Everything looked exactly like she had seen it the first time she arrived at this enchanted place. When Jake took Marley to the Dark Fairy area of the world she was blown away by its dark yet undeniable beauty. She was excited when she could finally walk down the candle lit staircase to the door where the others were. It was more apparent this time that they were there. They were louder than before, making it easy for Marley to hear what they were discussing. She heard two teenagers bickering back and forth.
"Why don't you ever listen to me", one of the boys shouted. "I told you to jump into it, not hop. You're never going to learn to use your wings properly".
Marley walked into the room, instantly feeling out of place. She was used to much brighter areas. She began thinking perhaps that was just part of her abilities; brightness was her "thing". Having to adjust her eyes, she began to notice her surroundings. It was a rather small room, much smaller than she imagined. On one side of the room, opposite of the arguing boys, was a large row of coats.
'Oh, its coat closet', she thought to herself. 'Why are they jumping around in a coat closet?'
Before she could finish looking around one of them spoke, "Hey Jake, Who's your friend?" he blurted out. "You're bringing Dawn fairies around now huh?"
"She's not just any Dawn fairy boys", he responded. "This is Marley Rose, I'd tell you why she's different than the others but I'm afraid you'd try and snatch her up from me"
The boys laughed and greeted Marley with open arms. Eager, they brought her into the next room, which was an actually room this time. It was set up like a club she once went to with Blaine. The bar stools were a dark blue that glowed like the neon lights above the bar itself. The shelves packed with liquors that she couldn't even pronounce. She assumed they were specially made by the Night Fairies themselves, but she didn't bother to ask. There weren't too many people there, maybe 6 or 7. A couple danced in the corner. Their long black wings swaying back and forth moving to the same motion as their hips. She didn't hear any music but thought perhaps they were just too drunk to care. The others were sitting at a huge round table in the center of the room playing a game of poker. It looked like a serious game since none of them had any facial expressions, but she remembered those were the rules to winning so it wasn't surprising.
The four of them sat at the bar for a while, every so often staring as someone new would walk in. She wasn't sure who she was waiting for but Jake seemed content just where he was so she didn't want to disrupt him.
As she sat, she thought of reasons why she was a Dawn Fairy and not that of the Night. The obvious explanation would be because she prefers day to night. 'But then why am I not a day fairy'. She disputed in her head. She quickly examined everyone in the room and realized it was probably because she didn't have wings. 'Am I supposed to have wings?', she thought. 'I mean, Tinkerbelle has wings and every other fairy I've seen on TV or read about has wings. So why don't I?' Before she could ask Jake, someone familiar walked in.
"Rachel?" She whispered. She had to squint at the woman near the doorway, her beautiful brunette hair swaying from side to side as she waved at everyone in the bar. It was easy to tell that she came here often.
Jake did a half wave to Rachel as she walked up to them. "Hey Guys, what are you doing here?" she questioned.
Jake looked at Marley and then back at Rachel before saying, "We are here to look for answers about Marley. I wasn't sure where the Dawn Fairies hang out so I figured, better here than anywhere".
Rachel stood there, excited about what Jake just said. Marley was confused at first but the smile on her face made her realize Rachel knew everything she needed to know. Rachel quickly took her hand and led her out of the bar.
Marley looked around once they stepped outside, reading the name of the bar she had just left. 'Glowing Wings' she giggled to herself. It seemed a bit silly to name a bar that, but after she thought about it, how many other things could they have named it? 'Fairies Drink Here'.
While pondering other names she saw Rachel cross the street. The street lights looked like the ones in Lima but again were dim and glowing like candles. 'What is up with these people and candlelight' she thought. 'A little sun never hurt anyone'.
Once reaching the end of the street, and turning a corner, Rachel stopped in front of a house. Looking through her purse, Rachel pulled out a set of keys and continued walking. The house looked identical to the one next to it, Black paint with blue trim. She began to sense a color pattern that these types were most fond of.
As they walked in she saw only what seemed to be the living room. The couch, leather with a blanket slouched over it reading, 'Dusk brings happiness.' Rachel continued into the other room to turn on the lights, speaking when the light from the hallway switched on.
"I am so glad you came here Marley" She said with a sincere smile on her face. "I felt so bad for not talking to you more the other day. I wanted to tell you everything, there was just no time".
"Where are we?" Marley asked. "Are we in New York City now? Isn't that where you are supposed to be? I thought we were at the Knight's Temple?"
