Stand Your Ground: Legend of the Monster

by Janet12

The Monster - an unknown creature exiled to a volcanic island. The heroine - a determined fairy, who wishes to keep her friends from danger. By now Vidia has learned to stand her ground, but she's still going on a quest to get her wings back. She'll need her friends when the mission turns into a desperate struggle to survive. Rated for injury. Sequel to SYG: Firebird Tears.

11. The Epilogue

Disclaimer: All recognizable subject material does not belong to me

Stand Your Ground: Legend of the Firebird – and the Monster that will Never Return

Epilogue

Vidia glanced down at the other fairies. They were packing up from lunch, and would start flying again in a few moments. She'd insisted that they return to the base of Desolate Pinnacle.

"I'll be back in a few minutes!" she yelled down to Tinkerbell.

"Okay!" Fawn waved.

Vidia zipped through the trees, ducking a leaf, and spinning out of the way of a tree, then she stopped.

"Hey – you guys?" She called. "Raggedy – Nibbles? It's me! I'm back!"

The chipmunk bounded from his hole and came to greet her, and after a moment, Raggedy the mouse followed.

"Hey." Vidia petted them both. "Come on. You're coming to pixie hollow with me."

The animals cheered.

"I don't think I can carry both of you, so follow me. I'll fly easy and low for you to make sure you can see me."

Raggedy nodded.

"Anything you want to get?"

No response.

"Okay. Follow me!" Vidia took off.

She watched the ground fly by below her. She was getting further ahead of Raggedy and Nibbles, so she slowed down, carefully. She paused for a moment, waiting for them to catch up a bit, but she glanced down at the ground, and saw a face. A familiar face. She slowly floated down and stood on the ground to see. It wasn't a face at all – it was a muddy puddle.

Vidia cocked her head as she examined her reflection.

She pulled her hair back away from her face and stared at her reflection.

Her mouth opened slightly in astonishment.

"What's wrong, sugah? Any wing problems?" Rosetta asked, worried.

Vidia looked up with a yelp.

"Didn't mean to startle you, sorry." Rosetta apologized, then glanced down at the puddle. "What are you looking at?"

Vidia shook her head. "Nothing." she paused. "I was reminded of a dream."

She glanced back over her shoulder at Nibbles and Raggedy, who had caught up, but were maintaining a fair distance from Rosetta, a new fairy.

"Come on, guys. Follow me." she called. "Next stop – Pixie Hollow."

And everything went according to plan.

Here ends the Stand Your Ground trilogy. I hope you enjoyed it.

If you're interested, see my profile for a chronological list of the other stories in my Vidia series.

M.J.J., signing off.