(Disney's) Tinker Bell in Storybrooke
A Disney Fairies / Once Upon A Time Crossover
Season 1, Episode 1, Chapter 2
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS
It was late when Emma left Boston for Storybrooke. During the long ride Henry removed a large, leather bound book from his backpack. On the cover were the words Once Upon a Time. The words were carefully embossed, with the letters O, U and T especially so. The kid, as she called him, started flipping through it. He told her it was an important book. What she saw were just fairy tales. They weren't just fairy tales, they were real, Henry insisted. She dismissed his assertions, but Henry told her something very strange.
"You're in this book," he said.
"Kid, you've got problems," she answered.
"Yup, and you're going to fix them."
PIXIE HOLLOW, NEVER LAND
Vidia was gathering pollen for the season when she saw something in the sky that caught her attention. It was Tinker Bell returning after all those seasons with Peter Pan.
"She has some nerve," Vidia said with anger in her voice. "After filling my head with thoughts of friendship and community she runs off with that human boy like we never mattered. Now she wants to come back as if it never happened? I'm going to give that arrogant tinker fairy a piece of my mind with a vortex chaser."
When Tinker Bell left, Vidia took it the hardest feeling betrayed and abandoned by the fairy that helped her to learn how to be a friend. She would revert to her previous isolationism and vicious cutting remarks even leaving the clique of close friends of which she had become part.
The fast flying fairy lit off and followed her one time friend towards Tinker's Nook ready to pounce with a vicious tongue lashing. "Hey, Traitor Bell, I have a few words for you and you won't like any of them."
Tinker Bell turned and saw the fast flyer racing towards her. Mixed emotions flooded the tinker fairy's heart. She was glad to see her old nemesis turned friend, but was heartbroken that she had left so suddenly. And now she had to give her the bad news.
"What do you think you are doing back here? You can't just slip back into our lives as if nothing happened, Tinker Bell." Vidia shouted even though the two were almost nose to nose.
"I'm sorry, Vidia," Tinker Bell tried to say.
"NO! You can't say you're sorry after what you did to all of us. Your little gang almost broke up, Silvermist nearly fell to pieces when you left and Periwinkle has never been the same. If you know what's good for you, what's good for all of us, you'll turn around and leave."
"We all have to leave, Vidia."
"No, you have to…"
"Pixie Hollow is about to be destroyed."
Vidia was dumbstruck by this tinker fairy's declaration. "What are you talking about? No such thing is going to happen."
"Yes, it is," Tinker Bell said, sadness taking over her face. "I just came from the Pixie Dust Tree. An evil queen from a faraway place has let loose a curse that will destroy us all in two days unless we can evacuate."
"And you expect me to believe this because…?"
"Ask the queen yourself," Tinker Bell said sniffling and pouting.
"Okay, I will. And then I'll take you on a one way ride out of here." Just as Vidia was about to leave for the Pixie Dust Tree Tinker Bell called to her once more.
"Vidia, I'm sorry. Truly sorry. I should never have left. I want to make it up to you, but we just don't have the time."
The fast flyer gave the tinker fairy a huff of disapproval before zooming off towards the Pixie Dust Tree.
THE ENCHANTED FOREST
As the swirling clouds enveloped her, Snow White clutched her heroic Prince Charming. He was the one who woke her from Regina's sleeping curse, he stood beside her as they overthrew Regina and freed the forest from her evil reign. And now he had given his life so that she and everyone in the Enchanted Forest could have a future. And that was what Snow focused on: the future.
They had visited the Dark One in his cell, a prison formed with fairy magic just to contain him. The Dark One informed Snow and Charming what Queen Regina's plan was. He also told them that it was their baby who was to be the savior. On her twenty-eight birthday, their baby would return and the final battle would begin. But everything with Rumpelstiltskin came with a price. In this case, he wanted their baby's name. Snow told him it was Emma.
The darkness surrounded her, the cackling of her stepmother, Queen Regina, filled the room along with the maelstrom. Snow was frightened, yet despite that fear she held within her heart boundless hope for the future.
PIXIE HOLLOW, NEVER LAND
At the Pixie Dust Tree, Vidia saw several of the overseers gathered in the main audience chamber. Queen Clarion detailed what she had been told by The Blue Fairy.
Vidia gasped. Tinker Bell was telling the absolute truth. Pixie Hollow was about to be destroyed. Quickly the queen began giving instructions on how to proceed with an evacuation plan. Because of their speed some of the fast flyers were to help coordinate efforts. Wisp was entrusted with alerting Peter Pan and the Lost Boys and giving them instructions to notify all the other inhabitants of Never Land. And it all had to be done by tonight.
