Disclaimer I do not own any of the characters both the characters and the original plot and storyline belong to their owners however I am partly following the original storyline as this fic is based in an Alternate Universe where things are a little different from the what they are in the actual game for one in this universe the concept of marrying for love is not uncommon in the fairy realm but the arranged marriages were part of a tradition that the fairies tried to abide by almost at all times which was why Tangle and Aeval left for the mortal world with their son Fidget. It also gives a different tale about Faye since we hear totally nothing about her family in any of the games the only other obvious difference between this story and the actual games is that Lilith the fairy queen of dreams is not a villain in this story but was trying in her own diabolical way to help Fidget and Faye but I will let you learn more as you read the story.
Chapter 1
Tangle's Pov
I know many people have no doubt played the Dream Chronicle games but the truth is the story in the game is very far removed from the true tale of our lives and it doesn't give much knowledge in Fidget and Faye's youth and also the games paint Lilith the fairy queen of dream in a very very black light which just isn't true she has her bad points though what mortal or fairy doesn't but she is a very nice person in general. As this tale will explain.
Now the game did speak the truth what is said that my wife Aeval and I married under the traditional arranged marriage that was common in the fairy realm and that we fell in love with each other but that was not uncommon. We left the fairy realm not just because we wanted to have our son Fidget to have the option to marry for love but also because we felt we could use our abilities to do some good in the mortal realm. So we moved to the village of Wish we kept our fairy magic and abilities a secret and we also learned a very dark secret about the village of Wish. The secret was that if a family from outside the village decide they don't want their child then family can take the child to the village of Wish and abandon the child there as long as the child was at least a year old that was how Aeval, Fidget, and I met Faye she was an abandoned child that my wife and I thought it would be right for us to take her under our wings so to speak. Fidget at that time was two years old and Faye as we named the child was a year old the eve og that same day one which we found Faye the Fairy Lord paid us a visit and my wife introduced him to the young mortal babe He smiled brightly I could tell he approved of our deed in taking the infant in. However when the Fairy Lord took the child from my wife's arms I grew a little panicky after all we had only rescued the baby that same afternoon when the Fairy Lord spoke to us it was in a soft and gentle voice as he said, " This little infant has a magnificent future before her though I will tell you it will be your son who will marry her but no before you start about how you want your son to marry for love know that he will adore young Faye and because biologically he is of no relation to her they will become husband and wife but I would advise you to allow me to take the child to the Fairy Realm where she can become a fairy herself and learn all about our ways and then you can teach her how to cast spell and all the stuff I am sure you will teach your son."
Aeval looked at the Fairy Lord and said, "But surely it doesn't have to be so soon surely we can wait until she is older for right now my husband and I would feel so guilty deserting her like that." The fairy Lord smiled as he replied, " it need not be now no the gift will be available all her life but I would advise you that is should at latest be done after they have married in fact I would have to insist on that which will be why when that time comes I will instruct the Dream Librarian to take steps to capture the young woman she will be at that time and then work on bringing her fully into the fold. However know this as it stands I will see to it that your daughter not only adopted by you officially but adopted by the Fairy community this I promise you." after saying all that he left letting us know he would look in on us and our children from time to time.
Fidget and Faye made great friends as they grew up even after we had told Fidget about his being a fairy he never acted like it made him better or superior than little Faye.
The two were inseparable they played together all the time even though during school they had other friends as well they were each other's best friends and true to his word on many occasions the Lord of the Fairies paid us a visit before when Faye and Fidget were old enough to attend school we did our best to keep Faye out of the sight of the Lord of the Fairies not because of how sensitive Faye was after having been abandoned by her birth parents and even though we knew she had seen him once when she was that small infant we knew she would not remember and figured that the sight of a strange man or anyone she was not familiar with might make her believe we didn't want her anymore and our fears proved well founded for the most recent visit of the fairy lord happened on Fidget's 11th birthday which was only a month after Faye had turned ten years old. As the Fairy lord approached the house he said hello to Fidget as you remember we had told him about Faye and introduced him to her the first day we found her so he knew of our adopted daughter and had seen her but she had never him or even seen him until that moment except for when she was far too young to remember and when he said hello to her she replied with a quick beautiful little curtsy and a sweet hello back but then ran and hid behind my wife's skirt.
