Winx Club Past AU

By: FunahoMisaki

(A/N: I own nothing and what do ya'll think? Should I make this a story?)

"Are you girls from another school? I would have heard about someone as powerful as you." Mavilla asked looking at Bloom after she got done chewing out Faragonda who kept sneaking awestruck looks at the red head.

Griselda was the same from where she stood nervously, surrounded by the Winx girls almost protectively. It was obvious that the two freshmen were awestruck by the red head and Mavilla couldn't blame them. No one ever stood up to her like that before, and to be honest the sheer amount of power the girl radiated at half strength…it was enough to make even the most hardened warrior falter.

The girl definitely earned Mavilla's grudging respect.

"I take it you know what these are?" Bloom asked holding up her piece of the Stone of Memories and making Mavilla falter for a moment. She hadn't expected that, and to be honest she probably should have. If the girl had been from Mavilla's time she would have heard about her raw strength and power.

"Okay. Selda, Squirt I need you two to go with…Musa and Tecna out into the hall for a moment. What I'm about to tell your headmistress is confidential and I don't want to put you two in danger by telling you. I can sense strong potential and strength inside of you both but you still have to tap into it some more." Bloom said smiling kindly at the freshmen who stared at her for a moment and seemed to think about protesting before they nodded and slowly left with Musa and Tecna.

"I can understand why you sent the girls out but why your two friends?" Mavilla asked raising an eyebrow at this action and making Bloom shrug her shoulders a bit.

"Like I said, they both are incredibly strong…or will be at any rate. They just need to draw out their potential a little more. Musa and Tecna are just there to make sure that none of the other students get any funny ideas or that the girls don't try to eavesdrop. With Musa's sensitive ears she'll be able to hear everything we're saying and will pass it along to Tecna via a special code in our group." Bloom said easily and making Mavilla nod slowly. She could see the benefit in that, with how easily all of the group aside from the two newest members had withstood her magical pressure and then only need to exert a little bit when Bloom unleashed her own…yes they were very strong. It was best to keep some with the two youngest members of the group.

"So what time are you from and why are you here?" Mavilla questioned as she stared down the girls, careful not to exert her pressure like she sometimes did with stubborn students. She wouldn't want to set off the red head again.

"Over a hundred years in the future and because there's a danger in our time aimed at the Fairy Animals…and probably the whole universe. Someone stole the last Digimole in existence in our time and wanted to obtain what we believe is some kind of ultimate power from it, or the secret of how to get it. Our headmistress sent us seven back in time to save the Digimoles and figure out how to get to the Ultimate Power first so we can protect it." Bloom said easily and deliberately leaving out who exactly their headmistress was.

"Girls…go join the others. There's something I want to talk with Headmistress Mavilla about." Bloom ordered her friends who gave her confused looks but nodded and filed out of the room.

"Alright…want to tell me why you seem so much harder on the Squirt than the other girls? After all someone set off that Rabcon on purpose and yet you acted as if it had been done by the Digimole." Bloom asked throwing up a silencing barrier around the room and making Mavilla wince.

"I'm hoping I can draw out her power and potential and she can prove…can prove that what my animals said was right." Mavilla said looking away and petting the top of one tiger's head. Bloom looked at the animals for a second before looking back at Mavilla.

"Unlike Roxy I can't speak the language of all animals, only dragons and those descended from them. Mind explaining why you're constantly shattering her self esteem and making her feel as if she's lower than dirt? I know it must be something big. I have slight empathy so I can sense how panicked you were when she was nearly killed and your worry when she was abducted by the Rabcon." Bloom asked looking at Mavilla with her arms crossed and making Mavilla sigh as she reached into a desk drawer and pulled out a picture frame, staring at it sadly.

"She's my daughter…and…she doesn't remember. Her father took her from me when she was barely six years old…she might have faint memories of me but nothing else and if it ever got out…if any of my enemies ever learned about her…" Mavilla trailed off for a moment earning a surprised look but understanding nod from the red head.

