Hunters

3. Fairies

The creature took one look at her, let out a loud, terribly high screech and scurried off.

"Come on, go after her!", Eren called from his post. "Don't let her get away again!"

Kora let out a very unladylike grunt and took off in a sprint.
"Why is it me again?", she grumbled to herself, but apparently not quiet enough to escape her brothers sharp ears.
"Because you manage to always lose your own bets.", he yelled after her.

She threw a few profanities back at him that clearly expressed her opinion on the matter as well as on his commentary while following the trail of fairy dust.

Finally spotting the small creature up on a tree branch Kora threw her net out once more.

It was extremely thin and light to not damage the magical beings delicate wings. The backside of this was that it ripped easily, allowing the quick witted beings to escape with ease.

This time, compared to four other tries before, it worked out and she was able to carefully extract the small thing from the net and place it into the small cage she carried on her waist, making sure that the others she had already caught didn't escape.

"See, I got the bloody thing!
Can we leave now?"
"That was number seven, we need nine."
Kora huffed in frustration
"Come on, you can do it!"
She ignored her brother and simply walked off to finish her task as quickly as possible.

She needed almost three more hours to catch the last two, cursing as one of the little things bit her.
Then she grinned when she realized that it was finally over.

"We can....", she started to say before realizing she had strayed quite a bit from Erens position. He couldn't possibly hear her from there unless she shouted across the lake and through half the forest.

Kora slowly made her way back, always keeping one eye on the small cage on her side to make sure that she didn't accidentally ruin all her efforts by damaging it.

As she returned to the clearing she unhooked the metal structure to show off its contents to her brother.
When she finally reached the humongous birch tree in the centre and looked up to her older twin she almost dropped it.

He was surrounded by at least five fairies, one of them even sitting on his open palm happily chirping away with her bell like voice.
Another one was excitedly playing with his hair, which he had, as usual, put up in a high ponytail.
He was completely covered in their golden dust and calmly observed them as they excitedly fluttered around.
It was a very peaceful picture.

"Bloody hell!", Kora yelled enraged, resulting in the immediate and hurried escape of her brothers new companions.

Eren on the other hand didn't seem the least bit fazed at his sisters' appearance and calmly smiled down at her.

"Oh, you are back.", he said, straightened himself and came down in a cloud of fairy dust.
"Let's go back then, it's getting quite late."
And with that he started to walk off into the direction of the village.

That was too much for Kora and her rage, which had been festering deep within her since today's hunt had started, boiled over.

Throwing the cage to the side, not giving a damn about the rejoicing fairies taking off as soon as it broke apart, and, drawing her heavy sword, she lunged at her brother, ignoring her aching muscles.

"You fucking bastard!", she howled.

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Fairies:
- Found in the folklores of multiple European cultures
- Magical creatures often with human appearance, magic of some sort, often known as tricksters
- A term used to describe multiple magical creatures with a wide variety of forms
- Today commonly used to describe beautiful, small, feminine-looking fairies with wings