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Just remember this is a story of pure fantasy and fiction. It may be a “fairy tale” but it is not intended for anyone under 18 years of age or anybody who is easily offended by violent and graphic sexual situations. Any resemblance to real people, places, or situations is purely coincidental, although I must say, if you have ever been in a REAL situation like this, we’d all love to hear about it! I do not promote or condone the sexual abuse of anybody, real or magical! So please…..sit back and enjoy!
Fairy Tales Can Come True
An original story by Vile8r
Chapter 1:
The sun was just coming over the mountains and beginning to bathe the valley below in its soft morning glow. Jaelynn soared high in the warm updrafts as she surveyed the exquisite panorama.
To the north and east were the majestic, snowy peaks of the Sapphire Mountains. To the south was a limitless expanse of small rolling hills and meadows and lakes. Well, it wasn’t quite limitless. Far at the edge of the horizon, Jaelynn could just make out a hazy blue line that she knew was the coast of the Sea of Aqualonia.
Jaelynn swooped as she almost collided with a flock of geese, who gave her honks and stern glares as they flew by.
Crabby old things! she thought to herself.
Jaelynn, you see, was a woodland fairy. And this was the world of Idyllica, a land where many wondrous, magical creatures resided. Fairies of all sorts, elves, dwarves, mermaids, unicorns, satyrs, all lived here. And a few not-so-nice creatures too, like ogres and trolls.
But they stayed mostly high in the mountains or farther east in the Black Woods. Trolls didn’t like sunlight much and spent most of their time in mountain caves or burrows, only coming out at night.
Jaelynn was a very beautiful, young girl fairy. She was approaching her 200th birthday, which may seem pretty old to us humans. But in the lifespan of a fairy, she was only in her “teen” years. To see her, one would equate her to an extremely attractive 18 or 19-year-old human girl. Except that 18-year-old human girls didn’t have silky transparent wings and could fly!
She had long slender legs and arms and exquisite, smooth tanned skin. Jaelynn had long, lustrous auburn-colored hair that stretched down her back. She noticed over the last several years her body had lost its skinny gawkiness and was becoming more curvy and shapely. Her clothing seemed to fit tighter around her too.
The boy fairies seemed to like hanging around her a lot more.
And she noticed other changes too. On her chest, what used to be small bumps, were growing larger. And between her legs, in her “mating spot”, as her mother called it, it felt funny when she touched down there. It made her body tingle and she would get sweaty even if it was a cool evening. It was very puzzling to her.
Jaelynn glided down to the valley below. The woodland fairies of her clan lived in Merrywood Forest at the foot of the Sapphire Mountains. There were many different clans of fairies in Idyllica, identified by markings on their wings.
She flew low over the lush green meadows and quickly-flowing streams, her wings a blur in the dawn sunlight. She waved at a couple of baby fawns out grazing and cavorting with their mothers.
Hmm, thought Jaelynn. I haven’t met those two yet. I’ll have to go introduce myself later.
Woodland fairies were very friendly and sociable and made friends with all the creatures of the forest. Using their magic, they helped keep the forests safe and helped the animals if they became hurt or sick.
Jaelynn approached a huge tree at the edge of the forest. It towered nearly two hundred feet into the sky and the trunk was close to twenty feet in diameter at the base. This was Family Tree. It was where Jaelynn lived with her parents and many siblings. It was also home to her grandparents, great-grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, and basically her whole clan!
Jaelynn flew through an opening in the trunk of the tree on her family’s level.
Her mother, Sirina, was busy in the kitchen preparing breakfast. Her younger brothers and sisters were gathered at the long wooden table in the dining area. And it WAS a long table! Jaelynn had 15 brothers and sisters!
Jaelynn’s mother set out bowls of steaming acorn porridge for everybody.
Her father entered the room and gave her a stern look.
“Jaelynn, were you out flying this morning already?”
“Yes, Father, I was,” said Jaelynn, looking at the floor as she spoke. It was customary among fairies to not make eye contact with their elders when they spoke to them. It was a sign of respect and they were only to look up if they were told.
“I’ve told you to be careful about that,” her father scolded. “At this time of the morning, the nighthawks can still be out and they have no conscience about making a meal out of a careless fairy!”
“I can fly faster than any old nighthawk!” Jaelynn replied.
“Don’t be so sure of yourself,” he said. “They can dive on you before you even know they’re there!”
“I’ll be careful, okay?” said Jaelynn with a petulant tone.
“And retract your wings when you’re in the house!” her father ordered. “How many times do you have to be told?”
“A million times?” asked Jaelynn’s little brother, Jaros.
“You just be quiet and eat your porridge,” said Jaelynn’s mother.
Jaelynn sat down at the table and also dug into her porridge. It was delicious, as usual. Jaelynn smiled to herself. Her mother always made the best porridge.
“I’m going for a fly after breakfast too,” she told her father as they ate.
