I looked around at the people before me. I saw many of the knights and
their wives that I had seen at the castle. They all stared right through me
at the ogre.
The ogre was a large one. It was the size of a horse. Not many of thoughs were ever seen around Frell, but this was not Frell.
I had realized that as soon as I saw the ogre. All the ogres had been killed or captured in Frell over the last century. Most did not travel even through Kyrria.
As I was pondering this in my head, suddenly the ogre launched. It ran faster and faster straight at me. I had no time to move and when I thought I was going to get hit, it passed right through me, running after the pack of people. I then remembered that nothing could touch me because I was in a thought. I closed my eyes and said a short pray, but as soon as I did, the ogre fell. I opened my tear filled eyes to see an arrow through it's head.
Almost always that ogres were captured and not killed. On rare occasions did someone kill an ogre, but someone did in this case.
I lifted my head to see a bow aimed at the ogre. The holder of the bow was Kyle.
I was speechless. I was and still am against killing others, even if they were trying to hurt me. In situations like an ogre, I would try to capture it and send it somewhere far away if it tried to attack me.
Kyle was only about eleven at the time, but he still should have had enough sense to not do that.
What surprised me was that no one was yelling at Kyle. Everyone just seemed to walk past the ogre without looking back.
Until that time, I had no time to look around at the setting before me. It was an eerie scene. The branches in the trees were so think that you could not see through them. It was dark and a sense of death loomed in the air. Nothing moved. No one talk. Nothing made a sound. The entire group of people had frightened looks, yet there was a hopeful and energetic look about them, as though they were acting so the children would not be frightened.
I followed them as they walked through the trees. Each knight had their arrows and swords draw and they stared into the forest all around them, waiting for something to throw at.
Suddenly, a light came through the trees. It was a strange light, because there was no way it could leak through the branches. The knights seemed to realize this too, because each looked directly at the light and nothing else. The entire group stopped walking.
Before them was a sparkle in the light. It was faint, but grow slightly as the seconds passed. A short pop was heard and the light burst into stars and a face appeared.
It was a fairy. The sky fairy.
I looked at the magnificent creature in awe. It was a spectacular color of baby blue and the face was flawless and beautiful.
I had heard stories of her, but had never thought she was real, until now.
It floated about three feet above the ground and stared down at the group. The knights put down their swords and looked at the fairy. It mesmerized them.
The fairy spoke to the group, "I am the sky fairy and you are in my territory. You will not be able to leave without another fairy. You are trapped."
My father stepped forward and said, "Trapped? What do you mean, trapped?"
The fairy laughed in a squeaky way, "You're trapped. If you try to leave, you with not be able too. That is unless you have a fairy with you. And you do not have one. Don't try stealing me, by the way. I am too quick. Most fairies are. You have to find one that will being willing to leave their homeland, which is very hard to find."
"Then how may we leave?"
"You can't. This is your punishment for being in a land that is only where fairies wander. It's the rules. I do know of one fairy that may help you, though. They call her the fire fairy. She is a good friend of mine, though she is unaware of it. I knew her before she was born, though she will never have a clue of even seeing my face. You may remember her. You did see her only about two months ago. Do you remember?" asked the sky fairy.
My father ran forward, "Who is this, you speak of? Is it someone in Frell?"
The fairy laughed, "You of all people should know her. She has black hair, loves the color red, and you even gave birth to her."
My father's face turned pale and said very softly, "She is not with us. We left her in Frell. How is Hailena a fairy?"
Sky smiled, "Well, you and your wife over there gave her the right possible genes to make her that way. You both had some fairy in you. Though she is only 70% fairy, she still is enough of one to let you escape. No one is full fairy anymore. I am only 67%, myself. She is probably the most fairy- controlled person in the world, though her human perspective is mostly in control currently. In about a few years she will start to transform and be able to take a fairy shape and a human shape. Which ever she wishes. It's such a pity that you left her, though. Thought she would be safe? Well, she is much more powerful than you. Believe me. She would be able to wipe out the entire planet if she could. Firepower is the most rare. Actually, she is the only ever-recorded one in history. I'm glad the queen fairy did not hear about her, or she would be killed when she was a baby," scared faces went up everywhere, "Oh, don't worry. I made sure she was okay. Mandy wasn't taking care of her, I was. I am like her fairy godmother. Mandy was just yours, Ella. The queen never heard a word of Hailey. I took a liking to Hailey. She was energetic and didn't take any crap from anyone. I admired her and I still do. She managed to live like a human too long though and in about three months she will come to these woods, in search of her homeland, though she will believe she is looking for you."
"We will see her again?" asked my mother.
"Yes. I'm sorry I had to do this; it's the rules of the forest. Before you leave, I must also take something from you. I am also sorry," she looked at Delayna, my new sister.
"No! Please No!" shouted my mother, her hands clutching her one month old child.
