Fairy Dust

{4} The Elements of Fairies and Dust

"There are 8 elements of fairies," Lisper says to me, "Fire, Water, Light, Dark, Undead, Sky, Future, and Youth. Each of the lead fairies that belong to these elements are all scattered around the earth, without them, Cothia will lose its color! It is your job to find them." Lisper hands me an amulet with 8 different colored sticks on the end, they look like glow sticks. "This amulet will help you find all the elemental fairies, when a element fairy is look like glow sticks. "This amulet will help you find all the elemental fairies, when a element fairy is element fairy, the brighter the glow becomes." I look down at the amulet in my hands, there is a orange, dark blue, white, black, gray, light blue, green, and pink sticks all around the amulet fastened together with a gold rod with one rainbow jewel in the middle. It kind of looks like a gold, colorful pirate steering wheel. The blue stick starts to glow, brighter and brighter, I look up and see the fairy that I rescued earlier standing in front of me. She smiles.

"Thank you for rescuing me, my name is Aqua." She hands me a dark violet pouch with a gold star on the front, inside it is some sparkly blue dust. I stare up at Aqua, confused.

"Why did you give this to me? And why is there sparkly, dark blue dust in it?" I say, puzzled and Aqua laughs, I don't find any of this funny.

"The blue sparkly stuff is fairy dust from my wings," Aqua rubs her sparkly wings with her hand and shows it to me, her hand is covered in sparkly dust, "see?" she says, she takes her other hand and snaps she fingers, the hand covered in blue sparkles gets covered in water and washes the blue sparkles right off. My eyes widen.

"You're the water element fairy!" I say, amazed and Aqua nods, "But wait, why do I need your fairy dust?" Lisper, who, was standing silently next to Aqua, listening to our conversation, speaks up.

"You see, once you free a element fairy, they will thank you and give you some of their fairy dust and put the dust in your pouch. Once you have collected all of the different elements of fairy dust, you will bring them back here and I will pour all of the dust into the water fountain in the middle of Cothia. The fountain will explode of colorful rainbows, and turn Cothia back to a colorful, full of life, place." I open my mouth to ask something, but Lisper stops me and answers my question, "The future fairies told me all of this by the way." he smiles, but his smile fades into a serious frown, "But, you only have 10 days to free all the elemental fairies." Lisper says, "and you are our only hope, Cothia's only hope." I look at the pouch in my hand, and the amulet in the other, I make a decision.

"OK," I say, suddenly I feel great determination surge through me, "I'll do it."

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"OK, you know the drill, right?" Lisper says. we are in the center of Cothia, by the fountain the "fairy grass", as what Lisper calls the grass here in Cothia, is bright green, except for a bunch of gray splotches dotting the grass. The fountain was once white, but is now a light gray, but the fountain is still spewing pretty streams of water. Lots of pink, gray, and white flowers scatter around the place with trees 5 times the size of me tower over me with gray and light green leaves on them. To my left is a small town with a big clock tower in the center. I walk to the edge of Cothia and look down, it seems like we are on a giant island. I turn around and walk back to Lisper.

"Yes, I think I got it," I say and nod. I will take the amulet and search the world to find all the element fairies in 8 days, then I will take a journey back to Cothia in 2 days, and all of the color will be returned back to Cothia. I will also have a chip that, when I press the button on the chip I can call Lisper in hallograph form to note if anything is wrong. Simple right?

"First, before you go, I want to give you something." Lisper walks over to the purple flower right in front of the fountain and pulls at it. The flower magicly inflates and floats upward. It looks like a magic carpet, Like in those "Aladdin movies", except, It's a flower. It starts to hover toward me. "This is a magic flower carpet," Lisper explains, "I know, original right?" I touch the purple flower, the petals have now turned hard. "You can use this to find the element fairies quicker." Lisper explains. He steps onto the flower and it holds him up like he is as light as a feather. "You lean forward, back, left, and right to control it." Lisper leans forward and the flower goes forward. "See?" Lisper says.

He hops off the flower and walks toward me. "You ready?" I nod and I hop onto the flower. "Now," Lisper says, his face turning serious, "You only have 10 days to save Cothia, and by the end of the 10 day, if all of the elemental fairy dust are not returned, Cothia will crumple to dust......forever." I gulp, and Lisper's face lightens to a friendly smile, "But I know you can do it, I believe in you, Abliqua." He steps back and watches me as a I lean forward to guide the flower slowly off Cothia's island.

Lisper puts a hand on my shoulder, stopping me for a second, he's pretty tall, probably about 7 feet. "Take care now, and good luck," He says. I nod and lean forward to make the flower move, but Lisper keeps his hand on my shoulder, holding me firm in place. "But remember, some fairies are a lot more dangerous to free, maybe even putting you in danger." I gulp, once again, and Lisper smiles, weakly, but friendly, "But don't worry, you can do it. I believe in you, take care now, and let the wind and amulet guide you." I lean forward and start to move,

Lisper releases his grip and his fingers trail across my arm as the flower glides across the sky, taking me away from Cothia and into my long journey to seek the 8 elemental fairies. I am about 10 feet away from Cothia and I look back at Lisper and Cothia, it seems like Lisper has something glittering in his eyes. Tears? I shrug and turn back to the pretty, bright blue sky. I look down at the amulet, the dark blue stick starts to fade and the orange stick starts to glow a faint, dim orange.
"Looks like my journey begins." I say as I drift on my purple flower magic carpet in the sky. The journey is going to be a long one, but I think I can do it. I think.