A/N: Hello! Connie here, with my second ever Winx club story, yay!

And Yes, as You've probably noticed, It's a next gen fic: In other words, the winx's kids! This isn't a typical next gen story though, firstly, because all of the kids are various ages and NOT all girls. For example Bloom has 3 daughters from the ages of 9 to 17 and Musa has 4 boys and one girl who's still only 5. I thought it would be more fun to have a mixture, create a lot more interesting relationship than the old 'all the winx have daughters the same age and they're all magically friends'. That leads me to the next point, not ALL of these kids will get along. There no instant friendship in this story.

Also, I wont b leaving out the old winx girls, the ones we already love.

The next is the setting. It's not at Alfea or RedFounain, It's actually set in a luxury resort! All of the winx girls have decided to get back together, having been drifting apart over the years, and decide taking all their families with them on a big relaxing vacation is just the ticket.

Of course, what kind of vacation is it if everything goes smoothly?

I know a lot of people will be turned off by the fact that this is a next gen fic, I mean they're my original characters, who knows if you'll like them, you came to the winx section on to read about the actual shows characters! So really, if ANYONE shows an interest in this I will be very happy and gratuitous to you, as your taking a chance in reading this. I've worked hard to make interesting, well thought out and UN-stereotypical characters and I DO have a plot, as well as wanting to convey some pretty important messages in this story as well. Overall, this story and these characters wont leave my head and I just need to write it down, and if no one likes it, I guess that's fine and I'll write it just for me haha.

I hope you enjoy!

Ella sat on the floor of her bedroom, piles of clothes, books and other assorted things scattered around her, packing and re-packing her bag. Should she take two bathing suits or just one? Maybe she should pack her own pillow, just in case the hotel ones were too lumpy. Had she remembered to put dental floss in her toiletries bag? Questions like this had been buzzing around her head all morning, perhaps next time the family goes on holiday she should pack the night before..

Truth be told, Ella wasn't really looking forward to this vacation at all. After a hard first year at Alfea, Ella had been keen to spend the summer holidays just relaxing at the family castle, reading, lounging at the pool, maybe even playing with her little sister...But no, that wasn't happening, her Mom had to go and make plans for the whole family despite whatever they might have wanted to do. Ella picked up the brochure her Mom had given her at the start of the summer and stared down at it.

Sunset Realm Resort: Your luxury vacation awaits you.

Five star service with five star attractions. An entire realm built to entertain the whole family.

She absent-mindedly chucked the it back down onto the piled of junk around her. She'd flipped through it before and read about all the attractions. Being it's own realm it literally had every attraction a vacationer could want. Massive luxury hotel, an array of pool's, a water park, shopping malls, spa's, night clubs, cinema's, theatres, incredibly swanky restaurants, an ice rink, circus, a zoo and a petting zoo, indoor ski slopes, tropical beaches, golf courses, aquariums...the list went on. They really did have everything there and reminding herself of all these cool things did perk Ella up a little bit. If she couldn't lounge around her own pool maybe a hotel one might be just as nice..

Of course, Ella just had to remember the people that she might have to lounge around that pool with, and that wasn't just her own family. Part of her Mom's brilliant vacation idea had been to invite all of her old friends and their families had done the math. That was five sets of adults and thirteen kids, ranging from the ages of five to twenty one. Somehow, Ella couldn't imagine this holiday being relaxing at all with twenty three different people running around. Their Mom had told them all about the old club she was in, the Winx club. Ella remembered seeing all of them and their families a fair bit when she was little, they used to go for visits all the time, visiting each others realms every Christmas for the holidays or just for random week long stays. Of course, Mum herself was a princess, as well as half her friends, and as the different realms monarchs grew older and passed on power , the friends became queens and Lucy and Ella's parents became King and Queen themselves, and as it seems, running a realm leaves very little time to catchup with your best friends, so the visits became few and far between. By the way her mother had been acting recently, Ella could tell she was excited to see her old friends again. There was one time last week when Ella had caught her mother in her old enchantix form, checking herself out in the mirror! It was a bit tighter than it had been back in the day, but Ella still thought her mother looked beautiful in it.

It was just then that the door to Ella's room was flung open. "Ell's, have you seen my skirt?" . Ella just blinked as her older sister, Lucy, invited herself into her room, sounding frantic. She was obviously doing some last minute packing herself.

