The Fae Realm

Chapter 7

"you little faes are far from home now aren't you?"

Chapter 7

The Royals and Isaac made their way into Witch Mountain and were halfway along their voyage to reach the Shadow Realm.

Dylan starts singing and skipping. "C'mon on everyone sing with me! Shadow Realm! Defeat the evil fae! Me and my friends save the day!"

Angelo pushes his brother away from him. "Nah because I'm still pissed, ya'll were about to let me get killed by a bunch of Ogres!"

Brecklyn rolls her eyes. "They were not gonna kill you, Angelo. They loved you."

Angelo folds his arms. "Well, I'm about to kill all of ya'll. Don't play with me."

Trayton stops, examining the map in front of him. "Hmm, I think if we go-" Diego rips the map of out Trayton's hands and looks at it for himself.

"Ahah we go this way!" He proclaims pointing forward and continues marching off. "Everyone follow close behind me in case of wild serpents and dangerous creatures!"

Isaac points the camera at Diego as he turns around and begins talking into it.

"Always be alert of your surroundings because you never know when something's going to sneak up on you and- AGHH!!!" Diego whips out his sword slaying a spider on a tree branch, regains his composure, and then resumes back to the camera.

"A poisonous creature such as that venomous spider could have murdered all of us just now, but luckily I was here to save us." He grins posing in the frame with his sword, a bead of sweat dripping off his brow.

Charitee walks ahead without flinching.

"Princess of Summer! You can't wonder ahead! It's dangerous! You must always stay behind me so I can protect you and keep you safe." Diego exclaims after her.

Charitee looks back at him. "I think I'll be fine but thank you Prince of Spring."

Disregarding her completely he jumps in front of her and crouches down, swaying back and forth with his sword ready to defeat anything that crosses their path.

They reach a large cave that they must go through to get to the other side of Witch Mountain. They all proceed inside the cave.

"Alright everyone let's get through here as quickly and quietly as possible," Trayton warns just as Dylan jumps in a giant puddle of water causing the entire cave to begin to shake rapidly and rockfall to begin. As they begin to panic, they hear a roar that echoes through the cave.

They all lock eyes in fear and begin sprinting back to the mouth of the cave, but as they reach the entrance it is enclosed by the fallen rocks. The roar gets louder and they can tell that whatever is producing the guttural sound is quickly approaching them. They all look up above them to see a giant flying creature that looks like a pterodactyl bat hybrid. The creature flies around them screeching causing them to cover their ears out of pain.

"Well, well, well... You little faes are far from home now, aren't you?"

Diego reaches for his sword and tries to slice one of its wings off, but the creature moves too swiftly causing Diego to fall on his face and his sword to fly across the cave.

"Hehe too slow Mister Prince of Spring!"

Trayton steps forward. "Who are you! Do you work for the Dark Fae?"

The creature floats above them. "I'm the pterodactyl bat of Witch Mountain but you can call me Dottie! And I work for no one," Dottie swoops in taunting them.

Charitee nods at Dylan then at his satchel to use Ogre Dan's ball of ear wax. He hesitates to reach into his bag when the air suddenly floods with the same dark smoke that the Summer Court was invaded with. Dottie coughs profusely as she struggles to stay in the air.

Diego runs towards his sword retrieving it from a pile of rocks. Dottie rushes in shrieking and charging at them. Diego jumps off of a giant rock stabbing his sword through Dottie's left wing.

Dottie roars at Diego as he flaps along with her wing while his sword is stabbed through her flesh. Trayton peers through the smoke seeing a crack of light.

He turns behind him to the others. "Follow me!"

They run towards Trayton covering their mouths and coughing uncontrollably. Dottie whips Diego off of her forcing him to leave his sword behind and follow after his royal counterparts. They all escape out of the cave as the final rocks fall into place trapping Dottie inside. They hear her shriek from within.

They all begin to catch their breath until Charitee looks around worried. "Guys... Where's Breck? Where's Breck?!" They all look around to see she is nowhere to be found.

Trayton's face drops. "Is she trapped in the cave?"

Diego wipes the sweat off of his forehead. "We have no time to stall. Princess of Winter will have to fend for herself this round. Come along now we must keep moving."

Angelo runs over to a rock nearby. "You guys! I found something!"

They all race over to him to see what he is talking about. "Look it's a little piece of Brecky Breck's dress, she must have got out then," Angelo points out.

Charitee looks confused. "Why would she just leave us though? That doesn't make any sense!"

Dylan leans down sniffing the piece of fabric. "Smells like beer and tobacco." He says confusedly.

Trayton leans in to smell it. "Ew, you're right."

Charitee shakes her head panicking. "Guys what if someone took her!"

Angelo raises a brow. "Girl I think they'd just give her back."

Trayton ponders for a moment before speaking. "That smoke was the same smoke that occurred back in the Summer Court. So someone from the Shadow Realm must know of us and have sent an attack on us again."

They all exchange worrisome expressions.

Isaac pulls out the camera. "Well, I got all of that on video so we could just watch the footage?"

Trayton rips the camera out of Isaac's hand pressing playback immediately. The footage starts with 5 minutes of Diego flexing and mansplaining in the camera. Trayton fast forwards until he sees Brecklyn being pulled backward out of the smoke and a piece of cloth being covered over her mouth. All they can see is a black-gloved hand that disappears with Brecklyn into the darkness.

Trayton looks up from the footage with determination in his eyes. "We need to get to the Shadow Realm, stat."