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I need baby names, so review with some of those as well. Let me give y'all an idea what I'm looking for. I'll post this list next chapter too.

Bloom- she's having twins, a boy who looks like her and acts like Sky and a girl who looks like Sky and acts like her, I plan on giving them some basic Earth names, you know like nineties movies stuff

Stella- she's also having twins, a girl that looks like Brandon and she's dark and loud and a boy that looks like Stella and he's light and quiet, I'm thinking some weird fancy names that have something to do with the sun and moon (she's sun, he's moon)

Flora- she's having triplets, two girls and one boy, and they would have set names, you know names that mean something in a set and preferably in Spanish

Tecna- she's having a boy, probably a Victorian old-fashioned name instead of something super high-tech because I like contrast like that (he was originally gonna be a girl named Moira or Dorothy)

Aisha- she's having a boy so just something watery and Androsian, it was originally gonna be Darrius but I don't know, it has nothing to do with water but he's a sweet little cinnamon roll if that helps anything

Musa- check the poll on my page

The Specialists showed up at Alfea on a school day, which was the first sign that something was wrong.

"Maybe we have a mission," Aisha suggested as they walked out of the front gate to greet their boyfriends, who had for some reason parked the Owl outside of Alfea.

Tecna shook her head, "Miss Faragonda would be the one briefing us if this were a mission- not the boys."

Bloom shrugged. "Miss F's the one who told us to come down here."

"But she didn't give us a mission," Tecna argued.

"The boys are right here. Let's just ask them," Flora intervened as they walked up to the Owl, Red Fountain's largest ship.

The six Specialists walked out and the six fairies ran into their arms as usual. But this was not a usual visit.

"Winx, we have to talk," said Sky after he had embraced Bloom.

Bloom laughed. "That sounds like a breakup." At the serious look on his face, she stopped laughing. "This isn't a breakup, right?"

The blond prince sighed, taking a step back from the fairy of the Dragon Flame. "It kind of has to be."

"Sky, what are you talking about?"

Riven answered bluntly, "We're going on a mission, so we have to break up."

"What?!" Stella screeched, clinging to Brandon more tightly.

Brandon sighed. "I'm sorry, Stella, but it has to be this way."

"Hold up," Aisha interrupted before the Winx went into hysterics. She took a few steps back from Nabu to face the Specialists as a whole. "I need a better explanation than that. Start from the beginning."

Nabu took a step toward her. "We can't tell you much-"

She cut him off, "Then tell us what you can."

Sky took over the conversation. "We're going on a top secret mission for two years. We're going to be undercover the whole time and the only person from our old lives we can contact is Codatorta, our mission director."

"Old lives?" Bloom asked, hands planted firmly on her hips.

Sky put his hands on her shoulders- she only tensed up more- and said, "I'm sorry, Bloom, but once we step on the Owl, we become different people. It's for your safety as well as ours."

Flora cradled Helia's face in her hands and asked, "Will it be dangerous?"

Helia opened his mouth to answer, but Sky answered for him, "We can't say."

Tecna stepped farther away from Timmy. "Well, when are you leaving?"

Timmy looked down and mumbled something.

"What was that?"

He looked up at her apologetically and said, "Now."

"Now?!" Stella shouted, screeching for a second time. She looked up at Brandon for confirmation and he only nodded.

Musa crossed her arms and said, "This still doesn't answer the whole break up thing."

Sky sighed and rubbed his temples. "Staying together the whole time is just not fair to you girls-"

Bloom spoke over him, "Not fair? What's not fair is you telling us this now instead of when you found out. What's not fair is you making the decision that breaking up is for the best without consulting us first. What's not fair is you leaving!"

Flora started sobbing in Helia's arms. The boys fell awkwardly silent and they all turned away to give Flora and Helia their moment.

Musa led Riven over to the edge of the forest where their quiet whispers escalated into loud shouts that ended with Musa stomping back to the dorms and Riven storming into the Owl.

Aisha turned to run after her, but Nabu grabbing her hand stopped her.

"Aisha, I just want you to know that if you wish, our betrothal will still stand when I get back... if you'll still have me."

His eyes were pleading, but her eyes were cold.

She glared and said, "If I'll still have you? You're dumping me. And you're asking me to wait two years. I don't see myself having anything to do with this decision. You've obviously made up your mind."

"Aisha, wait-"

"I've gotta check on Musa. Have a nice trip."

With those words, Aisha ran back to Alfea to find Musa, leaving Nabu to look after her longingly.

Sky walked up to his friend and put a comforting hand on his shoulder. "Don't worry, Nabu. She'll come around."

Bloom overheard his comment and butted in, "When? When he's gone? Is that what you're hoping for? For her to see it from his point of view and sit and wait for him like a devoted girlfriend?"

"Bloom, I have to go on this mission. It's my duty."

She huffed, "Duty? Is that what they call breakups nowadays? I cannot believe you how selfish you're being right now."

Bloom followed Musa and Aisha's lead and headed to Alfea's dormitories. Sky tried to run after her, but Nabu grabbed his shoulder. Sky was about to argue when Stella's high-pitched voice cut him off.

"So what now? You run off, get a new identity, and a new girlfriend?" the blonde princess asked her now ex-boyfriend. "Who is she? Is she prettier than me?"

Brandon wrapped his arms around her, pulling her close and resting his chin on the top of her head. "Impossible."

Stella sighed and fell into his hug, snaking her arms around his waist. "I don't want you to go."

"I don't want me to go either."

"At least we agree," Stella mumbled against his bicep. They shared a long silence in each other's arms before Stella spoke up again. This time in a whisper, she said, "I'll wait for you."

Brandon pulled her back to look her in her topaz eyes. "No. Stella, I can't ask you to do that."