“Well, don’t be gone all day,” he said. “And as usual. Stay away from the portal!”
Jaelynn rolled her eyes as she looked down at the table.
“Yes, father!” she said impatiently. “I know!”
“Well, I mean it,” he said gruffly. “Portals are very serious business and you haven’t taken any training yet. You realize if you went through a portal and couldn’t get it closed, other things can get in the portal from the other side and come into Idyllica. They could be very bad things!”
“Yes, you’ve only told me that….a million times!” She glanced over at Jaros and winked.
Portals were magic gateways between Idyllica and other worlds. Fairies could use the portals to go to other worlds and work magic. Jaelynn had heard of many stories about the wondrous adventures other fairies had gone on in other worlds. Some of the worlds were very nice, some were not so much.
One world the fairies liked to visit was a place called Earth. Earth was a lot like Idyllica. The people who lived there were called humans and looked a lot like fairies but without wings.
Many portals were hidden away in secret locations, some were fairly easy to find. The problem with portals was that some were evil and some were good. If you came across an evil portal, any number of bad things could happen to you. You could end up in an evil world and have no way to return, or you could lose your magic powers by passing through it. Or you could end up in the Black Woods, in a troll’s stew pot!
Actually, a stewpot would be lucky for you! Most trolls were very mean and liked to torture fairies. Especially the girl ones. They did…….bad things….to them.
And you could not tell a good portal from a bad one. Unless you were properly trained in the use of magic. Which Jaelynn was not! Yet!
Soon she would be traveling to Golden City and enrolling in Magic Academy. Magic Academy was something all fairies had to attend when they reached a certain age.
All fairies were born with innate magic abilities but those abilities needed to be nurtured and drawn out from a fairy’s subconscious mind. Fairies had to learn how to properly control and use their magic. A fairy with no control over her magic could be very destructive or allow themselves to be enslaved by a witch.
Fairies had to spend many, many years at Magic Academy before they earned a wand. Master Fairies earned a gold tiara as well, or if they were males, a gold bracelet. All the fairies that taught magic at the Academy were Master Fairies.
But back to portals. Not only did you need an understanding of magic to determine if a portal was good or evil, but you also needed magic to open a portal and close it again. May Queen Mirabel, the ruler of Idyllica, have mercy on you should you open a portal and leave it open, allowing whatever was in the other world to enter Idyllica.
Some of the old legends said that was how trolls and ogres ended up in Idyllica. The fairies responsible for letting them in were banished to a world called Silicar, a world of horrible heat, sand, and rock, populated by horrific lizards and snakes. They were supposedly never heard from again. Jaelynn remembered her Grampa Robbi telling her and her cousins that story when she was but a small kit. It scared the wits out of her. She could not imagine being banished from Idyllica!
BUT….some evil portals would open on their own. And either stay open or not allow whoever went through them to come back. Yes, a lot of things could happen to you around portals. Which was why fairies treated them with the utmost respect. MOST fairies anyway!
Jaelynn was not what you would call an average fairy. She had a very adventurous, rebellious nature, much to her elders’ consternation. Jaelynn, from a very early age, liked to explore. Which was not completely unusual for a fairy.
But most fairies liked to explore places like forests and meadows and streams. Jaelynn liked to fly up into the mountains, where there were more dangers for a fairy. Hawks and eagles living on the high rocks loved to dine on fairies. As well there was always the risk of running into a troll or ogre.
They would sometimes stretch thin nets across a mountain pass and snag whatever happened to walk…or fly….past. One of Jaelynn’s uncles had had the same adventurous spirit as she and it had led to his eventual demise. He had disappeared years ago and it was widely believed by her clan that he had fallen prey to an ogre’s net.
Jaelynn’s parents could not hold her back. Once a fairy’s wings were fully developed, it was a natural urge to fly. All they could do was try and warn and educate her of the dangers. Idyllica was a beautiful, serene world, but there were places and creatures that could do you much harm.
Jaelynn just had a hard time listening to her parents. Most fairies were very respectful and obedient to their elders, but not Jaelynn. Listening to their constant lectures was so boring! She was too much of a free spirit and it concerned her father very much.
There was nothing wrong with her being a free spirit, he just wanted her to do it AFTER she’d had her magic training. When she would be better educated about the dangers in the world and how to deal with them.
The portal her father referred to was in a cave not too far from Family Tree. It was a good portal, or so her father said. Still, she and her young siblings and cousins were expressly forbidden to go near it. Jaelynn knew her father had been through it many times but he, of course, had his magic training.
“I will stay far, far away from the portal, I PROMISE!” she said.
“Okay,” her father said. “AND stay out of the mountains too! There is so much to do in the meadow, you don’t need to be up there.”
“Oh, Tarkas, she is very careful, you know. Don’t be so grumpy with her all the time,” Jaelynn’s mother chided him.
“I just don’t want her to end up like her Uncle Nobbi,” said Tarkas.
TO BE CONTINUED
