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Treasure Chest

Chapter 1

Lost at Sea

This story is set directly after 'Disney Fairy Short: Treasure Chest', which is available on youtube.

All readers should know that this is the second part of a series that starts with 'A Little Fairy', then this story, and 'Stand Your Ground' should be read after this one. Some scenes are part of an underlying story arc which may not make sense for a while.

Vidia screamed and ducked as several more sharp pins stabbed into the wall near her. She managed to push the lid up a little bit and climb outside. She pulled herself onto the top of the chest just as it flipped upside down.

She hung on desperately as she was flipped underwater, and she got a first hand view of a snapping turtle staring at her. She might have screamed, but all of a sudden the chest flipped again and she was brought back to the surface, completely soaked. She spat out seawater and blinked some more from her eyes.

She looked around and saw Tinkerbell far away, on the sand, rummaging in a golden goblet.

"Tink!" she yelled. "Tinkerbell!"

Tinkerbell looked up, startled, and looked around on the sand.

The treasure chest flipped upside down again, taking Vidia with it. After a few moments surrounded by water, Vidia came back up into the air. She coughed and went back into the chest. It was much safer inside. She dropped onto the gold coins, then the chest rocked in the water and she was nearly crushed by several pounds of sliding treasure. She pulled herself up on the pins and stood as high as she could, but was knocked off when the bottle hit the side of the treasure chest and made the whole thing jerk.

She landed on her face on the coins, but rolled to her feet, knowing it wasn't safe to be low.

Frantically, she snatched up a diamond and brought it down on the thin end of the empty bottle, hard. She hit it several times until she'd smashed the glass off, then she climbed inside the bottle just in time. The whole chest flipped in the water again, and all the treasure came slamming down on the bottle.

Treasure Chest

Vidia blinked and stared up at the dark, cloudy sky. She sat up and glanced around, but she wasn't in the chest – she wasn't near the sea at all. She didn't recognize where she was at all. She heard loud, heavy footsteps pounding nearby. She stood and walked to where she could see. Two pirates were conversing together loudly, and suddenly she realized that the tree they stood next to was the Pixie Dust Tree. Her eyes widened as she saw the fairies going about their business without paying attention to the pirates – but all the fairies were walking – no there were two or three flying, but all the rest were on foot. One fairy, a messenger fairy that Vidia recognized, stopped running for a moment and put his hands on his knees to rest.

One of the pirates looked down. "What are you doing?"

The fairy looked up. "Nothing!" he answered, in a humble voice.

"That's quite right." the pirate picked up the poor fairy. "You were doing nothing. Fairies shouldn't be doing nothing!" he said, in a warning voice.

Vidia jumped from the underbrush. "Leave him alone!" she shouted, loudly, but only the pirates and the messenger fairy noticed her.

"What do you think you're doing?" The pirate dropped the sparrowman carelessly back onto the ground. "You think you're so terribly smart, don't you?"

Vidia backed away, then turned and ran back into the forest as fast as she could. "Wait here." she heard the pirate call to his fellow sailor. "I'll be back as soon as I deal with this fairy."

The pirate caught up with her in only a few large steps, and was just reaching down when several fairies jumped out of the underbrush between Vidia and the pirate.

"Oho! How loyal!" the pirate jeered, drawing his sword.

"Get her out of here!" a fairy called, pointing at Vidia. "Don't let her get hurt!"

Another fairy flew to her and grabbed her arm. She said nothing, but pulled her along into the woods. Behind her, Vidia heard the pirate yelling a bit, then a sudden crash shook the ground, and the fairy pulling her slowed.

"What was that?" a voice asked, Vidia blinked, turning to look at the same four fairies that she had seen in her dream.

"What happened here?" she asked, "How did this all change so fast?"

"You've got it wrong." a brown-haired girl spoke to one with short black hair. "She's soaked."

"She's in the treasure chest." the other agreed. "Sorry about that, Vidia."

"You'll get it the second time around." one of the other fairies assured their leader, in a way not unlike Silvermist. She turned to Vidia. "Sweet dreams."

Vidia sat up straight, jerking awake from her dream.

"Those were the same people from my last dream." Vidia frowned. "Strange – but the first must have been caused by the Aspirinitis, and the second because I was curious about the first." she nodded, deciding, then she climbed out of the bottle.

She grabbed a long pin and used it to pry the top of the treasure chest open a few inches. She peeked out and saw some rocks. She jumped back down into the chest and found a long, jeweled stick – possibly some kind of scepter – and used it to push the chest lid open a bit more. She piled some gold coins on it to open it some more. The lid opened enough that it suddenly flipped back, making the chest lurch, but Vidia kept her balance on the coins. She looked up at the rocks.

"AH!" she screamed. An enormous stone skull was staring at her.

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