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I love this place

i'm so confused rn, can you explain the goncharov thing?? i get off tumblr for five minutes

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Lmaoooo

Nah I getchu. So this post has been circulating for like a year:

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But yesterday, it had inspired someone to do this:

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Next thing I knew there were fake Letterboxed reviews.

Goncharov moodboards. Really good ones.

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Meta analysis. So many fake meta essays. Disturbingly good ones. And of course the memes. (Edit: HAVE I SAID THIS SHIT IS DISTURBING)

As you can see, the myth just started to grow, characters and ships and tropes being added one after the other, almost bizzarely without contradiction, until there was enough of shape to the whole thing for people to start posting fanfic about it on AO3. "No beta we die like ice-pick Joe" is already a tag.

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It was hilarious in the beginning, but the way it's developed within less than a day, kind of like it's being willed into existence, is freaking me out a bit. We're toying with powers beyond our comprehension. 😂😂😂

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Of course, there could be an ulterior motive as well.

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Edit: guys, please tag these posts "unreality" so people with disassociation issues can filter them out (not this one, this is an explainer). <3

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Edit 2: Aparently the boots in the original post are actually referring to a movie called Gomorrah that came out in 2008, directed by Mateo Garrone, based on the Scampia Feud. And other people had also been making posts about the fake movie for a while before the poster took off.

found by @thepotch

Edit 3: Explainer: why did those boots have this movie on them anyway?

Edit 4: Alt text added to all images courtesy of @valentineish ❤️

Edit 5: Turns out tumblr has done this kind of thing before. Nine years in this hell place and I had to have "Squiddles" and penis smp explained in the replies.

Edit 6: This post collects the Lore so far.

Edit 7: Lynda Carter (real one)/ earns more/ Tumblr cred.

Edit 8: Holy shit y'all we have the theme music. With sheet music. And it's on Spotify!

Edit 9: THERE IS A TRAILER WITH THE THEME MUSIC

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I made this post 18 hours after the movie poster went up. Closed edits 27 hours after first posting. So all of the above happened within 45 hours of the movie poster going up.

Edit 10: Google document live-compiling all the lore so far (Day 3)

Edit 11: Masterpost of Goncharov soundtracks (Day 3)

Edit 12: Entertainment news articles covering the Gonch-posting (real) (Contd from yday)

Edit 13: The music from the masterpost all compiled into a 31-minute original score with video edits on YouTube (edit: unfortunately taken down)

Edit 14: Staff's Goncharov art showcase for Tumblr Tuesday

As of closing on Day 3 there are 371 works in the AO3 tag.

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Updating with Day 3 shenanigans I missed yesterday:

Edit 15: Goncharov TV Tropes page

Edit 16: Ethics of Gonchposting

Important PSA 1 (how to reduce harm to Tumblr's neurodivergents)

Important PSA 2 (reality affirmation, anti-bullying)

Important PSA 3 (why you should stop trying to vandalise legit information sites)

Edit 17: Character lore from beezlebub whose poster they originated from

Edit 18: What we know about/ Director Matteo JWHJ0715 (#unreality)

Edit 19: Link to post with screenshotted and described NYT article (scroll down) and this golden exerpt from BuzzFeed: 💀

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End of Day 4 there are now 485 works in the Goncharov tag on AO3

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Didn't get to update this on Day 5, so these are the Day 5 doings:

More trailers!

Trailer 1 (My favourite)

Trailer 2

Trailer 3

Trailer 4

I also just found out about the Goncharov Game Jam.

It appears this opened a day after after the meme took off.

Goncharov was first entered into Wikipedia between Day 4 and 5 (attempts to vandalise it with fake info don't count, incidentally – please knock that shit off) under List of Internet Phenomena. This was then expanded into its own Wikipedia page at the end of Day 5 because, according to the talk history: "the topic now meets the notability threshold for its own artice due to significant coverage in The New York Times and other sources cited." We're on Wikipedia, people!

And then we made The Guardian half a day later. So while the meme is definitely dying down to embers by now, it still stays winning.

