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Overrated

By Corvus no Genmu the Prince of Slumberland

Dawn was quite solemn in the fairy for many of them were still thinking back to Cali's story and how he had, without directly saying so, spoken of how cruel and unfair Vidia's punishment was. Speaking of the sparrow man, he was locked up within his house with the lantern above it glowing a dull red. In fact, it wasn't until around noon that anyone heard from Cali and it, initially, wasn't under the best of circumstances.

"HAWK! HAWK COMING FROM THE NORTH!"

Those that weren't already inside the Home Tree or anything else that could provide them shelter from the avian creature. If any of the animal talent fairies and sparrow-men had taken a closer look at the bird, they would have recognized the one from the previous day's light coming back to their realm eager for revenge. Somehow, the hawk had managed to find himself a fish that was close enough to being silver that he had managed to believe that he had been 'cured' from the poison that didn't actually exist. Now, he was back looking for the snake that had disgraced him so and, should he not find it…

Well, there was better prey about.

Suddenly, the hawk's eyes caught one particular fairy that had not even bothered to flee from his sight. In fact, it was this particular fairy that sent his blood a-boiling with renewed rage for it was in an attempt to catch, and later on eat, this fairy that had led to his humiliation from the snake! The fairy was just standing just short of the sour plum tree, just standing there as though she was mocking him by her ignoring him! Well he wouldn't have it, he just wouldn't have it! With a sharp screech, the hawk dove downwards, claws held at ready even as the fairy's fellows silently screamed for her to move, to hide, anything! A flash of neon light suddenly startled the hawk out of his dive, forcing him back up into the air as the source of the light stepped up behind the unmoving fairy.

Cali.

Frowning quite angrily, Cali held his hands up to the hawk and spoke, "You and the rest of the fairy-eaters will not find an easy meal here so long as I live and breathe, hawk! I'll ask this only once of you, leave now and spread the words of the Mage of the Never Fairies, no easy meal will be found here ever!"

The hawk stiffened, the fairy spoke in his tongue much like the snake had done, and, suddenly, the connection was made. Somehow, in someway, this sparrow-man and the snake were one and the same! Screeching quite angrily, the hawk dove downwards once again only to be shot up into the air via another blast of blue sparks.

"I warned you!" cried Cali even as his fingers began to move and carve intricate signs in the air before a sudden blast of fire chargrilled the hawk in midair, causing it to crash to the ground. Once the smoke had cleared, the fairies and sparrow-men could not contain their laughter. The once and gloriously proud hawk had been reduced into a pinkish-skinned bird with only the feathers on his head remaining unscorched from the blast. Shrieking in embarrassed rage, the hawk turned and fled away as fast he could go, look very much like a chicken with its head cut off.

Before any of the fairies or sparrow-men could begin to cheer, Cali whirled around and angrily began to yell at the fairy that had refused to find shelter. "What in the name of all that's good and crazy were you thinking just standing here like a freakin' moron? Where was that fast speed you're so famous for?"

The fairy, Vidia, stared down at the ground, further driving Cali in his mad rant.

"Great Gaia, you could have been KILLED, do you even realize that? I know that we're immortal and all that but we can't survive being EATEN! If we did, that would just be too freaky, even for me!" Suddenly, Cali jumped forward and embraced Vidia in a tight hug, startling everyone that was watching the pair. Vidia herself had stiffened and was now staring in shock at the top of Cali's head as the slightly taller fairy whispered into her shoulder. "Don't you ever scare me like that again, you… you agile thing you."

Vidia stared at him in shock for a moment longer before suddenly shoving him away, screaming. "I HATE YOU!" With that said, she flew as fast as she could back the sour plum tree but no matter how fast she flew, she could not escape the sight of Cali's crestfallen face.

"Are you alright, Cali?"

Said fairy sighed and glanced up to see Prilla looking down at him in concern. "Oh, hello. Prilla was it? Yes, I'm quite well thank you. Why do you ask?"

"Well, for one thing, you're hanging upside down from the ceiling."

"Am I?" Cali glanced around and saw that he was indeed sitting on the ceiling of the tea room, receiving many strange looks from the patrons . "Oh, sorry." He dropped to the floor with a crash. "Whoa… head rush… kinda cool… kinda painful too…"

" Cali, please, sit down and have some of Dulcie's poppy-puff rolls. They're really good!" Prilla ushered Cali to a unoccupied table and sat him down before taking a seat on his other side.

"Thank you but I think I'll just have some lemongrass tea," said Cali to the order-talent fairy who merely nodded and hovered away. "Sigh… I just don't get that girl…"

"Vidia's like that. One minute, you think she's a selfish brat, and the next, you find out she's as caring as the rest of us," said Prilla.

"Oh really?" asked Cali, "She sure showed it earlier."

Prilla flinched slightly. "It's just that… she's not used to having someone… care I guess. I mean, when I helped her find Queen Ree's crown, she kept shifting around like a color-blind chameleon!"

"Really…" Cali trailed off and sighed slightly. "I guess it doesn't help matters that I'm more… unique than the rest of us here. Then again, I suppose it's better to be alone."