"I am sorry, but you will have her again, I promise. One day when Hailey returns, you will give this to her," she put a flower on the ground, "It will send her to this memory to explain everything. I must give this child to the queen. It's another rule. When Hailey comes back, I will meet her soon after and I will tell her how to get Delayna back. I promise you, no harm will be done to her."
My mother cried out as Dalayna floated to the sky fairy. I was so confused. What do I have to do? I asked myself. No answers were found in the memory to that question.
I watched Sky slowly disappear. She looked sadly at the family before her as she left. I knew that she did not want to, but the orders were from the queen fairy and she must have been told to do it.
I watched as my mother cried endlessly without a breath. Slowly the scene disappeared into darkness and I was back in the castle grounds staring at my parents and Kyle. I began to shake and cried violently. Nothing was right anymore. I wanted to go back to the castle to when I was nine years old before they left. I wanted to be free again. I didn't want to know the knights or the Sky Fairy or the placid town with it's new castle or the memory flower or the Fairy Forest, or that my sister's life depended on me. I didn't want to be Hailena, or Princess, or Red Raven, or the Fire Fairy, or even a little bit of a fairy.
I wanted to be Hailey. But, for some reason, they had other plans for me. I would never just be plain old Hailey who liked to play with the kids in town and go to school and be normal. Even though my parents' freedom and my sister's life was on my shoulders...
I would always be Hailey. Not even they fairy queen could change that.
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Little Ster- Thanx to everyone for being so calm about my not updating in months. I finally did, though. And Tina can't even criticize that chapter.
Tina- Oh yes I can!
Little Ster- Shut up, Tina! Go snog Patrick while you're bored. I have enough on my mind right now. I still have four finals to go. My comp was down for a while, remember?
Tina- Right! It was down for four days! You haven't even updated in like four months. That sucks!
Little Ster- You are Patrick's imaginary girlfriend, remember? I wouldn't be talking.
Tina- EX- girlfriend! Patrick is so stupid!
Little Ster- You're tellin' me! He thinks you are still dating him! Ha! And he turned his chin purple for squeezing it too hard on the bus to Dorney Park.
Tina- Really? I have to see that!
Little Ster- You can. It's still purple. It's been purple for four days now! Ha!
Tina- Going to look. Bye!
Little Ster- See ya! Oh well. Science final tomorrow, German on Wednesday, World Cultures of Thursday, and Algebra on Friday. German Oral on next Monday. Last day next Tuesday. Dance that night. Pool party next Thursday from 10-2. We graduate 8th grade that night. Summer vacation officially starts on June 18th, 2004. Then I will be able to write. See Ya everyone! Purple Chin party at Patrick's house! Everyone's invited!
The ogre was a large one. It was the size of a horse. Not many of thoughs were ever seen around Frell, but this was not Frell.
I had realized that as soon as I saw the ogre. All the ogres had been killed or captured in Frell over the last century. Most did not travel even through Kyrria.
As I was pondering this in my head, suddenly the ogre launched. It ran faster and faster straight at me. I had no time to move and when I thought I was going to get hit, it passed right through me, running after the pack of people. I then remembered that nothing could touch me because I was in a thought. I closed my eyes and said a short pray, but as soon as I did, the ogre fell. I opened my tear filled eyes to see an arrow through it's head.
Almost always that ogres were captured and not killed. On rare occasions did someone kill an ogre, but someone did in this case.
I lifted my head to see a bow aimed at the ogre. The holder of the bow was Kyle.
I was speechless. I was and still am against killing others, even if they were trying to hurt me. In situations like an ogre, I would try to capture it and send it somewhere far away if it tried to attack me.
Kyle was only about eleven at the time, but he still should have had enough sense to not do that.
What surprised me was that no one was yelling at Kyle. Everyone just seemed to walk past the ogre without looking back.
Until that time, I had no time to look around at the setting before me. It was an eerie scene. The branches in the trees were so think that you could not see through them. It was dark and a sense of death loomed in the air. Nothing moved. No one talk. Nothing made a sound. The entire group of people had frightened looks, yet there was a hopeful and energetic look about them, as though they were acting so the children would not be frightened.
I followed them as they walked through the trees. Each knight had their arrows and swords draw and they stared into the forest all around them, waiting for something to throw at.
Suddenly, a light came through the trees. It was a strange light, because there was no way it could leak through the branches. The knights seemed to realize this too, because each looked directly at the light and nothing else. The entire group stopped walking.
Before them was a sparkle in the light. It was faint, but grow slightly as the seconds passed. A short pop was heard and the light burst into stars and a face appeared.
It was a fairy. The sky fairy.
I looked at the magnificent creature in awe. It was a spectacular color of baby blue and the face was flawless and beautiful.
I had heard stories of her, but had never thought she was real, until now.
It floated about three feet above the ground and stared down at the group. The knights put down their swords and looked at the fairy. It mesmerized them.
The fairy spoke to the group, "I am the sky fairy and you are in my territory. You will not be able to leave without another fairy. You are trapped."
My father stepped forward and said, "Trapped? What do you mean, trapped?"
