Chapter 2: "Fairylia"

Troy showed Ice and Audrey around his world. It's called Fairylia. They learned so many things and the trip became so fun and enjoyable for them.

They fed them. They showed them hospitality and took care of them both.

“Can we still go back to our world even if we ate food from here?”, Ice asked curiously.

In their own world, creatures like them are mythical but some believed or even said that they are true and that if they offered something or anything to you, whatever it is, they should never take it as it will only curse them and they’ll never be able to go back.

“Yes, of course. Why?”, Troy asked her back.

“I’m afraid we can’t go back if we accepted any offers from all you…”, she answered.

Troy let out a heavy sigh. He knew it was a lie and it makes him sad that the girl thinks that they’re evil.

“Promise me you’d return us both back to our world whatever it takes.”, Ice demanded.

“I promise… Whatever it takes…”, he responded without a doubt.

They began to eat and every food turned out to be delicious. The food was the same as their food from their world but every bite gives off a magical feeling and strange vibes.

They enjoyed it.

After the dinner at the palace, Troy walked them home and showed them their house, which they actually call "hole", to be used temporarily. They passed by a field of glowing flowers.

“That’s our main medicine for everything… Injuries, cough, colds, or even fever. Sometimes even the unknown diseases can be cured with those. We call those “Solaria Flowers””, he explained while carrying Audrey, who was now asleep, on his arms.

Ice looked at it and was quickly mesmerized by the scenery.

She immediately knew why it was called Solaria Flowers.

“Once a creature gets one, they are obliged to replace them with an extra seed just in case the other seeds won’t grow… Any actions destroying the flowers is punishable through exilement or execution.”, he continued.

Ice has a fear of dead people and the thought of execution almost makes her vomit and shake.

They reached the hole not long after and Troy went inside first to lay down Audrey to her bed while Ice remained outside as she still can’t sleep.

Minutes passed and Troy went out of the house again. He saw Ice…

It was a quiet night and slightly windy. She was sitting on the grass facing towards the glowing field with her knees near her chest and her hands wrapped around her legs. Her rightly thin hair is beautifully rocked by the cold wind.

Troy saw it as a moment where he got love struck.

“Oh, why are you still outside? Your world isn’t the only one that has cold nights. It also happens here.”, he said and sat beside her.

“I know… I’m highly aware of that. I just can’t sleep. Don’t be so overreacting.”, she said, still keeping her rudeness and guard up.

Ice looks at him and sees an annoying creature that only brings her more headaches and problems to bear.

“Why can’t you sleep? Maybe you’re thinking of so many things… A-are you depressed?”, Troy asked to Ice.

Ice got a little angry and responded in a rude tone, “Why? Are you a doctor?”

Troy just looked at her… He was waiting for Ice’s answer to his own question with his innocent eyes looking at her, still persistent to make her admit that she’s sad.

“Maybe I am…”, Ice answered with a sigh and lowered down her voice and tone. “Maybe I’m really thinking about so many things… Maybe I am indeed problematic.”, she continued.

Troy was offended but he didn’t mind it. He just wants to ease the pain that Ice was feeling.

She stood up and walked down near the field. It was all beautiful and also the moon. It lights up the cold and dark night.

Ice sat down again and examined every flower that grew lowly.

Troy also sat next to her and spoke, “Beautiful, isn’t it?”

He looked at Ice because he was referring to her, not just the flower. He looks beautiful in his eyes especially when she smiled and the dimples were shown on both her cheeks.

“Yeah, they are. Do they die?”, she asked Troy. She was referring to the flowers.

"Yes, if and only they’d be separated from the ground or if their stem would be broken. Just like us fairies, we never die unless we went sad or we were killed by piercing something through our hearts.", Troy explained.

"So you mean, you all don’t really die? You mean, you’re all 'Immortals'?", she also asked.

"Yes. Exactly.", Troy answered.

"Oh, okay. What a gift.", she said then laughed bitterly.

Troy remembered that they were only mortals.

Ice made her laugh. She's really pretty whether about her personality or looks but she’s filled with responsibilities that forces her to work every day and at the end of the day, she’s always tired but can’t go to sleep. He wants her to loosen up a bit and enjoy the life that she still has in front of her right now. In his mind, his decision to go inside the cabinet and bringing her here is the best thing he had ever done.

“You’re so cute when you’re smiling. Your dimples always shows even though the other one is jus shallow.”, he said to her.

Ice looked at her again and said, "Oh, not really... By the way, who’s that girl earlier?”, she said being a little flattered.

"That’s Trixie, the daughter of our Queen. Her Majesty--- Queen Brianna."

Despite the darkness, Troy saw her suddenly getting pale. He guessed that she's scared about the fact that she might get punished by what she did, well, without a doubt, she should be as she disrespected a royal member.

He knew that she was thinking about teasing Trixie when they arrived here.

"Don't worry. You won’t be executed because of that. It happens because you see, she’s really flirtatious especially towards me. Ha-ha! I’m too handsome that’s why.", he said as a joke.

Ice looked at her with her face expressing disgust from what Troy said.

“Is there something wrong with what I said?”, he thought to himself.

"She had so many enemies inside this kingdom in the past but once you both get close to each other, I’m sure you’d realize how kind she was. I promise.", Troy assured to her. He even raised his left hand.

Ice let out a sigh of relief. He’s sure she also wants to be a friend to Trixie...

She looked up to the night sky above them. She saw a falling star. She closed her eyes and whispered something in the air.

Her action lasted for seconds.

