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So, I'm trying to learn MMD while using it to make scenes from this fic at the same time, while I'm also trying to write this, and of course there's schoolwork, which is keeping me busy. I'm actually surprised that I managed to update in two weeks.
I'm trying to use MMD to make the scene where Elsa and Anna are building Olaf and notice Cheese the mouse, while the Duke's guards watch them and Fawn flies overhead (I'm probably going to cheat and just have a ball of light for Fawn). I still don't know how to edit the models, and all the characters are really small compared to the Kingdom Hearts Christmas Town model I found, and I can't figure out how to change the colors and stuff. (I'm using the hooded mysterious figure from Kingdom Hearts as Vilhelm and Thomas, and even though it said it was Roxas, I'm thinking it's actually female...). I'm still looking for a mouse to be Cheese, and a chariot.
Even if I do succeed in making the image, it'll probably seem very different than my description in this story- Elsa and Anna are wearing normal clothes instead of pajamas, and Anna doesn't have a coat or anything. And the town is full of candy.
Oh, yeah- I'm not sure if I'm actually going to be able to share whatever images I make because on Deviantart the model suppliers always say you have to 1. give them credit (easy) and 2. edit the models (hard). But other people have posted things with the Frozen models in them, so maybe 'editing the models' just means putting them in some pose and creating a scene? If that's the case, maybe I could post pictures, if I actually get any. I'd need to get a deviantart account too but those are free, so that's not really a problem.
Okay- that's enough author's notes- time for chapter 16.
Peri didn't feel her talent leave her like it normally did when Elsa used the magic, which was a good sign. So far, her wish had worked, but she still had to make sure that she could use her powers at the same time as Elsa. Peri unleashed a stream of snow, and slowly dared to open her eyes, hoping that Elsa would still be using her powers. In front of her, Elsa had stopped making a snowball and was making something out of ice.
The wand had worked.
A huge smile spread across Peri's face, so big that it looked like her head would crack in two. No more talent-problems! She had her own set of powers! Not Elsa's, not partially Elsa's, but all her's!
She whirled around in midair, laughing hysterically as she shot snow around.
The others watched her, smiling. Her joy was contagious. Anna and Elsa danced around, chanting "It worked! It worked!" Meanwhile, Peri buzzed all over the place, spontaneously hugging everybody there, even Vidia and Terence. Peri's hugs made the other fairies' smiles to disappear for a bit. They were all warm-weather fairies, and none of them enjoyed being under Peri's personal flurry of snow, which seemed even colder than normal snow.
Peri barely noticed their reactions. She was still fluttering around and laughing, She still held the wand in her hand, but she seemed to not be affected by wand madness. She spun around with Tink, before swooping down and shooting snow at Elsa.
Once Peri had stopped laughing, Rosetta approached her. Rosetta apologized again for gossiping about Peri. Peri was so thrilled at the moment that she felt she could forgive anyone for anything.
Terence headed towards Tink. "So," he said, smiling "tell me- are you ever going to start fixing your own problems, or are you always going to need other people to fix them?" He laughed at the annoyed look Tink sent him, and he said "What? I'm just observing something. I mean, you needed me to bail you out on your first trip for the Mirror of Incanta, back when you broke the Moonstone."
"Well, you needed me to save you from all those rats, remember?" Tink countered, and Terence laughed. "I guess neither of us is going to win this, huh?"
"I thought I already did." Tink said, and Terence rolled his eyes. Suddenly, Peri flew straight into Tink and hugged her from behind, "So how's it going with your boyyyfriend, Tink?"
"How many times do I have to tell you that he's not my boyfriend?!" Tink said, exasperated. Sure she was glad that Peri was happy, and had a complete talent, but did she really have to be so hyper and random as a result? Tink thought that Peri's euphoria was going a bit too far.
Zarina pulled out a bag of edible Pixie Dust that had been stashed in the balloon carrier and passed it around. Everyone was rather hungry, since they had been fighting Kyto (or, in Elsa and Anna's case, running around). It was about lunchtime anyway.
