Midnight's huge wingspan enabled them to make it back to Pixie Hollow with time to spare, and as they tumbled around in the cage, Tinker Bell racked her brain for an idea of how they could protect themselves once they were brought to Agatha. She glanced at Iridessa, who was whimpering beside her, obviously terrified of the thought of coming face-to-face with the fairy who was seemingly going to take over their home and everything they held dear. Tinker Bell then shifted her gaze to Nyx and Fury, who were flying beside them, their eyes fixed to the front and completely oblivious to anything else. It was clear to Tinker Bell that Nyx and Fury were utterly and completely under Agatha's cursed spell, so she knew the most important thing at the moment was not being cursed themselves, otherwise, they would have no way of finding Fizzy. That is, if they could escape a second time. But, the odds were definitely not in their favor at that current time.

They flew on and on until they suddenly saw their Island in the distance, covered by thick grey clouds. Even from a distance, the girls could feel Neverland already had a sense of darkness about it, and even as they descended down closer to Pixie Hollow, they could see the eery dreariness and fog that seemed to hover around the island.

"Ah," breathed Dusk, snickering as he tapped on the top of the girls' cage. "Here we are! Home, sweet home!"

The girls all held tightly onto one another, and they were in that same position when Midnight flew into Queen Clarion's Palace and dropped the cage down in front of Agatha.

Fury and Nyx flew and landed beside Agatha, who turned to them with a smile. "That is all. You did very well, Scouts."

"Nyx!" Fawn cried suddenly, running to the side of the cage and gripping the twine sides. "Don't forget who the real Queen is! Don't let Agatha control you like this! You have to remember Queen Clarion! The rightful queen!"

Nyx flew over to the cage and tapped it with her spear. "I see the rightful queen right in front of me," she said coldly. "Queen Agatha is the true Queen, and we will serve her forever!"

Fawn looked up at Agatha, who had begun laughing a deep, sinister laugh as she also flew over to them as well. "Just as these troublesome little fairies soon will, as well." She put her hand on Nyx's shoulder. "You've done very, very good work today by bringing back our devious little friends, Nyx. You and the rest of the Scouts do one last perimeter check, and then you will head off to bed for the night. I need my Scouts good and rested. Is that understood?"

Fury flew over, as well. "Yes, your Majesty." Came the reply from Nyx and Fury.

Giving one last glare at the trapped fairies, Nyx and Fury flew out of the Palace and headed off to do more crowd control. Agatha then turned her gaze to the cage once more, and couldn't help but snicker. The laugh was deep and menacing in her throat, and it gave Tinker Bell chills throughout her body.

"It really amazes me, you know," Agatha commented as she peered into the cage at her prisoners. "It amazes me that you thought you could escape."

"We weren't escaping!" Vidia spat without thinking, causing Iridessa to gasp and grab her arm as Agatha's eyebrows rose.

"Oh? Then why were you all out at Skull Rock, little ones?"

Tinker Bell grabbed onto the side of the cage until her knuckles turned white. She couldn't stop herself from expressing her emotions as her face grew red with fury. "We were trying to gather more Pixie Dust from our second Tree so we could defeat you!"

Behind them, Shadow and Dusk were heard chuckling in the background.

A small smirk curled on Agatha's lip before she spoke. "And just how did you like my little surprise there, hm? I bet you weren't expecting all the dust to be dried up as well, did you? Did that foil your useless little plan, girls?"

Now it was Fawn's turn to let her emotions escape. "Why are you doing this?" she demanded, her eyes narrowed, trying to show anger, but getting it mixed up with her feelings of sadness. "Why...did you come here and turn our Queen to stone, and why did you have to kidnap Fizzy? What did we ever do to you?"

