Sharp As A Tiger, Quick as a Dragon [PERMANENTLY UNCOMPLETED]

Chapter 22: Into the Hollow

Recap:

The trio walk into the heart of the Mysterious Forest. Unexpectedly, they come across three fairies (Curiousity, Integrity, and Sensibility). Curiousity (the youngest one) is the one that found them and immediately started asking them questions. Integrity kindly introduces them to the trio. Sensebility (the oldest one) kindly asks Cynthia if she is the Dite.

"Yes, I am," I answered surprisedly "How did you know?!"

"I could feel your magic," said Sensibility smiling "I can see if your heart is good or dark, and I can tell if your magic is for good."

"Please, come to our hollow," invited Integrity "We can contiue our conversion there."

"Yes! Please do come! It will be so much fun!" said Curiousity all bubbly.

"Sure," I said chuckling.

"Yeah!" cheered Curiousity doing an excited spin in the air.

As we followed the fairies to their hollow, I noticed how suddenly the forest glowed brightly and lively as the fairies passed by. As if the forest knew that as long as the fairies were there, there was no need to worry. The whole forest seemed so much more inviting. We stopped in front of a tree. On the tree was three circles that formed a pyramid shape. All three fairies stopped in front of the tree and each formed a swirling orb. Sensibility's was blue, Integrity's was green, and Curiousity's was orange. Then, they all pushed it towards a specific circle and the orb swirled in that circle and then suddenly a door appeared on the tree and swung open.

"Please follow us," asked Integrity kindly. And we all followed them into the tree and the door swung close behind us. It was actually very spacious in there. Sensibility placed her hand on the closed door, and all of a sudden the floor began to descend.

"Hold your hats! Yipee!" said Curiousity laughing. That's exactly what we did. We put our nhands on our head and bit our lips so we wouldn't scream. Soon we hit the ground, and we began laughing along with Curiousity, while Sensibility just watched us all chuckling. Integrity, smiling, flew off to prepare a table for us to sit down.
"Please come and sit," offered Integrity as soon as we sobered up.
"So what brings you to our forest?" asked Sensibility as we all settled in around the table.
"Well, the dragons are deathly ill," I began sadly.
"Oh my!" she said.
"So we are in search of a few items in in order to save them," I continued.
"And you want to retrieve the gold spear of the Sacred Moon," finished Sensibility with a mysterious smile.
"Yes, how did you know?" I asked flabbergasted.
"Our parents were part of the Moonieta civilization," she said "They were one of the leaders. They were part of the Head Council. Yet, one day they disappeared with the rest of the Moonieta people."
"To where?" I asked curiously.
"That is for me to know and you to find out," Sensibility told us smiling.
"So, lets get down to business then shall we," said Sensibility after a moment of silence. The table flipped revealing a magical board. All fairies stood next to each other.
"In order to receive the last Spear of the Sacred Moon you must play a game with us." she continued "Enter the board and you must complete the challenges. Good Luck!"
So one by one me, Tom, and Yedana stood up and got sucked into the magical board. Soon we were standing in front of a train track and four doors.
"For your first challenge you must figure out what door is the correct one to enter. If you enter the wrong one, you lose," boomed a voice out of no where. I studied the room as Tom kept turning on the huge toy train. Above each door was a color pattern. 'Red, yellow, blue, green; Blue, green, yellow, red; Green, yellow, red, blue; Yellow, green, red, blue' Then I noticed how each time the train ran on the track it hit the same color bulb in the same order. Blue, then green, then yellow, and then finally red.

"That's it!" I exclaimed.

"What's it?" asked my friends curiously.

"Notice the order of the colors and how they blink when the train passes them," I explained "Blue, green, yellow, then finally red."

"Now look at the order of the colors on top of the second door," I said pointing to the second door "Blue, green, yellow, and red!"

"That means-" began Yedana.

'That's the right door!" finished Tom excitedly.

"Come on, let's go!" I gestured to them,l and together we ran through that door into the next room, and our next challenge.

"Congragulations!" exclaimed a very excited voice out of nowhere "You completed your first challenge!"

"Now for your next challenge, you must listen closely to this riddle," said another voice.

"In this room are the Flowers of Life," began another voice. Soon three flowers apeared in front of us. The first was the biggest, the second slightly smaller, while the third was the smallest. Don't get me wrong though, these flowers were GIGANTIC. They were WAAAAAY biggger than us all. They were also a magenta color with yelllow middles.

"These flowers represent the many aspects of life," went on the voice "The sweet parts, and the bitterness that life has to offer. Life is a journey of unpredictablity. We just have to see what it got to offer. And remember sometimes big gifts come in small packages." While the person was narrating the riddle three HUGE pitchers filled with golden honey poured into each of the flowers. Then when the honey was done, the pitchers disappeared.

"Find the flower that holds the right path to your next challenge," instructed a voice. We each ran towards a flower.
"Mm, this one's sweet!" said Tom joyfully when he came to the biggest flower.
"Eeck! This one's bitter!" I exclaimed grossly when I tasted the honey in the second one.
"Hmm," said Yedana mysteriously as she kept tasting the last flower's honey.
"This one changes," she told us finally.
"What?!" Tom and I said utterly confused. We went over and tasted the honey a couple times, and sure enough the honey kept changing it's taste! 'Sweet, sweet, bitter, sweet, bitter, bitter, sweet.' It was really weird!
"I've got it!" said Yedana after a while "This flower is the right answer."
"How?" asked Tom.
"Because life is like a journey, or a quest," explained Yedana excitedly "It can be bitter, it can be sweet. We might make, we might not. But we'll never know unless we try, try, try!" It made sense, I guess.
"No come on, help me push this Flower of Life," encouraged Yedana cheerfully, and together we pushed with all out might until the flower moved revealing a hidden stairway. Soon we entered into the darkness and met our next challenge.