SUMMER'S RAIN

CHAPTER 56

CHAPTER 56

The light is so bright neither of us can see anything I tell Rachel not to let my hand go and to keep moving forward. After maybe twenty seconds the light starts to lose some of its brightness then it’s gone all together. We had done it.  We were on the Fairies' Realm.

It is eccentric to say the least. The flowers are gigantic, with some of the brightest colors I’ve ever seen. The rose bushes stand as tall as tress, and they have roses on them that were colored up like a rainbow. The grass is so green it doesn’t look real. The best way I have of explaining the Fairy Realm is that it looks like wonderland from Alice and Wonderland. Everything is exaggerated it’s bizarre and beautiful at the same time. Summer would go crazy if she could see all these flowers. I think she would have a hard time killing these. Glancing at Rachel I asked, “How are you doing?”

“I’m all right” she said as she inspected the surroundings. “Have you ever seen anything like this?”

“No I can’t say as I have" I said as I continue studying everything and wondering how in the fuck I keep getting messed up in shit like this.  Because I’m getting the feeling as I look around that this is going to be some crazy shit going on here.

“Let’s use the woods over there for cover it’s not good for us to stay out in the open like this.  A fairy could spot us any second.” Rachel heads towards the woods without another word from me. We hike a little ways into the woods just deep enough that I’m sure we can’t be spotted from the clearing before I stop Rachel and tell her to let me see if I can find her brother, and I’d blink us to him. When I try to use my mind to locate Adam, nothing happens it’s like there is a shield blocking me or something.  So I try to blink myself back out to the clearing once again nothing happens.

“Rachel we may have a problem.”

“What did you find him? Is he alright?”

“No I wasn’t able to find him, I can’t blink either it’s like something’s blocking my powers.”

“What” Rachel asked in a scared voice.

“I can’t use my powers their gone all of them” I tell her as I was starting to panic. How am I supposed to keep us safe, here without any kind of powers? I was still trying to decide what we needed to do when I see movement out of the corner of my eye. Scanning the area, I see nothing. I had just begun to think I had imagined seeing something when it moved again. It’s the tree branches, they are moving and not because of the wind either. It is like the branches are arms or something. Out of nowhere a branch in the tree above us swoops down and knocks Rachel to the ground. Grabbing her hand, I pull her up and yell “RUN!”

Branches are hitting us from the left and right. One of the limbs hits me so hard it almost knocks the breath out of me. Nevertheless, I continue running never letting go of Rachel’s hand, until we clear the woods and the tree line. Rachel is crying I twist around to make sure she is alright. Before I have the chance to ask if she is hurt, we are thrown to the ground. Our hands are being tied behind our backs. I try to break free, but without my powers, I’m just a hundred and ten-pound weakling. We are pulled back to our feet hands tied behind us. Our attackers turn us around to face them.

OK now I’ve seen everything.  Our attackers can’t be more than three feet tall with wings that look like butterfly wings. Their faces look like that of a child but when they speak you can tell they aren’t children. There are six of them but for the life of me, I can’t tell if they are male or female. They appear to be both. They're cute, but I have the feeling, they can be very cruel if given the opportunity.

All six let out some kind of victory yell as they hold up sticks. Three of the little people move behind us and start pushing us forward without speaking. I peek over at Rachel and see she is still crying. Whispering I tell her not to say anything, unless she has to.  I try to convince her everything will be alright that I’ll get us out of here. I have no idea how I’m going to accomplish it, but I’ll think of something. I have to.

The little people speak in a different language.  I realize as I listen to them speak to each other. I would give anything to know what they are saying. We have been walking for almost an hour when I see civilization. We are thrown to the ground in front of a house or a hut. I don’t really know which you’d call it. It’s like one of the straw hut’s you’d see the tribe people living in on the documentary channel.