Agatha was a bit taken aback by Fawn's straight-to-the-point question, and she turned her back before speaking. "Many, many, many eons ago, the Dark Fairies were great in their numbers, and we ruled over lands all across time and space. And we were content." She turned back to the girls, her dark eyes shining. "We used our Black Pixie Dust to control the inhabitants of the places we conquered, but the dust is limited and can only be harvested every 300 years when the Black Rose blooms. My great, great, great, great, grandmother was hit by a handful of golden pixie dust while here in Neverland and had her memory erased of where the hidden Black Rose made its home. So, the true, strongest power of the Black Pixie Dust was lost, therefore, we lost our control over the lands we had come to inhabit. Those of us who managed to escape were banished by the Good Fairies of Pixie Hollow to the Realm of Darkness, which is where we have remained ever since. When I came to power as ruler, my sparrow men searched far and wide for the Black Rose. For centuries I've been searching. Centuries. And when we found the Rose again, I knew I could do it. I knew I could do what my family before me couldn't." She gave a flip of her long, shimmering black hair. "I would harvest the Black Pixie Dust the moment the Rose bloomed, for that is the most powerful dust of all. With the new, fresh Black Pixie Dust, I could come back and take what rightfully belongs in my family: Pixie Hollow. The good fairies of Pixie Hollow were the ones who banished the Dark Faries from Neverland, and now, I will finally take my revenge on all of you!"

"But, it wasn't our fault!" Tinker Bell cried out. "We didn't banish the Dark Faries! You're punishing us for something we had no control over!"

"You are a fairy in Pixie Hollow, my dear," Agatha replied, cooly. "Therefore, you will receive the same punishment as the rest of them. And as for your sweet little Fizzy, well, she's going to get what's coming to her, too. The very idea that such a tiny, scared, weak little fairy ever had the power to defeat me is simply laughable!"

"But, she didn't do anything, either!" Rosetta gasped. "It...it's not her fault that she's the one who could...who could defeat you." Rosetta gulped on the last part of her sentence. "If...if you only let her go...just bring her back to us-"

Agatha angrily turned her dark gaze towards the cage. "Let her go?" she snarled, then couldn't help but laugh as the girls' eyes grew wide with fright. "Oh, no. I'll never let that fizzy-headed fairy go no matter what. And anyway, it's too late for Fizzy, now. Her time is running out, you see. After all, I need to dispose of her so I can fully finish my plan. It's exactly as I told her before I left her to wilt away in my castle: as long as her light shines, my darkness cannot. If I let her go now, that would take all the fun out of it, right?"

"Oh, when I get outta this!" Vidia growled her fists clenched. "You'll wish you never set foot in Pixie Hollow!"

Agatha chuckled. "All the more reason to keep you locked away, now isn't it?" She turned to Shadow and Dusk, who had been standing in the corner like two guards. "Shadow, Dusk. Take our noisy little prisoners down to the dungeon to await their fate. I'll whip up a nice little curse for them, tomorrow." She flipped her wand in her hand a few times. "Not something like what the Ministers have, oh, no. I don't need any more statues. Maybe a strong hypnosis one to match their friends? I just love devoted service! I could always use some more loyal subjects, after all."

"Haha, to the dungeon it is!" said Dusk with a laugh, as the girls gulped and looked at each other, nervously.

"B-But, Queen Clarion doesn't have a dungeon in her palace!" Irisdessa stuttered, her voice shaking.

Agatha tapped her wand on the side of the cage as the girls gasped. "She didn't until I made one," she replied, laughing loudly as Shadow and Dusk sprinkled some Black Pixie Dust on the top of the cage and guided it away, ready to lock the girls up in the newly built dungeon at the basement of the palace.

Agatha had indeed built a magnificent dungeon by creating what seemed like a dark and dreary underground cave, and Shadow and Dusk wasted no time in tossing each girl into the huge "cell" and slamming the two doors closed so they latched at the middle.

Vidia and Fawn, the ever-energetic pair, were quick to run to the bars and try with all their might to shake them open. Unfortunately, the bars, which were placed both horizontally and vertically across each other, were made of strong, shining stone, and no amount of angry yelling, kicking or hitting made them any looser. Iridessa had since slumped down in the corner in despair, Rosetta and Silvermist beside her with their arms wrapped around her shoulder as she moaned quietly about how hopeless everything seemed now. Tinker Bell was still in too much shock to react to anything, while Zarina sat far back, her knees curled up to her chest and her moist, shiny eyes were wide.

