CHAPTER TWO

Elina felt like crying.

She recieved her wings not long ago and now she couldn't fly...again. No one could, actually. And while she was still grieving her loss, Fairytopia just marches up to her, directly, and asks for her help to help them! The nerve! Elina was plain sick of this, even though she usually liked to help.

At first, Elina was going to refuse to help Fairytopia. But her dream came back to her.

When Elina fainted on her bed, a strange, darkly dressed fairy appeared in her dreams.


"Elina," rasped the fairy, chuckling. Elina shuddered. "You're Elina?" Now the fairy was laughing.

Elina frowned. "Yes, I am. What's the problem with that?"

The fairy continued to chuckle. "Fairytopia's everlasting hero. Well, not anymore!"

"What'd'you mean?"

"I mean, Fairytopia's hero won't be there to save them." Elina gasped. What was going on?

"ELINA!" A familar voice cut through Elina's dream as dark fog was starting to wrap around Elina and the woman approached. The voice made the fairy freeze and, slowly, Elina was returning back to consciousness.


Remembering the fairy's words, Elina decided not to let the devious fairy's plan go through. "Fine," she murmured. "I'll try to help save Fairytopia." Glee, her friend, smiled and led her back to where Azura, Bibble, Dizzle, and Dandelion were standing nervously.

"What should we do?" Glee asked. Azura smiled, relieved, and handed Elina a scroll. "I'm afraid I cannot help. The Enchantress and Guardians need me. But you need to read this scroll and find the Garden of Dellia through the Willowy Swamps, Ocean of Safare, and Trees of Rock. After you find the Garden, ask the garden faires for ingredients to make the antidote. Then, bring back the antidote to Fairytopia, but do not drink it," Azura explained. "I must be off. Good luck!" She hugged Elina and, struggling, flew away.

Elina glanced at the scroll in her hand and then at Glee. "Did she say the Willowy S-Swamps?" whimpered Dandelion. "No one goes there! The trolls and the ravens! Elina, are you crazy?!"

"Probably," muttered Elina, remembering the tales about the Willowy Swamps. "But I need to do this! Alone."

Dandelion frowned. "Elina-"

"No, Dandelion, I'm not going to risk your life," Elina interrupted her. Dandelion sighed, knowing Elina won. Whenever Elina set her mind on something, there was no way to change her mind. "Alright," Dandelion finally said. Elina smiled apologetically and hugged her tightly. "Good luck, Elina."

After Dandelion left for home, Elina turned to Glee, who was just as persistent as Elina and said she was joining Elina. "Maybe we should find the other apprentices? They could help us," Glee suggested. Elina shrugged.

"I don't know... I don't want to risk their lives too," Elina sighed. "And they might not want to help us."

"Hmm, I know someone who'd like to help us," Glee said, smiling at Elina. Elina wanted to groan. She knew what was coming. "Your boyfriend, Linden."

"He's not my boyfriend!" Elina protested. "And he's probably too busy with all the new animals coming in this summer."

Glee grinned, teasingly. "Oh, I'm sure he'd agree if you asked him." Elina rolled her eyes and groaned.

"If I say okay, will you stop?"

Glee shrugged. "Possibly." Glancing at Elina, she added, "Okay. I will."

"Fine. Then we'll ask Linden." Elina was nervous about this but wanted Glee to stop teasing her about Linden.

"Oh, and how about Sunburst?" Glee trusted Sunburst completely but Elina was still unsure about her. After Sunburst being mean to her and competing with Elina, she suddenly turned nice but then Elina found out Laverna took Sunburst's appearance and was going to kill the most important flower in Fairytopia, which was going to cause ten years of cold winter. When it all ended, Elina was confused and didn't trust Sunburst much anymore, even though Sunburst was nicer to her now.

"Perhaps. Now come on. We have to get going now to get the antidote in time since I can't fly," Elina said. Glee frowned and pondered how they were going to go faster even without flying.

"Oh!" Glee explained her idea to Elina who stared at her like she lost her sanity. "Well, we could try..." Elina sighed. Glee smiled at her friend and they began searching for supplies.


"Hahaha!" chuckled a fairy, hiding in a nearby bush. "They fell for it!" The fairy glanced at her "mirror" where her mistress was smiling evily.

"Good, good!" the mistress chuckled. "You've done well, Luna. Now, you just have to kidnap the Guardians and the apprentices! Elina will do the rest for us."

"Fairytopia, you will be mine!"


Elina quickly looked for a few twigs and a large leaf. Glee's plan was just mad, but they had to try!

"Twigs, twigs, twigs," muttered Elina as if they would come if she said their names. "Aha! Twigs!" Elina snatched four long twigs, almost as large as her, and one smaller one, about her width. "Perfect!"

"Elina! I found the leaf!" called Glee, not far from Elina. Elina glanced back, glanced to the twigs again, and hurried over to Glee. "Here're the twigs." Glee glanced at the twigs and smiled. "Did you get the vines?" Elina nodded.

"Okay. Now, let's hope this works," Glee said, taking all the supplies. Elina stepped back to let her work since Elina had no idea how to create what Glee was making.

As Elina waited, she glanced back at her wings sadly. She would be lying if she said it didn't matter to her that she lost her wings again. Elina was holding back her tears with all the strength she had left in her. Their color was dark and the wings didn't stay up straight and looked like a wilted flower. And one wing was ripping apart! Elina turned away again. It was painful to look at them so she decided not to look at all.

After a few hours, Glee finally stood up and announced, "Done!" Elina walked past her and gasped in awe. "What is it?" she asked. "I heard books call it a glider. They say large fairies without wings created them. What do you think?"

Elina looked at the glider-thinga-magig curiously. "It looks...okay, but dangerous." She was afraid to get on the strange machine.

Glee glanced at it. "Don't worry. I fixed almost all the kinks. You just need to hold on and you'll fly!"

"Almost?" Elina was starting to ask as she rested herself on the bar where she was supposed to hold on, but Glee began shoving the "glider" and suddenly, it took off ground. "WHOA!" Elina gasped as she wobbled and glided smoothly. "This is...amazing!" A flying machine that didn't need wings or a fairy to fly it!

"Okay. First destination- Land of the Animal Fairies!" Glee announced, flying beside Elina and the glider.