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The Dragon's Flame (also known as the Dragon Flame, Dragon Fire, Sacred Fire, or Flame of Life) is the source of Bloom's magic and also the Winx's source of power in their Bloomix form.
Overview
The Dragon's Flame is a spark of the Great Dragon's power, which created the entire Magic Dimension. The Dragon Flame is able to bring balance to the powers of darkness.
Pre-Series
Daphne using the Dragon's Fire to attack the Ancient Witches.
The Dragon's Flame has been passed down through generations of members of the royal family of Domino since the disappearance of the Great Dragon, and was used by the Nine Nymphs of Magix, nine all-powerful fairies who controlled the Fate of the Magic Dimension, the last and most powerful Nymph being Daphne, and now the present guardian being Bloom.
Lord Darkar tried to obtain the Ultimate Power and for that sent the Ancestral Witches to claim the Dragon's Flame from its Guardian to use it to obtain the Ultimate Power. The Ancestral Witches and their "son" Valtor destroyed Domino in the process, but were defeated by the Company of Light when King Oritel and Queen Marion of Domino imprisoned Valtor in the Omega Dimension and the Ancestral Witches in their own birthplace, the Realm of Obsidian in the final battle opposing the two sides. King Oritel however, was grabbed by the Ancestresses, and Queen Marion entered the King's Sword to stay with her husband and a wave of dark energy was released from Obsidian which caused all the inhabitants of Domino as well as the entire planet to become encased in ice and stone.
Princess Daphne managed to save her little sister Bloom and the Dragon's Flame from falling into the hands of evil by sending her to Earth, the cost of it being that she was herself turned into a disembodied spirit by the witches and became a ghost bound to the depths Lake Roccaluce.
For fifteen years (Bloom was apparently one year old when Domino was destroyed), the entire Magic Dimension thought that the Dragon's Flame had been extinguished in Domino's destruction, except the Trix (the descendants of the Ancestral Witches) who, using the power of the Vacuums, felt that the Dragon's Flame was out there, still burning and went after the Ring of Solaria since it had been created using the Dragon's Flame.
Series
Seasons
Bloom, who had lived on Earth thinking she was a normal girl, first manifested her powers by saving Stella who invited her to Alfea. There, Bloom's interest for the history of the Dragon's Flame and the attempts made by Daphne to contact her, Faragonda realized that Bloom was the last heir to the Kingdom of Domino, whom everyone had thought dead, and the Guardian of the Dragon's Flame which was thought to have been forever lost. The Trix also realized that Bloom wields the power of the Dragon's Flame after she released huge bursts of energy in "Betrayed!"
Bloom's Dragon's Fire spell.
Bloom fighting a Megatess Creature.
In the third season, Faragonda tells Bloom that when the Great Dragon created the Universe, a spark of the Dragon Flame fell into the darkness of the void and mixed with it. The Ancestral Witches stumbled upon it and shaped it into a man called Valtor, whom they raised as if he were their own son and sent him, once he was old enough, to conquer all of the Magic Dimension.
However, when Domino was destroyed, Bloom's birth parents defeated Valtor and trapped him into the Omega Dimension during the final battle of the Company of Light when they thought that their daughters were dead.
Bloom focusing her power.
Valtor was awakened when the Trix, who had been captured from Relix and imprisoned in the Omega Dimension freed him. Valtor allied with the Trix and escaped from the Omega Dimension, wreaking havoc on the entire Magic Dimension when he began to steal all the treasures of the Magic Universes's planets, one by one.
Bloom vs. Valtor.
The Dragon's Flame was useless against Ogron, even at Enchantix level, as he only absorbed the power of the attack directed against him.
The Dragon Fire is once seen manifesting itself as Bloom's Strength of Life power which she uses to heal the hearts of people and causes them to open their hearts to magic.
The Dragon Fire also manifests itself in the Sophix transformation, where Bloom's Sophix power is the Inner Flame, which is the power to reach each creature's soul, to never give up and to be born again.
The Dragon Fire again manifests itself in the Lovix transformation, in the form of Ice Flame. The Major Fairy Aurora, who has an ice power source powerful enough to freeze the entire Universe, also sensed a very powerful power of fire in Bloom, and said that she did not want a fire and ice battle against Bloom.
