Okay, I'm back! Thanks to everybody who read, reviewed, faved and followed my story so far. I really appreciate it! Also, please note the cover I made for this story. (the one problem is Fanfiction didn't let me decide how to crop it, so most of Anna's face is missing,) but it doesn't look that bad so I'm just going to keep it that way.
Okay, a couple things I forgot to mention before: (1) In chapter 3 I borrowed the idea about Elsa/Anna hating that they're princesses from the deleted song "We Know Better", which I found out about on Disney Wiki and (2) there's a reason for my killing off Anna's fairy in chapter 1.
Another similarity I noticed for my list of similarities between Frozen and Secret of the Wings is (*SPOILER ALERT*) that both sets of sisters were forcibly separated for their safety after an accident (Anna getting knocked out by Elsa's snow and Periwinkle's wings almost breaking when she visits Tink in the warm part of Pixie Hollow) and both sets are reunited after they heal the broken wing/frozen Anna at the end of the movie (*END OF SPOILER ALERT*) The reason I'm compiling this list of similarities between the movies and the characters is because I noticed a lot of them while watching Frozen the second time, which is what gave me the idea for this story. I actually thought of a snippet of what will happen in the middle of this fic (and the reason for Periwinkle's talent problem) while I was watching Frozen again, and the rest of this built itself around that idea. The point of this is that I wasn't just thinking about flinging characters that I like together, which is what some of my family members thought when I told them about this.
The usual Disclaimers apply- I don't own anything in this. For this chapter, I'm doing something a little different and switching back and forth between the Frozen and Disney Fairies parts, so I'll have two sections of each. Okay, now we check in on Anna and Elsa.
The sun was beginning to rise in Arendelle, a large orange sphere that lit up the previously gray sky. (If the plays at the Fairy Tale Theater back in Neverland were to be believed, the sun was actually a light-talent fairy, who had been born from such an explosive laugh that they had been larger than the earth and now flew around it day in and day out looking for Neverland. However, most fairies agreed it was a ridiculous story and the Fairy Tale Theater had obviously been short on ideas that month. The light talents, including Irridessa, were the only fairies who did not think it was a dumb idea). Regardless of the origins of the sun, from its position in the horizon, the just emerging sunlight cast long shadows, which illuminated things oddly- especially the woods where the kingdom's princesses were.
The shadows of tree trunks were cast in lines across the ground, making it look as if somebody had drawn stripes on the earth. Anna had noticed this and was happily pointing it out (replacing her ramblings about fairies, which had lasted a good five minutes after the mouse with the chariot had disappeared) as she pulled her sister along on her journey to examine all the exciting new things in the woods. She remained happily oblivious to the fact that Elsa had tried pointing out numerous times that they were lost.
Elsa tried again to get Anna's attention while the latter continued to chatter on excitedly about whatever presented itself. Elsa eventually stomped her foot in frustration, causing a small patch of ice to appear. After almost slipping and falling (and almost yanking Elsa down in the process, as they were still holding hands), Anna finally stopped talking long enough for Elsa to get a word in.
"Anna, do you know where we are?" Elsa asked, hoping that somehow the five year old did know, or would at least notice the problem they had and help her try to solve it instead of constantly inspecting everything she could. However, Anna simply responded "In the woods. But we're on an adventure! Let's play!"
That showed Anna in a nutshell; focusing on the good things and ignoring the bad until they went away. Or maybe she just didn't realize that they were truly lost. Elsa wasn't totally scared- at least Anna was with her, and Anna alone helped ease a lot of the fear. Things were always less scary when people were together instead of alone.
Elsa pondered how to get Anna to understand that they were completely lost and should start looking for a way home instead of playing. Deciding on a direct approach, Elsa put her hands on Anna's shoulders and stated "Anna, look around. We're totally lost, so we can't play right now because we need to find our way home."
