Sadly, I really can't say I'm surprised at this update time, but I really don't know how it took this long. On a brighter note, thanks for the reviews, follows, favorites, and views. You all are the best!

I saw Legend of the Neverbeast and it was amazingggg! (I actually saw it twice in the 24 hour time limit the iTunes rental thing had, that's how much I liked it). Both Nyx and Gruff were nice additions to Pixie Hollow. The lame thing about this movie is my prediction was right; Peri had absolutely no role whatsoever; she wasn't even mentioned. And there were plenty of times she could have easily been in it. I guess they didn't want to pay Lucy Hale to voice her, but she should have at least had a silent cameo like in The Pirate Fairy. I mean come on!

Also, I found numerous things online saying that there were going to be two other Tinker Bell movies, but they got canceled due to low DVD sales and/or story problems, so I had a legitimate reason to rant about that last chapter. And Disney Toons is going to continue Planes which got less money and lower ratings... Yeah, I still don't get that. And now there are no more Fairy movies to look forward to :( but at least I got to look forward to two.

Well, here's chapter 21. It's one of my personal favorites since the whole wand incident chapter, and I'm pretty sure it's better than the last couple chapters. I hope you enjoy it, too.

"I want to go home."

Elsa's blue eyes were wide and sad as she gazed at the sky outside Peri's window. In a low voice rather close to a sob, she added "I love it here, but... I-I miss my parents." Yes, even though they tried to convince her her magic was undesirable, she still loved them. They were good parents aside from the whole disliking magic part. And her parents weren't the only ones she missed. She missed the castle servants and staff, especially Kai and Gerda, who had stopped regarding her and Anna as 'the princesses' long ago and had become almost like a second pair of parents. But most of all, she missed Anna.

Elsa had been spending most of her time in the Winter Woods with the other winter-talents. In order to use up her magic without doing the other winter fairies' jobs for them like she had the first day, she'd been making a lot of what she called "magic art", which consisted of ice sculptures, snow sculptures, drawing in the snow with her magic (by making speed-bumps instead of ink lines, so her pictures stuck out of the snow) and even trying- without much success at all- to make animated models out of flurries of snow, like they did with Pixie Dust at the Fairy Tale Theatre. There wasn't a whole lot of time for visiting fairies from other sections, but she managed to see Anna most days, even if it was only for twenty minutes or so.

They'd gone sledding and ice-skating a couple more times, and Elsa had gone to play with Anna in the warmer parts of Pixie Hollow, but even those visits always seemed too short. She was used to spending the whole day with Anna. They were sisters, for crying out loud, and they'd always been together. Elsa wondered, was this how Tink and Peri felt?

Elsa was having the time of her life being a fairy, but her homesickness indicated it was probably time to go home. Besides, she was never supposed to be a fairy in the first place. If they hadn't sneaked into the library to fiddle with the wand, they never would've become fairies, and she'd known pretty much from the beginning that she'd have to turn back into a human eventually. Most of all, they'd been trying to go home since that day in the woods, and then Tink and Peri had brought them to Neverland and they'd gotten majorly sidetracked.

Peri was caught by surprise. She wasn't surprised Elsa was homesick; what surprised her was that Elsa hadn't shown any real signs of homesickness until right now. So she either hadn't felt it before now or had been hiding it really well.

"Maybe you should talk with Anna," Peri suggested "and see if she's ready to go home, too." Elsa nodded, and she got up to go look for her sister. She left Peri's house and flew across the Winter Woods, wondering where she would find Anna. She could be working in any of the other three seasonal sections of Pixie Hollow, but she'd most likely be in Spring, since winter had just arrived at the mainland, thanks to Elsa's accidental storm.

Elsa flew through Summer and Autumn, taking her time and smiling. She loved that there were permanent seasons in different parts of Pixie Hollow. As much as she missed Arendelle, she knew she would miss this once she went back.

