NOTE: This particular story takes place between 'Tinkering Tink' and the 'Teaching Tink' series. To further narrow down where in the movies this takes place, it's after The Great Fairy Rescue, just before the events in Secret of the Wings. Now that the time-frame has been taken care of, enjoy. ^_^
Also, considering this story was getting ridiculously long for a single chapter, 50+ pages according to my word processor, I decided to split it into three parts, making it easy to read and able to be posted sooner. the remaining two parts are pretty much done, I just need to go through them for errors, so I predict (aiming for) the next two parts to be uploaded over the next two days.
With the sun high and bright in the sky, humming a cheerful tune, Silvermist happily water-skates along a pond, giggles of delight leaving her as she performs a few hops and mid-air twirls, soon leading up to performing a tight circle, rising the water under her as spins.
Briefly holding the act, a delighted laugh leaves the water-talent, before opening her eyes and seeing Tinkerbell a few times in her spin.
"Oh, hey Tink." greets Silvermist, as she lowers herself down and Tinkerbell lowering herself to her friend's level, who stands on the water's surface.
"Hi Sil. There's something I've been wondering about for awhile-"
"Oh how flattering..." interrupts Silvermist with a smile and lifts her hands to her cheeks. "I was wondering when you were going to get around to asking."
"W-What?" questions Tinkerbell, before blushing a bit and giving her friend a smirk. "I wasn't asking THAT, perv."
"Hehe, I'm only teasing." giggles Silvermist as she waves off the remark.
"Ugh, you and your teasing." replies Tinkerbell with a smile as she crosses her arms over her chest. "Are you trying to hint at something you want from me?"
"Maaaybe." replies Silvermist as she turns towards land and skates toward it.
"Anyway..." starts Tinkerbell, flying by Silvermist and waiting for her at the edge of the pond. "I've been to the Mainland a few times now and something really strange occurred to me after our last visit."
"And what's that?"
"Human babies are made when two human's have sex, right?"
"Right."
"And a fairy is born when that baby laughs for the first time."
"Yeah..."
"But those fairies are born as adults. We can have sex like the human's do, so why arn't there ANY fairy babies or kids around here?"
After a moment, Tinkerbell sees a big grin come to Silvermist's face, before she asks...
"Have you tried?"
Tinkerbell sighs at the tease and shake her head a bit.
"Should've seen that one coming."
"Sorry, I just couldn't pass that one up, anyway, it's just the way it is, we're born from a babies first laugh. Besides, I don't think kids would be all that useful around here, every fairy here has a purpose."
"Maybe not any of the more dangerous jobs, like the Scouts, but I'm sure there are things a younger fairy could do. I still think it's strange that there aren't any babies or kids in Pixie Hollow."
"I don't think you should worry about it too much. As long as the human's keep making babies, there will always be new fairies."
"Yeah, I guess." replies Tinkerbell with a sigh.
"If your so disappointed, I'm sure a certain Dust Keeper- ow, hehe." replies Silvermist before she's stopped with a playful punch to the shoulder by a blushing Tinkerbell.
"Don't even go there! We're just friends!" declares the Tinker with an embarrassed smile. "Besides, my hands satisfy me just fine." she adds.
"How about trying someone else's." suggests Silvermist as she pokes the Tinker's belly, prompting a little giggle from her, before Tinker's lifts into the air.
"You must be horny right now."
"Would you like to find out?" asks Silvermist with a smile.
"Hehe, later Sil." replies Tinkerbell, before flying away.
Silvermist giggles briefly as Tinkerbell fly's off.
"She's still so fun to tease."
Leaving her friend, Tinkerbell is a little disappointed what Silvermist had to say about the matter of younger fairies. The Tinker may have yet to know the intimate touch of a Sparrowman; her thoughts turning to a certain Fast-Flying fairy lately, but she knew of sex and for human's, along with all the other animals, it lead to offspring, fairies seemed to be the odd ones.
That wouldn't do, she just had to know why.
Aimlessly flying around, lost in thought on the puzzling matter of the lack of younger fairies, the Tinker was currently flying over flower filled meadow, before seeing a purple blur come from behind her, followed by a gasp as the following trail of wind sends her spinning.