Anna looked around, seemingly startled by the fact that there was no sign of the village or the castle of Arendelle. She eyes began to show more worry as she fiddled with her braids more intensely and chewed her bottom lip. After a couple moments, Anna suggested "Maybe if we walk the way we came, we'll end up back in the village." However, her tone revealed that she knew this was far-fetched, if not impossible. Even though she hadn't noticed where they were going when they were chasing the mouse, Anna had noticed that they changed directions a lot while doing so.
If they had been older, they might have thought of using the sun as a compass, but the idea didn't occur to either of them. Even if they had thought of it, they wouldn't have known which direction they had to go, seeing as the sun hadn't been up when they were playing in the woods. Lacking any other ideas, they started to go in the direction they'd gone after their last turn, hoping to recognize landmarks and eventually find their way back.
However, they had not been in the woods before, and they had been too busy trying to keep track of where the mouse was to pay much attention to their surroundings. So as they walked around, they recognized frighteningly little of the woods around them. Their worry increased, and after fifteen minutes they had somehow managed to get lost again, and were unable to find the place where they had conversed about being lost.
As she continued to wander around beside Anna, Elsa was already starting to think about the possibility of them never finding their way out of these woods. Unless somebody came and found them, it seemed likely to happen. But somebody would find them, right? Surely their parents must have realized they were missing by now, as they were normally awake as the sun rose. Elsa would've bet her magic powers that, if they were awake, the King was out looking for them with his "army". Elsa hoped they'd find them soon, because she was scared and hungry, and it didn't look like there was anything to eat in the woods.
Elsa knew they would be in a lot of trouble for sneaking out of the castle, but she didn't care how her parents punished them as long as she was safe there and not in these woods. She closed her eyes and wished "Papa, please find us soon." Or anybody, really. She amended.
Both girls heard a rustling sound in front of them and two cloaked figures stepped out from behind trees, but still hidden in the shadows. Anna and Elsa stared hopefully as the figures approached- maybe it was their father and and some soldier from the village. However, they turned out to be neither of them, and Elsa hurriedly took back the part of her wish stating she'd be happy if anyone found them. Once the two men stepped out into the light, and the princesses got a good look at them, their hopes were dashed- neither one was the size of their dad and nobody in Arendelle carried crossbows. Elsa and Anna stared fearfully at the Thomas and Vilhelm (though the girls didn't know their names and didn't want to) and then the princesses screamed.
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Tinker Bell sat idly outside the rulers' tent for awhile, and then, as the sun rose more in the sky and fairies and sparrow-men bustled around, preparing to start the day's work of changing fall to winter, Tink decided to go get Pixie Dust for herself and Periwinkle. She quickly scribbled a note to her sister in the dirt outside the ruler's tent, making it obvious by spreading leaves around it, using the tips to point towards the message she'd wrote with her finger.
Tink then headed towards the center of the fairy camp, where a long line of fairies stood, waiting to receive their Pixie Dust for the day. Among the dust-keeper talents standing in booths made of sticks and handing out Pixie Dust were Tink's friends Terence and Zarina. Tink joined Rosetta, Fawn and Silvermist in the back of the line and idly chatted with her friends as they waited for the long line to crawl forward.
"So, sugar, I heard your sister's not too hot right now." Rosetta said, changing the subject for the fourth time in two minutes. Tink frowned at her friend and her thoughts rampaged through her head. Where did she hear that? Must she gossip about everything?! Besides can't she see this could be a sensitive subject? And seriously? I don't think "hot" is a good word to describe Peri on the best days- she's a Frost fairy for crying out loud!
Tinker Bell only asked the first question. "Where did you hear that?" She asked the garden fairy. "I have my sources" Rosetta answered. Tink wondered how she could have heard this, and then remembered that Rosetta had a knack for eavesdropping on people's conversations and blowing them out of proportion. She wouldn't hesitate to make things up if it made her stories more juicy. "So what's up with Periwinkle? I heard that she's an incompl-" Tink interrupted her and said "Look, Rosetta, stop spreading rumors about my sister. It doesn't matter what's up with her- you shouldn't be blabbing her secrets to everybody."
