The second part of the intro story. After this the chapters will be one-shots, probably focusing only on one or two characters. I don't know how many there will be, but I'm enjoying this series so far, so look forward to more when I find the time to write them! :D
As if it needs to be said-though it kinda does since I have yet to say it-I do not own Disney Fairies or Tinker Bell or ANYTHING cool except my fan fictions...and my Indiana Jones hat. ;P Enjoy!
Pixie Hollow High 2
The cold morning air filled Tink's lungs with pleasure as she hurried off into the campus at the ringing of the bell. She had been hoping to meet up with Fawn, but after a slight delay in eating and an issue with the shower, she ended up leaving much later than Peri, and barely managed to run through the door to Ms. Mary's Woodshop class. She hurried off to the closest table while the teacher eyed her with suspicion.
"And I suppose you're the new student-Tinker Bell?" Ms. Mary inquired in an accent that suggest her parents were immigrants, probably from Ireland or some such place.
"Yes," Tink replied with a tinge of nervousness and unease, clearly noting the seriousness of most of the other students that stemmed directly from behind the well-organized and impressive table at which Ms. Mary sat.
"Well just watch your step and keep up with the instructions. This class has no room for slackers or loafers. Please ask before you try anything that could be…stupid. Other than that, my only rule is that you must always follow directions, am I clear?"
"Crystal."
"Very good then dear, take a seat."
Tink found a table with more open seats than taken ones and a smile came up when she found Clank and Bobble as the sole occupants of the workbench.
"Why hello Ms. Bell, lovely morning, isn't it?" Bobble greeted.
"Hey, you guys are into Woodshop?"
"Oh we love it," Clank replied enthusiastically, "the only time of day that's better is lunch, and that's mostly because Ms. Mary isn't waiting for us to mess up."
"She's pretty strict, huh?"
"Indeed," Bobble concurred while hammer two pieces of wood together while Clank opened up a pouch with several pieces of sandpaper inside.
"So, have you talked with Fawn yet?" Clank asked innocently, the mention of which startled Bobble, who had evidently decided that pranking Vidia wasn't a good idea. The red haired boy's hammer fell out of alignment and he struck himself on the thumb, crying out briefly and sticking the injured body part into his mouth. Ms. Mary looked over to examine the situation for a moment before going back to her own work.
"Clanky," Bobble said between sucking on his throbbing thumb, "I thought we agreed that was none of our business."
"Do you guys think this is a bad idea too?" Tink asked while looking through the toolbox another student had brought her as per Ms. Mary's instructions.
"Well, I err…I certainly think Vidia has taken things a might too far, but…err…well-" Bobble stumbled along to find a way to state his opinion without offending Tink, but Clank, who had found his piece of sandpaper and was sanding down a small plank, had no qualms with speaking his mind.
"I think she's being mean; I think it's great you and Fawn are standing up to her," the large boy stated as if dreaming of doing something similar.
"Now don't go on thinking about doing what I think you're thinking of doing!" Bobble warned his close friend as he picked up his hammer again.
"I wasn't…" Clank replied and looked away from his friend's gaze, making Tink break out in a small giggle; the noise did not escape Ms. Mary, who used her fingers to point into her own eyes, then at the trio.
Tink pulled out her own hammer and ended the discussion: "Well, I'm not the kind of girl who can take an attitude like Vidia's, so I'm happy to know someone else who won't let Vidia do whatever she wants around here. Anyways…what are we making?"
"Oh, it's the most wonderful thing," Bobble exclaimed, his focus completely taken from the Vidia matter, "imagine a simple piece of hardware that not only held food, but also massaged you and reminded you of important things…"
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Fawn hurried into the locker room as the bell rang was cursed under her breath. She was an active young student, and as such she hadn't gotten the chance to speak with the person she talked with the previous night about the Vidia matter.
