Not Your Typical Musician

TheCuriousSeed

Here comes another story from yours truly!

~It wasn't too long after Strawberry Lightlocks Arrived that the Music Talents rejoiced. She had a very sweet speaking voice and her skin and hair lived up to her first name very well. She was very friendly and looked really good in purple. She even had excellent musical prowess... well, almost excellent. There were two areas that were very weak...

~Her singing was so bad that even the hard of hearing wished their ears didn't work at all! In fact, her singing was so bad many began to wonder if she was Complete, which she was. If one thought it scary when Strawberry sang, one definitely would regret hearing her try to whistle! Strawberry was greatly saddened by this news, so...

~Strawberry flew to where the Healers worked and consulted one that specialised in elixirs for different ailments. The elixir she was given did greatly improve her singing and whistling, but it made her an alto with a really rough voice! Strawberry tried it out and it sounded very soulful and growly when singing, almost like her voice was built for singing the blues, a genre previously unheard of by Neverfairies!

~"Wow, that can't be the same Strawberry?"

~"See? I knew she had it in her!"

~"Flitterific!"

~And the like from her guild.

~Days passed and everyone was thrilled to hear her sing... everyone but Saffron Brightwillow, her best friend that actually could sing and whistle superbly in her sweet soprano voice, just what Strawberry used to have.

~"Strawberry, why?" Saffron asked tearfully. "You used to have such a sweet speaking voice, but now you sound like... like..." Saffron wept harder, then took Strawberry by the wrist and flew her to the same Healer that 'fixed' up Strawberry's voice.

~"Fly with you," said the Healer. "How may I be of service?"

~"Do you have an antidote that returns your voice to normal?" asked Saffron, still weeping.

~The Healer had an antidote, but she didn't understand why anyone would want to give up what Strawberry gained since taking that first elixir, but Saffron seemed to know why: unlike Strawberry or Saffron, both of whom Complete, this Healer was a little Incomplete because when she was still a laugh, she suffered a little damage to where her head would go eventually; as a result, the only elixirs she could make with permanence were the antidotes.

~Saffron worried about and wept for Strawberry because she knew Strawberry was just days away from suffering lasting damage to her vocal cords if she didn't get that antidote soon! The Healer readied the antidote, have Strawberry take it and...

~"Whoa," said Strawberry, her voice back to its normal soprano voice.

~A bit later Saffron and Strawberry decided that henceforth, Strawberry would play the instruments while Saffron sang. They made a great team and even got encores! In time Strawberry even adopted a bee named Lilacsong and oh, what fun Strawberry had with her friends since that day!

Hope you enjoyed this tale!