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drops-of-moonlights · 5 years ago

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WINX REDUX AU SUMMARIZED: INTERLUDE 4 (Season 4.5)

Or, in which I give the basics of what I’ve changed about the story for the AU. It was originally way more descriptive but if I kept it in that style I would have finished in 2039 and I ain’t got time for that. Here we cover the events that occur between Season 4 and Season 5! ... It’s TECHNICALLY World of Winx but it’s honestly an original story that takes elements from it. IT’S ALSO THE LONGEST THING I’VE MADE SO FAR, so hopefully you can read it well!

WINX REDUX AU INTERLUDE 4 - The Weavers of Nightmares

It’s been a week since everyone came back from Earth, and after starting to establish new ties with the planet (as best as they could, anyway) everyone is taking a break for a bit before going back to help Roxy and the rest with reintroducing magic and the politics and all that stuff.

After the first dinner with her family since coming back (and getting exasperated at all the political stuff she’s gonna have to work on in the next few months), Bloom and everyone goes to sleep, planning on calling Roxy in the morning.

On Andros, in the Hospital of Magically-Induced Conditions, Nabu is resting, with his condition being analyzed in full. The guys and Aisha are in the waiting room, hoping for results.

The doctors come out and elaborate on what they already know - Nabu is in a magic-induced coma after his feat back on Tir Nan Og, but his timely achieving of Enchantix should help him recover faster - he should wake up in around 5 weeks, and he will be taken care of in the meantime.

With their minds slightly calmer now everyone leaves for their realms for most of them - Aisha has to oversee some stuff regarding her cousin’s trial from 6 years ago, Helia has to prepare for the gallery that accepted some of his paintings, Nex and Timmy are gonna spend some time with Nex’s family to improve on his flexibility (and also to get more human interaction), Riven’s gonna visit his mom and start planning for something, and Sky and Brandon have royal duties to attend to.

On that night, a woman in a dark cloak and a mirror in hand stumbles in the woods covering the Eraklyon-Domino border. Two villages can be seen on the distance, familiar to her. Her mirror rumbled.

Everyone at Sparxis Palace is fast asleep. Everyone except Daphne.

A nightmare seems to be plaguing her, showcasing a fairy, a witch, a pixie, and two towns. The place is encased in dark vines and crystal, the pixie seems to be telling her something, and the fairy and witch are laughing.

Daphne wakes up with a notorious headache, a tingling fear developing, and really just thirsty as all fuck. She keeps the dream on the back of her mind for a while.

Two days later, a message from the Order of Mana comes to her requesting her assistance alongside Thoren (and the Winx, because the Order knows they’re gonna get in the middle regardless so might as well just save everyone the paperwork), and Daphne drops her phone.

They are requesting for help in the border towns of Nevere and Zeisterna, as communication with them has been suddenly cut off and there are weird magical readings on the area.

Daphne’s nightmare comes back to her memory and she realizes the place in it were those two towns, and her first mission as a Nymph comes back to her.

After meeting with Thoren (him acting somewhat flustered around Daphne, which she picks up on but doesn’t comment on it), and on their way, Bloom asks Daphne about her reaction, and she elaborates:

A year after being appointed Nymph, she and her friend Politea were tasked with resolving an issue on those same towns - a witch named Venomya and a fairy named Campana had hijacked their government and wanted to conquer other bordering towns - they were displeased with how Erendor and Marion governed and tried to become an independent state. They had used their powers as Onyrix magi to subtly manipulate the population, as well as good ol’ magic threatening (as neither town had many magic users, and those they had were young or inexperienced). Daphne herself admits the only reason they beat them was thanks to her Sirenix powers going well with her Water Source and Politea’s handy poison streams, which weakened them enough. (You can also learn more about them here and here!)

Thoren seems to react at the name Campana and goes silent, and Daphne is too busy sadly reminiscing on Politea to notice.

After Stella’s Teleportia and a short walk, everyone arrives at both towns - while technically separate, they are close enough to be considered two sides of the same community.

First checking up on Zeisterna, as it’s on Domino’s side, and then on Nevere, both towns are in the same state - there doesn’t seem to be anyone anywhere, even the characteristic wind of Eraklyon missing.

However, once they try to access their jointed city hall, the whole town goes dark despite being noon - a magical dome falling on the area. All the girls transform and Thoren summons his armor, and try to rush to the ends of the place but are completely trapped.

After trying every single attack and convergence spell on their arsenal, everyone ends up detransforming and start thinking of ways to escape or contact people outside. Daphne and Thoren try to contact the Order of Mana but fail, all communication cut off thanks to magical interference. Everyone decides to start scouting the town, but are promptly separated - Bloom with Musa, Stella with Flora, Aisha with Tecna, and Daphne with Thoren.

Back on Andros, a doctor is checking up on Nabu when he notices his magic level reacting weirdly, and sees signs of struggle on his resting face.

