Hello everyone! I have some great news! I found myself (or more like she found me) a girlfriend. She's here on Fanfic under name "Skylar Sparks". She has her own story named Lost Guardian. I just ask you that if you will read it, have in mind that she's writing it on phone and is totally new to this all. Don't worry, I'm teaching her.
But you're not here to hear me babbling, are you? So, ENJOY!
"Ouch." Whined Alex as Dana slowly placed her hand his forehead. They were sitting on bed inside the room. He had major bulge right between his eyes.
"Sorry." Dana said slowly healing would of her friend.
"It's OK, Dana." He replied smiling at her before he looked at his redhead cousin, sitting on chair next to wall. She was looking at him with shame "I don't think it's you who hit me."
"I'm sorry, Alex." Bloom replied pitifully. One good thing that happened throughout the entire day and she hit it right in face. Luckily Alex managed to instinctively put up some protective barrier so flame that was enveloping her fist didn't burn him.
"Wait, you actually know him?" Nick asked very confused and worried. He was actually really scared. His big sister just punched legendary Draken.
"We grew up together." Bloom replied still ashamed of what she's done.
"She wasn't punching me back then." Alex replied giggling a little.
"What?" Nikolaos was even more confused than ever.
"I guess you don't know what's happening, right?" Alex asked giving him a grin before turning to Bloom "You don't either."
Fire fairy slowly shook her head "No. I woke up this morning and everything was changed… everything was… gone." Her hands clenched into fists as her eyes filled with tears "My family, my friends, power… Winx… love."
At this point Nick decided it would be best just to listen and be quiet. He realized something beyond him was happening. His older sister suddenly changed. She didn't know anything, not even her own family. She scared people on Earth to death and was crying all day. Suddenly she knew people she has never met, including Aisha and was truly crushed by news of her death. Not just this wasn't normal, this was beyond anything he knew. Plus she now knew legendary Drakens of Elemental Wizards closely.
"I see you're confused." Nick's train of thoughts was cut when Alex spoke again "I think we should explain."
"If you promise us to keep it a secret." Bloom added, still on verge of tears.
"I promise." Nick raised his hand as he said it.
"What if we told you we're from another world… another time?" Alex laughed as Nick's eyes went wide open "Dana."
Dana stopped healing Alex and extended her arms to space between them. She closed her eyes and started speaking. As she was saying those words, ball of light between them appeared, showing images of their past "20 years ago, Domino was attacked by dark forces. Hoping to get Dragon Flame, they went after Bloom, rightful heir of this power. They knew that once they get rid of Daphne, she would inherit it. Daphne however managed to get Bloom out of Domino and sacrificed herself to protect her baby sister. Witches were eventually defeated and with help of other kingdoms, dark forces were driven back beyond Obsidian Gate, but…"
"Domino was sucked in with them." Bloom continued "All life disappeared and Domino became frozen inhospitable world. I grew up on Earth. Alex was my cousin. I didn't know about magic, about my origin."
"Bloom." He said sounding really worried. He saw small tears escape her beautiful blue eyes.
And so they told him everything… every single detail about Winx and their struggles against evil forces. Trix, Darkar, Valtor, Wizards of Black Circle, Tritanus. Nick was listening very closely so he could finally understand what was happening to his big sister. They also told him about Aisha and how she was part of Winx.
"Tell me…" Nick hesitantly asked "Was she happy? Aisha I mean."
Bloom looked at him and remembered his reaction earlier. (Since this is spin off of Obvious Wishes I assume all of you read it.) She felt tears building up in her eyes again "I… Yes… she was." She looked down again "We all were."
"Did you know her?" Dana asked sadly.
He nodded and whipped off tear in his eyes "Yes… we were…"
"You loved her." Alex continued. He was the only one staying calm, not showing any sign of pain or confusion. He could maybe fool Nick and Dana, but Bloom knew him too well. She knew Alex was just as freaked out as any of them. He kinda had a thing for Roxy, youngest of Winx. She was somewhere on Earth and… suddenly Bloom's eyes went open with realization. Earth fairies were still trapped and Roxy didn't know anything about her origin.
"I did." Nick replied nodding slowly "We were supposed to marry."
"Marry?" Bloom almost yelled as she heard this.
"Yes. Our marriage was arranged long ago." Nick replied sadly. That was something Bloom couldn't just overcome. Arranged marriages? Her sudden train of thoughts was quickly cut as her brother continued "We… we grew up together as best friends. I loved her but…" he sighed very heavily "It's all my fault. I wasn't there when she needed me."
"Nobody can be everywhere." Alex replied with confidence in his voice "You couldn't know about Darkar. It's not your fault."
