Bloom Fairy Tail Winx AU

By: FunahoMisaki

(A/N: I own nothing and read last chapter.)

"What just happened?"

It had been exactly five days since Bloom had been chosen as the champion and gone off to train on her own. The only time anyone saw her was when one of the teachers would go out into the woods to check on her and brought back news that she was alright and seemed to be training very hard. It was now two days before the fight and Bloom, having put her red haired disguise back on to throw off the witchs, had just wandered onto school campus for the first time in the last five days. Naturally everyone stopped and stared after the girl who was walking a bit sluggishly down the hallway.

Halfway to her dorm room though Bloom hit the floor and caused a crowd to form around her worriedly when she did so. Everyone sweat dropped and face planted though when they saw that instead of actually passing out like they had thought she had done, the blue haired woman in disguise was merely asleep! One of the girls shook her head in disbelief as she went to get Palladium and Griselda to inform them that Bloom was back.

"I'm not surprised." Griselda said stopping dead at the sight of the girl asleep in the middle of the hallway, shaking her head with a small amused smile on her lips.

"Why is that Griselda?" Palladium asked looking at Bloom concerned, that could not be normal could it…and the floor definitely couldn't be comfortable could it?

"When I went to check on her last I told you about the dark circles around her eyes, when I questioned about them she said she hadn't been sleeping and barely eating. She much preferred to use the time training. Therefore it's no surprise that after four days of doing that non-stop she collapsed…at least it was here instead of in the woods." Griselda said shaking her head in exasperation at her students actions before she bent down and scooped the younger girl up easily. Griselda easily carried the younger woman to her dorm room where Flora and the others were sitting, discussing worriedly about their MIA friend.

"Girls open up. I have my hands quite full trying not to drop your dorm mate." Griselda called, tapping the door lightly with her foot. Almost instantly the door was yanked open by a frazzled looking Flora that brightened up as soon as she saw her roommate.

"What happened?" Tecna asked worriedly while Flora bundled Griselda and Bloom both into the dorm and towards Blooms shared room.

"Your friend here hasn't been sleeping and eating like she's supposed to while training out in the woods, so she collapsed halfway to her dorm once she came back to the school." Griselda explained shortly as she gently laid Bloom on her bed and watched for a second as the red head immediately snuggled into the pillow while clutching something to her protectively, although Griselda couldn't see what it was. Griselda waved her hand dismissively and Bloom had been changed out of her normal day-to-day outfit everyone had been so used to seeing her in, into a pair of comfortable blue pajamas.

"As soon as she wakes up make sure she gets something to eat. If need be you can come get me and I'll force feed her." Griselda told the four girls seriously once they had all snuck out of the room without waking up the exhausted red head. Griselda didn't like how easy it had been for her to lift and carry Bloom halfway across the school almost, Bloom was far too light to be healthy.

"Yes Ms. Griselda." Flora answered immediately, quickly followed by the other three.

"Good." Griselda said nodding and leaving the room only to head straight to Faragondas office to give the older woman an update on Blooms condition, which was absolute exhaustion, starvation, and probably slight malnutrition as well. It was only three hours later when Musa ran up to Griselda who had been walking down the hallway.

"Ms. Griselda! Blooms awake but she doesn't want to eat! She's trying to head back outside to keep training." Musa managed to pant out to the brown haired woman who sighed and took off to get ahold of her mysterious student before the girl got back outside the campus, where she would be nigh untraceable.

"Ms. Bloom! What do you think you're doing?!" Griselda demanded as soon as she came across the red head that several older girls were trying to keep from going back outside for her own safety.

"Bloom must finish training! Bloom cannot risk disappointing Gray-sama because Bloom was not strong enough during Blooms fight with Icy!" Bloom said immediately turning to look at the newest arrival who sighed and thought about how she would go about this.

"Jeez Juvia. Just because you want to make Gray proud doesn't mean you need to starve and overwork yourself. Gray told me he wanted you to do your best but make sure you ate and slept like you were supposed to." A new girl, with long blond hair and hazel eyes wearing a strange outfit with a whip at her side, said walking up to Bloom who turned towards her immediately.

"Lucy!" Bloom said sounding surprised at seeing her friend, after Lucy and Laxus had started dating Bloom had finally stopped calling Lucy her 'Love Rival' for Gray-sama's heart. The two of them had become some of the best of friends after that. The blond Lucy merely smirked as she looked at her friend.

"Yeah it's me Juvia but…you wouldn't be trying to go against what Gray wants would you?" Lucy asked with a sly smirk as a look of horror dawned of Blooms face.

"Of course not! Bloom would never go against Gray-sama! Bloom must correct this before Gray-sama get's here!" Bloom said immediately beginning to panic at the thought of 'going against' her 'Gray-sama'. By the look on Lucy's face the blond was trying not to laugh at her friend but she finally gave up and snickered slightly as she threw an arm around her friends shoulders.

"Don't worry Juvia. Erza, Cana, Evergreen, Wendy, Carla, Levy, and Mira are out at a Café you told us about in one of your letters. Me and you are going to go join them and grab something to eat while we discuss what outfit you're going to wear for your fight in two days time. The boys don't get here until tomorrow by the way." Lucy said giggling as she directed her now relieved friend towards the door that several upper years were still blocking.

"Due to the fact that the witches at CT may sabotage her while out in the open, at least one teacher should come with Ms. Bloom." DuFour said as she came onto the scene with the other teachers in time to hear what Lucy had said. This merely caused Lucy to laugh aloud while Bloom giggled behind her hand. She almost wished one of them would attack her while she was with her friends. Next to her Lucy finally calmed down enough to tell the teachers what was so funny.

"You mean those weak mage wannabes at the purple tower? I'd like to see them try. They'd make good target practice for Levy, Wendy, and Cana if Evergreen doesn't turn them to stone first! If they piss off Erza though then heaven have mercy on them cause we sure as hell won't!"