Selina holding the Dragon's Flame.
Bloom uses Flame Storm Vortex Burst against Selina.
Selina needs a powerful magic to free her master, Acheron from the Legendarium. After a failed attempt at stealing a spark of Bloom's Dragon Flame at Tir Nan Og College, Selina and Bloom face off at Alfea, where she succeeds in stealing a spark of Bloom's Dragon Flame, and forfeits as she completed her real goal.
Acheron is released from the Legendarium by the Bloom's Dragon fire.
Movies
Bloom capturing Mandragora with the Dragon's Flame.
The heat released from the Flame in the Sword kept in Obsidian is so intense that it causes horrible pain to the Ancestral Witches, and they ask their servant, Mandragora, to find where the Dragon's Flame is and destroy it. Upon this request, Mandragora leaves the prison of the Obsidan Circle and goes to Domino, where she feels the presence of a fairy having the power of the Dragon's Flame in her and infects Riven with an evil bug sting causing him to become mind-controlled by her, serving as a catalyst for a later attack.
Later, she attacks Alfea and is defeated, Faragonda calls Bloom by her name after the latter uses her Dragon's Flame to capture the witch. Mandragora, sealed again by Faragonda in Obsidian, reveals to the Ancestresses that the guardian of the Dragon's Flame is a fairy called "Bloom".
Bloom's using a fire spell.
The Ancestresses wait for the Winx to come to Obsidian, where they try to force Bloom to destroy the Sword of Oritel. Bloom refused, saying that if she destroyed the sword it would also destroy her powers and all that's left of Domino.
In the end, Sky ran the sword through Mandragora, who was possessed by the three witches' spirits, while Bloom attacked her using the Dragon's Flame, killing Mandragora, destroying the Realm of Obsidian, restoring Domino and all its inhabitants (including Oritel and Marion) to their proper states, completing Bloom's Enchantix, and accidentally freeing the Ancient Witches.
The Dragon's Flame is seen when Bloom attacks one of her suitors because of his bad manners and his insolence.
When the magical pollen of the Tree of Life which was released by the sapling in Havram returned the Winx's magic, Bloom was then able to use the power of the Dragon's Flame, being its guardian, to attack Icy.
Fire Dragon against the Dark Dragon.
Comics
Bloom transforming for the first time in The Castle.
Much like in the animated series, Bloom possesses fire magic much more powerful than that of average fire magic. She properly unleashes this potential for the first time during the Winx's confrontation with the Trix in the very first issue.
Thanks to Flora's diversion, Bloom had enough time to gather her power together and break out of Icy's ice, transforming into her fairy form in the process. Realizing how powerful Bloom's magic truly was, the Trix were forced to retreat without Stella's sceptre.
Bloom began to cultivate her powers while attending Alfea, during which she reveals to her newest friends that she discovered her powers at a much earlier point; that point being when she stepped into help Stella who was struggling to keep Knut and his band of Ghouls at bay.
Bloom as the last fairy standing against a magic-absorbing monster in The Revelation.
It is not until Issue 10 where the mysterious source of Bloom's powers finally comes into light.
It turns out that the monster the Trix summoned by mispronouncing the incantation necessary to summon it is capable of absorbing all magic weaker than it that is hurled its way. It proves to be a formidable monster is at absorbs the magic of everyone that attacks it, even the magic of all Cloud Tower and Alfea's professors! When the Winx attempt to take down the monster, all their power is forcibly absorbed like everyone else's except for Bloom's. In fact, she is the only one capable of damaging the monster! The Trix, who were following the monster, take notice of this, causing Icy to realize that Bloom may be the one in possession of the power they have been seeking, the Dragon's Flame.
When Bloom decides to return to Earth after the monster's defeat, the Trix make their move and leave Cloud Tower to pursue Bloom now that they know where the Dragon's Flame is.
Come Issue 11, aptly titled Dragon's Flame, and it turns out that the Trix did indeed follow Bloom to Earth, where they ambushed her in her home. Using their Vacuums, the trio of witches had stripped Bloom of the Dragon's Flame as they told Bloom of her origins and their duty as the direct ancestors to the Ancestresses, the witches responsible for the downfall of Domino, Bloom's true homeworld.
