Ch.5

"You want to know about shrinking magic?" Aqua asked the boys, a perplexed look forming across her lips.

"Yeah, it happened to me when I had gone to the Castle of Dreams, I was literally the size of a mouse remember?" Ventus exclaimed. He had already told the story to Terra and Aqua several times before after the war was over, but it still always brought a chuckle to Aqua's face.

"I remember what you told me Ven, but I am just wondering why the two of you want to know about that."

"It's just that…" Ventus glanced over to Roxas who gave him a shrug. Internally Ventus sighed. He had a feeling Roxas wasn't going to be any help here. This was all his own idea anyway and Roxas was just along for the result. "We wanted to investigate something in a world together, but we kind of need to be small to do it."

Aqua narrowed her eyes. She knew better than to just believe Ventus at one simple sentence. There had to be more than that. Though the questionable part would be if she could actually get Ventus to admit it.

"Just some investigation? Ven, you know that just because the worlds are safe, doesn't mean you can go freely jumping around to various worlds and exploring them for the fun of it. There still is the world order we have to try and keep."

"It's not just for the fun of it!" Ventus replied quickly. "We have a legitimate good reason for needing to do this!"

"And? What is that reason?" Aqua asked before crossing her arms.

"Umm… It's because…" Ventus said as he rubbed the back of his neck.

"It's just too hard to really explain," Roxas cut in. "It's just something we discovered that kind of sort is connected or important to us and we wanted to look into it more."

"Yeah," Ventus agreed. "But it really is too hard to explain. You wouldn't believe us anyways."

"If it is something concerning the both of you, I would like to know what you two are getting into. I'll do my best to listen and try to understand, whatever it may be."

Roxas and Ventus looked to one another once more, trying to read each other's thoughts if they could. A moment passed before Ventus sighed and brought his look back to Aqua. "All right, but you gotta believe us."

Ventus breathed in deeply. "So apparently fairies are born from when a baby laughs, and Tinkerbell found the fairy that was born from my laugh and I can actually understand him. I don't hear bells like with Tinkerbell, and Roxas can actually understand him too! He even has the same voice as me! So we wanted to see what the fairy world or town is like, but we need to be small to get there."

Aqua tried her very best to process Ventus's words as fast as she could, but even after he finished she had to take a moment to think. "Well, that is far from what I expected to hear. But it sounds like something quite fun."

"So does that mean you can help us figure out shrinking magic? Pleeeease?" Ventus asked, making his eyes go as wide as he could.

Aqua sighed heavily, she knew that there would be no resisting Ventus's sweet and pleading look. "All right, fine I will teach you two the spell, but you can't go doing this all the time, okay?"

"We promise," Roxas replied. "I wouldn't know what else we could even do with it."

"Okay, that's good to hear. Come on, I'll show you how to perform such a spell."

Roxas and Ventus were back in Neverland, heading to the spot they said they would meet Tinkerbell and Terence again. They only hoped that the two fairies would be there waiting for them. It was hard to judge if everyone ran by the same time or if others were faster than others, but they could only hope.

When they approached they could hear distant jingling and right away they picked up their pace. "Tinkerbell! Terence!" Ventus shouted as soon as they got to where the fairies sat on the boulder.

"Oh hey," Terence greeted. "You guys figure out what you needed?"

Ventus nodded. "Yup we did. Check this out."

Ventus and Roxas looked to one another before reciting the spell Aqua had taught them. Magically glowed around their bodies and in a flash everything seemed much larger than it was before. They waited a few seconds before Terence and Tinkerbell flew down from where they just had been sitting.

Now they were basically the same size, though Ventus and Roxas though they could be a tiny bit taller. They weren't exactly sure on the technical specs of how small they could get but it seemed like they were very close at least.

Right away Tinkerbell was up closer in their faces. Her mouth was moving, clearly forming words, but still there was only the sound of bells. The boys blinked before looking to Terence for help.

"I guess you guys getting down to our height doesn't change the fact you can't understand fairies," he pondered. "So that means you gotta slow down on your questions Tink."

Tinkerbell pouted before crossing her arms. She let out some annoyed remarks but seemed to cool down pretty quickly. Even though all Ventus and Roxas heard were bells, they were starting to pick up that there was a tone to the sound. With the tone they could assume an emotion to go along with it.

"I'll do my best to ask for you okay? But let's get going to Pixie Hollow first," Terence said before facing the boys more properly. "You guys ready?"

They both nodded and then Tinkerbell and Terence flew over their heads to sprinkle the dust. As soon as the dust covered them, Roxas and Ventus floated gently off the ground. They started to laugh while trying to fly around a bit.

