The Fairy Without a Talent – Chapter Two
Soft and gentle snores were heard as Nora turned over in her bed. Rotating onto her side, Nora raised an arm up over her head as she cracked open her eyes to see the early morning rays peek out and into her window.
Sighing, Nora sat up on her bed as she stretched, but then she froze as something caught her ears.
Shhhhhh-shh-shh-shhhhhhhhhhh, she heard as she slowly slid off of the bed and onto her feet, missing her periwinkle slippers as she followed the sound to her window, where her rosemary curtains were gently fluttering in the breeze.
Peering up, Nora smiled with a giggle as she saw a blue jay flutter by her window, chirping a greeting as she passed. Err-rr, tweet-tweet-tweeeeeeet.
With the sound enveloping her wholly, Nora consciously rested a hand on her cheek as she looked out at the distance, following the bird as it flew out over her house and into the woods.
However, a familiar flutter of wings and the sweep of an apron made Nora look up as an anxious and hurried knock was heard at her door.
"Nora? Are you up?" a voice called from outside as Nora instinctively flew over to open her door.
A smile crossed her face as she saw her friend, Teal, fly through the door, but as she hurried past, Nora's blue eyes widened as she asked, "What's wrong, Teal?"
"No … nothing's wrong, exactly … wait a moment … and I'll tell you," she paused, trying to catch her breath. Nora's eyes noticed that there was an excited grin on her face. In fact, her wings were simply vibrating with excitement.
Nora was new to Pixie Hollow, as of another would be. Little did they know that the breeze that woke Nora up was vibrating ever closer to the eastern side of Never Land.
Tweet-tweet, Shhhhhhh-Hee-hee-ah-ha, Nora heard as she peeked out again out the window.
"Wait until you hear the news … Nora?" After wiping a tiny crumb off her silvery tea petal skirt, she looked up at Nora to see that she wasn't paying attention anymore to what she was saying. "Nora."
As Nora turned her head back over to her, she heard Teal ask, "What are you doing?"
"Don't you hear that?" Nora said, indicating to the window.
"Hear what?" Teal asked, confused.
Taking her friend's hand, Nora pulled her closer to the window and pulled back the curtain as she said, "Listen."
Both fairies simply listened to the still air for a moment before Teal said, "I don't hear anything."
"Wait … now," Nora said with a small grin.
Again, the sound came onto the air as they heard, Hee-hee-heh-ahhh-heee-ahh.
Nora smiled blissfully as it intensified, but it shrunk to a small confused grin when she heard Teal laughing at her side. In fact, tears were running down her face as she said, "That's … that's … "
"That's what?" Nora asked, anxious to know what the glorious sound was.
Sighing with a clear smile, Teal tried again as she said, "That's what I've been trying to tell you, there's a …"
"Hey, Nora, a laugh is on the way to the Pixie Dust Tree, let's go," Nora heard her sister call excitedly out the door as she flew away, clutching her grass-weaving comb in her left hand as she hurried off, leaving an irritated Teal slapping a hand to her face.
"Yeah, a laugh is on the way. That's what I wanted to tell you, a new fairy is going to be born."
Realization becoming reverent on her face, Nora rushed to her wardrobe to pull out a soft pair of silvery blue leggings as she tied her white lily petal skirt tightly around her waist. Slipping into her periwinkle blue slippers, she excitedly pulled a blue vine headband into her hair as she pulled on her white brush top that was hanging on the door of her hollowed bark wardrobe.
Leaving her petal pajamas on the bed, Nora excitedly flew out of her room and took her friend's hand as they both flew out at full speed to the Pixie Dust Tree. Arriving just in time, they settled down near the edge as the laugh came warbling down with a swirl as a soft and gentle blue lily petal touched down on the Pixie Dust Well floor in front of them all.
Queen Clarion smiled as the pixie dust cup was poured down over the new laugh, and to every fairy and sparrow man's astonishment, a new fairy was born with short messy jet black hair and quiet sapphire eyes.
"Born of laughter, clothed in cheer, happiness has brought you here. Welcome to Pixie Hollow," Queen Clarion proudly said the new fairy looked up in the direction she heard the voice coming from.
Wiping some of her black hair out of her eyes and off of her brow, the new fairy simply smiled as she stood up on her feet. Her attire was made up of an ocean blue petal tunic that touched down to a long pair of blue dyed leggings that tugged into a pair of dark blue boots that matched the shade of her leggings. On her wrists, two ocean blue bands hung down by her hands as she said, "Thank you, my name is River."
Queen Clarion simply nodded as she flew down to give the new fairy her wings. As River craned her neck back towards her, all the fairies oohed as Queen Clarion formed her gentle wings. Tensing up a bit, River gave her new wings a simple flap as she felt herself rise into the air. Placing her hands out to the sides, she smiled as she simply floated in place as she began to turn around. However, after a few seconds in the air, she felt Queen Clarion take her hand as she guided her back down to the ground.
