Page 37 of Celestia, Year Three

"I feel like I'm about to be pranked," Finn groaned to himself. "Celestia? If this is a prank, you win."

I had to stop myself from giggling. Orion wore a broad smile on his face, appearing amused by Finn's struggle, and I turned to my attention back to Finn who seemed to have given up.

"Where could she have gone at such a fast pace?" Finn wondered out loud.

"Maybe she's as swift as a pixie."

Finn froze in place, his eyes growing wide as he visibly gulped. I heard the gentle sounds of heels clicking against the wood, and Orion and I turned our heads to see a magnificent woman with large pink wings that fluttered at a fast pace.

She was 5'8", but her heels made her look 6'0" and she wore a radiant green dress that was short in the front but trailed down the back to the floor, allowing us a peek at her pink heels. The combination of clothing was typical for a pixie, and her blonde hair was tied up in a bun, the hints of pink showing at the loose ends that rested on her left side.

She looked like an older shifter, not due to her skin, which was as smooth as if she were in her mid 20's, but because of the wisdom that lingered in her green eyes. Her lips were cloaked with red lipstick, and the brilliant smile that formed on those ruby red lips showed her pure white teeth.

Finn stared at the woman for at least a full minute before he responded. "Impossible." He choked, tears already rolling down his cheeks as he stared at the woman with shock.

"That's not how you usually greet your mother, Son," she whispered, and Finn opened his trembling lips.

"Mom...you...you're alive?" He whimpered as his body trembled. Her smile widened, and she took the remaining steps to close the distance between them, pulling her son into her arms.

"I would never leave this dimension until I made sure my children were safe and secure. We fought our hardest to get out of that Forsaken situation and were able to board the last rescue ship before the dimension exploded." She held Finn tightly as he began to sob.

"But-But they said you were all dead. They said they couldn't find any remaining Charm pixies." Finn delivered the words through his sobs.

"We didn't use our real surnames because we didn't know who Alpha Pure was. We'd heard horrible things, so we didn't expect them to rescue us. I only revealed our identity when Charlotte and her daughter, Celestia, confronted us the other day," she replied.

"Us? What do you mean by us?" Finn questioned pulling back to stare into his mother's eyes. Her sweet smile widened, and she glanced back in the direction she'd come from and an older man and a slender woman walked onto the path.

Finn's jaw dropped at the site of the two individuals who swiftly made their way towards them, the slender female ending up extracting her pixie wings and flying towards him.

"FINN!"

"Bloom." Finn struggled to get the single name out. The girl landed a step before leaping towards Finn with her arms wide. Finn caught her by reflex as if she always greeted her brother that way.

"You're okay! We're alive! Don't cry. I missed you so much." She cried and held him tightly as he began to weep uncontrollably.

"I thought...I thought you were all gone." He broke down, his sobs enough to make me blink my eyes rapidly to stop the tears from flowing. Orion pulled me into his arms, but neither of us could move our eyes away from the heartwarming scene.

"I know. We're so sorry. We had to lay low until we knew for sure this was a safe place. We never expected we'd find you. I tried calling you many times, but it wouldn't go through. I'm sorry." Bloom sniffled.

She pulled back to cradle his face, wiping the tears from his eyes. She then stepped to the side, and his mother did the same as the older man reached where they all stood. When his bright pink eyes locked onto Finn's green ones, he smiled.

"Now Finn boy. Did you really think we'd die so easily? You know us Pixies pack a punch when our lives depend on it."

"Dad..." Finn whispered, and the man opened his arms up.

"We're alive, son. Come and get a hug from your old man."

Finn stepped right into his father’s arms and lost every last bit of composure as he broke down and wept.

I smiled at the scene, my heart full of happiness as my tears spilled over. This was the hardest secret to keep from him, especially after I begged my mother to take me with her during her commander duties to look at the survivors from the dimension incident.

I'd almost lost hope when we'd searched the majority of the Pixies until Bloom had caught my attention, her facial appearance all too similar to Finn's. Only after Mom introduced me and I'd shown them a picture of Finn with me from my phone, did they realize we weren't lying and that their son was here.

That was when we decided to plan it all out, and I knew this would be the best possible gift we could give Finn for putting our needs first, especially mine.

He should have been mourning his family, but instead, he went into the rain to find me that night and brought Magnor along. He'd made sure I was okay first, and if it weren’t for the fact that I'd urged him to tell me what happened during our night at Magnor's place in New Aslan, he'd harbor that pain inside so that he wouldn't burden anyone else.

That alone was enough for me to want to do this and reunite him with the family he thought he'd lost. Orion rubbed my back and turned me around in his hold to kiss me on the forehead.

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