She was right; Anna was in Spring. Specifically, she was in a field with sections of it enclosed by fences made of sticks and vines, keeping various animals and even a group of sprinting thistles from running away. Dirt paths for carts crisscrossed between the fenced areas. The sun was just starting to get low in the sky, making the fences cast elongated shadows. Under Fawn's now careful guidance, Anna was helping porcupines practice self-defense without pricking herself on their spines. Elsa watched her soar up in the air and dive down towards a porcupine. Elsa shrieked when she saw the porcupine curl up, with its spines looking very lethal, as Anna continued to plummet towards the ominous spines, but Anna pulled out of her dive, laughing, just in time.

"Good job, Anna! You've gone the whole day without pricking yourself" Fawn said, before showering the porcupine with praise, too. Indeed, Anna had had a couple of unfortunate experiences with the porcupines a couple days before (fortunately nothing resulting in serious injury), but with practice she'd grown quite adept. Anna beamed and shouted "Elsa! Guess what I just did!" as she saw her older sister descend towards the ground. Elsa laughed and said "I saw. You avoided getting stabbed by a porcupine."

Anna happily fluttered over to talk to her sister, and sat on the top stick of one of the fences. She chattered on about which animals she'd worked with and which ones were the cutest (the squirrels and mice were her top choices, but she'd grown fond of beavers, too). Elsa tried to interject several times, and finally said a bit louder than necessary "Anna, don't you think we should head home soon?"

Anna paused in her rambling and answered "It doesn't take long to get back to Tink's house." To Tink's slight annoyance, Anna had talked her way into having a sleepover with her. Although Tink was very fond of Anna, she wasn't an early bird, whereas Anna got up before the sun and the light talents most days.

"I meanour real home." Elsa said. Anna didn't say anything, and Elsa continued "You know, Arendelle!" She drew out 'Arendelle' so it lasted a couple seconds. Anna looked at her blankly and repeated "Arendelle?"

"Stop playing around, Anna." Elsa said. "Everyone must be worried sick about us, and we really should have gone back ages ago."

Anna's uncomprehending look didn't waver, and a horrible feeling spread through Elsa. What if Anna wasn't playing around? "Do you remember what our mother looks like?" Anna bit her lower lip in thought. "I think so," She said rather doubtfully, and after ten seconds or so she added "She had... blonde hair and wore green."

Elsa focused on her mental image of her mother. It was getting rather blurry, which was scary. Yet another reason they really should go. She couldn't recall any small details of her mother's face, but she knew she had brown hair. Elsa shook her head and realized who Anna was thinking of. "That's Tinker Bell."

Anna frowned some more, and finally tried again. "Brown hair..." Elsa smiled and nodded. "And she always wears a shimmering yellow dress." Fawn piped up with "That sounds like Queen Clarion." As soon as she'd said that, both sisters knew Anna had been thinking of the fairy queen. "I'm a princess!" Anna blurted out, since she at least remembered that. "So Mama was a queen."

Trying to refresh her memory as much as Anna's, Elsa said "We lived in a castle..." She stopped. She knew it was big, but she couldn't remember how big. And some part of her was convinced she'd made it out of ice with her powers, while another part told that first part to shut up, because that couldn't be the case; the first castle she'd made was back in the woods in Arendelle. The internal battle of thoughts continued in the back of her mind as she frantically tried to figure out how much she remembered.

As she did, she started to get really scared. She could picture the general details of people's faces, but somehow she couldn't remember if her father had a mustache. She had a vague recollection of the nursery, but she couldn't remember what the pictures she'd drawn and proudly hung on the wall looked like, or the name of the fuzzy brown teddy bear she'd had since babyhood. She didn't know if Rapunzel or Cinderella came first in her fairy tale book, and she'd looked at that book almost daily. She'd forgotten the location of the secret room she and Anna had gleefully discovered and hung out in, and she had a feeling her mental map of the castle was missing several hallways and rooms. What was wrong with her? She could remember a lot of her previous life, but there were a lot of frightening blanks in her memories.

