So for those from the polls on both pairings and world so apologies for not responding earlier about that due to how social life has been busy and things have happened a lot lately in the few weeks, a lot people wanted to pick a final fantasy world and My Hero Academia, so think for the next world, I might pick a FF from a movie in mind for ideas. And those who wanted to keep Layla/Aisha to remain paired with Nabu, I will honor it, as I thought it would make some interesting ideas with her paired with Taren but the reviews have spoken. FF XV kingsglaive might be possible or an omen theme plot inspiration, but still debatable. Any other worlds and adventures you suggest leave some in the reviews or inbox.

also I'm gonna do some work on ideas to illustrate some scenes and the characters for this story sometime as I thought to do that.

Chapter 85: Spy in the shadows

Even in the lab to conduct research on the artifacts, both surrounded by an energy shield, both the Sword of Fiery Cataclysm and the Cloak of Dark Illusions, they were placed in a highly secured vault after successfully retrieved the two, now with the Heart of Light found and be added with the two. With the Shield of United and Helmet of Ultimate Technology yet to be retrieved, they still have yet to find a way to get them back if they are in Darkar's lair, at least hopefully, and do so before they can somehow summon the Kaiju Monarchs themselves. The keyblade masters also share this concerning thought and with the Trix and Darker now having two fragments of the Codex, they must remain vigilant as they can.

"Hey, Even, just got the latest delivery for ya." Even turns to see Roxas and Xion walking in with the Heart of Light. "Just had this delivered by the kids from their missions, making just about three we have."

"That's excellent news." Ienzo comes in to see them. "Although, if only we had all five, it seems our new foes are becoming more cunning and bolder than we expect." Reaches his hand to take the Heart from them and gently places it in a secured case, activating a shield to prevent anyone from touching it. "Until we can find a safer way to contact these monarchs, these artifacts will have to remain here."

"And the other two are now in the wrong hands to remind everyone." Xion brings up the subject. "Much as we know that these Trix are descendants of these ancient old hags and want power, why do I feel like something big is about to happen? This happened before when we dealt with Xehanort and Maleficent."

"Yes, I agree with Xion, considering we all have been through such." Even recalls of such unfavorable memories when they were manipulated. Being made into beings without hearts for a man who craved power. "If such a thing were to occur, we must not let history repeat itself."

"And this time, we'll be prepared this time." Roxas was certain of it. "At least they're not after Kingdom Hearts."

"Roxas, you don't wanna jinx it." Xion did not want to tempt fate.

"I should heed her advice." Ienzo tells him and then continues. "We're not just facing the Trix, we're facing a powerful being according to Fargonda, this Darkar is not to be underestimated. But also another factor is we also have an escaped mad god on the loose and a psychopath who we just learned was in fact a god a long time ago but still dangerous."

"Not to mention there's two remaining pieces of this codex left." Roxas mentions. "Which is why the masters and the schools' head teachers from Magix are doing all they can to help the kids with their training, and we need to be ready as well."

Roxas had seen and heard stories of how the new generation of keywielders, including their friends, both the Winx Club and the Specialists since the battle against the Grimm have been training with each other. It impressed the masters as well with how they achieved so much. Memories of when they were at that age and being thrown into such chaotic and unexpected moments of their lives, some good memories, and not-so-wonderful moments. Especially after the Keyblade War when Sora risked his life to save Kairi, using a forbidden task that almost resulted in never seeing him again.

'I can only hope we don't go through such hard times as before.' Roxas took a moment of thought. Then asked about their well-being. "So, what's the current state of the kids, I'm sure the Winx Club will be heading back to Alfea."

"Yeah, figured after they came back from their missions it would allow them some time for a break and relax, they have been through a lot lately." Xion told him. "I mean, they need some time to relax once in a while. Especially for Taren to see his folks, Kairi does feel nervous when her son hasn't spoken back a while." Not that anyone could blame her after the day Taren was whisked away just like how his father did at his age.

"Maybe we should give them some once this is over, and also find some way to help Taren and Bloom to unlock more about their dragonflame magic, he needs to find out to use it more so we don't need to rely on Bloom a lot or if she loses it again." Roxas suggested an idea to be prepared.

"It would also provide us means to gather data on the two of how their flames differed since the dragon gave its magic to their ancestors." Even had been curious as did Ansem also to study this ancient magic and how it works. Yet, they had not been able to use the spare time to conduct research into it, they were understanding of how powerful it was to have petrified the Grimm by Taren, but only once when his friends were in danger and doubt anyone would want to try that.

"Yeah, but can't do much with this Professor Avalon present, Yen Sid feels we should keep him out of the loop about Taren." Roxas says. It was also advisable to keep this an absolute secrecy from anyone until they earned that trust, while the head teachers had offered to allow Taren to be trained by Avalon along with Bloom, yet Yen Sid did not wish to take such a risk for the new professor to know, however, he remained skeptical of this professor when despite being a powerful warrior did not participate with them, not even been present to face off Darkar's monsters, the Trix, or their allies.

Even Taren thought so when he brought up the incident when most of the Winx, minus Flora, assumed Avalon was a monster and got their assumptions from folklore, but that did not mean something wasn't quite right about him. The masters were advised to observe him closely without raising suspicions.

There's no telling what may happen next.

"Man, I'll be glad to head back to Red Fountain." Brandon stretches himself and takes in the nice weather in Radiant Garden while walking through the streets for the break before heading back to Magix. Despite the successful mission, they had to make their way back with no telling when the Trix, Darker or Kefka would make their next move and to protect the remaining codex pieces. Having an idea to set up a date with his girlfriend to make it romantic, or go on a ride with his Windrider. "Hey, maybe when we get a break, we should ask the others to hang out, I got some ideas for a date with Stella. What do you think, Sky?" He didn't get a response from the prince and looked over to see him. "Sky?"

Sky didn't seem to pay attention and was strangely fixated on his phone until Brandon called his name the second time. "Huh? Oh, y-yeah, that sounds great."

The Specialists didn't know what was up with Sky, he seemed strangely quiet and not paying attention to their conversation since they landed on Gaia.

"Hey, Sky, you okay? You seem a little distracted on your phone." Brandon asked him. "Is it a call from your parents?

The blonde scratches the back of his head, looking more nervous as he was earlier. "Uh, not exactly, just… something I was little." Trying to discreetly keep his phone from the squire seeing the screen. "Just a text to someone to respond."

Timmy was behind him and saw what was on the text with his glasses adjusted to see the name of the person texting him. "Who's Estrid?"

Sky almost jumped by surprise to find Timmy behind him, but also to reveal the name from his phone. "Timmy!"

"Estrid? As in… no way!" Brandon remembered that name and only one person he knew with that name. A smirk formed on his face and was more eager to see it. "Okay, bro, time to spill it!" Taking the phone from the prince's grasp before he could respond and saw the text despite Sky's protest.

"Hey! Brandon, give that back!"

Brandon dodges him and reads what it says. "Estrid's number? Sky, are you asking her on a… date?"

They could see the bright redness on Sky's cheeks, which meant the answer was written on his face. Riven didn't think it was possible but it clearly was. "Alright, your highness. Who is she?"

"Just a friend." Sky's answer didn't seem convincing with Brandon's smirk.

"Oh, yeah, friend. And one who you seem too nervous to speak to, yet she offered you her number." The Squire teased the prince, earning a mild glare from Sky. Having remembered how shy he was speaking to her during the trip to Auradon on Ben's coronation.

"Brandon."

"Wait, isn't she the one who helped us deal with those prisoners from the Isle?" Timmy seems to recall meeting her at the Coronation.

"That's here." Brandon said and turned to Sky. "Hey, what's the problem? She's the opposite of Diaspro and you should totally ask her out."

"Even if I did, she'd probably just wanted to hang out. That's all, I mean, she's cute and… hav eno idea what could happen." Sky did have to admit he couldn't get Estrid out of his mind, she was actually beautiful, smart and kind. While the engagement with Princess Diaspro is still in question unless an alternative with the kingdom can be found, it wasn't like if something between them would work and he was still to marry Diaspro, she might not like the idea of being a concubine and neither would he. Sky didn't have any affection for Diaspro and thought of her as someone who could be better with someone else. Even so, would need both his parents' approval to allow him to date whoever he wishes.

Brandon placed a comforting hand on Sky's shoulder with a smile. "Hey, no worries, a lot of us went through these things. Take me for example, Stella's a princess and she's still dating me, and I still love her for who she is. Even Riven has hots for Musa, but can't show it."

"Hey! Mind your own business, Brandon." Riven didn't want to be dragged into this about his conflicting feelings for Musa.

"Yeah, and you still haven't asked her out." Brandon shot back. "Ben's a prince, now king and dating Mal. And Taren's in a relationship with two girls and some think he might try to form a harem." Knowing how Taren would try to deny this.

"Well, even if she were to agree to go out with me, what if I mess up? Or how she feels nervous being with a prince?" Sky was trying to picture how it would work out.

"At least you got something, I'm trying to find a way to ask Tecna out. But I… well, sort of felt nervous and thought after that battle with Kefka she must think I was a coward." Ever since after that, Timmy had seen Tecna barely look him in the eye, he thought she was worried when she cried for him, but now feels like he did something wrong and wanted to make up for it.

"I thought you two were an item, you both like gadgets, a pair of geniuses and you had a big crush on her." Riven was able to see how it was. But then I thought of something. "I remember back at the dance you were such a goof and thought you would have no chance with the ladies."

Timmy gave a mild glare at Riven and crossed his arms. "For your information, I did in fact dance with Tecna."

"Oh, yeah I remember." Sky seems to remember. "But anyway, we got important things to do and need to be ready for the trip back." Decided to make his way to the Ebon Hawk and get some break, leaving his friends behind to their own thoughts.

"You got that look on your face, Brandon." Riven noticed how the Squire was grinning.

"Just thought maybe to help our prince and maybe get some help." BRandon turned to Timmy as they decided to follow Sky back to the ship. "But Timmy, you never told us how you first met Tecna if it wasn't when we helped the Winx club chase the Troll."

Timmy's face began to go red and let out a nervous cough. "Uh, well, that's… something that happened… unexpected. Let's say we sort of… bumped into each other."

With another day in Alfea, everything seemed just as normal. Only for Bloom to be training with Avalon supervising over her development since her adventures of finding Atlantis. Bloom wanted to improve her skills and get stronger to be ready for when Darkar makes his next move. However, the fairy of the Dragon flame hardly feels strong at all and has no connection to her Dragon flame. Bloom would have thought to train with Taren to get some pointers, yet found Avalon who offered to see how she had improved. He explained that not being able to go was to oversee the welfare of the students and assured them that they would be fine since they had done this sort of thing before his arrival..