Nabu is in a dark ballroom, wearing a stuffy suit and with a doll-looking Aisha on his side. He feels something on his wrists and ankles.

Several life-sized dolls in similar clothing pop up around him, and he suddenly starts to dance alongside the Aisha doll - the things around his joints was string, being moved like a puppet. New strings appeared around his neck and started to get tighter, getting more and more suffocated, and he could see his limbs starting to turn into the same as the other dolls.

He manages to look up and sees a dark shadow controlling the strings, which slowly morphs to look like him. His clothes seemed mismatched but reminiscent of a modified tuxedo, and his hair was in four braids with hooks at the end - the strings holding him coming from there.

The shadow calls himself Maestro, “his worst nightmare given form”. He starts to tighten all the strings, but after a bit Nabu manages to transform himself and turns free.

Outside the dream, Nabu is also transformed, and the doctor starts calling for help, the readings starting to get out of control and sensing something messing with his head.

Still in the nightmare, Nabu starts fighting with Maestro, trying to disrupt his form with his own powers - he’s made of shadows, after all. He proves resistant to his magic, and starts to taunt him about how he’s not really a person - he’s only in the world to marry Aisha, and that fell through, didn’t it.

Nabu does get affected by those words but keeps fighting back, not letting up even if he starts to fly lower and lower. Maestro keeps dodging and goes on, commenting on how he’s nothing but a fallen set piece in a royal game, his family having disowned him after the engagement got axed. Now he has nothing left on this world so why bother? Might as well remain in this nightmare.

Nabu tries to ignore his comments but it’s proving more and more difficult, and his legs are starting to turn doll-like again.

The memories of Helia and Aisha flash back on his mind, however, and starts to talk back - even if his family’s not there for him anymore, he still has friends.

More memories with Helia and Aisha resurface, then memories with everyone else, and how he could feel their worry after his crazy act on Earth. His resolve starts to surge again and the entire place starts to collapse. After a few more attacks, Nabu finally manages to unravel Maestro back into shadows, and starts to disrupt his form.

Before being completely undone, however, Maestro’s voice changes from Nabu’s to a different voice - warning him that his friends are in danger, and to ask “the place of the Nymphs” for help.

The shadow has been erased, and Nabu can feel a surge of magic on him. This lets him wake up at last, earning Onyrix as soon as he wakes up.

The doctors around him are dumbfounded, and so is Nabu being in such an unfamiliar place, but he manages to come back to his senses and asks for a phone.

The Winx plus the Paladins, now separated, start to explore the now labyrinthine town, covered in weird crystals and vines and seemingly warping around everywhere.

Bloom and Musa are suddenly attacked by the vines, and take refuge on a nearby building, finding more of the crystal formations on different places. They find themselves tired after using so much magic, and slowly fall asleep - first Bloom, then Musa.

Stella and Flora took a detour down an alleyway and were faced with a lot of crystals suddenly launching themselves at them, forcing them to dodge and scatter. They end up resting in a nearby park, and Stella starts to feel tired. Flora realizes they’ve prickled themselves on the vines as they avoided the crystals and have been poisoned, but can’t fight the effects fast enough and falls asleep herself.

Aisha and Tecna have spent the last few minutes destroying all the crystals and vines they’ve been finding, and find shelter in a nearby store. They end up laying near some crystals to rest behind the counter to remain hidden, and while Tecna can tell the crystals are emitting a weird magic, they can’t fight it and fall asleep as well.

Daphne and Thoren have managed to reach the central plaza that housed an ornate bridge connecting both towns, and it being seemingly devoid of anything they chose to rest there for a bit. Daphne feels extremely tired, and lightly cuts her finger on a vine when settling down. She does fix it with a small healing spell but the poison has set in, and thinking herself just tired, starts to fall asleep, not before telling Thoren to keep an eye out.

A fairy and a witch (Campana and Venomya) overlook the happenings from their place, thinking the nightmares will keep them down long enough for them to hold them hostage to ensure their conquest goes smoothly. Venomya feels weird looking at the mirror she was once trapped in, and elaborates to Campana how she got there - while the fairy was simply thrown to Dominian jail, Venomya was a local and as such her punishment was harsher. Now free, however, she’s looking forward to what will happen now, and summons shadow nightmares for all 7 fairies. They hope the nightmares do defeat the girls, as “harvesting” their powers could prove useful.

Bloom finds herself in a dark cave, seemingly surrounded by water, if her hair and clothes’s movement is any indication. There are rock formations everywhere, and it all feels eerily familiar to her.

The rock formations start to move around and slowly form into the shapes of her friends, all featuring crude anguished faces. Bloom tries to reach out to one but her hand suddenly freezes, her legs getting covered in rock.

As she tries to struggle out of her hold, she sees a lot of fire starting to light up the place, all the sudden harsh shadows starting to coalesce and form her shape similar to Bloom’s - her hair was longer and her outfit was too similar to her Glamourix, but in blue tones and a dark sheer cape.

