I am so, so, SOOO sorry for taking so long to write this! I've been extremely busy this past weekend. Luckily today's Veteran's day, making it a free day for me. Now, I'm not going to delay any longer…on to the story!


When the sister's arrived at Winter Hold, everything seemed to be completely fine. All the dwellings and the main hold seemed to be intact. The only thing out of the ordinary was the number of fairies outside of their homes, which is perfectly acceptable after a neverquake.

As they flew around, Crystal spotted Periwinkle amid the crowd. Follow me, she thought to Cristine, guiding her sister by the hand.

"Oh! You're both here!" Peri exclaimed as she saw the two heading towards her. "I was about to head out to look for you." She put her hand behind her head, sheepishly. "Sorry about leaving you behind."

"No worries." Crystal wrote.

"So," Cristine asked, looking in Peri's direction. "Is everything okay here?"

"Yeah," Peri said. "Everyone's a little shaken up from the quake, but that's about it."

Crystal looked around. When she didn't seem to spot what or who she was looking for, she wrote, "Gliss?"

"And Spike," Cristine added.

"They're elsewhere, checking on the outlying fairies' houses," Peri explained before doing a double take, eyes widening as she looked at Cristine. "Wait, how'd you know she was asking that, Cristine?" she asked.

"When you three ran off," she began. "Crystal and I discovered something absolutely amazing."

Grinning like the Cheshire cat, Crystal wrote, "We have mental link!"

"I…don't follow," Peri said.

"We can talk to each other with our minds," Cristine explained.

"Wow! Really?" Peri asked in amazement, her eyes widening even more.

Crystal viciously nodded her head.

"That's amazing!"

"That's not all," Crystal wrote.

"Through our link, I am able to see through Crystal's eyes," Cristine said. "I am actually able to see!"

"How is this even possible?" Peri asked. "It couldn't just be because you're sisters. I mean, Tinker Bell and I never shared that kind of link!"

Before either could answer, the conversation was interrupted by urgent shouts. They then noticed that the ground had started to shake again.

"It's an aftershock!" Peri exclaimed, jumping into the air and flying above the Hold.

Come on, Crystal thought, grabbing her sister's hand and followed Peri's lead.

The secondary quake was more violent than the first. Some of the houses started to crack, and the older ones shook themselves apart. However, it didn't last nearly as long, abating before even a minute had passed.

"I…think it's over." Peri said once the shaking stopped.

Cristine cocked her head to one side, as if listening to something.

What is it? Crystal asked, writing it down so that Peri knew what she had said.

"If the quake is over," Cristine began, turning her head towards the mountain the Hold was at the base of. "Then why do I still hear rumbling?"

Peri gasped and Crystal put her hand to her mouth as they looked up. Cristine, she thought. You have to see this!

Closing her eyes, Cristine focused on her mental link with Crystal. Suddenly, she saw the mountain. As she watched, she noticed something big and white moving quickly down the mountain towards them. "What is it?" she asked.

"It's an avalanche," Peri answered in a whisper.

Opening her eyes again, Cristine turned to Peri. "How many snowflake talents are currently in the Hold?"

"Uhhh…"

"How many?!"

"I, uh, somewhere between thirty and forty I think," Peri blurted out.

"Quick as you can, gather them and tell them to line up along the perimeter of where Winter Hold meets the mountain," she instructed. When Peri flew off, she turned to Crystal. "Could you guide me to the perimeter?"

Crystal nodded. Immediately turning red as she realized her mistake, she thought, Yes, of course!

Once they arrived at the perimeter, Crystal asked, Do you have a plan?

"Yes," Cristine replied. "Stay behind the perimeter, but I'm going to need your eyes."

Done!

Rapidly, fairies began to line up all along the intersection between Hold and mountain.

"They're all here," Peri said to Cristine.

"Good," she said, smiling briefly in Peri's direction. "Now, get to cover!" After a second, she closed her eyes and once more saw through her sister's. Now that it was closer, she could see that the avalanche was easily big enough to swallow the entire hold. "Snowflake talents!" she shouted. "We have to protect this Hold that many of us and many of the fairies we know call home. I have no authority to command you, but I will ask you to stand by me. I cannot guarantee that this will work, or that we will survive, but it's our only shot at saving our home. So, who's with me?!" She was met by a roaring cry of approval from all those around her.

Lord Milori suddenly appeared at Peri's side. "What in Neverland is going on?" he asked before noticing the avalanche. "Peri!" he instructed. "Get everyone in the hold to safety!" He then proceeded to fly down to the line of snowflake talents. "All of you!" he shouted in a commanding voice. "Get out of here!"

"Lord Milori!" Cristine said. "We can do this."

"I don't care," he said. "I don't want to risk any of you. You must evacuate!"

A black-haired sparrow man stepped forward. "With all due respect milord, I am staying right here."

A blonde-haired fairy stepped forward. "I also will stay."

All along the line, fairies of both genders stepped forward to refuse Lord Milori's orders.

"Please," Cristine begged. "Just have faith in us."

Lord Milori sighed. "Fine," he said. "Besides, there's not much I can do to stop you. I hope that this is not a grave mistake, for all of your sakes." He then proceeded to evacuate.

"Alright then!" Cristine shouted. "Stand ready! You all know what we have to do!

As the avalanche neared the bottom of the slope, she shouted, "Brace yourselves!"

All of the fairies put their arms up in preparation and dug in. As the avalanche neared the bottom, it hit what seemed like an invisible wall created by the fairies. As the snow began piling up against the wall, some of the fairies started to falter.

"Don't give up!" Christine shouted above the roar. "We have to hold it a little longer!"

The fairies valiantly managed to hold back the ever increasing buildup of snow. Right as the last of it piled up, Cristine shouted, "NOW!" As one, the fairies lifted their arms up and above their heads, causing the entire avalanche to lift into the air. They then spread their arms out into a Y-shape and the enormous mass of snow exploded into billions of harmless snowflakes that fell softly to ground.

A moment passed. Then, all of the gathered fairies cheered, high-fiving one another in excitement.

A fairy put her hand on Cristine's shoulder. "We did it Cristine," she said. "Thanks to you, we did it."

"Yeah," Christine said, smiling. "I guess we did." Finally succumbing to the great strain she just endured not long after being rescued, she promptly passed out from exhaustion.


Well, a lot happened in a very small amount of time in this chapter. In this chapter, I introduced a location that is not exactly canon in the Disney Fairies universe; Winter Hold. Winter Hold is basically a large city for the winter fairies. It is situated at the base of a mountain located at the very edge of the Winter Woods' mountain range. In the center of the Hold is the main hold, which is where Lord Milori lives. All around it are numerous dwellings where all of the other fairies live. But, anyways, I hope that this was worth the wait! Please write anything you'd like to mention or ask me about in a review or a personal message. And again, I am really, truly sorry for not being able to write this earlier.