YouTube channels with episodes on the meme:

InformOverlord (4:30)

Lessons in Meme Culture (2:43)

End of Day of 5 there were 511 works on AO3, and End of Day 6 (today) there are 556.

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🚨BREAKING 🚨 from Martin Scorsese's daughter's TikTok (real actual)

tw: unreality:

We did it you guys!

Tumblr is a beautiful hell on earth for all the beautiful people who say NO to violence and YES to chaos.

Sir Terry Pratchett said that we have to start by learning to believe the little lies, and Tumblr said “I bet we could make up some more of those.”

In my AU the universe will be divided into two sectors: the universe known to Earth & the magical dimension called Orbis Alius where the Faewyrds (magical beings) live.

Planets can be divided into five categories: Infertile (Obsidian?), Sleeping (Pyros), Living (Magix), Dying (Earth/Gaia) and Dead (Domino).

All living and sleeping planets have the same nonagesimal time framework and a thirteen-month calendar with five nine-day weeks called novenaries. This remains consistent due to the fluid of ambient magic.

For example:

On earth 60 seconds make 1 minute → 60 minutes make 1 hour → 24 hours are 1 day.

In Orbis Alius 90 seconds make 1 minute → 90 minutes make 1 hour → 27 hours make 1 day.

So 1 day in Orbis Alius is the equivalent of 52 hours and 39 minutes or 2 days, 4 hours and 39 minutes earthlings.

The day is divided into three blocks of nine orbish hours each (13 hours and 30 Earth minutes): Ausrine equals morning, Saule equals afternoon, and Meness equals night.

The hours are named prima, seconda, terza, quarta, quinta, sesta, settima, ottava and nona.

Chapters: 1/? Fandom: Winx Club Rating: Mature Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Specialists & The Winx (Winx Club), Diaspro/Sky (Winx Club), Darcy/Riven (Winx Club), Brandon/Stella (Winx Club) Characters: Specialists (Winx Club), Trix (Winx Club), Bloom (Winx Club), Stella (Winx Club), Icy (Winx Club), Darcy (Winx Club), Stormy (Winx Club), Sky (Winx Club), Riven (Winx Club), Brandon (Winx Club), Timmy (Winx Club), Flora (Winx Club), Tecna (Winx Club), Musa (Winx Club), Original Female Character(s), Roy (Winx Club), Helia (Winx Club), Diaspro (Winx Club) Additional Tags: Alfea (Winx Club), Cloud Tower (Winx Club), Red Fountain (Winx Club), Realm of Magix (Winx Club), Inspired by Winx Club, Canon Rewrite, Rewrite, Worldbuilding, POV Alternating, POV Multiple Series: Part 1 of Sunset Blue Wings Summary:

Two ordinary girls from the city of Gardenia in Italy will discover a new world after helping a strange girl with wings, join to Bloom and Oriana on their way through Alfea as they meet brave squads and covens of dubious intentions.

An Unexpected Event

Chapter 1 — Season 1

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Oriana's mornings in Gardenia used to always start the same, with the sweet song of the birds, the ticking of the clock, the warm sunlight hitting her cheek and her brother Isidoro jumping on her to crush her at three past eight in the morning.

“Up, Oriana, come on, the sun is out,” exclaimed the fourteen-year-old teenager as he jumped again and again over his sister, taking the air out of her.

“Get down! It's vacation, you should sleep until noon" with all the strength Oriana could muster, she stood up suddenly, throwing her brother to the floor, she aggressively pushed the strands of black hair that were on her face and fixed her stormy gray eyes on Isidoro “The door had a key!”

“And I had a clip, you should see everything you learn on the internet.”

Isidoro threw himself on his sister again to lift her by pulling her leg while she held on to the headboard of her bed to continue sleeping, in a last attempt to resist Oriana took her pillow to suffocate her little brother, which obviously developed in a pillow fight.

“I swear,” said a voice from the door stopping her game. “The next time someone praises the behavior of you two I will laugh in front of her face.”

The two teenagers on the floor rolled their eyes.

“Oh look at me, I'm Mr. Lorenzo Perfect” Isidoro mocked, pretending to have class “I did boxing, I run in the mornings every weekend, I have a girlfriend who looks like a model and has a brain...”