The shadow introduced herself as Vertigo, “the living proof of your mistakes”, and started to control the water around the room, surrounding Bloom’s hand. She forms a water blade in front of Bloom’s forced palm, and with a “woosh!” she sends it flying to the Flora-like rock, slicing it in half.

Vertigo starts to taunt her about everything she did as Shadow Bloom, as she forces her hand to slice more and more of the rocks. She goes on on how easily she gave her trust and how that harmed her loved ones, and how it was her fault for falling so easily.

Bloom is on the verge of tears as everything goes down, and once the only rocks left are Stella, Diaspro and Daphne she simply screams. She manages to transform and free herself, and while constantly stopped by Vertigo’s water, she manages to drive her back.

She starts to counter everything Vertigo has said to her - she was manipulated, she was brainwashed, and they took advantage of her, and SHE’S the one at fault? She hurt her friends, her loved ones, and almost caused major destruction, but the only thing left is to move on.

She fires off a last big attack, all the water evaporating and Vertigo turned to steam as well.

Bloom wakes up from the nightmare and earns Onyrix, and with her new powers she can see deeper in the place around them - the crystals and vines house the residents, trapped in stasis in probably similar nightmares.

Musa finds herself in a weird shed on the floor, darkness all around her except for the door, which is open.

She goes outside but the darkness persists - the sky is pitch black, and the shed seems to be on a floating island. As she walks out, however, bright lights come all around her, suddenly on a stage inside the floating island. Her friends and family are all over the audience, multiple copies of them filling the place.

From her shadow a being rises, looking like her but with shorter hair and a dark green dress. She calls herself Banshee, “your failures personified” in a particularly powerful voice, and at her command a guitar appears on Musa’s arms.

She can feel magic forcing her hands to play horribly, and everyone in the audience starts to boo her, calling her many things and pointing out all her flaws - her short temper, her need to do everything herself, her inability to communicate, her failures in class, in magic, in life, in everything, as she keeps playing more and more badly before the music is just noise.

Her hands keep moving faster and faster and she feels the pain starting to form, finally breaking down and transforming, tossing the guitar to the ground and starting to fight Banshee.

She keeps repeating everything the audience said as they clap for her, and Musa’s resolve starts to diminish. Banshee makes one mistake, however: “only Aisha is gullible enough to appreciate you.”

This angers Musa and knocks her out of her funk, her resolve coming back so fast the stage starts to crumble. She screams back at that, of how Aisha has helped her for so much these last years, listening to her complains and her anger and offering her only a hearing ear and support, even when she was going through harsh times, her true strength shining through. Her girlfriend has done nothing but be a wonderful person, and she will not stand for that.

She starts attacking back with full force, bringing up the good side of each of her flaws, the audience starting to disappear and Banshee’s powerful voice becoming softer and weaker.

With a final attack, Musa defeats Banshee turning her back to shadows, and manages to wake up from the nightmare getting Onyrix.

Now awake she stumbles around and meets with Bloom, somehow having gotten separated after falling asleep. Their powers make them immune to the vines’s and crystal’s effects on them, and decide to move onward to meet with the rest.

Venomya and Campana see from their hideout that not only Bloom and Musa broke out of the spell, they also earnt the one form that would undo their whole plan. They briefly curse themselves due to not foreseeing the obvious, but keep going regardless - they’re this deep already, no turning back. Venomya looks at what Stella and Flora’s main fears are, and gleefully takes over the making of their nightmares, being an expert in the field of reliving memories.

Stella finds herself in a dark, very small place, and starts to bang all around her to break free. She does after 2 minutes of this, falling from inside a locker face first.

She looks around and realizes she’s in a classroom - a very familiar classroom. Uneasiness starts to creep up on her but approaches the door regardless and opens it, seeing if there’s a hallway. Instead, the door leads to her elementary school’s courtyard, and the harsh light of the sun blinds her for a second, accustomed to the darkness of the classroom.

From her shadow seems to rise a being, and suddenly the door behind her disappears, now being in the center of the courtyard.

Shadow copies of all her childhood bullies start to surround her, and her shadow becomes a clone of her, wearing a dark cloak with a minidress underneath. Calling herself Obscura, “your worst memories personified”, she snaps her fingers.

At her command, everyone around her starts to repeat every single insult they ever slung at her, from her appearance to her voice to her glasses to her things to her very being. Stella started to counteract as many insults as she could, but the insults started to come faster and faster, her starting to falter.

The shadows start to morph into her Alfea classmates, her teachers, her parents, her friends. They start to cut her with deeper words and Stella can’t keep up, she’s starting to be drowned in noise, old wounds opening up again.

Obscura mocks her, telling her this is what everyone truly thinks of her, and on the verge of losing it, Stella simply yells for her to shut up and leave her alone.

