Random Winx Idea
By: FunahoMisaki
(A/N: I own nothing and this just popped into my head at random…don't ask me why. AU OOC Bashing and femslash all possible and likely.)
"Bloom you're in this too?" Flora asked surprised that the red head was in the Miss Magix competition as well as Stella, although she hadn't skipped classes to try and prepare for it.
"Yeah I was bored and figured it would be a good way to kill time at least for a little while." Bloom said with a shrug while she slipped on the pink shirt and shorts that the committee people had given her. She was out on the stage walking behind the others giving a soft smile and shy wave when the announcer called her name as Number 16, causing Stella's head to whip around towards her.
The blond hadn't known that her best friend was entering the contest too.
The audience definitely seemed to let out a few whistles when Bloom came out, stumbling slightly in the heels, which made the red head blush and give a sheepish grin.
Soon it was time for the contestants to head backstage where Stella confronted Bloom.
"Bloom how could you? Did you see the way they reacted to you? I'll never win." Stella said torn between moping and angry.
"Stella you'll do fine, I'm just entering because I'm bored. Besides it's just a game." Bloom said trying to calm her friend down while the talent portion was beginning, and the Winx could only watch with winces of sympathy as the other contestants began having strange 'accidents' happen.
"Is it wrong that I'd be laughing with the witches if I wasn't in the contest?" Bloom wondered aloud as she glanced at the Trix who were laughing uproariously in their seats.
"Bloom." The rest of her friends said giving her stern looks while Stella avoided the 'accidents' and 'obstacles' that seemed to show up as she did a Solaria Cowgirl dance.
"Just saying." Bloom said shrugging as Stella seemed to speak in a different language, before being ushered backstage while Bloom was called.
"Now we have contestant number 16, Miss Bloom! She will be singing us a song from her home planet." The announcer said grandly causing Bloom to walk out onto the stage in a metallic grey and shimmery blue dress that had the skirt around her hips flared out almost as if like a tutu. Unlike the other girls, Bloom didn't have a trace of makeup on nor any heels as she walked out onto the stage and gave a small smile to the crowd, waving shyly at Ms. Faragonda and Ms. Griselda who were in the front row clapping politely.
Bloom felt as if something were trying to block her throat but it wore off in a few seconds so she considered it to be nerves. Taking a deep breath she just closed her eyes and opened her mouth.
"It seems like a life time ago. That I saw the gold sun shine glow." The entire room fell silent as Bloom began to sing, the song being the only one that she remembered right off hand. The one that spoke to her more than most songs did.
"No it doesn't reach down below. Shadows become the light, here where the monsters hide. Normal is just a dream, for all the ghosts like me! I hate my metal bones, my bones and gears creak in my chest." Here Bloom put her hands on her chest without opening her eyes.
"My chest forever cold, a cold and maddening descent. Descending down so far, fall farther till there's nothing left. I'm left here in the dark, the dark. I dance to forget." Bloom wouldn't know it but the lights cut out right then and if she hadn't given a ballerina twirl one of the lights would have fallen and hit her.
Bloom paused for a moment as she began to dance in a ballerina fashion, going slow and steady to match the song and now dropping her arms down to her waist so that they spun as she did.
"This is my penitentiary. Fractured apart from the world where I want to be. Lock the door, throw away the key. And let my dance resume, down in a pitch black room." Bloom didn't know it but another light cut out leaving just a few of them that were trying to focus on her, making her metallic dress seem to glitter and glisten in the lighting as she spun around slowly. She occasionally rose to her tip toes but then dropped back down again and spun.
"Normal is just a dream, for all the ghosts like me. I hate my metal bones, my bones and gears creak in my chest. My chest forever cold, a cold and maddening descent. Descending down so far, fall farther till there's nothing left. I'm left here in the dark, the dark. I dance to forget. I dance to forget." Here Bloom opened her eyes showing that they were sad but understanding. As if there was something sad or wrong but she understood that she couldn't change it.
"I dance to forget. Come now dance with me, as the song plays. Down, down dance with me, stuck on replay." Here Bloom held out one hand palm up as if asking them to come and dance with her, and a few even stood and moved as if to take her hand.
"Come now dance with me, as the song plays. Down, down dance with me. Stuck on replay…" Bloom's voice trailed off and there were several horrified gasps, and even a few screams, when a spell crashed into Blooms chest but the red head didn't look bothered.
What had caused everyone to scream, was the fact that her chest burst open, ripping her dress in the process, to show that it was made of metal.
Everyone was horrified especially at the fact that they could see her heart beating from within the metal casing while her lungs pumped out air and it even looked like there were some arteries and veins made out of metal. Several people made a move as if to get up there and help Bloom but she just stared down at her chest sadly and then looked back up just as sadly with a soft smile on her face and tears in her eyes that froze everyone to their seats.
"I hate my metal bones. My bones and gears creak in my chest." Bloom placed a hand to the gears and other gadgets within her chest that were indeed creaking and whirring.
"My chest forever cold, a cold and maddening descent." Here Bloom gently closed the metal casing of her chest, showing the false skin on her torso that had a rip down the center of it now and the fact that she had no breasts.
"Desending down so far, fall farther till there's nothing left. I'm left here in the dark, the dark. I dance to forget. I-I dance to forget." Bloom slowly finished the song as she tried to cover her ripped torso with one arm.
"So much for being a gentleman. Can't even give your jacket to help preserve a girls modesty. Here Miss Bloom." Griselda was immediately on stage wrapping a jacket around the front of her student to hide her chest from view, glaring at the wide eyed and pale host of the competition as she did so.
"Thanks Ms. Griselda." Bloom said smiling thankfully up at her teacher and adjusting the jacket a bit so that it covered everything.
"Do you mind telling us how that happened Miss Bloom?" The host recovered fast as he stared at the red head, pretending to look at his clipboard to hide his embarrassment.
"When I was little I was in a bad accident. My home planet, Earth, doesn't have magic anymore so the only way for them to save my life was an experimental procedure. The gears and other things in my chest cavity help keep my heart and lungs going while keeping what little shrapnel the doctors couldn't remove from killing me. There were sixty others who went through this procedure as well…I was the only one who lasted the year it took for the body to adapt to the changes." Bloom said shaking her head sadly and then turning away.
"If it's all the same to you I think I've had enough of this competition since the people running it obviously couldn't be bothered to set up a basic protection spell around the stage to ensure that the contestants would be safe." Bloom said walking back stage with Griselda walking with her, a sad look on her normally stern face and an arm wrapped around the younger girls shoulders.
Turning back to the audience, the host of the show gulped at all the sad looks or glares that were on the faces of the crowd.
Faragonda in particular looked furious at the lax security.
No one put her girls in danger and got away with it.
No one.