Feeling a hand on her head, stopping her, Tinkerbell sees Vidia as the world slowly stopped spinning.
"Oh, sorry about that, didn't see you there." comments the Fast-Flyer with a smile.
"Yeah, right..." mutters Tinkerbell, feeling Vidia's hand lower from her head and very briefly stroke her left cheek on the way down, still a bit dizzy, the Tinker didn't think anything of it.
"Seriously, you were moving so slow..." replies Vidia, fluttering behind the Tinker, grinning as she sees that Tinkerbell had failed to realize the view she had, of the Tinker's green panties, admiring the sight for a few moments before the Tinker gasps with her cheeks reddening as she feels Vidia pull down the back of her dress.
The Tinker quickly turns around, covering her butt.
"Geez, again!?" declares Tinkerbell, while she is very embarrassed, she felt a rush of excitement run through her. She knew she liked Vidia, but wouldn't even think of admitting it to her. Tinkerbell didn't know why, but it was soon after the event with Lizzie and her dad that Vidia's tricks and teases on her got a bit more physical. What ever the reason, despite the embarrassment brought from the teases, she secretly liked it and hoped for it sometimes.
"You're so fun to tease."
"How'd you like it I returned the favor?"
"You'd have to catch me first honey, but I don't see that happening anytime soon, or rather, never."
Although a bit annoyed with Vidia, the Fast-Flyer flies pass her and before she could get too far, Tinkerbell calls out to her.
"Hey wait."
"What is it now?" asks Vidia with a smirk.
However, Tinkerbell quickly thought against presenting the same question to Vidia as she did with Silvermist, as Vidia was younger.
"Actually... never mind."
"Oh come on, I'm curious now."
"Fine..." sighs Tinkerbell. "After spending some time on the Mainland, I realized fairies don't don't make babies like human's and the animal's do."
The Fast-Flyer gives the Tinker a puzzled look, before replying...
"It's always been that way, Fairies are born from a baby's first laugh."
"I know, we're born as adults, no younger. Isn't that weird?"
"It's what's normal for us, It's been that way when I was born and as far as I know, It's been that way before I was born. If anything, you're the weird one."
The Tinker's response is a slight frown and groan from Vidia's ending remark.
"Hehe, honestly though Tink, it's better this way, if a Fairy or Sparrowman wants, they can have all the sex they want and not worry about getting pregnant. Besides, babies are messy and noisy, and turn into trouble-makers as they grow, you only have to look as some of the younger animals to see that."
"All the animals around us can have babies, but we can't? That's just a little too weird for me to let go." replies Tinkerbell as she crossing her arms over her chest.
Following this comment, Tinkerbell sees Vidia's cheerful expression fade some, before rather calmly asking, more seriously...
"Do you want to have a kid that badly?"
"W-What, n-no!" quickly replies Tinkerbell as her face reddened considerably. "I'm just confused why we don't have babies like the other animals."
"Really?" asks Vidia with a little smirk.
"Y-yeah..." replies Tinkerbell, averting her eyes from the Fast-Flyer, as she thinks... 'Beside, two Fairies couldn't make a baby anyway.'
Vidia's smirk turns into a grin as she lifts a finger to her chin.
"Tink, which do you like more, Sparrowmen or Fairies?"
"W-Wha, w-what kinda question is that?" replies Tinkerbell, her face a red as can be. "D-Do I like F-Fairies? Hehe, hehe, I-I should get going." she adds, before quickly flying pass Vidia, whom watches her leave with a smile and a bit of color coming to her cheeks.
"Interesting, Tink's into Fairies. Just maybe..."
"Ugh, why would she ask me that out of the blue like that!?" groans Tinkerbell.
'I know I like Vidia, but that doesn't really mean I'm into other Fairies, does it? I've never been with a Sparrowman or Fairy. But, when Sil teases me, I don't feel weird. But if a Sparrowman like Terrance did the same...'
Tinkerbell could barely imagine it before cringing with uneasiness at the thought, which that itself surprising her.
'Wow, I guess I never really thought about it, maybe I am into Fairies rather than Sparrowmen.'