“Hey!”

“And don't forget my greatest hits,” added Oriana, mocking like her little brother. “The thirteenth great concert out of tune in the bathroom shower, the fart symphony in my room, the harmony of explosions in the kitchen at noon...”

“Oriana, stop,” the young man pleaded, trying to appeal to her little sister's usual maturity while her face blushed more and more.

“And my personal favorite, the best sex education class ever completed.”

Lorenzo pounced on his younger brothers and started tickling them in an attempt to get them to leave the alliance against him, he loved them, but he would prefer when Oriana was in alliance with him and didn't riddle him with Isidoro.

Oriana's coughs erased any trace of amusement between the three brothers, as Lorenzo sat her up and urged her to follow her breathing, Isidoro dashed across the room to get the inhaler from her desk.

The air began to enter the girl's lungs again as she closed her eyes in search of avoiding guilt, it was not her fault that she had asthma, it was not her fault that her airways decided to close, it was not her fault...

“Are you okay?” Her older brother's trembling voice brought her back to earth. She looked at Lorenzo, his soft brown hair and loving brown eyes warped in concern for her, it wasn't her fault, it wasn't her fault...

“Of course, it was nothing” Oriana replied, giving her the most reassuring smile she could do “We should have breakfast, I'm dying… I'm so hungry.”

Ignoring the elephant in the room the two boys left to let her dress, once alone Oriana fell on her bed watching her trembling hands, she took the necklace on the nightstand next to her bed to press it against her chest as she inhaled and exhaled trying to calm down and prevent the tears held in his eyes from increasing.

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In the house next door lived a beautiful redhead named Bloom who was sleeping peacefully after staying up late drawing, of course for her mother Vanessa it was already more than acceptable time for her to get up and take advantage of her vacations, so she decided to use a white lie to see her sleeping so soundly.

"Bloom, it's almost nine o'clock. Didn't you have classes with Professor Mildred?"

The redhead's scream of horror was proof enough that her little trick had an effect on her, she even managed to wake up her pet rabbit, Kiko.

“Why didn't you wake me up?" Bloom complained brushing her teeth. “You know she hates me! How come the alarm didn't go off?” It was only after she finished getting dressed that she stopped to think, “Wait a second, the alarm didn't go off because I'm already on vacation Mom! It's not funny!”

But the brown-haired woman had already left the room laughing at her daughter, the poor redhead had no choice but to take her bunny in her arms and go down to the kitchen.

“Good morning, darling,” greeted her father, leaving her coffee and newspaper aside, “How did you wake up?”

“Awful, your wife scared me awake, your poor good little daughter,” Bloom complained dramatically, even managing to get a few tears from the corners of her blue eyes.

“Wife, how could you do something so Machiavellian to my poor and good daughter?” Her father continued the game.

“Too early for their plays,” she warned with a smile to her husband Mike and her artist daughter "Have a good breakfast and start the day strong, enjoy your weekend before helping me in the flower shop, Bloom.”

“Okay, I'll start strong,” Bloom agreed as she sat at the table after giving Kiko her breakfast, she clasped her hands together in a beseeching gesture. “Please let me go to the beach with my friends.”

“Bloom, we've been talking about this since your sixteenth birthday, you're still so young,” Vanessa reminded him, joining the table.

“And I'm eighteen now, nineteen in six more months, I think I'm old enough now,” she complained, sinking her teeth into her toast.

“When you're twenty-one you can do whatever you want Bloom, but you're still a girl, our girl.” The image of a little redhead with pigtails overlapped Mike's vision of her teenage daughter.

“It's not fair, then they'll use the card while you live under our roof…” the redhead let out a sigh trying to control herself, if she got capricious she'd never convince them, she needed to negotiate “Listen, it's not like I'm going to go with strangers, just Oriana, Selina and I, your have known them since we were little girls. I can understand the trip to Ireland with Eldora, but the beach is only a few hours away.”

