Once upon a time, and far away, in the kingdom of the Magical Dimension, a girl found out she was a fairy and a princess. Her life defiantly changed and became like a fairy tale story filled with courage, friendship, love, and adventure. A magical story that continues with her beginning her third year at the school for fairies, Alfea.
Disclaimer: I do not own the Winx Club. No matter how much I wish I did. It belongs to its proper owner. This story, however, is my original idea and thus I own it. Please don't steal.
Chapter Seven
It was black. Pitch black. And she was alone. Bloom looked all around, but no one was there. Then a burst of light appeared and the girl in the crystal was laying a short distance away from her. Bloom run up to her and looked down into her face. The face was so much like her own.
"Bloom…" Her name was called, but she didn't see who was calling her. "Bloom…" The voice was eerie. "Bloom… help her… she's dying…"
Bloom looked back down at the girl and gasped. She was suddenly aging, aging rapidly. Bloom tried to use her powers to save her, but she was fading. "No!" Bloom yelled. It was no use, the girl was continuing to vanish.
"What's the matter Bloom? Why are you so sad?" She heard Stella's voice call.
Bloom looked up and saw her friends. They were flying overhead around her.
"You can tell us, we're your friends!" Musa laughed.
Why did it seem like her friends were taunting her? She cowered, crouching down in front of the crystal. The girl inside was slowly fading still. Bloom felt so hopeless and so useless. "No." She covered her ears. "Go away all of you. Leave me alone. I don't want to talk." They continued to call out to her, their voices cold. "Please, stop it."
"You shouldn't be ashamed Bloom." Musa teased.
"You can't save her." Tecna added.
"Maybe you could if you were a real fairy." Flora taunted.
"It's not your fault you can never be a real fairy." Stella mocked.
"An Enchantix, Bloom. That's what they call…" Musa continued.
"Real fairies like her." Flora finished.
Bloom looked up as Layla, in her Enchantix form, flew over to her. "Hi, Bloom."
"Bloom, wake up." Layla called.
Bloom shot up. "No no."
"Bloom, what's the matter?" Layla asked.
Bloom looked around. She was inside the shuttle. It'd been a dream. She sighed, relieved. "Oh, Layla. I had a nightmare."
"Oh boy." Layla shook her head. "Not more nightmares."
"No, no." Bloom laughed. She hadn't thought of what she was saying before she'd spoken. "I'm pretty sure this was a normal nightmare."
"Good." Layla sighed, relieved as well.
"So are you nervous, Bloom?" Stella asked as she walked towards them. "It's not every day you get to spend time with your boyfriend's parents."
"I am a little nervous," Bloom admitted, "what if they don't like me?"
"They're going to love you." Sky walked over and hugged her. "Just like I do."
They all landed behind the castle and Sky had to say goodbye momentarily. "I'll be counting the minutes until I see you again." He'd told Bloom. She was so nervous, but his love gave her enough strength to put her best foot forward and once they were all in their evening gowns the girls went to join the party.
The minutes weren't too long before Sky's family was announced and he was taking Bloom's hand to open the dance. Bloom was in pure bliss during those moments. "Wait here. I'm going to make the announcement." He told her. Bloom nodded and stayed there as Sky walked off. She was so busy chatting merrily with her friends that she didn't take notice of Sky sharing a toast with his ex Diaspro.
"Dear guest. Tonight I want to introduce you to the sweetest and most beautiful girl I've ever meet. This is the girl I intend to share my life with. My friends, let me introduce you to… Diaspro."
Bloom's heart broke that moment. And as Diaspro walked into the arms of Sky, her Sky, she began to cry. "He… he totally lead me on." Her friends rushed to her side and tried to console her, but Bloom just couldn't think of any reason why Sky would do this. Stella couldn't believe it either and her anger boiled at the sight of her best friend broken down like she was then.
"He owns an explanation." She growled. Without thinking she headed up to Sky and Diaspro, freezing a guard along the way. She wouldn't get too close though for Sky suddenly yelled at the guards to seize her and her friends because they were… witches.
"That's a lie!" Bloom yelled. She prepared to stand her ground, but Stella grabbed her arm and began dragging her off.
"Do you expect them to believe you?" Stella asked her. "We've got to get out of here."
They ran into a maze, following Flora as she lead them through. They came out of the other end safely, but ran into Sky and more soldiers.
"Stop right there." Sky ordered. He fired another energy arrow at them.
The girls ducked. "That's it, we need to fight back." Musa suggested.
"I'll take care of them." Layla told everyone. She changed into her Enchantix form and put up a morfix wall. The guards and Sky continued to fire at them, but the wall sent to shots right back. "This should hold them. Let's get to the shuttle."