The sudden sniff coming from Zarina's corner snapped Tinker Bell out of her trance, and she glanced at her, noticing a few sparkling drops on her cheek. Tinker Bell fluttered over to her, her trail of bright pixie dust glowing brightly behind her in the dark contrast of their surroundings. "Zarina?" she asked quietly, sitting down next to her. "What's wrong?"

Zarina wiped her eyes and sniffed a little louder, taking in a huge breath before she spoke. "I'm..." she glanced at Iridessa, who still looked miserable. "I'm so sorry, you guys!"

Tinker Bell and Fawn gasped, as the other girls equally snapped out of their respective moods and each made their way to Zarina, too.

"Sorry?" Fawn repeated quietly, sitting down beside Zarina on her other side. "Sorry for what, Z?"

Zarina sighed heavily and wiped her eyes, again. "I...I'm sorry about the second Pixie Dust Tree," she mumbled, staring at the rock-hard round she was sitting on. "I was...I was so sure we could get our Pixie Dust from the second Tree so we could rescue Fizzy, but now...but now, we can't!"

Tinker Bell glanced at Fawn, and they shared a frown.

"We can't, and...and it's all my fault!" Zarina finished, looking up at her friends with fresh tears behind her eyes.

"Oh, Dewdrop." Silvermist put her hand under Zarina's chin and lifted it, gently. "It wasn't your fault!"

Vidia nodded. "Yeah, Z! How could we have known that Agatha was gonna beat us to it and destroy it, too? You couldn't have known that."

Zarina sighed, again. "But, if only I had made more dust when I had the chance, maybe it could have withstood her magic or the Black Pixie Dust."

Rosetta chuckled as forcefully as she could manage. "Oh, not that I'm doubting your Pixie Dust Alchemy abilities, Sugarplum, but at the rate we're going with it, I don't think anything around here can withstand Agatha's magic, and especially not the Black Pixie Dust when she uses it!"

Iridessa sadly slinked down next to Fawn. "We're gonna be trapped down here forever, aren't we?"

"No, of course, we won't!" said Vidia, half-heartedly cheerful.

"We won't?" Silvermist repeated, slowly.

"Didn't you hear what Agatha said?" Vidia asked. "She's gonna come back tomorrow to curse us just like everyone else in Pixie Hollow. Then, she'll let us out for sure!"

Iridessa gasped and put her head in her hands as Fawn gave Vidia a stern look before fear overcame her, too, and she nervously glanced at Tinker Bell.

Tinker Bell bit her lip as she felt the tears slip from her bight blue eyes. "And Fizzy?" she said, her voice squeaking a bit. "Wh-what about Fizzy? What's gonna happen to her, now?" She couldn't stop the tears as they fell all the way down her cheeks and splashed on the ground. "We can't let her light go out!"

The girls were silent as they contemplated that, as well. Their whole situation was starting to really look hopeless, and each girl knew a positive outlook was something they just didn't have.

Zarina had moved past being sad and was now angry as she stood up and flew over to the doors of their cell and began hitting them with her fists as her cheeks grew red. "We just have to get outta here!"

Vidia stood up and flew over to Zarina with her arms crossed. "That's a great sentiment, Z, but have you looked around at our current predicament?" She kicked the doors to prove her point. "These doors are rock-solid...literally. So, unless you have some magical way of getting these doors off...it looks pretty bleak, 'cause I for sure can't squeeze through those tiny little square holes in the doors!"

Rosetta smiled a little. "Even if Fizzy is just an inch smaller than the rest of us, I bet she'd insist she could fit through there!"

Fawn smiled as she wiped her eyes, sadly. "Yeah. And she'd probably try to!"

Silvermist sighed, loudly. "You know, I almost feel like we're trapped down in the brig on a pirate ship or something. And we all know how that ends...with a short walk and a sudden splash!"