"Which skirt? You have hundreds" Ella said cooly. In fact Ella knew exactly the skirt her sister meant. The aqua coloured pleated mini-skirt. Ella had pinched it out of her sisters wardrobe just yesterday and packed it into her own suitcase. It was a little too big for her in the hips but she safety pinned it at the back to make it fit. She would have hoped Lucy wouldn't have noticed.

"The pleated blue one, you know, the one I wear to the beach all the time?" Lucy explained, plonking herself down onto Ella's bed.

"Actually it's aqua" Ella said without thinking, mentally slapping herself as it slipped out. She tried to discreetly pile more clothes into her suit case, in case any part of the aqua skirt might be showing.

Luckily, Lucy didn't seem to have noticed anything fishy and she just sighed "well, whatever, have you seen it?"

"Nope.."

Lucy sighed again, this time flinging herself down to lie on the bed, looking dramatically distressed "Ugh, I cant find it anywhere! I need that skirt Ella, It's like the coolest skirt!"

'I know, that's why I took it' Ella thought to herself, shoving a pair of pyjamas into her suitcase. "You have other cool skirts, you don't need that one"

"Name one skirt that's cooler than my blue one" Lucy pouted sulkily.

'It's aqua..' "How bout that red, frilly one?" Ella suggested.

"It makes me look like a Flamenco dancer!"

"I thought that was why you liked it?"

"Well I'm not going to need to look like a flamenco dancer at Sunset Realm Resort ,am I?" Lucy asked, no trace of sarcasm. She genuinely looked like she was thinking of the possibility.

Ella thought back to that brochure and reckoned that having flamenco dancing classes as one of the resort entertainment features wasn't that far-fetched an idea, but she didn't bring this up.

"Well, what about that light purple one, with the bows at the side?"

"Oh, that's so last season..."

"That long, flowy, yellow one?"

"I saw Olivia Bennet wearing it last week at Janet's party and I overheard Millie saying it was the ugliest skirt she had ever seen, I cannot wear that skirt now!" Lucy looked offended that Ella had even suggested it.

Ella was getting seriously annoyed now. She was used to her older sister going on about clothes but she hated it when Lucy brought up those idiotic drones she called friends..

"Your pink one then?" Ella all but snapped at her sister, her patience running thin.

Lucy just pulled a face "..That one might be all right"

Sensing that this nonsense might finally be over, Ella pushed a little further "It does look really good on you after all" she knew flattery always worked on Lucy like a charm.

"Yeah... I guess it does look good on me.." Lucy said dreamily, talking to herself more than anything, and Ella just knew that she was mentally pairing it with all the tops she'd packed to see all the possible outfit combinations that were possible. As Lucy drifted off into her train of thought, Ella couldn't help but look over to her. Ella hadn't just been flattering her sister for flatteries sake, the skirt really would look good on her. But then again, most clothes would look good on Lucy. She was very beautiful. Long blonde hair, blue eyes, creamy white skin that had never even had as much as one pimple, decent bra size with just the right size hips complete with long thin legs and an enviably flat tummy. Ella couldn't help that tiny pang of jealously every time she looked at her sister. Her own hair was bright red, like her mothers, and so wavy and unruly that she had it tied in a messy ponytail on the top of her head in an attempt to control it. She was skinny, too skinny. Already fifteen with no sign of visible breasts or hips in sight, she didn't even have to wear a proper bra yet. She didn't wear make-up either and she was never able to dress as fashionably either, no matter how hard she tried (Even stealing and wearing Lucy's own clothes, somehow they seemed to lose their coolness as soon as they were pulled onto Ella).

It wasn't just the looks or the fashion sense that Lucy seemed to have while Ella didn't. Even just the way she was was different. Better. Lucy had always been popular everywhere she went, people just fawned over her. She was sweet and endearing, knew exactly what to say to make people like her and she was no doubt the queen of her year at Alfea. She got good grades, the teachers loved her, not to mention dozens of boys from Alfea, and she'd even reached her Enchantix level and she'd only just finished her second year!

Ella didn't know how she did it. No matter how hard she'd tried, Ella just couldn't compete. When she'd started Alfea at the beginning of the year no one flocked to her. It had been a week before she'd even plucked up the courage to sit with anyone at lunch, and then another two weeks after that before people actually started to talk to her...and that had only been after she'd told them Lucy was her older sister. They'd heard of her, obviously. It was fair to say that Ella hadn't actually made any proper friends yet...

