Musa groans when they all get out of Magiphysics class - the teacher talks so fast, and she can barely keep up! Doing some quick thinking, Musa slows down so she's next to Bloom and asks "Hey, can I fill in a few gaps in my notes from yours tonight? I just can't write as fast as you. Give me a keyboard or guitar, and I'm all over it. Have me hold a pencil and write almost nonstop for an hour and a half, and I'm cramping up twenty minutes in."

Bloom chuckles, and says "Try writing with a bloody feather. The ink goes everywhere, and I always had to be careful not to snap the things by gripping them too hard. Sure, I'll lend you my notebook after dinner."

Musa sighs in relief, and says "You're a life-saver, Bloom. You know that?" They've got a test in a week, and Bloom's probably the only person not worried about it all.

Of course, Bloom's a damn genius, a magical prodigy that all the teachers combined are hard-pressed to keep sane about - they keep talking about a 'Marion' as in 'its Marion all over again.' and 'it couldn't be...' She's regularly beaten Griselda halfway to a blood paste on the floor in self-defense class, she talks circles around even the teacher in Magiphilosophy, and spends her time in Magic Invocation working on a project of hers in her notebook because she's the class darling without any effort on her part whatsoever. Of course, five years of prior instruction in using magic will give one an edge in that regard. Everyone can only hope she finds Cognitive Analysis more of a challenge. Or Applied Convergence - though, nobody's holding out much hope for that, what with the way her eyes lit up at the challenge it was presented as.

After they get back to the dorm for the evening, all classes finished for the day, Bloom says "I put the notebook you want on the desk. Just bring it back when your done, please." She's just glad she's got a Protean Charmed notebook hidden in her trunk for each notebook, just in case. She's never been one for misplacing things, but with the Trix sniffing around she'd much rather be safe than sorry.

Hedwig's just landed on her crossed legs when Musa's voice calls over "Uh…Bloom? What's this?" Musa's holding up one of the multiple notebooks on her desk, but Bloom's not sure which it is she's got - they're identical, save for the contents. She wasn't going for a fashion statement, she was going for a notebook to write in. Although, now she considers the detail that telling them apart by the cover might've been a good idea - oh well, she'll just Transfigure some titles onto the front.

"What's the page your looking at say?"

Musa scans a few lines, and says "Its got a few words, um…Draco Ignis? Along with a lot of symbols and numbers. Mostly about fire, from what we've learned so far. And this next page is…it looks a bit like a ritual of some sort, with metal, some kinda scales, and blood involved? And a feather from Hedwig?" "Project notebook, filled with things I'm working on. The notebook you want is two to the left."

Musa hastily puts the scary-advanced notebook back where she found it, grabs Bloom's Magiphysics book and all but sprints out - one look at that notebook had her head feeling like it was about to explode, and she's not sure if it's the sheer skill, knowledge, and raw power needed for the few things she saw detailed in that brief glimpse or if its some kind of protection on the notebook deterring her from seeing something she shouldn't. After her display with the Whip, she wouldn't put it past Bloom to spell her more private stuff against prying eyes. Nothing against Bloom, she's just intense like that. And Musa's...not, she's really not.

Bloom picks the notebook filled with her hypothetical projects and ideas up, and turns to the page Musa left off on - an idea for her bracelets, a way to potentially connect them to her mind and magic, make them part of a transformation as well as her everyday wear. Right now, they're dragon-shaped wrap-around bracelets that she'll Transfigure into extra-long armlets for special occasions. If this ritual works, though…they could be so much more. The dragon scales would be for defense, making the armlets almost indestructible as well as tying the end result even closer to her - since she's got a rather easy source of dragon scales, already infused with her own magic. Hedwig's already willing to donate a feather for the experiment, and Bloom's more than willing to bleed a little for this.

And if Hedwig cried a few tears, I could tie a healing spell to the two thing as well.

Fairy magic tends to need something to connect to, when its not an offensive spell anyway - so, a defensive spell would need something to anchor it, and a Healing spell would need something to base itself off of. What better base than Dragon Fire-infused Phoenix Tears? It'll take a while…but it'll be damn interesting to. And exciting.

Bloom can't wait to see the result, and neither can Hermione. They've talked for hours, traded hundreds of pictures, and Hermione started laughing until she cried when Bloom had her send an Arithmancy breakdown of the Fiendfyre spell along with Protego Diabolica. Looks like spellcrafting is now a hobby of hers, right along with drawing.

She'll take the Impervious'd notebook down to Lake Roccaluce tomorrow, see what Daphne thinks about it. And to test the new version of the counter-spell she's working on, Finite Maximus Ultima. She's been working on it on a relive for each day in her tent for about a month now, and she thinks she's almost got it. All she's got to find is a link to this Sirenix power Daphne told her about…and she's got an idea Daphne definitely won't like.

