WinxClubBloom6- Thanks, and I hope you enjoy the last chapter of Dragon Soul 2: Guardians
Guest-I think I have some explaining to do. I found a comic some time ago where there were "guardians of the dragon flame" who lived in Domino and kept the dragon fire safe. Daphne was one of them and I decided to throw that in for whatever reason but I don't think I explained it very well. Sorry if I confused you guys.
Bloom
I opened my eyes and was greeted with Kala. We were both sitting on our knees, just three feet away from each other. Behind her, her dark dragon of fire watched my own dragon carefully. We were in the star nursery, sitting just above one of the clusters of celestial gasses.
My attack had teleported us here, just like it did when I fought Eraklyon. Man, that battle felt like it had happened ages ago. Just moments before it, I had met Kala for the first time. She had loomed over my battered body, trying to decide if that was the time to tear my throat out. It was. I wouldn't have been able to win in such a state, blind, wounded, and completely confused by her presence.
She had misjudged the situation. Neither of us were as strong as we are now. If we had all of this power back then, she would have been able to sense how weak I was. Oh, how I had wondered who she was and why she triggered such a terrible response from somewhere deep within me, and the answer was plain as day.
The Great Dragon was a being of good. From her fiery breath came the universe and all life within it. The idea had never seemed odd to me. I simply accepted it as fact and moved on. Now, something Guardian Solaria said long ago came back to me.
"Because then the universe would be even more unbalanced than before. Mother already has Eraklyon's orb. Kala has no orb. Good and evil will not be balanced if mother gets both."
Valtor, a being of darkness, was born after three witches corrupted an ember from my Dragon Flame. His heart was molded and broken until nothing could ever even hope to turn it back.
Kala's power was evil and angry, similar to Valtor's, yet also completely different. And while I understood why it was different, there were several gaps that needed to be filled. Feeling the pull of power in my stomach again, I reached out my hand. "Let's try this again. Reveal your past to me."
Golden light streamed from my fingertips, and this time, Kala did not fight back. She allowed the power to flow through herself, and her memories washed over me as she finally let down her disguise.
Kala appeared to be eleven at this point. If it weren't for the spell, I never would have guessed it was her. Her hair was platinum blonde and her bright blue eyes were sparkling with a delight and happiness that she had never seen in the woman before.
There was no malice in this girl's body, so what had caused such a drastic change?
Bloom saw memories of Kala and her father. Aaron obviously treasured his daughter, often abandoning projects if they took him too far away from his child. Seeing their happiness and love for one another reminded me of my own father. Though he had adopted me, he treated me as if I was his own. I will forever be grateful for his love and protection. Kala probably feels, or at least felt, the same way.
After seeing several small flashes of memory, Bloom felt that Kala was holding something back. Annoyed that she was still trying to keep things from me, I pressed more power into my spell and literally tore the memory out of her.
Kala was descending down the basement staircase to find her father, but when she finally could see him, she found he wasn't alone. A younger Argus two other men were standing alongside him next to a great black urn. Even through the young girl's memories, I could feel the urn practically bleeding dark power.
A dark power I recognized.
As fragments of the memory continued, I could sense Kala growing to hate the men and the urn. It consumed all of her father's time. He rarely left their home, only coming up to cook meals though he didn't eat with her.
One day, Aaron had to leave the house to find some tools and Kala snuck down into the basement. She quickly found the urn and began to curiously examine it. Going over to one of her father's computers, she quickly discovered all that her father had learned- which wasn't much.
The men had come to Aaron with the legendary Urn of Darknessfrom her mother's homeworld. Honrian. Curiosity peaked, she scanned over the little bit of data that had been gathered, which she didn't understand, before going back to explore the Urn.
On the sides of the urn were finely etched golden drawings. Depictions of the great dragon and
"Kala?" Bloom heard her father call out from the front door. She could sense Kala wanted to run to him, but a new thought entered the young girl's mind.
There was a wisp of a voice. A black snarl that beckoned Kala closer to the Urn. Her father's voice turned to a far away echo as Kala's small hands touched the sides of the urn.
She flinched at the evil energy that tickled her skin, and my own hands suddenly grew cold. The golden images slowly began to move. The great dragon swirled around the black face of the Urn, circling Kala's hands gracefully.
Before her eyes, the golden dragon split into two. The gold changing to a metallic red and purple that circled her hands individually. Only seconds later, the red dragon faded away, leaving only the purple dragon who abandoned her hand and began to circle the top of the Urn, coaxing Kala to open it.
I winced as the young girl followed the dragon's guidance and opened grasped the lid of the Urn.
"Kala, don't!" Her father had found her in the basement, and threw himself forwards to stop her, but it was too late.
The black dragon burst from the urn in all of it's terrible glory. With a horrifying screech, it dove down into Kala's small body.
