So here's what I'm working on in my spare minutes. Its rough still as I keep poking things around. So pardon the typos, and if you see any really obvious ones feel free to point both grammer and spelling out. Tell me what you think.
Azizi the small midnight fae was jumping from one rose bush leaf to another in a random order. Sometimes when she was bored she landed on her hands and bounced on her hands and landed on her feet on the next one. She loved to jump, to flutter, to flit here and there. She loved to laugh and loved to giggle. This was the good side of her. The other side of her was the one that got quickly angry, threw things, and cried when people didn’t pay attention to her. She was in otherwords just like any one else. She had her good points and her bad points.
Today she was carefree and enjoying doing nothing. “Watch this,” She called to her brother Seth. She then proceeded to bounce up in the air do a summersault and attempt to land on the next rose leaf. It would have been a fabulous trick, except she missed the leaf and began tumbling to the ground. “AAAAA!” She shrieked while her brother laughed at her mistake. If she had been a human it would have been disasterous, but then if she’d been human she would have been too big to jump on rose bush leaves. It took her a couple seconds to remember she had wings. She quickly started fluttering, and fought her battle against gravity. After a moment she was right side up, and in no danger. She was however mad.
“That’s not nice,” She said scowling at Seth and giving her best ugly face. And then she stomped off to go play somewhere anywhere that he wasn’t. It would have worked well except Seth fluttered right beside her poking her wherever he could reach. “Knock it off!” She commanded with her best big sister voice. “If you don’t I will not be cooking dinner for you tonight, you’ll have to go beg flies from the frogs.”
“I happen to like chocolate flies.” Seth observed while sticking his tongue out at her. “So that threat won’t work with me.”
Azizi rolled her eyes at her brother and shook her rear at him. “Fine, then you can just go survive on them for all I care.” The fight would have gone on indefinitely except it was then they noticed a portal opening. A portal was the way that all the beings on Garden travelled off their world onto other worlds. Their planet was special in that it only had one, most had many. “Looks like we’re going to have visitors.” Azizi said getting distracted. “Let’s go meet them with Cat & Boyd.
It was Seth’s turn to roll his eyes now, he didn’t like meeting visitors. All those how-do-you-do’s and where-do-you-come froms, were boring. Exceptionally boring. “You go, I’ll meet you later.” He said fluttering off to see if he could find someone to play a game of thorn-fights. Thorns were what midnight fae used instead of swords, and Seth was particularly good at fighting with them. He’d trained for several hundred years after all.
Azizi flew up and landed on Cat’s otherwise known as Catherine’s shoulder. Cat was the pixie who had found the Midnight fae and offered them a place to live. It was a decision many pixies regretted. They felt the midnight fae were bordering on malicious, and were quite tired of being pelted by mud, and other things as a practical jokes.
“Hello,” She said while pushing one of Cat’s blonde curls out of her viewing spot. “It looks like we’re about to get company.” Catherine turned her head to acknowledge Azizi. “Yes, it does doesn’t it, I wonder who it is? It could be the Gardener I haven’t seen him in awhile, but then he doesn’t usually use the portal.”
Boyd the male pixie who happened to be Catherine’s best friend joined the conversation at this moment and said with laughter.. “I bet if we wait two seconds our curiousity will be satisfied. “Yes, smart alec.” Cat said winking at him.
At that moment a beautiful lady stepped through the portal. At least that was the first impression. She had long flowing curly white hair, and was clothed in a long white dress. She seemed to glide as she moved and you couldn’t see her feet. When you took a second look however her face was filled with darkness and hatred. The hair stood up on the back of Azizi’s neck. “She’s scarey.” She whispered only loud enough for Catherine to hear.
Catherine stepped towards the lady. “Welcome to Garden.” She said attempting to begin the normal speech she gave. The lady did not look at her, but seemed to look past her and continued to glide across the grassy meadow. “Well that went well.” Boyd quipped. “We do want you to know that this world has some rules in order to be here.” He tried to continue the speech.
Azizi got held her finger out to start the list of rules that was normally given. “Don’t be mean to the animals, Don’t be mean to the plants, Don’t be mean to…” She’d heard them often enough she had them thoroughly memorized. It didn’t mean she always obeyed them however.
The lady continued to glide across the meadow and into the woods. “Stop!” Boyd said in a voice of authority. “We need to tell you some things for your protection.” He began running after her trying to get in front of her. She moved quickly, much quicker then Boyd could. And in minutes she was lost in the woods, and Boyd gave up the chase.
“We need to go tell Da we might have a problem. We’ve never had somebody here who didn’t know the rules, there are so many ways she could get hurt, or hurt someone.” Catherine said in a rush. “Wait here, Boyd to guard the portal I will go speak to him.”
