Family around extended version
By: FunahoMisaki
(A/N: I own nothing and Family Around belongs to LeaMicheleLove who gave me permission to flesh out her one-shot story my way. AU OOC Femslash)
Bloom was not a happy fairy. In fact…she was downright pissed off (being raised away from magic and the stereotypes at least had the benefit of making her uncaring of what the social 'norm' was in the magical dimensions) as she ran through the mall. How the heck had no one else seen the mysterious man kidnap the teachers from all three schools in less than a minute?! It was flipping ridiculous!
Also how strong was this guy? She knew her teachers often held back against the students to not hurt them during say, Ms. Griseldas demonstrations on different shielding and attacks or when the controlled witches attacked Alfea? Surely they wouldn't have held back against someone kidnapping them? Well…given the amount of civilians around…yes they would…or the others would at least. Once Griselda and her sister were taken she knew Ms. Ediltrude from Cloud Tower would raise hell on the person responsible. A blind person could see the longing glances the tallest of the witches sent the stern Head of Detention…but apparently Ms. Griselda couldn't just like how Ms. Ediltrude couldn't see the longing looks Ms. Griselda shot at her.
"Damnitt." Bloom growled under her breath when the man she was chasing managed to disappear seemingly in thin air. It had been a shock to everyone the first time they had heard Bloom swear during a fight against the Army of Decay. Changing into her Winx outfit Bloom took off into the air, looking for any sign of the guy or the teachers as she flipped open her phone and put it to her ear.
"Is something wrong sweetie?" Flora asked softly as she answered her phone.
"I know the other girls are there Flora so put me on speaker that way I only have to say this once." Bloom said as her cyan blue eyes scanned the area below her.
"Okay. You're on speaker phone." Flora said following the order without hesitation as she pressed the button, wondering slightly how Bloom knew that she was with the others.
"Good. Musa, Stella. You two head over to Cloud Tower for a while, Tecna you stay at Alfea, Flora I want you at Red Fountain. That way when the news breaks we can at least somewhat control the other students to keep them from doing things they probably shouldn't." Bloom ordered as she dibbed underneath the trees of the forest to scan the ground there.
"What news?" Tecna asked confused while Stella whined about being sent to the witch school.
"The teachers were just kidnapped." Bloom said bluntly without bothering to try and sugarcoat things. How did you even sugarcoat something like this? She heard several things hit the ground at once, the most prominent being a body which she assumed was Stella by the ensuing shriek.
"What the heck?" Stella screamed.
"Yo B. If this is a joke it's not funny at all." Musa said over the phone line, not wanting to believe the news. Bloom probably wouldn't have believed it either if she hadn't seen it for herself.
"I'm not joking. I saw them kidnaped for myself. I chased their kidnapper but he got away so now I'm trying to find them. It won't be long before the other students notice that the teachers are nowhere to be found and we need to try and at least keep the damage they'll cause minimal so head to where I told you to go while I try and find the teachers." Bloom ordered them before snapping her phone shut as the woods got too thick for her to fly through anymore. Landing easily on a branch, Bloom continued to look for any clues or hints that would lead her in the right direction. She had seen the kidnapper run off this way…
Three hours later, and twenty ignored calls from Stella, Bloom caught her first sign of where the teachers could be. Jumping from the tree branch she had been perched on as she scanned the forest floor, Bloom used her wings to control her landing so that she landed lightly on her feet.
"So that's the direction he took you in…clever way of letting someone know Ms. DuFour." Bloom said smirking as she gingerly picked up the violet band that Ms. DuFour had used to tie back her hair for the day. The red clad teacher had been interested in ways that earthlings braided and pulled back their hair so Bloom had taken to showing her how to do simple ones by doing the braids on the older woman, who didn't mind at all. Bloom had seen this violet colored hair band quite a bit over the last few months. She would recognize it, and the small red line running through the middle on the inside of the band, anywhere.
Since Ms. DuFour couldn't put the bun up the way she wanted it to be on her own she had asked Bloom for help, and Bloom had been more than happy to lend her aid to the kind teacher. She had told Ms. DuFour that the bun she used today had been one that was pretty simple although it looked complex. A small tug of the band would cause the bun to come loose and the band to fall to the floor.
Following the direction the band had landed Bloom soon found another trail marker for her.
"Ms. Griselda was not happy with this I bet." Bloom said grinning ever so slightly as she picked up the pair of glasses that were known as Ms. Griselda's trademark throughout the planet of Magix, especially to those who were on the receiving end of the signature stern look from behind these glasses. Bloom knew that the brown haired woman was practically blind without her glasses, and she was willing to bet that Ms. Griselda was not a happy camper at the moment! Bloom briefly entertained the thought of getting the stern woman a pair of contact lenses but then shook the thought out of her head. Not only was this not the time, but she doubted that anyone would recognize Ms. Griselda without her glasses.
"Looks like it was a good thing I told Ms. DuFour that I would be at the mall today. Seems like she told the others who left a trail for me to follow. Makes me wonder how the kidnapper didn't notice this at all though." Bloom said snorting slightly at what her next clue was. Professor Cordatora's signature phanto whip was lying innocently on the ground, causing Bloom to scoop it up and put it in the pocket book she had the other teachers trail markers stored in. She fully intended on returning the items so she might as well keep them safe.
"Looks like this is the place then. Better leave these out here so that they're safe from any damage that the fight would bring." Bloom said picking up the last trail marker at the mouth of a cave. It was a simple piece of fabric, looking to have been ripped free of a shirt or something on the jagged cave wall…except for the fact that it was sticking to the jagged spike and wasn't damaged at all. The simple 'Fara' written on it in elegant curvy cursive let her know exactly whose it was as she gently placed it with the other things in her bag. Setting the bag in a tree branch high enough up to be safe from animals but low enough to be easily seen and grabbed, Bloom turned back to the mouth of the cave.
"…As if that isn't unusual at all." Bloom said sarcastically as she noticed that despite the fact that the sunlight should go straight into the cave, illuminating at least four or five feet into said cave, the light from the sun stopped abruptly at a foot into the cave. Bloom calmly lit her hand on fire to light the path as she entered the cave with determination set on her features. Whispering softly Bloom calmly walked through the cave, set on rescuing her teachers and giving their kidnapper a good reason to fear fire.
"Just you wait, you bastard. I'm coming for you and I'm not going to let you get away with kidnapping them…and if you hurt them…then you have pissed off the Dragon."