"No, it's my fault she did went there alone!" Now that surprised everyone. Till now Nick was very modest and pretty much quiet, but now he straight up yelled at them "She needed a friend, somebody to be with and I wasn't there!" he hang down his head. His voice was broken, sad "She… she was… She tought nobody cared about her. She thought she was useless. I myself wasn't paying her attention she deserved, but I always felt I was there for her." He sighed very heavily as few tears rolled down his cheeks "She shut down. She stopped eating, sleeping, cried more and more. Eventually she stopped calling me and didn't want to see me anymore. I begged her to tell me what's wrong, but she just shut me out. Damn it, I should have forced her to talk. I should have done more!"
"Nick." Bloom said as her own voice was trembling. All she could think of was the pain he and Aisha must've gone through. She felt herself slipping deeper and deeper into agony and depression. She still felt responsible for this. She wasn't there… she was supposed to be her friend and instead she didn't even care about her.
"She felt abandoned and useless." Nick was continuing "I thought that maybe she was just going through some rough time and that she will fight her way through… she didn't. And when I finally noticed how much pain she was in… it was too late. I already lost her. But then… she made friends with Pixies. I hoped… I hoped she would get better. That they would help her. Then it happened."
"Darkar." Three listeners said in unison.
"Precisely." Nick nodded "I guess… in the end she saved herself. She prove herself by saving those pixies… at least some of them. I swear by Great Dragon if I'll ever get my hands on that bastard I will…"
"Wait!" Bloom suddenly yelled "You're saying Darkar is still out there!?"
"Unfortunately… yes he is. He stole pieces of Codex from all three school of Magix and just disappeared."
Now that was a matter to handle. Dana, Bloom and Alex exchanged looks of worry. If Darkar managed to get all four pieces of Codex…
"What?" Nick asked now worried too.
"Do you think…" Dana started.
Alex spoke next "If he managed to get all four pieces, there is one last thing he needs."
"Me." Bloom replied with sight of horror in her face "All he needs is me!"
"What are you talking about?" Nick quickly responded. Obviously worried for his sister.
"When Darkar attacked us he needed all four pieces of Codex and soul of pure light to balance his darkness." Alex answered.
"He turned me dark and used me to get the ultimate power, Relix." Bloom continued still horrified by remembering that experience "It was the worst experience I've ever had."
"So you think…" Nick's eyes went wide as he realized what was probably going to happen "But he has never gone for Bloom and it's been some time."
"That Bloom didn't have soul of light." Alex replied and turned back to his cousin "But this Bloom does. If Darkar finds out, and he will find out, he will come for her."
"I don't want to become dark again, Alex." Bloom's eyes were still widely open "this time there won't be any Sky to rescue me."
"Sky?" Young prince asked curiously "Like… the Sky, Prince of Eraklyon? You knew him?"
"They were engaged." Dana added.
"Oh…"
"What?" Bloom quickly asked, noticing they all know something they don't want to tell her.
"Well…" Nick started scratching back of his neck "He… is… how to put it mildly… about to marry Diaspro."
"DIASPRO!" Bloom screamed at top of her lungs. Not just that, but in the middle of that scream she threw her arms up and unfortunately released some of her energy.
Ball of fire left her hand and flew fast and true… right into Alex's forehead. Young Draken didn't have any chance of defense before he was suddenly struck by huge power that sent him down again. At least he didn't fall down on hard floor, but on Bloom's comfy bed.
"ALEX!" Dana yelled as her friend was lying there without any movement. Just idiotic smile and wide eyes "Are you all right?"
"I don't want to go to school mom." He replied obviously losing all senses "Please five more minutes."
"Bloom!" Dana immediately turned at her with threatening expression.
"I'm sorry." She replied putting hands before her mouth "I didn't mean to."
"You have to learn to control your power." Nick said rushing to check fallen wizard "White Flame is dangerous. You have to keep your emotions in check."
Since Alex was pretty much done for, everyone decided to continue this discussion net day. Bloom herself proposed it. She had a lot to think about. A lot to process. She was hurt and her heart was breaking. Losing a friend, losing family, losing power. All that was keeping her by her senses was that she didn't lose her Alex and others.
Nick carried knocked out Alex back to his room. Dana stayed with him to be sure he's all right.
Then… everyone went to sleep.
Next morning
Bloom woke up feeling exceptionally bad. She felt sorry for what she's done to Alex, but she also felt grief for her friend, Aisha. Hard to believe just 40 hours ago, they were talking, laughing, enjoying life. Just a single night. Just closing her eyes one night and opening them next morning turned her beautiful dream into a nightmare.
Friends were gone, family was different, and powers that were given to her as a child were gone. How could she belong to a New Company of Light if she didn't know anything about how to fight with them? And how could she be one of Company of Light, when there are no Winx. If it weren't for Alex, Dana and Nick she would be in this all alone. Her thoughts then slipped to all the evils they fought and how they are still out there. Darkar, Valtor, Tritanus, Asheron… maybe even Trix.
