Gloria

Rubbing my hands together to get the dust off them, I opened my mouth wide and yawned.

It's been a long day!

Who would have thought carrying a ten-year-old on your back would be so exhausting! But here I am, still stuck to this arrangement ... tending to these two kids ... two who might think I'm a crazy lunatic!

For heaven's sake, I'm only doing this for their own good! If it weren't for that big man up in the other realm looking over my 'shoulder', I'd be acting like my regular badass self!

I tried my best to be reasonable in the beginning and managed to my way to get the brother and sister duo to like me. I even pretended to be their mother as 'the fairy elder' recommended me to do so, but it failed.

I just couldn't do it!

As I showed the siblings earlier, fairy seedlings are formed by a magical flower that blooms in the warm season. I assume it's like that children's story of how a stork brings a newborn to his or her parent's house.

So, a pixie doesn't live life a human. I had to explain to these kids where we fairies came from since they looked aloof once I asked them what mothers were. It was a stupid question; one that left a bad taste in my mouth! Thus, I did not regret it and that was a risk worth taking.

That place was top secret and was off limits to humans! It was sacred ground, for our only rebirth was a form of reincarnation. It sounds scary, but in this way, we never die. But now that I showed this place to the siblings I was worried what would now become of them!

But, even though it was wrong; I knew it was what I needed to do! However, it also came with a penalty ... the loss of powers began after that episode. And once Destiny showed up before us, my shimmering wand became useless. I kept twitching it back and forth, but to my embarrassment, nothing happened.

We are free to do as we please but to an extent. There are still rules to follow given by the fairy elder.

My cheeks probably turned rosy by now, but I tried to hide that from Jack and Jill.

It's plain to see ... that I, Glory, didn't follow any rules!

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Babbling away my thoughts was all I could do for now, for speaking to these teens, would make me upset again. Although, my lips curled up as I smiled at them, nodding to answer that I was indeed the "invisible force."

I decided to be a 'Good Samaritan' earlier because I wanted to do something worthwhile. It seemed that the girl was rather excited to meet me at first, so I played along with what the village leader wanted me to do; but until my wild unicorn, Destiny, ran up to her ... I couldn't 'pretend' anymore.

I believe some jealousy was involved, as Destiny tried to run over those foolish teenagers!

And once Jack's sister bruised her knee, I had to do something rather than watch a problematic episode unfold. Aurora, was the fairy who lived nearby the destination we were headed to, so that was why I thought of her. However, even though she was a healer, I doubt it if she could be of help to humans. But it was worth a try, right?

Thus, I carried Jill with all my might to Aurora's tree cottage, to save my precious time from the unnecessary drama.

If I had all my powers back, I could have helped both escape the whole episode that happened, but I didn't. All I could do was watch them follow me through the edge of the forest. And as the adage states "Mom's do have "eyes" behind their back!" ... since by my amazement, I grew two extra pairs as I was going along through my assignment. I felt the two new fuzzy rounded body parts during the trail and grew to sense where my visitors were heading. Thankfully my long hair hid these fuzzy eyeballs and knew these were only going to be temporary items.

Thus, the 'boss' paid much attention to what I was doing then, since the body parts were given to me. I was warned that if I did something right or wrong during the journey, I would be either rewarded or punished; but I'm not happy about 'big brother' watching over me.

However, I can still become invisible when I want to. The big man upstairs couldn't take that away from me since I was born with that trait.

Nifty, eh?

I was getting tired of the sibling's bickering, so I took matters into my own hands ... literally!

Truth is Jack and Jill don't know the whole story.

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Have you ever heard of the wicked queens or witches in fairy tales? And I believe there was one that had an evil stepmother and stepsisters. Oh, what was that story again? It's on top of my head!

Hmm ... this deep thinking made me scratch my forehead. It's something that starts with a "C". Cinder ... well, whatever the title was, it doesn't matter now.

What I'm getting at, is I'm not any ordinary fairy ... I'm the rebel ... the punk rock pixie if there ever was one.

But sadly, the elders in my small kingdom forced me to change my looks, clothes, and bad attitude! Why might you ask?

Well, it's a long story! But to cut to the chase I was the 'chosen one'. Yes, it was just my luck to arrive late at the meetup. And to make things worse, the elders limited my use of powers. So, with those consequences, I can't do much with my magic wand.

Looking down at the tattered clothes I was wearing, made me feel pathetic. It's not my style! Well, except for the awesome boots, this whole attire is not my taste! I look so plain!

Why did they make me where these foolish clothes? I simply couldn't get a break!

But to my dismay, if I did not follow the elder's orders, I'll be banished from Faerymore.