As Amelia sat beside the small wooden bed, she hovered over her daughter trying to look for wounds; but she couldn't find anything. She started to wonder what had happen to her daughter. A widow named Sarah found Shiana on the cold streets of Suram and brought her back to her house. Coincidently Amelia and Darwin also stayed at the little cottage after they escaped from the dreadful tortures and the isolated prison the king freely offered Amelia. Amelia was curious on why her precious daughter fainted in a place that was miles and miles away from their mansion. She assumed that her daughter was hurt or mentally penetrated by force, since she was lying on the middle of the streets; but she could not find anything. Amelia then gazed into the fireplace that was blazing lazily; it was across the room from where Shiana laid. She analyzed the possibility of a spying water droplet inside the amulet Shiana gave Darwin. Amelia whispered to herself, "Has my daughter's powers grown at such an immensely rate that she had already revealed the technique of the elders?" She stared at her own daughter with frightened eyes. In the dark glow of the fireplace, Amelia could see that her daughter was starting to grow into the body structure of a fairy. The wavy long hair and the pointed and slender ears were one of the many distinctive features a fairy possesses. Over the past few weeks while Amelia was away, Shiana took on the appearance of a real woman. The fire's radiance gave off faint luminous warmth to the room. It reflected the curves on Shiana's face; Amelia saw that Shiana's eyebrows became light and thin without treatment and her eyelashes became a length that all women would die for. She also had a thin and well-structured face. Amelia knew that this would happen to her daughter. The very first day Shiana was born, she had red eyes and she spread wings of red. That was the very first sign of the destruction she might cause in the future. When Shiana was one and a half, the full moon revealed itself once again, and that was the very second time Amelia saw Shiana in the transformation of a fairy. She had small miniature wings that only stretched from the middle of her back to her shoulders. They reached from the top of her neck to just a little below her tailbone. Every non-human body feature she has on herself was the color of blood. Her nails became long and pointed with the color of molten lava. She grew fangs and her pupils became an oval that looked just like a cat's. Amelia recalled back into her memories that she quickly took her baby to her mother, the Fairy Queen.
The queen did not know what was wrong with the child; all she knew was that the little child was abnormal. So, they flew over to the Fairy elders (they were the wisest of the wisest, and they were pretty much like the teachers and the center source of knowledge for all fairies). They knocked on the door and after a few minutes, someone slightly opened the door but Amelia saw an old woman shuffling through the gap. That night the fog and mist laid an ice blanket over the Hidden Kingdom of Fairies. They saw a long bony finger peak through the opened space and it swirled itself in circles causing shimmering blue metallic light twirl around them. The door closed with a loud creak and once again the three females were waiting for the door to open again. Amelia and the Queen felt an icy chill run down their spine. It felt as if someone froze a sword and started continuously running it up and down their backs. The two adults looked at the door; the Elders lived in a large tree and the door looked as if a giant bended large branches together and spun them into the shape of a door. Shiana was still cradled in Amelia's arms, oblivious to everything around her. Then without notice the door swung open and they looked into the opening. It was pitch black; they could not see a thing.
In the spur of a moment, torches lit up and it kept on going until it was out of sight. Amelia never knew that the inside of a tree could be so spaced and large. They walked in through the entrance and they heard the door slowly close and the hinges made a sound like a great elephant roaring over its triumph after winning a battle. They followed the pathway the torches gave them and they walked for what seemed like hours. They kept on going until they began to hope that the hallway would somehow stop going on. Amelia wished that this hallway was not enchanted and it did not go on forever. They tried flying but none of their powers worked, not even lifting a torch by a swish of a finger. They stopped abruptly at the sight of another wooden door. Now, this door was different, it was smooth and polished. The wood was streaked with tan and dark brown. The doorknob was made of sapphire that was not refined; it still had the rocky crust that protected it before. The beautiful blue stone was revealed to the world with only half of its gorgeousness showing. The rocky half was touching the piece that connected it from the door to the knob. The Queen reached for the doorknob, for she knew these elders would not do anything to harm her or her daughter and granddaughter. She turned it and pushed the door open; surprisingly the door looked heavy but it was as light as a feather. They walked forward and floating candles lightly brightened the room. All four of the elders sat around a naturally grown table and the chairs were made out of tree stumps. Without speaking a word, the eldest fairy mysteriously reached for the little fairy who was snoring softly in her mother's arms. He gently unraveled the soft woven cloth that comfortably wrapped around Shiana. He gave out a delighted smile and proudly announced, "For tonight, we have found the Chosen Fairy. This baby will grow to become beautiful and magnificent. Her mission is only to destroy all humans and give our innocence back. Those merciless humans have reined over our kind long enough. She will lure all the men to the depths of her palm and make them lust for her body. She will gain all the riches and become the queen. She will assist us into conquering the world. We lived in peace and serene silence before the Gods thought that they were intelligent enough to make another treacherous species. This baby is a gift from the Gods telling us that we are allowed to fight back and kill the humans. These cold-blooded animals killed many of our people and they even thought of us as displays. We are not their slaves nor are they our king." He took a deep breath, lowered his forehead onto Shiana's and quietly whispered, " You are the most exquisite little fairy that is ever to live."
