01.00: Pilot

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"I'm so, so..."

With a poof, two figures appeared amidst swirling coral and periwinkle coloured clouds, striking a theatrical back-to-back pose as a spotlight illumined their presence.

"Miserable." The hovering, male figure smoothly interjected, finishing the boy's sentence. With a deft twirl of his cane through the air, he caught it again with a flourish, all the while flashing a gleaming smile in the boy's direction.

"Hey, kid. I'm Poof," the periwinkle fairy introduced with a smile, gesturing towards himself with his thumb. "Well, at least I was." He rested both hands atop his wand, which resembled a cane and leaned on it slightly as he continued, "I changed my name to Peri. Like Peri-winkle." He concluded with a playful wink. Releasing his wand, which floated beside him as he tugged at his suspenders with his thumbs before releasing them with a snap, "Check the threads, huh?"

"And this," taking hold of his wand, Peri made a sweeping gesture to his left, drawing attention to the female figure hovering slightly behind him, "this pretty lady is Whimsy. She's my wife." With a dopey smile lighting up his face, he flew over to her side, posing back-to-back with her once again as he clutched his wand with both hands. "We're married," he reiterated affectionately as cartoon pink hearts bubbled around him.

With an exuberant laugh at her husband's goofiness, Whimsy playfully pushed Peri's face away from her own before directing her attention to the boy, greeting him with a warm smile and a double-handed wave. As she reached up to free her wand, which was nestled within her tousled pink-orange bun, she exchanged a glance with Peri before the two simultaneously exclaimed, "And we're..." with a wave of her wand, Whimsy poofed up an array of illuminated letters that spelled out: 'FAIRLY GODDPARENTS'.

"Your fairy godparents!"

Stage lights swayed behind them as Whimsy twisted a party popper, sending a cascade of multicoloured confetti into the air. Amidst the action, the glow of the letter 'G' flickered on and off before dimming and vanishing. Peri, noticing the flickering out of the corner of his eye, glanced up at the illuminated sign before informing his wife, "uh, hun, the word 'fairy' doesn't have an 'L', and there's only one 'D' in 'godparents'."

"I got to get this thing fixed,' Whimsy's brow furrowed as she examined her wand. After giving it a firm shake, she raised it once more, amending the spelling before tapping the 'G' twice, prompting it to flicker to life once more. "Much better," Whimsy chirped after giving her sign a once-over. She then reached into the pocket of her pants, retrieving a party horn, and blew into it, producing a loud toot. After, with a flourish, she tossed a handful of confetti glitter into the air before jubilantly exclaiming once more, "your fairy godparents!"

Flying up to the boy, Peri poked the end of his wand against the boy's chest. "And kid, we'll take you from Dev..." Peri began, before wrapping an arm around the boy's shoulder and making a sweeping gesture with his wand, "... to Dev-ine." Resting an elbow on the top of his wand, Peri then poofed back to his wife's side. She was now covered head-to-toe in an array of multicoloured confetti and glitter due to her previous actions.

The boy, now known as Dev, was left starring at the couple in awe, his eyes wide with astonishment. After a beat, he sprang to his feet and exclaimed, "You're my what?"

The married couple shared a glance before smiling at each other, full of anticipation for what was to come.

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