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"There's only one way to find out" Nastia pushed the door open and the three girls made a bold step inside.

Ardis' sister was standing in the middle of the crammed room, a triumphant smirk on her face. There was something off in the way she looked though. Nastia scanned her face and posture, looking for any weird details. Then she finally noticed. The ears were no longer pointy. They were round, perfectly normal for a human being. She was wearing a pretty elaborate robe, much unlike the one before. It looked fairly strange on a human being, which only added to the odd feeling their opponent emanated.

Then she noticed Ayumi, layling unconscious inside a jar. Ardis' sister kept her hand on the lid, blocking out any potential breathing holes. It was hard to see from Nastia's point - but she could have sworn Ayumi's breath was hard and laborous, on the verge of suffocating. Ardis shot out towards the miniature prison - only to be stopped in her tracks by yet another ethereal rope appearing out of thin air. Wings bound to her torso, she fell to the ground, just next to her sister's feet.

"Hello, Ar" the girl said, picking the fallen fairy up. To Nastia's relief, this forced her to take the hand off the jar.

"DON'T YOU DARE TOUCH MY FRIENDS ANYMORE!!!" Tammana roared, rushing towards the captor. She tripped midway, more silky strings tying her ankles. The ex-fairy made a step to the side, making Tammana fall flat on the ground. She tried to scramble back, but more threads bound her, and to Nastia's terror, she also saw her start shrinking. A short yelp escaped Tammana's mouth as the girl's foot fell on her dwindling back, much like it happened to Nastia the previous day. Tammy's pouch fell out of its buckle, landing next to the wall with a soft thud.

"Why are you doing this, Sa?" Ardis cried. "Why?!"

"Because I am smarter than you, Ar" the girl chuckled. "You are all idiots! Pa and Ma too! You remember when he said we're not to mess with the wingless, live our lifes separately? And where is he now?! How did our magic help him when that storm came, huh?!"

The rage building up in the ex-fairy made her ignore Nastia. Overwhelmed by the events' tempo, the girl tried to make up some plan. Rushing like Tammy was out of the question - she was sure their opponent was not that distracted. But she had to act fast to save Ai. Franticly searching for an approach to this problem, she suddenly noticed one, tiny detail everyone else seemed to had overlooked so far.

"You wanted to live with the wingless, I decided to become one! I found the way in one of Ma's book, a technique allowing to switch essences! And look who I am now! A-"

"A monster!!!" yelled Ardis, trashing madly against her sister's grip. Blue sparks zapped between the two, like some invisible tug-o-war - but Ardis suddenly went limp, overpowered and knocked out.

"Let me correct ya: a wingless, but still with a fairy's magic."

With a triumphant smirk, she threw Ardis onto the table. Under her foot, Tammana was already less than half her normal size, overwhelmed. She stomped on her shoulder blade, making the Indian girl scream out in pain. The last element of the puzzle fell into Nastia's mind, completing the plan.

"And what about you, blonde one?" The girl finally turned to Nastia. "Not going to help your friends?"

Nastia took one last look at the room. Streams of violet flew out from the ex-fairy, converging on Ayumi. Every time their opponent used her magic, another portion of it leaked out. Tammana's shrinking was slowing down in speed. Whatever the reason, this was their best chance.

"I am just shocked someone can be so creative, yet so stupid" she spat, rushing towards the ex-fairy.

Threads appeared again, this time thinner and slower; they snapped around Nastia's ankles, tripping her, but ripped apart in process. Their opponent stepped aside, freeing the kid-sized Tammana, the first indication of surprise in her eyes. Nastia fell to the floor - but before the sluggish ribbons bound her arms, she managed to crack the capsule with the neutralizer hidden in her pouch.

Tammana returned to her normal size in the blink of an eye. All threads disappeared, turning into a sparkling fog. But the ex-fairy did not return to her old state and neither did Ayumi.

"Idiot!" a kick in the guts made Nastia black out for a while. "You think your pitiful concoctions can match my powers!?"