"I forgot how fun this was," Ventus said while circling around Roxas.

"Well we didn't exactly have a lot of time to have fun before, now did we," Roxas replied.

"You're right about that, but now we can have all that fun!"

The boys laughed some more as they got used to flying around and also taking note of how much larger the environment looked now that they were the size of fairies. Soon enough they heard excited jingles from Tinkerbell. She was saying something while pointing off in a direction.

"Tink says she wants to hurry up and get to Pixie Hollow, we've wasted daylight just flying around here," Terence translated.

"Right, lead the way," Ventus said.

The four of them then flew off into the forest, with Tinkerbell and Terence leading the way. Roxas and Ventus looked around them as they were led deeper into the forest, heading into areas that had not explored before.

Eventually they came to an opening that brought them to a huge field, but it was unlike any place they had seen before. From where they were flying they could see that there were five sections to the land. Each of them had what looked like elements of different seasons.

"I bet you guys probably have a lot of your own questions right?" Terence asked. "Since you don't know much about fairies and stuff."

"Yeah, I do have some questions, but also just taking in all of this. It's an amazing view," Ventus commented as they flew closer to the ground to what he could assume was the summer area.

"Well I'll do my best to explain things," Terence replied. "To put it simply, there are all different fairies of all different talents. A lot of them are natural-talent fairies that help bring the change of season to the mainland. But there are many other talents as well like myself and Tink. She's a tinker-talent and I'm a dust keeper."

Roxas and Ventus did their best to listen, though still it left them with even more questions. Despite not fully understanding they kept listening and Terence went on to explain other small elements about fairies and Pixie Hollow itself.

Eventually they landed down by some shores just near the summer area that they had learned was called Summer Glade. Tinkerbell said something briefly to Terence before she flew off in another direction.

Roxas watched her fly. "Where's she going?"

"Ah, she's going to grab some of her friends. Tink sometimes gets carried away with telling nearly everyone she knows about something she discovered. And this, you know… between," Terence gestured to the boys. "Us… well it's quite a big discovery."

"So this really hasn't happened before then?" Ventus asked.

Terence shook his head. "Fairies don't usually go out searching for humans to talk to. We usually avoid them if we can with the exception of Peter and his Lost Boys."

"But what do you think about it though?" Ventus said as he stepped closer to the fairy. "If you are the first fairy to ever meet the one they are born from and everything."

Terence sighed. "I honestly still don't know. It's really weird to think about even though I am talking to you right now. Like from what we learned any traits could be given to us, but it just happens to be our voice, making me sometimes do a bit of a double take when either one of you speaks."

"I guess I can understand," Roxas interjected. "When I first met Ven it was the same way for me. Though we also share the same looks along with the voice which made it a bit harder."

"How did you guys get over it? I mean you guys seem to be okay with each other now at least," Terence asked.

"I think it really just boiled down to the time," Ventus explained. "We were a bit weird around each at first, but things just kind of fell into place and soon it just felt natural. And now…" Ventus wrapped an arm around Roxas and pulled him closer. "We're just like brothers."

"Yeah, which makes you all the more annoying," Roxas bantered playfully while trying to push Ventus off of him.

"I guess you guys are right, I guess with voice and looks it can be a lot harder," Terence added, laughly lightly at the 'brothers' playing around.

"Well you do have blond hair and blue eyes at least, so close enough," Ventus said before grinning widely. "The honorary third brother!"

Terence couldn't help but laugh again. It wasn't just for Ventus's cheery attitude, but also it was because he kept thinking that this was the boy whose laugh he was born from. Such a kind and happy person… and it honestly made perfect sense.

Before they could converse any further, Tinkerbell flew back in with all of her friends right beside her. Right away they circled around Roxas and Ventus and started talking to one another and muttering about so many things.

"Uh hey girls?" Terence said, trying to get through to them. "They can't understand a word you're saying."

The group suddenly quieted down as they turned to Terence before sighing heavily. Tinkerbell let out a short chuckle, showing that she clearly forgot to tell them that fact. Terence shook it off though. "They can only understand me, cause as Tink has already explained, they, well mainly Ventus is the one whose laugh I was born from. Roxas, basically is his twin and I'll leave it at that."

"Hi!" Ventus said as he waved to the group. "Nice to meet all of you." He then chuckled slightly, rubbing the back of his neck. "This is the first time I have ever been surrounded by people asking me questions. It's a bit surprising."

"Yeah," Roxas nodded in agreement. "It's kind of like we are famous."