They all seemed so different to her. They all loved talking about parties and boys and some silly pop stars Ella hadn't heard of. Ella always felt like she couldn't join in because she never really got invited to parties, or got much attention from boys (and she was far too shy to approach a boy first).

Oh, and she hadn't even reached her first magic transformation yet. Near the end of the year when some of the other first year girls had been off succeeding as far as their charmix, Ella had sat on the sidelines and watched, ground level, no wings in sight...

Her head buzzing with bitter thoughts, Ella angrily snapped her small jewellery box shut as she shoved it down among her packed clothes. The noise snapped Lucy out of her daze as she sat up on the bed. As she moved, her weight managed to shift the array of pillows at the head of Ella's bed, causing a small, white lump to fall to the ground. "Oh, Snowy!" Lucy gasped, reaching down from the bed to pick up the stuffed polar bear from the floor. "I didn't mean to drop him Ell's" Lucy said, dusting at the soft toys bright white fur.

"It doesn't matter" Ella said, taking him back into her arms as Lucy held him out to her . However jealous Ella might be over her sister, she really did love her and she knew Lucy loved her too. "Anyway, He's been knocked out of bed by accident thousands of times, he's gotten used to it sleeping with me" Lucy laughed lightly and Ella looked down at her toy fondly before placing him on the nearby night stand and then resuming packing.

Lucy did a double take "Wait, aren't you taking him?" she asked. Ella didn't look her in the eye.

"Yeah, well, It's not just a family vacation is it. Were going with all Mom's old friends and their kids, like Aunty Stella and Alexis and Nate...I don't want them to see that I still sleep with a stuffed teddy, they'd think I was a baby"

'Aunty' Stella wasn't really Lucy and Ella's Aunty, not by blood, but she was their Mom's best friend, and the one friend they probably saw the most of, and she insisted that's what they call her. There were her two kids as well, Nate, who was Lucy's age, and Alexis, who was a year younger than Ella.

"Oh, I'm sure they wont tease you" Lucy tried to sound re-assuring "I thought you were really good friends with Alexis?"

Ella tried not to scoff out loud. Frankly, the fewer the visits from that family the better in her opinion. Alexis may have been a year younger than Ella but that had never stopped her from constantly bossing her around and playing tricks on her. One of her favourites used to be taking Snowy the polar bear and hiding him around the castle so Ella couldn't find it. Whenever she went and complained to her mother, she'd just been told it was 'playing' and she shouldn't get so upset about it. Apparently, just because a pair of mothers are best friends doesn't mean there children will be. Right now Ella was clinging to the hope that maybe Alexis had become nicer over the last few years.

"Well.." Ella started, looking back to her toy "Maybe I'm getting to old for soft toys anyway.." Even as she said, Ella knew she was kidding herself. She loved that toy, but she would just have to go a little while without it.

The door to Ella's room opened once again, this time to let in their father, and both girls looked up.

"Girls, haven't you even finished packing yet! C'mon, hurry, we're leaving in an hour!" King Sky shook his head at his daughters and the pile of clothes that still lay around Ella, waiting to be jammed into her suitcases. "I did tell you both that perhaps you should've started packing a little earlier"

Lucy slipped off of Ella's bed and quickly stepped back over to the door and past her dad "Sorry daddy, I was just looking for my skirt. Do you think one of the maids lost it in the wash again?"

"Does it even matter? You've got hundreds of skirts already, just pack them!" He rolled his eyes, almost repeating exactly what Ella had said word for word.

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An hour and forty five minutes later, way behind schedule, both Lucy and Ella were struggling to carry their overloaded suitcases down the grand staircase of their family palace. Sky was making them carry them, instead of the servants, as a psuedo-punishment for being so late and holding up everyone else. As they inched their way down slowly, dragging the bags behind them, they heard footsteps clattering down behind them on the polished marble. Ella turned just in time to see, Molly, the youngest of the three sisters, bounding towards her, a big square box in her hands.

"Ella! Lucy!" The young girl cried "I forgot my monopoly set! Do you think dad will still let me pack it?" Ella guessed she sounded so panicked since Sky had been getting increasingly annoyed at all the hold ups the girls had been causing, what with forgetting this and that and double checking everything. Lucy just smiled down at her sister

"Don't worry Molly, of course he'll let you pack it and I doubt he'll get mad...well, maybe just go down and shove it into your bag before he sees...just in case!" Molly nodded and sped down the stairs as fast as her nine year old legs could go, red pigtails flying out behind her.

