The day I had finally arrived, the day I had spent my entire life training for. Classes in every human language, religion, modern life on Earth, and Earth traditions had prepared me for this day. Today was the day I would get assigned to my human.

    I'm a defla fair, on the planet Ribbinion, in a galaxy a million light years away from Earth. Defla fairies are human like creatures that serve as guardian angels for special humans. A defla's specially developed mind and body allows for them to do their job by letting them: teleport, control things with their mind, healing, and appearing to only the people they choose to. The defla's also have a very strong connection with the human they are assigned to, it develops over the years as their bond gets stronger. When the bond is strong enough the defla will feel everything the human feels: pleasure, pain, happiness, sadness. Everything.

    Once I was ready, I looked at myself in the mirror. Would the human like me? Sure, they wouldn't know who I was until they were a little older. What would they think of me then though? I had heard so many stories of defla's being rejected by their humans and had to return to Ribbinion in despair and take jobs that were unwanted by the others. Being rejected by your human was a terrible thing; not only did it hurt, it was embarrassing and people treated you different from then on. Those deflas were never happy.

    When I walked out of my cottage I was greeted with the sights and smells on my beautiful planet. Since the deflas could teleport there was no need for roads and cars to destroy our environment, there was very little pollution around us. Our world was beautiful and I hoped that after I finished my job of protecting my human I would be able to live a happy life tending to my people's sacred gardens.

    When I got to the building that provided us with our assignments, there was already a line of other deflas that had just come of age. Since we defla's age slower than humans we all looked to be around 18, when in fact everyone that was here to get their assignment had just turned 70 earth years old.

    After waiting for what felt like 70 more years, I was finally at the desk where I gave the lady my name and identification card that assured her of my age. She sorted through her files, she came across a blue one that stood out from all the other manilla ones.

"Okay so you have a blue file, that means your human is meant to do a wonderful thing for their planet, but you may have to keep them safe from something." The lady will the dark blue hair and pointed ears said. She appeared to be in her 50's but in fact she was probably in her mid three hundreds.

"Wait, like what kind of things? What do you mean keep them safe?" I tried to ask but I had already been ushered away as the lady continued to hand out the manilla folders.

Frustrated, I teleported myself back to my cottage and sat in my small garden the was adjacent. Why me? Why did I get the hard job? I just wanted a normal human that i could help grow up. Someone that I could provide companionship for and help through life crisis'. I wasn't special, so why did I get the special human?

I stared down at the folder in my lap reading my name on the outside a million times. Kalista Peters, id # 5867438, human #2278657. If I didn't open the folder than all my human would be was a number. Shakily, I moved to open the cover, expecting some kind of weird looking kid with a huge head of some sort, but when I opened it I was greeted with the face of a baby girl. In the picture she was laughing and smiling, the little tuft of hazelnut colored hair sticking straight up. She had piercing blue eyes that gave away her every thought and her cheeks were dotted with little brown freckles. Her name was Faolan Evans and she was going to change the world.

Immediately after reading through the first page of her file, I found myself transporting to her side. I could feel her. I could feel her every emotion, her every thought, she became part of my mind. She was my human, my girl, and she was meant for an amazing thing that no one could ever dream of. I spent the next two hours sitting on the floor next to her crib reading through her file, learning of what she will do when she's older and trying to figure out what I was supposed to keep her safe from. Who would want to hurt an adorable helpless baby?

My light headedness signaled I needed to get home. The atmosphere on Earth was different than that of Ribbinion, if a defla stayed on the planet for too long it could end very badly. I had only ever heard stories of fairies that had become trapped on earth, lost and sick from a transformation that turned them into a human and they were never able to return home. Though Earth was a beautiful place full a wonderful developing race of people, I would hate to be trapped here forever with no way to return to the exotic gardens of my home planet.

"Okay Faolan, I have to go now, but if you need anything you can let me know by just asking me to come. I will come whenever you need me." I bent over the railing of the crib and gingerly kissed her soft forehead before I teleported back to my cottage, where I collapsed onto my bed with a content smile.

Later that evening I went to a celebration that my family and friends were throwing for me in my family's sacred garden. Lights were strung between the canopy of trees and our planet's two moons lit up the night. I was asked many questions about my human by my older relatives, and my younger siblings and cousins begged to hear stories of a far away land that they could only dream of.

Everyone was amazed by my special human, and when I described the feeling I felt to my older relatives they told me that my immediate connection with Faolan meant that we would have a bond stronger than most. I still had this feeling deep down inside that I wouldn't be able to handle it, that the pressure on me of being special would be too much. But I couldn't let me girl down, she was now the most important person in my life even though she was only a day old.
The rest of the night was filled with dancing and drinks and intoxicated relatives coming up to me and congratulating me on my human; I stuck with the non alcoholic drinks so that if my human were to call me I would alert and ready to help with whatever I needed.

As the party winded down and people began to leave, I decided I should go check on Faolan before heading back to the cottage for the night. When I appeared next to the crib there were two people yelling at each other, they couldn't see me, only Faolan could. They man and woman, who I had now assumed were her parents, continued yelling about one thing or another, but I wasn't paying attention. I had crawled in the crib beside my girl and held her to my chest to try and block out the yelling around her. As I lay there and protected Faolan from the yelling and screaming, and later the throwing; I wondered whether or not I would've been called on or not. Maybe the reason I came was because I sensed something was about to go wrong. No matter what had happened, whether I had been called on or not, none of that mattered, I was here now. I was here protecting my girl from feeling sad.