Authors Note-Yeah I'm a bit of a lazy bum. With Driver's Education and school starting in three weeks for me, and friends and me starting a original novel and working on a dress I promised I'd finish before school, I didn't want to actually write a whole story. So I stole a scene from part of my eight part fan fiction Lost Magic to put as a flash back. Please for this one time excuse the laziness.
It was a very warm summer day. So very warm in fact Lyria had completely skipped out on shoes because her feet had a habit of sweating like mad in shoes. And even though she usually waited till later in the season to do so, she had decided to wear her summer fuchsia and white romper and pulled her hair up into a high ponytail to keep it off her neck. But even then, with all her precautions, she still had to fan herself while she sat in a boat rowed by Silver Mist.
"Bless my wings" she gasped "It sure is hot out, must be a scorcher on the mainland."
"Oh my I hope not! Scorching is such a horrible thing to do to someone. They get set on fire and…..
"I know what a scorcher is Sil my darling dewdrop, and that's not what I meant. I meant it must be really hot on the mainland."
"Oh" Silver Mist chuckled "Why didn't you just say so? Yes the Minister of Summer REALLY wants it to be as hot as possible. The poor light talents have been working like crazy."
Lyria nodded pulling the top of her romper farther away from her body and fanning air down into the open space. Silver Mist gave Lyria a sympathetic smile. She looked ready to say something when they heard Tink calling to them.
She was hovering a few twigs away, close to a large spider-web the water talents were decorating with dewdrops. She had a basket filled with water that the water talents were returning to, over and over again, to draw out dewdrops. She waved at the pair as they drifted down the stream.
"Fly with you guys, enjoying your trip?" she asked.
"Very much" Lyria called back "Enjoying your task?"
Tink laughed "Hardly, I'm no water talent that's for sure."
"Yes, but at least you're not making a mess." Silver Mist reminded her. The tinker gave a bashful smile.
"True, I'm much more useful this way."
"She still doesn't know that you don't have to be a water talent to hold dewdrops does she?" Lyria asked Silver Mist in a hushed voice. Sil still smiling shook her head.
"Nope, never told her."
"Why not?" Lyria leaned back resting her elbows on the edge of the boat. Silver Mist simply shrugged.
"Never wanted her to start asking questions I wouldn't be able to answer."
"Questions about what?"
"You know" Silver Mist said slowly raising her eyebrows at Lyria who smirked in response.
"I see" she turned back to look at Tink who had been sent to fetch more water. "If I explained to you what I did, would you tell her?" Lyria's green eyes slid back over to her water-talent friend.
Silver Mist shook her head solemnly. Lyria nodded "Good, otherwise I wouldn't have told you. You know that trinket Terence has?"
"The one he wears around his neck?" Sil inquired. Lyria nodded. "Yes I've seen it a few times before. Though he always has it tucked into his shirt, if he wears it at all."
"He doesn't like it, reminds him of unpleasant things." Lyria frowned, sharing those uncomfortable, gurgle feelings welling inside of her. She pushed them and the images they brought forward down and continued. "But its part of his responsibility, you know why the sparrow men and fairies who wear those necklaces treat them so differently then regular jewelry?"
"No"
Lyria made a humph noise "Gathers, she's done a good job of keeping it secret, well why it is, is of no importance, all that matters is those necklaces hold a very ancient practice of magic. One that is no longer had and in fact banned among us fairies."
"You mean" Silver Mist was leaning forward, eyes wide. Lyria nodded smugly. "Lyria you could have gotten in trouble! What if Queen Clarion found out?"
"I would have been sent to the fairy isolation room." Lyria shrugged. "But I'm sneaky and I'm good, I knew I wouldn't have been caught, not if I used it wisely."
"So what happened?" Silver Mist asked.
"Well" Lyria knew she shouldn't reveal her secret thoroughly, but as a story-teller, she couldn't resist the urge to tell a story. "While you guys were deciding on who got to start what and do what, you didn't notice but Terence and I had been fallowing you…..
"Ok for your first day of water fairy training I could show you how to make ripples in the pond!" Silver Mist babbled excitedly as she Tink and the rest of the girls flew over Havendish stream. Lyria and Terence had cleverly his themselves behind a bush opposite from the fairies field of vision. They had lowered there glows as low as they could get (it was harder for Terence being a Dust Keeper and because Story-tellers are accustomed to lowering there glows when coming to spooky parts in stories and such). There was no way they could be spotted except for the fact that…
"Terence get down!" Lyria snapped and grabbed the collar of his leaf vest and tugged downward hard. Terence made a gasped sound and fell down on his butt.
