Category: Winx Club

Rating: M

Couples: none

Warnings: AU (As much as it can be with only a few episodes into the season xD)

Chapter: 10

Copyright: © characters and places by Iginio; © Plot and OC by me

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What followed would go into the annals of both kingdoms on Andros as a tragedy, caused by the power-hunger of the son of Neptune and Ligea, who was brother to Nereus and Tressa, cousin to Aisha and nephew to Teredor and Niobe.

Those who had been there would not tell what had transpired between them and Tritannus, but Ligea had her own thoughts about what had happened to her renegade-child. The fact that seven Sirenix-fairies returned instead of six was a very big pointer. Flying beside her daughter was Niobe, at full strength and transformed. The faint glow of used power surrounded her, manifesting itself in the intensified scent of the sea.

Tritannus, her dear and misguided son, had remained in the Infinite Ocean. He could not be saved from his own madness and the poison of the pollution he had come to covet so much. The Trix had disappeared, abandoning the prince of the sea to whatever fate he would face when his body broke under the strain during the long and hard battle.

He had fled from his family as far as his body was able to move him. It had not been far.

"What happened?" She demanded that evening from her friend, appearing in front of Andros' human-queen as she stood on the great balcony.

"Do you want the sugar-coated version, or the truth?" Niobe asked instead, all traces of her imprisonment long wiped away.

"You fought him, didn't you?" Ligea realized. "You, the Fairy of the Ocean, fought him in the Infinite Ocean."

"Yes." No point in hiding it. "Forgive me."

There was silence between the two Queens, both lost in their own thoughts.

"He had it coming." The mermaid stated softly. She sighed. "It happened as it had to happen."

"Yes." The human agreed.

Neither moved as the last rays of the Sun faded and the Moon rose to take its' place.