"So how did you get Queen Clarion to give you permission to come here?" Peri asked as she popped a speck of raspberry Pixie Dust into her mouth. None of them answered, and Peri's mouth twitched upwards in a smile. "You didn't even ask, did you?" They shook their heads in the negative.
After lunch, the group started their flight back to Pixie Hollow. The most eventful thing that happened was Peri engaging Elsa in a battle with their talents, during which all the others decided to walk (or, rather, Anna walked and the other fairies hitched a ride on her), so they wouldn't freeze.
Once they got back to Pixie Hollow, the fairies debated about what to do with the wand. Eventually they decided to store it in Dewey's library. Dewey didn't seem like the type to succumb to wand-madness, and he would probably want to write some book about it anyway. Peri zipped over there and deposited the wand.
Once Peri returned, Terence announced that Peri, Tink and Vidia were going to the healing-talents to make sure they hadn't gotten injured when Kyto was tossing the birdcage around. Tink and Vidia started protesting, claiming that they were just fine, and demanding to know whether or not the others were going. After all, they'd gotten some bruises in their fight with Kyto.
The other fairies just sighed and mobbed Vidia and Tink, knowing the only way to get them there would be with brute force. Peri, however, didn't mind. Her head did hurt, and she willingly followed the mob of fairies who were escorting her twin and Vidia to the hospital.
Anna and Elsa were last, somewhat confused as they watched the fairies mob Tink and Vidia. Anna had heard the word 'healing', as well as the phrase 'getting that looked at' and she and Elsa both knew those were codewords for those examinations that they hated so much, where some grown-up would try to determine if they were sick. The princesses followed reluctantly, hoping the examination wasn't for them.
There were only two rooms open at the fairy hospital, so Vidia would get one room and Tink and Peri shared the other, after another bed had been moved in. Elsa and Anna sighed, relieved, when they discovered that this visit wasn't for them. They didn't feel like being prodded with cold hands, and fairy sized hands would almost feel like needles. They happily settled on the ground outside the hospital while Peri entered the room she was told to, followed by Tink, who had been shoved inside by the mob.
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The door to Dewey's library slowly swung open. A figure was silhouetted in the light from outside, so large that you couldn't see all of it from inside the library. It crawled through the doorway and let the door swing shut behind it. Once it was no longer silhouetted, one could see it was Elsa.
Only she wasn't Elsa at the same time- she had a crazed look in her eyes, a frightening contrast to her usual self. When the eight-year-old saw that nobody was around, she got to her feet and started looking.
"Where is it? Where is it?" Elsa muttered as she glanced around at the icy books surrounding her. She paced up and down, eyes roving around, talking into the air. She picked up books from the piles, obviously not minding the ice covering them. Occasionally, she would accidentally spew some magic and add some ice to the already ice-covered books.
She angrily toppled some of the stacks of books on her way to the shelves, which were almost the size of Clumsy bookshelves and had enough space in between them for Elsa to squeeze through. Some parts of Dewey's library almost could pass as a Clumsy library, but the effect was ruined by the fact that it made of ice, the books were fairy-sized, and the door was only a couple feet tall. Elsa roamed up and down the aisles of shelves, growing frustrated when she didn't see what she was looking for. She stalked back to the front of the library, and stopped. Right in front of her, on a pile of books, was an icy pillow, and on the pillow was the wand.
How strange. She'd looked on all the book piles, and she was positive the wand hadn't been there before. Maybe it just appeared from thin air. But not even wands could do that- could they? Elsa had never heard of wands just appearing, not even in fairy tales, but she didn't consider herself an expert on wands.
Elsa reached for the wand, which was at just the right height for her. She'd felt wonderful when she was holding it on the beach earlier. Better than wonderful, actually. She had been almost dangerously euphoric. It was like she'd had all the power in the world when the wand was in her hand.
