[EVENT] Fairy Festival Parade Thread [PERFORMERS ONLY]

Arcadia already wore the magical misty disguise of her normal 14 year old self, complete with sparkly, sequined sky blue gown with matching winged headband. Fighting some last minute nerves, she simply reminded herself that it was better to be in front of the crowd than trapped in the crowd's claustrophobic confines.

Showtime! The pale blonde slayer watched as the floats ahead of her started off. The one she would be riding through the parade was constructed for her by friends at the Magnolia Theatre Co. Something of a mobile tower in thousands of paper flowers, shaded from white to three shades of blue.  They were all arranged to give the tower the look of an iceberg.

An iceberg that had been constructed up to provide a number natural appearing obstacles, like a natural appearing arch through the lower half, and spires that formed a short slalom course. There were a small number of ledge protrusions on the sides. Platforms where she could stand where painted white to match the ice coloration the paper flowers gave the whole structure.

When her iceberg float began to pull out, the young slayer transformed herself into a dragon wyrmling made of pure living ice, no bigger than a large draft horse. A gentle snow began to fall from the cloudless sky, and Arcadia pulled the disguise of her 14 year ild self in the sequined blue gown   back into existence around her draconic form.  

The ice wyrmling had to lay on her belly to ensure the smaller illusion she wore did not float up above the platform she rested on.  The image of Arcadia smiled and waved from the top platform of her float, not quite as high as the slalom of spires.  With the gentle snowfall surrounding her float, the ice wyrmling stood, giving her more human image the appearance of floating. The wyrmling spread her wings and hovered up over the tallest spire, bringing her human image slowly turn about and wave to all.

Arcadia turned her image into an illusionary explosion of ice and snow, to reveal the ice wyrmling she had become on spectacular fashion, the sun sparking and shingling down through her translucent form, as she let out an accompanying roar and geyser of frozen mist and ice from her open maw turned skyward.

Arcadia as Ice Dragon Wyrmling:

WC: 386

The ice dragon wyrmling stalled out at the top of her rise over her iceberg float and the parade below. She allowed gravity to pull her back down, Arcadia leaning down into a dive. A dive she pulled almost immediately out of, veering straight through slalom of spires poking up from her float.

Arcadia continued concentrating on the creation of the illusion of contrail of sparkling, silver glitter being left in her wake through the air. The glitter drifted down as illusionary sparkly ticker tape over her float and the edges of the parade crowd. The draft horse-sized wyrmling weaved her way through the spires.

Looping around the last spire in the slalom, Arcadia banked hard left and down into a sharp diving turn. The wyrmling leveled out, swooping through the arch at the bottom of her float. She beat her wings to speed along and pull up as soon as she cleared the arch, quickly climbing back toward the top of the arch as it moved along the avenue. She looped on over the top, spreading her illusionary glitter ticker tape all over, adding a continual sparkle to the air around her and her iceberg amid the gentle snowfall that followed her along.

Instead of diving straight back to the arch after tipping over backwards in her loop, Arcadia tilted her aim to pull almost level around the left side of her float.. Cutting close tot he underside of one ledge, pulling a barrel roll with wings folded as she whizzed past. The wrymling pulled straight up to rise to the next platform up, folding her wings in again as she tucks her dragon form into a reverse somersault. She landed in a perfect four point landing, and almost immediately bouncing herself to stand however briefly on her forelegs.

Springing back into the air, Arcadia climbed steeply once again, each beat of her wings speeding her higher in altitude until she was well above her float and Magnolia. In a whole new illusionary explosion of ice and snow, Arcadia turned herself invisible . Hundreds of illusionary tiny, mouse-sized ice dragons flying on out of the explosion to flitter about the street side crowd.

The actual Arcadia sped off to pay a little visit to those watching on lacrima screens

The wyrmling of pure ice did not turn back human herself, but while she was still invisible she conjured several more puppets of mist. Images of herself, all running out from the crowds her iceberg of paper flowers was slowly passing by. All these Arcadias converged on the slowly passing iceberg float. One by one, they climbed onto and up toward the top, while still more Arcadias poured out of the crowd. Each Arcadia was dressed in a sparkly sequined dress of varying icy shades of color. Some pure white, others barely blue, others a soft sky blue and still others were a deep azure.