"Not it's not!" exclaimed Prilla. "It's never better being alone! I should know I'm the only fairy with my talent in all of Neverland!"

Cali cocked an eyebrow at the pleasantly plump fairy. "Oh? And what's you're talent?"

"I can go to the mainland and back again whenever I want."

"Really?" asked Cali, quite interested now. "Can you take anybody with you?"

Prilla blinked in surprise and tapped her chin thoughtfully. "I don't know… no one's ever wanted to come along…"

"Can I come? Please, please, please, please?" Cali got down onto the floor and held up his hands in a begging position. "Pretty please with sugary whip-cream and a large cherry on top!"

" Okay, okay!" Prilla quickly had Cali stand up before her blush could consume her entire face. "Just… be sure not to get out of sight." For the other patrons, it didn't look as though the two had actually left save for their suddenly flushed faces and their gasps for air. "I can't believe you did that!"

"What? Hey, this stuff is good!" Cali held up a large red circular object emblazed with an 'm'. "These are way better than Never fruit in my opinion!"

"Still, taking candy from that boy…"

"Hey, I did not 'take' anything! He tried to give me to his sister so that she could put me in a dress! A dress! With pink frillys and everything! I figure that taking a candy was a fair price in exchange for that humiliation."

"But if you hadn't flown us out of there…"

"That cat was asleep when I poked it, okay! Still, it was a good thing I can fly fast without my magic otherwise……" Cali trailed off as his eyes began to widen dramatically before he suddenly dropped the candy on their table with a thump.

Concerned, Prilla leaned forward slightly. " Cali? Are you okay?"

"That's it… That's it! That's how I'll get her to open up to me! Thank you so much for the trip, Prilla! We'll have to do it again sometime!" Cali leapt forward and embraced the stunned fairy before zooming off. Silence reigned supreme for but a moment before Cali reappeared. "Almost forgot my candy!"

"Vidia! Hello, Vidia!" cali circled the sour-plum tree and vainly tried to find an entryway. "Come on, Vidia! I got something to tell ya!"

No answer.

"Oh for the love of—Are you that jealous of me, Vidia?" If she wasn't going to come out on her own, he was going to goad her to it, blast it! "Are you really that petty? Or are you so slow in the head that it reflects in your flying? You—OOF!" Cali suddenly found himself flat on his back with Vidia sitting on his stomach, her hands holding his arms down and a very ticked off expression adorning her face.

"Say that again, darling… and I'll—"

"You'll what?" Cali was now standing beside her as she kneeled on the ground. "Vidia, I'm sorry for offending you, but I didn't want to spend most of the afternoon standing here shouting for you to come out and talk to me. You're not going to get any faster that way."

"What do you mean by that?" asked Vidia, her tone distrusting and heavy with suspicion. Cali sighed and conjured a pair of pillows and motioned for her to sit as did the same. Once she was situated, Cali began to explain himself.

"As you no doubt aware, I'm the fastest fairy here in Neverland, but most of that comes from my magic and my… well, I guess you could call it connectiveness to fairy dust. By using my magic, I can fly faster than any fairy can go without injuring themselves and I am more compadible to dust that way."

"Was does being compadible have to do with it? All fairies are compadible with pixie dust." Vidia's voice couldn't get more biting even if she grew fangs.

"Well duh, but don't you think its odd that certain fairies can fly faster than others? Such as you and I? I admit that many of us have a knack for certain things but its fairies, and sparrow men, of our sort that are the most connected to dust outside those associated with its creation and distribution. But even they are a bit different than us.

"… I know about the banishment… and the reason behind it… I won't lie to you by denying that fresher dust is stronger than the usual kind but that's only because…"

"Because what?" snapped Vidia, her ire raised a bit more at the mention of her past misdeed.

"The connection is stronger. That's all. That's why I can fly so much faster than you or anyone else because I'm connected more to the pixie dust. That and I've got a killer body." Vidia frowned and glared at him.

"Sure you do, darling."

"Thanks, sweetie. Anyway, all you have to do to be as fast as me is to strengthen your connection to pixie dust." Cali looked at Vidia whose eyes were narrowed in distrust but there was a spark in them.

"Training? That's all it will take?"

"Yep. Doesn't matter if the dust is fresh or not either. After a while, there won't even be a difference." Cali smiled. He had her even if she didn't know it. "Tell you what, I'll give you some time to think it over. I've got some spells to cook up anyway. Come by my shop whenever the lantern shines green, I'll be there then."

"… Fine. "

"Great!" Cali stood with a flourish and was about to fly off but stopped suddenly. "Hey, can I ask you something?"

"You just did."

"Oh I felt the sting on that, but seriously, can I?"

"If you must, darling." Cali grinned a wicked grin and leaned in uncomfortably close to Vidia's face, causing her to flush faintly.

"Do I make you… crazy, baby?" whispered Cali in a hushed tone, earning a fierce glare and an attempted smack to his head, but, by the time the blow was delivered, he was already in the air and flying away, cackling like the nut that he was.