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Jul 18th, 2002, 10:23 PM
Long but here it goes ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------please read it--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Chapter 1: The Mission

On the third day of the month of sweet-dew the Fairy Chieftain Bax called a
meeting of the Fairies of Dawnhill.
When all the fairies were seated and quiet, Bax spoke to his friends, his
voice full of sadness. "My beloved fairies," he began, "Most of you have
noticed, I am sure, that our numbers are growing smaller and smaller. Fairies
have been disappearing since a year ago today."
"Our mother left us," spoke up a very young fairy, "And she has never
returned. All my younger brothers and sisters have died."
"Our son has been gone for a month," a fairy man called out, "And he is
nowhere to be found."
"Silence, please, and hear me," Chieftain Bax said softly, "The fate of the
missing fairies has been discovered, and it is sad news. There is a young
witch among the humans who has been capturing fairies. She eats fairies. All
the fairies who have disappeared have been eaten by the witch."
The fairies on the hill began to weep at that. Chieftain Bax waited
patiently for his fairies to calm down, before he continued his speech.
"Oca found this out by listening in on some humans talking. There is a
witch who has been eating fairies, they said, and that is giving her terrible
magic powers. They say that she is very beautiful, and that she helps other
humans with her spells, but they do not trust her. The help she gives is
usually something evil, causing pain and suffering to help someone get
revenge against one who has hurt him."
"What can we do?" asked Towy, a young boy fairy, but one strong and brave,
and always sad since his parents and his little sister fairy vanished. He too
cried when he found out that his parents and sister had been eaten. But
unlike the rest of the fairies, he was more filled with anger and
determination to stop the witch, than overcome with sadness.
"Oca and I have found a way we think may save us before there are no more
Fairies of Dawnhill. Oca, would you explain it to all?"
Oca, Dawnhill's scientist and wizard, stood up. "There is an ancient method
for disguising a fairy as a human," he explained. "It is both painful and
unhealthy, but it may be our only hope. If a fairy can impersonate a human,
find the witch and become the witch's servant or slave, he can send a message
back whenever the witch is going to try to capture one of us. Then we can
avoid her, until her magic powers are gone. But besides the pain and injury
and illness it will certainly cause, it will be very dangerous. If the witch
should discover that he is really a fairy, she will eat him up at once."
Little Towy stood up and said, "I will do it."
All the fairies looked at him in amazement. They knew Towy was brave, but
they were still surprised. Bax looked over at Oca, and asked, "Do you think
he is too little?"
Oca motioned for Towy to come to him. Towy walked up to Oca. Though he had
just shown himself to be the bravest of all the fairies, he couldn't keep
from shaking as he stood before Oca. He didn't know yet how much it was going
to hurt, but he did know just how dangerous it would be to spy on the
fairy-eating witch.
Oca pinched Towy on the wing very close to where it joins the back. The
pain brought a tear to Towy's eye, but he didn't cry out. "It might be a good
idea to send a little boy," Oca said. "Since his wings are so small, losing
them will not drain as much of his energy. Also, the witch might be less
suspicious of a child."
Bax agreed, and nodded his head. All the fairies clapped and cheered for
Towy. Towy liked being a hero.
They decided the operation would be performed at dusk. They had to plan to
do it quickly, for they didn't know who would be the next fairy to be
captured and eaten. It could even be Oca.
Towy was very excited all day, with all the fairies shaking his hand and
praising him for his bravery. But that evening, as he had supper with the
fairies he lived with since he lost his family, he started getting worried.
The time was less than an hour away, and he was so nervous he had trouble
eating.
Dusk finally arrived. Oca came to take Towy away to be changed. Bax came
with them too.
Oca's daughter Wev was waiting for them, by the statue of Dunerre
Goblinslayer the Berserker. Wev had the knifeblade hidden under a blanket.
Oca led Towy by the hand to the statue. "Put your arms around the statue,"
Oca told him, "And hold it as tightly as you can."
Towy did as Oca told him. Dunerre Goblinslayer was a great hero of the
fairies of Dawnhill, though nobody had seen him for a long time. Holding onto
his statue made Towy feel braver. Towy hugged the statue with his arms and
legs, and squeezed his eyes shut.
Wev gave Oca the knifeblade, and as fast as he could, Oca chopped off
Towy's beautiful wings. Towy jumped, but it didn't hurt quite as much as Towy
was afraid that it would. Wev took a towel and held it against the wing
stubs, to stop as much as possible the yellow liquid that was coming out. Oca
then used the same tool to cut off the pointy tops of Towy's ears. He trimmed
them until they were the size of human ears. That did not hurt as much as
having his wings cut off. Oca took a bandage and wrapped it around Towy's
head around his ears. They were bleeding normal fairy blood, not the strange
yellow liquid that came from the wing stubs. Not even Oca knew what that
yellow stuff was.
"That part's all over," Oca said. Towy relaxed his arms and legs. He slid
down the statue and sat on the ground. Oca cut a square bandage, and put it
on the wing stubs. Then he and Wev wrapped soft cloth around Towy's chest to
hold the bandage in place. "Make sure the bandage stays tight on your back,"
Oca said to him. "Your back will never heal. You have to try to keep the
yellow fluid from leaking out. The more of that you lose, the weaker you will
become. Your ears will heal alright, and will stop bleeding quickly." Oca
loosened that bandage and said, "They've already stopped bleeding. Just be
sure your hair covers the scars around the tops of your ears." Towy's ears
had stopped hurting.
Wev helped Towy put on the human-style clothes and shoes that had been made
for him. Then Oca threw growth dust on him. The dust caused him and his
clothes to grow to the size of a 7-year-old human boy for a year. Bax advised
Towy to use the human name "Tony". It was midnight when Towy (Tony) left
Dawnhill on his dangerous mission.

