A Short story by Priyanka Adhikary

Lotus and Rose in Fairyland
 

Once upon a time there was a beautiful fairy princess known as Lotus. She lived in the vast fairy land full of flower gardens and green trees with her little sister, Rose and other fairy members. They lived in a beautiful palace.When Lotus was a little baby, her parents got cursed by an evil witch, Viola and were vanquished by her. Since then, Lotus became an orphan and took care of her sister and was known as a very kind, brave and strong princess in the fairy land.Everyone loved Lotus as she was beautiful from inside and out.
Lotus had two cousin sisters Daisy and Lily. They were all very close to each other.
One day, Lotus and Rose were playing near the cherry blossom tree in the fairy land and
while playing, their eyes caught a strange castle at a far distance.
“Look, there is a castle!” Lotus said, in excitement.
Rose was scared. “We must not go there. Let’s go back to our palace, it is getting late.” said Rose in a fearful voice.
“I really want to go and find out what is inside the castle.

Do not be scared, dear sister. Come, let’s hurry.”

Lotus said and started walking very fast as she held her sister’s hand tightly.
“It’s getting dark. I think, we should definitely go back.” said Rose, in panicky tone.

Lotus kept on walking with her sister and finally reached the door of the strange castle.
By the look of it, it seemed like a haunted castle.
Without hesitating, Lotus knocked the heavy wooden castle door.
No one answered.
Rose in terror murmured softly, “Sister, please do not knock. I want to go back to the palace.”
“Ssshhh, quiet”, whispered Lotus.
She knocked once again. There was no answer.
After a minute, suddenly, the big door opened slowly on its own.
Both the sisters were puzzled.
Without hesitating, Lotus entered the castle along with her sister.
They looked everywhere around them and there was no one inside the castle.
Bang! There was a loud sound.
The door got locked behind them by itself.
“Oh no! We are locked now! Lotus, what will happen now? How do we go out?” screeched
Rose while shivering in fear.

“Stay silent, sister. Let me think.” Lotus consoled her fearful sister.
As they wandered around the castle, they saw nasty things around them.
There were cats roaming around the corner, spider webs hanging from the ceiling,
broomsticks were kept aside, and dirt was everywhere.Lotus seemed worried and a little scared now.Out of nowhere, a strange smoke appeared in front of them. When Lotus was about to take a step back from the smoke, a long hand with big sharp and dirty nails appeared and grabbed
Lotus into the smoke.
Lotus vanished!
Rose was shocked and screamed. “Lotus, where are you? Sister, help me! Help, Help! Is
anyone out there?” She screeched as loud as possible.
Bobby, the flying ghost came whooshing from above and surrounded Rose.
“Hahahahahahaha!” Bobby laughed, flashing a wicked smile.
“Come along witches! Look, we have a young fairy here.” He announced.
Rose was horrified and screamed. “Who are you and where is my sister?
All the witches surrounded Rose.
“Hihihihihihihihihhihi.” Viola, the evil witch laughed.
“Ah! I have been waiting to petrify her!” She mentioned.
“We can take advantage of this fairy. It will be fun.” Jasmine, the ugly witch mentioned.
“You will never find your sister. Buhahahahahahahaha!” Bobby said and laughed in a scary way.Suddenly, there was a knock on the castle door and it opened by itself as usual.
There were two fairy princesses standing near the door.They were the cousins; Lily and Daisy.They realized that the sisters were missing as their fairy wands were left on the bench near the cherry blossom tree.
So, they followed the loud voices that were coming out from the haunted castle.They knew Lotus and Rose were in danger.
The cousins knocked the door. There was no answer. After a minute the door opened on its own. The cousins were in shock after seeing Rose in danger and they found out that Lotus was missing.
As the witches were all about to attack the cousins, Rose ran and grabbed the magic wands from Lily’s hand that belonged to her and Lotus.

