It was cold crisp night, the moon shown fully, clearly among the beautiful stars. On a lone highway, a large black and red Peterbilt 389 Heavy Haul drove down the road, headlights it's headlights illuminating the lone road. The radio played numerous tunes inside, dark brown eyes kept their sight upon the road. Feeling the glasses that helped her see, the female pushed them up the bridge of her nose back into place. She glanced down at the clock that was shown on her radio and let out a small sigh.
"Nearly midnight… I better find a place to rest." She muttered to herself as her eyes returned to the road.
She kept driving the road eventually pulling onto the main highway, and taking the nearest exit toward a despolated gas station. She was grateful as she pulled in, stopping some distance away from the other semi trucks. After she turned off her Peterbilt, she unbuckled her seatbelt, and opened the door. Once her feet touched the ground she lifted her arms into the air and stretched before closing the door of her semi and made sure to lock it up. She was thankful it was a truck stop, as she entered the store began to look around, keeping note of where the showers were before she went over to where the cold section was and found a premade sandwich. After selecting her ham and cheese sandwich, she grabbed her soda before going to the front counter.
"Hey Mike." She called out to the cashier.
Mike was a tall lanky kid, working at the same place since his family owned the place. She could see that he had over done his hair once again with gel, his hazel eyes lit up when he spotted her.
"Bird! How are you?" He replied as he walked over to the counter where the register was at.
She grimaced slightly at the nickname as she handed him the stuff she wanted to purchase," You know I hate that nickname. Why can't people call me by my rightful name, Silvia?"
Mike simply shrugged as he rang her out, he responded quietly," I don't know a lot of the truckers here know you as that. Maybe it's cause you make extra money singing or maybe it's cause you travel a lot-"
Silvia simply nodded as she pulled out her wallet from her oversized red sweater and handed him a twenty before saying," I'll be back after I eat to get cleaned up. Anyone else here?"
"Nope, most of the others have already turned in. So you have the showers to yourself today." He responded as he handed her the bag.
She simply nodded her thanks before leaving the building and made her way back toward her semi. Once she unlocked it, she got back in closing the door behind her and locking it before she headed to the back where the sleeping cabin was and sat on the bed letting out a tired sigh. She then began to leaf through her bag, pulling out her sandwich as she began to open it, she heard something roll out from underneath the bed and hit her in the foot. Looking down she was surprised to see a dark blue egg, confused she picked up after putting her sandwich down, the egg itself was slightly bigger than her hand. Its then she heard shuffling underneath her bed, grabbing her flashlight from the small little tub, she knelt down and turned it on.
She let out loud squeak of fright as she fell back into the back of her passenger seat when she saw two little people come out from underneath her bed.
"Dammit! Look at what you did, you idiot!" One of them spoke to the other in anger.
"Not my fault, you couldn't hold two eggs at once, Dulpun!" The other argued back before griped back.
"Now we gotta explain to this woman why we are here in her- erm- what's this thing called?" Dulpun started to say before turning to Silvia in question.
"Erm… This is my semi truck… May I ask how you two got in here or better yet what you are?" Silvia replied back with a weak tone as she gently placed the egg that she was holding in her lap and ran a hand through her shoulder length black hair.
"Yeah! That! Anyway to answer your question human! I am Dulpun and this here is me brother, Unnin! We are Brownies-" Dulpun started to say, but was cut off by Silvia asking
"You mean 'Little People' as in the stories of the Fairies in such?"
"You got it! We were sent on an important mission by The Seelie Court! We are to keep the last three dragon eggs safe and find, the reincarnation of Eria!" Unnin exclaimed happily while his brother face palmed.
"You weren't supposed to say anything to her you ass!" Dulpun squawked angrily.
Silvia simply rubbed her face with her right hand, being mindful of her glasses before she spoke quickly as realization hits her," Wait you said 'eggs' as in plural. How many more did you bring into my semi?"
"There's three in total, Blue, Green, and White. We just named them by the color of their shells." Unnin replied before shrugging.
Silvia sighed before saying," Well I guess you'll be my trucking buddies. You won't get far on foot. Plus don't these eggs need warmth? Hate to say it but yall don't look like you'll be able to retain any type of heat. At least not enough to keep those eggs warm…"
Both of them grimaced at the reminder, but didnt say anything as Silvia pulled off her big red hoodie revealing a long sleeved blue shirt underneath and made it into a makeshift nest and placed the blue egg in her lap into it. She could see the relief in the features of the two before they ran under her bed once again and brought out two more eggs and placed them inside with the other one. Silvia then stood up, walking over to where food was and broke it into three pieces giving a piece to the two Brownies and who looked at her in awe and thankfulness.
"Well eat up. Tomorrow I gotta be up bright and early to get this large haul across the state. Then I gotta pick up another load not to far from the drop off point." Silvia explained after she finished her portion of sandwich and drank her drink.
The two Brownies nodded their head before Unnin spoke," Thanks for this! By the way whats your name? And hope ya don't mind we stole one of ya rags and a small sponge from ya for us to sleep on."
"Names Silvia. It's no problem I got a another rag and sponge. You both look beat go get some rest. I gotta go bath before anybody else does…" She responded as she stood up with a slight hunch over so she didn't hit her head and began to get her clothes together. The two Brownies bid her a good night before she left the truck once again to go and shower, as she walked toward the building she mentally began to wonder if she finally went mad from loneliness and this was all in her head. Only time would tell if that was the case.
(I wanna thank Tilltheendwilliwrite for allowing me to use her universe to write this fic. Please check out her awesome work! Hope you enjoyed this first chapter!)