Gasp, chapter 4 is here?!
One more thing: I will try to get the best ending for you guys. I've heard a lot of you threaten to destroy your computers(and something about sending Kyto after the ministers). Well, I am here to tell you not to worry. Your computers are safe. There will be a happy ending. Probably. ;)
(I just love teasing you guys.)
Tink, Peri, Rosetta, Sled, Iridessa, Gliss, Silvermist, Slush, Fawn, Thorn, Vidia and Spike all gathered around on top of a glacier to have their meeting. The friends had decided to meet for a casual get-together but curiosity got the best of both Peri and Tink. They wanted to see just who supported or didn't support the marriage from both point of views.
"So guys, I got a question," Tink said.
"Shoot," Fawn told her.
"How do you guys feel about the marriage?," Tink asked them. The reactions from this question had a wide range. Rosetta started to squeal in excitement, Spike pursed her lips, Silvermist wore her usual ditsy look and Vidia looked as if she had come to a very uncomfortable subject. In general though, most of them looked shocked because of how out of the blue the question seemed to be.
"Why do you ask-?," Iridessa started, slightly suspicious.
"-I think it's going to be the most romantic thing of the century!," Rosetta blurted out, hugging Sled's arm tightly. He gave her a weak smile.
"How about you Sled?," Peri asked. Sled began to purse his lips like Spike.
"I guess I like it... but I'm just wondering if they'll have time for us afterwards," he said meekly.
"Of course they will! And they'll be so much happier now that they have each other," Rosetta giggled.
"I like the idea," Fawn said, shrugging as if she was cool with it.
"I love, love, LOVE it!," Gliss squealed, bouncing up and down in her seat causing her acorn hat to tilt sideways on her head. The hat was a gift from her ever-so-cute Tinker boyfriend, Bobble.
"But, guys! Have you never heard of a clumsy marriage between royals before?," Spike asked, holding up her hands incredulously.
"Yeah, man. Gotta love that Romeo and Juliet," Slush said in his very hippy like voice. "The story had lots of love going around in it."
"If I remember correctly, it had lots of death too," Thorn mumbled but Slush choose to ignore him.
"That's beside the point!," Spike growled in annoyance. "When two royals marry, their countries have to join together to form one big country."
"Well, Clumsies might do it, but this isn't the Mainland," Tink pointed out, feeling the need to defend the Royal couple. "We probably have our own ways of marriage."
"Sweetheart, we practically invented marriage," Rosetta said. Some of the younger fairies looked at Rosetta in shock.
"We did?," Fawn asked surprised.
"I always thought it was a Clumsy idea," Silvermist said. Rosetta laughed.
"Of course not, Sugar. We fairies are magical creatures. We've been around since before the Clumsies," Rosetta explained. "We actually invented most of the stuff Clumsies got before they even thought of the idea."
"You mean Pixie hollow use to have horseless carriages?," Tink asked in awe.
"Yes, during the rein before Clarion's actually," Rosetta said, smiling.
"But why isn't it around anymore?," Tink asked, very disappointed it couldn't be in Clarion's rein but it could be in the other Queen's.
"Can't say for sure sugar," Rosetta admitted, somewhat apologetically. To Tink's surprise it was Vidia who spoke up. Tink was also surprised that Vidia hadn't said one smart-aleck remark since the marriage topic was brought up.
"A little before the end of Queen Clara's rein," Vidia started, but stopped to glare pointedly at Tink. "That was the queen before our dearest Ree."
"I know that," Tink hissed. She hated it when her friends made fun of her history skills. "At least I do now."
Vidia rolled her eyes. "Anyways, a very bad war had just ended and it had been caused by those... inventions," Vidia said carefully, as if 'inventions' was not her first word of choice. "So, to prevent that from happening again Queen Clara banished weapons and inventions like those."
"But, why? Did she not realize the good the inventions could bring?," Tink asked. Ever since Tinkerbell kept introducing her inventions like the ones Vidia spoke of, it has done nothing but help Pixie Hollow in many ways.
"It might bring good to the Mainland, but junk like that has no place here, Sweetie," Vidia said nastily, like she was pointing these words towards Tink. That's when Tinkerbell finally realized something. Vidia still disliked the Clumsies, despite her encounters with Lizzy and her father. Vidia and Tink had a stare down for a while until Silvermist interrupted with another question.
