Ch. 2
A tear rolled down her face.
And she turned to look into winter.
She stared at the falling snowflakes.
Her face nothing but sadness and beauty.
"Well,I didn't expect you to be here," a familiar voice rang.
Clarion's head shot up.
"No,not now," Clarion thought to herself.
Then he walked closer to the border.
"M-Milori..." Clarion couldn't say anything.
"Ree- I mean Queen Clarion," Milori said softly.
Clarion looked very shocked.
"What are you doing here?" Milori asked.
"Well,I could ask you the same thing," Clarion answered.
They both tried hiding their smiles when they remembered the first time they met.
They had said the same thing when they first met.
Clarion became teary eyed.
"Queen Clarion,I-"
"Please,just Clarion," she interrupted.
"Clarion,I need to talk to you about a warm fairy crossing the border," Milori said.
Clarion perked up.
"What?"
"I found a book from your library in winter," Milori explained.
Clarion's eyes widened.
"I take it you know more about this," Milori said.
"How did you know?" she asked shocked.
"I was with you for two years,i know by the way you act," Milori explained.
Clarion blinked away tears.
"May i ask what book?" Clarion said trying to keep her voice steady.
"I know it was a Wingology book," Milori answered.
"Oh no..."
"What is it Re-Clarion?"
"Mary was telling me that one of my fairies had crossed a while ago and
said their wings started sparkling," Clarion said thoughtfully.
"A fairy crossed?"
Clarion nodded sheepishly.
"I'm afraid it isn't going to be the last time though," Clarion said sorrowfully.
"What do you mean?" Milori asked.
"Because this fairy doesn't give up easily."
There was silence.
"I have to go.
Good-bye Lord Milori,"Clarion said on the verge of tears.
Milori noticed.
He wanted to run and embrace her in his arms.
"Yes,good-bye,again,Queen Clarion."
A tear escaped her eye.
She turned around and flew off.
The next morning...
"Queen Clarion?Queen Clarion,are you listening?" Minister Autumn asked.
"Yes," Clarion said very distant.
Mary was sitting beside her.
"There is already a law against fairies crossing the border," the queen continued.
The ministers caught a hint of sadness.
Mary looked worriedly at her friend.
"What are we going to do about TinkerBell?" Summer asked.
"I have spoken with Lord Milori,and we have agreed to send back any fairy that crosses," Clarion said in her normal calm voice.
The doors suddenly opened to the meeting room.
A messenger flew in and bowed.
Everyone turned to look at him.
"A package for the queen."
He handed it to Clarion.
Then bowed and left.
Clarion looked at it for half a second then turned pale.
She quickly put it to the side.
"What is it?" Mary asked as the two left from the meeting.
"Um... where is TinkerBell?"
"I don't know she didn't turn up for work again," Mary answered the queen.
Clarion looked to her friend with a worried expression.
"Mary,please take this to my room.I will return soon."
The tinker nodded and she watched Clarion fly towards the Autumn Forest.
The queen heard shouting up ahead.
"Lord Milori!Your rule will never keep us apart!" TinkerBell's voice boomed.
Clarion sped to the border.
"No,no,no..."
Clarion slowed as she flew into the opening.
"TinkerBell...this is not Lord Milori's rule...
It is mine..." Clarion spoke softly.
She couldn't bear seeing the girl's face in such pain and sadness.
"I'm sorry,"she said slowly.
She watched as the tinker hugged her frost fairy sister.
The tinker sped off as did the other fairies.
Clarion looked at Milori with much hurt in her eyes.
"Say something to her.
Say you still love her and that we don't need the law,"
Milori thought to himself.
Before he could say anything,she flew away.
He turned and sadly got on his owl.
Mary watched as Tink and her friends flew to Tink's house.
"They all look so sad," Mary thought.
That's when she saw Queen Clarion coming from the border.
"Oh no..." she thought to herself.
Quickly,she flew to the queen.
"Queen Clarion,what's wrong?"
"Lord Milori and i have found out TinkerBell has a sister."
Mary gasped.
"They were born of the same laugh.
Lately,the two have been crossing
the border,her sister almost lost her wings."
Mary gasped again.
"So you forbid them to see each other again and that is why Tink
looks so sad?" Mary asked.
Clarion nodded with much sorrow in her eyes.
Mary looked down.
"Well,good day," she said as she flew back to work.
The queen continued on to her room.
As she arrived,she remembered the package sent to her earlier.
Quickly she flew to her bed,where it sat.
She picked up the icey blue box and knew who it was from immediately.
"Milori..." Clarion sniffed back tears.
Running her finger along the side of the box,a memory came to her.
"Milori!" Clarion screamed quietly,as the sparrow-man
picked her up off the ground.
Milori kissed her neck moving downward to her sweet spot.
The young queen giggled.
She had just become queen,as Milori had become lord a week earlier.
"Mother is going to be mad,if she sees this," Clarion said,worrying about the former
queen,who was just the queen because Clarion arrived late.
Milori just chuckled and put his hands on the small of her back.
"Sees what?" an all too familiar voice sounded
as Clarion kissed her boyfriend.
The young queen spun around quickly.
"Clarion,home now!" Jade,the former queen,said.
Clarion looked worriedly at her lover and was about to go,when
he slipped an icey blue box into her hand.
Clarion hugged him quickly and flew off to the Pixie Dust Tree.
That night when she opened the box,she found a beautiful sapphire necklace.
It was beautiful and-
Clarion suddenly relized the similarity of the box then and the box now.
'Did he?' she wondered.
