Unexpected News

When Roxy gets to Lake Roccaluce, she finds Bloom and Daphne swimming in the water with Ember watching from the bank. "Bloom! Daphne! What are you two doing here? I thought you'd be on-"

Bloom finishes "Domino. We were, until about two minutes ago."

"What happened?"

Bloom glares up at the sky and says "Reporters are morons. And assholes. Be very glad you don't have to deal with them, Roxy."

"Uh-oh. What happened? You only insult people when they get you angry."

Daphne says "In the interview we were in, one of them asked a poorly-phrased question."

Bloom explodes "He asked if I would attempt to kill you if you got the throne!"

Roxy yells "What?!"

Daphne says "He asked what Bloom's reaction would be if I got the throne - and given what just happened with the last coronation…"

Roxy asks "Alright, good point. What broke?"

Bloom says "My temper, and then his camera. He's lucky that's the first thing I grabbed onto - instead of his neck."

Daphne asks "Want to come for a swim?"

Suddenly, a new voice says "If she's going in, then so am I." Daphne nearly jumps a foot in the air, and Bloom looks over to see Duman sitting on a branch.

"Thought I said to stay away from here?"

"Then your sister, the whole reason you said to stay away, got taken and her body restored. Besides, didn't even know it was her lake."

Bloom sighs, facepalms, and mutters "Knew I should have drawn a map."

Daphne says "You, your one of the Wizards of the Black Circle."

Bloom says "They retired two years ago after I saved their skins. Three times to be exact."

Roxy says "Good count."

Duman adds "You got your memories back then."

Bloom takes a long look at both of them, then bursts out laughing hysterically. After a full minute of not breathing due to laughing too hard, Bloom manages "I won't tell Morgana!" before succumbing to another round of helpless laughter.

Duman's jaw drops, and Roxy says "Told you she'd just laugh."

"How'd she know so fast though? Aura-reading or not…"

"It's written all over your faces!"

Anagan suddenly speeds past with someone, then turns around and comes back - to reveal Diana holding onto him. Bloom sits back and just laughs some more after a moment, and Duman says "She knows, don't bother asking what she's laughing about."

Diana says "Knows what?" Anagan whispers something into her ear, and she says "She couldn't possibly know after a moment!"

Bloom deadpans "You're in his arms Diana, I'd say that's proof enough that you two like each other."

Diana's jaw drops, and she mutters "Alright, maybe she can."

Bloom says "I've survived way too much by seeing things people aren't saying to not see something like this."

She gets out of the water and wrings her hair out, then climbs a tree while asking "So, how'd you four end up together? Last I knew, you weren't the Wizards' biggest fan, Diana."

Roxy says "I was trying to transform out in the forest, Duman found me and gave me a few tips."

"Transforming? Like Professor Wiz-Giz and Duman do?"

"Uh…yeah? Why?"

"Which is supposed to be highly advanced magic that you don't learn until year three?"

"…Oh. Right. That little detail. I think you rubbed off on me then."

Anagan snickers, then says "I was running through the forest, Diana found me. We got to talking."

"The Amazon Rainforest you mean? On Earth? Because I'm pretty sure Diana wouldn't be here when she's an Earth Fairy." Bloom's smirk says she's teasing them and enjoying it – and that she knows about Ogron and Gantlos also visiting Earth a lot.

Diana asks "So what else can you do besides read people so well? Anagan said you can do illusions well - and that you were raised in a place that's supposed to be only in myths."

"Both are true, want to hear a song?" It seems a sudden switch of topics, until the song 'Roar' plays out of thin air.

Diana's look of pure shock is priceless, and Duman says "Took us forever to figure out all the ghost music was actually her entertaining herself."

Diana asks "So, what's Asgard like?"

"Oh, you know, lots of battle training, lots of feasts, lots of people to defeat in the training ring…" Bloom smiles fondly though, and says "Lots of adventures to go on, if your there at the right time. Probably where the next one is going to come from. If it's not from Magix, it's related to my brothers in some way." She lets out a snort of amusement, and says "First spring break here, Loki ended up on Earth from the other side of space, spent two days trying to get him off Earth and back to Asgard. Fought an army in New York, but you know, it worked out."

Roxy sputters a laugh, Anagan and Duman snicker, and Diana asks "That's the life you lead?"

"Have you heard about what happened after we got back from Pyros? HYDRA tried to kidnap me or something, then me, the rest of the Winx, and the Specialists went to New York to help my brother, his group of friends on Earth and what was left of SHIELD stop them - and then, we had to fight an AI that came out of Loki's spear. And then, Tritannus tried to kill Nereus to get the throne!"

She puts on a fake-shock tone of voice as the explanation goes on, then mutters "And you must've heard what happened after that. Spent a whole year trying to stop him."

Roxy asks "So how'd you finally beat him? I never actually heard."

"I don't really remember that part of the fight. We were all at the Pillar of Light, I heard Icy say something about thawing Daphne out," Duman, Anagan, and Roxy all stare at her in shock at that, "then I followed them, saw Tritannus holding Daphne up by the neck," Duman winces and puts a hand to his own throat, "and the next thing I remember is Daphne's on the ocean floor and my knife is embedded in Tritannus's elbow. Icy was gone at that point, I didn't chase after - I literally had a bigger fish to fry."

