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Lizzy dreamily watched Tinker Bell fluttering in the air above her bed, her transparent wings glittering with pixie dust. It had been only a week since she had met Tinker Bell and learned how fairies helped make changes in nature from growing flowers to helping animals, shaping rainbows to weaving dewdrops, and more. The two had become the best of friends, and in the short but wonderful time they had shared, the little girl had begun to care about Tink.

"Such a wonderful fairy," she said happily.

Tinker Bell smiled and then came down to stand in the palm of Lizzy's hand. She hoped Lizzy had more to ask and she was more than willing to tell her. Then Lizzy spoke one question Tink liked to have answered from her friend Fawn.

"So, aside from helping hurt animals, what else do animal fairies do?" wondered Lizzy.

"Come with me and I'll tell you about it," Tinker Bell said in her jingling voice, taking care to beckon as she knew her voice cannot be understood by human ears.

Lizzy followed Tinker Bell to the window where Tink pointed out a ladybug. Then she fetched a paintbrush and tried to explain how animal fairies like Fawn helped paint insects in their brilliant colors. Lizzy was impressed and immediately wrote it down in the journal her father had given her. He may have liked his daughter's imaginative spirit, but he constantly insisted that fairies were not real and that Lizzy had to grow up. But Lizzy was listening to Tinker Bell with boundless enthusiasm, and she was impressed by what Tink's sign language was telling her.

"So fairies paint ladybugs and butterfly wings and that's how they get their colors?" she said.

Tinker Bell nodded, and Lizzy's eyes remained wide with amazement. All she could say was, "Incredible."

Then Lizzy heard her father calling her down to lunch and said, "I have to go to lunch, Tinker Bell. I'll be back soon."

Tinker Bell smiled and hugged Lizzy's cheek, then watched as the delighted girl left the room. Then she heard the sound of tapping on the window and jumped at the sound. She turned to see what was outside and got a delightful surprise. Flitting outside the window were her fellow fairy friends: Rosetta, Iridessa, Silvermist, Fawn, Bobble, and Clank. Tinker Bell was even more surprised when she saw Vidia was among them, and she was smiling in a way that wasn't smug at all.

Tink was so happy to see her friends that she fluttered to the window and opened it quickly, but she barely had time to react before she found herself caught in a web of hugs and surrounded by several fond exclamations.

"We found you at last!" Fawn whooped.

"Oh, Tink! We've been worried about you for days!" cried Iridessa.

"You all right, lemon drop?" Rosetta cooed.

Tinker Bell laughed happily as she and her friends disentangled themselves and then she said, "Don't worry, everybody. I'm fine. In fact, I'm flitterific!"

Tinker Bell's friends were surprised and confused. They had been so certain that she would likely have been harmed by whatever human took her away and Vidia said, "But, Tink, you've been stuck in a human house for more than a week. How can you be flitterific?"

Knowing that her friends wouldn't believe her unless they saw proof of it for themselves, Tinker Bell flew over to Lizzy's desk and gestured to all the drawings of fairies that covered her wall and answered, "This is why."

The others gathered on the desk and looked at the drawings in wonder, and then Silvermist said, "A human child who believes in fairies! This is great!"

"I know," agreed Tinker Bell. "Lizzy is the most wonderful human ever. She's always wanted to see a real fairy, and now she's gotten her wish. I know she'd love to meet all of us."

"I like the sound of that, Miss Bell," said Clank. "After all, what human wouldn't like us?"

The others were rather apprehensive about meeting a human, but the fact that Tinker Bell wasn't hurt at all combined with the fact that this Lizzy clearly believed in fairies put a damper on their fear, so they decided they would like to meet her. So the other five fairies waited for Lizzy to return while Tinker Bell showed them around Lizzy's room and the journal her father gave her. Tink's friends liked this new place, for children who believe in fairies are amusing to them. Then in a few minutes, they heard Lizzy coming upstairs and Tinker Bell said, "Quick! Hide until I give the signal!"

Rosetta and the others hid in one of the drawers on the desk. Lizzy entered her room to find Tinker Bell and she said, "Is everything all right, Tinker Bell?"

Tink turned to her and nodded, then beckoned to her friends to come out of the desk drawer. Iridessa and Fawn still looked a little nervous as did Bobble and Clank, but Rosetta and Silvermist did their best to smile. Vidia had never seen a human close up, least of all a child, and the sight of this girl taking an interest in fairies made her feel quite at peace.

Lizzy was ecstatic at seeing more fairies right there in her room. She said, "Are these friends of yours, Tinker Bell?"

Tinker Bell nodded and invited her friends to meet Lizzy. Rosetta was the first to approach and Lizzy looked at her interestedly.

