps were her speciality, and she was humiliated to have fallen for one. "Magic leads to some rather unbreakable commitments, then." After all, she was talking to a man who had literally given his heart to his wife.

She didn't trust him, and she didn't try to deny it. She didn't believe that he had simply meant "to help her" either, but didn't understand what his true intent was. He worshipped the Horned One, so was any of this connected to Him? Had she made a ritual in His honour? She pictured Him laughing, delighted by her "sacrifice", and the thought sent a cold shiver down her spine. "I understand," she lied, "after all, this is all normal in your timeline." But was it?

"What was the symbol you carved in the turquoise? What did it mean?"

[electronalytics]

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[ornoirafrica]

La Guinée équatoriale défend le gaz dans le cadre de nouveaux projets GNL

La Guinée équatoriale défend le gaz dans le cadre de nouveaux projets GNL

Dans une défense éclatante de l’industrie gazière africaine, le ministre de l’énergie de Guinée équatoriale a énoncé un certain nombre de plans dont la reprise des travaux sur un projet abandonné de GNL flottant (FLNG). Le ministre des Mines et des Hydrocarbures Gabriel Mbaga Obiang Lima a écrit que le projet de remblayage d’Alen était la première phase du Gas Mega Hub (GMH) du pays. Il a décrit…

[hvbris]

𝐊𝐈𝐋𝐋𝐈𝐀𝐍 & 𝐒𝐀𝐌𝐀𝐍𝐓𝐇𝐀 @multipleoccupancy

Samantha smiled at Killian's answer about his father. A little part of her couldn't help but be a little bit jealous that he still had his mom, but it was a part of her she didn't like very much, so she ignored it. She had never really dealt with her grief, too busy helping her dad deal with his.

But she didn't want to think about all that, even though Ruby was clearly stirring up some old feelings. She focused on a can of cream of mushroom soup, checking the expiration date.

"You're not wrong," she chuckled, "I've heard I can be quite ruthless when playing Monopoly. Apparently, I'm a capitalist overload in disguise!" Anything to get their mind off of the things lurking in Ophir would do the trick, really. And the more she thought about it, the more it seemed like eating some dinner would be a good idea. She wasn't hungry, but food would provide a sense of normalcy.

"Ohh well done Killian," she praised as he revealed what he had found, "that was true police work!" She remembered how he had looked at her FBI badge.

"I think we can use some of these cans to make ourselves a small dinner, we need energy." She hadn't eaten since her flight, and she supposed it was the same for Killian. "We'll make enough for four, so Chief and Ruby can have dinner too." Chief would come back from his watch eventually, and Ruby might wake up before morning.

Killian was pleased that he seemed to have helped? He thought he had anyway and smiled at her with her hand on his arm. He had no idea if it was a good thing or a bad thing that they would likely be awake all night. He was tired but he also didn't want to sleep if it meant being vulnerable to whatever was out there. "Yeah, he's pretty great," Killian said of his father and then went back to looking for more cans, finding a few soup cans behind a sad looking cereal box.

"I don't know if Monopoly is a good idea," he mused a little playfully, trying to lift the mood in the room as if they might have a chance of pretending they were safe. "I hear it's torn families apart and turns even the best of friends into enemies," though he did have a smile on his face as he added on, "Challenge me only if you dare." Killian had played only twice before, he was not very good at the game and didn't fully understand it in truth other than buy the colours and keep putting hotels on there and try to spend as much time as possible in jail.

Food was the focus for now though and while Killian didn't believe the people of Ophir were particularly hard off, he imagined there were some cult rules that meant food had to be monitored or rationed so he started to check a little more thoroughly, nearly at a police inspection level as he pulled out the foot of the counter to look under them. Sure enough there was a small stack of canned tuna, salmon and a single can of chocolate pudding. "Jackpot," he said as he pulled them out.