"Ouch" he whispered harshly. "What was that for?"
"You were to high up we could have been spotted."
"I'd fly backward if I could" Terence grumbled. Lyria huffed
"Well…just stop making ogle eyes at Tink and that should suffice."
"What?" Terence turned to Lyria "I was NOT making ogle eyes at Tink!" he was blushing.
"Uh-huh" Lyria rolled her eyes "Sure, now pay attention." She pointed forward to the fairies.
"Or, or, or wait, wait, wait I got it! I got it!" Silver Mist was saying she took off higher into the air twirling a bit. Always giving everything a dramatic flair. Tink was soaking it up like a sponge. Her big blue eyes growing bigger and bigger as she observed Silver Mist. The other fairies already bored with the lesson settled themselves on a floating lily to watch. Rosetta looked as always, a bit snobbish. Fawn looked absolutely amused by the whole idea, and Iridessa looked scared out of her wits.
Finally Silver Mist finished her twirl and held out her hands to present a large spider web hanging from between two palm trees. "Dewdrops on spider webs!"
Beside her Lyria heard Terence breath a sigh of relief. "Good, she chose something easy, anyone can do dewdrops." He even smiled.
Lyria snickered a bit. "Silly Sil probably knew what she was going to do all along, just wanted to seem like she was debating ideas for Tink's sake. She wants to build up Tink's confidence, give her something easy, so that Tink feels better when they move on to harder things." She shook her head "Not that it will do much good."
Terence's smile faded. "Oh dear I guess not. If we don't have Tink fail at this, she might try to do something really dangerous."
"Yeah I know" Lyria whispered. She watched as Silver Mist pulled Tink over to a lily pad to show her technique. The other fairies called out encouraging words. Though Iridessa's was delayed and a bit forced and underlined with nervousness. "We're going to have to intervene." She tapped her finger on her chin "But how?"
Terence shrugged helplessly. In doing so she saw something shift in his shirt, subtly.
"You're wearing it today?" she asked. Silver Mist was dipping her hands in the water.
"Yeah, something told me I should" Terence made a disturbed face. Not that Lyria much blamed him for it. Still it gave her an idea.
"You've heard of a dewdrop?" Silver Mist was saying "Well this is a don't drop."
"Give it to me" Lyria demanded holding her hand out.
"What?" Terence's eyes grew big and his voice rose an octave "No way!"
"Terence" Lyria warned.
"That's water fairy humor" Silver Mist said. Tink was making a forced amused face.
"It's good"
"No Lyria, Amber chose me not you, you can't have it." Terence stated.
"Yeah but you can't use-
she never finished her sentence because Terence's hand was over her mouth. "Shh" he said "Don't say, if someone heard you, you'd be in big trouble!"
Oh please whose going to hear me in a bush? Lyria thought she struggled away from his hand "Alright, you can't use it, I can, so give it to me" she lunged forward. Terence pulled away out of her reach.
"I said no" he repeated. Lyria didn't respond she just kept trying to grab. Terence held it out of her reach and kept her back with his hand.
Silver Mist was showing Tink how to put the dew drops on the webs.
"C'mon Terence!" Lyria groaned "Just give it to me." She leapt at him and tackled him down onto a branch.
"Give what to who? Augustus poked his head in the bush. When he saw Lyria on top of Terence looking a bit disheveled, his cheeks colored a bit. "Oh I uhh didn't mean to" he coughed "Interrupt anything."
"You weren't" grumbled Lyria embarrassed. Augustus coughed again.
"I see, well I uhh…will just be going now" he ducked back out of the bushes. Terence glared at Lyria, who glared back.
"Umm where's your dewdrop?" Silver Mist asked looking at Tink's empty hands. Tink made an embarrassed face and flew back to the lily pad.
"Terence do you want to help Tink or not?" Lyria asked. Terence nodded "Then give me" she beckoned with her hand. Terence glared for another moment then handed it to her. The moment it passed from his hands to hers it glowed. She could feel the power sleeping inside of it, it awoke her own power and she felt the magic stir in her veins.
Tink was dipping her hands into the water.
"Lyria whatever you're going to do, do it now!" Terence urged shaking Lyria by the shoulders.
"Not helping Terence" Lyria snapped, she closed her eyes "and then without warning the dewdrop burst in her hands" she whispered. Inside her she could feel her talent morphing and shaping itself to abide by her needs.
"Hey I got-
There was a popping sound "it"
Beside her Terence was chewing nervously on his fingernails. Inside of her Lyria could feel already fatigue setting in. She hopped Tinker Bell wasn't going to try this talent much longer.
