The Fairy Isles

Chapter 3: Research and shock

I woke up the next morning recalling the really weird dreams I had all night pertaining to all the Lost Princess talk going on yesterday. I've got a feeling in my gut that there's something huge I'm missing, and I'm very intrigued by that, but also a little confused. I'm also up earlier than normal, and I know none of my friends will be up and ready to hang out yet. My parents will probably still be sleeping as well. I decided that I may as well go to the village library and do a little searching around for some information. I get dressed quickly and grab a snack from the kitchen on my way out. The walk to the library is quiet and pretty uneventful which makes it very peaceful. Everyone is most likely sleeping from a long day and fun night at the festival. I get to the library and make my way inside to see the librarians boxing up all of the books! What an odd sight, I wonder what's going on. I approach the first librarian I see and say "Hello librarian Crista. What in the world is going on? Please tell me you're just rearranging the books or packing up to remodel the library!" She turns to me with a sad look on her face "Oh Aurora, the library is closing down for now. With the Crown unable to produce another heir and the Lost Princess not being discovered, it's causing some dramatic changes in the Isle's. The Queen and King have requested that all information and librarians be called onto Dravens Wood Isle to assist in the Crown in whatever way we can. There's not really much information being shared yet. I'm sure they want to keep the people who took the Lost Princess from finding out what's going on with the royals research in her disappearance. We know that she's still alive or her rose in the castle would have wilted by now." All royals have a rose that appears when they are born and stays linked to their individual life forces. The color and size of the rose display their power levels and strength of their life force. The flower wilts as a royal begins to die, so since he rose is still full, it means that she's alive and healthy. I got lost in my thoughts while librarian Crista was talking, so I continue listening, "but don't fret too much. All of the books will be at Bryxton Academy and open for anyone to read still! It would be a great time to take a little sightseeing trip! Hopefully I will get to see you there one day! You are free to read books while we pack. We just can't check any of them out right now! Even with magic, the packing will take us a few days with how many books we have! Now off you go, I must get back to work." Before I head towards the back, I say "Thank you, librarian Crista. I'll make sure to find you and say bye when I head out."

The back of the library always has the most information about the Crown so I'm surprised to see that they began packing up in the front. I would have thought they would start with the back so I can't complain since it gives me the chance to do some research about my real parents and the Lost Princess. I really doubt there are any connections there, but I might as well check it out while I'm here. I'm walking around looking at the books, trying to decide what I should start with when a book falls out from the shelf. It makes me jump because it startles me a lot. I look around and see no one around, so that means the book thinks I need to read it for some reason which makes me very intrigued. When you have magics, it's not very far fetched to believe that objects have magic too and can do some things on their own. I grab the book and find somewhere to sit so I can begin reading. I get a nice shock when I set the book down, and it automatically opens to a photo of the Queen and King with another couple, which happens to be my real parents who have passed away! I think to myself "what is going on? I've never been told that they knew the Crown!" This piques my interest, so I start reading the book from the beginning. It isn't a huge book but it takes me a while to get to a passage explaining my parents' connect to the Queen and King, but when I get there, I read it a few times because I'mso suprised. Queen Adeile and King Finnegan trusted their closest friends, Willow and Otis, to be the protectors of Princess Celeste and her five maidens that are destined to be her best friends and her greatest protectors. The names of the maidens have never been shared wiyh the public and will not be revealed unless done so by Princess Celeste. As they grow up together, they will share a bond that will strengthen the kingdom and all the magics for centuries.

It's too bad that the Princess and her maidens were stolen so long ago. Hopefully, one day, they will be found, and things will be put right again in the kingdom. The grief of the Queen and King has slowly been affecting the Isle's, and if it isn't reversed soon, we could lose enough power in the world, and eventually, our Isle's magics would fail. We would slowly die off until we no longer exist and are forgotten to the world. No one knows the exact time frame, but it could happen over a long period of time, or it could be something that happens sooner which is a frightening thought. My eyes are drawn to the picture on the next page. It is the Queen and King holding a small baby in a bundle standing with my parents. Under the picture, it says: Queen Adeile holding Princess Celeste while standing with King Finnegan, Willow, and Otis announcing the future strength of Princess Celeste. She is predicted to have the brightest green eyes and the most sparkly silver wings in all of the kingdom. He powers will be unmatched, and she will take our kingdom to the next level of magic. Wait... brightest green eyes and sparkly silver wings? I have both of those features! This has got to be an odd coincidence! But both of my sets of parents knew the Crown personally, I definitely need to read and research more to get to the bottom of this! I just cannot believe that my parents were close with the crown and haven't told me about that at all. I always had an odd feeling that I have some sort of connection to the crown even though I always thought it was just a child like fantasy I've made up. It's a little wild seeing these pictures and finding out that my family was this close to the crown. I finish the book and don't see any more information about my parents so I put the book away and rush out of the library, saying bye to librarian Crista on my way out. I've decided I needed to go find my parents and ask them about what I've found in this book. I wish I could check the book out to show my parent's so I can see their reaction to seeing what I saw but I guess explaining it will have to be good enough. I still cannot believe they have never told me about this and it definitely makes me a little upset knowing they kept something to big from me.