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do a dramatic yawn.
    Outside, Tink realized what was going on. “Back to the forest!”
    “What?” Iridessa asked.
    “Mission abort!” Tink said. “Mission abort!” Nyx made Fawn stay and listen as she told her about the ancient parchment and its predictions. “That comet that went by
the other night—it was here before…nine hundred seventy-two years ago. And each time it passes, it wakes the creature.” She showed Fawn a paper fragment that had a drawing of the
beast on it. “This is the NeverBeast. Once the comet brings it out of hibernation, it starts building.”
    Another fragment showed Gruff’s stone towers.
    “Four rock towers,” Nyx said. “One in each season of Pixie Hollow.” She went on with another picture. “Green clouds fill the sky. Then the creature transforms and
brings a lightning storm so powerful, it consumes all of Pixie Hollow.”
    In the final drawing, lightning vibrated from the towers, destroying Pixie Hollow.
    “If we don’t act fast, this storm will destroy us all,” Nyx said.
    She pointed at the fragmented drawings, now pieced together to form a single ancient parchment: The Legend of the NeverBeast.

O utside, Tink and the girls were doing their best to move Gruff. They pushed and pulled, but the beast was stubborn.
    “Back home, please!” Tink said.
    “C’mon, Gruff,” Iridessa told him.
    “Let’s go,” Rosetta tried.
    “On three! One…two…
THREE
—” Tink counted.
    As Vidia grabbed his ear, Gruff inhaled sharply, getting a whiff of Tink’s dust, before exploding in a sneeze.
    Nyx and Clarion turned at the sound. Fawn pretended it was her sneeze. “Phew. I should get that checked out.” Then Fawn told the queen, “Look, animals do not control the
weather.”
    “
Ordinary
animals don’t.…” Nyx countered.
    Fawn held up the drawing. “Furthermore, this creature with the horns and the bat wings…An animal that big couldn’t possibly fly under his own power.”
    She glanced out the window to see Gruff darting back and forth, out of control, as her friends chased him around.
    Nyx grabbed the parchment. “Either we capture the NeverBeast or life as we know it is over.”
    “Nyx, let’s not do anything rash until we know more,” the queen said. “See if you can locate the creature first.”
    “I just don’t want innocent animals to get hurt,” Fawn said.
    “And I don’t want innocent fairies to get hurt.” Nyx turned to Fawn. “I’m not the enemy here.”
    The queen stepped between them. “I trust you both to do what’s right for Pixie Hollow.”
    Nyx stood straighter. Fawn tightened her jaw. They both were determined to do things their own way.
    Outside the queen’s chamber, Nyx’s scouts waited.
    “What’s the word?” Fury asked her.
    “We go after it at dawn,” she said without hesitation.

    That night, Gruff floated through the sky, pixie dust trailing behind him as he slowly descended.
    Fawn caught up. “What happened?” she asked her friends. “You were supposed to get him out of there.”
    “We tried, sug,” Rosetta told her. “Giant thing wouldn’t budge.”
    “I think he didn’t want to leave you,” Tink said.
    Fawn stroked the beast. “I missed you, too, Gruff.”
    Vidia interrupted. “Sorry to break—whatever this is—up. But what happened to doing the right thing?”
    “Nyx got there first,” Fawn reported.
    “And…?” Iridessa asked.
    Fawn flew up and sat on Gruff’s nose. “Nyx found this harebrained legend about a creature called the NeverBeast who builds rock towers and shoots lightning to destroy Pixie Hollow,
so now she thinks he’s some kind of monster.”
    The girls’ eyes widened.
    “I know! Crazy, right?” Fawn said, but it was clear the girls believed Nyx.
    Gruff landed, and Vidia began to back away. “Well, early day tomorrow.”
    “Oooh, am I tired!” Iridessa was leaving, too.
    “Really? I’m wide-awake!” Silvermist missed the point.
    Rosetta grabbed her, saying, “Bye-bye