Anna was busy trying to remember anything from her previous life. She knew she hadn't spent her whole life in Neverland, since she remembered flying to Neverland via the Second Star, but hearing Elsa talk about Arendelle was like hearing stories about when she was a baby. She couldn't recall it on her own, but she could "remember" something if someone told her about it. Now that Elsa mentioned it, she knew she had lived in a castle. Even though she'd known she was a princess, she'd forgotten about that. She wracked her brain for more information, but all she came up with was a mental image of red wallpaper and a couple faces so blurred they didn't really count.

How could most of her life become a blank?

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Elsa flew as fast as she could, unknowingly leaving a trail of snow behind her along with the usual trail of Pixie Dust. She flew up towards a distant, twinkling star, the second to the right. After what seemed like an eternity, she reached the star and felt the disorienting sensation of being swept through a tunnel. This swooping sensation was topped by the colorful, somewhat psychedelic light show that always occurred when traveling through the portal. Before she could try to reorient herself, she was thrown out into the mainland.

She looked around her, trying to figure out where she was. She'd heard that the star had a tendency to fling you out at random places, as if it enjoyed laughing at you when you were lost.

Far below her was a village much larger and more crowded than any she'd seen; though the only village she'd recalled seeing was Arendelle (She'd always thought of Pixie Hollow as a sort of magical fairy haven, not a village). The only reason Elsa thought this place was a village was because she didn't know what a city was. There was this large, four faced clock tower and a really interesting bridge. Elsa gazed around in amazement, and then the clock chimed, nearly startling her out of the air and making a small cloud of snow explode out from her.

Elsa promptly decided she didn't it here, not that she'd planned to stay in the first place. It was way too big and noisy for her tastes. Of course it was only now that she remembered Tink and Peri being stuck on the mainland. Cursing herself for a fool, she flew back to the second star and, to her surprise, was able to get through. The star seemed to have gotten bored of that game rather quickly. Only this time, instead of being swept through the tunnel, she was moving quite slowly; or maybe she wasn't and it just felt like that? Elsa had no way of knowing.

Whilst she was confused physically as she was floating through the tunnel, she was also being confused with sound. Something was singing a song about "all around the world." and Elsa was pretty sure that something was the second star to the right. The song wasn't bad, but the voice and the occasional giggles were creepy; it was high-pitched twinkly voice, a sort of mix between a mischievous elf and an evil baby. Quite freaked out, she was forced to listen to it until she popped back out in Neverland.

Once she'd recovered from the shock, she glared at the star and said "Take me to Arendelle this time!" Since the star had pretty much told her its prank, she figured it was safe. Elsa flew in a second time, was swept along, and popped out somewhere else. Again, it was somewhere other than Arendelle. Although this prank probably wasn't as bad as getting stranded somewhere, it was still pretty annoying. This process repeated several times, until Elsa screamed at the star in annoyance.

Finally she popped out in Arendelle. Her annoyance vanished quickly as she flew high in the sky, towards the distant castle below that was her home. It didn't take her long to realize how easily they could have returned home upon taking flight when fleeing from the Duke's guards. Instead, they'd ended up in Neverland. Elsa was rather glad they did- she wouldn't have wanted to miss that- but she did feel rather guilty. She knew her parents would be worried sick about them. And they'd been gone for so long...

She reached the castle roof and fluttered around the sides, peering into all the windows. When she gazed into one in particular, memories filled her head. She remembered sleeping in that bed (the one on her right), playing with those toys. Yes, on the floor by the window seat were the Elsa and Anna dolls, tossed aside by the real Anna when she'd woken Elsa up to play that morning. And there was that brown teddy bear she'd vaguely remembered in Neverland.

Cupcake. Its name was Cupcake. How could she have forgotten?

