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Author's Note: Why should an object as powerful as the Mirror of Incanta be limited to just 3 wishes? In TB2, Tinker Bell makes a heartfelt 4th wish, and it appears to be granted. This is my take on how that comes to be.
As the "first frost" comes in mid-November for London, I'm going to choose October as the "blue moon" month. More on that at the end of the story.
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Queen Incanta's Gift - Chapter 1 - Before Tink's 4th Wish
Queen Incanta stood on her balcony, viewing the bustling square below. Nothing pleased the ancient queen more than watching her fairies chat and laugh, going about their busy lives. And busy they were, for tonight was Ascension Night. The new queen-in-waiting was to assume the crown of Fairy Queen, as the old queen retired; a once-in-a-lifetime event for most fairies.
Incanta had wisely delegated the details of the ceremony and later celebrations to enthusiastic administrators, leaving herself free to "enjoy the ride", in a manner of speaking. She had made her own special preparations months, and even years ago.
Queen Incanta was exceptionally powerful in fairy magic when she herself had assumed the crown, and her powers had increased as time went on. "How many human-years has it been?" she thought, "A thousand? ...more?" She had faced and defeated many horrors over the centuries, before they could even muss the hair of her fairies.
Life had been peaceful for quite a while now, and every tool & technique Incanta could use showed it would remain so, for as far into the future as she could see. The time was right for Incanta to bow-out, and so a successor was trained.
But Incanta had one more task; a parting gift to her fairies. Shortly after the new queen would be crowned, Incanta herself would depart the mortal world of fairies, but on leaving, she would secretly deposit one fifth of her soul & magical powers into a specially prepared vessel: A simple decorative fairy hand mirror. The mirror would be proclaimed to grant 3 wishes, but must be locked away until times of desperate trouble.
The Mirror of Incanta was furious at the human pirates who now possessed her. It was bad enough that through some infernal chain of gossip, the pirates had come to know of her existence, and tracked down Neverland. But they had seized a fairy, and tortured her into revealing Incanta's location. Then the brutes had smashed their way into Pixie Hollow, and taken the Mirror and anything else they saw of value.
Incanta had been forced to grant 2 of her 3 wishes for them. The first was a king's ransom in treasures. She couldn't conjure it out of nothing; that would be impossible, but she put in their heads an image of where they could find the treasure completely unguarded. The second wish concerned power. They wanted all their enemies rendered helpless. She obliged them by setting their enemies on each other, then revealed where they could finish off the remainders.
Incanta was determined they would not take her third wish, but she had over-estimated her capabilities when she fractioned off her powers for the mirror. In her weaker state, she had to rely more on her wits to make up for raw magical power.
The pirates seemed to have forgotten her for the moment, while indulging their earthly pleasures. From her place in a small sack of trinkets, she had spent days churning wind & water into a storm vicious enough to destroy the pirates & their boat, and she was now ready to drop it on them.
October 28
The Mirror of Incanta despaired at another day in the grounded pirate ship. Countless years had passed. She would have wrecked the ship on Neverland, but she didn't want any possibility of pirates near fairies. As it was, there were no survivors. She was stuck on this lost island, with no way of returning to Pixie Hollow.
Incanta could hear the gulls during the day, and the rats scratching about at night. She could push some winds around, and could take control of insect minds even as far as Neverland. On rare occasions like the previous night, when fairies spoke of the Mirror of Incanta, she could almost see and hear them.
As the day crawled past, Incanta became aware that one particular fairy was focused on the Mirror and the lost island. "What is she up to?" thought Incanta. By evening, it became clear that the fairy was somehow on her way to the lost island. "I need to see what's going on." decided Incanta.
She found a swarm of fireflies near the fairy, and sent them in that direction. Unfortunately, a bat spotted the fireflies, and gave pursuit. Incanta managed to get one firefly to slow near the fairy, but it seemed to have knocked itself out.
October 28 - Evening.
"My boysenberry rolls!"
"Ah. The firefly is awake." thought Incanta. "Let's see if I can look around, and maybe ask some questions." She struggled with the insect's consciousness. "Oh, this guy's a rascal." After a minute, she settled into the bug's mind.
"Hi there!"
"Stop following me!" protested Tinker Bell.
"Why?"
"I'm on a very important mission. I have two days to find the magic mirror and wish the moonstone back."
So she is on her way here! "I'll help!"
"No, I don't need any help."
"Are you sure?" The firefly's mind slipped away from Incanta, but she had heard enough. A clever tinker fairy, in a strange flying machine, and some sort of trouble with a moonstone. Incanta pulled breezes around to give the young tinker fairy a light tail wind. "I'll check back on them later."
October 30 - Sunrise.
"Where are they?" thought Incanta, "I'm not sensing either of them." She continued to probe for a while.
"Whoa! I'm awake, I'm awake, I'm... in a tree?"
"There they are." thought Incanta. "Hmm, this tinker barely has enough pixie dust to get home. Why didn't she bring more? Can't have her wasting any. I'll have to take it out of reach until she's ready to leave." Incanta turned up the winds until the balloon broke loose and drifted off.
October 31 - Late afternoon.
"Terence, wait up!" called Fawn, flying-in close to the pre-occupied dustkeeper. "You're not going deaf, are you?"
"Hunh?" grunted Terence.
"Have you seen Tinker Bell? Everyone I've spoken to hasn't seen her for days, and Silvermist thinks she's exploded."
"Uh, no. Haven't seen her." he responded without looking at Fawn.
"Well, she's gotta show up for dust. Maybe one of your guys..."
Terence cut her off. "Fairy Gary hasn't seen her for 3 days."
"What?" Fawn looked alarmed. "I hope she's not sick. You should check in on her; you're Tink's friend, too."
"Not so much." replied Terence. Fawn met his glance. "She... kind-of pushed me away. She hasn't been the same since this scepter thing started."
"The blue moon is tonight." Fawn said with concern, "Tinker Bell has to produce a scepter."
October 31 - Late afternoon.
"Why couldn't the mirror be in a bunny-filled meadow?"
"I hear them!" thought the Mirror of Incanta. "Find me, brave young tinker! Take me back to Pixie Hollow."
"Look, Blaze."
"She's very close." After a moment, all the trinkets and the Mirror fell out through the bottom of the sack, onto the fairy.
"Ah!"
"What do you think? Too big?"
"It's gotta be in here somewhere, Blaze. Come on. Help me look."
"I see the firefly! And there's my adventurous fairy."
"It's real."
"Okay. Deep breath. Clear your mind. Only get one shot at this. Here it goes."
"I wish... I wish... I wish... "
"Blaze, I wish you'd be quiet for one minute!"
"What? I can't believe she just said that!" Incanta smiled mischievously, and granted the wish.
"No! No, no, no, no, no!"
"That one didn't count! I take it back."
"Please, please. I take it back! That wasn't my wish. Please!"
For the first time in ages, Incanta regretted her action. "A fine way to treat your rescuer." she scolded herself.
"Blaze, look what you've done! This mirror was my last chance. This is all your fault!"
"I'm sorry, Blaze. It's not your fault. It's mine. It's all mine."
"How can I make it up to her?" Incanta thought.
"I wish Terence were here. I wish we were still friends."
"A fairy's tear. I cannot deny this heartfelt wish." The Mirror of Incanta reached back in time 24 hours...
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See how Incanta changed the course of events in Chapter 2.