Chapter 5 - 5

Chapter 5: Chapter 5

"Lily, don't be so mean to him, the poor thing..." One of them say as Lily sits down on a low branch the tree and cross her arms and legs.

"Humph! He is the one who was impolite with this lady! He should be the one apologizing! "

"Sure sure..."

"Oh, hey, an owl kitty, how cute!"

Out of nowhere other voices join in our conversation, and the owners appear soon after as I search for them up above, flying directly towards us and not hiding like Lily, and actually even telling me their names.

Overwhelming beautiful in a petite size, all the fairy have a charm and characteristics of their own, from being completely white like Lily, to pink like Camellia Cedarwhistle, or yellow and orange like Wallflower Sparklepond, or a soft white that almost looks like feathers and fur from Lake Cottonwhistle. You'll discover the inception of this content at n0v@lbin★

They all say their names while flying in circles around my head, which only adds to the dizziness that so many talking at once gives me.

However amidst the confusion I'm surprised by something that comes out of the blue, a sound that makes me look back and around, making the girls giggle for how silly I look as they blame the bees flying close by for catching my attention, only to make me realize that no one is reacting to this strange sound at all beyond myself.

Ding – Title Earned – Cute Kitty

Now now that's just rubbing salt in the wound.

I have no time to ponder what that is all about, however, as the fairies keep pestering me and giving very nice strokes behind my ear, only stopping once one of them speaks out: "Ladies, ladies, come down on the enthusiasm, you will scare the poor kitty." Says the same one that reprehended Lily first, the Lake fluffy white fairy.

I look around me to assert the island, so full of life that anything manages to distract me, to the beautiful black and blue butterfly, to the crystal clear water of the river that feeds the lake left behind us.

I pass my paw over it, making sure that there was truly water there, watching the little waves distorted the fish swimming inside.

A little piece of heaven these are.

"Inside each island there is a core of fire burning. They create hot air that keeps the islands afloat, so be careful when you see one of these around, and do not approach it." Mother says after stopping close to what looks like a metal tube crisscrossing like veins over and into the rock and climbing up the mountain. "These take the air out and are very hot, so be careful."

I try to ask who had built them or how they came to be, but only chirping sounds resonated from my small beak.

She seems to feel my distress, passing her big scaled bird paw over me and catching my attention to her once more as she looks over the hill beyond the clouds and distant islands.

"Our kind usually lives on the lower islands for they are the coldest of them all. The higher the island, the hotter it is, though all kinds of creatures give birth on the middle islands since they are the most neutral ones, having cold mountains for our type, and grasslands filled with life and water to sustain our newborns."

Uhm, seems quite the self-efficient system, though for what I saw before it is not all peace and quiet around here.

We keep walking down the path circulating the grassland, these island proving to be far bigger than they seemed at first, with even more constructions and preparations to not only receive the newborns but to protect them, with stone stairs to move about and give enough footing so that even small birds like myself can move around freely.

"This is our home, our inicial nest, as some of us have the caretakers to thank for. Of course, not all is perfect, and some... birds and others like causing trouble, but I'm proud of what we have going here, though here is not where we will stay most of the time." She looks down at me, bright yellow eyes meeting mine, and a melodic chuckle resonates from her beak, somehow sounding impossible to be done by such strong and sharp mouth piece.

"But enough about all that, it must be too much for you to understand already, how about we head back home? I've been waiting so long for you my little one..." She bumps her beak at me again, but this time I push back a little, a glint of smile shining in her eyes.

"Oh, look how much time has passed already, we just arrived. Welcome to our island love."

And at that I'm left to stare at the new home that stretches out in front of me.