She knew she ought to stay away from the wand, but she couldn't help it. It was as if it was calling her. Elsa, come get me. Elsa, I'm waaaiiiting for you... It wouldn't leave her alone and was practically pulling her towards it. Any fairy would be able to see that Elsa had a serious case of wand madness, but Elsa herself had no idea.
Just before Elsa's fingers closed around the wand, the door to the library began to creak open. Elsa gasped in alarm. She couldn't be seen- she wasn't supposed to be here. Frantically she ran to hide among the bookshelves, leaving the wand on the pillow. She peeked out from her hiding place, and watched another figure crawl through the door. Elsa was almost positive she knew who it was, even though she only saw a silhouette. Once the figure made it through the door and shut it, Elsa could see clearly who had arrived. Anna.
Anna was back in her winter clothes, except she had skipped putting on her hat. Her eyes had the same crazed look as Elsa's, but it wasn't as noticeable because for some reason Elsa's case of wand madness was a lot worse than Anna's. Elsa watched her little sister glance around, and when Anna's eyes lit up at the sight of the wand, Elsa's eyes narrowed. She had been here first.
Elsa burst from her hiding place and sprinted for the wand, expertly sliding across the ice as she ran, increasing her speed. Anna was closer, however, and she managed to get to the wand first, even though she'd slipped on the ice once.
"What are you doing here?" Anna asked with innocent curiosity as her sister skidded to a stop near her. "What are you doing here?" Elsa flung back angrily. "Give me the wand, Anna."
"No!" Anna replied "I got it first, so I get it first. So there." She stuck her tongue out at Elsa, not realizing how awkwardly weird that sentence was. Anna clutched the wand and sighed blissfully, saying "The wand feels so lovely."
Elsa glared at her sister; why did she think she could just barge in and get dibs on the wand?! "I was here first!" Elsa exploded. "And I would have gotten the wand earlier if you hadn't come in and forced me to hide. So give me the wand!"
"You snooze you lose!" Anna singsonged, before saying in a normal voice "Don't be such a poopyhead, Elsa. You made me wait, so you can wait for-" Before Anna finished speaking, Elsa pounced, tackling her sister and knocking her to the ground. Anna instinctively opened her hands, and the wand skittered across the icy floor. Both girls watched it, before glancing at each other and racing towards it- Elsa got a head start since she had been on top of Anna.
But Anna managed to trip Elsa by grabbing her foot, and the five-year-old scrambled- on all fours, so it would be harder to slip- past her fallen sister towards the wand. She dashed right into a snowbank, which she was sure hadn't been there a moment before. The snowbank collapsed and fell on her. "No fair, Elsa!" Anna hollered at her sister as she wriggled out of the snowbank. But by that time, Elsa had reached the wand and snatched it from the ground.
"You're a cheater!" Anna yelled at her. "You only won because of your magic. I'd have beaten you if I could do that!"
"But you can't do that!" Elsa replied in an uncharacteristically nasty voice, the same tone she'd used when consumed by wand madness back on the beach. "The only magic you have is understanding fairies." She paused, and added as an afterthought "I wish I could understand fairies."
A spark flared in what could loosely be defined as the wand's mind when it heard the wish. It had to grant it, so it did. If the wand could have laughed, it would have, for it had seen a loophole in the wish.
"Yeah, well you can't, can you?" Anna spat back, mimicking Elsa's nasty tone. "You're too dumb!" She made a stupid-looking face and sang "Stupid Elsa, dumb as a tree. Can't even understand a f-air-y!" Elsa rushed forward to attack her again, but stopped.
They heard voices approaching the library, and they looked at each other, horrified. They both knew how much trouble they'd get into if they were caught here. "We need to go!" Elsa whispered urgently, and Anna nodded; she knew that.
