The three girls and the cluster of owls soared through the puffy white clouds. The air felt cool against their faces as the girls glided through the air.
Suddenly the clouds dispersed and they were flying over a glistening ocean. All was calm and the air smelt of pure salt. They made a slow descent towards the choppy and foamy waves.
Lizzy stared down at her reflection in the water. Then the mirror image of herself smiled back at her. She let out a gasp when she realized she was no longer staring at her own reflection. A mermaid leaped out of the water and then dove back in.
"Mermaids!" Annie cheered.
Two other mermaids joined them and were leaping into the air beside them. "Welcome," they whispered with their soft echoing voices. The three mermaids almost looked exactly alike, their hair color was the only truly noticeable difference.
Suddenly the ocean disappeared altogether and they were hovering over sandy shores which soon lead to an indigenous rainforest. Exotic plants and animals of all shapes, sizes, and colors could be seen.
"Where are we?" Isabel questioned.
"I don't know, but isn't it wonderful?" Annie replied.
Quickly, the group rose above the plants and trees and began to soar towards the mountains. All of the beautiful colors that surrounded them soon began to appear bleak and gray. The sky no longer had its celestial glow and the sun was hidden by dark clouds.
They flew close to the ground over a meadow with swaying grass. Annie looked over and saw the blackened and rotting grass coming off of one of the hills. She immediately pointed it out to Lizzy and Isabel.
"Tinkerbell, what happened here?" Lizzy asked, "The way you had described it all, it was nothing like this. What is going on? Where is everyone?".
Tink looked back a moment with a saddened expression. This only brought more questions to Lizzy.
Then the group floated by a large tree, its dying appearance saddened the girls as they went on past. They continued on towards the border.
Periwinkle, who was riding Fiona, quickly spotted them as they neared the edge of the Autumn Wood. She quickly steered Fiona back into the woods and they rapidly bound back towards the North side. Fiona effortlessly leaped between trees and over bushes, kicking up snow behind her.
Then the two leaped out of the woods into a clearing. The ministers and just about every other fairy looked up at them as Peri hopped off.
After a moment Milori did as well. He now was kneeling beside the block of ice, grasping Clarion's hand in his own. Within a few moments the group came flying above the treetops. Milori felt a sudden twinge of both unsureness and confusion. Though his confusion quickly was overtaken by worry. What if this doesn't work? I can not bare to lose her forever.
Everyone quickly made way for them as the group made a slow descent towards the ground. The three girls touched down to the snow covered landscape and they all stared up at them expectantly.
Annie quickly let out a gasp and pointed down at the golden figure lying lifeless. Tears came to each of the girls eyes when they saw desolate expressions of the many fairies.
A flare of light suddenly reflected in Lizzy's eyes. When she looked down she saw a shining crown tied at the sparrowman beside the golden fairy's waist. Lizzy quickly let out a gasp at her sudden realization, "Tinkerbell?".
Tink and her friends were just leaping off of their owls. They all looked up to Lizzy and the other two girls.
"She's your queen, isn't she?".
Tink gave a slow depressed nod back to them.
"This is why you were sent for us, wasn't it? This is why you need our help?".
Again Tink nodded back to them, but her nod was also accompanied by others.
"What could we possibly do? I don't see how we could..." Annie began.
"I think I have an idea," Isabel interrupted.
Both Lizzy and Annie stared at her both confused and surprised. Isabel, the girl who hadn't believed in fairies just earlier that morning, had an idea.
"I was once told that a simple sentence could take away a fairy's light. I never believed it was possible until now. There was one other thing I was told though," Isabel paused a moment, "I was told of the one thing that could save a dying fairy,". There was a moment of silence as everyone stared at her. Then she began to whisper something, at first she was barely understandable but then her chant grew louder. "I do belive in fairies! I do! I do!".
Soon Lizzy and Annie joined in and were singing the chant as well. After another few moments Tinkerbell and her friends were singing too. Then the ministers, along with other members of the council, including Lord Milori, were chanting. Eventually everyone was singing along! This was their last chance, and it gave them a sense of hope. Soon they were all dancing around as their spirits were slowly lifted. Some even began to clap to the singing all around them.
Milori stopped, took in a quick breath and his eyes grew wide. He no longer felt the pain coursing through his body. Quickly he glanced down to Clarion, he watched as her kind eyes slowly opened. She smiled warmly at him, but was somewhat surprised when he hugged her close. Milori's eyes glazed over with tears of joy. Suddenly all of the singing around them had stopped and they turned to see all of the smiling joyous faces looking back at them.
The silence soon turned into cheers and laughter as they all watched the pixie dust fall come back to life. Everyone danced around gleefully, their queen had been saved and the pixie dust restored.
I am so sorry for taking so long! I had the chapter finished but I never had the time to post it for multiple reasons. This is not the last chapter there will be one or two more...
Dear I Love Jesus,
The two young girls are in my other story 'The Warmth of Winter'. I never finished it so now that I'm finishing up with 'Quest for the Queen' I am redoing that story and completing it. Phoebus is Lord Milori's owl, he has a backstory that will later be explained in the sequel. I only wish that my story was the upcoming plot line but sadly it isn't. If you do want intel on the upcoming movie I have some inside on it posted on my profile.
~13bookworm
Dear Snowflake,
Helena does not give Milori any herbs or related other to ease his pain because he has far too many wounds for them to actually do something.
~13bookworm
Dear Brittany,
To quote you, "I see you don't have any idea for the upcoming chapter.I read the notes,". I don't exactly understand what you meant by this...
~13bookworm
