Chapter 25 (1/2)

“They’re so tiny,” Tafel said with her eyes wide. She stood next to a bananerry bush holding Vur’s hand.

“Hey! Just because we’re tiny, doesn’t mean we don’t have ears!”

A trio of fairies were hovering over the bananerry bush, picking bananerries. The fairies had horns similar to Tafel’s; they sprouted from their temples and curved around their heads. They were all one foot tall and wore leaves as gowns. Four dragonfly like wings grew from their backs. The only difference between the three were their eye colors, which were red, blue, and yellow.

“Isn’t that a demon?” the one with red eyes asked.

“It looks like a demon,” the blue eyed one said.

The one with yellow eyes nodded.

“Hello, my name is Tafel, daughter of the demon lord,” Tafel said while curtsying with her shirt, “what are your names?”

“Daughter of the demon lord?” Maybe we shouldn’t tal-“

“I’m Bella,” the blue eyed fairy said, interrupting the red eyed one. She pointed at the one with red eyes. “She’s Rella.”

“And I’m Yella,” the yellow eyed one finished. Rella crossed her arms and puffed her cheeks.

“Don’t be like that,” Bella said to Rella.

Rella stuck her tongue out. “Why would the demon lord’s daughter be here in our land?” she asked, “I think she’s lying.” Rella flew up to Tafel’s nose and sneezed on her.

Tafel flinched and rubbed her eyes. “Did she just sneeze on me?” Tafel asked Vur in a high pitched voice.

Vur nodded. “I think that means she likes you,” he said.

Yella sighed. “It’s the naïve dragon boy too,” Yella said and clucked her tongue while shaking her head.

“She cursed you,” Bella said and giggled, “now you can only tell the truth and only the truth for one month. No more and no less.”

“What? You shouldn’t curse someone when you first meet them,” Tafel said and pouted, “that’s not very nice.”

“Fairies aren’t nice people,” Rella said and nodded, “now tell us who you really are.”

“I’m Tafel, daughter of the demon lord,” Tafel said. Her eyes widened and she put her hands over her mouth.

“Is she really cursed?” Vur asked.

“Yes,” Tafel said in a muffled voice. The trio of fairies nodded.

Vur frowned. “Dispel,” he said while waving his arm in front of Tafel’s body. “Did it work?”

“No,” Tafel said with her hands still over her mouth.

Rella giggled. “You can’t dispel a fairy’s curse that easily,” she said and stuck her chest out.

“Yup, we can’t dispel it either,” Bella said while nodding, “I guess she really was the demon lord’s daughter. Sorry about that. We’ll be going now.” Bella waved.

“Wait! You can’t just curse me and le-, actually you can. You shouldn’t curse me and leave!” Tafel said while interrupting herself.

Rella stuck her tongue out at Tafel. “You can blame yourself for being a demon. I’m glad I could make at least one of you honest,” she said and turned to leave.

Tafel turned to Vur. His eyes glowed and the fairy trio, who were just about to take off, found themselves pinned to the bananerry bush.

“Hey! Gravity magic’s not fair,” Bella said and pouted as she flapped her wings to no avail.