Chapter 11

The thought of possibly having a sibling should've weighed on Artemis's mind. However, both she and Elixa became so busy with healing more animals, and the occasional fairy, there wasn't much time to think about this discovery. Eventually, applying splints and bandages to the wounded became natural and routine-like to the animal fairy and she couldn't wait to use her new skill on the hawk. How she was going to be able to do this to the bird was something she was going to worry about later.

Together, Elixa and Artemis healed more animals than the animal fairy thought they would. This made the animal fairy feel very accomplished and was definitely worth getting out of her job for one day. Finally the day was over and as Artemis put the supplies they used throughout the day, Elixa was saying goodbye to the last group of fairies who were carrying a now healed baby turtle back to its home. Just as she put the last item away, Artemis heard the nursing talent fairy close the door and heave a heavy sigh of exhaustion.

"Well, that's the last of them." Elixa announced. "Thank goodness."

"I can't believe the days already over. When the turtle was being carried away, I caught myself looking around ready for the next patient." Artemis admitted, earning a chuckle from her teacher.

"Yep, time flies when you're healing say twenty to thirty animals and the occasional fairy."

Nodding in agreement, Artemis yawned and this earned her another chuckle from the nursing fairy.

"I think it's time for you to go home." Elixa pointed out, receiving another tired nod from her student. "You did good today by the way. I was really surprised how quickly you got the hang of healing without using healing magic. I've got to ask though, why are you really interested in being taught how to do my talent?"

Rubbing her eyes, Artemis responded with "I just like to learn new things."

Not buying it, Elixa decided to let it go and walked the tired animal fairy out her door. The two fairies said their goodbyes and soon enough, Artemis was sleeping in her bed. There was no dreams throughout the night and she was once again awoken in the early hours by the shrieks she now knew came from the hawk. Wasting no time to apply her new skills, she got ready for the day and flew off to the injured bird. The hawk was exactly in the same area Artemis had left it and again it tried to kill her.

"You can try to kill me all you want, but you still won't reach me." Artemis states as she flew a few feet above the angry hawks head.

In response, the bird tried jumping in the air again to snap at her feet and again couldn't reach her. After a few more times of doing this, the hawk seemed to finally give up as it started walking around as if looking for a new prey. Sighing in relief, Artemis began grabbing some vines and twigs to make a make-shift splint as she didn't have the necessary supplies to actually make a real one. Grabbing some extra vine, she proceeded in tying it into a noose.

Once done, she began to do something no sane fairy would've done. With the vine-made noose in hand, Artemis began sneaking up behind the hawk while it was clawing at the ground as if it was searching for some bugs. Then hearing the flap of her wings, the hawk turned and charged at her. Having little time to react, Artemis swung the noose around and let it fly. The noose managed to wrap around the large bird and the animal fairy had to use all of her strength to pull it down.

With a loud shriek, the hawk seemed to glare up at her as she quickly flew up to it and tie its beak shut. This took care of the biting problem, but she soon realized she had to deal with the charging problem.

"Hey now... easy there big guy." Artemis began slowly as the bird proceeded to again charge at her. "I'm trying to help!" She then shouted in frustration.

Flying out of the way, Artemis watched as the large bird tried to come to a halt. It skidded along the ground and when it stopped, it seemed to be too exhausted to continue and so it collapsed onto the ground, breathing heavily. Sighing in relief over not being chased anymore, Artemis cautiously flew towards the hawk. Once next to it, the hawk lifted its head to look at her, but was too exhausted to do anything so it laid it back onto the ground.

Trying to calm her nerves, Artemis went to feel its wing. Upon making contact, the hawk tried to move its wing away, but only shrieked in pain.

Sighing, "Look I know you're angry at me for being the one to put you in this predicament, even though I did it to protect my friends from your natural instinct, but I'm trying to help you. Your wing is broken and it won't heal right if you don't let me help, so can you please work with me here?" Artemis talked to the bird.

Artemis wasn't quite sure whether the hawk understood a word she said, but after a couple of minutes, the bird painfully extended its broken wing in a way the animal fairy could work on it. Looking up at it, she saw it looking away from her as if it was trying to keep itself from pecking her to death.

"Okay big guy, this may hurt." The animal fairy states as she went to work.

Author's Note: Finally its done! Gee wiz getting this chapter out has been a pain for some reason. Anyways I want to thank TinkFan4Life for your continuous reviews and I want to thank everyone else who favorited this story. I hope you all liked this chapter and if you have something in mind that I could add to this story please let me know, I'm always open for ideas.