“Oreka Darora Boom!” Rose yelled and pointed her magic wand towards the group of
witches and ghosts and casted the killing spell that temporarily knocked them down.
Suddenly, two cats appeared and meowed at Rose.
Rose was horrified! In the meantime, Tommy the fairy Prince along with his friends were riding on the horses and passing by. They heard strange and terrifying voices from a distance.They got down from their horses and marched towards the haunted castle.
As they knocked the castle door, there was no answer.The door opened by itself as usual.
Tommy was curious and worried. He thought, someone might be in danger.
Viola, the evil witch could see everything even though she had little strength and casted the invisibility spell quickly before Tom and his friends could see anyone inside the castle.

As Tom, the fairy prince entered the castle, he could not see anything apart from spider webs and broom sticks kept aside.He found everything strange, as Tom could still hear voices.
“How could this be possible?” He thought and asked himself.
Rose and the cousins understood that a spell was casted for which Tommy could not see
them.
Rose, quickly threw the magic wand that belonged to Lotus at Tommy.
Tommy realized that he could only see objects and hear voices but was unable to see anyone.
Rose screeched, “Take this magic wand and give it to my sister. She has been locked up
somewhere in the castle. Please help us and help my sister.”
Tommy heard the fearful voice and asked his friends to stay with Rose and her cousins while he grabbed the wand and quickly headed inside the hidden chambers of the castle.

As he held the magic wand of lotus, a bright golden light appeared on the wand.
The Fairy God appeared before him.
“Do not worry. You will find the princess. Follow the Light.” He assured.

Tommy thanked the fairy God and followed the bright light of the wand that took him to
Lotus.After a terrifying search, Tom could see that Lotus was kept inside a prison made of skeleton bars.
He introduced himself.
“Hello, I am Tommy, the fairy prince of the fairyland. Your sister gave me your wand. Please take this. Tommy said.Lotus was very weak and had no strength to get up.
She took the wand from behind the bars and the bright light entered her soul.
Lotus regained her strength and got all her fairy powers back.

Tommy realized that Lotus was a very powerful fairy and he instantly admired her.
Lotus casted the spell with her magic wand. “Khulamo”. The prison doors opened.
She rushed towards her sister and cousins.
Without wasting a single moment, she tried to cast the killing spell.
But the witches had already gained their powers back and were attacking Rose, the cousins  and Tommy’s friends.
“Oreka Darora Boom”! Lotus pointed her wand towards the witches and the ghosts one last time and casted the killing curse spell.
The bright light speared the heart of all the witches and killed them. The ghosts were
perished.
She tried killing the cats too and pointed the wand towards them.
“Stop child! Stop, Lotus! It is us, your parents. We are alive” The cats formed back in their
fairy form and stopped Lotus from killing them.

They had gotten the curse of becoming cats from Viola, and it was mentioned by the evil
witch that the curse would only go away when their very own oldest daughter would point
her wand towards them in order to kill them after many years.
“Oh! Mummy! Oh! Daddy!” Lotus excitedly said.
Lotus was thrilled in joy after seeing her parents. Rose was astonished too.
The sisters hugged their parents and the whole family became whole again.
The cousins hugged everyone.
Lotus, approached Tommy.

“We wouldn’t be alive if it wasn’t for you and the fairy God. Thank you for saving us with so much courage.” Lotus, thanked Tommy and smiled.
They all rode the horses and went back to the palace after leaving the castle.
Before leaving, Lotus had casted the spell, “Perisho Maxima” which destroyed the haunted castle and removed its existence from the fairy land.
Happy days were here now. Tommy and Lotus really liked each other.
“My fairy princess, you are truly wonderful and full of strength. I have liked you from the
very moment I saw you. I have always wanted a princess who is strong, kind and so brave. I admire you so much, Lotus. Will you marry me?” Tommy asked the princess.
She nodded her head and agreed to marry Tommy.
From that day onwards, they all lived happily ever after.

The End