Bloom was in her Winx form and used a fire blast to shatter a large rock to pieces. Taking another shot at one of the rockets and continues to focus on her magic to make stronger attacks.

Avalon had been observing her skills during the training and couldn't help but ask her a question that's been on his mind. "Bloom, why are you training so hard?"

Flying down from the sky, Bloom answers. "I find it rather strange that it's been so long since we've been attacked by Darkar, or even Kefka or the Trix for that matter."

He had to admit that she made a good point as its been days since they had seen the villains. "It's been quiet, hasn't it?"

"A little too quiet." Bloom finds it uncomfortable, with her experience with the Trix, it can never be a good sign. Her body glowed in an orange aura and created a ball from her hand. "It feels like the calm before the storm!"

She once again blasts another rock, but doesn't seem good enough to try another attack. "Triple Blast!" Takes flight in the air and fires three fireballs to the largest one present, however it didn't break like the others, only to leave scorch marks on the surface.

"What happened?" Avalon pondered as if something was wrong.

"I have no idea. Since Darkar appeared, my powers have been weakening gradually." Bloom sighs. Maybe the professor could help her. "There's something about him. What should I do?"

"I'd say the first thing you should do is take a break from all this training." He advised her to go easy on herself.

"But I can't even blast a boulder. How am I supposed to stop the Trix? Or even Kefka?" Feeling depressed and feeling like she was vulnerable, if she were to face either of them it would not end well for her.:"Sooner or later they're bound to find the Secret Archive."

"Don't worry about that, the Secret Archive is said to be impossible to find." Avalon assured her to raise her hopes.

Bloom then started to cry as tears ran down from her ears. "But that's not true professor. I know where it is, I found it by accident. I've had to keep the secret, it's been so hard." Remembering how she found the secret room by accident on the first day after Alfea's rebuilt, she promised to Faragonda to keep it a secret from anyone finding it for security reasons. Now telling the professor as she felt he can be trusted.

Avalon catches her as she hugs him for comfort, he returns the favour and strokes her hair to calm her down. "Bloom, you must be strong. You've got to promise you'll never tell anyone where the archive is, not even to me, okay?"

"Uh-huh." Understanding what he was saying, even if Bloom can't tell her best friends and the boy she loves. Maybe until the crisis is over or given permission for emergencies one day.

"Of course I want to go out with Timmy, its just with so much going on, we can't find the time to set up a date. It's perfectly logical." Tecna walked alongside Flora back to school and gave her reasons for unable to go out with Timmy.

"At least you finally decided to give it a chance." Flora said

"I would have earlier been mad at him for not stopping the Trix, but when he was up against Kefka… that… was different." Tecna replied. "Yet still, he should have told me about how he felt."

Flora gave a teasing grin at her. "Are you sure it's not just 'cause he's a little shy? That's how I felt when I was around Taren until Bloom and I had a talk to tell him."

Tecna could not deny that Flora was right about that and yet her relationship is different to Tecna's. "Well I suppose it would be a logical reason." Thinking it over. "Maybe I should perhaps find a way to talk to him about this."

Flora was happy to ear about that. "Good, anyway, I'm gonna be ready for a date tonight, Taren is taking me and Bloom out to spend some time together. At this cafe Bloom has been working at for awhile." She recalled how Bloom was looking for a job to earn money after she couldn't afford a dress for the gala back then, she found an opening for a cafe called the White Horse and became a waitress.

"At least you know how to handle some situations." Tecna makes her leave to do some studying in the library. "But if he wasn't present, you could always go with Bloom."

"Bloom? Well, yes I suppose we could hang out together." Flora assumed it would be a nice idea. "She could use a friend to help her out, besides Stella to drag her around for shopping."

"Yeah, without a doubt, but aren't you… and she…" Tecna gave a question until realised what she assumed, her cheeks flushed and felt embarrassed to almost mention it. "You know what, forget what I said! I may have just been overthinking it. Gotta go, see ya!"

Leaving Flora alone to get ready, however, she wanted to maybe ask Mirta on something and was starting to become aware of her growing affections for Taren. It was an obvious fact when she saw the signs and said nothing, but thought to maybe talk to her about it and maybe also talk to Bloom as well before doing anything since she's part of this relationship.

And speaking of relationships, what Tecna was babbling about made her curious. 'I wonder what she meant by that just earlier? Almost assuming that Bloom and I were…' Then, her brain clicked and figured out what it was. Frozen in shock, her eyes widened and her face turned bright red as a tomato. She never actually even thought of anything like that, nor even thought of stuff like that. Sure they grew close and had no arguments, and even took turns dating Taren. But then again, there were some parts of her that felt things she never thought about, or maybe even further reasons for an open relationship.

The brunette shakes her head, trying to brush that thought aside and head back to her dorm. 'No, it couldn't possibly be that. I mean, we're just two good friends and got along well. And besides, so much has been going on and sometimes easily overthink it.' She wouldn't think of it and doubt Bloom ever thought of it that way.

Right?

Avalon and Bloom made their way back to the school gate after her training. He even gave some points from what he's learned so far on her current state. Lockette found them and followed behind the two as they talked. "You're weakened by the power of the phoenix because your dragon power is its opposite."

"That's what worries me." Bloom wondered what she could do about it.

"Perhaps if you rekindle your link to the Dragon Fire, you could restore the balance with Darkar's power." Giving his suggestion of what could possibly work to help her.

"You really think I could?" Feeling her confidence building up.

"The answer lies in your distant past. Although seeking it out could be a bit tricky." He could only give her the answer to learn about her ancestral heritage to be the key to unlock her power.

Lockette had a sudden thought that something bad could happen to her bonded fairy. "Oh no! What if something terrible were to happen?

"That's unlikely. But that's a choice Bloom will have to make for herself." Avalon told the pixie.

Bloom thought of it, recalling how Taren was able to connect with his ancestors who were made as keepers of the other half of the dragonflame. Maybe she can try something like he did to help them. "If I succeed, professor, would my powers help us against Darkar and his spies?"

He was very certain of it and nodded with a confident smile. "Of that I am convinced."

Feeling more confident, Bloom reached out for Lockette to hold in her hands and smiled warmly. "I'll see you when I get back, sweetie." Giving the pixie a peck on the forehead and let her fly off. "Now don't worry, okay?"

"Be careful!" The pixie was still worried for her. Hoping Bloom knows what she is doing.

Both the professor and student were in his living quarters to conduct the try out, Bloom sat on a chair as she was eager to get started to find the answer she had been looking for.

"I'm ready for anything, Professor. Let's do this!" Feeling more confident to unlock the powers to help her friends.

Avalon approved of her positive aura well. "That's the spirit, Bloom. I'm sure you'll be fine but as we both know any magical journey can have unexpected results." Casually walked to the door and opened it, and to Bloom's surprise was Stella, Musa and Flora who fell to the floor, even two of their bonded pixies beside Musa's were present. Smiling nervously when they got caught.

"Even the unexpected can come in many surprises. Like a shadow watching us?" Avalon's gaze lingered to a corner, which caused a shadow to expand and came out of it was Mal, along with her partner, Palmon.

Everyone, except the professor, were more surprised that she would actually spy on them. Mal looked around, trying to pull an innocent look. "Whoops! I must have… uh, went to the wrong room. I thought this was the bathroom." However, this didn't seem to work on them, so she went with the usual idea. "It was Taren's idea!"

Palmon nodded and pointed one of her claws behind Mal. "He's hiding in there eavesdropping to know what you were doing!"

"Traitors!" It was proven fact how he exposed himself. "... Crap!"

"We can hear you in there, so come out." Mal reached her arm in and yanked out the sheepishly looking male redhead who was caught, trying to give a nervous smile. "Uh, hey, Bloom… fancy seeing you here."

Bloom folded her arms and tapped her foot with a coy smile on her face with how her friends and boyfriend were no doubt trying to see what she was learning.

While Avalon found this amusing, he had important things to do by helping Bloom without any further disruptions. "Everyone, can I ask you to wait outside? This spell will require my total concentration."

The Winx girls giggled nervously after being caught, while Mal and Taren walked out. Avalon then closes the door once they all left and can continue. "Are you comfortable?" Receiving a nod from Bloom as she was ready for it. "Somneil Falax!"

Bloom awakes and finds herself someplace not of Alfea, as the mist clears it becomes more familiar to her. It was her home town, Gardenia, dressed in her Winx mode, Bloom hovered above the streets before she heard Avalon's voice.

"Bloom, where are you?

"Um, I'm up in the sky." She told him of where she was and looked down to notice two figures waving at her. "Oh, wait a minute. There's someone down there!" Getting a closer look and recognised them as her adopted parents, Mike and Vanessa. "It's my Earth parents! Can I go say hello to them?"

Before she could do that, black clouds suddenly appeared and surrounded her before she could even try to reach them.

"No, Bloom, I'm sorry. Your destiny lies far beyond." Avalon told her as she was blown away by the gustling winds and tried to break free from the storm.

"What's happening?!" She didn't understand what was going on and why everything changed.

Faint lights broke through the clouds and began to shine brighter, revealing two people before her. The woman bared a striking resemblance to Bloom but clearly much older and had pale green eyes, her hair was in a large updo adorned with a ring of pearls and a three-pointed crown as long curled tendrils cascaded down the sides of her face, neck and back. She wore a light pink lipstick and faint green eyeshadow.

Her attire was indeed royalty, consisting of a long bright green dress with paler green and pink accents. Large green and pink shoulder blades poke out from the sides as her greensleeves become large, puffy and lighter in color around her elbows. Their buffs are bound to her wrist by two pink jewels. The torso of the dress consists of a pink corset bodice with dark pinkish-purple patterns on the front, as the rest of the dress flows from there and past her feet, keeping them concealed. Marion also wears a small gold necklace with a large pinkish-purple gemstone to match the ones on her cuffs. Lastly, an elegant pale pink fur cape flows from behind her down to the ground as it curls inward. It also doubles as a boa of sorts as it splits off into two slimmer stands at the front the flow down to just above the queen's feet.

The man standing beside her was a man of tall stature with short brown hair, thin brown eyes, a small pointed beard and tan a royal red bodysuit with large, open sleeves that end with large fluffed cuffs. He wears a large metal headpiece that expands over his shoulders and opens up enough above his head to show off his large gold crown. Two red spots in the shape of rounded diamonds can also be found on each side of the headpiece over his ears. In front of the headpiece rests a large white cloth topped with an ornate golden collar with a symbol at the center of the collar containing a red and blue circle with a four-pointed yellow star; this symbol being the official crest of the Domino Royal Family. The cloth is bound to the bodysuit by a large golden belt. He also wears large metal boots that go up to his knees.