I winced as the poor child's body convulse and spasm as the evil presence invaded her body. Her mouth was wide open in a soundless wail and her eyes were screwed shut. Moments later, she fell limp. Aaron sobbed out his daughter's name and collapsed down to her side.
That was where the memory ended, and I returned to the star nursery, now with this young Kala sitting before me.
"I didn't know." Her young voice spoke. "I didn't know all of this would happen."
Her face collapsed as she began to cry. I crawled forwards and gathered the child in my arms. "Of course you didn't. How could you have known?"
"I'm so sorry!" She sobbed, and I held her tighter.
"It's okay now. You're free." I whispered to her.
We sat like that for a while, and once she had calmed, she moved back. Wiping the tears from her eyes, she looked up to me. "You've won the battle. The dark dragon fire and all of the power I collected is yours."
There was a sadness in her voice, and I knew why. "But you'll die."
"I've been dead for a long time, Bloom." She answered with a choked laugh/ "I've been a prisoner in my own body for ten years now, and all I've ever wanted was to be free of her. She killed me that day, the day I freed her from the Urn. But she needed me to survive in this world. My body stopped growing naturally, so the dark dragon made me grow so it wouldn't seem suspicious."
I understood. Such a power cannot exist except within a host. The Urn had kept the dark dragon fire contained and safe for thousands of years, and once it was free, it needed something to possess so it wouldn't dissipate into the air.
"Kala, I won't kill you. After all you've been through, you deserve a second chance." I argued.
"No, I don't. I released evil into Magix. I killed all the guardians by stealing their powers." She avoided my eyes. "I'm the reason the shadow's coming."
"No, you aren't. You said it yourself. You were a prisoner in your own body! There has to be something we can do."
Kala sniffed and wiped her nose on her torn sleeve. Her sad blue eyes locked with mine and she smiled. "Inferno Bloom, I owe you so much more than I can ever give you. I give you the Dark Dragon fire, and the powers of the Guardians. May they ready you for the battle ahead."
And with that, the Black dragon lunged towards me. I stood quickly, startled, and cried out as the power pierced through my chest. I fell to my knees as my throat constricted. The powers of the Guardians were heavy with energy, but this was an entirely new weight. I could feel all of the malice and malevolence tear through my body as well as the powers of the Guardians that I couldn't save meld with my own flame.
My fire reacted poorly with the black fire that settled in my chest. The two flared at each other, refusing to meld and blend their powers into one.
Once I gathered myself against the pain of the immense energy, I looked back to Kala, who had collapsed before me.
"No!" I cried, pulling myself to her side.
I placed my ear to her chest, and heard nothing. Her pretty blue eyes were glazed, staring straight up into the abyss of starts. Anger burned in my chest. This wasn't fair. Kala had suffered for so long… and now this? No, I wasn't going to let her life end before it had a chance to begin!
Deep within me, I heard that strange voice speak. Together.
The black dragon had reformed behind me hovering near my original dragon. I turned to them. "Help me save her!"
Both dragons nodded slowly. Their powers stopped bickering in my chest for a moment, working as one towards a common goal.
Words came to me as I turned back to Kala.
Placing one hand over her chest and the other hovering over her head, I spoke. "By the power of Domino, son of Inferno, melt away the wounds and forge a body that was stronger than before!"
Domino's power surged through me and erupted from my hands. The liquid fire coursed over Kala's body, healing her wounds from our fight and strengthening her body to prepare it to face a world without the dark dragon fire.
Once I sensed that all that could be done was done, I called out again. "By the power of Andros, son of Inferno, course your power through these still veins and pulse movement back into this girl!"
Blue morphix bled out of my hands and seeped into Kala's skin. I could sense her circulation and body functions returning.
I recited the next words quickly while Andros' powers were still working. "By the power of Linphea, daughter of Inferno, breathe life back into this body. Save her from the flame as it is not her time!"
I couldn't keep tears from my eyes as Kala began to breathe again. "By the power of Zenith, daughter of Infero, return energy to her! Give her the power to move on her own power and learn whatever she desires!"
Before the yellow-green glow dissipated from my hands, purple lightning shot from my fingertips and wrapped around Kala's body.
"By the power of Melody, daughter of Inferno, return emotion to her body and mind! Allow her to love and be loved again!"
A wind whipped up and I excitedly called out the next words.
"By the power of Solaria, son of Inferno, return balance to her body and mind! Give her the equilibrium that the entire universe desires!"
A blinding light flooded the star nursery.
Stella
Marion was just as inconsolable as Daphne was when we returned to the castle. Argus and Aaron were waiting in chains by the throne as we entered. Argus was red with fury and embarrassment at the situation he was in, but when we mentioned that both Kala and Bloom were gone from the universe, Aaron let out a ragged sob.
