Chapter 6: Flora Hildago
Trigger Warning: Mentions of blades, PTSD, death, monster plants, acid, and gore.
Bloom walks into her assigned room and saw a mysterious haunting silhouette with red eyes surrounded by random monstrous and exotic plants, and she step on one of it, which pissed it and attacks her.
"My apologies"
"Nah, its fine, I left my plants all over."
The silhouette reassured her revealing a woman with vampire teeth and dusty brown skin with hair of someone who is in mid 50s. Her Winx might appear weak, but every changeling feared her swordsmanship and sportsmanship. Her vines can crush someone if she is angry. But she was not always angry.
Before this, she had an average family with her wonderful parents and a younger sister, Millet in Amazon. Her parents are lab rats because they work in both bio and chem laboratories, which they occasionally bring her and her sister along to tour inside the labs. Her childhood is full of studying plants and animals, gardening and hiking.
Her parents introduced her to a mentor, Dr. Maya who is in late 60s, while they are both working. Dr. Maya is a huge influence on Flora, who as a ranger of the Linfe, the nature reserve, introduced the plants and wildlife of Linfe and teach her how to take care of them. She is warded of venomous ones until she reaches puberty where her Winx forms, where her venom assimilation starts to develop. A shaman taught her meditation and mindfulness to reduce any causalities caused by her during the full moon. In her adolescence, she is the Kendo Taisho, and practices yoga in her free time.
But her peaceful life had ended when an avalanche of pixie dust displaced by the Solarian Military Cloudplane forced the residents of Amazon to evacuate the realm. During the evacuation, Millet was still prepubescent, and she is fast in terms of running speed, but unfortunately, she got caught up and left behind by a stampede of evacuees and suddenly she fell into an acidic lake. Flora ran back and throw herself into the acidic lake to save her sister, but as she dived into the lake and reached her hand to her sister, Millet is already dissolved into liquid leaving her winx essence fusing with Flora's. Her sister's death took a toll on her as she escaped from the lake, defeated and remorseful and starts to hate fairies as a result. She blamed herself for being not powerful enough to save her sister, which results in her to start intense workouts so that she has enough fitness to save everyone and pushed herself to study obsessively so that she can graduate earlier and start training to become a strong, protective guardian.
Unfortunately, by the time she graduated, her mentor and the shaman who are godparents to her passed away by an unknown illness, and it traumatized her so much, because even though they are powerful and influential, they can still succumbed. Therefore, she became withdrawn and antisocial, but not to an extent where she is a criminal. Her parents, who are worried about her current state, seek help from Giselle, the headmaster of Alfea University, which she was instantly given an offer letter to Flora, which she reluctantly agreed. She enrolled in double major degree in Chemistry and Biotechnology because she wanted to research a cure that her mentor and the shaman have suffered.
"I'm Flora, and I will be your roommate."
"I'm Bloom, nice to meet you."