"Well, the idea isn't that unusual, there are plenty of same-sex couples in Pixie Hollow." comments Tinkerbell, before a smile comes to her face. "Heh, I like Fairies, that's nice to know."
- Tinker's Nook -
Deciding to return home to spend a little time thanking the Vidia in her mind for the self-discovery, Tinkerbell is briefly side-tracked as she sees Fairy Mary flying towards her.
"Tinkerbell, you wouldn't happen to know where Clank and Bobble are would you?" asks the short Tinker.
"Nope, sorry, the last time I saw them was when we were working."
"Hmm, they don't seem to be here in Tinker's Nook, if you happen to find them, tell them I'm looking for them."
"Sure thing."
Fairy Mary starts to leave, but Tinkerbell gasps and quickly flies in front of her.
"Oh, wait, I have something I've been wondering about, I've asked some of my friends, without much success. But then I realized I can ask you, someone much old-" the Tinker pauses as she sees Fairy Mary glare are her. "U-Uh, someone with as much wisdom as you, would surely be able to answer my question, heh."
Fairy Mary gives her a smirk, before replying, "Very well, what can I help you with?"
"Why can't Fairies have babies?"
To Tinkerbell's surprise, while Silvermist and Vidia pretty much waved off the question, Fairy Mary clearly looked shocked.
"Fairy Mary?"
"U-Uh, W-We just can't. There's no need for us to make babies anyway, the method we have now works perfectly."
Tinkerbell found Fairy Mary's phrasing odd...
'The method we have now?'
"But-"
"No buts Tinkerbell." interrupts Fairy Mary. "While I understand your curiosity, we fairies simply don't have babies, it's just the way it's been. And I don't want you discussing this nonsense with anyone else, understand?"
"What, why?"
"Who did you ask that question to?"
"Silvermist and Vidia." answers Tinkerbell.
"And how did they respond?"
"They pretty much said that it's normal."
"Exactly." replies Fairy Mary, before placing a hand to Tinkerbell shoulder with a smile. "You're an amazing Tinker and I know you want to figure something like this out, but there is nothing to figure out."
Tinkerbell sighs with a slump of her shoulders.
"Fine, I guess your right."
"Of course I'm right."
Tinkerbell resumes heading towards her home, while she agreed with Fairy Mary, she was only playing along, sure that she was keeping something from her, it was the same comment the older Tinker said that stuck in Tinkerbell's mind...
'The method we have now...'
Fairy Mary watches Tinkerbell leave.
"If I know Tinkerbell, she's not going to let this go that easily. She's already mentioned this to two others... this is something the Queen should know about."
- A short time later, Pixie Dust Tree -
"What do I owe the pleasure of your visit Fairy Mary." greets Queen Clarion, the Tinker hovering in front of the smiling Queen.
"Something troubling has come to my attention Queen Clarion, Tinkerbell has begun to question why fairies can't have babies."
The smile on Clarion's face quickly fades.
"I see..." she replies, averting her eyes briefly in thought.
"She told me she asked Silvermist and Vidia about it, but didn't get the answer she was looking for."
"Hmm, while this is troubling, this day was bound to happen eventually, what I did so long ago finally catching up with me..." replies Clarion, turning and fluttering towards a window and looking out with a smile. "It honestly doesn't surprise me that Tinkerbell is the one asking this question, I always thought it would be a Tinker."
"I've told her to forget about it, but I know she won't let it go that easily." replies Fairy Mary.
"Yes, I'm sure she won't." replies Clarion, before lowering her gaze. "Maybe, it's time..."
"But Queen Clarion..." starts Fairy Mary, wide-eyed flying to the Queen's right. "Hasn't it been too long?"
"Yes... Much, much too long..."
- The next day -
Having not long finished her shift of work, Tinkerbell currently occupies her home, wearing only a pair of panties and a smile, with a bit of color on her cheeks.
Discarding her dress on the back of her chair for the moment, the Tinker walks to and sits on the edge of her bed, intending to spend a delightful half hour with her thoughts and hands.
However, moments into placing her right middle and ring fingers into her mouth, a knocking comes from her door, prompting a low groan of annoyance from the Tinker.
