Hi guys! Sorry it took so long to upload this. I have been in the process of getting my first book published for a couple months now, and just recently I had to go through the final technical aspect (I hate technology! haha) So, guess what? AS OF TODAY I AM AN OFFICIAL PUBLISHED AUTHOR! AAAAAAHHHHH ^_^ My book's name is Child of Fire :) Since it's just been published today, it won't be on amazon for probably another 3 days (give or take) The cover image is the new picture for this fanfic :)

:) I'm sooo excited! It took me... Over three years to finish it :)

Leaping to her feet, Periwinkle stretched her arms out wide and yawned, "It's a beautiful day for frosting leaves and trees!" She laughed as she got dressed, sticking two small balls of cotton on the tips of her shoes. Dusting her hands off on her icicle-blue dress and spreading her wings, she shot out of her cave and towards the frost forest.

Once there, she landed ungracefully, falling on her butt.

"Careful." Gliss winked as she reached up and traced long, elegant strands of frost onto a tree, "Snow is slippery."

"I know." Periwinkle giggled. Pausing for a second, she placed a hand on the back of her wite hair and tilted her head up, string into the laden clouds far above. "Hey Gliss," She asked questioningly.

"Hm?" Gliss asked, not really paying much attention as she moved both hands over the same tree trunk, artistically painting with her slightly blue-tinged fingers.

"Why do we spend all day frosting for anyhow? I love doing it… But what's the point?"

"Didn't anyone tell you?" Peri jumped when Spike's voice sounded from behind her.

Turning around, Periwinkle shook her head. "No. Can you tell me?"

Rolling her eyes, Spike sighed dramatically. "For the mainland."

"The mainland?"

"Yeah," Gliss bounced up and down excitedly,temporarily forgetting about the tree with her half-painted design over the bark. "Second star to the right. Follow it through and you come to a whole different world full of crazy giant people! We go there to turn the seasons. We got back from the mainland only a day before you showed up. It's spring there right now. The warm fairies will be in the mainland for the next three seasons, then we will go and bring glorious frost!" Shrieking shrilly, Gliss ran in a circle, frosting everything in sight.

"Wow she's hyper." Peri grinned.

Nodding, Spike grabbed Gliss's arm. "Come on Gliss." Almost as an after thought, she added, "You too Peri. We are all going ice sliding- maybe that will get rid of some of Gliss's… Energy."

"What's ice sliding?" Peri cocked one eyebrow at the dark haired frost fairy.

At Peri's question, Gliss gasped and grabbed her arm. "Oh you poor fairy! Come on right now! You haven't lived until you've gone ice sliding!"

Racing up to a steep slope, wings beating quickly, the three fairies landed at the top. "Whoa." Periwinkle panted, looking out at the rolling snowy hills stretching out far below them. "That is one beautiful view."

Pointing to where two small sleds made of bark rested against a lone tree, Gliss laughed. "Never mind the view! Now, we are going to slide down."

Face falling slack, Peri gasped, "What?!"

"Come on," Spike rolled her eyes. "You can ride with me. My sled is WAY faster than Gliss's."

"Is not!" The perky fairy pouted.

Rolling her eyes, Peri grinned. "Let's just settle it on the sleds. First one down wins?"

"You got it!" Gliss laughed.

Climbing into Spike's sled, Peri asked, "So, how does it work?"

"Just watch." Finally cracking a smile, Spike yelled, "Go!" Both sleds shot down the slope going so fast that the entire world became a blur in Peri's eyes. Raising her arms above her head, she shouted with glee, the wind whipping the words away before she even had time to utter them.

Coming to a halt at the bottom of the hill, Peri leapt out- slightly dizzy. "That was awesome!" She screamed. "Let's go again!"

Nodding, the other two fairies grabbed the ropes on their sleds and pulled them back to the top. They went down the slope three more times before Peri finally had (what she considered) a brilliant idea.

Pointing to the North Mountain, she grinned. "Hey guys, why don't we go up there? We can sled all the way down the slope."

"That sounds like a really bad idea." Spike rolled her eyes.

Shivering dramatically, Gliss hugged herself. "Yea, what if we go of a cliff?"

Turning around, Peri waved her wings in Gliss's face. "Hellllllloooooo."

"Oh, right." Grinning, Gliss bounced up and down. "Let's go!"

She and Peri raced off but Spike simply crossed her arms. "I'm not going." Glancing at her friends retreating forms, she threw up her hands in exasperation. "Well, wait for me guys!"

At the top of the mountain, Gliss, Spike, and Periwinkle all crowded into Gliss's sled. Giggling, the bubby fairy cried, "On your mark, get set, go!" Screaming at the top of their lungs, the girls sped down the hill. As one, they leaned left or right to turn the sled and avoid gorges or rock boulders stretching up in the treacherous mountain slope.

Deep snow covered the whole mountain face, covering everything nd mixing colors into one big white blur. So it was that the girls did no notice a deep, wide crack in the mountain side until they had already gone over it. Shrieking, they froze as the sled shot off the ledge into space.

Leaping off the sled at the last minute, Peri watched it slam into the side of the mountain. Hovering in the air with Gliss and Spike, the three girls watched in horror as everything seemed to happen in slow motion.

A loud cracking noise filled the air as sheets of snow broke off of the mountain and tumbled straight towards them.

Turning around, the fairies flew as fast as they could- trying desperately to outfly the avalanche. They were caught in between the rock walls of a valley. Billowing snow above them and the icy ground beneath them. Nowhere to go. They were trapped.

Lord Milory glanced up as a loud rumbling shook the ground. New baby foxes he had been inspecting panicked and raced off. Fairies raced off after the baby animals, trying desperately to catch them. But Milory's sensitive eyes picked up something the others could yet see. Far in the distance, beyond the North mountain, a storm of white snow was filling the sky. Gasping Milory jumped to his feet, only one thing could make a cloud of snow of that size. An avalanche.

Whistling for his pet snowy owl, who ironically was named Avalanche, Milory vaulted onto his back and took off into the sky.

As they flew over the avalanche, Milory saw something that took his breath away. It was the new fairy, Periwinkle, and his two best frosters, Gliss and Spike. They were trapped in between the walls of one of the crevasses which dotted the mountain face. Hungry snow chased them from above, and the three fairies were swiftly running out of room- the crevasse was coming to an end.

Leaping off of Avalanche's back, Milory landed on the floor of the crevasse. At that exact moment, the three fairies were forced to land next him.

"Lord Milory!" Periwinkle yelped. "What are you doing here?"

"Get back." He commanded. Lifting his hands, he summoned all his power and concentrated. Crashing down, the snow seeked to consume them- but was stopped. An invisible force held it back as Milory summoned all of his power over snow and ice to prevent the avalanche from crashing down.

"Fly." He gasped, swiftly draining of energy. "Get out of here."

Nodding, the three fairies did as they were told. Once they were above the avalanche, Periwinkle looked down and saw Milory still down there, holding back the snow. "Why doesn't he fly up?" She wrung her hands.

"I don't know!" Gliss's face was streaked with worry. Groaning with effort, Lord Milory's knees buckled and he fell to the ground, completely drained. With a shudder, the avalanche finished crashing down, covering the mountain face in thousands of pounds of snow.