“Bloom, I'm sorry, but the answer is still no. Also soon we'll go skiing, to vary this year's vacations” the rest of breakfast passed in resigned silence until Bloom took Kiko and left, but Vanessa couldn't help but turn her concern over Mike “Do you think we're being very strict? Bloom has proven to be trustworthy, Selina is a good girl, and Oriana certainly knows how to keep them from doing dumb things.”

“Love, it bothers me too but it's still dangerous, look at this” Mike pointed out, handing her the newspaper “The disappearance of young people on the coasts increased and even...”

“They found parts of their bodies that were… Oh dear.” Vanessa turned the page sharply at the more grotesque images.

“I know we can't make sure she's completely safe in Gardenia but still...”

“No, it's okay, Gardenia is safe, I just wish that Selina and Eldora are also safe on their trip to Ireland.”

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Bloom put Kiko on the basket of her bicycle and locked the metal frame that served as a cage, then took the bike out of the garage to go in search of her friend.

“It will always be the same with them, I will never be old enough,” Bloom lamented, talking to Kiko was something she did from time to time, he even seemed to listen to her sometimes.

“That's because they're your parents” Bloom turned her face to meet her friend Oriana who was looking at her with amusement in her gray eyes, she had her hair tied in a high ponytail as well as wearing baggy sports pants and a loose blouse one size larger, her hands gripped the backpack straps on her back “and to a lesser extent, if you're referring to your plan to go to the beach this vacation, it could be because of all the disappearances that have been going on.”

“Disappearances?”

“Yes, you know, young people between sixteen and twenty-five years old... Don't you watch the news?” Oriana rolled her eyes in her confusion, Bloom knew she got lost in the clouds more times than Oriana could bring it down. “They were mutilated, some pieces washed up on the shores even with bite marks, beach tourism is on the tightrope, in fact we're going camping this vacation and from what I heard from uncle Mike you're going skiing”

Bloom nodded as she assimilated the information, clearly the coast was dangerous at the moment but she would have preferred her parents to tell her instead of refusing without any explanation other than her age.

"Oh no," Oriana murmured suddenly, two seconds later she knew what she meant.

“Hey, Bloom, Oriana! Still with that junk of pedals?”

Mitzi was Bloom's classmate since she started high school, she was part of the journalism club and her animosity towards her hadn't ended even after finishing her education, she always knew how to get on her nerves. She watched them two leaning against the small pillar of her house while two of her friends tried to load a motorcycle into the van.

“Mitzi, hi, how's everything going?” Oriana asked, faking a smile while Bloom murmured under her breath that there was nothing wrong with the bicycle her parents gave her.

“I heard that you and Andy broke up” straight to the point of course, Oriana had to make a great effort not to roll her eyes, everyone knew that Bloom and Andy had broken up, it was what happened in friendly cities like this “Still will you spend the vacation in Gardenia?”

“In fact, we're leaving in a few weeks, Mitzi,” Bloom replied for the first time after controlling her temper.

“To the same beach as always for sure” Oriana's firm hand on Bloom's arm was what prevented Mitzi from having a bloody nose “Well, I feel generous so I'll send you a postcard from Spain, I could give you a new one perspective.”

“Thanks Mitzi, but we will go skiing this year”

“Really? Well, I'm sorry for your parents, I still remember how disastrous the fifth year trip was.”

“Of course you do,” Bloom said through clenched teeth.

The three of them remembered that trip, Bloom had barely finished learning and due to Mitzi's prank the redhead tripped during the descent, the only good thing about that was that the redhead and Andy became close.

“Is that a new motorcycle, Mitzi?” Oriana asked trying to divert the conversation and create a quick exit.

“Watch out!” She roared at them as the boys almost dropped her, “It's super new, isn't it great?”

“Very much, we hope you have fun on your vacation Mitzi, and stay away from the beaches.”

“Have a nice vacation, see you later” said Bloom quickly before getting on her bicycle and getting out of it like lightning, Oriana followed her running “She's so smug.”

“Come on Little Flame, don't start to burn,” Oriana said affectionately, “You don't want she to see you like this before her trip. Right?”

