New A/N: I've now gone through and fixed all spelling and grammatical errors that I could find, once in awhile I look back through the chapters to refresh my memory, and I've spotted quite a few mistakes that have really been bugging me! So without further delay, here's the, hopefully, error-free version.

Oh! Something else I've noticed I was doing, and am now taking advantage of: with each of her mothers, Bloom uses a different variation of the word mama.

I've also tweaked a few things here and there, for instance, the fight with Diaspro has a little more detail such as some of the destruction her powers caused during the fight. Among other little things to add a bit more detail to certain scenes.

Enjoy.

Fractured Bloom

A Winx Club Fanfic

A/N: So I've been on a bit of a Winx Club kick as of late, I watched the first 3 seasons when FOX was still doing a Saturday morning kids line-up and loved it, and this is pretty much the end result of that. The works in particular that I've been reading are from FunahoMisaki and Midnight Lost (if you're a fan of Winx, Case Closed, Evengelion, Harry Potter and several others then I recommend checking them out) and one from FM that's unfinished kinda struck me. It's called The truth behind bloom and while most of it's key points won't influence this fic, one that will is the idea of a somewhat mentally damaged Bloom.

Now she's not gonna be completely handicapped, far from it, she'll be pretty powerful and intelligent, though like most children she'll have some trouble with big words, it's just that this slight damage is gonna cause her to, for the most part, act, react and interact in the way that a young child would. For instance, if someone were to hurt or upset her greatly then she'll see them as a "bad person", while someone who's nice to her or she just really likes, she'll cling to them in the same way as a child. She's not dumb, just somewhat simple minded in that aspect.

Finally, some other things you can expect from this story: Majorly OOC characters, Nice motherly Griffin, protective witches, nice Trix to an extant, Split Winx (you'll see), Fargonda bashing, heavy Stella bashing, Sky bashing, and whatever else I decide to throw in down the road.

With that out of the way let us begin.

Chapter 1

(Gardenia)

"Why are we on this backwater planet again?"

"*Sigh* Because, Griffin want's someone to find and retrieve Bloom before Fargonda and her little pixies can brainwash her, and we volunteered."

"Don't you mean you volunteered and just dragged us along Darcy? I don't recall Stormy jumping for the opportunity, and I sure as hell didn't want to find the brat."

Darcy rolled her eyes as they made their way out of the park and into town.

"Look, we're already here, we're doing the mission, stop complaining already!"

While her two sisters grumbled Darcy spotted the right house. Walking up she politely knocked and waited.

Shortly a kind-looking brunette woman answered.

"Hello, how can I help you?"

Glaring at Icy before she could open her mouth, Darcy turned back to the other woman, giving a small friendly smile.

"Hi, I hope this name means something to you, Headmistress Griffin sent us?"

Recognition sparked on the brunette's face.

"Ah! You must be the escorts she sent to pick up Bloom. Please, come in and have a seat, she should be getting out of class shortly. I'm Vanessa her adoptive mother, would you care for some tea or anything while you wait?"

Leading them into the living room the Trix took a seat on the sofa.

"Tea would be very nice, thank you."

Icy shook her head while Stormy asked for water instead.

After a few minutes everyone got comfortable, Darcy adding several sugar cubes to her tea.

"Sorry, bit of a sweet tooth."

Vanessa just chuckled.

"I'm glad you showed up, I've already had to redirect a young blonde fairy away from here earlier, she was quite persistent."

Stormy nearly choked on her water.

"Fairy?! You mean you're aware?"

Vanessa blinked.

"Of course, I'm a retired witch and an old friend of Griffin, didn't she tell you these things?"

All three shook their heads no eliciting a snicker from the revealed witch.

"Then again that's definitely something she'd do, guess she just wanted to have a bit of fun."

Darcy shook her head.

"Well anyways, while we're waiting for Bloom, can you tell us a bit about her? The only thing we were really told was that she's special and to try and be nice. So what's that about?"

Vanessa gave a bit of a sad sigh.

"Well you see-" "Mamma, I'm home!"

