Younger Bloom

Daphne, Sky, and Roxy are looking for Bloom, who, for having such tiny legs, can really get around. The tripping notwithstanding.

She disappeared.

Again.

Daphne grumbles "They'd better get Rumpelstiltskin to give up her years, or I swear…"

Sky shrugs, and says "Hey, she's pretty adorable though. And, it turns out, I'm good with kids. Which I'm going to have to be, seeing as the entire magical dimension expects Bloom and I to rule Eraklyon."

"Good point. Bloom! Come on out, Bloom!"

Roxy asks "She couldn't have gone far, could she?"

Loki's voice sounds right next to them, saying "Yes, she could. I know from experience." All three jump, and turn to see him standing there with a worried expression on his face.

Roxy asks "How'd you even get here?!"

"I'm not. What your seeing is an illusion. Bloom's in the Magic Archive she told me about. You definitely want to get to her before she reads off a spell that does something destructive. Also, we can't take her back home. Things are very different now from how she thinks they are. From what I've seen of her, it would be too much for her to handle."

They all start running to the giant library full of books, Roxy asking "Could she really just read off a spell and make it happen? I thought you had to concentrate to do that!"

Daphne says "Bloom's different, remember? Dragon Flame, five years old, no conscious control of her magic at the moment. Ringing any bells?"

"All but that last one! What do you mean she's got no control of her powers?!"

Sky takes a corner, and says "People with magic usually don't awaken it until they're older, usually when they hit puberty or so. There's some unusual cases where a person's magic awakens due to extreme danger, but those are rare cases and really hard to do. But the Dragon Flame is so strong, the Holder's magic activates early. Bloom's powers, they started showing when she was around five, according to her."

Loki says "She's right. I was walking down a corridor one night, and found her holding fire from her fireplace in one hand and coming to show mother and I."

Daphne doesn't say anything for a minute, then finally says "We need to get to the Archive now!"

When they get there, Bloom's got a massive pile of books scattered on the floor and is attempting to read one and cast the spell in the other - it's upside down, which thankfully makes it a bit harder. Because it's a spell to disintegrate anything she wishes.

Daphne floats the book out of Bloom's hands, making her younger sister yell "Hey! Come back here!" and jump to try and catch it while Sky runs over and picks her up.

"Bloom, do you have any idea how worried we've been about you?"

Roxy catches up, panting "For someone with such small legs…she really gets around! What the heck happened here?!"

Bloom innocently says "I wanted to try a spell! They all came flying over to help!" She throws her arms around Sky's neck, and Roxy just stares at her.

They all hear a cough behind them, and everyone turns their head to look at the new person. Bloom's face near-literally lights up with joy, and she yells "Loki, Loki, Loki, Loki!" She immediately starts squirming and wriggling in Sky's arms, so he puts her down and she runs over - and promptly trips halfway to her illusionary brother.

He takes three steps over as she's getting up, and kneels down to her level saying "Bloom, I've been looking everywhere for you. How did you manage to get so far away?"

"I don't know. I woke up and I was here. Wherever here is. He calls himself Sky, she's called Daphne, and she's Roxy! They all have magic! So I went to try some!" She gets up and runs over to the pile of books, but Daphne floats her up about halfway there.

Loki's expression says 'play along' while Bloom's back is turned towards him, and says "Thank you for finding her. My apologies about the mess. My sister here somehow managed to teleport herself outside the Nine Realms."

"I didn't!"

Loki raises an eyebrow, and says "I found another pile of spellbooks like that one there in the library, Bloom. One of those happen to be a book on transportation spells? Such as the magic that powers the Bifrost?"

Bloom mumbles "Maybe…" and starts pouting. Roxy can't believe her eyes, that's an expression she didn't think Bloom knew how to do. "Reading a spell doesn't make it happen! Usually…"

"Unless you read it out loud, trying to actually perform the spell, and have a gift for magic that goes beyond anything any person in the Nine Realms has had before."

Bloom's pout actually gets bigger, and she asks "Is mother mad?"

Loki sighs, and says "No, and you're not going to get in trouble. But you do have to come back home. Somewhere in the Nine Realms, at least."

"Yay! Can someone from here come to? I wanna try some of their magic!"

Roxy whisper-asks Sky "Was she always like this?"

"I don't know, probably."

Loki gives them a quick nod when Bloom isn't looking, and then looks at Daphne and asks "Do you know of a place called Midgard? The locals there call it Earth. If you can take my sister there, I'll meet you."

Bloom claps her hands excitedly and says "Yay! Wait, you're not here?"

"It's an illusion, sister. No, I'm not really with you, not physically, anyway. I managed to locate you, and you're not in the Nine Realms."

"Oh. Can you come here?"

"I'm afraid not, Bloom."

"So how am I going to get back?"

Daphne picks up her little sister, saying "That's where we come in. I'll take you back to Earth, and we meet your brother there."

"Yay! Let's go!" She wraps her arms around Daphne's neck, looking incredibly eager.

Sky whispers to Loki "Was she this hyper the first time she was five?"

"No, she was hyper but not quite like this."

Daphne casts a sleep spell on Bloom, one that'll wear off in a few minutes, and says "It's because her magic is still active in her system. Rumpelstiltskin didn't reverse time for her or anything, he just…made her five years old. She's still part dragon, still full of magic - she's got access to her full powers, but nowhere near the amount of control required to use them without burning something down. That's why she had her necklace, it had a spell to keep her powers from…well, burning something down to the ground. Like your house, palace, whatever you want to call it."

Roxy says "Why don't you guys take her to the Pet shop in Gardenia? Bloom warded the place, so nobody could get in and attack or anything. And said she fireproofed the heck out of it in case she had a really bad nightmare."