Selina was their friend who would soon go to Ireland with Eldora, a nice woman who allowed them to spend the afternoons in her garden and with whom they had tea while she told them wonderful stories about heroes, fairies and witches. She had even given the three of them some nice bracelets that they never took off.

“What's wrong?” Bloom asked at the intense silver gaze.

“Where's your bracelet Bloom?” Two seconds later Oriana regretted asking, because the redhead was startled and lost control of the bicycle almost colliding with a car “Bloom!”

The named kept holding tightly to the streetlight against which she crashed during her maneuver to avoid the car, it took her a few seconds to come to before she realized that her friend was ranting with Mr. Genaro from the grocery store.

“…It was in red! Of course the coward would run away!”

“Come on Orianella, focus on the good, look, Fioralba is fine” said Mr. Genaro while Oriana concentrated on helping Bloom to stabilize, then she noticed that Kiko and the bicycle had no damage “Here, some apples to recover peace, are you okay Fioralba?”

“Yes... yes, it was just the scare, it left me in a bit of a shock,” replied Bloom, taking one of the three apples. “Thank you very much, Mr. Genaro.”

“It's nothing girls, but be more careful” both nodded before saying goodbye to continue on their way “say hello to your mother Bloom and tell her I have a discount on strawberries.”

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“I won't rip your head off just because you forgot our bracelet for a day, Bloom,” Selina scolded her before taking a bite of her apple. Once they got home, Oriana made sure to tell her what had happened.

“It was a spur-of-the-moment thing, don't worry about it.”

“You're my friend, of course I'm going to worry,” the green-haired girl looked from her to the other girl, “Can you keep her safe by yourself?”

“I'll do my best, I promise.”

“Hey! I'm still here” the two girls laughed at the redhead's pout, Oriana couldn't help but touch her little freckled nose.

“Selina, the taxi is waiting,” the woman reminded her from inside the car.

“I'm coming Grandma!”, Selina informed, throwing the core of her apple before hugging her friends, “I'm going to miss you so much.”

“And we you, but we'll still be here when you get back,” Bloom promised.

“Have fun and be very careful, avoid approaching the coast as much as possible,” Oriana reminded with concern.

The friends parted ways, Selina promised to take care of herself and she got into the taxi with her grandmother, the three looked at each other until the car turned the corner. Bloom and Oriana kept walking while eating their apples in the direction of Gardenia's park, they didn't used to be there for a long time since they preferred to spend it in Eldora's garden all together, but now they wouldn't be there for a few weeks so it felt bad to enter alone.

Already in the park the two girls looked for a tree with good shade to sit under, Bloom supported the bicycle freeing Kiko to play a little not far from her sight, then she sat next to Oriana leaning her head on her shoulder, they simply stayed like that, in silence, listening to the sound of the wind in the trees and feeling the warmth of the Sun around them. That until Kiko came back scared.

“What's wrong Kiko?” Bloom asked tenderly stroking the grayish head of his pet “Did you meet those terrifying squirrels again? Should we steal some of their nuts?”

But Kiko seemed determined to show them what scared him so much, if Bloom's pants tugging told them something, the redhead looked at her friend for advice from her but she was already standing, holding out her hand to help her stand up.

“You know that Kiko is insistent when he wants something, pets are like their owners” explained Oriana, making strength to pick her up.

“Are you insinuating something?” said Bloom mockingly as she began to walk following her rabbit through the trees “Because as far as I know Ketzy is still sleeping.”

“Error” a forked tongue came out near Oriana's neck, Bloom looked at her strangely before which her friend lowered her blouse a little by the shoulder showing the head of her pet snake, then she adjusted the blouse a little showing the redhead that the rest of the body was wrapped around his torso.

“Crazy, you're completely ready for the asylum” but without warning she was thrown to the ground feeling like something went over her head.

“Be quiet”, Oriana ordered being absorbed by the sight before them, she stretched out her arm so that her snake stayed near a bush and pushed Kiko slightly towards her who wrapped it up safely so Bloom decided to set her eyes on the clearing bordered by trees and ignore the head-high burn in the tree behind her.

