Chapter 8
Artemis ignored her friend's silent cries as she flew towards the vines that grew right outside their hiding spot. Before she could reach it however, she heard the scream of a fairy as the hawk managed to grab them from a tree. Seeing the helpless fairy, Artemis stopped what she was doing and did something no other fairy would do, she flew straight at the hawk. It was a stupid thing to do, but she wasn't going to do anything else until the light fairy was safe from it's beak.
Flying fast, she quickly grabbed hold of it's feathers on it's neck and began to tightly pull them to the side until it let go. Angered by losing it's meal, the hawk turned it's head to look at the fairy who ruined it all. Then, it flew so fast that it caused the fairy to lose her grip and get carried away by the wind.
From the speed of the wind, caused Artemis to not be able to fly. So she fell and as she fell, she tried to twist her body around so she could have her wings facing up to the sky. However, gravity never worked like that and she continued to fall down towards the ground. Before she hit the ground, a quick movement of purple caught her eye and the next thing she knew, she was in the arms of the last person she'd expected to be saved by.
"You really do have a death wish, don't you?" Dash questioned as he flew Artemis to a nearby tree.
"I don't think now's the time to be making jokes." Artemis says.
Just as she said this, the hawk flew around and straight towards them. The two fairies began to fly away as the hawk pursued them.
"For the record, that wasn't a joke." Dash states as the two flew.
Artemis wasn't quite sure if she should believe him, but now was most definitely not the right time to ponder over it. Splitting up, the two fairies flew in opposite directions to confuse the large bird. It worked, as the hawk seemed to look in both directions to determine which fairy it should go after. Before it could make up it's mind, Dash began fast flying in circles over it's head, which annoyed the bird. This distraction allowed Artemis to go back to her original plan.
Flying over to the tree with the vines, Artemis looked at both the plants and at Dash as he continued to taunt the hawk. This brought another idea into her head.
"Dash, keep the hawk distracted!" Artemis shouted.
"What does it look like I'm doing?!" Dash shouted his rhetorical question.
Ignoring his response, Artemis grabbed a vine and began to quickly tie it to another. Continuing this process, she soon had the longest vine to possibly ever be seen in Pixie Hollow. With this, she tied one end to a branch and then began weaving it between the tree and another one. It was a difficult process and she was starting to get tired, but she kept going until she had what looked to be a net in the trees. Finally done, she looked over at Dash's direction as he continued his taunts.
"Dash bring it here!" Artemis shouted.
Taking a quick look, Dash saw the net and began flying towards it. Either it was stupid or simply driven by hunger, the hawk surprisingly followed the fast flying fairy. Not wanting to go over the net, Dash through one of the holes instead. Seeing that the hawk was at full speed, Artemis pushed Dash out of the way as the bird came crashing into the net. The force of the bird crashing into the net, caused the net to expand until it bumped into the two fairies and sent them to the ground.
Then the unexpected happened. Once the net quit expanding, like a slingshot, it sent the hawk skyrocketing. The hawk gave a loud shriek and then disappeared hopefully for good this time. Slowly, all of the fairies began coming out of their hiding places and they all gave a big cheer knowing that the bird was gone.
With the shock from the fall wearing off, Artemis and Dash slowly began sitting up. Looking filthy and a little crazy eyed, the two began to laugh. Artemis found that she liked the feeling that laughter gave her and continued to do it. The laugh caught the attention of all of the fairies, who then began surrounding the two and lifting them up as they began to chant their names for their bravery.
Rosetta, Fawn, and Silvermist all came together to watch this display of appreciation. As she watched this, Fawn took a glance at Rosetta and saw a very familiar expression upon the garden fairy's face.
"Oh no you don't!" Fawn said, catching Rosetta off guard.
"What?" Rosetta asked sheepishly.
"I know that face. You are planning to play matchmaker again." The animal fairy states.
"Oh can I join in?" Silvermist entered the conversation.
Shocked by this, Fawn turned to the water fairy "You too?!" she questioned in disbelief.
"Oh stop being ridiculous, it wouldn't do Artemis any damage if she had a love life. Of course you can help Silvermist." Rosetta states, rolling her eyes at Fawn.
"Yay! I always wanted to try matchmaking." Silvermist excitedly says.
Putting one arm over the water fairy's shoulder, "Then it's a good thing that I'll be teaching you, especially since I haven't had any failures as of yet." Rosetta says.
Rolling her eyes, "Oh yeah? What about Tinkerbell and Terence?" Fawn reminded the garden talent fairy of the fact she liked to ignore.
"It's not my fault those two remain oblivious! I swear those two are as stubborn about their obvious attraction towards each other as Vidia about her whole light predicament!" The garden fairy exclaimed.
"So if you can't bring those two together, then there's no way you'll do it to Artemis and Dash."
"Not alone, but the three of us might have a better chance."
Knowing that this was a bait, Fawn crossed her arms and crossly said "Oh no, there is no way I'm getting involved with this."
With a devilish smile, Rosetta grabbed the animal fairy by the arm and replied "Oh honey, you already are."
Once this was said, Fawn realized what predicament she had gotten herself into and wanted to smack herself for starting this whole conversation.
Author's Note: Ello I'm back with another chapter. I hope you like it. Okay I know the whole net thing is cheesy, but come on, what scenes in any of the Tinkerbell films weren't? So I thought it fit in the world and if you don't that's fine, just don't complain about it because I'm not changing a thing. As always I want to thank the lovely TinkFan4Life for your constant reviews, they're great and honestly I enjoy the rambling. So another fanfiction recommendation, hmmm I haven't read this one in a long while but I'll Find Your Heart by SakuraDrops93 is in my favorite Tinkerbell fanfic section. It's been so long since I read it so I don't remember all of the details but that doesn't mean you shouldn't check it out. Alright that's it for now and I hope to have another chapter out soon!