Greetings FF authors/writers/readers. I apologize for my long absence on this story but other works have taken up my time plus college work has also occupied me and so I've been unable to add further chapters to this story. I will not abandon this FF, but it may have to be put on a temporary hold once again until I have the time to continue with it. This series of chapters is just to let people know that I'm still around. Thank you and I hope you enjoy this one.

(This one is based off Tom and Jerry episode 85 Mice Follies)

Deep within the Winter Woods

Now ice-skating was something that was not unfamiliar with Tinkerbell and her friends for they had tried it some time ago not long after fairies had been able to cross the border without the fear of losing their wings. It was warmly received and, as a result, many from both sides took up their ice-skating on the frozen bodies of water that were on the Winter Woods side of Pixie Hollow. Many enjoyed various games, dances and the like to their hearts content on the ice and now there was little to hinder their enjoyment.

At the moment, the afternoon sun was starting to begin its descent to the west, soon to fill the sky with a beautiful array of colours comprising of red, gold and orange. Then afterwards the darkness of the night would follow and with it would come the trillions upon trillions of stars that would shine brightly in the night sky like distant holes in the ever stretching blackness of the night. Not many were about in the Winter Woods, considering it was the break before the autumn season and the warm fairies had just returned from conducting their work on the mainland and with a few days left to spare some had decided to relax and wait for the next phase of their nature work to be carried out.

Somewhere on the other side of the border, deep within the confines of the Winter Woods, a small frozen body of water, a lake to the fairies but a mere puddle on the scale of size by humans, lay surrounded by mounds of snow and with trees to the left and right. A view of the snow covered hills was also granted by the lake, further enlightening the beautiful scenery of the area. And right now, there was a group of fairies that were enjoying the place.

"Okay, guys, let's go!" Fawn chirped, dressed in her winter attire and, with the paperclips attached to the soles of her boots, began to skate out onto the ice, doing all sorts of twirls and spins.

"Wait up, Fawn!" Silvermist called back, strapping on her paperclips and, breathing in, skated out after her friend. Behind her came Tinkerbell, Iridessa, Rosetta, Bobble, Clank and Vidia; all of them dressed in their winter attire as well.

As they all launched themselves onto the ice, now able to grasp the motion of skating with ease after much practice, Tinkerbell looked up and smiled and waved.

"Hey Peri, down here!" she called, waving her arms in the air.

The winter fairy and her friends Gliss, Spike and Sled waved back and swooped down to the ice, landing gracefully on their paperclip ice skates as well. Rosetta, upon seeing Sled as he landed next to her, nearly melted, creating a moment of humour for the others. Meanwhile, Periwinkle embraced her sister tightly for a moment.

"Hey Peri, good to see you," Tinkerbell said to her happily.

"You too, Tink," she replied, releasing her hold on her and stepping back a pace. "I'm glad you guys could join us," she added, looking at the others as they began to talk amongst themselves or try and skate around on the ice.

"Yeah, they wanted to spend some time here now that we're all free for a bit," she replied.

Another chuckle from behind drew their attention. Clank had fallen over whilst attempting a sort of spinning move on the ice but he was unhurt and, like the others, was chuckling as he picked himself up. Tinkerbell and her sister also laughed as well.

"It's gonna be a good time, I can feel it," Tinkerbell commented.

"Yeah," Periwinkle replied and took her sister by the arm. "C'mon, let's skate!"

As the two took off onto the rink, doing all sorts of tricks and moves, Sled cleared his throat and curtseyed Rosetta, offering her his hand.

"My girl, you look beautiful. May I ask for your hand in a dance?" he said to her.

Rosetta sighed dreamily and took his hand in hers. "Of course, darling," she replied lovingly and took off with him across the rink in a kind of twirl, leaning her head onto his chest as she did so.

This prompted the others follow suite, either in pairs or solely; each doing an assortment of tricks and moves that included jumping, sliding, spinning and such. Tinkerbell and Periwinkle, who had stopped momentarily to gain their breath, watched with amusement as their friends skated over the ice.

"I gotta hand it to you, Tink," Periwinkle said to her sister. "It's good idea you guys decided to come here. We're all having such great fun!" she added.

"Yeah," Tink replied, surveying the scene in front of them and giggled as Gliss, who had paired with Bobble, fell over, dragging her partner with her. Luckily both were unhurt and they laughed it off and were quickly skating once again.

Unbeknownst to them, hidden within the undergrowth of frozen trees a few tens of feet, according to normal human measurements, behind them, the sound of snapping branches, crunching snow and grunting and cursing filled the air. A small tree shook wildly in unison with another grunt and a shout from a high pitched, strangled-like voice and another voice, similar to the first but slightly lower in tone, replied. Another snap of a branch being pulled off the trees emanated throughout the area, but was unheard through the laughing and joyous ecstasy of the fairy's fun nearby.

"Stop!" the first voice hissed as two figures came into view on the edge of the trees near the frozen pond. "You hear that?!"

"Yes, I hear it you blockhead, I'm not deaf!" the second replied with a growl. "Move, lemme see!"

The branches that obscured the two were pushed aside and out came to large figures that were the height of the small human children with large noses (the first having a thin but long nose, the second a short, fat button one), pointed ears, big mouths with fat puffy lips that showed few teeth behind them; the ones left being sharp and mouldy looking, and their bodies were covered with branches that were put together to be like clothes. Their arms and legs were flabby and their feet had overgrown toenails. Their eyes, small in size, were eyeing the fairies with glee.