"Truce?" Anna whispered to Elsa, ready to end their fight. This had been one of their worst fights, and both of them had hated it. The two didn't fight as often as most siblings- seeing as they rarely left the castle, they only had each other to play with (except on the rare occasion when another royal child came on a visit with some other ruler, but they were mostly snooty princes, and Elsa and Anna didn't like boys much anyway), so whenever the princesses drove each other off during a fight, they'd be left without a playmate until the other forgave them. And playing alone was boring. Elsa and Anna had discovered fairly early that it was more fun to just get along and play together.
"Okay, truce." Elsa agreed. The sisters were partners in crime again, and teamed up to escape without getting caught. They rocketed back towards the pillow where the wand had been and quickly but gently placed the wand on it. Elsa pulled Anna towards the door and pressed herself up against the wall, ready to sneak out once someone entered. Anna quickly flattened herself against the wall, still holding Elsa's hand.
The door opened, and Dewey flew in with Gliss and Spike. Fortunately for Anna and Elsa, they didn't look backwards, and they flew back to the shelves. Elsa shoved Anna towards the door, and Anna frantically crawled through, with Elsa right behind her.
Once they were safely outside the library, the girls sprinted towards the warmer part of Pixie Hollow. A scout sparrow-man asked what they were doing, and both Elsa and Anna exclaimed "Nothing!".
Both girls froze, and slowly turned to look at each other. Her eyes wide, Elsa murmured "I understood him. He asked what we were doing- I heard words with the bells just like you said." Anna looked confused, and said "But you never know what the fairies are saying. I always have to tell you. So how'd you know what he said?"
Elsa bit her lip thoughtfully and said, after a little bit "I said that I wished I could understand fairies when I held the wand, remember? And then you said that I couldn't...but I can" Anna stared at her, looking like she was beginning to piece it together but not quite there yet, and Elsa continued "The wand probably grants wishes- that's what they do in all our stories. Maybe Peri was wrong, and the wand can work for humans. And it does more than just fix somebody's magic."
"Let's go ask them!" Anna suggested, clearly forgetting that they shouldn't have been fiddling with the wand in the first place, and asking questions about it would probably draw suspicion. Elsa pointed this out, but she was pretty sure the fairies would find out eventually if she started responding to what they said.
Anna stated that they should probably go back to the fairy hospital anyways, since they were supposed to have stayed in that general area and Dewey's library had definitely been out of bounds. Elsa nodded and the two began to walk back to the hospital.
They walked in silence, looking down at the ground so they could avoid stepping on anything fairy-sized. They passed a couple fairies who were having conversations, and Anna could tell that Elsa knew what they were saying. Anna was mad at Elsa, because now she had both the snow powers and the understanding fairies power, which was hardly fair. Sulking, Anna brooded over how she didn't feel as special as before since she no longer had a unique power. But she became less angry as they neared the fairy hospital. Even if they could get in trouble for using the wand, Anna wanted to see if her fairy friends were getting better.
They arrived at the tree where the fairy hospital was, and approached the room Tink and Peri were in, which was near the bottom of the trunk. Both girls lay down in front of it, and Anna rapped the trunk with her knuckle, since knocking of a leaf curtain doesn't really work.
Silence greeted them, and Elsa called out "Tinker Bell? Periwinkle?" Still nothing. "Do you mind if I open the door?" Getting no response, Elsa decided they wouldn't mind. She moved the leaf away from the door-frame in the tree.
Anna and Elsa put their heads together and tried to peer through the six-inch hole in the trunk of the tree at the same time. The beds where Tink and Peri resided were visible from the doorway, and both fairies were lying down with their eyes closed.
"Shh! They're sleeping!" Anna whispered to Elsa, even though Elsa already knew that and hadn't been making any noise in the first place. Elsa gave her sister a strange look- after all, Anna was the one who had a habit of waking people up when they were sleeping.
Elsa was about to close the leaf-curtain when Anna said "Look!", in an awed but slightly worried voice. Elsa glanced back in the room and startled. Peri and Tink still appeared to be sleeping, but their bodies were slowly turning a deep shade of purple.