"How dare you! I don't blab about anyone, and I don't spread rumors either! Everything I say is true!" However, Fawn and Silvermist were on Tink's side. "You mean like that story you had about me calling in a hawk to ruin one of your dates so I could steal your boyfriend?!" Fawn demanded, clearly annoyed at Rosetta's proclaimed innocence. "That was one of the stupidest things you've said! I've only had three dates in my entire life, whereas you've dated about a million times and you're only half a year older than me" Fawn turned her back on Rosetta and began talking with Tink.
Rosetta shifted her annoyance towards Fawn and shot out "Well, maybe the reason I've had so many more dates then you is because sparrow-men like me because I actually act like a girl! And the only person who says stupid things around here is you!"
Fawn turned around again so fast that her waist-length braid smacked Tink across the face. Silvermist had started telling Rosetta "It would be nice if you stopped gossiping about people. It can really hurt someone's feelings if somebody spreads a rumor about them that's not true." but she stopped halfway through as Fawn launched herself onto Rosetta and sent her tumbling to the ground. Fawn and Rosetta rolled around in the dirt; Fawn was struggling to pin Rosetta down as the enraged garden fairy slapped and scratched the tomboyish animal fairy while yelling about how her hair and clothes were getting messed up. Tink and Silvermist stared at each other awkwardly as their friends brawled, slightly bewildered at how this had ended up as Fawn and Rosetta's fight when the argument had started between Rosetta and Tink. Neither one wanted to try to separate them, however, because they knew that they'd just end up with a ton of bruises and scratches.
Tink and Silvermist heard an inarticulate, slightly amused grunt from behind them, and realized that they were at the front of the line (Fawn and Rosetta were too busy wrestling to notice). Fairy Gary- the leader of the Dust-Keeper talents who was easily recognizable due to his large nose and mustache, prominent belly and kilt- was looking at the tinker-talent and water-talent fairies for some sort of explanation as to why their friends were trying to beat each other into submission. Tinker Bell and Silvermist just shrugged.
"Well, at least this morning is more interesting than I expected." Fairy Gary remarked as he leaned over the brawling fairies and attempted to wrench Fawn and Rosetta apart. He eventually succeeded and pulled them away from each other and lifted them to their feet, keeping a firm grasp on them as he held them apart. They only stopped trying to attack the other when Fairy Gary growled "Do you want me to get Queen Clarion?"
Once he was certain they wouldn't spring on each other again, Fairy Gary released Fawn and Rosetta, who continued to glare daggers at each other. He then sent them to the Dust-Keeper talents at opposite ends of the row of those passing out Pixie Dust, so there would be as much distance as possible between them. After they had been dealt with, Fairy Gary turned back to Tink and Silvermist, back to his usual happy self.
"All right. Silvermist, you go over there." He said, pointing to a booth with some random Dust-Keeper that Tink didn't know. He then looked down at Tink, and then looked around at the Dust-Keepers, debating about which one to send the Tinker-talent to. Gesturing towards Terence, who was busy helping some other fairy, Fairy Gary said teasingly, in his distinct Scottish accent "Looks like your boyfriends taken. Any other preferences?"
"It's not like that! Terence and I are just friends." Tink exclaimed. "Just joking- more or less" Fairy Gary stated, shrugging, "Zarina's free. Now scram." Tink made her way over to Zarina, wondering why everybody enjoyed teasing her and Terence about their nonexistent relationship. Even Periwinkle enjoyed bugging Tink about it.
Tink reached Zarina's booth and greeted her friend. After exchanging greetings, Tink asked "Can you give me some Pixie Dust for Peri, too? I told her I'd pick hers up." Zarina nodded, and then beckoned Tink closer and whispered "I'll throw in one of my creations, too." Tink was slightly worried by this statement, as Zarina's experiments mostly involved mutating Pixie Dust in a way that unintentionally ended up being dangerous.