She scanned the room and remembered other things she'd forgotten. The moonlight didn't quite reach the farthest edges of the room, so she couldn't see her pictures on the wall, but she remembered there was a portrait she'd done of herself and Anna, an attempt at painting one of the palace horses, among other things. Cinderella came first in her fairy tale book, and her father did have a mustache (albeit a very thin one). Elsa frowned. She was pretty sure it wasn't normal to forget things but know they were forgotten, and then remember them all later. What was up with that?

Elsa shoved these thoughts aside when the nursery door opened, and her mother entered.

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Peri heard the door open and close a little after the stars came out. She didn't think much of it at first, but she glanced out the window and saw Elsa flying up towards the stars, and Peri was pretty sure she knew where her Laugher was going.

Shooting out the door after her, Peri called out to her to wait up. Elsa either didn't hear her or was ignoring her as she used her magic to propel herself forwards with gusts of icy wind. There was no way Peri could catch her now; even Vidia might have been unable to catch up.

Once she saw that Elsa was indeed going to the Second Star, Peri turned around and zoomed towards the border. She whooshed into the warm weather, and her flurry appeared to keep her cool. She flew as fast as she could without losing control, and by the time she got to Tink's house, she was breathing heavily, almost panting.

She knocked on Tink's door and was answered by an angry sleepy sound. Tink had decided to go to bed early so she wouldn't be as sleep deprived when Anna woke her prematurely the next morning (Tink would have been willing to bet half her collection of Lost Things that Anna would indeed wake her).

Tink was annoyed, to say the least. She had just gotten Anna to settle down on a spare mattress on the floor, and now the blissful quiet was interrupted. But then one of Tink's favorite voices said "Tink, unless you're naked or something, come over here and answer the door!"

Tink sighed, got up, and pulled the door open (after pushing Anna away from the peephole). Peri quickly cut to the point. "Elsa left. We have to go after her."

Tink blinked and asked "Elsa left?" Behind her, Anna said "What?"

Peri sighed. This wasn't a difficult concept, and they needed to leave as soon as possible. "Elsa left. For Arendelle. To go home."

Tink's eyes widened as she imagined numerous unpleasant outcomes to this situation, and Anna piped up "She was talking about it earlier today. That's where we used to live. I think. That's what Elsa said, anyways."

They set out immediately. Tink and Anna hadn't been wearing pajamas, and even if they had they may not have bothered with changing. As they flew, both Tink and Peri worried about Elsa. What if she got lost? What if the star played that stupid trick and didn't let her come back? Anna would have worried too, but she didn't quite know what was going on. What was so bad about Elsa flying home? It was just like going on vacation (or, rather, it was like going on a reverse vacation).

By the time they reached the star, Elsa had already finished her frustrating journey of being thrown out in random places. Tink and Peri both thought about the star's closing-up trick, but they decided they had to go through anyways. They couldn't just not look for Elsa when she was missing and could be in trouble.

Tink grabbed Anna's left hand and Peri grabbed her right hand, so they wouldn't get separated, and the fairy twins pulled Anna to the star. They whooshed through the tunnel and popped out on the mainland.

Tink looked to her right. Both Anna and Peri were present and accounted for. Tink and Peri glanced around. Tink knew where she was instantly. There was a very familiar cottage beneath her. Lizzy's cottage, where she'd spent a couple days a couple summers ago. It was deserted now, since the Griffiths used it as a summer retreat.

Tink gazed at it fondly. She hadn't seen Lizzy since that summer, and Tink wasn't even sure they'd come here last summer. Lizzy would be... 11 now, maybe even 12, since it was a couple of years after they'd first met. Did Lizzy still have her dollhouse? She'd find out in about half a year, since she decided she would find Lizzy next summer, no matter what. Tink's wandering mind sprinted back to reality when Peri said "I don't think Elsa's here."

"Right." Tink said, tearing her eyes away from the cottage. They had to find Elsa. She couldn't afford to get distracted. They flew back up to the star and stopped. Peri stuck her foot through it and grinned. "It's open!"