Their mother, Bloom, was already waiting at the bottom of the stairs, an array of bags packed and ready to go at her feet. Her hair was pulled back in a loose bun and she had a light blue summer dress on, with a white cardigan on over the top. She was talking to one of the maids "-and if the Emperor of the Tashin realm calls be sure to get our diplomats onto it immediately...oh, and don't forget to water my pot plants! That's important too" but as soon as Molly dashed past her, Bloom noticed her girls , who were nearly at the bottom of the stairs.

"What are you doing carrying those yourselves? No wonder your taking so long, your moving at a snails pace" and with a flick of her hand the bags zoomed out of Ella and Lucy's hands and landed softly at Bloom side, ready to go. "We're late enough as it is"

"Thanks mum!" Lucy chirped, skipping down the last few steps ,Ella just behind her.

"actually, I had wanted them to get their things down themselves.." Sky said, sounding irritated, as he came out from around the corner. Both girls gave their dad as big a smile as they could manage. Sky didn't seem truly angry but he raised his eyebrows at them, but the girls only smiled harder. It was then that he looked down and saw Molly digging out clothes from one of her bags and trying to cram in the awkwardly shaped monopoly box instead, making a giant mess "Oh, Molly, do you have too!" Sky said, exasperation in his voice.

"Oh, wait!" Lucy suddenly cried "I forgot something! Be one sec!" and she spun around on the spot and dashed straight back up the steps "I'll only be one more minute, I promise this time!"

"For heavens sake!" Sky muttered angrily as Lucy hurried her way back up the stairs "If your not back down in the next sixty seconds were leaving without you! I am not kidding around!"

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"Jaydn, stop it!" Musa half screamed for what felt like the tenth time that day. "Seriously, I am not kidding around! If you run over one more persons foot with that remote control car, I'm taking it off you for good!"

Musa tried to ignore the judging stares she got from other passengers as she tried to control her youngest son. She'd just spent five hours on an air ship ride to get to this damn vacation realm and now she had to herd her entire family, cranky husband, four unruly boys and one tantrum-prone daughter, onto a shuttle bus that would take them to the hotel they were staying at. She'd been ecstatic when Bloom had sent the invitation to take a holiday with all her old friends, but so far it was nothing but stress, stress, stress. At least she could be glad that the airline company hadn't decided to charge them damages for that chair Jaydn had accidentally set on fire...I mean really, the man sitting in front of her son shouldn't have had a lighter sticking out so obviously from his coat pocket. Jaydn was only eight but he was as much trouble as eight five year olds stuck together. You had to keep an eye on the boy. He was the only one of her children to inherit his fathers dark red hair, so that made him slightly easier to spot in a crowd. Sometimes Musa felt like that was natures way of helping her out, just a little bit. Just as she started to rub her temple, feeling a headache coming on, she heard a whizzing sound as something zipped down the aisle of the bus.

"OKAY! That was your last warning, hand it over!" Musa snapped as she reached over the aisle to her sons seat and tried grbbing the remote control from his hand.

"But Mom!" Jaydn whined as he desperately tried to cling onto the device, but Musa was having none of it. She got up from her seat and grabbed the toy car from the floor, quickly flipping open the latch and removing the batteries, pocketing them.

"Um, Mam, we request that you please sit down while the bus is still in motio-"

"In a minute!" Musa glared at the bus conductor and his eyes widened, deciding it best to keep his distance. Jaydn scowled, slumping back in his seat at having his only cure from boredom taken away from him. It only took a few seconds before he decided that kicking his sisters chair in front of him was the next most entertaining thing he could do.

"Don't" The young girl whined. Ruby was only five, Musa's youngest child and only daughter. The little princess of the family. She had her dark blue hair done up neatly in two buns on either side of her head, clipped into place with a set of pink bows. Every other member of the family couldn't help but dote on the girl...except for Jaydn, of course.

"Quit what?" The young boy grinned, cheekily.

"Kicking my chair! Stop it, stop it, stop it!" Ruby reached over the side of her chair to try and slap her small hands at her brothers legs. Jaydn responded by trying to aim his foot for her hands.

"OW!" Ruby shrieked , as her brothers sneakers connected with her tiny fingers. "DAAADDDY!"

Musa was over in a flash as she began to cry "Jaydn! Oh, Ruby, are you alright sweethear-"

"I want daddy!" Ruby cried, pulling her hand away as Musa tried to get at look at her fingers, to inspect the damage. Musa's lips tightened as she still gripped onto the RC car.