Roxy says "Ouch…can't say I'm too surprised at your reaction though."

Bloom says "That's not all though. I broke his trident in two, he lost the rest of his pollution and changed back to a normal merperson - with a very twisted mind - I pulled my knife out of his elbow, and then everyone else showed up. I nearly killed him right then, Daphne's a better person than I am though. But the idiot rushed me from behind, I reacted and stabbed him in the heart."

Anagan and Duman share a look, and Roxy says "Wow, he really was that stupid then?"

"Uh-huh. First he kidnaps Daph; then they torture her; then they freeze our birth parents; then they attack her home, here; then they put her in some tiny little cell under the Emperor's Throne; then they freeze her; then they're stupid enough to mention the fact in earshot of me during a battle. And then, after I tell him to never go near Daphne again or nobody will be able to save his life, he rushes me from behind and gets himself stabbed in the heart. I'll never get people, dragons are so much simpler to understand."

Ember jumps up onto Bloom's stomach and thrums, and Diana asks "Wasn't she bigger on Pyros?"

Bloom smiles, and says "I taught her to shrink and grow at will. Helps with feeding her, and with her staying by my side. We're both a little attached to some parts of her being so small."

Duman says "Your different again. Are you ever going to just pick a personality and stick with it?"

Bloom smirks, and says "I was a bit of a boiling hot mess on Earth, wasn't I?"

Anagan crosses his arms, and says "Gee, wonder why we'd think that. Wait, maybe because we found you beating punching bags to sandy pulps in Gardenia park one night!"

Bloom laughs, and says "Yeah, that. Give you a hint what's different. What's the one thing I could've done without back then?"

Duman guesses "Paranoia?"

"Close, keep going. Think root causes."

Anagan asks "This have anything to do with your recent amnesia?"

"Everything."

They don't take two seconds to figure out what's different about Bloom, and Duman asks "You got all but your memories of Cloudtower back?"

"Yeah, good guess. Don't know what happened down there, what I do know is that I wanted it to never even come close to happening again."

She looks over, then says "Hey Loki, what's happening?"

Everyone else looks over in surprise, to see a man with long, black hair to his shoulders and dark armor in green, black, and gold. Bloom's sitting up on the tree branch, and teleports off to stand in front of her adopted brother.

Duman asks "This is your other brother?"

"Yeah, the one who taught me illusions. What's happening?"

"We might've found Odin, he's-"

"WHAT? WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU'VE FOUND HIM?!"

Everyone, Loki included, has to cover their ears at Bloom's outburst - her lungs are as strong as ever.

"I mean, Thor and I think we've finally found him. Thor's been going around the Nine Realms keeping the peace, I've been looking for him in my spare time - not a lot, given the fact that I'm the one stuck on the throne. Now I get why you didn't want it from the beginning."

Bloom facepalms hard, and asks "Really? It took you this long on the throne to figure out why I never wanted it in the first place? Where is he?"

"We think he's in New York. Some retirement home - of all places."

Bloom says "I'll be on Asgard in a minute, brother."

She teleports over to Daphne and hugs her hard enough to crush the air from her lungs, saying "Don't get kidnapped while I'm gone. If father asks-"

"Emergency came up, another adventure. I'll tell them. Stay safe, Bloom."

"Whoever has Allfather better give him up the instant I see him, otherwise there'll be trouble."

She yells to the others "Gotta go, next adventure just showed its face!"

Her outfit changes - on its own apparently, no orange sparkles, just a flash of orange as it melts from one outfit to the next - to the one she's been wearing lately, with the boots and blue and pink with her jacket on top of it all and then she growls something to Ember, who thrums back and goes over by Daphne. "Bloom! Is Ember really…guarding me?"

"If we've really found Allfather, then I don't want Ember to get hurt. Watch her for me, Daph?" Daphne nods, and Bloom adds "Besides, she can help with stuff - like keeping princes and reporters off your back."

Bloom teleports away and Duman says "Whoever has that guy had better give him up fast if they want to live."

AN: Yeah, I know, I haven't updated in a bit - yesterday was my grandfather's birthday, so yeah. Anyway, Thor 3 has arrived! Bloom actually can change her clothes like Loki can, in New Mexico she eventually did after a while. She didn't do it much while her friends didn't know about Asgard - mainly to avoid questions with answers they wouldn't believe - so her friends wouldn't start thinking she was lying to them. In al fairness to Bloom, she did try to tell them the details about her adopted family before - it just happened to be bad timing because Diaspro poisoned her before. And, as I'm sure everyone can guess, the chapters are going to be different from the movie slightly. Loki isn't the same in my story as he is in the movies, he didn't fake his death, he doesn't want the throne, he and Thor - and possibly Heimdall, Sif, and the Warriors Three -have been covering for Odin's disappearance, etc. At any rate, enjoy! Review for suggestions, please! PS, any suggestions of myths to throw out of the Legendarium would be much appreciated. No spoilers though, more updates coming soon!