The fine golden strands of her hair were the first thing that caught the girl's eye in the center of the clearing, perhaps because they shimmered in the sunlight or perhaps because they framed the tan-skinned beauty who had a scepter in her hands, dressed a bright orange top and shorts with boots of the same color up to below the knees, she wore silver bracelets on her wrists similar to the small ones that tied her hair in two pigtails, the most striking perhaps was what was on her back, blue , translucent, bright. Wings! Well, maybe the yellowish big ogre and the condensed shadow-like demons in front of her were also a bit conspicuous.

A guttural voice said strange words, the ogre probably if his mouth moving indicated something, but a soft bubbly voice countered it, Bloom lamented that she couldn't understand what they were talking about but the blond haired girl was clearly being attacked.

“What a bad luck! I don't understand anything!” Bloom complained in whispers to her friend.

“The ogre wants to take the scepter from the blonde, but the blonde doesn't plan to give it to him, something about a family inheritance or something like that,” Oriana murmured without taking her eyes off the battle, or maybe she did it for a second since she had a lever of iron between his hands, Bloom didn't notice when she got it “Pay more attention!”

Bloom decided to listen to her friend after being scolded, so she tried to sharpen her ear while she stroked Kiko's head in an attempt to reassure him, she knew that Ketzy would protect him.

“... princess... vile creature... with those disgusting demons! Burning sun!” A luminous ray came out of the silver scepter and seemed to cut several demons that were extinguished in an explosion of what she hoped was not blood, the stains on the ground they faded into little lights after a few seconds.

“Don't think too much of yourself princess, even with that scepter in your hands you will reach your limit” exclaimed the ogre sending more demons to the attack “You have been transformed for a long time to be a novice.”

The two friends looked worried, even without knowing what the ogre was referring to, they could notice that the blonde was already exhausted, her fall due to a blow from the ogre, he took away her scepter and the demons held her on the ground, that was their time to interfere… even if they weren't quite sure how.

“Hey! Leave her alone!” exclaimed Bloom true to herself, her desire to hit someone had been boiling under her skin since she met Mitzy, “Or else I... wait a minute, what can I do?”

“Attack her!” the ogre ordered fiercely, clinging to the scepter that he had worked so hard to get.

The result was three demons bated with an iron lever.

“You don't know, but I'm going to try to make them puree” Oriana exclaimed at the same time that she crushed the head of a demon against the ground making it explode, the stain that fell on her face only made her look lunatic “Go help her! I cover you!”

That was how Bloom found herself kicking and stomping on the four demons holding the pretty girl to the ground. Bloom was agitated, scared, with her body burning and feeling the pulsations of her heart that tried to burst her veins but she couldn't leave the girl no matter how much those demons scratched her, the alarm in the girl's honey eyes made her turning to see how half a dozen demons pounced on her, Oriana was busy hitting the other half and from the look of panic she gave her she realized that she would not arrive on time, everything depended on her but the only thing she could do was cover herself with her arms.

“KEEP AWAY!” Bloom felt the burn in her throat at the imperative roar, if she had closed her eyes she would have missed the reddish sphere that suddenly enveloped her repelling the demons, but exhaustion came just as quickly making her fall to the ground. knees.

“Oh! That really was a good attack” the blonde praised with a smile despite the clear effort she made to sit down after being freed from the demons “In Solaria we would be very pleased to have you in our army.”

Bloom noticed from a distance how Oriana sighed with relief to see that they were both safe, but it was that second of distraction that was enough for the ogre to capture her wrists and hold her in the air swinging her with one hand from one side to another, the girl stifled a groan of pain.

“Do you think some simple gaians can come and interfere?”

“Let her go right now!” The blonde demanded, stomping her foot on her lawn, “This is between you and me, ogre!”

“Well, they should have thought about it before interfering, now they will suffer the consequences!” The young woman he was holding murmured something with difficulty.

“LET ME GO!” Oriana ordered, releasing a solid explosion of energy that eliminated the remaining demons leaving only the three furthest from her and threw the ogre towards the trees dropping the scepter, the girl fell to the ground breathing hard and praying she didn't have an asthma attack right now, she had left her inhaler in the backpack which was in the basket of Bloom's bicycle.