[howtofindthemoney]

Ophir Energy Plc on Wednesday said it had received a sweetened cash offer from Indonesian oil and gas group Medco valuing it at about 408.4 million pounds ($539 million).

[valebatcattusmoved]

//

[mythsought]

THIS BITCH.

[marksof-weakness]

𝟐𝟎𝟎 𝐑𝐀𝐍𝐃𝐎𝐌 𝐃𝐈𝐀𝐋𝐎𝐆𝐔𝐄 𝐏𝐑𝐎𝐌𝐏𝐓𝐒

@mythsought asked:

❛ are you threatening me? ❜ FROM OPHIR LOL

It still hurts to hunger- Ire rounds a bleak hemisphere - distant, mute, and all a cumulative of baseless infringement where before the storm would bellow, bellow, bellow- shamefully, now a memory embedded into his skin of what once was. Standing now, possessing neither that ire nor the energy for it but its former shell, what little can be mustered stokes a hot and steady flame making wildfires in his mind where the other man is concerned. Those wretched, deceiver’s eyes and croon of a snake’s tongue - mocking. Always mocking. Always taunting in manner that is his sly glance or jeering shoptalk. That Vergil stands at all before him is remarkable in its feat. That he trembles, terrified of the prowess scarcely hidden in faux man’s skin, a leaf in the would-be storm. He is threatening him. At least, he is attempting to be threatening... standing so close, snarling under breath. Raising his hand to grab the lithe of that throat, however bereft of any genuine strength. Unable to commit to the entire urge -

“What makes you any different than any other Ruler... what could possibly separate you from those that seek nothing but man’s oblivion...”

[alternativewinxcontinuity]

Winx Alt Con Week 22 Part 01

Episodes: 304, 308, 321

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Aisha is being examined by healers at the Palace on Land when Roy rejoins the group with news that king Neptune and prince Nereus have arrived with another group of survivors. Nereus's twin brother Tritannus, is still missing however.

In addition, reports were coming in that whatever had been causing the dark miasma of mutation, seemed to have stopped, and the mutants were holding position around the Tidal Gate.

For the time being.

-

With Ligea's speciality knowledge added to the mix, the healers finally have hope for Aisha's eyes. Before, they could only tell that there was something stopping her eyes from being healed, as though they were still being attacked, but the force 'attacking' her, was nowhere to be found.

At least, until the queen examines her niece and finds traces of corrupted fire magic.

The healers send out a request for fairy dust, since it has the ability to purify corruption and should be able to help remove the last of the fire magic damaging Aisha's eyes, but before a fairy can arrive, Tressa asks about Aisha's new necklace.

Confused, Aisha grabs at her neck, and Ophir backs up Tressa's claim that Aisha's Harmonix form hadn't come with a necklace. There is a momentary confusion before Aisha remembers the power surge back in the trench, which had coalesced around her neck.

Ligea, being a little bit faster on the uptake, informs her niece, that she may have unlocked her Enchantix form, and the necklace was likely her vial of fairy dust. When Tressa asks if Aisha's Enchantix form was also her Harmonix form, Ligea explains that since Aisha was in a place where her Harmonix was safer/of more use, her magic maintained that Form, rather than switching to the new one, and if Aisha focused, she would likely be able to manifest an independent Enchantix form.

Which she very excitedly does, though the people around her only get to stare in awe for a few seconds before Flora realises what this means: they don't have to wait for an Enchantix fairy to try fixing Aisha's eyes.

Ophir is called away to help with some spell work and Roy goes with him, both wishing Aisha good luck with her recovery as they leave.

Pulling off her vial, Aisha sprinkles her eyes while Flora and Ligea attempt to heal the physical damage. After a few tense minutes, Aisha opens her eyes, and looks at her friends for the first time in forever several hours.

Her friends realise Aisha's vision has been restored when she gets teary eyed and tells them they look gorgeous in their Harmonix forms. The group hugs, making sure to catch Tressa in the sudden pile up, though Ligea manages to stay clear.

