Chapter 7

Days passed and Fawn continued to teach Artemis the ways of being an animal fairy. Through those days, Artemis became more familiar with Pixie Hollow and it's inhabitants and how her gifts could help them. Every once and a while she would see her other friends, but being as busy as they were with the coming season, it was difficult to spend time with each other.

One day, Artemis was in the Fall Forest, near Acorn Summit, using her newfound knowledge to help baby birds fly. It was actually one of the few days that some of her friends were around her at the same time. In fact, it seemed that lot's of different fairies were there and all were practicing their talents. Silvermist was adding dewdrops on spider webs, Rosetta and a bunch of other garden fairies were painting leaves in fall colors, and Fawn was helping some chipmunks find food. It was a great day and nothing, not even Dash and his gang who were flying madly everywhere, could ruin it. Or so they all thought.

"Okay now flap your wings." Artemis was giving instructions to the last baby bird in the nest.

After seeing it's brothers and sisters success, the bird began flapping it's wings. At first nothing happened, but after some correction from it's tutor, it eventually lifted off the ground.

"That's it! Keep flapping!" Artemis cheered on and then the bird took flight and began following it's siblings.

"That's the last of them Artemis. Beck and I will take it from here." A sparrowman known as Buck said as he flew next to the bird in question.

Relieved to hear this, Artemis sat on the branch of an oak tree as her shift had now ended. Since she started her training, the animal fairies had slowly been making her shifts a little bit long each day. Today, she had been working since the early morning and it was now noon.

Looking around, she watched as everyone continued their work. She still didn't like being alone and so she liked to wait until Fawn was done for the day before she went back home. After a bit, she began looking at the sky to see the shapes of the clouds. As Artemis began to get to the emptiness of the sky, save for the clouds, she soon began to see something in the distance. She could see a black outline and it slowly came into silhouette of a bird. A rather large bird to be precise.

Before she had time to contemplate what it was, someone began screaming "Hawk!".

Everyone turned their heads towards the sky and then panic erupted. Fairies were all over the place as they began looking for places to hide. Even the animals took off. The next thing Artemis knew, Fawn was yanking on her arm and pulling her into a whole in a nearby tree where the entrance was too small for the bird to fit through.

"What is going on?" Artemis questioned her friend, who was peeking her head up to look outside.

"Haven't you animal fairies been teaching her anything? That's a hawk out there." The voice of Dash answered, as he sat across from them next to his buddies.

Peeking her own head out, Artemis could see the bird a lot more clearly and turned to the sparrowman across from her. "What's the matter? It's a bird, not some monster, believe me I've seen plenty of those." Artemis questioned, looking at both Fawn and Dash as if they had lost their heads.

"You don't understand, Hawk's eat fairies!" Fawn managed to say, as her fear was too great.

Letting those words sink in, Artemis took another peek outside. She could see the bird's talons and it's sharp beak and could understand why her hiding companions were afraid. The bird looked like it was built to kill and probably had both the speed and the strength to do it. Turning to her friend next to her, Artemis gave Fawn a quizzical look.

"We're animal fairies, shouldn't we be able to make them stop attacking anyone?" The new fairy questioned the more experienced animal fairy.

"If it were that easy, we would've been able to do it a long, long, time ago. Believe me, I've even tried!" Fawn states.

Coming out of his long silence, one of the fast flying fairies known as Zod, spoke "You know when it comes to being in danger because of animal's, you animal fairies are really useless.".

Artemis wanted to punch him as she watched Fawn let his words sink in. However, the call of the Hawk distracted her from doing so. The sound caused everyone around her to cover their ears in fear. She had her own fears, but she just couldn't bring herself to be afraid of the hawks cries. In fact, she found it mesmerizing.

She peeked her head out a little farther to get an even better view of the large bird. The hawks feathers was brown on its back, red on it's tale, and white and brown around the chest and it had golden eyes. Artemis would've continued staring at it if she wasn't pulled down by Dash.

"Are you crazy?! Are you trying to get us spotted?" Dash whispered as if he wanted to shout at her.

"I just wanted to have a look at it." Artemis said plainly.

"And risk our lives? You really are crazy." He muttered as he went to sit by his friends.

Artemis couldn't take offense to that as she wasn't quite sure if she was crazy or not. However, her time looking out the whole gave her an insight of her surroundings. Outside the tree, there were some vines growing and knowing that was out there, helped her to form a plan. Crazy or not, it was the only plan she could go on and she wasn't going to sit around waiting for help to arrive to put it into action. First thing she did, was fly.

"Artemis!" Fawn called out to her.

"Yep she is crazy." Zod says and that's when he noticed his friend was missing.

Author's Note: Hey guys! Well I'm pretty excited with this chapter. Things are getting interesting for sure. Anyways as always, thanks TinkFan4Life for your lovely rambling, honestly your one of my favorite reviewers. Now I didn't post a story recommendation last time, so now I'm going to recommend The Day Bernard Got Beaned by sonny's girlfriend. It's a lovely fanfiction about The Santa Clause movies that involves the awesome head elf Bernard who loses his memory and meets a human who takes him in. That's all I'm going to say for that except read it, because it's sequel Finding Home is AMAZING! It also deserves more praise so go check them out! Thanks again and until next time!