"The Story of the Faerie Queen" part III

Weed flew happily around the sky on that warm summer morning. Many pets and people outside would recall seeing a purple bird that day. Weed flew for an hour scoping out the land and just being happy. She had just landed when her stomach gurgled loudly.

"Oh no! What can I eat?", she wondered unhappily.

Then she happened to glance behind her and found an apple tree. The apples were big, red, juicy and ready to fall off! "What luck!", she exclaimed, not noticing the pair of wings dangling on it. The faerie flew to the tree and was just about to take pick an apple, when a huge Korbat swooped down with a net! Weed blacked out. Moments later she woke up and found herself in a jar. "

"Good job Bandit! Looks like we bagged ourselves a faerie, and a pretty one it is too! Now you can have another ability!", said a boyish voice. "

"I think it's strange looking, runty too. Do you think it can even bless?" Bandit asked.

"Sure it can! All faeries do, and don't say stuff about it! Then it won't bless ya!", the human said.

"Well, we can always give it a try, Jimmy!" said the korbat.

"It WILL work, Bandit!" said Jimmy encouragingly.

With that he carefully lifted the jar and unscrewed the lid. As soon as it was open, Weed darted out and prepared to take off when a pair of hands came down and imprisoned it again.

"Why don't you bless my pet?", Jimmy asked, upset.

"Bless?", asked Weed.

"Yeah, you know, magic, poof, and new ability?"

"I'm sorry, I don't know what you're talking about!"

"Told ya it couldn't bless."

"Well, I might as well let you go now." Sighed Jimmy.

"Wait!" Weed called out. "I can always try!"

Weed squeezed her eyes shut tight for a few seconds, then opened them again and said, "Umm, exactly what do I do?"

"Well, your supposed to bless my pet with an ability like 'Magic Torch' or 'Heal', but I don't know how you do it." Jimmy admitted.

"I don't even know what stuff I can bless your pet with! I'm sorry I wish I could just say, I bless your pet with....."

Weed thought as she thought about an attack. Suddenly, she began to glow all over as she screamed,"NIGHTVISION!!! AH HA HAHAHAH!", she cackled in a voice like a dark faerie! Then she collapsed in a little heap on the floor.

"Hey! Wake up!" Jimmy shouted in a worried tone.

"Hmm? Ugh. What happened?" Weed asked.

"You blessed my pet with 'NightVision' and then fainted."

"I did it!" Weed exclaimed happily!

"The strange thing is that NightVision is a blessing of the dark faeries, and you don't really look like one." Jimmy said in a puzzled voice.

"I don't know a lot about what type of faerie I am, but maybe I'm just deformed.....by the way.........I'm tired and hungry!" Weed gasped out.

"I'll go get you some food." said Jimmy.

With that, he told Bandit to watch over Weed while he got her some food. He came back with a peach and a knife. He sliced off a little piece and handed it to Weed. Weed gratefully took it and began to eat ravenously while Jimmy told her about their training. When she was done with the first piece Jimmy began to slice off another piece, but Weed said she was already bloated.

"I think I'll take a little nap now." Weed said drowsily.

An hour later she woke up and bid Jimmy and Bandit farewell.

"Good luck with you're training for the battledome!" She shouted to the pair after they explained to her that was why they needed the attacks and told her what the Battledome was.

Happily Weed flew into the woods. It had been ten minutes since she had come into the woods, when all of a sudden she started to itch and ache all over and had a sudden urge to go into water. She saw a little stream nearby and plunged into it. As soon as her feet touched the water they turned into fins!

Suddenly, a large branch from a tree was heading over her way. Weed tried to get out of the way, but was too slow. The branch knocked her over and she was plunged into the water!

When Weed woke up, she found herself in a bed, underwater! "How come I can breathe underwater?!" she said, surprised.

"I don't know said a sweet voice", said a sweet voice.

Weed glanced around the room she was in and saw that it was another creature that looked a bit like her!

"You were knocked out by a branch. I was about to put you on land, but I saw that you could breathe in water so I took you here to revive you and make sure you were all right. I would have done the same on land if I could go on land without being in a tank or jar filled with water." Continued the voice.

"What are you?" Asked Weed.

"I am a water faerie." Said the faerie. "And my name is Aquae. What are you?"

"I..I......don't know." Weed replied sadly. "But my name is Weed."

"Weed?! What a horrible name!" Aquae said to the embarrassed little faerie. "Dewdrops sounds MUCH better."

"Okay, I'll change my name to that!" Replied Dewdrops.

"Well, only water faeries can breathe underwater, but the only part of you that makes you look like one is your mermaid's tail. So I'm not really sure."

"I didn't always have these you know. I was flying through the woods when I had this sudden urge to go into water. I saw this stream and dipped my feet into the water. As soon as I went in, they turned into fins! That's when the branch knocked me out."

"May I see your wings?" Aquae asked curiously. "Water faeries don't have them."

"Sure!" Dewdrops replied as she proudly showed them to her.

As soon as the water faerie saw the pattern on Dewdrop's wings her eyes widened as she made a gasping sound and fainted. Dewdrop blew onto her face to make water hit it gently, but hard enough to awaken her.

As soon as Aquae woke up she bowed down her head and said, "Forgive me for not treating you royally your majesty!"

"Your majesty?" Dewdrop's said, confused.

"You don't know? There is an old light faerie who can foresee a bit of the future. One day at a party she suddenly had this glassy look in her eyes. Then, she told everyone of a prophecy about a faerie queen. She said that the queen could go anywhere she wanted and that she had a certain pattern on her wings that we could recognize her by when she came to us. She worked a spell and immediately everyone was holding a picture of the pattern. I memorized it......."

"And?"

"And your the Faerie Queen!"

continued next week.

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