"This is a lovely dress," the girl mused. "And your hair is so red, like a rose."

Rosetta smiled and did a little curtsy in the air before she noticed a rose sticker on Lizzy's mirror and had an idea. She took a note and wrote the second half of her name on it, then carried the note up to the sticker and gestured to the sticker and then the note, then to herself. Lizzy looked on curiously and said, "Is that your name? Rosetta?"

The garden fairy nodded, and then Lizzy said, "A pleasure to meet you, Miss Rosetta."

Iridessa went next and introduced herself, showing Lizzy her powers of light magic by catching some light in a teacup and then tossing it into the lamp, which illuminated the room for a few seconds. Then Silvermist wrote her name on a note and watered the flowers on the table. Fawn found a book on animals and flipped to a page on deer, where she pointed out a fawn and then gestured to herself. Then Bobble and Clank introduced themselves with bows and checked Lizzy's bedside clock, making sure to give it some oil with Tink's help.

Vidia was the last to introduce herself as she was still rather surprised at meeting a child who actually wanted to see fairies, but she put on her real smile and waved shyly. She wrote her name on a note as well and showed it to Lizzy. To Vidia's surprise, Lizzy didn't seem put off by her name. Instead, she said, "I think Vidia is a strong name for a strong fairy. Tinker Bell's told me a lot about you. I know some of it wasn't very good, but you did a very brave thing coming here to find her. I'm sure she's glad you did."

"And I am," Tinker Bell said to Vidia. "I'm glad you came looking for me, Vidia. I just didn't think you would want to."

Vidia looked away for a moment as though pained by some unpleasant memory. Then she returned her gaze to Tinker Bell and said, "Tink, I know I haven't been the friend you want me to be. And I understand why I was like that: I was jealous of you. Jealous because everyone saw a wonderful talent in you that meant something very special for Pixie Hollow, and I did everything I could to make you feel bad about being a tinker fairy when I should've been making you feel welcome. I'm sorry."

Tinker Bell surprised Vidia by giving her a hug, and she said, "I've already forgiven you, Vidia. You're more that friend now than you ever were before, wings and all."

Vidia smiled even more and returned the hug, feeling at peace with Tinker Bell and with herself for finally setting their rivalry aside. Then Lizzy showed Tink's friends all that she had written down in her journal and they showed her what they could do. The friends had a delightful afternoon and as evening approached, Lizzy read to her fairy friends from one of her fantasy books. Tink and the others were enraptured as Lizzy told them tales of knights and dragons and princesses. Unfortunately, their time together was interrupted when Lizzy's father came upstairs.

"Hide, fairies! Quickly, before my father sees you!" urged Lizzy.

Tinker Bell and her friends did just that, and Lizzy resumed reading just as her father entered the room.

"Hello, darling," Dr. Griffiths said to his little daughter.

"Good day, Father," Lizzy replied sweetly. "I was just reading before you came up here."

"Care to show me what you've been doing with the journal I gave you?" her father asked.

"Oh yes, Father," replied Lizzy.

With that, she took the journal and handed it to her father. But when Dr. Griffiths opened it and saw the information Tinker Bell had shared about fairies and the drawings and even the outline of a fairy's actual size (which Tinker Bell had helped out by allowing Lizzy to trace her outline), his smile faded.

"Oh, Elizabeth!" he groaned. "This is what you've been doing? Books like this are to be used to document scientific fact and reality, and all you've done is write fairy tales of your own making."

Lizzy wilted when those words reached her ears and she insisted, "But I didn't make them up. I assure you, Father. A real fairy told me about all this. Please, believe me."

Dr. Griffiths merely looked down at her with disbelief etched on his face and said coldly without meaning to be, "Lizzy, I believe in what is real. If I can see, hear, touch, or at least understand it, it's real. I simply cannot understand why you would waste so much talent on make-believe."

"Father, I have seen a fairy," Lizzy continued. "I've met a fairy. I've talked with her. She's told me everything that I wrote in that journal."

Now feeling embarrassed that one of his own journals had been used and that Lizzy was insisting that she had a fairy living in her room, Dr. Griffiths frowned and then noticed the drawings of fairies that filled the wall and the rim of the mirror. Those drawings, he thought. They were the cause of all of this fairy nonsense.

Feeling that he had to act before his daughter carried on any longer, the exceedingly practical man strode over to the wall and began pulling Lizzy's drawings of fairies down from it and stuffing them into the wicker wastebasket under her desk. Lizzy cried, "Father, what are you doing?"

"Elizabeth, your imagination is your own, but I will not have you making up these wild stories to justify throwing your talent away. It has to stop," Dr. Griffiths said firmly. "Now I want you to listen to me here and now, Elizabeth. Fairies are not real."

