Michael

Michael Costa Period 7/8 On the Wings of Curiosity

Laurella looked at Talon regretfully, longing to help her newly made friend. But it couldn’t be helped, if the fairies saw him, there was a chance he might be punished. Making up her mind, Laurella turned back towards the fairies and shouted “Coommmiiinnnggg!” Petunia and Begonia were pleased by this and stopped to wait for her to reach them.

“What are you doing Laurella? Let’s go already!” Petunia beckoned to the path ahead.

“Ah I’m sorry; I just wanted to smell some of the flowers over there.” Laurella said panting after running as fast as her little legs could carry her.

“Don’t worry about it, but we can’t make the fairy king wait!” Begonia laughed in a slightly nervous manner after checking an apparatus on their arm resembling a watch.

Making true on these words, Laurella and the two fairies hurried along the path in front of them. As the three continued on, the scenery gradually began to change. Abnormally large mushrooms began to appear on the side of the path that glowed a faint luminescent blue. Equally strange vegetation and structures resembling buildings soon followed along the path. The path itself was also beginning to change; no longer a simple dirt road, the path became embedded with smooth stones of all colors turning into a road.

Surprised by this change of scenery, Laurella began to ask questions to her companions such as “Where are we? What’s that thing over there? Why does it glow that way?” Begonia was happy to answer these questions and explained that they had left the Sacred Plains and were making their way into the heart of the Fairy City. There, Begonia continued, Laurella would meet the Fairy King who was waiting eagerly to see her. Petunia interrupted as they reached a large gate with a drowsy looking fairy next to it. The guard made an expression of recognition on his face and with a yawn said “Who goes there?”

“It is us, Petunia and Begonia, the King’s most trusted messengers. We have returned with Laurella as requested.” Petunia answered.

“Eh… What race is she?” The guard asked just then noticing Laurella’s presence.

With an odd sense of pride, Laurella jumped and energetically replied “I’m a human!”

The response evidently had an effect on the guard and immediately broke his previous daze. The guard’s countenance went from shock to absolute horror in just a moment. Eventually the fairy regained his composure and laughed “What jokers you two are! We all know humans aren’t real. They’re just myths parents tell their children to get them to behave. This girl is probably just another elf you’re bringing in!”

“Laurella isn’t lying. She is a human and by that very fact, you should understand why the King has asked us to bring Laurella to him.” Petunia responded with grave solemnity which greatly differed from the playful spirit Laurella had observed just minutes ago. Without giving the guard a chance to answer, Begonia opened the gate and Petunia led Laurella through it. After passing through a series of ornately decorated rooms, Laurella and the two fairies reached the throne room. When Laurella entered, she was greeted by the sight of a comparatively plump fairy. Immediately Begonia walked forward and reported “Your highness, we, your faithful servants Begonia and Petunia have returned with the human girl known as Laurella.”

The fairy king sat up and observed Laurella for a moment as if he was trying to disprove any doubts he still had in his mind. “Yes, so it seems a human really has come to this world.” The plump fairy turned toward Laurella and said “Laurella was it? As you’ve must have heard, we have been wanting to see you for quite a while. You see it is not often that humans come here. In fact, it is so—” “By the way Mr. Fairy King, why do you guys care so much about humans?” Laurella interrupted.

At this, Petunia became inflamed and scolded Laurella “Don’t be rude to our King, please address him as ‘Your Highness’.”

“Please don’t worry about it Petunia. Laurella must be quite confused now as would anyone who suddenly came to our world. Very well then, we shall answer her question.” the King answered Petunia. Turning back to Laurella the King continued “Several thousand years ago, the fairies and humans once lived together. However, relations between the two species were poor for you see humans hunted our race. Many of our kindred fell to the hands of humans until our race decided to immigrate to another world. Even over the thousands of years, the animosity towards humans has not faded as tales of the cruelty of humans still survives in folk tales and legends. But that is ancient history. Normally humans shouldn’t even be able to see our race much less come to our world, so please Laurella: tell us how you came to this world.”

Laurella, feeling a sudden surge of importance, recounted the events that had transpired on her adventure that day with the King listening intently.

“It is exactly as we feared. That purple cloud you spoke of was a spatial anomaly connecting the two worlds. In our history, this has happened several times before, the linking of the two worlds means that the magic holding the world together is weak at the moment. Natural disasters, disease, and war, whenever a human has come to our world, a great catastrophe has occurred.” the fairy king grimly stated.

Ignoring Petunia’s earlier scolding “Don’t worry about it Mr. Fairy King! When Gregory comes back we’ll help you guys out!” “You say there’s a second human coming? Shoot, I overlooked the possibility that two humans would be coming and only asked Petunia and Begonia to retrieve one. This is indeed a problem.” the king explained while contemplating.

“What shall we do my Lord? It could be a problem if the elves get to this Gregory before us!” Begonia asked judging the new situation.

“Yes, make haste! We can not let the elves capture him!” the king ordered the two fairies.

“I don’t really understand what’s going on but I’ll go too!” Laurella replied cheerfully.

“No, we can not allow that. What if something were to happen to you?” Begonia answered seriously.


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