Lasta Coop Pre-teen Stories

 Story Three

Lasta Coop In Fairyland

A year passed and Lasta had begun to realise that nobody believed her when she told everyone about her last two adventures and her parents had been considering sending her to a therapist to find out if there was anything wrong with her. So she started to keep quiet about her adventures and started to pretend that they never happened, although she used other ways to tell people about them by portraying them as nothing more than just stories.

Then one Saturday, she found herself alone, her parents and Latso were out shopping at a car-boot. She had noticed that her tales of adventure had started to drive a rift between them and the guys that he had hung around with recently had driven that rift even further. So she would usually find herself watching whatever was on her favourite channel Toonami, which had just recently placed an advert stating that it was going to fuse with Cartoon Network.

I hope that this will not effect Teen Titans...

She then found herself feeling tired and her eyelids dropped. When they did a light moved closer towards her and then it shone brighter and brighter, until it revealed to be a tall woman with green fly-like wings. She picked her up and took out her emerald wand and from the tip a green light sparked and leaves came from it. They spiralled around the two until there was a mini-tornado. Then the leaves turned red and they were gone!

Lasta woke up in a gold chair filled with a leafy pattern with a comfortable red material than she could not identify. She looked ahead at a man with muscles that could take down an elephant and hair that seemed to be made from gold with gold eyes to match with flakes of sunlight making his eyes light up.

“Who are you?” she asked as she looked behind him to see a pair of wings that looked like a three pointed leaf that was painted gold.

“I am the King La Fey, or King Elric.” he said.

“Well hi...Why am I here?” she asked.

“I have a quest for you.”

“What's in it for me?” she asked.

“One wish that your heart desires.” he replied. She looked aside pretending to think about it.

“What's the quest?” she asked.

“There are four lost stones of Fairyland, that I have lost. If you do not find them then nether my son nor daughter can be born into a world of safety, after all these stones in the wrong hands-”

“Fine! I'll take it!” she snapped not even wanting to know what would happen.

“Thank you.” he said as he gave her a scroll. When she rolled it out it was a map of Fairyland she had noticed that the place was made up of two wings one was light green and the other dark.

“That is the map of Fairyland and it shall help you find them, it will give you clues and hints on where to go, I can not use it for unfortunately it was designed by a human so that only a human can use it.” he explained. “If I could read it I would be doing this myself.”

Lasta nodded and set off. She looked at the map and spotted that a cave was glowing on it. So she deduced that that was the place where she needed to be. After putting away the map she headed to where the cave was. It seemed to be a state forward trek through a beautiful forest. She let her mind wander as she looked at the greenery which was nothing like the forest that she was used to. It was not only green it was emerald green and so quiet that she could hear the stream where ever it was and she could hear the sound of laughter and child fairies having fun and playing like there was no tomorrow. The lighting was rich and gentle like the whole place was filled with a light that she could not quite explain.

When she came close to the place she could feel the cold presence of something evil but she tried not to focus on that as she came to the cave. She then spotted that the scroll that the map was on lit up and on the rolled up side words glowed an colour in between green and turquoise.

Child beware

Danger is in there

Protected by a riddle

Let not your mind

Fall into a fiddle

For the answer you must find

She looked up and spotted the riddle immediately. It was engraved and coated in a layer of moss surrounded by an over grown rose bush.

Find My Name

My Shadow

My Twin

My Apple

My Bin

What the heck does that mean? And how on Earth can I even find the name of this poem?

Hold on! Remember what you read about code?

Yeah! Sometimes a code is hidden by following lines! Good, now I need to figure out what the-

No, that would not work, after all the first two letters are all the same!

But the three after are not.

Oh, yeah!

What do they spell?

“Stab!” she exclaimed. Then she spotted something brake in front of her like glass, but something told her that it was not glass, probably some sort of magic barrier. Regardless something told her that it was safe for her to go in. Which she did, then the scroll glowed the colour the words did but now they were gone and the whole thing was fully lit like it was radioactive. She did not have to go in far for the stone was right ahead of her. A clear blue stone with a white snowflake lay inside.

She picked it up and let it fall into her pocket as she turned around to get out of the cave. When she was out of the cave she opened the map to see where she was to go next. She spotted that a forest was now glowing. Then she looked at what the forest was called; Mankiller Forest. Her heart skipped a beat slightly as she could only imagine what would await her there. She bit her lip as she let out a deep breath.