It didn't stop there. Their wings began to turn to dust. Their hair fell out. And then, to the girls' horror, the fairies' skin began to disappear, leaving two small skeletons lying in the beds, dressed in what soon became the tattered remains of clothing.
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Peri woke up screaming. In her mind's eye, she kept seeing herself and Tink turn into skeletons. It took about a minute for her to actually see the hospital room that surrounded her.
Of course, Tink had woken up when Peri started screaming. "What's wrong?" Tink asked wearily as she glanced at the clock. They'd been asleep for two hours.
Peri didn't respond. She was still shaken from the nightmare. It had been the worst nightmare she'd ever had, and she'd had some bad ones before. A lingering voice from the dream still echoed in her ears, repeating the phrase she'd heard as she watched herself and Tink decay. "Be careful what you wish for..." Somehow, she knew it had been the wand saying that in her nightmare, even though wands couldn't talk. Peri shivered and huddled against the blankets. Would the wand really kill fairies to give someone the fairy language, when it could easily just give it to them without killing anyone?
Tink had gotten out of her bed and walked over to Peri's. She sat down beside her twin and pulled her into a hug. Peri kept shivering, but she calmed down a little in her sister's embrace. Tink, meanwhile, was talking soothingly to Peri and ignoring the cold snow that fell from the magical flurry onto her bare arms.
Nobody but Peri had really seen this side of Tink. Tink knew what it was like to have nightmares that felt real even after you awoke. The kind that made you want to hide under your blankets even after you knew it had just been a dream, because you were still scared. They seemed to have a nasty way of clinging to you. Nightmares could reduce even the bravest people to quivering lumps, because they hit them where they hurt most. And they could feature terrifying images that you didn't want to see in the first place and couldn't believe had come from your brain.
"Do you want to talk about the nightmare?" Tink asked gently. Peri leaned away from Tink's embrace so she could look at her. Tink was still in her iconic leaf dress, but she was barefoot and she had let her hair fall down. Even though Peri had seen her twin's hair fall freely like that before, she still thought that Tink didn't really look like herself. Something about it made her look almost like a young girl.
Huddling up against Tink again, Peri spoke quickly, as if she'd forget about the dream sooner if she told it faster. "Elsa had found the wand in Dewey's library, but Anna came in and they fought over it. Elsa said that she wished she could understand fairies and waved it. They left the library and came here, where we were."
Peri paused, The fear seemed to be fading. She wasn't as tense, and her breathing had slowed down to a normal level. Of course, as soon as she thought about the skeleton part she'd probably get all jittery again. But for the moment, she started thinking about her nightmare in other ways.
Out of the blue, Peri had noticed something odd about this dream. She'd seen herself in this dream, as another person, as if she'd been observing it as someone else. But in every other dream she remembered having, she'd always been herself. Also, she had heard somewhere that you couldn't die in your dreams, but obviously that wasn't true.
Tink simply waited for her sister to continue talking. Peri finally continued, but she started tensing up again and hyperventilating as she talked "When they got here, it looked like we were sleeping. But then..." Her hyperventilation increased "But then... our bodies turned purple and we b-became sk-skel-letons." Peri choked out the word skeletons as if saying it would make one appear in thin air.
Tink was at a loss for what to say. That nightmare sounded worse than any of the ones she'd had, including the one where she'd had to fight the decomposing corpse of a giant hawk. Fighting a corpse was one thing, but watching yourself, and someone you loved, turn into skeletons?! Tink didn't even try to convince herself that she wouldn't have acted scared if she'd seen that in a nightmare. She knew she'd have been just as terrified as Peri, if not more so. And Tink was one of the bravest fairies in Pixie Hollow.
Peri continued to huddle against Tink, who was starting to feel a bit scared herself now that she had a mental image of herself turning into a skeleton. That was the downside about listening to someone tell you about their nightmare- sometimes your brain would start constructing it so you could 'enjoy' it too.