Their good moods are interrupted when their communication bracelets chime, signalling that Stella and Bloom are trying to get in contact.

Their news is not good. But the group now has an idea why the miasma has slowed its spread for the time being.

-

Bloom relates the events of Solaria to the rest of the group as she and Stella walked to Alfea, choosing the slower option since Stella can't fly, and she is reluctant to be seen.

(With Daphne's guidance, Bloom has managed to break the metal pieces of Stella's ceremonial outfit, which meant it was no longer cutting into her cursed friend, but it also meant the outfit basically fell apart.

Rather than walk in the remnants, Stella had donned a robe, hastily conjured courtesy of Bloom, and the duo had begun their journey. Bloom had offered to try conjuring some shoes, but Stella claimed her cursed feet were fine bare.)

As the girls get close enough to Alfea to hear the whooping of some of the students who'd stayed behind during the holidays, Stella pulls the hood of the pink robe further down over her face, and Bloom tells the rest of Winx over comms not to rush back to Magix if they're still needed on Andros.

There's two fairies in the courtyard, one of them very familiar to the duo – it's the fairy who gave them the map to the catacombs way back (Una) – but the other is only passingly familiar. The two senior year fairies notice Bloom and Stella immediately, and make their way over, realising from the younger duo's posture something is very wrong.

Bloom signals them to stop, and they do, but Stella knows the pair have already seen her and almost starts to cry all over again, but is shocked from her grief when the more familiar of the two fairies calls her by name. The less familiar of the duo introduces herself (Giada) and offers to take a look at Stella's curse. The younger pair share a silent conversation, and agree.

The group quickly heads to the workshop that belongs to Giada's circle, and she begins examining the curse more in depth. While she works, Una and Bloom stay out of the way, and talk about what's been happening.

Una and Giada were both reporting in after finishing off a field assignment, and had heard from Griselda that a call for help had come through from Andros. The duo had been awaiting more information when Stella and Bloom had shown up.

Bloom retells of the adventures of the past twenty-four hours, hardly believing it has taken such little time. Una swears and admits the story sounds like something she should be telling Griselda and Faragonda, especially if the Trix - plus one world-destroying assistant criminal - have managed to escape from Omega.

From Una's tone of voice, Bloom realises she's underestimated how much of a Big Deal the escape is, and when she admits this, the older fairy tries to explain:

Omega is known as the End Of All Roads, the Devouring World. It was turned into a prison, because almost nothing could leave once it landed on Omega's surface. Sending the worst criminals there was the most 'humane' death sentence the Magical Dimension could conceive. The criminals are put into cryosleep, so they don't starve or dehydrate (an unfortunate way to go), and while they sleep, their life force and magic is slowly eaten away by the planet, until there is nothing left of the criminal.

For anyone to have survived as long as Valtor had, it was unthinkable, and had it not just happened, Una would have labelled it impossible.

Their quiet, horrifying chat is interrupted when Giada stands and darts over to an intricate box on one of the far benchtops, as she knocks on the lid, Bloom steps back over to Stella, giving the other Winx a hug. (for Stella's comfort, and her own.)

A pixie emerges from the box, rubbing her eyes sleepily, and she and Giada... communicate, the Winx duo assume. No words are said, but the fairy and pixie hold hands, and a long moment later, Giada is nodding, like the pixie has confirmed something she'd suspected, and heads back over to the others. The pixie sends the girls a brief wave, which they return, before the yawning pixie drops back into the box, the hatch she'd exited closing with a 'thwap'.

Giada looks at them both very seriously, and tells them that while they could try Fairy Dust, the type of curse is one of those unfortunately morally-grey types, that don't quite register enough as

evil magic, since it's in part, a perception manifestation spell.

To undo it, Stella will need to gaze into The Mirror of Truth. Una raises her eyebrows and goes to speak, but Giada cuts her off, explaining that she doesn't know the location of The Mirror, she's fairly certain there might be more information on her home world, Eraklyon, and if the duo head there, they might find a lead. They have friends there after all. Right?

