I believe

Chapter 2:

A feather with no bird

The autumn morning sun loomed in the horizon and curved through the distant crimson hills. Light fairies woke up and danced around its light rays. Flowers opened and those sleepy ones where taken care of the garden fairies. Little creatures where accompanied by animal fairies. And the hardworking tinkers where awake before light hit the land.

Suddenly, they hear the roar of thunder; but there is not a single cloud in the sky. A sound wave spreads through the Hollow. A bolt of light raced through the sky and over the hills, leaving a trail of golden dust behind. The sphere emanated blue and golden light. Fairies looked up in awe, as they saw the flash of light pass them by. It headed towards the tree. The main and most important tree of them all. The Pixie Dust Tree. Fairies and sparrow men followed pursuit the bolt.

Heather felt it was too much. She felt pressure surrounding her inner organs; that is, if she had organs at the moment. She felt she was going to explode.

Queen Clarion watched how the sphere came towards the tree. She felt the presence of someone new. A new fairy. She summoned her subjects and ministers to come to the center of said tree, and reunite around the cascade of golden pixie dust, that flowed through it. All talent fairies gathered around, awaiting the new arrival.

The bolt crashed into the pond of dust. The fairies have never seen anything like this. Neither has the Queen. They waited for anything to happen.

Heather felt the burning temperature cease. All she saw was white, gold and blue shining around her. She still felt she couldn't breathe and felt she had her insides squished outside. She felt she was going to pass out. Then, she felt she was floating again.

The glowing sphere rose slowly up from the pixie dust lagoon, and floated its way towards the Queen. It stopped just a few steps away from her, and slowly placed it self on the wood ground before her. Queen Clarion excelled her serenity and calmness. The fairies leaned closer, as the magic enveloped. With a light poof, the sphere turned into millions of blue pixie dust particles in its place and left behind a dandelion puff. The Queen signaled for the dust talent sparrow man to step forward and place pixie dust on it. The blonde fairy shyly flied his way over. He never experienced an arrival like this before. The fairy stopped halfway. Clarion frowned why the young man stopped. She noticed blue pixie dust reappearing on the puff. It sprinkled itself on it, and out came to life a fairy.

Heather felt a heavy weight being lifted off her. The light that blinded her disappeared. She could breathe again. She was about to see clearly, but fell unconscious.

The fairies gasped as they saw the new arrival, and waited a response from the fairy laid in front of them. But nothing came. Murmurs filled the air. Clarion signaled for the fairies to keep quiet. Her deep sea eyes filled with worry. She kept calm, and came to where the unconscious fairy laid. She sprinkled some pixie dust on the fairy.

Heather slowly opened her eyes, as she battled with her eyelids. She gained conscience, but her head felt groggy.

Queen Clarion sighed in relief, and with her pixie dust helped her up.

The young girl stood up, and carefully surveyed the scene around her. She saw people? Why do they have wings? Why was I in a hot, light ball? These questions came to her mind.

"Born out of laughter, clothed in cheer, happiness has brought you here. Welcome to Pixie Hollow" The Queen welcomed her.

"Pixie? Wings? Golden dust? These can't be fairies..." Heather thought.

"I hope you've found you're way here safely. Now, let's see those wings" Clarion cautiously expanded Heather's wings. Her wings had a delicate, but intriguing pattern. It was beautiful, and her wings were tall and magnificent. Gasps filled the air.

"Give your self a ride" Clarion said, and held Heather's hand. She sprinkled some pixie dust on her, and helped the young fairy fly. Heather got back on her feet.

"I must be dreaming" She said in almost a whisper. "I should say something" But she kept quiet, and followed suit.

Queen Clarion smiled, and created small mushrooms and tree stumps around Heather. Fairies placed objects on top of them. Heather looked closely. She saw a water droplet, a hammer, a snow flake, an egg, a small sphere of light, a flower, and some other things. "I should really say something now…"

"These will help you find your talent young one"

"But…"

"You will know" She encouraged her. It was amazing how Clarion can keep her calm, so serene. Her voice and facial expression said it all.