Another blow expelled air from her lungs. With the corner of her eye, she noticed Tammana scramble to her feet, grabbing Ayumi's jar. She screwed off the lid and dropped the tiny girl to her palm, finally letting oxygen reach the fairy's lungs.

Ayumi stirred and coughed, gasping for air. Above her, Tammana's desperate eyes lit up with the tiniest spark of hope. Adrenaline kicked in, shaking the dizziness and sleepiness off Ai's mind.

She jumped up, doing her best to stay airborne. At first she struggled, but with every flap, it became easier. Somehow more natural. She felt something strange pumping her body, filling her with some kind of unknown strenght. Surprised with her own confidence, she zipped upwards, passing next to Tammana's face. Below her, she saw the ex-fairy pounding Nastia, Tammana quickly joining the brawl. Intially, the two girls had the advantage - but their opponent's magic was slowly tipping the scales.

Ardis joined her mid-air.

"How is this all possible?" She asked the violet fairy.

"You're asking the wrong person" Ardis grabbed her hand "Listen Ai. On my mark, think of... whatever. Whatever you want to happen to stop Sa and save the girls. Concentrate on this. And then... then just do like this" she snapped her fingers.

"But-"

"Dunno how, but Sa's power is leaking, I can feel it. It's leaking to the only fairy left in the room, apart from me" Ardis pointed at her. "I'll help you Ai. I always did"

This was madness. But the recent days have all been that way. If all that insanity was possible, there was no reason for this last piece to fail.

Mari would be proud of that logic.

"On my mark! Three! Two! One!"

She closed her eyes, picturing Sa immobilized. Trapped. Confined in some space, suffering the same thing she did to her. She painted the whole scene in her mind, a frozen frame of a movie. Her fingertips tingled with electricity.

"NOW!"

Snapping her fingers felt like shaking some very fine dust off her fingertips.

Down below, Saorlaith was about to truimph. The transformation, the fight, all of this, exhausted her more than she expected. But the two arrogant wenches were beaten. Summoning the binds was harder than ever, but she finally managed to pin them down. The tanned girl's size gave her an advantage - until she managed to reduce her back to more manageable proportions. The blonde's trump card only bought her time, delaying the inevitable. All that was left was reducing them to dust.

Mustering the power was incomprehensibly hard but she felt it concentrate. Just a second. Just a moment...

Suddenly, a tsunami hit her from behind.

The world expanded and got distorted, as glass materialized out of thin air, surrounding her reduced body. Everything returned to the proportions she was used to - and then she passed that point, still growing. Before she could have moved an inch, the glass sphere closed, safe for a swarm of miniscule pores letting air in and out. She barely had the space to curl up without breaking her spine or limbs. The marble fell to the floor, the bounce thundering in her ears, and rolled towards a titanic, black and olive object in front of it. Saorlaith screamed, her voice barely escaping the glass prison.

Up above, Tammana's head spun like crazy, as Ardis' magic restored her and Nastia. Changing size so many times in succession, getting beaten and beating up somebody... That was almost too much for her. The nauseaous feeling almost made her ignore the tiny sparkle rolling towards her sandal. A red smear dove just next to her nose and rose back up. She blinked her eyes - and the smear sharpened up to form Ayumi's tiny figure. Red wings buzzed behind her back. Her hakama - the only piece of clothing on otherwise naked body - was now dirty grey instead of dark crimson. Her tiny bare feet were covered with cuts and blood. But she was smiling. And in her extended hand, just close enough for Tammana to see clearly, laid a glass marble with the ex-fairy inside.

"Thank you!" Ayumi flew to Tammana's nose, hugging it and giving it a kiss. Tiny tears streamed out from her eyes, soon joined by Tammana's. Next to them Nastia smiled, Ardis sitting on her arm. The fairy's gaze was fixed at Ayumi's fist hiding the marble, her thoughts inscrutable.