The fairy laughed in a squeaky way, "You're trapped. If you try to leave, you with not be able too. That is unless you have a fairy with you. And you do not have one. Don't try stealing me, by the way. I am too quick. Most fairies are. You have to find one that will being willing to leave their homeland, which is very hard to find."
"Then how may we leave?"
"You can't. This is your punishment for being in a land that is only where fairies wander. It's the rules. I do know of one fairy that may help you, though. They call her the fire fairy. She is a good friend of mine, though she is unaware of it. I knew her before she was born, though she will never have a clue of even seeing my face. You may remember her. You did see her only about two months ago. Do you remember?" asked the sky fairy.
My father ran forward, "Who is this, you speak of? Is it someone in Frell?"
The fairy laughed, "You of all people should know her. She has black hair, loves the color red, and you even gave birth to her."
My father's face turned pale and said very softly, "She is not with us. We left her in Frell. How is Hailena a fairy?"
Sky smiled, "Well, you and your wife over there gave her the right possible genes to make her that way. You both had some fairy in you. Though she is only 70% fairy, she still is enough of one to let you escape. No one is full fairy anymore. I am only 67%, myself. She is probably the most fairy- controlled person in the world, though her human perspective is mostly in control currently. In about a few years she will start to transform and be able to take a fairy shape and a human shape. Which ever she wishes. It's such a pity that you left her, though. Thought she would be safe? Well, she is much more powerful than you. Believe me. She would be able to wipe out the entire planet if she could. Firepower is the most rare. Actually, she is the only ever-recorded one in history. I'm glad the queen fairy did not hear about her, or she would be killed when she was a baby," scared faces went up everywhere, "Oh, don't worry. I made sure she was okay. Mandy wasn't taking care of her, I was. I am like her fairy godmother. Mandy was just yours, Ella. The queen never heard a word of Hailey. I took a liking to Hailey. She was energetic and didn't take any crap from anyone. I admired her and I still do. She managed to live like a human too long though and in about three months she will come to these woods, in search of her homeland, though she will believe she is looking for you."
"We will see her again?" asked my mother.
"Yes. I'm sorry I had to do this; it's the rules of the forest. Before you leave, I must also take something from you. I am also sorry," she looked at Delayna, my new sister.
"No! Please No!" shouted my mother, her hands clutching her one month old child.
"I am sorry, but you will have her again, I promise. One day when Hailey returns, you will give this to her," she put a flower on the ground, "It will send her to this memory to explain everything. I must give this child to the queen. It's another rule. When Hailey comes back, I will meet her soon after and I will tell her how to get Delayna back. I promise you, no harm will be done to her."
My mother cried out as Dalayna floated to the sky fairy. I was so confused. What do I have to do? I asked myself. No answers were found in the memory to that question.
I watched Sky slowly disappear. She looked sadly at the family before her as she left. I knew that she did not want to, but the orders were from the queen fairy and she must have been told to do it.
I watched as my mother cried endlessly without a breath. Slowly the scene disappeared into darkness and I was back in the castle grounds staring at my parents and Kyle. I began to shake and cried violently. Nothing was right anymore. I wanted to go back to the castle to when I was nine years old before they left. I wanted to be free again. I didn't want to know the knights or the Sky Fairy or the placid town with it's new castle or the memory flower or the Fairy Forest, or that my sister's life depended on me. I didn't want to be Hailena, or Princess, or Red Raven, or the Fire Fairy, or even a little bit of a fairy.
I wanted to be Hailey. But, for some reason, they had other plans for me. I would never just be plain old Hailey who liked to play with the kids in town and go to school and be normal. Even though my parents' freedom and my sister's life was on my shoulders...
I would always be Hailey. Not even they fairy queen could change that.
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Little Ster- Thanx to everyone for being so calm about my not updating in months. I finally did, though. And Tina can't even criticize that chapter.
Tina- Oh yes I can!
Little Ster- Shut up, Tina! Go snog Patrick while you're bored. I have enough on my mind right now. I still have four finals to go. My comp was down for a while, remember?
Tina- Right! It was down for four days! You haven't even updated in like four months. That sucks!
Little Ster- You are Patrick's imaginary girlfriend, remember? I wouldn't be talking.
Tina- EX- girlfriend! Patrick is so stupid!
Little Ster- You're tellin' me! He thinks you are still dating him! Ha! And he turned his chin purple for squeezing it too hard on the bus to Dorney Park.
Tina- Really? I have to see that!
Little Ster- You can. It's still purple. It's been purple for four days now! Ha!
Tina- Going to look. Bye!
Little Ster- See ya! Oh well. Science final tomorrow, German on Wednesday, World Cultures of Thursday, and Algebra on Friday. German Oral on next Monday. Last day next Tuesday. Dance that night. Pool party next Thursday from 10-2. We graduate 8th grade that night. Summer vacation officially starts on June 18th, 2004. Then I will be able to write. See Ya everyone! Purple Chin party at Patrick's house! Everyone's invited!