Una gives Giada a very 'WTF?' look, but when the younger girls turn to her, she agrees with everything Giada has just told them. Bloom and Stella talk about it, and decide they have no other option: they're going to Eraklyon.

The duo get a creeping chill down their spines as the older fairies react to something unseen, looking around with energy crackling around their hands. After a tense minute, Una and Giada stand down, scowling as they tell the Winx pair that someone was scrying them, and only their voyeur's brief excitement at hearing of their plans had echoed through the spell enough to give them away.

Realising time is of the essence, Una and Giada promise to pass on the information the Winx have given them, informing Faragonda and Griselda while Bloom and Stella head to Eraklyon. Unsure she can teleport between worlds without her sympathetic magic sisterly bond, Bloom and Stella decide to take The Sparx.

-

Diaspro arrives in the palace of Heraklyon already feeling worn around the edges. Two tidal waves, one massive, the other enormous, had laid waste to several sections of coastline. While only a few people had been lost, the cities and towns able to shield themselves from the waves, swathes of wild land and coastal farms had been left unprotected.

As she makes her way to the throne room to meet with the king, one of the palace's many assistants catches her up on the important details she'll need to know for the meeting.

-

In the storage areas of The Sparx, Bloom and Stella manage to find some left behind clothes that will fit the blonde's cursed form. It's the first time they've really gone through all the clothes on the ship, and as they pull an oversized hoodie from the very back of the pile, a photo drops to the ground.

Ten young women in not-at-all serious victory poses, smile at the viewer, at the centre stands Daphne, not a trace of sorrow or melancholy in her face. The photo is thicker than those of Earth, but Bloom passes it off as a 'it's magical technology, things are just weird sometimes' thing and smiles at her sister's happy face, showing Stella to take her friend's mind off her predicament.

-

Diaspro is getting a headache, and is about five seconds from physically fighting someone when a brief recess is called. She steps out of the hall quickly, slipping away from the other Eraklyon officials so she can breathe.

The room is divided in the extreme, between sending no help at all, and sending everything and everyone.

Sky had been all for sending everyone and everything, and had beamed at Diaspro when she'd agreed they'd needed to send aid to Andros, but the look of betrayal when she'd tried to explain that they couldn't send as much assistance as he wanted because Eraklyon's people also needed aid... it had hurt her.

It had been like he thought she was saying that had to abandon Andros for the good of Eraklyon. Diaspro rubs her temples trying to ease her headache, trying to figure out how to explain to Sky what he should already know: they should send what aid they could to Andros, but they couldn't hurt their own people to do that.

Diaspro feels someone watching her and looks up just before the man speaks. She doesn't recognise him, something about him sets her teeth on edge, she can't quite focus on his words as much as she should with the headache pounding at her brain.

His voice is nice, she thinks as he empathises with her recent troubles, her loss of betrothal, how difficult her prince can be, Bloom worming her way into royal favour while knowing nothing about any duties she'd need to attend if this farce of a relationship continued.

It really was a pity Diaspro's life had come crumbling down like this, if she was still betrothed to

Sky, the idiots inside would have already listened to her plans and the appropriate levels of aid would have been sent where they needed to be.

This stranger can help her, he can ensure the good of Eraklyon is seen too.

He can help Diaspro get her perfect life back.

“Something is wrong” Diaspro thinks vaguely as she reaches out for the potion vial being offered to her, “something is wrong here,” she thinks as her fingers close over the crystal, an almost there burn creeping across her neck.

“But... why shouldn't I get my life back? It really would fix everything.”

-

Brandon leans against a wall as Sky paces back and forth, worried about the people recently harmed by the Waves, but also about the people of Andros. He watches the prince bemoan the royal council, annoyed that Diaspro hadn't backed him up as much as he thought she would. Like she didn't understand that if he didn't go the extreme end of the argument scale, there would be no middle to meet in.