Tink waited as Zarina gathered up the right amount of normal Pixie Dust into two small pouches- one for Tink and one for Peri. Tink dumped hers all over herself and held on to Peri's to give to her later. Tink fluttered up a bit, just to make sure it worked. To be honest, she wouldn't need that much Pixie Dust today, because the fairies were using the snow-making machines on the ground seeing as they were too unwieldy to fly with.
After making sure nobody was watching, Zarina rummaged in her booth for a couple moments and pulled out a satchel made from a leaf and some blades of grass. She dangled it by the strap proudly, and the satchel swung slightly. It was giving off the slightest red glow, which Tink barely noticed, caused by whatever bizarre type of Pixie Dust was inside.
Tink eyed the satchel warily, as if it might suddenly explode, and asked Zarina in an uncertain voice "What is it?"
Zarina beamed (seemingly unaware of Tink's hesitation to take the satchel) and replied "I call it Life Dust." Tink just stared at her blankly and asked "It's not dangerous, is it?" Zarina laughed. "Of course not. This beauty lets you fly just like normal Pixie Dust does, but it's also nutritious!" Zarina noticed Tink staring at her as if she were slightly insane, and said "I went for a week without eating anything when I took this stuff, and I didn't run out of energy or lose weight. I'm telling you, this stuff is great!"
Tink continued to stare blankly at Zarina and finally voiced the only thing on her mind at the moment "What's the point of Pixie Dust that can replace food? It's not like we can't eat foods that come from the Mainland." There was an awkward silence for about ten seconds, and then Zarina replied in a slightly hurt voice "Well, I think it's a cool idea."
"Okay, whatever. I'll take it. That stuff's probably better than the crummy food here anyway." Tink replied. It was true, the food was horrible at the fairy camp. The cooking-talent fairies had no reason to travel there, so the other fairies were left to their own devices, and there hadn't been a single visit to the Mainland that didn't involve the water-talents putting out a fire caused by some fairy's botched meal. Zarina perked up instantly as Tink swung the satchel over her shoulder. Tink waved goodbye as she flew off.
The fairies would soon depart to start changing the season to winter, so Tink flew straight to where the snow-making machines were, hoping to find Peri there prepping with the other fairies. Tink was lucky-Periwinkle was there, so Tink didn't have to fly through the whole camp looking for her. She was talking with her friends and seemed to be her usual bubbly self again, but Tink knew her well enough to know she wasn't feeling completely okay, though she still looked like she was feeling a lot better. Even though they were fraternal twins instead of identical ones, Tink and Peri still shared many habits and characteristics. Tink could see that Peri was dying to tug at her bangs, something both of them did when they were annoyed or scared or worried. Peri's hands kept flicking up as if they were trying to move up themselves and pull her arms with them, but they stopped when Peri clasped her hands behind her back.
Tink flew up to Periwinkle and gave her sister her Pixie Dust. Peri then dumped it all over herself, and Tink saw that she looked a bit happier after that. Pixie Dust was nice that way. Peri then noticed the satchel that Tink was wearing and looked at it questioningly. Tink pulled her aside and said "It's one of Zarina's experiments but we can pretty much use it as extra Pixie Dust. Zarina said it can act like food, but I doubt we'll need it for that." Peri nodded, looking a bit confused at the idea of eating Pixie Dust.
Strictly speaking, Zarina wasn't supposed to be experimenting, but Tink was hardly a stickler for rules herself so she kept Zarina's secret for her (though Peri knew about it, too but Zarina had said she didn't mind if Tink told Peri. It was common knowledge that there was very little the twins didn't share with each other- and now that Peri had told Tink about her talent problem, there were absolutely no secrets either of them kept from the other. ) However, keeping Zarina's secret wasn't the real reason Tink had pulled Peri aside.
"How are you feeling?" Tink whispered to her sister. Peri truthfully answered "Better.", though Tink noticed that she hadn't said she felt okay, just that she didn't feel as depressed as before. Tink looked at her slightly disbelievingly, and Peri said "No, really! I feel totally flitterific! I mean, it almost never goes away more than once a day, and it's already ditched me, so I think I'll be okay." Tink knew "it" referred to Peri's talent, and she decided that Peri was mostly telling the truth and actually felt a lot better. Tink guessed that her sister was about three quarters of the way back to her normal self. Peri then added with glee "Look, I can do it now." and shot snow from her fingers.