At this, everything around her disappears completely, except for Obscura. “If that’s what you want, enjoy being alone!” she mocks. Stella is shocked, and starts asking for everyone to come back. The shadow clone asks her if she’s that desperate to not be alone that she will take all insults, but Stella doesn’t listen to her, begging and screaming for everyone to come back, to not leave her alone. She finally breaks and starts crying, and Obscura smirks.

Campana and Venomya are content with this development, and start to prepare some sort of ritual now that they believe Stella can’t escape from the nightmare.

However, as they start to set up, they notice a sudden silence.

Stella slowly manages to calm herself down, and suddenly she feels something behind her.

She’s shocked to see herself (or at least, how she looked as a kid), and she starts to reassure her that she’s loved, that she has people that love her, and that she’s not alone.

Obscura tries to attack the young Stella but the magic doesn’t seem to work, and she keeps talking, telling her to remember her friend’s voices.

Stella closes her eyes and thinks back, her parent’s encouragement even after she was forced to retake the first year, her teachers congratulating her on her sudden progress, watching the soaps with Tecna, talking fashion with Musa, knitting with Flora, talking about royal life with Aisha, Sky and Diaspro, helping Bloom with her magic, Brandon’s loyalty and profound love, Riven consoling her when her parents divorced.

The tears of sadness turn into ones of joy, and she manages to rise to her feet. Obscura tries to attack her but Stella transforms, and slowly rises to the now visible sky, the younger Stella vanishing.

Claiming that she’s never alone, her friend’s feelings and memories always with her, and with herself on her side to remind her of those feelings, she has nothing to fear for. She fires a single wave of light and dispels Obscura completely, waking up from her nightmare and earning Onyrix.

With her new powers she starts to destroy all the crystals and vines that started to come close to her, and goes check up on Flora.

Flora wakes up on a mountain road, confused, before getting up and looking around. It seems to be night time, as everything is dark outside.

She starts to walk along the road and see if she can find out where she is, but she’s distracted by a shadow moving ahead. She feels it familiar somehow and runs after it.

The shadow starts to get more definition and Flora can see that it’s Miele (though oddly as a kid, instead of the teen she is currently), and starts to get desperate, wondering what she is doing in a place like this so late.

As she keeps running, she doesn’t notice her shadow slowly detach itself from her, and finally finds Miele near the edge of a cliff, not a single plant in sight.

Flora immediately transforms and rushes to Miele, fearing that she might fall, but her sister suddenly screams at her to leave her alone and turns into a rock formation. Her detached shadow fuses with the rock and forms into a clone of herself, wearing sand-colored clothes and rock décor.

Calling herself Sahara, “your reminder of your sins”, she starts to attack Flora head on. The Fairy handles herself well in battle, trying to fight her physically and getting as close as possible, but Sahara forces her back more and more twisting the terrain into sand and loose rock, forcing her back.

The fight goes on for a few more minutes until Flora finds an opening, too into the battle to notice Sahara’s smirks. She jumps and tries to slice her with her fan, but Sahara suddenly turns into baby Miele again and Flora freezes.

The shadow takes the chance and hits Flora hard still with Miele’s disguise, and finally starts taunting her.

She recalls an event of almost 12 years ago, in a cliff much like this. Of Flora exasperated with her little sister, from a time where she almost openly hated her, yelling at her to go back and leave her alone. Of her still unstable magic reacting and causing a slide. Of Miele’s screams of terror. Of Flora’s horrified expression at her sister’s (thankfully unharmed) unconscious form.

Flora tries to counteract with how that was an accident, of how her magic was still young, but Sahara (still as Miele) counters that with how she felt about Miele up until that point. The unwanted sister, the attention-hogger, the oh-so-adorable-child.

Sahara keeps forcing Flora back as she tries to process her memories and feelings, and of how that incident still haunts her, of the whys she took up physical fighting instead of properly tempering her magic, how suppressed her powers are beyond healing.

Sahara stops with the attacks and suddenly traps Flora in a whirlwind of sand and rock, starting to drag her into the earth as if a drill. She keeps mocking her on how her own sins won’t let her free herself, and Flora starts to panic.

She tries different techniques of support magic but nothing’s working, and Flora realizes she has to use her magic in full if she wants to be free.

Pushing past her fears, and knowing that she’s a different person from who she was as a kid, she forces dried roots to attack Sahara, disrupting her spell and letting the fairy free.

Flora then starts to attack in full, summoning trees, plants, vines, petals alongside her fans to cut, tear and hit Sahara as much as she can. Sahara tries to turn back to Miele to dissuade her, but Flora closes her eyes and keeps on. With a final piercing branch of thorns, and an explosion of sharp petals, She destroys Sahara, waking up from her dream and earning Onyrix.

She looks around her, the vines somehow having retreated, and meets up with Stella, who was coming to her from the other side of the park. Noting their new powers, they decide to use a convergence spell and manage to completely rid the park of Venomya and Campana’s magic, the shield above them even slightly affected.

