//Ahh… It all went blank…//

//Just like that…//

//It all ended…//

//It ended, the sad thing I called my life…//

//But in a way…//

//I was born that day//

Black… I had grown to love the color black. Black, like the midnight black of Tael's hair.

//Hah… I'd soon forget about Tael…//

I didn't know right then, that it was all over of course. It could have been a good thing. Although I was harassed my whole life. I guess I still had it good. There are worse things.

After I opened my eyes… it was amazing… Amazing in a strange way. I felt myself slowly floating up into the air. I realized that I was still in the grotto where the beautiful white water lay. I guess it was relieving for me. Then I noticed that I had completely permeable vision. I couldn't even see my nose. I looked down at my feet, or what I thought was feet. I saw nothing. At first, I wasn't too shocked, I figured I was invisible now. Which was probably a good thing. No one could see me then. They'd all be happier that way. My presence always seemed to anger people. I would just be an invisible eyeball staring at the world while I was at peace.

All my invisibility hopes were shattered when I caught sight of something in the water. Ah, the water. It was beautiful until I let myself float down to the water to look at what must've been a reflection, which meant I wasn't invisible after all. As I lowered myself I saw something I couldn't recall. A ball of light shone back at me from the water. It was quite pretty but I didn't take into account right away what I saw.

It was me. Me, the pale haired girl who didn't deserve to be around anyone. Yet I was more than that pale haired girl now. I was also less than her.

//I had become a fairy… A fairy… What I was destined to be forever from then on…//

Fairy girl. I was a fairy now. Maybe this was punishment for even existing.

Then my memory came back to me.

//Memory… maybe it would have been easier to have lost it…//

//I don't want to remember any of my life…//

//But in a way I want to remember every single aspect of it…//

It all flooded back into my head. I had fallen into a grotto with… Yes, of course… with Tatl and Tael. When we walked in the water… Pink… pink balls of light! Pink fairies. Then I lost consciousness. I awoke, and this is where I stand now.

Where were Tatl and Tael? Although, maybe I'd be scolded by fate for even being concerned for someone. Was I concerned? They had fallen too. What had happened to them?

//I can never be sure…//

//I hope that they made it. Although, if they had shared the same fate as me, it would have been a shame to remove such beauty from the world//

Tatl… she'd been the one that had brought me here. It was mostly her fault this all had happened. No, it was my fault, for disrupting her presence. All my fault. All my fault that the beautiful and kind Tael was lost.

Emotion… emotion overswept me. I had no emotions didn't I? People always told me that I had one single emotion, expressionless. Was that really an emotion? Right now I felt a mix of emotions. It was as if there had been boundaries before and now they had been removed. I wanted to stay within them.

//Boundaries… I couldn't manage to hold onto those…//

I got a hold onto myself and blocked out my useless thoughts for a moment. I had to do something. It would do everyone millions better if I just stayed down here in my useless fairy body.

I flew around a little bit. It was the strangest thing I ever felt.

//No… it wasn't the strangest thing…//

//Stranger things came later on…//

More fairies started to rise from the ground. They were pink. Judging from my reflection, I was a slightly blue color.

"Hello?" I tried to make out the words. Nothing came out. Did I have a mouth? Obviously not. It was better this way. No one could expect me to talk. Not that I ever did.

I felt words coming to me. 'Welcome wanderer' Was it me? It wasn't something that I would say… No, it was the pink fairies. They weren't talking, they were… getting into my mind? My mind, that useless mind.

'Hello' I tried again, but this time with my mind. I had hoped it worked, for although I didn't like talking, I wanted to know what happened here.

'Are you new?' Came a voice from the pink fairies. There were many of them in this grotto. I couldn't tell which was talking.

'I don't know. I'm from Respigem. I…I… stumbled down here with some other… friends.' Friends seemed appropriate right now, although they were never my friends. I only had one friend. The strange girl, Tea, who befriended me. 'We came here… and I blacked out. Here I am now, in this odd body, like all of you have.'