After a little while, Peri felt almost normal, and she leaned out of Tink's embrace. After all, she told herself, she'd had nightmares before and she'd gotten over those, so she'd get over this one, too. Tink got up and began to put her hair in the usual bun, with her bangs hanging over her forehead. Peri kicked the covers off her legs and swung them off the side of the bed. She put her slippers on and walked over to Tink. Unlike her sister, Peri didn't do anything to her hair since it almost always stayed in its usual style.
Tink headed towards the door, but Peri tried to stop her. "The healing-talents haven't discharged us to leave yet." she pointed out. The healing-talents were very displeased when their charges left before being given permission. Queen Clarion and Lord Milori's reactions to finding out someone had left the hospital early were, if possible, even worse.
Tink gave her twin a sidelong look. "I'm not leaving leaving. I just thought I'd take a little trip to reassure Elsa and Anna that we're fine."
Peri gave her a suspicious look. That seemed like the sort of excuse Tink would make just to have a chance to escape the hospital, especially since it seemed a little too kind compared to Tink's normal personality. Why Tink couldn't just wait to be released was anyone's guess. She seemed to have something against staying in the hospital for the full amount of time she was supposed to, and she was apparently immune to the wrath of the healing-talents and fairy rulers.
Peri sighed "I'll go with you." She didn't really want to, but this way she could make sure Tink didn't fly away. Peri thought she could drag Tink back to their hospital room if needed. Tink shook her head and said "Nope. You need to recover from you're nightmare. You should stay here."
Peri almost laughed at that. "Seriously, Tink?! I know you're going to try sneaking out of here! I'm coming with you if you're going." Tink shot her an annoyed look and said "You know me to well."
"Who would keep you in line if I wasn't around?" Peri replied, only half joking. "We can still visit Elsa and Anna, even if that wasn't you're real intent."
Tink glared at her and growled out "Fine." She marched angrily out the door, and Peri followed her, shaking her head. Tink was like a little kid stomping over to the "naughty chair".
Peri grabbed Tink's wrist as soon as they got outside, because she could tell Tink had been thinking of making a run for it. She pulled Tink along to where Elsa and Anna were waiting, only to realize they weren't there.
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Of course Anna and Elsa were going after the wand. That part of Peri's nightmare had been true.
Both were in the grip of wand madness, though not as drastically as they'd been in Peri's dream. Actually, they're wand madness was mild compared to most fairies', since the princesses didn't know that the wand granted wishes. The wand-madness made them want to get the wand, not use it. They simply enjoyed holding the wand, and hadn't thought of wishes since their journey to get the Mirror of Incanta the previous day.
They had left their waiting spot about twenty minutes ago. Before then, they had been devising a plan to get to the wand without getting caught. Their plan consisted of going to Dewey's library with the excuse that the fairy twins wanted something to read, since the wand was in there. Then they'd just have to find the wand and they could experience the thrilling sensation of holding it.
Anna had suggested that, if anyone saw them with the wand, they should say that they were going to take the wand back to Tink and Peri since they'd asked for it, but Elsa said nobody would fall for that. Besides, taking the wand would be a bad idea, since someone was bound to realize it was missing and they'd eventually be caught.
Unlike Peri's dream, they were working together from the very beginning. They'd learned over the years that they seemed to get out of trouble more often when the other was backing them up than when they committed a 'crime' alone (though they got into plenty of trouble together, too). Even if they did get in trouble, getting caught together and getting punished wasn't as bad as getting punished alone.
They stopped by the balloon carrier shed so Anna could get her coat, hat and mittens. Fortunately, the door was unlocked, and Anna retrieved her winter gear. She put it on as they neared the border and prepared to cross into the Winter Woods.
Surprisingly, they didn't attract too much attention from the scouts. Apparently the scout-talents were feeling lazy, since they hadn't even asked the girls where they were going. Elsa and Anna hoped their luck would continue.