So they flew through, back to Neverland, and turned around again.

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Elsa watched through the window as her mother looked at the empty beds, grief clearly displayed on her face. She took slow, heavy steps towards the window. Elsa's heart soared, imagining how happy her mother would be to see she'd returned. She studied her mother's face, ashamed that she'd forgotten most of it.

The queen's gaze dropped to the floor, where the Elsa and Anna dolls lay. She picked them up and stared at them, saying something Elsa couldn't hear through the window. Elsa flew back and forth, trying to get her mother's attention. The queen didn't look up.

"Mama?" Elsa said, her voice sounding more like a child of two or three, rather than eight. She rapped on the window. Knock Knock Kno-Knock Knock. Her mother glanced up and walked closer. Elsa heart leaped in anticipation.

The queen of Arendelle opened the window, and Elsa flew through the opening her first laugh had drifted through nearly eight years before. "Mother, I'm back..." Elsa said, not sounding as young as she had around ten seconds before. "Anna's not here, but she'll come back soon."

Her mother wasn't even looking at her. Elsa glanced down at herself and said "I know I look different, but I'm still your daughter. It's me, mother. Elsa. Your Elsa." Her mother didn't even glance up. Elsa wondered why her glow didn't attract her mother's gaze in the moonlit nursery.

Still no response. "Can't you see me?" Elsa asked. Instead of answering, the queen sat down on the window seat, still holding the rag dolls resembling her daughters. A high pitched sound escaped her mother's lips, and it took a moment for Elsa to realize it was a sob. Her mother was crying.

She watched in horrified fascination and despair. She had never seen her mother cry before. She'd always thought of her mother as someone who could handle anything, but right now she looked so vulnerable. Elsa also began to cry as she watched her mother bury her face in her hands and sob. She and Anna had to be the worst daughters in the world, for causing their mother so much sorrow.

They continued weeping for a couple minutes, and neither of them noticed the arrival of Kai and Gerda. The two servants had been so quiet it was almost spooky. Gerda had eyes only for the queen, not giving that floating ball of light more than a cursory glance.

Elsa still didn't notice Kai, who mistook her for some sort of huge firefly, as he crossed the room and loomed behind her. Of course she noticed him when his huge hands cupped around her. His hands were so large (even for a human) that she could actually move around a little. She shifted awkwardly from sitting to a crawling position and carefully made her way to a gap in between his fingers and peered out. It had to have felt odd for Kai, but while some people might have tried to squeeze her or squash her, his hands remained gentle and put no sort of pressure on her.

Elsa peeked out the gap between his fingers, but it just gave her a view of Anna's bed, not her mother and Gerda. She could hear them, though.

"Your Highness, I'm sure they'll be fine." Gerda said to the queen in a motherly tone, almost as if soothing a child. "I wouldn't be surprised if His Majesty is returning home with the Princesses right now. Now, you should really get out of the cold, madam." She took the queen by the elbow, again displaying an odd mix between formality and informality, and guided her out of the room. The queen didn't resist, she might not have even been able to.

Kai looked down at his cupped hands. He walked over to the window and released Elsa, shooing her away with a flick of his hands. Elsa turned around to fly back after her mother, but Kai shut the window before she could fly back in.

"Elsa!" Someone whispered right next to her, making her nearly jump out of her skin. She sighed with relief when she saw it was just Tink, Peri and Anna. They had been the recipients of the same exasperating trick the Second Star to the right had played on Elsa. Upon reaching Arendelle, Tink and Peri had been at a loss for where to go, but both of them remembered Anna had mentioned living in a castle- though they'd been a bit skeptical. They'd decided to fly to Arendelle's castle anyways, since it was a pretty clear landmark, and had been rather surprised to learn that Anna had been telling the truth all that time.