"They'd go after her, especially if she couldn't protect herself. You're pushing her so hard so she'll get better and be able to protect herself if the truth ever came to light." Bloom said making Mavilla nod. Yes that was her plan. Have Faragonda grow strong enough to protect herself from any of Mavilla's enemies that would use her or attack her just to get to Mavilla…and then…then maybe she could tell her daughter the truth without fear.

"…My birth planet was attacked and destroyed when I was roughly only a year old. My elder sister sent me through a portal to take me to safety because the attackers were after my power. I ended up on a planet whose magical users went into hiding or were sealed for their own protection aside from one who is only half fairy, and another who was under a strong protection spell. I was found by a nice couple and adopted. They treated and raised me as if I was their own daughter and I have always considered them my parents…even after they finally told me I was adopted." Bloom began making Mavilla look at her confused for where this story was going.

"My adoptive parents are non-magical…however I was out in the woods one day with my pet bunny when I ran into Stella being attacked by an ogre when she was mid-transport to Alfea for her repeated first year, she blew up a lab by accident you see and had to repeat the year. It was only when I was trying to help Stella that I unlocked my powers and learned that I was a fairy…my parents didn't mind. They allowed me to go to Alfea and supported me in what I did like they always have. Then…during spring break…they told me that they had adopted me. It…well it was probably the worst time they could have told me." Bloom said smiling sadly as her eyes became distant, looking out the window behind the desk at the very familiar but also very different sight.

"I had been repeatedly attacked by three cruel senior witches, the descendants of the ones that destroyed my birth planet and forced all of it's inhabitants, except for my sister who was cursed as a nymph at the time, and myself who had been sent away just in time, into a state of frozen animation you could say. They were locked away frozen in place, never aging, never dying but also never living and noticing that time had passed. I had also just got done stopping my adoptive mom's flower shop from being burnt down by two jealous and cruel men." Bloom said making Mavilla's eyes widen slightly.

"I had been so stressed and under so much pressure and then…then they admitted that I was adopted and that…they found me in a burning building. Hearing that…especially when I did…it made me wonder why I was in the building. Did my birth family not care about me? Did they leave me to die? For a long time I both despised and wanted to get to know my birth parents because I wanted to know…why did they leave me to die? I didn't know I couldn't die by fire at the time…the only one I didn't despise slightly was my sister because…she had saved me and had continued to do so over the years. She was always watching over me." Bloom gave a small smile as she thought about her elder sister who was quite protective of the red head, not that Bloom could blame her.

"The point is…there will never be a good way to tell her something like that. There will never be a good time to tell her that you couldn't raise because of her father or because of your enemies. You…you just have to tell her in a way that won't cause so much damage to yourself or her…and you have to tell her not because she'll be strong enough to fight off your enemies…but you have to tell her because she'll be smart enough to know why you didn't tell her earlier." Bloom said making Mavilla look down at the picture of her and Faragonda smiling at the camera widely, Mavilla holding her daughter close as the six year old grinned and showed a missing front tooth.

"You have to be the one to tell her…and it will have to be soon. If you wait too long…she'll think that you never wanted her. She could think that she wasn't strong enough, or smart enough, or good enough for you to stay with her. I don't want that to happen to her. Trust me…I know how it feels to wonder if I wasn't good enough for my parents, both sets of them, and I don't want anyone else to go through that." Bloom said placing a hand on Mavilla's shoulder before she backed away to the door and looked at the woman sternly.

"She may be your daughter…but she's also under my protection and…something like this…if you keep it from her…it's not good. She'll find out one way or the other. The only question is that will you be seen as the victim or the criminal in her eyes?" Bloom said softly but sternly as Mavilla sat heavily in her desk chair, just staring at the picture and thinking about the red heads words.

Especially Bloom's last words before she unsilenced the room and stepped out into the hallway where the others were waiting mostly patiently.

"If you don't tell her before I have to leave back to my time…I will. Because she deserves to know the truth.