Okay, so. It's a long story but this story was accidentally inspired by Crimson Tempesta's Reality, which is very good and if you like this then you should totally read hers! Otherwise, I would really appreciate if you would point out any mistakes, or confusion. Or if anyone is interested in being a Beta reader, that would be fantastic! So, without further ado- Enjoy!
Grimm's PHAIRY TALE Prep.
Grimm's Preparatory High for the Advancement and Instruction of Realizer Youths, Teaching Adventure, Love, and Enchantment. Otherwise known as Grimm's P.H.A.I.R.Y T.A.L.E Prep.
Yes, I know. Strange.
Don't even try and tell me about it.
So, you're interested now right? What kind of crazy school calls itself Grimm's Phairy Tales? Well, I will tell you that it's a boarding school on the outskirts of a small little historic town in New York State, not terribly far from New York City. But you aren't getting any more out of me on that, we can't have people swarming the school, trying to get accepted because they heard about it in some silly story. Imagine the problems that would cause!
Anyway, it's a large white building with a distinct Victorian air. It's got lots of gardens in the front, and lots of towers and balconies.
The first question they ask you when you apply is- What is your favorite fairy tale? Tough acceptance levels, right?
You want to know what my answer was?
The Little Mermaid.
And no, not the Disney version. Jeez. No, the real version. The one where the prince, whom this girl decides is her true love, goes off and marries another girl. I like it because I have never really believed in such a silly thing as true love. That story shows just where blind faith in something like that gets you.
Cynical?
I like to think so.
And no, don't start up with the questions about, What's a person who doesn't believe in true love doing in a high school called Grimm's Phairy Tales?
I was getting to it thank you!
Now, people like me, humans to be general, cynics to be vain, are quite necessary. You know that word Realizers in Phairy? It's a profession. As in helping people realize their happily ever afters?
Jeez, you iggs can be so dense.
Igg as in ignorant people, since you seemed to be wondering… this is going to take a while…
Right, so our job, once we graduate of course, is to help people with their fairy tales. There are teams, normally 2 to 3 people, one human, one fey.
Oh dear, looks like we lost a few. Okay, lets back track so the people who fell off the bus can try and get back on, lets try and keep up here people, alright now?
Fey- magical beings in general, there are elves, Faeries, fairies, pixies, gnomes, goblins, dwarves, giants, etc. They come from the magic world which is connected to Earth in a few places, but the only one you need to know about is Grimm's PT. That's why the school is actually much bigger than just the dinky little Victorian building. We are actually a huge castle in the magical world. It does cause some discombobulated feelings going to certain classes though.
And to answer the second question, yes, people have fairy tales, even in NYC. From the hickiest hick-town to the busiest metropolis, anyone can have their own fairy tale. And it's our job to make sure that it all goes according to plan. What, you really think fairy godmothers just pop up because you cry a little? Like they have a special twinge in their heart that goes off when they are needed? Their left eye twitches? Or did you just never consider that maybe you pulled your fairy godmother away from whatever she was doing at the time to come cater to your whims? There is intensive planning and observation that goes into the out of whack fairy tales.
Of course, most fairy tales just go on their own happy sparkly way, but far too many are sluggish, stubborn, or too open to free will. You have NO IDEA how much easier our jobs would be if we could just revoke your free will.
Of course it's not MY job yet, but I'm in my senior year so your happily ever after will be in my hands soon enough.
Makes you feel pretty confident, don't it?
Any way, what was I talking about? Grimm, you and your stubborn obliviousness! See where you have gotten me? I don't even know what I was saying and now you will just have to go on never knowing- right, got it!
So teams of 2-3 human and fey. Now the fey are were you get most of your magic and happy bubbly love, and us humans are necessary to keep a lid on the bubbles.
Real important right? Well yeah, we are.
We help keep the magic and the fairy godmothering subtle, not to mention help keep the fey from just making everything oh-so-perfect right off. Where is love if you don't work for it? As you know I have no faith in True Love, and so a little drama is necessary to make the happily ever after stick.
We are glue, magical glue.
Of course this is all a terrible stereotype. There are many fey who are much more down to earth and all of us humans know someone who would just as soon have everything flowers and rainbows. All that matters is that we go into teams with a reasonable balance of both views. Don't worry, us humans are still necessary because we know a little more about how our world works and the fey know more about how their world works so we can all work between the both of them.