"Excuse me, Vidia, but I have a couple of questions," Silvermist said. Vidia kept glaring at Tink for a while until she finally turned towards Silvermist.
"Fine, what are they?," Vidia asked.
"First, how were fairies alive before Clumsies? I thought we were born from their babies' laughter," Silvermist asked.
"Not always. Like Rosetta explained, fairies are ancient and magical so we didn't always have to rely on a baby's laugh," Vidia said.
"What did we rely on before that?," Spike asked, suddenly curious. "I never heard of something like that."
"Sadly, that was so far back in Pixie Hollow's past that we barely have any information of that time. Besides, I bet there was many ways a fairy could be born in the past," Vidia said.
"Why'd you think that?," Thorn asked her, raising one of his dark eyebrows.
"If it changed once, then whose to say it didn't a lot over the course of Pixie Hollows history?," Vidia pointed out. Spike nodded.
"True, I know for a fact that the Lords of winter rule for about 10,000 years," Spike stated.
"TEN THOUSAND YEAR!," Tink and Peri screamed.
"I believe the same is with Clarion too," Vidia said.
"How old are they now?!," Peri asked, still not able to wrap her mind around it. The rest of the friends(with the exception of Vidia, Spike and Thorn) also looked shocked. Even though age wasn't that important to fairies, simply because they are all ageless, it still came to them as a shock that anybody could live that long.
"Queen Clarion is approximately 5,853," Vidia replied.
"Should we be concerned that you know how old the queen is exactly?," Iridessa asked. Vidia just gave her a playful smile, like a cat toying with a mouse.
"I know Lord Milori's 6,000 birthday is coming up soon," Thorn said.
"You're not concerned about him knowing Milori's age dear?," Vidia asked Iridessa.
"Not really. Especially considering he use to be part of Lord Milori's royal guard," Iridessa answered.
"Lord Milori's Arrival Day is this year?," Fawn asked. Spike snorted.
"He has one every year," Spike said snidely. "Everybody does."
"No, no. I meant to ask Thorn when Lord Milori's 6,000 arrival is coming up," Fawn explained, looking at Thorn for the answer.
"It's coming in a few decades," he said, shrugging his shoulders. Noticing the looks he got, he continued. "When you've lived as long as he had, you start to plan a few decades ahead."
"I do that myself sometimes," Rosetta silently mused. Fawn looked at her, wide eyed.
"Please don't tell me your thousands of years too!," Fawn begged. A flash of anger crossed Rosetta's eyes.
"I am not that old, Fawn. I'm 134 actually," Rosetta explained, with a quiver of anger in her voice. Talking about her age always made her feel self-conscious and ugly. Sled kissed her gently on the cheek.
"And yet, you look as beautiful as if you just arrived," he told her. She giggled and started to kiss him in the manner that parents do to disgust their kids.
"Okay, love birds. We know you like each other but was that really necessary?," Spike asked. Sled and Rosetta stopped for a moment to look at each other.
"Yes!," they both said in unison and preceded to make out again.
"Okay, let me rephrase myself," Spike interrupted. "Keep kissing, and one of you is going to get a broken bone."
Rosetta and Sled stopped though they didn't look to happy about it.
"Fine," Rosetta said grumpily. Vidia suddenly got up and stretched.
"Time for me to go," she said. Then she shot off before a word could be said.
"She's real good with history," Tink offhandedly. Iridessa smiled.
"The best in our class," Iridessa said proudly. Those who did well in academics tended to impress Iridessa. Tinkerbell thought back to the meeting. Someone had mentioned a civil war between Pixie Hollow and the Winter Woods. Maybe Vidia would know what it was about.
"Where do you think Vidia is going?," Tink asked, standing up. Thorn shrugged.
"Back to her place more than likely," Thorn said.
"Thanks," Tink said. Then she started to fly off while waving to her friends. "Fly with you later!"
Tinkerbell flew towards Vidia house, determined to figure out the answer. If there was a war between the two lands, she needing to know exactly what had happened.
For those of you who didn't know:
1. Thorn is Vidia's boyfriend in this(my OC).
2. There was a Civil War between Pixie Hollow and the Winter Woods way back.
3. It is considered a civil war because the Winter Woods was originally part of Pixie Hollow.
4. But after the war, the winter Woods became it's own place.
5. I'll describe it more in the next chapter.
6. I changed the rating of the story T because as we start to turn towards graphic stuff like talks of war and future things I'll put in this story, I realized this story could no longer stay K+.