Chapter Seven: The Mysterious Glow

Anagan came back to Valtor's lair with the news of his success.

"The deed is done, Valtor." he informed his master emotionlessly.

"I saw, a perfect crime, and now all of Zenith's technology will malfunction without control." Valtor laughed, "Nice work Anagan, John and Tecnisha are crushed and soon will the rest of Zenith."

"Now, what will you do?" Anagan asked.

"I'll tell the people that I can stop the malfunctioning, and they'll appoint me king in desperation, but I'll really destroy all the technology in the universe. Since you've already destroyed the source, the rest will be easy." Valtor explained. They went to plan the ruling of Zenith and how they would attack.


Meanwhile, Tecna had woke up from her unconscious state in the middle of nowhere, she was weak, thinking she would die in a matter of hours, a painful, cold death, unless…

"I have to… get up, but I can't. I'm too weak." she thought to herself. She tried getting up once more, she tried moving her legs, but as she did, she felt tremendous pain. Her left leg was caught between the branches of a digitally enhanced log. Everything that would've looked natural on Zenith that should be in any other realm was digitally enhanced, just to fill empty land between huge technological cities. Tecna turned to see her leg being scraped from pulling to get free, it was gruesome, she had never seen so much blood in her life, and it was painful. She thought that no one would be able to find her in time, she was in the middle of who knew where, and she was hurt and cold. Tecna lay down, hiding herself away from any view, and waited. Soon, she fell back to sleep, trembling, shivering and experiencing severe pain.


Not far away from where Tecna had fallen, six young men were searching for a rare digital flower that could only be found in Zenith. One of them, very fond of flowers and not so much of technology, wished to add it to his floral collection while he spent time in Zenith. Another of the young men actually grew up in this realm, but he would much rather tinker with machinery than search the wilderness for who knows what.

"Helia, are you sure you can find it in this exact forest?" Sky, a blonde prince from Eraklyon, asked the nature loving gentlemen with black hair in a long ponytail.

"Uh huh, this book says that is exactly where the digital flower grows." explained Helia.

"You don't even like digital things, Helia. Why would you want this flower?" Riven, a muscular man with burgundy pointed hair, asked Helia.

"You didn't even want to move to Zenith, Brandon had to persuade you." Timmy, the actual resident of Zenith, a guy with short orange hair and red rimmed glasses, pointed out, "I'm glad you decided to come though."

"I might as well make the best of my time here; after all, I have my beautiful Flora." Helia smiled, thinking of his girlfriend, she was the caretaker of the six boys. Flora had long light brown hair and leaf green eyes; she used to live in Linphea with Helia. She, just like him, loved nature and didn't much care for technology, but being the kind hearted woman she was, wanted to support Helia in everything he did, even living with Timmy and the others in Zenith. Timmy had met the others while he went to the realm renowned boys' academy. Each took their own courses of interest and some occasionally signed up for the same class, soon they became like brothers, and Timmy wanted it to stay that way for a long time, so he persuaded them to stay in his condo for a few years, because he, of all the men in the group, had no girlfriend and would be lonely living in the condo by himself. He admitted he sucked at relationships, and could not read hints. Even living in a realm of technology, where every single girl would be interested in digital gizmos, he was shy. Riven was his roommate at the academy, and he always teased Timmy about not being able to get a date, and of course Timmy always welcomed it. Now, walking in a group in the digitally enhanced forest, Helia had an idea that would help the search for the rare digital flower be a lot easier.

"Alright guys, I have an idea. We'll split up and cover more ground." Helia explained, "Sky with Brandon, Riven with Nabu and Timmy, since he grew up in this realm, will go with me."

"Good idea, Helia." Sky agreed, Helia gave the pairs all a picture of the flower and kept one for himself and Timmy. While on a path, Helia kept searching closely, and Timmy began to leg behind, not wanting to be there at all. Then suddenly, he spotted a tiny glow in the near distance and went to check it out. As he walked away from the path, Helia noticed that he was distracted.

"Hey Timmy, where are you going?" Helia asked, taking his attention from the task at hand.

"Hold on Helia, I see something over there." Timmy whispered. He was coming close to the glow, by then, it had become a softened shimmer.

"What is it?" Helia followed quietly, maybe it was a digital creature from Zenith, and it would be interesting to see nature in a different form then it would usually be. Timmy and Helia drew closer to the shimmer as it started to get a little softer. Timmy, finally finding the source of the glow, was astonished at what, or who it was.

"Helia, come look!" he called hastily, Helia ran to where he was standing and gasped as he saw Tecna lay there on the ground, dirty, injured and lost.

"Do you know who this is?" Helia was awestruck, he knew about the most valuable fairy in Zenith, but never had he actually seen her, she was creating the glow, and it faded to reveal her weak, trembling body.

"Yes." Timmy knelt down quickly to check for a pulse as Helia lifted the digital log's branches carefully off her leg.

"Timmy, she's hurt really bad." he replied softly.

"She must've been through something terrible." Timmy felt her shoulder, she was freezing, and shaking, "We have to get her to Flora quick." So, he lifted her up in his arms, but she was too weak to wonder who was carrying her, or where to, or even to wake up.


"Guys, stop the digital flower search, we found someone much more important." Helia called as the group united.

"I don't believe it." Sky replied, "This girl is the most important fairy in Zenith, if she dies, all of the technology here will malfunction."

"They depend on a fairy to maintain the working order of your technology?" Riven snorted, "Wow Timmy, that's real useful."

"For your information, Riven, it's her unknown power that keeps the technology going, but she doesn't know she has it. So don't say anything, got it." Timmy explained.

"Who doesn't bother to tell her she has an unknown special power that controls the realm's technology?" Riven asked.

"I don't know, just remember not to tell her, she will be afraid and begin to worry, and she's already been through something horrible." Timmy replied. The young men carried Tecna back to Timmy's condo, where Flora would tend to her. As well as a housekeeper, Flora had studied fairy healthcare, for herself and others she may meet who need help, and Tecna was one of them. The men were about the same age as Tecna, so while Timmy was carrying her back, he actually felt something. But it was a tiny something, possibly just sympathy.