1 New Students
Disclaimer: I don't own Fate the Winx saga.
The new students are all arriving on the luxurious schoolgrounds of Alfea and start to mingle amongst each other or with some of the curious upper classmen hanging around.
"Hey, look at that. Weird right?" Bloom hears a girl say from her left, looking over to her she sees a girl and her friend looking in her direction.
"Yeah. I don't know why they let in that freak." The other girl agrees, their eyes following something behind Bloom herself.
Bloom, a redheaded girl wearing a red jacket over a dark blue and flower-patterned dress turns around and sees a boy around her height with green spiky hair walk through the crowd as if on a mission, heading straight for a part of the school. She sees many students he walks by look at him funnily, but she decides to follow him, being lost and assuming from his confident, uncaring walk that he knows where they need to go.
"Why are you following me?" He asks sharply, suddenly stopping in front of her, while she's lugging around a big blue duffle bag. When he turns to face her, she sees green eyes searching her brown ones for any sign of threat.
"I just... thought you know the way." She says surprised by his sharp tone.
"Sorry, I'm a little on edge..." he attempts to apologize, when a tall blonde teen walks up to them.
"Is there a problem? I can tell you the way. It's quite obvious you're lost." The guy says, pulling Bloom with her, Garfield watching this scoffing lightly and carrying on his way glaring at students who look at him funny.
"The headmistress is busy." The secretary tells Garfield when he enters the foyer to the head mistress's office.
"My existence was supposed to be a secret." Garfield says loudly, pushing away the lanky man and steps into the fairy's office uninvited.
"And you are?" She asks uncaringly.
"Garfield Logan. I was asked by the queen to attend here as a favor and as part of the agreement you were supposed to keep quiet." He growls.
"I don't know how people found out about you, but I can't change that. Id you don't like it here, leave. You don't have much to learn anyways if the rumors are true." The headmistress challenges him.
"For both our sakes I'll stay. I hope you at least were able to give me my own room or was that too hard as well?" He asks annoyedly.
"Don't take that tone with me. I'm the principal of this academy." She says proudly.
"Yet I could snap your neck like a twig if I wanted to." He replies cockily, leaving with a snort and heads over to the fairy hall and goes looking for his room.
A few minutes later he finds his room and steps inside, the room is rather small, only having a adjourned bathroom and a small room with a bed, a table and a chair.
"Well, this seems to be my style wherever I go." He sighs, unpacking his things, his door having been left open.
While he unpacks, he hears a familiar voice and sees the girl he bumped into earlier enter the room across the hall from him with a blonde-haired girl. Through their opened door he can also see a chubbier brunette, an Afro-American girl and a girl with her black hair in two buns on top of her head, with headphones on. The girl looks at him by chance and he waves at her shortly, only to see her eyes light up purple with her going towards him, shutting the door to the girls' apartment.
"Hello to you too." He says disappointed and closes his door, flopping down on his bed.
That noon Garfield is lying on his bed, playing a game on his phone when someone knocks on his door.
"It's open." He says, glancing at the door, with the chubby brunette from across the hall opening it.
"Hi. I'm Terra. We're neighbors now. I just thought you might want a plant for your room as a welcoming present?" She asks cautiously, holding up a small plant pot with a bonsai inside.
"Sure, thanks." He says genuinely surprised and accepts the pot. Tossing aside his phone on his bed.
He sets down the plant on his desk and stares at it for a moment.
"Is something wrong with it?" Terra asks.
"Terra? What are you doing here? Doesn't matter. Stay away from him." Terra's father, who is one of the fairies' teacher orders, pulling her over to her own room.
"Farah wants us to come check something out. A body was found at the border." The earth fairy says.
"Lead the way." Garfield says annoyed, picks up his phone and follows him.
When the two arrive the headmistress Farah and the specialist teacher Silva are looking at a dead body ripped to shreds.
"Hmm. A burned one and I thought the don't come out this far." Garfield says thoughtfully.
"Are you sure? The burned ones were supposed to have been wiped out over 15 years ago." Silva says.
"Yeah I'm sure and I don't know who's spreading that bullshit. I've been fighting them my whole life." Garfield says.
"He's right. This definitely is the work of a burned one." Terra's father agrees with a heavy heart.
"Alright. Keep quiet for now. All of you." Farah tells them, looking at Garfield in particular.
"Hey, I may be an asshole and rude but even I don't want the students to go and kill themselves." Garfield tells them before making his way back to the school with the teachers following him soon after.
"A party huh?" Garfield says to himself, seeing many of the students gathered in the fairies auditorium.
He makes his way over to one of the food tables and fills a plate with chicken drumsticks.
"At least they seem to have decent food here." He sighs, taking a bite from his first drumstick.
"Do you see that. Eating meat, like an animal." He hears a gossiping voice.
"Look at him, so weird." Another says.
"Why is he here. No one wants him here." He hears someone else say.
After overhearing the insults, he picks up another two drumsticks and leaves the auditorium.
At the same time Bloom is talking to Sky, the boy who approached her earlier and asks him where she can go that's the opposite of the party and has no people. The outside of the barrier comes up, but Sky advises het not to go there since it's dangerous out there at the moment.