AudioBoxer
Jul 18th, 2002, 10:24 PM
Chapter 2: A Human Friend

Towy felt lonely and afraid as he left all his friends back at Dawnhill. He
knew it would be a long, long time before he would see his home again. It
would be much too dangerous to be seen anywhere near there while he was
pretending to be human. His feet were already sore from wearing shoes. The
clothes, which would have been very comfortable for a human boy, felt
terrible to Towy; he didn't know how he'd be able to stand wearing them. He
was getting used to the pain on his back, but it made him feel weak. He kept
feeling his back to make sure the yellow fluid wasn't leaking out through the
bandage. He was almost wishing he hadn't volunteered for the dangerous
mission.
Then he started thinking about the courage of his hero, Dunerre the
Berserker. He thought back to the stories he had heard so often, of the time
when the goblins tried to take over all of Dawnhill. According to the
stories, the goblins almost conquered the fairies, until Dunerre Goblinslayer
fought alone against Gug and Yner, the King and Queen of the Goblins. The
king was destroyed, and Yner the Queen was sent so far away she was never
seen or heard from again. Without their king and queen, all the rest of the
goblins fled in fear and never bothered the fairies of Dawnhill ever again.
Thinking about that was all he needed to build up his own courage, and face
his important task.
Finally he reached the nearest human town. At the first house he came to,
he knocked at the door. He was tired and weak. He needed someplace to stay,
and someone to talk to, even a human. He had not lost much of the yellow
fluid from his back, but even the little he had lost made him feel more tired
than he had ever felt before.
It was well past midnight. Towy expected to have to knock for several
minutes before anyone woke up and came to the door. But right away he heard a
girl's nervous voice call through the door, "Who's there?"
"Help me, please!" Towy cried out.
The door opened a crack, and a teenage girl peeked out. When she saw Towy
standing there, hanging onto the door frame to hold himself up, she opened up
the door and helped him come inside. She quickly shut and locked the door.
"Who are you?" the girl asked Towy as she brought him over to the couch.
Towy felt safe and relaxed in the girl's arms.
"My name is Tony," he whispered to her as she laid him on the couch. "Can I
spend the night here? I have nowhere else to go."
"I don't know," the girl said. "Jenny and Ben's parents are out. I'm
Trisha, their babysitter. Their parents won't be coming home until later."
Then a boy and a girl in identical pajamas, 4-year-old twins, came down the
stairs rubbing their eyes.
"Who's that?" the boy asked, pointing at Towy.
"Oh no, that's just what I need," Trisha said. "Jenny and Ben, please go
back to bed. I'm having enough trouble trying to figure out what to do with
this boy without having to worry about you two."
"But who is he?" Ben asked, as he and his sister came over.
"My name is Tony," he said, sitting up.
"He's weird," Ben said, backing away from him, frightened. Trisha and Jenny
both looked at him, shocked by Ben's rude remark. Towy tried to hide his
nervousness at Ben's reaction.
"You say you're sorry for saying that," Trisha demanded.
"No," Ben said. "He looks like a fairy."
Towy knew there are rare times when humans see fairies. Usually, fairies
knew, they do not tell other people what they've seen, or if they do they are
not believed. He started laughing, hoping to hear the girls laughing along.
To Towy's relief, they did.
"You've been listening to too many of those stories about the witch girl
eating fairies," Trisha said to him.
Towy saw a chance to try to find out something her. "I've heard about her
too," he said to Trisha. "I've heard there's a witch who gets magic powers by
eating fairies. What have you heard about her?"
Trisha told him, "She lives just outside of town. They say she has magic
powers, and will cast spells on people you don't like if you ask her to. They
say she gets her magic powers by eating fairies. She's only a little older
than I am, but she lives all by herself. She tries to act friendly, but
nobody really likes her very much."
Trisha took the twins to bed, while Towy thought about what she said. She
knew a lot about the witch, even if she didn't really believe it was true. He
felt he could trust her. He knew he needed human help, and he decided to take
a chance and tell her everything.
He used the few minutes Trisha was upstairs to decide how to tell her that
he was really a fairy. If she didn't believe in witches, it didn't seem
likely she would believe in fairies!
Before he knew exactly what he would say, Trisha came back.
"I wish you wouldn't talk about the witch girl in front of the kids," she
quietly said to him when she came down.
"Then you do believe it?" Towy asked, hoping that maybe it wouldn't be as
hard as he thought to convince her.
But Trisha answered, "Of course not! But the kids do."
Towy took a deep breath and said, "But there are magical people and
creatures in the world, even if you've never seen them." He watched Trisha's
reaction. She was looking at him like he was nuts. But he went on anyway:
"There is a place not far from here called Dawnhill by the fairies who live
there. That's where I'm from. I'm not really a human boy. I am a fairy from
Dawnhill, disguised as a human being. I was sent to find and to spy on the
witch who's been eating us fairies."
Trisha didn't say anything. She just sat and stared at him, wondering what
would be the easiest way to get him out of the house.
Suddenly, Towy thought of a way of proving to her that he wasn't human.
There was a vase. It held some flowers which were wilted and ready to be
thrown out.
"Come on over here," Towy said to her. She agreed, just to humor him, and
they went over to the vase. "Watch this," Towy said, as he pinched the stems
with his fingers. "Can a human being do this?"
Towy filled the flowers with energy and strength. It was harder to do than
he thought since he was so weak from the loss of liquid from his wings. But
in minutes, before Trisha's eyes, the flowers straightened up and became
fresh again.
Trisha was shocked. "Then it's true," she whispered, as Towy fell down on
the floor. Trisha picked him up and laid him on the couch.
"My name isn't really Tony," he said to her, trying to keep his eyes open.
"My real name is Towy. Please don't tell anybody. We can't let the witch find
out what I really am."
"We'll only tell my mother," Trisha said. "She can keep secrets. Then you
can come and live at our house with my mother and me."
Before she could say any more, she saw that he was sound asleep.