They were trolls, and ones that we had encountered before with Tinkerbell and Blaze on their trip to the island north of Neverland on her journey to gain the enchanted mirror. Their names were Grimsley and Leech and right now they were looking for something to satisfy their want for food. And by the looks of the expressions on their faces, they had just found it.

"Oh, ho-ho-ho!" Grimsley chuckled happily to himself. "My belly's rumbling and now I can fill it!"

"Get in line!" Leech replied firmly, pushing him aside and stepping forward to rush out towards them but Grimsley grabbed him and pulled him back into the trees.

"Don't just run out there, you knucklehead!" he hissed at his smaller troll brethren. "You want to scare 'em off?!"

Leech went to argue back, but his eyes suddenly fell on one of the fairies nearby. "Hey, look!" he whispered, pointing through the branches at the fairy, a woman with blonde hair and dressed in green winter attire. "It's her!"

"Who?"

"Her! Don't you remember her? From when she came to the bridge that time with her firefly friend and snuck past us." Leech reminded him.

Grimsley hit his forehead with his hand. "That's right!" he exclaimed. Then he chuckled to himself. "Well, let's surprise her, shall we?" he suggested sarcastically with a nasty tone.

"We better be quick!" Leech said and immediately rushed out of the trees, Grimsley hot on his heels.

Fawn did a twirl with her arms raised above her head in the middle of the frozen pond, her eyes closed as if she were some kind of spinning toy. After a few seconds, she slowed and opened her eyes facing Tinkerbell and Periwinkle and smiled at them as they waved at her.

"Nice one, Fawn!" Periwinkle shouted to her approvingly.

"Thanks, Peri," she replied, but suddenly a petrified look came onto her face and she pointed behind them. "Tink, Peri, Look out!" she shouted.

Both fairies turned and screamed as Leech dived towards them, his eyes locked onto them with a lust for hunger raging within them, his face contorted into a look of evil happiness. Periwinkle grabbed Tinkerbell and pulled her away as quickly as her wings could go, the two of them only just missing Leech as he slammed into the snow, throwing it everywhere. Grimsley, who had been following right behind, failed to stop in time and tripped over Leech and fell through the air with a yell, landing face first in the snow a little closer to the frozen pond.

"You okay you two?" Sled asked worryingly as Periwinkle set herself and Tinkerbell, both of them breathing heavily from the shock of what had just happened, onto the ice.

"Y-yeah. We're…we're fine!" Tinkerbell breathed, all of the fairies now looking at the two trolls with fear over what could happen next.

Groaning, Grimsley lifted his head up to receive a reply of giggling and laughing from the fairies in front of him. At first he was puzzled but quickly realised what it was they were laughing about when he looked down at the lower parts of his face and saw that somehow a surly moustache had formed on the skin between his lips and nose. Anger surged through him as soon as he saw it and his eyes, turning back to the fairies, began to blaze with fury. They were laughing at him! Oh, they were going to pay when he got hold of them!

"Out of my way, waxy ears!" Leech, who had gotten up by this time, proclaimed, running over to the pond and stepping on Grimsley's head in the process.

"Quick, scatter!" Iridessa exclaimed to the others.

They immediately obliged as Leech reached the edge of the frozen pond, his hand outstretched ready to grab Bobble as he skated away. Suddenly,…

"WHOA!" THUD!

The sound of a deafening crack filled the air and stopped the fairies dead in their tracks, or skates as I should say, and caused them to turn to see the bottom half of his body sticking up in the air; the other half completely submerged under the water below the ice. For a few moments, the fat legs were kicking in the air and the body shook wildly from side to side as Leech struggled to get himself out of the ice. Grimsley, having recovered a second time from having his face buried in the snow, saw this and, with a roll of his eyes, rushed over to the side of the pond.

"Alright, keep still, ya knucklehead!" he barked at Leech as he grabbed his legs and began to pull as hard as he could, grunting loudly as he did so.

All of a sudden, to Grimsley's surprise, Leech suddenly came loose and, because he had been pulled so hard, pulled his troll friend with him as they flew over the snow and towards where both had landed, both landing on their backs in the whiteness that surrounded them. Leech groaned and lifted his head up, rubbing the side of it.

The sound of laughter drew him back to the fairies, whom he saw were either on all fours on the ice pounding it with their fists; leaning over supporting themselves with their hands on their knees or holding onto each other for support, all of them laughing hysterically. Silvermist and Clank roared with laughter, as did Tinkerbell and Periwinkle, the latter holding themselves up with their arms around the backs of their necks.

"Hey, troll, nice legs!" Tinkerbell shouted over to him and laughed again.

"Yeah, nice dress also!" Rosetta added, inciting more laughter from the others.

Leech looked down and gasped as he saw that Grimsley pulling him out of the ice had left a huge ice tutu around his waist, hence why the fairies were laughing. His face immediately went red and he got up and rushed back off into the nearby trees, now wondering how he was going to get this thing of him.

Grimsley sat up as well and looked around. "Leech? Where are ya?" he asked in a puzzled tone.

"In here, you stupid block head!" he heard Leech shout from the trees. "Get in here and help me get this thing off!"

"Yeah, try and help him find a new dress!" Sled shouted mockingly, which made the others crack up with laughter again.

Grimsley glared at them and muttered: "We'll get you for this!" and rushed off to find his friend and solve…whatever problem it was they were in.