Max and the adventure

Chapter 22 a Battle

The sky is blue, something that is weird for me, as it has been red my entire stay here. Things have visually become normal again, but it only applies for the fairy garden, but i've gotten used to the sky being red so much, that it feels weird when it is blue. "You good, Max?" Marigold asks, as she puts on her bronze armor to prepare for the next battle. "A lot just happened, you know?" I still can't believe Moonchester died, it feels like a spontanious decision on their part. Or they just wanted to kill all our allies, i suppose that kinda makes sense. "Now Max, we have to be very careful up ahead. Before the previous big fight years ago, they planted many mines in the area. We haven't been able to get rid of more than one percent." Frank listens to our conversation and looks shocked. I totally understand Frank's shock. There is a real chance we will all perish. Frank asks something hesitantly. "So, there is going to be a battle, in a minefield?!" He sounds terrified by the idea. "No, Frank, the way to the battlefield has mines, but that's just as dangerous." Marigold says, to which i personally disagree, as it would be easier to step on them while getting attacked, but i digress. We get into our armor that somehow survived the destruction of the dark castle and we get our weapons ready. Frank does the same, he's making sure that his bow and his arrows work just fine. I test the sharpness of my blade. It in fact works just fine. I look at what some of the other fairies are doing. Holla is training her aim with her bow in Rosemary's amazement, meanwhile crimson and Marigold are still trying to relearn how to use their wands, they eventually get it. Poppy, another green wearing fairy with purple hair, in a braid this time, is also training her magic with her staff. There is another fairy training with us, Wavy. She is a blue waterfairy also with a staff like Poppy. That is our very small fairy army: Marigold, Holla, Rosemary, Frank, Crimson, Poppy, Wavy and me. Eight people in total. That's actually quite a big percentage of the fairy population, cause quite a few kicked the bucket in the last fight that happened without me. They only told me about one of the fairies that died. Navy, who is Wavy's twin sister. It must have been hard for her when her sister died.

I help the fairies get into their protective armor and we get to the way of the battlefield, the place that has the mines. Im scared one of us will just accidently step on one. It is really hard to see any in the ground, i have no idea where i can step and where i can't. Marigold uses a spell to make the mines visible, but i already can tell that not all of them got revealed. It also doesn't help that they are placed in such a way that when one is set off, it sets off all the others, which would be our demise. I can already see in the distance that Nevar and his troups, including the brainwashed Ray. I have a bad feeling about this, my stomache hurts, as if i lost everything i knew. I ignore it, im sure we can do this.

The Battle starts, We all get ready, some of us are on horses, some of Nevar's army are also on horses. Holla uses her bow and arrows to shoot some of the soldiers that are running at us with their swords, there are just so many that she can't do it alone. Rosemary helps her lover with an extra bow she packed, but then again, they can't do it alone, the soldiers and Nevar are getting closer and it's not possible for the two alone. Then the sword battle starts as I run into one of the soldiers with my sword, i block their sword attack and they block mine, a soldier runs behind me while im distracted, but Frank uses his bow and shoots them. I eventually hit the soldier attacking me and they fall to the ground. Everyone is now involved in the fight as more soldiers come, each more deadly to us than the last, each closer to our demise. Then Ray attacks, we don't kill him, we take his weapon and have navy hold him down to a small sleep. The fight goes weirdly smooth, i suppose that's nice. The fight keeps going and going, with more and more fighting, they seem to retreat for some reason, is there a bigger threat? Why are retreating? Are they getting more soldiers? Do they think they've won? What is going on? As im questioning my eyes, one of the soldiers throws his sword to us, it would have hit Holla,