AudioBoxer
Jul 18th, 2002, 10:25 PM
Chapter 3: Home

When Towy woke up, he found himself in a different house. He was lying on a
large sofa, under a quilt blanket, in a beautiful mansion.
He threw off the quilt and got up to explore the house.
He noticed his shoes and socks were off. He felt relieved because he wasn't
sure if humans wore their shoes at all times. He was hoping he would be able
to take them off, at least while he was indoors. He knew most human customs,
but there were a few facts like that he had never come across.
He saw for the first time many of the things he knew human beings had but
had never seen before: television, radio, telephone. He was curious and
wanted to see them working, but he thought he'd better wait. He knew they
were valuable, and he didn't want to break them.
It wasn't long before Trisha woke up and came downstairs.
"Good morning, Towy," she said to him, using his real name. "How are you
feeling?"
"I feel much stronger," Towy told her. He did feel better. He felt as well
as he had felt before his wings were removed and he had lost some of his
yellow liquid out his back.
For the next few hours, Trisha showed him around the house. She
demonstrated all the things he wanted to see working. He found television
very interesting. He asked her why they don't just use the bark of a magic
maple tree like fairies do when they need to see something far away, but she
didn't seem to understand what he was talking about.
When they went into the kitchen they found Trisha's mother there, making
breakfast for everyone.
"So, you're the fairy," she said to Towy when she saw them. Towy nodded,
and they sat down to breakfast.
While they were eating, Towy asked them to tell him if they knew any more
about the witch.
Trisha's mother told Towy about a friend she used to have. Her friend got
into an argument with a neighbor over a new fence, which the neighbor claimed
was on his property. She had the house surveyed to make sure it was right,
but the neighbor continued to cause trouble. Once she got so mad she slammed
the door on him. From outside the house, he yelled that she would never get
away with it, and she would suffer for it. The next day, she was in the
hospital, suffering from frostbite. It was the middle of summer! The neighbor
had been seen going to see the witch outside of town.
Then Trisha told him about a bully who used to live in the neighborhood. He
used to demand a dollar from any kid he met. Anybody who refused to give him
a dollar when he asked would wake up the next morning with a terrible
toothache from an enormous cavity. Everybody knew he split the money with the
witch.
Towy could see he was dealing with an evil, dangerous girl. If she would do
things like that to total strangers, he wondered what she might do to
somebody who was sent to spy on her! Simply being eaten was the least of his
worries. But he knew he was going to have to go through with it. He would
have to start soon, before she ate any more fairies.
Trisha said she'd take him to the witch's house the next morning.
That night, the bed in the guest room was fixed for him, so he would have
his own bedroom that night. Trisha told him that he could keep that for his
bedroom for as long as he wanted to stay with them. He was very glad about
that, since he knew the witch would probably want to know where he lived.
Trisha's mother said she would get him some pajamas the next day. He hoped
they would be more comfortable to wear.
That night, he took off his shoes and loosened his shirt and went to sleep.
He found he enjoyed sleeping in a bed.
Trisha was up early the next morning, before Towy woke up. She went into
his room to see if he was up.
Towy was still sound asleep. His shirt was pushed up, enough that Trisha
could see the thick bandages over the spots where his wings were cut off.
Trisha knew they were bandages, though they looked strange since they were
fairy bandages. She wondered what was wrong with his back. She went over to
try to get a closer look. She touched the edge of the bandage. That made the
bandage move just enough to let a little of the yellow liquid seep out from
under it. The yellow liquid touched Trisha's finger.
Trisha screamed when it touched her finger. It burned and stung and
tingled, and was making her finger glow.
Then Towy woke up. He knew right away what happened, because of the pain in
his back from the loss of some yellow liquid. He felt weak and dizzy even
though he only lost a couple drops.
Trisha's finger finally stopped hurting so much, but it was a strange deep
red color and still seemed to glow a little.
"You touched my back!" Towy said, fixing his shirt. "What did you do that
for?"
"What happened?" was all Trisha could say, showing him her finger.
"You made my back leak," Towy told her. "The bandages cover where my wings
were cut off. You must have gotten some of it on your finger. I don't know
what's going to happen to you."
Trisha remembered what Towy had been able to do with the plant at Jenny and
Ben's house. She decided to see what would happen if she touched a plant. She
went and touched the nearest plant. It grew a couple inches right before her
eyes! But it hurt her.
Trisha told Towy what happened. He understood what had happened: it must
have soaked into her finger and it gave her some fairy powers, but put a
terrible strain on her whole body to use them. The witch was eating fairies
to get magic powers. It made sense that it would be the yellow liquid inside
fairies' bodies that gave her those powers. He wondered how she was able to
use those powers without damaging her health. Perhaps, he thought, that's why
she needs to eat whole fairies and not just squeeze out some of the yellow
liquid.
At breakfast that morning, Trisha asked him if he felt strong enough to go
see the witch that day, after what she had accidentally done to him.
"I think I'll feel better after noon," Towy told her. He would rather wait
a couple days, until he was fully recovered from the loss of the yellow
liquid and at his full strength. But every day he waited could mean the death
of one or more of his fairy friends from Dawnhill, perhaps even Bax or Oca,
or his dear friend Wev.
When afternoon came, Towy was ready to go with Trisha to meet the witch.
Then he would know if his human disguise would work.

AudioBoxer
Jul 18th, 2002, 10:26 PM
Chapter 4: Witch

On their way to meet with the witch, Trisha offered to go in with Towy.
Towy accepted. He knew there were still human customs he didn't know about.
He thought it would be good to have a human with him to help him with any
questions he might have trouble answering. And Trisha had always wanted a
younger brother she could help take care of, but never had any brothers or
sisters. She enjoyed helping him.
It wasn't far, so they walked to her house. The walk took about 15 minutes,
five minutes of that time they spent walking through woods just outside of
town.
Except for being very small and isolated, there was nothing unusual about
the house. There was a fence around the house, and it was surrounded by a
well-kept lawn and flower garden. They both wondered if it was kept so neat
through work or witchcraft.
Just before they went through the gate, Trisha said to Towy, "The witch's
name is Irene. I've never heard her last name. Some people don't think she
has one. My last name is Jones, so you should tell her that is your last name
too, if she asks."
Then Towy mentioned to Trisha, "Be sure not to let her see your finger that
touched the yellow stuff from my back. We don't want her to think you've ever
had any contact with fairies."
Trisha made a fist with that hand, to hide her finger.
When they reached the door, Towy knocked, while Trisha stood beside him.
The door was opened quickly, as though the person inside were expecting
them.
The girl who opened the door was very beautiful. She wore a long dress
embroidered with gold. She had long black hair in a ponytail. She had blue
eyes that were so bright they seemed to glow from within. She certainly did
not look as evil as Trisha and Towy knew that she was.
"Can I help you?" she asked in a friendly tone.
Towy answered her, "I have heard of your great powers. I was hoping I might
be able to work for you, and be your assistant. You don't have to pay me. I
just want to see you work your magnificent spells and watch your great
magic."
They could see that the girl was flattered and seemed pleased. One thing
was certain from her expression: she was completely fooled!
"And who is this?" the witch asked, looking at Trisha.
"I just came along to make sure Tony was safe on his walk from our house.
Could you make it home by yourself if I leave now?" she asked Towy.
"I'm still not sure of the way," Towy said to her. That was just what
Trisha had expected him to say, so she would have an excuse to stay with
Towy.
The witch girl invited them both into her house.
Towy almost fell over when he went in, and Trisha almost got sick. Inside
the house was a powerful, horrible odor. They had smelled something even at
the door, but it was not so overpowering, and they were not sure it was
coming from inside the house. The house was as clean and tidy as any house
they had ever seen, but the smell was so bad they could hardly breathe at
all.
The girl invited them to sit down on a sofa. After they did, they could see
the source of the horrible smell. In the next room was a skunk in a cage.
"Does the smell bother you?" she asked Towy and Trisha, when Towy could no
longer keep from pinching his nose. "I have a pet skunk. Come and see."
Trisha led them both to the next room. "He is very beautiful, don't you
think?" They had to admit the skunk was beautiful. It seemed larger than a
normal skunk. They didn't know if it smelled worse too, since they had never
smelled any skunk so close up! The cage was also unusual. It had no opening;
the bars were all solid all the way around. It was a cage only a witch could
have, since something could only be put into the cage through witchcraft.
"I do have a lot of powers," the witch said, "But one power I lack is the
sense of smell. I've never been able to smell anything. I was born that way.
I understand his smell irritates people, but I really have no idea why. Do
you think you will you still be able to work here?"
Towy nodded his head. He knew it wasn't going to be easy. He thought about
using fairy magic to remove the skunk's smell, but he didn't dare use any
fairy magic anywhere around her. He wondered why the witch didn't do it. She
knew the skunk's smell was offensive to everyone else even if it didn't
bother her.
He was about to ask her why she didn't, when something else caught his
attention. It was in the next room, the kitchen. On the table was a plate,
with a lock of hair on the side, a lock of a girl fairy's hair. She had
caught and eaten another fairy before he'd been able to stop her. The hair
was brown, so at least it wasn't Wev, whose hair is red. He knew he had to
keep from having any expression on his face. A human boy would not have known
it was fairy hair on the plate, and would not have been as upset as he was.
"How often will you be able to come?" the witch asked Towy.
Towy turned to her, trying to hide the way he felt at knowing what she had
just been eating. "I'll be able to come every day!" Towy told her, trying to
sound cheerful. She looked happy to hear that.
"You can start tomorrow," the witch said to him. "I won't be casting any
spells today. I just had dinner." Towy knew just what she meant by that, but
was careful not to let her know that he knew.
"Thank you, Irene," Towy said to her, as he and Trisha started for the
door.
"You don't have to call me Irene," she said to him. "My friends call me
Reny. And I would like us to be friends."
"Alright, Reny," Towy said to her, as they walked out the door. Towy turned
around to ask her when he should come, but Reny had already shut and locked
the door.
As they walked away from the house, they both breathed deeply, trying hard
to get the horrible smell out of their noses. It stayed with them until after
they had reached their house.
That night, Towy mentioned to Trisha, "I think this is going to work. She's
eaten her last fairy!"
"I saw the hair on the plate in the kitchen while we were there," Trisha
said to him. "Fairy hair?"
Towy nodded sadly.
"I hope it wasn't a friend of yours that she ate," she said.
Towy shook his head, and got ready for a good night's sleep, before what he
knew would be a very hard day, with the witch.