"Well, Daddy's sleeping at the moment, I'll have to do-" Musa tried to say it calmly.

"NOOOOOOO!" Ruby all but yelled, her tiny voice racked with heavy sobs. Okay, now Musa could definitely feel the headache coming on. This was Ruby's third tantrum in the day.

"Ruby, please, just calm down-" Musa started, feeling the eyes of the other bus passengers on her again, some shaking their heads. "Jaydn couldn't have kicked you that har-"

But all of this fell on deaf ears. Ruby had already twisted around in her seat so her face was mashed into the complimentary bus pillow she had received earlier, her great, dramatic sobs being muffled as she continued to cry as of her life was ending.

"Aw, Mum, just wake Dad up. That's all she wants, she'll shut up the second he's around!" Musa's middle child, Flyn, added as he stood up to lean over his seat.

"Yeah, C'mon I cant even read my book with her making that racket!" Noah, the second eldest son, said rather carelessly.

The two were sitting next to each other and Flyn peered over his brothers shoulder to look down at the book in his hands. "Classical composers throughout the ages? God, you've just finished your last year of school, what are you doing reading boring old books like that for?" he sneered.

Noah sniffed indignantly "Well, if you must know, some people, unlike you, read for fun"

Noah could be called a bit of a nerd really. He was just as into music as his mother and siblings but on the far more classical side. He could play a huge array of instruments very well, violin, saxophone, flute and cello, but piano was definitely his favourite. His dark hair was fashioned into a neat style, with no flyaways. Unlike Flyn, who's hair stuck up at all sorts of angles, mostly because he hardly ever brushed it in the morning, deciding fate would be his stylist and whatever he woke up with is how he walked out the door. The only instruments he'd ever bothered to learn was the recorder in fifth grade, and he'd given that up as soon as he could. Learning an instrument took patience, something Flyn did not have a lot of, and he really was not interested in music lessons and spending extra time in school participating in band practise. He had once considered learning the electric guitar, but that was only so he could be in a wild rock band with his friends...and wanting to be in a wild rock band was only so he could get attention from girls...

"Oh, yeah, Mozart, he sounds like a tonne of fun. Laugh a minute, that guy" Flyn said sarcastically. "I reckon the only remotely interesting old music guy was that crazy one, you know, Van Goth or something, since he cut his own ear off an everything, that's pretty cool"

Noah snapped his book shut "Okay, first of all, Its pronounced Van GO, and secondly, he was a painter you idiot!"

"Don't call me an idiot!"

"Then stop being one!"

"Hey! You two better stop bickering before I make you stop!" Musa said threateningly, glaring at the two before stomping over a few seats back to wake up Riven. They saw that their mother looked particularly close to breaking point and shut up, but not without looking sulky and giving discreet kicks to each others shins when their mothers back was turned. Musa made her way down the aisle of the bus, the bus conductor still looking antsy since she was still out of her seat, but too scared to try and stop her again. When she reached Riven she gave him a hard jab in the chest, probably a bit harder than was necessary, and he woke up in surprise, blinking a few time to get his bearings.

"I..what, what's up?" he said groggily "Have we arrived?"

"Ruby wants you" she said sharply before flipping open one of the overhead compartments, stashing the RC car in there, and then slamming it shut with more force than was necessary. Riven just raised an eyebrow but by this point he could make out Ruby's tearful screams. He sighed, before pushing himself up out of his chair and going over to try and calm her down. Musa took her seat and crossed her arms, well into a bad mood. Why is it that parents never chose favourites but the kids almost always did...

Musa tried closing her eyes, to see if sleep would come to her. Within twenty seconds she could already hear Rubys screams come to a halt. In a way it was severely annoying how Riven could put an end to her tantrums with little to no effort and she was always the 'mean' one. She probably should be used to it by now. Just as Musa let her head relax back into the soft pillow at the back of her chair, she felt a small tap on her shoulder. Snapping her eyes open she found herself face to face with a little old lady.

"Could you please tell your son to turn his music down! I can hear it blaring away from here!" The old lady fumed, scowling and pointing at Musa's oldest son, Blaine, who was sitting a few seats back. It was true, loud, electronic music beats could be heard faintly from her sons direction, where he sat lazily reclined with his eyes shut.

"Ah, sorry" Musa started "I'll go ask him to put his headphones on"

"He IS wearing headphones.." The old lady spat out through gritted teeth.