Oh well, needs must.

Daphne forbade her from trying to acquire Sirenix to break the curse, she never said anything about using Sirenix in the process of breaking the curse - or at least, using whatever it is she's guarding. Because she's definitely guarding something down there, there's no way she isn't. She could've gone to haunt the castle on Domino, or stayed at Alfea for a time - no, instead she picks a seemingly-random lake and makes it nigh-on-impossible to find. Ergo, there must be something important down there - and, just like with the details of why the Sirenix Quest may or may not be able to break the Curse, Daphne refuses to say what it is Bloom's convinced is down there.

Daphne reads through the notebook Bloom brought with, and says "It looks sound, but it needs something to access the Sirenix Power if I'm remembering Magiphysics right...and getting the context of the rest of this." A strange, complicated mix of Fairy and what she can only assume is Wiccan magic - something nobody in the entire Magical Dimension would be able to guard against or undo easily.

Brilliant, her sister is utterly brilliant. Just like their mother.

Bloom nods, and says "I was hoping you would have some ideas, Daph. You're the expert in that particular field."

Daphne hums, and says "Well, my Sirenix Box was kept in my room back on Domino. No, wait, that's probably inaccessible, iced over completely." She could theoretically try the Emperor's Throne, but that's in the Infinite Ocean - not somewhere Bloom can get to, and not something Daphne wants Bloom anywhere near anyway. Omnia might-

"What about whatever's down in the Lake?"

Daphne jerks at once, staring at her innocent-looking sister in undisguised horror - all the training she's had in her lifetime be damned, there's no way Bloom should know about the Source! At her look, Bloom says "I figured it out, Daphne. Your guarding something down there, what is it? Its why you're here, its why you hid the lake. What could be so important?"

Daphne groans, then says "Stay here, Bloom. I need to talk with someone. I'll introduce you to a friend of mine, hopefully."

Daphne disappears back into the water, and Bloom carefully tracks her progress until she disappears from sight behind a school of fish. Where is her sister going, anyway? And what is it that's down there?

Omnia blinks, and asks "Come again?"

Daphne says "Bloom's created a way to break the Sirenix Curse, Omnia, but she needs something with a connection to the power."

"That…that should be impossible. I've tried everything I could think of, and nothing worked!"

Daphne nods, and says "I know."

"Getting around the spell we cast was one thing, breaking a Curse woven into the very fabric of Sirenix, so to speak, is another thing entirely!"

"I know."

"Lysliss had an almost encyclopedic knowledge of magic, and a malicious imagination to complement it!"

Daphne nods, saying "I know that to, she bragged about spending half a year perfecting it after I was stripped of my body."

"And your sister spent…what, two months breaking it?! No, wait, the first month was spent trying to get into the forest!"

Both ladies are silent for a moment, and Daphne finally murmurs "Great Dragon, Bloom is worse than Mother." Far, far worse. She can only hope Bloom never learns Griffin planned to send the Witches to Obsidian.

Omnia bursts out laughing at that, and heads for the cave exit.

"Um…Omnia? Where are you going?" She usually never leaves the cave, after all. She's spent hours at a time talking with Daphne, but she's never left the cave.

Omnia chuckles, and says "Going to meet your sister, of course. It seems she thinks impossible is a hilarious joke, after all. I'm curious what she'll come up with next. Time travel? Breathing in space?"

Daphne groans, then says "Don't give her any ideas, Omnia. I'll apparently have a body soon, and I don't remember heart attacks being that hard to induce through sheer shock."

Omnia chuckles again, holding off on mentioning Pyros for the time being, and they head up.

When Omnia takes a look through Bloom's notebook, specifically the part of the way to break the Curse on Sirenix, she says "This would kill almost anyone that tries to cast it, and not just because of the amount of power needed. The Witches gave the Curse so much power that its practically a sentient thing by now. It stripped Daphne of her body, turned Politea the Traitor into a ravenous monster, and lies in wait for anyone that dares try to gain Sirenix now." And she doesn't even want to think about how the Emperor's Throne changed - it used to be dormant until someone claimed the power, now…now its almost malicious in its rejection, draining any who dare to stir its power in some way.

Bloom says "That's why I grounded the whole thing in Dragon Fire after I learned how. I'll probably be out for a week, but I don't care. Its worth it." The 'Daphne's worth it' is left unsaid, but the look on Bloom's face says more than enough. It's the same look Marion had right before she earned her last Transformation, after all. Its also a look Daphne remembers well enough to remember their father could never win an argument when it showed.

