Chapter 5: Bloom

Carla sat in her dark living room watching Winx Club season 4 reruns. She didn't much care for season 4, in fact, it seemed her favorite seasons were always the odd numbers. Seasons 1, 3, and 5 were definitely the best. But season 4 episode 6 was what currently happened to be on TV, and she wasn't paying much attention anyway. She was too busy thinking about what happened at school. First Musa made an appearance, then Flora. Carla had no memory of any of this. It didn't make any sense.

As the watched the girls earn their Believix powers, a thought crossed her mind. Could Lae have been right? Could the reason Carla didn't remember the encounters be because she herself had cause them? Maybe it was possible. As ridiculous as it sounded, perhaps Carla really could transform into Winx characters.

She stared down at the TV set straight into Bloom's eyes. She stood up confidently in her grey T-shirt, blue sweat pants, and black socks. If she believed she could do it, then maybe she would. Roxy didn't want to believe in fairies at first, but when she did, a whole new world was opened to her and the Winx as well, as believix emerged.

"Believix!" Carla cried out. Her body floated as she started to glow. Gone was boring old powerless Carla, and here was Believix-level Bloom. She was amazed as she not only had all of Bloom's memories and personality traits, but her own as well. She looked in the mirror. Definitely Bloom, not Carla. But why could she remember this time and not the others?

"Now, do the wings actually work?" she asked herself. She walked out her front door and tried to flutter Bloom's wings. To her surprise, she actually rose off the ground. She giggled as she flew higher and higher. "This is amazing!" she proclaimed as she soared through the air.

Now this got her to wondering if she could use Bloom's powers as well. She already had Bloom's looks, personality, memories, and wings. She was almost every piece of Bloom. But she also access the Dragon Flame? It seemed too good to be true. And yet, as she held out her hands and focused the energy, flames shot out.

She continued like this for a while, hoping it would never end. This was literally her dream come true. She went all over town. Little girls who were Winx fans waved at her, and she waved back, smiling the whole time. She made her way over to Lae's house to show him. She was almost there when the transformation kind of started to blink out. She could feel Bloom's powers and memories fading; and her appearance wavered between Bloom and Carla before finally stopping at Carla.

Unfortunately, she was still up in the air when this happened. Not high enough to die or be greatly injured, but high enough to crash land face-first into Lae's backyard. Lae rushed outside when he saw her fall. "Carla! Are you ok?!"

"I was flying!" Carla exclaimed. She stood back up as if she hadn't just fallen out of the sky. "I was using the Dragon Flame! Did ya see?"

Lae chuckled. "Screams at a paper cut, but falls out of the sky like it's nothing," he joked. "I'm glad you finally believe in yourself. I bet that's why you remember being a Winx girl this time; because you know that you can. Which one were you this time?"

"Bloom, duh!" Carla said as if it was the most obvious fact in the world and you would have to be stupid not to know it. "I said I was using the Dragon Flame! What other Winx girl uses the Dragon Flame?!"

Lae couldn't stop smiling at her. They'd known each other for such a long time, and he'd never seen her this happy or energetic before. It felt so good to finally see this side of her. He couldn't wait to see what else life had in store for her with this strange new power.

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