They, on their part, are livid - not only more of their hostages earnt Onyrix, but their powers are perfectly geared to countering their own. Campana decides to start summoning shadow creatures to try and delay them further while awake, while Venomya focuses her power on making nightmares for the remaining magi.

On Magix, Nabu manages to contact the Order and asks where Daphne’s team has gone to, and if they’ve gotten any updates. After getting the location then Nabu formally requests reinforcements to the area as he can feel everyone there in a far bigger danger than anticipated, before teleporting himself to the place.

Aisha wakes up in her room back in Andros, looking around, not finding anything odd yet outside of it being dark at night. She leaves the room to look for the reason why she’s there, but instead of a hallway, she’s suddenly in the balcony overseeing the capital.

Below it’s the city’s population, expecting and waiting for her to talk. She realizes she’s in her royal clothes, but also wearing her father’s crown. She is the Queen now.

Everyone starts to make demands and pleas, starts to beg and scream, for her to be their Queen, to give them to greatness, to do better, to be better.

The population rises and rises, and the lights of cameras start to flash her. She covers her eyes, and from the harsh lights her shadow starts to morph into her clone.

Aisha tries to escape but the doors have disappeared, and more and more royal advisors appear from thin air, demanding for her to act like a Queen.

Aisha starts to be overwhelmed by the requests, and transforms to fly away and escape the madness. The palace and the people rise up with her, however, and suddenly gusts of wind start to force her down.

She looks up and sees her shadow clone, calling herself Soffocara, wearing a fancy, stuff dress. Introducing herself as “your dark future”, she starts to trap Aisha in a whirlwind, while everyone else keeps demanding for her to act as queen.

Aisha starts to choke as she tries to fight everything - Soffocara, the people -, screaming that she doesn’t want to be Queen. She doesn’t want this, this life of restrictions. Her people are only louder and the wind harsher.

The wind starts to diminish around her, as Soffocara redirects part of it to the population, taking them off the ground and starting to suffocate them as well. Aisha tries to stop her but she’s still trapped herself, and seeing her people suffer because of her inaction is making her more desperate. After a bit, however, she manages to calm down, and decides to pretend that she has fallen unconscious.

Soffocara drops the wind around her letting her fall to the ground, and Aisha takes the chance and attacks her. Soffocara’s surprised and Aisha elaborates - even if she’s terrified of being Queen, even if she doesn’t want to rule, there are people that will be affected by her. People that will suffer because of her inaction. And she can’t accept that.

With uncharacteristic precision she manages to free her people with her water, disrupting the air and redirecting the spirals back to Soffocara. The shadow tries to disrupt them further but Aisha simply re-accumulates the water, forcing her back until she manages to encase her in a harsh whirlpool of her own. Aisha immediately half-freezes the globe and pulls it apart, undoing Soffocara and waking up from the nightmare, earning Onyrix.

Aisha looks around, and after trying out her magic undoing the vines starting to creep closer, she starts to look for Tecna.

Tecna wakes up in a weird room, reminding herself of those old-fashioned VR machines Bloom showed her while on Earth. She tries to see if she can influence the area and suddenly starts to make a small grove with a river.

She starts to make some flowers and grass and bushes, lost in the sudden place, but no matter how hard she tries she can’t change the time of day, a perpetual nighttime around her. She tries to see if she can undo the changes she made, but somehow can’t anymore.

A sudden spark of light comes too close to her, a lightning bolt coming from the still clear sky. The harsh light contrast gives her a full shadow, and from that shadow forms her clone, covered in cybernetics and with long blue hair. Calling herself Virus, “Your base fears”, and starts to disrupt and glitch everything around her.

The trees and bushes suddenly lunge for Tecna, whose first instinct is to run away from them. She tries to transform but some roots make her trip, cutting her hand on a bush’s thorns in the fall. She tries again but can’t, suddenly not remembering how to transform.

She then tries to cast magic, but it comes out erratic and weak thanks to her panic and Virus easily avoids her attempts at attacks. Tecna panics more and more at this, starting to feel cornered and without ideas. She tries to think of her classes, or her practice, but can’t remember anything at all and it’s starting to send her into a panic attack.

Virus takes the chance and properly corners her, mocking her poor memory and how she can’t see the obvious way out. Tecna just simply screams, and tries to think harder and harder on what to do.

It’s at this time that she realizes she’s bleeding from her hand, and can feel a faint trace of magic on the cut. Trying to stop the bleeding she starts to calm herself down, and notices how one of the bushes starting to close in on her disappeared for a split second, remembering the glitch. She initially starts to think of all the ways she could try to escape with magic if she remembered how to use it, but slowly realizes that’s not the answer.

The trees and bushes keep coming closer and Virus believes she’s won, until Tecna suddenly launches herself at one of the bushes, taking advantage of the clipping frames and escaping. She then grabs a nearby branch and launches herself to Virus, trying to hit her physically.