She knew for certain, within her heart, that they were her birth parents. Orbital and Marion."My birth parents? Mother, father, is that you? Oh. Can you hear me?"

Bloom could not get a response from either of them. Yet, before she could do something to reach out to them, a bright fire manifested above them, it was the Great Dragon itself that appeared before her.

"The dragon!"

Bloom felt its power, she tried to make contact with her parents by holding. Almost within reach of her father's hands, but the same dark clouds from before intervened. They were preventing her from reaching out to her birth parents and the Great Dragon, and she could not do anything. "Oh no! Mother! Father! What's going on?!"

The dark clouds took the form of a terrifying face after preventing her from seeing her family and began to approach her.

"No! Help!" Feeling helpless, she tries to escape it, unable to call for anyone while in a dream-like state, only to feel it to be more like a nightmare. But then everything began to fade into darkness.

Bloom cried out, her face was sweating and thrashing about, crying out 'Help!' until she woke up and found out she was back in Alfea. "I'm back. How did I do?" Her heart was racing and looked up to her professor who stood beside her.

"First tell me what happened." He asked her for anything she remembered from her dream.

Bloom rested her head on her hand and recalled what she saw. "Well… it's all kind of fuzzy. I vaguely remember Gardenia." But she remembered what she saw and continued. "Oh, wait! And then I saw my actual birth parents and then saw the dragon and it had eyes of liquid gold and then... that's all I remember. So what do you think?"

"You seem to have avoided all the pitfalls and potential dangers, Bloom. Good work!" Avalon congratulated her on the efforts of improvement.

"Well, thank you." Bloom felt so confident to try out these powers she may have unlocked, thinking her friends or her boyfriend could help her learn about them. "So can I check out my new powers now?"

However, Avalon stopped her and gave her a bit of advice. "Better let things settle down from it. Perhaps later and not do something over done, even with the wielders of the keyblades if you're thinking of a certain someone."

Bloom blushed and knew who he was referring to, which was a long shot. "A-Alright, if you really think it's best."

Returning to her dorm, Bloom was suddenly bombarded with questions by Stella, Flora and Musa to know about her visions. Mal and Mirta remained silent with the girls asking nonstop questions and barely giving Bloom a chance to answer any of them until Stella finally stepped in.

"Come on girls, give her a break!"

"Yeah, please, she can't answer all of them." Mal was relieved that someone thought of it, while he also had questions of his own but didn't get the chance when Stella cuts in.

"Let's cut to the chase. What was your mom wearing?"

"That's your important question?" Mal would have guessed it had something related to fashion.

"I don't remember. For me, the important thing was seeing them and the dragon." She felt disappointed to not be able to know about them, if she had the time to explore her birthplace back on Domino, she could have found out more about her family.

"Professor Avalon should send you back immediately and this time, pay attention, young lady!" Stella spoke in a stern tone, yet Bloom sighs while not paying attention.

"Hey, take it easy, Stella. She can try again another time." Mirta thought, knowing what it was like to not remember her mother. Still not told anyone about it as she didn't want to cause some drama or bring it up. Bloom was grateful that someone supported her.

Musa thought of something to help out. "Hey, I recorded a new dance track yesterday. Anyone wanna check it out?"

Chatta was very eager to hear it. "Oh, yes, yes!"

Stella was suddenly interested and followed Musa.

"You know what, maybe I should go and call Ben to see how he's doing back at Aruadon, you coming, Mirt?" Mal asked and thought to give her some privacy.

"Oh, sure, maybe call up on Evie to hang out and try out some new skills." Mirta agreed and followed her.

Flora thought to stay but wanted to check on some stuff. "Lockette, maybe you should stay with Bloom until either I or Taren shows up."

"Okay. Lockette nodded and was concerned for her bonded fairy, suddenly feeling tired and exhausted. "What's wrong, Bloom? Don't feel like going?"

"I don't know, it was exciting to see my parents and the dragon but it was weird to pass over my Earth parents, who cared for me all those years and not even stop to say 'hi'." Ever since she had found out she was adopted and still loved Mike and Vanessa for all the years of raising her with love and care like any other parents should, yet, since she told them the fate of her birth parents, she still supported her goal to find them. Even went to ask those who personally knew them what they were like but still wish to meet them. But what could happen afterwards if she succeeded to bring them back? Will she leave Earth with her birth parents? Or stay? It was so hard to choose for the young girl with two separate families and wish she could talk to her sister again for advice.

"Oh, I'm sure they'd understand." Lockette assures her and gives Bloom a comforting hug. "You had to go and see another part of your life, that's all."

Bloom smiles and returns the gesture to Lockette for the support. "Thanks, Lockette."

Lockette now rested on Bloom's palms and asked about her new powers. "So about your powers, you think it worked?"

Pondering the idea of whether to try them out just now or not while heeding Avalon's advice. "I don't know. Professor Avalon didn't want me to try right away, but I've waited long enough.

"Are you sure it's okay?" Lockette didn't seem sure if it was a good idea.

But Bloom seems absolutely certain of it. "What could possibly go wrong? Magic Winx!" Giving the command to transform into her Winx form, but this felt different than it was and almost felt more stronger than she ever did with a rising surge of power flowing through her body. "Hey, I do feel stronger!"

Little did she realize that something was happening to her as a dark aura began to manifest around her. Something that would begin to corrupt her will.

Right around the corner of the Hallway. Taren, alongside Aguman after completing their training, decided to check up on the girls while having a break. When he heard that she was training hard to improve her magic, but said to be getting weaker, it worried him and thought to check up on her.

"I hope she's been doing alright, just starting to worry for Bloom." Taren thought out loud while making his way over to her dorm room after her moment with the professor.

"She'll be fine, maybe you should take her out someplace." Agumon thought of it that would cheer her up.

"Yeah, maybe that cafe she started working at would be a good place." Taren found out she took that job in her first year to support herself to earn money, thinking it would be a good idea to take her out after everything they have been through. "I wonder if she had any luck to know more about her birth parents?"

They turned around the corner and found Timmy walking by. "Hey, Timmy, what are you doing here?"

Timmy saw Taren and Agumon, waving to them and smiled. "Oh, hey, Taren, I was passing by and wondering if you or anyone saw Tecna? I just feel like she's avoiding me"

"Tecna? Sorry, I just came by recently. What for?" Taren asked the tech genius.

"Oh, I thought maybe talk to her about something. Maybe she's in the dorm hall."

"Funny enough, I was just gonna see how Bloom was after her session with Avalon. Something you wanted to ask her about?" Taren thought to ask him.

Timmy thought it was a good idea. "Okay, lead the way."

Lockette wasn't sure what was happening to Bloom, but one thing for certain was the black smoke surrounding her was not a good sign and was worried for her bonded fairy. "B-Bloom? Are you okay?"

Bloom opened her eyes, only they have changed from a warm blue colour into a more cat/reptilian-like with slit pupils, bearing a sinister grin on her face as if becoming a different person. "Actually, I've never been better." The sinister black smoke that was swirling around her grew, she felt so powerful… and yet, she felt this strong desire for something… or someone to make her heart feel whole. To fill a certain need.

And as if the universe answered her call, she turned to see her boyfriend walk in, and changed to a coy grin on her face. "Taren!"

Taren walked to find Bloom, only in her Winx form to his surprise. "Bloom? Uh, what's up?" He noticed Bloom in her Winx form, uncertain why but shrugged it off. "Just came by to see how you were and Timmy was looking for Tecna.

Timmy and Agumon stepped through the door and waved to them. "Oh, hi, guys, you haven't seen Tecna by any chance?"

"Is anything wrong?" Asking his girlfriend, pondering if something was wrong, yet Bloom only giggled and waved her hand across.

The Fairy of the dragonflame giggles and smiles at him. "Oh, nothing. I just feel… incredible. But… I think perhaps we need a little… private talk."

The boys had no idea what was happening, feeling something was not right about this. "Uh? Oh, you wanted to spend time with Taren? Sorry, but he did mention that she might be with the Winx."

Bloom would have been annoyed to have someone ruin her moment, but thought the idea was perfect. "Good, now perhaps you and Agumon can look for her together, while me and my darling Taren have a moment together."

'Huh? Darling?'

What was going on with Bloom all of a sudden? But then came a surprise when both Timmy and Agumon were seen levitating by the swirl of her finger.

"HUH?!"

"Hey, Bloom, what's going on?" Agumon cried out, and suddenly rolled about like a ball. "Uhhh, I feel dizzy…"

"O-kay, I get it, ha-ha, very funny." Timmy tried to stay calm, believing this was to be some joke. "But I like to walk on my own feet… and maybe not get puked by Agumon who looks like he's about to lose his lunch." Looking uneasy about the way Agumon was clutching his jaws, as well as turning green. "Taren?"

Taren wasn't sure what was happening, he rushed over and grabbed Bloom by the shoulder. "Bloom! What's gotten into you? Put them down now!"

Bloom was startled by his sudden approach when he shook her, but felt the thrill of it by his commanding tone and gave a longing sigh and gazed lovingly at him. "Oohh, anything for you. But, you're right, how thoughtless of me!" Doing as he told her, but not exactly in a way no one expected when she flicked her finger and tossed the pair out of the dorm room entrance.

"I didn't mean to throw them out of the room!" Taren rushed out to check on them if they were alright.

"Please, Bloom, you're not thinking right." Lockette tries to reason with her, but Bloom laughs wickedly for a moment until her mood is spoiled when she watches her boyfriend go to see them.

"Guys, you okay?" Taren stood by the entrance and found them lying on the floor, with Agumon not able to stand and laid on the floor.

"Oooh, my head is spinning."

"Uh, we-we're good, thanks." Timmy was relieved he didn't have to endure it, still feeling a little woozy as he sat up. "What's gotten into her?"

"I dunno, but I got a bad feeling abou-WHOOAAH!" Taren was suddenly pulled away by a strong powerful force, the doors slammed shut and now found himself back in Bloom and Flora's dorm room. "Bloom, what's going on? This isn't like you!"

"Oh, Taren, I am so sorry!" Bloom let out a dramatic sigh and threw herself into his arms which he instinctively caught her whilst she nuzzled her head into his chest. "I just felt so bad and didn't know what was coming over me." She looked at him, giving her sad pouting look, adjusting herself on his lap with her hands on his shoulders for support and comfort. "Are you mad?"

Unable to be mad, but especially with the way she looked at him was too much to ignore. Reluctantly sighs and gives in by her cute expression but didn't paid enough notice of the looks of her eyes appear different. "W-Well, okay, maybe not mad, but they weren't hurt. Still, what's going on, Bloom."

"I just feel so empty, so lonely, and depressed." Bloom sighed and wrapped her arms around his neck. "But with you beside me and this close, it makes my heart race so fast. Like the fire in me, waiting to burst."

