Sick Bloom!
By: FunahoMisaki
(A/N: I own nothing and read last chapter.)
"Bloom…is dying."
There was a moment of heavy silence in the air before Stella was the one who broke it incredulously.
"This is a joke right?! Payback for lying to get her into the school right?! She only has some harsh flu or cold…right?" Stella asked looking around almost desperately as if someone would shout 'NOT' all of a sudden.
"Ms. Stella." Faragonda said her eyes looking at the blond in understanding and yet sternness. She understood the girls desperate want for this to be a joke but none of the teachers, especially Griselda would ever joke about a student dying.
"There's no way Bloom is dying! She's too stubborn to die! This is just some kind of sick payback joke isn't it?!" Stella exclaimed her eyes filling with tears as she looked around with a desperate glare. Bloom was her best friend! There was no way the stubborn red head would die thanks to some stupid disease.
"Stop shouting…I'm not dead and I'm not gonna die." Bloom groaned sitting up weakly and giving Stella a small glare for waking her up while many jumped, the girl should be out like a sleeping troll! However here the girl was sitting up and leaning on Griselda for support while coughing slightly into her hand.
"Jeez…You of all people Stella should know that I wouldn't die that easily. If I go six feet down I go down fighting not coughing." Bloom said coughing slightly and fixing Stella with a playful glare as a little bit of blood dribbled down her chin.
"Do you need me to go get you a tree branch?" Stella asked calming down slightly at the sight of her friend awake and seemingly alright. The other three teens didn't know why or what it was about but apparently anytime Bloom mentioned fighting Stella had to say something about her getting a tree branch.
"With how I'm feeling right now Stel you need to get me the whole friggin forest." Bloom said with a groan and another cough as she forced herself to sit up without assistance although Griselda was immediately supporting the red heads back with her hand.
"You know I'm wondering why every time Bloom says something about fighting you make a remark about a tree branch." Tecna said looking at Stella and Bloom in curiosity while Musa and Flora nodded in agreement.
"It has to do with the first time we met." Bloom began but was cut off by coughing harshly into her hand again while DuFour and Griselda were immediately fussing over her.
"I got the explanation Bloom. You see when me and Bloom first met I was being attacked by several gremlins and an ogre on Earth in a park. Bloom and Kiko apparently came across me by accident and one of the gremlins tried to attack Kiko, since Bloom didn't know how to fire magical blasts by now she smacked the gremlin right across the head with a tree branch and sent it flying across the clearing!" Stella said making a motion with her hands as if she were swinging a bat when she mentioned hitting the gremlin.
"I was a frickin slugger. I had a homerun a game. That gremlin was lucky I didn't have a baseball bat." Bloom said grinning widely and showing a bit of blood on her teeth as she was on the receiving end of several incredulous looks from the teachers and her friends.
"Slugger?" Flora asked confused but surprisingly it was Griselda who answered her.
"It's a position on two earth games at least called baseball and softball." Griselda said causing everyone to look at her but the teachers who all 'ohh'ed in understanding at this.
"How'd you know about Earth games?" Stella asked curiously while Griselda had the grace to look slightly sheepish.
"I was raised on Earth myself. My dad died before I was born and my mom was on Earth as a get-a-way from all the pity she was receiving when I was born, but she died in labor so I was raised on Earth until Ms. Faragonda found me when my magic acted up for the first time. I played a few Earth sports myself; my main position was pitcher though." Griselda said causing the students to give her surprised expressions before the mood was ruined by Bloom harshly coughing again, coughing up a glob of blood onto her hands.
"Lay back down this instant! You are placing unneeded strain on your chest and especially your lungs young lady!" Griselda said gently but firmly pushing Bloom back down onto the bed.
"What is it that Bloom has? There's a cure for everything so there has to be a cure for whatever she's sick with!" Musa asked perking up at the thought of a cure while Ophelia and Griselda exchanged nervous looks.
"Yes there is a cure for everything but…there is only one cure for this." Ophelia said slowly an almost reluctantly while Griselda merely sighed and finished the explanation.
"The only reason we know about this cure however is because this same disease hit a girl during my freshmen year at Alfea. It is heavily guarded but by what exactly we don't know…the two who do know never said and are no longer around for us to ask. The only thing we know is that it is in an un-inhabited part of Lenphea." Griselda said sighing and running a hand through her short brown hair as she looked at the four teens standing there looking ready to leave any moment to help their friend no matter where it is they went.
"Who was the last person to get sick then? The one where you were in school? Maybe they can watch after Bloom while we go get the cure!" Stella asked brightening up the whole room as her sun powers activated subconsciously when she smiled at the idea.
"That is plausible. Since the woman must have already survived the disease then her immunity has upgraded so that she would no longer be affected by it, thus making her the best bet to look after and take care of Bloom while the four of us go get the cure." Tecna said looking at it from the most logical point of view by using the immunity system to her advantage.
"You four are the best bet to get the cure…but you will be taking a teacher with you just in case you run into trouble." Faragonda said sighing and giving the four of them a stern look while Bloom seemed to have gone back to sleep again since her eyes were closed and she hadn't said anything for a little while. Musa was about to ask who would go with them when DuFour immediately stated she would since her powers were the most versatile on a planet based off of plant life. Flora was about to worriedly ask who would look after Bloom when Griselda beat her too it with her next words.
"As for watching after Ms. Bloom…I'll be happy to do it girls."