Loki nods, and says "I'll meet you there."

Daphne's sitting cross-legged on the floor of the Pet shop, watching her now-much-younger sister play with a ball of fire - were it anybody else, that would be the idea to end all terrible ideas. Along with just plain stupid. As it is, Bloom's working at the fire like it's clay, shaping it into different things.

It's keeping Bloom occupied and not destroying everything in sight, which is what she was hoping for.

Loki hurries in, quickly closing the door behind him before Dr. Strange can open another portal to endless falling underneath him. Bloom looks up at the sound of the door opening and closing, and her face lights up immediately - and the fire is completely forgotten, leaving Daphne to put it out before more than a small spot on the floor gets burned.

"Loki!" Bloom runs over to him, tripping twice and not caring either time before she gets over to him and gives him as big of a hug as she can. "Your hair got longer, Brother. How?"

Loki gives her a mischievous grin, and says "I was practicing so I can do it to Thor. But much longer for him. He'll be tripping over his own hair by the time I'm through with him."

Bloom laughs and claps, saying "Is it a spell? I wanna help!"

Daphne sputters out a laugh, and asks "Do you want to do every spell you can find and think up, Bloom?"

To Daphne's total amazement, her younger sister cheers "Yes!"

Doctor Strange can't open up a portal under Loki this time, for some reason. Luckily for him, he can pinpoint his location - Gardenia city, California. The same place his sister and her friends were in…

Given the fact that there haven't been any new news reports on the Winx lately - not from there, anyway - he figures he'd better see what the supposedly reformed God of Mischief is up to.

His portal opens up in front of a shop called the Love and Pet shop, and he can sense the power practically coating the place. The kind of power you don't want to mess with. Damn.

The last time he faced a being with this kind of power was Dormamu, the guy that killed him twenty times in a row - a moment he thankfully doesn't remember, as he kept rewinding time until the being decided to bargain. He remembers feeling an aura of power coming off the redhead claiming to be the adopted sister of two beings from myths, but he never thought she was this powerful.

He walks in, finding the door surprisingly unlocked, and sees something he didn't think he'd ever see - Loki, sitting cross-legged on the floor with his back to him and a blonde girl sitting so she's facing him. The blonde girl is laughing, asking "You two seriously thought telling people you were dying was a good idea? They must've flipped!"

Loki shrugs, and says "We always got in trouble, so we used it sparingly. That and the fact that people would've caught onto the ruse if we used it too much."

"Tell me Bloom doesn't have something like that!"

Strange hears a high-pitched voice innocently say "Nope! There's nobody back home for me to play with like that. That and the fact that I don't really want people thinking I'm dying. Who's back there?"

Strange gets a pretty good shock when he sees a head of fiery red hair poke up over Loki's shoulder, and an even bigger one when he realizes it's the same girl who nearly killed him.

Before anyone else can react, Bloom climbs over Loki's body and runs over, stumbling a lot but managing not to trip, and asks "Who are you? I'm Bloom, can you do magic?"

He stares at her, then at Loki and Daphne - who give him slow nods of 'yeah, this is happening, play along' - and then back at her. Before he can answer though, she sees his cape hem fluttering and tries to grab it - she brushes it, and it moves backwards, resulting in a delighted squeal from her and her trying to get a better hold on it. It flies off his shoulders to escape her, which only fuels her desire to get a hold of it - she starts chasing it around, trying to catch the magical cape.

Whatever he thought Loki might be up to isn't even a possibility now, not with the new information of his sister currently a five-year-old kid with an endless amount of curiosity for magic. When it's clear Bloom's too absorbed in her mission of catching a flying cape, he takes Loki and Daphne to the side and says "Explain."

Daphne whispers "Rumpelstiltskin. He turned our sister five years old. Unfortunately, that didn't revert her to the exact state she was back then - full access to the magic she was using yesterday, and she's still part dragon. So she's extremely hyperactive, and likely to set everything around us, including us, on fire if she gets upset. How'd you get here, anyway?"

Loki unsheathes one knife from his sleeve just enough for Strange to see, and says "You hurt Bloom, you're a dead man. Sorcerer Supreme or not. And if you try and take me now, Bloom will lose it and we'll all die."

They hear a crash, and look over to see Bloom laying stomach-down on top of Strange's cape, which is struggling wildly trying to get out of her arms wrapped around it. "I caught it! I wanna fly to! How's it work?" She smiles up at them, then looks down at the cape again - and then, to everyone's horror, she looks out the door and gasps in delight, then let's go of the cape and runs over.

"I made a portal…"

Daphne says "It's not closed."

"Nope. But that door handle is too high for her to-"

Click.

"…open."

Loki sighs and pinches the bridge of his nose with two fingers, asking "Why did you leave that open?!"

"How was I to know she'd go through it?!"

"She's endlessly curious about all things magical. Why wouldn't she want to go through it?"

AN: Aright, next chapter is up! Loki and Daphne are getting to know each other now - Thor's too busy ruling the Nine Realms, and Bloom doesn't actually know Hela at the moment so she can't come - and Bloom is a five-year-old with all the capabilities of her twenty-one-year-old self! So yeah, either they keep her calm, entertained, and happy, or everything goes up in flames! And, no offense to anyone, but telling a kid that everything they thought they knew is wrong is NOT the way to go. And this kid happens to be a tiny little time bomb on legs! And now Dr. Strange got involved! How big of a mess do you think that temple's going to be by the time the rest of the Winx get Rumpelstiltskin to give up that hourglass? Enjoy! More chapters coming soon! And Infinity War IS getting closer! Just be patient for a few more chapters!