Thanks to everyone who reviewed, followed, favorited or even just read this- and it's only been a week! :) This story now takes place after Secret of the Wings and when Anna is 5 and Elsa is 8. Last chapter was before those, which is why I'm stating this again now. This chapter is just about the fairies- mostly Tinker Bell and Periwinkle. I was going to have the first part be about Tinker Bell and the second half be about Frozen but the Tinker Bell part turned out to be longer than I expected. Besides, I figured I should do an intro chapter for Tinker Bell because I did an intro for Frozen.
"All right! We did it!" Tinker Bell exclaimed, leaning over the just-finished snow-making contraption to exchange high fives with Clank and Bobble. She fluttered her wings and ascended a centimeter so she would not accidentally snap some of the more fragile twigs holding the thing together.
"You did a great job on that one, Miss Bell." Clank told her. Tink smiled at him and pointed out that it had been Clank and Bobble that had designed the original in the first place, so he really deserved the credit more.
The three tinker fairies now had the job of replicating the machine that they had used to spray snow on Periwinkle when she had ventured with Tink out of the Winter Woods. It had also caused a blizzard that had almost frozen the Pixie Dust Tree. Their solution to prevent reliving that whole fiasco was to only feed it small chunks of ice at a time, so it could not produce much snow. Bobble had suggested that they tweak the design so that the machine could not automatically shoot snow, but Clank had pointed out that if they did that somebody would have to crank the machine the entire time, something he and Bobble had found rather annoying before.
The fact that they were even replicating the snow-making machine in the first place was surprising, because it seemed like an insult to the frost fairies if their talent could be replaced by a machine. The frost fairies had certainly taken it as an insult. Rumor (mostly spread by Rosetta) had it that the frost talents would have already destroyed the machines if they didn't have to worry about their wings breaking in the warmer temperatures of Tinker's Nook. Even if Periwinkle had not confirmed that this rumor was false, Tinker doubted whether the frost fairies would have done something so foolish- Lord Milori's anger at the intentional sabotage of another talent's work would have literally left them frozen in fear.
The anger from the frost fairies had died down a bit after Periwinkle had pointed out that the frost talents could use the machines to their advantage, by shooting their own handmade snow into the machine and having it spread out for them. Although some of them had not been thrilled with having any part of their talent done by a machine, they had realized that tinker fairies didn't build things that did part of a talent's work, they wouldn't have a job. Besides, if Periwinkle could accept that her twin had helped design the machine that could replace her talent and not be in any way bothered by it, then they could learn to cope too.
Tinker Bell smiled fondly. Periwinkle was a great sister, and they both loved spending time together. One upside of Tink breaking her wing was that, as their bond was fixing it, it made it so their wings would break in any temperature. Granted, Tink could still only fly a couple of minutes in the cold, and Peri could fly just as little in warm weather, but they no longer had to worry about harming their wings and could focus instead on having fun.
Both of them could cross over the border between Pixie Hollow and the Winter Woods without even having their wings frosted like all the other fairies had to do when they crossed over. Having one's wings frosted was awkward because the wings were frozen in place to the fairy's or sparrow-man's back. To somebody five inches tall, even a thin sheet of ice seemed heavy, especially if it froze and immobilized one's wings.
Snapping out of her thoughts, Tinker Bell debated whether she should visit her sister. Normally this question was a no-brainer, but all the fairies were leaving that night to start bringing winter to the Mainland.
Most fairies were super busy around the time they would change the seasons, and this season had been even busier for Tink, Clank and Bobble. In addition to their normal work, they had needed to make dozens of snow machines in the last week, as that was when the idea of using them to bring winter to the Mainland had come up.
Tink decided there was no reason she could not visit Peri, as she was done with her work for the day. After exchanging a quick goodbye with Bobble and Clank, Tink went to her home and rooted through all the stuff she had crammed in it, looking for her winter clothes. She dug through the dozens of lost things she found in the past month, flinging things rapidly over her shoulder.
After a couple more minutes of frustrated searching, Tinker Bell eventually discovered that she had hung her coat in her closet. Oddly enough, she remembered simply flinging her winter outfit on the floor after her last visit to the Winter Woods. She had been so tired that she had actually fallen asleep when flying home and had barely woken up and started flapping her wings before she collided with the ground.
Deciding that she must have put it away the next day and forgot about it, Tink donned her coat-which now had holes for her wings- mittens, earmuffs and boots with pom-poms on the toes. She left her house and took to the skies.