Hearing the pops of several mushrooms form out in front of her, River craned her head around to ask, "What … what's happening?"
Hearing a few of the fairies starting to murmur, Nora knowingly held a finger up to her lips as she watched Queen Clarion say, "These mushrooms will help you find your talent, little one?"
"Ok," River simply said, as she swished her head around at every sound as selected fairies and sparrow men brought several different talent symbols forward.
"Good luck," Nora whispered, not knowing if the new fairy heard her, but, surprisingly, she did. And, as she turned to Nora's direction, River simply nodded her head in acknowledgment as she flew towards the mushroom that was nearest to Nora.
There were a total of ten mushrooms in front and around River as she slowly made her way forward to each one. Simply by touching the swirling air of the fast-flying talent's symbol, fast flying proved not to be her talent as it just simply faded at her touch. The same went for the garden, leaf, grass-weaving, dust, animal, and tinker talent symbols. All that were left of the major talents were the light and water talent symbols.
"Ok, I've touched seven talents already, surely this can't be too much more difficult," Nora heard her mutter as she watched River swerve over to the light fairy stand.
Inching her hand almost up as if to touch it, Nora and the others simply watched as River lifted both hands beneath the light ball as it simply warmed her hands. Every fairy took in a pleasant gasp, but several breaths exhaled as the light faded out. "Not this one, either."
She could be like me, Nora thought to herself. She could probably spend her whole life searching for her talent and never find it. A tear fell down from Nora's eye as she simply looked down from the anxious scene.
However, swarms of cheer immediately made her look up as she saw the new fairy holding a shimmering dewdrop in her cupped hands. It glowed so mightily that everyone was holding their breaths while some were cheering enthusiastically, but the new fairy didn't even shade her eyes as she simply smiled up at all the applause.
"Come forward, water fairies, and welcome the newest member of your talent guild, River," Queen Clarion said proudly, setting a hand on her shoulder before disappearing into a mist of golden pixie dust.
Before Nora had the chance to speak to the new fairy, a group of two or more water fairies and sparrow men crowded around the new fairy as they shouted out their names and showered her with praises of welcome.
Nora simply lowered her head as she turned to Teal, who said, "Aw, Nora, that'll be you someday, don't worry."
"I know. I'm happy for her," Nora said gently as a quiet step stopped in front of her. Looking up, Nora came face to face with a pair of open sapphire eyes as River gave her a gentle smile.
"Well, thank you. You must be Nora," River said, not turning her head away from her.
"Yes, how did you know?"
"Well, I just heard about it about 10 seconds ago. They said that you haven't found your talent, yet, am I right?"
Nora just nodded as River simply stared for about another moment before she finally reached out a hand.
Taking it, Nora looked up into River's sapphire blue eyes as she said, "Don't worry, you'll find it. Something tells me that it's already seeking you out to find out what it is. Come with me, I might be able to help you. I heard one of the fairies over there say they would take me to my house. Your friend can come, too." Tilting her head to the left, she indicated to Teal as Teal simply looked to Nora with a puzzled expression.
"Hey, River, your house is over by Shallow Pond," a gentle water fairy named Cera called out as she came over. "Come on, and I'll take you there."
"You coming?" River said, still holding Nora's hand.
"Yeah," Nora said with a smile.
As they heard Cera fly into the air, River then said, "Lead the way."
So, with River still holding her hand, Nora flew up with Teal at her side as they guided River up and into the silent air of Pixie Hollow as they made their way to Shallow Pond, where a quiet stream awaited them as a quiet forest of tall grass and a small cove of water lilies awaited them.
"Your house is over there, River, by the upturned cockleshell and next to the hollow log. I'll leave you to your friends. I'll see you later," Cera said, zooming off.
"Thanks," River said as she finally hesitantly let go of Nora's hand, letting the sound of the stream come into her ears.
"Oh, I see it, it's right over …" Teal started to say until River silenced her.
"No, I want to find it myself," River simply said as she flew forward towards the stream.
"Now why …?" Teal said, looking up at Nora.
"I think I know," Nora said as she and Teal simply watched as River held out her hands until she touched the cockleshell. Turning to her right, River touched something that felt like a roof and then a door, but just to be sure, River continued to her right as she found herself up against the hollow log. Sitting down near the bark, River simply blew against the bark as she scratched a piece of it off and sniffed it. Flying back up, she landed in the middle of the area until she felt a door and opened it, taking the bark in with her.
Pausing at the door, she turned her head back around and called out, "You two can come in if you want." Smiling, she simply flew in without another gesture.
"Should we?" Teal said, watching Nora fly up to the door.
"I think she knows we know. Come on," Nora said gently as she and Teal filed in the door and shut it close behind them.
Alright, here it is - Part Two. One of my friends created a character for this fic, and she is a really interesting character. So, all credit of this character goes to my friend. Please enjoy. :D