Sky has finally worn himself out when Diaspro appears with two drinks in her hands, asking for a moment alone with Sky. Brandon shoots Sky a sympathetic smile and leaves them to it, glad he doesn't have to deal with the politics.

Halfway down the hall, his phone rings. Bloom and Stella are on their way to Eraklyon looking for something called The Mirror of Truth. He figures Diaspro might know something about it, or as a fairy might know where to start looking, and agrees to bring them to her once they land.

On his way to the docking port, he stops by his room to pick up the gift he's been meaning to give Stella.

-

Griselda barely catches Faragonda as she tilts so far she almost misses her chair entirely, both of the elder fairies want to be sick. The news Una and Giada have given them is unthinkable.

Valtor had been sent to the Omega Dimension over a century ago, nothing should have been left of him. The Omega Dimension devoured all that entered its territory.

“The Flame,” Faragonda says and gives Griselda a horrified look. Griselda understands what her friend means: The small spark of Dragon Fire Valtor possesses must have been just enough to keep ahead of the Omega Dimensions draining effects, must have been just enough to keep him alive in Cryosleep all this time.

Una and Giada share a look, a little shook by how shook their headmistress seems to be, and ask what the plan is from here.

Faragonda has to admit there isn't one, since they'd assumed Valtor was long gone, but if his Flame kept him alive, that's what they probably need to deal with.

Griselda brings up the Water Stars, the Primordial Elemental Opposite of the Dragon Fire, which might be enough to extinguish it.

Faragonda warns her how dangerous that could be, that backlash could be too destructive and do more damage than Valtor would.

Una and Giada are down right unnerved by the feeling they're possibly about to witness Faragonda and Griselda have a fight with one another, so they cut in.

Giada asks if they even know where the Water Stars are, because Giada is majoring in magical archaeology, and she doesn't know where they are. Doesn't even know very much about them.

Faragonda admits that neither does she or Griselda, the Water Stars were moved out of the Magical Dimension long, long ago so they didn't accidentally clash with the Dragon Flame and destroy all life as an unfortunate side effect.

Una offers to do some research at the Library, but Faragonda says there isn't any information at Alfea as far as she knows, and she and Griselda should begin preparing to protect the school, Valtor stole a lot of magic from various realms the last time he was free, they have to protect the schools artefacts and secrets and warn the other Realms.

Una clarifies that she meant the Library on Mysemne, the World of Memory and one of the two worlds of Lore. If any Library had the information, surely it would be them.

Faragonda takes a few seconds to express the grief she feels that children so young have to be involved in something so dangerous, but Una reminds her: “this is the path we chose, the path we continue to choose.”

Since “time will be of the essence, it might be a good idea to give you your graduation gifts early.”

Faragonda and Griselda take Una and Giada down into the Hall of Legacy and grant them the Three Wings of Clariel: Tracix, Zoomix and Speedix, something they shouldn't have gotten for another several weeks. (Zoomix, the wings of teleportation, will increase their range and accuracy when it comes to teleportation, meaning they won't have to worry about travelling via ship to the planet. Less risk of interception.)

-

Una and Giada appear in the main atrium of the Hall of Artefacts on Mysemne.

There's an excited looking young woman waiting for them. She introduces herself as Delphi and speaks a-mile-a-minute as she leads them towards the records that should have the information they're looking for.

After Delphi heads off to relay the information about Valtor to the elders, leaving Una and Giada in the archives, Giada has a momentary meltdown.

“What the heck was that? We said nothing the entire time! How does she know?!”

“I think that was Tempy's cousins,” Una admits.

“The vision prone one? She's nothing like your girlfriend... suddenly so much about everything suddenly makes sense.”

They dive into the records looking for clues on the Water Stars.

-

Bloom lands The Sparx in the docking bay she's directed to while Stella's fugue-like calm evaporates into a sudden panic because 'she can't let Brandon see her like this!'