In an instant, Zarina's eyes grew wide, and she gasped as her heart raced. "A pirate ship?" Suddenly, she shoved her face closer to the doors of their cell and began searching for something around it.

"Zarina?" Tinker Bell said, still frowning, but flying curiously over. "What're you-"

"Oh, I knew it!" Zarina interrupted, running her fingers along the middle of the bars at the hinges that held them together. "These are half-pin barrel hinges. I...I've seen them before...on a pirate ship!"

"And...?" Vidia said, raising her eyebrow. "This helps us, how, exactly?"

"Well," Zarina said, her voice growing louder with excitement. "Speaking from a technical point of view, all we need is the right leverage, plus the proper application of strength-"

"And the door will lift free," finished Tinker Bell slowly, her eyes growing wide as well as she tapped her fingers on the hinges and looked up at Zarina with glee in her eyes. "We...we learned about it at the Tinker-talent tent at Fairy Camp!"

Fawn, Silvermist, Rosetta, and Iridessa squealed happily as they quickly flew over to their friends.

"Oh, we are gonna get outta here!" Iridessa cried, her mood finally brightening. "I don't believe it!"

Vidia scoffed. "Yeah, neither do I!"

Her friends stared at her, disapprovingly.

"Why not?" Tinker Bell challenged, her hands firmly planted on her hips.

Vidia held her hand out behind them. "Um, hello? In case you haven't noticed, Little Miss Spare Parts, we have nothing to use for leverage over here!"

"Maybe not over here," said Fawn, slowly, as her eyes scanned the area in front of them. "But, what about over there?"

Fawn pointed to the long, thin pieces of stone columns that hadn't been used to make other cell doors, yet. They were lying strewn across the room within a reasonable distance, and Tinker Bell gasped when she noticed them, too.

"Oh, those would be perfect!" Tinker Bell cried. "All we need is one and we got it!"

Rosetta sucked in a breath. "But, how can we reach them from all the way over here, darling?"

Tinker Bell grinned and flittered around in the air, making Pixie Dust fall all around them. She quickly scooped it up as it slowly fell towards the ground. "Easy! Just watch!"

With that, Tinker Bell gripped the dust in her hand, stuck her arm through one of the little squares in their cell door, and tossed the handful of sparkling goodness onto one of the stone columns, covering it completely.

"What?" asked Silvermist, before her eyes grew wide as she noticed the long column began to slowly rise up and start floating in the air.

The girls each gasped in turn as they saw what had just happened, each expressing their own glee and astonishment.

"Of course!" said Rosetta, elbowing Vidia with a smile. "We'll just float one of those babies right over to us!"

Unfortunately, getting one of the columns exactly where they wanted was much easier said than actually done, so they found out. The floating column seemed to have a mind of its own, and no amount of quiet coaxing could get it within their reach. Silvermist suddenly pressed her face against the door to their cell, and through the tiny square holes, started blowing air towards the floating stone as hard as she could as her friends all stared at her, quizzically.

"Uh, Sil?" Vidia said, slowly. "We know you're always full of hot air, but I don't think that's gonna work. We need something stronger."

Zarina tapped Vidia's wings. "I'll say. Hey, Vidia, you have the strongest wings out of all of us. Maybe you can get that pesky little thing to get over here so we can grab it?"

Vidia suddenly broke into a huge grin. "Well, that's true. I do have the strongest wings, don't I?"

Fawn and Rosetta shared a glanced at each other before rolling their eyes.

"Stand back, everyone!" Vidia said as she backed herself up to the cell doors. "One...two...three!"

With that, Vidia gave a huge flutter of her strong, fast-flying wings, and the stone column was sent into swift motion. Although, Vidia hadn't exactly calculated just how strong her wings actually were, and she sent the column crashing into the opposite wall, and it loudly shattered into pieces.

"Oops," Vidia mumbled, sheepishly.

Suddenly from above them, they heard thundering footsteps come racing down the staircase, obviously coming to see what the noise was about. It was Shadow and Dusk, sleepily rubbing their eyes as they appeared in the basement. They turned to look inside the girls' cell but were shocked to see them all laying casually around it, almost as if they were girls chatting together at a slumber party.