Musa peered around her seat at Blaine and winced. If she could hear it from all the way over here, Musa wondered how her son wasn't completely deaf by now...

But before she could even move from her seat a deafening series of crashes filled the bus, followed by a small scream. Musa stared in astonishment as she saw Jaydn , Perched on top of his bus seat to reach the overhead compartments, his RC car held in his hand, and an array of different peoples luggage that had fallen onto the floor, some of the suitcases even flying open, items of clothing scattered everywhere. The whole bus had had gone silent and was staring. Jaydn looked up at his mother in horror, knowing what he was in for now..

"JAYDN!"

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As far as Musa was concerned, that bus trip lasted far too long, and as soon as it pulled up outside the lobby of the hotel she silently congratulated herself on not physically injuring anyone in frustration, including her own children. Well, Riven now had a small bruise forming from where she had jabbed him, but that was nothing he couldn't get over.

Pulling a sulky looking Jaydn along with her, making sure his hand was held firmly in hers, Musa stepped off the bus. "Watch your step" she said, somewhat half heartedly as she know Jaydn never took precaution in anything he did, but it was a sort of obligatory thing to say. True enough, he took a massive jump down the large bus step and landed with a smack on the pavement. Musa quickly dragged him out of the way of other passengers and joined the queue to collect their main luggage from the side of the bus. She noticed a snotty looking woman in a tacky sun dress looking down her nose at Jaydn, who was currently bent down with his face to the pavement, peering under the bus as if something interesting might actually be down there. Musa glared back.

"Oh. My. God, that was the longest two hours of my life!" Flyn exclaimed loudly as he stepped off the bus, stretching out his arms in a cat-like fashion, glad to be able to move around. He was followed by Noah, who was just placing a book mark into 'classical composers throughout the ages'. The two boys came over to join their mother, a few people looking miffed at them cutting the queue. If the boys noticed, they didn't care and Musa had just resigned herself and her family to being generally hated by all of the bus goers, so she didn't stop them either. Noah looked down at his little brother.

"Jaydn, what the hell are you doing?" he asked.

Jaydn pulled himself back up from the ground at the sound of his name "I't smells funny down there!" he said, obviously not feeling it was necessary to answer the question before going down to investigate some more.

Noah pulled a face "That'd be the bus's exhaust fumes...which frankly I don't think you should be inhaling"

"Couldn't do too much harm, the kid already acts like his inhaled something" Flyn laughed. Noah looked towards his mother to see what she had to say about it, but all Musa did was nod absent-mindedly, seeming to agree with Flyn. So they left Jaydn crouched down near the bottom of the bus, he seemed happy enough anyway

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Riven and Blaine walked up to the rest of the family, with Ruby being held in Riven's arms, looking content, clutching at her little pink backpack. Blaine still had his headphones in and turned up to max capacity, and despite Musa asking him to turn the volume down lower, you could still hear the faint music coming from them. That probably was the definition of 'lower' to Blaine anyway. The whiny old lady from earlier hobbled past the family with her walking stick, looking up at Blaine and glaring daggers at him. He gave her a small wave and a smile, not caring an inch. He was the oldest at twenty one and Musa was actually quite pleased with him even tagging along on this trip. I mean he was still living at home and hadn't moved out yet, but with the amount of interaction he actually had with the family, sometimes you forgot he was even there. He was often just shut up in his room sleeping off a hangover from the night before, he had a 'job' (Riven would strongly disagree that it should be called that, but that arguments for another time) as a DJ and every other night he was off at some club till around three in the morning. This also caused him to sleep till around one in the afternoon as well, so you didn't see him then either. He might occasionally surface mid-afternoon for some lunch but he still had those headphones practically glued to his ears. Musa could probably count the amount of proper conversation she'd had with him in the last month on one hand. She wouldn't say he was antisocial, he was perfectly nice as well...I guess he just spoke when he needed too. Either way, she appreciated his apparent muteness, especially since all her other kids couldn't seem to keep their mouths shut for more than five minutes.

"Oh my god, Mom, Look! There's a bug! It's sooo big..and look at all it's legs!Look! LOOK!"

Musa didn't even pretend to be interested in what Jaydn was pointing at under the bus. Once the line shortened, each family member went over to drag their backs out of the pile.

"Geez, Noah, how much did you pack? This thing weighs a tonne!" Flyn said as he struggled to hand his brother a rather large suitcase.