Bloom ran over to her friend to check on her, she had always worried that she wouldn't be able to do anything during one of her attacks. The blonde walked up to them to pick up her scepter, then gazed with curious eyes at her two saviors, ideas flowing like a waterfall through her head. A groan caused all three girls to turn their heads towards the fallen ogre.

“Well, it's time to finish this, I need a good bath,” the blonde murmured before pointing at him, “I've got my scepter back, ogre, you have no chance of defeating me!”

Apparently he knew it since the three remaining demons approached him before disappearing. Bloom noticed that one of them had a piece of light blue cloth in his mouth so she looked down finding his bloody left calf and a piece of his pants missing, for a second she wondered how high his adrenaline was not to have felt that bite.

“That will leave a mark,” Bloom muttered annoyed, she liked those pants.

“That was a great fight, really…” the blonde said before closing her eyes and falling to the ground, between the two of them they barely managed to keep her from hitting her head, she was still breathing so it was probably just exhaustion, they just noticed that she was so hurt and scratched like them. Her two piece outfit changed into an equally weird orange and light blue dress, Bloom and Oriana looked at each other in confusion.

“Well… now what?”

Oriana shrugged.

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The ogre appeared in a dark place covered in mist, the demons around him quickly dispersing at the sound of heels.

“You failed, Knut,” an icy voice drawled, making him shiver. “It's not the first time, but it could be the last.”

“It really wasn't my fault, miss, I had the scepter in my hands until those two gaians appeared...”

“Gaians?” questioned a second booming voice. “Ha! Tell us, Knut, how come two little Gaian girls could stop you from obeying our order?”

“They weren't normal, they fought the shadow demons and blew them up like nothing, they both used magic like faewyrds.”

“There have been no faewyrds on Gaia for centuries,” the first voice spoke again “describe them.”

“Well... they were... let me see...”

“Knut,” a third voice called his attention, this one was more attractive, “Where are your glasses?”

“Right here, miss,” the ogre said, taking it out of his pocket.

“Well, PUT THEM ON!” the three shouted at the same time.

“We told you not to take them off!” the second voice roared as it obeyed him. “An ogre with myopia, you have to see.”

“He just have to remember not to take them off, it's okay,” said the third voice.

“Stop defending him!”

“Silence!” ordered the first voice “Those gaian faewyrds could be of some use to us, I've read about them, capricious and arrogant, only their wishes matter...”

“One of the demons managed to rip a piece of her clothing off, a hunting troll might lead us to them.”

“Okay, go and get that scepter.”

“AND THIS TIME WITHOUT FAILS!”

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Oriana fell exhausted on her bed once she reached her room, Ketzy wrapped around her arm before hissing in her face, the young woman smiled at her.

“We had a strange morning, don't you think, Ketzy?” The young woman turned her back, letting her pet cuddle up on her chest, while she tried to make sense of what had happened.

With some effort they managed to take the blonde to Bloom's house where they left her in the guest room and disinfected her wounds a little, Bloom managed to change before Vanessa arrived but Oriana had to go out the window to avoid being seen at that condition. She entered her house in silence and changed as quickly as possible, ignoring the pain in her body, then it was as if nothing happened and she told Vanessa that Bloom invited her to lunch, in whispers she found out that the redhead followed her suggestion to communicate that the blonde was Wanda's cousin who needed a place to stay, luckily it was a believable lie. A dry cough made her snake look at her, she took her inhaler without hesitation and put it in her mouth, although since that happened in the park she felt as if her chest had eased, her lungs hurt more than ever when she breathed, she could almost feel something scraping the walls of his lungs. She knew Bloom had a sore throat and she was sure it was because of the roar she let out, whatever they had done in the park had taken a toll on her bodies.

“You seem to have had an interesting morning,” said a sweet voice, the orange ghost that had accompanied her since she was a child appeared floating above her.

“How interesting can a strange fairy be when you have your own personal ghost?” she sneered.

“Oh, I remember the expression for that” the ghost smiled happily “Touché.”

“I've taught you well,” the dark-haired girl's expression fell. “What happened this morning, Daf?”