"What's going on down here?" Shadow demanded, yawning sleepily as he peered into the cage.

"Nothing," replied Zarina.

"We're just minding our own business," Tinker Bell added.

"Something you two should try and work on!" Fawn muttered.

Shadow and Dusk both growled at them and kicked the cell doors, then suddenly, they noticed the random floating pieces of broken stone floating next to the ceiling.

"What on Earth happened, here?" Dusk asked, pointing above them.

The girls' eyes grew wide, and they each gulped.

"Uh..." began Iridessa.

"Well..." tried Vidia.

"I sneezed!" Silvermist blurted out, loudly.

Dusk and Shadow stared at her. "You sneezed?" they both repeated.

"It was a messy sneeze!" Silvermist bit her lip, nervously.

Shadow and Dusk looked at each other and shook their heads.

"It'll be wonderful watching Agatha curse you crazy fairies, tomorrow!" Dusk said. "It can't come soon enough!"

Vidia started to retort back, but Tinker Bell grabbed her arm and shook her head.

"Until then," Rosetta said in a sing-song voice. "Why don't you two strong, handsome boys head on back upstairs for a nice, relaxing sleep, huh?"

Shadow and Dusk chuckled and shook their heads.

"Oh, no," Shadow said, crossing his arms over his chest. "We know you pesky little fairies are up to something, and we're not moving from this spot until we find out what that is!"

In almost the blink of an eye, Shadow and Dusk had fallen asleep laying on the floor near their cell, their snores as loud as bear growls.

"Well, now what?" Fawn mumbled, highly annoyed at where the two guards had taken up residence.

Tinker Bell quietly shushed her. "Don't worry, Fawn," she said, in a loud whisper. "We're still getting outta here. We'll just keep trying even if those two goons are here!"

"And keep quiet," Vidia hissed, loudly.

"Hey, Tink, try that one over there." Zarina pointed to a column across the way. "And Vidia, this time, gently flutter your wings, okay?"

Vidia huffed a bit, but nodded, knowing that she did need to learn to control the speed the next time, unless they wanted to have more pieces floating around their heads.

Biting her lip, Tinker Bell fluttered around the air again, grabbed some dust, and carefully tossed it through the doors at the column Zarina had been pointing to. She gasped in horror, however, when she realized she had tosed the dust directly on a column that Dusk was sleeping on, and the girls each gasped, too.

"No, no no!" Iridessa cried, covering her eyes with her hands as the column slowly floated up into the air with Dusk rising with it the higher it went.

Dusk continued to sleep peacefully, but in a moment, the column rose too high to support Dusk any longer and he was startled awake as he rolled off the collum and crashed back onto the floor with a thud. The girls gasped again, their eyes wide with fear. Iridessa, who had been holding her breath the entire time, slowly sunk to the floor in a faint. Dusk shook his head in confusion, not noticing each girl's face was pale and their eyes as huge as they could be, or that there was a huge column floating right above his head. The girls held their breath and didn't speak a word as Dusk rubbed his eyes, yawned again, and settled back down onto the floor, completely oblivious to the events that had taken place as he fell into a deep sleep again, snoring just as loudly as before.

The girls then let out the breaths they were holding, and Fawn gently rustled Iridessa awake.

"Wha? What happened? Are we free, yet?" Iridessa mumbled, standing up, slowly.

"Not yet," Tinker Bell whispered, pulling Vidia closer to the doors. "Not 'til Vidia gets us that column!"

"I'm on it!" Vidia said with a little smirk, as she slowly and gently fluttered her wings.

The column moved much more smoothly this time, and it softly dinged on the opposite side of the wall before the impact carefully nudged it towards the girls' cell...exactly where they needed it to go. Silvermist excitedly grabbed Rosetta's hand as the column floated closer and closer, and almost squealed with joy as Tinker Bell and Zarina managed to grab the column as it neared them.

"Yeah!" exclaimed Fawn.

"Shhh!" Vidia huffed, angrily. "We're not out of the woods, yet!"