"Yeah, well, at least I don't have a million different bags" Noah chided, taking his own case and now watching as Flyn struggled to pick up his duffel bag, while having a satchel slung over one shoulder, a small backpack on and pulling a roller suitcase behind him. "Seriously, did you even think about what to bring or did you just throw everything you owned into random bags and hope for the best?"

"I think you know the answer to that"

Noah just rolled his eyes. Blaine grabbed his own suitcase and one of Ruby's small, pink, roller cases and Jaydn seemed to be begging him to carry one of his as well. Musa was currently trying to juggle her purse on her right arm, carrying another pink bag of Ruby's while dragging a couple of her own cases behind her.

"Mom, why cant we just get one of the bag boys to carry up all this crap?" Flyn whined, barely having taken two steps "It is there job"

"Well if you feel like tipping him with your money, be my guest" Musa said snidely "and also, watch the language!" she added as an afterthought. Flyn just pulled a face, trudging forward with everyone else at a snails pace, looking less than pleased. "Besides, it's not that bad" Musa continued, but even as she said this, her roller case got stuck as she tried dragging it up the first couple of steps leading to the entrance of the hotel. Flyn raised his eyebrows but Musa shot him a 'dont you dare say it' look.

Just as everyone seemed to resign themselves to the burden of their luggage, a smart, white,car pulled up on the road right behind the parked bus , honking It's horn wildy. Because of the racket absolutely everyone outside the hotel stopped to turn around and stare, and they watched as a tan, thin woman got out of the passenger side door and began running across towards Musa and her family, her long bohemian-print skirt swishing around her legs, one arm waving wildly above her head and the other clutching at her large sun hat so it wouldn't fall off. The multitude of gold bracelets that hung off of her arm made a lovely jingling noise as she ran. Most of the guests and staff outside watched this woman as if she was mad, others just with curiosity, but Musa's face had already broken out in a massive grin. She'd recognised the woman within seconds.

"Flora!" she cried, dropping her bags to the ground in an instant and opening her arms wide as Flora crashed into them in a hug they hadn't shared in years. The two women were squealing and jumping up and down like they were teenagers again. Everyone else just stood around, looking a little awkward.

"Oh my god, you look great!" Musa said as she finally pulled away from the hug, this being the first cliché thing to say that popped into her head.

"Oh, so do you!" Flora said straight back before suddenly whipping her head around to look at all of Musa's children, squealing as she saw Ruby, who was currently hiding behind her dad's leg "Oooh" Flora cooed "Hi Ruby!" she tried waving at the small girl but Ruby just hid her face further behind Riven. "Aw, she's too precious". Flora then looked around at the boys "Good to see you all again, boys! Some sooner than others" she smiled. Blaine, Noah and Flyn all gave polite smiles and small 'Hi's'. Flora was probably the one of their mothers friends they saw the most. See, Helia was a full time teacher at RedFountain, and had been for some time. He'd been the teacher of all three boys during their time at RedFountain, and of course, Flyn was still his pupil even now. Since her husband had to board at Redfountain , Flora had taken a job tending to the gardens of both schools, in order to stay close to her family. In turn, the boys often saw her around, occasionally stopping to say hi, and she had been present at both Blaine and Noah's graduation ceremonies. Honestly, the three boys thought it was quite strange to see her outside of school grounds...of course it would be even stranger to see professor Helia.

"So, where are Helia and Violet?" Musa asked.

"Oh!" Flora turned her head back to the car, seeming to remember that she did have her own family and that they hadn't followed her yet. You could see Helia, his hair still in it's long ponytail, around the back of the car, getting the family's luggage from the trunk and onto the side of the pavement. Flora waved back over to him "C'mon, hurry up and come say hi!" she called out to him.

"Yeah, don't pretend you haven't missed us!" Riven called out to his old friend and laughed. You could see Helia give a small smile on his usually stoic face, but before coming straight over he walked around and opened the door to the back-seat, leaning in and seemingly talking to someone.

Flora leant over towards Musa "Violet was sleeping in the back-seat until just now, when I honked the horn, she must still be drowsy. Just excuse her if she seems a little out of it!"

Almost as if the mention of her name was her cue to make an appearance, Helia pulled away from the car door anda pair of long, slender, well tanned legs appeared, a pair of light purple wedge sandals placing themselves down on the pavement, before the girl pulled the rest of herself up and out of the seat.

