Fate of a Fairy

Chapter 10

The next day Vidia was in Zarina's lab, waiting for her to finish examining the gems and figuring a way to restore the winter fairies talents back.

Her lab was actually her old pirate ship. After her friends had rescued her from the human pirates, they arrived back to Pixie Hollow on the flying ship. It took a lot of pixie dust but they were able to move and anchor the enormous ship near the beach. It still hovered in the air, glittering with the magic dust. While, the ship was much more space than Zarina could ever need, it provided her with enough privacy to get her work done. However, for this particular project Zarina had little to no privacy at all.

The queen had left her alone to work the minute that they had gotten back from winter. Vidia had stayed on the other side of the border just long enough to explain everything that had happened to Gliss. Then she flew straight for Zarina's lab and had stayed there with her all through the night. Vidia had practically hovered over her shoulder the entire time as she worked, and whenever she wasn't hovering she was pacing nervously across the room.

Zarina was attempting to be as delicate as possible with the star-shaped gems, which wasn't easy with Vidia asking if she had yet found anything every ten minutes. The alchemist didn't blame the fast flyer for worrying, but if she kept this up Zarina was sure she'd give herself a stroke.

"Soooo," Zarina said trying to distract her friend while chipping away part of the blue gem, "how did all this happen? With Periwinkle and Spike I mean."

"You already know what happened."

The dust keeper could hear the impatience in Vidia's voice. "No, I mean, how did they fall in love. I haven't got to know them very well yet."

"I'm not entirely sure." she shrugged. "If they were anything like Tink and I then it happened before either of them knew it."

"What do you mean?" said Zarina as she began mixing other ingredients with pixie dust.

"I'm not sure how to explain it and to be honest sometimes I still don't understand how it happened." Vidia flew over to the large round window near Zarina's desk to look out over Pixie Hollow. "We became friends way easier than I would've ever thought possible. Then we started spending more and more time together. Before we became friends I got so used to being alone, but it got to the point where I felt...I don't know...incomplete without being near her. That was when I realized my feelings for her had grown into much more than friendship."

"And you think that's how it happened with Peri and Spike?"

"It's possible." Vidia sat down on the metal window frame. "The only thing I do know for sure is that they must have the greatest will power of any fairy in Pixie Hollow. If they love each other like I love Tinker Bell...I couldn't imagine being forced to stay apart because of some dumb rule."

"Although my pride did keep a good job of keeping us apart for a bit." Vidia thought, thinking back at her own foolishness.

"What do you think will happen to Milori once this is all over?"

Vidia's face turned hard at the mention of the man's name. "If it's up to me he would be the one exiled from Neverland. He thinks he's so noble and wise. Taking away their talents? How heartless can he be?"

"Vidia?"

"Not to mention how he hurt Queen Clarion. He stole those stupid gems and then lied to her for all these years!" her voice began to rise.

Vidia?"

"I swear if Tink or any of the others get hurt, Milori will be paying the price for it! I can't believe any of us used to look up to that son of a…"

"Vidia!" Zarina finally yelled to get the fast flyers attention.

"What?" Vidia turned to her, irritated with her rant being interrupted.

The alchemist held two gems up for her to see, the red one that she had been studying as well as, a new purple one. "I'm done."

Vidia's eyes widen at Zarina's words. After only a second, however, Vidia was off the window frame and grabbing Zarina by her wrist, dragging both out of the small room. She stopped only to grab their coats before launching both of them in the sky.

While heading towards the border, the only think on Vidia's mind was if Tinker Bell was okay or not.

A small group had gathered at the spot where the wedding was supposed to be held. Queen Clarion had sent out a memo to those she felt deserved to be the first to hear the news about how she called off the engagement and also about what had happened with Tink and the others.

So at midday Fawn, Iridessa, Rosetta, Silvermist, and Gliss were standing in the snow, waiting for the queen to arrive.

Gliss was the only one of the group that already knew about everything that happened. She had been worried sick ever since Vidia had told her about what happened to her friends. Her anxiety over the entire situation had completely erased her signature smile.

"Is everything okay Gliss?" Silvermist asked, noticing the frown.

The frost fairy looked up with a start; she had been lost in her own thoughts. "Yeah! I'm fine guys!" She quickly put a large, fake smile on her face trying to make the others believe everything was fine.

"Sugar," Rosetta said stepping forward, "you're terrible when it comes to lyin'. Now, why don't you just tell us what's goin' on here."