AudioBoxer
Jul 18th, 2002, 10:27 PM
Chapter 5: Information

It was still very early when Towy went to see the witch. He decided to go
alone this time.
The witch welcomed him right in as soon as he came to her door. She seemed
to have been waiting for him.
He was ready for the terrible stench from the skunk, but it was still hard
to stand. It was so bad, it was hard to think about anything else, but he
needed to do his best to endure it.
"I'm about to cast a spell this morning," she said to Towy as they sat on
the sofa. "A boy came to me last week, but I had to wait until I had eaten a
fairy before I had the power to cast it."
She got up and went over to a small table near a corner of the room. She
wrote something down on a heavy piece of paper and laid it face down on the
table. Then she started jumping up and down, shaking her fists in the air.
She was yelling in a harsh, inhuman-sounding voice that scared Towy. Smoke
came out of the paper on the table.
When she was finished, she sat back down next to Towy. "There was a girl
calling him names. He couldn't pay me much, but he just wanted me to do
something that would embarrass her. So now all her hair will fall out, and it
will never grow back. And then just for the fun of it I covered her body with
pimples. I even infected a few of them, especially one big red one on the tip
of her nose!" She laughed hard about that. Towy found it disgusting, but he
tried to force himself to laugh along.
"Now," the witch said to him, "I'll give you a free spell. Name somebody
you don't like and I'll do whatever you want to that person."
"No thank you," Towy answered, "I don't have anybody I want to do anything
to right now."
"Oh come now. There must be somebody you don't like! Well, you tell me when
you think of somebody. In the meantime, I could use your help with some
equipment."
The witch led Towy into another room. There were bowls and cups there with
weird designs on them. She gave Towy some herbs. She asked him to wash the
insides of the bowls with them, until they had a sweet smell. She did the
same with a pile of cups.
Towy was worried that the witch might become suspicious that he wasn't
really there out of admiration, since he didn't ask her to curse anybody for
him. But he did want to start finding out as much as he could about how she
captures fairies.
"How do you catch fairies?" he asked her, trying to sound like he was just
curious.
"There are many ways to do it," she told him. "The method I've been using
lately is with webweed."
"What's that?" Towy asked.
"It's a tough, sticky kind of magical plant that looks exactly like grass.
I turn a small plot of grass into webweed, and wait for a fairy to come by.
When one does, I project a picture of a hurt fairy into the webweed. The
fairy sticks in the webweed like a fly in a spider web, and can't get out.
Then I simply bend over and pull out the webweed that the fairy is stuck in,
and carry the fairy home. Then I take a few bites of fairy until it's dead.
Then I stick my hand in ice water, and then the webweed isn't sticky anymore.
That's why I only use that method in the summertime."
This was some very useful information. He had many more questions he wanted
to ask her, but couldn't without revealing what he really was. He wondered
why she screamed and jumped around to cast her spell, when fairy magic is
always calm and quiet. He also still wondered about the way using fairy magic
did not hurt her or tire her out at all.
Towy stayed with the witch all day, but didn't ask her any other questions.
He didn't want to sound too curious right away. So far, the plan was working
as well as they could have hoped. They had completely fooled the witch.
That night, back at Trisha's house, Towy told them all about what had
happened at the witch's house. He and told them all the things he didn't
understand.
Before they went to bed, Towy told them some fairy legends. They were very
entertaining, especially the stories of Towy's hero, Dunerre Goblinslayer the
Berserker. He told them the legend of his victory over the Goblin King and
Goblin Queen, how he stood at the head of a fairy army long ago, and gave
them the courage to fight the goblins, how he beat the goblins without the
loss of a single fairy, and how all the goblins were killed or were sent off
with their Queen Yner so far they could never return. And he told the sad
part of the story: how, after the threat of the goblins was gone forever,
Dunerre went away, never to return.
After everyone else was in bed, in the middle of the night, Towy slipped
outside. He pulled some bark off a tree to make into magic maple wood. He
brought it inside with him. He went to his room, and quickly transformed the
plain maple bark into magic maple, and called the fairies back at Dawnhill.
Bax answered Towy's call.
"Chieftain Bax," Towy said, "I have discovered some things."
"Good," Bax said. "We were worried. Since you've been gone, another fairy
has been captured."
"I know," Towy said sadly. "She was eaten before I met the witch. Today I
spent all day in the witch's home. She's completely fooled. She thinks I'm an
ordinary human, and I just want to help her because I admire her."
"Have you learned anything that might help us?" Bax asked him.
"Yes I have," Towy said proudly. "She uses something called webweed to
capture fairies. It looks like grass, but it's sticky like a spider web. She
gets fairies into it by making them think there's an injured fairy there. She
says she has other ways of capturing fairies, but I don't know what they are
yet. But knowing about the webweed may help save some fairies in the
meantime."
"Do you have anything else to report?"
"I have made friends with some humans. They discovered that I am a fairy,
but they are good people and they're helping me. I am living at their house.
Don't worry; I'm sure they can be trusted."
"Wev and Oca asked me to send their greetings as soon as I heard from you.
All the fairies are talking about you. You will be even more famous when they
find out how successful you've been so far. You'll be quite a hero when you
return!" Then the magic maple turned dark, and Bax's face could no longer be
seen in it.
Towy slipped the magic maple under his pillow, and he fell asleep. Now he
was a little less worried about his next visit to the witch.