"Who is it?" asks Tinkerbell, hoping whomever it was didn't need her to get up.
"Viola." answers the visitor. "Queen Clarion has requested to see you."
"The Queen?" questions Tinkerbell to herself, immediately wondering the reason, before standing and walking to her door, opening it just enough to peek her head out and see the Summoning Talent Fairy. "Right now?" asks Tinkerbell.
"Yes, if I interrupted anything, I apologize, do you need a moment?"
"Yeah, thanks, I'll be just a sec." replies Tinkerbell, before closing her door, followed by a disappointed sigh.
- Pixie Dust Tree -
Walking into the Queen's home, Tinkerbell sees her near a window, facing the Tinker, with a smile.
"Thank you for coming Tinkerbell." greets the Queen as she flutters towards the Tinker, the two meeting in the middle of the room.
"Heh, well when the Queen calls, you come." replies Tinkerbell with a nervous giggle.
Queen Clarion gives a small chuckle in response, but her expression soon shifts to a more serious one, before commenting...
"I'll get right to it; Tinkerbell, I have been made aware of your curiosity concerning why there are no babies here in Pixie Hollow."
"Oh..." replies Tinkerbell as her gaze lowers, as she thinks, 'I didn't know it was serious enough to get Queen Clarion's attention.'
"Fairy Mary told you, right?" adds Tinkerbell.
"Yes, she also told me you have asked other fairies about the matter as well."
"Y-yeah, only two though." replies Tinkerbell, lifting her gaze to the Queen. "Silvermist and Vidia. They weren't very interested though."
"Tinkerbell, I can understand how this would be a very curious matter, especially as a Tinker, but I must insist that you do not pursue this any further."
"W-What? Why?" asks Tinkerbell, shocked by the Queen's request.
"It is not something you need to concern yourself with..." answers Queen Clarion, turning and heading back towards the window. "That is all, you may leave."
Following the end of her comment, the Queen's expression softens to one of concern.
"B-But..." starts Tinkerbell, hurt that the Queen shut her down like that, she couldn't disrespect the Queen by continuing to question her after Clarion ended the topic.
Confusion began to give wave to anger as Tinkerbell turns to leave, but delays in moving.
'The Queen HAS to know something about it if she doesn't want me to talk about it.' thinks Tinkerbell. 'Maybe she even has the answer. Why keep it a secret though? I won't be able to let this go now if the Queen wants me to stop. I just have to know, I only hope the punishment isn't too bad...'
"No." comments Tinkerbell, turning to face the Queen, her face displaying a mix of both determination to stand her ground and fear that it was the Queen she was disobeying.
Queen Clarion, meanwhile, her face lightens up with a smile.
"I have to know." adds Tinkerbell.
"You'd risk punishment for this knowledge?" asks Queen Clarion.
"Y-Yes, which would be what, by the way?"
"One possibility is no longer being a Tinker." answers the Queen, prompting an audible gasp from the Tinker, whom looks down to the floor in thought.
'One possibility...' thinks Tinkerbell. 'That means there are others. Can I risk not being a Tinker though... but even if I'm not, it won't stop me from wondering why there are no babies or kids here.'
"I..." starts Tinkerbell. "I, accept the risk."
"Having the knowledge will change nothing."
"I still have to know." replies Tinkerbell, flittering closer towards the Queen, in arms length behind her, her heart racing as she felt the Queen would come clean.
Tinkerbell is soon surprised as Clarion turns to face her and sees the Queen smiling at her, placing her right hand to the Tinker's left shoulder.
"Very well, I needed to know how serious you were to know..." states Queen Clarion, seeing the smile of relief on the Tinker's face from her passing the test, before the Queen looks out of the window and continues... "Long, long ago, around the time I had become queen, Pixie Hollow was filled families and children playing."
"So we could have babies!" declares Tinkerbell happily, "But why can't we now?"
"In my early years as queen." resumes Queen Clarion. "I noticed the Fairies and Sparrowmen weren't very efficient at their talents and it was because of the attention needed by their children."
"Well, isn't that a normal thing?" asks Tinkerbell.
