Jay and I decided it was for the best that we went through with the plan at night. That way Bracken most likely will not find out until morning. If not it will at least buy us some time. Finally, it was time for bed. Daddy told us goodnight gave me a kiss on my forehead and softly shut the door. We waited silently for about ten minutes and then Jay got up and quietly opened the window. He slipped through and then lifted me after him (it is very embarrassing to me that I had to be manhandled, but my body is a bit small for this).

"Now we are going to go and jump off the roof into the pool, okay?" He said it slowly as if he forgot that my mind and my body were not at the same level. His voice was higher as well as if he were talking to a three year old. Which I AM NOT!

"Then we are going to be very, very sneaky so your wittle Daddy won't hear us. After that we are going to…" I bet there was steam coming out my ears.

"I know I was there, or are you so incompetent that you already forgot! Do you have any idea how hard it is to slowly grow up yet have your mind excel at an extraordinarily faster rate?! STOP talking to me as if I don't understand, as if my mind is as young as my body!" I snapped. He looked sorry and guilty and I regretted being so harsh. "I'm sorry, lets just go." I walked ahead of him and neither of us said anything. We tread lightly knowing that Daddy has heightened senses. When we were close enough from the pool to jump Jay took a hesitant step towards the edge, and I admit I was set on out doing him. I ran towards the edge, leaped, did a flip, and ended in a graceful dive. I surfaced and looked up at him grinning. His jaw was open and he looked shocked. I laughed and pulled myself from the water. He did a simple dive and I give him a ten. Unfortunately, my scale is out of one hundred. I used my horn to dry myself off. I didn't bother with Jay, I was still mad about him babying me. I ran towards the tree house as fast as my little legs would take me and was up there and already sticking the key into the keyhole before Jay got there.

"Seth is the coolest," I whispered softly. I felt something move inside it and the top clicked open. It revealed a plain blue zippered backpack. Jay pushed ahead of me and grabbed it out.

"Its empty," He whisper screamed in disbelief.

"Just trust Seth. Lets get moving," I said doubting my statement. I really hope he doesn't expect us to eat the bag. Where would we get the weapons if we did? Whatever we can dwell on that when we are off the preserve. Jay started to head towards the gate, I shook my head at him. He looked at me with confusion. I motioned for him to follow me, and I breathed a sigh of relief when he did. When we reached a tall hedge I tapped on it with my horn and it parted. When Jay tried to follow the hedge closed on him, swallowing him whole. I tried to reopen it, but the hedge refused my prodding.

"I'm really sorry, but the hedge isn't responding to my whims," I know I'm still trying to sound sophisticated in my speech, but in the months I have lived I could only stand baby talk in the first month. He finally crashed through and shot me a dirty look as if magical hedge mishaps are my fault. We quickly got into one of the boats in the boat house and set off. There wasn't so much as a ripple in the water when the naiads realized who I was. They had an incident when the attempted to pull my daddy in and I don't think they're ever going to try with another unicorn anytime soon. When I reached the island in the middle, where the new shrine to the fairy queen was, I felt negative energy pulsing from it.

"You better stay in the boat when we dock, do not touch the island." I instructed. I stepped onto the island and ran to the little statuette of a fairy that was by a stream. The scent of the fairy kingdom filled my nose,

"Hello dear," Queen's voice filled my head.

"Hi Queen, I need a favour."

"Anything for my Grandchild."

"I need you to provide my friend and I safe passage to the dragon sanctuary. Also you need to allow him onto the island."

"Alright," Queen sighed. I call her Queen as a name not a title. I felt odd with grandma and calling her queen as a title was wrong too. I ran and grabbed Jay. He followed me back where we both knelt by the stream.

"I will also provide you with safe passage, but be careful around that fellow he isn't like Raxtus."

"Who is Ra-" I was cut off by the sensation of falling/flying and the tastes and scents of Queen's beautiful kingdom where I was born. I tasted/smelled wild flowers, mint, lemon, dirt, grass, rain, leaves, and so on. I landed gently beside the pond in a dome covered shrine to Queen. A second form plopped right into the pond in an ungraceful belly flop. He pulled himself out of the water and this time I dried him off, mostly because I didn't want the pack that he was wearing to get wet. I strong ashy scent filled my nose.

"Do you smell that?" He smelled the air and a worried look crossed his eyes. He turned away from me and muttered something about magic dust and that this must've been why Seth wanted them to take the slow way.

"He was trying to protect me!" He yelled.

"Who?" I asked. He flipped around as if he'd already forgotten I was there.

"The smell must just be the scent of this preserve," He said, but I didn't buy the look in his eyes. I decided to go with it and went out the door. He was right about one thing the smell was way stronger out here. I stepped closer to him and sniffed, he no longer smelled musty or like fall. He just smelled like smoke.

Jay's POV

I think Luna is on to me. I think Seth didn't want us to travel with the Queen of Fairies because he knew the magic scent masking powder would come off.

"Jay?" Luna's voice broke me from my thoughts, for a second I was afraid of her saying anything else about my scent. I had seen her sniff me and then make a face, "We should look in the pack now."

"I agree," we knelt down and I unzipped it inside there was a ladder leading down. She leaped down into the pack and disappeared in to the darkness. I followed her and noticed it was no longer dark. When my feet reached the ground I looked and realized Luna was the source of the light. I flipped the light switch that was down there anyway. The light switch activated the ceiling and the entire thing glowed. There was an entire arsenal that lined one wall. There were two pairs of bunk beds against another, and a kitchen cabinet stocked with food with a microwave oven to cook it in.

"Wow," Luna breathed and wow is the only way to explain it. After lingering for a while we both left. I was the first one out and I noticed a dark shape coming towards us. I tried to warn Luna, but it was too late. She was out of the bag and it was already zipped up and on her shoulders. A giant black dragon landed before us.

"I knew I smelled a rat," Its gravely voice crooned, "And you brought me a baby pony for a snack." There was nothing I could do but watched as Luna's terrified yet accusing face disappeared into its enormous maw.

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