Bloom tries to calm her down, but through the view screen they see Brandon approaching the ship.

Stella tucks herself further into the oversized hoodie they'd found, trying to hide as much of her cursed form as she can before her boyfriend can see.

Bloom exits first, doing her best to block Brandon's view inside until Stella is ready.

Brandon tells them he's going to take them to Diaspro, but there's an important meeting on at the moment, so they'll have to be quick and quiet. He wavers when Stella doesn't appear, taking a step to the side to try and get around Bloom, but she matches his motion and blocks him again.

He calls up into the ship, asking Stella if she's okay, or if she wants to stay on the ship while he and Bloom go find Diaspro.

'No,' Stella calls out, emboldened just enough by the fact Brandon would give her a choice for her comfort. She steps out into view, slowly edging forward, the fear Brandon will suddenly cry out in disgust hanging over her.

But he doesn't, he reaches for her, asks if she's okay, if it hurts. Stella sniffles and mentions the small cuts from her ceremonial costume, the ones that won't heal properly with the curse still in place.

He looks sad, like he aches on her behalf, and takes her face gently in his hands, asking if he can kiss her. She lets him, and he peppers her face with soft gentle kisses, leaving a lingering but chaste one on her lips.

'Let's go get you uncursed,' he wipes the few fresh tears from her face and places one arm around her, facing back towards the exit, though he doesn't move until Stella does.

Together the trio make their way through the corridors of the Royal Palace until they reach a large door. There's a voice on the other side, and it sounds like Sky.

Brandon disentangles himself from Stella to move ahead and open the door wide enough for the three of them to slip inside.

Without the door, Sky's voice becomes crystal clear: 'In this trying time, we must show unity, which is why I am announcing my re-engagment to Princess Diaspro!'

The approving voices are cut by the loud and disbelieving 'What?!' that forces its way out of Bloom's mouth.

She feels faint, like she can't catch her breath suddenly. Her head feels like its underwater and all the sound is muffled.

She barely catches Diaspro stepping forwards and calling out to the guards to arrest them.

Bloom feels disconnected with her body as the soldiers around the room rush forwards. Through the white noise of panic in her head she hears someone say 'use force if you have to, capture or kill, they can't be allowed to escape and spread chaos!'

There's a tug on her arm, a warm hand, and Brandon pulls the fairies away, hurries them down the halls and back to their ship.

Stella is saying something, panicking, Brandon replies in a hurried voice, but all of it is lost to Bloom, she feels only confusion, and heartbreak, and tastes something foul on the back of her tongue.

Brandon leads the girls as best he can, trying to avoid any good ambush points, any patrol of guards. He's fairly certain that the docking bay will be swarming by the time they arrive, the obvious escape, but neither fairy looks to be up to using the Ring to transport them out.

He curses himself when they round a corner and come face to face with Diaspro and an array of soldiers.

Diaspro smirks, summons an array of floating crystals and fires.

A startled voice sounds behind Brandon and the fairies (“oh fuq!”) and Diaspro's attack slams into an energy shield that hadn’t been there a second ago, her power shattering harmlessly midair.

The trio turn and Bloom is caught by the feeling of looking into a distorted mirror, a young woman stands with hands outstretched, and looking incredibly confused. She has vibrant orange hair and blue eyes, both a few shades darker than Bloom's own hair and eyes.

Stella gasps and cries out “Varanda!!” to which the stranger replies “Hey Stella, catch me up?”

Diaspro attacks again, backed up by the guards, but the energy from spells and weapons alike fizzle out against Varanda's shield.

Stella tells Varanda it's a long story and they have to leave now. Varanda points to the incensed Diaspro with a querying look, and both Bloom and Stella give her an uncomfortable “I don't know” look.

Varanda shrugs, sweeps her arms and the shield rushes away from their group to cover Diaspro's, forcing them against one wall of the corridor and leaving a clear path.