His face blushes and could easily feel her chest pressing against his own, feeling them very much to give the teen some imagination. He unknowingly held her by the waist and heard her giggling with her warm breath tickling against his neck that made his body shiver. "Uh, y-yeah, well, I suppose it does feel like that… I think."

"But you know." Her finger twirled across his chest while her head rested against his shoulder. "It also gave me a certain moment to think about… our future?"

His eyes blinked and didn't expect this. "O-Our future? Wh-what about it?"

"Well, wouldn't it be nice to be together? Us and a few little fireflies of our own?" Bloom let out a sigh and a giggle. This earned both Taren and Lockette a mutual confused look on their faces.

"Fireflies? What do you think of having bugs to keep?" Taren came to that thought with a confused look on his face.

This made her giggle and looped her arms around his neck to pull closer to her. "Oh, Taren, you're so adorable. You know what I mean as we're both young teens madly in love and to share a… passionate moment."

Obviously, he had no idea what she was talking about and was confused. "Well, that's true and I would love to make out but what does this have something to do with little…fir-" It was then the gears of his brain started running, allowing him to process what she was really actually saying and how she was acting.

The way she was talking in a seductive tone.

The position and when she meant 'little fireflies' and 'passionate moment'... she meant.

His eyes wide as plates, his entire face went red to match his hair and began to panic as he stammered. "W-w-w-w-Wait a second! You.. You're not talking about bugs! You're talking about…kids?!" Out of his reaction, Taren fell backwards on her bed in shock.

Lockette gasped. "You want to start a family? Oh my!" While she pictured them having children would be adorable, but her concern for the bonded fairy's state of mind was more to her priority.

Bloom giggled and smiled like a seductive woman, gazing at him longingly and began crawling towards him on her bed as he nervously moved back until he touched the wall. "Why else would it not? You and I have the Dragon flame, with your keyblade abilities, and our looks, our children will be amazing." Pressing herself further and nuzzling into his embrace with a longing sigh. "And a princess does need a prince, how does that sound, handsome? To be my prince." Brings up her finger to her chin to ponder. "How many should we have? I always wanted to have a big family in my dreams."

Taren was without a loss of words, true he could picture some with Bloom, no doubt inherit her flame red hair and some with blue eyes. But he thought to maybe wait until they finished school and wait for the moment. Still… he was at a certain age when they… 'NO! Avoid thinking of those thoughts! Remember what mom and dad said!' His parents gave him a good talk of what would happen when he got older, especially his mother to what could happen in a physical relationship. And he does not want to see her angry at him, or even Bloom's parents, either they are born or adopted!

"Wait, Bloom! Ma-maybe we should talk about this? I mean, I mean, as much as I want to do… IT with you for a special moment!" Taren tries to stall for some time to think of a way to get out of this situation he's in and not to hurt her. "Or having kids someday, but don't you think we should wait until we're old enough to be responsible and with matters at stake first? What would our parents thi-MMPM?!"

The young keyblader was silenced when Bloom pounced on him, her lips locked with his, pressing firmly and holding the sides of his face to keep him from escaping. Lockette covered her mouth with her tiny hands in silent gasp, yet she looked away to respect their privacy, but couldn't help but take a peak. Bloom slowly pulls away and gazes with intense love and desire for him with a smile of no regrets.

It was then Taren was able to snap out of it, realising something was indeed different about Bloom, not just the way she was behaving, but found her eyes were different, instead of those ocean blue eyes, they were now amber, almost like his when he uses the Dragon Flame, but they looked more sinister. There had to be something wrong with her. He was able to pull himself away and jumped back before she could catch him. "Bloom, something doesn't feel right, you're not yourself."

"Oh, I never felt so much better than I ever was. Now come on, you know how you feel about me." Bloom did not seem ready to give up on him.

"Bloom, you should listen to him. You're not thinking straight." Lockette tried to make her see reason and only worried for her.

"Yeah, what would Flora think of this?" Taren said he tried to make another step back, but was once again found himself hovered by her magic to prevent his escape.

"Oh, how thoughtless of me, you're right. After all, we shouldn't leave her out of this." Bloom thought it over and grins. "But if you really want to try something like that, I'm willing to experiment. I always felt curious about trying it out."

It didn't need a genius to know what she was thinking, and also for him with his face once again a brighter shade of red of the sudden thoughts of his two girlfriends. In all honesty, he would have been turned on by this, but with Bloom not in her state of mind it was a different story.

"I knew it, you are such a perv." Bloom giggles and smiles coyly at him. "But I like it. Now to get something started." He watches her sitting up and with a flick of her with magic to do something.

'Where are the girls when you need them? Or even Griselda? Anyone to stop this before something happens!'

It was as if the universe answered to his call, a cloud of smoke suddenly engulfed the entire room. Everyone was coughing and could barely see.

"Poison Ivy!"

Taren felt several tendrils wrap around him and hoisted him right out of the dorm room's balcony. "WHAAHH!"

"Taren?!" Bloom coughs and could barely see, she cleared the smoke with her magic and heard that voice somewhere. And who it had to be. She growls and shouts out with rage and is not going to let him go. "Mal! GIVE ME BACK MY BOYFRIEND YOU WITCH!"

Taren never thought to be relieved to be pulled out of there and saved by none other than Mal, and speaking of Mal, the witch stood with her arms crossed,her foot tapping while a flushed Mirta who was silent and shocked while taking refuge someplace in the school to hide.

"Care to explain what… in the name of sanity was that just now?" Mal questioned him.

"Believe me, I wish I knew. Something is wrong with Bloom for sure." He sighs. "But what are you doing here? I thought you were with Ben at Cloud Tower?"

"I was going to, until both me and Mirta saw both Timmy and Agumon strangely flying about and Timmy was planted upside down." Mal and Mirta had to pull the techno genius out and found out was done by Bloom to their disbelief and overheard the love birds' little conversation. "Normally I'd wanna ignore the mushy stuff but knew something was not right about her before you two could go further."

"Well, to be honest, thanks and I had no idea what's happening to her. But I also feel like something is wrong with her and Lockette too." He saw them looking at him and continued. "Look, what was going to happen didn't! I wasn't going to do anything unless she really meant it."

"Yeah, especially when we're in a school and I rather not want to walk into something that could make me burn my eyes." Mal told him.

Zing appeared, dressed a black cloaked sorcerer with her face painted red and black, the cloak flowing dramatically. "Maybe she's turned to the dark side!"

Mirta didn't think so as she had the same conclusion as Taren. "I think maybe she must have caught something, but we all checked for anything when we came back from Atlantis. What could be causing it?"

"I dunno, but maybe wanna warn the girls first, Flora might think of-" He suddenly remembered something and what Bloom might have suggested. "Crap! I gotta warn Flora, you found the girls and Faragonda as well." He made a quick dash back to the dorm rooms.

Mal groaned and rolled her eyes. "Well, let's hope he keeps it in his pants." Still, what she felt wasn't natural and had a bad feeling about it.

"You think maybe we should help him? In case he needs help." Mirta suggested.

Mal would have agreed with her to make sure Bloom didn't try anything. "Think he might, but we better go tell the girls what's going on and maybe stop Bloom before she does anything else."

A short while afterwards, Flora thought to make her way back to the dorm to check up on Bloom to see if she was feeling better, she could have stayed behind to help her out. Before she could make her way into the bedroom, Lockette flew towards her in such a hurry.

"Lockette? What are you-"

"Flora! Come quick, Bloom's not well!" The pixie said and led her back to the dorm room.

Flora didn't waste time, coming back to her bedroom and found Bloom collapsed on the floor. "Bloom! What happened?" She knelt down to pick up Bloom in her arms, let out a sigh in relief that Bloom was stirring and waking up.

"Ugh, my head." Bloom opened her eyes and saw Flora. "Flora? Oh, what happened? Feels like the world is spinning."

"Better to get you to sit on the bed, you look drained." She thought to maybe call for a nurse to check on her. But for the moment to better stay by her side.

"When she transformed, Bloom started acting very strange, she threw Timmy and Agumon out of the dorm room." Lockette explains to Flora, as it came back to Bloom as she felt ashamed and embarrassed.

"I did that? Oh, no! I feel terrible! I don't know what came over me!" Bloom couldn't remember what she did, feeling so bad for what she did to them. "I need to apologize to Timmy, I hope he isn't hurt."

"Well, it did seem to explain why he was covered in leaves when I saw him." Flora wondered why until now. "But do you remember what happened?"

Bloom sadly shakes her head and holds it in her hand. "No, but what happened felt like nothing I experienced. At first it felt like a rush and then… my mind was all foggy. Next time I see Timmy, I need to apologize to him for the levitation stuff. And also for Agumon, wait, was Taren here too?"

Lockette nods her head. "Yes, and well… you acted very differently around him and… uhh… I think something about… Fireflies?" The bonded pixie didn't know how to explain it in a sort of manner and if Bloom forgot, she hoped it would save Bloom the further embarrassment.

Bloom blinks her eyes and Flora does. "Fireflies? Why would we be talking about bugs?" Bloom was confused and found it very odd.

Flora did also seem to find it very strange and maybe find out later. "Maybe first you should lie down, it was a good thing I came by and saw how you were doing. If Agumon is here, so would Taren." She let Bloom lay on the bed and went to the bathroom to make some tea for her roommate. "Here, this should help."

"Thanks, don't know what I do without you." Bloom smiles and takes it to drink, inadvertently brushing her hands against Flora's when she held the cup, but didn't notice the faint flush on the Nature fairy's face. Memories of what Tecna's words were brought up and now thinking of what this relationship with Taren and Bloom could be like.

"I can imagine being bruised up and in a hospital without my magic being one of them." Earning a laugh from Bloom for making a joke.

Flora giggles and helps her drink it. "Well, I do usually play the role of a healer in the group."

"Obviously that would make me and Taren the common patients since we usually get hurt a lot." Bloom remarked. "Although I think he might not mind at all with either of us as nurses."

"Where did this Bloom come from?" Flora asked and tried to not picture such a thing in her mind.

The flame haired girl shrugged her shoulders. "I dunno, maybe being Stella too long can lead to a set of ideas. At least she hasn't pestered them for how to wield a keyblade. For now."

"Well, maybe it would be a good idea to take you to Professor Palladium to check on you to be sure." Flora suggested.

"Yeah, you're right, maybe I should." Bloom slowly rose up from the bed, a little groggy and almost lost her balance if not for the flustered Flora to catch her in her arms. "Thanks."

