Wingless : The Fragile Dagger

Chapter 1. Gardens

Ai generated this picture

Here is just a random video with some of the characters from my YT channel;

https://youtu.be/vUzGx-GQCwo

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The bees buzz through the bushes of flowers gracefully. The fairy picks a few flowers off the bushes and carefully drops them into her basket. She sits on the grass and breaths the natured filled air. The garden fairy brushes her long black hair out of her face and picks a few more flowers from the bushes. The orange sun shines down on the reflective surface of the metallic fences, creating an aluminous effect on the neat row of bushes. The Fairy collects a few more flowers when a couple other fairies come up to her. 

"Hey Jasmine!" The girl looks up. The two fairies wings gently folded behind them in taste. The garden fairy looks at her friends wings', always wishing for a pair of her own. She stands up, brushes her dress down and smiles.

"Hey guys," She says. "How's life? Irriada, did you pass your exam?"

"You bet I did. Your quick study notes really helped. You are a life saver." Irriada holds out the papers, the score written in bolded red on the top. "You got me a 72%!"

"That's great! And how about you Hannah? Are your siblings driving you to death?"

"What do you think?" Hannah asks. "I've been putting a special lavender potion in their dinner to help them calm down and get a good 10 hours of sleep. My dad has been having a hard enough time with work."

"You are drugging your siblings?" Jasmine asks.

"No, I'm... well I guess I am," Hannah clicks her tongue. "Ah well, It's for a good cause." she says causally.

"Ahem, please give me a minute to report this to the police." Irriada joked, holding her phone out and gently waves it in front of Hannah. "You're going to be in jail for a long time miss."

We burst into laughter. Nothing could ever be boring with all three of us together.

"Oh Iri, Shut up." Hannah laughed.

Irriada giggles. Her incandescent aqua blue wings glistened in the late sun light. Aqua wings or hair, a main factor found on almost every water fairy. But Irriada was on another level of fashions with water fairies. She wore a beautiful blue and white wavy dress that dropped just a little more than half way down her thighs on the front. The back part of the skirt extended out into a sort of cape that reaches the backs of her knees. Most water fairies work bikini like clothing to make it easier to travel in the water with less drag. Hannah is a garden fairy like me, but she has the one of the more traditional garden fairies wings. Small wings that similarly reassembled a bees wings. Cute, but it has been proven to be difficulty to fly longer distances with them. She always wore these green flats with a light green dress that was bordered in vines of flowers. Jasmine always wore a simple green shirt with slightly puffy sleeves that have ribbons attached to the shoulders. With it, she wears a grey and dark green skirt that has the designs of flower petals starting from the waist, coving half of the skirt. Not as fancy as Irriada or Hannah, but conformable.

Jasmine looks down at her watch. It has been 30 minutes since you left the house.

"Hey guys, I need to get going. My dad needed these for the dinner."

"Okay. Well see you tomorrow. Bye Jasmine!"

Jasmine turns around and leave the community gardens. She opens the door of the small house and is met with her little sister.

"Jazzy!" the little garden fairy jumped into Jasmine's arms in a big hug. Jazzy is the family nickname for her. Jasmine's sister takes the basket from Jasmine and look inside.

"Ooh! The saffron flowers! They are my favorite!"

Jasmine smiles. "There are some extras in there just for you to grow in a pot."

"Yay! Now lets give this to dad." 

"Amyra, don't drop any of them on the floor." Jasmine follows her little sister to the kitchen. Your dad has his back to the doorway and you hear the sound of the knife cutting on the board.

"Dad, Jazzy got the plants!" Amyra exclaims, holding the basket to their father.

"Thank you Amyra." He said.

"But Jazzy got them."

"And?" Dad returned to the veggies. Amyra leaves the kitchen and follows you to your room.

"Why doesn't dad like you?" She asks as soon as you close the door.

You sit on the floor next to her. "That's just how it is Amyra. Some of us just aren't given wings, and people don't like the difference. Be glad that you were given wings"

"But why weren't you given wings? You could have been able to fly and experience the full power of our magic." Amyra says. Her little bee wings flutters a little in anger. "I want to see you with wings Jazzy. You would look even more beautiful then. Jasmine smiles. Amyra loves her so much.

"Well, I don't need those wings. They make everyone seem the same-ish. I'm going for something different. Something special." She said.

"You are definitely special. Especially smart and pretty." Amyra said.

"Thank you Amyra." Jasmine ruffles her little sisters hair.

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At night, Jasmine snuck out of the house quietly and went to the community gardens. The other fairies always said not to got to the gardens at night. There was an old folk tale saying that the departed garden fairies would walk the gardens at night and that if a living fairy was caught in the gardens, they would haunt them till they were dead, where they would further on be cursed to join them in the gardens.

Jasmine sat on a bench next to the Sakura trees. The little pink flowers fell onto her head as she looks up at the stars. The wind blew her hair softly and gave a cool breeze. Jasmine picks a few of the Sakura flowers out of her hair and watches as the flew out of her hands. footsteps quietly whispers through the wind. Jasmine stands up and looks around. A cloaked figure was walking through the gardens, a few flowers in hand. They gave an ominous and unconfutable feeling.

"Is it the deceased fairies?" Jasmine thought. The figure stops and looks up at the wingless fairy. She gasps as the figure walks towards her. Jasmine stands still as the figure approaches her, stands in front of her and looks at Jasmine.

"You are wingless?" The figure asks. They were taller than Jasmine and had a feminine voice. Somewhat rough, but soft.

"Um, yes." Jasmine replies.

"That's nice," The figure said and walks a few meters away from Jasmine. Jasmine watches as the figure unfolded her wings, slightly startling her. The figure's wings her black and translucent. Dark red outlines along the edges of the wings.

"Dark fairy wings?" Jasmine was confused. No Dark fairy lived in the garden fairy realms. The only other fairies that lived here were mainly the water fairies. The dark fairy turns and looks at Jasmine. Jasmine stares at them back, wondering if she was going to do something to her. Instead, the cloaked fairy waves at the wingless and flies off. Jasmine watches as she does so. Once they were out of sight, Jasmine ran back home.