Close call

As they walked along the path, squirrel James starting to think to himself.

'Okay. Where is that entrance? It should look like a bunch of palm leaves...' He looked around and found nothing.

"What are you looking for, James?" Asked Fawn, her attention never really leaving the squirrel.

'I bet he's trying to escape.' thought Zarina. She knew that he would try to escape any time so she purposely chose the path that is as far away from the entrance. 'Not gunna happen.'

Some time later...

The 3 fairies and squirrel James stopped in front of a 2 story mushroom house. Zarina made her way to one of the windows and peeped in.

"He's asleep." She told the others. Her expression was unreadable.

"Should we come back later? He won't be happy if we wake him up." Stated Fawn.

Zarina shook her head. "We gotta do it now. The dust will wear off in about half an hour or so."

But they only have 10 minutes left, they just didn't know.

"Okay but we better be quiet." said Tinkerbell.

Fawn gently pushed the door open. The doors in Pixie Hollows don't have locks so it wasn't hard to get in. Fairy Gary was sleeping in his bed. He was probably one of the heaviest sleepers ever so they didn't really have to worry.

"Let's check the bathroom." whispered Tinkerbell.

They went into the bathroom and checked cupboards and drawers. After a good 7 minutes, they finally found the shaving kit. There were many different kinds of razors so the fairies let James choose. After he made his decision they left as soon as they could before they cause any mayhem.

As they made their way back to the living room...

"GARY! Wake up!" Yelled Fairy Mary, clearly pissed. "You're going to be late for the meeting in the Winter Woods again! The Queen is waiting for us!"

Fairy Gary jerked up and fell off his bed with a thud. "Alright, Mary! I'll be down in a moment!" The fairies and James panicked.

"Quickly, behind the door!" Whispered Tinkerbell as the four of them dove behind the kitchen door.

Fairy Gary made his way to the bathroom. Suddenly his stomach grumbled. "Ah, I'll just have a quick breakfast first." and changed his direction from the bathroom to the kitchen.

'Shit shit shit we're so dead! Calm down. At least James's still a squirrel and there will be less explaining to do...hopefully.' Zarina thought to herself as sweat started to form on her forehead.

James wasn't really that calm either. He felt a mild lower back pain as his fluffy tail started to shrink and disappear. His paws were turning back into hands and his size was back from squirrel to fairy size. Gradually, he was back to his old fairy self. The only trace of being a squirrel was his nose, which was still a squirrel's nose.

Fawn looked at James and gasped. Tink and Zarina looked at her direction and saw James back to normal (Exclude the nose). They looked at each other with wide eyes.

"Dum da dum! Time for breakfast!" hummed Fairy Gary as he placed his hand on the knob of the door.

Tinkerbell, being the tinker, hurried over to the window and motioned everyone to get out before Gary comes in. They followed her orders and made it out silently and safely.

Then they ran behind a nearby shrub and caught their breathes.

"Woah that was a close call." panted Fawn.

"Yeah. Too close. You owe us for that, James!" Said Zarina, out of breath.

James, who was trying to comprehend what just happened, nodded silently.

"Okay... so we got the razor. So let's get you back to Zarina's place." suggested Tink.

"Yeah... but the only problem is I don't have any dust left to change him into any animal anymore." said Zarina, feeling dumb for not bringing extra dust.

"I don't get it. I thought you said the dust would last for an hour or so, why did it only last for less than 30 minutes?" asked Fawn

"Like I said. I've never experienced it on a fairy before. So I'm not really surprise that the effect of the dust wouldn't be the same. I'm only surprised that it lasted for so little time. I'll look into it later. For now let's come up with a way to get James to my home." said Zarina, thoughtfully.

"And please no disguises involving leaves please." James added, feeling annoyed and messed up.

YAY! THEY DIDN'T GET CAUGHT! You guys can give me suggestions of what James can disguise as. Anything crazy will do. Leave your brilliant ideas in the review section! LOVE YOU!