Right away all of Tinkerbell's friends started chattering again, which was just a lot of loud excited bell sounds to Ventus and Roxas. Terence sighed and walked closer to the group, preparing to translate all of their curious questions and thoughts. As he did, a small stray thought crossed into his mind. "I wonder if there is such a thing as a translator-talent…"

Once they got through as many questions as they could, Terence decided to give his translating a break. Not only to give Roxas and Ventus a chance to relax from so much explaining, but also to catch his own breath. But either way it had proved to be informative for both sides, with Tink's friends learning about Roxas and Ventus, and in return they learned about different fairy talents.

Unfortunately his moment of peace didn't last long when Tinkerbell suggested that they hurry over to the Winter Woods before it got too dark. But before they went Tinkerbell brought them back to her house so she could get some winter clothes quickly made for Roxas and Ventus. Once the clothes were ready and put on the four headed out towards the border to the Winter Woods.

"Is it really that cold in the Winter Woods?" Ventus asked.

"It is for warm fairies. If we don't frost our wings before going over there, they'll freeze and break," Terence explained. "Tink just wants to make sure that you guys don't freeze, though she says she wouldn't know how well humans shrunken down would actually do in there."

"I bet we would be fine with a bit of magic," Roxas commented. "But I guess it's better to be safe than sorry."

Tinkerbell made a quick comment as they approached the border. There standing on the snowy side were a small group of fairies. While Tinkerbell went down to greet them, Roxas and Ventus took in the sight. They already knew there was a lot of magic in Pixie Hollow but to be standing right next to a land that was always full of snow right when they were on a warm and dry part was quite something to behold.

Once Roxas and Ventus were done staring they made their way down to where Tinkerbell and Terence, who now stood on the other side of the border, both of them having their wings frosted by the other fairies there.

As soon as the two boys landed, they were once again surrounded and were most likely being asked more questions. Similar to last time Terence had to step in and translate what the other fairies were saying and asking, but it still proved to be quite the interesting interaction.

After introductions were made, the boys learned that they were talking to Tinkerbell's sister Periwinkle and her group of friends. By the end of the group discussion, Roxas and Ventus figured out they were probably learning more about fairies than they ever would have thought. Even after so much talking, they still had plenty of their own questions, the main part of their day was having fun exploring Pixie Hollow.

Though now they were heading off to someplace else in the Winter Woods, to meet some fairy called The Keeper. Neither of them knew what was quiet in store or what would happen afterwards, but they were still excited to see what was to come.

By the end of the day they had returned back to the main area of Pixie Hollow. They were ready to return their custom made winter clothes to Tinkerbell, but she said they could keep them as little gifts.

Now that everything else was done and the sun was slowly setting, all that was left to do was say goodbye.

Roxas and Ventus stood at the edge of Pixie Hollow. Tinkerbell and Terence stood with them, but Tinkerbell had actually stepped back to let the three boys talk on their own. Though she still of course stayed close enough to over hear everything she could.

"Today was really fun and also just really surprising," Ventus said. "Who would have thought we would get to learn so much about fairies."

"Well when you know someone like Tink, pretty much anything is possible," Terence explained.

"Sounds like you two are really good friends," Ventus replied before smiling.

Terence chuckled softly. He rubbed the back of his neck while smiling in response. "Yeah I guess you could say that."

"Hey, you know I just had a thought," Roxas said. "Maybe we could come back sometime. Not only to talk and have more fun, but maybe try and find fairies that could have been born from our friends' laughs."

"Well I don't know if we can do that much world exploring, I am sure Aqua wouldn't want us to get too carried away doing something like that," Ventus said, trying to convey a certain sense of warning in his tone.

Roxas quickly shrugged, picking up on what Ventus was most likely hinting at. "Hey it was just an idea. We could just come back and have fun though."

"I'd look forward to it," Terence said. "The three of us never really got to talk much since Tink wanted to show you guys off to as many people as possible."

"Yeah, we totally gotta do that for next time," Ventus said before holding out a hand. "Well it was really nice to meet you Terence."

Roxas also held out his hand a second later. "Yeah, agreed on that."

Terence laughed before reaching for both of their hands, doing an awkward handshake between them. "Haha, and the same to you guys. Honest, it was really cool to get a chance like this. I hope you guys can come back soon."

Once Terence let go of Roxas and Ventus's hands, the boys nodded to him. "Of course! We will try to come back as soon as we can!"

"Agreed."

After one more moment of the guys smiling to one another, they finally said their proper goodbyes. Roxas and Ventus flew up into the sky and waved once more before heading off through the woods to get back to where they had started from. Both of them happily thought over their memories that were now made from their little adventure. Their fun day in Pixie Hollow would be something that they knew would stick with them for quite some time.

So it is the final chapter. But thank you all so much for reading one of my most random ideas. See you all in the next story!