"Tonight? But that's impossible!" Vidia shouted.
"I know" the queen said quietly, "but it must be done. As early as tomorrow evening the curse could arrive in Pixie Hollow and destroy us all. Vidia, we are undertaking a huge task. An evacuation that would take an entire season is to be done in less than forty eight hours. Impossible is no longer in our vocabulary."
The fast flyer was completely stunned by the Queen's orders. Vidia's mind boggled at the thought of the massive coordination effort, much less the evacuation itself. She turned again towards the fairy queen and in an uncharacteristic moment let all her egotistical dispositions fall aside and said, "What do you need me to do?"
Clarion was momentarily taken aback by Vidia's sudden willingness to assist, but was nonetheless glad that her best fast flyer was being so cooperative. "You must fly as quickly as possible to the mainland and find a suitable destination for us."
"What about the Griffith's summer house? It's situated near a summer camp and is surrounded by open fields."
"An excellent suggestion, Vidia," the queen replied most approvingly. "If they are willing to render aid, Lizzie and her father could also help to prepare for our arrival, allowing all of our resources to be devoted to the evacuation. Upon completion of this task you must return quickly to assist us with our efforts. Now, leave at once, my dear, all the fairies and sparrow men of Pixie Hollow are depending on you."
Vidia flew out of the tree and went to the Pixie Dust fall in the tree. She filled her bag of pixie dust and even sprinkled some on herself directly from the falling stream. It was against the rules, but this was an emergency unparalleled in scale and required extreme measures. The dark haired flyer shot off towards the mainland, but stopped a moment later. Instead she turned and rocketed towards Tinker's Nook.
Seconds later she arrived at the tinker's workshops and found it bustling with so much activity it was hard to find the one person she needed to locate. "Tinker Bell," she yelled out.
"Tinker Bell, where are you?" she tried again. She looked and looked, but couldn't wait much longer. Getting to the mainland was too important to waste so much time.
"Over here!" the tinker fairy shouted. Tink waved at Vidia to get her attention and instantly the fast flyer was face to face with her.
"I'm sorry, Tink. You were right about the end of Pixie Hollow," Vidia said trying desperately to get out the words she needed to say. "I…, I'm glad you're back." Vidia turned to leave, but she felt something grab her hand. Tinker Bell pulled her into a warm and friendly embrace and the tinker began sniffling and crying. Vidia almost began to cry herself, but tried not to.
"Thanks, Vidia. I just wish we had more time so I could make things right with you," Tink whispered.
"You don't have to," Vidia whispered back. The two separated and Vidia flew off towards the mainland, pushing herself harder than she ever had before.
STORYBROOKE, MAINE
It was late at night when Emma's beat up, old Beetle drove into the seaside town. It was a quiet place with nice homes, white picket fences and locally owned businesses. It had the feel of small town America. Emma asked where Henry lived, but he adamantly refused give an answer. She was so angry with him that she slammed on the brakes in the middle of the rain slicked street and jumped out of her car.
She looked up at the clock tower which sat atop the town's public library.
"Look it's been a long night and it's almost... eight fifteen?"
"That clock hasn't moved my whole life," Henry said after exiting the vehicle. "Time's frozen here."
Emma was taken aback by his words. He explained that it was the evil queen's curse. She had brought fairy tale characters from the Enchanted Forest and they were now trapped, frozen in time in Storybrooke, Maine.
"Really? That's what you're going with?" Emma replied completely unwilling to believe him.
Henry also told her that no one could leave town, if they try bad things happened to them. Emma got directions to Henry's house by a man walking his dog. It turned out that Henry was the mayor's son. The helpful man was Archie, Henry's psychologist.
"He doesn't seem cursed to me," Emma said.
Archie didn't know he was cursed, no one in Storybrooke knew who they were. Archie, Henry said, was really Jiminy Cricket. Emma wasn't sure if Henry was crazy or just had a very vivid imagination, but the whole thing seemed just too weird.
LONDON, ENGLAND
Vidia landed on the window sill of the Griffith's London home with a thud. She was out of breath and nearly exhausted. Vidia was the fastest fast flyer in all of Pixie Hollow and she loved to push herself as fast as she could. Today, though, she flew faster than she ever had before. The wind would usually whistle in her ears when she took flight, today it screamed. And for the first time in her life she cursed her long ponytail because it slowed her down.
