Ugh... so tired... I said groggily at dawn.
At least I'm out now. I thought. "All right everyone time to get moving!" Lissa shouted. I hopped onto Lissa's shoulder and we continued our journey.
"Alright so before we get to the desert we should hit the Fairy Kingdom so Crisis will want to say hi to her friends there." Lissa explained to me. I nodded sleepily.
After an hour we got to the Fairy Kingdom. "Here we are." Crisis said. "Home sweet home."
"Wait a second. Home? This is Crisis's home?" I said confused.
"Well let me clear that up for you Tyler." Lissa began. "Crisis was raised by the elders here and she even considers them her second kin." Just as we started walking again something let out a bloodcurdling scream.
"Oh no! What's going on?!" Crisis said in shock.
"HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLP!!" A voice called out. Soon after a creepy spiderlike creature twice my size ran past us all followed by a wingless fairy.
"It's no use..." The unidentified fairy said. "Oh Crisis long time no see. Listen it's not really a good time to play right now because we have some major issues. Temi has been kidnapped!" She said.
"WHAT?! HOW DID THAT HAPPEN?!" Crisis exclaimed in shock.
"It seems the Dridders from Dridder Forest somehow managed to learn sizeshifting magic and developed an immunity to ours. And on top of that they dewinged all of us! The nerve... and if that wasn't bad enough they even took control of our fortress! They're planning to conquer the Fairy Kingdom and there's nothing we can do." The fairy continued.
"THOSE FU**HEADS!!" Crisis swore and punched her fist on a nearby tree toppling it. "Whoa sounds like these fairies are in pretty deep..." I said.
"Huh? Oh who's that one your shoulder Lissa?" The fairy asked. "He looks pretty tasty."
Here we go again... I thought. "But never mind him. We've got a crisis on our hands. We need to rescue Temi. But those Dridders locked up the fortress pretty tight. We can't do anything." The fairy continued.
Hmmm... how to help? I thought.
"Could I talk to you for a second miss?" I said addressing the fairy. "I think I can help."
"What? You can't do anything against those Dridders human!" The fairy shouted at me, shocked.
"Well at least hear me out. First of all can you tell me how big your fortress is?" I queried. "About your size but still you can't do anything! There are too many of them and they're too powerful."
"Well then we'll form a brigade." I said.
"Of what? Hapless faries? Newsflash we can't do anything the way things stand." She continued.
"True the way things stand you probably can't do anything but I've got a plan." I said. "We'll make some weapons and get those Dridders." I hopped down and found the perfect starting material: a stick.
"Umm that's a stick." She said.
"For now yes it is a stick. But I know how to make a weapon out of it." I said. I gathered stones and spider webs and began to work on my stick eventually forming it into a crude slingshot. "Umm... that's still not a weapon." The fairy said.
"Actually I beg to differ. I can use this to fire rocks at dangerous speeds. Obviously that should put a pretty good sting into those nasty dridders." I explained. "Now then all we need is to get some fairies to form a brigade. So Anna, Crisis, Lissa, I want you to get as many fairies as possible to join the brigade, help them make some weapons like I just did, and meet me at the fortress in half an hour. And you, Miss, show me to the fortress. I should be able to work something out." I said. And reluctantly they went ahead with my plan.
"Ugh where are they? They should've been here for a half hour now." I complained. Soon after Crisis came up to us. "So where's the brigade? What happened." I queried.
"Yeah well you see about that... no one bothered to come. They all say it's completly hopeless." Crisis explained.
"Ugh... we're in a real fix." I said. "But on the bright side we still have someone to help Temi." I said.
"Oh no I'm not going in there. They'll just slaughter me." The fairy said.
"I was talking about me. I'm the only one that can help Temi." I said.
"But you can't go in! You'll get slaughtered!" The fairy exclaimed.
"We have no choice. It's either that or let the dridders continue with whatever they plan on doing to Temi." I shouted at the fairy.
"Fine go ahead and commit suicide. Just don't expect me to help if you get in trouble." The fairy said. "You're just commiting suicide." The fairy called out to me as I snuck up to the fortress.
I peeked all over and eventually found a switch. I flipped it and a trap door opened below my feet and down I went.
"Ohhh my aching everything..." I complained. I got up and looked around. "It's freezing down here... like a giant freezer..." I noted. I snuck around and found a door. On it was a sign that read: 'Keep Out" I slowly partially opened the door and found tons of those creepy dridders in there as well as a fairy hanging from the ceiling.
