Bloom's astral flame rose from her chest and glided into that of Valtor's beastial form, determined to destroy him once and for all, for all those he destroyed and tainted with the darkness that was his soul.
Bloom found her astral form floating in a dark landscape, the only light emitting from the mark that burned brightly of dark fire from the floor and within was Valtor's own astral form.
"It's time that I finally end this" Bloom snarled, fire burning bright within her cyan eyes, she brought her hands together, her palms facing each other, an orange orb began to form. Her eyes never left the dark wizard, a tornado of fire emerged from the orb and consumed the mark of Valtor and he along with it.
Once the flames diminished all that was left was a thick cloud of smoke, she narrowed her gaze. Something was wrong, very wrong, her eyes soon widened in dreaded realisation.
'He survived…if he hadn't this place would be gone along with him' she inwardly cried, his dark laughter soon echoed throughout the darkness. A shadow formed at the heart of the cloud but soon became clearer and clearer as it began to walk towards the hovering fairy. He stepped out of the cloud, the monster that had caused many so much pain and had aided in the destruction of her home, Valtor.
"It appears that I must thank you Bloom as you have freed me from the curse of my creators and I am once again my own person" Valtor remarked, crossing his arms over his chest.
Bloom charged at him, flying full speed, rage clouding her sight and mind, all she saw was red. Valtor grew a dark smirk and blinked out of existence, Bloom pulled up after shooting through the space that once hosted the dark wizard, her eyes began darting round, searching for him. His laughter echoed throughout the darkness before he appeared a hundred meters or so away from her.
"Fool, did you really think you could defeat me and here of all places where reality is mine to do with as I please as this Bloom, is my mind and I'm the one who makes the rules here" Valtor laughed, Bloom charged at him once again only to have him vanish once again, Bloom slowed herself to a stop. He appeared behind her and delivered a roundhouse kick to her lower back.
Bloom cried out in pain as her astral form slammed onto the hard surface that was the ground of the plain she had entered, turning to look over her shoulder and up at the smirking wizard, glaring at him, gritting her teeth in anger.
"Now if you are quite finished wasting your energy and my valuable time perhaps you would be willing to listen to a little proposition I have for you?" asked the dark wizard as he lowered to the ground.
"I don't care what you have to offer Valtor I will never make a deal with you" Bloom snarled, her hands becoming fists.
"Really, not even if what I'm offering is a chance for both of us to realise our destinies, you will be reunited with your parents and I, achieving the greatness I deserve" Valtor replied.
"You've tried that trick before Valtor and it won't work a second time, I doubt you even know where my parents are" Bloom snapped.
"And right you are my dear, I do not know but the Ancestresses do, this is what I propose to you Bloom turn your rage on the Ancestrals and join with me, together we will be powerful enough to defeat them and claim what we want" Valtor declared.
Bloom had to admit Valtor sure knew how to make a tempting offer, just mentioning the Ancestrals caused her rage to boil and it didn't take a genies to know what he said was true, she had seen what her power could do and just the thought of what they would be capable of if they worked together was overwhelming to say the least.
Meanwhile…
The Winx glared at Valtor only to have their expressions turn into shock and confusion when they watched as it reverted from beast to human, the Specialists and Winx glanced at each other.
"Bloom may be fighting him on the inside but…the chances of her succeeding aren't exactly in our favour, but if we can do something serious damage to the body it may improve Bloom's chances of victory and even if she fails Valtor won't last long enough to even feel the satisfactory of winning" Timmy proposed.
Sky turned to face his teammate, Bloom still resting in his arms, sending a harsh glare his way, unable to believe he could even think such a thing and to even suggest it out loud that Bloom may not survive the fight.
"How can you even suggest that Bloom would…" Sky didn't even to finish the sentence, already knowing what Timmy had been insinuating, Techna let out a tired sigh, her gaze falling.
"Actually he does have a point Sky, Bloom is fighting Valtor inside of him, where he has all the power, in there he controls reality so even if their powers are equal alone, in there it won't do her any good" Techna explained, tears brewing in her eyes, her tone one of depression.
"Then we make sure she survives and defeats Valtor" Brandon declared, activating his blade and charging at Valtor, piercing his gut and forcing it to run him through until its metallic hilt touched the flesh of his gut, his blood now coated the blade. Brandon stepped back and removed the blade, deactivating it. The blood that had coated every inch of it dropped to the ground with an audible splat.
"Anyone else want a turn or am I alone in this?" Brandon spat. The others were stunned, they had just watched their friend and boyfriend physically run someone through with blade, something they had never seen before. Normally when the Specialists ever sliced or stabbed something it was a mythical creature attacking them and even then it sort of shattered after a single swing and when creatures that wouldn't 'shatter' attacked like the Hunting Troll that attacked them back in their first year they would attempt to take it prisoner. Never had any of them seen blood spilled least of all by their own hands.
Riven was the first to get over his initial shock, he charged at Valtor, raising his violet blade, stopping just before he ran into the dark wizard, he pulled back his blade and ran it through his crotch. The girls' jaws dropped at this assault, never thinking even Riven would have been that cruel, the boys winced and even took a small step back before involuntarily close their legs when Riven twisted his blade a full three hundred and sixty degrees and pulling it out, deactivating it and watching with great satisfaction as Valtor's blood fell to the ground like it had when Brandon had ran him through, a dark smirk growing as he watched blood begin to pour from the new wounds, not bothered by the metallic stench that emitted from it.
Meanwhile…
"Even as tempting as your offer is Valtor I will never side with you now prepare yourself for I will send you to hell" Bloom spat, a orange aura surrounding her and expanding into the form of a dragon, acting as if composed of flames.