Azizi continued to sit on Catherine’s shoulder. She wanted in on whatever action was about to happen, and she may as well get a free ride to wherever that was. Catherine made a loud whistling sound and Staery the pristine white pegasus that had been grazing over in a far corner of the meadow came trotting over. “Staery, I need you to take me to T’aigean please.” Catherine said. “As quickly as possible, we have an emergency.” Staery bowed her head in understanding, and knelt down so Catherine could get on quicker. Cat jumped on careful not to bump Staery’s wings, or knock Azizi off. “We’ll bring help as quickly as possible. I wish I knew where the Gardener was we could use him right now.”
The ride was quick, over the mountain and the woods and then to the small village of T’aigean. From the height of the pegasus Azizi could see the ocean with several ships at port. She could see the mermaids splashing in the waves, and people wending their wares at the little market. The rose houses were colorful each pixie having a color that represented their family. The village was laid out as circular as possible so that all felt included, and looked like something out of a picture. In the very center of the village Azizi could see the sacred rose circle. This was where the pixies were laid when they died. It was also where the midnight fae had been allowed to live. They didn’t like houses, they preferred to sleep in a rose. The rain, and weather didn’t bother them, they had natural protection from the elements, and the magic that came from the rose circle was powerful and intriguing to the midnight fae. It was also another bone of contention with the pixies who felt like it was messing with something sacred. So far the issue hadn’t been resolved.
“Hold on.” Catherine said softly to Azizi as Staery came in to land next to Gden’s house. “The landing’s always a bit sudden.” Azizi gripped the pink shoulder of Catherine’s dress waiting for the thud. It was a bit abrupt, but she managed, and soon Catherine fluttered off the pegasus bowing a thanks to Staery. “Thank you for the quick ride, its always appreciated. I’ll get you some sugar as soon as I talk to Da.” Azizi knew that normally Catherine would treat Staery immediately, so it was obvious how concerned Cat was that she skipped this step. The blonde pixie fluttered quickly to the door and began yelling as she got closer. “We have a problem.”
Callie came to the door. Callie was Gden’ wife and Catherine’s mom. You could tell that Catherine and Callie were related with their streaming long blonde hair, matching height and wings, but Callie had a thousand years of ellegance and grace Catherine had not yet attained. “Mom, we had a bit of a problem at Moinear, a strange and evil looking woman stepped out of the portal and promptly disappeared, I need to speak to my brother please.”
Gden was the chief caretaker of Garden. He was also Cat's father. The male pixie had been ruler for a long long time, and was growing a bit tired of the job, and asked his son if he would be willing to take the responsibility, so far the answer was a look of terror in his oldest sons face, and Gden hadn’t forced the issue. Gden had as a result instead continued doing the job he had done for such a long time.
Callie nodded her head and gestured for Cat to come in. Azizi joined them since she was still sitting on Cat’s shoulder. She wasn’t about to miss this.
The brown haired pixie Gden soon stepped out from one of the backrooms. He had one grand-child on each leg and was trying to walk while they sat on his foot. Each step he took jingled and jangled from all the tools Gden had in his pants pockets. Gden may have been the Chief Caretaker, but that also meant the chief fixer of all things broken, wounded, or in need of mending. As a result he always had many tools on him to save steps. “I’m coming, whats up?” He asked not having seen Catherine’s face and realizing how concerned she was about what had just happened.
Cat giggled at the boys on Gden’s feet temporarily sidetracking herself from her original concern and then shook her head. “I was as you know on portal duty, we had someone enter the portal.” Azizi took this pause to interupt. “Yeah the wicked witch of the west.” Cat reached up and put a finger on Azizi’s mouth, and continued as if she hadn’t been interupted. “We tried to introduce ourselves, but she acted as if she couldn’t see or hear us. She just glided across the meadow and into the forest. Boyd ran after her, but she disappeared.”
Gden ran his hands through his hair making it stand up on end, and then looked down at the boys. “Play times over, please go find your mother and play, I have to work now.” The boys nodded their head and jumped off heading to another part of the house. Gden would wonder about their quick obedience later. For now he was just greatful for it. He then pulled a whistle out of his pocket, and stepped past Cat out into the yard of his house.
The whistle was small and silver. Azizi loved it when Gden played it at dances. It was magic, she smiled at the thought of it, and then put her hands to her ears when Gden made a sound come out of it that was anything but pleasant. It was the come hither sound that all pixies knew meant danger come quickly. In minutes pixies of every size and age came scurrying over. “What’s going on?” They asked all at once. The noise was chaotic, and less then organized. “We have a stranger on our planet, one who may or may not have evil intent, she disappeared into the woods by Moinear we must all look for her and attempt to find her. If you find her please blow your whistle, or send to me, and we will come, and try to help her.” The villagers nodded their heads and began to organize the search for the mysterious white lady.
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