Yes, don't be so self centered, the magic world gets their fairy tales too! More than ours as a matter of fact, and they get to go a little more fantastic than our do.
We don't exactly have any dragons now do we?
Anyway, now that we have cleared all of this up, maybe we can get to the more interesting stuff?
Namely, me?
My name is Elias Fiera Dairson, I know, my parents were a bit eccentric, but they were both realizers too, what do you want me to say? But if you try and call me that mumbly jumbly mouthful I swear I will hunt you down and sic the biggest, meanest, hungriest dragon I can on you.
You may refer to me as Elle (pronounced like L thank you very much, as if someone like me could be called Elly. Dear Grimm, no.) Or Your Fantastic Supreme Lordship of Both Earth and the Magical World. I am quite fine with either.
I am a Senior at Grimm's PT majoring in GMA with some IGA mixed in.
Oh dear, lets back up the bus AGAIN because we just lost some more.
GMA- Godmother Aid
IGA- Intelligence Gathering and Analysis
What this means is that I am not training to be a Godmother, just to help one, namely my best friend and future partner Jasmine Rossetta Kuwal. It's pretty much just the fey who are GMs, them being better with magic and what(not that humans don't have any, all it takes is a wand and some magic words, fey just have a better feel for it). Being a GMA, I am sort of the behind the scenes. I help choose(and in some cases design) whatever dresses our "princess" is going to be given, decide whether Jasmine should appear in a bubble or just as a kind sales lady, I make sure the coach or limo is on time, I make sure a slow song is played at the right moment… it's a pretty sweet gig.
The IGA is sort of spying on the target, makes you feel real safe, right? But it helps to determine if our person would faint at the sight of magic, if they get really nervous around horses or blood, what color they look best in, ect. And though there are other more specialized teams to get the real details, it helps to know what they are telling me and to pick up on things on my own.
Got it? Good, because I am about to throw a few more terms at you (a deadly phrase to hear in any classroom).
PAB-Prince Aid and Back-up, the people who deal with princes and guys who aren't behaving quite right, or are in danger of stabbing themselves every time they swing a sword, these are the guys who help them.
Annies- These are the people who have to know pretty much every fairy tale by heart since they are the ones who analyze the target's events to determine which fairy tale we are dealing with, or if it is even really a fairy tale at all. The spotters aren't right all the time.
Spotters-People who wander around both worlds looking for fairytales. They can start up a conversation with anyone and have a knack for spotting romance. Supposedly it hangs around people like a rosy glow, but I've never been real good at spotting it. Three guesses why…
FUs- I DO NOT WANT TO HEAR A WORD. They get enough teasing about it. Most people just call them the Foos to be polite. This is the follow up team, the people who go back and regularly check up on the target to make sure their happily ever after is sticking properly. And if I see you snickering at them again I swear I will go find that dragon! Grimm, the maturity levels are fit to amaze!
Storytellers- Obviously there are not a lot of these. The Grimms were in this category of course, as well as many other fairytale writer and recorders, Hans Christian Anderson for example. And if you think that just any old person who writes a story can be a storyteller, you would be terribly wrong. First, you have to understand, a talent for telling generalized stories has dropped in the last hundred years or so, and if hundreds of people are going to experience your fairytale, it can't exactly be incredibly specific now can it? It also must be exciting.
Duh.
The Supreme Council decides whether it is good or not, and if it is good enough to be entered into the Compleate Collection of Fairy Tales, an unbelievably large and magical book kept under lock and key that influences both of our worlds. Any story that is entered there becomes a true fairy tale and thus the selection process is intense. The most famous one you might know from recent times is Walt Disney. Yes, he was a realizer and a storyteller besides being world famous. He entered the most fairy tales into the CCFT since the days of Grimm. Of course you have to ignore the fact that the greater part of his material is not exactly original, it is still different enough to be considered a separate tale. It's pretty impressive.
Now that we have sorted that out, may we return to the matters at hand?
Finally!
So, you like it? If you do, I would love to know hint hint just shoot me a reply. Need me to explain anything? Just ask and I will be sure to fit in the answer in the next chapter!