Virus tries her best to dodge and protect herself but Tecna’s relentless, even if she feels herself tiring her arms due to not having a framework for close fighting. Virus lacks it as well, to her advantage, and starts to retake the magic she used on the room to prepare a desperation attack.

The callback of all magic makes everything in the room disappear, as well as undoing the “hack” she placed on Tecna, recovering her memories and being able to transform again.

Virus tries to attack her with the energy collected but Tecna launches herself to her again, tackling her, and holding her while casting a spell of her own. High voltage electricity suddenly flows through Virus all at once, dissolving immediately and letting Tecna earn Onyrix.

Now awake, Tecna meets up with Aisha soon, having just been a few meters apart, and now being able to properly fight the place they go out to look for everyone else.

After a few fights the Winx manage to get together again, and after sharing their experiences they start to look for Daphne and Thoren, using their powers to start undoing the curse on the place as they go.

They start to notice how the bigger crystals and vines don’t seem to try to do anything, and Flora tries to connect with the vines - and almost falls to the floor in surprise. The vine has someone inside it.

Everyone is equally shocked and Aisha and Stella look into the crystals, realizing there’s a faint outline of a person inside. Everyone starts to wonder what they can do and Tecna has an idea - if they can mix Flora’s, Aisha’s and Stella’s healing powers, their new Onyrix abilities, and their Essence Dust, they can undo the curse more effectively and free everyone with minor issues.

They try the weird convergence idea, and the larger crystals and vines slowly disappear, leaving the people behind. Everyone goes to check on them to see if they’re okay, and it seems they’re just sleeping, still affected by that part of the curse. The Winx carry on, hoping that removing all of the influence will wake them up.

Campana and Venomya are even more furious, knowing that 6 of the 7 girls have gotten Onyrix and are starting to undo their work. Venomya makes more shadow nightmares and starts to send them to the Winx, while Campana oversees Daphne’s own nightmare personally.

Daphne wakes up on the entrance to Sparxis City, already in ruins. The princess is at first confused and disoriented but realizes what this is - and promptly transforms, rushing into the capital worried.

Around her she can see the familiar destruction of 21 years ago, people screaming and running as a wave of frost starts to cover the place. She can see people disappearing into the air, and speeds up her flight, not noticing those she left behind turn into shadows, following her.

She arrives at the palace, but it’s not the palace - thousands of mirrors are covering every inch, reflecting her form in distorted ways. Her current Sirenix form, her Enchantix, her old princess gown, her look when she was a student at Alfea, and many other look at her, a manic expression contrasting her own confusion.

Most of the mirrors shatter, and seemingly fuse with her shadow, forming her clone.

Wearing a purple mermaid-cut dress, mirror shards all over her, and calling herself Miroir, “your deepest regrets”, she starts attacking, using the leftover shards plus waves of energy. Daphne dodges most of the attacks almost effortlessly, but ends up too close to a mirror.

Her reflection grabs her by the shoulder, and starts to whisper in her ear of how because she trusted in Politea, Domino fell.

Daphne does manage to struggle free but she bumps into another mirror, her Enchantix form telling her of how she used Bloom for the sole purpose of getting free and try to reclaim her country, even if she was her sister. More of her reflections start to mock her and insult her, of all of her missteps in life, of how she has only been successful thanks to the Dragon Aura and nothing else, that without her extra magic she would be worthless.

Daphne keeps fighting her reflections and tries to ignore their thoughts, but as they dig deeper it starts to get harder to do. She’s so distracted that she doesn’t notice Miroir slowly collect the shards she’s been making as she breaks the mirrors, and fuses it into a sword.

She lunges at Daphne to try and stab her, but the Fairy manages to react fast enough and uses one of the mirrors to shield herself.

Getting her confidence back thanks to a rush of adrenaline, she starts to agree with the mirrors that yes, she fucked up, she caused a lot of pain thanks to her actions and has been incredibly selfish the past few years. But so what? She can be better, she can learn from this, and at the end of the day she can’t control what other people do. Politea betrayed her of her own accord, and while tears do fall from her eyes at this realization, she finally starts fighting back in full.

Miroir keeps trying to stab Daphne but she manages to dodge faster and faster, and after tiring the clone out she finally attacks, mixing her knowledge of Light magic with her Water source and undoing Miroir’s form entirely, waking up and earning Onyrix.

Campana is even angrier, every magi now with Onyrix and more chances to undo her plans. It’s then that she notices the man Daphne’s with, and realizing who he is she devises a plan, a cruel smirk on her face.

Daphne comes to her senses to an increasingly scared Thoren, who doesn’t even notice the new transformation and just hugs her in relief, Daphne subtly blushing at the sudden closeness.