“I think deep down you know the answer Dyi” was the return of the ghost, her translucent hand caressed her hair although she couldn't touch it “Don't think about it now, sleep a little, you need to rest.”

With an ethereal chant of warm words Oriana fell asleep. It was hours later when Oriana woke up identifying the hand that was caressing her hair as Lorenzo's. His brown eyes drowned her in affection and reminded her of waking up that morning, it wasn't her fault...

“Did you have a good nap?” her brother asked in a sweet whisper.

“It was refreshing” and she wasn't lying, the pain in her body had diminished a bit “Bloom and I had a rather curious morning” she commented to him as if it wasn't important.

“As much as I want to hear that story which something tells me is more than curious we should wait, I woke you up because Father came back.”

“I thought he'd be at the station all weekend.”

“It seems that someone offered to take his turn, he is in the living room. Shall we?”

Oriana nodded as she accepted her brother's help to get up, waiting for Ketzy to snuggle up to her again before leaving her room. She would let her brother think she was crazy later.

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It was during the night already in her bed when Bloom began to think about the madness that ended up getting into the morning, she was only supposed to wish Selina a good trip and then relax in the park with her other friend, she shouldn't end up fighting against shadow demons the size of dogs and an ogre of at least two meters to defend a complete stranger who shot beams of light and floated above the ground. She wasn't going to lie, a part of her was ecstatic despite the intense sore throat she still had from…whatever happened in the park, but there was another part of her (which she was pretty sure was influenced by Oriana) that didn't want to get excited about anything thinking that she was the one who caused that… magic.

Kiko went up to the bed in search of some pampering before sleeping, something that she was not sure of getting due to the fear that finally settled in her, now she could remember the sharp claws scratching her skin and the long teeth digging into her calf left, not to mention the bruises that would soon appear on his body. A few small tears fell from her eyes, she immediately covered her mouth with her hand to prevent any noise from coming out. She would have liked so much to call Oriana.

As the tiredness of the day hit her causing her drowsiness, the memories attacked her mind, the demons were too many, Oriana could not defend her, there were more ogres... Nightmares flooded her dreams causing a spark, a small one near the carpet next to the door, then another and another and another and…

Oriana woke up suddenly very agitated, in the afternoon she fell asleep from exhaustion so her mind had not been able to play with her but it was very different now. Everything was the same as in the morning but this time there was no magic to protect Bloom, she did not arrive on time, the two girls ended up disfigured and cold on the bloody ground, the ogre began to laugh before throwing her away to fall on the hard pavement covered in blood, now there were screams, dozens of people screaming, babies crying and women laughing, when the smoke reached his nose she woke up sitting up in bed, the problem was that the smell of smoke still remained. Little did she care if the noise the window made when she slammed it against the wall woke her brothers up.

There was smoke coming from Bloom's room.

Oriana doesn't remember opening the door to her house, only the one to the Peters' house, later she would realize that the pain in her body wasn't from the park or from how she skipped the steps of the stairs while running to her friend's room but for having jumped from her own room to the ground without hearing her brother's screams, but now only the door that stood between her and her friend in danger mattered.

“Bloom, get away from the door!” Oriana made sure to yell before throwing all her weight on the wood.

Bloom's tears streamed down her cheeks as she hugged Kiko against her chest. Cornered in the only part of the room that wasn't on fire, Oriana felt the wind push against her back as she walked through the fire to hug her friend protectively from her.

The wind sang in her ears, she heard hurried footsteps and the sound of the fire extinguisher before it stopped.

“And the fire?” Mike asked confused, looking up, Oriana noticed that there wasn't even a small flame left. There were burned areas, mostly near the door, but Bloom's papers were scattered throughout the room and the window was wide open with broken glass, no one could tell if there was a fire in the room or a hurricane.

“Did you take the door off its hinges?” Vanessa questioned in disbelief, Oriana noticed the pieces of the wall that fell off, then she noticed her two brothers behind her friend's mother, Lorenzo had a stony look on his face.

“You know, right now I'd love to hear about your pretty curious morning.”

End of Chapter 1

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