Before anymore could be said a cheerfully giggling redhead zipped across the room and glomped Vanessa, startling Icy and Stormy, while drawing the attention of Darcy.

"Hello dear, my you're certainly energetic today, how was school?"

Snuggling into her mother's lap, she took on, what Darcy found to be, a rather adorable thoughtful pose.

"Well, I got asked a lot of questions in my classes, and I got sooo many right! The teachers said they were proud of me they did they did. Even some of my friends gave me hugs and con-congrad..."

Vanessa smiled.

"Congratulated?"

Bloom grinned.

"Yeah! Congratulated me for doing so good. We had tacos for lunch which was awesome! Oh! Mitzi gave me this really pretty bracelet and she said it took a whole two weeks to make it and included my birthstone cause I was born in December, but instead of Turquoise she used Zircon because she said it's prettier. I liked it so much I wore it alll day! See, see?"

Bloom held up her wrist and showed off the bracelet, even the Trix leaning closer to look. The bracelet was a simple silver chain, but it was the charms on it that must have taken the most time. The charms were five small and very detailed Chinese styled dragons with small Zircon gems for eyes. No one in the room could deny its beauty.

Darcy whistled.

"Wow, it's beautiful."

Bloom giggled happily.

"Thank you, oh! I've never met you before, my name's Bloom, what's yours?"

Icy huffed.

"Icy."

"Stormy."

"I'm Darcy, it's nice to meet you Bloom."

Darcy blushed as instead of shaking her hand Bloom pulled her into a friendly hug.

"Hi Darcy, you're very nice, and you have a pretty name."

Smiling at her daughter's antics she grabbed her attention.

"Bloom sweetie, these three girls are here to take you to the magical school we've talked about."

The redhead's eyes lit up.

"You mean Cloud Tower? I finally get to learn how to be a full-on witch?"

She nodded.

"That's right. Now go pack your things and get ready to leave. I'll inform the school on Monday that you were accepted at a private school."

"Yay!"

Letting go of Darcy she grabbed her backpack and hurried upstairs to pack.

After a few moments of silence Stormy spoke up.

"So... I guess she's... challenged?"

Vanessa shook her head sadly.

"Not really challenged. See, about four years back she was involved in a terrible accident. My husband Mike was driving back from the store with Bloom when they had a head-on collision with a drunk driver. Mike... didn't make it. In fact he died upon impact. The other driver only had a few sprains and a slipped disc in his back. But Bloom wasn't as lucky, as the sudden impact caused her to smash her head against the side door. The Doctors did what they could but even magic couldn't do anything for the brain damage that resulted, physically and mentally on some levels she's a perfectly normal 16 year old, just a little short, but speech wise and on other mental levels she's permanently 6-12, it kind of varies really."

The Trix took a few moments to digest this news.

"... So she's retar-ow! Darcy? What the hell?!"

Said illusion witch glared at Icy, rubbing her hand after smacking her upside the head.

"Do NOT use that word. It's like Griffin said, she's special. So I can guess that she excels up to genius levels with some subjects?"

Vanessa nodded, glad that Darcy was quick to defend her little girl, but it was an excited Bloom who answered, carrying her suitcase and backpack down the stairs. The illusionist didn't hesitate to assist her with her bags.

"Teacher says I'm really good at math and science and Mamma says I'm a prodigy with spells."

She smiled, guiding them to the door.

"It's true, everything I teach her about spell work she soaks up like a sponge. Now, you be good for everyone at school, do your best and make Mamma proud okay?"

Bloom pulled her in for a tight hug.

"I will Mamma, I'm gonna be the bestest witch ever, you'll see!"

She sniffled, wiping away a happy tear.

"I know you will sweetie, and when you come back at the end of the semester you can tell me all about your adventures."

With a few last goodbyes, the 4 headed off to the transport back to Magix.

xxx

(Magix, an hour later)

All through the trip Bloom looked around in complete awe, never having experienced so much magic in one place. The entire time she slightly clung to Darcy, not feeling quite as comfortable with the other two, though Darcy didn't seem to mind this, instead she just protectively slung her left arm around the shorter girl's shoulder.