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Jul 18th, 2002, 10:28 PM
Chapter 6: Bully

The next morning, Towy was on his way to work for the witch, when he was
suddenly stopped at the end of the street. A teenage boy jumped in front of
him and wouldn't let him pass.
"Hey, kid," the boy said, "What makes you think you can walk right past my
house?"
"I have to go or I'll be late," Towy said to him as he tried to walk by
him.
The boy grabbed him by the shoulders and shoved him back. "If you want to
get by me, you got to give me a dollar," he said to Towy.
"I don't have to give you a dollar," Towy said, trying again to get by
him.
"Oh yes you do, shorty," he replied, grabbing Towy by both arms. He pushed
Towy again, this time so hard he knocked Towy onto the ground. It hurt his
back where his wings were cut. He was afraid he might have lost some of the
yellow liquid.
He thought about using some fairy magic on him. But he knew he couldn't do
that, because he couldn't risk anyone's suspicion that he might not really be
human. If the witch were to hear about it, not only would his mission fail,
but he would be in grave danger of being eaten himself by the witch! He would
have to handle this bully without fairy magic.
He wondered what his hero, Dunerre the Berserker, would do. He saw a stick,
and he grabbed it as he stood up. He went for the boy, swinging the stick
wildly in front of him, screaming.
It did no good; the boy was just too much bigger than Towy. He grabbed
Towy's arm and pulled the stick out of his hand. He put his other arm around
Towy's neck. "Now you're going to get it," he said, and he started cursing at
Towy.
Towy now knew he would have no choice but to use fairy magic. It would have
to be something that would leave the boy so confused, he wouldn't even think
there might have been magic involved. The first thing he thought of was
giving him an electric shock, which would have been easy. But he knew he
couldn't do that.
The only thing he could think of that might work would be a time-stop. He
would have to stop the boy's time until he could get out of his grip. Even a
full power time-stop would only hold him for six seconds or less, and that
would use up all Towy's strength. But there was nothing else he could do.
Towy was already starting to choke. He could see the boy about to punch him
hard right in his eye!
Towy time-stopped him just in time.
As fast as he could, Towy slipped out of his grip while the boy was frozen
in place. He had a tight hold on Towy, and it took a few seconds for Towy to
wriggle out. Towy managed to get around behind him just in time before the
time-stop wore off.
The instant the time-stop ended, Towy kicked him. Surprised by what was
going on, the boy tumbled over flat on his face. A stone cut him under his
eye, and there was blood on his cheek.
When he looked up, Towy yelled, "You better leave me alone from now on!"
The boy looked up at Towy with a look of shock and terrible confusion. He
wiped his cheek. When he saw that he was bleeding, the boy started crying. He
jumped up and ran to his house.
Before he went in, he turned and looked at Towy. Towy couldn't tell whether
it was a look of fear or of hatred. It made Towy wonder whether or not he
would have any more to worry about from the bully. He hoped that he would be
afraid to try and go after him again. But there was also the danger that he
might try to get back at him, but be more sneaky about it next time.
Towy was exhausted from the time-stop. He barely had enough strength to
stand up. He knew he would be in no shape to go to the witch's house that
day. He turned around and started for home.
He didn't make it. He was only halfway home when he felt so dizzy he fell
to the ground.
The next thing he knew, Towy was back home, with Trisha and her mother. He
was lying on the couch with a pillow under his head.
"Are you alright?" Trisha asked him when she saw him open his eyes. "What
happened?" she asked before he could answer.
"Some big boy tried to make me give him a dollar to get past his house, and
he was going to beat me up so I had to time-stop him."
"That must have been Bill," Trisha said. "He's always been like that. He
likes to pick on little kids. What's a time-stop?"
Towy told Trisha how he had gotten away from Bill, and how he'd run off.
"I don't know if that will stop him," Trisha said. "But I don't think he
liked being beaten by a little boy. He'll be mad, but he might be too scared
to try to go after you again."
"The main thing is I'm sure he was so confused he won't ever figure out
what happened, or think I might not be human," Towy said, trying to smile.
"Watch out for him," Trisha's mother said. "He can be dangerous when he's
really mad. A year or two ago, a little girl's parents yelled at him for
picking on her. A week later he got her and broke her arm. She was only 4
years old. He was arrested, but somehow he got away with it. You'd better
stay away from him."
"Maybe the witch would cast a spell on him for you!" Trisha said.
Towy shook his head. "We don't believe in getting revenge," Towy said. "And
her spells are evil and horrible. But maybe after my true mission, I can help
find a way to stop him from hurting human kids."
Towy felt his eyes closing, and knew he wasn't going to be able to keep
himself awake. Before he fell asleep, he asked Trisha, "Would you go to the
witch and tell her I can't make it today, because I'm not feeling up to it? I
can't do anything that might make her suspicious."
"I'll go," Trisha assured him, and he fell asleep.
Towy didn't wake up again until the next morning. Spending just about the
entire day asleep was enough to restore all his strength. He was fully
prepared for a full day with the witch Reny, even with the skunk odor.
Trisha assured him that the witch understood when she told her why he
didn't come yesterday.
He was careful as he stepped outside that morning. He peeked around before
he ventured down the street. There was no sign of Bill. He quickly but
quietly got by his house, without seeing him. Then he felt safe.
When he reached the witch's home, she was happy to see him. She brought him
inside, and said, "I have something different you can help me with today! I
can feel my powers beginning to fade. I need to eat a fairy. Come with me and
help me capture one!"

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Jul 18th, 2002, 10:30 PM
Chapter 7: The Hunt