It wasn't hard to find their way to Dewey's library. For one thing, they'd been their before, but even if that hadn't it was hard to miss, since it was easily the largest building around; it was at least eight feet tall whereas all the other buildings were at most a foot tall.
Elsa crouched down by the door, opened it a crack, and peeked inside. She didn't see anyone. Slowly, she opened it more, and once she was sure the coast was clear, she crawled inside. Anna followed her, and they began to hunt for the wand.
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"We should start chaining those girls to the ground when we leave them somewhere." Tink muttered under her breath. Why couldn't Anna and Elsa just stay put like they were told instead of wandering off? The only time they had stayed where they were supposed to was on the beach that morning, but that was probably because there wasn't anywhere to wander off to.
"Where do you think they are?" Tink asked. Peri shrugged, but then said "Maybe they're going after..." Tink's eyes got wide, and the twins finished the sentence together "...the wand!"
Tink tugged at her bangs. She hoped they were wrong, because two little girls and wand-madness were not a good mix. Adults could make stupid wishes without thinking, and children were probably worse.
Both fairies rocketed towards Dewey's library. Peri didn't even care about having to face the wrath of the healing-talents and Lord Milori. She just kept flying, hoping that the scouts had stopped the girls, or Dewey had locked the door to his library. Anything to keep Elsa and Anna from getting it.
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Anna and Elsa dashed through the library, looking hurriedly for the wand. They eventually found it on Dewey's desk, which was towards the back. Fortunately, Dewey wasn't there, and the girls were glad that he'd apparently forgotten to hide the wand. In reality, he'd really just left the library for a minute or two in order to ask Lord Milori something- he'd departed right before the girls had arrived.
Elsa gestured for Anna to pick it up. "Go on, you can go hold it first." she told Anna. She still felt awful about leaving that icy hand-print on Anna earlier that day, even if it had only been temporary. Elsa felt even worse about shoving her sister in the first place.
So she was trying to compensate for that mistake by being extra nice to Anna. She even considered letting Anna hold the wand the whole time, but her wand-madness made that a difficult concept to follow through on.
Anna gleefully clutched the wand to her heart. She loved the feeling of it- it felt so wonderful she couldn't even find words to describe it.
Anna skipped around the room, her peals of laughter echoing in the library. Even though she didn't have Pixie Dust, she felt like she could fly.
Wishes started to enter her head without her consciously thinking of them. This wasn't really unusual- after all, almost everyone has wishes. Anna didn't pay too much attention to them as she continued to skip around.
She tried to skid to a halt by Elsa, but continued sliding across the ice until she slipped and fell. Thankfully she wasn't hurt. Elsa had rushed over to make sure.
Elsa was starting to want her turn with the wand. It was actually rather surprising she'd fought off the wand-madness for that long. Of course, wand-madness was a lot less consuming when one wasn't holding the wand. But when someone was holding the wand, it could get really bad.
Elsa was beginning to get rather impatient as Anna danced around, singing "I love you, wand!" Her impatience grew as Anna chattered on. "Too bad Tinker Bell and Periwinkle aren't here. I hope they're feeling better." (the wand didn't interpret that as a wish). "I wonder if they like holding the wand, too."
"Anna..." Elsa said "Can I have a turn now?"
Anna nodded, but continued rambling and made no move to give Elsa the wand. "I like flying with the fairies. Wouldn't it be so fun to be a fairy," Anna glanced over her shoulder in an effort to see her ice wings "with real wings instead of ice? I wish we were fairies!" She laughed and clapped her hands at that thought.
A wish had slipped out. The wand mistook Anna clapping her hands to be her waving it, so it thought it was a command.
A soft, white light emanated from the wand. Both girls stared at it, awed but confused. The light grew so it surrounded both Elsa and Anna, though they could no longer see each other. All they heard was one high monotonous note that they hadn't heard until the light showed up.
This went on for about thirty seconds to a minute, and then the light slowly faded and the high note died down.