"Uh, n-not a problem." She suddenly felt her heart racing, unable to understand why she was acting like this and only thought of Bloom being a close friend. And being this close to each other's personal space was becoming harder for the Lynphean to push aside such thoughts. However, Flora noticed Bloom not becoming herself and looked in pain. "Bloom? Are you alright?"

She noticed a dark aura surrounding Bloom, flickering as her body was quivering. Flora was scared something was wrong. "Bloom! What's the matter?"

"M-My head!" Bloom cried out in pain, as if she cannot fight it and the black smoke surrounded her, returning to her dark personality as her eyes changed. "In fact, I feel just about better now. I would have something very important to do… but I think maybe something I like to do first."

The way she was smiling coyly at Flora made the brunette feel very nervous, she can easily tell this was not normal as something was wrong with Bloom. "Bloom, snap out of it! Whatever it is, we can help." Yet, also curious of what it was that important to do? Moving ever so slowly way from Bloom, yet she was keeping her eyes on her like a predator.

"Oh, I think you can, and maybe something we can try to work out. I wanted to get Taren and maybe resume what we planned on after I complete this mission. But always feel curious about other things to try out."

Decided to check up on Bloom and hopefully she was back to herself after being whisked away by Mal, Taren was now prepared to defend himself as Agumon and Lockette accompanied him.

"Taren, are you sure that you can handle this?" The pixie wasn't so convinced.

"Mal and Mirta should at least warn the others, this time I need to keep Bloom busy until they find Avalon to help." Taren told her.

"But what if she goes violent?" Agumon asked.

"She didn't with me… for other reasons." Taren's face flushed before shaking his head. "So at least I don't have to worry about it. Just gotta keep her busy and think of a plan. I should have at least called Flora."

However, he has no idea what was going on back at the dorm. And will be

Flora fell on the bed and found herself pinned down with her wrists held firmly by Bloom above her. She had tried to struggle, but didn't wish to hurt her. "Bloom, please try to fight it! Something is definitely wrong with you."

Bloom made a giggling sound and suddenly sounded… seductive. "Well, that's the thing, I have been fighting it, but somehow feel this would be the way to express it."

Flora's face flushed and her eyes widened, stuttering of what was happening as Bloom descended close to her. "W-what? Bloom, I… I think… we shoul… t-talk ab-mmmph?!"

Whatever it was she was going to say to reason was cut off by a startled silence of what was the most unexpected moment.

Even more awkward when Taren opens the door in their dorm room.

"Bloom? Look, what happened just now I think you're not exactly yoursellllliaaahhh…." The moment the red haired keyblade was left completely, and utterly stunned, it was as if the gears in his brain suddenly stopped and stuck, eyes wide as plates and his jaw hanging off what he just saw and could not believe it.

"OH MY!" Lockette gasped in shock.

While Agumon… remained clueless as he simply blinked as to what was happening. "Huh? What?"

Both his girlfriends.

Lying on Flora's bed.

With Bloom on TOP of Flora.

Kissing!

On the LIPS!

'WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON?!'

Bloom's eye closed and kissed deeply against Flora's lips, while the fairy of nature remained stunned until she slowly pulled away from locking lips and turned to see the utterly shocked and gapping Taren with his jaw fell right to the bottom and seeing the madly flushed Flora pinned down, giggling as she flashes her yellow eyes and no sign of shame of what she did. "Oh, about time you showed up, we were just getting started."

MALFUNCTION! MALFUNCTION!

SYSTEM CRASH!

ERROR ERROR ERROR

REBOOT! REBOOT! REBOOT!

"Taren, snap out of it! Remember, she's not herself!" Lockett cried out, reminding him that something was wrong with her.

Shaking his head to get his mind to work again, not wanting to lower his guard again with the corrupted dark version of Bloom. "Stop!"

As for Flora, her brain was processing what just happened and snapped out of the sudden trance when she grabbed a small bag of dust. Scooped a portion and blew it into her face when her guard was down. Bloom coughed and tried to wave it off. "Wha-hey! That… so… sleepy." She fell to her side and succumbed to the sleeping pollen. Snoring softly like a normal girl… at least to some standards.

Pointing his two fingers: one to Flora and the other to the sleeping Bloom. Trying to work out what just happened. "Flora… Did I… You two… and just-WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON!?" Using the same words that were in his mind of what he just saw.

"I had no idea what happened!" Flora was as confused as he was, grasping her head and trying to keep herself from going into a state of panic. "When I came in, she wanted to find out where you were, then the next…." Her face was red as a tomato and tries to hide it with her hands. This was all strange and new to her, and yet she didn't even resist the temptation when she almost… enjoyed it? "She… she-and I-I… we…we.." Flora started to babble nothing but gibberish when she was having a hard time to process until suddenly her face was soaked by a splash of water in the face, taken by surprise and saw her boyfriend with an empty glass and a bottle of water in the other.

He looked a little sorry for doing it, but felt the only way to snap her out of it. "Sorry, I had to do something."

She couldn't argue what Taren did to make her drench and her hair dripping, it did the trick and made her feel calm again. "Thank you, I suppose I needed that."

"Well my brain is still trying to process all this, one minute she was normal, the next thing she became all seductive! She was coming straight towards me when she proposed having…" Taren paused and slowly flushed once again of what Bloom said, although his expression caught Flora's reaction and caused her eyes to bulge. If what he was suggesting was completely unlike Bloom to think like that at all. "It's like she's a completely different person!"

"She was!" Lockette told them and explained what happened. "After her meeting with Avalon to know about her birth parents, she started becoming an evil version of herself but became different when Taren showed up like she was instantly drawn to him. She was approached him in the-"

"Thank you, Lockette! She doesn't know the details!" This time it was Taren's turn to be all flustered and coughed. Last thing he needed was to give her a mental image of what was going on between him and Bloom.

"Uh, actually Bloom did say something about… fireflies? What did she mean by that?" Flora noticed how red his face was and froze. Curious of what made him react in such a way while Bloom was so seductive towards them, until she began to discover what it really meant as her face matched his. "No…no, you..you're saying she was…"

"Let's put that aside and maybe do something with Bloom." Taren assured her before finishing that sentence.

"Uh, guys?" They turned to Agumon who was by the door and opened it to peak through. "She's not there."

They rushed in and Agumon was right, she was nowhere to be seen. "But she couldn't have woke up so sudden! That spell should have knocked her out for a while!" Taren couldn't believe it. "Where could she be?"

"Wait a minute, Bloom said something about needing to do something important." Flora recalled what Bloom, if only she could have gotten more out of her in a moment of struggle.

"I think I know she could be, I'll follow Bloom." Lockette told them. "You two get the others and I'll make sure she doesn't hurt herself!"

They nodded and hoped she would succeed, while also worrying for Bloom. "I got a bad feeling about this."

"We got to find Professor Avalon, hurry!" Flora proclaimed and hope they can bring her back to her senses.

Bloom was somehow in the Hallway, despite being casted a Sleep spell by Taren's keyblade, she was very much wide awake and slipped passed them by flying out of the balcony to go to another place in the school.

"I can't believe my own prince would sneak up on me and Flora. But that was kinda hot." The dark version of Bloom smiled and traced her fingers of her lips from that kiss. Yet as much as she wanted to go further with her fun, the urge to complete her mission had to come first. "Maybe get this mission out of the way and we can perhaps finish off where we left off."

"Bloom!"

Bloom found her bonded pixie flying towards her and was surprised how she found her. "Well, hello Lockette. More exciting to hang out with me than those drippy fairies and pixies? Are Taren and Flora on their way?" She almost thought it would be nice for them to join her.

"Bloom, please! You're sick. You've gotta wait for Professor Avalon to come and help you." Lockette hoped to maybe reason with her to come to her senses and wait until they can cure her of whatever it is that infected her.

Yet, Bloom did not seem to be herself and let out a cackle. "On the contrary, I feel wonderful. And since you're here, my loyal bonded pixie, you can give me a hand. Ah! There it is." Stopping in front of a wall with a portrait, Lockette didn't understand what was so special about this portrait until Bloom reached out and turned something, it was a doorknob that was invisible and even opened a door.

The pixie couldn't have believed there was a hidden doorway in the school. "A hidden door?" Did Bloom knew there was a hidden door? HOw long had it been here?

They walked in and found a large room that appeared to be a library, with various books and goes high as the school. She immediately recognised this place as one the Headmistress told her and the other pixies about. "Don't tell me this is the entrance to the Secret Archive!"

Within Darkar's lair, the dark phoenix grins as his plan was working and senses his control of the Fairy of the Dragon flame was a success. "Ah, the plan is in motion. I've got Bloom under my power!" With her under his power, he can use her to find the codex piece. The winx club and the Keyblade Wielders will not stop him now.

Kefka sat on a chair and looked confused. "Uh, yeah, but it did seem to take longer for her to get a move on than focus on her own fantasies with her boytoy and a flower girl." Curious of why it took a while to gain full control of her using the Shadow Virus. Concerned if it was not strong enough that she was perhaps fighting it?

Darka didn't seem concerned about the possible set back. "What matters is that now she will find the codex and I will have three in my hands. Victory is close at hand. I can feel it!"

"And here it is, the formerly Secret Archive of Alfea." Bloom announced, strolling to the hidden room as she remembered to have first found this place after the school was rebuilt, finding one of the fairy animals and followed it right into the Secret Archives and home to a notable pixie. She never told anyone about it after promising to keep the place a secret from anyone…. Until now.

A small creature that resembled a Seahorse with wings flies towards Bloom. Appearing curious of her current state.

"Boo!"

The pixie Seahorse yelped and retreated to a hovering platform with a miniature chair and table. A light-skinned pixie with big sea-blue colored eyes. She wore a pale blue eyeshadow and reddish lipstick/lip-gloss. Her hair is a sandy blonde color and worn curled up on the sides of her head, resembling cinnamon buns. Her attire was a blue-themed light colored robe with darker coloring inside and a loose tie-like piece on it. Along with a dark blue witch/wizard themed hat and very tiny glasses.

This was Concorda, one of the Guardian Pixies of the Codex pieces assigned by Faragonda. Adjusting her glasses to see who it was and appears to be familiar with Bloom. "Bloom, is that you? My, it's been ages. How are you doing?" She asked the fairy, yet received no response as Bloom flew to the bookshelf. She pulled out one of the books and dropped it without a care.

Concorda was mildly surprised by the lack of manners Bloom had, but also no care for the books she was tossing about and dropping them. "Do be careful, dear. And you are…" Seeing a fellow pixie, but no idea who she was.

"Lockette, ma'am. I am Bloom's bonded pixie." She introduced herself in a respectful manner

"Very pleased to meet you, little one. So what brings you back to the archive? Questions about your parents?" It was what Concordia assumed it might be for Bloom to know about her birth parents.