"That's right," Tinker Bell grunted, as she and Zarina carefully pulled the column in through a hole in the door. "There's still the problem of getting this door off without alerting the entire palace. The moment it falls off, it'll make enough noise to wake up all of Pixie Hollow!"

"I have an idea," said Fawn, suddenly, her eyes brightening. "You two leverage the door open, and I'll throw some dust on it before it hits the ground, okay?"

"Do you think that'll work?" Iridessa whispered.

"It'll have to!" Fawn shrugged her shoulders as she flew into the air to collect some Pixie Dust. When she had gathered enough, she gave a thumbs up to Zarina and Tinker Bell.

"Alright, ready? On three!" Zarina commanded as she and Tinker Bell held the column together, gently putting it under the bottom part of their cell door.

"One," Tinker Bell mumbled.

Iridessa gasped and grabbed Vidia and Rosetta's hands. Silvermist closed her eyes and crossed both her fingers.

"Two," said Zarina, griping the column tighter.

Fawn took a deep breath, readied herself, and held her hand up high, determination in her eyes.

"Three!" Tinker Bell and Zarina cried together.

Grunting, the two girls used every ounce of strength they had and pushed down as hard as they could, making the door, just as they had anticipated, lift right off the hinges. As the door started to fall forward, Fawn was ready, and she threw her handful of Pixie Dust directly on it. The Pixie Dust stopped the door from hitting the ground, and the girls sighed with relief. They almost couldn't believe their good luck, and they hugged each other, gleefully.

"C'mon you guys, let's get out of here!" said Iridessa, eagerly grabbing Silvermist and Rosetta's hands as they fluttered towards the stairs.

"I'm with you!" Zarina said as she and Tinker Bell rolled the column away.

Fawn suddenly got a mischevious glint in her eye and quickly whispered something into Tinker Bell's ear as she pointed at Shadow and Dusk and made an angry fist with one hand, and slapped it in the palm of her other one.

Tinker Bell's eyes got wide after hearing what Fawn had said, and she burst into a grin. "Uh, we'll catch up with you guys in just a second, okay? We've gotta take care of a little something, first."

Their friends shrugged their shoulders and one after the other flew up the stairs and out of the dreary dungeon. Tinker Bell and Fawn, on the other hand, had other plans. Working rapidly and carefully, they sprinkled Pixie Dust directly over Shadow and Dusk while they slept, and watched with glee as they both floated up into the air. Quiet as mice, each girl gently pushed the two sleeping, floating sparrow men until they were inside the cell. Fawn held the door in place while Tinker Bell stuck the stone pins back into the hinges, latching the door shut and trapping them inside.

"That's what they get for kidnapping our best friend, huh?" Fawn whispered with a giggle as she and Tinker Bell slapped a high-five and flew upstairs, ready to rejoin their waiting friends outside the palace.

The girls quickly and quietly made their way out of the palace, but to their horror, they all started to slowly fall towards the ground the more they flew away from it.

"Oh no, oh no," Iridessa cried as she landed on the ground around her friends. She tried again and again to fly, but she found it useless. "We're out of Pixie Dust!"

"Just great," mumbled Vidia. "It's swell we got out of the palace, but without Pixie Dust, we're sitting ducks!"

Silvermist sighed. "Oh, if only we had Fairy Gary to give us some extra Pixie Dust rations, then we'd surely have enough!"

Zarina smiled, weakly. "Even if Fairy Gary wasn't cursed, you know his rule about Pixie Dust! Only one..." suddenly, Zarina gasped before she could finish her sentence. "Oh, Sil!" she suddenly shrieked, grabbing Silvermist's face in her hands. "You say the smartest things, sometimes!"

Silvermist chuckled a little. "I do, don't I?" She paused a minute. "Um...what'd I say?"

Zarina burst into joyful laughter and grabbed Silvermist's hand in hers. "Well, before all this craziness happened, Fizzy tricked Fairy Gary into giving me three days worth of Pixie Dust rations in one sitting!"