After a few long seconds Thoren lets her go (wiping a few tears away) and asks her what happened to her, she was sleeping for a very long time and she had suddenly transformed mid-sleep, grunting in pain. He tried to wake her up but it was almost impossible, her Aura hurting him any time he got close. Daphne explains what happened and Thoren sighs, saying “of course.”

Daphne’s confused at this and asks him what’s going on, she noticed his weird eye shifts and worried looks all the trip and she knows it’s not just mission nervousness. Thoren sighs once more and finally comes clean - he’s Campana’s son.

The fairy is left dumbfounded and even more confused, and the Paladin elaborates - Campana married his father under the pretense of genuine love to slowly gain power in Eraklian grounds, as Conway was assigned Marquess of Nevere during that time as training to become king before both towns became a single community. She had him with Conway as a way to “prove” the marriage was real after suspicions arose around the fairy, but she never really cared for him either, focused on her quest for power.

Daphne is surprised and feels sorry for Thoren, but quickly shakes the thought to voice said feelings as that would make it worse. She then asks her why he took the offer to work on this situation, and he admits it was mainly to finally confront her mother on what she has done. Saying this, they both get up, and realizing the place around them is starting to change, they decide to start looking for the rest.

They’re suddenly attacked by a bunch of shadow creatures, all of them resembling some sort of monster. They manage to fend them off decently well and their numbers steadily diminish, until a wave of darkness suddenly consumes all of the shadows. They look ahead and notice that Nabu is standing there, also with Onyrix, and see a small hole in the barrier up in the sky slowly healing.

He meets up with them and explains he woke up thanks to earning the new transformation, and says there are reinforcements on their way to help with the barrier. More shadow monsters arise around them, but are defeated this time by a wave of heat and light.

The Winx, also in Onyrix, rush to meet them, and Aisha almost without thinking jumps to hug Nabu once she realizes he’s there and also not in a coma earlier than expected. The Winx explain what they learnt about the citizens being inside all the bigger crystals and vines around the town, and how they can free them with their new powers.

With the 8 Onyrix fairies plus Thoren’s knowledge of healing, everyone slowly but surely starts to undo the curse on the towns, defeating all the shadow creatures on the way.

Venomya and Campana start to panic, and in a bout of confidence and desperation Campana suggests to fight them head on, as a last chance to maintain the curse. Venomya’s doubtful but agrees, running out of options.

The Winx plus the others have managed to undo the curse on most of both towns, and can see the barrier above slowly falling apart. They arrive at the Town Hall, where they believe Campana and Venomya are hiding, and are promptly attacked by the duo.

A fight ensues, and with the help of the shadow creates, it’s a somewhat balanced fight, but after a while Stella and Nabu make quick work of all the shadows and everyone rushes to attack the fairy and witch properly.

Thoren confronts Campana at last on how she treated him when she was around, on how she barely cared for him and how she used him to gain even more power. Campana tries to counteract this and tells him that she did indeed love him, that she did think of him when she was trapped, and that she was worried he would be treated horribly by Erendor as the “true heir” of Eraklyon.

Thoren is shaken by this and hesitates, and Venomya takes the chance to try and poison him from the back while distracted. She’s stopped by Daphne, however, which attacks her hard enough to knock her to the wall and Campana unleashes an attack on Daphne, angry that her plans to harvest Thoren’s armor’s energy failed.

Thoren is enraged by this and dives in to attack her, taking her by surprise and almost stabbing her with his sword.

The battle turns for the worse for Campana and Venomya, and channeling all their magic undoing the barrier they use a Teleportia spell, leaving the town.

Everyone realizes the barrier is down and that it’s night time, and do cheer at the fact they won, but Thoren is still worried that they’re out there somewhere, and while everyone else thinks of start leaving he stops them, telling them his concerns.

The Winx do agree that it might be dangerous to leave them be and Tecna uses a locating spell tracing the last vestiges of their magic around, realizing they’re somewhere in the forest nearby. She also realizes there is a Tree of Life in that forest, and fearing the worst, everyone goes after them.

After a few hours of traveling and the shadow creatures coming back, proving Campana and Venomya are nearby, they find the Tree of Life, and notice its state - it’s a very old, very big tree, and it’s somehow faded, as if no Pixie had been born or lived there in a long time.

They find Campana and Venomya there as well, and promptly realize what they’re doing - they’re absorbing the last of the magic in the Tree, making it wilt incredibly fast, and high on magic, they attack the group with renewed confidence.

Battle ensues but despite not using the shadow creatures the group starts to lose, finding it harder to avoid the waves of noise and poison now that they’re bigger, and it only gets harder when metal shards and fire join their array.

The fight starts to get harder until one of Venomya’s attacks sets the Tree of Life on fire, which creates a strong magic reaction, stopping everyone in their tracks as a Pixie with unusually large wings appear in front of them.

Her expression is one filled with fury and the group slowly backs away, but Venomya and Campana, still high on magic, try to attack the Pixie.

