** POV DANIEL**
I felt something crawling over my face, I tried to swat it away and I ended up slapping my self… hard. Then I suddenly felt as if someone was trying to rip my ear off the side of my skull.
“DID. YOU. JUST. TRY. TO. KILL. ME. HUH?”
Each word punctuated with a hard tug on my ear.
“After I just saved your life”
I jumped to my feet, as soon as my ear was released and looked around to find whoever just did that. The only problem being I could not find anyone, until someone slapped me on the back of my head.
“At the very least do me the courtesy of looking at me, after I stopped you from DYING”
I gulped as I turned around to look at the possible threat to my life and I was dumbfounded to find a ….Fairy? Small body, check. Wings on the back, Check. I stumbled backwards as I very intelligently said
“Wha….wha…who…whoot are you?”
As I fell on my butt. Seeing my humiliate myself, her face turned from a pout into a small giggle and said very quickly
“My name is Achilia, you can call me Achilia or Hila. All my good friends call me Hila. All my bad friends call me Achoo, because I hate that name, I can never tell if they are sneezing or calling me. So don’t call me that. OK?”
I was the … fairy’s? expression change from a big smile of excitement to a sad face as she came to the ‘Achoo’ part and then finished it up with a threatening growl of ‘OK?’.
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“Ye….yeah OK. I won’t call you Achoo. Can I call you ‘sneezing fairy’?”
What can I say; I like to mess with people when I am stressed. That is my coping strategy. Probably not the best one to use in this case. The fairy’s face turned into a triumphant smile and then promptly into a shocked expression before almost starting to sob and said.
“Wh…Why would you say that?”
I like to mess with people, but I am no monster, so when I saw her almost cry I immediately said “ haha… I was just kidding Hila, I was taking my revenge on you for hitting me….. earlier”.
Just as I was about to finish the sentence I noticed a lot of movement around me as I saw hundreds and hundreds of fairies come out from the bushes all around me. Each of them carrying a spear or sword, both about the size of a large toothpick. Now don’t get me wrong, just because they were small didn’t mean they couldn’t be threatening, think honey bees. One of the fairies with short red hair said.
“Should we finish this filth here, lieutenant?”
“No no, he is right; I did hit him pretty hard, plus he corrected his mistake before he noticed you guys.” said Hila in a very mature tone then looking at me she said
“I wanted to gauge your strength to be able to make it this deep into the forest, and I don’t understand how you made it all the way here, you should have died before you reached the trees of this forest let alone the great tree”
“What did I do? I just called you…”
Interrupting me, Hila said, “I wouldn’t finish that sentence if I were you”.
Then she snapped her fingers and a blue light extended from her fingers to my chest where it split into several lines and started encasing my body. When it finished my body had line tattoos originating from my chest all the way to my back and a stitching like pattern on my mouth. I could not move any part of my body and my mouth felt like it was glued together.
“Anyway, let’s take him to the city and start questioning him,” the red haired one said.
Then Hila said “ok walk forward 5 meters”. Suddenly I could move all parts of my body except my mouth, but I soon discovered that I could only move in the direction commanded by Hila.
Seriously, I don’t even understand what the hell is going on here. Am I dreaming?