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A Neverland Saga - Chapter 1 - Rainy Day Pastimes

"Okay, who's first?" asked Wisp. The group of fast-flyer fairies looked out over the rain-soaked field from their vantage point on a small rise, under the sheltering branches of a large tree.

"I'll go." declared Leeta. The other flyers moved away from her as she hung her cape & hood on a small branch and backed up several steps. She braced herself, then charged forward and leaped into flight. She flew straight and fast across the field for 4 seconds before being knocked to the ground by raindrops.

"Oh-h, too bad!" cried Aura, with a wicked grin. "How far was that?"

"I'd say about 90 yards." commented Hermes. "Good job, Leeta!" he shouted.

"Okay, next!" Wisp called. Tizzywing hung her rain-cape on the branch and prepared to launch as Leeta did.

Contrary to popular belief, it actually does rain on the island of Neverland from time to time. The plants love it, the fairy crops love it, and the rainfall replenishes the lakes & streams, so the fish love it. But the fast-flyer fairies hated it. Fairy wings become soggy & useless when wet, so most fairies huddled indoors on rainy days. Fast-flyers also hate boredom, so Wisp was the first to suggest this game. The rules were simple: Fly as far as you can across the field before being brought down by rain, and no wind-folds or other assisted thrust allowed.

Tizzywing flew erratically across the field, dodging raindrops as fast as she could until she was knocked down after 5 seconds.

"That looks like 100 yards." Hermes decided. "Good one, Tizz!" he shouted.

"Who's next?" asked Wisp.

Elwood's tactic was similar to Tizzywing's, but he rolled over on his back so he could see the raindrops falling toward him. Unfortunately, he couldn't see the ground and he flew into it.

"Oo-oo..." sympathized Aura, "That's only 60 yards!"

"Oh, excellent Elwood!" the flyers jeered him with sarcasm.

"Alright, I'll show you how it's done!" boasted Wisp. She tossed her cape over the branch, backed up, and launched like a rocket. Her initial speed kept her in the air even after flying through raindrops but she eventually fell.

"Whoa! That's about 120 yards!" called Zephyr.

"Good one, Wisp!" the flyers hooted & cheered.

Each of the fast-flyers took their turns until only Vidia was left. Vidia's launch was as fast as Wisp's, but upwards at a 45-degree angle. Vidia had tried all the other tactics on previous rainy days before she reluctantly consulted Tinker Bell. "Oh, that's easy." Tink had said, "Once your wings become wet, you're flying a ballistic trajectory." Tink explained how a 45-degree start would give maximum range to a projectile.

Vidia's wings were soaked after 4 seconds in the air, but her path took her high over the others and farthest across the field. The only problem was landing, for which she used her wind-control ability to cushion herself.

"Yay, Vidia!" the flyers cheered, "You've done it again!"

Their game was over for the day, so the fast-flyers trudged back through the wet field to recover their rain-capes. Although they were all soaked to the skin, the absurd frolic had lifted their spirits and they talked excitedly on the way to Dulsie's tearoom for snacks. Vidia heard her communication pendant calling to her as they plodded around the worst of the rain puddles, so she drifted away from the group.

"Queen Clarion has something for you to see, if you're not busy." the fairy in the small crystal plate said.

"I'll be there as soon as I can." Vidia responded, and she started an easy jog to the Pixie Dust Tree.


Vidia marched into the usual meeting room, whipped off her rain-cape, and hung it over the back of a chair to dry. This meeting room had changed since she last saw it. A floor-to-ceiling map of the world covered one entire wall. Queen Clarion was speaking with Prilla, and Tinker Bell was fiddling with a large painted ball on a cradle in one corner.

"Vidia!" cried Prilla, "What happened?" Everyone stopped to look at Vidia's drenched hair, clothes and wings.

"I got wet." Vidia flippantly stated the obvious, and provided no further explanation so they decided it wasn't worth prying into.

"Glad you could come." Queen Clarion smiled. "I was just telling Prilla about our new map of fairy colonies."

"Look, Vidia!" Prilla called excitedly as she fluttered up to the British Isles on the map. "Here's us, and these are the colonies we've been to!" Each colony location was marked by a glowing gemstone on the large map. "And look how much area there is to explore!" She indicated the masses of Asia and Africa. "We're going to be busy!"

"What about this part over here?" Vidia pointed to North & South America. "There must be lots of fairy colonies there, too."

"Mmm." Clarion agreed, "But I can't see any way to get across these huge oceans. We may never see them."

Vidia was hesitant to abandon such large areas of land, but Clarion might be right. Even at wind-fold speeds, it could take tens of hours to cross such oceans, and a lot of things could happen to 2 small fairies with no place to land. As Prilla and Clarion talked, Vidia pulled herself away from the map and wandered to the large object in the corner.

"What's this?" she asked Tinker Bell.

"It's a globe. A scale model of the Earth." Tink answered.

"We live on a ball?"

"That's what the humans think, and they're usually right about these things."

Vidia rolled the globe around, studying the land positions, distances, and estimating flight times. "We could do it." she stated to the others.

"Do what?" asked Prilla.

"We could go to this land called North America." They all crowded closer to the globe. "We fly north from Scotland to these small islands." explained Vidia, "Then northwest to this big island, west again to this really big island, then west to North America." She glanced around at them. "Each flight is short and manageable."

"I don't know, Vidia." Tink raked fingers through her bangs. "Look how far north those islands are. They're likely to be nothing but ice-covered rocks."

"Well can you find out for sure?" Vidia still held hope.

"Yeah. I'll let you know."


Far from being ice-covered rocks, Tinker Bell discovered many northern lands are green with life, especially in summer. Queen Clarion focused her pixie dust viewing table efforts on the small group of islands north of Scotland and found what appeared to be a fairy colony, but most of the fairies seemed to be missing. Clarion figured this was reason enough to investigate, and so preparations were made.


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