"That's ancient history. Now I'm here to find Alfea's part of the Codex." Bloom continued to throw out any of the books that didn't hold anything special or had the Codex inside them. She continued her search to find it as she could feel its power. "And something tells me it's in here somewhere."

"A fascinating idea but even if it were true, why would you be interested?" The Guardian Pixie inquired to know why she would want it.

"Simply because I intend to hand it over to its rightful owner: The Shadow Phoenix."

"Oh but my-dearest!" Concordia couldn't believe what she heard from Bloom and could not allow her to do that. "There is no way I'd let anyone find the Codex, much less steal it for our enemies. So you can forget about that right now!"

She flew towards Bloom in an attempt to stop her, but Bloom did not seem fazed by her intimidation. "Well, well, well. And how's a little Sprig like you gonna stop me, huh?" Bloom then attacks Concorda with her magic.

"Oh my, I haven't been called a Sprig in over a hundred years." Concordia found it an insult to be called one. "But now my large, young friend, it's time you realize that small is beautiful too!" Concorda casts a spell to shrink Bloom with her magic to stop her plans of finding it.

Bloom felt her body was shrinking by the magic. "What's going on? Hey! Concorda!"

Concorda had her occupied and turned to the fellow pixie. "Lockette, go get help!"

Lockette didn't need to be told twice. "Okay!"

However, Bloom was not going to let her get far. "Not so fast." Using her magic to attack her own bonded pixie.

"Lockette, look out!" Concorda cries out to her, fortunately, Lockette successfully flies away through the doorway unharmed.

"Cleverly done, old one. I'll admit it, but make no mistake, I am going to find the Codex." The possessed Bloom was determined to find it at any cost."

Concorda had to keep Bloom busy and hope Lockette can find the Winx Club before its too late.

Even in her shrunken state, Bloom was not so easy to give in. Searching through these books would take forever, there must be about hundreds of them in the Archives. But then a devious idea popped in her mind of a plan. "Hmm... the hiding place of the Codex is probably able to repel my fire." She blasts a shelf of books with her magic, turning the now destroyed books into a pile of ash.

Concorda gasped in horror to see the precious books destroyed before her eyes. "Oh dear! Oh dear!"

"So I'll just keep destroying things until it turns up!" Bloom cackles and prepares to continue with her plan.

The guardian pixie recovers from her moment of shock to confront Bloom in hopes to prevent something terrible that could harm the Archives. "Young lady, stop that immediately! The magic in those books will be lost forever! Stop it right now!" Despite her pleas, Bloom continued blasting more books and chose to ignore her.

Now Concorda was mad and could not sit back any longer. "Wanna play that game? Fine by me." Uses her magic to extinguish the flames to prevent more of the books from being burned. Sighs in relief that they were saved, but Bloom wasn't done yet.

"Well, there's plenty here to burn and I'm kind of in a hurry here. So if you don't mind…" Continues to destroy more books for her search for the fragment. She was unaware of two pixie animals from behind, one of them, a winged Red Panda, decided to try and tackle her with her back turned.

"Hmm, that looks like a likely spot." The moment Bloom moves out of the way to resume another search, the pixie pet misses its chance and instead collides with a bookshelf, knocking more books off the shelves. She was suddenly confronted by Concorda.

"Alright, that's enough!" The pixie scolds her.

"Give me the Codex or face Oblivion, your choice. So what is it?! Huh?" Giving the limited options to force the pixie to give up its location if she wishes to save the archives from becoming nothing but ashes. She shoots out a fireball at Concorda, casting a wall of fire to surround her.

The seahorse was scared for her wellbeing and sought to do something to save her However, Concorda called out to it.

"No, Hippocampus, no! Don't do it!" She pleaded to her pixie pet as if knowing what it was saying.

Bloom seems to understand and be satisfied with its compliance. "That's it, little worm. Hurry up or your mistress is gonna melt!"

The seahorse crashes into a book from one of the shelves, knocking it over. The pages open and a secret space inside it revealed to contain the third Codex in the book. Hippocampus flies down to grab it with its tail.

Bloom was satisfied to have finally found it. "Ah, the Codex! Finally!" However, instead of handing it over to her, the seahorse flew away. "You won't get far, shrimp!"

She shoots out magic attacks at the seahorse. Relentlessly attacking it, yet it manages to evade her attacks. "I'll get you yet!"

The fire spell she casted to trap Concorda began to wear off while she was focused on the Codex then Concorda. Chasing after it to grab the third piece. "Get back here you stupid pixie pet! I don't have time for games!" She was able to grab it, but to her dismay it slipped out of her fingers just after pulling it from Hippocampus' grasp. "Damn it! The Codex!"

The codex fell and with everyone trying to grab it, more so to prevent it falling in Bloom's hands. Concorda just briefly caught it, only to lose it when she was accidentally tackled by the red panda pixie pet. Bloom flew after it with Hippocampus after her, she was able to catch it before it touched the ground. "Got it!"

However, her victory was short-lived when the seahorse snatched it from her once again. Becoming more irritated than ever, she growls and resumes her chase. "Got it. Get back here or else!"

Concorda, while under one of the pixie pets, was relieved Hippocampus had caught it. Yet, it was far from over and I needed to take action. Using her knowledge of the archives to the advantage. "Hippocampus, quick, gateway: chapter six!

The seahorse obliged and flew into the book as instructed, Bloom wasn't ready to give up and chased after it into the magical book. In the realm she found herself in was filled with large letters, flying and evading them, she found her target and flew towards it. "There he is." Spotting the seahorse as it was about to fly towards a gate-looking structure, unwilling to allow it to escape. "Gotcha!" Shoots out a magic attack, and a direct hit, just knocks it off to lose its grip on the codex and falls into her grasp. "At last, the Codex is mine!"

With the codex in her possession, Bloom returns to the magical archive, but now has returned her norma size with the shrink spell has ceased, along with the seahorse pixie. "Lord Darkar will be most pleased."

"Bloom, you cannot be aware of the evil you're about to commit." Concorda once again tries to make Bloom see reason of what she will do, clearly after seeing what has happened, she was no doubt under a powerful spell and obviously done by Darkar. Knowing if all four are brought together, the Dark Phoenix will be unstoppable.

"Why? Of course I am. With this, my master will become the most powerful being ever!" Bloom proclaimed, yet unexpectedly to her, the Winx, along with Taren, Mal, Chatta and the Digimon entered the Secret Archives after they were led by Lockette to find Bloom after explaining to them about her not being herself and caught some sort of .

"Never knew Alfea would have hidden rooms." Mal was in awe.

"Me neither!" Tecna agreed with her. "I never thought there could be anything like this at our school."

"Girls, you can gawk all day but we got into bigger situations like this… Shadow Virus Avalon told us." Taren reminded them after they reported to the professor of what happened to Bloom and he believes she caught a virus that was making her not be herself. So far he's already working on it and they have to try and subdue their friend before she does something dangerous.

Musa nods to agree with him. "Taren's right, this isn't summer camp and judging by the look on Bloom's face, she's no happy camper either."

They found her high above and if gotten a closer look was the piece of the Codex in her hands.

"Bloom? Are you okay?" Flora asked, yet knowing well she was not.

"Never better, Flora." Bloom smiled at her. "So glad you and Taren showed up together."

Most not noticed the two flushing, only by Mal who rolled her eyes and took over before this get more awkward. "Hey, enough sweet talk, red, you seem to have something that looks very important.

"Mal's correct, what you're holding Alfea's piece of the Codex." Tecna did a scan on the artifact from her visor.

"Yes and unless you can convince her to give it back, Alfea and all of Magix will be in terrible danger!" Concorda calls out from above and warn them.

Layla knew this had to be Darkar's doing with Bloom not being herself. "Well, if you're talking about Darkar, say no more. We're on it!" Turns to her friends. "Come on, let's go!"

Musa stops her before she could conjure a spell with her Morphix. "Layla, wait."

Mirta had an idea in mind and knew it was risky. "HoW about we let Taren and Flora talk to her, so far they're the only ones she seems nice to."

Taren looked at her as if she grew another head. "Mirta, I don't think that might be a good idea… especially here of all places."

Even Mal had to agree with him. "Yeah, the way she had in mind we do not want to see THAT here, especially in my memory."

Stella was baffled by what they were talking about. "Why? You're her boyfriend and Flora's her close friend."

Flora tries to hide her blush but knew they had to do something to help Bloom. "It's a bit complicated, Stella, with what state she's in. But Mirta's right, let me and Taren try to talk to her so you can."

Taren sighs in defeat. "Alright… you better have a plan for this."

She hopes so. "Bloom, please. We're your best friends!"

Bloom's personality changed and gave a flirtful pout. "Oh, but I thought we were more than that and once I'm done with this, we can finish off what we should with our prince."

"Bloom! Don't go that far! Please!" Taren didn't want the girls to know the details. He was very much relieved his parents were not present, this was utterly embarrassing. "Come on, you're not yourself, look if you give us the Codex… I… will take you on a romantic night with just us three."

Without wasting a second, Bloom swooped down and swept her arm around him with a sigh. "Ohh, you are such a romantic, my dragon prince. But I would love to make it very special for us." She giggles, stroking and whispering in his ear, causing his face to heat up once more.

None of the girls could see what was happening but it seemed odd how Bloom was behaving and even Flora's face turned red.

"Hmm, curious, his heart rate suddenly increased and his body heat as well." Tecna did a scan on them.

Mirta couldn't deny she feels jealous of Bloom and somehow pictured herself in her place, however, she did know that the fairy was not being herself.

"You know this would have been romantic if she wasn't under an evil spell." Stella would love to watch this and it felt like a soap opera.

"Ugh, let's just take her now while she's busy swooning him now." Mal didn't want to endure more of this.

Bloom somehow easily heard her and gave a devious smirk. "At least I have my prince here, while yours is far away in another world. I didn't need to use a silly spelly to seduce my man, you're just jealous and pathetic, Witch hag."

The room suddenly went silent, as if the only thing they heard was a tire screech and all silently gasped of something Bloom would never say.

Stella silently gasped, even though she would never have thought to insult Mal despite their little feuds. Slowly turning to the purple haired teen, who suddenly started twitching and even Palmon looked nervous.

However Taren's skin went pale and looked terrified of what was going to happen. "Oh….crap!"

"W-what…. Did.. you… call me?" Mal said, in a surprisingly… and eerie calm tone, however her eyebrow was twitching and to make things even more bizarre, they could see smoke beginning to appear. Literally.

"Uh, Mal? Calm down!" Mirta tries to, but it doesn't seem to be working.

"Bloom! Wait, don't!" Taren tries to stop her. "Mal! No! Remember, she's not herself!"

