Chapter 3

"Who's Sled?" Artemis questioned Tinkerbell as both Fawn and Rosetta continued their argument.

"Sled is a winter talent fairy from the Winter Woods and he is Rosetta's boyfriend." Tinkerbell answered.

Artemis nodded her head in almost understanding as she had no clue what the term 'boyfriend' actually implied. She didn't have much time to think about it, as the fairies were, yet again, almost run over. This time it was by two sparrowmen in green who were riding some sort of contraption pulled by a mouse. Unlike the other group of male fairies, who would've flown off if Vidia hadn't called them over, these two actually had the courtesy to stop and realize what happened.

"Sorry ladies, we tried to stop as best as we could." A sparrowman, with reddish hair and fairy made glasses on his face, apologized, his accent fascinated Artemis.

"Which was kind of a hard thing to do when Cheese saw you Miss Bell." The other, more thicker, male fairy states.

Walking up to the mouse in question, Tinkerbell began petting him as she replied "That's okay guys, we all know how excited Cheese gets when he sees familiar people."

Chuckling in agreement, the two fairies said their hello's to the other fairies. Seeing the unfamiliar face in the group of ladies, the scrawny male fairy elbowed his larger sized friend and began to make his introductions.

"You must be the new fairy, hello my name is Phineas T. Kettletree but everyone calls me Bobble." Bobble greets.

"And I'm Clank!" The other male fairy says excitedly.

"Artemis." Artemis replies awkwardly.

Getting up from her petting position, Tinkerbell looked at the tinker made cart and got an idea.

"Hey guys, we're trying to get Artemis to the Pixie Dust Tree as quickly as possible and I was wondering if maybe you could give her a lift?" Tinkerbell questions.

"Sure! We'd be happy to, we were on our way there anyways." Clank says happily.

With a sigh of relief, Tinkerbell said "Great, thank you so much."

"No problem." Bobble replies. "Alright Miss Artemis, your chariot awaits!"

After watching the exchange all this time, Artemis snapped out of her thoughts once the unfamiliar fairy said her name. Artemis eyed the contraption that was now supposedly taking her to her destination. She didn't know what to make of it and so she looked at the other female fairies who all nodded for her to get on. Slowly, she walked up to the mouse-drawn carriage and had help getting on by the two sparrowmen.

Once seated, the mouse named Cheese began walking forward. The other fairies began flying next to the carriage and each had their own conversations with each other. Not knowing everyone made it a lot more difficult for her to have a good conversation, so Artemis remained silent and watched the fairies who were in flight.

After a while, Artemis saw a large tree in the distance. This particular tree was different as it was larger than any of the others and it appeared to be glowing. Coming closer and closer, Artemis realized that her eyes were not deceiving her and the tree really was glowing like it had a miniature sun in it's center.

"That's the Pixie Dust Tree." Bobble explained, catching the new fairy's puzzling stare at the tree in question.

"Why is it glowing?" Artemis questioned, coming out of her long silence.

"It's because of the pixie dust the tree produces. You see the pixie dust comes from the heart of the Pixie Dust Tree and flows out in order for us to use it to be able to fly. Without it, then we would have to walk around all the time." Was the red haired fairy's explanation.

Hearing this, Artemis couldn't help looking at her wings that just hung on her back pitifully. Even though she was unsure why she was heading to the tree in question, Artemis couldn't help but hope that it was so she could fly like the rest of her kind. With this thought in mind, an unfamiliar feeling of excitement flowed through her and she loved it.

Finally they had reached their destination and Artemis looked straight up in awe at the gigantic and beautiful tree. Getting off of the cart, the question of how she was going to get to the top came into her mind. She was answered when she noticed a row of mushrooms that grew around the tree in the form of stairs.

"Wow, I've been by this tree so many times and I've never seen those mushrooms." Iridessa says, noticing the fungi.

"Oh that's a new thing the other garden talent fairies and I have been working on, since Zarina still hardly ever uses those wings of hers." Rosetta replies and everyone, except Artemis, chuckled at that. "Okay sugar, time for you to test it out." She then said to Artemis.

Eyeing the plants and looking at the size of the tree, Artemis saw that it was going to take a bit before she could reach the top. Cautiously, she placed her foot on the first mushroom and seeing that it was stable, she stepped fully onto it.

"Yay it worked!" Rosetta cheered.

Making sure that the cart was going to stay in place, Bobble began his farewells, "Well ladies, I hate to ditch you, but Clank and I should be getting to the top as the Ceremony is supposed to start soon."

"Ceremony!?" The female fairies, except Artemis, shrieked.

"Yeah, why else would everybody be going to the tree." Bobble states and began flying away.

"See you when you get there!" Clank bid his farewell and he too flew off.

Saying goodbye, Vidia turned to Artemis "Okay, no more fooling around, we need to get you up there quickly. Come on, let's go!".

Not sure what to make of her forcefulness, Artemis just did what she was told until she reached the top of the tree.

Author's Note: Long overdue but It's hard to write when you've been suffering writers block. Plus, where I'm from, we're supposed to get bad weather so I knew I had to finish this chapter and get it to you guys in case the internet goes off. Well I'll try to write another chapter while this is happening and get it to you as soon as I can. Thanks again TinkFan4Life for your reviews and I want to thank my other followers for following this story. Hope you all continue to like it!