"What do you think you were doing, flying away like that?!" Tink demanded irately. "What if you'd gotten lost?! What if the star hadn't let you back to Neverland?!" In a softer voice, Peri said "How would I have forgiven myself if something happened to you?" She pulled Elsa into a hug, and soon Anna joined. Tink waited a bit, but soon made it a four-way hug.

During the hug, Elsa murmured "Mother didn't see me at all. It's like I wasn't there..." It was only then that she realized that Kai had probably seen her. But why would he see her when her mother couldn't? Tink told her that they could reverse the wish, but they'd have to go back to Neverland. Elsa worried that if they were gone too long, her parents might forget her entirely, but Tink and Peri said this wouldn't happen.

"You've only been gone a day." Tink said "I doubt your parents would forget you in a day." Elsa stared at her as if she'd suddenly sprouted an extra head. "No. We've been gone for weeks..." She paused. How long had they been gone? She'd lost track long ago.

Peri burst out giggling at Elsa reaction to Tink's news. Unable to contain herself, she burst out "It's still the same day you left! We just met earlier today!" She giggled again, and Tink took the time to explain "Whenever a guest visits Neverland, time on the mainland pauses." But how could weeks have passed in Neverland without time passing in Arendelle? Elsa didn't even bother trying to work it out.

"What about our memories?" Elsa and Anna both asked at the same time. After getting an explanation, Peri said "I think there was something like that in a book I read, and I remember Dewey telling me all about it, too. It's one of the side effects of visiting Neverland. Neverland makes it really easy to lose your memories, and the longer you stay, the more you forget. Almost every fairy has spent their entire life in Neverland, so they can't forget their life before it because they didn't have one." To Tink, she muttered "I wonder if Hook remembers his life before Neverland?"

The had ended their hug once they'd started talking, and Anna fluttered over to the window. She gazed around and said "I know this place..." She trailed off and gasped as memories flooded her head, and Anna had to wonder how it had all been blank just an hour before. "This is our room!" Her voice was muffled since she was practically squashing her face into the window. "Look, there's our rocking horse. Remember when we brought it out to the stables?"

Elsa grinned and flew next to her sister. She put her arm around her and said "Yeah, and Papa said we were lucky we didn't get stomped by the horses. I don't think they would've stomped us, though... " Elsa and Anna both smiled at the memory, and Elsa added a random fact she'd remembered even in Neverland. "Papa loves horses. He's the best rider in the kingdom!" A second or two passed, and Elsa asked "Remember our bike?"

"We went down the stairs and you screamed!" Anna laughed and clapped her hands before saying "Ba bump, ba bump, ba bump, ba bump BOOM!" while moving her hand as if it was going down stairs and crashing into something.

Tink and Peri glanced at each other. The princesses really rode bikes down the stairs for fun?! Maybe Anna wouldn't have broken every bone in her body skiing, if she managed to bike down stairs and not kill herself.

Elsa and Anna chattered on and on. They shared stories of their parents, the staff. They laughed at the various pranks they'd played and the mischief they'd gotten into, such as freezing the tutor's tea (courtesy of Elsa) or trying to hide in a suit of armor and making it walk around, Elsa clumsily wobbling around on stilts with Anna on her shoulders, peeping out the visor and trying to guide her.

Tink and Peri listened, trying to remember as much of these little stories and facts as they could, so if Elsa and Anna forgot a lot of their life again, they could try to remind the princesses who they really were, and where their real home was.

Well, that's all for now. I'm hoping you liked this. I'm rather proud of it. I think I got the emotions right and conveyed them pretty well. But I want to know what you think. Even negative reviews would be appreciated (as long as they're constructive and not just pointless flames). Just F.Y.I, Elsa and Anna are still going to be fairies for a fair amount of time.

So, I hear Disney's confirmed a sequel to Frozen. I'm excited but nervous, because what if it's not as good as the first? What if it's just some lame movie clearly made for marketing purposes?

I don't know when I'll update again, but hopefully in the next couple weeks. (I bet you're all thinking Yeah, right)Well, see you next chapter.