Heather took a step forward and took a look to find her talent. "Talent? The only talent I have is excessive imagination that gets me into trouble"

She saw the little sphere of light, and walked towards it. "It'll probably be this; hence the reason it's the thing that passed me out"

She touched it, but its light went out in an instant. She headed towards the flower, but it turned from pink to gray. The water droplet evaporated, and the egg did nothing but stay still. "At least it didn't crack". To her luck, as she turned her back on it, it cracked. "Thought too soon". She sighed in disappointment as she tried the rest of the other objects floating on the mushrooms, and these rejected her.

Queen Clarion watched her carefully. She felt pity, but didn't give up.

Other fairies murmured around talking about the "talent-less" fairy.

At one end of the Pixie Dust pool, a blonde tinker fairy, late as usual, came to where her dust talent friend was.

"Terence, I know I'm late; but the arrival hasn't finished yet?" The everywhere known tinker fairy asked.

"You where late?" The sparrow man frantically asked.

"I just said that!" Tinker Bell snapped back.

"Shhh! Tell me later, at least you're here. Go to where your talent are"

Tinker Bell groaned and headed to where the other tinker talent fairies were.

"What's going on?" Tink asked a tinker to her side.

"She has currently gone through all the talent representing objects and all of them rejected her" The female answered back.

Tinker Bell's eyes widened. "Is there such talent as a 'no-talent' fairy?" she asked.

"It seems like it"

"Let's just hope this goes well" Tinker Bell thought.

"Fear not young one" Clarion reassured Heather.

"I do not mean to be disrespectful, but I have all the rights to fear what is happening to me" The teen spoke up.

The Queen listened carefully, as for the other fairies.

"My name is- is…" "I can't say my real name… hmmm, what rhymes with Heather? Feather? No not feather, what's feather in Spanish? Puma? No, that's a puma; Espuma? That's bubbles or foam; um… Pluma! Yes I got it!"

"My name is Pluma. I am a human. I was not born from laughter; I was born from my mother's womb. I live in London. I have fairytale books that explain myths and tales about you, all of you. But you are all just a fairytale. Fairies are just another story"

More murmurs and gasps are heard among the tree.

Comments where finally said out loud.

"Is she nuts?" "She just said we're not real!" "She's a pirate!" "She's saying she's from the Mainland!"

Heather's fairy shine started to cease. She felt a whole in her stomach as her light died. "Never mind! Fairies are real, fairies are real, fairies are real" She repeated continuously on her mind.

Her light regained it's normal shine again.

"Please listen to me! I got here on a fireball and crashed into some tree! I was normal girl until I got sucked into a golden dust ball! Do you expect me to be another fairy?" She sighed trying to calm down "Now if you'll excuse me, I have to find my way home"

Heather turned her back and prepared to fly away in search of her home.

"Or you can stay with us like a normal fairy, until we find a way to get you home" Queen Clarion finally spoke.

Heather stopped midway. She pinched her self hard. No, she wasn't dreaming. She flied shyly to where Queen Clarion was.

"Y-you can help me?"

"I trust my people and I will do the best effort possible" The Queen's lips rose up to make a graceful smile.

"Let me give you a hint of what Pixie Hollow is. My name is Queen Clarion, and I am grateful to have the privilege of residing over Pixie Hollow, where you are now. And with a little help from the magical fairy dust tree, it's a place where anything can happen. You see, it is the mission of every fairy to become a wing maiden, and spread imagination to the children of the world, by using pixie dust. And, we are the ones who bring the seasons to life, with every different talent fairy working equally and alike but different in their own ways. And what better way to learn and explore around the Hollow with another fairy"

The Queen spotted Tinker Bell. The Minister of Spring noticed, and whispered to his Queen.

"Tinker Bell can't show her around, she'll cause a disaster!" He whispered in fear as memories flashed back his head from last spring.

The Queen chuckled as how exaggerating he was being.

"Tinker Bell will show you around" Clarion motioned to the tinker fairy

Tinker Bell's head popped up.

Pluma nodded.

"Fairies and sparrow men, lets give a warm welcome to our newest fairy: Pluma"

And with that, Queen Clarion disappeared in a zap of shimmering light and pixie dust.

A/N: It took me a while for me to update. I got writer's block, and I got distracted into other things that took me completely off course from my story and Fan Fiction. I am relieved that I finally finished this chapter and I already started the next chapter and I have the ideas and plot in mind so I hope I don't take long on this one either. Reviews are now set to anonymous for those who don't have an account.

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