Omnia asks "Out of curiosity, how did you come up with this?" From Daphne's description, Alfea wouldn't have anything remotely like what went into the creation of this work of art of a counter curse.

Bloom shrugs nonchalantly, and casually says "Went through the Cloud Tower Archives to find a few books on Ancient Curses, used the breakdown of those to design a counter."

Daphne buries her face in her hands, and both Bloom and Omnia hear a muffled sound that seems something like a cross between a hysterical laugh and a despairing sob.

Faragonda jumps straight out of her seat as what feels like a full-scale attack reaches her magical senses. Her first instinct, born of the war with the Ancestral Witches, is to put the school on lockdown until the parents can get their children while she and the other teachers go to investigate.

Then she remembers Bloom.

All the teachers have been asking where she found the red-head, what kind of magical education she had prior to Alfea, and just what kind of life she's led - Griselda - before Faragonda found and approached her. And everyone other than Griselda has had the same things to say about her - scary-brilliant, the greatest student Alfea's seen since Marion, if a bit closed-off from the rest of the student population and very independent. An insatiable - almost bordering on obsessive and unhealthy - interest in advanced magics, and she regularly has people questioning their very existence in the space of a single conversation.

Something tells Faragonda its her turn. Call it a hunch, or call it the contents of the letter she got from the red-head last year.

When she gets to the entrance to Alfea - after assuring panicking students she'll find out what's going on and sending them back to their dorms while instructing every teacher she comes across to either guard the students or follow her - what she finds assures her its her turn to question her own sanity and whether the world has just come to an end.

Because what she finds is Bloom…and Daphne.

A corporeal Daphne.

Its rather unclear who's supporting who, as Daphne's extremely unsteady on her feet and Bloom looks dead on her feet - actually, she just looks half-dead altogether - but somehow they made it to Alfea. Bloom tiredly says "I'll explain everything that happened when I wake up in…a week."

Somehow, likely through sheer stubbornness, the two sisters make their way to the Infirmary - where Bloom all but dumps Daphne in a bed, climbs in next to her, and promptly passes out after sending a single group-text on her phone that says 'I did it. She's free.' And then unconsciously wrapping around Daphne like she thinks the older woman is going to disappear.

Twenty minutes later, all the teachers are gathered in Faragonda's office - and everyone has migraines of massive proportions thanks to the backlash of whatever it is Bloom did. Whatever she did...it broke the unbreakable curse on Daphne the Witches created specifically to get the former Holder with a strong connection to the Dragon Flame out of the fight.

Whiz-giz asks "Is that really-"

Griselda snaps "Marion and Oritel's second daughter died years ago! Nobody could find any trace of her!"

Wrong, Griselda, nobody could find a trace of her until she found a trace of us. Daphne hid her well indeed. Faragonda says "Nobody could find any trace of Daphne either, after that spell on the forest went up."

Palladium says "If Bloom Potter really is Princess Bloom Fyre of Domino…it would explain almost everything."

Faragonda nods, mentally thanking Palladium for his words right then, and says "She is. I couldn't say anything since she enrolled under the Secrecy program designed for the royal students."

And then her old communicator from the war pings, and Griffin and Saladin's faces appear. Griffin asks "Faragonda, did a classroom recently blow up? Did a school-wide Convergence Project go wrong or something?"

Despite her calm act, Faragonda can tell Griffin is freaking out badly - to be fair, so is she. "No, Griffin," she says, "the power you two felt was from a single Fairy."

Griffin visibly goes pale in the projection, and Saladin whispers "That's impossible. Unless…" There's two options, and one is automatically ruled out since that was definitely Light magic. And the Shadow Flame is pure Darkness, the energetic opposite of the Dragon Flame.

Griffin asks "Is there something you couldn't tell us, Fara?"

She nods, and says "Yes."

Griffin and Saladin both gasp, and Griffin immediately starts saying how its impossible while Saladin openly gapes at her. Faragonda knows how both of them feel perfectly well.

AN: Hey, everyone! Guess what? We FINALLY finished the flooring today! Got the tiles laid, and the last bit of grouting is done! And, honestly, I couldn't be more excited - I've been super busy helping finish everything, so I couldn't write much or post. In celebration of this nightmare being over, I'm posting another chapter!

If it isn't perfectly clear at the end, Bloom...broke Griffin and Saladin without ever even meeting them. How hilarious is that?!

Anyway, enjoy! More chapters coming soon! A lot sooner now that the flooring is DONE!

PS. Got a challenge for you wonderful readers. Can anyone guess what's changed with Bloom after she basically outed herself? I promise, something has. Its in the context.