Felicity woke up the next morning in excruciating pain. She gasped when she sat up and fell off her bed from the surprise of the pinch in her back. She reached behind her and placed a hand in the sore area and another gasp escaped her as she felt around as far as she could reach. There were two rock hard lumps on her back and they were still growing. Her wings were growing. The pains began to get worse, and Felicity could no longer sit there in her brave silence. She started to cry a little, and the crying turned into a scream as the lumps began to push more insistantly through her bones and skin. Pan, Wendy and abunch of fairies, her mother among them, came darting into the room.
"Felicity are you alright?" her mother asked as her daughter wretched from the pain.
"Mom," Felicity choked," Please..make it stop. It hurts so bad."
She felt her night shirt lift, but no one had touched it. Everything around her seemed to be disappearing in a bright light. The last thing she saw was everyone backing away before they were all gone as if covered in a super bright white sheet. Felicity's body began to go numb which was a huge relief to her. She felt a sickening rip in her back as a pair of beautiful wings burst from her back and fanned out behind her. Felicity breathed a sigh of relief and then realized she was naked.
"What," before she could finish asking what was going on, white silk material began to appear around her. It hugged her body in the shape of a simple white dress that went down to her feet, and laid on her shoulders like a tank top. A golden chain wrapped around her head and connected in the shape of a V in the middle of her forehead. An emerald stone covered the connection. Earrings of gold chains and emerald stone materialized in her ears. Then the light began to fade and everyone who had been in the room now bowed to her as she touched the ground. Felicity was breathing rather hard. She ignored the people and fairies bowing to her and instead went to the mirror and examined herself.
"Oh my goodness," she muttered in astonishment. She stared at the large wings now protruding from her back. They curved up and made a large point at the top then did the same towards the bottom. She flapped them and laughed when they moved.
"Mom," she shouted excitedly," Mom do you see this?! I'm a fairy!"
Her mother and the other fairies began to flit around her,and Peter and Wendy jumped and danced around, shouting and laughing.
"Does this mean that Hook can't get me?" Felicity asked. The excitement died a little.
" Well..you have to be taught to use your wings and such. But you are not as vulnerable as you were," her mother said reassuringly.
Felicity smiled. She wanted to go outside and show off her wings to everyone.
"We will go with you," Peter said as he grabbed Wendy's hand and the three of them went outside.
Hook wrote a new song the night before which he now played on his piano. He had set Felicity's music box on top of the piano where he could look at it and scheme as he did so.
"You know," he said to Smee," I never thought about how i would be able to shift the balance if I did happen to get hold of her. How do I do it?"
Smee contemplated that for a moment.
"Well no matter," Hook said," First thing is first. She must be captured-"
A knock on the door caused them both to look. Smee answered it. He and one of the crew whispered back and forth to each other. Then Smee shut the door and went back to the captain.
"Sir," he began," I have just been informed that Pan has the fairy at his hide-out. He found her last night."
"Why are you calling her a fairy? She is still a human."
"Well Cap'm," Smee said carefully. "That's the other news. Word is spreading all over the land that this morning she turned into a fairy."
Hook jumped up and overturned a table in his anger.
"No!" he shouted," We are too late!!"
"No sir," Smee said, which stopped Hook from advancing on him.
"What do you mean no?"
"She still has to be trained, Cap'm. She is not a queen yet. She has to earn it. Show that she deserved to be chosen. Who knows how long that could take."
Hook stared at Smee for a moment, then turned and went back to his piano and began playing again.
"We need to find Pan's hide out," he said," But how do we find it?"
It was silent except for the piano palying. Hook got an idea.
"Wendy," he said with an evil smirk.