The witch led Towy right out with her, down to the woods. He wished he had
some magic maple bark with him. That way he might be able to warn the others
at Dawnhill about what was happening. He decided then that from that time on,
he would carry a little piece of it with him all the time.
There was little time to figure out what to do. He wasn't expecting this to
happen so soon. He couldn't let the witch capture a fairy, but he also
couldn't risk having her discover his true identity. He wondered if there
might be some fairy magic that would help, that he could use without her
knowing what he was doing, like he had done to Bill. But surely other fairies
had tried to get away from her by magic, but weren't able to do it.
Before he come think of anything, the witch stopped.
"Right here should be a good spot to catch us a fairy," the witch said,
pointing to a wide, open, grassy area.
She showed Towy where to stay, and she went out into the middle of the
field. She pulled a green pouch out from under her shirt, and started pulling
out a fine white powder. She sprinkled the powder all over the field, and put
the pouch back under her shirt. She walked almost back to where Towy was
watching. Then she turned toward the field, and started jumping around,
screaming and howling. As she did that, the grass began to sparkle.
Towy again wondered why she is so noisy when she's using fairy magic, which
should be gentle and quiet.
Then she made an image of a fairy appear in the middle of the field. The
fairy image was lying on the ground, bleeding.
The witch returned to Towy. "Now we wait for a fairy to come along. This is
close enough to the spot where I've caught fairies before that I know they
come around here. But every time, I go to a new spot, just in case the
fairies find the spot where I catch them and try to avoid it."
"What if no fairy comes?" Towy asked her. "How long do we have to wait?"
"We're not leaving until a fairy comes. I have enough fairy strength in me
to keep my powers strong for weeks, if it takes that long. But it's never
taken that long. I'm sure one will be here before sundown tonight."
This was the most frightened Towy had been since his mission began. One of
his friends could come at any time. He had warned Bax about how the witch
captures fairies by making them think they see an injured fairy, but that
fairy image on the grass was much more real than he thought it would be. He
knew that any fairy that saw it would surely be fooled. He had to look away
to keep himself from going in to try to help the fairy; it looked that real.
Towy didn't have much time to think of a plan. He knew that the witch had
chosen a good spot; a fairy could come along at any minute. If he tried to
warn a fairy before he got into the webweed, that would make the witch too
suspicious too soon. If the witch caught the fairy, she would be too strong
for him to rescue the fairy. Towy wondered if he could do something to the
webweed, but he didn't know enough about it. He had never heard of webweed
before. He didn't even know if anything could be done to destroy it so it
couldn't hold a fairy.
There was only one thing he could do. He would have to get away from there,
fast, and get some magic maple to contact Dawnhill and tell them where the
witch was, and make sure they stay away.
He didn't know why the witch wanted him there, but he knew she had to have
some reason. To keep her trust, he would have other find some excuse for
leaving, a very good excuse.
Sick! That was it. He was sure she wouldn't expect him to stay there if he
suddenly got sick.
The easiest thing for him to imitate was a stomach ache. He could use fairy
magic to give himself all the symptoms of a human stomach ache.
Towy started groaning and holding his belly.
"What's the matter?" the witch asked.
"My belly hurts really bad," Towy said, straining to make himself cry real
tears. That was harder than causing his upset stomach.
"I wanted you to join me in the hunt, but you won't enjoy it in that
condition," the witch said. "If we were at my house, I'm sure I could cure
it, but I don't have the potions here. I can handle the hunt by myself. Why
don't you go home and rest now. If it doesn't stop hurting by tomorrow, be
sure to come to my house anyway and I'll take care of it there. See you
tomorrow, Tony."
Towy left as quickly as he could. His stomach made it hard for him to move
very fast, but he wanted to keep it up until he was well away from Reny. As
soon as he had reached the edge of the woods, he fixed his stomach. Then he
could run.
He ran as fast as he could all the way to his home. He could have found
some other maple bark in the woods and turned that into magic maple, but it
would be faster to run home and use the bark he had already prepared.
He ran into the house and right to his room. Trisha saw him run past, but
she didn't even get a chance to ask him what was wrong.
Towy grabbed the magic maple bark, and called out to Dawnhill. It only took
a moment for him to reach Bax.
"Bax! Listen! The witch is out hunting fairies right now. She's at the open
field at the northeast end of the woods north of Dawnhill. Don't let any
fairies get near there!"
"No fairies were going to the woods before this afternoon, but I don't
think we have to worry too much. All the fairies know about the webweed," Bax
told him.
"The image she throws of the hurt fairy is too good! It's perfect. It's
good enough to fool any fairy who goes into the woods, even though they know
about the webweed. Warn everybody!"
"I'm on my way!" Bax said. As the magic maple image faded, he could hear
Bax calling Oca to help him get the message to all the fairies of Dawnhill.
Towy let out a big sigh and dropped backwards onto his bed. He had made it
in time! The fairies were safe thanks to Towy, at least for now.
Reny the Witch's hunt would be sure to fail. But that only meant she would
have to find some other way of capturing fairies. Towy knew she would have
another way to try. He wondered if she would really stay there for weeks,
when she saw that there were no fairies coming. Of course if she did, that
would make his mission easy to complete. All her power would sooner or later
be gone, and then she'd be no problem for the fairies to deal with. But
somehow he did not think that would happen. Things were not going to be that
easy.

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Jul 18th, 2002, 10:32 PM
Chapter 8: Witch's Secret

The next morning, before he went to see the witch, he took his piece of
magic maple bark and contacted Bax.
"Have you learned anything new?" Bax asked him.
"Did the witch catch any more fairies yet?" Towy asked instead of answering
his question.
"No, we're all safe. No fairies went near the trap," Bax answered.
"I called you because I have an idea," Towy told him. Then he explained,
"From now on, when I go to the witch's home, I'm going to bring a tiny piece
of magic maple bark with me. I'll keep it hidden in my pocket. I'll keep it
turned on, so you'll hear everything she says. That way, if she has any new
way of catching fairies, you'll hear about it right away and be able to find
some way to protect yourselves."
"Do you think that's safe?" Bax asked. "Do you think she might know if you
do that?"
"No, it's not safe," Towy replied. "But I think it's the only chance we've
got, until she can be stopped once and for all."
"I'll be sure to keep perfectly quiet, and just listen," Bax said.
Towy snapped the magic maple bark in two, so he could hide it in his pocket
without any lump showing. He stuck it in his pocket, and got ready to go.
Before he left, Trisha's mother warned him, "Be careful. I saw Bill
sneaking around the house this morning. I think he was trying to peek in the
windows."
With the possibly dangerous situation he was walking into at the witch's
house, with the magic maple turned on in his pocket, he didn't need the town
bully to worry about too. He could only hope that, after their last meeting,
Bill would be afraid to do anything to him. But he was worried about what
Bill might be planning, trying to peek in the window. He had enough to worry
about from the witch, and he tried not to think about Bill.
As he was leaving, Trisha said to him, "Why don't you ask the witch if she
can get rid of the skunk's smell? You're starting to smell like a skunk!"
"I will," Towy said as he left.
He got to the witch's house without any trouble. He knocked on the door,
wondering if she would still be at her fairy-trap. But she wasn't; she was
home. She welcomed Towy into the house.
"How are you feeling?" she asked Towy.
"My stomach feels fine now. Did you catch a fairy?" Towy asked, pretending
that he didn't already know.
"No, I didn't," she answered sadly. "It's strange. It's the first time that
trap has ever failed me. Perhaps they finally figured out what I've been
doing. I have been using that trap for a long time now. I do have others."
Towy wanted to question her about her other traps, but he needed to be
careful. He didn't want to take any chances that she might notice that the
trap stop working when she took him with her.
While they were getting things ready for some new spells, she mentioned to
him, "You've made quite an enemy!" Towy held his breath, wondering if she was
about to strike at him.
"Bill was here last night." Towy let out a quiet sigh when he found out she
didn't mean her. "He's a friend of a steady customer I used to have. He used
to collect money from kids, or else I'd cast spells on them. Bill said he
wants to carry on that business. He wanted me to give you a toothache or
something, because he says you beat him up. Don't worry; I would never do
that to my favorite worker! I lied and told him I would do that. I do want
his business, you understand. So if you run into him, make him think you got
your toothache." Reny looked at Towy, and asked, "How did you manage to beat
up Bill! That's hard to believe."
"I guess I'm just tougher than he is," Towy answered, trying to keep from
looking nervous.
The witch did not seem to completely believe Towy's answer, but she let it
drop. "If he gives you any more trouble, I'll do something nasty to him, just
let me know," she said to Towy.
Then Towy asked her, "Can you do something about that skunk smell? Trisha
said I'm starting to smell like a skunk!"
"I can't do that!" she answered, very upset. A moment later, she said, "The
skunk smell makes my fairy-magic powers stronger."
Towy knew that couldn't be true. Skunks wouldn't have anything to do with
fairy magic. He knew there was something she was keeping secret from him, but
he couldn't figure out what it could be. Why did she think the skunk's odor
was so important? He had had a feeling that the skunk was not just there for
a pet. And why did she jump around screaming when she did fairy magic, which
should be calm and quiet? Could it be she herself didn't understand the magic
she was using? He wanted to believe that, but he didn't. No, he knew there
was something more going on here, something the witch was keeping so well
hidden he couldn't even guess what it could be. And that made his mission a
thousand times more dangerous, until he could discover her secret.
He wished he could ask her more about the skunk and why she would say it
made fairy magic stronger. But he couldn't do that, because he shouldn't know
that much about fairy magic. All he could do was pretend to believe her when
she said the skunk smell made the fairy magic stronger.
She interrupted Towy's thoughts just then, saying, "I have enough fairy
magic left in me to last a few weeks, but I'd better eat a fairy before then,
as soon as possible in fact."
"How are you going to do it?" Towy asked, seeing a chance to get some
information.
"I'm going to have to prepare a fairy magnet so I can be sure to catch a
fairy," she told him. "But to use that, I'll really need your help. If you're
afraid Bill might get in your way, I'll come to your house to get you."
Towy tried not to look worried. A fairy magnet? What might that be? Even
though he looked human, he still was really a fairy. He wondered what would
happen if the magnet started attracting him! That could reveal to the witch
that he was a fairy. Then she would surely turn to him to eat to recharge her
powers. Even if he could somehow keep from being drawn by the magnet and
discovered as a fairy, she was sure it would catch a fairy. He would have to
be ready for whatever might happen. But he didn't know yet what he would do.
He was quieter than usual for the rest of the day. Reny the Witch didn't
seem to notice, or if she did, she didn't say anything about it. He was glad
when the day was finally over, so he could leave and talk to Bax and to
Trisha and her mother about all this.