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"There's only one way to find out" Nastia pushed the door open and the three girls made a bold step inside.

Ardis' sister was standing in the middle of the crammed room, a triumphant smirk on her face. There was something off in the way she looked though. Nastia scanned her face and posture, looking for any weird details. Then she finally noticed. The ears were no longer pointy. They were round, perfectly normal for a human being. She was wearing a pretty elaborate robe, much unlike the one before. It looked fairly strange on a human being, which only added to the odd feeling their opponent emanated.

Then she noticed Ayumi, layling unconscious inside a jar. Ardis' sister kept her hand on the lid, blocking out any potential breathing holes. It was hard to see from Nastia's point - but she could have sworn Ayumi's breath was hard and laborous, on the verge of suffocating. Ardis shot out towards the miniature prison - only to be stopped in her tracks by yet another ethereal rope appearing out of thin air. Wings bound to her torso, she fell to the ground, just next to her sister's feet.

"Hello, Ar" the girl said, picking the fallen fairy up. To Nastia's relief, this forced her to take the hand off the jar.

"DON'T YOU DARE TOUCH MY FRIENDS ANYMORE!!!" Tammana roared, rushing towards the captor. She tripped midway, more silky strings tying her ankles. The ex-fairy made a step to the side, making Tammana fall flat on the ground. She tried to scramble back, but more threads bound her, and to Nastia's terror, she also saw her start shrinking. A short yelp escaped Tammana's mouth as the girl's foot fell on her dwindling back, much like it happened to Nastia the previous day. Tammy's pouch fell out of its buckle, landing next to the wall with a soft thud.

"Why are you doing this, Sa?" Ardis cried. "Why?!"

"Because I am smarter than you, Ar" the girl chuckled. "You are all idiots! Pa and Ma too! You remember when he said we're not to mess with the wingless, live our lifes separately? And where is he now?! How did our magic help him when that storm came, huh?!"

The rage building up in the ex-fairy made her ignore Nastia. Overwhelmed by the events' tempo, the girl tried to make up some plan. Rushing like Tammy was out of the question - she was sure their opponent was not that distracted. But she had to act fast to save Ai. Franticly searching for an approach to this problem, she suddenly noticed one, tiny detail everyone else seemed to had overlooked so far.

"You wanted to live with the wingless, I decided to become one! I found the way in one of Ma's book, a technique allowing to switch essences! And look who I am now! A-"

"A monster!!!" yelled Ardis, trashing madly against her sister's grip. Blue sparks zapped between the two, like some invisible tug-o-war - but Ardis suddenly went limp, overpowered and knocked out.

"Let me correct ya: a wingless, but still with a fairy's magic."

With a triumphant smirk, she threw Ardis onto the table. Under her foot, Tammana was already less than half her normal size, overwhelmed. She stomped on her shoulder blade, making the Indian girl scream out in pain. The last element of the puzzle fell into Nastia's mind, completing the plan.

"And what about you, blonde one?" The girl finally turned to Nastia. "Not going to help your friends?"

Nastia took one last look at the room. Streams of violet flew out from the ex-fairy, converging on Ayumi. Every time their opponent used her magic, another portion of it leaked out. Tammana's shrinking was slowing down in speed. Whatever the reason, this was their best chance.

"I am just shocked someone can be so creative, yet so stupid" she spat, rushing towards the ex-fairy.

Threads appeared again, this time thinner and slower; they snapped around Nastia's ankles, tripping her, but ripped apart in process. Their opponent stepped aside, freeing the kid-sized Tammana, the first indication of surprise in her eyes. Nastia fell to the floor - but before the sluggish ribbons bound her arms, she managed to crack the capsule with the neutralizer hidden in her pouch.

Tammana returned to her normal size in the blink of an eye. All threads disappeared, turning into a sparkling fog. But the ex-fairy did not return to her old state and neither did Ayumi.

"Idiot!" a kick in the guts made Nastia black out for a while. "You think your pitiful concoctions can match my powers!?"

