In Spring Valley later that day, Tink, Ro, Fawn, Sil, Dess and Vid had been selected to perform at the Four Seasons festive next year, and they had to practise. Tinker Bell built a contraption for the occasion. While she peddled and pulled leavers from the bottom, Rosetta grew some flowers from the top, Fawn led some butterflies over to them, Silvermist used some water to create a chandelier, and Iridessa shone light down over it to some mirrors.
"And Vid, you fly around in circles to get the lights to dance around the audience." Tink explained the last step of the show.
"You got it, Tink." The fast flying fairy did her bit. As Tink had said, the lights seemed to dance around the meadow.
When Vidia was on her second or third lap around the lights, another fairy... no, sparrowman, flew over in a hurry.
"Girls!" Without looking where he was going, he crashed into Vidia, causing her to ram into her other companions.
In no time, the whole performance was a mess. Iridessa's light beams shone out of control, Silvermist's chandelier was a puddle on the ground, Rosetta's flowers had their petals falling off and were knocked over, Fawn's butterflies scattered everywhere and Tinker Bell's contraption was in pieces.
"TERENCE!" The girls shouted. Terence was a dust keeper sparrowman who was one of the best of his talent, and was Fairy Gary's apprentice.
"Sorry everybody. Didn't mean to wreak your performance."
"Is anyone injured?" Inquired Tink.
"No." Fawn replied. "The butterflies are shaken though."
"What was the big idea anyway?" Asked Vidia, annoyed.
"It's Zarina." Replied the dust keeper. "You haven't seen her have you?"
"Isn't she at the makeshift Pixie Dust Depot?" Queried Dess. After the destruction, Tinker Bell, Bobble, Clank, Lucinda, Fairy Mary, Aidan, Angus, Ariel, Chipper, Copper, Slate, Tin, Twire, Zuzu and the other Tinkers had made a temporary Depot until the real one was repaired.
"No." Came another voice. It was Fairy Gary, the sparrowman who was the chief of the Dust Keepers. He flew up next to Terence. "I uh… kinda fired her yesterday due to tampering with Pixie Dust."
"But she's gone missing regardless." Terence continued. "The scouts have been searching, but so far no luck."
The girls had looks of horror on their faces. If the scouts were involved, this was rather serious.
"You don't think she flew away from Pixie Hollow, do you?" Wondered Silvermist.
"I think you're right." Tink agreed. "She must have felt unappreciated." The green dressed fairy thought back to when she started using 'lost things' in tinkering, and how she had been disregarded then. "My newer methods of tinkering have been accepted since, and even embraced by many, but Zee's been kicked out before she could have a chance to prove herself worthy…"
"She must have felt alone too." Vidia added. She had been a loner a few years before, and had gotten very cocky, proud and selfish. But, since the human fiasco, she had softened up a little and befriended Tink and her gang, and had been accepted by many other fairies as their friend... if still a bit sassy and snarky from time to time. "I couldn't imagine not having you guys in my life."
The other girls heartily agreed. They wanted to help search for Zarina, but, other things kept popping up.
All six fairies were all at the top of their talent guilds, and therefore, they were to train any new fairy that arrived. The five nature talent fairies had to help with changing the seasons every three months (apart from Winter of course. The Winter Fairies take care of that.). Tink had to help make pots, kettles, baskets and whatever else the nature fairies needed to help with the season change. Then there was the Pixie Hollow Games that was fast approaching, the aforementioned Four Seasons Festival, Autumn Revelry, Queen's reviews, Spring has Sprung Gala, Summer Sun Celebration, Winter Moon Festival and many other things. In the mist of all these events, the search for Zarina was pretty much knocked out of their minds entirely.