"Shake that one off, shake it off! You can do this!" Silver Mist said.
"Stupid fairy" Terence mumbled "Not helping"
No not helping at all Lyria thought. Tinker Bell had made another dewdrop it stayed in her hands and she began to fly over to the web.
"Oh no" Terence groaned. Lyria called up the power again, she felt the shift "And then-
"That's it Tink" Fawn was cheering
"The dewdrop"
"You're doing it!"
"Burst in"
"You're doing it!"
"Her hands" Lyria breathed out a huge breath. She heard the pop and then a cry of frustration. Ahh Tinker Bell's weakness, she was easily frustrated. Lyria knew what to do now.
"Terence go wait closer to the web, when Tink throws a dewdrop do something to make that dewdrop splash back." She whispered urgently.
"Why me?" Terence asked.
"Because feather brain, you're a dust keeper you know more about Pixie Dust magic then I do" she shoved him "Now go" she turned back to Tink again.
"And then the dewdrop burst in her hands." There was another pop. Silver Mist was trying to advise.
"Now Tink try to-
"And then the dewdrop burst in her hands"
Another pop
"No, no sweetie you go to-
"And then the dewdrop burst in her hands."
Another pop, another frustrated groan.
"Well maybe if you"
"And then the dewdrop burst in her hands."
Another pop.
"Well you have to admire her persistence" Iridessa was saying. Lyria hardly heard her though, she was speaking the words and then the dewdrop burst in her hands so fast that three dewdrops had burst in the time it had taken Iridessa to say it. The sentences were beginning to blur together. And even then she was getting them in the right order and feeling her power being used. But it was wearing on her; she could feel a shiver running down her and her body beginning to shut itself down. Come on Tink stop already. She thought. She was gritting her teeth, willing her body to stay with her. Why do I put myself through this? She thought, though she knew the answer. It made Terence happy, it made him giddy to see that silly tinker fairy walk away unharmed. And Lyria absolutely adored seeing Terence giddy.
Tink had another dewdrop in her hand. She saw it shaking, she knew it was going to burst, just as Lyria had predicted she threw her arm forward and threw the dewdrop to the web. Silver Mist flew quickly away watching in awe as the dewdrop flew over there heads and landed in the center of the spider web. Lyria hopped Terence had done what he was supposed to and not got distracted by Tink's pretty face. Just in case she held on to her power, though it was a huge effort to do so, she was tiring rapidly by the wing beat. Her breath was starting to come out in gasps. She heard someone call her name in alarm, she saw the web fly backward and the water collected into one huge dewdrop and then fly forward toward…she passed out.
"Is that really what happened?" Silver Mist asked skeptically. Lyria nodded solemnly. "I was in the clinic that afternoon wasn't I?"
"Yeah" Sil admitted "You were" she wrung her hands "Hey look, I'm glad you did that, I knew I shouldn't have agreed to teach Tink anything, but she just seemed so….sad." she shrugged half heartedly.
"I know what you mean Sil" Lyria smiled at her friend. Why do you think I did something illegal in the first place? I didn't like Terence looking so sad. They heard laughter and turned to see Tink being chased by Elwood playfully, the two weaving in and out of the grass blades and palm trees and water lilies. The basket of water was now in the hands of another water talent and the guild was watching the two playing fairies in amusement. Elwood and Tink both waved at Lyria and Silver Mist as they passed. Lyria and Silver Mist waved in return. When they were out of ear shot however Silver Mist turned back to Lyria and leaned in close eager to hear some more of the story. "So did you help Iridessa or Fawn with there tasks? Lyria laughed out loud.
"I didn't help with Iridessa, every one knows only Light Fairies can hold light, but I was told later by Terence that it was an amusing affair to see." Silver Mist nodded. "And as for Fawn's task, I didn't really help Tink terrify a little bird, but….." she trailed off mischievously and wiggled her eyebrows. Silver Mist laughed at the action. "Please enlighten me"
"Maybe one day" Lyria shrugged. "But for today, I'd rather join in that chase." Without warning she leapt out of the boat and into the air. "Hey you two wait for me! I want to play too!"
Silver Mist watch as Lyria joined the game of catch-me-if-you-can and shook her head. Sometimes she just didn't get that fairy.
Next Story
Title: A Date for Clank
Rating: K+
Characters: Clank and Bobble
Pairings: N/A
Warnings: N/A
Summery: Bobble helps Clank work up the courage to ask Satin on a date.
A/N-A Date for Clank is the first in a short three story "mini-series" focusing on Clank and his sweet heart Satin.