Quickly,she opened the box and in it a beautiful sapphire necklace lay.
The queen's eyes filled with tears.
When she had to leave him,she had to leave the necklace too.
But now,in her hands was the necklace he had given her so may seasons ago.
Clarion put the necklace around her neck and hooked the clasp.
Tears now slowly streaming down her face.
As soon as the first few tears dropped,the
queen wiped her eyes and regained a queenly posture.
She flew out to her balcony.
She had finally gotten her eyes not red and puffy,when a knock sounded.
"Come in," the queen said,trying to hide the sadness in her voice.
The door opened and in flew TinkerBell.
Clarion's heart dropped even more than it was before.
"Queen Clarion,why?" the tinker asked shakily.
Meanwhile in the Winter Woods...
Peri sat on the snowflake in Dewey's library,watching her and Tink's arrival.
"Peri..." came Milori's voice.
She turned around to see Dewey and Lord Milori standing sadly.
Milori took a deep breath,he was going to tell the story of he and Clarion's past.
Little did he know,Clarion was do the same exact thing.
"TinkerBell,
Long ago,when Pixie Hollow was very young,two fairies met and fell in love.
One was a winter fairy..."
"And one was from the warm seasons.
The two fairies were enchanted with each other,and
every sunset they met at the border..."
"Where spring touches winter.
But as their love grew stronger,they wished to be together..."
"And share each other's worlds.
So they disregarded the danger and crossed..."
"One of them broke a wing," Clarion turned her back to TinkerBell,
to hide the sadness in her eyes.
"For which there is no cure..."
TinkerBell noticed the sadness in her queen's voice.
But she also notice the necklace on her neck,it still had frost on it.
It was from the Winter Woods!
Tink stared in shock and thought.
"From that day forwards,Queen Clarion decreed that fairies
must never again cross the border.
I agreed that our two worlds,
should forever remain apart," Milori tried to hide the
sadness in his voice from Peri.
"And the two fairies..."
"...what happened to them?"
Clarion's eyes began to fill with tears,but she was able to blink them away.
Turning to the tinker,she quietly answered.
"They had to say good-bye."
TinkerBell looked down in sadness.
Peri looked down in sadness.
'Why?Why did they-
Wait is that a tear on Lord Milori's cheek?'
Peri wondered to herself.
TinkerBell looked down.
Suddenly a cold sensation filled her face.
She looked up in shock.
Snow!
"Queen Clarion!" she yelled.
The queen flew to the tinker.
"Oh no,come TinkerBell," the queen flew off towards the border.
A few seconds later,the minister came racing after her.
"Queen Clarion the temperatures are dropping!"
"Queen Clarion it's snowing!"
"I'm sure everything is fine,we just need to keep calm,"
the queen comforted.
"You are absolutely right!" Spring puffed out his chest.
Suddenly the minister let out a scream,making Clarion jump.
"Oh no..."
There in the river,was the snow maker and Tink's friends trying to free it.
It was creating a huge snow storm.
"It's stuck reeeeaaal good!" Clank yelled.
After a few more seconds of trying,the team finally succeeded.
"There,it's over," Tink said.
"Uh...i don't think so,look!" Vidia pointed to the log,it was being covered in ice.
"The seasons are being thrown out of balance!" Clarion exclaimed.
"But Queen Clarion!The Pixie Dust Tree!" Autumn said.
Clarion gasped and started flying towards it.
"We must hope the tree survives the freeze or else life in Pixie
Hollow will never be the same.
No fairy would ever fly again," Clarion said sadly.
She then quickly flew to help the fairies try and cover the tree.
While,TinkerBell went missing.
A sudden gust of wind blew the blankets off the tree.
"Queen Clarion,it's not working," Bobble said sadly.
Clarion wasn't sure what to do,when a feline with a short tail
jumped onto the tree.
The queen jumped.
TinkerBell hopped off and three winter fairies appeared.
"TinkerBell," Clarion said worriedly.
"It's alright,they can help us.
Their frost keeps things warm,they can frost the tree," Tink explained.
Clarion thought about it.
'There is no other option.'
"Do it."
The fairies nodded and started.
A few minutes later,the fairies returned.
"The tree is too big,we'll never make it," Spike said sadly.
Clarion looked down in thought.
A shriek filled the air,and the queen's head shot up.
"Owls!The winter fairies are going to save us!" a fairy yelled happily.
Clarion watched as her long lost love ordered the fairies to the other seasons.
She smiled as he and some other fairies started on the tree.
Mary was the only one that noticed the queen's love struck expression.
The tinker smiled at this.
Suddenly another gust of wind blew fairies around.
The winter fairies landed in the tree.
Clarion approached her lover.
"The freeze is upon us,take cover," Milori said.
The fairies didn't have to be told twice.
Clarion stared into Milori's eyes,craving his touch.
"Will everything be alright?" she asked calmly,though
worry flooded her eyes.
"I don't know."
Clarion looked hopefully at him.
She opened her mouth to speak,but a shiver interrupted her.
Milori looked at his love and took his cape off,
draping it on her shoulders.
He watched as the queen looked down to the right,blushing.
'Does she still love me?She is wearing the necklace i sent her,'
Milori thought.
"Thank you Milori," Clarion smiled sweetly at him.
He smiled slightly back.
"Go take cover," he ordered.
Clarion's smile faded and she turned around to take cover.
Milori walked the opposite way,and Clarion looked back at his broken wing.
'That is all my fault,' she thought sadly.
Then she continued to the room Mary was hiding in.