Musa hadn't seen the girl for quite a few years, not since her and noah started in the same year at Alfea and Redfountain, and she blinked as she looked violet up and down. She looked so strikingly similar to Flora! It was almost impossible not to notice the same soft green eyes and high cheek bones that managed to make her mother look so exotic. The one major difference though was instead of having long, flowing hair, Violet had cut hers into a short pixie cut, not even reaching her shoulders. She was dressed in dangerously tiny denim shorts and a just-as small,light purple, camisole top. As she walked over with her father, a lot of male gazes followed her, and Musa couldn't help but notice that included her three oldest boys...

as Helia walked over he glowered at Flyn, as the boy tried to wrench his eyes away from where Violet's shorts sat tantalisingly low on her hips. Helia gave a small, yet obvious, cough and the boys quickly diverted their eyes, Blaine looking down at his I-pod, Noah turning his head to admire the view of the bus and Flyn looking down at his shoes as if they were the most interesting thing in the world. Being caught checking out their strict professors daughter was not something any of them were keen on, no matter how pretty she was. They all mumbled their hello's, and Flyn even slipped out a 'Good afternoon professor' before he could catch himself. If Violet had seen all of this, it didn't show on her face, as she wore a small, but polite, smile.

"Hello" Musa greeted Violet "been awhile hasn't it!" she said, smiling back at Helia, who nodded mutely. Helia hadn't changed much it seemed.

"Where's all our luggage, Helia?" Flora asked her husband, peering behind him and back towards the car.

"Oh, yes, I think we have to pay to have it taken up by the bell boys" he answered.

"Yeah" Riven nodded to his friend "You do. Rip off if you ask me, this place is already expensive enough as it is, but that's what happens when you let your royal friends pick the holiday destination, isn't it?" He snarked and Musa gave him a light slap on the shoulder, even if she did kind of agree with it.

"Were carrying up all our suitcases ourselves anyway, I't shouldn't be that bad, they'll obviously have elevators" Musa continued and Flora and Helia looked at each other.

"Yes, I think we'll do that too. Consider it our exercise for the day!" Flora laughed before turning towards her daughter "You don't mind carrying your things up, do you Violet?"

Violet had been inspecting her nails, idly, before looking up at her mother and shrugging "I suppose" she said softly. 'But it would be nice if I could have some help.." she drifted off, her eyes slanting over towards the boys.

In a flash, Flyn, Noah and Blaine had all stepped forward at the same time.

"I can carry your bags for you, if you'd like!" Flyn had blurted out "I wouldn't mind at all!"

"Me too!" Noah pushed in front of his brother "I only have the one case anyway, It's no trouble at all!"

Blaine didn't even say anything at all as he strided past the lot of them towards where Violet's small stack of luggage sat on the pavement, both Flyn and Noah quickly hurrying after him, all eager to be the one to help Violet. Violet herself just went back to inspecting her nails, a sly smile on her face "Your all too kind"

Musa resisted the urge to both raise an eyebrow, scoff and roll her eyes at the same time. Now they didn't mind carrying luggage...

"Oh, what polite boy's you've raised Musa!" Flora said innocently, looking impressed as she watched the boys struggle to pick up the extra cases and bags.

Both Helia and Musa exchanged looks.

A/N: If you've read this far, thank you! It's just the first chapter and we've only met Bloom's, Musa's and Flora's families so far, but don't worry, Tecna and Stella's will be showing up shortly. I hope it's not too hard to remember all the names and characters, I tried to show their personalities each a little bit so they'll be a little memorable, if I dived right in and introduced ALL of them at once it would have been too much to handle! I hope I got a good balance.

Just an overview to help if you need it:

Bloom and Sky's kids:

Lucy: 17

Ella: 15

Molly: 9

Musa and Riven's kids:

Blaine: 21

Noah: 18

Flyn: 15

Jaydn: 8

Ruby: 5

Flora and Helia's kids:

Violet: 17

I didn't really theme name any of the kids, I think that's a bit overdone. Violet was really my only excpetion, and I felt like Riven and Musa would give their kids quite unique names anyway.

I would really love to hear what all of you think in the reviews, what was good, what was bad and if anything could have been improved : ) constructive criticism is always welcome. Id also love to hear what you think about the characters!

Also, I do actually have quite a few pictures of my characters up on my deviantart site, not all coloured, but just to give you an idea of what they look like. My DA username is Nina-D-Lux and I would love it if you went and had a look at them 3