Bloom smirks and goes on to play with fire. "Oh, did I surprise you? I mean, you just continue to play as a blonde to be something you're not. At least maybe something that didn't come from a dumpster to hide that butt of yours."

That was enough to push Mal's limit of restraint. Startling everyone when she was engulfed in a bright purple fire by the rage of her emotions and with a comical anime look that makes her very angry. "THAT'S IT! NO MORE MISS NICE WITCH! EVIL SPELL OR NOT! YOUR GOING DOWN DARK BLOOM!"

"Mal! don't listen to her. That's not Bloom talking." Lockette tries to calm her down, but the fiery aura surrounding her was too strong to get close. Mal called out her keyblade and unleashed a powerful Dark Firaga with her purple aura combined with it and a mix of blue as well, swung her keyblade and unleashed her attack on her, regardless of Taren in the way.

"Mal! Wait!" Taren had no choice but to push Bloom out of the way before the purple/blue fire ball flew past them. It immediately extinguished shortly after passing the couple without any harm or damage.

No one had ever expected Mal to have such powerful magic like that, and more reason to be cautious around her next time.

"She's suddenly on fire!" Musa never saw Mal this mad.

"I never seen her use this sort of magic!" Layla felt more afraid of her than before.

"Remind me never to get her mad!" Stella made a reminder of it. "Mal? How did you do that?"

Mal realised what she did and was in shock that she did that, or how for that matter as the flames around her slowly died out. "I…have no idea… whoops." Seems she may have gone a little over done and let her emotions get the better, but luckily no one was hurt.

Chatta now focused on Bloom, she knew this sort of energy came from one person who was behind it. "I bet she's controlled like Darkar's evil magic."

"She's right, that must be it!" Musa feels it has to be it.

"I think it makes a lot of sense if she's after the Codex." Taren agreed with her.

Stella had an idea to help get her best friend back to her normal self from the Shadow Virus. "Well, if Bloom's under a shadow spell, an intensive dose of sunlight therapy is sure to restore the mental balance of our ailing friend!" She cast a powerful light spell that shined the whole room, everyone had to block their eyes from the light, even Bloom was almost affected by her power when she received a mental message from Darkar.

"Hold them off just a little longer, my precious spy, Kerborg is on his way!"

Grunting, Bloom didn't seem to feel anything and was not affected. "Nice try, Stella."

Shocked that her magic did nothing to Bloom at all, Stella was baffled. "What? Nothing?! I can't believe my eyes!"

"Well it just made her ready for another round!" Mirta yelled out to them.

"Ready?" Bloom shoots out several fireballs at them, causing Stella, Mirta and Mal to jump out of the way while Mal casts Reflect with Taren beside her to protect the others.

"If you want to run away, I won't hold it against you.

Stella knew she didn't want to hurt Bloom, but sometimes needs to show she cares for her friends to do it hard. "Alright, sweetie, you asked for it. Stella Solar Flare!" A bright aura illuminated the room, everyone realised this one was stronger than the last and shielded their eyes.

Bloom wasn't sure what was happening and was caught off-guard. "What is- Oh my!" She was blasted by the bright radiant light.

"Bullseye!" Stella smiles, feeling confident that it should do the trick this time. Yet, to her utter surprise, Bloom remains unaffected by the attack.

"What?" Stella couldn't believe it.

"Isn't it supposed to do something?" Mal questioned her.

Bloom lets out a laugh. "What's wrong, Winx? You don't really think you can keep me in check, do you? Let's see you try and I'll destroy you all!" A magical sphere formed above her hand as she was ready for another attack.

The girls could only watch in dismay that Bloom was going to attack them, even if she was under a spell. Taren couldn't sit by and do nothing, using the Flowmotion to jump and run across the walls of the archives, leap to another shelf and propel himself towards Bloom.

Bloom only saw a blur and almost recognised it as Taren, but was too slow to react when he cast Slow on the surprised Bloom as he restrained her.

"Lockette, do it!" Taren calls out to the pixie while Bloom remains frozen in her position, Lockette flies towards her and kisses Bloom on the cheek. Just enough time for her to move again, but struggling to free herself from Taren's arms wrapped around her.

"Bloom, we're still your friends. All of us!" Lockette tells her.

Bloom struggles and glares at the bonded pixie. "How dare you? And Taren, how could you surprise me like that! Although I don't mind at all."

Taren was fighting the urge to ignore her tempting flirts knowing it wasn't her and also realizing they were a long way down. "Trust me, this is for your own good."

"Anyone wanna fill us in on what's going on?" Mal was not sure what the idea was.

Chatta realised something about her fellow pixie's ability. "Lockette's special kiss is the only thing that could break that spell."

As it was mentioned, Bloom's eyes turn back to the ocean blue color and they both feel her no longer struggling.

"Aw, Lockette, that was really sweet." Bloom sounded like her old self again, much to everyone's relief.

Taren feels he might need to be on solid ground before his grip on her loosens. Letting go of her and using the same technique to make a smooth landing. "Phew."

Stella was relieved. "Now, come on Bloom, you don't really want that Codex."

"Oh, you mean this? Of course not." But then Bloom's dark personality resurfaced as her eyes changed again into the sinister yellow. "But master Darkar sure does!" Bloom shoots a fireball on the glass roof, breaking the window. Kerbog flew around the school and spotted the fireball that came from the archives, signalling the dark creature of her whereabouts.

In a shocking moment, the group witnessed Bloom's transformation, the colour attire of her Winx form suddenly changed from the normal blue to black, and her wings became more pointed with silver gray tips.

"Wow, talk about a new look." Mal did not expect this. "So… is she like a… Dark Bloom?"

Bloom gave an evil glare at Lockette for what she tried to do to her. "Lockette, my very own bonded pixie. Trying to trick me? And Taren, how could you be so mean to me."

"N-no, I really do love you…" The pixie tells her.

"Bloom, wait, you obviously got a little carried away." Taren tries to think of a way to give the others time to form a new plan. And one he hopes to buy time with, to his reluctance. "Uh..I just thought of giving you my affection, my princess. I wouldn't think of tricking you."

It was to his amazement, her mood suddenly changed and smiled with her hands clasped together. "You do? Oh, I'm so relieved." She suddenly pounced on him, wrapping her arms around his torso, almost knocking him off the edge of the platform. "I can never stay mad at you. Sneaking up on me like that, is quick the bad boy in you~"

Tecna could see what he was doing and seemed to be working with Bloom distracted. "Okay, it's now or never. We must get back the Codex."

"Yeah, and I don't know how long Taren can keep her busy." Mirta pointed out how he looked nervous.
Flora made her first move. "Growing things, protecting our school!"

Mal decided to join in to combine her magic to use the plants to grow, the flowers grew towards the couple and wrapped around her, but also snared up Taren as well.

"Hey, this is not what I had in mind." It was also awkward for him being tied up by the vines and feel the soft firmness of Bloom's chest against his, making this very hard to

Dark Bloom gasped when her moment with her lover was spoiled and found herself wrapped up by the flowers. "Hey! Mal, you are starting to annoy me! They clash with my new look!" In a sudden fit of rage, she released a powerful force to tear the branches to pieces. However, this broke Taren free, but he lost his balance and fell. Yet fortunately Mirta and Flora came to catch him in time.

"Okay, that didn't work." Mal figured as much. "Any other ideas?"

"We can't use our Titans without hurting her, and obviously she hadn't used hers as well, so must be back in the bedoom." Which Musa noted and if she did would have used Sorceral to attack them. So they can use their powers at an even match. "Well, time to make her listen to reason! Wave Shield!" She shoots out soundwaves at Dark Bloom, her magic knocked a few books from the shelves as they landed on Bloom.

Concorda gasps in horror. "No! This is a librarian's worst nightmare!" Watching in dismay of the books fall and be destroyed to oblivion.

Dark Bloom grins at them and sneers. "That was weak, Musa, very weak."

Layla decided it was her turn. "That's it, girl, keep talking. Power Ball!" She shoots her magical attack at Bloom.

However, Dark Bloom was unfazed by the coming attack. "A pink bubble?" With a moment, she flicked it aside like it was nothing to her. "I'd like to say "hit me with your best shot", but it looks like you already have!"

Taren was not liking this at all and turned to Tecna who was scanning Bloom's readings. "Please say you found some good news."

The tecno fairy shakes her head. "Unfortunately, not. Her power's right off the scale. Honestly, I'm not sure we can do anything against her."

"Even with our keyblades, we're not exactly Master level and who knows what she would do with our Digimon and Titans." Mirta brought up the fact.

"But still, little dragon girl is totally irrational! I won't hold back this time!" Stella was ready for another round with her. "Sun Wave Supernova!" Using her sceptre to fire a powerful beam of light at Bloom, it did have some effect on her, but Bloom retaliated by conjuring a magical barrier to counter it. This only made her really mad at her.

"You asked for it, Winx. Fight fire with fire!"

"Cat's Eye Hypnotism!"

"Poison Ivy!"

"Pepper Breath!"

Dark Bloom was taken by surprise when the surprise encounter with Gatomon suddenly appeared before her, cancelling her attack and being engulfed by the terrible smoke created by Palmon. And finally Agumon's fire attack hit her directly, causing Bloom to release her hold of the Codex.

What seemed like a moment of victory to, when everything suddenly froze, including everyone without realising as if time had frozen.

All but one, a womanly voice spoke out from nowhere. "You were close to victory, and in doing so would prevent Darkar from achieving his victory, in another universe and timeline without the keyblade, it would have been quite simple of the Shadow Pheonix to easily obtain the third codex. Now to make sure it remains close as possible for our plans to play in motion. Time to correct the minor setback." A flash of light briefly appeared, but also several black feathers drifted by the winds. What happened next was everyone was on the floor unconscious, with no regulations of what happened.

"Uh… wha?" Taren stirs with his hand brought to his head to sit up. He didn't understand what happened, but felt something very odd happened.

Stella was waking up and had no idea what happened either. "Where am I? Wait, did it work?" She seemed to believe they had the advantage. One moment the Digimon had caught her by surprise, and then a flash of light came when they were suddenly knocked out. "Where's Bloom? I didn't break up with her now, did I?"

"She's here." Flora found Bloom, still in her dark form and knocked out by the blast. "But where's the… the codex!" She found the fragment, but now in the clutches of one of Darkar's creatures, flying away to make its escape.

Avalon finally made his arrival with Amore. "I came as fast as I could. What's going on? What happened? And where's Bloom?"

"She's over here, Professor." Musa directed the Paladin to where Bloom is, lying with Taren and Flora, and in a bad state.

"Poor girl. Somneil Falax Descino!" Avalon then uses magic on Dark Bloom before she would take the chance to recover, transforming her back to her normal self.