"Yes, it is, very normal..." replies Queen Clarion, pausing briefly as she takes a deep breath and slowly exhaling before continuing, "It started out as just a temporary experiment. I simply requested the fairies of Pixie Hollow to no longer have children."
"Really?" asks Tinkerbell, wide-eyed. "Everyone went along with that?"
"Heh, of course not." replies Clarion with a little chuckle. "Fairies we're still born from human babies first laughs, so their were no concern with us dying out or anything drastic like that. I explained my reasoning behind my request, that without having to worry about a baby or a child, efficiency could improve. Not all followed, but enough did and after a single generation of fairies, enough for the younger ones to grow up and have talents, I noticed efficiency began to increase, it wasn't a lot, but it was noticeable."
"Wow... I'm surprised they would actually go through with it." comments Tinkerbell. "But after the experiment, more babies started to be made, right?"
"That is where things took a surprising turn. Efficiency was up, fairies that didn't have children had more free time, some even did there job more, purely for the enjoyment they got from it, which also helped with efficiency. Over the passing years, more and more fairies decided not to have children, causing efficiency to rise steadily."
"So..." starts Tinkerbell. "...talents are getting better with their jobs, leading to more free-time, but without kids, what do they do with all that free time?"
"Heh, what do YOU with your free time?" asks Queen Clarion with a smile as she looks to Tinkerbell.
"Plenty, look for lost things, find and fix stuff, sometimes work extra shifts, spend time with my friends..." answers Tinkerbell with delight, her cheeks reddening a bit as she adds in her thoughts, 'Spend time with myself.'
"And that's what fairies did in the past." replies Clarion.
"But, didn't fairies miss having kids of their own?"
"Some did and children continued to be born, but at a significantly reduced rate." answers Clarion, averting her gaze from the Tinker. "Surprisingly, most were fine with it. Fairies were still being born from laughs, so their were plenty of new faces to meet. Eventually, while their were still a few babies and children here and there, it became the norm for fairies to be born from laughs and fairies born from sex to be seen as weird, which was not my intention at all."
"Wow... so fairies didn't want to have babies?"
"As shocking as it sounds, yes. It even reached a point where, it pains me to say, but unwanted pregnancies happened."
Tinkerbell's only response was covering her gasping mouth with a hand.
"Fairies began to come to me requesting a solution, they didn't want to worry about having children, they were happy with the way things had become." states Clarion, gazing out of the window, looking out to the fairies flying in the distance.
"But what could you do?" asks Tinkerbell. "It's not like you could just, stop fairies from having babies."
However, seconds after her comment, Tinkerbell notices the Queen's body language change, her head and wings lowered and the Tinker takes a step back in shock.
"C-Could you!?"
"It was what they wanted."
She had her answer, Queen Clarion was the source of the lack of babies. Tinkerbell didn't know what to say, taking a couple steps back.
Tinkerbell soon sees Queen Clarion turn to face her, worry plainly obvious on her face, asking...
"Do you hate me now? I am the reason no fairy in Pixie Hollow can have a child."
"I... don't know..." replies Tinkerbell, her teary gaze lowering to her stomach and placing her hands to her abdomen. As hurt as the Tinker felt, one thought came to her mind and lifts her gaze back to the Queen. "Since you did this, could you, undo it?"
Tinkerbell sees Clarion avert her gaze and the Tinker's heart dropped at the assumption. However, she was too quick to assume.
"If I wanted, yes." answers Clarion after a moment.
"You don't want to?" asks Tinkerbell.
"I do, but, I fear it's been too long, the fairies have adapted to what is now normal."
"..." Tinkerbell didn't know what to say to that, fairies unable to have children was the accepted norm, but another thought hit her. "What about you?"
"I am the same as every other fairy." answers Clarion, "I would not do this to everyone else and spare myself."
"You're that committed to this..." comments Tinkerbell lowly. "But what about the next queen? If you can't have a baby..."
"That has already been taken care of." replies Clarion. "I will have a successor when that time comes."
A few moments following Clarion's comment, Tinkerbell gasps as a realization hit her.
"Wait a minute, you did something to cause fairies to be unable to have babies."
"Right..." replies Clarion.
"You said you did it because the fairies wanted it, but if a new fairy is born, wouldn't you have to do whatever you did before, to that fairy?"