Rachel laughed at her confusion. She remembered when she was first told what she was. Of course this happened after she had grown 4 foot, dark blue, glowing wings out of her back. She too had all the same questions as Marley. She was taught by an old friend she had back in high school. She could almost recall Noah Puckerman's face as she ran past him in the gym like she had just caught on fire. If it hadn't been for her ginormous and very apparent wings, he might have just dismissed it as her being 'Normal Old Rachel'.
"Alright so I made a list of everything you need to know about yourself." Rachel said as she passed the list to Marley. "Here you go"
Marley studied the list. Going through each perfectly ordered explanation on why she was a fairy. She reached the fifth indent reading out loud,
"5. Five days after you have found out about being a Fairy, you will grow your wings. Wing color depends on what type you are born into."
Marley was excited at this thought. She had seen both Jakes and Rachel's at this point and they both looked so glamorous and powerful while presenting them to the world. She too had wanted to feel this way and now she knew it was going to happen in two days.
She read on down the list, carefully noting the important things while Rachel explained each step in explicit detail. Marley thought of this as unnecessary because everything was laid out right in front of her, but Rachel insisted. After finally getting to the bottom of the back, number 30, she began to worry that she was not cut out for this.
Rachel saw Marley's concern and quickly went down the hallway coming back with a box. The box read "DO NOT OPEN UNLESS OTHERWISE INSTRUCTED TOO". She could tell Rachel wrote this due to all the" I's" having stars for tops instead of their usual dots. Marley watched as Rachel opened the box to reveal a wand.
Marley looked in awe as the glowing of the wand was exactly the light she had been looking for the whole time she had been in this new world.
Rachel nudged the box toward her, hoping to give her a hint that she wanted her to take it.
Without any thought Marley picked up the glowing yellow wand. She could have sworn that a tornado had just flown threw her after holding it for a second or two. The intensity of this was so overwhelming she thought she could faint.
She kept calm while slowly walking over towards the windows. She wasn't sure why she had the urge to do this. It was almost as if this magical item was controlling her.
With a flick and a swish she saw the wand project light from its tip and flow into the dark sky. She saw a slight yet noticeable change happening above her. The sky had opened up. 'What the hell…' She thought to herself, keeping a close eye on a single star that was expanding to the size of the moon.
The sky, looking like it had finished changing, was more dazzling then she had ever seen. A hundred oversized bright stars lay out above her in the outline of a fairy. The colors of the stars made it clear that it was one of her kind. 'It's beautiful' she thought to herself. There was no denying that this was one of the most amazing things she had ever seen, but to have done it herself was a concept she could not even begin to grasp.
Rachel, seeing this herself and sitting back in awe for what seemed like an hour uninterrupted, "See what you can do. Even without the wand you have the power to do these things. The wands are just there to guide us and you may keep this one if you'd like."
Marley nodded excitingly.
'I came here looking for answers, and answers I did receive', she thought to herself still curiously looking at the wand. Her gaze was rudely interrupted by the sound of her phone buzzing.
"Oh My Gosh, that's probably Jake", she shrieked, feeling bad for ditching him at the bar. She didn't think he would mind hanging out with his buds for a while. Then again she didn't really have a chance to say anything except 'Text you later' before Rachel dragged away.
She pulled her phone out of her pocket. With a dreadful look on her face, once realizing who had text her, she silently read what the screen said:
TEXT MESSAGE:
Kitty "Witch" Wilde (7:08pm): Hey Bitch, want to catch up? I feel bad for what happened the other day in the choir room. Honestly I was so freaked out by what happened I mean, who did that, weirdos? Anyways, meet me in front of the school around 8 and we can go somewhere to eat. You look like a twig now that you started throwing up and we can't have you looking better than me! LYLAS
She almost threw up while dropping her phone on the floor. 'Love ya like a sis', she thought. 'Why would someone who wants to be my sis also want me dead?'
Rachel looked over, hearing all the commotion and seeing Marley's phone hit the floor. She rushed over and knelt down to pick it up, reading the text message as she slowly stood back up.
Rachel knew it was time to face Kitty. She had talked to Blaine earlier today about his vision and knew this was obviously the next part of her evil doings. As she handed Marley back her phone she spoke, "Text her back", Rachel said, still plotting out the details. "Text her back and tell her you will meet her there".
Marley knew Rachel was right. It was time to confront her arch rival before Glee club was lost. She listened to Rachel and sent Kitty a short confirmation that she would be there.
Without speaking, they grabbed their things and went out the front door of Rachel's house. They had to get back to the bar and grab Jake. All four of them had to be there to protect Marley and find Finn, before it was too late.