Flying quickly so she would not start to get hot due to wearing winter things in warm weather, she headed for the border between the Pixie Hollow and the Winter Woods. Sweating slightly because she was flying in the sunlight, Tink shot across the border, waving briefly at the sentries who stood watching for hawks or other dangers.
Now to find Periwinkle. Tink darted about over the snow, trying to catch a glimpse of her sister. Not seeing one, Tink muttered playfully "Hiding, hm? Well, I'm going to find you."
It was a game they played. Whenever the other was coming to visit, the one staying in their own section would try to hide from her sister until she could not fly in the hostile climate. After the visiting twin was unable to fly, the other would try to sneak up on her sister in the air, then dive bomb her and attack by hugging and tackling her at the same time.
The game had lead to them visiting unannounced in the hopes that the other would be caught off guard. This tactic was thwarted because the other would notice her wings sparkling and know her sister was drawing near. So far Tink had the record- she had once tackle-hugged her twin less than a minute after she'd arrived- but Peri had promised Tink wouldn't have it for long.
Tink then started checking her wings to see how much they were glowing- if they sparkled more, then she was closer to finding Periwinkle. However, Periwinkle seemed to be nowhere near, because Tink's wings were only giving off the faintest sparkles. Tink turned and headed in a new direction, pleased to see her wings started glowing a lot more. Her excitement at the prospect of finding her sister before Peri attacked her was short lived. To Tink's horror, her wings decided that they had reached their limit, and she started to descend towards some of Peri's frost fairy friends.
"No, no, no, no, no!" Tink cried to her wings in exasperation. "You can't quit now! If you help me fly until I find Peri, I'll polish you later!" Bargaining with her wings was pointless, and Tink landed at the feet of Spike. Picking her self up, Tink greeted the fairies before asking "Where's Peri?"
This tactic had worked before, as everybody but the Peri and Tink were oblivious of their game. However, Spike smiled and said "Sorry. It's a secret." Tink stared at the other fairies, wondering why they were grinning like maniacs, and muttered "Jingles! Peri told you about the game, didn't she?" The frost fairy nodded, and told the exasperated tinker fairy "Yup! By the way, your wings are really a sight!"
The other frost fairies couldn't contain themselves any longer and burst out laughing as Tink turned around to check her wings and realized they were glowing in the way they only did when she was really close to her sister right before Periwinkle plowed into her and knocked her into the snow.
Tinker Bell's arms were pinned to her sides as Periwinkle embraced her and shouted "Gotcha!" Laughing, Peri helped released her twin and helped her up. "I was behind you from the time you crossed the border. I can't believe you didn't notice that I was one of the sentries!" Periwinkle cackled. Tink stared at her, dumbfounded, and said the only thing she could think of at the moment. "Wait, what?"
Peri answered by pulling up the hood on the jacket she was wearing. Tink hadn't noticed it in the second between seeing Periwinkle and being knocked into the snow, though she had noticed one of the sentries wearing a hooded coat. Tink mentally kicked herself, she should have realized there was something suspicious about someone wearing a hooded coat. Nobody native to the Winter Woods had any need for a coat or even a sweater, and a hood should have been a glaringly obvious disguise.
After an epic snowball fight with all of Peri's friends, Periwinkle and Tinker Bell headed off for some alone time. They were walking towards the border as Tink's wings still refused to cooperate, and they needed to be ready to leave in a couple hours. Periwinkle had started playfully teasing Tink about talking to her wings. Tink sighed. Of course she had to hear that Tink thought.
"So, are you looking forward to bringing winter alongside us warm fairies this year?" Tinker Bell asked her twin. "Of course I am!" Periwinkle almost shouted. "It's even better this year cause of the changes they made." Bringing Winter to the mainland was the hardest of the seasons, because both winter and warm fairies were there. However, winter fairies didn't fare too well before fall was changed to winter, and the warm fairies had difficulties about halfway through changing the season.
After it had been clear that the snow machines were going to be used this year, a system had been set up where one warm fairy and one winter fairy would pair up, so if something happened to one of the fairies, the other would be suited for the weather and could help them back to the fairy camp.
Naturally, Tink and Peri were partners, and they were both very excited. This would be their first time changing a season together, since they didn't meet until after the last winter, and winter fairies only traveled to the mainland to bring winter there.
They reached the border between the Winter Woods and Pixie Hollow. Hugging each other, Periwinkle whispered "See you on the Mainland."