The group of four run, Varanda following the others’ lead all the way back to The Sparx.

Brandon hesitates just outside the ship, and Stella stops with him. When she questions what he’s doing he presses something into her hand. 

“I gotta stay here Stella, something’s going on with Sky and Diaspro, something is Not Right. But I want you to have this, I’ve been meaning to give it to you for a while now. Never found the perfect time. It’s been in my family for ages. When you use it, I hope you see you the way I do, regardless of how you look: beautiful, amazingly talented, the nicest girlfriend a guy could ask for. You are gorgeous to your soul Stella, and I’ll always think you look amazing.”

Brandon lets Bloom pull Stella onto The Sparx and runs back inside to find Sky and figure out what’s going on.

Inside the ship Varanda takes a seat and watches Bloom pilot the ship through take off. A small bump rocks The Sparx and a warning light goes off. They’re under fire.

“I’ve got it,” Varanda says and lets her head slump forwards, a new panel in the ship’s defences pops up and indicates a fully powered energy shield has appeared around The Sparx.

Bloom lets out a quiet ‘cool’ and hits the throttle, taking them out of Eraklyon’s atmosphere and back into space.

In her co-pilot seat, Stella opens her hand.

A small compact sits within her grasp, beautiful, but baring signs of age. She opens it, and her reflection stares back with its slimy green skin.

Truth be told, Stella had always felt most beautiful when Brandon was looking at her, because his love made her feel beautiful, because he made her feel seen. The Winx made her feel seen, but in a different way.

Gazing into the glass, Stella looked at herself, trying to see herself the way Brandon and her friends saw her: as worthy.

Each memory of their affection and acceptance made her feel lighter, freer.

Like she was glowing.

She was glowing.

With a sudden burst of light Stella felt herself shift and her curse break, the face looking back from the mirror was her own familiar visage, normal once again.

Bloom exclaims wordlessly from the pilot’s chair and whoops with glee, Varanda, still not entirely sure what was going on, claps for her friend.

Which startles both of the Winx.

Guiltily Stella greeted Varanda properly and the trio get to swapping stories. Bloom and Stella explain what they’d been doing on Eraklyon, telling Varanda how lucky they were she’d shown up when she did.

“Only partly lucky,” Varanda corrects, telling the duo she’d been sent by ‘Her Imperial Grace’ to check in on Stella and offer her aid should she need it. They’d heard about Solaria’s recent issue from Nova.

Stella and Bloom are relieved to know Nova was alright, and Varanda assures them Nova was ‘better than alright’, since Nova had earned her Enchantix since they’d last seen her.

The fairies talk about what to do next, and Stella and Bloom agree they need to get back in contact with their friends and headmistress Faragonda, catch them up on what had happened.

The Sparx can handle a conference call, and thankfully everyone answers their phone.

The Winx are excited to hear Stella is no longer cursed, but are very confused and worried over Diaspro and Sky's behaviour. They throw out theories and suspicions, but they have no real proof in the end, and have to turn to other matters for the time being.

Faragonda warns them that their new threat is not to be taken lightly.

She lays out Valtor's modus operandi (his name has Varanda hissing in disgust, followed by a quick explanation of her Grandmother's Dominion heritage, and past encounter with Valtor) and begins asking the Winx for help getting in contact with the various other Realms of the Magical Dimension.

Some worlds couldn't be contacted, others had brushed the warning off, whether due to disbelief or because they were prioritising local damages from the tidal surge that had hit so many worlds during Valtor's return.

Musa offers to go and speak with the royal family of Melody, though she's not sure how much help it will be, and Flora offers to try speaking with Lynphea's royal family.

Tecna asks about Zenith, but Faragonda tells her they've already agreed to listen to reason and consider giving what aid they can.

Tecna admits she can't think of any world her word would have any meaning other than Zenith, but Faragonda tell her that staying on Andros with Aisha to help keep an eye on the overall situation might be for the best.