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Jul 18th, 2002, 10:33 PM
Chapter 9: Magnet

There was nobody who could offer Towy any help on this step in his mission.
Bax said that he and several other fairies would be listening very closely to
everything that happened. He told him just to be as careful as he could, and
not to be so frightened that the witch would notice something strange.
Very early the next morning, Towy took out the magic maple bark he kept in
his pocket. He made a very strong link with Bax. Once it was as strong as he
could make it, he left for the witch's home.
Reny the Witch invited Towy into the house quickly. There seemed to be
something odd about her, but Towy couldn't quite tell what it was. She seemed
in a very big hurry to get started.
"My fairy magic is fading more quickly than I thought it would!" she said
to him. "I've never gone this long without eating a fairy. I didn't know it
would happen this fast. I must eat a fairy today!"
Towy felt a slight relief at hearing that. Perhaps it wouldn't be much
longer before he was out of danger, and safe once again back home on
Dawnhill. He might even be able to get his wings put back on again.
The witch went into another room to get the magnet. From there, she yelled
out, "Please open the door for me when I come out with the magnet." Her voice
sounded different. He didn't notice it before, when she was speaking softly.
But there was a completely different tone in her voice, a deep,
inhuman-sounding grumbling. It did not seem like that was something that
should happen from losing fairy powers. That should be making her more
normal, not less normal. But then he thought, maybe she's just sick or
something. It didn't sound like somebody who was sick, but he couldn't think
of any other explanation for it.
The witch came out with what looked like a giant horseshoe magnet. It was a
shiny, dark green color, and was about half as tall as she was. Towy seemed
to feel something on his back, where his wings were cut off, when she brought
it out.
Towy opened the door for her, and closed it as they left her house.
The witch led Towy to a spot in the woods, not far from where they were the
day before. She set the magnet down so that it stood up on the ground, and
wiped off the two ends with a cloth.
Then she explained it and gave instructions to Towy: "This special magic
magnet only attracts fairy wings or something inside them. Now, as soon as a
fairy tries to start flying, he will be pulled in by the magnet the instant
he leaves the ground. They can probably feel it in their wings already, but
they won't know what it is. They won't know what will happen if they try to
fly. It always works, and it works fast. I don't like using it, because
fairies usually smash into trees along the way. By the time they get here
they've bled so much there's not much power left in them. But I'm in a
hurry.
"I'll watch to the north, and you watch to the south. If you see a fairy
coming, run out and try to grab him before he hits any more trees and carry
him here."
As the witch was speaking, Towy saw what it was that looked different about
her. Her eyes had changed color. They were red, like fire. It was scary to
look at them.
He felt the bark in his pocket, reminding himself that Bax had heard
everything.
With his back to the magnet, the feeling in his back got worse. It was
getting painful. Luckily, the magnet wasn't drawing him toward it, but there
was enough of a pull for it to hurt his back. It got so bad, Towy had a hard
time holding back the tears.
"Something's wrong," the witch said a little while later. "It's never taken
this long before!" She went over and kicked the magnet. "I must have a
fairy!" she yelled. "I must eat a fairy, or all my power will be gone and it
will be too late!" She knelt beside the magnet, punching it with her fists,
whimpering.
Then the witch got herself back under control. She stood up, brushed off
her knees, and picked up the magnet. "We might as well leave," she said. "I
don't know how it failed. Either the magnet lost power, which I didn't think
could happen, or the fairies found out about it somehow." Towy tried not to
look nervous as he followed her out of the woods.
Once they were back at her house, she said, "I may have enough magic left
to last another day, maybe two at the most. There's only one thing left I can
do. It's going to use up almost all the magic I have left. I'll have to spend
all night working up a spell to find the exact location of Dawnhill, where
the fairies live. I'm going to have to go there myself, and dig one out and
eat him. I just hope I still have enough magic left in me to do it. You can
go now. Please come extra early tomorrow morning."
Towy went to Trisha's house more worried now than ever. If she did find
Dawnhill, that would be the end of them. But he was also worried about so
many things he still could not understand. Losing her fairy magic should not
make her voice change, and her eyes change color. He also wondered why she
said it would be "too late." Even if she did lose all her magic, she could
still catch another fairy someday and get her powers back. He also wondered
how she knew the name of the fairy's home, Dawnhill. No human should know
that name, not even her.
That night, his back was hurting, stinging and burning, from the magnet. He
couldn't sleep. He went into Trisha's bedroom and woke her up.
"Do you still have magic in your finger?" he asked her.
Trisha held up her finger. It still had a dim glow.
"The magnet hurt my back so much I don't think I can stand it any more.
Would you try and see if you can make it better? I can't reach that spot, but
maybe if you touch it I'll be alright," Towy said to her, turning around.
Trisha pressed her finger on Towy's back, and they both could feel it
working. Towy wondered why her fairy powers were still just as strong, while
the witch's powers were failing so fast. Trisha should have lost hers long
before the witch did.
After about a half hour, Towy said, "It doesn't hurt at all any more. Thank
you."
"I'll see you in the morning?" Trisha asked as Towy was leaving.
"If you're up early enough," Towy said to her. He had told her everything
that was happening, as he usually did.
Before he went to sleep, he called Bax with the magic maple.
"You've saved us from the magnet and the webweed," Bax said to him. "Now if
she can't find Dawnhill, it looks like you will be a total success and a true
hero. But even if she does, you'll still always be known as a hero. We will
be spending all night preparing. If she does find Dawnhill, we will have to
leave our home forever, and find a new place to live. We will be listening.
Tomorrow we'll know."