Gliss's smile faded away again. Looking around she saw all of them watching her, waiting for her to tell them what was wrong. Rosetta was right, she did suck at lying, but she wasn't sure how much she should tell.

She opened her mouth to say something when she felt someone place their hand on her shoulder. "Perhaps I should be the one to explain."

Queen Clarion sent a small smile down at Gliss before turning to the rest of her fairies.

The other four looked at her expectantly. "Is this about the wedding? Is there something else you want us to add to the ceremony?" asked Fawn, "'Cause you know, I can still try and get the butterflies to do a quick fly above winter for you."

"No Fawn, it is nothing like that." Clarion took a deep breath. This was going to be hard for her to explain. She had not gotten any sleep the night before, the ache in her heart made it impossible to rest. She also knew that her fairies would not only be disappointed over the wedding, but they would also worry themselves sick over the news of their friends.

"I'm afraid the wedding has been called off." The queen took a moment to pride herself on not allowing her voice to crack.

"But… but why?" Iridessa's dark eyes widened at the news.

Clarion looked around to see all four warm fairies had the same saddened expression on their faces. They were heartbroken over the news. The queen smiled a little at this, knowing how much her fairies cared about her made the pain within her heart lessen.

"Gliss already knows what has happened and I will gladly explain it all to you girls as well, however, it may take a while." The monarch was about to continue when she noticed the water fairy looking around. "What is it Silvermist?"

"Has anyone seen Tink or Vidia?" she asked with a raised eyebrow. "They should be here for this too, shouldn't they?"

"There ain't no tellin' where those gals ran off to." Rosetta shrugged. Ever since the two had begun dating their friends had gotten used to Vidia running off with Tink every time the blonde was up to something.

"Come to think of it, I haven't seen Peri or Spike either." Fawn looked toward the Frost Forest.

"Neither have I," said the light fairy, "Periwinkle is normally one of the first fairies to work, but I haven't seen either of them in a couple…Gliss what's wrong?"

They all turned to see Gliss shaking from fear and her eyes began to shine with tears. The mention of her friends had seemed to have done her in.

Clarion's motherly instincts kicked in as soon as she saw the younger fairy's tears. Gently, she wrapped her arms around Gliss and hugged her. She held her until the frost fairy stopped shaking and then looked up towards the others.

"Much has transpired these last few days' girls and as you can see...it's a bit painful for us all." Clarion allowed her eyes to wander, she wasn't sure how to continue, but, it wasn't long before she spotted two more fairies flying above them. "However, I think you will all get your answers momentarily." she gestured to the sky.

All five fairies looked up to see Vidia and Zarina flying fast towards them. As soon as she saw them touch down on the ground Gliss ran up to Zarina, "Have you got the gems?!"

Zarina grinned while reaching into her coat pocket and pulled out the gems for Gliss to see.

"Squeeee!" A large, genuine smile finally graced Gliss's features. She threw her arms around the former pirate fairy. "Thankyouthankyouthankyouthankyou!"

Zarina laughed as she returned the hug. "You're welcome."

"Are you certain they will work?" asked the queen as Vidia pried Gliss off Zarina so the dust keeper could breath.

"As sure as I can be." Zarina said with a nod.

"Can we start now?" Vidia's patience with the whole situation was wearing thin. She needed to see Tinker Bell.

"Okay, seriously, can someone please tell us what the heck is going on here?" Fawn pleaded.

Vidia made a very annoying grown. "Milori is a douche bag that used magic rocks he stole from Queen Clarion to banish Peri and Spike out of Neverland and take their talents away; once he found out they were in love. He did the same thing to two other fairies that were in love that planned to overthrow the queen. Clarion found out what Milori did and dumped his ass. Then Tink had Zarina use the gem on her to transport her to wherever the other four had been banished to, to make sure her sister was okay. And Zarina has been working all night to create a gem to restore their ice powers once she uses the other gem to get them all back."

Vidia was then met with four fairies that looked like their eyes were about to pop out of their skulls.

"A very...colorful, explanation Vidia." Clarion said after a moment of awkward silence had passed.

The fast flyer blushed under her queen's gaze. "Sorry Queen Clarion, but I…"

The queen silenced her by putting a hand on her shoulder. "It is exactly how I would have put it." she smirked.

"Well then, if everyone's ready," Zarina flew up a couple feet in the air, "I think it's time to bring our friends back."