Tink smiled and said "Well, if it's already come back and won't leave again, what can possibly go wrong?"
The answer turned out to be a lot.
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Vilhelm and Thomas had finally caught up with the princesses after half an hour of searching for them. Although the princesses had no idea where they were, the guards did because they knew the trick of using the sun as a compass. Once they'd gathered the girls up (to put it nicely) and carted them off to the Duke, they would be able to collect their paycheck, with a bonus for finding the girls so the Duke could execute his plan- and potentially the princesses.
Vilhelm frowned at this. He hoped the Duke wouldn't try to kill the girls. It was just plain wrong to kill children, though the Duke would most likely disagree. However, the Duke was known to seek revenge, so Vilhelm thought it would be stupid of him to try to intervene with his boss's plans. If he did ruin the Duke's plans, Vilhelm's own family would most likely be the target of the Duke's anger. If Vilhelm were to pick whether it was the princesses or his own family that would be harmed, Vilhelm would choose the princesses in a heartbeat.
The guards advanced towards the girls, who stared at them fearfully and backed away. After a couple seconds, Thomas lunged at the younger one, who was closer. Thomas managed to grab the younger one's arm while Vilhelm headed towards the older, magical one.
Anna screamed as she felt a large, gloved hand wrap around her arm. She instinctively kicked at the man, trying to squirm out of his iron grip. Elsa was still free, and she stomped her feet frantically as she evaded Vilhelm, turning the ground to ice.
Both guards and Anna slipped on the unexpected ice, and Anna managed to escape from her captor when his grip loosened. Anna scrambled away from the men, who were still slightly dazed from the fall, as they had both whacked their heads on the way down. They finally got up, only to find that there was more ice, and promptly slipped again. By the time the guards finally had solid footing again, the girls were long gone.
"That little witch tried to kill us!" Thomas growled under his breath "If the Duke doesn't kill her I will!" Vilhelm glanced at his companion and decided against pointing out that slipping on ice wasn't exactly fatal. Besides, the girl had only used her powers to save her sister. Vilhelm began to think that the Duke and Thomas were far more dangerous than the elder princess of Arendelle, despite the fact they couldn't do magic.
Elsa ran away as fast as she could with Anna right at her heels, not caring where they were going as they tried to get as far away from the guards as possible. They ran faster and longer than they ever had before, their breaths becoming frantic gasps for air.
Elsa's magic was feeding heavily on her fear, and the temperature dropped rapidly as they ran. Snow began to whirl around them, and it became harder to run as the snow settled on the ground. Still they kept moving, helped by the adrenaline rushing through them, though they were closer to stumbling through the snow than running at this point.
The wind howled and it was snowing so heavily that Elsa could barely see what was in front of her. She turned around to ask Anna if she wanted to rest for a bit, and screamed.
Anna wasn't there.
Elsa called her sister's name more and more frantically as she desperately searched for some sign, any sign of her sister. Elsa called Anna's name until she was screaming herself hoarse. The storm became even worse as Elsa's magic spilled out of her growing fear and the agonizing despair that had topped it off.
Eventually the storm got so bad that Elsa couldn't see her own hands in front of her, and she couldn't hear herself cry her sister's name. Nor did she hear the sobs that came from her mouth when she got no response.
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Periwinkle had started to feel even better once the fairies started bringing winter to the mainland. Once all the fairies had collected their Pixie Dust- which wasn't long after Tink and Peri got theirs- all the fairies' wings had been frosted. Tink and Peri had been the only fairies who hadn't, because they did not need to worry about their wings breaking.