"Please, Father. Let me explain…" pleaded Lizzy, trying hard not to let her eyes water.

"That is enough!" her father answered. "I will hear no more of this nonsense tonight!"

Little did Dr. Griffiths know that Tinker Bell and her friends could hear everything he and Lizzy were saying, and they didn't like the way her father was refusing to listen to her. Tinker Bell felt the blush filling up her face, and when she heard Dr. Griffiths tell Lizzy that fairies weren't real and cut her off, the little tinker fairy couldn't take it anymore. She flew out of the fairy house Lizzy had found her in and shot straight at Dr. Griffiths before he could say another word. As he backed up against Lizzy's bed, Tink berated him furiously and fluttered in front of his face like an angry bee.

Lizzy looked up to see Tinker Bell, who felt that she had gotten through to Lizzy's father, and the little girl smiled once more as Tinker Bell flew over to her and landed in her hands.

"Do you believe me now, Father?" grinned Lizzy.

Dr. Griffiths released his grip on his daughter's bedpost and slowly approached Tinker Bell with all expressions of disbelief and firmness gone. As Lizzy set Tink on her drawing table, she whispered, "You can call your friends now, Tinker Bell."

With that, Tinker Bell called to the others, "It's okay, everyone. You're clear to come out."

Rosetta, Iridessa, Silvermist, Fawn, Vidia, Bobble, and Clank came out from their hiding places and flitted over to join Tink on the table. Dr. Griffiths slowly knelt down beside his daughter and looked at the eight fairies closely. He clearly saw they had wings, but they had human bodies and wore clothes, although theirs were made of leaves and flowers. If he had seen this at any time before, he surely would've tried to tell himself they were just strange butterflies or that he was dreaming, but the sheer sight of them was enough to convince him otherwise. Then to Lizzy's delight, her father looked at them with astonished excitement.

Tinker Bell curtsied for Dr. Griffiths, who marveled, "As I live! A fairy?"

He observed Tinker Bell closely, taking in her form and her wing structure. He had never seen anything so delicate yet so striking and said, "It's astonishing. She has a human shape, but is nearly the size of my hand. And those wings- they must be as thin as paper, but she can fly on them with no trouble."

"Isn't Tinker Bell just magical, Father?" Lizzy said warmly.

Dr. Griffiths turned to Lizzy and said, "Is that her name? Tinker Bell?"

"Yes, Father," replied Lizzy. "I didn't give her that name. She told me about it."

Dr. Griffiths was more amazed and said, "So these fairies you've met are already named and are helpers in nature?"

"That's what Tinker Bell said," Lizzy affirmed.

Then Dr. Griffiths noticed Tinker Bell's friends and asked, "And who are these others?"

"These are her best friends," Lizzy replied. She introduced Bobble and Clank and explained to her father that they were tinker fairies like Tinker Bell. Then she introduced Rosetta, Iridessa, Silvermist, Fawn, and Vidia to her father, who was most interested in Rosetta's dress and Vidia's hairstyle. Then Lizzy said, "You must see what they can do, Father. It's so wonderful."

To his own surprise, Dr. Griffiths admitted that he would like to see what fairies were capable of, and he wasn't disappointed.

…

That evening, Tinker Bell and her friends showed Lizzy and her father the best of their individual talents. Tinker Bell used pixie dust to levitate some dishes in the sink and Silvermist bent the water from the tap to rinse them. Rosetta tapped some of the window plants and used her garden-fairy magic to bring the color back into them. When a lightbulb on the dining room ceiling went out, Iridessa simply fetched another bulb and Bobble and Clank screwed it in. Then she simply tossed some light from her own hands into it, and the room lit up as though from a crystal chandelier. Fawn fed Lizzy's cat Mr. Twitches and gave him a few gentle scratches under his chin and behind his ears. As for Vidia, she gave Dr. Griffiths a cool breeze from her swift-beating wings while he was preparing dinner.

Later that night, Dr. Griffiths read Lizzy one of her fantasy books while she curled up on his lap. Then when his story was done, Dr. Griffiths tucked his daughter into bed and kissed her good night.

"Sweet dreams to you, my little fairy princess," he whispered. "And tell your fairy friends that they're truly lucky to have a friend like you."

Lizzy nodded as she laid her little head on her pillow and told her father she loved him. And as Lizzy fell asleep, Tinker Bell and her friends watched over her from the windowsill deep in thought. Today had been a surprisingly exciting day, and best of all, Tink had found a new friend in Lizzy and in Vidia. Who knew what would happen tomorrow? Whatever came, Tinker Bell would have all her friends beside her and so much more to do on the Mainland and at home.


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