Queen Clarion briefly averts her gaze and sighs before looking back to the Tinker and hovering towards her, looking into her eyes.
"All newly born fairies; you, were born able to have children, I personally took that away from you."
Tinkerbell is at a momentarily lose for words, the more she learned, the less the news seemed to hurt, she was born able to get pregnant, but the queen took it away, yet she could also reverse it, it wasn't a permanent change. But that left one last question...
"How do you do it, prevent fairies from having babies?"
To Tinkerbell's surprise, as forthcoming Clarion was to answer her questions, she hesitates considerably as she looks away with a frown. Tinkerbell is patient though and waits the few moments before Clarion answers...
"I can't... won't, tell you the details, but I will say, it involves the pixie dust."
"The dust!?" gasps Tinkerbell. "Well, if you think about it, everyone needs dust and if you change the dust somehow, it would affect everyone. That's, actually a pretty good idea, it's efficient."
"Well it's nice to hear you appreciate the idea." comments Clarion.
"So..." starts Tinkerbell. "If we stopped using the dust, we'd be able to make babies again?"
"It would take some time, but yes. It would be a more, hindering method, but it would work."
"Wow..." replies Tinkerbell with a smile, assuming the better method was simply reversing what ever was done to the dust, allowing it to continue to be used. "I didn't know pixie dust could do more than help us fly and make things float."
Queen Clarion doesn't respond to this remark, though does turn her gaze back to Tinkerbell and comments...
"I don't think I have to tell you, but what you learn here, you have to keep secret."
"I find it hard to believe others would believe me even if I told them." replies Tinkerbell.
"Good, then there is something else I want to tell you, if you're interested."
"Of course."
Queen Clarion smiles, before beginning...
"As I'm sure you know, during the New Arrival ceremony, sometimes, there are times that the pre-selected talent items presented to the New Arrival don't respond."
"I've heard of it, but I've never been there when it happened, which I think has only happened once or twice scene I've been here." replies Tinkerbell. "Afterward, the New Arrival discovers their talent later."
"Correct, they are presented with the different items representing the respective talent until one responds. That is usually the end of it, but sometimes, rarely, it's not."
"Really?" gasps Tinkerbell. "A Fairy without a talent? They exist?"
"Hehe, no, every fairy has a talent." answers Clarion with a little chuckle. "Even the children of the past, they just needed to discover it. Of all the known talents, there is one that is not as widely known and only a select few know of it."
"A secret talent!?" asks Tinkerbell with wide-eyed curiosity and her wings fluttering in delight.
"Heh, yes, when all the other talents don't respond, by simple process of elimination, it only leaves the final one, the Breeding Talent."
"The Breeding..." starts Tinkerbell, clearly not expecting to hear of such a talent. "Wait, what!? There's a talent for that!? To make babies!?"
"Yes, however, it is not quite what I'm sure you're thinking, it is not a Breeding talent's 'job' to have babies, despite the name, they are Fairies and Sparrowmen that simply have the ability to create life."
"But a few moments ago, you just said all fairies could have babies if you wanted to change it. Why have a whole talent for something all Fairies and Sparrowmen can do?"
Clarion gives Tinkerbell a brief smile before answering...
"The Breeding Talent is one of the newer talents. During the, transition, towards what is the norm today, there were a group that strongly opposed the direction we were headed and separated from the rest."
Learning this surprising information, Tinkerbell is silent for a few moments, before the realization hit her, prompting a gasp from her.
"Whoa, whoa, whoa! Wait a minute! Fairies in the past separated from the rest and you just told me about the Breeding Talent, so that must mean, fairies exist today, that are having babies!" declares Tinkerbell gleefully.
Clarion's only response was a smile, which was all the response Tinkerbell needed for confirmation, the Tinker could barely contain her excitement, her wings fluttering and briefly hopping in place.
"I have to meet them! I wanna see a Fairy baby! I'm sure their really cute! Where do the Breeding Talents live!?"
"Hehe, my goodness, you're quite excited." comments Clarion.
"I just learned that a whole new group of fairies exist, of course I'm excited! Please tell me where they live, I promise I'll keep it a secret!"