She imagined that the boy's locker room was filled with guys who laughed and enjoyed themselves with planning out their sports tactics. Quite to the contrary of her imagination, the girl's locker room was filled mostly with girls who changed out of sheer reluctance and gossiped about who was going out with whom. Personally, she'd take the boy's locker room any day of the week, not in any pervy way, but girls were catty every now and again. That was especially so in a class where 97% had no interest in getting involved at the price of their hair or their nails.
The absolute bane of PE as far as girls went were the extremely catty, yet athletic and competent ones. In Fawn's case, that was Vidia. To Fawn's displeasure the very same cheerleader, who opted to have PE only to escape another boring class, walked up to her with another cheerleader in the same situation.
"What do you want?" Fawn asked as the two surrounded her with the aid of the wall of lockers in front of them.
"I'm willing to overlook what happened yesterday, but you're gonna have to work for it," Vidia stated flatly and folded her arms, as if she expected Fawn to beg forgiveness.
"I'm not stepping down Vidia. You might go prepare for class now, cause I meant what I said yesterday. I can take you any day of the week."
"We'll see who's better than who," Vidia's companion retorted in a sneer, "won't we, Vidia?"
"You really should have taken that chance, Fawn. Now I'm going for you and that nobody Tinker Bell with all I've got."
"Do I look worried?" Fawn asked and smirked.
Vidia rolled her eyes and walked away with much more of her confidence and cool intact than the previous time the two girls confronted one another. Fawn knew what it had come down to. The first to get the other would likely take the rivalry, and if all went well, it would be over by the end of the day, although lowering enemy morale by outdoing the opponent in sports could only help her cause. Fawn cracked her neck and prepped herself to play harder than she had ever played before.
The girls sat on far ends of the class' spot on the blacktop, but their eyes passed through all other students and rammed into the others with full force. They both tensed up as the teacher, Ms. Terry, announced the sport of the day with enthusiasm: Basketball.
Upon separating the class into three smaller groups and asking for team captain volunteers, both Fawn and Vidia shot up and smiled deviously at the other.
Vidia picked first, "Leeta." The girl who backed her up in the locker room went over with a smile on her face, giving Vidia a high five upon joining her.
"Buck," Fawn called out and a boy's eyes went wide as he slowly approached his team captain.
Vidia shot Fawn a nasty look and picked again, and the cycle went on until each had a team of eight with which to do battle.
The whistle blew and Fawn jumped for the ball, barely edging out Leeta, and dribbled down the court with remarkable speed, passing by or faking out every opponent she met except one. When she went to layup the ball Vidia jumped even higher than Fawn had and smacked the ball down to the ground, allowing one of her teammates to recover it. Within a matter of seconds Vidia's team scored.
The next time around, Fawn was more cautious, and with some help from Buck and a third teammate, got by Vidia and managed to barely score two points of her own before the black haired cheerleader caught up with her. The battle was just beginning, but the war had been long enacted.
The two teams scored almost tit for tat, and when one successfully blocked, the next time the ball went into play, the other was almost sure to return the favor. Though Leeta and Buck and other physically capable players scored several times, Fawn and Vidia were easily the biggest contributors to the scores. With only a few minutes left in the period, the score was 79-82, advantage Vidia.
Fawn breathed in deeply with her mouth and held herself up by the knees, and to her credit, the other players were in the same situation. Needless to say, Ms. Terry was pleased with the effort being put into the game. The brown haired girl wiped the sweat from her forehead and looked up to see that she and Vidia were the only two players ready to do more than the minimum amount of work.
The ball came into play and Fawn took it readily, slowly advancing towards the cheerleader. Speed was Vidia's closest ally, and though she was fairly tactically minded, Fawn had just a little better of a grip on such things. It was the last play and it all came down to this.
She made a few fake attempts to get by, but Vidia wasn't biting and stayed closer to Fawn than perfume did with Rosetta. Fawn did her best to keep it away from the cheerleader, but she could only stall for so long.
Finally, Vidia became aggressive and lunged forward, managing to overtake Fawn completely, and the brunette seized the ball with relative ease, and spun around and ran forward to end the game once and for all.