"Wooow. This is where you guys live? It's so nice and beautiful, were you born here?"

Stormy and Darcy chuckled at the girls energy and awe, even Icy cracked a small smile.

"This is where we come for our schooling, shopping and other things, but no, we weren't born here. All three of us were born and raised on the planet Whisperia."

If at all possible Bloom's eyes seemed to widen in even further awe and wonderment.

"Coool. Can I visit your guys' planet sometime? Please please please?"

Darcy laughed, tousling the girl's hair, noting how she leaned into the friendly touch.

"We'll talk to your mom after the semester kiddo, but I'm sure she'll let you come stay with us for awhile."

Before anymore could be said they found themselves rudely interrupted.

"Hey witchies, curse anyone lately? Could've sworn I saw a few toads hopping around here, probably your doing."

Turning around, Bloom clinging a little closer to Darcy, the quartet looked to see who was mouthing off.

"Hey! What are you doing here? Only magicals are supposed to be on this planet."

All three sisters stood protectively next to Bloom as they glared at the blond bitch Stella, the pampered princess of Solaria.

Stormy clenched her fists, electricity sparking around them.

"Not that it's any of your business pixie, but she does have magic."

Darcy nodded, purple magic encircling her free hand, Icy having taken Bloom's suitcase earlier.

"That's right, now, why don't you just scamper on back to your little fairy friends and leave Bloom alone."

The sun fairy sneered.

"Oh yeah? Why don't you make me you-"

Then realization dawned on her.

"Wait... did you say Bloom?"

Taking in her features Stella immediately brightened and reached for her.

"Why did you lie earlier about who you are when I was trying to find you? It doesn't matter, come on Bloom, what are you doing with these freaks? Miss Fargonda will be so thrilled to have finally found you, and I just know you'll love Alfea."

The moment Stella grabbed her wrist Bloom let out a terrified shriek and pulled away stunning her while the Trix stepped in her way, Darcy pulling the scared redhead into a protective embrace.

Bloom hid her face with Darcy's chest.

"No! Don't want to go anywhere with the Bad Fairy! Go away!"

Stella blinked.

"Bad fairy? There's no such thing as a bad fairy. Huh? What the?!"

Before any of the onlookers or anyone else could react a nearby fire hydrant erupted, a concentrated blast of hot water hitting the sun fairy and sending her flying.

"AAAAAHHHH!?"

Once everything had calmed down Icy turned to Bloom and grinned.

"Ha ha! You sent that Sun Pixie packing! Great job Bloomy."

Darcy raised an eyebrow, a much calmer Bloom blinking confused.

"'Bloomy'?"

Icy shrugged.

"Well, our new fourth sister needs a similar name doesn't she?"

Bloom thought it over, smiling at being referred to as their fourth sister.

"Bloomy... I like it! Bloomy Bloomy Bloomy, yep yep, I'm Bloomy!"

All three sisters and several surrounding onlookers laughed heartily.

"All right girls, I think we've left Griff waiting long enough. To Cloud Tower!"

XXX

"... And this is the Headmistresses office, hey Miss Griff, we brought Bloom. Now, I think you owe us an explanation about-" "Mumma Griffin!"

Before either of the three could react Bloom bolted from Darcy's side and zipped across the room, perching in a smiling Griffin's lap.

"Bloom dear, it's wonderful to see you again."

Stormy shook herself from her stupor first.

"Wow teach', this has to be the first time I've seen you actually happy. What gives?"

Icy remembered what Bloom had exclaimed.

"Yeah, and why'd she call you Mumma Griffin?"

Griffin chuckled.

"Of course, why wouldn't I be happy to see my goddaughter after so long away from her?"

All three had the same reaction.

"GODDAUGHTER?!"

XXX

"Hehe! Jack beats 3!" "Ah man." "Again?"