Vidia frowned. "But, how will that help us, Z? You know you blow through your rations faster than anyone!"

Zarina grinned and shook her head. "Not this time! I hid them away just in case I needed them for some extra experiments, but every day I kept getting my normal daily ration and I just haven't used the extra dust, yet! I didn't even remember them until Sil said something about it!"

Tinker Bell's eyes grew wide. "So...so we can take Zarina's extra Pixie Dust and find Fizzy!"

"Exactly!" Zarina cried. "Let's get back to my place, hurry!"

As quickly as they could on foot, the girls raced to Zarina's Lab under the cover of darkness. They didn't speak a single word, hoping not to wake any of the cursed fairies from their slumber. Once they reached their destination, Zarina threw open the door and shut it as quick as a flash.

"I was so scared somebody was gonna wake up, I think I held my breath the entire way here," Iridessa mumbled, glancing around at their dark surroundings as their friends curiously peered into the tiny cups of almost-empty colorful Pixie Dust.

Zarina grinned as she made her way over to the tiny wooden chest hidden under a workbench. "You and me both, Dessa!"

Zarina opened the chest and rummaged around in it for a few seconds while her friends watched with interest. Suddenly, she pulled out one overflowing bag of dust and set it on the floor, followed by another, and at last, the third one. The girls' eyes shined as brightly as the glow of the dust upon seeing their golden treasure.

"Okay, so listen up," Zarina said seriously, grabbing the bags of dust in her and sitting down on the floor. Her friends immediately followed suit as they sat in a circle listening as students listen to a teacher. "We don't have a lot of time to get things done. Every second that passes is another second closer to Fizzy losing her light and Agatha completely taking over Pixie Hollow. We can't let either of those things happen. You guys need to fly to the Realm of Darkness and get Fizzy back. Without her, Agatha wins."

"A-are you not coming with us?" Iridessa stuttered.

Zarina shook her head. "No. I'm staying here. I think I may have an idea of how I can cure the curse Agatha put on the other fairies. If I can create the cure, maybe, just maybe we can rise up against her and defeat her. That way, the only thing we'll have to do when you rescue Fizzy is welcome her back!"

"Oh, Zarina," Tinker Bell said, quietly. "That sounds really dangerous to stay by yourself. Are you sure you can do it?"

Zarina grinned. "Piece of honey-cake, Tink! Agatha may be from the Realm of Darkness, and she may have the power of her Black Pixie Dust, but she doesn't have the power and knowledge of a Pixie Dust Alchemist, now does she?"

Rosetta shuddered and rubbed her arms. "Oh, I bet there are tons of horrible, nasty things are in the Realm of Darkness."

Fawn frowned, sadly. "All the more reason to get Fizzy away from there ASAP!"

Zarina took one of the bags of Pixie Dust and stood up, walking over to her workbench. "And all the more reason you all should be extra prepared before you go."

Zarina dropped the bag onto the top of the workbench and bent down once more to the chest. She removed a very tiny nutshell from the pocket of her navy blue pirate's coat. She placed the tiny shell onto the top of her workspace, and with her friends watching her every move, Zarina scooped six overflowing spoonfulls of dust into six different containers. Working as swiftly as she could, Zarina rushed around gathering random ingredients and mixing them up in the different containers. Suddenly, she finished mixing and slowly opened the tiny shell. The girls gasped when they saw the contents. Inside the shell was the tiniest, most useless piece of Blue Pixie Dust any of them had ever seen. Zarina carefully broke the already-minuscule speck of dust into six tiny pieces until there was no Blue Pixie Dust left. As she carefully dropped the six droplets of glowing blue glory into the containers, the girls' eyes grew wide as they realized Zarina had conjured up six different, yet oddly familiar-colored dust right before their eyes.

"Oh, Z!" gasped Tinker Bell, in awe. "Is that...is that for us?"