It took Vidia a few moments to catch her breath. No one was in the house, which mean that Dr. Griffiths was at his office and Lizzy was in school. Lizzy would be surrounded by children and adults and the fairy could be easily detected by any of them. Besides, Lizzy had no authority to offer the summer house to them. Her father, though, did. After a few moments she took flight again and went to find Dr. Griffiths.
STORYBROOKE, MAINE
When the yellow bug pulled up to the large mansion where the mayor lived, Henry begged not to be left at the house. He claimed that he only had a mother and she was evil. She didn't love him, she only pretended to.
"Kid," Emma said worriedly, "I'm sure that's not true." Emma never had parents and in her mind the boy had no idea how good he had it.
Mayor Regina Mills, a woman with shoulder length dark hair greeted the boy, taking him into her arms. A man was at the house, as well. He was smartly dressed with a neat beard and a badge on his shirt. No doubt the local police.
"Henry, where have you been?" Mayor Mills asked, quite worried.
"I found my real mom," Henry yelled angrily before running into the house. Regina was rather stunned by his announcement.
"You're his birth mother?" she asked.
"Hi," Emma replied with a sheepish smile.
Mayor Mills offered Emma some apple cider, but after the day she had Emma wanted something a little stronger. Regina poured the woman a stiff drink and they two spoke for a few moments. Regina was worried that Emma might want to be part of Henry's life again, but she was just here to drop him off. Regina described how hard it was to be the mayor and a single mom, describing it has like having two full time jobs. She was strict with Henry because she wanted the best for him.
"That doesn't make me evil, does it?" Regina asked Ms. Swan.
Emma admitted that he probably got the idea from his book of fairy tales. For Regina, this was the first she had heard of this book. Ms. Swan told her how Henry thought everyone in town was a character from those fairy tales.
When she left, Emma didn't have a very good feeling in the pit of her stomach. She turned and saw Henry peering out at her from his bedroom window. But she didn't want to be a part of his life and he a good place to live. She got back into her old VW Beetle and headed back towards Boston. On the road out of town she noticed that Henry left his book of fairy tales in her car.
"Sneaky bastard," she whispered to herself. The boy knew she would have to turn around and go back. Just then Emma looked up and saw a wolf standing in the middle of the road. She swerved to avoid it and crashed into the town's historic sign that read Welcome to Storybrooke.
THE WINTER WOODS, NEVER LAND
In the Winter Woods Lord Milori was inspecting snowflakes for the coming winter season. "Excellent work, everyone. You have truly outdone yourselves," he said complimenting the snowflake fairies who fashioned the delicate sculptures of ice crystals. "This year's winter season promises to be the most beautiful in some time."
"Thank you, Lord Milori," the snowflake fairies replied.
Gliss, a frost fairy who was stationed at the border between warm and winter today rushed towards the snowflake factory. Her normally cheerful demeanor was different today, she looked frightened and desperate. "Lord Milori, Lord Milori," she called out to him.
"What is it, Gliss? Why aren't at the border?" he asked her.
She flew to him and in a hushed tone told him, "Queen Clarion is at the bridge. She must speak with you immediately. She says we have to evacuate Never Land immediately."
Confused by what Gliss told him, Milori jumped onto his trusted mount, a snow owl with a jeweled necklace and sped off towards the bridge where the animals and warm fairies crossed into the winter region of Pixie Hollow. Gliss stayed at his side, worried by what little she already knew.
At the crossing he saw the Queen in all her regal splendor, but as he approached he could see how frightened she was. "My queen, what seems to bother you this day?" Milori said dismounting his owl.
"We must evacuate Pixie Hollow and leave the island of Never Land," she replied with a tremble in her voice.
"Why? What has happened?"
Clarion explained the terrible cursed spell that Queen Regina had released in a distant realm that would soon find its way to the Hollow. In as much detail as she could, Clarion told him what would happen to their beloved home and to anyone who was not safely away when the curse was to arrive in two days' time.
"You must gather your winter fairies and leave this place as soon as possible," she said desperately. "You can head north to the frozen mainland there."
"We cannot leave this place," Milori told her matter-of-factly. "It is still summer and the temperatures beyond the winter woods are too warm for us to survive. Our wings will break and all the winter fairies will fall into the sea and drown. We have no choice but to stay."
Clarion gasped in horror. She had not considered this when racing to the border to warn the love of her life. She was going to lose him a second time. Tears began to well in her eyes as she spoke. "Can you use the balloon carriers that Tinker Bell has devised for us? Then you won't…"
"It is still too warm for our winter wings," Milori said, cutting her off. "The weather will still be too warm for us to survive. Save your people. Save yourself, my dearest Ree."