Everyone began running to the shuttle, but Bloom stayed behind. "I'll catch up." She told the others and when they'd all hurry on she walked up to the morfix wall to be closer to Sky. "Why?" She asked. "Why did you do this to me?" She reached out a hand, but retracted it when Sky punched at the morfix wall. "Where has all our love gone?"
"Shut up you witch!" Sky yelled. "I don't want to hear it, just shut up!" He tried shooting another energy arrow at her, but it bounced off the wall and nearly hit him instead.
They made it to the shuttle, but Sky pursued them. Sky fired another shot, hitting Flora. She sank to the floor, knocked out.
"That's it." Bloom said, frustrated. "I'm going to take care of Sky." She transformed, but she wasn't alone. The others had transformed with her.
More guards riding dragons quickly showed up and the girls went right to work taking care of them. Bloom flew after Sky. Bloom fired at him and then had to dodge as he fly by and tried to strike her with his sword. Layla used her morfix to put muzzels and blinders on the other dragons causing them to crash and fall. With another shot Bloom had blasted Sky's sword from his hand. Sky growled and gave chase, so Bloom made flew in zig zags until Sky's dragon flew into the castle wall.
Sky fell off and his dragon was now loose. It roamed around blowing fire, as it approached Chimera and her mother, Cassandra pushed Radius in front of them and told him to keep it busy while they rushed to their shuttle and had it take off without him. Radius called out to his fleeing fiance and was heard by Stella.
"Oh no! Daddy!" Stella called as she flew for her father. "Solar shield." She held her blast as long as she could and in the end both she and the Dragon fainted. Her father crawled over to her and cradled her in his arms. His spell was broken.
"Oh Stella." He cried. "My poor baby."
But then something magical happened. Stella's body was lifted into the air and she was transformed into her Enchantix. She felt so energized and full of good energy. "Daddy." She hugged her father, happy to have him back. Happy to see him safe. She would've held on to him longer, but guards were on their way over. So she hugged him one more time and then flew off.
Back on the shuttle, one there way back to Alfea, Bloom and Stella exchanged a hug.
"We both left something behind." Stella said.
"We did, but we're going to get it back." Bloom told her.
When they returned they went straight to see Ms. Faragonda and tell her what had happened. Layla and Musa did most of the talking. Stella and Bloom were mostly just standing there. At the same time Flora was being taken to her dorm by Tecna and Griselda. When they'd finished Ms. Faragonda promised to look into what happened on their trip and sent the girl off the bed, except for Bloom.
"Please sit." Ms. Faragonda told her once they were alone. "Bloom I know you've had a truly sad experience today, but as I promised I will tell you about the girl in the crystal. That is, if you want to hear it."
"I do want to know about her, but I'm also afraid of what you'll tell me." She whispered.
"I understand, Bloom. Since you've come here you've been met with plenty of challenges and some serious heart breaks." She paused. "I'm afraid this will probably be another one of those times for you." She looked at Bloom who nodded. So she continued. "You must understand, Bloom. As I told you your first year, it is better for you to learn things about yourself on your own than for me to tell you. It's not the information that counts so much as the journey." Bloom continued to nod and so Ms. Faragonda kept going. "Bloom, I held back some information from you when I first told you about your family. This girl, who you saved, she's actually your older sister."
"I have another sister?"
"Yes, you do. Her named is Verena."
"Verena…" Bloom repeated.
"She was… how should I put this. Well, Verena was, as earthlings would call it, the black sheep of the family. She is a lot like you in talent. She had a raw talent, but she was very competitive. She and your sister Daphne never did seem to see eye to eye."
"What happened to her? How did she end up like she is?" Bloom asked.
"That, Bloom, is something I don't know. You see, the morning of the attack on Domino your sister Verena was nowhere to be found. Your parents went into battle still wondering what had become of her and by the time everything was done we all figured she was lost like the rest of you."
Dum. Dum. Dum. Well, you finally know who the girl was, but I'm sure a lot of you had it kind of figured out. So... the story line of season three, as you can tell by the chapter, will still be told. However! There will be a mini story told during this season which will focus on Bloom and Verena. I'll change what episodes I think are not so important to the overall story to best fit the mini twist I'm putting in. I really hope you guys enjoy this!
Furthermore, don't expect this to be your typical 'Bloom has a long lost sister' story. Verena isn't a peachy girl and she's not popping into this time period knowingly. There will be a lot of sad times to come for this girl who's stuck in a time where she should be much older than she is. As shown in Bloom's nightmare here, Verena shouldn't still be a young adult. She was already Bloom's age when she was placed in this crystal so she should be an adult. You've also seen that she had a lover before, but now... well, if the lover survived, he'll be much older than her and probably married. So a lot of heartbreak is still ahead. If you don't like typical stuff then this is a good 'lost sister' story for you.