Hours later, the fairies of Neverland were finally ready to set off. The animal-talents had worked hard to keep all the restless owls in line during the long ordeal of hooking them up to baskets that would carry all the supplies, such as bags to hold the light talent's light, the snow machines- which required two owls for each one, and the various tools the tinker fairies had made for all the talents. Lord Milori mounted his snowy owl, ready to lead the winter fairies and the other snowy owls to the mainland, staying in the cold weather as long as possible.
Across the border, Queen Clarion prepared to guide the warm fairies. All the fairies were grouped by talent, with various birds carrying each talent's supplies, in addition to some baskets which were to be carried by half a dozen fairies or sparrow-man.
The warm fairy ruler and the cold fairy ruler nodded at each other, and Lord Milori sounded the horn, signaling that they were departing. The fairies took to the night sky, lugging equipment and guiding animals lugging more equipment. If one were to watch them leaving from the ground, they would have seen owls carrying baskets surrounded by hundreds of glowing dots of light, all flying towards a brightly twinkling star, the second to the right. It would almost seem as if the stars had decided to come to down from the sky.
Nobody could deny that it was a truly stunning and beautiful sight. Peter Pan and the lost boys stood outside Hangman's Tree, staring at the sky. Peter hoped nothing bad would happen to Tink, though he knew her too well to believe it. Tinker Bell had a way for attracting trouble.
Even the pirates, watching from the Jolly Roger were entranced by the sight of all the fairies. Smee started bawling and going on about how pretty it was. Captain Hook only shot him a half disgusted look, and then went back to staring at the fairies with a strange expression of peace rarely seen on his face. The spell was broken when one of the pirates pointed this out, and he immediately started threatening to claw said pirate with his hook.
The fairies went through the portal in the second star to the right, and arrived at the mainland. The second star to the right mostly sent them to where they intended to go, which was almost always London, but the star did have a mischievous side and sometimes decided to have the portal end up somewhere else.
The second star to the right was feeling particularly mischievous that night, so instead of ending up in London like they had wanted to, the fairies arrived in a kingdom that none of them had ever heard of. They flew around confused and looking for any indication of where they were. Eventually, Queen Clarion spotted a sign on the outskirts of a village that welcomed them to Arendelle.
Wow! That was way longer than I thought it would be. I hope you all enjoyed it- by the way, Peter Pan was just a cameo. Also I know hook will be younger in The Pirate Fairy but that hasn't come out yet. Besides, in one of the books (Fairy dust and the Quest for the Wand) Tink knew Peter but still lived in Pixie Hollow, and Hook was an adult. I He won't be in the actual story, unless you all really want him and Hook in it, in which case I might possibly consider putting them in,- although I doubt I would because it's not supposed to be about them.
I promise things will actually start to happen next chapter. I'm not sure when the next one will be posted because I think I'm going to be busy, but hopefully I'll have it up in the next week or two.
I am not sure how long this story is going to be. The longest I've written has been about 10K. I really want to write one of those really long, 100K+ word stories, but I seriously doubt this is going to be anywhere near 100K. Does anyone have any tips for writing long stories- if so, I'd really appreciate them.
In case I didn't explain this well enough in the chapter, the reason bringing Winter is so hard is because the frost fairies need to be there to shoot snow and stuff, but they need to suffer non wintery weather before they change the seasons. The other fairies need to do their part, but once the season gets more wintery, they need to deal with cold temperatures and snow, so both groups end up working in environments they aren't suited for.
One thing that should have been explained more in Secret of the Wings is, if it was so dangerous for warm fairies to be in the Winter Woods and vice-versa, how did the frost fairies' wings not break before they made it winter in the mainland. Also in the first Tinker Bell movie, the warm fairies bring spring, but seem to show no signs of any problems when they first arrive and there is snow everywhere, and they aren't even wearing coats in that scene.
Disney Wiki is enormously helpful for this story- for example, I didn't even know Periwinkle's friends had names, but they had a page for Gliss, Spike, etc. Also, it helps refresh my memory on facts like the fact fairies have their wings frosted at the end of SOTW, and other things I'd forgotten since I only watched the Tinker Bell movies once, and that was over the summer.
I am still undecided if I should start making my future chapters be half about Frozen and half about Tinker Bell (meaning my chapters will be really long so it'll take me forever to update), or whether I should switch chapters and just have one fandom per chapter.
If you guys have a preference, let me know and I'll do whichever more of you prefer. They're going to merge eventually so I won't have to worry, but that probably won't be for a couple chapters.
Okay, that's definitely enough rambling. Next chapter we go to 8 year old Elsa and 5 year old Anna.