There was many whispering voices among the pink balls of light now. I was already becoming the same person I was before, a reject. Then they shocked me, although I have no emotions, and they started flying around in circles rapidly together until they started forming something. When the figure formed I got a good look at. A good look was more than I needed.

Stood before me was a woman… A woman of bright pink hair. She was wearing a very tiny outfit of what looked like vines. Her appearance was very terrifying, yet also comforting. Comforting? When had I ever been comforted? The woman started to lean on her side, in the air. Apparently, fairies could fly, but this woman could too? Then it occurred to me.

'Hello wanderer' the woman of pink hair spoke to me. Why was I a wanderer all of a sudden? Wanderer… the title seemed very noble. Too noble for me. I didn't deserve the title.

'Hello' I said stuttering.

'I assume that you were human once, no?' Yes, yes I was. A sad excuse for one.

'Mmm hmm. Who are you?' I said trying to maintain my posture. Posture? I'm a fairy now. I don't have posture. Not that I ever did.

'I am the Great Fairy.' Yes, my thoughts had been correct. She was a combination of all the fairies. I had heard of Great Fairies before. They were the supreme rulers of all the fairies. Was she my ruler now? I had always believed them to look beautiful. She wasn't what I had been expecting.

'I am Navi. Navi, of Respigem.' I said firmly, but the Great Fairy laughed. Laughing, it was a weird noise. Not that I'd ever tried it.

'Not anymore. Now you are a fairy. You belong to me.' Belonged? I belonged to no one. Just maybe the shadows.

//No… I belong to my partner…//

'How did this happen to me?' I questioned with a tad bit of anger in my voice. I tried to hide it.

'Any mortal that steps walks into a fairy fountain will be turned into a fairy. Just as you have. And once you become a fairy, you belong to me, the ruler of the fairies, the Great Fairy.' Anger started to overtake me. How was anyone supposed to know that? I wasn't mostly angry because of my state, just that the fact that this happened to everyone. I was probably better this way, away from all human contact.

'Aren't fairies supposed to be good?' I said, words spilling out of me. I had never really talked this much to anyone.

'Oh we are. Selected individuals are blessed by the fairies.' What was this supposed to mean? Of course, there was no way I would've ever been selected on my own. Maybe Tael and Tatl were selected. They certainly would have been worthy enough of looks.

'What exactly do you mean?' My voice was stuttering. I usually never talked this much at once, so my voice wasn't very steady. I was expecting an answer, although I'd probably be punished for expecting anything from anyone. As always.

Before I got my answer, the Great Fairy, ah, she was not so great, started to disintegrate into the multiple fairies that had joined together to form her before. I never got my answer.

//Not that I didn't figure it out on my own eventually…//

That's how I went on living my pathetic life for many years. I was a fairy. I was more than I was before, but also less.

I never understood the laws of the fairies.

I couldn't avert future losses. There were always those foolish people that came to visit the hidden Fairy's Fountain. How I tried to stop them. I tried to save them, I really did. I was useless. I was a fairy, but what could I do? I couldn't do anything. I was cursed from the day I was born, wasn't I?

The fairy population always grew. So there would be more fairies for that hideous Great Fairy, which I now had to submit my tiny body to every time she wanted to take on form. The more fairies there were, the greater her power.

I was the rebel fairy. I was the only fairy who was against the Great Fairy and her ways. Of course, I didn't express my opinion with others; they were all just minions for her. Yet, they had all been taken by her, so why? I was different. I have always been different. I was a blue fairy. The rest were pink. All of those useless minions for the Great Fairy. She wasn't so great.

I remained emotionless over the years. I had always been emotionless. I lost parts my shallowness over the years but never my memories.

//My life was meaningless wasn't it?//

//I thought so…//

//But there was more things in store for me…//

To be continued…