None of us paid attention to him though. Brandon held me tightly and Alake kept close as we watched the family mourn the loss of their youngest member together.
"I never got the chance to tell her…" Daphne whimpered against Thoren's chest.
"Tell her?" Oritel looked over to his daughter, with tears in his eyes.
"I was going to tell all of you tonight…" Daphne's hand fell from Thoren's chest and rested against her belly.
All of us gasped, and Daphne couldn't finished her sentence. She didn't need to though. We all understood.
Desperate for some sort of explanation, I turned to Solaria, who had fallen quiet during all of this. "How could this have happened?!"
"Fret not, my dear." The silver voice spoke.
"Mother Bloom is not lost." The golden voice finished.
A lump formed in my throat. "What do you mean?"
"Focus." The two voices said together.
Closing my eyes, I pulled my powers together with Solaria's and felt something familiar in the distance. Something that was growing rapidly closer.
Abandoning Brandon and the group, and ran for the courtyard. The halls were a blur as disbelieving tears filled my eyes. I threw myself against the doors, flinging them open as Alake and Brandon called after me.
I tripped over myself as I flew down the steps, just barely recovering and keeping myself from falling the rest of the way down. Once the darkening sky was above me, I looked about wildly.
I sensed the presence again coming from the north, and I stifled a sob as two large shapes came into view on the horizon.
Sooleawa and Keket let out their powerful roars in sync to announce their return to the castle. It took only a few moments for everyone else to join me at the courtyard as well.
As Sooleawa prepared to land, I saw a familiar flash of red seated upon the great dragon's back, right between her wings.
When the silver dragon landed, Keket quickly followed suit as Bloom slid off her partner's back.
"Bloom!" We all cried, but the bundle in her arm stopped us from tackling her with a hug.
"Where's Aaron?" Bloom asked, looking down at the young girl cradled in her arms.
Oritel sent one of the guards to go retrieve the man while we bombarded Bloom with questions.
"But how?" One of the guardian fairies asked. "The dragon flame was gone from the universe!"
"You're not wrong." Bloom gave us a tired smile. "My attack sent us to the star nursery. It's outside the Magix dimension."
When the guard came back with the man, tears had stained his face and his eyes had turned a terrible red from crying. When he saw the girl in Bloom's arms though, disbelief was written all over his face.
He sobbed again as the girl let out a sigh in her sleep. "Kala, oh my Kala!"
He ran to Bloom's side even though his arms were still bound behind his back. Kneeling down, Bloom rested the girl on the ground and used her magic to free him. Aaron gathered up the small girl in his arms and held her tightly as he cried.
Finally, the girl awoke. "…Papa?"
The two embraced and Bloom stepped away. The girl, Kala, looked back to her. "Thank you, Bloom."
Bloom returned her smile then looked to us. "I'll explain later."
Bloom
The next morning, the girls, the dragons, and the guys gathered in my room.
"So, now what?" Stella asked. "We've gotten all of the Dragon Orbs, Kala's not a threat anymore, and Argus has finally been captured, but for whatever reason I feel like there's something more to come."
"That's because there is." I walked over to my balcony. Sooleawa and Keket were resting peacefully just outside the gardens, still recovering from their battle. One of the lumps in my stomach tightened.
Black clouds enveloped Magix. Lightning crackled in the skies as armored humanoid like creatures swarmed through portals. I shook my head, trying to clear away the vision.
"Kala wasn't the darkness I'm supposed to be preparing for, and I feel that it's coming soon."
"Well, the dragon flame's pretty much complete now." Daphne offered. "You have the black fire, your fire, and all of the orbs and inborn powers from the Guardians. There isn't a being in Magix that can rival your power now.
My teeth gritted at the reminder. What I hadn't told any of them was the fact that the two flames were not fond of each other. The two dragons were locked in a constant battle in my chest, and I could feel that it was slowly tearing my body apart, worsening my current exhaustion. With a sigh, I turned to my friends and family.
"That may be so, but this shadow won't be easy to defeat, even for me. I'll need all of your help. And probably more."
They all exchanged worried glances, but Sky stood and moved next to me. He placed a hand on my shoulder. "Whatever's coming, we can face this together."
He turned to the others, who all nodded in agreement. I gave them a weak smile before turning to Daphne. "I know. We've got the future to think about."
She smiled and placed a hand over her stomach.
Stella jumped up. "Come on, guys! We've got a lot to do, but whatever comes next, we'll be ready. I know it!"
She placed her hand out, palm down. Understanding what she was doing, the others stood and placed their hands over hers until I was the only one left.
Silent tears fell from my eyes as I added my own hand over top of theirs. "You're right. We'll beat whatever comes together."