"Well, they don't live here on the island." answers Clarion.
Despite the surprise of Clarion's answer, Tinkerbell is more delighted by the verbal confirmation that the fairies existed.
"So where do they live!?"
Clarion averts her eyes with a brief moment of thought, before looking back to Tinkerbell.
"You promise to keep this information to yourself?"
"I swear it on my pride as a Tinker!"
"Then follow me." replies Clarion as she flies pass the Tinker, who excitedly follows.
Tinkerbell is lead out of the Queen's home, then, to her surprise, high up into the air, able to look down at a great majority of Pixie Hollow, the mountain at the center of the island the only thing above them.
"Tinkerbell..." starts Clarion, pointing ahead. "Do you see that smaller island in the distance to the north?"
Thanks to the clear sky, Tinkerbell could easily see a flat island in the distance, covered in a thick forest, she'd seen it before, but paid it little attention.
"Yeah." replies Tinkerbell, though sighing in disappointment. "I'd have to save up a lot of dust just to make it over there, let alone getting back."
"But you wouldn't need as much dust as you think." comments Clarion with a smile. "Your scepter at the revelry was very beautiful."
"My scepter..." starts Tinkerbell, briefly wondering what the Queen was trying to hint at before it clicked. "Of course! My flying balloon! I can get there and back with no problem!"
"Not alone you won't." comments Clarion, turning to Tinkerbell and placing a hand to her shoulder. "They do not welcome outsiders they don't know."
The Tinker groans with the disappointing news, until...
"However, if I were to come with you..."
Tinkerbell's expression lights up as she looks to the Queen and sees her smiling.
"You'd come with me!?"
"Heh, I either come or you never go."
"I am perfectly fine with you coming!" replies Tinkerbell happily.
"Good." comments Clarion, before heading back down.
Following, Tinkerbell soon asks...
"When do we leave? I can have my balloon ready in an hour."
"Heh, wait just a minute..." replies Clarion with a smile as she stops. "The earliest I'll be able to leave is later this week."
"What!? Why!?" gasps Tinkerbell.
"I can't just decide to leave like that. There are things I need to take care of. It's going to take two or more hours to reach the island, I'm sure you'd like to spend more than couple hours there, right?"
"Yeah." replies Tinkerbell with a sigh, forgetting that as Queen, Clarion couldn't just up and leave without warning.
"Can you promise me that you won't attempt to go by yourself?"
"Well you did say they don't welcome outsiders they don't know, so there would be no point of me going alone." replies Tinkerbell with clear disappointment.
"Good."
- Tinkerbell's Home -
Processing all the shocking information the Queen had revealed, Tinkerbell is mentally exhausted as she steps through her door. However, knowing that fairy babies were a fact, a smile quickly forms on the Tinkers face as her imagination began to go to work, closing her eyes...
Standing over a tiny bed, beside her own, a half-naked Tinkerbell, wearing only her panties, smiles as she watches her baby daughter sleeping peacefully, a full head of purple hair crowning her head.
The Tinker soon feels a pair of arms embraces her from behind and breasts against her back as a few strains of long purple hair fall over her left shoulder and warm breath against her ear.
"She's not going anywhere yanno." comments Vidia.
"I know, she's just so perfect, I can't stop watching her." replies Tinkerbell, reaching her right hand towards the sleeping baby and stroking her left cheek with a finger, bringing a little smile from her.
"She has your nose." comments Vidia.
"Heh, she's got your eyes." replies Tinkerbell.
"Who are you talking to?"
"AH!" gasps out Tinkerbell as she quickly turns around to see Silvermist's puzzled face before falling to her butt from the shock and her face flaring red. "H-How long were you there!?"
"I just got here. Whose eyes does someone have? I'm sure I would've heard of something so terrible." asks Silvermist with concern.
"I-I was just talking to myself." replies Tinkerbell, returning to her feet. "No one has anyone's eyes."
"Ok then, I came to see if you want to join a game of tag being set up, so far, we have Water, Animal, Light and Fast-Flying Talents."
"Oh, well, ok." answers Tinkerbell with a smile. "I'm sure I could gather up some Tinkers."
To Be Continued