She followed the map and before she entered Mankiller Forest she looked at the map to see if there was anything that it would give her to help her through this but all it did was give her the most unhelpful poem that she could ever think of.

Here I can help you not

If you are fool and fearful

You will stay and rot

Be like those merry and cheerful

See the truth of the trees

Songs of the heart

Voice of the breeze

And then you will part

Thanks a lot! She spat out of spite as she took her first step into the forest. Then she felt something hit her in the back as the roots jabbed at her. Yeah, 'if you are fool and fearful' what a bunch of nonsense!

She could only dodge the attacks of the tree branches and the roots that clearly wanted to impale her. She ducked trice and jumped trice. She did this trice until she spotted a pattern they were only coming at her in threes, three branches, then three roots, three branches again. So she knew that her window was when the branches came at her she jumped to the floor then flipped under them and then she spun to avoid the roots. Then the branches came at her again, she waltz stepped to avoid it then she did the same with the other two. Then the roots came again and soon she spun again, just the other way to avoid getting dizzy. She again waltz stepped, again she did this the opposite direction. She did this until the trees suddenly became less frightening and she lost herself in her dancing. Then before she knew it she was now in the heart of Mankiller Forest.

On a stone was the next stone, this one was green with a leaf inside. She then took it and let it in the other pocket. She then opened the map the next place that it highlighted wad a place that was called Desert Of Determination. She rolled it back up and then there was yet more words on the scroll.

In the Desert your

Determination becomes

Rewarding to you

So, you're doing haikus now? She thought sarcastically as she danced her way out of Mankiller Forest. She followed the map to the Desert Of Determination. She spotted that the grass thinned out and the sand was becoming more and more. Soon it started to get into her shoes and socks. Her lip curled feeling just how uncomfortable the sand-grains were she soon found that the place was getting more and more hot as she walked on. Soon she was sweating and she could smell the scent of her sweat. Then the sand that collected in her shoes started to feel warmer and warmer until it became hot. Soon she felt the grains burning her feet as sweat had came out of her skin. She started to feel tired as the heat started to take its toll on her energy. As she swallowed her saliva to keep herself hydrated she could feel it was getting dryer and dryer. She could the temptation of just sitting down but she knew that she would have to go on, for she knew what would happen if she sat down for just one second.

Her vision started to go blurry as her legs threatened to give way. She forced herself to focus onwards and soon her determination rewarded her as she saw on the horizon an orange dot and soon she could tell that as she came closer and closer the stone became more visible. So she kept her eyes fixed on the stone, driving everything to getting closer and closer to the stone. Soon she was able to see that it was in the centre of a stone circle. In the centre of the stone was a flame.

Wen she finally got to the place she was able to pick it up and put it in her pocket. She was about to move on until a man appeared in front of her. He was dressed in a black cloak and had black leather gloves on. His face was hidden in the darkness of his hood. Lasta wondered how on Earth he was not hot underneath what he was wearing.

Then he took out a clear, glass-like stone with a cloud inside; the final stone!

“Congratulations for coming this far Lasta Coop, and as you can see I have the final stone of your quest. I will give it to you if you if you can tell me what each stone represents.” he explained.

“Well,the first one was blue, with a snowflake in, so I'm guessing that represents water, the second was green with a leaf in, so that must represent Earth, and this one,” she patted the one that she had obtained. “is orange which has a fame in so it mush be fire and the one that you have is see through, like glass or diamond, and it has a cloud in so, air? Together they must represent the four elements.”

She heard a sound like a laugh, or a sigh, or both. He then tossed the stone to her. She reached out to catch the stone but it hit the tips of her fingers and then rolled into her arms.

“You pass.”

He then placed a hand on her shoulder and the surroundings changed to the King Elric's castle.

“So, you have succeeded. Now what it is that you wish?” asked the king behind her.

“Proof that all that I can bring back to mine so that everyone will believe me.” she replied. The king nodded as he rose from his throne like he had been trained to do so gracefully. He then covered her right eye and closed his eyes. He then muttered something underneath his breath, and her eye felt hot and tingly, but it did not hurt. Then she removed his hand from her eye and when he did it revealed the colour had changed from brown to silver, not grey-silver, but actual silver!

“Now they shall believe you.” he said as she gave him the stones.

Soon she was back and she was in time to see a repeat of Dragon Ball Z. She looked at the time and she spotted that she had been in Fairyland only three hours!

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“So, that went well.” said the man.

“Well, she must be trained for what is to come when she nears the day of her immortality.” said the King.