Changing the seasons was always fun, but it was slightly less fun this time because it had a rigid feel to it and they were stuck walking instead of flying. The fairies had worked more or less in a line, and synchronized their actions. All of the frost fairies would shoot snow into the machines at the same time, while other fairies would crank the machines to shoot the snow out at high speeds. Then Vidia and the other fast-flying talents would use their wind-controlling powers to blow the snow around. There were some interesting (and sometimes terrifying) moments, such as when the fairies had rushed to hide from two armed men wearing cloaks who were creeping through the forest. After all, the existence of fairies was supposed to be secret, especially when adults were concerned.
It was the synchronization of the fairies that had been the problem. Her talent had disappeared again at the worst possible time. All the frost fairies were shooting snow, except Periwinkle, who discovered that she couldn't. Figures, Periwinkle had thought bitterly the one time everybody would notice that my talent's missing is the time it decides to leave me multiple times.
Tink had noticed this first because they were using the same machine, but it didn't take much longer for every other fairy to be staring at Periwinkle. "You're supposed to make snow with us!" a frost fairy had shouted, though Peri couldn't tell who it was.
The other fairies, aside from Tink, had pestered Peri with questions. "Why aren't you helping?" "What's wrong?" "Do you need a break?". On and on they went, and Peri didn't want to answer any of them. Then, over the questions people were asking, Rosetta could clearly be heard saying "It's because you're an incomplete, right?"
Peri and Tink both lost it. Tink had started screaming at all the fairies to leave her alone as Peri simply took to the air and fled. She knew she couldn't fly that long, as it still wasn't very cold and the fairies hadn't gotten that much snow on the ground.
"Now look what you've done. I hope you're happy." Tink snapped to all the fairies before removing her coat and flying away to find her sister and comfort her. Tink was catching up to Peri fairly quickly, as the weather was still closer to her comfort zone than Peri's. "Peri, I need to talk to you!" Tink shouted. Peri had looked like she wanted to speed up and leave Tink behind, but her wings had quit and she was losing altitude quickly.
However, the temperature started to drop and snow started falling. This was odd. The other fairies certainly couldn't have gotten this much done in the couple minutes they'd been gone. Peri didn't care how this storm had come, she was simply glad she could fly as much as she wanted now. She flew and flew, not caring where she was going, just as long as it was away. She wanted to be alone. Not even Tink could cheer her up.
Periwinkle stopped suddenly. Tink! There was no way she could have made it back to fairy camp in this weather. When Peri had glanced back to see how much she was gaining, Tink had only been wearing the bottom part of her winter outfit. This was bad. Fairies could get frostbite too - well, at least the ones from the warm part of Pixie Hollow could.
Peri decided that Tink's need was greater than her own wish to be alone at the moment, as Tink could be seriously ill or even dead if she was in the cold for too long. Peri turned around and frantically searched for her twin, but she could barely see. She tried relying on her wings to find Tink, but no matter where she flew, they didn't glow at all.
Okay, so now both groups are separated and Anna and Elsa are fleeing from the guards, and Tink could be catching frostbite. (Insert suspenseful music here) This chapter took me forever to write. I hope you enjoyed it. I'm not sure if the way Tink/Peri got separated was a bit too close to the way Anna/Elsa did. I hope they're not too similar.
I really have nothing against Rosetta, but I can't picture any of the other fairies spreading rumors. Also, the whole fight between Fawn and Rosetta sort of wrote itself- I'm not sure what that says about me :)
Writing Zarina was fun, because I could use her however I wanted and until The Pirate Fairy comes out, she isn't even out of character (because it's hard to tell what her character is like from a trailer). So, yeah writing her is fun. I guess this fic takes place before the Pirate Fairy, but then that screws up chapter 2 because I had Hook make a cameo in that (and he isn't Captain Hook yet in The Pirate Fairy, he's just James. I'm excited about The Pirate Fairy coming out in less than a month. I'm also hoping that sometime there will be a Tinker Bell movie that has Peter Pan in it.
Okay, next chapter this will actually be a crossover because the fairies' and princesses' paths will cross. I'm not sure when I'll be able to post that- I'm hoping next weekend but I might be kind of busy, I'm not sure.
Hope you enjoyed! Please review!