Elsa sat up, wondering what had just happened. She felt different. And why did everything look so big? She glanced over at Anna, but startled.
There was a fairy there. She had red-blonde hair and two braids that went over her shoulders. She looked older than Elsa, somewhere in between a teenager and an adult. But then Elsa looked at the fairy's wings, which were shaped like a hawk's but covered with tiny decorations of fairies.
"Anna...?" Elsa asked. Elsa noticed that her voice still came out as a child's voice, but then how could Anna have gotten older than her, and why was she a fairy?
"Elsa?!" The fairy gasped, in exactly the same lively child voice that Anna had.
"Anna!" Elsa exclaimed, positive now that it was her, even though she'd somehow turned into a fairy. "You're a fairy- you have wings and everything!" Anna glanced over her shoulder, gasped, and then told Elsa "You're a fairy, too!" Elsa glanced over her shoulder, and sure enough, she saw wings.
"Why do you look so old?" Anna actually looked eighteen, but age is relative, especially when you're young. Twenty-year-olds can seem ancient to little kids.
"You look older." Anna giggled. Even though she hadn't seen what she herself looked like yet, Anna figured that Elsa would still look older than her, since she was three years older. Elsa got up and ran to the wall, hoping to catch her reflection in the ice. The distance seemed a lot greater now.
She found a fairly reflective patch of ice and used it as a mirror. An adult, around the age of twenty-one, stared back at her. A platinum-blonde braid hung over her left shoulder. Anna joined her and they gawked at themselves. There was no doubt about it.
They were fairies.
Well, I bet you weren't expecting that! And FYI, the last part wasn't a dream. Also, just picture the adult Elsa and Anna in Frozen, but make their clothes boring and white, and add their wings. That's what they look like right now.
I am aware that I may lose a couple readers because of what I just had happen; I know some people really don't like the fics where a character changes forms, and I don't know if that applies to any of you. (I have mixed feelings about those fics, personally- obviously I'm fine enough to write them. I'm fine with, say, humans becoming toys (or shrinking down to toy-size) in Toy Story fics, or even the fics where a character de-ages to a little kid but everyone else stays at whatever age they were (though that may just be because little kids are awesome and I like stories about them). I was even fine with one Tinkerbell fic I read where Rosetta turned into a human. However, I don't like the Toy Story fics where toys become humans, for some reason).
Well, I hope you liked this chapter, even if you hate characters changing forms (yes, I know that's not likely- if you hate that stuff than you almost certainly hated this). It just seemed like such a natural wish for them to accidentally make.
For some reason, I have a hard time imagining Elsa and Anna fighting, which is why they fought in the dream but not in the real part.
The dream/nightmare part was really fun to write. The nice thing is I can get away with some stuff being illogical in it- like having the shelves in Dewey's library be clumsy sized when there would be no reason for it. I could even get away with people being out of character (a.k.a. Elsa tackling Anna) and both of them switching their emotions a lot, since dreams don't always make sense. (I can only speak for myself, but my dreams are totally random). But I tried to make it realistic enough so you wouldn't know it was a dream until Peri woke up. Did I succeed?
(*SPOILERS FOR TANGLED AND A FANFIC*)I read a Tangled fic once where the King and Queen didn't believe that Rapunzel was their daughter and ended up hanging her, but then it turned out to be a dream. I probably didn't do as well as that author did- they were awesome, because I seriously thought they'd killed of Rapunzel and Flynn. (*END OF SPOILERS*)
Geez, what is it with me and skeletons? There have been, like, four in the last four chapters. Random story about me: when I was six I went through a skeleton phase. I recently found a box of kid's books in the basement, and one of them was about skeletons. It was filled with drawings of kids and skeletons playing together, which is sort of creepy when you think about it.
So I really, really, really want to update again in September. The one problem is: I'm not 100% sure about all the little things that will happen. I know the big picture, I just need specific details :(
Hopefully I'll see you once more this month. If not, I'll see you in October.