If her Lover Rosemary wouldn't have jumped in front of it. It goes through her heart, it completely impales her and it comes back the other side. We can't believe it, Rosemary is dying. "Holla..." she says weakly, Holla walks up to her, crying as the reality of the situation hits her. She crouches to Rosemary's level, She gives Holla a soft kiss as her last breath leaves her body. "Oh why, Rosemary?!..." Holly screams out of the pain of losing her forever. I can't hide my emotions either, I cry too. We retreat, Holla holds her dead body while she rides back, the first battle is other, but not without loss. We arrive crying over Rosemary, she did everything, she was one of my closests friends. I couldn't describe our friendship in a thousand words, not even with ten thousand words. Our friendship has existed for over a decade, it will never be forgotten in my heart. Queen Verbena greets us again, "It seems you have won the first fight-" she then notices Rosemary's dead body and the tears and exhausting in our Eyes. She and all the other fairies that have noticed start crying too. There are a few minutes of silence for Rosemary. "It seems Rosemary has lost her life in the battle..." she was one of the most beloved fairy in the fairy garden. Holla doesn't look at her, i believe she feels guilty over her lover's death. I can tell that she wants to end herself to be with Rosemary again, but she knows that the dragon knights have to be completely defeated first.

We bury her body in the small graveyard of fairies that died in battle, there are some names i don't recognize, but i do recognize Navy. We dig a grave and put her dead body in a coffin, we bury it, crying. A fairy carves her name in a gravestone

R.I.P

Rosemary

2001-2023

"We are all here to mourn the death of our dearest friend, Rosemary..." Lavender cries while saying that, she gestures for me to do my speech.

"I know it is something none of us want, me included... but it happened... Our dearest friend, Rosemary gave her life to save her lover, Holla... and now im asking myself, is this what she wanted? For us to be just a sad mess? She smiled in the eyes of danger... she did everything to protect her loved ones..." i gesture for Holla to do her speech, but she is still crying so hard that she has trouble to speak, which is understandable. "She was my everything... my light in the darkness... myrainbow in the gray..." she starts crying even more. "Now there's just a hole in my heart in the shape of her..." no one else was able to say anything else out of mourning. It is her death that broke us all. If thought we might have a weak defense then, now it's even weaker.

Why?... why is everyone dying? Lilath, Moonchester, Rosemary... It's not fair! At least Frank and the other fairies are still alive, but its still not fair. Marigold walks up to me as i sit on a bench. "That was sure something..." I can tell she wants to lighten the mood, but it's not quite working. "Your speech was amazing" "thank you... the best one for her... i just hoped it wouldn't be so soon... she is dead now... there is nothing we could do to reverse that. I should have jumped in front of Holla rather than her, she was just quicker, she was her lover afterall..." "It's a sad love story isn't it..." "It's not just a story marigold, That actually happened..." im so close to tearing up again. "I know it's hard for you, it is for me too. I may not have been that close to her, but my friends were." "Just please give me some time. I can't deal with someone that doesn't understand." I go away, trying to find a different spot where no one is. There are a few of those in this garden. It's huge cause there used to be fourty fairies here. Now the population is closer to twenty. Half of what it used to be. After a few minutes i go to the small shack that was previously broken down that is now kinda fixed. It turns out that this is where they keep Ray. Frank is with Lavender there. "What are you two doing?" Im curious. "We try to understand that weird mind control brainwash thing they did to him. It's really weird." Lavender's voice is kinda soft, but also sounds confused. "Max, You know i want my boyfriend back." "I know, I just didn't know that you are trying it in this shack. I hope you get your happy end..." "Max." Frank looks sternly at me. "You are an equally important part of my life like Ray. You know that, right? You know that max, right?" I thought i was just a background character in his story. It's good that im as important as he is to me.

This place has lost most of it's calming nature with Rosemary's death, which i still can't believe happened. Rosemary, the sweetest fairy, dead, protecting her loved one. Lilath died for nothing, i could have prevented it, but i didn't know. This was Rosemary's decision. It's still sad, but she didn't just die for no reason. There is a battle inside me, on the one end i wish they would be alive, but i know that there is nothing i can do about it, but i don't want that to be the case. I justhope that there is some way to get win this world a happy end.