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For some reason, I was soaked. And my whole body seemed to hurt. As I became more aware of my surroundings, I heard birds chirping, and the buzz of insects. I heard, in the distance, the sounds of waves, and I felt the warmth of the sun on my face.
As I took inventory of myself, I decided nothing was broken. I felt as though I had just run for my life, at least ten miles. I felt the soft touch of grass beneath me, so I decided it was safe to assume I'd at least arrived in Forget-Me-Not Valley, since I wasn't laying on the hard stone of the Goddess Springs. I groaned, and heard a gasp.
"Kate! He moved!" I heard a male voice whisper. A giggle sounded a bit closer than the other person, and it seemed feminine.
"Hugh, don't be silly! Of course he moved. Ooh! Let's poke him with a stick!" She squealed, and with that my eyes shot open. No way was I gonna let her poke me with a stick!
"Where… Am I?" I asked, shielding my eyes from the sun, and focusing on my two tormentors. There was a girl and a boy, around my age. The boy was blonde, with blue eyes, and a bandage on his cheek, and the girl was a brunette, with a ton of freckles, and two braids.
"Oh! He's alive! Kate, we should get Dr. Hardy!" The boy, Hugh, said. He seemed nervous.
"But then they'd think I pushed him…" Kate muttered, and then she stopped, reaching an unknown conclusion. "Hey! We should get the Witch Princess! She could take care of him, and we wouldn't get in trouble!" Kate shouted, excited. Hugh hung his head, but nodded.
"Okay Kate. I'll go get her." With that, he ran off, and it was just Kate and I.
"So, where am I?" I asked, sitting up, and feeling the necklace rustle my clothing. I'd almost forgotten it. I was tempted to crush it right now, but Wizard had said it was only for emergencies. If it wasn't an emergency, I was to use the Pond to get back. I wished I could just teleport home, but Wizard had explained that that wouldn't work, because in this dimension, home didn't exist. Only through the magic of the water could I return to my home. And since the water in the necklace was half from the goddess's spring, and half from the pond by my house, it would return me home as soon as it was broken. Wizard had said that it wasn't exactly that simple, but that it had a very delicate spell woven in; the water only served as the gate, and the destination. The spring water would open the portal, and the water from the pond would set the destination.
"Oh! You're at the Goddess Pond." She said, smiling. "The goddess hasn't been seen for a bit, though… My dad said she's mad at the Witch Princess again, and she's punishing all of us. But I think she's just taking a really long nap!" She said, giggling. I laughed with her.
Just then, we heard another, girlish groan, and I turned to see… Well, I wasn't sure what it was. It was a small person, about three feet tall, with long, pointed ears, and wearing a pink coat sort of thing, with a matching cone hat with a white ball at the end. She was obviously female, for the slight bulge at the front of the jacket, and her features were softer somehow… It was hard to explain. She had long, green hair, and when she opened her eyes, they were wide and pink, as well.
"Tha- That's a Harvest Sprite! But it looks… Weird!" Kate cried, and I immediately realized who it was…. It was Faith! She looked like the other sprites, the ones I'd seen in the crystal ball. The magic in this world must be slightly different than in mine.
"Faith! Are you okay?" I asked, and she nodded.
"Yeah, I feel fine. But… Where am I?" She asked, and I thought about it for a moment. She hadn't even been near me when I left home…
"Well, you're in Forget-Me-Not Valley… But I'm not sure how. Do you have a clue? I was supposed to be the only who made the trip…" I said, and Faith looked surprised, then she smiled.
"It's because I'm part of you, silly! Your dad made me from a small piece of your soul. I go where you go." She said, and I nodded. But Kate gasped.
"Your… Your dad created a Harvest Sprite? He must be a very powerful wizard…" She said, and I just paused, and nodded.
"Yeah… He's the local fortune teller back home." I said, telling the lie easily. They say that, when you tell a lie, you should stick as close to the truth as possible. So, I'd chosen the Wizard as my father; now I just needed to remember that. I would rather people think my father was a wizard, then a god. People could see wizards; not so much gods.
"Hey! You! Stop talking to her!" An angry voice yelled out, and we looked up. There, zooming towards us on her broom, with a wheezing Hugh running a lot farther behind, was the Witch from the crystal ball.
"I'm sorry Kate! When I told her about the boy being thrown from the pond, she freaked…" He said, gasping for breath when he finally caught up.
"You're darn right I did! Now you two scram!" The woman yelled at them, and the scurried away, slightly scared. "Now, I don't need to know your name. In fact, nobody does. Don't tell them. I don't know where you came from, and I don't exactly care, but I know why you're here, and I'm sad to say, your job is being fulfilled. I already have Jack doing that; he's even already found three sprites! I estimate it'll take sixty to get back the goddess, though…" She said, and I hung my head and sighed.
"Well, can I at least stay here until she comes back? My dad sent me here for a reason, so maybe… Could you teach me about magic?" I asked, and she thought for a second.
"I suppose so. Follow me." She said, leading me away from the pond.