" Oh, stop your yapping, Contellious! You are worrying our Queen and our Princess. I reassure you that this baby will not destroy anything." Squeaked a short woman with wings of sky blue. She had bouncy curls in her red hair; she had plump short legs and arms. Magentia then shot a cold glare across the table to the eldest, Contellious. She got up and snorted with her pig nose to the immature way Contellious acted. Magentia waddled her way to Shiana and picked her up. "The legends say that the Chosen Fairy will be the very first half fairy to be born. He or she will be the bond between the humans and fairies. This fairy will also have the ability to end the human race, the fairy race, or let the fairies come out again to live with the humans once more. The Chosen One will fall deeply in love with a human and it depends on how this one specific human act towards the Chosen One it will be the beginning or the end of the world. They give birth to another child who will inherit all of the Chosen One's powers. This child also has the gift to end or rebuild the human race." Magentia spoke in a voice of pride.
The other two yawned and spoke as they were one, "You two are so boring, always reciting the same thing over and over again. It's not like this will be the right baby again." Then they robotically turned their heads, "There were many people who came with babies that shot fire, or grew horns on the top of their heads and they all turned out to be deformed fairies with disabilities. Even though this baby is the first to be born from a human and fairy, we should not quickly determine that this baby is really the Chosen Fairy or not. There might be a lot of fairies out there who might be the same as her. They could even be underground; as you know," They both shot a cold glare towards Amelia, "that marrying a human is a disgrace to Fairies and giving birth to a human blooded child is even more unbearable to many Magical Creature (Then one of them mumbles, "As they call us now…" And then she became synchronized with her older sister again.). As we sit here now, there might be an enfant out there who is being born as a human but eventually in years to come they are told that half of the blood, which is running through them, is from a Fairy descent. So you surely cannot conclude that this baby is truly the One."
The Inseparable twins looked like skeletons with one thin layer of skin slopped onto them. Their saggy skin made their cheekbone seem sharp and harmful. They had medium tanned skin but it was filled with freckles of another shade of dark brown. There was a deep eye bag under their eyes, which made it look like there was a dark and mysterious cave carved into them. The eye bags weighed their lower eyelids and made the twins' eyes look larger and threatening. Their long crooked nose appeared to be fragile and can easily be ripped off. They had a mouth that always appeared to be snickering and from day to night they gossip about everyone around them to each other. By now the other two Elders had gotten used to their big mouths after living with them for about two hundred years. They were always together ever since birth and that was how they got the name "Inseparable" Twins. Everyone always wondered how they knew what the other twin was thinking, because they always talked together as if they were one mind. But sometimes they would have their quarrels on who would get the cooking pan, or who would make the cookies just like any old lady would. But in times like these, (serious and dark) their spirits became livelier and they always sprinted out with logical assumptions and ideas. Even though they looked exactly the same, Emelda, the older sibling had eyes of royal blue and Fina the younger siblings had snaky green eyes (this was the only way Contellious and Magentia could tell them apart).
Magentia giggled and said, "Of course she is "The One"! She has all fulfilled all the requirements to the legen…" But Emelda interrupted her, "Stop being so ignorant, woman! Are you too old and you've lost your mind? Just look at her, look! She looks just like the other babies we have looked at. With the same eyes, same nails, same hands, same face, same fangs, and the same bloody wings! And Contellious, don't look at me with those disgusted eyes." Then she got up, recreated her composure, fixed her dress, and then sat down again.
There was a long silence. Outside the wind was howling and banging at the windows, as if they were curious on what this whole meeting was about. The candles flickered from dim to light, trying to tell the elders to hide them from the ferocious wind. The Queen winced quietly after Amelia stepped on her toes. Amelia walked farther back as Fina got up and walked towards Shiana. Then Fina whispered, "Come on my princess. I promise I will not hurt this baby." In Amelia's surprise, Fina's voice was much different than Emelda's. It was much more gentle and it had a womanly touch to it. Her voice was seducing enough to make Amelia unconsciously hand over her baby without any resistance. Fina looked at the baby with a taunting smile and then with a flick of a finger, Amelia blacked out.
When Amelia woke up, her mother was holding onto her hand just as what she's to Shiana right now. On the side of her bed and looking down on her. Amelia shot up, remembering that Fina had Shiana and she looked around the room to see her baby sound asleep in the warm crib Darwin single handedly made for her. Amelia got off the bed and she walked towards her daughter but after two steps, she fell and her leg was really numb. Amelia looked at her mother with the most frightened expression on her face. The Queen walked over the Amelia and lifted up her dress to find a big symbol on her leg. It had a red wing pierced by thorn green vines. Behind that symbol was a black heart with a gray silver sword stabbed right through the middle.
"This symbol," her mother told her, "is the symbol of your commitment to make sure, Shiana becomes the fairy that will strengthen the bond between humans and not shatter the lives of many. Amelia you will be the teacher Shiana will need." Then the Queen raised her hand to Amelia's forehead and gently pushed a piece of hair off of her daughter's face. "And I hope you will become proud of your daughter and love her as I have loved you."
A crackle in the fire shattered the silence in the dim lighted room. Amelia softly brushed her hand over the clothing that covered her symbol and with a tear, Amelia smiled and nodded to her mother's request.