"You don't have to ask," Stella said, placing a loving hand on his cheek. "I'm yours, forever and always."

Brandon looked like he was trying to be upset about it, but his bittersweet smile gave him away. He just pulled Stella in for another hug.

Over by the gate, Tecna and Timmy were finishing up a conversation. She was leaning against Alfea's wall and he was making a lot of hand gestures to get his point across. After a second, Tecna just sighed and nodded solemnly, kissing him. It was a good kiss, a solid kiss. It was a goodbye kiss.

She walked him back to the Owl and just gave Timmy a small wave as he disappeared into the ship. Helia followed him. Tecna put an arm around Flora's shoulders; the nature fairy had stopped crying, but her body still shook with shuddering breaths and sobs. Tecna led her friend back to the dorms. Someone inside the ship called out to Brandon who shared one very long kiss with Stella before leaving. Stella stood and watched the Owl take off before running to catch up with Tecna and Flora.

Back in the room, Musa was pacing around the room, ranting about what Riven had yelled at her about to Aisha who was angrily butting in every once in a while. Bloom was packing a bag.

"The nerve!" Musa shouted as Tecna walked in with a sobbing Flora and a somber Stella.

"I know!" Aisha and Bloom chorused from opposite sides of the dorm.

"To get mad at me!"

"I know!" the girls chorused again.

Tecna sighed as she transferred the distraught Flora to Stella and walked over to her pacing roommate. Laying a hand on her shoulder, she said, "Musa, Timmy explained some of it to me. You have to understand this from Riven's perspective."

Musa whirled around, disconnecting Tecna and startling her. "I don't have to understand anything. He's the one who has to understand that I am not his property."

Tecna put her hands up defensively. "No one said you are."

"He sure seems to think so," Musa argued, stalking away from Tecna and then marching back with more to say. "That he actually thought he had any right to raise his voice at me? Ha! I say damn him to the Omega Dimension! He actually got angry with me! With me! Who the hell does he think he is?! And for something I haven't even done! I would never- I could never- and for him to think I would- just because I said- and to get mad- I just can't-"

At this point, her rant turned into meaningless fragments of sentences as her hands started shaking more and more. Tecna realized where it was leading and reached out to pull her friend toward her and wrap her arms around her. Musa started crying in her arms.

"I can't believe he's really gone!" Musa cried into Tecna's shouldes. Tecna pet her long navy blue hair kindly as she let her friend get it all out.

Aisha and Bloom watched, suddenly more subdued than they were before in their righteous anger. On the couch, Stella had soothed Flora enough so that she had stopped sobbing and was instead looking forlornly out the window. Stella herself was looking worse for wear.

Aisha shared a look with Bloom from across the room as the technology fairy and music fairy embraced. The redhead had been packing to go to Gardenia, a bad habit of hers when the going gets tough, but had stopped after Musa started crying. Now Aisha could truly see how broken up her friend was about it. Bloom's eyes were hollow and cold, with little sign of their usual spark. Looking around, she saw that her friends were hollow husks without the loves they had come to depend on, including herself, though she was afraid to admit it. If only there was a way to cheer everyone up...

Aisha sighed when she realized what she'd have to do.

"Girls," declared the water fairy, clearing her throat, "let's go shopping."

Meanwhile, on the Owl, the Specialists had gone to their stations, excluding Sky who was pacing and repeatedly running a hand through his hair. Timmy, who was driving, looked to Brandon pleadingly. The squire sighed and approached his anxious prince.

"Sky, stop pacing. You're distracting Timmy."

The blond looked up at his oldest friend and asked, "Do you think Bloom hates me now?"

The entire ship stilled as the other Specialists waited for the answer to the question they had all been wondering. The silence was deafeningly insecure and afraid. With all the big missions and battles they take on, it was easy to forget they're really just teenage boys with teenage girlfriends who have no idea what they're doing.

"Honestly, Sky? I don't know," Brandon answered. "It's not likely- I mean, you're Sky and Bloom- but you did handle that really badly. Knowing Bloom- and I know Bloom- she will be angry for a while before forgiving you. Not that it matters, because we won't be back for two years."

Sky ran a hand over his face. "I just- I want to tell her. I want to tell her all of it. I want to tell her about Whisperia and Blue of Lynphea and the terrorists and the princesses and the mission. After the first, I never want to keep another secret from Bloom."

Brandon put up a hand to stop his train of thought. "But you can't. And you know why. Don't torture yourself over something you can't change. From this point on, you must be solely focused on protecting the princesses and nothing else. This is our duty now."

"Easy for you to say," Sky remarked bitterly. "I heard Stella promise to wait for you."

Nabu sucked in a shaky breath, reminding Brandon that all the boys were listening in. Brandon grabbed Sky angrily by the arm and led him to the backroom of the Owl for Wind Riders and other equipment. Waiting first for the automatic door to slide shut, Brandon turned on his prince with a fire in his eyes that Sky had never seen directed towards himself before.

"May I remind you," seethed the squire through clenched teeth, "that you volunteered for this mission and that it is my job to follow you to the ends of the dimension. Don't start pitying yourself and turning on us when it's your fault we're on this mission anyway."

Sky stared at Brandon with wide eyes and just nodded hesitantly.

Brandon sighed, "I'm sorry, Sky. I understand why you did what you did. I just- it might have just cost us the girls of our dreams. Opportunity of a lifetime or not, if I never get back to her, I don't know what I'm going to do."

Sky nodded again, this time in understanding. "You'll get back to her, Brandon. I swear on my life."

Brandon rolled his eyes. "Your life is what I'm here to protect, so don't just throw that oath around like a sack of potatoes."

The two boys laughed with each other before heading back to the main deck and rejoining the rest of the Specialists. A long journey was laid out before them, so it was best they go into it not bearing any ill will.

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Love, Ru😘