White and Lilac
“Sophia,” the note said. That was all it said. I stared at the note, then at the
tiny package it was on. The note was also tiny. I almost froze. When I opened the package, it was a key. A magic looking key. Not a sparkly house key, but an old skeleton key that was the size of my fingernail.
“Sophia!” My twin sister Elizabeth called. “What was in the package?” “A fairy key,” I replied.
She stared at me like I was an alien speaking with only beeps.
“A what?”
“A fairy key.”
“There are no such things as fairy keys,” she told me.
“Yes there are. Do you want to see mine?”
“Sure!” She exclaimed.
As I picked up the key to show it to Elizabeth, the key started to glow. Why?
By the time I got back to Elizabeth, it was glowing as brightly as a very bright candle and was extremely hot. I felt a shock suddenly and dropped the key. Elizabeth picked it up and murmured something I could not hear, but then I felt a gust of wind. Then I heard the ocean and smelled flowers. I realized that we weren’t at our house anymore. We were in a flower, and not a humongous flower. It was a regular sized flower, and we had become tiny.
And we had wings!
“Welcome dears, we have been waiting for you.” I heard someone say. “Who are you?” I replied
“Latrella Demarvit, the queen of this kingdom. This kingdom needs you urgently. Please come with me now!”
“I can fly!” Elizabeth shouted.
“Of course you can. You have been turned into a fairy, a baking fairy. Your sister Sophia is a flower fairy,” the queen responded. “But now we must get to the palace immediately.”
When we got to the palace, I realized that I was wearing a white and lilac dress of flower petals. Elizabeth was wearing a silver and pink dress with a gold apron. The dress was the softest thing I had ever worn.
Then the queen said, “You are about to go on the greatest quest of your life.” “What quest?” I asked.
“Don’t worry, it won’t take very long. All you need to do is find a white and
lilac stone,” the queen said. “Now go.”
Elizabeth and I searched the whole town many times, but we could not find
the stone. We looked in the fields and meadows around the kingdom, and along the roads in the town. There was not a white and lilac stone anywhere. We were feeling very sad, and about to give up. Elizabeth looked like she was going to cry and said, “how can we ever go back to the queen without the stone?” I leaned over to Elizabeth and gave her a big hug. I said, “she will be proud of us for trying and I love you.” Suddenly I felt my dress getting heavier. It felt like something was in my pocket. I reached in and pulled out a white and lilac stone.
We ran back to the palace and gave the queen the stone. Elizabeth asked, “What is so important about this stone?” The queen replied, “This stone protects joy,
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happiness, laughter, friendship, love, kindness and all other good deeds. When the stone was lost, our fairy kingdom was becoming a mean and dark place, but you have found the stone and helped to return our kingdom to a place of joy and goodness again. The reason you found the stone in your dress, Sophia, was because you were being loving to your sister when she was feeling sad, even though you were also sad. Thank you for finding the stone.”
Suddenly I heard my alarm. Was it a dream, or had I been up in the middle of the night? I wasn’t sure, but noticed a lilac petal on the pillow as I was getting out of bed.
Epilogue
Later Sophia and Elizabeth realized that the first time they went to the fairy
kingdom was not a dream because they kept finding the glowing key. They would find it more and more and it always brought them to the fairy kingdom, which they learned was called Akmelonsisialetpomegranateevechaletkreyaniarasberrysugarcakevetialayxezaxixox azizozuzezaretabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz. One day, unfortunately, the queen dies. But luckily the reason she asked Sophia and Elizabeth to find the stone was to test them to see if they could become the new queens. And they passed! So they became the new queens of Akmelonsisialetpomegranateevechaletkreyaniarasberrysugarcakevetialayxezaxixox azizozuzezaretabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz.
The End
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