They performed a synchronized gymnastic dance in their climb to the top of the float. Arcadia made sure that every image of her human self down below appeared to be making use of the float's hand and foot holds. She was saving the suspension of disbelief bending tricks for last. Those that reached the top first would start.

While the Arcadias below continued their choreographed ascent, the Arcadias already at the top formed human pyramids. First it was just one Arcadia sitting on another's shoulders. With other Arcadias doing the same, they formed a small circle. Shoulder-riding Arcadias switching places with other shoulder-riding Arcadias by tumbling through the air. The human pyramids they formed grew steadily more complex.

With the last of the Arcadias reaching the top of the iceberg float, Arcadia had all the images of her human self pull off one more physically impossible without magic inverted human pyramid. One Arcadia balanced at the tippy top with all the other Arcadia's forming a broadening inverted pyramid, seemingly only held up by her two arms.

The Arcadias all exploded into another glittering explosion that revealed the ice dragon hovering on above her float. With another illusionary explosion of glittering sparkles, she made herself invisible again, while giving the appearance of having transformed back human with one more fresh puppet of mist. This one resembled the one she had worn to start the parade with, and she somersaulted back down to the iceberg float.

Arcadia would leave her image behind on her float with sparkles the filling the air all around. The ice wyrmling suppressed the usual snowfall that followed her around to allow the sparkles to fill the air alone. While her image remained on the float waving to the parade viewers, the invisible ice wyrmling to take her turn to go enjoy the other floats.

Hovering over Mia's float, the unseen little ice dragon would dive down, and snatch a mouthful of candies from mid-air. Quickly climbing back in altitude, she'd wait for an appropriate time to add a cloud of illusionary sparklies for Mia too.

Flying on, she circled around Thea's giant tree candle. She was rather amazed at how it had all come together, and wondered just how much wax it had taken to build. She also wondered just how long it would take to burn, if the flame was never put out. Arcadia pushed curiosities aside and at an appropate time, added an illusionary cloud of sparkles around Thea's tree too.

The invisible dragon flew on to hover over big sister's float next. She hovered to admire and enjoy Nessa's dancing and light show. Arcadia made sure to climb high enough in altitude that she wouldn't collide with Nessa or any of her Valkyries. She'd wait for an appropriate time to help close off Ness'a show and the parade with one more cloud of illusionary sparkles.

The cues in the music were telling Nessa that the dance was coming to an end. So, She proceeding to hit each beat with a choreographed move, the final part of the dance before her finale. Her Valkyries moving in sync with her, flying in a triangular formation. It hadn't been easy to convince all of them to take part in the festival with her, some of them had been harder to convince than others. Agatha had insisted it was a trivial human task and unsuitable for a Valkyrie and Elgorea had been worried people would be freaked out by her demonic arm. But after much convincing, and doing a few practice sessions with the Valkyries, eventually they had joined in, resulting in the performing happening right now.

Nessa spun in the air, the music was reaching its climax, as she spun she raised her arms upwards. This gesture signaled the Valkyrie's to fly beneath her, dancing through the skies in a spiral. As Nessa spun, orbs flew from her hands. Rising into the skies above, joining together one by one, and expanding. Until a hundred metres above Magnolia, floated a giant star that had taken on the shape of the Fairy Tail Guild Mark. It shone in the sky like a magnificent beacon. "Ready girls?" Nessa called, the eight girls formed a vertical line and shot upwards towards the symbol. As they connected with the shining symbol, the orbs that had formed the symbol shot outwards, exploding in the air around them in a display of colourful fireworks. Whizzing and whirling around in a magnificent display of light. Nessa and the Valykries floated to the ground, the crowd applauded and cheered. Nessa beamed, waving at the crowd vigorously. A euphoric sense of joy and satisfaction of everything from the fact that her performance had actually gone smoothly. As the fireworks continued to explode above the crowd; little sprinkles of Stardust would fall down on the people below, giving a sense of tingling warmth and happiness on anyone they landed on.

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