Darcy sat not too far away, watching Bloom play card games with her two newest friends Mirta and Lucy, both Freshman, like the lovable redhead. Icy and Stormy had gone to find dinner for the group, while Darcy decided to stay and keep an eye on Griffin's goddaughter.

"That certainly came as quite the shock, though, it also makes sense why she'd be so concerned with keeping Bloomy out of the fairies' hands."

Chuckling as Bloom won another round against her two friends, she thought back to the conversation in Griffin's office earlier that evening.

(Flashback)

"So if she's your goddaughter, then that means you knew her real parents, right?"

Griffin nodded.

"Yes, I did know them, I was quite close with her mother actually."

Icy crossed her arms as the three finally took a seat.

"So then, who were they? I can guess that something happened and they're no longer around."

Griffin sat back, stroking Bloom's hair, a sad yet fond smile on her lips.

"Her birth mother was Marion and her father was Oritel, and she had an older sister Daphne. All of whom are... indisposed."

Darcy's eyes widened in realization before her sisters.

"Those are the names of the queen and king of the declared lost kingdom of Domino, along with their daughter... that would make Bloomy..."

Said girl giggled, smiling brightly.

"Yep yep, I'm a princess! But I don't let it go to my head, not one bit, nope nope."

Everyone couldn't help but chuckle at the look of complete conviction on her face.

After a few moments Stormy was next to have a question.

"So why did you need to hide Bloomy on Gardenia? Even we know you're a very powerful witch, so why wouldn't she be safe with you?"

Griffin sighed.

"Fargonda. She never really cared for Domino because of it being known, not only for being the birthplace of many powerful fairies and warriors, but also several gifted and prodigal witches. She's firmly in the belief that Light is always right and that Gray doesn't exist. In fact, for awhile now, she's believed me to be Dark and tends to avoid or scorn me rather than be civil. The friend I once had in her is unfortunately long gone I'm afraid."

As though sensing her Mumma Griffin's distress, Bloom gave her a reassuring hug.

"It's okay Mumma, I'm sure the rest of the witches support you, and you'll always have me."

Griffin sniffed, returning the embrace.

"Thank you dear, you always know just what to say to cheer me up."

The Trix smiled at the scene, Darcy thinking about what's been said.

"So if Fargonda were to get a hold of Bloomy... what would she do?"

Everyone, including Bloom, looked towards Griffin curiously while she thought through everything she knew of her former friend turned nemesis.

"There's no doubt in my mind that the first thing she'd do is use a memory charm to erase all knowledge of Bloomy's heritage from her mind. Best case scenario, Bloom'd become a fairy and live a semi-normal but ignorant life, never knowing anything of her family, not even us, and most likely having the normal fairy prejudices against witches drilled into her."

The Trix blanched at that, that already sounded horrible, and that's the best case?

Darcy shook her head, pulling Bloom protectively closer, she having moved into Darcy's lap during the revelation.

"If THAT'S the best, then prey-tell, what's the worst?"

The headmistress's eyes darkened at the thought of it.

"Worst case, she becomes a martyr, Fargonda's loyal weapon against all those she deems "Dark", and only revealing what little she WANTS Bloom to know when SHE wants her to, and only just enough to keep her under her thumb. And once her usefulness has ended, she'd find some way to dispose of her."

A collected horrified gasp was shared through the room.

"That's why I had to hide her, and why I sent you to get her. I hoped you would form an attachment to her, I know how powerful you three are and will become, so I don't need to worry whether she's in capable hands or not. Plus, I also know about your fascination with the Dragon Flame and well..."

She gestured to Bloom who seemed to be entertaining herself with a ball of fire she'd conjured. Wait...

"You're saying she holds the Dragon Flame?!"

Griffin nodded.

"Correct. That's another reason she must not fall into Fargonda's hands. With that kind of power at her disposal, she'd be nearly unstoppable. So, can I trust you three with my goddaughter?"

The Trix spent a few moments to take it all in. Bloom was a princess to a lost and powerful kingdom, as well as held the very power they'd been seeking for the past few years. It was surprisingly easy to accept that they couldn't take it for themselves, but having the one capable of wielding it in their circle, well, that more then made up for that. Plus, Bloom had grown on them quite a bit. How could they say no?

