Several minutes later

The Pixie Hollow gathering chamber was a large spherical structure made out of a kind of glowing golden metal with a mushroom as a kind of platform placed about half-way above the floor on the wall opposite the main entrance and the whole place being lit up firefly lights along the walls. Most of the fairies had arrived by now and were chatting amongst themselves about what was going on. On top of the mushrooms that were at the top of the hall was Queen Clarion. Next to her were the ministers of spring, summer, autumn and winter, talking to her and informing of her of the latest updates from what was going on.

As the hall began to fill up, Tinkerbell and the others arrived through the entrance.

"Whoa, they weren't kiddin' when they said the whole hollow," Rosetta said.

"Yeah," Iridessa replied. "Let's try and find some seats,"

"I've got to go and speak to the Queen and find out what is going on," Fairy Mary piped up and she flew up towards the top of the hall where the rest of the council and the queen were.

The rest of the group searched around for a seat among the growing crowd until they found three available large stones and they quickly fluttered over to them before anyone else got to them and sat down on them. Tinkerbell, Terence, Vidia and Iridessa sat on one, Bobble, Clank, Silvermist and Lyria sat on another and Rosetta, Chloe, Fawn and Buck sat down on the last, waiting patiently for the queen to begin her announcement.

"So…whaddya guys think Clarion needs to talk to us about?" Terence asked.

"Beats me," Vidia replied.

"Definitely has to be important if everyone in the entire hollow is here," Fawn said from the stone next to theirs.

"Yeah, I hope It's not urgent or about something dangerous," Chloe piped up.

"Well, we'll know soon," Clank said from the third stone, which was next to the one Fawn, Buck, Rosetta and Chloe were sitting on.

Bobble looked up at the group of councillors at the top of the hall. "I wonder if Fairy Mary's having any luck in finding out what's wrong," he muttered.

"Alright, everyone," a voice called out from the entrance to the chamber. A few fairies looked to see a tall scout talent fairy, Tinkerbell and her friends quickly identifying him as the one who had told them of the announcement here, hold open the flap into the hall for a few healing and art fairies to enter before letting it go and fall over the entrance to the chamber. "Quiet, please. The queen's about to make her speech,"

As if on cue, Queen Clarion fluttered down to the floor, the rest of the council behind her. It was easily noticeable that she was nervous because her hands were rubbing against one another and her eyes held a look of concern as if she was afraid of what she had to say. As she came to a halt on the floor, Tinkerbell caught sight of a large scar down the side of her right arm. She had received that on the day when she and the council had gone to meet the Kyzua and, when it had quickly resulted into a fight, one of the Kyzua had used a sharp dagger and cut her across her arm when he had grabbed her. Luckily, it had not penetrated too deep to do any major damage and she had been saved by a scout talent fairy, who had used a stick to knock out the Kyzua dragon by hitting him over the head and he and an animal fairy carried the queen to safety just before the Kyzua decided they had had enough and fled. Although the healing fairies had been able to heal her wound almost instantly, the scar was something they would not be able to get rid of and Clarion would have it for the rest of her life.

Clarion cleared her throat and the chatter around the chamber ceased immediately as if someone had flicked a switch and turned off the volume in the chamber. As well as those on the seats and those standing up, the fairies sitting on the roof of the chamber looked down through the holes, waiting intently for what their queen had to say.

"Fairies of Pixie Hollow," she announced. "Many of you are wondering why you have all been brought here very late and out of the blue tonight. What I have to tell you is very distressing and alarming," she took a deep breath, preparing herself for what she had to say. "Not too long ago, some scout talents on the border of the hollow witnessed a large dust cloud gathering on the desert-like area between the hollow and the mountains in the middle of Neverland, which is the direction they had told us the cloud was coming from. As you may remember, earlier on this year the Kyzua had laid waste to the fields and turned into a barren shell of It's former self,"

A few gasps echoed around the chamber and muttering of worry and fear broke out. If what Queen Clarion was telling them was true, then there was only one explanation for the dust cloud, the very same one that everyone in the chamber was thinking of.

"We have been unable to identify what if the cause of the dust cloud," Clarion continued, silencing the muttering in the chamber. "But in the interest of the safety of all of you here, I am declaring a state of emergency. If you have a shelter at your home, you are to go there and take with you food and water and any medical supplies you have,"

"What if don't have a shelter, your highness?" a male art fairy sitting on a stone near the front asked.

"Then you are to hide as best you can anywhere else in the hollow," she answered. She sighed worryingly and looked at her fairies. "May we pray that if this is the Kyzua, they will not spill any blood. Now go, and good luck everyone,"

As soon as she finished speaking, the fairies in the chamber began to file out of the hall, muttering nervously. Some were crying in fear for they knew that if this was the Kyzua, then they could well and truly be killed within the next hour or so.

As Tinkerbell exited the chamber into the darkness of the night, she flew over a small clearing near the entrance to the chamber, looking around her as fairies flew off in all directions to try and find a place to hide. The peace that once dominated this summer night had now been taken over by the fear of this coming cloud of dust which they believed, and probably were correct about, their deadly enemy. If this was an attack, Tinkerbell began to wonder how many of the fairies she knew in the hollow would be here when it was over.

"Tinkerbell," a voice said from the entrance to the chamber and she looked to see Bobble and Clank, who had just exited the chamber, hover over to her.

"Glad we found you," Bobble said.

"We best get to the shelter," Tinkerbell told them. "Where's Fairy Mary?" she asked.

"She said she'll join us in a minute," Clank told her. "She said she had to speak with queen Clarion,"

Tinkerbell nodded. "Right, let's go," and the three flew off in the direction of her house. As they went, Tinkerbell began to repeat to herself in her mind what they were going to need in the shelter.

Food. Water. Medical supplies. Maybe a few leaf books as well and a few hammers just in case she thought. And a few extra twigs and such just to strengthen the shelter a little.

They were going to have a Hectic rush ahead of them when they got back to their house.