A rewrite of Bloom's Sacrifice, this time with more of an actual plot, and more description, yay!
Disclaimer: I don't own the Winx Club cartoon. This also extends to the comics, movies and games, which are owned by Iginio Straffi and his company Rainbow S.r.l.
Bloom staggered back upright, her wings beating to keep her airborne. She shook her head, her long, red locks flying into her line of vision. The fire fairy flexed her fingers, feeling the numbness leave her hands and the feeling return to her arms. She raised her hands, this time collecting energy in her palm. "Aisha!" she yelled, her eyes on the portal, which was rapidly getting bigger. "You alright?"
"Don't worry, Bloom," Aisha called out, getting back onto her feet as she launched into the air, her larger Enchantix wings supporting her easily. The dark-skinned fairy shook her head and muttered something rude under her breath. "I'm fine."
Bloom spared the water fairy a glance and felt a pang of jealousy hit her. Aisha looked so beautiful in her Enchantix form, and she would never attain it, no thanks to her home being gone. Thinking of this, she squeezed her eyes shut to force away the tears. Her blue eyes were hard when she reopened them, the ambient energy crackling between her hands had started to become visible to the naked eye. She saw that both Aisha and Tecna had prepared their own attacks, ready to from a convergence to attempt to shut the portal down once and for all. "Ready girls?" Bloom yelled over the portal's ominous crackling as it enlarged itself.
"Ready!"
The trio of fairies converged their energy, sending the coloured magic at the portal. The tri-coloured lights shot into the very centre of the portal, but to their dismay, it reflected back at them, splitting into three beams of energy that struck each fairy. Bloom was sent spiralling back into the air, Tecna was slammed wing-first onto the cold ground, and Aisha was pushed onto the very ledge of the place. The latter fairy showed no anxiety at that though, and simply shot into the air again, while Tecna slowly got to her feet and rejoined Aisha. Bloom clawed her way through the air, zooming up besides the two.
"Okay," Tecna murmured. "That didn't work. So what now?"
"Hurry, girls!" Tembak shouted at them from far off. "We don't have much time left before it all falls apart!" As Tembak spoke, the portal was already starting to give way. The edges of the metaphysical portal and the material ground started crumbling, and the ground trembled under the force of the shimmering portal. The force of the portal intensified, suddenly exerting a pulling force that drew everything that wasn't stuck in place into the frozen depths of the Omega Dimension.
"You need to get back!" shrieked Musa from far off, where she was watching warily, being held back by Tembak as the trio worked to shut the portal down before it was too late. "Girls! You'll get sucked in!"
"Again!" Bloom snapped, her wings flapping hard to keep her where she was. "Let's go!"
All three fairies dived towards the portal, but just as they were close to the entrance, a blinding burst of energy blasted two of them back. Bloom shot up into the air, evading the blast, but Tecna and Aisha weren't so lucky. The pink-haired technology fairy was quick though, and quickly grabbed onto the ledge of the rock as Aisha propelled herself into the air again, Tecna following soon after.
Meanwhile, Bloom had dived down, straight into the centre of the portal. The freezing cold of the Omega Dimension had penetrated through the hard stone with the air of the portal, and even through her blue boots, Bloom felt cold. She held back a shiver, and forced herself into the portal further. A burst of light filled the area, and when it died down, Bloom felt... different. More powerful. She looked down and saw she was in a blue and green dress, with blue sandals hugging her feet. Her wings had expanded to the side Aisha's were, and her hair was without a doubt, much longer. She could feel the slight weight of a tiara on her head, and as she fluttered in mid-air, she locked eyes with her friends.
Bloom had to force out a smile, for the shivering cold of the Omega Dimension was starting to bite into her bones. 'It will be all right,' she mouthed to them, even though her gloved arms were shivering. Summoning her fairy dust, she fought back the shivers enough to speak out, loud and clear, "Fairy Dust," she commanded, her voice shaking from the cold. "Close the portal!" Sprinkling the vial of golden dust all over the rim of the portal, the Dragon Fire fairy saw the edges of the blue portal slowly shrink. She moved to zoom out of the frozen portal, but quickly realized her folly, for she couldn't fly away.
Watching the portal slowly close, she realized that she had only one more choice. Looking to her friends, she held back the tears pooling in her eyes and smiled. "Goodbye," she choked out tearfully. She stopped fluttering her wings to keep herself upright, and pressed them tightly against her back. Without her wings to keep her suspended in the air, she plummeted like a rock. The last sight she saw before the freezing cold overwhelmed her was her friends, screaming her name while Tembak stopped them from getting any closer.
"Bloom!" shrieked Stella as she watched her first and best friend disappear. "No, no, no, no, no!" The sun fairy pushed Tembak away and shot to the portal, which had dissolved into nearly nothing by now. Her feet making contact with solid ground, the blonde fell to her knees, banging away at the rock and stone helplessly as she sobbed for the loss of her beloved friend. "Bloom!" The fairy collapsed, sobbing on the rock.
"Stella." A hand found its way onto her shoulder, and Stella turned around, her tear-filled eyes blurring the image of Tembak that stood behind her. The man reached out to her and gently pulled her to her feet. "What has been done, is done," Tembak spoke cautiously to her, his eyes filled with a kind of disappointment. "There is no way we can reverse this."
"I want Bloom back," Stella only whispered softly.
"I do too," Flora's voice echoed to her, and the nature fairy pulled Stella into her arms, both of the fairies crying over the loss of their friend. Musa soon joined them, the usually tomboyish girl breaking down completely and sobbing along with them.
"Why?" Stella could hear Aisha whisper, and when she pulled away from her friends, she saw the water fairy looking blankly at the rock. "I should have done it. Andros is my home. I-I-" she stammered out, and then, with a violent sob, the dark-skinned fairy choked on her words, falling to her knees. "I'm sorry, Bloom. I'm sorry!"
Tecna staggered over, tear stains on her face as she hastily wiped her eyes with the back of her gloves. "Girls," she rasped quietly. "Please, let's just go," she begged. "I-I need to get back to Alfea. I need to look for Bloom."
None of the girls dared to speak another word about their leader as the fairies slowly walked back to the palace of Andros, leaning on each other for support, not just physically, but mentally as well.
Short chapter by my own standards, but it'll suffice for now, methinks.