"Why won't Peter notice me?" cried Tinker Bell to another fairy.

"I've done everything I could for him and yet," she scowled, " he still likes Wendy."

"Well Tinks," tinkled back her fairy friend, "he is a human and you are a fairy."

"I know," sighed Tinker Bell.

"If only there was something I could do to change." "Aren't you related to the Fairy Godmother?" reminded Tinker Bell's companion.

"Oh yeah," replied Tinker Bell. "She'll know what to do. I'll visit her right away." But right away, was not so right away, for Tinker Bell had small wings, meaning she could not fly very fast. So she flew tiresomely thorough warp holes and vast lengths of empty space until she finally reached the Mystical House in Traverse Town.

"Oh hello Tinks," greeted her godmother politely. "Hello," answered Tinker Bell. She got straight to the point, "I want to become a human."

"As you wish," said the Fairy Godmother. "Bippity Boppity Bo," she cried.

Tinker Bell felt a tingling sensation glowing within her. Her legs were growing larger and longer, and so were her arms, body and head. But her nose? And why was she all wrinkly and grey?

"Oh dear," mumbled her godmother. She directed Tinker Bell towards the magician's mirror.

Tinker Bell screamed with horror. Her urgent ringing of bells shattered the mirror and all glassware around her. "I'm an elephant!" she wailed as a shower of tears (resembling fairy dust) sprinkled down from her.

"Dumbo to be precise," noted the Fairy Godmother. "I'd just used a Watergleam summon gem. Must've mixed up the spells."

"Can't you do anything about this?" demanded Tinker Bell.

"It should wear down tonight, at midnight. But for now, you'll have to do with your, ahem, unflattering shape."

Tinker Bell burst out in another sprinkle of tears. "Best you be gone now," advised her godmother, "while I do some serious magic recapping."

"But I can't let Peter see me like this!" she shrieked. "Anyway how am I supposed to fly home?"

The fairy godmother pointed to Tinker Bell's gigantic ears. But then she shook her head.

"Ah no, best if I teleport you home with my magic powers."

But Tinker Bell/ Dumbo had already galloped out of the room, and soon she was back at Neverland, for her large elephant ears where actually quite capable. As she flew towards Peter's home, in the woods, she could see that the sky was a glowing red.

"Weird," she thought. But then she realized. The forest was on fire!

"Peter," she remembered, as she frantically made her way to Peter's series of tree houses.

As she landed in the woods, an instinct told her to use her newly acquired trunk.

"Splash!"

Water was squirting out of her 'hose' and drenching the flames around her. She proceeded to clumsily fly around the forest, searching for her beloved.

Soon enough, she spotted him. He was lying unconscious in the smoky haze.

Hurriedly, Tinker Bell dived into the ignited foliage and dragged out a sooty, yet still handsome, Peter Pan.

She squirted a trunkful of water onto his face. Immediately, he coughed and using her trunk, she gently helped him sit up. "Thank you," he spoke feebly. "Who are you?"

And Tinker Bell replied in the only way she knew. With a tinkling of bells.

"Tell me you're joking!" chuckled Peter as his spirits rose. "Tinker Bell?"

As Tinker Bell/ Dumbo nodded her head, Peter rolled around the dirt floor laughing his head off.

"Peter?" yelled a female voice.

"Wendy!" shouted Peter as he suppressed his laughter, and ran to embrace her. Tinker Bell boiled up with rage.

"After all I've done for him, he just jeers at me and runs into another woman's arms!" With that she flew away.

"Wait Tinks!" called out Peter. "Come back! I was only having a little fun!"

But for once she took no heed of him. And she promised to herself that she would care for him no longer.