~Chapter 6~
When Kaylee's eyes adjusted a purely comical sight met them. Di was standing off to the side brandishing a stick at what appeared to be tiny spots of twinkling light yelling viciously and to her right a squat figure was yelling rudely in a language Kaylee didn't recognize into the tree she had seen on the picture in Matthew's bedroom while more spots of light whizzed around inside it. Everywhere the little lights went things seemed to brighten. It was as if they beautified everything they touched. Kaylee watched as one snuck past Di's defences and landed on her head, presently a beautiful crown of lily's appeared where the light had been and wove its way through her hair in a very attractive manner. Di yelled something in the language the Dwarf had been speaking and whacked at the light with her stick. She heard Matthew laughing.
"What are they?" Kaylee asked, awestruck.
"Fairys." Matthew said between laughing. "No doubt trying to beautify the worlds two most stubborn dirt spots." Kaylee looked again.
"Fairy's?" She asked squinting, trying to see past the glinting light they seemed to emit. However her concentration was soon disrupted by Di's shouting.
"MATTHEW! Thank the ELDERS your here! SAVE ME!" She yelled waving the stick wildly at another twinkling light. Suddenly as if by some spell all of the fairy's stopped and turned to face the two newcomers. And then in unison about twenty high pitched voices shouted at once.
"Oh My GOSH! ITS MATTHEW!" And from all corners of the opening little flits of light bombarded Matthew in a flutter of wings and squeals. Matthew looked disgruntled.
"Yes, yes, hello to you too. Sorry its been awhile. Gah.. could you please let go? I've got someone to introduce you to." He said batting the twinkling lights away gently.
As they paused Kaylee got her first good look at them. Each was a fantastically shaped girl no bigger than her hand, suspended on gossamer wings and wearing what appeared to be bits of spiderweb woven to hide only the bare essentials. Kaylee looked from them to Matthew and was not able to contain a snort of surprised laughter. In the few seconds that the fairys had surrounded him he had become coated in sparkles and several daisy's were now woven through his hair. Coupled with the agitated frown on his face caused by her laughter he looked absolutely adorable.
"Girls." He said a bit of mischief that Kaylee did not like at all marring his otherwise pleasant tone. "This is my friend Kaylee. She's going to be spending a bit of time with us. Make sure to give her a proper greeting please." Kaylee's eyes widened as the cloud of fairys overtook her. Flying around her in circles tugging on bits of her hair and clothing.
"She's gorgeous!" She heard one of the fairys say, and blushed appropriately. She had never been this picked over before. After a good five minutes the fairys flew back a bit to flutter around Matthew's shoulders. He looked slightly put out.
"You didn't cover her in sparkles. Why not?" The fairys laughed lightly.
"Silly Matthew. We only try to beautify that which is not beautiful already!" Kaylee grinned.
"So thats why you covered him with so much sparkly stuff." She said giggling. The fairys laughed with her.
"Oh Matthew, we like her. Can we keep her?" One of them asked. Kaylee's eyes widened. Keep me?! What do they mean keep me?!
"Not today girls. I need her help with something. But could you please quit harassing Hogor and Di for a little bit I need to speak with them too." The fairy's seemed to sigh.
"But we were winning this time. We had them outnumbered." One said petulantly.
"I saw as much. But i'm sure you can get that upper hand again. Please?" He asked again turning his most charming grin in their direction.
"Oh all right." The petulant one said. "But only for you. And maybe for your friend there. Come on girls. Off to rally for another day." The other fairys squealed and Kaylee watched in wonder as they all blipped instantly out of sight.
"I wonder if i'll ever get used to all of you people appearing and dissapearing into thin air." She muttered to herself as she followed Matthew to meet Hogor. Matthew chuckled.
bubble_blower17 · Sat Jun 28, 2008 @ 07:54pm · 0 Comments |