In an instant, she easily knocks them to the ground and tells everyone to start fighting back, before suddenly vanishing. The magic around their eyes starts to diminish as the Tree starts to heal, and the group takes the chance to retaliate.

The duo starts to summon more shadow creatures to fend them off, but when that proves a failure they start to cast a convergence spell.

The Winx, plus Daphne and Nabu, start to cast one of their own, and both attacks are launched at the same time, colliding into each other. Both teams try to hold it as long as they can, and the more magic the duo puts into their side the more healthy the tree starts to look.

The Pixie appears once more, her look remaining, and suddenly attacks Venomya and Campana from the back, breaking their concentration and undoing their convergence, the group’s own overpowering them completely, a bright explosion of magic ensuing.

Once the magic fade the 8 fairies descend and reunite with Thoren, and realize after a few seconds that both Campana and Venomya are dead.

The Pixie descends to their level and finally introduces herself - she is Somna, the Pixie of Dreams and Nightmares, and is the one in charge of granting Onyrix. She explains that when they attempted their first coup, both Fairy and Witch absorbed the magic of the Tree as well as the energy of the Pixies that lived there, killing them in their quest for power. She has no control over who gets her form and as such was forced to grant them Onyrix several years ago once they met the criteria, but she has been waiting for her chance at revenge and is pleased that she’s finally got it.

Nabu recognizes her voice and asks her if she was the one that contacted him when he got Onyrix, and she affirms, finding his powers useful for the cause as well as his tangential relation to the people that were assigned the mission. She also elaborates that she helped Stella with her fight against Obscura as well, manifesting her inner child to avoid losing another useful ally to her cause - her light powers proving great for the situation.

After a while, Daphne asks her why she’s not allowed to grant the form directly like Ninfea or Omnia do with their forms, and she explains that as part-Ethereal, she cannot directly interact with sapientkind unless they meet the requirements for her form or they show up at her Tree. The first time Venomya and Campana appeared she was not present, and was not able to stop them then as she was requested to an audience by the Council of Mana. She also adds that she’s the one that sent Daphne the recurring nightmares, hoping that she will come to her aid.

Everyone is surprised at her “part-Ethereal” comment and elaborates that she’s one of the very first Pixies to exist, and that her Tree is the oldest in all of Solenei. Pixies, as well as the other purely-magical species, are direct creations of Ethereals but have slowly become more mundane.

The team then thanks her for her help as well as for granting them Onyrix, and slowly leave, until they’re sure a reasonable distance away. Then they run like hell in silence at the fact they were near an Ethereal.

A week has passed since the incident, and Nevere and Zeisterna are slowly healing. All of the population has been rescued and thankfully the Winx’s actions have made clean-up a non-issue, but the Order fears the population might have their Auras affected.

Daphne meets with Thoren, and asks him how he’s dealing with everything, now that the incident has repeated itself and that his mother is dead.

He feels conflicted and hurt, but also relieved that everything is finally done. He hasn’t told his father yet, but he hopes this doesn’t hurt him too much - he genuinely loved Campana and has just now started to move on.

Daphne comforts him and thanks him for his support during the trip, his presence having her calmed her down when she would have freaked out as well as properly thanking him for when he helped her in Havram.

Thoren thanks her as well too, as she has helped him regain his confidence over the time they’ve met and that he’s happy he met her.

After a few seconds of genuine smiles and incredibly uncomfortable silence, Daphne finally breaks the ice and asks him if he would like to go out with her someday - not as a mission, but as friends, and hopefully more than that.

Thoren is immediately flustered and after stammering a bit he accepts, and talking about when they’ll do it, they can hear the town gain it’s sound back.

Nabu has met with his family again after so long, and while his mother still refuses to interact with him, his father hugs him, happy he’s well again, and apologizing for his own inaction.

Nabu returns the hug for a second but pulls back, and does tell his father that if he truly wants to, they can rekindle their relationship on their own time and on Nabu’s terms. His dad agrees, and start to plan a way to work this well.

The Winx get a very annoyed call from Roxy and Ogron, on the fact they were supposed to come help a week ago and haven’t even attempted to contact them. The Winx tell them of what happened and say that they had to stay back for a few extra days to help with clean-up and rebuilding, and that after that they just wanted a few days to properly unwind.

Both Fairy and Sorcerer sigh and wonder out loud how the Winx keep getting into these situations, but are happy they’re all okay and tell them everything is ready for them to go to Earth.

The call ends and Stella pulls out her Staff, and with a Teleportia spell, they go back to Earth, to help with reintroducing magic as well as simply enjoy their summer...

#Winx Club #Winx Redux AU #Winx Redux AU: Summarized #Winx AU Detailing #THIS WAS SO LONG but also really fun to write #Next and this one will take a bit is S5! since I need to rewatch it in full #S5 is one of my faves so I'm sure I'll enjoy it a lot and hopefully you'll enjoy this and the future summary too!

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