Zarina grinned as she transported each of the colored dust into six tiny leaf satchel bags, leaving just a half a spoonful of dust in each container. "You bet they are, Tink! Special Talent-enhancers to take with you to the Realm of Darkness. Who knows what you're gonna meet, there, and it's better to be safe than sorry!" She handed a bag to each of the respective talent fairies. "I kept a little for myself, 'cause I'll need it to try and make a cure. But otherwise," she took the second bag of dust and dusted each of her friend's wings before handing them the last two bags. "Get to Fizzy as fast as you can, okay? I know when you all work together, you can do it!"

Tinker Bell and her friends were admittedly afraid of leaving Zarina alone to face the wrath of Agatha, but the sincerity and determination she had in her eyes made them a bit at ease, and they soon remembered they were in the presence of an ex-pirate captain so it was no wonder Zarina had taken charge as she had. After quick goodbye hugs, the six fairies departed Zarina's lab and flew towards Tinker's Nook, where Tinker Bell had an important task for each of them already in her head.

While Zarina carefully worked in her lab, Tinker Bell had other ideas. Upon arriving at Tinker's Nook, Tinker Bell ushered her friends inside her house and slammed the door.

"Okay, you guys. Our next order of business is to get to the Realm of Darkness somehow. Now, I don't know about all of you, but...I have no idea where that could be," Tinker Bell said, biting her lip. "With that being said, I think we'll need a faster mode of transportation than just our wings, given our circumstances."

Vidia raised her eyebrows. "And just what did you have in mind, Tink?"

Grinning, Tinker Bell pulled out an old, crumpled blueprint from a basket near her bed. As she opened it and showed it to her friends, they each gasped in awe at what they saw.

"Well, I'll bet that'll get us there in no time!" Rosetta said, gleefully. "Just tell us what to do, Sugarplum!"

With that, Tinker Bell began to divvy out tasks for each of her friends. Once she had finished, she opened the front door. "Now remember, guys. Get things as fast as you can and meet me out back. We don't have a lot of time, and we need to finish this before everyone wakes up or it'll never work!"

Each of the fairies set to work on gathering everything Tinker Bell had instructed them to get, and before she knew it, the girls were right back in Tinker's Nook with everything Tinker Bell needed to build the perfect thing to get them to the Realm of Darkness. Each having a specific task to do, together, they worked for hours and hours on the perfect project, and just before the sun peeked over the horizon, they were finished. They had expertly created a hot-air balloon that based on Tinker Bell's blueprints from when she had journeyed to seek out the Lost Mirror of Incanta. Using one of the huge baskets Tinker Bell had given Fawn for using as moveable nurseries had made the perfect base, just roomy enough for them to have enough space for their food and supplies as well as little pillows for comfort. The huge cotton tufts made perfect fluffy sails just raring to go as they blew in the wind, almost willing them to help it fly into the sky. As each of her friends climbed inside the basket, Tinker Bell glanced behind them at the still-sleeping Hollow, her nerves growing.

"C'mon, Tink! What're you waiting for?" Fawn cried. "Let's go before somebody catches us!"

Snapping back to reality, Tinker Bell nodded as she flew up to the top of the balloon and carefully dumped some of the Pixie Dust right on top of it, causing the balloon to take flight as it slowly rose up, only stopping as the anchor pulled it back down again. Tinker Bell flew into the basket and grinned at her friends. As she pulled up the anchor, the balloon released itself like a bird let out of a cage and swiftly floated off into the sky, the wind definitely on their side as if it knew the severity of their quest.

With Fawn at the rudder, she glided it in the direction she knew they needed. "Just like a flock of migrating birds, we're flying South for the Winter, ladies!"

Tinker Bell smiled a little as her friends cheered, and she glanced down below them.

Down in Pixie Hollow, Zarina had also diligently been working throughout the night as evident with the scores of scribbled notes and the tiny heaps of colored dust that lay in a mess around her. She took in a breath and glanced out the window. Something shiny caught her eye, and she raced to the window and peered out. She saw the huge, golden-dusted balloon as it slowly disappeared into the clouds, and a small smile grew on her lips. "Good luck, Tink."

Tinker Bell, almost as if she heard Zarina's wish, closed her eyes and took a deep breath. "Good luck, Zarina."