As soon as she pulled the 360 and sidestepped Fawn, the ball was swatted away by a waiting Buck, who swiftly passed it back to Fawn, who in turn had lined herself up to take a shot at the three point line.
She fired off the best shot she was capable of making at this point in the game, and seconds before the teacher's whistle blew, the ball passed through the net, tying the score at 82-82.
Vidia had just managed to come up behind Fawn when the ball left her hands and she sunk to her knees with a mouth wide open when Fawn tied the score.
"Maybe next time," Fawn told the cheerleader and walked off the court to meet a smiling buck, while Vidia remained seated.
"Just watch yourself, Fawn," Vidia quietly said aloud, though no one else could hear her, "I'm not holding anything back now, and when this is over, you'll wish you'd never have come to Pixie Hollow High."
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Homeroom Chemistry, taught by Mr. Gary, the only teacher who could possibly hold a tight grip on his class, wear a kilt, and still be loved by most of his students, was attended by a few of Tink's friends. Due to the lack of textbooks, which were being shipped in new, the class was more or less a free period. Terrence, Silvermist, and Zarina sat talking amongst themselves when another student approached.
"Hey, do you know what's up with Fawn?" A junior by the name of Glimmer asked.
"Haven't seen her today," Terrence replied in a way that was casual, yet held unease, as Glimmer was a cheerleader, and a co-captain of the team at that.
"Well if you do, tell her I'm looking for her; she'll know where to find me," Glimmer replied and abruptly left without explaining anything else.
"Do you think something's up with Fawn and Glimmer now too?" Zarina asked.
"I know she's a junior, but I haven't really seen her around very much. I can't imagine where Fawn would be seeing her," Silvermist told the others.
"Hmm…you know…she's been to the library a lot recently. I'll bet you if something is going on between them, that's where it goes down," Terrence built upon Sil's words.
"You guys wanna go follow her at lunch?" Zarina questioned the others, to which Sil seemed more indifferent to the suggestion, whereas Terrence smiled at the thought.
"I knew there was a reason I liked you," He teased and started to go over their plans for stalking Fawn on her usual trip to the library.
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Tink walked out of 4th period with Terrence, Zarina, and Periwinkle, but Fawn had remained behind. Vidia for her part, had disappeared completely when the bell rang and dismissed the students to lunch.
Upon meeting up with her, Fawn gave Tink simple but crucial instructions. She was to keep her head down at lunch and avoid Vidia at all costs, a feat which would not be easy, but was doable. Vidia wouldn't dare do anything as drastic or mean as she wanted in class, so her only options were lunch or afterschool. Fawn had prepared a trap for the cheerleader afterschool, and that was where Tink was to confront her. Fawn arranged for a note to be sent to Vidia at the end of 6th period, telling her to go out behind the gym. Tink was supposed to be waiting for her there, and before things could even begin to get out of hand, Fawn promised that Vidia would be put in her place.
Fawn seemed to hold great faith in her tactics, but Tink still felt the nervousness creep up on her as every moment passed. Still, she apologized to her friends and sister and ran off to keep herself hidden and away from Vidia.
"Finally, she's gone, let's find Sil and get to the library," Zarina said as the blonde girl disappeared from view.
"What are you guys talking about?" Peri asked, and Terrence explained on the way.
Terrence, Sil, Zarina, and Peri told the others they would be back soon and took off towards the library. The librarian, affectionately called Dewey by the students and staff, asked to calm down and remain quiet as they entered and smiled upon seeing the antics of the school youth play out.
The small group tracked Fawn down to the back corner of the library where she was covertly met by Glimmer, the same cheerleader from homeroom Chemistry.
They overheard to the best of their abilities, but given the secrecy the girls wanted to maintain and the fact that they were meeting in the library made doing so hard.
"…is everything set?" Glimmer asked, though the first part of her sentence was muffled by nearby noises.
"Yeah, she won't know what's coming," Fawn replied.
"You know if this works, you could totally join Cheer. I heard about you and Vidia in PE. You've got some skill, Fawn," Glimmer complimented, the very words making the eavesdroppers' eyes go wide.