Sky however gets called away by Bloom's bossy roomate, Stella.
After Sky left Bloom heads outside and makes her way to the forest and the barrier beyond the school.
"Seriously, on the first day?" Garfield groans seeing her leave, having taken a seat on the academy's roof.
He jumps down to the ground, his legs shifting into legs similar to a wolf for a moment when he lands. Still munching away on a drumstick, holding his plate in front of him with its 3 drumsticks.
He follows the girl through the barrier and sees her try to use her magic in an empty field.
He sees her struggle for a bit, but when she looks at pictures on her phone of her parents' room which she accidentally burned down she gets angry and concentrates again, a fire lighting in her palm. She puts away her phone and her other palm ignites after some concentration.
She smiles at having succeeded in using her magic. But when she tries to dismiss the flames the fire doesn't follow her orders and continues to burn inside her hands.
She tries to shake it off her hands scared but only makes some small embers light the ground beneath her on fire in a few small spots.
"Calm down. If you panic you won't be able to control it." Garfield says, revealing his presence, going over to the girl and stops just outside the small ring of fire, pulling her out of it, against him with her hands outstretched on either side of him.
"There, see. Your own flames can't hurt you. Ones gone haywire can, though it's a rare occurrence." He tells her.
"What do you want? Get away. I can't control it." Bloom says frantically, but Garfield continues to hold her against him.
"Looks like this time I followed you and I'm trying to help you with your control." He says in soft voice, completely contrasting to his previous impression left on the redhead.
"Stay calm and just continue to hold out your palms." He instructs her, stepping out of his hold, stopping in front of her.
"Look I'm not an elemental fairy and don't know squat about fire. But I know about the anger, fear and confusion you're feeling." He says, holding a drumstick in the fire, heating it up.
"See. Fire can be useful. It's not only harmful. You need to look at it differently." He says, presenting the sizzling drumstick.
"All great, but can you just tell me how to shut this off?" Bloom asks freaked out.
"Concentrate on something else. Your mind is too focused on the fire." He advises.
"What do you want me to focus on? That I don't belong here? Or that I don't know anyone here? That I'm afraid I'll burn down everything around me?" She yells scared. At that moment her roomate Aisha arrives, spotting the two and the small fire burning behind Bloom.
"Focus on me. Look at me, don't think about anything else." He tells her, holding her arms down, out of her field of vision.
"Are you serious? I don't even know you." She says.
"Well ask away, what do you want to know. There's no time like the present." He says, staring into her brown eyes with her reluctantly looking deeper into his green ones.
"What's your name?" She asks in a shaken voice.
"Garfield Logan, but you can call me Gar." He says.
"I'm Bloom." She replies, the fire dimming slightly.
"What else?" He presses her on encouragingly.
"Why don't people like you? You're a newcomer too right?" She asks.
"My abilities are unique, there hasn't been any known case of a fairy with my abilities before. People are scared and distrustful of this." He tells her.
"What do you do?" She asks.
"I can transform into animals." He says.
"Really? That sounds cool. But the headmistress told me that transformation magic is long lost." Bloom says curious.
"It's not the first thing she lied about." Garfield replies.
"Where are you staying?" She asks.
"Across the hall from you actually." He says with a small grin, the fire in Bloom's hand almost completely extinguished.
"What about you? Why did you come to school here?" He asks, but Bloom gets scared, remembering her losing control with her parents and freezes up, breathing erratically, the flames in her hands growing bigger and bigger.
"Bloom." She barely notices his concerned voice in her panic-struck state.
"You can kick my ass later if you want." He says, cupping her face gently and steps closer to her, kissing her softly. Bloom recovers from her freak out a second into the kiss and enjoys his warm lips on hers, she loses herself in their contact and pulls him closer against herself, not noticing the flames having disappeared.
"You OK now?" He asks, breaking the kiss after a while, looking at her concerned.
"Uhh, yeah thanks. It worked." She says half happy, half embarrassed.
"Seriously, there is a fire about to burn down the forest and you two make out." Aisha says announcing her presence and uses her water magic to throw a beachball sized water ball on top of the flames behind them.
"Don't make it a big deal. That fire was so tiny I could've blown it out by yawning." Garfield says, releasing Bloom from his hold and picks up the drumsticks plate he dropped, which landed right side up luckily.
"Like I said, if you want to kick my ass, you know where I live." He tells the redhead with a playful wink, noticing the distrustful eyes of Aisha before leaving, heading back to the academy.
"You shouldn't get too close to him. He's both dangerous and an abomination." She tells Bloom.
"Why? He helped me." Bloom asks annoyed, feeling indebted to Garfield.
"It's just that way. He shouldn't be at this school and everyone knows it. I'm just warning you. Even if he doesn't hurt you, you're bound to get caught in the crossfire of the students' disapproval of him being here." Aisha advises.
"So you're telling me that the first person who's honest to me and might care just a little bit about me is the one person I have to stay away from?" Bloom asks annoyed.
"Pretty much. What you do with the information is up to you. I did my good deed for the day." Aisha says, walking back to the Institute with the redhead joining her.