Another blow expelled air from her lungs. With the corner of her eye, she noticed Tammana scramble to her feet, grabbing Ayumi's jar. She screwed off the lid and dropped the tiny girl to her palm, finally letting oxygen reach the fairy's lungs.

Ayumi stirred and coughed, gasping for air. Above her, Tammana's desperate eyes lit up with the tiniest spark of hope. Adrenaline kicked in, shaking the dizziness and sleepiness off Ai's mind.

She jumped up, doing her best to stay airborne. At first she struggled, but with every flap, it became easier. Somehow more natural. She felt something strange pumping her body, filling her with some kind of unknown strenght. Surprised with her own confidence, she zipped upwards, passing next to Tammana's face. Below her, she saw the ex-fairy pounding Nastia, Tammana quickly joining the brawl. Intially, the two girls had the advantage - but their opponent's magic was slowly tipping the scales.

Ardis joined her mid-air.

"How is this all possible?" She asked the violet fairy.

"You're asking the wrong person" Ardis grabbed her hand "Listen Ai. On my mark, think of... whatever. Whatever you want to happen to stop Sa and save the girls. Concentrate on this. And then... then just do like this" she snapped her fingers.

"But-"

"Dunno how, but Sa's power is leaking, I can feel it. It's leaking to the only fairy left in the room, apart from me" Ardis pointed at her. "I'll help you Ai. I always did"

This was madness. But the recent days have all been that way. If all that insanity was possible, there was no reason for this last piece to fail.

Mari would be proud of that logic.

"On my mark! Three! Two! One!"

She closed her eyes, picturing Sa immobilized. Trapped. Confined in some space, suffering the same thing she did to her. She painted the whole scene in her mind, a frozen frame of a movie. Her fingertips tingled with electricity.

"NOW!"

Snapping her fingers felt like shaking some very fine dust off her fingertips.

Down below, Saorlaith was about to truimph. The transformation, the fight, all of this, exhausted her more than she expected. But the two arrogant wenches were beaten. Summoning the binds was harder than ever, but she finally managed to pin them down. The tanned girl's size gave her an advantage - until she managed to reduce her back to more manageable proportions. The blonde's trump card only bought her time, delaying the inevitable. All that was left was reducing them to dust.

Mustering the power was incomprehensibly hard but she felt it concentrate. Just a second. Just a moment...

Suddenly, a tsunami hit her from behind.

The world expanded and got distorted, as glass materialized out of thin air, surrounding her reduced body. Everything returned to the proportions she was used to - and then she passed that point, still growing. Before she could have moved an inch, the glass sphere closed, safe for a swarm of miniscule pores letting air in and out. She barely had the space to curl up without breaking her spine or limbs. The marble fell to the floor, the bounce thundering in her ears, and rolled towards a titanic, black and olive object in front of it. Saorlaith screamed, her voice barely escaping the glass prison.

Up above, Tammana's head spun like crazy, as Ardis' magic restored her and Nastia. Changing size so many times in succession, getting beaten and beating up somebody... That was almost too much for her. The nauseaous feeling almost made her ignore the tiny sparkle rolling towards her sandal. A red smear dove just next to her nose and rose back up. She blinked her eyes - and the smear sharpened up to form Ayumi's tiny figure. Red wings buzzed behind her back. Her hakama - the only piece of clothing on otherwise naked body - was now dirty grey instead of dark crimson. Her tiny bare feet were covered with cuts and blood. But she was smiling. And in her extended hand, just close enough for Tammana to see clearly, laid a glass marble with the ex-fairy inside.

"Thank you!" Ayumi flew to Tammana's nose, hugging it and giving it a kiss. Tiny tears streamed out from her eyes, soon joined by Tammana's. Next to them Nastia smiled, Ardis sitting on her arm. The fairy's gaze was fixed at Ayumi's fist hiding the marble, her thoughts inscrutable.