Once Upon A Dream

Birthday

"So you're telling me, that I've sent you druids out for 18 years and you've had no sight of him?" Haggar growled out, lightning and thunder shaking the castle. "People just don't vanish into thin air! she yelled out, causing some of the druids to flinch from her wrath. "Are you certain that you looked everywhere?"

"We've been searching everywhere Mistress," a druid spoke bowing his head as Haggar turned her glowing yellow gaze onto him.

"But what about the town, the forests, the mountains?"

"We searched mountains, forests, and houses, and let me see, in all the cradles," another druid spoke up. Haggar froze mid step and turned back to gaze at the druid.

"Cradle?" Haggar asked turning to her pet cat Kova who grinned back at her. "Did you hear that my pet? All these years, they've been looking for a baby!" Haggar exploded into laughter, the druids watching her in case something went bad, which it did. "You idiots!" she yelled flinging purple lightning from her staff towards them. The druids dispersed before they could be shocked and took that as their sign to leave the evil fairy alone.

"Oh they're hopeless," Haggar said with a sigh, laying back on her throne. Kova climbed onto her lap and Haggar let out a tired sigh. "My pet, you are my last hope. Circle far and wide, search for a boy of eighteen with hair of midnight black and eyes as purple as violets," Kova let out a meow and ran out of the castle, sparing a last look at her mistress. "Go, and do not fail me."

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And so, for eighteen long years, the whereabouts of the young prince remained a mystery, while deep in the forest, in a woodcutter's cottage, the Nyma, Shay, and Florona carried out their well-laid plan. Living like mortals, they had reared the child as their own and called him Akira.

On this day, her eighteenth birthday, the fairies had planned a party and something extra special for his surprise. Plus, a special gift from a very special person.

As Akira was getting ready for the day, Nyma, Shay, and Florona were huddled around the wooden dining table.

"How about this one?" Florona asked pointing to a suit on the page in front of her. Nyma smiled and nodded.

"That's the one I was looking at earlier.

"Oh he'll look so handsome in it," Shay softly exclaimed with a smile.

"Now a few changes to the sleeves, I'm thinking gold trimming instead of this silver," Nyma said to which the other two nodded.

"We should make it black," Florona said eyeing the fabric they had laying around waiting to be used.

"Oh no," Nyma said with a shake of her head. "Red suits him better."

"But..."

"Of course we'll also need to switch the epaulettes as well," Nyma said with a smile.

"But how are we going to get Akira out of the house?" Shay asked tilting her head in confusion.

"I'll think of something," Nyma replied. The three were so lost in conversation they didn't notice Akira had made his way downstairs from his bedroom. He was dressed in a dark grey blouse with shoulder length sleeves, a loose black sleeveless vest, red pants, and brown boots, his black hair tied back in a ponytail.

"Good book?" Akira asked noticing his three aunts huddling around a brown leather book.

"Uh yeah," Nyma said with a smile, the trio turning around and closing the book as they did so.

"You weren't up to something were you?" Akira asked leaning against the wooden railing of the stairs.

"Up to something ? Eh, eh, eh, we, we, well, we, we..." Shay started to trail off under Akira's gaze. That is, until Nyma stepped in.