"Bloom? You alright?" Taren held her close and asked her out of concern, to his relief she was coming around and waking up.

"Where's...what?" Bloom was recovering slowly and found herself surrounded by her friends. "Where am I? Who did this?"

Avalon decided to explain to her. "You had a terrible bout of a particularly virulent form of shadow virus. You must have picked it up on an earlier travel."

"But we had a check up when we were in Radiant Garden, they would have picked it up." Mal countered, she wasn't so far certain but felt something wasn't right.

"No doubt must have lay dormant for sometime, our magic is different to your worlds' no doubt." Avalon countered, yet this didn't seem to make Mal at ease, especially Taren who was feeling suspicious about all this.

"Does that mean... Did I- Professor, what if I have a relapse?" Bloom was terrified if what she did now could come back another time to hurt her friends and those close to her.

"The magic from this special wand eradicated the virus. I just wish I could have realized it earlier." Avalon assured her and seemed regretful.

Concorda landed on his shoulder. "Don't blame yourself. If it weren't for you, this whole room would be a pile of rubble."

"Yeah, you seem to come at the right time." Taren made it sound sincere, but really was suspicious of the professor, he realised something wasn't right and had a bad vibe about it. And looking at Mal, the feeling was mutual. But so far was relieved Bloom was healed up and back to her good old self again.

Bloom had no idea what happened while she was under the control of the Shadow Virus. "I don't remember much, but it must've been awful. Oh please, everybody forgive me. I feel terrible, I am so sorry."

"Oh it's nothing to worry about." Stella said.

"We know you didn't mean to." Layla assured her.

"Yeah, I was surprised your dark side had an attitude. And bring out the side of me I didn't know." Mal complemented and still wanted to know about that power she used. But I had a pretty good idea of which one.

"Nothing to worry about, Bloom, believe it." Tarens smiles at her, as he gave a silent gesture to Flora to maybe keep what happened to themselves, at least until they tell her what exactly happened to discuss. Flora nodded and had a faint flush on her face of remembering it.

Bloom had another question to ask. "Was there...did I do something to the Codex?"

"Well, that's another story entirely and we'll have to let Faragonda know that it has been taken." Avalon gave a solemn look on his face.

"But we just had it! We were just about getting the Codex, and then… suddenly it was taken away." Mirta couldn't understand it. "I mean… did we?"

"Hmm, I'm not sure, but maybe best to get some rest and not think too much of it." Avalon suggested.

This made Bloom responsible for letting the Codex fall into Darkar's hands and now they have only one left to protect. "I have to get it back no matter what it takes." Before she could even get up, Bloom suddenly fainted but was caught by Taren just in time.

"Bloom! We have to get it back, all of us together!" Stella told her.

"There's one thing I do remember though. Lockette, you were really very brave. I'm so proud of you." Bloom felt terrible for how her darker side treated her. Fortunately, Lockette easily forgives her and hugs Bloom with a smile.

"Oh, Bloom…"

Taren had a thought, his face turned pale if she started to remember what happened. "If you don't remember what happened, Bloom, uh, let's just say you were a little crazy and best not to think too much."

Bloom blinked and wondered what he was talking about. "Huh? Well, whatever it is I did, sorry Agumon for mankind you spin so much and what I did to Timmy, I'll make up something."

Taren mentally sighed in relief while Mal decided to make her leave. "Well, now that's over with, me and Mirta gotta head back to school and-

Yet her path was blocked by a very stern and crossed Concorda with her arms crossed. "Excuse me for a moment, everyone. Now that the location of the Archive is no longer a secret, there is absolutely no reason whatsoever why we can't all help clean up this mess."

The girls let out a groan over the fact that they had to be put into cleaning duties now they found out about this secret room. Concordia turned around to the keyblade apprentices as well before they could make a run for it. "And that goes to you as well, keyblade or no keyblade!"

"But we're not Alfea students!" Taren protested, he thought she can use her magic to easily clean this mess as it is a very large archive room.

"And why should I suffer the same punishment as he does?" Mal added, earning a comical glare from the redhead for her plot wiggle out of it.

"No excuses! And after that I did not see you use that fire spell by your emotional outburst, young lady." Scolding Mal for her act, causing the witch keybearer's head to drop and groan in dismay for letting her anger get the better of her.

"Why did I get dragged along into this mess?"

Tecna's scanners suddenly picked up something on the floor, she curiously picked them up and surprised to find a couple of feathers. "Oh odd, where did these come from?" She received strange readings from them, unlike anything she has seen. Decided to take a few to conduct some research for later.

Having no idea how long they have been cleaning up, but they kept on working, much to the dismay of the teenagers, especially Mal who was dragged into the mess her friends made.

"That should do with this one." Taren groaned, but many more shelves to go. His shoulders slumped and sighs. "We could be at it all day." Even with their help, Agumon has a stockpile in his claws and tries not to drop them, while Palmo uses her abilities to help and Gatomon's climbing abilities to reach the top to put them in.

"If they let us use magic, this would have been a piece of cake." Mal complains, sliding one book to its spot. "How many do they need here?"

"A lot." Mirta replied before she noticed Taren looking tired and rubbing his neck. "You alright?"

"Uh? Yeah, I guess I got a little overworked with what happened today." Taren let out a soft groan, not sure what was wrong with him but perhaps was just a little stressed out. "Listen, what happened between me and Bloom-"

"Don't worry, I won't say a word." Mirta assured her and no doubt Mal would do the same. "But I think she might need to know sooner or later."

"I Know, and Bloom will no doubt freak out about it." Taren will need to work out how to tell Bloom of what she did as Dark Bloom.

Meanwhile, Bloom and the Winx keep up with their own while in their Winx forms to maintain flight.

"We knew it wasn't really you doing all that mean stuff." Flora assures Bloom that it wasn't at all her fault.

Musa agrees with her. "Yeah, but I thought that the Timmy thing was pretty funny." She heard about what happened and couldn't help but found it funny, however, Tecna didn't seem to agree.

"I understand Timmy can be irritating sometimes, but why would you hang him upside down?" Tecna inquired as to why Bloom would do that to her crush, she was relieved he wasn't hurt at all.

Even if Bloom knew why, she couldn't find the answer. "You'd better ask Dark Bloom, because this one doesn't have the faintest idea."

"And while on the subject, out of everyone, you didn't try to attack Taren and Flora, but something made him… I dunno, nervous?" Musa's question may have been an innocent question, yet it was something that made Bloom freeze for a moment.

"Wait, I did?" Bloom's face turned red and took a glance towards her boyfriend, yet something else was coming back to her as they went on.

"Yeah, you were calling him your prince, and hugged him so firmly that you didn't want to let go of him." Stella couldn't help but grow a smile and wanted to know more. "You were swooning over him and all lovey dovey."

Bloom's face turned ever so red and buried her face into her hands, a moment that she wished to have forgotten about what her darker version was trying to do "Great, now I'm never gonna let this go, he's gonna be so nervous around me for awhile…. wait… something else I'm starting to remember."

"Really? What? Tell us?" Stella was eager to find out, yet not aware that Flora's face was becoming a shade of pink and hoped to finish it.

"Uh, maybe we should continue this and give Bloom some time." Flora said, hoping to end this discussion.

"Yeah, I think I should not go too much, not like I did anything with Taren or Flora-" Bloom suddenly cut off in mid-sentence, and something else came back to her of what happened. Something she wasn't sure if it really happened but noticed how Flora seemed very nervous and behaving strangely, especially Taren. Whatever it is she wanted to ask them privately to avoid a scene. "Uh, you know what? We should drop it for now. It might have been trying to throw us all off guard."

Flora caught a look on Bloom;'s face, feeling she might be remembering what happened. "Y-yes, maybe it was that."

Musa and Tecna shared a mutual look as they thought it seemed pretty obvious. "Well, I guess that makes sense. But it did seem to do the trick when his face was all red." Musa seems to buy it.

"I suppose that does sound plausible." Tecna concluded.

"Uh, like I said, probably just all of Dark Bloom's doing, who knows what she wanted to try. Obviously I must have said something to make him really embarrassed." She tries to wave it off.

But from the look on Stella, she didn't seem to buy it for a second. "I dunno, something did happened between you three, and I'm more curious to know-"

"Come on, girls. Enough dilly-dallying. To work!" Concorda told them and ceased their chattering. Which they did and to both Bloom and Flora's relief. The pixie fairy gave a serene smile to see the girls all in a positive mood, even if what happened just now and lost the codex.

Kerbog returned to the castle with a successful mission of retrieving the Codex. It hands the fragment over to Darkar with Kefka, looking amazed that it actually worked.

"Kerborg! Well done, my pet." Darka congratulated his 'pet' on a job well done.

"Well, that was a surprise, I was sure it didn't work but you sure proved me wrong." Kefka sniggers and smiles with glee. "That makes three and one more to go!"

"Indeed! The third part of the Codex is mine!" Darkar proclaimed with a sinister glee. "It won't be long now. The fourth will soon follow!" And the only place it could be is to find the Pixie village, it had to be the only place to locate it, but the pixies were well protected and the only way was either capture one of them to force the information out of them, or follow one back to their home.

As Darkar takes the moment of victory and gloating, Kafka was somewhere in the castle and overheard the news. "Looks like Darker is getting closer to his plans, oooh, I can hardly wait." Talking to someone in the shadows.

"Even if that is true, we must remain cautious. Now all the artefacts have been located, we can now proceed to the next phase of our plans."

Kafka could not help but chuckle and rubbed his hands together. "Oh, I'm so excited! I can imagine the looks on their faces." But another thought occurred in mind. "What about the Trix?"

"So far we saw no change in their personalities, only their goals of obtaining power. But we will deal with the situation very soon." Revealing to be the holographic projection of Aqua Seneschal who Kafka was speaking with.

I hope you enjoyed it, it took a while due to social life at the time being busy and also my birthday came up earlier this week. Another year older lol

So added some elements from the comic verse, such as Bloom's job in a cafe and how Timmy and Tecna met... well, you could say it was a BUMPY start lmao.

So was working on ideas to put more for Sky with Estrid, this making him uncertain and nervous of asking her out since he met her and will think of using other elements from the comics as well to handle the Diaspro problem. As I hope you enjoyed this sudden twist as I've been planning it for months and thanks to Jebest4781 for the idea. It would give a new turn to the romantic relationship and how they will deal with it after the Dark Bloom incident.

Whatever it is the evil forces are plotting, we now know Kafka is part of it and they are up to something without Darkar or the Trip knowing, neither are they giving up on the Kaiju artefacts that they have something up their sleeves.

However, before anyone suggest about the vacation episode, there's going to be an original chapter in the making and something I have in mind. Ideas are open, as well as comments and critics welcome!