After being brought back to Alfea and taking a quick visit to the now frozen wasteland that is Domino, the Winx learn from the Specialists that the Trix used the Dragon's Flame to erect the Army of Darkness, took over Cloud Tower, destroyed Red Fountain and cleared out Magix City, leaving Alfea as the only lasting establishment that can oppose them. Desperately wanting to regain her lost powers, Bloom plans a siege on Cloud Tower to take them back and with help from Knut, Stella, Sky and Brandon, she is able to sneak into Cloud Tower, where she and the rest of the group find the Dragon's Flame placed in the center of a large room in the following issue.
The Dragon's Flame in Magic Battle.
Unfortunately, this turns out to be a trap as Icy freeze the flame before Bloom can touch it and the group is quickly ambushed by the Trix. Luckily, Griffin and the rest of Cloud Tower's Witches arrive before the Trix erase Bloom and friends with their sparks of the Dragon's Flame.
With the Trix currently trapped behind a crystal wall, everyone else flees to the roof of the school to escape. As they all try to flee, the Trix easily break through Griffin's barrier and use their Dragon's Flame to send a portion of the Army of Darkness after everyone.
Magical Abilities
The Dragon's Flame is primarily a beneficial magic power giving Bloom the ability to break very powerful spells and heal people. In the "The Crypt of the Codex", she is even able to heal Sky, who was dying from a fatal attack from Icy.
Bloom's healing powers are seen again in Season 4 when Bloom develops the spell Strength of Life. She healed extremely weak people, such as Mr. Baston, Mike in the fire, Roxy after she was possessed by Nebula, and people in Gardenia's train station.
The Dragon's Flame has been seen manifesting itself in the form of the Great Dragon or balls of fire. While Bloom mainly uses her powers to bombard her opponents with fireballs in varying intensity and size, she soon learns to ignite large wildfires and control dangerous infernos by thought. Other related abilities are throwing blasts of heat energy, using fire as shields and force fields, causing objects to become soft and melt, shooting beams of orange energy, and using fire to fly.
Effects
Dragon Essence activating the Water Stars.
- Healing: The Dragon's Flame can heal the wounded, the dying, and those who have been put under evil spells (including the bearer themselves).
- Activating the Water Stars: Only a possessor of the Dragon's Flame can activate the Water Stars; this can be extremely dangerous for the activator, as the Water Stars have the ability to extinguish the magical energy and life force of any bearer of the Flame.
- Senses: Bloom can pick up on the emotions and intentions of others. Bloom can sense people's magic essence, and when Bloom received her Bloomix she gained the ability to sense the presence of danger.
- Superficial: Bloom's standard spells are based mostly on the fire and the Great Dragon, i.e. Fire Arrow, Dragon Fury, etc. Most of them are flame-colored, with added accents of bright cyan, and in Lovix, purple.
Trivia
- The Great Dragon and the power of the Dragon's Flame were probably inspired from the Phoenix Force of the Marvel Comics which is described as one of the oldest known cosmic entities, representing life that has not yet been born. The Phoenix Force is an immortal, indestructible, and mutable manifestation of the prime universal force of life. Born of the void between states of being, the Phoenix Force is a child of the universe.
- Another similarity is that Bloom is the vessel of the Dragon's Flame and Jean Grey temporarily served as a vessel for the Phoenix Force and Bloom was turned into Dark Bloom by Darkar just like Jean Grey, as the Phoenix, was turned into the Dark Phoenix by Mastermind and the Hellfire Club.
- Even though the Dragon's Flame is the life force of the Magic Dimension, Bloom is never giving life to other things, unlike Flora who has shown the ability to give life to plants and stuffed animals.
- Despite the fact that the Bloomix transformation is powered by the Dragon's Flame, no Winx member (except Bloom, of course) used flame-based attacks in this form. Instead, everyone uses their own array of spells, as normal. This occurrence can be explained due to fact that the Dragon's Flame is the origin of all powers and can morph itself into different powers depending on a possessor's predestined power source (which explains why the Trix were able to use it in their spells in Season 1 without displaying the use of fire magic.
- In the 4Kids dub, the Dragon's Flame is once referred to as Starlight.
- There is a soup named after the Dragon Fire.
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