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Ariel's curiosity grew wider on seeing a windy unicorn . she wanted to touch it but she was too scared, then she smiled sweetly at it.
Knox look down at Ariel and asked ;
"Is your decision still the same?" And she nodded as a reply.
"Okay dear, since you insist, have a nice day then, good bye." He said while waving at her
Then unicorn flew greatfully into the sky and vanished in the thin air.
"What an illusion." She said as she exist out of the valley. But unoticed to her that which ever step she takes out of the valley a light appears and disappears beneath her foot. Then she got to the place where the incident took place.
As she got there something flashed in her memory, then she gradually remembered when her mother paralyzed and hide her behide a tree.
She saw how a huge large beast came launching at her mother.
Ariel was thrilled, on seeing how her mother fought those beasts one after the another. At the other hand she was scared she couldn't do anything but to stand paralyzed behind a tree, praying for her mother to kill this fuckin beasts.
Lily's fighting skills was what Ariel couldn't understand, she started wondering how her mother never told her anything about her. Lily flew up bringing out an old Dagger and then she precise it into the beast's chest and it dropped dead.
Ariel watch as her mother killed three of the beasts remaining one.
The remaining beast went berserk on seeing his dead kind, then he angrily launched on Lily hitting his big axe on her head and she fell on the ground.
"Nooo!!" ariel screamed as she frees herself from the magic spell holding her still.
Then she began to run towards her mother but unfortunately the hybrid beast bounced heavily on Lily and devoured her..
But the beast suddenly stopped on feeling a heavy hit on it's back interrupting his meal.
Then he turned to see a brave girl with a wood.
Ariel saw as it slowly rise it's head showing off the blood dripping from the Conner of it's mouth, before his red eyes locked into hers.
Ariel froze on seeing how pissed this monster look right now, she began to tremble. she quickly turned to run, but she stumbled and fell on the ground. this made the beast jump over her.
Ariel's heart flew out of her ribcage on seeing how the beast flew towards her.
And she let out a powerful scream.
'Ahhhhhhhhh!!'
A loud piercing scream that echoed in the whole forest, causing the birds to scatter around chirping loudly.
The power that came out with her scream caused the beast to freeze on mid-air making its red eyes turn white, before it slowly melted away turning into black liqud.
Then she fainted...
Back to reality...
Seeing her deceased mother laying dead on the ground, she screamed and hugged her.
"Mother," she called out softly
tears rush down her cheeks as she held her tightly.
"i'm sorry, I--- I'm so sorry." she cried as she buried her face on her mother's body.
"Ho- how," her body begin to tremble as she starmmed.
"How cou-- could you leave me so soon, mother please wake up." Ariel broke into tears crying uncontrollable.
"Have you forgotten the promise you made to me?" she asked while shaking Lily to wake up.
"You are fricking me out, Mom!!!" she kept on calling and shaking her, then she lowered her head, she placing her ear on her mother's chest and discovered that her heart wasn't beating anymore.
"Oh my God, she exclamined, hope I'm not dreaming, please someone should wake me up." she said breathing heavily and suddenly she screamed on top of her voice and immediately the weather began to change, clouds joining together locking the sky. Thunder stroke from the sky and the rain began to pour heavily on the land, wetting everything that seems to be an obstruction to it. A light stroke from the sky again but this time it landed down to where ariel and her deceased mother was causing her to flinch.
She tightly held her mother and buried her face on her body shivering. She stayed like that not noticing that her mother's body was disappearing, turning into a shiny blue dust.
She raised her head and saw that her mother's leg has disappeared, her eyes widened on seeing this. then she look up and saw a blue shiny dust dancing in the sky. Causing her to turn utterly conflicted.
"What-- what..... What is this?"
she starmmed as she slowly stand looking at the strange shiny little thing. she raised her hand to touch it and it melted immediately the tip of her trembling finger touched it.
"She's disappearing." a familiar male voice startled her from behind.
He rised his hand towards the sky and mumbled an incoherent word and his power released into the sky making the rain to stop.
Ariel on seeing Knox standing not too far from them, rushed and knelt before him crying
"Pl-- please, can you save her?" she asked softly.
"Please save my mother." this time she asked with a loud and serious voice.
Knox couldn't say anything, he bent towards her and slowly lift her up.
"Stand," he said to her, then she stood while looking directly into his eyes, as if searching the answer in his eyes.
"Please kind sir." she begged.
"I'm sorry, I can't bring back the dead--"
"Then why didn't you save her back then?" she asked cutting him off from his word.
"Why? You have magic you can do it just give it a try I beg of you." she cried as she tried to slack but Knox was quick to catc her .
He place his hand on head and said
"My magic can't resurrect the dead." he said truthfully.
Ariel's heart sanked on hearing this, then she slowly loss her grip on him.
"Why is she disappearing? She asked in the middle of her sob...
"Because.... she's not a human." he spoke out .. fluently.
Ariel rise her head in a shocking state and stared intently at him.
"Wh-- what do you mean my mother is not a human?" she asked with a maximum degree of surprise
"She is a guardian." He spat out
without beating around the bush.
"I.... I don't understand." Ariel said in a state of confusion.
"You don't need to understand, you just have to believe it." Knox said with seriousness written all over him.
"You mother is a guardian... The flower fairy." he said trying to make her understand.
"How-- how did you know? you acted like you didn't know her, I mean you said you don't know her." Ariel was now getting more and more confused.
"She's my kin." he said while looking at the deceased body as it disappeared.
"Your mother's name was Lilac, the fairy of flowers."
Ariel's face turned pale like she has given out a ghost, then she sat on the ground and listened to him silently.
"She was to marry the king of our land, ozusu."
then he turn to look at Ariel.
"but She fell in love with someone. no one knows wether he was a man or a God." then he continued.
"But before my kin could find out she was already pregnant with you, then she ran away to the human world leaving her duties and everything she was use to."
"She has long forgotten who she use to be... a warrior, one of our strongest female fairy."
"She never returned to our land 'arkon' on till we found her, but she told us that she was no longer with us by taking a forbidden oath, then she got separated from us and her memories about us were erased."
then Knox added
"She could have killed you and continued living with us but she wanted to keep you."
Ariel chuckled on hearing his tale
Ariel's Chuckles didn't bother Knox as he continued.
"She wanted to live like every other human, then he added,
"She loves flowers so much."
Ariel stopped and look at him.
"So.... You know my mother very well?" Uncontrollable tears began to rush from her eyes then she added, "and you let her die just like that?"
Knox rolled his eyes and said
"Like I said, I wasn't here on time."
"I get it," ariel said while standing up
Then she added "But... I can't believe you"
Then something came to her mind and she asked,
"Did my dad left her for another woman?" she asked
"Like I said, No one knows who your father was." Knox bursted out
"Then how do you expect me to believe you?" Ariel asked while crying.