Even though Troy was a fairy, he didn’t have the ability to hear anyone’s whispers especially hers.

Well, he can do other stuffs mainly on fighting and show offs but he's not a social fairy... He's a war fairy, mainly a earth and a sky fairy.

She opened her eyes again and he asked about what she wished. She said that she wished that her parents would be proud of her someday.

She then yawned and slowly leaned onto Troy’s shoulder. He felt electric running through his whole body. He had a crush on her.

He looked at her again and examined her face.

She has this face of an angel. Her eyes were like a deep well, one that gets you falling. Her nose was like a proud nail showing off from a surface which looked cute. Her lips were like a small but painful cut on the skin that caused bloodstain on white t-shirts... She looks exactly like what people could easily adore and she could be everybody's favorite but no, she wasn’t…

Troy let her get deep into her sleep and minutes passed before he finally carried her inside the hole. He carried her gently and laid her down on her separate bed. He put the blanket on top of her to prevent her from getting cold.

He looked around and made sure they’re both safe.

He knelt in front of Ice and spoke, “Good night.”

He then went out of the hole and walked alone.

He still kept thinking about Ice. He can’t stop smiling as if the image of her in his mind produces a tape and sticks a smile on his face.

He got home and as he opens the door; he saw his three best friends waiting for him.

"Hey, Troy! How’s it going? Have you walked home your babe?", said Van who’s kidding again.

“Tell us about it, Troy!”, said Lance who even tapped me gently at the back as a joke.

“Fine…”, Troy said unwillingly.

Troy sat down beside them and started telling them the whole story while Kevin is already fast asleep. He was quite sure that he was ordered again to help others and visited another girl after.

He was such a playboy and he has never changed.

They continued talking until they went teasing each other and laughed.

“Really? You don’t even have anything to blow her mind!”, Van teased Troy.

“If I'll punch you, I’ll blow your mind!”, Troy jokingly said back to Van.

"Do it!”, said Van.

They all laughed again then Lance spoke, “Hey, Van, don’t tease Troy… He’d probably report you to his babe!”, he teased Troy.

They all laughed again as if they were all crazy.

"That’s not my babe.", Troy said seriously.

His face turned into a serious one and he sat back.

"Oh no!", Lance shouted suddenly.

"Ouch ha-ha!", said Van who even laughed again loudly.

"That’s my wife.", Troy said which got the two crazy.

It was a good solid laugh. One that he always witnesses whenever he’s with them.

"Tsk! Tsk! I’m sleeping here! Can you all be quiet?!", Kevin said and got under the blanket who must’ve been also disturbed by the light.

They all stopped laughing but they began to hit each other with their elbows while being careful not to make any noise.

Shortly after, they slept peacefully and gathered energy for tomorrow’s tasks.

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Ice woke up in the middle of the night inside the house given to them. She noticed that Troy was gone and possibly already gone home. She got up and checked on Audrey.

She was sleeping peacefully and even snoring. She placed the blanket neatly on her and continued to explore round the house.

It wasn’t also big but she was curious about what are the odd things she could find inside.

“Maybe there would be a secret passage here or perhaps a flying something…”, she thought to herself.

There are so many books on a shelf she was looking at… She loves to read from her childhood until now.

She thought of reading one, thinking that it might help her fall asleep.

She never hesitated and never even chose what book to read. She just got one, pulled up a chair, and read, however, she couldn’t stand the darkness. She searched for a lamp and expected to find one but there wasn’t any. Instead, she found a jar at the corner of the wooden unpolished old desk. She tapped gently on its glass and it lit up. She saw yellow fireflies inside lighting up their butts and got out of the jar.

She tried to catch one but every time she does, it disappears. She continued reading while it lit up the pages for her.

She was about to read the title when she saw unfamiliar letters and characters written on the page. She squinted and it all moved and arranged themselves to form words...

Words that are familiar to her and understandable. It started translating itself into English--- a language that she's mostly familiar of.

She suddenly saw something moving quickly in the corner of her eye. She looked at it but saw nothing.

She stood up from her seat and looked out of the window and saw someone standing in the field of glowing flowers. The creature was facing her but she couldn’t make out his face as it was covered.

It suddenly flew fast to her and threw sparkly things on her face. Ice quickly fainted and fell to the ground

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She woke up in a room with Troy with Audrey sitting on his lap.

"Ice!", shouted Audrey and hugged her tightly.

"W-what happened? Why am I here?", Ice asked. She got curious and somehow lost memory of what happened last night.

"I went back to your hole earlier. Audrey was still fast asleep that time and you were lying on the ground...", Troy said while Ice was sitting up on the bed. "Your window was also left open... I thought you did that on purpose since it got hot earlier but you were lying on the floor and I knew you were sedated.", he continued.

"I don’t even know what happened. The last thing I can remember was that, I woke up and can’t sleep again so I made myself have a full look around the... the HOLE... then I saw a male fairy in the field of Solaria flowers and we looked at each other. He flew fast towards me and quickly threw sparkling powder onto my face then I lost consciousness.", I explained while he listened.

He placed his hand under his chin and the other one under it then suddenly he looked at Ice again and asked her a question.

"Wait. Is the fairy wearing black?", he asked and slightly went closer to her whilst still sitting.

"Yes, and he also has a mask which covered his face.", I confirmed.

"Have you seen what he was doing to the flowers?", Troy asked.

Ice forced herself to remember everything again as the pain of her head intensifies.

Ice gasped. She remembered and realized that he was destroying the field.

"He was cutting the flowers and destroying the field.", she said.