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PART 2
TEN YEARS LATER........
Firespark dashed
through the castle. He was playing his
favorite game, hide-and-seek, with his best friend Lilly.
Firespark
was the dragon Lilly had found in the forest ten years before. He lived in the castle with her and her
family. He was bigger now, around 5 feet
long. Dragons grow extremely fast when
they are young. His scales were now an
even brighter orange, like the rising sun.
He rarely used his wings, being too big to fly in the castle. Fairies are small, around 8 inches, but the
palace was large enough to fit Firespark.
It was set
in a clearing in the middle of a forest.
The palace was very big—the fairies who built it liked to feel as if
they were out in the open, as do the fairies of today. The shortest ceiling was 6 feet, so Firespark
could just barely fit.
He almost
crashed into a fairy coming around a corner.
“Oops! Sorry! Coming through!” He ran through a doorway into a
corridor. Firespark stopped. He had never seen this hallway before. Tiptoeing down toward the end, he tried not
to knock anything over. Expensive
looking vases and paintings lined the corridor, giving it the appearance of an
extremely fancy museum.
Firespark
paused by a door on the left side of the hall.
It was decorated with vines all around the doorframe, and mysterious
symbols were carved into the door.
Firespark’s curiosity was aroused.
Now this, he thought, will be an adventure worthy of telling
Lilly. She always boasts that she had an
adventure and found me. Maybe I’ll find
something important, too.
He put his
hand on the doorknob and tested it.
Yes! It was unlocked! Firespark inched the door open.
Woah.
Inside was an expensive looking mirror.
The mirror showed everything in exquisite detail, from the trim around
the room to Firespark’s light orange eyes.
He entered the room. Stepping
softly, he went toward the mirror. He
stood in front of it and closed his eyes.
When he opened them, he saw—
“AAAAHHHHH!!!!!” Firespark leapt up, scared out of his
wits. Lilly collapsed in the doorway
laughing. “Hahahaha!!!! I got you so good!!! Auntie will be pretty mad when she finds out
you’ve been in here. I’m not even
allowed in here. Come on, let’s get out
before she finds both of us.” Lilly flew
in the room and sat on his head. “Let’s
go! We’re wasting time!”
Firespark
leaned against the wall. “Hang on! You just scared me out of my scales! I need a minute to recuperate.”
“Okay,
okay. But hurry up!” Lilly bounced up and down.
“All right,
I’m ready. Let’s get out of here.” Firespark lumbered over to the door, exited
the room, and closed the door.
“Go
faster,” Lilly urged him. “If anyone
finds us, we’re toast.” Firespark sighed
and moved faster. Unfortunately, running
made him clumsy, and before he knew it his tail got out of control and—
CRASH!!!!! A statue fell off of its pedestal and broke
into shards of porcelain on the stone floor.
Firespark and Lilly winced. “Oh
no. Now you’ve done it.” Lilly flew off his head and investigated the
ruins. “I’ll never be able to fix that
with my little magic. This looks
expensive.”
“You were
the one making me go faster!” Firespark exclaimed. “It was your fault!”
“No, it was
your fault,” Lilly countered, no longer interested in the broken statue. “You’re the one with the tail that did it!”
“It’s not
my fault!” he shouted.
“SILENCE!”
Firespark
and Lilly turned around to look at who had shouted. Rina, the cranky maid, scowled at them from
the end of the hall. “You two are coming
with me. I think that Queen Titiana will
have some things to say about you playing in the sacred artifacts hall.”
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“When will
you two ever learn?”
Firespark
and Lilly sat in a private room off of the throne room. They had nicknamed it their “lecture room,”
because it was where Titiana always went to reprove them.
“I’ve told
you that Firespark is too big to play hide-and-seek in the palace, Lilly. You really shouldn’t bribe him with chipotle
cookies so he’ll play with you. That’s disobeying
the queen’s orders, you know.” Titiana
sat on a chair in front of Firespark and Lilly.
She rubbed her temples. “I’m too
old for this.”
“How old
are you?” asked Firespark, trying to take some of the attention off of him and
Lilly.
“A few
centuries, I think,” answered Titiana.
“Four? Or maybe three and a
half. But that’s not the point. You,” she pointed at both of them, “are in
trouble, and there’s only one way to fix it.
I’ve been putting this off far too long.”
Lilly
looked at Firespark. They swallowed.
“Firespark,
your parents left you here ten years ago.
They did not leave you here because they didn’t want you, but I can't
tell you the real reason.” Titiana
leaned back in her chair. “That is up to
them. But you will have to go find them
first.”
“What?!” Firespark leapt up. “What do you mean? You’re just going to send me away to find the
parents I’ve never even seen? And how am
I supposed to find them? I don’t even
know where to look! I mean, I’ve only
been outside of the Kingdom once or twice!”
“Firespark,
you’re smoking.” Lilly pointed to his
nostrils, where thin tendrils of smoke were trickling out.
“I’m
sorry!” yelled Firespark. “I’m just so
confused and......and......oh dear.”
“What is
it?” asked Lilly.
“I think
I’m going to sneeze,” replied Firespark.
“Oh no,” said Titiana. “Hold your
breath. That always works for me. The last thing we need is the carpet going up
in flames.”
Firespark
held his breath. So did Titiana and
Lilly. After a minute, Firespark
exhaled. “Whew. Okay.
Back to being confused. So why
are you sending me away?”
“I’m
sending you away because your parents asked me to. They said to wait until I was sure you could
make the journey and I’m sure. You’re
too big for the palace, you’ve broken more than a few random items, and your
best friend is Lilly. That’s why she’s
going with you.”
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Haha sort of a cliffy. I like making you wait!! :P
~~Zoë Wingfeather
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