Chapter 20

To say everyone remembered the storm fairies would be practicing their talents throughout Pixie Hollow, is a huge understatement. Such proof of this would lie on the shoulders of a certain tinker fairy who was busy in the Autumn Forest, building some contraption to help the non fast flyers to blow leaves out of their homes or anywhere else the plants weren't wanted. So busy in her work, Tinkerbell didn't notice someone was creeping up behind her until her eyes were covered by their hands.

"Guess who?" Said the ever familiar voice of her best friend, Terrence.

"Terrence!" Tinkerbell exclaimed, jumping up to hug the dust keeper fairy. "Where have you been? I haven't seen you in weeks!"

Reluctantly getting out of her tight squeeze, he answered "I know, but I've been busy with a special mission for Queen Clarion."

Eyes opening wide, "You have to tell me everything!" The tinker fairy proclaims.

"Okay, but first we should get somewhere dry." He states, and watches as his friend's eyes open wide in realization.

"Oh no that's today!?" She questions, and was answered with a nod. "Ugh, I'm such an idiot!"

Terrence didn't say anything as he knew when Tinkerbell was in this kind of mood, no words of comfort would reach her ears. So the two began to walk in hopes of finding shelter in hopefully someone's house as the sky suddenly began to darken. Then, as they were walking, they heard movement coming from their left. They waited a couple minutes to see what it was and eventually they were able to see a figure of someone. As the figure got closer, Tinkerbell soon began to recognize who it was.

"Artemis!" Tinkerbell called out, managing to get the animal fairies attention.

"Tink?" The animal fairy had the hood of her cloak up on her head, which made it a little difficult to see up ahead.

"Did you forget about today too?" Tink questions, beginning to rub her arms as she didn't have anything on to protect her from the rain or the cold breeze blowing around the trio.

"Uh yeah." Artemis convincingly lied, and then noticed Terrence. "Who's this?"

"I'm Terrence." Terrence answers, extending his hand out for her to shake it.

Awkwardly, she shook it and asked "Dust keeper, right?"

"That's right, and I'm guessing you must be the new fairy everyone's been talking about." He answers, and with a nod from Artemis he continued. "I'm sorry I haven't gotten a chance to meet you sooner, but I've been away for a while doing a special job for Queen Clarion."

"Which you still have to tell me about!" Tinkerbell interjects.

With a small smile towards her friend, Artemis replies, "It's okay, I still haven't met everyone yet." and then notices just how dark the sky was. "The weather is getting worse, how about we all stay dry in my house?"

"Yeah that'd be great." The dust keeper fairy agrees with this idea and with this, the trio headed towards shelter.

After meeting with the Indians, Artemis rode on Strider's back and thought about everything the Indian Chief told her. She trusted the hawk enough to get them back home and continued to think. The very idea of her being something known as a Hawk Rider was a little overwhelming, but the most overwhelming thought was of the possibility of there being more like her. Artemis had gotten an idea to go looking for this mysterious Hawk Rider in the Winter Woods as none of the warm fairies seemed to acknowledge the existence of one living among them. In a way it did make sense, as the Winter Woods seemed to be very secluded even though it was full of winter fairies.

Even when she got off Strider's back and headed towards her house, she thought nothing else. She was so lost in thought and she almost didn't notice Tinkerbell calling out to her before. So when she did hear her friend and noticed Terrence standing next to her, a new thinking came into her mind. For some strange reason, she felt like she recognized him and she could've sworn she saw the same recognition in his eyes when he held out his hand to her. It was very strange, and she couldn't help thinking about it until they reached her front door.

"Sorry about the mess, I haven't had much of a chance to clean up lately." Artemis mutters, feeling slightly embarrassed at the state of her house.

"Oh please, this is nothing compared to my place." Tinkerbell states, and Artemis caught Terrence nodding behind her back.

With a smile, Artemis began taking off her cloak and then noticed Terrence wearing a jacket which had gotten a little wet from the rain. "Oh Terrence, you're welcome to hang your jacket up anywhere." Artemis says and began the process of taking off her own fairy made jacket.

Artemis had her back turned against her guests as she placed her things in her closet and out of nowhere, a Tinkerbell gave a loud gasp. Bewildered at what could cause her friend to emit such a sound, she looked over her shoulder and was received with a shocking sight. Because her wings were now uncovered by the layers of clothing, she was now able to see they were glowing and across the room from her, Terrence's wings were glowing too. The two fairies stared at each other in shock, not sure what to say.

For weeks, Artemis had spent as much time trying to find out who her mysterious sibling was as much as she had been trying to take care of Strider. Now she was staring face to face with her own brother and she didn't know what to do. Eventually the two came out of their shock enough to circle around each other. Being up close to Terrence, she was able to see similar features they both shared. They both had the same shade of hair, nose, ears, chin, and wings and everything else was completely different.

"Uh... I don't know what to say." Terrence mutters.

"Me neither." Artemis replies.

"How about you two start off with hi?" Tinkerbell suggests, also wearing the same shocked face as the other two.

"Hi." The two siblings said at the same time, which then broke the tension and caused them to both laugh at the same time.

Author's Note: Duh duh duh, it's here! Surprised? Everyone's suggestions were way off, but it was fun to see who you all thought Artemis's sibling was going to be. I'm just excited as you are about this chapter, as I have been wanting to get to it for a while now. Anyways I want to thank you all for reading this story and I can't believe we're at chapter twenty! I wasn't expecting to make this story as long as it is so far, but hey we're going to be getting into some good stuff soon which I don't know about you, but I'm pretty excited about it. I'm going to try to procure another chapter tomorrow because I have four days off of work which means I have time to write more chapters woohoo! So stay tuned!