Alright keep cool. Don't, panic Tyler. Just slowly sneak in. They're pretty occupied with Temi. I thought to myself. And that I did. I slowly snuck in and took cover behind a wheelbarrow filled with vegetables.
"All right Temi don't stuggle. We're going to cut open your neck, drain your blood, and eat you. And there is nothing you can do about it." The biggest dridder said creepily. Temi screamed under her webbed mouth.
That's it. I can't let them harm a defensless lady. Time to take aim. I thought and reached for my ammo realizing I forgot to bring it.
Ugh... I can't believe I forgot my ammo! How stupid of me! Just then a thought came to my mind. I decided to use the veggies for ammo. I took one out of the wheelbarrow and shot it at the biggest dridder.
"WHO THREW THAT VEGETABLE?!" The large dridder demanded. "WAS IT ONE OF YOU?! I'LL DEAL WITH YOU LATER!" He boomed. I grabbed another veggie and this time pulled back my slingshot all the way. He turned his head to me just as I fired it and it got him on the forehead. He was steaming mad. "WHO THE HECK ARE YOU?!" He demanded just before he threw the veggie back at me. Bam I got hit on the head and I was out like a light.
About a half hour later I woke up hanging upside down with a web over my mouth and inside a web cocoon. I thrashed and yelled all about but to no avail. "Tell you what. Since you were kind enough to bean me in the head with my own vegetables I'll slit your neck first the large dridder said. I thrashed more and more until I was exhausted.
Ugh...what a fix...what to do I thought, my mind drifting. That's when it hit me. I simply relaxed and waited for the dridder to start with his creepy claw insision and I started to thrash about. Because of this I was cut free from my silky cocoon and ripped the web off my face. "Owch... talk about a close shave." I taunted. I soon retreated to the wheel barrow and threw veggies left and right at every last dridder.
"Heh... looks like your comrades are unconcious." I taunted. The dridder growled and charged after me. Just as I was about to throw my last veggie he caught me and held me by my neck suffocating me. "You are a nuisance to my new kingdom. I shall enjoy disposing of you." He said angrily. I struggled and thrashed violently but to no avail. His grip was too strong. I was getting weak. I reached for my fallen vegetable and as I took what I thought to be my last breath something amazing happened.
I had shone with amazing light stunning the creature and freeing myself. I gasped and wheezed and wondered what the heck happened when my foe stood before Temi and shouted "DON'T COME ANY CLOSER OR THE FAIRY GETS HER NECK SLIT OPEN!!" He shouted actually sounding afraid. I collapsed on the ground and began to cough up blood. I was feeling so weak, so dizzy. It happened again.
I had shone in an amazing display of light and he turned to stone. I stumbled over to Temi's cocoon and cut her free with the claw that the dridder had been threatening her with. I collapsed and let out a chuckle of accomplishment just before passing out. A few hours later I woke up with my head violently throbbing.
"Ughh... where am I?" I wondered out loud looking at my surroundings. I forced myself up and onto my feet and walked out of the room. "...and then he collapsed right before me." Temi said to Crisis, Anna, and Lissa.
"And speaking of the devil!" Lissa said. "Ugh... where am I?" I asked.
"You're in the hospital Tyler." Temi said.
"I brought you here after you freed me from that cocoon in the fortress and treated you. I'd advise that you lay down now because you're leg's fractured and I don't want to see that progress further." She continued. "Ugh... for some reason I think that's just the tip of the iceberg..." I said chuckling. "You know you really amaze me Tyler. You singlehandedly took down a pack of dridders and you also manage to laugh in spite of your injuries." Temi said. I went back into the room and laid down.
"Temi I was wondering... you remember how I shone back at the fortress?" I started. "Well do you maybe know why that happened?"
"Honestly I have no clue." Temi said with a sigh. "But I do know what happened. Somehow you did light magic."
"Light magic?" I queried.
"Yes... light magic. It's been legendary in many Felaryan cultures for thousands of years. It's a legendary magic that has even been rumored to not even exist at all. It's basically the origin of all the positive magical elements. But it's rare for even a
native human to have magical powers of any kind so obviously I'm kinda stumped." Temi explained.
"Oh...." I said wearily.
"But moving on, your injuries should heal in about a day
if you don't go pushing yourself." Temi said.
"Thanks Temi.... thanks." I said.
"Why are you thanking me? You saved my life and I helped you recover. If anything I still owe
you." Temi said.
If you noticed there is a reference to the Super Mario Bros Super Show in the dialogue and the reason Day 6 is different from what it was yesterday is because I forgot to put some stuff in there and there's some stuff that simply doesn't make sense at all so I either edited it or took it out completely.