"Is she planning to trick Tink?" Peri asked with outrage, almost giving away their presence.
Before any of the others could respond Fawn replied to the comment: "Thanks, but I'm not into that kind of stuff. I'm really glad to help you though; just imagine Tink's face!"
Terrence also nearly lost composure, and even Sil seemed quite concerned that Fawn was playing the entire group for fools.
"Well I really appreciate it. I hope we both benefit from this like we hope. I have to get going," Glimmer told her contact and exited while Fawn pretended to gloss over the encyclopedias on the shelves beside her.
With that encounter over, Terrence, Zarina, Sil, and Peri returned to the group, waiting tensely for Fawn and Tink to come and meet them, but neither ended up doing so. When asked about it by the others, each of the eavesdroppers denied anything to be the matter. Time was running out to figure this problem out, and if they didn't, things would boil to a climax that could possibly change the entire year.
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Tink had managed to fake being ill and was sent to the nurse, subsequently missing both fifth and sixth periods that day, and Fawn hadn't been seen since the meeting with Glimmer, so Terrence and the others who were privy to the conversation in the library could only let fate take its course.
By the time the bell rang and school had officially ended, every one of Tink and Fawn's friends raced out to the gym, some more confused than others.
They saw Tink standing alone on the grass outside the gym area and found Vidia and many other jocks and cheerleaders fast approaching. Tink's expression tensed up and her legs began to shake upon seeing the number of enemies Vidia had gathered against her, and she had every right to be afraid. Fawn was nowhere to be seen and hadn't been heard from since fourth period.
"So, you still think you have a voice here," Vidia asked as the large group of social predators halted a few feet behind the bossy cheerleader, "You still think that what you and the other nobodies say matters?"
"I-I have every right you do," Tink replied with tremendous bravery that although great and strong, wasn't great or strong enough to give her full confidence against what she faced.
"No. That's something you don't seem to get. You don't have the rights I do. You're new, you're strange, you're a nobody! You need to learn your place, and sadly, you were too stupid to learn it before it came to this."
"That's not true," Terrence called out as Tink's friends save Fawn approached from behind.
"You and the rest of those losers have nothing on me! We're nothing alike. I'm a cheerleader; I'm popular. I'm Pixie Hollow nobility and you guys are nothing more than peasants at my feet," Vidia assaulted them as the other socially strong students watched her from behind.
"You're right Vidia," Tink responded as her friends rushed to her side, "we're nothing like you. We care about each other for who we are. We know what's important, and until you learn that, you're nowhere near us!"
Tink's reply wavered the support of a few popular students, who shifted around and looked at each other in surprise or even acknowledgement of the blonde freshman girl.
"How dare you? Do you know what I do to people like you? I ought to-" Vidia was cut off when she suddenly had a bucket of ice and freezing water dumped on her head from above.
Tink and the other students looked up, and her group was shocked to see Glimmer of all people, holding the bucket and smirking subtly.
Vidia slipped on the ice and fell to the ground, her hair and clothes soaked and her makeup ruined. From the group of jocks and popular students came a photoflash and a several laughs at the cheerleader's misfortune.
"What's going on? What are you doing?" Vidia called up to Glimmer, who was slowly making her way down from the gym rooftop.
"What's going on?" Iridessa asked Terrence as the mass of students all looked around to each other for answers on the puzzling situation.
Vidia managed to get up and faced down Glimmer, her morale and drive less than it was the previous day after she walked off from Fawn.
"What's going on," Glimmer informed her, "is that you just pranked, courtesy of Fawn."
"But I got her at lunch!" Vidia protested in futility.
"Yeah, you did…but I took her place. We partnered up in this from the beginning, Vidia. You know why? Because Fawn and Tinker Bell here have a good point. You're not the judge on what's cool and what's not. You don't get to put people down because they're different. That's what I think. Who's with me?"
At Glimmer's words several of the popular students nodded their heads and a few even clapped or whistled at the monologue. Glimmer's eyes shifted towards one tall jock with black hair who looked out at the scene and turned away with many of his friends, clearly outraged at what she had done.
