Dragon Flame

Bloom using the Dragon Flame after transforming in "All the Wild Witches"

> There is a legend. It's a thousand years old. That's how old the Burned Ones are, by the way. They were soldiers from an ancient war. The legend is about the magic used against them. It created them. It's powerful. It's primal. The Dragon Flame. It burns inside our changeling friend.
>
> Rosalind Hale to Farah Dowling, A Fanatic Heart

The **Dragon Flame** is an ancient magical power in the Otherworld capable of great destruction. It currently resides in the fairy Bloom Peters.

## Background

A thousand years ago, the Dragon Flame was used against soldiers in ancient war to transform them into the Burned Ones. Around this time, an unnamed fairy woman also wielded the Dragon Flame to heroically end the Dominion Wars. However, she lost control over the power and accidentally killed thousands of people in the process. When she gave birth to a fairy daughter who inherited the Dragon Flame from her, the woman placed her child in a magical stasis so that she would not bear the burden of wielding that power. Furthermore, the woman's guilt drove her to sealing herself away in the Realm of Darkness.

In 2004, Sebastian Valtor's father had somehow discovered the baby girl and brought her to Aster Dell, a village in Solaria that was home to Blood Witches. He was a zealot obsessed with the ancient war and sought to harness the Dragon Flame to gain an advantage in the ongoing conflict between the fairies and the Blood Witches. The girl's release from stasis unexpectedly drew the Burned Ones to Aster Dell, as they sensed the Dragon Flame within her and sought to destroy it. The fairy Rosalind Hale eventually learnt that the Blood Witches were in possession of the Dragon Flame, and successfully managed to take the baby girl from them. She hid the girl - and thus the Dragon Flame - away in the First World, leaving her in the care of Michael and Vanessa Peters. They named her Bloom, unaware that the child was a fairy or that she was not their biological daughter.

For sixteen years, Bloom believed she was human, until one night when her fairy powers activated managed after an argument with her mother. Bloom conjured a fire that spread throughout her home and caused third degree burns on her mother's body. After this incident, Farah Dowling - the headmistress of Alfea College - found Bloom in the First World and invited her to study at her school in order to control her powers.

## *Fate: The Winx Saga*

### Season 1

Once Bloom went to the Otherworld, the Burned Ones constantly sought her to try to destroy the Dragon Flame within her, and it was thanks to the Dragon Flame residing within her that Bloom was able to access transformation magic in order to defeat the Burned Ones. Shortly after this battle, Rosalind revealed to Dowling the backstory of the Burned Ones, including the origin of the Dragon Flame and its residence in Bloom, before killing Dowling and taking over Alfea.

### Season 2

Following the revelation of the Dragon Flame, Bloom sought to learn how to control it, but her and her friends' powers were supercharged by a Convergence Ceremony that they attempted to use to restore Musa's powers. She also appears to receive precognitive visions related to the Realm of Darkness. After learning some of the truth from Sebastian about her past and about Rosalind's murder of Dowling, Bloom lost control of the Dragon Flame when Rosalind tried to put her into stasis so that she could channel the Dragon Flame for herself. The Dragon Flame allowed Bloom to break free of Rosalind's ice and incinerate her in a magical shockwave. Bloom later admitted to Queen Luna that there was a moment when she could've stopped, but Bloom had wanted to make Rosalind pay for Dowling's murder and the Dragon Flame gave her the ability to do it.

After realizing that the Resurrection Plant holds Dowling's spirit, Flora uses the remnants of the Dragon Flame inside of the Convergence Crystal to give the plant the energy that it needs to open up and release Dowling.

After taking over Alfea, Sebastian uses Sky as a hostage to force Bloom to channel the Dragon Flame into a Convergence Crystal, supposedly so that he can use it to open a conduit to the Realm of Darkness where Sebastian will have the entity known as Shadow resurrect everyone who died at Aster Dell. Beatrix interrupts, killing Sky and causing the crystal to shatter. In a rage, Bloom starts to lose control of the Dragon Flame again, threatening to destroy Alfea before Grey manages to bring back Sky. When Bloom attempts to channel her powers again, she discovers that she tapped them out completely with her last use of them. However, her friends manage to achieve their own magical transformation and attack Sebastian. Drawing the Dragon Flame's power from the shattered crystal, Bloom transforms and joins in the combined attack which kills Sebastian.

While it's at first believed that they succeeded in stopping Sebastian from opening a conduit to the Realm of Darkness, Bloom later discovers that he had succeeded, presumably having absorbed enough fairy magic to do it when he had first arrived at the school. As such, Bloom theorizes that Sebastian had actually wanted the Dragon Flame so that there was no one that could stop him. In order to close the conduit, Bloom willingly crosses over into the Realm of Darkness.

## Changes from *Winx Club*

The Dragon Flame is based on the magical power of the same name  from *Winx Club* , where it is the power of the Great Dragon , which was the ancient deity who created the entire Magic Dimension . The Dragon Flame was passed down through several generations of the royal family of the kingdom of Domino , whose last surviving member is Bloom , within whom the Dragon Flame resides.

While the Dragon Flame does still burn inside Bloom in *Fate: The Winx Saga*, very little is known of it, since even Farah Dowling didn't know of its existence, unlike the original character from Winx Club that Farah was based on, Headmistress Faragonda , who knew much about the Dragon Flame.

## Trivia

* Despite it's name, in the cartoon version of the show, the Dragon Flame appears to be a power source that is not necessarily related to fire or heat based powers, as it grants healing abilities and it can also be shared and used by others who do not utilize fire.
	+ It appears that the same thing is true for this adaptation as well, as Bloom was capable of using the Flame for a Convergence spell, which was unrelated to fire specifically, and was later used by Flora through the convergence crystal with her plant based magic.

## Gallery

### Season 2

Bloom using the Dragon Flame during a Convergence Ceremony
## References

1. ↑ Season 1, Episode 6: *A Fanatic Heart*
2. ↑ Season 2, Episode 7: *All the Wild Witches*