AUTHOR NOTES: Hello everyone! Thank you so much for deciding to check out this fanfiction. To be honest this is my first fanfiction I have written in a long time. I've got a plot planned out for this and I hope to work through it and not abandon this story. This story is loosely based on a roleplay I am currently doing with a friend of mine. I would like to thank Midnitestar421 for beta-ing this for me as well! So without further ado enjoy reading and please leave a review! :)
Chapter 1 Coming Of Age
Yuri Plisetsky was born the son of the king of the fairies, Yakov, in a country called Oclela. It was just off the coast of the ocean and held the largest kingdom on the continent, Prica. Yuri wasn't really able to see much of the country considering he was prince and future king but was lucky enough to live in a safe and more tolerable part of the country. Far from the dangers his parents and so many others had so adamantly told him about as he grew up.
Yuri had grown up to have long blond hair, that he and his mother both refused to let get cut, that made him almost as beautiful as any of the female fairies. The hair was usually braided in some elaborate way and spectacled with flowers but Yuri was absolutely fine with it as he prided himself with looking better than everyone else. He had to have some pride over something after all. Even though he was just a teenager he was still expected to have some sort of dignified manner to him, no matter where he was, but as he grew up other male fairies would make fun of him for his elaborately done hair and well, even a prince wouldn't hold back from teaching someone a lesson even if it was in a rather vulgar display of physical strength rather than with magic. It was much like he had seen the humans do when they sometimes wandered around their forests and had scuffles and arguments.
At the age of sixteen Yuri was finally called upon to perform his coming of age duties. The coming of age ceremony had been nothing too extraordinary. Every year it had been held at the small castle, of which his family resided, and was then decorate lavishly for the few hundred guests that would be there. Most of the guests were parents and other family members of the sixteen year olds that were going through their coming of age task. The ceremony would start with a prayer for the protection of the fairies and the kingdom before going into a rather boring speech about growing up and what it means to become a man and or woman. Yuri had wanted to almost stab himself just to get the man to stop talking but resisted only because it would impair him from completing his own task. Once the boring man had finally stopped talking Yuri's father had finally taken the stage. He had explained what the duties of a fairy were and why we were an important aspect to the survival of humans.
Every fairy boy and girl at the age of sixteen was sent off and had to preform a good deed to make their wings grow to an adult form at the very least. If they helped a hero complete a quest their wings would grow and change into a beautiful and vibrant color that made you a fairy of high standings next to the King and Queen, of course.
Yuri had known that this was the task he needed to complete. He had to find himself some stupid human hero and guide him safely through his journey and then he would have those beautiful wings just like his parents. Maybe then his father would be proud of him. Accomplishing such an undertaking would make him worthy of becoming King next and he needed his father to see that in him.
His father wasn't necessarily always a cold man but well most of the time he held a scowl of disdain for anything and everything on his face, including anything to do with his own son. His mother, Lilia, had always tried to show her love for her son but sometimes even she could be as ruthless as his father.
Yuri shook the thoughts he had had in that moment away and looked up at his mother and father, who had announced their coming of age task to them, with a look of determination and a slight hint of cockiness. He knew this wouldn't take him long at all. Besides it wasn't that hard to find a hero and help him save some ugly damsel in distress, right?
Without another word, the sixteen year old fairies were sent off by the king and Yuri sped off with them. Every teenager had taken their time to pack a bag of clothing and other necessary items such as berries and things for potion making and other magical needs before the ceremony. So once they were told to leave for their quest their hadn't been a single hesitation.
Yuri had left the forest and had flown around the sky looking for wandering travelers, for what felt like hours, but found no one. He decided that he would have to go in search of a village to find any sort of hero or at best news of some prince or knight going to battle some evil creature. He came about the nearest village that was crowded with people. He knew he couldn't go in there still in his tiny fairy form. He would get swatted at by people when he came up to listen to their conversations or worse than that he would be capture by a hunter and get his wings cut off. Yuri came up to a large tree, just a few feet away from the village, and hid behind it as he made himself grow to a decent human size with his magic. This was an ability all fairies possessed as they needed to learn how to interact with humans at their level as well as at the tiny level they were more accustomed to.
He pulled out a cloak from the bag he had packed, the things inside changing with him, and wrapped it around himself. He put the hood over his head to cover his fairy ears, not wanting to go through the trouble of undoing his hair, and carefully walked into the village. It had been crowded with so many people that were all talking at the same time he could barely understand a damn thing.
How in gods name was he going to find a hero like this, he thought before he audibly groaned in frustration at the lack of information he was getting.
He continued walking down the crowded market place, pushing past people as he tried to find some sort of building that might hold more chances of him getting some type of information, before he suddenly bumped into something hard which made him fall backwards onto the ground.
"What the hell!? Watch where you are going you filth-" Yuri scowled as he looked up at what he had bumped into and cut himself off as a small cocky grin replacing his scowl.
Finally, a hero.