"This isn't how high school works!" Vidia screamed in frustration and confusion, but not much sympathy was found for her.
"Maybe not now…but it should work like this," Glimmer replied and walked off with Tink and the others while the majority of popular students also dispersed, leaving only a few friends to comfort Vidia.
"Hey, you're a cheerleader too, why'd you help us?" Terrence questioned Glimmer as they rounded the corner.
"I never liked the high school social class thing. I used to be on the receiving end of criticism like Vidia's, but I've never met anyone like Fawn-or you Tinker Bell. You both gave me the confidence to stand up to the common idea of 'jock superiority' because I knew I wouldn't be standing alone."
"Speaking of which…where is Fawn?" Rosetta inquired of the junior, who led them out to a girl's bathroom near the gym.
"I have a hunch…" Glimmer responded and entered, coming out a few minutes later with Fawn, who was wearing her PE shorts rather than usual pants.
"Thanks again…" Fawn told Glimmer who patted the sophomore on the back and smiled.
"What happened to you?" Iridessa asked her friend, who scratched the back of her head sheepishly.
"I umm…Vidia got me. She…kinda glued me to a toilet seat," Fawn admitted and blushed a bit.
"That's where scissors and spare clothes come in handy," Glimmer added.
"Wait…I don't get it," Peri told them all, "what exactly is going on here?"
The rest of the group turned to Fawn and Glimmer, and the junior started explaining.
"Well, Fawn and I met by chance over summer, and we kind of bonded. She offered to help me out with some trouble I've been having with one of my friends, Rumble, the junior in your classes, Tink."
Fawn picked it up from there: "Yeah, and when this whole thing with Vidia came up, she agreed to help me out in return. We took our pre-existing plan to make Rumble see what Glimmer wanted him to see, and put you and Vidia in the mix too. She set up a few things, including the photo, which by the way, will soon replace Vidia's official school photo and her profile picture for the Cheerleading magazine. In exchange for helping me teach Vidia a lesson, she got Rumble to see that she was against it- and that other students, even popular ones, were too."
"But if Vidia got you at lunch…" Tink wondered aloud before turning to Glimmer, who spoke before the freshman girl could.
"If I hadn't stepped in, Vidia would have had her way with you, but don't worry, I like you, Tink. You've got spunk. Maybe you should join cheer?"
Tink giggled at the thought: "Well…we'll see."
"So this was all an elaborate scheme of yours, huh," Terrence commented, "I expected better from a Fawn prank."
Fawn punched him in the shoulder lightly and smirked: "Just wait a few days…the best is yet to come," she promised.
"What does that mean?" Chloe inquired as Fawn's smile grew wider.
"Glimmer here has Chemistry as her homeroom subject...and she may have tampered with the water a little bit so it would have a...nasty side effect or two."
"Do I even want to know what that entails?" Iridessa asked uneasily.
"Relax; It's nothing that bad, but I wouldn't want to be Vidia when she takes her next shower," Fawn assured her friend.
"Well, now that Vidia knows even some of the popular kids are against what she's doing, things should quiet down for you guys," Glimmer told them, "and maybe Rumble saw that there's more to life than trying to be better than everyone else."
"Well thanks for the help. If you want to come hang out with us sometime, you're welcome to," Fawn offered kindly, but Glimmer explained she might be busy working on her own personal problems.
"Hey, thanks for sticking up for me like that and going so far, Fawn," Tink said with gratitude.
"Yeah, a few of us actually...sort of overheard you and Glimmer in the library and we doubted you...we're sorry for thinking like that," Terrence apologized on behalf of him and the rest of the eavesdropping team.
"In any case, Peri and I are pretty lucky to have met you guys. You're really great, and I can't wait for tomorrow!"
After Tink and Peri headed off and left the rest of the group of friends together, they took a few minutes to think it all over, and arrived at the conclusion that life was looking up for them. The adventures they would have together at Pixie Hollow High were just getting started, and that was something that brought greater joy to their hearts than anything that had yet happened.