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Jul 18th, 2002, 10:34 PM
Chapter 10: Changes

The next morning, Towy made doubly sure the magic maple bark in his pocket
was working. Then he left for Reny the Witch's house.
When he got there, he knocked on the door as usual. He got a terrible
surprise when the door opened this time.
The witch looked different, but now it was much more than just her eyes.
She was shorter. It wasn't just that she had shrunk, it was more like she
had shriveled up. Most of her hair had fallen out, and what was left was
coarse and tangled. Her nose was at least twice as long as it had been
before, and was twisted and bent. Her teeth were also much longer than they
used to be, and were gray and jagged. And her skin had a greenish-gray tone
to it.
"It is nearly too late," she said to him, in a voice so inhuman it gave him
shivers. "Come inside. We must work quickly."
She led him into the house, pulling him in with a hand as rough as
sandpaper.
"What happened to you?" Towy asked her. "You look completely different." He
added that so that Bax would know what was happening, since he was listening
but couldn't see anything there.
"It's from the fairy magic wearing off," she answered. But Towy knew that
could not be doing that to her.
"That's impossible," Towy said. Then he realized he shouldn't have said
that.
The witch looked at him with her blazing red eyes. "What do you know of
fairy magic?" she asked him angrily. "There is something you're hiding from
me. Tell me!"
Towy backed away from her. She was even scarier angry.
"It is from the magic wearing off!" she insisted. "I am returning to my
true form. My name is not really Reny. My real name is Yner. I am Queen Yner,
Queen of the Goblins! I was using fairy magic to disguise myself as a human,
until the time was right to lead my people back, to make slaves of the humans
and rule."
"So that's why you have a pet skunk," Towy said, trying to be brave even
though he couldn't stop shaking.
"Yes," she replied. "I could not get rid of my goblin odor, and skunk smell
is the only thing that can hide it. How do you know so much about me?"
Yner hopped over to Towy and grabbed him. She shook him to try to make him
answer. Her nails dug into his arms. One of them scratched him. Then Yner
dropped him. She held up the hand, and watched as some normal skin color
returned to it.
"Your blood has magic in it!" she cried out. She turned him over, and tore
off the back of his shirt, exposing the bandages on his back. "You are a
fairy!" she screamed with a voice so horrible Towy almost fainted. She ripped
the bandages from Towy's back. Towy managed to get away from her, and backed
against a wall. He could feel the yellow liquid coming out his back, making
him weaker and weaker.
Yner smiled, her mouth watering. "Now I have a chance of becoming Reny
again, before it is too late and I can never change like that again. Once I'm
completely in goblin form, I can never change again. Stay still!"
Towy ran out of that room into the closest room, leaving a yellow trail on
the floor as he ran.
That was the room with the skunk. Yner came in and locked the door, and he
was trapped.
Towy climbed up on the skunk's cage, trying to get away from her. There was
nowhere else he could go.
"Come down!" Yner demanded. "Come here! You are mine now."
Towy sat down on top of the cage. There was nowhere else he could go. He
could feel the yellow liquid pouring down his back now.
The yellow liquid ran all the way down his back, and started dripping onto
the skunk in the cage under him. Then something started happening to the
skunk.
The cage burst open. Towy was tossed off it, and hit the floor. He could
hear Yner scream. He lifted himself up as much as he could with the little
bit of strength he had left, and looked over at the skunk.
The skunk grew rapidly bigger and bigger, changing as it did. It began to
take on the shape of a man, a very large man. A few seconds later, and Towy
recognized the man from his statue at Dawnhill: it was Dunerre Goblinslayer,
the Berserker!
Yner was trying to unlock the door as fast as she could. Dunerre stamped
over to her, with footsteps that shook the floor. He pushed her away from the
door, and broke off the doorknob.
"Get away from me!" Yner said. "I'll change you back into a skunk!"
"You can't do that this time," Dunerre said, in a voice strong but full of
goodness. "You took me by surprise that time. It won't happen again." Dunerre
slammed his fist into a table, shattering it. He grabbed a leg from it to use
as a club.
Yner grabbed Towy and held his neck against her mouth. "Take one step
closer, and I'll bite this fairy's head off!" she said, filled with a deadly
mixture of hate and fear.
Dunerre froze. He knew she meant it, and he knew that she knew that he
wouldn't risk a fairy's life.
Towy was too weak and scared to move. The goblin queen's hot, stinking
breath was stinging his neck.
Suddenly, Dunerre threw the table leg at Yner! Towy used the last bit of
strength he had, to aim it and make it fly perfectly straight. Before Yner
knew what happened, it struck her right in the middle of her forehead. Yner
screamed, and fell over. She was dead. Her body began to dissolve and smoke.
Dunerre picked up Towy. "You're safe now," he said, in a soft, gentle
voice. He held his hand tightly against the opening in Towy's back, stopping
the flow of yellow liquid, bringing back a little strength to Towy. Towy held
onto Dunerre's hairy shirt tightly as Dunerre led him back to Trisha's
house.
As they walked away, they could see the smoke as Yner's melting body had
set the house on fire.
Trisha and her mother bandaged Towy's back, while Dunerre told them all
that had happened, how Towy had helped him kill the goblin queen.
A few hours later, Dunerre took Towy back to Dawnhill in triumph. Towy rode
on Dunerre's mighty shoulders.
They were welcomed back as heroes, with cheers and songs and the greatest
fair Dawnhill had ever seen.
On the statue of Dunerre the Berserker at Dawnhill was added a statue of
Towy the Hero, riding upon his shoulders.

The End


I hoped you like my hella long story, I got really bored one night sat down and typed up a story. it took me like 2 weeks but I just finished so enjoy

AudioBoxer
Jul 20th, 2002, 11:53 PM
hey someone read this, I need at least 1 person to read it and tell me what you think

AudioBoxer
Jul 30th, 2002, 01:06 PM
come on someone read it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!

kamari-ice
Jul 30th, 2002, 02:54 PM
TrikTopz, alittle advice, shouldve had a name in the subject.
And nobody in this whole site is going to read that long thing.
I can't even read it.
Shouldve also did it a half-a-chapter at a time.
Like have a half-a-chapter, and let people read it, and post things about it.
I am going to post a new story, and look at what I do, and learn from it.
Sorry to be rude, but thats how you are gonna get people to read it. ;)

Black Heart
Jul 30th, 2002, 06:16 PM
I agree on the fact tha to help people reading this more easily, you should post sinlge chapters, so they can read the chapter and reply, but the story is nice and fanciful. :)

AudioBoxer
Jul 30th, 2002, 09:41 PM
So black you like the story?

Just wondering cus I am gunna make another one tonight

Ruby Moon
Jul 31st, 2002, 10:25 AM
Nice work, but it takes ages to read :shock:

AudioBoxer
Jul 31st, 2002, 12:04 PM
hey thanx, I wrote another one calle The Blue Avenger kinda gay name but it works