And then both Fidget and Faye ran outside to head to school together and Aeval and I sat down with the Fairy lord who suggested again that we send our adopted daughter Faye to the fairy realm to finalize everything officially.
it was then that my wife Aeval put in her two cents by inquiring saying " Well with that fact that both Tangle and I can easily see that Fidget is even at this young age already falling in love with her we don't see the point in formalizing the Adoption according to fairy standards since it is possible that one day as you yourself had said that Faye and Fidget will be married so why Complicate things?" to which the Fairy lord replied saying " Aeval I wasn't suggesting anything that would complicate the matter in that way but instruct her as you instructed your son in the ways of fairy stuff and possibly allow her to undergo the transformation which is often offered to mortals who learn of our people and have either married them or been adopted by them which I also suggest you do back when you first adopted the child. which would then turn the mortal fully into a fairy themselves of course that would require your daughter Faye to live for at least a couple months in the realm of the fairies but at least Neither you nor Tangle nor even Fidget would have to worry about out living Faye or anything of that sort."
I then spoke up saying " With all due respect while that seems like a brilliant idea but Faye came to belong with us after having been abandoned by her biological parents when she was a year old we told her that she was adopted and about the abandonment so that she could know at least that we loved her enough to be honest with her. And there is a high probability that if we even suggest having her undergo the transformation as you suggest she might misread it as us trying to get rid of her just like her biological family did, and I couldn't bear causing her to worry like that. It would come close to killing me." The Fairy lord smiled gently at me and almost as if he was soothing a child said to me,
" I wasn't suggesting that it be done at once like tomorrow or anything you can wait until Fidget and her get married as I said before and in that respect as I also said I will leave instructions with both Lilith who is the Fairy Queen of Dreams and the Dream Librarian that once they are wed that Faye must be brought to the fairy realm as swift as possible as I said it is in Faye's best interest to do things that way. Fidget might not understand it at first but in the long run it will be for everyone's best interest. So as I said it can be done sooner or later it is all up to you however later will no doubt entail using Fidget to lure Faye to the process." it was then my turn to speak and I said for by now I had lost my temper, " you think I would permit you or anyone else to potentially harm one of the most beautiful girls in the village of wish who also happens to be one of the most cleaver and most kind girls in the village I don't think so my Son loves her and if I know my son he will not permit harm to befall her no matter what." the Fairy Lord just smiled and replied calmly,
" I have said nothing about harm Lilith will use Fidget to lure Faye to the fairy realm and then the two of them will be trapped there together for a couple months to a year while the transformation takes place but I still advise you to at least teach her about fairy magic and the rest while she is still young it will make the transition a lot smoother." I sighed for I knew he was right and that the transformation having Faye turned into a Fairy would put a lot of minds at ease and cause even Fidget to relax more so I merely said we would take it under advisement.
It was after that they the fairy lord left the house to return to the Fairy realm and we did begin to educate Faye about fairies and tried to teach her all that we could but since at this moment she didn't have the ability to do magic the most we could do was teach her the facts. As time passed both children were in high school and Fidget and her grew all the more closer they studied together and when Fidget went to the University to study to become a teacher himself the two of them wrote to each other every single day when ever they got the chance, and during those times Faye grew all the more lovely as her twenty- fourth birthday approached which would also be the time Fidget would arrive home from college she awaited him with great anticipation.
Aeval's POV
When Tangle's and my Son Fidget returned home from the University the first thing he did was go searching for Faye since just as Tangle and I thought he loved that woman with all his heart and when he found her sitting in the back garden of our house he immediately proposed to her which you can guess she readily agreed to. And so two weeks after he had returned the two of them were married in front of the entire village.
And since we had a very large house and we knew we would wish to be near to the two we had raised and thus help them to bring up their family we insisted that the two move into the upper rooms of the house so that we would always be close it was another thing that both Fidget and Faye agreed to eagerly which put both Tangle and myself at our easy knowing that now we could protect the both of them from what ever could come next. We set up crystal balls to alert us if any fairies came near and my plants still bring me news about what is going on in the fairy realm the first time we began expecting some danger from the fairy realm was during the first nine months when Faye was pregnant with her first child and my husband and I kept ourselves vigilant on protecting Fidget and Faye.
As soon as Faye had given birth to her first child her daughter Lyra we still kept very vigilant but my husband also took to making special toys for Lyra some of which were most definitely magical for when Fidget and Faye had been small children he had read many tales to them and many scientific studies, histories and much more including books about how to build toys for my husband believes that toys are how children and adults learn about the world around them.
So my husband built Lyra tons of magical and wonderful toys some of the toys she wouldn't play with for a couple years but it was still worth it. We also cast a spell around the village of Wish to hide it from view no one in the village knew about it but it still protected it all the same. It was after the spell was placed that hid the village of Wish when we dropped our guard just enough to prevent the other villagers from suspecting that something was wrong and also because we now believed there was not a chance that Lilith the Fairy queen of dreams or even the dream librarian would ever be able to find us. At least it is to be hoped.
The barrier lasted for eight long and blissful years but in truth I believe that even we knew that what ever the fairy lord had said he wanted done couldn't be prevented even if the fairy lord himself was missing I just pray that Lilith doesn't hurt Faye to much.