Hollow Series

"Rise To Return"

A/N This is the first story of the "Hollow" series. It's about bravery, stubbornness and most of all about persistence. 

Enjoy!

p.s A/N stands for Author's note. 

p.p.s this story isn't divided into chapters. Same goes for the sequel. 

 

"I never thought I'd live to see the day when everything around me starts to die.

I always thought this Hollow was resistant to everything. Well, the day came when I was proven wrong.

I was also proven wrong when I said I could stop this from happening. It is inevitable, but If I can't stop it I am determined to find a way to save everyone from this disaster, no matter what it will be, and no matter what it takes I'll give it my all to save everyone."

Whenever I read this diary It brings me back to those days. When I was a hero, trying to save everyone, which I accomplished by the way.

I bet you wanna know how I did that though. Well, it wasn't very easy, especially when nobody believed in what I was saying most of the time.

The story begins one morning when I went out to do my usual daily work. I noticed the sky wasn't filled with sunshine as per usual so I figured Iridessa and her crew were late again.

They always had a problem when it was gathering time, either someone would run late or a mishap would happen, it wasn't intentional though nor did it harm anyone – the entertainment value is another thing though.

I landed on a branch to take a better look at the rest of the Hollow. Some parts were still sunny.

"Well, I guess they're not late after all – they just haven't made it here yet."

How wrong I was, you have no idea. I was sitting there, waiting for something to start happening and it did. A storm happened.

I flew as quickly as I could to a nearby cavern on the ground to take shelter. A friend of mine, Marigold Sunjewel was hiding there too.

"Mari? What are you doing here, aren't you supposed to be raising the Sun from slumber with Dessa?"

I said visibly afraid of what was going on at the moment.

"I was – I mean I am, but....This isn't right. It almost never rains here."

She was right, the Hollow is known to be dry all season long, every season during the year. The only time when it rains is when the water talents sprinkle dewdrops to water crops that we use for feeding pets and for making food for ourselves. Also, the only other time when there's a slight rain is when they water the vegetation all over Pixie Hollow to help the garden talents.

"It doesn't. Unless this is a prank by the water talents... Which I highly doubt."

We stood there together for a while, and the storm and rain showers stopped. Then out of nowhere Silvermist flew by.

"Sil, did you guys do this?"

Marigold asked, still shaken and a bit wet.

"What? No, of course not honey. I came to see what was happening here as well. My faithful friend Olly the owl flew in my den for shelter earlier and it tried telling me something I didn't understand, so I called Fawn who translated for me and now here I am."

As we were listening to her we heard a thunder so loud that we pushed Sil in the cavern and we stayed there, hoping the weather would calm down so we could at least get back home.