Darcy smiled, holding up her hand to Bloom's flame and concentrated her magic, Icy and Stormy stepping over to do the same, turning the red flame purple with sparks of electricity running through it and making it cold to the touch.

"Don't worry."

"You can count on us."

"What kind of sisters would we be if we let harm come to one of our own?"

Griffin smiled brightly, for her at least.

"Excellent! Now, enough of all this sad talk. Why don't you tell Mumma Griffin what you've been up to since we last saw each other, and maybe tell me where you got such a pretty bracelet?"

(End flashback)

Darcy shook herself from her thoughts just in time to see Bloom win the final hand.

"Yay I win!"

Lucy sighed and rubbed her face in halfhearted frustration.

"I'm supposed to be the Queen of War, and now I've gotten my ass beaten several times by a newbie-Ow!"

Lucy gave Mirta a questioning glare, the magenta haired witch staring back sternly.

"Language Lucy."

The green haired witch blinked, rubbing her sore head.

"What? She's the same age as the rest of us, so what's it matter?"

Mirta began putting up the cards.

"That may be, but she's innocent, and we should try to keep it that way. Besides, not everyone our age needs to be swearing like a goblin."

Darcy smiled, taking a seat and pulling Bloom close.

"Thank you Mirta, I agree, let's try to keep Bloomy here as innocent as we can."

A moment later Icy and Stormy popped in carrying several plastic bags.

"We're back, hope everyone's okay with take-out."

xxx

After everyone had eaten, they played a few more games, Bloom winning most of them, and chatted 'til it was time for everyone to turn in. It only being Friday classes wouldn't begin until Monday, but the sisters wanted to get up at a decent time to show Bloom around Magix a bit more and get her adjusted to her new home.

According to Griffin's request to watch over her, she was also rooming with them. If she wanted one then eventually Bloom would get her own bed, but for now she was more than happy to share Darcy's, who also had no complaints.

Darcy and her sisters wore similar pajamas, consisting of over-sized T-shirts in their signature colors and women's boxers, again in signature colors.

"I'm ready! How do I look?"

As she stepped out of the bathroom that they all shared, Darcy looked up and froze. Bloom was dressed in a pair of cut-off sleep shorts and a slightly see through night shirt, both turquoise and both rather form-fitting. With the clothes showing off her figure it was much more apparent that, though she had a child-like mind, her body, while short for her age, was most definitely NOT that of a child.

"Darcy? Are you okay?"

Icy noticed the slight blush on her sister's face and smirked.

"Heh, seems someone feels more than sisterly love for sweet little Bloomy. Speaking of whom, she's starting to look a little worried, better fix this."

Icy smiled.

"Don't worry about Darcy, she's just tired from the long day. I think you look adorable, don't you agree Darcy?"

Said dazed girl blinked out of her stupor.

"What? Oh! Yes, you look lovely Bloomy."

Bloom gave a sigh of relief.

"Okay, I was worried you didn't like it, and then I would have to change it and hope you liked the next one. But I actually don't have another one so I guess I'd have to change it with magic huh?"

Darcy shook her head in amusement.

"You're fine sweetie, now come to bed. Tomorrow's gonna be a big day, we're gonna spend it showing you all around Magix."

Smiling she crawled into bed next to Darcy, yawning cutely as Stormy turned off the lights.

"Night night Stormy."

Putting in some earphones she smiled and rolled over.

"Night kiddo."

"Night night Icy."

Icy pulled down her sleep mask.

"Goodnight Bloomy."

Yawning once more as she got comfortable she closed her eyes.

"Night night Darcy."

Leaning down she gave Bloom a light kiss on the cheek, settling in and resting an arm protectively around the sleeping redhead, who unconsciously snuggled into the embrace.

"Goodnight Bloomy. Sleep tight my little flame."

And with that everyone slept peacefully through the night, smiles upon their faces as they dreamed of the changes and adventures the new addition to the family would bring.

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