Valtor opened his mouth to reply before calling forth his own power, only all that emerged from his mouth was a gasp of pain, he doubled over in pain, agony surging through him and burning his veins.
"What…t…th…the hell…is…happening?!" Valtor roared out in pain.
'My body…shit how could I be so careless…looks like Bloom will have no choice in the matter of helping me' Valtor thought to himself as his dark smirk returned to his face.
"LEAVE!" Valtor roared as he rose to his full height once again, sonic waves firing from him, shaking the reality around them, the waves struck Bloom and forced her out of his body, she screamed in pain as she flew through the air and slammed into her body, her eyes shot open, she gasped for air as she bolted upright, her eyes darting around.
She was greeted by the sight of Sky approaching Valtor, his blade activated and poised to pierce his cold, dark heart and thus claiming her life and no doubt wipe the reality that was Valtor's mind, taking her with him, she doubted she would return from her journey but she never thought Sky of all people was willing to kill her with the dark wizard. Only Bloom wasn't aware that she would have had a few minutes in which to escape before reality would collapse around her and it would be her best chance of escaping, though incredibly risky, however, all she saw was her boyfriend, the one she loved, willing to kill her. Neither did he know the full affects of what he would do, unaware of what would happen to Bloom if she failed to get out before he delivered the final blow.
Sky drove his blade forward, Valtor's eyes shot open and he gripped the edge of the sword, halting it before it could even pierce his clothing, he didn't even wince as he felt it burn through the flesh of his hand, he rose his other hand and blasted Sky's chest with an orb of dark fire, he flew back, striking the wall of the cavern before falling to the ground unconscious.
Valtor fired a second attack with a radius that struck everyone and everything that was around him in the cavern, he fell to his knees, thoroughly soaked in his own blood, he began to drag his body over to the now unconscious Bloom.
"You will give me your power and keep me alive whether you like it or not" Valtor snarled before hovering his palm above the adolescent redhead, he began to chant in ancient tongue. His hand began to glow with a black aura, one that soon engulfed Bloom's body.
Bloom's flesh began grow hotter, her skeleton beginning to liquidize along with her organs, mixing with her blood and the other juices of her body. On the outside her body began to retract, her clothing absorbing into her flesh as was her hair, her delicate flesh absorbing the liquid on the inside and turning dark in colour until all that was left of the princess was a puddle of thick black goo, the dark aura around it and his hand vanished, he began to fall, his hand slammed onto the puddle, catching his body before he could fall.
The goo acted on instincts, clinging to Valtor's hand before beginning to travel across it and up his arm before beginning to make progress over the rest of it, determined to fully bond with its host before she expired, been newly 'born' it was weak, as weak as she would be as if been recently replicated, or born as humans called it, she needed a host to survive and soon she was bonded to the dark wizard and had set about healing him on instinct and magnifying his powers as well as allowing him access to the powers she already had accumulated as was the nature of her species, prolonging the life of her host while making it stronger and more useful. Only in this case it wouldn't be the one taking over, Valtor had seen to the fact that she wouldn't be able to control him overtime.
His dark smirk grew as he felt his wounds closing up, his blood regenerating and certain appendages been restored. 'Now I just have to get away from here, for now anyway and find a new source of magic that I can use to replenish my own' Valtor planned mentally before opening a portal and entering it.
A Couple Hours Later...
The Winx, or what was left of them, and Specialists stirred, returning to the land of the conscious, low groans emitting from each one of them as they slowly sat up right, all gazes bolting round, searching for the dark wizard that had done this to them, relief filled the air when they saw he was nowhere in sight but that blissful relief still turned to pure dread and fear as they noticed he wasn't the only one absent.
"Err...guys, where's Bloom?" Flora asked timidly.
"Got me, the last I saw her was when she was unconscious in Sky's arms" Brandon admitted, they all nervously glanced in each other's direction, hoping someone had seen anything else but since all the attention had been on Valtor that nobody had noticed Bloom wake up. Silence filled the air.
"Guys...I...I'm sorry to have to be the one to say this but...the chances are that Valtor...took her out" Techna explained, her voice shaking as salty tears stung her eyes as she tried to force them back.
"What do you mean?" Sky asked, not even willing to consider what the technology fairy was saying.
"She's saying that while inside of Valtor she was at a colossal disadvantage and if she isn't here she would be...she would have to be dead" Timmy choked out.
"No...there's no body if she had...lost...there would still be a body" Sky insisted his voice growing frantic in his panic.
"No there wouldn't, I know that spell, it links the mind and body, they were connected even when separated and as such suffered the same fate as the mind, he...destroyed...her astral body and as such...destroyed her body...there would be and is nothing left" Techna choked out, no longer able to hold back the tears that now streamed down her cheeks. Sky fell to his knees, a void opening within his heart, a void that would never be filled, the same happened for each and everyone of the Winx and Specialists.
A/N This fic will be a complete rewrite as you can tell from this chapter and as such will be very dark, later chapters may make reference to rape, child abuse, physical, mental and emotional abuse, a warning for those who maybe on the younger side or can't stand reading about it, you have been warned, I'm leaving the old fic up on my old account as always do for those who do like it and for any interested on how this fic started though I wouldn't recommend it. Chances are this will be a yuri pairing (girlxgirl). Bloom will have a different host in this fic, I will eventually post a poll concerning the future host unless I decide on one myself in which case I will mention into in author note. Plz review and any suggestions will be greatly appreciated, I'm rewriting this fic due to request of its continuation since originally it was a lost cause, that and my current addiction to Symbiote fics.