"Now follow me," Silvermist beckoned, leading Tinkerbell over to a lily pad floating on the pond.
She seemed even more excited than Tinkerbell herself.
The onlookers began cheering as they watched from the side.
"Come on Tink!"
"You can do it!"
"Haha, you got this!"
Fawn, Rossetta and even Zenith offered cheers of encouragement.
...
But immediately afterward, their heads turned in unison toward the quietly watching and awkwardly standing Iridessa.
"Oh, uhm... go get em'!," She stammered awkwardly under the collective gazes of her friends and Zenith.
The others nodded with a smile.
...
Tinkerbell hovered excitedly beside Silvermist as she eagerly awaited her first lesson.
Sil stooped gracefully onto the lily pad, cupping her hands together before scooping a tiny dewdrop from the pond.
Her movements were incredibly delicate.
"First, you cup your hands like this... and then gently..." Silvermist whispered, giving calm instructions as she demonstrated each step.
She slowly turned around to face the excited Tinkerbell.
The dewdrop shimmered faintly between her fingers like a small cluster of tiny crystals.
"You've heard of a dewdrop before, well this is a 'don't-drop'." She quipped.
"That's water-fairy humor, by the way," Silvermist, said playfully.
"Uhm, it's good." Tink laughed, although a bit awkwardly.
Silvermist smiled, fluttering over toward the web with her dewdrop in hand.
"Now, watch closely," she murmured, pressing the droplet onto a strand of the spider web.
Then with a series of delicate hand waving gestures, the dewdrop trickled out like tiny pearls along the strand of silk.
Silvermist turned to face Tinkerbell with a smile.
"See? It takes a very delicate hand to..."
"Uhm, where's your dewdrop?"
She asked, gazing at the empty-handed Tinkerbell hovering beside her.
"Oh, ah..." Tinkerbell laughed awkwardly before flying back toward the pool.
"Haha, forgot my dewdrop," she laughed as she flew past the silently spectating fairies.
Squatting onto the lily pad, she cupped her hands together before scooping a tiny droplet of water from the pond.
"Hey, I did!..."
*Splash!*
"It..." She muttered under her breath.
The droplet exploded between Tinkerbell's fingers before splattering back into the pool.
"Shake that one off, shake it off!" Sil shouted.
"You got this," She encouraged from the side.
The other pixies also offered waves of encouragement from their positions on the blossoming lily pad.
Zenith leaned forward, watching the spectacle unfold with quiet fascination.
'Haha, I'm loving my new life,' he thought happily as he continued to watch the show.
...
Tinkerbell tried to scoop up another dewdrop from the pond, but the results...
*Splash..!* Were the same.
She tried again.
*Splash!*
And again.
*Splash!*
"Ugh..!"
Her cheeks flushed redder with every failed attempt, her wings twitching in barely contained frustration.
"Uhm Tinkerbell, I think..."
"I've got this!" Tinkerbell hissed.
Silvermist silently hovered toward the others as Tinkerbell angrily scooped another droplet from the pond.
"Come on!" Tink growled fiercely.
The droplet began to wobble unsteadily in her palms.
In sheer desperation, she tossed the dewdrop toward the spider web before it could collapse between her fingers again.
"Woah,"
Heads turned slowly, following the airborne dewdrop as it curved a perfect arc through the air before sinking into the center of the web.
But, instead of bursting apart, the spider silk stretched like an elastic band.
It caved inward under the dewdrop's weight.
All the other droplets on the web slid toward Tinkerbell's rogue dewdrop at the center.
The droplets quickly condensed into a single, giant water ball before being catapulted at double its initial speed toward Zenith and the other pixies on the lily pad.
'Oh yeah, this had happened.' Zenith thought wryly, his hands instinctually shot up above him as the water projectile rocketed toward them.
"Ahh!" The pixies gasped, tightly closing their eyes as the water ball quickly streaked toward them.
But for some unknown reason, the expected impact never came.
...
Not receiving the expected *splash*, the fairies finally mustered the courage to open their eyes.
Their eyelids cracked open slowly, only to see a sight that made their breaths catch collectively.
Zenith's blue energy flared brilliantly around the huge water ball, holding the massive orb suspended midair mere inches above their heads.
It shimmered like a captured moon, faintly trembling against the tight grip of Zenith's blue energy.
'Now this... is a rather interesting development.' Zenith mused, studying the suspended water orb with growing fascination.