"I can't… I can't leave you here."
"What's this?" Milori saw another fairy careening through the Autumn Woods as fast as her wings could carry her.
"Queen Clarion. Lord Milori. I have an idea," Tinker Bell yelled as she reached the border bridge where her wings first sparkled all those seasons ago, which lead to the discovery of her fraternal sister, Periwinkle. The little tinker fairy was dressed in her winter clothes and was carrying several rolled sheets of paper.
"What is it, Tinker Bell?" Clarion asked trying to wipe the tears from her eyes and face.
"Ice gondolas," the tinker fairy announced unspooling several pages with designs. "It occurred to me that winter fairies won't be able to fly out of here because it's still too warm outside of Never Land. So I came up with a design for ice gondolas that can be fitted to the balloon carriers."
"The ice will melt too quickly for us to reach any serviceable destination." Milori said, but the energized little tinker wasn't about to give up so easily.
"Not with this design. See?" she said showing the pages to the two leaders. "First we use reeds to create a form. Then we use grasses, hay or even pine needles for structural integrity of the ice. We add in some maple syrup and sawdust from Tinker's Nook, mix it all into the water to create sludge and then the glacier fairies can freeze it into a gondola form. The ice won't melt for weeks; you'll have plenty of time to sail north."
"And the ice from the gondolas will provide enough cold temperatures to keep our wings from breaking," Milori finished. "What a brilliant idea."
"Tinker Bell, begin immediately," Clarion said. "I will have Fairy Mary continue overseeing the construction of the Balloon Carriers on our side."
"Flitterific!" Tinker Bell yelled out. "Rosetta and the garden fairies have already started collecting everything we need to make the forms and sludge. They will have several bunches here at the log bridge in a couple of hours."
"I'll post winter fairies at the border to receive the materials," Milori added.
Tinker Bell flitted across the border where Gliss frosted the tinker fairy's wings. With that done Tinker Bell zipped off to the Frost Forest to enlist the aid of Periwinkle and the other winter fairies.
"May we speak privately, Gliss," Milori asked the frost fairy. She fluttered back out of earshot. Milori turned to face his beautiful love.
"I won't see you again, will I?" Clarion said, this realization setting in. If the warm fairies went to the mainland of England while the winter fairies went north towards the distant lands of Norway or Iceland Clarion and Milori would once again be separated, only this time permanently.
"If Pixie Hollow is to be destroyed with no hope of restoring it, then this is indeed goodbye forever," he told her, with a great sadness in his voice. He had spoken the words "goodbye forever" before, but both were overjoyed when after many centuries those words turned out to be false. This time however, there seemed to be no way to render these words meaningless.
If I could I would wish all this away just for you, my lovely Ree, he wanted to tell her. I would sacrifice myself a thousand times over just to keep you and your fairies safe if that is what it required. But he could not bring himself to say such fantasies because they would change nothing of their present situation. These would be their last moments together for all eternity.
Clarion and Milori stared into each other's eyes longingly, desiring at least one more day to be with each other. To share each other's love, but it was not to be. "I will never forget you, my dearest love," he said to her, "you will always be in my heart."
"And you will always be in my heart, my beloved Milori," she replied. "We may be separated, but our love will never perish."
He took her beautiful face in his hands, wiping a tear away with his thumb. The lord of winter drew his queen close to him and they kissed their last kiss. A gentle, loving, but passionate goodbye said not with words. Their fears and anxieties instead communicated through the trembling of their lips.
Finally Clarion slowly began to back away, she had so many responsibilities and they could not wait a second longer. As his hands fell from her lovely face they slid down her arms and into her hands. There they held each other a moment longer before Clarion and Milori finally had to let go and he watched as she started back to the Pixie Dust Tree.
Milori stayed at the bridge as the loveliest woman he had ever known and desired slipped away. He kept his gaze on her as she drifted further and further away until she was little more than a glint of light in the distance. The lord of winter stayed perhaps unwilling to move. Or perhaps simply to make one last memory of Clarion, one that he hoped, prayed, pleaded would not fade over time.
How can this happen again? he asked himself. How can our love be so ill fated that we shall always be parted, to never know a happy ending? Unbeknownst to the lord of winter that was the very point of the curse; to take away everyone's happily ever after.
Whew, that was a lot of writing. I'm putting in a good deal of the first episode to help set up the story for those unfamiliar with the tv show. Further chapters won't go into such much detail about the episodes as I will be focusing on the stories of the fairies who are trapped in Storybrooke.
Thanks to everyone who has been reading. Please tell me what you think in a review. I would really like to hear from you.