Fortunately. Her train of thoughts was cut by knocking on door. It was the maid "My lady, King Oritel is requesting your presence in Throne Room. It's very important."
"All right. Thanks." Bloom said back and got quickly dressed. If it was important then she shouldn't be wasting time. She wanted to put on some T-shirt and jeans, but found out she didn't have any. She used the only ones she had yesterday and now there were just fancy ones. But since she didn't have time to search this hall of a closet she quickly grabbed some dark purple gown with skirt long down to her knees. She didn't even give a thought to her shoes.
She grabbed the closest ones and ran.
As she stepped outside her room, she immediately noticed that everyone was in a hurry. Maids had troubled and even scared faces as they were running all over the palace. Guards seemed to be alerted too.
"Bloom!" She looked left to see Alex and Dana running up to her.
"Good morning guys." She replied trying to figure out the situation "What's going on?"
"No idea." Dana snapped back "Nick came to us that it's very important and we have to go to Throne Room."
"COME ON!" They all turned to see Nick running up to them "We have to hurry!" he was gesturing them to follow.
Three of them quickly ran, following him down towards the Throne Room. Bloom couldn't stand it and asked "Nick, what's happening?"
"King Bane of Solaria is here." He replied running down the stairs.
"Wait!" Alex pulled his arm, making Nick stop "King Bane? You mean the former Dutch Bane from Solaria?"
"I'm afraid so." He replied and kept on running.
"You know him?" Bloom asked, doing her best to keep up on those stairs.
"He once came to Earth and tried to conquer it." Dana replied "We stopped him very quickly, burying him deep under Earth surface."
"He's a maniac who will stop at nothing to get power." Alex added as they were hurrying towards door of Throne Chamber "Luckily he and his army of mercenaries appeared in the middle of nowhere so there weren't any witnesses."
"I wouldn't be surprised if he did something horrible to King Radius to become King himself." Dana was truly angry.
Bloom was now truly worried. If he was King of Solaria, what happened to her friend, Stella? Was she all right? Was she even alive with such a man?
Luckily for her, her question was immediately answered as they entered throne room. There she was. Stella was standing by another man's side. She had beautiful bright green dress full of all kinds of jewels and her hair were tied into a nice high ponytail with a crown in them. But something seemed off. She seemed very sad. She was looking down with eyes closed.
That by itself was giving Bloom goose bumps, but what shocked her more was that there was a child girl standing right next to her, holding her hand. She looked just like Stella.
Now that caused Bloom to think hard. That girl must be her daughter. But… when? Thousands of questions were rushing through Bloom's mind, but luckily managed to stay calm. She realized this Stella probably never met Bloom and they never became friends.
"Ah! Drakens!" that man next to Stella yelled with an evil grin "I've been waiting for you."
He was way older than Stella. He must've been at least 40. He had dark brown hair with grey flecks. Golden crown perched on his head, sparkling in the sunlight from outside. Beard was covering his chin. Eyes were dark brown. He was also very muscular. On his back right hip was a big sword, just waiting to be drawn out.
"I'm sorry Drakens, but he just insisted." Marion, who was standing there too bowed slightly towards her guests.
"It's all right, your majesty." Alex replied, bowing his head back before turning towards the visitor "What do you wish, King Bane of Solaria?"
He drew out his sword "I must show my daughter how to wield sword properly, but I need a decent opponent."
Alex turned towards little girl hiding behind her mother. She was frightened. Seeing this, Alex slowly looked at Bane again "Very well. And what exactly do I get if I win?"
Bane laughed very loudly "You will never win, kid. I am Bane of Solaria, master of blade."
"Bane come to your senses!" Oritel charged into room followed closely by Daphne and Neria "Even you must realize that you cannot beat Drakens."
"I accept!" Alex yelled "But if I win, you will leave Solaria forever. You will no longer be king, no longer the Dutch. You will be poor, without any penny. Your honor and privileges will be gone and you will be judged for all crimes you have ever committed."
Even he was surprised about how this boy was talking. Not even a glimpse of fear or hesitation. Just cold courage. Bane would have backed down his challenge after this, but he was way too proud to do it. He laughed so audibly it caused glass to shake "Very well… I accept. It doesn't matter anyway. You will never win! But if I win, I will take your head."
Alex nodded behind him so everyone backed away. Stella quickly grabbed her child and backed away too. She was shocked. Nobody has ever stood up to her husband like that.
Young Draken stood there and raising his hand he summoned his sword. In flames from his hand, appeared blade, tilt, defenders. Blade was long red-gold steel, defenders were in shape of dragon wings while tilt was his body. Dragon's tail was making a circle around big emerald at the end.
Now, both fighters were armed and ready. If this will worked out, Stella will be free of the tyrant husband, Bane will be powerless and his daughter will have decent example of what happens to bad people.
However… that is… IF, Alex wins.
So, what do you think guys? Did I go too far? I can change it. R&R, guys!