The trio aboard The Sparx agree that they should go back to Solaria to stabilise the world before it comes completely apart. Before the call ends and the group goes off to their tasks, Faragonda tells them she has a team looking for a way to defeat Valtor once and for all. The underlying venom in her tone telling them just how far she's prepared to go.

-

Aisha has sent a messenger to let her parents know what her friends are doing, so she doesn't know why she's so surprised that Roy comes racing down to the docks before she can steer Anne-Marine out to sea to drop off Flora and Musa on their respective worlds.

Her parents want to have a word with her about something, so she give Roy orders to take the other Winx members to their destination so they don't have to waste time waiting for her to get back.

Before she gets too far, Roy calls out that Ophir heard what their new mission is and thinks he might, maybe, possibly be able to talk some sense into a world with a heavier wizard population.

Aisha gives a nod and calls back “drop him off third!” and then has to dodge as she almost walks backwards into someone as she continues moving. She spins to face the right direction and calls a quick, 'sorry' over her shoulder before jogging off to see her parents.

The voice which gives an amused 'you're fine' reply to her apology is familiar, and has her missing a step as she turns her head back to the docks, but a wall blocks her view. She pouts in annoyance but doesn't bother doubling back as she realises she just missed her chance to see what Ophir's face looks like.

-

Valtor steps through the portal and back onto Andros, Diaspro following close behind him.

The Trix are pissed, he's been gone for longer than he said he'd be. He attempts to assuage their ire by explaining he'd had to take a slight detour, but he had the first fairy required for their plan: Diaspro (of Isis) of Eraklyon.

Icy demands Valtor give them what he'd promised them when they'd released him on Omega, but he persuades the witches to wait a little longer, until he had enough power from the other worlds to compensate for the power he'd lose.

The Trix hesitate, mentally deliberating (telepathically arguing the pros and cons) and Valtor uses the distraction to skip off to another planet, leaving Diaspro with the Trix in their hide out.

The women are understandably pissed, but with little else they can do, the quartet sit down and begin to talk shit about the Winx and Valtor.

Stormy remarks that Diaspro looks a little familiar, but she can't quite place it. Diaspro admits she fought the Army of Decay/Darkness and in the Siege of Shadowhaunt.

“Beside the bitch who ruined my life,” Diaspro adds, and Darcy gets an odd look on her face, a frown both her sisters recognise from long familiarity.

Icy knows her sister well enough to probe the fairy a little, “is that why you're with us now, why you came with Valtor?”

Diaspro confirms the suspicion, “he gave me back my life, I owe him a debt of gratitude.”

Darcy sidles closer to Diaspro and moves as if she's tucking a lock of hair behind Diaspro's ear, she says a meaningless paltitude even as she dives into the fairy's mind.

It's easy, it always is when someone's already broken in.

-

Diaspro's mindscape is a labyrinthine series of crystal caverns.

Darcy lurks through the shadows they cast and takes in the whispering coming from Diaspro's reflections on the cavern walls.

Affirmations that she was doing the right thing, what was best for her and her world. That she was right to take back her life and repair what Bloom had ruined.

Underneath it all was a running rhythm that concerned Darcy more than the subtle brainwashing.

'Valtor can take care of Bloom for good, if I can get her I must give her to him.'

-

Darcy withdraws, her eyes flicking down just in time to see Valtor's mark fade from sight on Diaspro's neck.

It's a testament to Diaspro's sense of duty that Darcy's intrusion has wobbled the Persuasion just enough for the fairy to start question.

“Why... am I here? What was I...” she sounds confused but distant, like she's not quite awake.

“You're here to help us connect the Eraklyon's Ocean Gate to a new web of power,” Icy assures her, reaffirming Diaspro's state of mind.

The quartet are startled when a new and unfamiliar voice cuts in.

“If it's the power of the Ocean Gates, I can help you there.”

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